THE CINEMATIC VERSION OF ANESTHESIA!

Live action anime adaptations make up some of the most infamous Hollywood projects of the past 15 years, and it's a genuine miracle they're still getting made (and, to be fair, slowly improving) despite their endless failures. While other adaptations definitely existed beforehand, it's easy to look back at today's film as the lynchpin for Hollywood's golden goose chase. Dragon Ball is one of the most beloved franchises in the entire world, a true pillar of pop culture that you'd have to live under a rock to not know about. Back then, the prospect of a big-budget live action adaptation probably sounded like a dream come true. What resulted was one of the most infamous adaptations of all time, so ungodly terrible that it spurred Akira Toriyama back into action with a new series. S ...