nyaa.si is crawling with different release versions. I went with a relatively lower gigabyte file and it looked just fine.
The problem with this movie isn't its looks. (though the cg segment seems like a questionable inclusion). The problem is it's just a pointless fight that started for no reason and ends for no reason. I guess that's all you can expect from a movie, which is never long enough to tell a real story.
We did get to see some cool new things -- Vegeta in SSG normal mode, Gogeta in SSG blue mode, etc. Frieza was pretty funny this time around. But all in all I wouldn't even say this is better than the average DBZ movie. Actually it's probably worse than the average DBZ movie. The only thing going for it is that it's part of the canon so actually might serve some purpose in the future.
But that's only if there is a future for Dragon Ball. I don't really see a reason why there needs to be, Super seems to have done everything imaginable already and makes for a great ending right there.
Plus we have to remember the voice actors for this series are incredibly old now. Bulma's voice actor has already died. I don't want to see these characters voiced by anyone else. Their voices are their souls. So how long can we drag these geezers out of retirement and force them to keep making new Dragon Ball for us?
Masako Nozawa is 82 years old. Like usual she did a fantastic job for this movie. But for how much longer can we ask this of her? She's the voice of not only Goku but Gohan and Goten! The whole series disappears without her.
Ryo Horikawa is 61 years old. Ryusei Nakao is 68 years old. Toshio Furukawa is 72 years old. Mayumi Tanaka is 64 years old. In America all these people would be retired, collecting social security.
Dragon Ball is such an old series that it's outliving its own voices.
Akira Toriyama is 64 years old. He might want to retire too. And without him writing the scripts we've already seen Dragon Ball lose its touch. (GT).
Look, I'm a huge fan of Dragon Ball. I'd like more Dragon Ball as much as the next guy. But at some point you have to let go. The ending of Super was a good ending. Let's just quit while we're ahead. This movie doesn't inspire confidence for the future. It was weak. Odds are anything beyond this will just be worse. Give all these poor old people a rest before their inevitable funerals. I doubt even slaves were worked at age 82.
Can't we just celebrate the 35 years of Dragon Ball we already have and call it a job well done? This isn't a 100 years war or anything. It's okay to quit after 35 years of hard work. I love Dragon Ball. That's precisely why I think it should end. Stories with endings are twice as good as stories that just randomly drop off somewhere -- and the odds of Dragon Ball just stalling out somewhere in the middle of an arc -- like what happened to Freezing just last week -- exponentially increases every year these people age.
Nanoha would have been so much better if it ended with Vivid Strike instead of stalling out in the middle of Force. Now we're just left on an eternal cliffhanger. Don't make the same mistake. Dragon Ball has an ending. Let's just be happy with it -- and if we want to watch more Dragon Ball, just go back and rewatch the old stuff again instead. I've watched it at least three times, so I can vouch for its rewatchability. There's already plenty enough to satisfy any needs.
The series is 351 episodes/movies long. Then there's also GT and the DBZ filler movies for the absolute fanatics. And if that's still not enough, you could knock yourself out playing all the great video games that have been made around this franchise. Can't we let Akira Toriyama and all the rest take a well deserved bow?
It's like how we tried to get Carrie Fischer to keep acting in Star Wars movies and she just dropped dead halfway through. Star Wars was perfectly fine with just 6 movies. Was there any reason to try to bring it back? Has that benefited anyone?
Can nothing ever just end?
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