5 of the worst video game movies part 2
April 29th, 2007
Street Fighter
Hours and hours of wasted youth are all coming back to me playing Streetfighter 2 on the Super Nes. Everyone had their favourite characters to play and I think mine was Ryu, I think the more I think about that now perhaps I didn’t have a favourite character LOL. If I did have to pick one though it would’ve been Ryu.
So when I heard that they were filming Street Fighter I was excited, when I heard they filming on the Gold Coast I thought wow that’s really cool. In the end when the film came out and I rushed to the cinema to see it I found that it was neither exciting or really cool.
Jean Claude Van Damme certainly looked the part as Guile and they managed to squeeze some UN related storyline into it. But then Kylie Minogue showed up as a new character for no particular reason. I really feel bad that this was the excellent actor Raul Julia’s last film before he died. Apparently Jean Claude knocked back Mortal Kombat to do this one. I have to say though a lot of the characters looked exactly like their computer game counterparts so it gets full credit for that.
Well the news kind of gets worse it appears that they are looking at either a sequel or a stand alone Street Fighter movie according to Variety quite a while ago. I’m surprised however as IMDB points out:
Despite negative reviews the movie did make a profit. It grossed 33 million domestically and 66 million worldwide, earning almost triple its production budget of 35 million.
Well at least they can only go up!
Is this a worse film than Double Dragon? I dunno that’s a hard one to say what do you guys think?
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I can’t believe I spent about 20-30 minutes even watching this film. And now you say they are about to make another! My breath has been taken away - in a bad way…
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Kylie Minogue actually plays Cammy who is a character in Super Street Fighter II - The New Challengers. Regardless, this is a horrid flick.
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I didn’t know that about Cammy, do you know if it was before or after the film was actually written? LOL I’m not sure why I care it is a horrible film and not even on a level where I can enjoy it morbidly. Thanks for the info though!!!
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