The Legend of Chun Li

[Spade]

Or, alternatively, in 3D. Live-action never seems to do the material justice. There's always all these inhibitions about what people want to see, which I've never understood. Like with Transformers- there was all of this fear of having the robots talk, but at the end of the day people wanted to see Prime talking and get more off-the-wall space fantasy epic as opposed to all the human focus.

Hollywood needs to stop with the foreplay. I love realism, but when it makes the material look boring it's a hindrance.

 

[Syncos]

I agree. It works better in animation ala anime. Kinda like with Dragon Ball Z.

It does lend itself better to animation, due to the fact that it's easier to over emphasize things. However, Street Fighter is much more relateable to live action than Dragonball. After all, Street Fighter is very real world.

You've got a select few people in the world who have adapted very powerful martial arts, even fewer who have managed to push those techniques to direct their energy forward.

Movies like Crouching Tiger and Hero have people using martial arts to do unrealistic things. This is just a different level of that.

In Dragonball, you have unrealistic environments, aliens, flight, transformations into monkeys.

Street Fighter could lend itself to be a very good movie, if you up play the martial arts, and downplay the fireworks. The Hurricane Kick, or Chun Li's Spinning bird kick would translate fine, if done correctly.

 

[louiebling$]

Agreed

 

[TheVileOne]

The thing is, there is story there for Street Fighter. The animations did them very well, but they were animations. I agree that the Akuma/Gouken story is very compelling.

Not to mention, if you need a romance FREAKING Ryu/Chun-Li. Make it so Ryu is the only person Chun-Li would ever reveal her weight to .

 

[Alchemyst]

The thing is, there is story there for Street Fighter. The animations did them very well, but they were animations. I agree that the Akuma/Gouken story is very compelling.

Not to mention, if you need a romance FREAKING Ryu/Chun-Li. Make it so Ryu is the only person Chun-Li would ever reveal her weight to .

Street Fighter is one of the few fighting games out there that could translate into a film. The anime that came out around the same time was great, I like the way the fireballs were made to be more powerful than they were in the game, almost like a last resort. Chun-li's spinning bird kick looked even better when she did it from a hand-standing position, it gave more realism to the actual move as opposed to her hovering.

 

[Super Kal]

I'm still waiting to see the classic Chun Li costume in action...

 

[Spoonman]

True, and Street Fighter Alpha: The animated movie was leaps and bounds better. It's a shame Street Fighter Alpha Generations was terrible.

Again, the comic series is awesome. I wish they'd base a movie series off of that.

Don't get me wrong I like Street Fighter Alpha: The animated movie, but leaps and bounds better than Street Fighter 2: The animated movie? I think the exact opposite is true.

 

[Syncos]

Don't get me wrong I like Street Fighter Alpha: The animated movie, but leaps and bounds better than Street Fighter 2: The animated movie? I think the exact opposite is true.

Both have their strong points and their negatives.

Alpha has superior animation. And the style is much better. Granted, it came out years after SFII, so the animation -should- be significantly better.

I much prefer the Alpha story of Ryu seeking out Akuma, and the whole dark hadou, inner struggle thing. But I could easily leave out the sakura, or Chun Li plots, as they were useless. I kinda disliked Ryu's little brother, but not enough to detest his addition. He was a good plot device. After using Bison for every villian ever, i'm glad they departed a bit in alpha, but their villian was kinda lame.

As for SFII, It's been awhile since I watched it. I remember it being really good for its time, and the intro of Ryu scarring Sagat was epic. To me, SFII just seemed like a Guile revenge story with Ryu and Ken kinda shoehorned into it. The Bison reprogramming one of them to fight on his side was done in the SFII V series, so it was nothing new. Bison was badass, though.

 

[Nathan]

I never really liked the Alpha Movie. Sure, the animation was great, still prefer the SFII art direction though, but it was too over the top for me. As crazy as the first Movie might have been, with Hadokens and all, it seemed more down to earth. Especially when you watch fights like Ryu Vs. Fei Long and just forget things like Fei Long's fire kick for a second.

And I really, really disliked the plot in Alpha. With that ugly, no name scientist.

 

[dark_b]

Or, alternatively, in 3D. Live-action never seems to do the material justice. There's always all these inhibitions about what people want to see, which I've never understood. Like with Transformers- there was all of this fear of having the robots talk, but at the end of the day people wanted to see Prime talking and get more off-the-wall space fantasy epic as opposed to all the human focus.

Hollywood needs to stop with the foreplay. I love realism, but when it makes the material look boring it's a hindrance.

this is BS. you can have 100% fantasy fighting in a live action movie and people wil watch it......IF IT IS GOOD.

the problem is noone takes time to make a good movie. and then they are crying: ''meh everyone watns to watch a realistic movie.look at batman. it made 500 milions because its realistic''

 

[Spade]

I meant "within the fighting genre." The most I've seen is Mortal Kombat, and by the second film they overemphasized the powers.

 

[PyroChamber]

I meant "within the fighting genre." The most I've seen is Mortal Kombat, and by the second film they overemphasized the powers.

I think that's mainly because they were trying to please the fans by doing too much. I mean was having animalities really necessary?

 

[Spoonman]

Both have their strong points and their negatives.

Alpha has superior animation. And the style is much better. Granted, it came out years after SFII, so the animation -should- be significantly better.

I much prefer the Alpha story of Ryu seeking out Akuma, and the whole dark hadou, inner struggle thing. But I could easily leave out the sakura, or Chun Li plots, as they were useless. I kinda disliked Ryu's little brother, but not enough to detest his addition. He was a good plot device. After using Bison for every villian ever, i'm glad they departed a bit in alpha, but their villian was kinda lame.

As for SFII, It's been awhile since I watched it. I remember it being really good for its time, and the intro of Ryu scarring Sagat was epic. To me, SFII just seemed like a Guile revenge story with Ryu and Ken kinda shoehorned into it. The Bison reprogramming one of them to fight on his side was done in the SFII V series, so it was nothing new. Bison was badass, though.

Just to clarify, SF2: AM predates SF2 V series, so the brainwashing thing was done first in SF2: AM. Like someone else said, I too enjoy the somewhat more down to earth tone of SF2 movie over the Alpha movie, but to each his own I guess.

 

[Bishop2]

Do we know anything about this movie right now outside of what's on the official blog and what's in the Latino Review script review?

Animation-wise, I've only seen SFII: The Animated Movie. Terrible film. The storytelling is insanely all over the point and disjointed and completely nonsensical. The fight scenes were neat but somebody should've tried to write something coherent in between.

 

[javi1024]

Do we know anything about this movie right now outside of what's on the official blog and what's in the Latino Review script review?

Animation-wise, I've only seen SFII: The Animated Movie. Terrible film. The storytelling is insanely all over the point and disjointed and completely nonsensical. The fight scenes were neat but somebody should've tried to write something coherent in between.

well of all the animated movies Street Fighter II is the only one i like. Street Fighter Alpha started out pretty decent, but that scientist was way too over-the-top and he killed it for me. and SF Alpha: Generations just sucked. the art design was horrible there was absolutely no story and throwing in Ken for 2 minutes in the end served no purpose other than "you have to have Ken".

 

[The Kid]

Do we know anything about this movie right now outside of what's on the official blog and what's in the Latino Review script review?

Animation-wise, I've only seen SFII: The Animated Movie. Terrible film. The storytelling is insanely all over the point and disjointed and completely nonsensical. The fight scenes were neat but somebody should've tried to write something coherent in between.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat? We didn't see the same movie. It's the best street fighter movie we have so far for a reason. It's not the most complex anime, I'll give you that, but it taps into exactly what I like about Street fighter, its cool style and the outrageous characters. And it was gory and dark like all the kids like these days. We'll never see street fighter like that again... I'm getting upset now that you called it terrible... give me a minute.

 

[블라스]

Chun Li shower scene = Automatic 10/10.

 

[The Kid]

Both have their strong points and their negatives.

Alpha has superior animation. And the style is much better. Granted, it came out years after SFII, so the animation -should- be significantly better.

I much prefer the Alpha story of Ryu seeking out Akuma, and the whole dark hadou, inner struggle thing. But I could easily leave out the sakura, or Chun Li plots, as they were useless. I kinda disliked Ryu's little brother, but not enough to detest his addition. He was a good plot device. After using Bison for every villian ever, i'm glad they departed a bit in alpha, but their villian was kinda lame.

As for SFII, It's been awhile since I watched it. I remember it being really good for its time, and the intro of Ryu scarring Sagat was epic. To me, SFII just seemed like a Guile revenge story with Ryu and Ken kinda shoehorned into it. The Bison reprogramming one of them to fight on his side was done in the SFII V series, so it was nothing new. Bison was badass, though.

Agreed. And really watch Street Fighter 2 Animated movie again. There's a lot more to it than just the shower scene. I decided to look pass that wondrous moment and although there is little development of the supporting characters, I feel it's the only movie to fully capture the essence of street fighter... It's like a mythical tale or fantasy story. I hope they take the same approach to this movie. And include the shower scene.

 

[Octoberist]

so where is the trailer for this movie again? it's coming out in Janurary right?

 

[TheVileOne]

It's on a shelf next to the Dragon Ball trailer.

 

[Alchemyst]

Do we know anything about this movie right now outside of what's on the official blog and what's in the Latino Review script review?

Animation-wise, I've only seen SFII: The Animated Movie. Terrible film. The storytelling is insanely all over the point and disjointed and completely nonsensical. The fight scenes were neat but somebody should've tried to write something coherent in between.

You have got to be kidding me. That movie managed to outdo the live action one in every aspect. The storytelling was great, fights great, it had everything.

 

[블라스]

And this:

 

[Spoonman]

You have got to be kidding me. That movie managed to outdo the live action one in every aspect. The storytelling was great, fights great, it had everything.

I always found that ridiculous, the animated adaptation of SF2 was more serious, darker and a way better movie than the live action adaptation, what a joke the Van Damme movie is...

 

[Asgard]

What do you see beyond your fist?

 

[Alchemyst]

I always found that ridiculous, the animated adaptation of SF2 was more serious, darker and a way better movie than the live action adaptation, what a joke the Van Damme movie is...

Totally agree, they just were trying to bank off the success of Super SF2, the movie was going in the wrong direction within the first 2 minutes, all the characters seemed out of place, some even switching allegiances (Balrog), the special moves were horribly executed, that half assed fireball that Ryu threw out was virtually unacceptable, guiles flash kick had no flash, and that butchered Psycho Crusher was cringeworthy at its best, M.Bison is one of the baddest fighting game villains in video game history, RIP Raul Julia, but my god.