Street Fighter: The Movie

[Adamm R)))]

Since this forum is pretty much video game nostalgia, I thought this would fit in better here than in Media Discussion.

I just saw this (again) and I must say, it's quite possibly the greatest bad film ever made. What I love about it is how all the fun of video game nostalgia is combined with cheesy 90s action, that you love to watch even though it sucks. All of your favourite characters are there (except Dhalsim, I suppose the stretch arms would be too hard), but it's not quite good enough to have them actually looking like them (Guille missing his trademark haircut for example). And of course, it would have to have a few cheesy lines, these two (quite similar) lines are my favourite:

Sagat: I own this city!
Guille: Yeah, well I'm the repo man. And you're out of business

Bison: Who are you?
Guille: I'm the collector and your ass is overdue.

Also, I love their poor attempts at jokes. Zangief's "Change the channel!" stands out to me. Still, it's by no means perfect, but it would've been if there was less Kylie Minogue and more hadokens! How did they not include that?!

It makes me think about Tekken's big screen appearance next year. Can they really pull that off? Modern action films are too full of special effects to be as bad in a pleasant way. I'm not sure really, it could go either way.

[Sloppy Jimbo IV]

the thing i "liked" most about the movie is how desperate they seemed to include every last character from the videogame (no matter how illogical or pointless). e hondo was chun-li's camera man... about half the cast was working for bison... i think even one of the fighters was an ice-cream salesman. it was a joke

oh and you say there was no dhalsim? sir, i believe youre forgetting that bison's underground laboratory was run by the esteemed dr dhalsim, aptly played by roshan seth

http://www.hindu.com/2005/07/29/images/2005072918720301.jpg

no stretchy arms though

[Haoie]

In more recent times, there have been far, far worse VG films made than that [surprising].

[Wonderboy]

In honor of the movie I made my XBL gamer picture Bison. I always thought he was hilarious in that movie, especially how he made his own currency, which my friend and I dubbed "Bison bills".

[kupomog]

I remember liking the movie just because it was Street Fighter but now it's like "good god...what the FUCK is this?" The actors chosen especially pisses me off in some cases. Julia as Bison, I will always love, though. And I like Ming Na but christ she sounds dead, but I guess she was like the only Chinese chick at the right age to play the part...part prolly would've just gone to Ziyi Zhang if she were old enough... And of course non-SF fans in Hawai`i only gave a crap 'cause of the actor playing E. Honda, but that always annoyed me 'cause, ya know, Honda wasn't fucking Samoan.

Anyway...

On a similar note I just bought the uncut re-release of the SFII movie (liek zomg chun-li is teh nudez!) and have fallen in love with it again. Cover sucks but it's the content that matters and for $13 at Best Buy, ish good.

[StrideR]

I mean, Street Fighter made Mortal Kombat look good.

That said, I got a kick out of it when I was 12.

[Kiyosuki]

I love this film!

Yes its bad, but its one of those films thats so bad its fun...like Manos.

I have a theory that the writers were trying to put this big, elaborate international story together...but near the latter middle..when everyone gets captured by Shadowloo...the script writers realized that it was a lost cause and went "ah what the hell..." and just wrote *everyone gets into a fight for the rest of the movie*.

[kupomog]

It makes me think about Tekken's big screen appearance next year. Can they really pull that off? Modern action films are too full of special effects to be as bad in a pleasant way. I'm not sure really, it could go either way.

Coming back to this..I am reminded that the Dead or Alive movie is supposed to be out this year...this month, in fact. I personally never got into those games, but somehow I still know more than I should about them. When I first saw these, I thought it was just a really big joke trailer for the game.

http://media.teamxbox.com/games/ss/1175/1141060834.jpg

http://media.teamxbox.com/games/ss/1175/1141060858.jpg

http://media.teamxbox.com/games/ss/1175/1141060831.jpg

Now I'm scared to see what Tekken will be like. Just don't fuck with Ling, that's all i gotta say -_-

And I always thought the first Mortal Kombat was pretty good, even now I still think it's decent enough. MK2, on the other hand, was donkey shit.

[tim]

found this at best buy in the $2 bin. greatest purchase i've ever made.

zangief giving the sideways thumbs-up makes me laugh every time.

[jim]

I loved it as a kid, and now its a good laugh. It entertaining, which is more then can be said for most VG movies.

This thread is bringing back memories.. Remember Super Mario Brothers the movie? God that sucked. Although I saw it twice at the cinema...

Mortal Kombat was actually a pretty good film

[Kiyosuki]

You know I don't care what anyone says, considering how nearly impossible it is to even consider making Mario Brothers of all things a live action film...they pulled off a pretty interesting interpretation of it at least.

It was fun movie. Stupid as hell but creative at least.

[Curtis]

I remember going to see this movie with my mom when I was like 6 or 7, I loved it, I remember wanting an American Flag tattoo like the one Guile had for some reason and telling my mom that. I havn't seen it sense and would like to. I agree the first MK movie was good the second one was horrid. Sub Zero only appeared for like 5 minutes!

[BigButtSkinner]

I liked the SF movie, it was a little campy ("I'm gonna kick Bison's ass so HARD that the next Bison wannabe is gonna feel it!") but it was still a fun watch. The only thing missing was Fei-Long, the producers cut him out because he was a "Bruce Lee parody," so they put in some guy called Sawada or something to replace him (he's even in the SF: The Movie video game!).

P.S. That DoA movie looks SO bad ... did they ACTUALLY give Ayane a purple wig???

[Lizard Queen]

You know, I never ever bothered renting SF just for the fact that everybody said it was so spectacularly terrible. Usually, when people say a movie is bad, I need to see for myself. But in this case, having Jean-Claude Van Damme as top billing was enough for me to stay away.

[Serious Downloader]

I think that this is a great movie. I wouldnt usually enjoy a movie like this. But for some reason i thought it was great!

[kupomog]

You know I don't care what anyone says, considering how nearly impossible it is to even consider making Mario Brothers of all things a live action film...they pulled off a pretty interesting interpretation of it at least.

It was fun movie. Stupid as hell but creative at least.

I always thought that the SMB movie was great if (obviously) you were trying to make Mario all adult and whatnot, you know? Mario has always been fairly cutesy and whatnot which I love, but the SMB movie was a neat take on a fairly dark Mario setting. Me, I have this habit...I draw kid/cartoony stuff the way they'd look if they were realistic/human/grown up...so SMB movie is really great for me to work off of.

[Drew]

I remember watching it with my friend when I was in fifth grade or somthing, and we both thought it was cool shit. I havnt seen it since, but I imagine it was basicly a live action saturday morning cartoon. I say this because I watched an episode of Double Dragon a few years ago (which I thought was the cats meow back in the day), and realized how terribly lame it was after viewing it when I was older.

[Kiyosuki]

http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0781/18.jpg

Double Dragon is worth seeing at least once just to see Kogo Shuko.

rofl. Oh god just looking at him makes me crack up hysterically!

[Stephen McTowelie]

I too went to the cinema to see this when i was younger, my dad took us and it was clearly the worst 90 minutes of his life...we tried to be enthusiastic about it but it was obvious, we were faking it and were dead inside....

i also recall some woman a row in front of us getting excited about how kylie minogue was in it, all 3 of us replied "so?".

its shown on channel 5 lot (UK) and always worth it for a giggle, although i always shudder at the end when half the cast turns to the camera and strikes their pose

*shudders at thought*

i agree with adam R's comment about the lack of hadokens, out of curiosity any SF fans here ever have hadoken fights? where you face each other and bust out the same combo for it....kills after 3 minutes or so....ahhh wasted youth! :D

[Kiyosuki]

I became quite the fighting gamer after SFII for a while. I did the whole whack, tournies and everything.

Hadoken fights were fun for me at first...but when you start playing against the "serious" players, throwing lots of projectiles is sort of suicide.

[boogie down mikel]

i miss raul julia

mk wasnt that bad of a flcik also, i liked smb too

[Stephen McTowelie]

Hadoken fights were fun for me at first...but when you start playing against the "serious" players, throwing lots of projectiles is sort of suicide.

have you checked out the "plug in" megadrive games that slot straight into your tv? (they're really big amongst students in the uk at the minute) and my mate ben had the one with SF2turbo....its the pad though, its fucking horrible! (based on the mega drive shit...makes me appreciate the modern pads so much more) after about 12 straight hadokens at each other your hand feels like it's going to fall off- the ultimate in repetitive strain injury (although i should be a hardened pro entering data for a living *sigh*)....but buying one of these will limit the ol projectiles to the basics...none of these alpha combos :silly:

[Lounge Fly]

(Guille missing his trademark haircut for example).


Van damme would have looked stupid with Guiles blonde spikey hair, thats why they changed it. Anyway, the film sucks monkey balls as everyone knows.

[the 'house always wins]

street fighter: the animated movie fucking rocks..ken rocking the 911 turbo 8-)

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http://www.animefrontier.com/pics/stre.jpg

[kupomog]

Mmmmmm I love that movie...aside from the 'hueg liek xbox' designs on some of the male characters.

[Kiyosuki]

Guile was so hilariously useless in the animated film.

I watched the original Japanese one, only saw a bit of the dub. I like the original's surreal soundtrack better. The dub is also a very..."oldschool" dub. Lots of cheese.

[kupomog]

I love the Japanese score. I don't care for the ROCKIN' music in the dub version. It's energetic but the softness of the music in say, Chun Li vs. Balrog is very cool to me.

[Imperciph]

I watched the original Japanese one, only saw a bit of the dub. I like the original's surreal soundtrack better. The dub is also a very..."oldschool" dub. Lots of cheese.

I always prefer seeing fansubs of Japanese anime of rather than dubs. Most of the time, the casting of the characters' voices are uninspired, the dialogues lack their original flair and the soundtrack just never fits in with actual atmosphere of the story.

On topic, the animated film does the franchise justice. The live action one is good enough only when you want to laugh at cheese and camp.

And the DOA trailer pics are outrageously bad. Just looks like Charlie's Angels with more cultural diversity and martial arts special effects.

[Hayden]

i miss raul julia

Ditto. Too bad his career ended with this movie. It feels he would have deserved something better.

[Kiyosuki]

I always prefer seeing fansubs of Japanese anime of rather than dubs. Most of the time, the casting of the characters' voices are uninspired, the dialogues lack their original flair and the soundtrack just never fits in with actual atmosphere of the story.

On topic, the animated film does the franchise justice. The live action one is good enough only when you want to laugh at cheese and camp.

And the DOA trailer pics are outrageously bad. Just looks like Charlie's Angels with more cultural diversity and martial arts special effects.

Yeah. Its all attributed to the massively different outlook on animation in general over there and over here. I mean, in Japan, animation has its share of stereotypes too and its going through its own down time of sorts as you know probably. But when it comes to things like voice acting its taken dead seriously. Its a big difference in workmanship styles too, but also its very difficult to successfully dub over something thats already animated...with a totally different language.

It is possible for english dub overs to be great though, maybe even better in some cases. Like I have trouble watching Cowboy Bebop in Japanese now, the english voices are so fitting and the dub is so well done and subtle that even the director and Yoko Kanno themselves have said they prefer it.

[Imperciph]

It is possible for english dub overs to be great though, maybe even better in some cases. Like I have trouble watching Cowboy Bebop in Japanese now, the english voices are so fitting and the dub is so well done and subtle that even the director and Yoko Kanno themselves have said they prefer it.

CowBoy Bebop's the only anime I've ever seen where the dub is actually better and that's because the dub voice-actors are extremely well-cast and give an excellent performance.

However in most other cases, the translation is done in a way that it reduces the effectiveness of the dialogue, the voice-actors are so badly cast that they don't reflect actual character's personalities at all, the subtle and effective soundtrack is replaced by generic nu-metal which basically sucks and doesn't achieve the effect the original did, especially in more dramatic scenes. And given the polically correct tendency of some companies to actually censor some gorier or more adult-natured scenes and their extremely annoying tendency of introducing american expressions to the characters' vocabulary overall acts to as create a completely butchered version of the original product.

Damn, I derailed this thread. Apologies.

But this discussion makes me realise the need of an Anime thread in the Drunken Clam. How about it, Kupo?

[kupomog]

I likes the Ranma 1/2 dub over the originals myself. The voices fit wonderfully and the dialogue just makes me laugh. At least I did like the dub before Sarah Strange left the show. Fuck that Inuyasha voice noise.

Anyway, if you want an anime thread, just start one :p