Street Fighter: Legacy Dragon Punches Every Street Fighter Movie

[Mstrswrd]

Anyway, more on topic, that was awesome. I think the only thing I have a problem with is that Ken blocked a Hadoken with his sholder. Yeah, that's how it happens in game, but, yes, sometimes very minore things can change. It would have been okay for him to have blocked that with his hand or something.

If you do any sparring you gladly take body or head shot to the arms and shoulder, it hurts but its far better than the shot landing. If you watch Forrest Griffin vs Quentin Jackson you see Forrest throwing head kicks over and over to damage the arms of Rampage when he covers. The plan being to make his hooks less dangerous when he throws them. In SF a hadoken is no different than a regular strike really, similar to Kens dragon punch not leaving 2nd degree burns.

Oh, trust me, I know about the shoulder thing. I've had to ice my shoulder many a time after a Tournament (which I always inevitably lost, but whatever), because I used my shoulder perhaps too much. At the same time, there's a big difference between blocking a punch with your shoulder and blocking a magical fire ball of pure energy.

Now, yes, you did mention that in SF the Hadoken tends to basically just be a long distance punch, but if you notice in the other official media (anime, OVA's, etc) it only tends to be that way against people who themselves are immensely strong. Basically, I think it's basically if Ken or Ryu throws a Hadoken or Shoryuken at another Street Fighter, they can just shrug it off, but if they were to throw it at you or me, we'd be killed (exploded or torn in half or burned to death or something).

Of course, now we're getting into partial WFS (Wild Fan Speculation) based off of a variety of media which may or may not be canon (for example, If I reference the SF: Alpha movies, technically, those have been retconned out of the canon).

 

[Sovvolf]

Wow, just wow... Oy Nob head Capcom, Camera, budget, crew... give it to this fellow... he can direct. You might even get a successful movie out of the franchise.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

That. Was. Awesome.

 

[maxusy3k]

Watching this got me to thinking; instead of a Street Fighter movie, why not a TV series?

I was thinking, follow the formula of the TV Show Lost. Each episode is a fight between two competitors in some tournament or whatever, and each episode comprises of both the build up to the fight and the fight itself, as well as flashbacks or cutaways to explore the character's history.

This way you get a kick-ass fight scene every week, you get to flesh out the characters in a comfortable time frame for the narrative, and you get to set up personal vendettas / relationships with the other fighters without having to have some lengthy exposition monologue or whatever.

Everybody wins?

 

[Alar]

That was just plain awesome.

 

[UsefulPlayer 1]

Loved the music, the second it played you know shit's about to go down.

 

[Ben Legend]

Pretty good. But story wise, could it hold up in a 90 minute movie? Or would it just produce a crap typical fighting movie storyline?

 

[Altorin]

They keep shutting down amazing fan movies, they need to do the opposite with this, give these people a couple of million bucks and let them have at it.

They just released a full length Mega Man fan film of the same caliber today.. So maybe Capcom will let someone make a full street fighter movie that isn't complete garbage. I haven't seen the full Mega Man movie, but I've been following it for about year, and it seems to be epic, I'm waiting to have a couple friends over to watch it properly.

On topic, I literally had tears of happiness in my eyes (seriously, I had to wipe my eyes of tears) by the time that SF movie ended... from the beginning to the very end, it was everything I could have wanted it to be. It's a shame it's not a trailer for something larger, but hey, There's always hope.

Pretty good. But story wise, could it hold up in a 90 minute movie? Or would it just produce a crap typical fighting movie storyline?

I would hope that it would follow the storyline of the Street Fighter games (particularly the latest ones).. a crazy, ridiculous story about several people fighting a great terrorist organization and weapons manufacturing giant, and have that lead to almost every character fighting other characters in one way or another.

Or, it could go another route.. by doing as much research as it can into just Ryu and Ken's storyline, it can create a movie based solely on that. From Ryu's birth and training with Gouken, to his possible corruption by Akuma, and then being saved from a doomed existence of evil debauchery by his rival Ken, just in time to beat the evil Sagat at his own game.. Basically the implied storyline attached to Street Fighter 1 (although Street Fighter 1 had no storyline, later games in the series would attach a story similar to this one to the game). Add allusions to other characters in the game, but subtly.. Mention Shadoloo or M Bison. Have Ken boast about beating up Barlog in a street fight, and "If I can beat the world heavy weight champion, I think I can beat this scrawny japanese kid". Maybe show a brief glimpse of Zangief in a televised wrestling match.

Just make there be a lot of fighting in a fighting game style, similar to what they did in this short video, and go with the sort of thing they were going for story-wise in the video.

The most important thing is that it FEELS like Street Fighter, which this short video certainly did.

 

[Altorin]

the two making of vids that are up already are actually longer then the movie and well worth the watch:

http://www.youtube.com/user/StreetfighterLegacy

 

[Eric the Orange]

I wonder how much was spent on budget. If I was to guess I'd say it must be less than 1000$. So to extrapolate that it'd be less than $100,000. And considering most movies are in the 10-50million* range, drop some money on these guys and you'd get a damn good movie.


*note the estimations in here are blind guesses, I could be way off.

 

[rddj623]

Best Street Fighter bit ever! Though the original Street Fighter animated movie is good in my opinion as well.

The original SF2 anime movie? Hell yea. That one is awesome.
In fact, I would say that it's probably the best video game based movie of all time.

Thanks for not making me feel like a loner for remembering that awesome movie! I felt like it captured the true essence of the game and way a kick ass flick!

 

[Zer_]

This was pure win. Amazing stuff.

 

[duchaked]

wow, props to Joey Ansah! so he's been busy since Bourne Ultimatum haha

Wow this is definitely as good as Art of the saber:

I remember seeing this jewel years ago

 

[SpecklePattern]

That was epicly good for just a fan movie. Brillian editing, slows, effects and overall quality. I might watch that nicely done movie just for it beign pretty.

 

[Arctic Fox]

Everyone is thinking movie, but it could be an awesome miniseries. Just think a different fight between two characters each week/month, however long these take to create. Add a slight back story to each fight and you have gold. The only weak point I could see is choosing a winner and loser. But if this became a miniseries, I would absolutely subscribe.

 

[Caliostro]

Holy ************...

3 minutes of fan made video were better than the complete collection of every high budget hollywood title ever made.

Someone give these guys a seven or eight digit budget, for the love of god... I guarantee they'll not only make a better movie than all other Street Fighter movies put together (because they already have... in 3 minutes...) but they'll also make the first Street Fighter movie you can genuinely be proud of.

 

[Sonicron]

Quite possibly the best fan film I've ever watched. About halfway through I was grinning like an idiot because of the sheer awesomeness of it all... they even used my favorite theme from the games.
Give this man a decent movie budget, now! I want MOAR!

 

[Nikajo]

That has a lot of potential. They had all the stances right and everything. Really hope they do manage to make a full length movie out of it, I would definately watch/possibly buy that.

 

[Caradinist]

Did i just see effort put into an actual Street Fighter film there?

I just did.

And to be honest? when i first saw the teaser trailer, i had my doubts.