No Right Answer: Worst Transition from Animation to Live-Action

[Yeager942]

I love Avatar: TLA with a fiery passion, especially after watching watching the entire series with my siblings over it's entire tv run (This was back in middle school when all I thought the internet could do was play runescape). With that said, I've never seen the movie, and I'm eternally glad that my experience with the show has never been soured by the "M. Night Shyamalan Incident."

 

[Elvis Starburst]

Edit for forgetting the topic XD But still, can Super Mario Brothers count? It had a show at a time

 

[Stalydan]

Chris, you're totally right. That flying Kamehameha part totally baffles the mind. But seriously, how can they mess up the origin story that badly? Goku never went to high school and he ended up killing his grandpa. It's not that hard to get right, even if you've only watched the first few episodes.

Hell, they could have done a more in-depth trilogy using three of the major story arcs of the original Dragon Ball. The first movie could have been Goku and friends fighting against Emperor Pilaf, the second movie could have shifted the focus to the Red Ribbon Army, and the third movie could focus on Goku facing off against Piccolo. And, if done right, it could have made them much more money than Evolution did.

I think the bigger concerns here are "Why is Goku a teenager?" and "Why did the costume make-up think that wearing lots of eye-liner makes him look Asian?".

But yeah, it's not a origin story that would be too hard to adapt. First part would be the group meeting up, second part training with Master Roshi and Pilaf showing up, third part in his castle and defeating him.

Not hard, right?

 

[ischmalud]

ok really HOW drunk was chris for that epiosode??? awesome u guys should have more arguments when BOTH of u are 100% sloshed
got team mumble and sutff

 

[AstylahAthrys]

I knew well enough to stay away from Avatar since I knew it would be a huge turd. Curiosity got the best of me with Dragonball and WOW was it bad.

I own DB: Evolution on DVD.
[HEADING=3]Worst. Purchase. Ever.[/HEADING]

... WHY?

 

[Kliss88]

Did I miss the part where the words "Winner" on chris's side meant he lost?

 

[bootz]

i think yogi bear is much much worse. Its so bad no one thinks about it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1302067/

 

[saviorindeath]

I personaly always hated the fact that they made a live action death note.....I...Im going to go cry in a corner now..

 

[Cain_Zeros]

hopefully the sequel to avatar will be better since the same people made it. staying hopeful until 14th April.

They posted the first couple episodes online and they're floating around. Amazing! Not only a great expansion of the world etc, but a great show (so far) on its own merits. Unlike the movie that fails as an adaptation and on its own merits.

 

[Aureliano]

I think the lesson we should learn from these two movies is the following. Throw a middling amount of money to a director, like in the tens of millions, and even if your film flops it can still be fun to watch. Throw a shitton of money into a movie and if it doesn't rule (see: if it's directed by a moron) then it's a complete waste of time.

 

[Korskarn]

Sorry Kyle but I got to ask, did you honestly expect the Last Airbender film top contain ALL THREE SEASONS. I mean from what I read the film itself was a very rush version of the first season so it's impossible to fit in the other two seasons into it!
Either way I don't care the outcome since they were both equally bad in their own right, well I guess the lesser or two awfulness.

You missed the part where Kyle said that they were going to make 3 movies, one for each season... except no-one turned up to the first one.

They did exactly what you said, and that's also what Kyle said.

 

[Adam Stapleton]

There's one bad argument for DBE that hasn't been mentioned yet.....

Master Roshi's 'Khame-Hame-CPR' to bring Goku back! WTF?

 

[ExileNZ]

OK, honestly? Last Airbender wasn't that bad a movie. I mean I get that people complain about all kinds of stuff (spontaneous fire-bending, white-washing, etc) but that movie was still NOT a disappointment on so many levels. Hell, that movie is the whole reason I got interested in the TV series in the first place.

People can hate on it all they like, but in the end its only crime was to fail to live up to peoples' expectations (and nowhere near as badly as, say, Phantom Menace).

(EDIT: Also, look at Aang - he was everything that young Anikin wasn't - collected, convincing and something resembling respectful of the source material)

 

[ExileNZ]

I personaly always hated the fact that they made a live action death note.....I...Im going to go cry in a corner now..

The movies were good, far from the manga and anime quality, but still good.

The thing the movies had going for them was that they're short enough to watch a second time. I'll never watch the series ever again, even though it was great - too much of the interest rides on the constant tension over who will win. Once you lose that there's nothing holding you there.

The movies at least are short enough to bring out from time to time (say, to show to a friend) and with the added bonus that the played around with the ending enough that there are still some surprises.

Also, I've still never seen anything more terrifying and evocative than live-action L eating a potato chip.

 

[Vinticore]

DB: Evolution was so bad it was funny... The last airbender was just bad.

 

[Hazy992]

I never saw Avatar, so I can't really comment.

But DB Evolution was just terrible

It's like they spent 20 quid on the actual film, then the rest of the budget on cocaine.

See if they'd bought the cocaine first we might have had a good movie.

 

[commasplice]

Spoiler: Can you guys revisit this topic if this ends up becoming a reality?

 

[DTWolfwood]

Debate and title are misleading

Spoiler: Being Pedantic!

Worst transition from Animation to Live-action.

DE is the worst transition. Not one character in the movie had any semblance of the characters from the animated series. Bulma-black haired girl with a ponytail, Roshi-tall fully haired man living near a city, Piccolo-grey space alien with a ship, Yamcha-blonde haired asshole... Seriously the movie had nothing to do with the animated series other than sharing character names.

The Last Airbender at the very least followed the first season of the show pretty much to a T. Granted it was a mediocre movie (actors being pretty lame, and their insistence that Aang had to be pronounce Oang) at best, it was still faithful to its source material.

Had this been "Worst Live-action movie based on an Animated Series" then a debate could be made between the movies. But if i can be pedantic Dragonball Evolution wins this without question.

 

[DTWolfwood]

Spoiler: Can you guys revisit this topic if this ends up becoming a reality?

holy jebus dude that is some kind of funny i can't explain! Roflmao XD

 

[Beautiful End]

Well, Dragonball Evolution was much worse, I have to admit. Like they said, at least Avatar tried to stay true to the plot. Sure, the script for Avatar looked a little like this:

Aang: I'm alive!
Katara: I HOPE FOR STUFF!
Sokka: The Fire Nation is evil!
Aang: I'm saving the world!
Katara:Good thing we're with the Southern Water Tribe now.
Suko: I HATE THE AVATAR!
Aang: I'm powerful now.
Sokka: I will always love you!

All in the same scene. Really, that's what drove me crazy. it's like they knew they only had so much time to explain the entire plot so they rushed through it...in the same scene! Well, not literally, but you get it.
At any rate, when I first watched it, I thought it was...okay. Yeah, Iroh was mispronounced, Suko looked nothing like Suko...*sigh* Yeah, it was alright, I guess.

Now, Dragonball was something else.
No spiky hair for Goku. When has Goku NOT had spiky hair?
Milk joins them. This never happens. She only tags along at the end of Dragon Ball (With Goku only) and when they're kids.
Roshi, Bulma, Yamcha and the rest don't look nothing like their counterparts. No need to explain that.
Mai. WHO'S MAI?! Why is she a doppelganger?
Roshi never dies. For that matter, neither does Piccolo.
Goku was never a romantic of any sort. He never got the hint. It's a miracle he was able to reproduce.
Where's Krillin? He's like Goku's sidekick. HE should be the one dying.
Resurrecting Kamehameha? What is this? I don't even.

I could go on, but you get it. Dragonball just took the names of the characters, the dragon balls and ran off to make some other plot. Not cool, man. Not cool.

And that kamehameha reminded me of My Little Pony, what with the flying punch and stuff.