Interestingly, the Scorpion fight originally ended in the forest apparently, but was extended after test screenings. And the Reptile fight was only added in reshoots and choreographed by Liu Kang's actor.
@@baberuthlessthat’s the Thing! The Original Forest Death for Scorpion would’ve left the Viewers with Blue Balls! As Scorpion dies after the Johnny’s Shadow Kick!
Street Fighter: The Movie wanted to be so influential that they tried a Mortal Kombat and made a digitized sprite game out of it, which played just as well as how the movie looked
Blade and Sawada were the best things about Street Fighter The Movie the Game (arcade version) 😁 I like how many years later Capcom Japan made the OCs of that game part of the Street Fighter mainline timeline. I would like to see Blade in SF6, especially after knowing his true identity 👀
The console version is decent, but you lose out on the memes from the Arcade Port. Such as Ken's actor shouting "DRAGON!" and "HURRICANE!" for his signature moves.
The one thing that makes the SF movie much more endearing is that even though Raul Julia hammed up the acting as Bison in his final performance, he did it for the sake of his kids to leave behind. Also, my favorite scene in the DOA film was with Kevin Nash's Bass and the correlation with Christie and Tina's name when he see them in the same bed.
SF2 the Animation was so insanely influential on the series, I can't think off the top of my head of a supplemental material that utterly redirected the entire franchise so drastically. I think people forget that Street Fighter 1 and 2 weren't that cartoony for their time, personally I think the next game might've looked closer to Fatal Fury 3 than Alpha, but after the movie, now we think of Street Fighter as looking like Alpha, or the next games which are ofshoots of Alpha's style (Until 6). Tldr I miss when Sagat had irises.
I wouldn't be surprised if Sagat looking huge in in the Alpha games was influenced by the movie. Akuma being a lone merchant I'm more sure was taken from the movie.
Seeing Chun take back control of the fight by chuckin that couch at Vega as a child cemented her as my first favorite character of the series. That fight paired with KMFDM was amazing. That Fatal Fury trilogy, SF2, and the first MK movie dominated my childhood, I’m rooting for the sequel to the 2021 MK film and also the upcoming Legendary pictures SF movie.
The upcoming SF movie needs to keep the joke running and use a new, fucked up shadaloo pronunciation (Hoping the video doesn't get clapped for copyright!)
SF the movie is my fave live action fighting game movie. Ming Na Wen & Damian Chapa autographed my Chun Li & Ken Masters funko pops, & Miguel A. Nuñez Jr. & I re-enacted the "Change the channel." scene 🤣
Street Fight II anime's fight scenes will always be the best for me, with Chun Li and Vega being the cream of the crop. A really good look into the different movies and their level of quality and charm.
I almost was pretty optimistic for the new street fighter film, but then they recently let go of their directors and that sort of crushed my hopes for it.
This was an interesting video to watch. My absolute favorite movies are the OG Mortal kombat & the animated street fighter 2 movie. I watch them here and there. To me, they are great classics!
I don't see this ever mentioned, but the official artwork for Street Fighter II TURBO seems to be drawn by the animated film's artists. It's my absolute FAVORITE official character artwork from that time.
When i was a kid i watched the street fighter live action movie with my granpda, he didn't know anything about SF but he really liked the film, he smiled at every scene that had bison in it. Good times.
"If this isn't the best Street Fighter movie, its the best GI Joe one." The 1987 GI Joe animated movie would like to have a word with you. On this note, one thing I was surprised to enjoy was the US-made Street Fighter animated series from the 1990s, which... kinda tries to be in-between the canon of the games and the canon of the movies (Bison still acts like his movie counterpart and Blanka is still one of Guile's friends who got transformed, but other than that its a lot closer to the games and even has an episode that basically adapts Final Fight). The GI Joe influence is also visible there, but it also makes a lot of interesting plot and character choices as well. It's also one of the few times an American-made series had an actual ending.
Somehow I've never seen the MK movies but this has convinced me I need to see them. I was absolutely obsessed with the SF2 Animated Movie as a teen and probably watched it over 20 times... I remember thinking the live action film absolutely sucked and despised it for being inaccurate to the story and cheesy. As an adult, I appreciate it's charm and think I'm down for a rewatch.. Maybe after a few beers and a smoke 😅
A few years ago my friends and I were on a Fighting game movie binge because we were reminiscing over the Tekken Live Action and DOA was so funny because we were so confused and thrown back by the Wrestlers being characters in the movie
The live action Chun Li movie around when sf4 came out was weird as heck, saw it on tv when i was like 11. I only stuck through it cause i thought the main actress was pretty. I only remember the spinning bird kick scene, Viper being in it, and Bison like... Being born from a demonic pregnancy or something by some lady in a cave idk.
I will never forget Chun-Li's iconic bath scene in the SF2 Animated Movie 😏 I had a good childhood 🥰 I have to give credit to the 1994 Street Fighter Live Action Movie for making Guile the main protagonist. Let's face it. Guile and Chun-Li are the real main protagonists in Street Fighter 2 Ryu is just the poster boy 6:07 I like how in SF3 Third Strike, Chun-Li has a win quote where she tells that she is NOT a news reporter which is a nice reference
Dang I remember watching Street fighter 2 the animation movie with my whole family we didn't expect the naked Chun Li bath scene 😂😂😂😂 also cool fact Bryan Cranston aka Walter white voiced Fei long in the English dub.
From a tweet: "a specific bit of info from Capcom's latest shareholder meeting is buzzing rn: the Van Damme Street Fighter movie continues to bring in tens of millions of yen per year 🇯🇵"
I personally think that the Dead or Alive movie is the most fun to watch because of how cheesy it is without butchering too much anything like Bison in the chun-li movie. And about that, the main difference between the unrated and the rated versions is the Bison flashbacks. So yeah, not much. Can't wait for your opinion on the trainwreck that is the KOF movie
The MK movie was great, hardcore action, it's something that was enjoyable at its time and now, SF2 is one that you're disappointed when you watch it at the time but then you learn to love as a grown up only because it's in the "it's so bad it's good" tier. Also no KOF/Tekken movies talk? Sadness :
The KoF movie was this close to have all the people in the right place. 😄 Get Terry to direct the fight scene. And Ray Park, with his expertise with his staff skills would have been a perfect Billy Kane.
Raul Julia as M. Bison is one of my favorites versions of the evil Dictador. Unpopular opinion. Thin Bison is best Bison, I have never liked the hyper muscular Bison from the Street Fighter Zero/Alphas series, easily his worst look 😒 Edit: I do also like Street Fighter The Movie The Game (arcade version) It is pure kusoge fun and it is still being played to this day in fightcade. I would like to see the Shadaloo Trooper known as Blade returning, especially when you discover his true identity as Gunloc from Saturday Night Slam Masters. Capcom Japan made Blade, and the rest of the OCs, canon into the mainline series.
The reason Mortal Kombat the movie was considered the best of those back then is that it matched the general quality and tone of the games. Easier to do when the source material is from the same nation too. There is a general better understanding between the two mediums that way.
I think Capcom should maybe try to put Street Fighter movies on the backburner and possibly try to create one for Darkstalkers. Could be quite difficult in live action, but a gothic, horror-themed fighting game movie would probably draw in a good amount of people. But for Street Fighter, they need to bring it back to its roots, and make it an actual story revolving around street fights. Maybe take a page from Street Fighter 6 and lean into the urban, hip-hop aesthetic. But I would find it interesting if there was something like a Virtua Fighter movie. Taking a game that really doesn't have much of a plot anyways and trying to make something of it could be interesting. But, more than any other game, you'd hope such a thing could get some amazing martial artists. Overall, I don't know if a movie is the best way to adapt a fighting game. Since every character in a game is a fully fleshed out individual, where sometimes the different characters have wildly different, vaguely intersecting plots (thinking Mortal Kombat Deception primarily on this front), I would say a show would be the better option. Basically, I look at the show Heroes (for the sake of argument, even though I like the whole thing, let's just say the first season, which is most lauded), where it would weave in and out of different characters' stories, taking a full season to really flesh these people out, each one feeling important to the whole plot. A movie would have so little time that they'd need to cut some very important bits and characters would easily fall to the wayside (and create far more often the "jobber" problem). Besides, expanding would let there be more characters introduced without it feeling like they're just cramming them in.
I never stopped laughing watching that silly KOF movie with the shortest actor in the cast playing Rugal, Ryo as a bouncer and Terry as an FBI agent etc xD (Iori being a simp for Mai killed me lmao)
Speaking of the Street Fighter anime movie..... would you consider talking about the TV series (may they be animated or not) based on fighting games?? Because I think there's a lot to cover in those as well.
As long as I DONT see Luke in a SF movie, Im happy. Bring Sean as the MAIN SF character in a SF movie, he deserves better. Also mini Chun aka Li Fen I want to play her in SF6 and nothing yet, make her a character! I have a hate for SF6 in general SF since SF5, but I dont get my hopes up for anything I said.
The Scoprion-Cage and Reptile-Liu Kang fights are the best parts of the first MK movie, and that's because they were done after production wrapped when test screening audiences said it didn't have enough action. I did get the OST on cassette tape, though.
I really like the MK 1995 movie and eventually come back to it from time to time. I've never been a fan of that fighting game, but the film stands alone as a classic adventure story. It contains the hero's journey, vengeance narratives, an evil magician and other dimensions/worlds.
I know it wasn't part of the criteria for movies in this video, but I can't wait to hear your thoughts on King of Fighters 😂 I remember reading an article reviewing it, and they said the guy playing Terry was one of the best parts because he knew what kind of movie they had and just decided to have fun acting out what he had to work with 🤣
Of all of these easily STREET FIGHTER THE ANIMATED MOVIE was the best one, faithful to the games, characters and stories, visually stunning, the absolute best fights, animation easily lend to make all the insanity happen and is sad they actually haven't done a theatrical fighting game animated adaptation again, knowing how legendary now this movie is consider I wish Capcom and Legendary did an animated film instead of a live action one, is just sad.....on the other side, in the live action category, easily the best one is MK 1 (the 90´s one) is the best, sorry OC Cole and magic tattoos powers and black Milleena suck all the good out of this one for me........the 90's MK movie might not have gore, but nailed everything else, the fights are amazing, the costumes, the set designs and THE MUSIC and just like the SFII animated film, this one actually influence the games, so yeah that alone make the 90 film 1000 times better that the 2021 ver. But as adaptation done right of any of these fighting games.....the 2 best live action adaptation.....didn't go to theater or even home releases.......they went to YOU TUBE...............both MK LEGACY and Streef Fighter ASSASSIN FIST are the absolute best you can see, specially the SF one, Assassin Fist was done by people who cares about the lore and the characters, if you haven't see it yet, is I think easily availiable and also have a Blue Ray release, I recommended you seek that one.
100% agree with you with Mortal Kombat 95. It was my first instance of feeling "This is why nobody takes the things I like seriously" as a kid. It's fun schlock but not the film I wanted.
One of my main memories of the Dead or Alive movie is.. I really liked the guy who played Ryu Hayabusa. If they had done an actual Ninja Gaiden movie at the same time I would've loved for him to reprise the role. Probably too late now though.
I love the video. Still kudos for Raul Julia, dudes is true M.Bison and really made the movie memorable. Mk95 is also my favorite to this day. Mk21 tho, my headcanon is that Cole was supposed to be Tremor Metallic Variation but they run out of budget and just give him a cheap tonfas lmao.
I was obsessed with the MK movie as a kid. Would always try to catch the first couple mins for the free on the PPV channel before it got blurry 🤣. I played out that "Your soul is mine" quote on the playground too 🤣
I'm glad to see someone giving the DOA film some love. It's not perfect, but it's bright and colorful, has great fight scenes, and knows what it is. Do you know some of the production history of it? Essentially, the director and his crew didn't speak English, despite having an entirely English-speaking cast. So the whole thing was basically handled on set by a single translator. Also, the director fired and replaced the entire crew TWICE during production. That the film even exists is monumental. Also, I would love a part 2 where you talk about Tekken, King of Fighters, and throw in the Double Dragon film while we're at it.
Assassins Fist is easily the best live action SF film so far and will be hard to top. It worked because it only concentrated on a few main characters not just randomly putting in endless pointless cameos.
The actor of Bison for the Chun Li movie later played Damien Dahrk in the DC Arrowverse shows, where he basically haa Bison's powers and acts like him too, more than he did in the street fighter movie
Shang Tsung did bleed in the first Mortal Kombat movie in the 1v1 after the "endurance match" with the undead warriors. Everyone calling Liu Kang "Lou" throughout the movie just felt... weird. Robin Shou video game cinematic universe went off the rails with MK, then DOA and the Legend of Chun-Li. I will still rewatch the Van Damme SF movie and '95 Mortal Kombat movie anytime. I have a fondness for that live action Dead or Alive and Tekken (the second one was bad). I've always said in twitter that the live action King of Fighters movie was such a travesty that it makes MK Annihilation watchable.
Looking back, the MCU really robbed us of the best video game live action casting with Chris Evans as Johnny Cage. No diss against Karl Urban but looking back at all of his pre-Captain America roles he really shines as a comedic actor & he basically already played Johnny Cage in the Fantastic Four as Human Torch. It’s also funny that they got Urban in a Mortal Kombat movie and he’s NOT playing Kano lol.
I have a soft spot for fighting game b-movies, so my taste is absolutely in question. That said, I saw DoA in the theater and did not regret it. Looking forward to the next installment of this series, if only because I'm hoping you watch the Korean Street Fighter.
@@baberuthless there are two of them! An animated film and a straight to video live action series. I talked about them in a video on my channel that nobody watched lol.
The DOA movie decently adapts most of the early game's plot points. I kinda saw Donovan as a sorta stand in for Raidou, with the being able to copy any fighting style.
I think the MK 1995 movie (aside from having fight scene, which is why many of those who saw it at the time wanted) have the advantage that old school MK already had some cheesyness to it, and it's easier for actors to look like the characters when the characters were digitized actors in the first place.
8:42 likely because it is closer to the games plot unlike the former, and has perfomaces that left enough of an impact they defined the characters in the games moving forward; unlike the latter.
I hope someone would make a person, who doesn't know Street Fighter, watch the SF movie first then the SFII movie and make them believe that that's the sequel.
Mortal Kombat was the best *because* it had so much fighting. It felt so much more like the game than Street Fighter, Even if Raul Julia out-performed literally the entire Mortal Kombat cast. But if you count animated movies, the SFII OVA is definitely the best ever.
It’s a rough one for me because I was waiting for the MK reboot movie since before the MK Legacy web series. The 2016 script may have been a horrible adaptation but it wrote Cole a little better. And in the 2018 script the final fights were paced way better, Lao and Nitara fought in the movies version of the Bell Tower from MK3 and was a full on fleshed out fight, Jax actually pushed Reiko’s body into the pit originally and they did make the prop for it just never used it unfortunately. I’ve gone back n forth re-outlining the movie and I think making Lewis Tan’s character Kenshi or even just letting his arcana be that he inherits the Hellfire from Hanzo after being possessed by him for the last fight, letting (Hanzo) Scorpion be in the prequel and then letting Cole become the modern Scorpion in the tournament. I’m kinda hoping they play up all the whining to kill him off in the sequel but have him become the new Scorpion after dying. So definitely had my gripes with the 21 film like choppy editing and pacing but still loved it here’s hoping the sequel is better. (Zero Signal was my favorite track too 🤘🔥)
I think the problem with most video game movies is that video games are a completely different medium compared to movies because movies are a visual medium whereas video games are more interactive medium so when making a movie based on a video game some aspects doesn’t work as well in movie because what their adapting to film was made for a medium that’s different from movies.
Bison's actor already got Geese's look nailed down, now it just needs to act more like Geese, and replace Chun-Li with Terry, ans you're basically good to go.
What I'd heard about Techno Syndrome's absence from the MK games was simply licensing issues. That is, that the game company doesn't actually own the song.
You need to do a follow up. You mention the street fighter anime, but there was alpha, alpha generation. The 3 fatal fury animes, the awful toshinden, samurai shodown and art of fighting animes, the Tekken anime. The two live action tekkens and of course the awful king of fighters live action flick.
Street Fighter and Fatal Fury Motion Pictures rule as movies in general for how dumb they are and how much they embrace their lore and source material. Also that credits stinger in SF2! But if you want a REALLY bad fighting game movie: King Of Fighters. That and the sequel to the Tekken movie. The most nothing I can think of
Interestingly, the Scorpion fight originally ended in the forest apparently, but was extended after test screenings. And the Reptile fight was only added in reshoots and choreographed by Liu Kang's actor.
What id give to see the version that ended in the forest. Especially if it ended on Johnny’s kick
I laughed when u were using toys as the fight scene she said😂😂😂
Them edgy 90s teens that did the screen testing elevated this movie to "ok, fun"
@@baberuthlessthat’s the Thing!
The Original Forest Death for Scorpion would’ve left the Viewers with Blue Balls! As Scorpion dies after the Johnny’s Shadow Kick!
I still believe Mortal Kombat the original is still one of the best video game movies they made. Pretty good and SF2 the Animated Movie.
Street Fighter: The Movie wanted to be so influential that they tried a Mortal Kombat and made a digitized sprite game out of it, which played just as well as how the movie looked
The console version was a little better, and that's being generous.
I actually prefer the arcade version
It has that kusoge charm 😊
And it is still being played to this day in fightcade.
Blade and Sawada were the best things about Street Fighter The Movie the Game (arcade version) 😁
I like how many years later Capcom Japan made the OCs of that game part of the Street Fighter mainline timeline.
I would like to see Blade in SF6, especially after knowing his true identity 👀
The console version is decent, but you lose out on the memes from the Arcade Port.
Such as Ken's actor shouting "DRAGON!" and "HURRICANE!" for his signature moves.
So secretly kino?
SFTM rocks
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa autographed my Yugioh card Soul Taker
The one thing that makes the SF movie much more endearing is that even though Raul Julia hammed up the acting as Bison in his final performance, he did it for the sake of his kids to leave behind.
Also, my favorite scene in the DOA film was with Kevin Nash's Bass and the correlation with Christie and Tina's name when he see them in the same bed.
SF2 the Animation was so insanely influential on the series, I can't think off the top of my head of a supplemental material that utterly redirected the entire franchise so drastically. I think people forget that Street Fighter 1 and 2 weren't that cartoony for their time, personally I think the next game might've looked closer to Fatal Fury 3 than Alpha, but after the movie, now we think of Street Fighter as looking like Alpha, or the next games which are ofshoots of Alpha's style (Until 6).
Tldr I miss when Sagat had irises.
I wouldn't be surprised if Sagat looking huge in in the Alpha games was influenced by the movie.
Akuma being a lone merchant I'm more sure was taken from the movie.
I'd say the Mortal Kombat movie has it beat as far as an adaptation influencing the source
Seeing Chun take back control of the fight by chuckin that couch at Vega as a child cemented her as my first favorite character of the series. That fight paired with KMFDM was amazing. That Fatal Fury trilogy, SF2, and the first MK movie dominated my childhood, I’m rooting for the sequel to the 2021 MK film and also the upcoming Legendary pictures SF movie.
The upcoming SF movie needs to keep the joke running and use a new, fucked up shadaloo pronunciation
(Hoping the video doesn't get clapped for copyright!)
They might as well 😆 also it probably will be dinged but oh well
SF the movie is my fave live action fighting game movie. Ming Na Wen & Damian Chapa autographed my Chun Li & Ken Masters funko pops, & Miguel A. Nuñez Jr. & I re-enacted the "Change the channel." scene 🤣
Kevin Nash as Bass was perfect for the DOA movie. Can never go wrong with wrestlers as fighting game characters.
Street Fight II anime's fight scenes will always be the best for me, with Chun Li and Vega being the cream of the crop. A really good look into the different movies and their level of quality and charm.
The fatal fury anime movies from the early 90s are so good. Crazy how they predate all sf movies
I almost was pretty optimistic for the new street fighter film, but then they recently let go of their directors and that sort of crushed my hopes for it.
Same here, these movies get announced way too early and things change so much up until it actually shoots.
@@baberuthless like whatever they’re going to do now probably won’t be nearly as cool
This was an interesting video to watch. My absolute favorite movies are the OG Mortal kombat & the animated street fighter 2 movie. I watch them here and there. To me, they are great classics!
I wish I grew up with them! I only saw MK 1995 less than a year ago 😅
I don't see this ever mentioned, but the official artwork for Street Fighter II TURBO seems to be drawn by the animated film's artists. It's my absolute FAVORITE official character artwork from that time.
That artwork was based
When i was a kid i watched the street fighter live action movie with my granpda, he didn't know anything about SF but he really liked the film, he smiled at every scene that had bison in it.
Good times.
I saw Legend of Chun Li. There were 3 people in the theater. On of them was an old lady.I still think sometimes like "what were YOU here for?"
Old woman probably fought for feminism and women’s rights back in her day.
These movies in general are bad. But as a fighting game fan, they're AWESOME XD
Reptile fight was awesome, the music that went with it as well! Also mortal Kombat film Kano is best Kano.
"If this isn't the best Street Fighter movie, its the best GI Joe one." The 1987 GI Joe animated movie would like to have a word with you.
On this note, one thing I was surprised to enjoy was the US-made Street Fighter animated series from the 1990s, which... kinda tries to be in-between the canon of the games and the canon of the movies (Bison still acts like his movie counterpart and Blanka is still one of Guile's friends who got transformed, but other than that its a lot closer to the games and even has an episode that basically adapts Final Fight). The GI Joe influence is also visible there, but it also makes a lot of interesting plot and character choices as well. It's also one of the few times an American-made series had an actual ending.
The live action Street Fighter movie is unironically the best GIJoe movie.
Cobra wishes he could be RJ's Bison.
RIP to a legend.
Coincidentally, Hasbro acquired the Street Fighter license and they added the characters to the G.I. Joe cast
@pablocasas5906 And then both IPs eventually got a crossover comic years later
It really is.
Somehow I've never seen the MK movies but this has convinced me I need to see them.
I was absolutely obsessed with the SF2 Animated Movie as a teen and probably watched it over 20 times... I remember thinking the live action film absolutely sucked and despised it for being inaccurate to the story and cheesy. As an adult, I appreciate it's charm and think I'm down for a rewatch.. Maybe after a few beers and a smoke 😅
How have you not seen them
I've never seen the Street Fighter 2 movie poster before, it looks awesome. Now I've got a new phone wallpaper.
A few years ago my friends and I were on a Fighting game movie binge because we were reminiscing over the Tekken Live Action and DOA was so funny because we were so confused and thrown back by the Wrestlers being characters in the movie
9:35
Absolutely killed with this gag
It caught me off gaurd 😆
"LIKE LIGHTNING!!!!" i love it dude and the goro scene with the slide made me die 🤣🤣good editing
The live action Chun Li movie around when sf4 came out was weird as heck, saw it on tv when i was like 11. I only stuck through it cause i thought the main actress was pretty. I only remember the spinning bird kick scene, Viper being in it, and Bison like... Being born from a demonic pregnancy or something by some lady in a cave idk.
That bison scene is so fucking out of left field
The one thing I remember from it is the kikoken.png
@@a2lan123 i feel someone on Fiver could have done better
You don't know who Kristin Kreuk is?!
What's even better about Street Fighter: The Movie was that Bison was Raul Julia's last performance, which was why he gave everything for that role.
Shadaloo
Shadalaw
Shadalao
Shadala-li-lu-le-lo
Seeing Kevin Nash as bass is probably the best choice for him. Even now.
I legit love the Street Fighter movie. Raul was so good as Bison, it took me towards the end of the movie that he was Gomez Addams.
He was also the best Gomez we could have asked for
Raul Julia Bison is one of the greatest M. Bisons ever!
I also prefer Bison being thin not all that muscular like in the Zero/Alpha series
I will never forget Chun-Li's iconic bath scene in the SF2 Animated Movie 😏
I had a good childhood 🥰
I have to give credit to the 1994 Street Fighter Live Action Movie for making Guile the main protagonist.
Let's face it.
Guile and Chun-Li are the real main protagonists in Street Fighter 2
Ryu is just the poster boy
6:07 I like how in SF3 Third Strike, Chun-Li has a win quote where she tells that she is NOT a news reporter which is a nice reference
The fight is not why you like it so much you ain’t slick
@@pleaseshutup7053 I am a simple guy, I like waifus and fanservice.
At least I am honest 😊
Dang I remember watching Street fighter 2 the animation movie with my whole family we didn't expect the naked Chun Li bath scene 😂😂😂😂 also cool fact Bryan Cranston aka Walter white voiced Fei long in the English dub.
sf2 anime & mk '95 are my favs
If we’ve learned anything here, it’s nobody knows what Bison’s organization is called.
From a tweet: "a specific bit of info from Capcom's latest shareholder meeting is buzzing rn: the Van Damme Street Fighter movie continues to bring in tens of millions of yen per year 🇯🇵"
Scorpion spine-ripped Sub-Zero in MK Legacy, which was live action.
I personally think that the Dead or Alive movie is the most fun to watch because of how cheesy it is without butchering too much anything like Bison in the chun-li movie. And about that, the main difference between the unrated and the rated versions is the Bison flashbacks. So yeah, not much. Can't wait for your opinion on the trainwreck that is the KOF movie
Street Fighter 2 animated movie is awesome!
I still like original Mortal Kombat film despite the mistakes
That Johnny Cage vs Scorpion fight is my favorite part of the MK Movie. I was surprised when I realized Fear Factory was playing in the background
Live action MK or SF movie! Both are perfect!
The MK movie was great, hardcore action, it's something that was enjoyable at its time and now, SF2 is one that you're disappointed when you watch it at the time but then you learn to love as a grown up only because it's in the "it's so bad it's good" tier. Also no KOF/Tekken movies talk? Sadness :
The Kof and Tekken live action movies are from another world so I gotta save those golden nuggets for later 😆 I got a lot to say about those
The KoF movie was this close to have all the people in the right place. 😄
Get Terry to direct the fight scene. And Ray Park, with his expertise with his staff skills would have been a perfect Billy Kane.
Nowadays, Shao Kahn's hydra heads remind me of Yugioh's blue eyes white dragon's head
Now I can’t unsee that 😅
@@baberuthless Mortal Kombat joke
Shao Kahn, Kotal Kahn, Kitana Kahn
Chaka Khan
MK: Annihilation is in my top 5 favorite movies. It's the worst; I love it.
The actor who plays Chun Li in The Legend of Chun Li is of Chinese descent btw, she’s mixed just like her character is shown to be in the film
Pretty sure neither of her parents were Chinese.
9:34 😂😂😂 i love the subtlety. Amazing work as usual! Bravo 👏
Raul Julia as M. Bison is one of my favorites versions of the evil Dictador.
Unpopular opinion.
Thin Bison is best Bison, I have never liked the hyper muscular Bison from the Street Fighter Zero/Alphas series, easily his worst look 😒
Edit: I do also like Street Fighter The Movie The Game (arcade version)
It is pure kusoge fun and it is still being played to this day in fightcade.
I would like to see the Shadaloo Trooper known as Blade returning, especially when you discover his true identity as Gunloc from Saturday Night Slam Masters.
Capcom Japan made Blade, and the rest of the OCs, canon into the mainline series.
The reason Mortal Kombat the movie was considered the best of those back then is that it matched the general quality and tone of the games. Easier to do when the source material is from the same nation too. There is a general better understanding between the two mediums that way.
I think Capcom should maybe try to put Street Fighter movies on the backburner and possibly try to create one for Darkstalkers. Could be quite difficult in live action, but a gothic, horror-themed fighting game movie would probably draw in a good amount of people. But for Street Fighter, they need to bring it back to its roots, and make it an actual story revolving around street fights. Maybe take a page from Street Fighter 6 and lean into the urban, hip-hop aesthetic.
But I would find it interesting if there was something like a Virtua Fighter movie. Taking a game that really doesn't have much of a plot anyways and trying to make something of it could be interesting. But, more than any other game, you'd hope such a thing could get some amazing martial artists.
Overall, I don't know if a movie is the best way to adapt a fighting game. Since every character in a game is a fully fleshed out individual, where sometimes the different characters have wildly different, vaguely intersecting plots (thinking Mortal Kombat Deception primarily on this front), I would say a show would be the better option. Basically, I look at the show Heroes (for the sake of argument, even though I like the whole thing, let's just say the first season, which is most lauded), where it would weave in and out of different characters' stories, taking a full season to really flesh these people out, each one feeling important to the whole plot. A movie would have so little time that they'd need to cut some very important bits and characters would easily fall to the wayside (and create far more often the "jobber" problem). Besides, expanding would let there be more characters introduced without it feeling like they're just cramming them in.
They probably should avoid a horror themed action movie with multiple characters since those don't really go over too well.
I never stopped laughing watching that silly KOF movie with the shortest actor in the cast playing Rugal, Ryo as a bouncer and Terry as an FBI agent etc xD (Iori being a simp for Mai killed me lmao)
Speaking of the Street Fighter anime movie..... would you consider talking about the TV series (may they be animated or not) based on fighting games?? Because I think there's a lot to cover in those as well.
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As long as I DONT see Luke in a SF movie, Im happy.
Bring Sean as the MAIN SF character in a SF movie, he deserves better. Also mini Chun aka Li Fen I want to play her in SF6 and nothing yet, make her a character!
I have a hate for SF6 in general SF since SF5, but I dont get my hopes up for anything I said.
The tidbit I love to bring up about the SF2 Animated Movie is the dub voice of Fei Long is BRYAN CRANSTON.
The Scoprion-Cage and Reptile-Liu Kang fights are the best parts of the first MK movie, and that's because they were done after production wrapped when test screening audiences said it didn't have enough action. I did get the OST on cassette tape, though.
I really like the MK 1995 movie and eventually come back to it from time to time. I've never been a fan of that fighting game, but the film stands alone as a classic adventure story. It contains the hero's journey, vengeance narratives, an evil magician and other dimensions/worlds.
For MK1 movie there gore when Cage slice Scorpion with is saw but the blood was always weird it look so thick !!!
I know it wasn't part of the criteria for movies in this video, but I can't wait to hear your thoughts on King of Fighters 😂 I remember reading an article reviewing it, and they said the guy playing Terry was one of the best parts because he knew what kind of movie they had and just decided to have fun acting out what he had to work with 🤣
Of all of these easily STREET FIGHTER THE ANIMATED MOVIE was the best one, faithful to the games, characters and stories, visually stunning, the absolute best fights, animation easily lend to make all the insanity happen and is sad they actually haven't done a theatrical fighting game animated adaptation again, knowing how legendary now this movie is consider I wish Capcom and Legendary did an animated film instead of a live action one, is just sad.....on the other side, in the live action category, easily the best one is MK 1 (the 90´s one) is the best, sorry OC Cole and magic tattoos powers and black Milleena suck all the good out of this one for me........the 90's MK movie might not have gore, but nailed everything else, the fights are amazing, the costumes, the set designs and THE MUSIC and just like the SFII animated film, this one actually influence the games, so yeah that alone make the 90 film 1000 times better that the 2021 ver. But as adaptation done right of any of these fighting games.....the 2 best live action adaptation.....didn't go to theater or even home releases.......they went to YOU TUBE...............both MK LEGACY and Streef Fighter ASSASSIN FIST are the absolute best you can see, specially the SF one, Assassin Fist was done by people who cares about the lore and the characters, if you haven't see it yet, is I think easily availiable and also have a Blue Ray release, I recommended you seek that one.
Street Fighter 2: The Animated Movie > Street Fighter: The Movie
100% agree with you with Mortal Kombat 95. It was my first instance of feeling "This is why nobody takes the things I like seriously" as a kid. It's fun schlock but not the film I wanted.
One of my main memories of the Dead or Alive movie is.. I really liked the guy who played Ryu Hayabusa. If they had done an actual Ninja Gaiden movie at the same time I would've loved for him to reprise the role. Probably too late now though.
I love the video. Still kudos for Raul Julia, dudes is true M.Bison and really made the movie memorable. Mk95 is also my favorite to this day.
Mk21 tho, my headcanon is that Cole was supposed to be Tremor Metallic Variation but they run out of budget and just give him a cheap tonfas lmao.
I was obsessed with the MK movie as a kid. Would always try to catch the first couple mins for the free on the PPV channel before it got blurry 🤣. I played out that "Your soul is mine" quote on the playground too 🤣
"She wanted to make sure Rose, Bison's daughter-"
Wait sorry hold on I choked on my bratwurst rewind gimme a sec go back
I'm glad to see someone giving the DOA film some love. It's not perfect, but it's bright and colorful, has great fight scenes, and knows what it is. Do you know some of the production history of it? Essentially, the director and his crew didn't speak English, despite having an entirely English-speaking cast. So the whole thing was basically handled on set by a single translator. Also, the director fired and replaced the entire crew TWICE during production. That the film even exists is monumental.
Also, I would love a part 2 where you talk about Tekken, King of Fighters, and throw in the Double Dragon film while we're at it.
Thanks! They will definitely be part two of the straight to DVD films
Assassins Fist is easily the best live action SF film so far and will be hard to top. It worked because it only concentrated on a few main characters not just randomly putting in endless pointless cameos.
The actor of Bison for the Chun Li movie later played Damien Dahrk in the DC Arrowverse shows, where he basically haa Bison's powers and acts like him too, more than he did in the street fighter movie
The JCVD Street Fighter is genuinely a great film. It's just so much fun.
I saw the Thorgi video. It was glorious.
Shang Tsung did bleed in the first Mortal Kombat movie in the 1v1 after the "endurance match" with the undead warriors. Everyone calling Liu Kang "Lou" throughout the movie just felt... weird.
Robin Shou video game cinematic universe went off the rails with MK, then DOA and the Legend of Chun-Li.
I will still rewatch the Van Damme SF movie and '95 Mortal Kombat movie anytime. I have a fondness for that live action Dead or Alive and Tekken (the second one was bad). I've always said in twitter that the live action King of Fighters movie was such a travesty that it makes MK Annihilation watchable.
Looking back, the MCU really robbed us of the best video game live action casting with Chris Evans as Johnny Cage.
No diss against Karl Urban but looking back at all of his pre-Captain America roles he really shines as a comedic actor & he basically already played Johnny Cage in the Fantastic Four as Human Torch.
It’s also funny that they got Urban in a Mortal Kombat movie and he’s NOT playing Kano lol.
The second MK live action movie from the 90s is perfect for a bad movie night. You can easily laugh at it.
Great video!, maybe in a part 2 we could see the story of snk ovas about KoF? That will be cool :D
Gomez Addams became the dictator M.Bison 😂😂😂😂
One street fighter movie that’s not talked about enough is 2014’s Street fighter: Assassins Fist. I feel that was a faithful adaptation to the series.
Perhaps in a follow up 😉
I have a soft spot for fighting game b-movies, so my taste is absolutely in question. That said, I saw DoA in the theater and did not regret it.
Looking forward to the next installment of this series, if only because I'm hoping you watch the Korean Street Fighter.
Korean street fighter? I actually never heard of that one
@@baberuthless there are two of them! An animated film and a straight to video live action series. I talked about them in a video on my channel that nobody watched lol.
@@jusko2565 I definitely gotta check that out and get educated on that!
Love your content! Def deserve more views
The DOA movie decently adapts most of the early game's plot points. I kinda saw Donovan as a sorta stand in for Raidou, with the being able to copy any fighting style.
I think the MK 1995 movie (aside from having fight scene, which is why many of those who saw it at the time wanted) have the advantage that old school MK already had some cheesyness to it, and it's easier for actors to look like the characters when the characters were digitized actors in the first place.
8:42 likely because it is closer to the games plot unlike the former, and has perfomaces that left enough of an impact they defined the characters in the games moving forward; unlike the latter.
I hope someone would make a person, who doesn't know Street Fighter, watch the SF movie first then the SFII movie and make them believe that that's the sequel.
The mortal Kombat movies didn't do Sub-zero justice
Weird fact mortal kombat has more movies than super Mario
Mortal Kombat was the best *because* it had so much fighting. It felt so much more like the game than Street Fighter, Even if Raul Julia out-performed literally the entire Mortal Kombat cast. But if you count animated movies, the SFII OVA is definitely the best ever.
Always a good day when baby uploads
They did Nitara dirty
THORGI SHOUTOUT! I hope he sees this
Haha He’s done the same for me a bunch so it’s the least I can do!
It’s a rough one for me because I was waiting for the MK reboot movie since before the MK Legacy web series. The 2016 script may have been a horrible adaptation but it wrote Cole a little better. And in the 2018 script the final fights were paced way better, Lao and Nitara fought in the movies version of the Bell Tower from MK3 and was a full on fleshed out fight, Jax actually pushed Reiko’s body into the pit originally and they did make the prop for it just never used it unfortunately. I’ve gone back n forth re-outlining the movie and I think making Lewis Tan’s character Kenshi or even just letting his arcana be that he inherits the Hellfire from Hanzo after being possessed by him for the last fight, letting (Hanzo) Scorpion be in the prequel and then letting Cole become the modern Scorpion in the tournament. I’m kinda hoping they play up all the whining to kill him off in the sequel but have him become the new Scorpion after dying. So definitely had my gripes with the 21 film like choppy editing and pacing but still loved it here’s hoping the sequel is better. (Zero Signal was my favorite track too 🤘🔥)
Yoo, Thorgi shoutout!
Na the cop down the slide took me out! Hilarious!
i remember a lot of people saying that The Miz would be a good Johnny Cage but i can only half agree with that lmao
I think the problem with most video game movies is that video games are a completely different medium compared to movies because movies are a visual medium whereas video games are more interactive medium so when making a movie based on a video game some aspects doesn’t work as well in movie because what their adapting to film was made for a medium that’s different from movies.
Mk annihilation was amazing when I saw it the first time in theaters as a kid but yes with some drinks and smoke it’s a good time lol
9:34 LMAO!!! 🤣🤣🤣
I just now realize that you could probably see the live action SF movie as a sequel to the animated one!
No, so much about the film doesn't make sense with that mindset.
The fact that Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-Li turned out to be an okay Fatal Fury movie by complete accident never fails to amuse me.
Bison's actor already got Geese's look nailed down, now it just needs to act more like Geese, and replace Chun-Li with Terry, ans you're basically good to go.
@@Sonic09Hedgehog That's the funnier part: he already acts more like Geese than Bison lol
What I'd heard about Techno Syndrome's absence from the MK games was simply licensing issues. That is, that the game company doesn't actually own the song.
Just out of curiosity, how come there was no mention of the Fatal Fury OVA's/Motion Picture?
Those were straight to video so that will be a video for another time
You need to do a follow up. You mention the street fighter anime, but there was alpha, alpha generation. The 3 fatal fury animes, the awful toshinden, samurai shodown and art of fighting animes, the Tekken anime. The two live action tekkens and of course the awful king of fighters live action flick.
I plan to! Those all will be for a straight to dvd follow up 😁
Street Fighter and Fatal Fury Motion Pictures rule as movies in general for how dumb they are and how much they embrace their lore and source material.
Also that credits stinger in SF2!
But if you want a REALLY bad fighting game movie: King Of Fighters. That and the sequel to the Tekken movie. The most nothing I can think of
Shit… I gotta watch Kazuyas revenge again…
@@baberuthless you dont.... save yourself from the boredom.