STREET FIGHTER: THE LEGEND OF CHUN LI Discussion - Page 2

As ashamed as I am to say that I paid money to see this thing over the weekend, I have to give Klein credit - He made the movie way more fun than it had any right to be.

Overall, I can't hate on this flick too much. It's a bad movie, that much I'm certain of, but I was entertained and I'm still amused by how brazenly... brazen some of the performances are. So it isn't a total loss.

Fuck, it's Monday and I'm still thinking about this movie 2 days later. Klein's performance still amazes me. I just love his chemistry with Moon Bloodgood. He constantly had this look on his face as if to say "We're going to do it aren't we?" or alternately "Yeah you know what's up". I'm totally down with a Charlie Nash movie. Shit, someone just make a fan edit of the Nash scenes in this movie and I'll be happy.

So this turns from a sort of genius performance to an idiot savant performance. I refuse to believe a performance like this happens as an accident. Had to be intentional.

Charlie Nash, American INTERPOL agent...

"He’s a superstar with a handgun"

Do they actually have those? I thought it just went like this...

Marksman
Sharpshooter
Expert
Master

But superstar? Fuck, I wasn't trying hard enough.

And I love his love for American Pie...

"that’s something that I’ll hold as the highest honor of my professional career, always."

Gee... kind of setting the bar a little low, I guess.

So I guess what you're saying is that Klein thought this was a documentary he was filming.

The best street fighter movie is still this one:




Anyone NOT seen it?

That is fucking epic.

This movie was pretty weird. Most of the Chun Li stuff is pretty boring and played straight for the most part. But then sometimes stuff like this happens: Bison transfers his conscience into his unborn daughter by plunging his hands into his wife's stomach.

dammit, has this movie hit bit torrent yet?

Never in a million years would I think a Street Fighter movie would make me interested in Chris Klein. Those Klein quotes are fried gold.

Klein's line delivery and weird faces were retarded, but I thought the funniest part of the movie was Bison's death. Atomic neck snap leg drop!

Actually, the movie has a lot more to do with the games than some might think. The '94 Van Damme movie had barely anything to do with the game's story other than names, costumes and the fact that Bison was evil and Chun Li wanted revenge for her dad. Everything else was some made up garbage. The most obvious being that all American Guile was made to be the made main character (for obvious racist reasons).

Just some other things completely off base in the 94 movie:
- Ken in the games is practically a billionaire yet in the movie he is a smuggler.
- Ryu in the game is a highly dedicated martial artist yet in the movie he is Ken's goodie-two-shoes friend who's too stupid to know what Ken's up to.
- Charlie is killed by Bison in the games yet in that movie he becomes a separate character (Blanka).
- Cammy formally worked for Bison and then broke free yet in the movie she works together with Guile.
- Chun Li is a reporter (?) and Balrog and E. Honda are her TV crew.
- Dhalsim is a scientist (cause he's Asian).
- Despite Guile being identified as American, he is played by a guy with a thick French accent.

and so on and so forth. As an adaptation, the movie fails miserably. It's actually even less accurate to it's source material upon review than V For Vendetta which is pretty impressive seeing how loose of an adaptation that was. The movie works best as a comedy since it's so awful and despite being terribly miscast, Raul Julia squeezed all the juice out of that role. Shame that's what he last left the world on.

This new live action movie, while very weak, actually includes a lot of elements that are cannon to the game's story. Balrog is Bison's right hand man, Vega is an assassin for Bison, Charlie Nash is out investigating Shadaloo, Chun Li does train with Gen, Chun Li has her dad killed by Bison, Bison does create Rose, etc...

The thing is, the script is written as if there is certain to be a sequel or as if all the people who played the games know the story fully. Elements are not clearly defined in the script. For example, some think that Bison is Thai cause that's where he stage is at in the game. He isn't, that's simply where his base is at. Also, he changes bodies in the games because of the kind of power he uses. Truth is to get the full story of the Street Fighter games you'd have to beat every game with everyone and most don't do that. Therefore, people watching this movie would think that it has less to do with the game's when it actually has a lot to do with them.

Starting on Chun Li I think was probably an attempt to make Bison the central bad guy in this "franchise". So if that were to be done by starting at the start and you wanted to remain close to the game's story then Ryu and Ken cannot be in there since they have nothing to do with Bison until later.

Interesting approach. Too bad that the quality of the finished film is severely lacking on almost all fronts (Andrzej Bartkowiak is a crummy director and Taboo as Vega??) and with the low box office numbers the chances for a sequel to be made of this is more probable in the direct to video world.

Fixed that for you. That was a genuinely pretty cool bit of business.

Man up and at least wait til it hits the dollar theater which should be any minute now.....

And for the record, as lame as it is, I think this movie is still better than the Van Damme nonsense.

Just in case I wasn't clear enough in my post.

I think the Van Damme version is more entertaining.
The 94 Street Fighter is a funny/campy bad movie. Chun Li is a bad movie that has some funny bits, but most of it is a generic 'finding yourself'/karate kid film.

Any of you saw the Chinese version?

I dont know but if they really find the right people to do a movie based on SF, it could really be a great martial arts movie.

An origin story of Ryu/Sagat would be awesome.

I am filled with sad for you.

"Nash out!"

"I love this job."

Wonderful movie. Did Bison punch his conscience into his daughter then misplace her?

So the girl (rose) is the bad guy (soul)

Uhhhhhh

She seemed to know who her dad was, so maybe Bison had her packed up in a crate and shipped overseas when he felt he had CONQUERED BANGKOK.

It's best not to think about these things!

Ryu, Phantom of the Opera, & Don King ... THEY'RE COPS!

I laughed.

That IGN clip where the henchman donkey punches Kreuk while she is hanging upside down guarantees a sneak in after Watchmen tomorrow.

nightwalker, we get it...Future Cops is bad/good.

Nash Out!

Here it is - what you've all been waiting for:

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

NASH OUT!

Thanks for posting that. So many fond memories......

Nash is a big, dumb jagoff, but the dumbest line in the film goes to Bison.

*after knocking liu kang down*
"You should have never left the team. You wouldn't be standing here like this. But of course, ONLY ONE OF US IS STANDING!"

What

I watched this yesterday and the douche-chills still haven't stopped. Thanks a lot.

Humor me.

Wait a second...Moltisanti didn't see this movie?

Someone move the Doomsday clock to 11:55.

I'm hearing a little David Caruso in Nash. Picture him putting sunglasses on after every line.

Hmm, why even call this movie Streetfighter? Five Name drops and a hadouken was about all it had that relates to the property. It was pretty standard straight to DVD action fare, but I was entertained. The top moments for me were:

1.The awful lesbian dance scene. Kreuk's non figure combined with the potato sack dress & space shoes made this scene more hilarious.

2.Klein indeed was a glorious douche.

3.Upside down donkey punch, it might be my new avatar.

4.Irish Bison stealing baskets of fish and stomach punching his daughter into existence.

Just saw this.

Chris Klein is simply electrifying onscreen. Seeing him do his "Miami Vice" Don Johnson. He also has a Keanu Reeves "Speed" entrance at the beginning.

It really isn't a bad flick. Kristin Kreuk has a natural grace about her that translates well into the fight scenes.

"Even milk has an expiration date."

This movie... was incredible.

I had read the AICN review which was an excellent primer, and then my roommate netflixed it and we watched it last Sunday.

Wow. Just. Wow. Chris Klein's character is so ridiculous, it's truly incredible to behold. It looked like everyone had a great time filming this... Michael Clark Duncan looks like he can barely hold in bursting out laughing at the absurdity of it all as he plays Balrog.

Get the RPG!

The action that Bison takes to "purge his last bit of good and conscience" is incredible to behold.

I'm amazed that this movie was released in theaters instead of direct to DVD.

It is a glorious movie.

Bison is a small-time crook that for some reason needs to expel his soul by punching it into his wife's baby-filled belly. I guess souls are not kosher when it comes to building malls?

Chun-li is a piano player that wanders around until she learn to throw fireballs and kill defenseless bad guys, in front of their daughters.

Klein struts around swinging his hips, spouting retarded lines and dreaming of being a part of CSI: Shadaloo. If he, Caruso and Nicolas Cage were put on the same movie, the world would implode.

Balrog, a boxer, never punches anyone, instead using metal rods to pierce them, Commando-style. He also runs away after being hit by a single watermelon (Matrix wouldn't take that!).

Gen is 40 years younger, can't say "Ryu" and the only sign of age being some random white hair. He goes from super-strong to pussy depending on Chun-li being on-screen or not. He wanders around for years doing nothing only to brag about himself and say that people "need to do something about crime" and so on. He also likes showing up randomly after being killed. Twice.

All that, plus we have that chick from the Terminator 4 (four stars!), which barely holds her own against Klein on the acting level.

I swear to god I thought I saw a dvd review of this around here with numerous screengrabs of Chris Klein's various hilarious faces in the movie, but somehow cannot find it. Am I insane? Can anybody help out with a link?

Is it this one?

Thanks! I have no idea how I misremembered so badly where I'd seen it.

EDIT: That "Power Pellets" caption is golden. I think I pulled a muscle from laughing the first time I saw it.

This shit made me yell out loud ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!?

Then, there was the scene where he literally was using a woman as a punching bag while he and Balrog were working out. Was it the woman that Chun Li got the info from during the bathroom fight? Balrog, being a Professional, had a real punching bag though.

I loved how whenever Bison did a move there were ridiculously loud sound effects, to emphasize his powa.


I also couldn't believe that they cast the weird long haired guy from the Black Eyed Peas as Vega. My friend commented that he looked like him while we were watching the movie, but I didn't believe that it could be him... why would it be? And then, lo and behold, it was. What the hell.


I could easily see them doing a sequel to this with Sagat as the main bad guy. As long as they put Klein in the movie as Nash, I'll watch.

This movie was terrible, but dammit if I wasn't entertained the whole way through.

This really was a hilarious movie. Had a blast with some friends last night.

The amount of things that are wrong can't be calculated. But Chris Klein is amazing. Simply amazing. He's eyes crush your soul and his moves are hilarious.

Things i loved :
The scroll that every single time it was opened it made a WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW noise.
Chun li "slumming it" in Thailand to find her roots, yet the montage shows here with A DIFFERENT OUTFIT EVERY TIME SHE WALKS, and she's only wearing a hand bag and sleeping on the streets!!!!!
Bison's origin. Just amazing. Punched his soul into his baby and then lost it. And that seemingly had NO effect on him whatsoever. He wasn't supernatural or anything. He was a regular dude.
Nash Nash Nash. I love this Job, NASH OUT, The way he is staring at NOTHING while entering the camp.

But the best part by far, the Food fight at the market. Balrog SHOOTS AT A KID and the mother reacts by calmly standing up and throwing a pineapple at him.
Destroyed me.

The movie's glorious.

Sounds like this lives up to STREET FIGHTER's legacy. I'll put it on my Netflix queue. The Chris Klein renaissance has begun!

We got together last night for some drinks, food and Valhalla Rising. We decided to put this up for laughs first until the food arrived. We ended up watching the entire movie and enjoying it more than Valhalla Rising.

It's one of the best comedies in a while.

You guys are making me want to watch this again. If it weren't for the Liu-Kang + Chun-li stuff, this movie would actually be totally rewatchable.

Also, early on every scene is in really cheap sets (like the piano recital where there's no audience... or chairs... or anything besides the piano), DTV-level stuff, but then Chun-li moves to HK, and whoa, it actually looks like a movie. Push was another movie where HK upped the production values ten-fold.

Thats because the HK locales in Push were completely authentic. They just used what was already on the street. It's one of the main strong points of the movie in my opinion.

This thread has been my great laugh for the day. Those screengrabs of Klein's facial expressions... You've all convinced me to watch this.