Live action films based on beat em ups…

mcwildcard · 6 May 2011 at 15:50

Is the original Mortal Kombat film the only vaguely enjoyable film based on a fighting game?
Having seen the Tekken and King of Fighters films, it seems like most filmmakers are completely incapable of putting together anything that isn’t an utter mess. I’ve not watched the most recent Streetfighter film, I gather it’s less enjoyable than herpes, although it does have Kristen Kreuk in it, which creates an interesting conflict as to whether to watch it or not…

Robert1986 · 6 May 2011 at 15:52

Blood Sport might as well be the street fighter movie.

HeX · 6 May 2011 at 15:53

D.O.A.

Worth your time.

antijoke · 6 May 2011 at 15:58

Looks like it.

Thanks for the heads up.

Robert1986 · 6 May 2011 at 16:01

HeX said:
D.O.A.

Worth your time.

use the internet

saves you time.

eyetrip · 6 May 2011 at 16:05

As mentioned Mortal Kombat, but also Streetfighter and Double Dragon

Shamikebab · 6 May 2011 at 16:05

DOA is AWESOME

I mean AWFUL

But it's a bit "so AWFUL it's AWESOME"

mcwildcard · 6 May 2011 at 16:07

eyetrip said:
As mentioned Mortal Kombat, but also Streetfighter and Double Dragon

Good lord, I'd forgotten about the DD film, that really was painful!

HeX · 6 May 2011 at 16:27

Best streetfighter is the animated one. Its really very good.

DOA is a fun watch though.

Robert1986 · 6 May 2011 at 16:33

HeX said:
Best streetfighter is the animated one. Its really very good.

forgot about that one. Have it on vhs somewhere.

Streeteh · 6 May 2011 at 16:37

I'd actually rate SFII: The animated movie as a pretty decent film.

Robert1986 · 6 May 2011 at 16:41

Streeteh said:
I'd actually rate SFII: The animated movie as a pretty decent film.

That and Suburban commando were my two most watched movies as a child. Used to watch them everyday.

great soundtrack. :cool:

OriginalJonty · 6 May 2011 at 16:41

They should make a Streets of Rage movie. Every so often the main characters will have to eat a whole roast chicken to regain health.

robgmun · 6 May 2011 at 16:47

The old streetfighter movie may be a joke but looking back it was actually a pretty decent attempt! They got a lot of the characters spot on, the best being

Raul Julia as Bison
Ming-Na as Chun-Li
Kylie Minogue as Cammy
Wes Studi as Sagat

Ming-Na in particular being the best Chun-Li on screen so far:

MikeHunt79 · 6 May 2011 at 17:05

OriginalJonty said:
They should make a Streets of Rage movie. Every so often the main characters will have to eat a whole roast chicken to regain health.

Haha, this needs to be done!

Last Kronin · 6 May 2011 at 17:22

What about this chun li

GTanny · 6 May 2011 at 21:56

Look up the film press start, a terribly good film, just done a sequal but i havent seen it yet

also just in the terrible games based movies look into the gamers:dorkness rising another terribly good game

Phatjayunoi · 7 May 2011 at 00:19

Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie is pretty much the best one there is in any media form and pretty much the most appropriate. It's also partly thanks to this movie that the Zero/Alpha games were made too.

Mortal Kombat, and the first film only, is for me the only decent and acceptable one in live-action, regardless of the silly choice of actors in it. Christopher Lambert as the Japanese God of Thunder, white dudes as a Chinese and Japanese ninja.......just LOL!

Tediore · 7 May 2011 at 03:14

Street Fighter (the live action one) is so bad, it's absolutely fantastic

Tediore · 7 May 2011 at 03:15

Just noticed the D.O.A. screenshot... :eek:

I may have to watch that. It looks, er... well acted. Yes