@@6freddyb I’m still amazed by the utter conviction with which Raul Julia played the character. Sure, M. Bison was an over-the-top cartoonish villain in the movie, and Julia was fully aware of that, but he played the character as an over-the-top cartoonish villain who completely believed everything he was saying.
Raul Julia was the right person to play Bison. He's a great villain. Numerous ppl say he saved the film with his gravitas. But even more, he did it all because his kids loved Street Fighter. He did it because he loved them. It's fitting it was his final film.
I've heard a lot of classically trained actors actually love doing those kinds of parts because it gives them a chance to act out and really chew scenery in a way they wouldn't get to in regular dramatic roles.
@Randy_Richmond You’re right, that movie didn’t become good until it became a meme. This is still the Street Fighter movie that nobody asked for. The worst part is that the filmmaker (Steven E. de Sousa) said he made the movie nothing like the game on purpose, because he wanted the film to not look as "cheesy, irksome and outlandish" as the game itself. Apparently he never watched Street Fighter II Movie (1994), which looked far from cheesy, irksome and outlandish.
I was 11 years old in the summer of 1991 when Street Fighter 2 hit big. My parents had paid my older cousin to babysit me for the summer, and (after making me promise not to tell my parents) he would take me to our local arcade everyday and we'd play Street Fighter 2. Good times.
Fun fact, Fatal Fury’s Terry Bogard was technically meant to be the main player character from Street Fighter. Takashi Nishiyama had wanted Street Fighter to have an American lead named Joe (who still appears as the character who punches through a wall on the title screen), but he was nixed in favor of Ryu by the higher-ups at Capcom. When Nishiyama jumped to SNK he brought the idea with him, and Fatal Fury was born.
words can't adequately describe what it was like to be a teen in the nineties with a pocket full of quarters playing Street fighter 2 in the arcades. That game was so revolutionary at that time that it ddn't seem possible that humans built it; the speed, graphics, and combos were so beyond everything else that was available at that time, that you could be forgiven for thinking it had been built by space aliens.
I'm sorry but Van Damms Street Fighter will always be a guilty pleasure to me. Raul Julia was pitch perfect as Bison. Plus the comedy tickled 9 year old me. "You got...paid?"
@necrosapling this is a good point. Having Zangief and all the other characters in the Street Fighter movie game stoked to see the movie. I was even more stoked to see this movie, after seeing Raul Julia and Jean - Claude Van Damme chewing up the scenery. Was totally happy to see this again, presented here by Dan Larson here at Secret Galaxy
Soon there were SF2 and MK dudes or kids back then were they not? And, my experience, the MKs sucked at SF and vice versa. Which made gaming nights rather one sided. I guess because them both being Beat them ups but the game mechanics were too different to become very good at both games.
Street Fighter 1 originally had two large Pressure Sensitive Plunger Buttons (one for Punch and one for Kick) but they switched to the 6 buttons because they were a maintenance nightmare
I looked through Street Fighter II concept art… … and what I saw was that the developers at Capcom actually pondered with the idea of making the game into a Punch-Out!! clone, the blueprint arcade machine even had levers instead of the joystick & button layout.
Another hurdle during production, was the onset cuisine was making everyone sick out of both ends And for icing on the cake, the actors who played Ryu and Ken were constantly getting “cheap massages” while shooting in Thailand. So they were constantly out of it during their shooting schedule
I met Ming Na Wen, Damian Chapa, & Miguel A. Nuñez Jr. I got my Chun Li & Ken Master Funko Pops autographed. I also got to re-enacted the "Quick, change the channel!" line
Back in the arcades, me and my friend were obsessed with "Karate Champ". We were really REALLY good at it and there were so many epic fights that we had on it. And when I got "Karate Champ" on my Commodore 64, it was one of the games that we played the most against each other. I think that my friend and I were outliers back then, because we were REALLY good at it, but whenever we saw anyone else play, it was like they didn't know what they were doing and their games were always almost instantly over. NONE of then knew how to block or change direction.
That movie was not a good explanation of what the heck City Hunter was about, but it got me into City Hunter, so it gets points for that (not the only example of that in my life).
Another great video essay. The only way to make it perfect would have been to release it last week to kick off the annual Evolution Fighting Game Tournament (or EVO for short).
It was Street Fighter 2, but SF2:Turbo for the SNES was the start of something which has genuinely followed me to this day. With the Jada toys being excellent, especially for thier price point and Sf6 being so good it's a great time to. Be a fan.
First taste of Street Fighter was the movie with Van Damme. Didn't have a Super Nintendo, so I passed on all of the Street Fighter hype. I remember being 11 years old when the movie came out, and was so embarrassed that my Dad had to sit through this film with me. Even as a kid back then, I knew this film was pretty awful. All my Dad (who is very similar in mannerism to Hank Hill) said was, "The bad guy did a good job...but next time I'm picking the movie."
The version of Street Fighter (the first one) at my local arcade had the joystick and the giant buttons. I was completely unaware of the 6 button version.
I’ve always wanted to play that version. I’ve only seen that original 2-button layout in the wild once, and it was broken at the time. Something about asking kids to hit the buttons harder for harder punches in the game caused them to use too much force breaking the buttons.😢
I’ll never forget as a kid when I walked into my local BX arcade on Grand Forks Air Force Base and saw this loud and beautifully animated game with people fighting each other. I was blown away and immediately hooked. I had to use Blanka first because he looked so gnarly! i’ve been a lifelong fan ever since. I’m excited for the Jada Toys version of him and Sagat. I’m also looking forward to the Capcom Marvel fighting game collection this year. It’s all thanks to Street Fighter II.
My entry was in college. We had arcade games in my dorm's TV/study lounge and Street Fighter II was one. Right up the street from the school a store had the original Street Fighter. It's still one of my favorite series. I've got the Street Fighter Collection for my Switch.
SF2 came out to arcades 2 months after I was born. Fighting games are my fave genre since I grew up watching martial arts movies w/ my uncle. I was there during the imfamous Daigo parry ❤
The real biggest mistake actually is not having the film focus only on Shadaloo. All it really needs is just M. Bison, Vega, Balrog, Zangief, Cammy, and Chun Li as the main heroine. The rest of the cast has to go, they couldn't even depict ME right!
I played them in order at the local arcade. Street Fighter was horrendous... When Street Fighter 2 came into the arcade I was hesitent to even play it. I eventually did and it hooked me.
I was pumped for Street Fighter the movie! I played the hell out of the Genesis version and knew some of the "Lore" that was presented. I bought the toys before they became the movie tie-ins (same with the Mortal Kombat toys, I had those as well, lol) and I saw the movie not only in theaters but Drive-in as well! Such a good movie, I think I still have the VHS
No mention that Street Fighter was originally only a stick and 2 buttons. 1 punch, 1 kick, strength determined by how hard you hit the plunger style button. The 6 button configuration came later partially due to the maintenance being easier.
My first entry into the Street Fighter series was the Super Nintendo version of Street Fighter II. My parents had gotten a subscription to Nintendo Power for me (which you've covered previously!) years prior and one day an issue came in with Guile on the cover (go figure) doing a Flash Kick. Found their multi-page in-depth overview of the characters & their special moves inside and became obsessed. I'd been skipping out of wanting a Super NES until seeing that, but then I HAD to have one. (I don't even think it had been released yet when I got my system.) Been a Street Fighter guy ever since. When I tried to play Mortal Kombat for the SNES the controls were so different (I had to press a SEPARATE button to BLOCK?!) that I just couldn't feel appreciate it. Still remember years later finding out (also through Nintendo Power) about the Mega Man X Hadouken secret power-up and freaking out. Followed up with the flaming Shoryuken in X2. Those were the days ...
Always a bit saddened that Raul Julia's last role was something that didn't exactly showcase his talents, but it's still bound to be better than Overdrawn at the Memory Bank (aka "the movie when Mike and the Bots felt about making fun of Raul Julia").
9:22 glad to see a reference to my favorite bruce willis movie! regarding dee jay and zangief: the most self-aware, and the least aware in the film. they were a perfect pairing, even if their roles bore almost no resemblance to their game counterparts.
Hey! That "Beast Blaster" is just a remodeled Dreadnok Truck from GI Joe. Looks cool tho. I woulda like the street fighter toys if I was a kid. They seemed simple and fun. No accessories tho.
by "villain monologues", did you mean M.Bison? Cause just like in the movie, Bison has _all_ the good lines in the SF cartoon. His comment to Chun-li/Cammy in the final episode about whining about killing their family members is almost as cold as his "It was Tuesday" line.
as much as I'd love to admit my entry was the Van Damme/Raul Juila film, my start with Street Fighter was seeing SF2 in the arcade and being hooked almost instantly! sank several hours into the home conversions starting with the much coveted for the time port of the original to SNES, my uncle was a black belt at the game so getting wins against him was a rare sight indeed!
You shed a different light on the movie. I always thought that weird action movie road it took was a strange and bad decision alienating the game's fans. What a surprise that this was what they wanted to do with the franchise from there on.
great video!!! I can say about the film is; it was a swan song for Raul Julia. The movie was crap, but his performance was masterful, his monologue with Chu Li, should be taught in film acting classes on how to own a scene and define a character. Many forget the film, but remember fondly his scenes.
My first exposure was base Street Fighter 2 in the US. Dad gave me a hand full of quarters for the rec room with he was in his AA meetings. I used to get frustrated because no one there would show me how to do the super moves :P
He was only mentioned briefly, but apparently Capcom really liked Sawada, the actor who tried out for Ryu. Despite speaking little English, they still had him included in the film (As a character named Sawada), and he appeared in the video game tie ins, too.
My entry into Street Fighter was through my older brothers friend, a kid from a rich family who had SO MANY GAMES including Street Fighter. The large well-animated characters really dug into my brain from day one, Guile and Dhalsim were my favs. The movie was something a friend of mine had a VHS recording of because my parents were SO not spending money on buying me tickets for that. Saw it so many times he memorized Guile's whole speech. It's an interesting relic from a very different time, and I wonder what the new movie might be like. Capcom has stated they're always interested in making multi-media adaptations of their games because it's a great way of drawing in new audiences and making more money from people who aren't really gamers, and I wish them luck since as a fan I'd love to see more people get into Street Fighter... but man. Do I wonder what a Street Fighter story could be in the year 2024, or 2026 or whenever the movie is made. Will they try to shove in ALL the Street Fighter cast again, now that it's so drastically bigger? Do they focusbonnthe classics, or will they try toninclude the new ones? I am so nervous and so full of wonder how this might turn out...
I love the '94 Street Fighter movie. Spent my youth and teen years convincing myself it was a faithful adaptation. It wasn't until years later and interviewing people who made the movie did I find out about the GI Joe connection!
RIP Raul Julia. One of the best Shakespearean actors of the 80's and 90's and the only man to embody Gomez Adams perfectly (Aside from John Astin, of course!)
I am a Mortal Kombat lover myself. I played 2 (not too) on the SNES and then saw the movie when I was 9. I liked it and the fact that they were able to (not two) put all the characters in, even if it was in weird ways. I came back to (not two) the series with SF4. Bought it and played it for maybe like a weekend. Then went right back to (not two) Mortal Kombat and haven't looked back. The combos were way too (not two) hard to (not two) do especially when a 10 button combo sequence only does like a 1 kick 1 punch combo.
It still brings a tear to my eye knowing that an actor of Raul Julia stature took a corny role in a relatively shlocky film, simply to be a good dad, doing it for his kids. Also despite suffering stomach cancer at the time he chewed the SHIT out of that role, acted like he was having the time of his life, while more entitled folks like Van Damme were problematic on set. RIP Raul Julia, at first I thought he ended his career on a down note with M Bison but knowing more of the facts, I do think it's unironically a crown jewel in his career and a lasting gift for his children to remember him by 🥲
I can’t believe Dan didn’t mention the original 2-button layout of Street Fighter with the MASSIVE pressure sensitive buttons. The harder you hit the buttons, the harder your character would punch in game. Effectively each button had 3 different levels the player could push them: light, medium, and hard. The thing was that players would wail on them so hard they had a tendency to break. I personally have only seen it in the wild once, and it was out of order. The 6-button layout we’re all familiar with was later developed as a replacement for the pressure sensitive 2-button layout.
@@mccallosone4903 Yeah, those pneumatic buttons were finicky to just keep working from my understanding, that’s ignoring the imprecise nature of them. It wouldn’t have been so bad I suspect if any tap of the button would trigger light attacks, but even the light attacks required a fair amount of force quickly to trigger the pneumatic control switch. The amount of control to land medium attacks must be insane.
Always been able to appreciate Street Fighter even though I was never any good at it. Saves me from having to get those super awesome looking Jada toys figs!
Fantastic job Dan I never minded the 1994 live action film as a"G.I.Joe" film a lot more than both"G.I.Joe" live action we ended up IMHO. Hey Dan will you ever do a video about"Garfield and Friends" Saturday morning cartoons in the near future?
I've been playing street fighter since i was a kid. I got in during world championship edition. And have pretty much played every version but the first one and the live action movie version. Raul Julia gave us an amazing Bison with one of the best movie quotes of all time.
I'll never forget the first time I played SF II. My local arcade placed it in front of a window with a nasty glare and I lost my first match due to an assist from the Sun.
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The day Dan Larson uploaded the Street Fighter 2 video was the most important day of your life. But for him, it was Thursday.
Well done! Raul smiled!
Ha. I see what you did there.
You win! PERFECT!
Lol, nice man
Well done my dude
"But for me, it was a Tuesday" was the coldest movie quote in history. RIP Raul Julia
took the role to win cool points with his kids. so many movies where he stole the show. RIP, indeed.
"It's the Collection Agency, Bison. Your ass is six months over due, and it's mine."
It is one of my favorite movie lines and deliveries ever. I still use it regularly.
@@6freddyb I’m still amazed by the utter conviction with which Raul Julia played the character. Sure, M. Bison was an over-the-top cartoonish villain in the movie, and Julia was fully aware of that, but he played the character as an over-the-top cartoonish villain who completely believed everything he was saying.
But for Dan it was T-o-o's day
Raul Julia was the right person to play Bison. He's a great villain. Numerous ppl say he saved the film with his gravitas. But even more, he did it all because his kids loved Street Fighter. He did it because he loved them. It's fitting it was his final film.
And for him, it was a Tuesday.
Only the performance was great,
but the most game-accurate Bison is in Street Fighter II V.
I've heard a lot of classically trained actors actually love doing those kinds of parts because it gives them a chance to act out and really chew scenery in a way they wouldn't get to in regular dramatic roles.
The whole “But why? Why do they still call me a ‘warlord’?” speech. Damn.
@Randy_Richmond
You’re right, that movie didn’t become good until it became a meme.
This is still the Street Fighter movie that nobody asked for. The worst part is that the filmmaker (Steven E. de Sousa) said he made the movie nothing like the game on purpose, because he wanted the film to not look as "cheesy, irksome and outlandish" as the game itself.
Apparently he never watched Street Fighter II Movie (1994), which looked far from cheesy, irksome and outlandish.
Street Fighter had Kylie Minouge snapping people's necks with her legs. What more do you want from a movie?
Don't forget raul julia and a booger sugared up van Damme
All 4 "11 of her 😂
It was love at first sight.
JCVD did some “snapping” of his own with Kylie…
I was 11 years old in the summer of 1991 when Street Fighter 2 hit big. My parents had paid my older cousin to babysit me for the summer, and (after making me promise not to tell my parents) he would take me to our local arcade everyday and we'd play Street Fighter 2. Good times.
“Mistakes have been made” is an excellent summation of the Street Fighter franchise’s long and often rocky history.
Manga's Street fighter 2: The animated movie was superb. Highly underrated and often forgotten about.
The soundtrack alone is excellent. I'll always remember Ken racing along in his car with Alice In Chain's "Dem Bones' blasting away. Class!
"often forgotten about." Uh, I don't think so. Especially the Chun-Li vs Vega fight in the dubbed version.
@@walterlucero5757 yes indeed, two very good reasons to enjoy that fight ! 😆
And scarcely a mention😢
Also TV Series made by the team which made the animated movie was also great, but not this US version, only japanese animation :)
The live action movie hits the “so bad but good” note for this 90s kid.
Raul Julia carried Bison as if it was Richard III. Man really went out like a legend.
“Street Fighter is the first G.I. Joe movie.”
So if Cobra were lead by Bison they could actually rule the world?
"OF COURSE!"
Fun fact, Fatal Fury’s Terry Bogard was technically meant to be the main player character from Street Fighter. Takashi Nishiyama had wanted Street Fighter to have an American lead named Joe (who still appears as the character who punches through a wall on the title screen), but he was nixed in favor of Ryu by the higher-ups at Capcom. When Nishiyama jumped to SNK he brought the idea with him, and Fatal Fury was born.
And it's come full circle now since Terry is joining the roster for SF6!
Someone's been watching their Matt McMuscles to find out Wha Happun.
I too watch "Wa Happun?"!
@@fireaza well, for.what it's worth, these tidbits are in one of the latest eps of The Worst.Fightimg Game.
@@tomfoolery5680 I’m also just a Fatal Fury fan from way back, it’s one of the few fighting games I sought out in the arcades.
“Are you gonna talk about the Street Fighter movie?”
Dan Larson: “Of Course!”
*dramatic turn to the camera*
Raul Julia is missed and his legacy is a treasure
Great actor and great human being.
"For You, The Day Bison Graced Your Village Was The Most Important Day Of Your Life. But For Me, It Was Tuesday"
Raul Julia was the GOAT
"Zangief, you are BAD guy, but that does not mean you are bad GUY."
Seeing the Street Fighters wielding machine guns and sniper rifles is WILD.
words can't adequately describe what it was like to be a teen in the nineties with a pocket full of quarters playing Street fighter 2 in the arcades. That game was so revolutionary at that time that it ddn't seem possible that humans built it; the speed, graphics, and combos were so beyond everything else that was available at that time, that you could be forgiven for thinking it had been built by space aliens.
That’s “Overdrawn At The Memory Bank” star Raul Julia. Gotta put some respect on that name.
You doppeled my Fingle!
Mom, my nuts! It's a stinker but Julia was so good he still elevated stinkers when he was on screen.
I'm sorry but Van Damms Street Fighter will always be a guilty pleasure to me. Raul Julia was pitch perfect as Bison. Plus the comedy tickled 9 year old me.
"You got...paid?"
"Quick! Change the channel!!"
Yes! Thank you! I make no apologies for my enjoyment of this movie XD
JCVD at his prime
Zangief is one of the key ingredients to the movie being watchable at all, along with Raul Julia, of course.
@kennyboggs3676
"It's a good thing I met you, otherwise I might have become you."
@necrosapling this is a good point. Having Zangief and all the other characters in the Street Fighter movie game stoked to see the movie. I was even more stoked to see this movie, after seeing Raul Julia and Jean - Claude Van Damme chewing up the scenery. Was totally happy to see this again, presented here by Dan Larson here at Secret Galaxy
Dude!!!! It's pretty brave to call "Street Fighter" the first GI Joe movie and then show up at Joefest.
I was more of a Mortal Kombat guy, but I'd play the Street Fighter 2 game from time to time. Chun-Li was my favorite character to use.
Soon there were SF2 and MK dudes or kids back then were they not? And, my experience, the MKs sucked at SF and vice versa. Which made gaming nights rather one sided. I guess because them both being Beat them ups but the game mechanics were too different to become very good at both games.
Street Fighter 1 originally had two large Pressure Sensitive Plunger Buttons (one for Punch and one for Kick) but they switched to the 6 buttons because they were a maintenance nightmare
I looked through Street Fighter II concept art…
… and what I saw was that the developers at Capcom actually pondered with the idea of making the game into a Punch-Out!! clone, the blueprint arcade machine even had levers instead of the joystick & button layout.
Being the fat nerdy kid I was my entry point was skipping swimming class to go play SF2 at the pools Juice Bar. I can almost smell the chlorine.
Another hurdle during production, was the onset cuisine was making everyone sick out of both ends
And for icing on the cake, the actors who played Ryu and Ken were constantly getting “cheap massages” while shooting in Thailand. So they were constantly out of it during their shooting schedule
Raul Julia will ALWAYS be known as M. Bison. It was like he was born for that role.
He was the perfect Gomez, as well.
I was obsessed with sf2 in my teens, it was an addiction till mid 20’s
Blue Blanka is the best color swap
I saw the Street Fighter movie for the first time in 2023. Holy crap, it was so much fun. My favorite part was DJ and Zangeif.
I was just up in New England quoting this, the most badass villain line ever, and you must work quickly.
I met Ming Na Wen, Damian Chapa, & Miguel A. Nuñez Jr. I got my Chun Li & Ken Master Funko Pops autographed. I also got to re-enacted the "Quick, change the channel!" line
Ming Na Wen has only gotten more beautiful as she’s aged.
@@registereduser Agent Melida May from Agents of Shield
My Super Nintendo came with Street Fighter II Turbo as the pack-in. What a time to be alive!
Back in the arcades, me and my friend were obsessed with "Karate Champ". We were really REALLY good at it and there were so many epic fights that we had on it. And when I got "Karate Champ" on my Commodore 64, it was one of the games that we played the most against each other. I think that my friend and I were outliers back then, because we were REALLY good at it, but whenever we saw anyone else play, it was like they didn't know what they were doing and their games were always almost instantly over. NONE of then knew how to block or change direction.
"Quick! _Don't_ change the channel!!"
"Blister in the Sun" reference was not something I was expecting. Great vid as always.
Street Fighter 2 has the same staying power as Super Mario Bros or Sonic 2. It's a game that never goes away. Gotta respect that.
Funny enough, Jackie Chan was the first person to play the role of Chun Li on a live-action movie...
Truth.
In a live-action adaptation of a totally different anime franchise, no less.
City hunter 😂
That movie was not a good explanation of what the heck City Hunter was about, but it got me into City Hunter, so it gets points for that (not the only example of that in my life).
Don't forget the HK version Super Cops, with Back to the Future plot.
It was Tuesday is one of the best lines in cinematic history.
I remember seeing a Street Fighter cabinet that had to giant analogue buttons -- the force with which you hit them affected the level of your attack
Cool! Thanks for putting this together.
Another great video essay. The only way to make it perfect would have been to release it last week to kick off the annual Evolution Fighting Game Tournament (or EVO for short).
It was Street Fighter 2, but SF2:Turbo for the SNES was the start of something which has genuinely followed me to this day. With the Jada toys being excellent, especially for thier price point and Sf6 being so good it's a great time to. Be a fan.
This was my entry point. A friend of of ours would bring over their SNES to play SF Turbo.
Ah, Kylie ❤
My buddy and I used to skip school to play Street Fighter II at the arcade Friday afternoons.
First taste of Street Fighter was the movie with Van Damme. Didn't have a Super Nintendo, so I passed on all of the Street Fighter hype.
I remember being 11 years old when the movie came out, and was so embarrassed that my Dad had to sit through this film with me. Even as a kid back then, I knew this film was pretty awful.
All my Dad (who is very similar in mannerism to Hank Hill) said was, "The bad guy did a good job...but next time I'm picking the movie."
15:59 All the street fight characters running around with guns in that box art is hilarious. Wave-Motion MACHINE GUN!
Hyper Super Secret Galaxy II Turbo Champion Edition
The version of Street Fighter (the first one) at my local arcade had the joystick and the giant buttons. I was completely unaware of the 6 button version.
I’ve always wanted to play that version. I’ve only seen that original 2-button layout in the wild once, and it was broken at the time. Something about asking kids to hit the buttons harder for harder punches in the game caused them to use too much force breaking the buttons.😢
@@MungkaeX it was a workout
I’ll never forget as a kid when I walked into my local BX arcade on Grand Forks Air Force Base and saw this loud and beautifully animated game with people fighting each other. I was blown away and immediately hooked. I had to use Blanka first because he looked so gnarly! i’ve been a lifelong fan ever since.
I’m excited for the Jada Toys version of him and Sagat. I’m also looking forward to the Capcom Marvel fighting game collection this year.
It’s all thanks to Street Fighter II.
My entry was in college. We had arcade games in my dorm's TV/study lounge and Street Fighter II was one. Right up the street from the school a store had the original Street Fighter.
It's still one of my favorite series. I've got the Street Fighter Collection for my Switch.
Great video, and a great video game! I'm surprised that Dan didn't mention Evo moment #37 in the video though.
Love your history shows. And I even enjoy when you talk about your sponsors.
SF2 came out to arcades 2 months after I was born. Fighting games are my fave genre since I grew up watching martial arts movies w/ my uncle. I was there during the imfamous Daigo parry ❤
Man, how're you not going to mention the "Street Fighter 2: V" anime?
Watching this as I'm currently downloading the Capcom Fighting Collection, Dan Larson your timing is impeccable as ever.
"Better English language delivery?" and yet.... they casted Van-Damme as the American army guy. Allllllright.
Van Damme thinks he's better than every movie he's in. Meanwhile Raul Julia was pure class and gave even movie roles he knew were crap his all.
Cap and the avengers was the most fun I’ve ever had dumping $10 a person to beat a brawler in a bowling alley as a teenager.
I had no idea about the Wave Motion connection. Awesome.
Biggest mistake of the SF movie was not giving Kylie more screen time. She a damn near perfect Cammy.
The real biggest mistake actually is not having the film focus only on Shadaloo.
All it really needs is just M. Bison, Vega, Balrog, Zangief, Cammy, and Chun Li as the main heroine.
The rest of the cast has to go, they couldn't even depict ME right!
I played them in order at the local arcade. Street Fighter was horrendous... When Street Fighter 2 came into the arcade I was hesitent to even play it. I eventually did and it hooked me.
I was pumped for Street Fighter the movie! I played the hell out of the Genesis version and knew some of the "Lore" that was presented. I bought the toys before they became the movie tie-ins (same with the Mortal Kombat toys, I had those as well, lol) and I saw the movie not only in theaters but Drive-in as well! Such a good movie, I think I still have the VHS
No mention that Street Fighter was originally only a stick and 2 buttons. 1 punch, 1 kick, strength determined by how hard you hit the plunger style button. The 6 button configuration came later partially due to the maintenance being easier.
My first entry into the Street Fighter series was the Super Nintendo version of Street Fighter II. My parents had gotten a subscription to Nintendo Power for me (which you've covered previously!) years prior and one day an issue came in with Guile on the cover (go figure) doing a Flash Kick. Found their multi-page in-depth overview of the characters & their special moves inside and became obsessed. I'd been skipping out of wanting a Super NES until seeing that, but then I HAD to have one. (I don't even think it had been released yet when I got my system.) Been a Street Fighter guy ever since. When I tried to play Mortal Kombat for the SNES the controls were so different (I had to press a SEPARATE button to BLOCK?!) that I just couldn't feel appreciate it.
Still remember years later finding out (also through Nintendo Power) about the Mega Man X Hadouken secret power-up and freaking out. Followed up with the flaming Shoryuken in X2. Those were the days ...
Always a bit saddened that Raul Julia's last role was something that didn't exactly showcase his talents, but it's still bound to be better than Overdrawn at the Memory Bank (aka "the movie when Mike and the Bots felt about making fun of Raul Julia").
Ahem. Orson Welles as Unicron in Transformers: The Movie.
9:22 glad to see a reference to my favorite bruce willis movie!
regarding dee jay and zangief:
the most self-aware, and the least aware in the film. they were a perfect pairing, even if their roles bore almost no resemblance to their game counterparts.
"Quick! Change the channel!" XD
Love the Tuesday line. But I do wish Zangief's "Quick! Change thr channel!" line got more love.
Hey! That "Beast Blaster" is just a remodeled Dreadnok Truck from GI Joe. Looks cool tho. I woulda like the street fighter toys if I was a kid. They seemed simple and fun. No accessories tho.
I recently built the Dreadnok Thunder Machine in LEGO bricks. I've set up a redesign for the Street Fighter version. Just need to buy the pieces.
The animated series has some surprisingly good lines, particularly villain monologues. It was made by the studio that did Exo-Squad.
by "villain monologues", did you mean M.Bison? Cause just like in the movie, Bison has _all_ the good lines in the SF cartoon.
His comment to Chun-li/Cammy in the final episode about whining about killing their family members is almost as cold as his "It was Tuesday" line.
as much as I'd love to admit my entry was the Van Damme/Raul Juila film, my start with Street Fighter was seeing SF2 in the arcade and being hooked almost instantly! sank several hours into the home conversions starting with the much coveted for the time port of the original to SNES, my uncle was a black belt at the game so getting wins against him was a rare sight indeed!
I never knew about the director/staff switch from Capcom to SNK. Great video
You shed a different light on the movie. I always thought that weird action movie road it took was a strange and bad decision alienating the game's fans. What a surprise that this was what they wanted to do with the franchise from there on.
great video!!! I can say about the film is; it was a swan song for Raul Julia. The movie was crap, but his performance was masterful, his monologue with Chu Li, should be taught in film acting classes on how to own a scene and define a character. Many forget the film, but remember fondly his scenes.
I don’t care what anyone says, Street Fighter series is the greatest fighting games of all time. With the SNK fighting games a close second.
"Them's fightin' words."
-- All of Latin America, probably.
New Secret Galaxy hot off the presses, yes please!
My first exposure was base Street Fighter 2 in the US. Dad gave me a hand full of quarters for the rec room with he was in his AA meetings. I used to get frustrated because no one there would show me how to do the super moves :P
Honourable mention
Yie Ar Kung Fu 1984
-first fighting game I played
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Didn’t know about the Yamato connection to the Hadouken. These videos always give me something new about franchises I love. 懐かしい。 ✨❤️👍✨
A+ video!
LOVE IT! Amazing video about an amazing franchise!
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You should have gone with the “….I love this job…” quote :D
He was only mentioned briefly, but apparently Capcom really liked Sawada, the actor who tried out for Ryu. Despite speaking little English, they still had him included in the film (As a character named Sawada), and he appeared in the video game tie ins, too.
I too am MK fan who recently came around to SF. All the great SF lore videos on TH-cam got me interested.
My entry into Street Fighter was through my older brothers friend, a kid from a rich family who had SO MANY GAMES including Street Fighter. The large well-animated characters really dug into my brain from day one, Guile and Dhalsim were my favs. The movie was something a friend of mine had a VHS recording of because my parents were SO not spending money on buying me tickets for that. Saw it so many times he memorized Guile's whole speech.
It's an interesting relic from a very different time, and I wonder what the new movie might be like. Capcom has stated they're always interested in making multi-media adaptations of their games because it's a great way of drawing in new audiences and making more money from people who aren't really gamers, and I wish them luck since as a fan I'd love to see more people get into Street Fighter... but man. Do I wonder what a Street Fighter story could be in the year 2024, or 2026 or whenever the movie is made. Will they try to shove in ALL the Street Fighter cast again, now that it's so drastically bigger? Do they focusbonnthe classics, or will they try toninclude the new ones? I am so nervous and so full of wonder how this might turn out...
I love the '94 Street Fighter movie. Spent my youth and teen years convincing myself it was a faithful adaptation. It wasn't until years later and interviewing people who made the movie did I find out about the GI Joe connection!
RIP Raul Julia. One of the best Shakespearean actors of the 80's and 90's and the only man to embody Gomez Adams perfectly (Aside from John Astin, of course!)
I am a Mortal Kombat lover myself. I played 2 (not too) on the SNES and then saw the movie when I was 9. I liked it and the fact that they were able to (not two) put all the characters in, even if it was in weird ways. I came back to (not two) the series with SF4. Bought it and played it for maybe like a weekend. Then went right back to (not two) Mortal Kombat and haven't looked back. The combos were way too (not two) hard to (not two) do especially when a 10 button combo sequence only does like a 1 kick 1 punch combo.
It still brings a tear to my eye knowing that an actor of Raul Julia stature took a corny role in a relatively shlocky film, simply to be a good dad, doing it for his kids.
Also despite suffering stomach cancer at the time he chewed the SHIT out of that role, acted like he was having the time of his life, while more entitled folks like Van Damme were problematic on set.
RIP Raul Julia, at first I thought he ended his career on a down note with M Bison but knowing more of the facts, I do think it's unironically a crown jewel in his career and a lasting gift for his children to remember him by 🥲
I can’t believe Dan didn’t mention the original 2-button layout of Street Fighter with the MASSIVE pressure sensitive buttons. The harder you hit the buttons, the harder your character would punch in game.
Effectively each button had 3 different levels the player could push them: light, medium, and hard.
The thing was that players would wail on them so hard they had a tendency to break. I personally have only seen it in the wild once, and it was out of order.
The 6-button layout we’re all familiar with was later developed as a replacement for the pressure sensitive 2-button layout.
Holy shit, that was REAL? I seriously thought I imagined that.
yeah i was gonna write this. i played a cabinet with the mechatronic buttons. it didnt work very well
@@mccallosone4903 Yeah, those pneumatic buttons were finicky to just keep working from my understanding, that’s ignoring the imprecise nature of them.
It wouldn’t have been so bad I suspect if any tap of the button would trigger light attacks, but even the light attacks required a fair amount of force quickly to trigger the pneumatic control switch. The amount of control to land medium attacks must be insane.
DRA-GOHN PAAANCH. XD
Quick chanhe the channel is the greatest line in cinema history
Always been able to appreciate Street Fighter even though I was never any good at it. Saves me from having to get those super awesome looking Jada toys figs!
Awesome video 👍
finally doing a fighting game series lets go!!!!!!! more fighting game related content plse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fantastic job Dan I never minded the 1994 live action film as a"G.I.Joe" film a lot more than both"G.I.Joe" live action we ended up IMHO. Hey Dan will you ever do a video about"Garfield and Friends" Saturday morning cartoons in the near future?
I've been playing street fighter since i was a kid. I got in during world championship edition. And have pretty much played every version but the first one and the live action movie version.
Raul Julia gave us an amazing Bison with one of the best movie quotes of all time.
Haa! 8:28
I totally still have this tank, I just don't know what happened to the Guil action figure it came with
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that Street Fighter animated movie rocked! Ken driving to the Alice In Chains song sticks in my mind to this day!
My entry to Street Fighter was playing with my brother on his Sega Genesis.
Street Fighter II' Plus?
I think so.
Love your videos! Don’t forget about Urban Champion (1984) on the NES!!
The movie was my introduction to Street Fighter. I still haven't played any of the games. 😂
I'll never forget the first time I played SF II. My local arcade placed it in front of a window with a nasty glare and I lost my first match due to an assist from the Sun.