Episode 60 — Street Fighter

[ughanotherforumtogoto 3]

 

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.

 

Here is the thing about the Street Fighter movie. It's not half bad. It's sort of respectable of the source material, it's an action movie, it's got hammy acting (Raul Julia is clearly having a blast and let's face it he needed a good way to go for his last days) and well it's a beloved 90s action movie that is bad yet good. So it's clearly something people have a favorable view of nostalgia goggles notwithstanding. It's not boring or makes one angry like a Uwe Boll videogame adapation that shits all over the source material.

 

As for Tekken the video game story is completly nuts. In fact the Tekken movie story was more coherent then the game story with kangaroo army whose combat is boxing moves.

[FoolishSucka 0]

The craziest thing about it is the fact that it was based on “Street Fighter II”!!! Not even the original. That’s bullshit.

[PlanBFromOuterSpace 3138]

I think I mentioned it before in a post on a Street Fighter thread on the board somewhere, but when I bought my Blu-Ray player a couple years back, I had every intention of keeping my new movie collection pure, only the best of the best. That ended about four days later when I found this movie for like 8 bucks...

[kajillion 2]

This episode was fantastic. June knocked it out of the park here.

 

There's a very special quality of these non nerd comedians looking at this movie. It takes it up to another level of "what the fuck is going in this movie?"

 

Maybe next time you guys watch a videogame movie you can spend a bit of time with the videogame. It will help see just how much movie version of videogames destroys the vision of the games.

 

Gemberling was a fantastic guest too. He drove a lot of the episode with his very useful knowledge that cleared a lot of things up.

 

So good.

 

No, it should just be like this one. They should go in cold and have a guest try and explain it to them. Either a comedian friend who knows the subject like this one or a fan expert like on Professor Blastoff.

[kajillion 2]

I never played the game or watched the movie and this one still made me laugh.

 

Also I dig that they all jumped into a bonkers movie with zero point of reference. I would love to hear their reaction if they did the same with Final Fantasy:Spirits Within.

 

Knowledge of Final Fantasy wouldn't help at all with Spirits Within(aside from that one character's name.) I also don't think it really works for a bad movie podcast. It wasn't interestingly bad, it was just boring and nearly bankrupted the company.

[Kickpuncher 5012]

Don't have much to add that hasn't already been said, but I'm glad that...

- someone mentioned Jason's "black wedding"/"regular wedding" comment, because it was, to borrow a phrase straight from the source, next level bonkers. Jason has never said anything before to suggest he doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt, but that one really should have been caught in a filter in his brain before he said it.

- everyone else was as delighted by June's quest to get a satisfactory definition of "street fighting" as I was.

- the HDTGM supercut got some run on the main show, because it may be my favorite six minutes of any podcast this year.

 

I agree that the movie should make sense on its own, but the podcast would have been pretty annoying if it was just an hour of four people not knowing any of the character names or what was going on, so I agree that this was a good mix. My suspicion is that, in conceiving and financing this, they thought they'd be better off mainly appealing to existing fans of the game (I don't know that they really conveyed how huge SF II was). So I was a little disappointed that Paul didn't give his usual run-down of the budget and box office haul since that would have provided some context.

[Hot - Slunch 772]

It was funny that Gemberling got stuck essentially defending the movie even though he didn't like it, purely because he knew the characters from the game.

 

The Mortal Kombat movie was bad, but at least it stuck with the idea of a fighting tournament.

 

- someone mentioned Jason's "black wedding"/"regular wedding" comment, because it was, to borrow a phrase straight from the source, next level bonkers. Jason has never said anything before to suggest he doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt, but that one really should have been caught in a filter in his brain before he said it.

 

Nah, he said, "It was a wedding, a black wedding. It was two weddings, first a regular wedding with white people, then a black wedding."

 

The first part was just him listing the order and signifying the second wedding was different from the first.

 

Then he said it was a regular wedding with a white bride and groom. Not regular because they're white people, but regular because it's a traditional wedding. Followed by a shot of a wedding with a black bride and groom.

 

Not racist, he just said regular instead of traditional, conventional, etc.

[choochoo_the_wonder_slut 740]

Knowledge of Final Fantasy wouldn't help at all with Spirits Within(aside from that one character's name.) I also don't think it really works for a bad movie podcast. It wasn't interestingly bad, it was just boring and nearly bankrupted the company.

 

All valid points. But I'd still love to hear June's plot hypothesis, and then hear Jason mercilessly shoot that hypothesis to pieces.

[sarahsoswift 0]

The supercut was LITERALLY the best thing I've ever heard. It was BONKERS.

[Kickpuncher 5012]

I hate to turn this into "Yo, is This Racist?", but...

 

 

Nah, he said, "It was a wedding, a black wedding. It was two weddings, first a regular wedding with white people, then a black wedding."

 

The first part was just him listing the order and signifying the second wedding was different from the first.

 

Then he said it was a regular wedding with a white bride and groom. Not regular because they're white people, but regular because it's a traditional wedding. Followed by a shot of a wedding with a black bride and groom.

 

Not racist, he just said regular instead of traditional, conventional, etc.

 

Like I said, I'm not really assigning too much meaning in the big picture, but I definitely felt like the use of "regular" wouldn't be used unless he was implying that the other one was somehow irregular. If he left out the word "regular", I think everyone would just assume he was talking about two traditional, conventional looking weddings with two different races. Having not seen the movie, I don't know if there was something explicitly non-traditional (like, say, they're in bare feet on a beach in Hawaii) about the "black wedding" (I'm guessing not), but for the part I put in bold to make sense, he would have said "first a regular wedding with white people, then another regular wedding with black people," which he obviously wouldn't say.

[JustinL 216]

Guys. Jason is a filthy, disgusting racist. Just deal with it.

[Peter_Awesome 28]

Jason laughing at June's question might just be the best thing to ever happen.

[ughanotherforumtogoto 3]

For those wondering why Raul Julia was in this film his kids were fans of the game and the movie allowed him to spend more time with them. Since he knew he was in very ill health and perhaps knew his time was limited. Plus he looked like he had a blast playing Bison.

[Kickpuncher 5012]

One other thing I forgot to mention - Jason had a classic "Ooh boy" as they ran down the rapidly-descending resume of the screenwriter.

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[choochoo_the_wonder_slut 740]

If you think black weddings aren't regular just wait until President Barack Hussein Obamacare lets people marry Street Fighters

[RyanSz 3140]

For those wondering why Raul Julia was in this film his kids were fans of the game and the movie allowed him to spend more time with them. Since he knew he was in very ill health and perhaps knew his time was limited. Plus he looked like he had a blast playing Bison.

 

Yeah I remember his kids being the deciding factor in him doing this movie. And he was easily the best part of this movie and knew what type of movie he was in. If you're gonna go out, go out enjoying what you do.

[JacobCrites 4977]

This was an absolute joy. One of the best episodes yet.

[GregJ 12]

with Pauls appearance on the indoor kids podcast and all his appearances on G4 i was actually pretty surprised he didn't have more knowledge of this classic game.

[RyanSz 3140]

with Pauls appearance on the indoor kids podcast and all his appearances on G4 i was actually pretty surprised he didn't have more knowledge of this classic game.

 

Yeah but his episode of the Indoor Kids was all about how he almost always chose the wrong systems that were shitty or had no games, so that may explain the lack of knowledge on Street Fighter.

[tdhanshew 5]

Who let the dolphin into the studio after June asks what a street fighter is? Or is it an exotic bird?

[Hot - Slunch 772]

I hate to turn this into "Yo, is This Racist?", but...

 

Like I said, I'm not really assigning too much meaning in the big picture, but I definitely felt like the use of "regular" wouldn't be used unless he was implying that the other one was somehow irregular. If he left out the word "regular", I think everyone would just assume he was talking about two traditional, conventional looking weddings with two different races. Having not seen the movie, I don't know if there was something explicitly non-traditional (like, say, they're in bare feet on a beach in Hawaii) about the "black wedding" (I'm guessing not), but for the part I put in bold to make sense, he would have said "first a regular wedding with white people, then another regular wedding with black people," which he obviously wouldn't say.

 

Totally disagree. He just used the adjective regular on one, and black on the other to set it apart. Plus, he seemed to realize what it sounded like and made a joke about finding certain weddings wrong. It was an innocent qualifier that sort of sounded odd.

 

I literally just looked at the clip (in some foreign language because I do not have, nor will I pay for this) and you see 1 second of a white bride and groom touching each other, cut to; a black bride and groom taking their vows. Definitely not enough info to quickly distinguish them to a listening audience without mentioning race.

 

There's really no other way to describe it other than a regular clip of a wedding. It's not overtly emotional, they're not kissing, there's no bouquet throw, nothing is really happening, especially not enough to brainwash a monster that this is good.

 

If anything the movie is more racist because it had to show a black wedding and a white wedding. That implies they are fundamentally separate ideas that deserve their own time. All you needed was one wedding, fuck, make it an interracial one and save the stock footage...

 

Then they threw in MLK's 'I have a dream' and immediately cut away to a dolphin. Come on, without context that phrase is meaningless. They put it their because it's a famous phrase that preaches tolerance and equality; yet only the audience, not Blanka, knows what that means without the rest of the speech.

[jason_ped 2]

Bravo, that was better than I expected. Broke out the VCR to re-watch this gem, lost interest after Van Damme awoke from the dead. Plus he was still wearing the blood pack, god I figured he must have been lying there for a solid day, that is bananas!

Let's bring this franchise full circle with STREET FIGHTER: LEGEND OF CHUN LI, where yes a Canadian can apparently play an Asian.

Great job to Jason on Parks and Recreation on NBC. "Bloodspurt don't use that one, on second thought go ahead", "Get my crossbow", who comes up with this stuff?

[RoboFartGasm 1]

There is a theory that the movie was reverse-constructed from the freeze frame finale...

...which makes sense, from a director's standpoint of "How do I get all these characters in their video game counterpart costumes before the end credits?"

 

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This is my favorite podcast on the network. The dynamic between Paul, Jason, and June is literally perfect.

[imhatch 271]

If you think black weddings aren't regular just wait until President Barack Hussein Obamacare lets people marry Street Fighters

 

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