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| Omar
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|  "Re(5):I just finished watching Street Fighter"
, posted Fri 27 Dec 01:12:
After watching SF in the theater, I left very dissapointed. I even waited until the credits were over. We are lucky that Bison's promise of returning was false.
Ming Na and Kiyle Minouge were the only good thing if you ask me. Altough, with the right director, Van Damme would have been a cool Guile.
Well, actually, with a good director it wouldn't have been a terrible movie. He hated ze game!
Mortal Kombat is cool. Second MK had great fights and music, but nothing else.
Double Dragon was fun the first time, but it was too cartoonish. Paul Dini (Batman animated) co-wrote the story, but since his other works kick ass, I won't hold it against him.
Most videogames have a simple story. I understand that to adapt a story from one medium to another you must change parts of it. What I don't understand is why the have to destroy even the initial premise of the story. They are so simple it shouldn't be hard to add elements to ther story.
That's why I think MK works well, because the initial concept of the game is intact. They just added some extra layers and eliminated some parts to concentrate in certain characters.
I mean, it's a game about a frickin martial arts contest. Something too dificult to understand to De Souza,who would rather do movies about Van Damme Versus the Exploding Pants.
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|  "Re(3):I just finished watching Street Fighter"
, posted Sat 28 Dec 10:22
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Only thing good about it? Kylie Minogue as Cammy. *pants and howls* 
She even did her British accent well. (For those who don't,she's Australian) Another accent that I fancy! *tongue hangs to the floor*
Don't forget Ming-Na Wen as Chun-Li,too . She was one of the only people there who actually acted in the movie . Plus,she's very good in the video of the movie's soundtrack .
Yeah,Mortal Kombat (the first movie) was very good (although I prefer old Shang Tsung,but that's not a big deal) . Annihillation,however (MK's second movie),tried to put in so many characters,with so many special effects,that it got lost . It's great visually,but its story is very,very poor ...
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| Omar
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| "Re(4):I just finished watching Street Fighter" , posted Tue 31 Dec 02:54
Well, I bought yesterday the japanese version of the Street Fighter movie game. (REAL BATTLE...ON FILM!)
Let me explain.
When the game was released so many many years ago, it was at a local store and since it was japanese and new, it was very expensive.
Then year or two later, I entered preparatory school. Finished and the game was still there. Then more years went by, and the game was still there.
I told myself, if the game continues to be in the store one more year, I'll buy it. And, the game keep getting cheaper. It was already a fraction of the original cost.
About a year went by and I forgot about it. Then I read this thread and remembered. So, I went to the store.
Sure enough, it was still there. Waiting for me all these years. I just knew it. Or at the very lest, I was the only dumb person in this huge city that wanted that cursed game.
So I asked for the price. Price was so low, that with just about 3 more dollars I could buy another game (Fox Hunt, Capcom's interactive movie. More interactive than I expected).
My friends could not belive I bought that. We have been playng/laughing at it for a few hours now. I told them Akuma was in the game. Someone said "is it Christopher Walken?"
But beyond that, it's not that bad. It plays just like Super Street Fighter turbo, so it's fun, but everything else on it screams "laugh at me".
And we do.
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| DKW
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| "Street Fighter on film" , posted Tue 31 Dec 10:52
Saw most of The Movie (by accident; was an a friend's house and the TV was showing the Van Damme marathon on USA). While I admit that it's incredibly cheesy and largely forgettable...well, I've seen worse. Must worse. Just remember the following and you'll be fine:
1) It was a purely money-making venture to cash in on a game that was red-hot at the time, so a decent plot was probably too much to ask.
2) Capcom does not design characters with cosplay in mind. As a result, there are going to be a lot of people that are really hard to recreate in real life (Sagat, anyone?)
3) The simplistic good guys vs. bad guys setup was done out of sheer necessity. There's no effin' way they're going to cover sixteen-plus stories in a single feature presentation (probably one of the biggest problems with fighting game movies).
On a side note, I saw the SFA anime, and...it was all right. Really predictable at times (made-up sacrificial lamb we never see anywhere else, titanic Evil Hado struggle, Sakura stumbling every time she walks a hundred yards, etc.), but I didn't feel ripped off when I returned it. Considering how most of these things have turned out, that's something.
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| Burning Ranger 310th Post
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| "Re(10):I just finished watching Street Fighte" , posted Wed 1 Jan 21:00
Well, I have Street Fighter: The Movie game on my Saturn that my brother bought. Yeah, it's pretty much a joke. Still, I'll display with all of my other Saturn games when I get my game shelf.
Then again, the PS/Saturn versions aren't the real versions of the game. The arcade version is (which is available on MAME). It plays a lot better than the console version, and the graphics look a lot better.
As for the movie... well, it was disappointing when I look back on it. I too thought it was cool when the movie first came out in 1995 (or was it 1994, I was a freshman in high school when I saw it). Now, it's kinda fun to watch it, just to watch the funny parts. It's a joke really.
*Waits for the Criterion Special Edition DVD*
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| Dr Baghead 1854th Post
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| "Re(2):Re(10):I just finished watching Street " , posted Thu 2 Jan 00:01
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Well, I have Street Fighter: The Movie game on my Saturn that my brother bought.
Your brother bought it too? I swear, it seems the everyone who has a home copy only has it because their brother bought it...
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Then again, the PS/Saturn versions aren't the real versions of the game. The arcade version is (which is available on MAME). It plays a lot better than the console version, and the graphics look a lot better.
I've never played the arcade version, but I've heard it's got horrid MK rip-off moves (and I mean old shitty MK's, not the cool MK:DA).... but still, I think I'll try to play that... Blade, his multi-colored clones, and Sagat's "evil eye" should be fun to see in person...
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| Grave
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| "Re(3):Re(10):I just finished watching Street" , posted Thu 2 Jan 17:07
I'd swear I saw a SF Movie arcade machine at the local arcade here around the time it came out... could have been wrong, but it looked pretty unappealing, and I was probably better off avoiding it.
However, if you think video game movies are taking an uphill turn... I'm no so sure. Okay, Resident Evil wasn't so bad. Tomb Raider was really, really stupid, but not so horrible that it was unwatchable. I wish I didn't pay to see it, but I've seen worse movies. Like Reign of Fire. But I digress.
House of the Dead looks like one of the most miserable, idiotic wastes of film ever made. I'm not sure how much money Sega made from the studio purchasing the rights to HotD, but I hope it was a lot. It just looks... painful, for lack of a better word. And the Shinobi rights have been bought up, now. I'm scared.
However, if the US SF movie wasn't bad enough for you, you might want to check out a Hong Kong film called Future Cops. Saw this one at a friend's a while back. Prepare to be amused!
And then there's always the SF scene in Jackie Chan's City Hunter...
Heh, I don't think it's that video games and movies can't mix, but they rarely ever do. Final Fantasy was good, but it had absolutely nothing in common with any other Final Fantasy, so I suppose that doesn't really count for too much.
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| Grave
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| "Re(5):Re(10):I just finished watching Street" , posted Thu 2 Jan 17:42
Eh, I enjoyed the movie, but to me, it seemed ultimately unnecessary. Yeah, they were hoping to usher in some great advancements in CG, and the characters did look pretty good, as you said, when they were standing still. That's not to say they were bad, and they weren't, but they weren't what they were hyped to me. The plot was okay, and the voice acting was good, but..
I still don't see what Square's point was. Did they want to convince the world that they were CG giants to be reckoned with? The idea of creating digital actors to animate in the place of humans on screen is interesting, but kinda pointless. When humans have to voice them, and you're trying to make photorealistic humans in the first place, why not have humans play them?
But I don't think it was a bad film. It wasn't a great film, but I do think they learned their lesson when they got financially reamed from this project.
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| Dr Baghead 1856th Post
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| "Re(6):Re(10):I just finished watching Street" , posted Thu 2 Jan 19:41
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Eh, I enjoyed the movie, but to me, it seemed ultimately unnecessary. Yeah, they were hoping to usher in some great advancements in CG, and the characters did look pretty good, as you said, when they were standing still. That's not to say they were bad, and they weren't, but they weren't what they were hyped to me. The plot was okay, and the voice acting was good, but..
Okay, maybe I was a little hard on the CG people, they don't look *too* bad, but no one in their right mind is going to think "WHA!?!?! You mean those AREN'T real people"... and based on the pre-release hype that's what Square wanted people to think.
compared to the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park were at times they looked very,very real the CG humans fail, but since they no one else had tried to do CG people (or 'sinthespians' as the press coined them) in that much detail as the main focus of a movie before they're still a pretty good benchmark for future companies to aim for.
Voice actors were all top notch (although I wish Keith had been given a larger role then "Council Member #2" I mean, he's not a big star... but dammit! That doesn't give you the right to under use the voice of Goliath/the UPS commericals!.... I also just remembered that Mulan and Hades' VA's are in the cast too, nice!)
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I still don't see what Square's point was. Did they want to convince the world that they were CG giants to be reckoned with? The idea of creating digital actors to animate in the place of humans on screen is interesting, but kinda pointless. When humans have to voice them, and you're trying to make photorealistic humans in the first place, why not have humans play them?
I'm not sure what the point was... I guess to cash in on what is arguabley the best part of their RPG's in a different form. But I still think it's funny every newspaper/gossip report/entertainment magazine asked the cast of FF:tSW "Do you think CG actors will replace real ones?" during the pre-release interviews... I think once the movie came out it shut everyone up who thought it was even considerable (well, I mean aside from being "virutal doubles", I think FF:tSW proved we're along way from Sinthespians being the main characters in movies... speaking of which, the movie S1M0NE, did they always plan to use a human for that? or did someone change it at last minute when they realized no one would think an actual CGI Sinthespian was a real human)
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But I don't think it was a bad film. It wasn't a great film, but I do think they learned their lesson when they got financially reamed from this project.
I think it fails on several levels, but it's still ranks among my top 5 movies based on games, worth a rental at best...
plus, it won't be getting a horrid sequel and a slew of uninspired games based on it like Shrek...
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