Dragon Ball Super Movie 2018 discussion

[Captain Cadaver]

Good thing for Toyo to acknowledge how he's unworthy as Toriyama's successor but I think he must have a read his critics. I feel bad for him.

Alternatively, it could just be him being polite and humble, since that can often be essential in Japanese etiquette.

 

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Well then let's just appreciate his comments.

 

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Gogeta Vs Broly OST

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Dunno if it's legit or not but the soundtrack is really cool except for that singing thing.

 

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I've watched the first half of the movie and couldn't understand any of it.

 

[Pocket-Gog~]

So I've watched an illegal stream of the movie (unfortunately, not subbed, though I have read the plot outline of a movie. Meaning what was shown in the movie made sense.) In short, it's a load of nothing with some pretty animation. This won't be a review, rather my impressions of the film.

Spoiler

The movie starts off with flashbacks to planet Vegeta. It's rushed (the movie is rushed and disjointed in general too), while still taking up a large portion of the movie, this resulted from the fact that the film tried to show both Goku and Broly's backstories, as well as the destruction of the Saiyan race, a small plot point from Bardock, and a scene where Freeza introduces himself to the Saiyans. There;s too much, and because of it, there's barely any focus on any of the content. The inclusion of Goku's origin story baffles me particularly, it isn't important to the actual plot of the film, and only serves to weaken Goku's character by turning him into Superman. Bardock was completely worthless in this film, and after watching the Bardock special it's depressing seeing how gutted Minus Bardock is compared to the original.

Goku's as dumb as he's portrayed to be in Super, nothing more needs to be said. Freeza's character in this film is a joke plain and simple. His motivations on wanting to grow taller completely contradict his actual motivations, immortality, which at this point should be a greater priority for him than it ever has been. He also gets raped by Broly for an hour too. Broly is surprisingly enough, the best part of the film. He has an actual character, and the movie spends some time fleshing him out. However, by the time the fight rolls around he reverts back to a screaming raging brute with no personality. So the movie, wastes it's one good card.

For the main draw of the film, the fights, they're not particularly good. However, Vegeta V Broly is definitely the best fight out of everything in the film, the animation is great, but not over the top, and the choreography is easy to follow, while tedious the film also slowly goes through each of Vegeta's forms, (skipping SSJ2), before he finally ends up with SSJG as Broly gets stronger. After that Vegeta just kind of disappears and waits on the sidelines to watch Goku's fight Broly, it's really sad. Goku's battle with Broly was a joke. Base/SSJ Goku performed better than even SSJG Vegeta did against the empowered Broly. The fight also gets harder to follow with crazier camera angles, at one point the camera just sort of becomes a first person view of Broly, before drifting back and becoming a close angle, all in the same shot.

All the while, the movie has a lightning fast pace, meaning that it's just action, action, action with no time to take any breaks or let the action sink in. If you have ellipsey, I wouldn't recommend watching the film.

The movie also has a lot of scenes where it pretends to have tension, to give weight to moments. One of these moments comes when SSJG Goku is getting trashed by Broly, there's sad music playing, it gets right into how battered Goku is. However, it's completely hollow, as Goku could transform into SSJB at any moment. It's just a waste of time. After that, Vegeta joins in to fight with Goku against Broly, it gets harder and harder to keep up with the fight. Ugly CGI also starts to crop up around this moment.

Goku and Vegeta also just run from the battle when it's clear Broly's beating their asses, and leave him to beat the shit out of Freeza (for one whole fucking hour.). They show up to Piccolo, who's randomly in this film, Goku suggests fusion, but Vegeta refuses, and is only persuaded by the mention of Bulma (as if Vegeta wasn't stale enough as it is). Vegeta and Goku fail the fusion 2 times, which creates skinny Gogeta and fat Gogeta (they literally reused Gotenks failing the fusion dance gag.)

Broly is also fighting Whis who's laughing and effortlessly dodging his blows, another reminder of how little of a threat Broly really is. Gogeta shows up, and it's the worst fight in the movie by far, the animators went too over the top with this fight. It's a cluster fuck of spinning camera angles, non stop lightning fast action, endless amount of colours. At one point they're fight breaks them into a dimension, and for a long period Gogeta and Broly are just two ugly cgi figures fighting. After that Broly gets beaten by Gogeta, and is wished away before he can be killed. The end.

What a shit movie.

 

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Post the link boy!

 

[Pocket-Gog~]

Post the link boy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p63DxBo5u8

The quality is terrible though, and it's unsubbed. So I would recommend reading a plot outline so you know what's going on.

 

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Oh, I've watched that already.

 

[withheldforprivacy]

I read the plot on DB Wiki. Generic villain who is defeated in the most predictable way. AT just wanted to make Broly canon at all costs.

 

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Toyotarō “Dragon Ball Super: Broly” Comment & Illustration

http://www.kanzenshuu.com/translations/vjump-january-2019-toyotaro-broly/


Director Nagamine told V-Jump his thoughts
on the film Dragon Ball Super: Broly!

http://www.kanzenshuu.com/translations/vjump-january-2019-nagamine-interview/

 

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Apparently, this movie didn't do well enough in the box office like BoG and RoF did in Japan.

 

[Keedounan]

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[Keedounan]

So, how do you guys feel about Gogeta letting Freeza go? I really disliked it.

I mean, Gogeta just brutalized and nearly murdered Broly. Yeah, the beatdown was necessary, and the guy who was going through a psychotic breakdown...but let's not forget he wasn't the bad guy here. This breakdown was caused by immense grief and fury at his father's sudden death. And after that, he just let the guy who was responsible for this mess escape, to do whatever the hell he wants later...fair.

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[Fantastische Hure]

I'm thinking the same thing. I don't know how that can really be justified considering Broly isn't evil and Freeza was the one adding fuel to the fire.

 

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I haven't read the summary or probably forgot about it but that was a bad idea IMO. I guess they're milking Frieza all the way until the series makes it return.

 

[Papasmurf]

I think the reason Gogeta tried to kill was that he wasn't sure he could subdue Broly in the short time he has in the blue form, but yeah it seems his Galu side just randomly kicked in at the last second when it came to killing Freeza. I suppose the fact that nobody died except Paragus made Gogeta perceive Freeza as not that much of a threat.

 

[Let's Go Fearless!]

I just found another site to watched this movie with subtitles but it's a recording video and much better than the others from what I've seen. Heres the link
https://kissanime.ac/Anime/Dragon-Ball-Super-Movie-Broly-Sub/Episode-Cam?id=150535&s=fserver

 

[Fantastische Hure]

That's not the correct link to KissAnime last time I checked. That must be a faux site.

 

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I don't know about that but since I can watched the movie then all is great.

 

[Fantastische Hure]

It's still KissAnime.ru apparently (they do change their adress quite frequently).

It might not be all great if you get a virus because of the fake site. mg mg mg