/vr/ - Retro Games

It's good for what it is storywise and its one of the best looking animes of the 90s. That said, Van Damme movie is unironically better.

>>6934452
Yes. I developed a muscle fetish in my early life because of this anime. Fights and anatomy are awesome.

>>6934523
Lol no the movie is retard.

I remember enjoying it a lot as a kid, but I might need to rewatch it

>>6934452
something something Chun Li shower scene

>>6934523
More entertaining maybe, specially if you aren't into anime; but as barebones as the animated film is in terms of story, it's practically Pynchonesque in comparison to the braindead live action version.

>>6934523
>That said, Van Damme movie is unironically better.
Only because of Raul Julia and Zangief.

>>6934452
It made me a lifelong fan of KMFDM, so there's that. tfw I watched the original language version and the song that plays during the Chun-Li vs. Vega scene is some limp, depressing Japanese jazz music.

>>6934452
Few adaptations can claim they actually influenced in turn the source material. Lots of "plot" details and characterization that the filmmakers came up with for the movie were adopted into the game series afterwards

>>6934617
And Dee Jay, and E. Honda/Balrog bromance, and Ming Na who is still hot in her 50s...

>>6934616
The live action movie is better because it ironically is the one that embraced being a cartoon. It's a perfect distillation of action adventure cartoons of the prior 10 years from He-Man, Ninja Turtles, GI Joe, etc. Its a really well realized concept.

The Animated Movie is like a cartoon pretending to be a live action late 80s urban decay themed martial arts movie like Above the Law or Showdown in Little Tokyo.

>>6934452
Fatal Fury is better

>>6934452
Yes, easily the best vidya anime movie.
>>6934523
Van Damme is just so bad it's *almost* good. It's still shit.
>>6934628
The acting is mediocre, but the soundtrack for the dub is one of the few instances where the new soundtrack is better than the original. I also believe who ever at Manga Video that selected Korn for the end credits must've felt like a smart motherfucker when they got huge a few years later considering how unknown nu-metal was in 1994.

>>6934649
I'm sure your favorite e-celeb said that at some point, but Street Fighter wasn't supposed to be a "cartoon"; as silly and over the top the character designs were, the chief influence was Hong Kong martial arts movies and violent manga from the 70s and 80s.

>>6934649
>The live action movie is better because it ironically is the one that embraced being a cartoon. It's a perfect distillation of action adventure cartoons of the prior 10 years from He-Man, Ninja Turtles, GI Joe, etc.
Yeah, a really shitty cheap cartoon that's a glorified toy commercial outsourced to a sweatshop in Korea, something only aging Gen-Xers would like. It's dogshit.
>The Animated Movie is like a cartoon pretending to be a live action late 80s urban decay themed martial arts movie like Above the Law or Showdown in Little Tokyo.
And what do you know, it's a much better cartoon because of that.

>>6934452

Yes.

>>6934681

>>6934691
YOUBITCHI'LLMAKEYOUSUFFEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER

>>6934452
Yes, if anything the animation was top-notch.

>>6934668
Every e-celeb is on the anti-Van Damme movie bandwagon, retard. The movie is the single most misunderstood film of the 90s. The only other movie that compares in misunderstoodness is The Flintstones, which is also brilliant despite getting shit on by YouTubers.

>>6934675
>I'm a zoomer who wants to be an adult

>>6934675
Random Native American picking a fight with Ken to pad the runtime.

Sooo much better, yeah.

>>6934761
You're just being a contrarian to like a dogshit movie. Sorry, it doesn't make you special.
>>6934765
>I'm a boomer who wants who my live action movies to be like my toy commercials
>>6934772
Only wasted scene in the movie, and it was mainly for trying to wedge in T. Hawk so they could have every character in it.

>>6934664
>Yes, easily the best vidya anime movie.
That's Wizardry, if 1h long ova counts.

>>6934761
Ok ok, I wasnt implying you are incapable of coming up with a dumb opinion on your own

>>6934781
>and it was mainly for trying to wedge in T. Hawk so they could have every character in it.
Which is dumb as shit.

>>6934810
Double.

Seriously the entire movie is four characters surrounded by pointless cameos. It's not a good movie.

Nobody can actually explain what the Van Damme movie does wrong as an actual film. It's always bitching about "muh game accuracy".

>>6934824
Van Damme plays an American who can't hide his Belgian accent. The whole movie looks like cheap shit.
>>6934810
Still not as dumb as the Van Damme movie.

>>6934834
Every Arnold movie does the same thing. Only pedantic retards give a shit.

>>6934834
>American speaks shit english
That's 100% on point

>>6934858
Only easily amused retards with nostalgiafaggotry over a movie that reminds them of g.i. joe enjoy the Van Damme movie

>>6934772
>>6934810
>>6934834
Though the chief motivation for getting every SF2 character into the movie is exactly that (having every character show up) every fight scene serves a purpose in the overarching story as well. Even the more superfluous ones include a bit of important characterization or worldbuilidng (Ken vs. T. Hawk give a bit of depth to Ken, and even dumb shit like Zangief vs Blanka serve to flesh out the darkest side of the street fighting underworld the movie is set in)

ye

>>6934824
It's poorly acted.
The dialogue is laughable.
The production design, including sets and costumes, is cosplay-tier cheesy
Except for Guile and Bison and a couple others, most characters are inserted in weird and unfitting roles.
It's entertaining only for all the wrong reasons, except maybe Raul Julia's performance

>>6935060
Wasn't Blanka and Zangief's fight a Vegas event? It didn't seem exactly underworld.

>>6935110
Right, but there's still like shady arms deals going on and the overall sleazy and decadent vibe of the thing

>>6934452
Yes. I consider it an animated sequel to Street Fighter The Movie. Also there's a nude Chun Li scene.

>>6934452
Chun Li shower tits & ass were glorious.

>>6935184
The one thing missing from the Van Damme movie. Ming Na needed to show her tits.

>>6935206
Yeah, but then it would have been rated-R and kids wouldn't be able to see it.

>Ming Na has no nude scenes in her entire career.

>>6934452
Great soundtrack by TK which was like the hottest producer of Jpop at the time. An artstyle that fit for Gundam, Capcom's own artists loved enough to make it the cover art for the Super Famicom and Mega Drive release of Super. Visuals that inspired the Alpha series and defined their younger character stylings. A final battle so epic, a whole gameplay mode was added into the game. It is the only Street Fighter movie I saw, in Japanese of course, and it is a great companion piece to a great game.

>>6934765
You sure look like one.

As for the thread, no, retards, the live action movie was not good in its own right, it was only good because of Bison and liking bad things. It's the video game movie equivalent to Killer Clowns from Outer Space. it's a great movie but if you like it because of its objective merits then you're a retard.

>>6937505
I really don't like this artsy fartsy bullshit that says a movie "is entertaining" but sucks. If its fun to watch then it is by definition a good movie.

>>6937510

Nah, you're wrong, shitty movies can be fun to watch but they're still shitty. Whether or not a movie is good isn't defined by "fun".

>>6937437
Please fuck off

The fights were choreographed by Kazuyoshii Ishii and Andy Hug of the K-1 Grand Prix tournament series, which is why the fights felt more realistic. I believe the Ryu vs Fei-Long fight was rotoscoped even. And what a great soundtrack in both versions. The US had an incredible alt/nu-metal/grunge soundtrack that turned me on to so many great bands, but Tetsuya MOTHERFUCKING Komuro on the Japanese OST really made that shit pop. There will never be a SF adaptation half as good as this one.

Street Fighter II V was fun as a generic 90s shonen battle anime tho

>>6934761
Who shits on The Flintsones? That movie was kino af, with damn near perfect casting.

>>6937519
If that's true though then you can have great movies that are a garbage viewing experience. Ultimately it makes the whole concept of quality moot. Why even evaluate movies if that's the case? You see this a lot when there's a big discrepancy between critic scores and audience reception. Movies like Hook and Space Jam get shit on by "professionals" but to the audience they're memorable as hell and movies that can be watched over and over again without ever getting old. They may be "stupid" in one way or another but how is that a liability when it's the thing that makes people enjoy the thing?

>>6937728
It has a 22% on Rotten Tomatoes which is a goddamn travesty.

>>6937643
>The fights were choreographed by Kazuyoshii Ishii and Andy Hug of the K-1 Grand Prix tournament series, which is why the fights felt more realistic. I believe the Ryu vs Fei-Long fight was rotoscoped even.
That explains it. They are some of the best animated fights I've seen.

not as kino as this

>>6934452
>find this movie on some streaming service
>go straight to the chun li shower scene

>Who shall we get to voice the young, Chinese martial artist Fei Long?
>I know the perfect guy

>>6934452
>BISON'S ASS IS MINE

>>6939148
Does it have a nude scene?

>>6939672
it has single frame nip slips that probably last twenty minutes laid end-to-end

>>6939687
That's the second OVA, where they fight Krauser.

you mean the unauthorized Korean cartoon

>>6934616
I love this image