Community Forums => General Chat => Topic started by: BranDonk Kong on February 21, 2009, 10:12:31 AM
Title: Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li...
Post by: BranDonk Kong on February 21, 2009, 10:12:31 AM
...could potentially be the worst movie ever made. Has anyone watched any of the clips on IGN? It's ridiculous. First, you ruin the movie by calling Balrog "Bison", and M. Bison "Balrog" (I guess this is to avoid confusion with people who don't know they're names in the Japanese games)...secondly, you don't put Chris Klein (sp?) or the dude from that Medical Investigation show in it...thirdly, it just looks horrible. This has the potential to make MK Annihilation look like a masterpiece.
Title: Re: Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li...
Post by: RABicle on February 21, 2009, 10:20:44 AM
I dunno. the upcoming Tekken movie is featuring more of the MK Annihilation cast than this movie.
Title: Re: Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li...
Post by: ThePerm on February 21, 2009, 04:36:06 PM
Capcom just has little movie sense. I did end up liking the resident evil series(hated the cg movie), but i wish they had gone with Romero. I liked his script. They should return to Romero
Title: Re: Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li...
Post by: Kairon on February 21, 2009, 07:14:13 PM
At least this Chun Li movie seems to have some decent production values behind it. But that's the danger: it needs to either be so good I like it, or so bad I can enjoy it in other ways. Mediocrity would be the worst fate.
Title: Re: Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li...
Post by: Adrock on February 21, 2009, 11:16:40 PM
Capcom just has little movie sense. I did end up liking the resident evil series(hated the cg movie)
Ok, I can see hating the CG movie since it's just like watching a cutscene in one of the games, except it's 90 minutes long and 90% exposition, but liking Paul W.S. Anderson's poopoo covered tripe with a poopoo filing is inexcusable.
Title: Re: Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li...
Post by: ThePerm on February 22, 2009, 02:07:07 AM
The Paul W.S Anderson movies i see more as their own series, if you changed all the names away from resident evil characters fans wouldn't exert their death to non-cannon attitude. The Resident Evil movies are about Alice. Their not great movies, but i can't call them utter crap either, and their not purely mediocre. As far as zombie movies go they are pretty good, actually excellent. As far as film in general then they pretty much are mediocre.
Title: Re: Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li...
Post by: Dasmos on February 23, 2009, 04:43:15 AM
No, they're crap. Absolute crap. Whatver you want to see them as, whether it's as zombie movies, as video game movies or as movies in general. They're ****.
Title: Re: Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li...
Post by: SirSniffy on February 23, 2009, 12:52:52 PM
Kristen Kreuk is gonna have to eat a few more Whoppers if she hopes to get the REAL Chun-Li thighs. To me she looks kind of like an ant, or one of those creatures from that animated movie Antz...or one of those Alienware Aliens.
Title: Re: Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li...
Post by: Ian Sane on February 23, 2009, 07:38:35 PM
The best thing about this film, and really the most entertaining part of ANY film that is so obviously terrible, is watching the cast talk about the film before release. I was at the movies, waiting in my seat for the film to start and they have all these little ads running about films in the works and such. This was one of them and it showed Kristen Kreuk being interviewed and she's describing her role in the film and such. It was so unintentionally hilarious because actors can often be so DAMN SERIOUS about their line of work. So she's talking about her character of Chun Li and the character's motivation and backstory and all this extra piddle and crap about a fucking videogame movie! And one that will suck too!
"I play Chun Li and she's a very strong willed woman with clear determination and she's a strong female role model." LOL
You notice this with every movie. The actors will recite little character studies in interviews for the most hackneyed scripts.
Most brutally honest statement from an actor? On the Tonight Show when asked about the story for Universal Soldier: The Return, Jean Claude Van Damme replied "Story? It's an action movie." :)
Title: Re: Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li...
Post by: Luigi Dude on February 23, 2009, 09:59:09 PM
Most brutally honest statement from an actor? On the Tonight Show when asked about the story for Universal Soldier: The Return, Jean Claude Van Damme replied "Story? It's an action movie." :)
Title: Re: Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li...
Post by: UltimatePartyBear on February 24, 2009, 12:24:31 PM
"Because he's a character who's looking for his own identity, [He-Man is] an interesting role for an actor." -- Dolph Lundgren
Title: Re: Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li...
Post by: Stogi on February 24, 2009, 01:50:25 PM
I loved LOVED the original Mortal Kombat. That movie was so cheesy, but was so great at the same time. The characters came into there own after being introduced so horribly. For instance, Shang Tsung.......Oh dear lord....."IT HAS BEGUN!" line is fucking priceless.
Oh and the soundtrack....it can't be beat.
Now, that movie had to be satire because as a real flick, it is horrible. I hope this movie doesn't take itself too seriously or else it'll be terrible. I'd be perfect if it had Samuel L. as Sagat. God, that would be amazing.
Title: Re: Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li...
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on February 24, 2009, 03:33:35 PM
I loved LOVED the original Mortal Kombat. That movie was so cheesy, but was so great at the same time. The characters came into there own after being introduced so horribly. For instance, Shang Tsung.......Oh dear lord....."IT HAS BEGUN!" line is fucking priceless.
Oh and the soundtrack....it can't be beat.
Now, that movie had to be satire because as a real flick, it is horrible. I hope this movie doesn't take itself too seriously or else it'll be terrible. I'd be perfect if it had Samuel L. as Sagat. God, that would be amazing.
I am a fan of Paul Anderson's films, including MK. RE2 and 3 were directed by someone else, they were written by Anderson (I thought RE1 was a good zombie horror movies, the others were more action oriented). Seriously though I like pretty much all of Paul Anderson's movies on some level, and if you don't like, bite me! I think Event Horizon is the only movie of his I haven't seen.
Title: Re: Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li...
Post by: NovaQ on February 24, 2009, 08:59:19 PM
I used to like Event Horizon a lot. Now, not so much. I can't even remember exactly why, though. I think it just doesn't seem scary anymore. It's just kinda goofy - in a bad way. The original Mortal Kombat is one that I loved when I was younger, but it's been a long time since I last saw it. I wonder if its cheese is still edible, so to speak.
Title: Re: Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li...
Post by: Stogi on February 24, 2009, 10:32:10 PM
Probably even more so.
Title: Re: Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li...
Post by: Adrock on February 25, 2009, 09:45:22 PM
Paul W. S. Anderson is the same guy who wanted to make a Castlevania movie starring Simon Belmont armed with his trusty......................... SWORD.
You fail at adaptations, Mr. Anderson. That's like if they took demons out of the Doom movie and ended it with a FIST FIGHT. Oh wait.... Semper Fi, motherf*cker.
Sure, that wasn't Anderson, but it's taken right out of his "How to make terrible videogame adaptations" manual. He did write a fist fight with Nemesis at the end of Apocalypse. God, he's terrible. He must be stopped.
Title: Re: Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li...
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on February 26, 2009, 01:46:23 AM
Paul W. S. Anderson is the same guy who wanted to make a Castlevania movie starring Simon Belmont armed with his trusty......................... SWORD.
You fail at adaptations, Mr. Anderson. That's like if they took demons out of the Doom movie and ended it with a FIST FIGHT. Oh wait.... Semper Fi, motherf*cker.
Sure, that wasn't Anderson, but it's taken right out of his "How to make terrible videogame adaptations" manual. He did write a fist fight with Nemesis at the end of Apocalypse. God, he's terrible. He must be stopped.
Hating on Anderson is about as old as hating on Bay. Have some originality people.
Anderson does what most should do with VG adaptations, take elements from the franchise but make it so the films are self contained with their own storyline. After seeing RE: Degeneration I can see why he went a different route with RE1. Anderson has had TWO YES TWO video game adaptations under his belt, Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil. I don't recall anyone having a fist fight with the licker in RE1 which Anderson wrote and directed. RE Apocalypse didn't even feel like an Anderson film so my guess is that the fist fight was put in by the director who never did a film before in his life and instead he worked on cinematography in various action movies.
I will say though that in the context of the film, RE Apocalypse, a fist fight made sense since it was more of a goofy tongue in cheek film in the first place unlike the first RE which was pretty much a straight out horror movie with some good scares.
