Street Fighter: Legacy Dragon Punches Every Street Fighter Movie

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

That was pretty damn awesome. Easily better than the awful 90's Hollywood effort.

 

[Antari]

Hollywood you suck! Millions of dollars and you couldn't even get these basic details right!!! Its a shame it won't be made into a movie, that would have been the first good one.

 

[Siege_TF]

The Hadoken disappoints, I'd guess it's because the Hadoken just kinda pushes Ken back a few feet before dissapating. Compared to the explocive effect of the blocked Hadoken from the game's opening cinematic it mostly resembled Dan's Gadoken from the Alpha anime. I guess they didn't have the budget to give the Hadoken more appropreate effects - kickback effects on Ryu's gi, as in Street Fighter 3 (a low stance is nessessary or you get blown back like Dan does when he's performing Hao Gadoken), blowing away the leafs on the ground as it's going through the air, then exploding dramatically on contact. Check out the one minute mark from this video;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8SD_M_ccac

Sorry I don't know how to embed.

The SF movies always made things much less flashy and dramatic, this short goes the other way and tries to make it more true to the games, but dramatic moments in the movie may need to be even more dramatic than they are when mimicking gameplay aspects of the game.

Also, Akuma looked kinda weedy.

 

[gundamrx101]

I'm not sure I agree with everybody above in assuming that, just because a short film is fantastic (which, don't get me wrong, this is), a feature-length one would be as good. An actual feature-length movie needs extensive plot, cinematography, lighting and pacing work, amongst other things.

The problem with Street Fighter in film has always been the bare-bones level of plot development - the game was meant to be played on an arcade machine for five minutes before you walked away in frustration to get more quarters. Making a full-length movie that would be bearable would require fleshing out an entire backstory for every character which doesn't involve "Character A beat up Character B at some point in the past, resulting in Character B wanting vengeance".

Street Fighter The Animated Movie. Hollywood has a lot to learn indeed.

OT: That was amazing, funny how fans can do a lot more than 'high profile directors'

 

[Soxafloppin]

Dem' Eyebrows...

Well Mortal Kombat: Legacy has been pretty entertaining, I don't see why this couldn't replicate that format.

That was a very enjoyable three minutes.