It's just the week for J-pop culture fan films, apparently...
Only a day or two after Joseph Kahn offered an R-rated POWER / RANGERS (and courted a swift Cease & Desist notice), Robot Underdog has put LIGHT OF HOPE out through Machinima. While making a 15-minute DBZ fan film, chock full of flying fights and flashy effects, may sound like an ambitious enough endeavor, this actually takes it a few steps farther. It's labeled as a “pilot,” so the plan/hope is to do a series-length adaptation of “History of Trunks.”
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It's an admirable effort, certainly but, man, there are just so many of these, now. The brass ring must be to duplicate what happened with ASSASSIN'S FIST, where the STREET FIGHTER fan series was independently financed before Capcom ultimately picked it up for official distribution. People might say it was better than THE LEGEND OF CHUN-LI (and that this is better than DRAGONBALL EVOLUTION ) , but that's pretty much the definition of faint praise.
Even if you were somehow interested in seeing Ryu and Ken train in the mountains and have super earnest dialogs about discipline, you probably weren't ready to slog through two-and-a-half hours of it. And it wasn't like the Halloween party store costumes and wigs made it any easier. So even if you like the light show on display here, you still have to watch... and listen... to read of it, and wonder if it'd have been better served within a tighter five-minute run time, instead of reaching too far with 15.
Above anything else, the fact that this is available for viewing at 2160p is what's most astounding. That's 4K resolution. I always igured the YouTube player would cough up blood trying to match the picture quality of a premium Blu-Ray.... but we live in a bold new world, obviously.
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