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Re: Comparison between fighting games and their film adaptations
#61  June 18, 2012, 11:20:58 pm
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it was really generic, would be the worse snk adaptation if samurai shodown did not exist, then again the first samsho ova was so bad that you can even count it out.

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#62  June 18, 2012, 11:24:55 pm
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"Not wearing shoes is part of our training" ;AOF

"Caught in my loving embrace!" ;SS

"King? You look more like a Queen." :AOF

"C'mon, we gotta stop Howmuhroo!" ;SS

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"*Scarily robotic whirr* Wuff." ;SS

Can't argue with dialogue like that from them two films.
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Re: Comparison between fighting games and their film adaptations
#63  June 19, 2012, 05:58:09 pm
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It’s been pointed, but, to reiterate:

Segatron said, June 13, 2012, 09:07:58 pm
major flaws like
3. Frequent Fight sequences.

What? Since when is this bad?

And, speaking about Van Damme’s movie and before listing good and bad things, I’m not sure up to which point it is bad to change things. I don’t see people puling their hair when Chun Li is a tour guide in SF2V as much as when she’s a news reporter in the movie. People seem fine to have Sagat in jail in SF2V and then complain about Ryu and Ken robbing criminals in the movie. I’m not sure where’s the difference.

Well, let’s start.

Street Fighter: The Final Battle
Good things:
Lots of action and jokes. The movie is actually rather competently done as a silly action movie for all audiences. It is fun.
Related to the above, a few one-liners. They are good and you know it.
The plot makes sense to an extent.
Guile is the main character.
Bad things:
Guile is Belgian?
I could comment on the cheesy parts of the movie individually, but let’s just say that I would have preferred a more serious approach.

Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie
Good things:
Extremely accurate depiction of characters, personalities included.
Chun Li vs Vega and Ryu vs Feilong are awesome fights.
Good looking.
Bad things:
Bad plot.
Japanese soundtrack is unfitting.
Characters cosplaying as themselves. Why does Balrog wear a full boxing attire? Why does Chun Li wear that costume? And no, “It’s an anime” is not a sufficient answer.

Street Fighter Characters Travel Through Time to Ancient Japan and Take a Walk Around
Good things:
It’s educational, I guess.
Bad things:
Well…?

Street Fighter II V:
Good things:
No major flaws.
Bad things:
The plot is less than perfect, I guess, although I haven’t watched the whole series.

Street Fighter Alpha
Good things:
Good looking.
Abysmal things:
Fights suck.
Plot sucks.

Street Fight Alpha Generations
Good things:
I haven’t watched it.
Abysmal things:
Everything, as far as I know.

Street Fighter IV: The Ties that Bind
Good things:
Viper comboing a Falcon Punch into a Tit Shock on Cammy. I prefer Cammy over Viper, but that scene was funny.
Abysmal things:
Fights suck
Plot sucks.

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li
Good things:
The core idea is interesting and the movie brings some much needed sense to rotten aspects of the franchise. Balrog not typing with gloves on, Chun Li actually killing bad people, that kind of stuff.
The plot makes sense to an extent.
Chun Li is the main character.
Bad things:
Bad direction hurts much in a movie that tries to be serious.
Fights lack in quantity and quality.

Super Street Fighter IV
Good things:
Good looking.
Abysmal things:
Fights suck.
Plot sucks.
It’s a damn long commercial selling Juri.

Mortal Kombat
Good things:
Most of it, really. Plot and script, accuracy, music and lots of action.
Bad things:
Some things are too cheesy. Outfits are too colourful; what’s easy to read at some 320x240-ish resolution is not necessarily what looks good in a movie. About the fights, a minority of them are a bit clumsy, and others have too much breakdancing.

Dead or Alive
Good things:
Tina was hot.
Bad things:
Extremely cheesy and embarrassing. I’d comment on the plot, but I’ve never watched the whole movie in one go.

Tekken
Good things:
Some cast choices were awesome, with professional fighters.
Outfits were very accurate.
Bad things:
Outfits were too accurate. Tekken is famous for its tacky clothing, and copying it is not necessarily a good idea.
Surprisingly enough given its great cast, fights suck.

It’s been too long since I watched the Tekken anime, and I’m not even sure the VHS player at home works, so I won’t comment it. I think I’ve only watched the second MK movie once, and it was at the theater, so it’s been a long time as well.
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#64  June 19, 2012, 06:01:46 pm
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oh yeah! i forgot about the sf4 one! i fucking hated that.

Segatron

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#65  June 19, 2012, 06:05:49 pm
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Wow mikros you wrote every pros and cons  that I saw in those movies 8)
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#66  June 19, 2012, 06:08:54 pm
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Mortal Kombat
Good things:
Most of it, really. Plot and script, accuracy, music and lots of action.
Bad things:
Some things are too cheesy. Outfits are too colourful; what’s easy to read at some 320x240-ish resolution is not necessarily what looks good in a movie. About the fights, a minority of them are a bit clumsy, and others have too much breakdancing.

Where have you seen any breakdancing in MK1? Sure you do not mean the Noob Saibots in the sequel?

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#67  June 19, 2012, 06:15:18 pm
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mikros said, June 19, 2012, 05:58:09 pm
And, speaking about Van Damme’s movie and before listing good and bad things, I’m not sure up to which point it is bad to change things. I don’t see people puling their hair when Chun Li is a tour guide in SF2V as much as when she’s a news reporter in the movie. People seem fine to have Sagat in jail in SF2V and then complain about Ryu and Ken robbing criminals in the movie. I’m not sure where’s the difference.
It's completely different because it is a kawaii-desu anime. Or some other, dumber reason.

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#68  June 19, 2012, 06:17:20 pm
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oh yeah, forgot to comment on two more things:

the first mk film was pretty good, mostly because of rayden, johnny cage, and most importantly, kano. the kano/goro scene was pretty entertaining

and the toshinden ova was boring as shit. it had chaos in it though. BUT TOTAL VERMILION COCKTEASE AT THE END WHAT THE FUCK

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Re: Comparison between fighting games and their film adaptations
#69  June 19, 2012, 06:19:46 pm
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#70  June 19, 2012, 06:38:06 pm
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Jmorphman said, June 19, 2012, 06:15:18 pm
mikros said, June 19, 2012, 05:58:09 pm
And, speaking about Van Damme’s movie and before listing good and bad things, I’m not sure up to which point it is bad to change things. I don’t see people puling their hair when Chun Li is a tour guide in SF2V as much as when she’s a news reporter in the movie. People seem fine to have Sagat in jail in SF2V and then complain about Ryu and Ken robbing criminals in the movie. I’m not sure where’s the difference.
It's completely different because it is a kawaii-desu anime. Or some other, dumber reason.

not really, that and the stupid shit with dhalsim is always complained against.

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#71  June 20, 2012, 03:29:54 am
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Here are all the good things about SFII V:

- Guile is drunk and he still kicks Ryu's ass
- Guile has a hangover the next day and THROWS CONCRETE MIX INTO KEN'S EYES and kicks his ass
- Ken saying "SANKYUU MEESTAH TYLAH"
- The animation when the old dude created a ball of chi and EATS IT and his stomach bulges.
- Chun Li throws a Juggalo down a staircase (keep in mind up to this point I haven't passed the first five episodes)
- Drug lord with a chainsaw hand or something.
- Zangief clotheslines Ryu while hanging out of a van.
- I actually liked Ken VS Claw

Here's a list of everything wrong with SFII V
- Ryu and Ken get naked and/or rough house too much in this series, so much so that even Jmorphman would complain.
- Chun Li is a 15-year old tour guide? Really?
- The first half of the series is devoted to taking down some drug syndicate I've never heard of and don't give a shit about.
- Fucking Fei-Long
- Sagat is a GOOD GUY WHO HATES SHADALOO (he doesn't have his eyepatch or scar at this point)
- Dhalsim training Sagat and Ryu, and TEACHING RYU THE HADOU KEN.
- How long it takes for Ryu to fire off ONE Hadou Ken.
- How ONE Hadou Ken makes Ryu collapse to the ground like a pussy.
- Ken literally mimicking Ryu's meditation and SHIN SHORYUKEN, and then coapsing to the ground like a pussy.
- Mike Bison not once fighting anything and getting killed by Cammy.
- Cammy killing Chun-Li's dad... In her imagination. Then trying to do it IRL and failing.
- Vega's power comes from... A crystal eagle statue.
- Charlie is so boring nobody cares when he dies. Hell we don't even know his name until Guile shouts it when he sees him die.
- Chun-Li gets her trademark outfit FROM VEGA.
- The ending leaves too many questions unanswered.
- If I didn't list it on the good list, then literally everything else.

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#72  June 20, 2012, 03:41:35 am
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You simply cannot have a discussion about fighting game adaptations without some mention of Future Cops. 

Best.  Street Fighter.  Movie.  Ever.

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#73  June 20, 2012, 03:50:38 am
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Wrong.
That would be City Hunter.

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#74  June 20, 2012, 05:22:54 am
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city hunter gets one scene devoted to SF. Future Cops is THE ENTIRE MOVIE, plus it's got the Mario Bros and

Spoiler: no, really, it's a spoiler (click to see content)

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#75  June 20, 2012, 05:32:08 am
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also
Spoiler, click to toggle visibilty

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Re: Comparison between fighting games and their film adaptations
#76  June 20, 2012, 06:47:44 am
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Maybe it's just me but I didn't find Future Cops as funny as people say it is (Save two or three scenes)

It was a joke but OK.
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#77  June 20, 2012, 07:45:36 am
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Yeah but calling City Hunter a SF movie is like saying Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is a Planet of the Apes movie. There's a single scene that references the source (City Hunter's SF scene, that one scene in Anchorman where two anchormen ride horseback and use a net to trap another anchorman while the movie's score plays), but it's not really fair to call it such.

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#78  June 20, 2012, 10:02:59 am
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GBK667 said, June 19, 2012, 06:08:54 pm
Where have you seen any breakdancing in MK1? Sure you do not mean the Noob Saibots in the sequel?

Yeah, maybe the fights in MKII marked me  :P. I just rewatched MK1 to be sure and it has its own share of unneded flips but to a much, much lesser degree. The fights are more flippery than what you'd expect in a good non-licensed martial arts movie, but the only fights in this thread better than the ones in MK1 are ChunVsVega, RyuVsFeilong and maaaaybe RyuKenVsBison.
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#79  June 20, 2012, 12:07:55 pm
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The only thing I remember from SF2V was Bison's epic giggle fit in "Unveiled Ruler"

SRSLY that shit was so ridiculous. It felt like they had to fill for time there so they had Bison laugh for like a minute.
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#80  June 21, 2012, 08:14:46 pm
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If you compare with actual facts that Bison was killed by AKUMA IN SF II. So Bison is shown vulnerable to Electromagnetism in the American media both cartoon and movie.
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