The Legend of Chun Li

[chaseter]

This thing won't even pass $10 million...how funny.

 

[Sam Fisher]

Funny how the 90's movie is terrible but it's better than this.
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[TheVileOne]

I liked her quite a bit on "Journeyman" at least.

Yeah but this thing about Moon Bloodgood carrying Klein. Um . . . no. She doesn't elevate any of this material at all.

Klein as horrible he is, seems to realize how horrible it is and hams it up. I mean its bad, but its a bad I can laugh at.

 

[TNC9852002]

Moon was pretty good on "Daybreak"..

-TNC

 

[xwolverine2]

See for yourself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgAiF6GOosc

lmfao!

ughgawd thats just bad.

 

[Bishop2]

Klein as horrible he is, seems to realize how horrible it is and hams it up. I mean its bad, but its a bad I can laugh at.

The thing is, MOST of the time I think it fits his character. Charlie Nash is a frickin' cheeseball nutbar, and that works for me as his persona in this movie.

But there's no excusing the dialogue in that first scene in the office. That's just unbelievably poor. "This guy walks through the raindrops." "You don't want a ticket to this dance, detective." "You've never even seen my dance." I was thrown onto my back by the sheer force of the ineptitude on display for that scene.

 

[GregComicFan]

I just saw the movie...

SPOILERS:

THINGS I LIKED:

-The villains were ruthless. Bison kills Katana by beating her to death. It's off screen, but the audience understands he hung her up-side-down and just beat the life out of her.... Bison snapped Chun Lee's dad's neck right in front of her... and Chun Lee is left to be beaten to death as well....For a "kiddie action movie" it was ruthless. I took Street Fighter as being marketed for more of the pre-teen/teen crowd...not adults...typically you wouldn't see such cruelty in villains of that type of action movie.....
-Nash was always fun to watch, yet ridiculous.
-Guns beat karate kicks.... for the most part, if you paid attention during the movie, villains fought the heroes with martial arts... but once the guns came out, the martial arts had no chance of winning. Most action movies don't do this. The hero will karate kick the gun away or something. I liked how in this movie martial arts never beat the use of a gun. I noticed it.


THINGS I DIDN'T LIKE:

-Everything else.

lol



THINGS THAT DEPRESSED ME:

-Michael Clark Duncan. The guy was nominated for an Oscar. What happened, man? :*(

 

[Red Mask]

I just saw the movie...

SPOILERS:

THINGS I LIKED:

-The villains were ruthless. Bison kills Katana by beating her to death. It's off screen, but the audience understands he hung her up-side-down and just beat the life out of her.... Bison snapped Chun Lee's dad's neck right in front of her... and Chun Lee is left to be beaten to death as well....For a "kiddie action movie" it was ruthless. I took Street Fighter as being marketed for more of the pre-teen/teen crowd...not adults...typically you wouldn't see such cruelty in villains of that type of action movie.....
-Nash was always fun to watch, yet ridiculous.
-Guns beat karate kicks.... for the most part, if you paid attention during the movie, villains fought the heroes with martial arts... but once the guns came out, the martial arts had no chance of winning. Most action movies don't do this. The hero will karate kick the gun away or something. I liked how in this movie martial arts never beat the use of a gun. I noticed it.

Well, that's common sense that's lacking in most action films. Of course a gun is more dangerous than fists. The only exception is the ten foot radius scenario, where a charging opponent could get to the shooter before he/she fires. But usually we just see the fighter dodge the bullet or suddenly appear next to the shooter.

 

[Red Mask]

Going back on the non-Japanese casting, a South Korean will be playing Saya in the live action film of Blood: the Last Vampire. However, if it follows the TV series, then neither Saya nor her twin are native Japanese.

 

[Mister J]

After walking into another theater, after checking out Watchmen, and catching the last hour or so of this, I'm convinced Chris Klein was seeing exactly how ****ty of a performance he could deliver without being fired. No one can suck that badly and get paid for it for a living.

This movie was laughable. The only thing that didn't encroach on some level of putridity was Neal McDonough as Bison ...but that wasn't Bison. Well, that was one of two things. The other was Moon Bloodgood's rack. up

Seeing that they tried to incorporate Charlie and Rose into this mess made me slightly chuckle. Seeing Robin Shou was involved with this nearly gave me a seizure and inspired a slew of "Get him, Liu Kang!" outbursts. Good thing there was only one other person in the theater.

 

[The Major]

Well, that's common sense that's lacking in most action films. Of course a gun is more dangerous than fists. The only exception is the ten foot radius scenario, where a charging opponent could get to the shooter before he/she fires. But usually we just see the fighter dodge the bullet or suddenly appear next to the shooter.

It's getting more common in action films, though.

 

[TheVileOne]

Also, Charlie Nash is the badass that trained Guile. He's not Chris ****ing Klein.

 

[Bishop2]

Also, Charlie Nash is the badass that trained Guile. He's not Chris ****ing Klein.

He's sure as hell not Carlos Blanka....

But honestly, I think it was always hard to buy Charlie as someone who trained Guille. Just look at them in SFAlpha3; Guille is CLEARLY the bigger badass.

 

[xwolverine2]

when can we make this thread dissapear? lol

 

[Lobo]

^When people stop posting in it.

 

[Spoonman]

He's sure as hell not Carlos Blanka....

But honestly, I think it was always hard to buy Charlie as someone who trained Guille. Just look at them in SFAlpha3; Guille is CLEARLY the bigger badass.

You're joking, right? Guile's Sonic Boom does like a pixel of damage in comparision to Charlie's in SF Alpha 3 (no joke), I think Capcom actually did that in purposse to acentuante Charlie's greater experience.

EDIT..

I don't know if this was mentioned earlier in the thread but I'm sure I read somewhere that for the Japanese release of the movie, even if its subtitled, they had the actual movie actors dub the Japanese names of the bad guys everytime one was mantioned. Curious fact since I'm sure they didn't do such thing for the SF94 Movie.

 

[3dman27]

He's sure as hell not Carlos Blanka....

But honestly, I think it was always hard to buy Charlie as someone who trained Guille. Just look at them in SFAlpha3; Guille is CLEARLY the bigger badass.

maybe he isnt guliles tranier a different guy with the same name

 

[mr. peasant]

He's sure as hell not Carlos Blanka....

But honestly, I think it was always hard to buy Charlie as someone who trained Guille. Just look at them in SFAlpha3; Guille is CLEARLY the bigger badass.

Just because A trains B doesn't mean A has to be more of a badass than B. Otherwise, every generation of martial artists would be getting worse and worse. In fact, it should be the norm that B is better than A.

 

[daywalker2007]

i wish i could watch this movie instead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMsyJ7a6pJs&feature=related

unfortunately it doesn't exist,
how sad!

 

[Hellion]

Who wants to bet "if" they do a sequel...they pull a Dragonball with Ryu?

 

[Terminator]

I still haven't seen this yet..

 

[Matt]

Who wants to bet "if" they do a sequel...they pull a Dragonball with Ryu?

I doubt there will be, but you're talking about making him caucasian? Why wouldn't they? Despite his name and his geographical place of origin, he clearly is at least partially genetically caucasian based on the games alone.

 

[3dman27]

I doubt there will be, but you're talking about making him caucasian? Why wouldn't they? Despite his name and his geographical place of origin, he clearly is at least partially genetically caucasian based on the games alone.

would anything be wrong with ryu having a white father?

 

[Eric Brooks]

will be picking this up on DVD for the following reasons: The Fighting (have to say, I enjoyed the fighting in the movie), Kristen Kruek (big Smallville fan, saw it in theaters based on the merit of supporting her and her alone) plus she's so sexy it's a damn sin, and Chris Kleins "Nash" which was so cheesy it worked (which I hope the actor himself was protraying him that way on purpose because if that was Klein acting serious, then.......dude shouldn't be in Hollywood)

 

[TNC9852002]

He was definitely hamming it up intentionally..

Like I may have mentioned, there is a Sunday afternoon-network TV feeling to the movie. I didn't feel annoyed by this movie--it was pretty harmless for the most part and I'd probably watch it again if it came on Starz or Showtime...