My faith in Hollywood’s ability to produce good movies based on comic books and/or video games is slowly waning with each craptastic production that hits theaters. However, I have high hopes that “The Dark Knight” (this will definitely be good) and “Iron Man” (trailers look real good) will be kickass. I saw the trailer for “Hellboy 2″ while catching “Cloverfield” last week and that looked good, too.
I’m on the fence about the upcoming Dragon Ball Z movie, but I will agree with the boys over at Kotaku that these guys should get the money to produce the movie. It’s a pretty badass video of a battle between a blonde (Super Saiyan, I could be wrong about the Super part) Goku and Freeza. Think about how badly Hollywood is going to feck this up. “Ghost Rider” is a perfect example.
You forget that Ghost Rider sort of sucks as a comic too – so the movie couldn’t have done much with the original materials. :P
It was a huge mistake for the Japanese to sell the rights for Dragonball to Hollywood in the first place. Now that they’ve started a boycott against the live action, I could only wish them the best of luck in their struggle
I enjoyed your post on anime, keep up the good work!