Tekken Head Honcho Hates the Tekken Movie

[John Funk]

Tekken Head Honcho Hates the Tekken Movie

The director and producer of the latest Tekken games isn't very fond of the film adaptation - in fact, he thinks it's downright "terrible."


We all know that most videogame movies aren't very good (to put it charitably). Still, some gamemakers get a kick out of seeing one of their creations on the silver screen anyway [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/99204-Chris-Taylor-Has-No-Regrets-With-Dungeon-Siege-Movie], no matter how terrible it might end up being. Tekken game director and producer Katsuhiro Harada is not one of them.

"That Hollywood movie is terrible," Tweeted Harada [http://twitter.com/Harada_TEKKEN/status/20704886648]. "We were not able to supervise that movie (It [was a] cruel contract) I'm not interested in that [movie]."

That's slightly disheartening, actually. I mean, as far as I could tell from the trailer [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/97523-Tekken-Movie-Trailer-Isnt-Appalling], the Tekken movie didn't seem all that concerned with extraneous concepts like "plot," "narrative," or "acting." It seemed to just be about crazy people in bizarre costumes beating the crap out of each other in a fighting tournament.

Sounds like the games to me. But then again, I never saw it myself, and from the looks of it I'm not missing much. If you're curious to see what Mr. Harada hates, IMDB has it listed [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411951/releaseinfo] for DVD release in the States on November 5th and the UK on September 1st.

(Destructoid [http://www.destructoid.com/tekken-boss-calls-tekken-film-terrible--181059.phtml])

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[Kuchinawa212]

maaaan if they don't like it, maybe I should just save my money. And judging by the trailer, seemed like just a mindless popcorn movie to me. But hey, it's based off a fighting game? whatcha going to do?

So when is Capcom vs Marvel the movie coming out? We already have Mortal Kombat movies

 

[Woodsey]

In other breaking-news, the Pope has revealed himself to be a Catholic.

 

[Jared]

Well, dosnt surprise me. The people who make the games put so much work into them, and then see people try and rip them off for movies...heh

 

[ww666]

Seriously, that movie was like that street fighter crap.

 

[Dr. wonderful]

...Lateef Crowder was made to play Eddy Gordo, I mean damn.

I didn't see the movie yet, but I'm looking forward to it.

 

[AfterAscon]

I want to know what his expectations for the movie were. Was he hoping it to be as good as all those other amazing fighting game movies. Also, you could tell how bad the trailer was going to be just by the guy at 0:13 saying/shouting "this is iron fist!"

 

[-Samurai-]

...Lateef Crowder was made to play Eddy Gordo, I mean damn.

I didn't see the movie yet, but I'm looking forward to it.

I noticed that as well. He was awesome in The Protector and when I first heard about the movie, I had hoped it would be him playing Eddy.

OT: I haven't seen the movie, but the games creators opinion won't stop me. I love movies like this. Not bad enough to be bad, but not good enough to take seriously.

 

[Tourette]

Street Fighter the Movie = Crap
Mortal Kombat the Movie = Crap
Dead or Alive the Movie = Crap

I see a trend here so it's only fitting that Tekken the Movie follows the trend. it's not like anyone expects it to do otherwise now is it.

ps. sorry if I missed out any other fightng game movies apart from shitty sequels.

 

[The Great JT]

If the guy who made the series says it's crap, what right do you have to argue?

 

[Nincompoop]

I didn't give a sh*t about how it related to the games. I just saw it like any other movie.
To be blatantly honest, it had one of the coolest action scenes I have ever seen. The fighting was just awesome, really loved it. And there was plenty of it.
As for the, plot and acting 'n' stuff, it was ok/below ok.

It was a great experience. When I watch action movies, I'm in it for the, yes, oddly enough, action.

There were some hot ladies in rather revealing attire, if that interests anyone.

Addendum; Obviously he distances himself if it didn't do very well...

 

[Matt_LRR]

There was a Tekken movie?

-m

 

[sheic99]

There was a Tekken movie?

-m

Oh good, at least I wasn't the only oblivious one here. I didn't even realize this even existed until now.

 

[Therumancer]

I'll probably see this eventually, I am still reeling from the old Tekken anime movie which I saw years ago on VHS... The Trauma... the pain... OMG I must stop thinking about it. Must get image of Heihachi biting a tomahawk blade into pieces....



Ummm, well that said writing has never been Tekken's strong suit. I mean the entire drama about the Mishima family got kind of ridiculous, and the new brother they pulled out of nowhere for "Tekken 6" was just kind of "huh?".

I mean no offense, they are a great series of fighting games, it's just that like most fighting games nobody is going to convince me the plotline is anything all that special (and yes I understand it), and as much as I respect the Tekken "Honcho" as a game designer, I can't see how you can actually produce something worse than what the game had in it.... though I fear I might find out going by the LAST attempt to bring Tekken to video.

Of course I might very well agree with the "Tekken Honcho". I am wondering what he thought of the Anime though (which is one of the reasons I take this tone) because I don't remember him actually going out of his way to talk about how horrible it was... and really it was almost like the haunted tape from "The Ring" except you don't die after watching it, only wish for death.

 

[04whim]

Tekken>Titanic 2. Actually I didn't think Tekken was all that bad to be honest. I could watch it by myself without having people taking bets on if I could.

Spoiler

it's gradually revealed in the film that the Mishima family all hate each other :O

 

[Raziel_Likes_Souls]

Well, Lateef Crowder makes every fight scene good. However, a skinny ass Jin doesn't, but I might check it out.

 

[Kenjitsuka]

Tekken already had (some?) Anime adaptations, which I recall from very long ago.
I think it/they where not bad

 

[JIst00]

What did he expect? Fighting game movies are BAD. The only reason Dead or Alive was watchable is because Holly Valance was in it, and she's hot. Mortal Combat and Street-Fighter are forgiven, because one is a cheesy Van Damme film, and the other is based on one of THE best beat-em up ever. Aside from SSBM on the 'Cube.

Seriously though, the Tekken series wasn't that great anyway, I know they had a big fanbase, and who am I to disagree with them, but, tbh, the games were crap, so the movie is gonna be crap, and ever crappier if the guy behind the games thinks its crap. Thats a lot of crap. That aside, I love crappy movies, you know, the ones that are so BAD they're good, so I may go see this.