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A Moment of Silence, please, for "Street Fighter"

Gaith

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.. Because apparently it's godawful.

IGN Quote: Chris Klein delivers one of the most laughably bad screen performances of the decade.

Evidence. Great snakes.

What, Bison couldn't even wear a red blazer?

I was hoping this would be cheesy fun, in the vein of LXG. Instead, it appears one'd be better of renting the original Van Damme movie.
 
First hint to me that this movie was going to suck?

Kirsten Kreuk. She can't act her way out of a paper sack. Wet or dry. Plus, IMO, her looks are way overrated.
 
They really should have done this back when the franchise was still popular. Instead of now, when it is essentially relegated to the collections of hardcore 2D fighting game fans.
 
And I like Micheal Clarke Duncan. What happened dude? You're a fucking Oscar nominee! Start acting like it.
 
You know, Chris Klein is part of the holy trinity of actor suckage that is Freddie Prinze Jr., Ashton Kutcher and Chris Klein.

Thrall said:
And I like Micheal Clarke Duncan. What happened dude? You're a fucking Oscar nominee! Start acting like it.
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Apparently he's a bigtime Street Fighter player who likes Balrog the best, and he was offered the part of Balrog. I doubt this movie will affect his career.
 
gaith1 said:
.. Because apparently it's godawful.

IGN Quote: Chris Klein delivers one of the most laughably bad screen performances of the decade.

Evidence. Great snakes.

What, Bison couldn't even wear a red blazer?

I was hoping this would be cheesy fun, in the vein of LXG. Instead, it appears one'd be better of renting the original Van Damme movie.
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Wow, that was some bad acting. Of course the last time I saw Chris Kline was in a pilot for Welcome To The Captain and he was equally as bad so I really shouldn't be surprised.
 
the Dagman said:
First hint to me that this movie was going to suck?

Kirsten Kreuk. She can't act her way out of a paper sack. Wet or dry. Plus, IMO, her looks are way overrated.
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Dude, when I think of the Chinese character Chun Li - her face is the first one that comes to mind. Also I think that if he was still alive, Bernie Mac would have been a great Ryu.


Edit: wow, the fight scenes look dire.
 
Of course it going to be horrible. It stars Kristen Kreuk, who actually manages to bring down the acting level of Smallville, who starred in that godawful Earthsea Sci-Fi mini-series! And Bison just wears a suit?! WTF? I'll stick with my beloved Van Damme version thanks! :p
 
Ethros said:
Did anyone expect this to be anything but shite?
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Not me. Anyone who can stand next to Tom Welling and make him look like he's on stage at Shakespeare's Globe performing a one man version of Hamlet is not a good choice for a lead.
 
What's sad is that it seems like they blew a lot of money on this sucker. It's not a stupid mega film, but they probably put more money into this than they should have.

I'm still not sure what anyone was thinking when they did this though... this certainly doesn't promote SF4 in any way nor does it help celebrate the anniversary.
 
the Dagman said:
First hint to me that this movie was going to suck?
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The fact that it's a Street Fighter movie? Hey, I love the games the same as everybody else.... but Street Fighter to me is far more "unfilmable" than (for instance) Watchmen ever was.

However....

the Dagman said:
Kirsten Kreuk. She can't act her way out of a paper sack. Wet or dry.
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Even I'll conceed this to be a possibility.

the Dagman said:
Plus, IMO, her looks are way overrated.
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Everyone's entitled to an opinion.... :p
 
hyzmarca said:
They really should have done this back when the franchise was still popular. Instead of now, when it is essentially relegated to the collections of hardcore 2D fighting game fans.
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Isn't the newest SF game generating a lot of buzz? I know I've some a lot of threads and anticipation for it on other boards. I'm assuming that's why the movie was put into production or at least released around the time the game was released.
 
Quotes about Chris Klein's performance from various Rotten Tomatoes reviews:

There is no chance that the director thinks this was a good movie. THE AUDIENCE WAS LAUGHING AT IT!! CHRIS KLEIN IS AWFUL!!!!! It is laughably bad and I was laughing more in this movie than I was in The Wedding Crashers. Chris Klein's character tries to be this bad-ass cop guy but he looks so stupid doing so! I wish I could express to you how bad this flick really is.
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But the worst that “Street Fighter” has to offer (apart from Josie Ho’s brief but terrible impersonation of a lesbian) is Chris Klein as the hard-bitten Nash. Klein tries hard to give this cop some tough-guy swagger and seen-it-all cynicism, but none of it plays realistically. I can’t remember the last time I watched an actor fail to walk into a room convincingly, but Klein does it. Look for a YouTube montage of his “Street Fighter” performance to pop up any day now.
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There's Chris Klein's woodentastic channeling of Point Break-era Keanu as an Interpol agent.
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Chris Klein plays Nash and not only can he not act, I'm pretty sure he was drunk most of the time. He also never figures out how to pronounce Chun-Li, which may be why he does so much sweating. Never has an actor been so inexplicably moist. The police subplot is tedious and pointless, and it’s only made worse by Klein’s acting. But at least it’s a break from the villain subplot, in which we watch the movie’s bad guy M. Bison threaten to build condos.
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That can't fill more than an hour or so, however, which prompts the addition of a useless subplot involving Interpol agent Charlie Nash (Chris Klein, entertaining for all the wrong reasons) and his lifelong mission to end all villainy.
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Why am I not surprised, yet saddened? I thought it would be a good movie, but the character of Vega (my favorite from the games) and Bison has been completely butchered. Vega is fuckin' ugly man! He's supposed to be this bad ass Spanish Ninja who literally puts Patrick Bateman to shame regarding self-love. No wonder Kreuk came back to Smallville, she saw the light that her movie offers were gone after this dreck. :lol: Only good thing about it was Moon Bloodgood's cleavage!

Aged Liu Kang as Chun-Li's master?

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