LOL.
Van Damme: “Alan Blade…are you man enough to play as me today?”
Noooooooooooo!!!
Awesome thread, great read and thanks for taking the time to post everything you can! :tup:
As far as the movie’s characters go, they did do a few of them pretty well.
Zangief’s big, dumb, and noisy; his game counterpart…may lack the dumb part, we’ll never know. Grappling with bears isn’t a smart idea anyway. Plus he has some of the best lines in the whole mess.
Honda and Balrog (ignoring the fact for some reason the big guy got made Hawaiian here O_o) weren’t all that bad either, offering up some comic relief. Gotta remember too SF2 didn’t do much to really give too much fleshing out to the characters here, and this was well before SFA3. Plus this Balrog’s at least got something for a persona: vg Balrog’s cliche as heck.
Bison was done pretty damn well too IMO. He wasn’t just a dictator: the guy was an outright madman and an asshole to boot. Raul Julia actually did the character pretty well, and if memory serves did the character for his kids mainly or something like that. Bison kills Chun-Li’s father, considers it a trivial event, and even tries to seduce her. Guile kills his ass, his failsafe revives him and he voids the “unarmed combat” bit of the little battle with Guile, zapping the hell out of him.
And even after he gets killed again, when all’s said and done and the credits are gone, he gets revived again. It just somehow makes him more of a villain.
Anyway, there’s my two cents, dispute how you will.
There is no dispute man, Raul Julia made the movie!
I still insist that Street Fighter is not the worst movie Raul Julia ever did.
That, my friends, would be Overdrawn at the Memory Bank. Made for PBS somewhere in the mid-80s, based on a sci-fi short story but added a generic EVIL CORPORATION and all sorts of cracked-out scenes. Raul even does a Humphrey Bogart impersonation, I shit you not.
The only positive to come out of that, really, was that the film was later used in one of the all-time best (imo) MST3K episodes.
Also, dunno if this was asked before, but the guy who played Honda was named Peter Tuiasosopo…any relation to Marques Tuiasosopo (Raiders backup QB)?
Thanks, and keep up the awesome,
Josh.
Raul Julia is still amazing despite how awful of a movie they put him in. His scenes are worth watching.
Raul Julia was a very good actor but I don’t think you can see it at all in this movie. They made him play stupid and that’s what he did. He could have given the character a new aspect or something but they wanted a simple stupid action movie on the level of an 80s cartoon episode.
Bullshit. He delivered the movie’s BEST LINES.
Victor Sagat: Guile? Alive!
Bison: Of course! His death was designed to ingraitate his spies with you!
[mockingly covers one eye]
Bison: I guess you didn’t SEE that, did you?
eh… I still don’t see what the big deal is with Raul Julia, in this or any movie for that matter.
But Honda being Hawaiian is appropriate. Hawaiians make some of the best sumo wrestlers of all. Mongolians and Bulgarians tend to dominate in the basho as well, but they would be slightly ahead of this movie’s time and unlike the character E. Honda was based on.
Raul Julia totally got the character down. He made a great bison, and was the best part of SFTM.
To this day when I picture Bison in real life, I see him. Unlike the rest of the cast(Damien Chapa as Ken? Nope!).
Sorry for the lack of updates recently. Things have been extremely hectic recently with all kinds of exciting developments.
I promise to wrap this up soon with my evaluation of the game and a proposal of sorts as to how I would improve the game.
I am also trying to track down some content for the very end!
thaKingRocka , I just realized (right after seeing your avatar) that that actor in your avatar would’ve made a better T. Hawk.
anoon, I’m not sure what Ming-Na Wen was wearing for the movie, but if your game development team had the chance/resources/etc., would you have tailored an outfit that more closely resembles her original game dress, kinda how you ultimately decided to clothe Kylie Minogue for your video game?
Also this one:
Bison: For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me… it was Tuesday.
i was a little kid and i remember asking my dad about billy in that greatest of movie moments. my dad said “he’s ready to fight”. i seem to have memories that he also said that billy was ready to die, but i wonder how accurate a child’s memory can really be. i think that’s just what i inferred. regardless, at that moment, my fear and worry for the character i had already grown so fond of changed to respect and admiration for his ability to face certain death. they could have ended the film with his death and i would have been satisfied. if he was okay with his death, then i was too. the rest of the movie seemed inconsequential to me despite how good the movie was.
who’d’ve thought a kid could get so much from predator, huh?
after seeing the treatment the warriors got from rockstar, i would like to see them try a predator game. maybe capcom should cut t. hawk and introduce billy to the sf universe 
The movie really did have a couple good lines.
A.N. Official: Colonel Guile! Colonel Guile, these instructions…!
[accidentally drops them into the water]
A.N. Official: Stop them, please!
Colonel William F. Guile: Hey, I would love to! But some moron just canned me!
Bison: Ah! Doctor Dhalsim! How is your research today?
Dr. Dhalsim: The same. Warped. Corrupted. My science twisted to serve perversion instead of peace.
Bison: Tell you what. After I’ve crushed my enemies, we’ll see about getting you published. That should cheer you up, hmm?
Cammy: Cammy here, are you all right?
Colonel William F. Guile: I’m okay. I’m just half dead.
Cammy: And Bison?
Colonel William F. Guile: All dead.
Colonel William F. Guile: It’s the Collection Agency, Bison. Your ass is six months over due, and it’s mine.
Zangief: General Bison is a bad guy? If you know then why do you work for him?
Dee Jay: 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?
Dee Jay: Oh, Yes. My mama didn’t raise no fool, baby.
[he sees someone coming]
Dee Jay: Oh man, I should have stayed at Microsoft.
Zangief: General Bison is a bad guy? If you know then why do you work for him?
Dee Jay: 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?
When I seen that in the movie I litterally fell off my chair.
I’ve read quite a few things regarding Raul Julia’s acting in this film, and essentially, he did exactly as he thought a true dictator would, researching and watching real-life dictator’s actions and in-action to supplement his performance. Granted, the dialogue may have been written for him, but his delivery of lines like, “…it was Tuesday,” and his constant condescending tone to his subordinates were actually quite good and believable. It might look like overacting, but if you met a real-life dictator and had no reason to fear him, you’d probably find him just as ridiculous.
The rest of the movie, I’m afraid, seemed to have difficulty deciding what it wanted to be. The story, though completely and canonicly inaccurate, was just badly conceived and written. And while the acting was decent for what it was, an action movie, I’ve seen bad action movies with better dramatic dialogue, yet the humorous dialogue was great. Inconsistency like that is what made the movie bad. The game, even had it been perfect, I’m afraid would have most likely suffered anyway because of its connection.
When I quit my job at Square-Enix I sent out an email that quoted guiles speach to the troups.
[solemnly] Troopers, I just received new orders. Our superiors say the war is cancelled. We can all go home. Bison is getting paid off for his crimes, and our friends who have died here will have died for nothing. But, we can all go home. Meanwhile, ideals like peace, freedom, and justice, they get packed up. But, we can all go home.
[angrily]
Well, I’m not going home. I’m gonna get on my boat, and I’m going up river, and I’m going to kick that son of a bitch Bison’s ass so hard that the next Bison wannabe is gonna feel it! Now, who wants to go home… and who wants to go with me?
Stop… stop… just stop…
You had me at, “Hello.”
You had me at, “Hello…”
LOL! The way Raul Julia delivers those lines is Gold 
Spoken like a True dictator who does not care.