Tekken Movie Trailer Isn't Appalling
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Wheres the Panda fight, or King and Armor King. This movie will not get my money unless I see a masked mexican wrestler that growls and is all around badass
Looks just like all the other fighter movies
really, the only fighter that might make a good movie is Soul Calibur.
really, the only fighter that might make a good movie is Soul Calibur.
if it focuses on the fighting, it could be a fun movie, in a 'leave your brain at the door' kinda way. of course they wont, but yeah.
also, i'll only see this fillum if it includes Gon.
also, i'll only see this fillum if it includes Gon.
Fighting movies in general tend to have stupid scripts and bad acting. I don't watch them for plot or dialogue--I watch them to see kick-ass fight scenes. If the writing or acting also happens to be decent, that's just an added bonus.
The main story problem with fighting video games is the central premise is usually stupider than your average martial arts flick: you need a reason why a bunch of fighters from around the world in a dazzling variety of styles, weight classes and possibly species would enter a tournament with a real possibility of death. The only movies that did a decent job with this premise were Enter the Dragon and Bloodsport, and they're silly too, but they had cool-looking fight scenes. (I'll leave debates about authenticity to the dedicated martial arts practitioners on this board--all I'll say is they looked cool to me.) It's no surprise that every video game fight movie basically tries to rip off the plot of these two.
The problem then, is the fight scenes in most video game movies look really bad. Is it really that hard to remedy this? Get some martial artists or athletes who can fight convincingly on camera, make them look like the video game characters as much as possible, and get a good fight choreographer. If that happens, does the story have to be good?
I think it's because your average video game movie budget, although probably not very big on Hollywood average, is probably much bigger than your typical martial arts movie budget. That makes financial-backers nervous, so producers probably insist on putting in some hot chicks or skinny emo-boys or a big-name star to draw in a bigger demographic, whether they're appropriate for the film or not. So you get a bunch of models who can't fight or act, working off a stupid script with crappy fight choreography.
The main story problem with fighting video games is the central premise is usually stupider than your average martial arts flick: you need a reason why a bunch of fighters from around the world in a dazzling variety of styles, weight classes and possibly species would enter a tournament with a real possibility of death. The only movies that did a decent job with this premise were Enter the Dragon and Bloodsport, and they're silly too, but they had cool-looking fight scenes. (I'll leave debates about authenticity to the dedicated martial arts practitioners on this board--all I'll say is they looked cool to me.) It's no surprise that every video game fight movie basically tries to rip off the plot of these two.
The problem then, is the fight scenes in most video game movies look really bad. Is it really that hard to remedy this? Get some martial artists or athletes who can fight convincingly on camera, make them look like the video game characters as much as possible, and get a good fight choreographer. If that happens, does the story have to be good?
I think it's because your average video game movie budget, although probably not very big on Hollywood average, is probably much bigger than your typical martial arts movie budget. That makes financial-backers nervous, so producers probably insist on putting in some hot chicks or skinny emo-boys or a big-name star to draw in a bigger demographic, whether they're appropriate for the film or not. So you get a bunch of models who can't fight or act, working off a stupid script with crappy fight choreography.
Not seeing this until I get a GIANT. CRYSTAL. DRAGON.
At the very least, most characters actually look like their CG counterparts. This thing would have come full circle had they actually hired Wesley Snipes as Raven.
At the very least, most characters actually look like their CG counterparts. This thing would have come full circle had they actually hired Wesley Snipes as Raven.
There is a DoA movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0398913/The Rockerfly said:
Apologies if you knew that, your post made it sound like you didn't
gotta be honest... I love the tekken series. I'll probably look at this movie in the same light that I looked at the Mortal Kombat movie when it first came out... just a fun action martial arts movie. I'll do my absolute best not to compare it to the game other than just the obvious stuff like character names and costume design and what not.
too bad about that whole copyright infringement thing... because really they should just rename Raven to BladeSyntax Error said:
Actually I completely forgot it about it but someone has already reminded me of the filmafaceforradio said:There is a DoA movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0398913/The Rockerfly said:
Apologies if you knew that, your post made it sound like you didn't
Still, I will give you the same post I gave to him, out of curtsy.
Oh my...
Fixed. HoD was the most abominable movie I've ever seen and I can't except the fact that anything could be worse.Logan Westbrook said:
On-topic: still doesn't look very good, but at least it's aware of what it's trying to represent.
I'd actually forgotten I'd seen that movie. Yeah, House of the Dead was really, really bad300lb. Samoan said:
Looks like lots of pointless fighting strung together by a contrived, rubbish plot. The characters look ok, but the film will still be terrible.
How a film this silly can make no mention of Roger or Alex beats me though.
How a film this silly can make no mention of Roger or Alex beats me though.
Aw but where's Gon? God bless that scaly little bastard.
Also I was hoping to see Lili in there somewhere, she's the only one I bothered to learn a 10 hit combo for.
Also I was hoping to see Lili in there somewhere, she's the only one I bothered to learn a 10 hit combo for.
They should have had Danny Trejo play Armour King, he seems to pop up in almost every other film which has an obligatory badass Mexican character.Vigilantis said:
There was a rumour that the WWE wrestler, Batista, was going to play King, but I suspect he was dropped when they realised a growling WWE wrestler would out-act the rest of the cast and steal the focus away from the main storyline.