As you may of heard, The King of Fighters is being turned into a movie. As you can see in this trailer, this has like nothing to do with the game.
Seriously, what the f**k is going on? Maggie Q isn't busty enough to pull of Mai Sharanui, Terry Bogard is some old CIA agent and Iori Yagami is now a hockey player fighting guy thing. Oh, and the tournament happens in an alternative dimension. Wonderful. Just wonderful.
Man, what the f**k Hollywood?! Step away from our Kool-Aid. Please.
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Another dimension? What the fuck is this? Mortal Kombat? None of those characters even remotely resemble the in-game characters, I mean did they even try at all? It's like they ripped Mortal Kombat's plot off, threw a bunch of King of Fighter names on a bunch of random people, and churned this piece of shit out. I guess it's going to be a while because video games get a respectful movie adaptation, kind of like how it took forever for comics to get some and when they did they were usually few and faw in between.
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srry for the spam, but, what the f***ing f***????? oh jesus christ, this is even worst than dragon ball, street fighter (all of them, only chuck norris could save that piece of...), alone in the dark, the house of he death, and a large etc of hollywood bullsh**. at least give the actors a little bit of info, like, oh please let me be the most obvious human being, KOF 93?? yeah, right, not to mention they didnt appeared as playable characters until 96', where the hell is MY redhaired iori???? f***, i feel more frustrated than playing i wanna be the guy, goddammit, ok, ok i just calmed down, ok ok, everything is fine... i thunk, i better not see that again...
Vice and Mature look pretty hot, but the rest of the casting? Blecch. Kyo is Caucasian? Terry middle-aged? Rugal....man...I love Ray Park, but ye gods...
Maggie Q...attractive, but she's nowhere CLOSE to being Mai...
What the fuck? What happened to Terry's hair? What the fuck did they do to my favorite KOF fighter, Rugal? Jesus, they even managed to fuck up Mature and Vice... badly. MaggieQ... really? I hate you Hollywood.
This movie seems like it's so poorly cast, I can't help but feel like it's intentional, like they're trying to go as far away from the game as possible. There's even gameplay footage in the video, they had to have seen who the characters are. There's no excuse.
The director doesn't even sound confident when he speaks, like he knows it's going to bomb or something, it's hilarious.
Hollywood may be incapable of creating a solid movie adaptation of a video game, but I think it is about time that the PUBLISHERS -- you know, the LICENSORS -- obtain their share of criticism and finger-pointing.
Remember this:
SNK had to of approved this.
Capcom APPROVED of The Legend of Chun-Li and Street Fighter.
Tecmo APPROVED of Dead or Alive.
Sega APPROVED of House of the Dead.
Infogrames(?)/Atari(?) APPROVED of Alone in the Dark.
I'm usually willing to give movies like this the benefit of the doubt but yeah.....no. Somehow, they managed to get practically every detail about the game wrong. The moment they decided to put this in an alternative dimension they should have dropped the license.
I just wonder how every time I turn on the television, log onto the internet or pick up a paper I'm reminded of how terrible the economy supposedly is. AND YET, these people have the balls to waste however much cash it took to budget out this filth. Apparently we can't be in too bad of shape if all those associated with this movie are actually receiving money for working on it.
Just a total waste of time and funds. I can't fathom how films like this, that should be made for their fans before anyone else, end up being the most offensive thing you could ever do to something they love. I'd rather give somebody 10 bucks to rape me with a HORI arcade stick than watch this travesty.
Everything about this project mirrors the choices made by the second Mortal Kombat movie. I don't foresee fans of the series or a mainstream audience going to see this one.
Why make a movie that will deviate completely from a concrete, established storyline when you know that the fan base (who will be your primary mode of support for the project) will abandon it before the product is ever brought to market? Tell me, what kind of sense does that fucking make?
And to the publishers who allow this kind of pathetic nonsense: if you stop accepting these small "paydays" from the licensing rights to your IPs, and instead focus on crafting a film that is worthy of bearing your baby's name, you might find that your profit margins would increase off of the fan base you so desperately want to support your creative efforts in another medium.
Cast actors who are right for the characters.
Keep characterization and plotline RELIGIOUSLY adherent to the original work.
Don't accept "creative license" when it comes to making "changes" to these two previous aspects.
There you have it. Success in a fucking jar.
Case in point: if you're going to make a Street Fighter movie, do not base it off of a secondary character like you have TWICE IN A ROW, with the results being the same after all is said and done. As "non-Hollywood" as it would be to focus on Ryu, Ken, Akuma and Gouken, it would make for a movie that fans would be more willing to embrace blindly, and if it were handled with enough care to keep major plot points and character details as exact as possible with regards to the original work, then you will invariably have a hit on your hands.
Why these people still allow this and make these large travesties involve idiotic concepts that are so far beyond me. It probably has a lot to do with the fact that I have some goddamn sense, and these fuckwit asshats have everything but that.
i can picture the tournament actually happening in an alternate dimension, but the rest doesn't make much sense. we've had terry punch gods from some legendary under water temples that turn the sky red in the face before so i can imagine it happening in an alternate universe. character backgrounds don't make sense though.
also, weren't the halo and GoW movies stuck in development hell or something?
If Terry Bogard were alive, he would BUSTAH WOLF this director right in the face. He wouldn't even stop afterward and ask "AHH YU HOKAY!?", because he wouldn't care.
lord almighty. how do you get a game that's rooted in real world fighting and turn it into mortal fuckin kombat, complete with an extra dimension? can i shoot these dam retards?
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10:00 PM on 10.02.2009
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Hahaha, they will probably never happen. But sorry to the fans :(
And, this movie looks like it had a HUGE budget! Must of been made by the hardcore gaming fans!
@HEL105
Well, Chun Li had Neal McDonough in it, which made it worth pirating.
Can it be worse then Dead or Alive?
*vomits*
also you know what this shit means right? king of fighters the movie THE GAME! awwww yeah
KoF deserves a lot better than this.
srry for the spam, but, what the f***ing f***????? oh jesus christ, this is even worst than dragon ball, street fighter (all of them, only chuck norris could save that piece of...), alone in the dark, the house of he death, and a large etc of hollywood bullsh**. at least give the actors a little bit of info, like, oh please let me be the most obvious human being, KOF 93?? yeah, right, not to mention they didnt appeared as playable characters until 96', where the hell is MY redhaired iori???? f***, i feel more frustrated than playing i wanna be the guy, goddammit, ok, ok i just calmed down, ok ok, everything is fine... i thunk, i better not see that again...
Seriously...
Maggie Q...attractive, but she's nowhere CLOSE to being Mai...
The director doesn't even sound confident when he speaks, like he knows it's going to bomb or something, it's hilarious.
Stop it. PLEASE.
-Everyone
Remember this:
SNK had to of approved this.
Capcom APPROVED of The Legend of Chun-Li and Street Fighter.
Tecmo APPROVED of Dead or Alive.
Sega APPROVED of House of the Dead.
Infogrames(?)/Atari(?) APPROVED of Alone in the Dark.
Fuck you, publishers.
You do have a point.
It begs the question, who the fuck approved "Gamer"?
Why do they do these things? I couldn't even finish the trailer! This is worse than Dragon Ball Evolution. :(
T H E
F U C K
O U T !
I mean, seriously... I didn't even get into King of Fighters, but that is a complete affront to my senses!
They turned Terry Bogard INTO FUCKING FONZIE
FUCK YOU HOLLYWOOD, FUCK YOU IN THE FUCKING NECK!! AND FUCK MICHAEL BAY TOO.
I know MB has nothing to do with this film but anytime is a good time to say fuck him.
Just a total waste of time and funds. I can't fathom how films like this, that should be made for their fans before anyone else, end up being the most offensive thing you could ever do to something they love. I'd rather give somebody 10 bucks to rape me with a HORI arcade stick than watch this travesty.
You fucking bastards.
Why make a movie that will deviate completely from a concrete, established storyline when you know that the fan base (who will be your primary mode of support for the project) will abandon it before the product is ever brought to market? Tell me, what kind of sense does that fucking make?
And to the publishers who allow this kind of pathetic nonsense: if you stop accepting these small "paydays" from the licensing rights to your IPs, and instead focus on crafting a film that is worthy of bearing your baby's name, you might find that your profit margins would increase off of the fan base you so desperately want to support your creative efforts in another medium.
Cast actors who are right for the characters.
Keep characterization and plotline RELIGIOUSLY adherent to the original work.
Don't accept "creative license" when it comes to making "changes" to these two previous aspects.
There you have it. Success in a fucking jar.
Case in point: if you're going to make a Street Fighter movie, do not base it off of a secondary character like you have TWICE IN A ROW, with the results being the same after all is said and done. As "non-Hollywood" as it would be to focus on Ryu, Ken, Akuma and Gouken, it would make for a movie that fans would be more willing to embrace blindly, and if it were handled with enough care to keep major plot points and character details as exact as possible with regards to the original work, then you will invariably have a hit on your hands.
Why these people still allow this and make these large travesties involve idiotic concepts that are so far beyond me. It probably has a lot to do with the fact that I have some goddamn sense, and these fuckwit asshats have everything but that.
also, weren't the halo and GoW movies stuck in development hell or something?
It looks like a Syfy original movie, and I mean that with all its connotations...