Actors are liars...or at least embellishers...
"Oh, Dragonball is the coolest television cartoon in the last 50, 000 years. It's got a Shakespearean sense of good and evil. The movie has incredible action scenes with characters with unbelieveable powers. It's going to be really visually exciting."
--James Marsters, from an interview from the January 2008 issue of TV Guide
Now, I know it is not rare for actors to embellish or build up hype for movies but this statement couldn't be more of a blatant hype-builder unless Jesus returned in Super Saiyan form and appeared on every late-night talk show spreading the word of Dragonball.
The coolest cartoon in the last 50,000 years? Are you serious?! Depending on your theory of creation that could possibly place Dragonball before the creation of the universe itself. At the very least it is somehow cooler than the first cartoon that definitely is not anywhere around 50,000 years old which is a chronological impossibility. Also, I don't know if I misread Shakespeare all these years, but I never remember an antagonist just wanting to fight because he's powerful. Maybe I missed that infamous play where the cyborg/alien hybrid knocked on the protagonist's door announcing how he wanted to take over the universe, the protagonist and antagonist power up and spout exposition for two and a half hours and in the final thirty minutes beat the hell out of each other.
I don't have anything against Dragonball, really. I liked the show before it aired in the US and I think it's a pretty decent show that suffers from horrendous editing problems and plotlines that are soap-opera in length. The movie has a promising pedigree and I feel it will be visually amazing if done correctly. I'm just in disbelief at how actors can be so caught up in their work or themselves that they can make absurd statements and actually think it's helping the project they're involved in or their art. Please, to all the creators/performers out there...just stop trying to impress us with obviously biased words and let the product/art speak for itself.
--James Marsters, from an interview from the January 2008 issue of TV Guide
Now, I know it is not rare for actors to embellish or build up hype for movies but this statement couldn't be more of a blatant hype-builder unless Jesus returned in Super Saiyan form and appeared on every late-night talk show spreading the word of Dragonball.
The coolest cartoon in the last 50,000 years? Are you serious?! Depending on your theory of creation that could possibly place Dragonball before the creation of the universe itself. At the very least it is somehow cooler than the first cartoon that definitely is not anywhere around 50,000 years old which is a chronological impossibility. Also, I don't know if I misread Shakespeare all these years, but I never remember an antagonist just wanting to fight because he's powerful. Maybe I missed that infamous play where the cyborg/alien hybrid knocked on the protagonist's door announcing how he wanted to take over the universe, the protagonist and antagonist power up and spout exposition for two and a half hours and in the final thirty minutes beat the hell out of each other.
I don't have anything against Dragonball, really. I liked the show before it aired in the US and I think it's a pretty decent show that suffers from horrendous editing problems and plotlines that are soap-opera in length. The movie has a promising pedigree and I feel it will be visually amazing if done correctly. I'm just in disbelief at how actors can be so caught up in their work or themselves that they can make absurd statements and actually think it's helping the project they're involved in or their art. Please, to all the creators/performers out there...just stop trying to impress us with obviously biased words and let the product/art speak for itself.