Games Editor Posts: 4193 Joined: 20 Dec 2005 | First Look at The Legend of Chun-Li
Unless you can speak fluent Japanese, you won't be able to pick up much of the plot from the newly-released first trailer for "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li", but there's plenty of action to make up for it. Also, Kristin Kreuk still doesn't look the part.
So, the guy in the silver mask and claw? Obviously good ol' Vega. The villainous-seeming black dude with a noticible gap in his teeth is probably Balrog, so we can check two of M. Bison's henchmen off the list. Bison himself? He'll be played by Neal McDonough (from "Boomtown" and "Tin Man") and has apparently swapped his trademark cap and uniform for a smartly-trimmed goatee and business suit.
Now, Neal McDonough is a talented guy with a magnetic presence, and I'm sure he'd make a great villain in any film. But he's the more ... well, cerebral type of villain - the sort of villain who would lever black-market forces and engineer terrorist attacks to drive up the price of real estate or something. M. Bison, on the other hand, is an over-the-top Saturday morning cartoon villain who wants to take over the world, or destroy the world, or something like that. I can't see Neal McDonough's Bison having a base hidden inside a giant Buddha statue in Thailand, that's for sure.
For all the original Street Fighter (rightly) gets lambasted, you can't say that Raul Julia didn't nail the "essence" of M. Bison, so to speak. They may have screwed up everything else, but they got Bison right. Hell, the equally-abysmal and short-lived SF cartoon nailed the essence of M. Bison too: ("Yes, yes, I killed your father. I killed my father too, and you don't hear me whining about it!")
While we're on the subject, would it really have been that hard to find an actress who not only can do martial arts but who also looks the part? While totally smokin' hot, Kristin Kreuk doesn't have the star power of Jake Gyllen... Gylen... of Donnie Darko, and he at least can pass for the Prince of Persia. Kreuk certainly wouldn't be our first choice to play a young, ass-kicking female detective from China - Beverly Hills, maybe, but not Beijing.
Oh well. At least the action looks decent.
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BANNED Posts: 1891 Joined: 26 Mar 2008 | Looks like my ass on a cold day. |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 767 Joined: 30 Nov 2007 | Now this is a feat. Somehow the loons responsible for this movie have managed to make 1994's Street Fighter look like a vastly superior product. I smell simultaneous DVD and limited theatrical release. |
Brand Manager Posts: 2428 Joined: 8 Oct 2007 | Is the lead playing Chun-Li the girl from Smallville? |
Games Editor Posts: 4193 Joined: 20 Dec 2005 | Spinwhiz:
Is the lead playing Chung Li the girl from Smallville?
Yep. |
Brand Manager Posts: 2428 Joined: 8 Oct 2007 | CantFaketheFunk:
Spinwhiz:
Is the lead playing Chung Li the girl from Smallville?
Yep.
Who would have thought she could "fight"? |
Time Lord Posts: 9923 Joined: 13 Feb 2008 | M. Bison:
For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.
I could get real pedantic and say that the Frankensteiner(hurricarana) is Cammy's trademark, but nah. ;) |
Brand Manager Posts: 2428 Joined: 8 Oct 2007 | The_root_of_all_evil:
M. Bison:
For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.
hahaha awesome |
On the Record Posts: 5484 Joined: 13 Aug 2008 | tendo82:
Now this is a feat. Somehow the loons responsible for this movie have managed to make 1994's Street Fighter look like a vastly superior product. I smell simultaneous DVD and limited theatrical release.
And a video game tie-in called Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game: The Movie: The Game. |
Infamous Scribbler Posts: 571 Joined: 22 Apr 2008 | Ah well. I'll give it a look for the action, that seems to be quite nicely done at least. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 4135 Joined: 6 Sep 2008 | |
Paperboy Posts: 34 Joined: 20 Nov 2008 | how to kill your career in 3 easy steps. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1105 Joined: 9 Mar 2008 | xitel:
And a video game tie-in called Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game: The Movie: The Game.
And it would still suck. And then Dr. Uwe Boll would make a movie out of it.
"Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game: The Movie: The Game: The Movie." |
Paperboy Posts: 23 Joined: 10 Dec 2008 | Wait, this is a trailer for a movie based on Street Fighter? I thought it was for the next Tomb Raider movie. |
BANNED Posts: 6317 Joined: 29 Nov 2007 | Oh...Well... Think about how awkward it would be to tell your parents you slept with your cousin... That's how this trailer made me feel just now.
I miss Raul Julia. |
Beat Writer Posts: 147 Joined: 17 Jun 2008 | Kill it with fire. Now! Egad, this train-wreck almost looks as bad as that Dragon Ball movie... ALMOST. |
First Look at The Legend of Chun-Li
Unless you can speak fluent Japanese, you won't be able to pick up much of the plot from the newly-released first trailer for "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li", but there's plenty of action to make up for it. Also, Kristin Kreuk still doesn't look the part.
So, the guy in the silver mask and claw? Obviously good ol' Vega. The villainous-seeming black dude with a noticible gap in his teeth is probably Balrog, so we can check two of M. Bison's henchmen off the list. Bison himself? He'll be played by Neal McDonough (from "Boomtown" and "Tin Man") and has apparently swapped his trademark cap and uniform for a smartly-trimmed goatee and business suit.
Now, Neal McDonough is a talented guy with a magnetic presence, and I'm sure he'd make a great villain in any film. But he's the more ... well, cerebral type of villain - the sort of villain who would lever black-market forces and engineer terrorist attacks to drive up the price of real estate or something. M. Bison, on the other hand, is an over-the-top Saturday morning cartoon villain who wants to take over the world, or destroy the world, or something like that. I can't see Neal McDonough's Bison having a base hidden inside a giant Buddha statue in Thailand, that's for sure.
For all the original Street Fighter (rightly) gets lambasted, you can't say that Raul Julia didn't nail the "essence" of M. Bison, so to speak. They may have screwed up everything else, but they got Bison right. Hell, the equally-abysmal and short-lived SF cartoon nailed the essence of M. Bison too: ("Yes, yes, I killed your father. I killed my father too, and you don't hear me whining about it!")
While we're on the subject, would it really have been that hard to find an actress who not only can do martial arts but who also looks the part? While totally smokin' hot, Kristin Kreuk doesn't have the star power of Jake Gyllen... Gylen... of Donnie Darko, and he at least can pass for the Prince of Persia. Kreuk certainly wouldn't be our first choice to play a young, ass-kicking female detective from China - Beverly Hills, maybe, but not Beijing.
Oh well. At least the action looks decent.
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