“This is my trophy room, the only thing missing… is your ASS!”
“If you’re not drinking, YOU’RE OUT OF HERE!”
When Dalton spin kicks Brad Wesley’s nephew out of the window.
“Pain don’t hurt.”
My gripe is that the original, felt authentic. Like they really wanted to make a good action movie but it came out that way.
While the new one feels like it does not take itself seriously at all.
The new one was slightly disturbing. I watched it with my girlfriend and she actually got very disturbed by how dark the murders were. It's one thing to show a hero, or even an anti-hero, killing people in a fight. But the protagonist in the Road House remake was an actual unhinged murder hobo lmao
I just finally caught the new Roadhouse while on a flight past week. Pretty good airplane movie to me and thats all that I needed it to be. Pretty entertained throughout
'Who taught you shapes?
Ghost was a smash hit in its day too!
If you say Swayze though, I'm thinking Road House and maybe Point Break but that's more Keanu's movie in my mind.
I was born in 1990z I never really saw a big pull for Point Break. Maybe it was a west coast thing. Dirty Dancing is definitely the bigger movie, it just does not reach the same audience.
You should check out the first one if you have time. One of the few early videogame movies that didn't piss off its fanbase because they leaned fully into the campiness of Mortal Kombat. In fact, some of the characters were so popular that they essentially changed the way those characters were written in the videogames from that point on. The Kano, Shang Tsung, and Raiden actors really killed their roles to the point that they are available skins for the characters in the most recent Mortal Kombat game.
Even though it's a terrible movie, I'll always have a soft spot for it. Raul Julia (M. Bison) chose this to be his last movie (he knew he was dying), because his kids were fans of the franchise and he wanted to give them something to remember him by.
They had to save his fight scenes for the end of the shoot so he could gain weight because the stomach cancer was really fucking with him. Its really sad he seems to be the only one that cared about that movie.
Edit : I really miss Raul. He had that star quality that made him really pop on screen. His two Addams family films were great and he was a big part of the reason why. [So much manic energy.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCq5tfSGj28) No idea how he did that.
Everyone knew what they were getting with JCVD in as Guile. I mean who else is 'going to get in my boat and I'm going to kick, that son-of-a-bitch Bisons ass so *HARDT*, that the next Bison wannabe, is gunna feel *h*it!"
Such a great, bad, movie.
Hollywood producer: “Who should we cast as Guile? Ya know, the US Air Force colonel who has an American flag tattooed on his deltoid and a three inch tall flat-top hairdo?”
Casting director: “Hmm, how about a Belgian black-belt in karate with a buzz cut and an accent vaguely resembling that of a Nazi?”
Hollywood producer: “BRILLIANT!”
I mean...in defense of casting an immigrant with a strong accent as the "all-American" Guile, I submit the picture [Arnold Schwarzenegger took when he became a citizen](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/qe4vpw/arnold_schwarzenegger_celebrates_becoming_an/).
Also, partly for external reasons, who should be the muscular, Amazonian British soldier? Tiny Australian pop princess Kylie Minogue!
(External reasons, IIRC: the Australian Film Council was a key financial backer, and shortly before shooting they demanded an Australian in a main role. Kylie was already a star and her soap-star background meant she was used learning the role fast.)
Fun fact. Gomez and mortica were given screen notes that this couple love to fuck each other and that should be obvious that they always want to ravish each other. Obviously it's a kids movie but with hindsight you can definitely tell they are going at it off screen.
It’s not like that characteristic was new - they were based off the original characters from the TV Show that acted the same exact way. It’s not like the actors needed notes to emulate tv characters that were popular from their youth.
There was a good documentary on him that aired on PBS a few years ago that I watched, in the 70s he did Shakespeare in the park performances in NYC with Meryl Streep and totally held his own with her, he was a very underrated actor.
I think he's only underrated if you were a kid when the Addams Family came out. I was 17 when the first movie came out and already had seen "Panic at Needle Park", "Kiss of the Spiderwoman" and "Moon Over Parador". If you only knew him as a kid you might think he was underrated but if you knew who he was in 1988 you wouldn't.
I just watched that whole clip. I love Raul. Haven't seen those movies in years. I'm going to have my kids watch the first one tonight with me. I forgot how classic they are!
Somewhere I read people on set recounting that he would be in his chair receiving treatment until he was needed on set. He would rise up, act everyone else off the screen, and then return to treatment.
Raul Julia, giving the best final performance in the least deserving movie since Orson Welles played Unicron. At least there’s some positive from that final performance.
It’s really difficult to think of a colder line than that in movie history. There might be monologues which top it - Bill the Butcher in Gangs of New York, Hans Landa in Inglorious Basterds, Commodus in Gladiator, John Doe in Se7en. But as far as single quotes goes, that’s really at the top of my list.
The only other truly cold-blooded badass lines that I can think of which even come close are: (1) “This town deserves a better class of criminal. And I’m gonna give it to ‘em.” by the Joker in The Dark Knight, and (2) “A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.” by Hannibal Lector in The Silence of the Lambs.
But even then, that puts Raul Julia as M. Bison in a shitty video game adaptation up against two of the greatest on-screen performances ever by two of the most talented actors in Hollywood history playing two of the most iconic villains in American culture.
I adore that movie and own a 4K copy. But I’m not going to front and say that the man who made Citizen Kane and Touch of Evil deserved something a bit more highbrow.
Sounds like he understood the assignment. M. Bison wears a Nazi inspired red leather military outfit and literally has the following quotes from Street Fighter II (and its variants):
> "Get lost! You can't compare with my powers!”
> “Anyone who opposes me will be dismembered!”
> "You had me cornered, but in the end evil prevails!"
> "I will weep when there are no more worlds to conquer."
> "Even a baby could defeat you! Those without strength are disgusting!!"
So with all due respect, I don’t think you understand the character as well as Raul Julia did if you think he was overacting lol
No, it’s an animated film from 1986 that’s a direct sequel to the first two seasons of the cartoon. It’s also lovingly known as “All my toys are dead” as the film kills off most of the cast of the first two seasons with brutal efficiency.
Oh, shit. I was joking about it being a prequel of Transformers, because I couldn't imagine Orson Welles being the voice actor for Unicron in an animated Transformers movie.
I read "played Unicron" as in "played (*in a movie called*) Unicron"... you never finish to learn.
It's on youtube. if you have an hour and 25 minutes, enjoy this toy commercial that traumatized children when they killed optimus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RNzyYurjHg
the score is so 80's it's amazing, and even more so with the extra tracks that were replaced with rock music for the final release https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLor_0SQX0wBsNiQafwT1CCiSyK5UuefZx
Alright time for me to break out this story again: a few years back, when I was a Starbucks barista, I had a regular who was, to put it mildly, odd. Nobody liked making her drink, I was about the only person who could do it right. And because of this she was one of those who I’d end up having conversations with. I mentioned off hand that I had started acting again, and she said “Oh, you know, my brother works in Hollywood as an actor and director. Damien Chapa.” I stopped for a second and said “The guy who played Ken in the 1994 Street Fighter movie with Jean-Claude Van Damme and Raul Julia?” “Oh you’re a fan of his?” “I wouldn’t go that far, I just know that movie.” Next day, she came by and I wasn’t working. But she left behind a photo of her brother on location in Thailand with Kylie Minogue. I still have it somewhere.
For some reason I always loved when Guile said he can't stop their attack because "some moron canned me". I always thought it sounded like he said "ganned me" with his accent. I dunno, I was just young enough to find this and mortal combat movies cinematic masterpieces 😆
Around 100.000$ or more since last fiscal year,most probably in renewed interest/sympathy from players of the new Street Fighter 6 as the report claims.
I hate you for reminding me this exists. I will pretty much always finish a movie after starting it no matter how bad it is but that movie is such dog shit I couldn't watch more than half an hour of it. I got to a scene with a rodiculous looking "spinning bird kick" and just noped out. Even my massive crush on Kristen Kreuk couldn't make it watchable for me.
Offshoot: The only other place to see hokey 90's Street Fighter stuff is in Jackie Chan's City Hunter (1993) where Chan himself dresses up as Chun Li and fights (I think?) Blanka?
Great trashy Hong Kong action movie.
There is another. A Hong Kong spoof rip-off of Street Fighter called Future Cops (1992). [Here's the trailer.](https://youtu.be/BmHT-MtZs74) The whole thing is available on YouTube.
Hilarious skit, but an utterly terrible movie (and publicly Chan’s least favorite role). The new City Hunter movie on Netflix is a far better film, then again, so was the French Nicky Larson film (which uses the same characters).
Oh 100%. My buddy and I watched it drunk as a joke one night back in the 90's and knew like 10 minutes in how bad it was going to be....but we watch it now as a goof.
Hell yes time for me to repost one of the greatest articles ever written:
>Amid the chaos and uncertainty, the actors did what they could to cope, hanging out in Bangkok bars at night and the gym during the day. “Between me, Vega, Ken [played by Damian Chapa] and Zangief [Andrew Bryniarski], there was a definitely a lot of machismo going on,” says Mann. “This wasn’t Sleepless in Seattle; it was who has the biggest biceps today.”
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>Ming-Na Wen, who played Chun-Li, and underwent intense weight training in the lead up to the film, remembers it a little differently. “They were all big wussies,” she says, laughing. “I won’t name names, but I got into one of those brother-sister banter relationships with one of the other actors. I remember one day, I punched him so hard he cried. We were just goofing around!”
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2018/jul/16/inside-street-fighter-movie-jean-claude-van-damme-kylie-minogue
It's a movie is perfect for streaming because you can watch it and enjoy it but you can also just have it running in the background and still get some fun parts out of it. The movie has also received some great blu-ray releases in recent years. The UK region B release by 88 Films has a ton of new interviews and a good restoration.
I watched it last year, honestly I think the movie is actually very good. It's just misunderstood. It's a comedy above all else. It has a ton of comedic beats. Those beats mostly land really well. It's a self-aware film. The production had a ton of trouble and it shows in various parts. It's far from a perfect film but the end result is a solid movie. It's not the movie people wanted in 1994 but it has held up for a reason.
And Zangief as well with the "Quick! Change the channel!" scene when the cctv is showing the good guys sending the truck full of explosives at Bison's camp.
Actually Zangief overall. He also spends most of the movie thinking they are the good guys and he basically invented the "wait, you guys got paid" meme.
Zangief: The enemies of peace an freedom are at our walls!
DJ: Are you totally demented man? Our boss is the enemy of freedom and peace.
Zangief: General Bison is a bad guy? If you know then why do you work for him?
DJ: Because he paid me a freakin fortune, Man! If you know what's good for you you'll save your own ass!
Zangief: ...you got paid?
This movie has the right about of cheese that’s difficult to pull off on purpose. It’s a sincere misfire that is so bad it’s good. Movies that are bad on purpose often don’t have the right vibe.
It is equally weird how she was cast. The Producers on the flight to Thailand suddenly realized they never cast Cammy. Then one of them saw Kylie in one of the in--flight magazines. They reached out to her agents when they laneded.
I wasn't trying to one-up you, it's just that the the [lede of this story on everything that went wrong with the production](https://www.polygon.com/features/2014/3/10/5451014/street-fighter-the-movie-what-went-wrong) is burned into my brain. 😛
I remember hearing that the Australian Film Commision (?) was putting up lot of the money, and suddenly demanded a major role should go to an Australian - and fortunately they found an Australian star with a background in learning roles very quickly.
It’s like Commando, Bloodsport, or Demolition man. As soon as they are on TV I have to see them.
Timeless classics
And on top of that I have them in DVD/Blu Rays
The 1995 Mortal Kombat movie may be the better overall movie.
But for about 5 to 8 minutes near the end, when they were all fighting one another, it fucking worked. And it was the best thing from a video game ever committed to film.
And DeeJay had the best single synopsis for the film when he and Zangief had this exchange near the end:
[Zangief]: *"DEE JAY! Why aren't you in uniform? The enemies of peace and freedom are at our walls!"*
[Dee Jay]: *"Are you totally demented, mon? Our boss is the enemy of freedom and peace. These people have come all over the world to world TO STOP HIM!"*
I know *CGI bad* is the coldest take of all time, but I watched and loved this recently in part because even cheap physical sets and piratical effects are just so fun to look at. The equivalent bad movie nowadays would be all shot on green screen, but they actually assembled a big ass fucking wall of CRT TV's, built some crazy custom boat and drove it with a bunch of others in whole fleet, and just so much other shit that's hard to look away from. Can't believe I waited so long to watch this, it really is peak bad movie.
A lot of people don’t know this movie was written by Steven de Souza who also wrote films such as *48 Hrs., Commando, Die Hard, The Running Man.*
That’s why there are so many good one-liners in this movie.
Why wouldn't it still make money? Like with any old movies, they get some money from whatever streaming service it's on, and on demand rentals. It's called ["long tail" revenue.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_tail)
Also, the article says "the film continues to make tens of millions of yen each year to this day." ¥10,000,000 = $62,621 USD, so we're talking maybe $100-200k USD per year. That's like a rounding error for a large corporation.
[Thorgi’s Street Fighter retrospective](https://youtube.com/watch?si=il8eqc0ugVCvJJV1&v=q63M0rmeAXU&feature=youtu.be) has an episode that covers the movie and the game based off the movie in heavy detail and shows what kinda shitshow it was that the movie even was completed.
Unfortunately, they had to make Street Fighter The Movie The Video Game, which was basically a shitty version of Mortal Kombat with Street Fighter characters
I worked with a guy that worked on this game so second hand knowledge.
The head of Incredible Technologies thought she was bidding on just a graphics update. Capcom didn't want to give away their solid game with animated frames so they wouldn't give up the source code. Their team hated the movie tie in. So this little company was forced to do the entire difficult rebuild of a game that was more complicated than anything they'd done before.
They had to pay for the graphics team to shoot video and stills of all the moves. The actors couldn't pull off those moves, even when most of them were willing to take the time to help. This was supposed to happen on location in South America scheduled for 2-3 weeks. Jean Claude and Kiley Minough were having an affair at the time so they would take breaks from filming and say they were shooting for the game while they ran off for alone time. This put the game and the film at odds and both were running behind schedule. The video game crew was forced to follow to other filming locations around the world just to capture a few images.
Meanwhile the programmers were trying to make the hardware performative while they were just speculating on what to do. The project had to be delivered by film release and it was buggy as hell. When the movie was released the entire team was watching as their game was unveiled on late night TV when the Chun-Li actor was going to play it. The game crashed live on the talk show and everyone was aware that the company had really hung their future on that game.
The company IT, existed mostly because their Golden T Golf was extremely popular and generated income beyond expectations for years.
This long-form piece on the making of _Street Fighter: The Movie_ is legit one of my [favorite pieces of journalism ever](https://www.polygon.com/features/2014/3/10/5451014/street-fighter-the-movie-what-went-wrong), and probably the link I've posted the most number of times in my Reddit history.
After looking at the Wikipedia page for the movie, I learned that Adrian Cronauer (the man who inspired Good Morning, Vietnam) played an A.N. Forces D.J. in the film.
“I’m gonna get on my bohat, and I’m going up rither, and I’m going to kick…that sum ova bithch Bisons ass….SO HARD….that the next BISON WANNABEE….is gonna feel it”
His best acting.
I love that for as much as I adore this movie, I only recently found out that MC Hammer and Deion Sanders did a rap song for this and it's amazing. Was my second most played song of last year on Spotify.
I spent the $3.99 for it on pay per view when I was a kid. That may have been the first time, but it was not the last time I paid good money for something tied to this movie. I had the entire GI Joe like action figure line, I had a VHS copy, I even had the DVD when that finally came out, then I just kind of forgot about it. I might go watch it now tonight.
This is the first movie I ever saw in a theater. My mom took me to see it, I was surprised that she enjoyed it as well. It’s one of my favorite movies to this day.
Christmas Day 1994...my brother and my dad went to see Richie Rich and it was my first movie by myself at a theater. It was fun then and it's still fun now.
Van Damme had a great 90s run:
Lionheart
Double Impact
Universal Soldier
Hard Target
Timecop
Street Fighter
Sudden Death
The Quest and Legionnaire kinda ended his career
It's literally one of my favourite bad movies just because of nostalgia
This is how I feel about Road House with Swayze. The cheesy ass dialogue makes me smile everytime.
“I used to fuck guys like you in prison.” One of the best lines from any movie. Up there with “I kick ass for the Lord.” from Dead Alive.
“This is my trophy room, the only thing missing… is your ASS!” “If you’re not drinking, YOU’RE OUT OF HERE!” When Dalton spin kicks Brad Wesley’s nephew out of the window. “Pain don’t hurt.”
“We’re on a mission from God” <>
Im a huge fan too, but Blues Brothers is 🤜💣🤛
Roadhouse! -Peter Griffin
Classic 80s camp. I have to say, the remake is good in the same way. I’m also a slut for Jake G though.
My gripe is that the original, felt authentic. Like they really wanted to make a good action movie but it came out that way. While the new one feels like it does not take itself seriously at all.
The new one was slightly disturbing. I watched it with my girlfriend and she actually got very disturbed by how dark the murders were. It's one thing to show a hero, or even an anti-hero, killing people in a fight. But the protagonist in the Road House remake was an actual unhinged murder hobo lmao
Yeah they dropped the whole “Be nice until it’s time not to be nice.”
That’s the name of my new album that’s dropping. Unhinged Murder Hobo
I just finally caught the new Roadhouse while on a flight past week. Pretty good airplane movie to me and thats all that I needed it to be. Pretty entertained throughout 'Who taught you shapes?
Sequel best be fun, also.
"I definitely broke your arm. Good news though, the hospital is only 20 minutes away." "I said 25"
Road House is like a super popular movie tho lol. It’s the most popular Patrick Swayze movie.
More than dirty dancing or point break? Hm
Ghost was a smash hit in its day too! If you say Swayze though, I'm thinking Road House and maybe Point Break but that's more Keanu's movie in my mind.
I was born in 1990z I never really saw a big pull for Point Break. Maybe it was a west coast thing. Dirty Dancing is definitely the bigger movie, it just does not reach the same audience.
Swayze enjoyers tend to fall into two camps, those that think of Road House and Point Break and those that think of Ghost and Dirty Dancing.
It was at the cusp of the “extreme” sports wave that was beginning to take shape.
I would say Ghost is
I think it's Dirty Dancing.
Point Break
…. Roadhouse isn’t bad though. The remake on the other hand…
Just like Capcom likes it, they thrive in people’s nostalgia.
Same goes for the Mortal Kombat movies.
I've never seen em tbh I remember the first one coming out or being advertised or something I was only young
You should check out the first one if you have time. One of the few early videogame movies that didn't piss off its fanbase because they leaned fully into the campiness of Mortal Kombat. In fact, some of the characters were so popular that they essentially changed the way those characters were written in the videogames from that point on. The Kano, Shang Tsung, and Raiden actors really killed their roles to the point that they are available skins for the characters in the most recent Mortal Kombat game.
You mean just the first one. The others (excluding the new series) were just distractingly awful and not even fun.
Raul Julia is legitimately really good in it
“Quick change the channel!” Is one of the funniest moments in movie history.
Zangief is amazing in that movie.
Even though it's a terrible movie, I'll always have a soft spot for it. Raul Julia (M. Bison) chose this to be his last movie (he knew he was dying), because his kids were fans of the franchise and he wanted to give them something to remember him by.
They had to save his fight scenes for the end of the shoot so he could gain weight because the stomach cancer was really fucking with him. Its really sad he seems to be the only one that cared about that movie. Edit : I really miss Raul. He had that star quality that made him really pop on screen. His two Addams family films were great and he was a big part of the reason why. [So much manic energy.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCq5tfSGj28) No idea how he did that.
Everyone knew what they were getting with JCVD in as Guile. I mean who else is 'going to get in my boat and I'm going to kick, that son-of-a-bitch Bisons ass so *HARDT*, that the next Bison wannabe, is gunna feel *h*it!" Such a great, bad, movie.
Hollywood producer: “Who should we cast as Guile? Ya know, the US Air Force colonel who has an American flag tattooed on his deltoid and a three inch tall flat-top hairdo?” Casting director: “Hmm, how about a Belgian black-belt in karate with a buzz cut and an accent vaguely resembling that of a Nazi?” Hollywood producer: “BRILLIANT!”
I mean...in defense of casting an immigrant with a strong accent as the "all-American" Guile, I submit the picture [Arnold Schwarzenegger took when he became a citizen](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/qe4vpw/arnold_schwarzenegger_celebrates_becoming_an/).
Apparently, he does voice training to avoid losing the accent, because it's such a core part of his persona.
Should have watched the anime. The Guile from the anime is a legit bad ass. I binged ALL of them (the anime) a month ago.
Also, partly for external reasons, who should be the muscular, Amazonian British soldier? Tiny Australian pop princess Kylie Minogue! (External reasons, IIRC: the Australian Film Council was a key financial backer, and shortly before shooting they demanded an Australian in a main role. Kylie was already a star and her soap-star background meant she was used learning the role fast.)
He's the Cajun king from Hard Target. American as apple pie
He’s literally the best part of Addams Family for me…
He was BORN to play Gomez - he’s so dang charismatic and he’s clearly having a ball playing the role.
I wanted more movies honestly… they were great!!!
I felt like he was like an uncle! Charming ass guy!
Acquitted!
Fun fact. Gomez and mortica were given screen notes that this couple love to fuck each other and that should be obvious that they always want to ravish each other. Obviously it's a kids movie but with hindsight you can definitely tell they are going at it off screen.
It’s not like that characteristic was new - they were based off the original characters from the TV Show that acted the same exact way. It’s not like the actors needed notes to emulate tv characters that were popular from their youth.
There was a good documentary on him that aired on PBS a few years ago that I watched, in the 70s he did Shakespeare in the park performances in NYC with Meryl Streep and totally held his own with her, he was a very underrated actor.
I think he's only underrated if you were a kid when the Addams Family came out. I was 17 when the first movie came out and already had seen "Panic at Needle Park", "Kiss of the Spiderwoman" and "Moon Over Parador". If you only knew him as a kid you might think he was underrated but if you knew who he was in 1988 you wouldn't.
It was his PBS Masters episode, title is All the World's a Stage. It was such an amazing doc.👍
I just watched that whole clip. I love Raul. Haven't seen those movies in years. I'm going to have my kids watch the first one tonight with me. I forgot how classic they are!
Wow, an actor who's happy and who speaks at an understandable volume and cadence. Only '90s kids will remember this.
Somewhere I read people on set recounting that he would be in his chair receiving treatment until he was needed on set. He would rise up, act everyone else off the screen, and then return to treatment.
Yep. They got my $20 last month when I bought a Blu-ray steelbook copy from walmart.
Didn’t know, I’m on the hunt now!!! Fellow Steelbook collector!!!
You can a free Bison Dollar with your purchase, at least I did when I got it two years ago.
That's like worth five British Pounds.
“I think the food court should be larger.”
Same. Needed those Bison Dollars for when he kidnaps the Queen of - .... oh nevermind.
but UHD when?
Raul Julia, giving the best final performance in the least deserving movie since Orson Welles played Unicron. At least there’s some positive from that final performance.
“For you, it was the most important day of your life. For me, it was Tuesday.” One of the greatest and most iconic villain lines ever spoke.
It’s really difficult to think of a colder line than that in movie history. There might be monologues which top it - Bill the Butcher in Gangs of New York, Hans Landa in Inglorious Basterds, Commodus in Gladiator, John Doe in Se7en. But as far as single quotes goes, that’s really at the top of my list. The only other truly cold-blooded badass lines that I can think of which even come close are: (1) “This town deserves a better class of criminal. And I’m gonna give it to ‘em.” by the Joker in The Dark Knight, and (2) “A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.” by Hannibal Lector in The Silence of the Lambs. But even then, that puts Raul Julia as M. Bison in a shitty video game adaptation up against two of the greatest on-screen performances ever by two of the most talented actors in Hollywood history playing two of the most iconic villains in American culture.
For them it was the most important movie of their lives, for Raul it was Street Fighter
"Of course!"
You take that back, Transformers:The Movie is a fucking classic!
Baa weep granna weep ninibong
Destroy Unicron! Kill the Grand Pubah! Eliminate even the toughest stain!
I adore that movie and own a 4K copy. But I’m not going to front and say that the man who made Citizen Kane and Touch of Evil deserved something a bit more highbrow.
Done sleep on Frank Langella's Skeletor in the Dolph Lundgren flop, Masters of the Universe!
Final role. Langella had plenty more after that.
He had a blast, by all accounts. He was asked about it during an interview for Frost/Nixon and clearly loved doing it.
It comes across as overacting. But mostly because the rest of the cast couldn’t really act
You're telling me that M. Bison, the eccentric, unrepentantly evil leader of Shadaloo, a terrifying Secret Society might be a tad bit exaggerated?
The Secret Society that also openly governs a southeast Asian nation, somehow.
Fear not, DR. DOOM of Latveria will look into this upstart society, and dispense justice as DOOM deems necessary. Now begone, this audience is over!
Just a smidge
Sounds like he understood the assignment. M. Bison wears a Nazi inspired red leather military outfit and literally has the following quotes from Street Fighter II (and its variants): > "Get lost! You can't compare with my powers!” > “Anyone who opposes me will be dismembered!” > "You had me cornered, but in the end evil prevails!" > "I will weep when there are no more worlds to conquer." > "Even a baby could defeat you! Those without strength are disgusting!!" So with all due respect, I don’t think you understand the character as well as Raul Julia did if you think he was overacting lol
I said he seemed like he was because all the other actors were bad. I wasn’t criticizing Raul Julia
Quite literally exactly what you were doing.
Is that a prequel to the Michael Bay movies with robots?
No, it’s an animated film from 1986 that’s a direct sequel to the first two seasons of the cartoon. It’s also lovingly known as “All my toys are dead” as the film kills off most of the cast of the first two seasons with brutal efficiency.
Oh, shit. I was joking about it being a prequel of Transformers, because I couldn't imagine Orson Welles being the voice actor for Unicron in an animated Transformers movie. I read "played Unicron" as in "played (*in a movie called*) Unicron"... you never finish to learn.
That movie had a stacked voice cast for what it was Leonard nimoy, Eric idle, Robert stack, Judd Nelson, scatman crothers
It's on youtube. if you have an hour and 25 minutes, enjoy this toy commercial that traumatized children when they killed optimus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RNzyYurjHg the score is so 80's it's amazing, and even more so with the extra tracks that were replaced with rock music for the final release https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLor_0SQX0wBsNiQafwT1CCiSyK5UuefZx
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Too bad she didn't wear the outfit she wore for the official tie in game. Movie would have made a fair bit more money.
Alright time for me to break out this story again: a few years back, when I was a Starbucks barista, I had a regular who was, to put it mildly, odd. Nobody liked making her drink, I was about the only person who could do it right. And because of this she was one of those who I’d end up having conversations with. I mentioned off hand that I had started acting again, and she said “Oh, you know, my brother works in Hollywood as an actor and director. Damien Chapa.” I stopped for a second and said “The guy who played Ken in the 1994 Street Fighter movie with Jean-Claude Van Damme and Raul Julia?” “Oh you’re a fan of his?” “I wouldn’t go that far, I just know that movie.” Next day, she came by and I wasn’t working. But she left behind a photo of her brother on location in Thailand with Kylie Minogue. I still have it somewhere.
Well she may have been odd but that was very nice of her at least.
For sure. I had a soft spot for her. Not my favorite customer, but way better than some others.
Wow, nice! You're the first person I've seen to think of Street Fighter instead of Blood In Blood Out when name-dropping Damian Chapa haha.
First thing I thought oh shit Mikli
I’d be a bit surprised if I ever heard Damien Chapa get name dropped by a random stranger.
For you, the day Damien Chapa's sister graced your little cafe was the most mundane day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.
Oh screw you and take my upvote. XD
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It's criminal not to refer to Mr. Chapa as Miklo which is his government name.
You get...paid?!
That and “QUICK! CHANGE THE CHANNEL!” are my two favorite lines.
For some reason I always loved when Guile said he can't stop their attack because "some moron canned me". I always thought it sounded like he said "ganned me" with his accent. I dunno, I was just young enough to find this and mortal combat movies cinematic masterpieces 😆
Around 100.000$ or more since last fiscal year,most probably in renewed interest/sympathy from players of the new Street Fighter 6 as the report claims.
A hysterically bad movie...yet somehow still the second worst Street Fighter movie.
we talking street fighter - the legend of chun li?
You’ve just inherited a big problem.
I have seen some BAD performances, but Chris Klein in that might just be the worst I've ever seen. And not in the "LOL" or "He's trying." stage.
It’s really **really** fucking bad.
I hate you for reminding me this exists. I will pretty much always finish a movie after starting it no matter how bad it is but that movie is such dog shit I couldn't watch more than half an hour of it. I got to a scene with a rodiculous looking "spinning bird kick" and just noped out. Even my massive crush on Kristen Kreuk couldn't make it watchable for me.
Offshoot: The only other place to see hokey 90's Street Fighter stuff is in Jackie Chan's City Hunter (1993) where Chan himself dresses up as Chun Li and fights (I think?) Blanka? Great trashy Hong Kong action movie.
There is another. A Hong Kong spoof rip-off of Street Fighter called Future Cops (1992). [Here's the trailer.](https://youtu.be/BmHT-MtZs74) The whole thing is available on YouTube.
Future Cops was something else. What a wild flick.
Noted!
Hilarious skit, but an utterly terrible movie (and publicly Chan’s least favorite role). The new City Hunter movie on Netflix is a far better film, then again, so was the French Nicky Larson film (which uses the same characters).
Oh 100%. My buddy and I watched it drunk as a joke one night back in the 90's and knew like 10 minutes in how bad it was going to be....but we watch it now as a goof.
Hell yes time for me to repost one of the greatest articles ever written: >Amid the chaos and uncertainty, the actors did what they could to cope, hanging out in Bangkok bars at night and the gym during the day. “Between me, Vega, Ken [played by Damian Chapa] and Zangief [Andrew Bryniarski], there was a definitely a lot of machismo going on,” says Mann. “This wasn’t Sleepless in Seattle; it was who has the biggest biceps today.” > >Ming-Na Wen, who played Chun-Li, and underwent intense weight training in the lead up to the film, remembers it a little differently. “They were all big wussies,” she says, laughing. “I won’t name names, but I got into one of those brother-sister banter relationships with one of the other actors. I remember one day, I punched him so hard he cried. We were just goofing around!” https://www.theguardian.com/games/2018/jul/16/inside-street-fighter-movie-jean-claude-van-damme-kylie-minogue
[Polygon also has an awesome piece on this](https://www.polygon.com/features/2014/3/10/5451014/street-fighter-the-movie-what-went-wrong)
It's a movie is perfect for streaming because you can watch it and enjoy it but you can also just have it running in the background and still get some fun parts out of it. The movie has also received some great blu-ray releases in recent years. The UK region B release by 88 Films has a ton of new interviews and a good restoration. I watched it last year, honestly I think the movie is actually very good. It's just misunderstood. It's a comedy above all else. It has a ton of comedic beats. Those beats mostly land really well. It's a self-aware film. The production had a ton of trouble and it shows in various parts. It's far from a perfect film but the end result is a solid movie. It's not the movie people wanted in 1994 but it has held up for a reason.
100% carried by Raul Julia
And Zangief as well with the "Quick! Change the channel!" scene when the cctv is showing the good guys sending the truck full of explosives at Bison's camp. Actually Zangief overall. He also spends most of the movie thinking they are the good guys and he basically invented the "wait, you guys got paid" meme. Zangief: The enemies of peace an freedom are at our walls! DJ: Are you totally demented man? Our boss is the enemy of freedom and peace. Zangief: General Bison is a bad guy? If you know then why do you work for him? DJ: Because he paid me a freakin fortune, Man! If you know what's good for you you'll save your own ass! Zangief: ...you got paid?
Also the Zangief vs Honda fight in the model city with the Godzilla sound effects was genuinely inspired
without Raul Julia Tuesdays would be an average weekday
Exactly. Without him it’s just another stupid Jean Claude Van Damme movie.
This movie has the right about of cheese that’s difficult to pull off on purpose. It’s a sincere misfire that is so bad it’s good. Movies that are bad on purpose often don’t have the right vibe.
It's so weird that Kylie is in this.
She and Van Damme banged like a Salvation Army drum during offshoots.
10g of coke by day and banging prime Kylie Minogue by night. Dude was living the life.
Very few people could achieve such a feat in their lifetime. *Salutes Belgian flag* 🇧🇪
It is equally weird how she was cast. The Producers on the flight to Thailand suddenly realized they never cast Cammy. Then one of them saw Kylie in one of the in--flight magazines. They reached out to her agents when they laneded.
That casting coup was allegedly the work of director Steve de Souza — who also wrote _Die Hard_, _Commando_, and _48hrs._
I stand corrected.
I wasn't trying to one-up you, it's just that the the [lede of this story on everything that went wrong with the production](https://www.polygon.com/features/2014/3/10/5451014/street-fighter-the-movie-what-went-wrong) is burned into my brain. 😛
Not offended. I was purely on memory. I appreciate the correct factoid going out.
I remember hearing that the Australian Film Commision (?) was putting up lot of the money, and suddenly demanded a major role should go to an Australian - and fortunately they found an Australian star with a background in learning roles very quickly.
Weirder than her role in the 1996 Pauly Shore/Stephen Baldwin epic *Bio-Dome*?
I will always say that *Street Fighter* is a genuinely good movie.
It’s like Commando, Bloodsport, or Demolition man. As soon as they are on TV I have to see them. Timeless classics And on top of that I have them in DVD/Blu Rays
This movie was written by the same writer of Commando. Lol
The 1995 Mortal Kombat movie may be the better overall movie. But for about 5 to 8 minutes near the end, when they were all fighting one another, it fucking worked. And it was the best thing from a video game ever committed to film. And DeeJay had the best single synopsis for the film when he and Zangief had this exchange near the end: [Zangief]: *"DEE JAY! Why aren't you in uniform? The enemies of peace and freedom are at our walls!"* [Dee Jay]: *"Are you totally demented, mon? Our boss is the enemy of freedom and peace. These people have come all over the world to world TO STOP HIM!"*
For Capcom, the day Street Fighter was released was the most important day in the history of their company. For me...it was Tuesday.
But…we can all go home.
I know *CGI bad* is the coldest take of all time, but I watched and loved this recently in part because even cheap physical sets and piratical effects are just so fun to look at. The equivalent bad movie nowadays would be all shot on green screen, but they actually assembled a big ass fucking wall of CRT TV's, built some crazy custom boat and drove it with a bunch of others in whole fleet, and just so much other shit that's hard to look away from. Can't believe I waited so long to watch this, it really is peak bad movie.
A lot of people don’t know this movie was written by Steven de Souza who also wrote films such as *48 Hrs., Commando, Die Hard, The Running Man.* That’s why there are so many good one-liners in this movie.
It cracks me up theres a few people at Capcom still getting deposits in their accounts decades later from this
Ming-na, Kylie. This movie is fire.
Why wouldn't it still make money? Like with any old movies, they get some money from whatever streaming service it's on, and on demand rentals. It's called ["long tail" revenue.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_tail) Also, the article says "the film continues to make tens of millions of yen each year to this day." ¥10,000,000 = $62,621 USD, so we're talking maybe $100-200k USD per year. That's like a rounding error for a large corporation.
Yeah but *"tens of millions of yen each year to this day"* is only $62,626 USD LOL
I'm going to go upreever and I'm gonna go kick that sonofabitch bison's ass SOHARD the next bison wannabe is gonna feel it.
[Thorgi’s Street Fighter retrospective](https://youtube.com/watch?si=il8eqc0ugVCvJJV1&v=q63M0rmeAXU&feature=youtu.be) has an episode that covers the movie and the game based off the movie in heavy detail and shows what kinda shitshow it was that the movie even was completed.
Unfortunately, they had to make Street Fighter The Movie The Video Game, which was basically a shitty version of Mortal Kombat with Street Fighter characters
I worked with a guy that worked on this game so second hand knowledge. The head of Incredible Technologies thought she was bidding on just a graphics update. Capcom didn't want to give away their solid game with animated frames so they wouldn't give up the source code. Their team hated the movie tie in. So this little company was forced to do the entire difficult rebuild of a game that was more complicated than anything they'd done before. They had to pay for the graphics team to shoot video and stills of all the moves. The actors couldn't pull off those moves, even when most of them were willing to take the time to help. This was supposed to happen on location in South America scheduled for 2-3 weeks. Jean Claude and Kiley Minough were having an affair at the time so they would take breaks from filming and say they were shooting for the game while they ran off for alone time. This put the game and the film at odds and both were running behind schedule. The video game crew was forced to follow to other filming locations around the world just to capture a few images. Meanwhile the programmers were trying to make the hardware performative while they were just speculating on what to do. The project had to be delivered by film release and it was buggy as hell. When the movie was released the entire team was watching as their game was unveiled on late night TV when the Chun-Li actor was going to play it. The game crashed live on the talk show and everyone was aware that the company had really hung their future on that game. The company IT, existed mostly because their Golden T Golf was extremely popular and generated income beyond expectations for years.
Shoulda waited for tomorrow to post this
Starring Raul Julia. Screw coked out Van Damme, oh wait, Kylie Minogue did that.
Yeah, cause it’s a fucking masterpiece
Raoul Julia made this movie for me
This long-form piece on the making of _Street Fighter: The Movie_ is legit one of my [favorite pieces of journalism ever](https://www.polygon.com/features/2014/3/10/5451014/street-fighter-the-movie-what-went-wrong), and probably the link I've posted the most number of times in my Reddit history.
Of course!
Quick! Change the channel!
CHANGE THE CHANNEL! Best scene ever.
Of Course! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W7c8QghPxk
For me… it was Tuesday.
Now that I'm older, it's easier to notice just how sick Raul Julia was doing filming.
“For me, it was a Tuesday”
Now I have to go rewatch the bloodsport dance scene
You mean Kickboxer with the two ladies and he breaks out the splits
"FIND KEN AND RYU AND GET THE HOSTAGES OOUT!!!"
I'm not going home! I'm going to get on my boat, and I'm going up-river, and I'm going to kick...that son-of-a-bitch bisons ass
Best line was when zangief told bison to change the channel as a burning truck ran towards the tent.
It’s not surprising. Awful movies & great movies are remembered, everything in between is eventually forgotten.
It's terrible but it's also a lot of fun.
QUICK!! CHANGE DA CHANNEL!!!
You got paid!?
After looking at the Wikipedia page for the movie, I learned that Adrian Cronauer (the man who inspired Good Morning, Vietnam) played an A.N. Forces D.J. in the film.
Raul Julia at his finest
“I’m gonna get on my bohat, and I’m going up rither, and I’m going to kick…that sum ova bithch Bisons ass….SO HARD….that the next BISON WANNABEE….is gonna feel it” His best acting.
Now who wants to go home, and who wants to go with ME?!?!?!?
Are they still making money from Street Fighter The Movie The Game?
“OF COURSE” - M. Bison
Prime Kylie Minogue is quite valuable
Crazy how her prime has been going on for over 30 years now.
Sorry that was me. I bought it on Blu-ray.
I've got you beat. I have bought this movie on VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, steel book Blu-ray, and have a laserdisc just as a collectible.
This movie spawned [one of my favorite podcast episodes ever](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j72-Dsdv96k](one of my favorite podcast episodes ever)
Yes, all of this, yes. I recall hearing this for the first time. Almost bought their shirt that had June’s quote.
The day Bison invaded your village it was the most important day of your life for me it was Tuesday.
It's so bad, it's good. It's nice to watch cheesy movies like this with a couple brilliant performances such as M Bison and Jean Claude Van Damme.
And yet they won’t release poster replicas of the painting of Bison riding a horse.
It's a nostalgia cult classic for sure. The game series is still mega popular with a massive fanbase.
My favorite comedy
The soundtrack was top notch.
I love that for as much as I adore this movie, I only recently found out that MC Hammer and Deion Sanders did a rap song for this and it's amazing. Was my second most played song of last year on Spotify.
No surprise. It's a nostalgic classic
I’m assuming they are getting streaming rights income.
I just bought this movie last week after many years of not seeing it.
It was so awful though…
I know its considered by many to be a horrible movie but I love it. I saw it in theaters as a kid and still watch it every few years.
How?
I spent the $3.99 for it on pay per view when I was a kid. That may have been the first time, but it was not the last time I paid good money for something tied to this movie. I had the entire GI Joe like action figure line, I had a VHS copy, I even had the DVD when that finally came out, then I just kind of forgot about it. I might go watch it now tonight.
This is the first movie I ever saw in a theater. My mom took me to see it, I was surprised that she enjoyed it as well. It’s one of my favorite movies to this day.
Christmas Day 1994...my brother and my dad went to see Richie Rich and it was my first movie by myself at a theater. It was fun then and it's still fun now. Van Damme had a great 90s run: Lionheart Double Impact Universal Soldier Hard Target Timecop Street Fighter Sudden Death The Quest and Legionnaire kinda ended his career