Apr 20, 2009
Wow, have you seen the numbers for Dragonball Evolution? It has
only made about 8 million dollars in two weeks! Ok, anything beyond
a million isn't chicken scratch, especially to an impoverished soul
like me, but in movie money, that is akin to nothing. On top of
that, attendence at screenings of the movie dropped by almost 70%
in one week. I haven't seen it. In fact, I'm so out of touch I
didn't even realize it had been released. I have never read any of
the manga or watched any of the various anime incarnations. What
these numbers tell me is that either the franchise doesn't have
that many fans (which I know is not true)....or the movie just flat
out sucks. I still think I might go see it, just to burn the
anime/manga flame. I hope the Ghost in the Shell, Akira, Old Boy
remake, or the Cowboy Bebop (Is Keanu Reeves an android?) movies
are better. It looks like Dragonball is going in the same trash
heap as Speed Racer (Hey, I actually liked that movie, even if I
had to put on a welding mask because of the gaudy colors).