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Hyper sensitive nitpicking. None of which is nearly as rough as Jessica Chaffin's calling the black kid from Abduction "blackie".

I get what you're saying, I just think its kind of an unnecessary rabbit hole. Fighting games are notorious for having loudy stories anyway (Tekken, anyone?), so I don't think the movie would be done any more justice than it was if it DID stick to the script. It would be different if it was a movie based off of a story driven game like a Final Fantasy or something, and got the entire core of its existence completely wrong. But for movies like this... where would it end? The live action Dragon Ball Evolution movie? The Dead or Alive movie? I think Street Fighter does a good job being the standard bearer for this "genre"... its approachable, has some stars people know, clearly isn't up its own ass with Street Fighter ethos though it has plenty of nods (Nobody mentioned that M Bison was controlling the water mines with a Street Fighter arcade cabinet controller), has plenty of decent-to-good action scenes... I think most normal people could watch this movie and walk away with a sense of the niche being well represented. For people looking for the hardcore stuff though, you might have to go to other sources for that. Nostelgia Critic or Angry Game Nerd or something.

This. Is. Fucking. EPIC.

I don't think their lack of knowledge of Street Fighter was a big deal. In fact, the last thing I need to hear are more nerds arguing about the technicalities of game-to-movie translations, especially in this sense. I'm glad that they just took it in as a normal movie, because as a normal movie, this shit must have been BANANAS. Like, imagine watching the Mortal Kombat movie without knowing anything about the game. Having said that, I don't think knowledge of the game would have brought anything new or different to the assessment of this film. Essentially all it did was make it easier for John to separate out the characters for everyone else.

"What..... exactly... IS... a 'STREET FIGHTER'?" June is adorable.

BTW guys, Charlie is a character from the videogame... but he's a separate person from Blanka. http://streetfighter.wikia.com/wiki/Charlie

There is much more baffling shit than that going on. The Zangief/E Honda fight with Godzilla noises, brainwashing a monster to be good by making him watch wedding videos (which is typically enough to make anyone insane), the teetotaler bureaucrat that is set up to show that diplomacy is wimpy and defeatist. Zangief's "Change the channel!!" (which in all fairness, did make me laugh) Fucking Dhalsim very randomly being bald and shirtless in his last scene, with NO explanation at all or even a hint of explanation. The fact that most of this movie seems to try its hardest to at least try to mimick what it might perceive to be reality, even on science fiction terms (re: M Bison's magic boots), yet Ryu throws a fucking fireball out of nowhere, and NOBODY seems to be surprised about that. That pose they all do at the very end. And of course, the most egregious front to me from this movie.... every Street Fighter character is squeezed into this movie (even freakin T Hawk) EXCEPT for Fei Long!

I love this movie so much. I had a lot of fun watching it. More than most HDTGM movies. This movie has THE craziest opening ever, second only to William Forsythe's Strike Force.

I went to see this at the theaters when I was a kid, and it was AMAZING. Second only to Mortal Kombat (hint hint, Paul Scheer). Its STILL amazing.

For those here who seem infatuated with him: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1bxvsb/i_am_uwe_boll_director_producer_and_screenwriter/ Good gems in there:

I'm going to go ahead and avoid this. Not so much because of all the horribly racist things people have tweeted after seeing it... http://publicshaming.tumblr.com/post/46685732519/wondering-what-movie-to-see-this-weekend-look-no But rather because the Official Twitter of Olympus Has Fallen has LIKED one of the racist tweets.

I second this movie. This extends beyond the realm of typical stoner humor into something that must be explored.

Seems like Danny Trejo should be in a couple of these... dunno if you want to count Badass (it is a mini episode, but I'd totally count it), but he was also in Reindeer Games. Insane to think he hasn't popped up in these films more often, the guy turns down nothing. Edit: Oh, he is on the list. And he was in Anaconda too, double damn.

I watched this movie a few months ago. It has some truly awful AWUL CG. And a terrible ending.

I think you're missing the point of the show, then.

This was a fun dumb movie, I liked it myself.

Maybe if they had done this movie much earlier, they would have had a bit more fun with it. They're coming hot off of a steaming Boll, they need to re-engage with one of those good crazy movies (i.e. Crank, Roadhouse, Punisher Warzone).

I checked out on this in 10 mins. This is a tough movie to have too much fun with, when it doesn't give you much outside of an endless cavalcade of non-sequiter slapshtick. Especially when you have 5 obnoxious leads.

Why do avant-garde art films that generally have received positive reviews?

While we're at it, lets also do the first Godfather, Citizen Kane, Vertigo, High Fidelity, Back to the Future, and Jurassic Park.

Starring: Kevin Spacey LL Cool J Justin Timberlake (in his so called "acting debut") Dylan McDermott and Morgan Freeman Yes, F.R.A.T. 0% on RT. Free to view on Youtube by way of Crackle. Enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caLi9HJJ-nA&wide=1

Well you get credit for spelling your name correctly, right?

On The Line, From Justin to Kelly, Spice World.... we're hitting up all the greats. Crossroads can't be too far behind.

Why hate on Cuba Gooding? I must have missed out on some new hipster meme on him or something.

Ok, I am posting this strictly for due diligence's sake. This one is going to be too rough for any sane person to watch. I mean, has Hollywood REALLY been aching for a Rob Schieder/Lindsay Lohan vehicle directed by the Sham Wow guy?? If ever there was a question that literally made you ask "How did this get made?" (and also "How the fuck did they get Adrian Brody to agree to this?), this is it. Comes out this weekend, for the curious. I'm going to pass, I certainly don't need to be contributing money to this nightmare. Also, for hilarity's sake, someone liveblogged their viewing experience. Who thought it could get worse than Liz and Dick.