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This Ain't No Game

This Ain't No Game: Street Fighter

In honor of Street Fighter IV's release, we're sharing this epic piece of cinema.

Your look into the world of video game movies and the Wonderful Universe of movies with video game themes.

Feb. 19 2009

Cast: Ryan

Posted by: Vinny

In This Episode:

Street Fighter

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blanka looks like carrot top

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Edited By TG_SOLID

I liked the last one better, more humor and sarcasm. This is just "this movie sucks. meh."

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Edited By ThePelinal

Awesome! Keep'em coming!  You've got a helluva lot of terrible videogame movies to slog through.  But at the end, it will all be worth it.

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I remember Van Damme was out here in Australia filming this. And some news show 'surprised' him in his trailer where he's very obviously just partaken in some, shall we say, nasal decongestants.

It was like that Fiddy video, but even funnier.

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Edited By Sephiroth9997

I thought SF the movie the game was awesome.  Never saw the movie, as I was only 6 at the time and my mom wouldn't take me :,(

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woah woah woah...




someone doesn't like beverly hills cop 3?

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heeey hey lets not be to hastey here judge dredd was a awesome movie!!.......in a way....

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Edited By Bouke

Thats another bad movie, i wonder what the we´re watching next week!

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I loved Judge Dread, The ABC War robot was the shit.

Whats funny is that Jackie Chan does a better version of street fighter in City Hunter than the actual Street fighter movie.

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You should've shown the shoryuken in the movie. That's classic.

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Thats was a brilliant feature


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Edited By HiroSeven

I have to admit, when I was a kid and didn't know any better this was one of my favorite movies. Watching it now obviously brings forth bittersweet memories I guess. The only character they got right was... 'maybe' vega. That is a big maybe though.

Great review, and go easy on those steak fries...

-hiro

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Edited By lasafrog

Somehow, inspite of it's horridness, I have a grave suspicion it will trump the upcoming Street Fighter movie.

HD Remix and SFIV are the pinnacle of achievement for the series, I hope the new film (dare I call it that) oesn't put a little stain on Capcoms's well deserved spotlight at the moment.

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Edited By Freki

Nice one Ryan!


I kinda like the movie - no doubt it's rubbish, but it has it's charm too.. or well it did back in the day anyway :)
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I remember watching the test screening of this at a theater in Socal.  I was indeed terrible.  It was a Street Fighter movie that had very little fighting in it.  Early on there was that decent set up where Ryu was going to fight  Vega in a cage match.  Looked promising.  Only to have the fight cocked blocked by Guile breaking in through a wall with a military vehicle.  At one point during the screening, someone in the bored crowd defiantly yelled out 'MORTAL KOMBAT!!!!!!!".  The entire crowd (myself included) erupted into laughter.  There is a masochistic side of me that wants to watch this again.  Actually to see what the theatrical release version turned out to be.  The test screening I saw was not a final edit and did not have very many special effects in place.  It's funny to watch a Bison "Lighting hands" scene with no lightning.  It was more like a Raul Julia air groping an invisible woman.  

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Edited By Usagi

My take on Street Fighter (1994) is that it isn't a terrible film, just not particularly good either.  I think the best part is watching Raul Julia ham it up as M. Bison because he does a good job of it.  I am a extremely big fan of the games and while I do dislike a lot of the inconsistencies between the film and the games, I still enjoy the movie on a so-bad-it-is-good level.  Yes, I recently bought the Blu-ray release and what can I say, I have a soft spot for it just like I have a soft spot for the crappy voice acting in the original Resident Evil.

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Edited By PLWolf

Best part of the movie is no doubt Raul Julia and his speeches. The movie is awesome just for those. lol

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that movie was horrible

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Street Fighter the movie, is one of those films that are so bad, they end up being pretty good

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Street Fighter was a sweet ass movie!!!  

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Edited By Junpei

If you thought this was bad watch Future Cops. It's a Japanese movie where they are all Street Fighter rip-offs but get this... FROM THE FUTURE! It's horrible and that makes it awesome.... plus Goku makes an unwelcome appearance along with a Mario parody when they go inside the game machine.

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Haha nice review once again Ryan, love watching these.

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Great Job R. Davis Cant Wait For the Next One. Do Super Mario Bros Next. Clown On Jonh Legwa..how Ever you spell his last name.
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Edited By Vance_Helsing

I feel like the only person out there that finds the Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game (terrible title, btw) decently fun. It's not SFII or anything, it's actually pretty poor quality, but there's a fun fluidity to the combat, and it's a fairly entertaining button masher- far superior to all the Street Fighter clones that came out in the arcades/SNES/Genesis back in the days.

Movie's awful though.

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I don't like how Ryan treats these segments with so much more reverence than usual as if movies, even in crappy video game adaptation form, are so much better than games. He kind of puts on his serious reviewer face and doesn't joke around as much. Idk these just seem more scripted.

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Stop! My eyes! My eyes! It burns!

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One of the best lines in movie history was from this.


"...the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life.  But for me... it was Tuesday."
 
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YEEEEEEssss!

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I actually like the Street Fighter Movie, it's good fun too watch.

I haven't played the game though.

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"It's BORING"

Yes, yes it is.  The movie, not this piece!!  Keep them coming Ryan!

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Van Damn that was bad!! (The movie, just like my joke) cool reviews  though keep em coming wanna see MK someday.

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This is the funniest movie I've ever seen. I'm shocked you didn't point out any of Zangief's hilarious lines.

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Not even one of the timeless zangief jokes? : ' (

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I find it funny how Guile is suppose to be an American but has a French accent.

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lol i love these they are awesome .

i havent found a single video game movie that was good except for maybe some of the resident evil ones
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This aint no Game, love this feature.

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Edited By psykhophear

Street Fighter is absolutely bad. There's no Hadouken, no Sonic Boom, no Sonic Kick, no Tiger Uppercut, no nothing. What a letdown. There aren't any qualities or elements from the video game whatsoever. And why the hell Guile is played by a Belgian actor and not an American actor? Just because Jean Claude Van Damme was big during the 90's doesn't mean he fits to be Guile. 


The acting cast could've been better and so could the story. The jokes are lame, the lines are cheesy, and the story is more like a GI Joe plot than a true Street Fighting story that involves people fighting on the streets like in the video game. This movie is bad. It doesn't suck...but it's just bad. 

My rating: 1.5/ 5 stars.
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I don't know if anyone has noticed this, but at 1:26, the painting of the clown in the background is a mirrored version of a painting by serial killer John Wayne Gacy, only with a Shadaloo hat. Not sure what to think of that, honestly.
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Ryan!!!!! LISTEN TO ME! THIS IS DAMN IMPORTANT FOR THE FUTURE OF TANG! STREET FIGHTER THE LEGEND OF CHUN-LI!!!!

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for the longest while i believed that was the origin of blanka. damn you street fighter the movie, damn you.

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i really wont to play the game of this now

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Edited By stafax

NO! This movie is awesome! You're not supposed to watch this thinking "yeah, I'm going to get a deep storyline and some high quality action". If you think that, then yes, this movie will suck. You're supposed to watch this movie and think "I'm about to experience some video game parodies and comedy" then you're going to love this shit!

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Don't believe his lies. This movie is awesome.

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i saw this for the first time to today and its pretty awesome

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Hey, but "The Flintstones" movie was quite awesome!

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Why hasn't there been a gif of bison using the joy sticks and getting his ass kicked in SF4?

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what? Judge Dredd wasn't that bad. pretty bad, but not in a "bad" way.

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You showed Commando as an example of a "good movie"
 
someone already brought this up nevermind.
 
Ming Na is hot

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I liked judge dread

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lol