oh god my braaaaaaiiiiin

[sholio]

I, um, just read on imdb.com who was cast as Piccolo in the Dragon Ball live-action movie.

James Marsters.

CANNOT. STOP. LAUGHING.

(Edit: In case you're not familiar with Dragon Ball, which I imagine is true of probably 90% of my f'list, this is Piccolo.)

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[xparrot.livejournal.com]

I heard about this a while ago. And kept having to hear it because I kept disbelieving it every time; I'm still trying to figure out if someone is hoaxing IMDB or what, because, um. Yes.

This movie looks like it might be hysterical, but somehow I doubt it's going to help my arguments that DBZ really isn't as terrible as the Western anime fan collective wants you to think XPPPP

(have you seen Toriyama's thoughts on the fiasco? He's been very "...")

[sholio]

I'm still trying to figure out if someone is hoaxing IMDB or what, because, um. Yes.

Ha, I KNOW. I had to do a bit of googling after I saw that last night just to make sure that it wasn't someone messing with IMDB. But apparently it's true, because I found a clip on Youtube where he's talking about it (and is utterly adorable about it; apparently he's got a little kid, is familiar with the cartoon and he's totally geeked out about playing the role). Now I kinda hope the whole movie doesn't suck as much as it looks like it's going to, because I feel bad for the actor. XD

(I don't even want to know what Toriyama thinks of it! Poor guy...)

Edit: Wow, he really got into it ...! Here's another Youtube clip where he talks about going to bat to get the character's makeup done right ("I'd rather be fired than mess up Piccolo") ... I think he might be a bigger DBZ fan than I am. XD

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

...Okay, James Marsters wins the ADORKABLE GEEK award of the year. (I kind of am in love with the guy and I've never even seen Buffy...) And yeah, it's gonna suck...but maybe Piccolo won't? (I hope he doesn't - Piccolo's one of my favorite characters, after Vegeta...well, he was the first major redemption char, and I am *such* a sucker for that.)

Toriyama weighed in here (http://dbthemovie.com/2009/02/08/akira-toriyama-comments-on-evolution/)...he's had a strange relationships with DBZ anyway, since it went on rather longer than he wanted it to, and I don't think he had much to do with GT anyway...

(sorry for all the edits, I suck at this whole WRITING MY NATIVE LANGUAGE thing XP