Fun fact! Today marks the fifteenth anniversary of the Street Fighter movie! On December 23 1994, Street Fighter made its way across theaters all across America.
In celebration of the anniversary, Kombo dug up an old Entertainment Tonight clip to help us celebrate this masterpiece. The clip features Jean Claude VanDamme attempting to sound interesting, and we also see what motivated Raul Julia to be involved in the film.
Despite how horrible the film was, I love it. It's just enjoyable in some, demented way. I think today is a good day for all of us to re-watch the Street Fighter movie again, with the Podtoid commentary of course.
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Fun Fact: Street Fighter the Movie was my late mom's most favorite movie ever!
She had NO IDEA that it was based on a videogame! We actually had a long chat about the game and the movie. I explained some of the history, and showed her some gameplay from SF Alpha 3.
Before I totally tear up, gonna head to Amazon and buy it. Ahhh memories...
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8:00 AM on 12.23.2009
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That quote is way to good for that movie. But so was Raul Julia.
I love this movie! I'm still recommending this to friends/random strangers. Soooo f'ing good.
Best. Movie. Ever.
He will always be remembered by me, for his awesome Gomez Addams.
He did what he wanted to do, you know.
She had NO IDEA that it was based on a videogame! We actually had a long chat about the game and the movie. I explained some of the history, and showed her some gameplay from SF Alpha 3.
Before I totally tear up, gonna head to Amazon and buy it. Ahhh memories...
we had lost a truly great actor for this film.
OF COURSE!
RIP Raul Julia, we will always remember you for your great performance as Mike Bison. And Gomez Addams of course. Happy anniversary everyone.
...but Hamza, how can you fail to mention Jim Sterling's wonderful article on this subject?
http://www.destructoid.com/why-street-fighter-the-movie-is-a-cinematic-masterpiece-129024.phtml
Bisontoid, never forget.
Fifteen years later we still love to make fun of this film.