Street Fighter

[akiratubo]

I remember when my SF2-obsessed friend and I went to see this movie.

Boy, were we p**sed off.

Though my friend to this day laughs his ass off the part where Balrog KOs the generic soldier guy THEN asks him where the hostages are.

[SmokeShadow]

I haven't seen this movie since it came out on video whenever lol.  I remember thinking it was somewhat goofy, but even at that time I was aware of the fact that video game movies just don't work (not yet anyway - I'm hoping the Metal Gear movie will kick ass, if not i'm giving up on this troubled genre).  At the time, all I liked about this movie was A) the martial arts (keep in mind I haven't seen this since about '95 or '96 or so, so I might laugh at the MA if I were to watch it today), and B) how E. Honda could avoid pain by "imagining it was somewhere else" or some s**t lol.  Also, I knew that Jean Claude Goddamme movies were a bit off the wall as well (I saw No Retreat, No Surrender, Black Eagle, and Universal Soldier all around the time Street Fighter was out).  Concering s**tty video game movies, I saw Super Mario Bros. when it was in theaters, and I actually admired what they were trying to do (giving it a somewhat logical story, etc), but it just didn't work.  They should've just waited till I got high about a year ago and played Mario All Stars...  Man did I have the greatest idea for a mario flick (imagine a dude in a huge, fluffy, Mario mascot suit, slowly swimming through bright blue, but somewhat murky waters, dodging Big Berthas...)  And I have to admit, I loved Mortal Kombat when it first came out (even saw it in theaters).  But I laughed my ass off when I saw Annihilation  - it made Robocop 3 look like the entire LOTR trilogy combined!  But since I'm on a hardcore s**tty/ninja movie kick right now I'm gonna have to watch Street Fighter again (my friendly neighborhood video store has it for 99 cents!).  Thanks again, badmovies.org!