@@GuntanksInSpace There was a DOA volleyball spinoff game. That scene wasn't just to show some jiggle, that's canon for the franchise. (The spinoff game however, was pretty much just an excuse to show some jiggle)
I got to the end of this podcast and I was like "but that's not the end of live action fighting game movies, no one of you mentioned Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist"
Yeahh I was it disappointed all of them didn't mention Assassin's Fist. It really was a sleeper that nobody really knew existed untill clips and the poster art we t viral on other mediums other than TH-cam.. Also.. it's too bad it was produced/distributed by Machinima & we all know what happened with that those folks..😬
Yeah I said the same thing but they're mentioning the theatrical motion picture movies. Hopefully one day they'll talk about it. Street Fighter assassin's fist may not have been released in theaters but it was handled with care. It was made by people who really love Street Fighter. There is a lot of lore in that movie concerning Ryu, Ken, Gokin, and Akuma. Also the lore behind the Satsui no Hado. Feels like this movie gets swept underneath of the world.
Isn't that a mini series and not a movie? I googled what you put as I was unfamiliar with it, and I'll I got was some mini series that popped up. If that's what your talking about; not a movie.
In Latin America, the vhs of SFII was censored differently. They left the whole Sagat fight intact, but they changed the hue, so the blood was green instead of red. I didn't understand what was happening at the time and I thought I got a faulty vhs copy.
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The two things I remember from the KOF movie, the CGI Orochi ball that floats around the screen from time to time, and the fact Kyo is white, but they insist on having several flashback scenes with him as a kid, and he was clearly Asian.
As fun and ridiculous as SF the movie was, sweet mercy, could you imagine Raul Julia in a serious SF movie? He'd rock it anywhere. His presence, line reads, all of it was amazing. He will be missed. :( The scene where the infamous Tuesday scene dropped was great between him and Ming Na. Great stuff.
I can imagine a young Justin interacting with some shady guy who opens his trenchcoat to reveal a layer of bootleg anime DVD's. Badly subtitled, of course. The Street Fighter Alpha anime sucked ass, but _HOLY SHIT_ was Akuma awesome in that movie. Sagat is played by legendary Native American actor Wes Studi, who's been in films such as _Last of the Mohicans,_ _Mystery Men,_ _Avatar,_ and a ton of others. Man's a living legend. The original Mortal Kombat film pitted Liu Kang against a nameless Jamaican guy, yet somehow that fight - that didn't even include a character who was part of the series - had more gravity, energy and just downright awesomeness than both Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat Annihilation. To this day I want that Tiger/Panther dude on the roster of an MK game.
@@tonberryhater2286 Don't forget: "Got a selection of good things on sale, stranger!" "Is that all stranger?" "I got sumthin' that might interest you. Eh heh heh". "Eh heh heh, thank ya!" "Come Back Anytime."
I loved watching Matt and Maffew’s commentary of Annihilation over the actual film. My favourite part is when they attempt to call the Mileena/Sonya “fight” like a wrestling mud match and just start losing their minds laughing. 😂😂😂
SF2 the Animated Movie: I remember finding it on VHS. I found it at Suncoast. Absolutely loved it. Darkstalkers OVA: beautiful art style, taps into the series, and its characters. It flows like water, it is a masterpiece. Street Fighter: I remember seeing this in theaters. Fun cast. Crazy plot. But it was fun. M. Bison totally takes over every scene. It is one of those films that stays with you Mortal Kombat : That film was a masterpiece. It set the bar high. Cast was excellent. Fights were insane. Goro was huge. Shang Tsung gave you the chills. Plus that soundtrack Fatal Fury the Motion Picture: Studio G-1. A phenomenal film. A bit of its own thing, but it blended ideas from the game series. But it was so so good. SFII V: Ryu, Ken & Chun Li travel the world together. This series was so good. An origin story with a fun twist. Street Fighter Alpha: Sweet animation, plus fun seeing the gang together. But that bad guy, and Shun. Yeah.. it was weird SFIV: The Ties that Bind: Adapted the game story okay. But the animation was super wonky. It did not feel finished. SF: Assassin's Fist: So damn good. Nails the energy, every character, mood, and music. Excellent MK Legacy: A web series starring a very cool cast, using ideas from the games. Excellent choreography, characters, and the journey. Surprisingly sweet. Two seasons. A must watch MK reboot: First brutal, second sick, third it was pretty cool to see where they wanted to go with it. But it ends way too soon. It felt like they were building up to something. The duds: Tekken KoF SF: Legend of Chun Li MK Annihilation Uh.. yeah I don't know what happened Tekken ova: It tried to mash so many ideas together. Music was great. But I'm not sure what it was trying to be. Animation looked pretty good. It was just weird Dead or Alive: Um. I'm not sure what it was
@@harlannguyen4048 I was just summarizing it for fun. But honestly it was forever ago, don't need to be critical. I'm guessing you're one of those folks that have to criticize what a person says. But hey that's your mission in life. I'm not judging. SF II V was many years ago If you remember everything that's fine. I just shared it because I remember seeing it a long time ago
Street Fighter 2 the animated movie, fun and enjoyable. Mortal Kombat (1995) best adaptation, for its time, video movie. The rebooted version of Mortal Kombat (2021) I give it a fair shake it was definitely enjoyable. Street Fighter: the Legend of Chun-Li should never have been made. A better version of SF is from Jackie Chan's City Hunter. I will say this the best line that Raul Julia (M.Bison) had givin was "The day that bison graced your village was your most traumatic moment of your life. But for me it was a Tuesday." Coldest villian line ever. 56:43 Triple KO ULTIMATE ULTRA COMBO.
For the animated content episode, you guys could look at stuff that got it right: SF2 the movie SF2 V Darkstalkers Fatal Fury OAVs And those that got it...funky: Art of Fighting Samurai ShoDown anime Original Tekken OAV You could also discuss your feelings on the upcoming Netflix Tekken anime, not sure when that's supposed to come out. Do you guys have any animated adaptations you'd love to see happen? Killer Instinct could be incredibly fun animated, and a journeying Soul series show with multiple seasons would be fantastic; start off from Soul Blade, build up the rise and fall of Siegfried, etc I'm a huge Darkstalkers fan, but there's SO. MUCH. LORE and world building that almost never gets talked about. There's a great ol' translated document floating around that gets into stuff like the political situation in the human world on whether Catwoman are considered human and deserve human rights, there's stuff detailing all the stuff going on in Makai Kingdom and why the pressure gets to Morrigan and she just wants to focus on having fun. It also shows how morally evil and mercenary most Dark Hunters (like BB Hood are) they don't care about saving people the way Donovan does, they're made of the worst of the worst. Darkstalkers is made for long form storytelling via an animated series, comics or novels, it'd be fun to see that. Anyway, that's just me rambling, cheers on a great episode guys!
@@oscarangel2989 Dang, I don't know how it looks on your end, but when I refresh it looks like my comments were deleted. You'll want to look for the darkstalkers plot guide by saiki , it's a great read! Let me know if you find it!
Some fun facts: - Ray Park is in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation and he is a raiden double - Sub-zero in Annihilation is the same guy that played Reptile in first Mortal Kombat
Thank you Justin, Matt, and Maximilian, this episode was hilarious I remember seeing the Ral Julia SF Movie in the local dollar theater due to all of the negative word of mouth. A big group of us drove out to the biggest theater we could find to watch the original Mortal Kombat My children and I watched the recent Mortal Kombat movie but now they are reluctant to watch any of the other video game based live action movies that were discussed in this video. Looking forward to the discussion of the animated pieces.
My favourite one will always be bloodsport ( yes I know not a game), not only for the BIG cheese, but the soundtrack, and you can feel all the energies of fighting games gathering in that 80s movie, soudntrack is great, you can see the direct inspiration of stuff like MK and even Fatal Fury.
"Street Fighter" (1994) is a good-bad movie, as opposed to "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li" (2009) which was a radioactive turd. No joke, one of the best things about the first live-action movie that I'm not sure was touched upon was the soundtrack if you are into the gold era of hip hop. Nas, Ras Kass, Public Enemy, Anotha Level, LL, Ice Cube & The Pharcyde all feature on it, just to name a few. Also, the animated movie still set the bar for SF adaptations; my first exposure to it was a bootleg tape of the uncensored widescreen Japanese version that a friend lent me when I was in high school in 1994). Thanks to that, I've preferred re-watching it in Japanese with the original OST. You never forget your first Chun-Li shower scene. ^_^
I love how much Matt lead this episode. You could tell how much he loves talking about fighting game movie poverty, everything about them, their history and their production. It's genuinely enjoyable to see enjoy himself with the subject matter, which is honestly right up his wheelhouse.
I can't wait to see what they have to say about the KoF movie, holy crap ever bit of footage I saw made me weep. It's so much closer to Mk with the ridiculous portals to other worlds bs. Also, Terry as a government agent? WHY. Just put in Ralf and Clark and Heidern if you need such a character.
🤦 the KOF film was just bizarre. Casting was interesting. But the plot was all over the place. Yeah I totally saw the MK influence, but it did not need it DOA: that was weird
I fucking cracked up when Terry texted "R U OK?" THAT shit got me. KoF felt like someone on staff played the games, it might have just been one of the keygrips, but still.
I've said it a couple of times but the Street Fighter live action adaptation would have been a really good adaptation... if it was an adaptation of GI JOE. Make Bison Serpentor and Guile someone like Duke and it all makes sense.
I saw DOA in theater and my friends and I were the only ones there, so we got to riff it with impunity. Honestly the fight choreography is actually pretty good. Everything else is dumb as hell but at least it doesn't take itself too seriously. Also there's a part where a guy flexes and his muscles make a gun cocking sound lmao
For my money it's the best one. director Corey Yuen (The Transporter) is a legit HK stunt legend, Kane Kosugi is an electrifying performer, better than cocaine-era Van Damme and better than Robin Shou could muster in an early 90's no-budget Hollywood production, (But if you still miss him, he has a fun bit part at the beginning) a great villain turn by Eric "Best of The Best" Roberts, and all the actors who had to train were convincing. The movie *looked* gorgeous, with a bright, fun color palette, awesome sets and locations and mostly game-accurate costumes. Yes it was silly but so is the game. And it was silly on purpose; you laughed at jokes that actually landed, not at so-bad-it's-good incompetence.
Yeah I feel like DOA needs to be reassessed by people who claim to like fun movies. No, it's not a good movie but it is a FUN movie. There's probably more energy and exuberance in it than in any other fighting game movie.
You guys should do a Fightcade episode on the podcast. Would love to know you're takes on it, now that more and more people are setting it up and playing ranked/unranked matches online!
Thousand Pounds is who Max was talking about at the end. They did a Street Fighter short and two Naruto shorts as well as the mentioned SFxT movie which was requested for by Capcom... similarly to how Max did Ultimate Assist Me for Capcom. Fun fact... one member was Amy Johnson who starred as Kimberly in Power Rangers.... so they know a few things about fighting and choreography...
Surprised Max didn't mention who played Ryu and Ken in that. I can understand Max not knowing Mark Musashi, who played Kazuya, but Dan Southworth and Reuben Langdon he should know...
With the move for more animated movies in theatres and on Netflix, I'd love a big budget or mid budget animated theatre movie for Street Fighter or just get another anime series like SF2V. I'm sad that we're no longer in the good ol' days of the 90s with OAVs of Fighting games being everywhere. I would love to see more animated treatments instead of awkwardly trying to bring these stylized characters into real life.
I absolutely love MK Annihilation, exactly for how terrible it is. As soon as Shao Kahn has this stupid monologue or Scorpion screaming "SUCKERS!" at the top of his lungs I just fucking lost it. Or Sindel's actress looking like she just drowned all the puppies for fun and then all the CGI shit. It is just such an onslaught of stupid I can't look away from.
Funny you should bring up Soul Calibur as a live action movie fever dream, because it was actually supposed to happen in the early 00s. Sammo Hung was attached to direct and there was a production blog in place for it, but it fell apart and never happened for reasons I can't recall.
I don’t know if anyone has mentioned it, but there is another Hong Kong movie that borrows heavily from a few fighting games (mostly Tekken), The Avenging Fist. Not only does it have both Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao, but it is co-directed by DOA director Corey Yuen (who too be fair directed a lot of classic Hong Kong action films ranging from the legend of fong sai yuk to No Retreat, No Surrender).
It's interesting you guys brought up DeeJay in Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie because, fun fact: he's voiced by Beau Billingslea (famous for voicing Jet Black in Cowboy Bebop) in his VERY FIRST voice role!
@@RippahRooJizah You're goddamn right. People forget that before he was a bumbling dad, or selling meth, Bryan Cranston was a fantastic anime voice actor. He was in all sorts of shit like Street Fighter, Wings of Honneamise, and even voiced some monsters in Power Rangers.
@@RippahRooJizah To be fair, Fei Long was Cranston's third ever voice role (the first two actually coming from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, which predates SFII:TAM by two years).
Do rewatch DOA. It's one of those movies that everyone assumes will be awful, but it knows exactly what kind of movie it is and leans into it. The action is great, the characters are fun and it does not take itself seriously at all, it's legitimately my favourite video game movie.
DOA 2 on the ps2 was my first experience with the franchise, started it up with my buddy and began a match which was my first experience with "giggle physics". We were blown away and convinced that we had reached the zenith of body graphics and physics!
I'm surprised that Street Fighter: the Assassin's Fist didn't get a mention in this. It was a mini series sure, but I thought part of it got a theatrical run. Would love to hear your guy's thoughts on it.
Assassin's Fist was so damn good. I really wish the creators had been able to work on World Warrior instead of the rushed SFV tie in. Man everything that touches SFV dies
I heard that a Streets of Rage movie is in development as we speak. Don't know how it's going to go, but I'm hoping they put in these Easter Eggs: - Adam's Bonsais at his house with pictures of Skates/Sammy and a young Cherry Hunter - Blaze's hobby for Lambada - Axel visiting an 80s arcade with the Winners don't do drugs on the arcade screens - Phone Booths having pipes, pepper spray, apples(?), And steel bats in them when they get destroyed. - The Pine Pot... what else can be said? - References to Yuzo Koshiro. Either in music or shout out to a Club Poster where he is a DJ visiting Woodoak. - The Amusement Park from SoR2 - The Bar where Barbon works at. - Reference to Max Thunder's wrestling career. - Woodoak Chinatown with Shiva's Dojo. Not sure who the actors for each character would be, but I would laugh if Robin Shou was given the part of Shiva just sending his men to attack the Trio near the Pine Pot and just being like Cary Tagawa as Heihachi in Tekken the Live Action Film. He wouldn't have to do much if they base the plot on the first game where Shiva isn't present but his men are. If anything Shiva could be portrayed as an Anti-Villain/Anti-Hero trying to protect Chinatown from the Wrath of the Syndicate by sending out assassins on orders of Mr. X. I don't know, but so far Robin has been in Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter (Sadly not the good one 😅), and even Dead or Alive as a non canon Pirate (I wish I was making that part up). But hey, lets add Shiva to his Resume being a Anti-Villain/Anti-Hero Grandmaster in Chinatown. 😂
Funny thing, mentioning Corey Yuen as the director of DoA, then later Max dropping Freddy Wong's name when talking about the CG in the Chun Li film... Apparently Freddy Wong is his nephew. I totally didn't find this out when looking to see if Freddy Wong was still a thing.
Love the first Street Fighter movie! That M Bison performance is the best thing ever! Also, this movie is a better GI Joe movie than the actual GI Joe movies. I watch both 90s MK movies every year. The first one is an actual good movie, and Annihilation is so bad that it's hilarious. The 3rd movie is pretty good, but Cole sucks. Dead Or Alive is ok. A couple of the fights look pretty cool. This movie wasted some really good martial artists. Nash is the only enjoyable thing in the Chun-Li movie. The Gen vs Bison fight is awful! My favorite part of the Tekken movie is Jin remembering his mom's lessons, and then applying them in the worst way. "Remove the mask of fear" becomes "punch yoshimitsu in the metal faceplate." And those are my thoughts...
Thanks for adding the info about Raoul Julia's health-situation. I heard that as a kid but did not think much about it and had then forgotten about it. He does give a great performance The fact that Guile wants to rather put down his buddy Charly as he thinks that he had turned into a monster so as to save him I always found quite deep.
I think a good topic would be, what would you fix or how can you make (stick name of a bad fighting game) better or playable. Eg: Street Fighter 1, Primal Rage, Clay Fighters series, Shaq Fu, ETC.
For those looking for Matt's video with Terry's game voice clips overlaid onto the KOF movie footage that he mentions @1:11:08, I think it's this video: th-cam.com/video/ho4tiCCbqqo/w-d-xo.html
Just finished watching the whole thing. Great shout out by Justin for Future Cops. That was one of my favorite fun movies to watch. Also, surprised they didn't talk about Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist. It did get a Blu-ray / DVD release.
First place I saw SF2 Animated Movie was at a friend’s house when it was a new rental. It was the uncut, English dubbed VHS. I loved it so much I went to rent it and double-taped the VHS. It’s long gone now. It’s so good, I should order the uncut blu-ray.
1:30:08 Oh, you think the amulet was dumb? Quan Chi's ending in Armageddon is that the amuulet gets destroyed, he gets super-special-awesome powers and challenges the Elder Gods. They kick his ass and turn him into the very same amulet, then send him back in time so his past self can get the amulet again.
Love this new channel. Back in the day, in the proto-YoVideogames MK9 story mode streams, Kenny made the suggestion to watch some fighting game movies on stream doing live commentary, and I still think it'd be a great idea for this channel or a team up between TKO and YVGs. LOTS of terrible or fun movies to choose from.
Matt and Justin bringing up FUTURE COPS makes this episode the absolute best. I've probably seen it more than once back in the day and it's really just Dong Dong Never Die: the early years. With 30% more Doraemon references and a song that may be familiar if you're a Filipino. (And if you look around hard enough on TH-cam, you could find it).
Aw man, I was thinking that the guys gonna talk about Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist but I hope it comes soon in the next video. Street Fighter The 1994 Movie talk is on point. I still watching it from time to time just for guilty pleasure. When it comes to the SF2 animated movie, I tend to lean more towards the Japanese version for its soundtrack. If people were to say songs play when it comes to Ryu and Ken interacts with each other were too sappy or even too close for comfort, I'd say it's meant for character development and emotional at best. There is a song with a very long title in it got very, very famous and it's a big deal in Japan. Probably some of you guys know it already. I don't hate the American version though. Listened to it and yeah, I can see the heavy music is meant to bring excitement and heart-pumping kind of vibe.
This is a bit of a stretch, but if you ever want to see what a Soul Calibur movie *could* look like, French director Chistopher Gans, in his movie Brotherhood Of The Wolf, (which by the way features Mark Dacascos as a Native American who knows kung-fu), has given the main antagonist of the movie Ivy's whip-sword in the final fight sequence, except it's made of bones from an animal he hunted, while the main character fights with 2 smaller swords close to Cervantes style.
I remember the Jean Claude Street Fighter. I made it a big christmas present for my Uncle and cousins by treating them to a theater experience, I saved up and bought all the movie tickets and the concession stand with popcorn drinks nachos hot dogs.
Are yall ready for the Street Fighter Cinematic Universe? Single movies for all main characters, trilogy for Ryu to fight Akuma. "Avengers" movie to fight Bison. Easy.
An interesting topic I'd like to hear them discuss is characters who didn't make it into final builds of fighting games. I know Max went over the whole list of MVC3 characters who were considered and almost almost put into the game on his stream.
The Akuma scene is actually from Street Fighter II: The Interactive Movie, the cyborg scans the scene and it finds Akuma. It was never meant to be on the film, it was in a very obscure version. Akuma only cameos the film.
The Mortal Kombat movie novelization, which I actually read before seeing the film, did not have the second half of the Cage/Scorpion fight and Reptile did not transform in the statue, merely killed by the trap, as it was adapted from the script. I almost want to say it was kinda clever to make Reptile a “hidden fighter” given his status as the first hidden fighter of the series (and even of fighting games? I know this was before Super Turbo, so did any other fighter before have hidden fighters?)
The best joke in any fighting game movie is in the new MK movie, where Liu Kang just low sweeps Kano over and over and Kano calls it cheap shit.
Perfect moment
Kano is the best part in that movie which is insane
@@Bjhorn279 i mean, kano was the best part of the first movie too. Thats just tradition.
put a shirt on magic mike
Justin breaking Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa's heart is the funniest thing I've heard in a while.
I had to read too far down in the comments to find this! Lmao that shit had me crackin up
But it's so cruel :c
As a punishment remove Chun-Li from 3rd Strike!!
"[Dead or Alive] is just an excuse to watch girls in bikini fight." Sounds like a pretty faithful representation of the games, then.
And bikinis or not, they're the best fights out of any of these movies
I think that's exactly why they had a volleyball scene lol
@@GuntanksInSpace There was a DOA volleyball spinoff game. That scene wasn't just to show some jiggle, that's canon for the franchise. (The spinoff game however, was pretty much just an excuse to show some jiggle)
DOA was actually good and fun
@@chrisleebowers the DoA fights are horrible. Mk 1 and MK Reboot objectively have better fights imo. Less cuts.
I got to the end of this podcast and I was like "but that's not the end of live action fighting game movies, no one of you mentioned Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist"
Yeahh I was it disappointed all of them didn't mention Assassin's Fist. It really was a sleeper that nobody really knew existed untill clips and the poster art we t viral on other mediums other than TH-cam..
Also.. it's too bad it was produced/distributed by Machinima & we all know what happened with that those folks..😬
Yeah I said the same thing but they're mentioning the theatrical motion picture movies. Hopefully one day they'll talk about it. Street Fighter assassin's fist may not have been released in theaters but it was handled with care. It was made by people who really love Street Fighter. There is a lot of lore in that movie concerning Ryu, Ken, Gokin, and Akuma. Also the lore behind the Satsui no Hado. Feels like this movie gets swept underneath of the world.
Isn't that a mini series and not a movie? I googled what you put as I was unfamiliar with it, and I'll I got was some mini series that popped up.
If that's what your talking about; not a movie.
@@ficroulaud they eventually released it as a movie after the series was completed
@@ficroulaud there's a dvd release that compiles it with in between scenes to make it a motion picture.
It's actually very good.
In Latin America, the vhs of SFII was censored differently. They left the whole Sagat fight intact, but they changed the hue, so the blood was green instead of red. I didn't understand what was happening at the time and I thought I got a faulty vhs copy.
Si, la copia que yo vi igualmente estaba destruida, se veia azul xD
@@ShingoFighter XD
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The two things I remember from the KOF movie, the CGI Orochi ball that floats around the screen from time to time, and the fact Kyo is white, but they insist on having several flashback scenes with him as a kid, and he was clearly Asian.
CGI Orochi ball was terrible!
The Street Fighter Web Series was pretty amazing. Assassins Fist.
the sequel sucks tho
I LOVED Assassin's Fist!
@@juarezamorim Tbf they just made Resurrection to promote SF5 im pretty sure, but yeah it was bad
Agreed. Ken and Ryu were flawless in Assassins Fist.
As fun and ridiculous as SF the movie was, sweet mercy, could you imagine Raul Julia in a serious SF movie? He'd rock it anywhere. His presence, line reads, all of it was amazing. He will be missed. :(
The scene where the infamous Tuesday scene dropped was great between him and Ming Na. Great stuff.
"You still refuse to ACCEPT... my GODHOOD! KEEP your own GOD! In fact, this might be a good time to pray to him!"
@@TrixTrix228 Such a fantastic line. He was the greatest.
Of Course 😏
This was a great session, I enjoy all of them but this was so much fun to listen/watch
A live action Art of Fighting that’s based on the first game. Gritty 70’s style.
This! Yes! The game is already set like a action movie story
I can imagine a young Justin interacting with some shady guy who opens his trenchcoat to reveal a layer of bootleg anime DVD's.
Badly subtitled, of course.
The Street Fighter Alpha anime sucked ass, but _HOLY SHIT_ was Akuma awesome in that movie.
Sagat is played by legendary Native American actor Wes Studi, who's been in films such as _Last of the Mohicans,_ _Mystery Men,_ _Avatar,_ and a ton of others. Man's a living legend.
The original Mortal Kombat film pitted Liu Kang against a nameless Jamaican guy, yet somehow that fight - that didn't even include a character who was part of the series - had more gravity, energy and just downright awesomeness than both Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat Annihilation. To this day I want that Tiger/Panther dude on the roster of an MK game.
Saying "what are you buying" in a RE4 merchant's voice lol
@@tonberryhater2286 Don't forget:
"Got a selection of good things on sale, stranger!"
"Is that all stranger?"
"I got sumthin' that might interest you. Eh heh heh".
"Eh heh heh, thank ya!"
"Come Back Anytime."
"A new super mario movie? And he's voiced by Chris Pratt? Hmmm... Must be some some sort of bootleg like future cops"
I loved watching Matt and Maffew’s commentary of Annihilation over the actual film. My favourite part is when they attempt to call the Mileena/Sonya “fight” like a wrestling mud match and just start losing their minds laughing. 😂😂😂
The guy that played Raven in the Tekken movie was a dance choreographer for N'sync and Backstreet Boys.
As weird as that film was, he nailed the look, energy, vibe, and fighting style. I always wondered if he was the model they used in the games
Matt's DJ impression was SPOT ON!!!😂😂😂😂
SF2 the Animated Movie:
I remember finding it on VHS. I found it at Suncoast. Absolutely loved it.
Darkstalkers OVA:
beautiful art style, taps into the series, and its characters. It flows like water, it is a masterpiece.
Street Fighter:
I remember seeing this in theaters. Fun cast. Crazy plot. But it was fun. M. Bison totally takes over every scene. It is one of those films that stays with you
Mortal Kombat :
That film was a masterpiece. It set the bar high. Cast was excellent. Fights were insane. Goro was huge. Shang Tsung gave you the chills. Plus that soundtrack
Fatal Fury the Motion Picture:
Studio G-1. A phenomenal film. A bit of its own thing, but it blended ideas from the game series. But it was so so good.
SFII V:
Ryu, Ken & Chun Li travel the world together. This series was so good. An origin story with a fun twist.
Street Fighter Alpha:
Sweet animation, plus fun seeing the gang together. But that bad guy, and Shun. Yeah.. it was weird
SFIV: The Ties that Bind:
Adapted the game story okay. But the animation was super wonky. It did not feel finished.
SF: Assassin's Fist:
So damn good. Nails the energy, every character, mood, and music. Excellent
MK Legacy:
A web series starring a very cool cast, using ideas from the games. Excellent choreography, characters, and the journey. Surprisingly sweet. Two seasons. A must watch
MK reboot:
First brutal, second sick, third it was pretty cool to see where they wanted to go with it. But it ends way too soon. It felt like they were building up to something.
The duds:
Tekken
KoF
SF: Legend of Chun Li
MK Annihilation
Uh.. yeah I don't know what happened
Tekken ova:
It tried to mash so many ideas together. Music was great. But I'm not sure what it was trying to be. Animation looked pretty good. It was just weird
Dead or Alive:
Um. I'm not sure what it was
Correction: In SF2V, Chun Li doesn't join the party with Ryu and Ken.
@@harlannguyen4048 I was just summarizing it for fun. But honestly it was forever ago, don't need to be critical.
I'm guessing you're one of those folks that have to criticize what a person says. But hey that's your mission in life. I'm not judging. SF II V was many years ago If you remember everything that's fine. I just shared it because I remember seeing it a long time ago
@@kadosho02 I'm not criticizing you over this. I also love SF2V.
Street Fighter 2 the animated movie, fun and enjoyable. Mortal Kombat (1995) best adaptation, for its time, video movie. The rebooted version of Mortal Kombat (2021) I give it a fair shake it was definitely enjoyable.
Street Fighter: the Legend of Chun-Li should never have been made. A better version of SF is from Jackie Chan's City Hunter. I will say this the best line that Raul Julia (M.Bison) had givin was "The day that bison graced your village was your most traumatic moment of your life. But for me it was a Tuesday." Coldest villian line ever.
56:43 Triple KO ULTIMATE ULTRA COMBO.
For the animated content episode, you guys could look at stuff that got it right:
SF2 the movie
SF2 V
Darkstalkers
Fatal Fury OAVs
And those that got it...funky:
Art of Fighting
Samurai ShoDown anime
Original Tekken OAV
You could also discuss your feelings on the upcoming Netflix Tekken anime, not sure when that's supposed to come out.
Do you guys have any animated adaptations you'd love to see happen? Killer Instinct could be incredibly fun animated, and a journeying Soul series show with multiple seasons would be fantastic; start off from Soul Blade, build up the rise and fall of Siegfried, etc
I'm a huge Darkstalkers fan, but there's SO. MUCH. LORE and world building that almost never gets talked about. There's a great ol' translated document floating around that gets into stuff like the political situation in the human world on whether Catwoman are considered human and deserve human rights, there's stuff detailing all the stuff going on in Makai Kingdom and why the pressure gets to Morrigan and she just wants to focus on having fun. It also shows how morally evil and mercenary most Dark Hunters (like BB Hood are) they don't care about saving people the way Donovan does, they're made of the worst of the worst. Darkstalkers is made for long form storytelling via an animated series, comics or novels, it'd be fun to see that. Anyway, that's just me rambling, cheers on a great episode guys!
Probably they could add cartoons/anime in the same episode as well?
You have a link or name of that doc? Its looks like a very good read. I like Darkstalkers a lot too.
@@oscarangel2989 Dang, I don't know how it looks on your end, but when I refresh it looks like my comments were deleted. You'll want to look for the darkstalkers plot guide by saiki , it's a great read! Let me know if you find it!
@@ShockyD Thanks for the info, im gonna check it!
@@oscarangel2989 No prob, happy to help! If you know a pal that loves Darkstalkers, spread the word! Hah!
Okay, this KI movie idea by Max sounds fun, I'd love it. Use your powers of influence to make it happen!
Funny how Kano in the first film ended influencing the original from the game, and in the last film, he was the best part of it.
Some fun facts:
- Ray Park is in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation and he is a raiden double
- Sub-zero in Annihilation is the same guy that played Reptile in first Mortal Kombat
Thank you Justin, Matt, and Maximilian, this episode was hilarious
I remember seeing the Ral Julia SF Movie in the local dollar theater due to all of the negative word of mouth.
A big group of us drove out to the biggest theater we could find to watch the original Mortal Kombat
My children and I watched the recent Mortal Kombat movie but now they are reluctant to watch any of the other video game based live action movies that were discussed in this video.
Looking forward to the discussion of the animated pieces.
My favourite one will always be bloodsport ( yes I know not a game), not only for the BIG cheese, but the soundtrack, and you can feel all the energies of fighting games gathering in that 80s movie, soudntrack is great, you can see the direct inspiration of stuff like MK and even Fatal Fury.
"Street Fighter" (1994) is a good-bad movie, as opposed to "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li" (2009) which was a radioactive turd. No joke, one of the best things about the first live-action movie that I'm not sure was touched upon was the soundtrack if you are into the gold era of hip hop. Nas, Ras Kass, Public Enemy, Anotha Level, LL, Ice Cube & The Pharcyde all feature on it, just to name a few. Also, the animated movie still set the bar for SF adaptations; my first exposure to it was a bootleg tape of the uncensored widescreen Japanese version that a friend lent me when I was in high school in 1994). Thanks to that, I've preferred re-watching it in Japanese with the original OST.
You never forget your first Chun-Li shower scene. ^_^
I love how much Matt lead this episode. You could tell how much he loves talking about fighting game movie poverty, everything about them, their history and their production. It's genuinely enjoyable to see enjoy himself with the subject matter, which is honestly right up his wheelhouse.
Robin Shou was also in the Dead or Alive movie. He plays the leader of the pirates gang that attacks Tina's boat early in the movie.
I can't wait to see what they have to say about the KoF movie, holy crap ever bit of footage I saw made me weep. It's so much closer to Mk with the ridiculous portals to other worlds bs. Also, Terry as a government agent? WHY. Just put in Ralf and Clark and Heidern if you need such a character.
Don't forget about the DOA movie
🤦 the KOF film was just bizarre. Casting was interesting. But the plot was all over the place. Yeah I totally saw the MK influence, but it did not need it
DOA: that was weird
I fucking cracked up when Terry texted "R U OK?"
THAT shit got me. KoF felt like someone on staff played the games, it might have just been one of the keygrips, but still.
THAT MOVIE WAS FUCKING HORRIBLE
Really fun episode! Really enjoyed it!
1:13:42 He mentioned it! I was starting to think that even them didn't knew about this thing, and then Justin Wong talked about Future Cop.
I've said it a couple of times but the Street Fighter live action adaptation would have been a really good adaptation... if it was an adaptation of GI JOE. Make Bison Serpentor and Guile someone like Duke and it all makes sense.
Guile fights a snake in a tunnel
TUNNEL SNAKES RULE!
These roundtable vods are TH-cam life!
Thank you guys so much!! 🤘😎
I saw DOA in theater and my friends and I were the only ones there, so we got to riff it with impunity. Honestly the fight choreography is actually pretty good. Everything else is dumb as hell but at least it doesn't take itself too seriously. Also there's a part where a guy flexes and his muscles make a gun cocking sound lmao
I fucking love DOA, it's great. Knows exactly what it is and leans right into it.
For my money it's the best one.
director Corey Yuen (The Transporter) is a legit HK stunt legend, Kane Kosugi is an electrifying performer, better than cocaine-era Van Damme and better than Robin Shou could muster in an early 90's no-budget Hollywood production, (But if you still miss him, he has a fun bit part at the beginning) a great villain turn by Eric "Best of The Best" Roberts, and all the actors who had to train were convincing. The movie *looked* gorgeous, with a bright, fun color palette, awesome sets and locations and mostly game-accurate costumes.
Yes it was silly but so is the game. And it was silly on purpose; you laughed at jokes that actually landed, not at so-bad-it's-good incompetence.
DOA felt like a NESTS KOF story lol
Makes me even sadder about the actual KOF movie haha
Yeah I feel like DOA needs to be reassessed by people who claim to like fun movies. No, it's not a good movie but it is a FUN movie. There's probably more energy and exuberance in it than in any other fighting game movie.
I love this damn podcast.
I watch every episode of you guys love the much needed discussion on fighting game culture you guys are GOATEDDD
I'm really happy Justin talked about Future Cops. That movie was my childhood.
I think a episode on weird or cool fighting game merch would be awesome.
You guys should do a Fightcade episode on the podcast. Would love to know you're takes on it, now that more and more people are setting it up and playing ranked/unranked matches online!
I second this!!!!
You've made me a very happy man, Colonel Guile!
Thousand Pounds is who Max was talking about at the end. They did a Street Fighter short and two Naruto shorts as well as the mentioned SFxT movie which was requested for by Capcom... similarly to how Max did Ultimate Assist Me for Capcom.
Fun fact... one member was Amy Johnson who starred as Kimberly in Power Rangers.... so they know a few things about fighting and choreography...
Surprised Max didn't mention who played Ryu and Ken in that. I can understand Max not knowing Mark Musashi, who played Kazuya, but Dan Southworth and Reuben Langdon he should know...
Found those guys back when they had the Ultra Combo series. They have gone so far now.
Reuben came to my country for a convention... and plenty people had no idea who he was... but he kept it stylish
Nash's "This guy...he walks between the raindrops." line is the greatest line in American movie history 😂😂😂
I can get down for a soul calibur film. It's basically a quest story, not a tournament thing; sounds pretty doable to me.
With the move for more animated movies in theatres and on Netflix, I'd love a big budget or mid budget animated theatre movie for Street Fighter or just get another anime series like SF2V. I'm sad that we're no longer in the good ol' days of the 90s with OAVs of Fighting games being everywhere. I would love to see more animated treatments instead of awkwardly trying to bring these stylized characters into real life.
SF2V Bison is a Environmentalist lol.
In all honesty, nothing beats the short live action prequel episodes involving Ken and Ryu with their master.
I absolutely love MK Annihilation, exactly for how terrible it is. As soon as Shao Kahn has this stupid monologue or Scorpion screaming "SUCKERS!" at the top of his lungs I just fucking lost it. Or Sindel's actress looking like she just drowned all the puppies for fun and then all the CGI shit. It is just such an onslaught of stupid I can't look away from.
I love Sindel's line: "too bad YOU will die". I laughed histerically the first time I saw this scene as an adult.
Scorpion screaming SUCKERS and then fucking off for the rest of the movie is the absolute best part of the movie
Funny you should bring up Soul Calibur as a live action movie fever dream, because it was actually supposed to happen in the early 00s. Sammo Hung was attached to direct and there was a production blog in place for it, but it fell apart and never happened for reasons I can't recall.
If you guys next episode is animated movies, you guys have to talk about the two new Mortal Kombat animated movies
Before I even watch I have to say: The dead or alive movie is one of my top 10 comfort movies
Honda is Hawaiian! Dee Jay is a hacker! Dahlsim is a scientist!
Me: And Charlie Nash is Blanka! :D
I don’t know if anyone has mentioned it, but there is another Hong Kong movie that borrows heavily from a few fighting games (mostly Tekken), The Avenging Fist. Not only does it have both Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao, but it is co-directed by DOA director Corey Yuen (who too be fair directed a lot of classic Hong Kong action films ranging from the legend of fong sai yuk to No Retreat, No Surrender).
Ryu and Ken: International Drug Smugglers (well that explains why Ken is rich and Ryu doesn't work and fights all day)
It's interesting you guys brought up DeeJay in Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie because, fun fact: he's voiced by Beau Billingslea (famous for voicing Jet Black in Cowboy Bebop) in his VERY FIRST voice role!
What about Bryan Cranston as Fei Long?
@@RippahRooJizah You're goddamn right.
People forget that before he was a bumbling dad, or selling meth, Bryan Cranston was a fantastic anime voice actor. He was in all sorts of shit like Street Fighter, Wings of Honneamise, and even voiced some monsters in Power Rangers.
@@RippahRooJizah To be fair, Fei Long was Cranston's third ever voice role (the first two actually coming from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, which predates SFII:TAM by two years).
@@MetaFoxx278 I'm not talking about firsts, moreso just, in hindsight, notable actors who have worked on the movie.
Do rewatch DOA. It's one of those movies that everyone assumes will be awful, but it knows exactly what kind of movie it is and leans into it. The action is great, the characters are fun and it does not take itself seriously at all, it's legitimately my favourite video game movie.
YO! Penguin Palace...that little mall was where i bought all my Fan-subbed Anime VHS' and all my import Japanese figures and collectables....right on!
Matt makes every summary he makes, of anything, ever, sounds funny. 😂
DOA 2 on the ps2 was my first experience with the franchise, started it up with my buddy and began a match which was my first experience with "giggle physics". We were blown away and convinced that we had reached the zenith of body graphics and physics!
I want a _World Heroes_ movie. A kooky time traveler plucks weirdo martial artists from across history to fight a T-1000? HELL YEAH!
One day, someday. That would be fun to see happen
My new favorite podcast. Great job fellas! Love this episode.
I'm surprised that Street Fighter: the Assassin's Fist didn't get a mention in this. It was a mini series sure, but I thought part of it got a theatrical run.
Would love to hear your guy's thoughts on it.
Assassin's Fist was so damn good. I really wish the creators had been able to work on World Warrior instead of the rushed SFV tie in. Man everything that touches SFV dies
Probably the best live action SF media ever.
I heard that a Streets of Rage movie is in development as we speak. Don't know how it's going to go, but I'm hoping they put in these Easter Eggs:
- Adam's Bonsais at his house with pictures of Skates/Sammy and a young Cherry Hunter
- Blaze's hobby for Lambada
- Axel visiting an 80s arcade with the Winners don't do drugs on the arcade screens
- Phone Booths having pipes, pepper spray, apples(?), And steel bats in them when they get destroyed.
- The Pine Pot... what else can be said?
- References to Yuzo Koshiro. Either in music or shout out to a Club Poster where he is a DJ visiting Woodoak.
- The Amusement Park from SoR2
- The Bar where Barbon works at.
- Reference to Max Thunder's wrestling career.
- Woodoak Chinatown with Shiva's Dojo.
Not sure who the actors for each character would be, but I would laugh if Robin Shou was given the part of Shiva just sending his men to attack the Trio near the Pine Pot and just being like Cary Tagawa as Heihachi in Tekken the Live Action Film. He wouldn't have to do much if they base the plot on the first game where Shiva isn't present but his men are. If anything Shiva could be portrayed as an Anti-Villain/Anti-Hero trying to protect Chinatown from the Wrath of the Syndicate by sending out assassins on orders of Mr. X. I don't know, but so far Robin has been in Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter (Sadly not the good one 😅), and even Dead or Alive as a non canon Pirate (I wish I was making that part up). But hey, lets add Shiva to his Resume being a Anti-Villain/Anti-Hero Grandmaster in Chinatown. 😂
Funny thing, mentioning Corey Yuen as the director of DoA, then later Max dropping Freddy Wong's name when talking about the CG in the Chun Li film... Apparently Freddy Wong is his nephew.
I totally didn't find this out when looking to see if Freddy Wong was still a thing.
I always prefered the name Shadow Law from Street Fighter. You even see it written that way, so I have no clue why it changed over to Shadaloo.
I saw street fighter and Mortal Kombat in theaters and loved them both.
When Matt was introducing the animated movie that got us through adolescence, I was thinking the second Fatal Fury animated movie with Mai haha
This is the one I’ve been waiting for! Like Matt I too am excited as hell to hear y’all talk about this
This was such a great episode as always. Keep up the good work guys!
Justin, the closest to MvC movie is a short from 'Marvel What the?" Online series. its hilarious, i think is MvC Origins promo
1:32:50 my man I was waiting the whole time for him to mention this kind of idea
The fact that Corey Yuen (DOA's director) is Freddie Wong's uncle in mind blowing to me lol
One Fighting Game media I never see anyone talk about was the 90s Mortal Kombat: Conquest TV series.
Love the first Street Fighter movie! That M Bison performance is the best thing ever! Also, this movie is a better GI Joe movie than the actual GI Joe movies.
I watch both 90s MK movies every year. The first one is an actual good movie, and Annihilation is so bad that it's hilarious. The 3rd movie is pretty good, but Cole sucks.
Dead Or Alive is ok. A couple of the fights look pretty cool. This movie wasted some really good martial artists.
Nash is the only enjoyable thing in the Chun-Li movie. The Gen vs Bison fight is awful!
My favorite part of the Tekken movie is Jin remembering his mom's lessons, and then applying them in the worst way. "Remove the mask of fear" becomes "punch yoshimitsu in the metal faceplate."
And those are my thoughts...
I was listening to this while at work today and oh my god Matt’s Street Fighter impressions made me laugh so hard
Personally speaking, the 1994 live action Street Fighter movie is a guilty pleasure of mine. I love that movie even to this day!
Thanks for adding the info about Raoul Julia's health-situation. I heard that as a kid but did not think much about it and had then forgotten about it. He does give a great performance
The fact that Guile wants to rather put down his buddy Charly as he thinks that he had turned into a monster so as to save him I always found quite deep.
I think a good topic would be, what would you fix or how can you make (stick name of a bad fighting game) better or playable. Eg: Street Fighter 1, Primal Rage, Clay Fighters series, Shaq Fu, ETC.
Waiting for the premier of just Matt slandering that amazing KOF live action movie😂
For those looking for Matt's video with Terry's game voice clips overlaid onto the KOF movie footage that he mentions @1:11:08, I think it's this video: th-cam.com/video/ho4tiCCbqqo/w-d-xo.html
The Ken Dribing Flashback scene wasn't Silverchair, it was Alice in Chains Them Bones from the album Dirt.
A recomend for good 90s rock.🤘🏾
Yep!! 💯💯
Just finished watching the whole thing. Great shout out by Justin for Future Cops. That was one of my favorite fun movies to watch. Also, surprised they didn't talk about Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist. It did get a Blu-ray / DVD release.
Assassins fist was great, wish the people behind it were able to do a sequel to it
First place I saw SF2 Animated Movie was at a friend’s house when it was a new rental. It was the uncut, English dubbed VHS. I loved it so much I went to rent it and double-taped the VHS. It’s long gone now. It’s so good, I should order the uncut blu-ray.
9:38 which is interesting considering it's pretty much the opposite in this time period.
I would love to see a movie comentary of you guys watching those bad movies for the first time xD well at least max and justing but it be hilarious 😂
The BACK of the Blu Ray case is even more amazing
Bro anyone remember that live action KOF movie with CIA agent Terry Bogard?
I laughed so hard during this episode ! Thanks for the ride... I guess the Terry Bogard anecdote is top-tier !!
1:30:08 Oh, you think the amulet was dumb? Quan Chi's ending in Armageddon is that the amuulet gets destroyed, he gets super-special-awesome powers and challenges the Elder Gods. They kick his ass and turn him into the very same amulet, then send him back in time so his past self can get the amulet again.
Love this new channel.
Back in the day, in the proto-YoVideogames MK9 story mode streams, Kenny made the suggestion to watch some fighting game movies on stream doing live commentary, and I still think it'd be a great idea for this channel or a team up between TKO and YVGs. LOTS of terrible or fun movies to choose from.
Matt and Justin bringing up FUTURE COPS makes this episode the absolute best. I've probably seen it more than once back in the day and it's really just Dong Dong Never Die: the early years. With 30% more Doraemon references and a song that may be familiar if you're a Filipino.
(And if you look around hard enough on TH-cam, you could find it).
Aw man, I was thinking that the guys gonna talk about Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist but I hope it comes soon in the next video.
Street Fighter The 1994 Movie talk is on point. I still watching it from time to time just for guilty pleasure.
When it comes to the SF2 animated movie, I tend to lean more towards the Japanese version for its soundtrack. If people were to say songs play when it comes to Ryu and Ken interacts with each other were too sappy or even too close for comfort, I'd say it's meant for character development and emotional at best.
There is a song with a very long title in it got very, very famous and it's a big deal in Japan. Probably some of you guys know it already.
I don't hate the American version though. Listened to it and yeah, I can see the heavy music is meant to bring excitement and heart-pumping kind of vibe.
This is a bit of a stretch, but if you ever want to see what a Soul Calibur movie *could* look like, French director Chistopher Gans, in his movie Brotherhood Of The Wolf, (which by the way features Mark Dacascos as a Native American who knows kung-fu), has given the main antagonist of the movie Ivy's whip-sword in the final fight sequence, except it's made of bones from an animal he hunted, while the main character fights with 2 smaller swords close to Cervantes style.
Great recommend! That movie wasn't what I expected when I first rented it, but I had a great time!
Whoa didn't know a channel existed with all of you
I remember the Jean Claude Street Fighter. I made it a big christmas present for my Uncle and cousins by treating them to a theater experience, I saved up and bought all the movie tickets and the concession stand with popcorn drinks nachos hot dogs.
That pick scrape at the beginning always surprises me, goddamn.
Are yall ready for the Street Fighter Cinematic Universe?
Single movies for all main characters, trilogy for Ryu to fight Akuma.
"Avengers" movie to fight Bison. Easy.
Possible topic: handheld fighting games on the Gameboy advance. Kof had 2 games and street fighter had 3 I believe. Plus ton of other games
MASSIVE POP for the Maffew story.
Now I need to watch Future Cops.
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An interesting topic I'd like to hear them discuss is characters who didn't make it into final builds of fighting games. I know Max went over the whole list of MVC3 characters who were considered and almost almost put into the game on his stream.
I love that everyone pronouncing Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa is just saying caryhmmmnaahmnayuki
The Akuma scene is actually from Street Fighter II: The Interactive Movie, the cyborg scans the scene and it finds Akuma. It was never meant to be on the film, it was in a very obscure version. Akuma only cameos the film.
The Mortal Kombat movie novelization, which I actually read before seeing the film, did not have the second half of the Cage/Scorpion fight and Reptile did not transform in the statue, merely killed by the trap, as it was adapted from the script. I almost want to say it was kinda clever to make Reptile a “hidden fighter” given his status as the first hidden fighter of the series (and even of fighting games? I know this was before Super Turbo, so did any other fighter before have hidden fighters?)