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Speaker 1: What's up, y'all?
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Speaker 2: It's Jalen, a.k.a. Doc, here to announce that we are doing another live review via YouTube. And this month, we will be doing the latest entry in the DC Studios.
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Speaker 3: Franchise, Clayface.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we will be doing that on October 25th at 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. That is Sunday, October 25th at 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Come through, hear our thoughts on the film. what we think of the universe at this point. Also leave super chats, be a part of the conversation. Give us questions that you may have about the film and just random questions about film and TV overall.
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Speaker 1: The Frames Per Second podcast. Welcome, everybody, to the Frames Per Second podcast. Kenneth B. Inch here with Rod, Spike, and she's back once again. Shai, welcome back.
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Speaker 5: What's up?
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Speaker 6: That's the first time I've actually been on a show with you because you're always taking my place.
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Speaker 1: Oh, no.
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Speaker 6: Because I'll be out or something. But, yeah, it's good to finally be able to be on a show with you, though.
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Speaker 7: I love that I get to meet you this time. Legit, I have not been able to meet you, but this is great.
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Speaker 5: Oh, damn.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 4: She's always, like, taking my place.
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Speaker 6: Like, because I'm not here. Not always, but, like, when I'm not here, she fills in.
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Speaker 1: For, like, my spot. Yeah, so it's cool. Real quick before we get started fully. Jalen, the audio sounds fine from Shazmite. Does she need to adjust it closer?
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Speaker 5: How we doing? Is that better?
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Speaker 1: Jalen walking the dog. Okay. All right. He can make it work. Anyway, we are here to review Street Fighter, the 2026 version. Were there other movies? There were other movies, right?
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Speaker 6: At least one more. Yeah, with Jean-Claude Van Damme. That was Street Fighter?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, right.
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Speaker 1: I do remember that.
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Speaker 3: That cartoon wasn't a movie?
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Speaker 4: Was that old? Nah, I think that was made for this. Yeah, that was made for this. But Street Fighter was with Jean-Claude Van Damme.
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Speaker 1: I remember that.
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Speaker 5: Is that the one where he had on a break?
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 5: Oh, my God.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 5: I didn't even realize that's what that was.
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Speaker 1: That's Street Fighter. So I wasn't tripping.
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Speaker 4: No, no, you're not tripping. It was horrible.
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Speaker 1: I think I brought it up.
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Speaker 6: Something we were doing, like, worst movies all the time. Like, I think I brought it up on one of those or whatever. But, yeah, it was not good.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we did a trailer reaction to this one, right? Y'all remember doing that? Mm-hmm. Yes. Okay. Okay. Do y'all remember how y'all felt about the trailer when we watched it?
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Speaker 6: I said that I was kind of lightweight anticipating it.
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Speaker 4: You know, it looked extra, but I wasn't mad about it looking extra.
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Speaker 6: I don't expect much from, like, movies like this and Mortal Kombat and things, so I felt like it was just going to be something like that.
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Speaker 4: So I didn't mind it.
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Speaker 1: Okay. I wasn't excited about it. Okay. At all.
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Speaker 4: Any particular reason why you weren't excited about it? I.
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Speaker 3: I didn't know if they could do a good story. And then I seen 50 in there, and then I seen Schultz in there, and I'm like, I don't know, bro.
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Speaker 1: So I wasn't excited.
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Speaker 3: I didn't think they nailed it from a casting standpoint.
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Speaker 1: You saw the trailer, right? Mm-hmm. What were your feelings on the trailer when you saw it?
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Speaker 5: I wasn't excited at all.
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Speaker 7: I don't really have a whole lot of reverence for video game movies. I feel like they're not– it hasn't been done– that great yet so I was just kind of like ew and then like you said the 50 Cent and the short shit I was just like oh no like no.
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Speaker 1: Okay alright I don't remember because I don't remember how I think about what I feel about a lot of the trailers but either way it go what did you think about the movie now that you've watched it I thought.
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Speaker 7: It was really fun It was the right amount of cheesy and it moved fast. And it was a way, like, I think they were able to tell video game storytelling in a very fun and functional way. And even though it was moments where it was just like, Oh my God, what is this?
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Speaker 5: It was still like fun. I enjoyed it. I don't know how often I'll watch it again, but I enjoyed it.
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Speaker 1: Me. I didn't hate it.
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Speaker 3: Um, I like the campy funness of it as well. I think that they went back and forth between that and the series too much. It's like pick a side and stay there. They were taking me out with the series story and then going right back to something crazy and cheesy. So I would have preferred them to stay there. I was surprised. I think Sean Stacks did a good job. I like the character that he plays. That was surprising. I like the Ryu story. So I like the lure that they were adding to it. Like, I wouldn't watch it again. Like I said, I wasn't disappointed. It was entertaining, but it wasn't great or nothing like that.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 4: Yo, what's up?
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Speaker 6: I'm pretty much in alignment with them. Um, as far as it being, um, fun, it was fun. That's, that's, that's a really good description of it.
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Speaker 4: Um, I just felt like because it was so fun and, and produce. Yeah, it was fun.
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Speaker 6: And, um, And it seemed like I had a pretty good production budget for it. I wanted it to be a little better. I was a little let down. Like, man, they have something here. Like, I think they have, I think if the writing was a little bit better and the actual story, if they can, because I feel like they kind of lost the plot at some point.
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Speaker 1: They did.
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Speaker 6: And I'm like, wait, wait, what are we doing? Wait, what are we doing? And I agree with you when you said, like, okay, pick a side or whatever. I don't necessarily think they need to pick a side. You just got to find a way to make it mesh. I know you mentioned functional. But, yeah, man, I just, I don't know, I just feel like it could have been a better movie and I was just annoyed that it wasn't.
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Speaker 1: I was annoyed.
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Speaker 4: I was like, oh, man, y'all, y'all almost there.
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Speaker 1: Luther Curl.
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Speaker 6: Y'all almost there because I wanted to prove some people wrong because I feel like people was ready to sit on this movie. And I was just like, man, nah, man, I think Street Fighter will be, because I'm a Street Fighter fan, I think. I like Mortal Kombat, but I did play a lot of Street Fighter growing up.
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Speaker 1: Same. It was my preference.
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Speaker 6: You know, that was definitely my go-to. Like I said, again, I love Mortal Kombat as well, but I like Street Fighter too, man.
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Speaker 4: But, yeah, not quite.
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Speaker 1: Not quite.
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Speaker 6: I'm not to the point where I was shit on or anything like that, but it's just that y'all can make a better movie, man.
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Speaker 4: Y'all right there. That's how I felt.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Hmm.
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Speaker 3: Pull out my notes That's why I was able To give it some grace too Because I was a big Street Fighter fan So seeing some of the stuff Like I understand I didn't play Mortal Kombat That much And I saw people Getting excited When you see some of the stuff A similar reaction Like when E. Honda Do his little thing Yeah That the Chun-Li All that shit was good I.
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Speaker 7: Would say I was a huge Mortal.
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Speaker 6: Kombat Most people are Yeah, yeah, yeah I'm usually on the island With that Yeah.
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Speaker 5: And then I genuinely didn't play Street Fighter. I played Marvel vs. Capcom.
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Speaker 1: Oh, wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, so, like, I know the characters. I know their specials. But, like, the story, I was
genuinely, like, learning.
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Speaker 1: Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that was, like, you may know the history now, have heard that. Mortal Kombat vs. Street Fighter was a real thing. Like, that was like East vs. West. It was. Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 5: And nobody was a Tekken fan.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. No, Tekken was cool.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Tekken was definitely cool. That's when the combo breakers and all.
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Speaker 1: I played Tekken. I played all that shit. Tekken was fire. Yeah, but... It was these two, because once Mortal Kombat had blood, it was like, oh, man, this is the next level. So, you know, you have the Street Fighter was kind of Boyz II Men, and Mortal Kombat was like Jodeci, you know?
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Speaker 5: That's what it's like right there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I get that. I get that. Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 3: Exactly.
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Speaker 1: So, but no, I think if we had, like, if we did, like, rankings, ratings, or whatever... this would be right in the, y'all could have kept this shit. Oh no!
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Speaker 5: Dang.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, this would be right there if I had to get it. But I don't disagree with what you guys are saying in terms of the sentiments, in terms of being fun or whatever, whatever. I think it's just like, Mortal Kombat was fun. Okay. The fun here just, yeah. It was fun, I was able to kind of settle into it, accept it for what it was.
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Speaker 4: This, for whatever reason.
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Speaker 1: I could not fully embrace what they were doing with this. And some of these actors, I do know, the Asian guys from Warrior. I like that show. I grew to like that show over time. He was in some other stuff. So I liked him, and he's really good when it comes to fighting and stuff like that. The guy that played Ken. I've seen him before. He was in The Rookie and some other stuff. So he's actually not that bad. You know, M.
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Speaker 5: Bison.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we've seen him. Yeah, yeah. Perfect casting for M. Bison. Yeah, that was good.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely perfect. I wouldn't say perfect, personally.
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Speaker 1: You don't think he matched M. Bison? I don't know if he was bulky. He wasn't, but in terms of his face?
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Speaker 5: And creepiness.
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Speaker 1: He was creepy. Yeah, face and creepiness. Yeah, he was like creepy.
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Speaker 6: He was just unnecessarily creepy. I'm with you on that. I never looked at M. Bison as a creepy character. He just looked like a menacing, big. Muscle-bound character. And I feel like they were playing on that. I guess when he starts getting the powers, maybe he'll muscle up. That's what I was figuring, especially now.
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Speaker 1: That we see that they're trying to continue on with the story. But, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 4: I didn't think he was a perfect cast for him at first.
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Speaker 3: I didn't know no backstory. I didn't know Ryu and Ken was supposed to be brothers. All the years playing the game, I didn't know that there was a backstory to this.
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Speaker 4: Did you know that?
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Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 4: I knew it was something there. Because of the red and the white. But I don't know if they're... Like, actual brother.
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Speaker 3: No, they both got raped. I didn't realize they had any association.
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Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 4: They had some of the same moves.
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Speaker 3: They both had dukes in. I thought it was just an Asian version and a white dude. I just thought it was two different characters. I didn't know they had no similar, like, connections.
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Speaker 4: I never even.
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Speaker 6: Looked at, and for one, I never called him Ryu. I always called him Ryu. That's one.
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Speaker 4: But, yeah, I don't know if I ever looked at Ryu.
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Speaker 6: I call him Ryu for the sake of what they were calling him, but I always called him Rice. It was messing with my brain when they kept calling him Ryu. But I've always, I never saw him as like an Asian guy.
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Speaker 4: I just thought they were just white guys. And, you know, I don't know. It just looked like white guys on the game to me.
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Speaker 1: He was Asian or not, though.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, he was Asian. But I never looked at him as Asian. I always just thought there were two white guys in the game for whatever reason.
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Speaker 1: I knew because of what he said when he did the special power. The Hadouken. Hadouken.
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Speaker 6: I know he's not white.
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Speaker 1: I never.
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Speaker 4: I don't know. I just never looked at him as Asian.
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Speaker 1: The name was a giveaway, too.
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Speaker 4: Because Ken does it, too. Ken does it, too.
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Speaker 1: He has his fire, though.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: But what I'm saying is that he does the Hadouken, too. He says it, too.
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Speaker 8: Do he?
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Speaker 4: I thought he did.
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Speaker 1: I don't think so.
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Speaker 3: He say something different when he shoot his fire thing.
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Speaker 5: I don't know. In the movie, he said....
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Speaker 4: He didn't say fireball.
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Speaker 8: What did he say?
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Speaker 4: It's a Hadouken. It's a Hadouken, yeah.
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Speaker 5: In the movie, he definitely did.
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Speaker 4: Because they trained by the same masters. That makes sense.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the same. They were trying to do the same thing. Yeah, which was kind of like a thing throughout the movie. One could do it, one couldn't. And he was just jealous, but later learned how. But it opened. with this animation thing, which I really liked.
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Speaker 5: Me too.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, man, this could have been the movie. It could, man.
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Speaker 4: It really had potential. It had so much potential.
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Speaker 1: Oh, sure. You didn't have to make this live action. You just could have stayed right here and just bawled out. Yeah. But they didn't. But what did you guys think about flipping back and forth, using that as kind of like a storytelling tool? I didn't like it. You didn't?
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Speaker 3: No, I didn't like the animation because I didn't know if I was, I was like, are they using an old movie? And like going back and forth to try to tell this story, then y'all tell me that this was new animation. I just didn't, it took me out of the story. I didn't like how they was telling it.
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Speaker 1: I didn't mind it.
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Speaker 4: I didn't mind it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 6: It kind of reminded me of like Kill Bill or movies like it where they put like some animation in it or whatever.
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Speaker 1: So I definitely didn't mind it.
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Speaker 7: I didn't mind the animation versus the story. I thought that the setting of the story was really dope. It reminds you of like cyberpunk Japan, like the 80s, 70s, 80s manga feel.
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Speaker 5: And I thought that was really dope. I felt like it was, as.
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Speaker 7: Far as what I know from the game, it felt like it was very true to its environment.
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Speaker 5: And I love that.
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Speaker 7: Because that was something that I did not like about Mortal Kombat.
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Speaker 1: Mortal Kombat.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so, you know, it opened in 87 Japan, so they kind of set this whole thing up with the fight. Ryu is fighting Saga. Saga, yeah. In the first tournament, Dark, and used the Dark Haru, which Akuma is this deity that caught the attention, and he wasn't supposed to be using that shit. So he basically went down full Mortal Kombat mode and killed this guy. It was like Evil Ryu. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which I fuck.
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Speaker 6: Are y'all familiar with that? Evil Ryu? I ain't know nothing about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that was a big thing in the game.
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Speaker 1: Which one was that one on?
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Speaker 5: Huh?
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Speaker 3: So which Street Fighter was Evil Ryu? Because you remember Street Fighter World Edition?
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Speaker 1: Vaguely, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because that's where the girl with the pigtails and stuff came from. Right, right.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and it had the stripes on the legs.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Let me see when he appeared. Yeah, I was trying to remember some of these.
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Speaker 3: I remember everybody but Joe and the dude with the white face mask.
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Speaker 1: I've never seen him. Vega. I ain't never seen him.
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Speaker 5: He was on Marvel vs. Capcom, but I don't know.
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Speaker 4: No, yeah, he's one of the OGs too.
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Speaker 1: Vega. And then the white dude that won the tournament.
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Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 1: He was the original. I looked that up. Yeah, yeah,
yeah. The original Street Fighter. Yeah, yeah. But you couldn't play him as a character. Mm-hmm. So. Why? No. I can't remember why. Yeah, Street Fighter was interesting.
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Speaker 6: Well, Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat were both interesting games around that time.
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Speaker 1: Man.
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Speaker 5: The stories are just, I don't know.
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Speaker 7: And then, like, what I, I went to go and try and learn as much as I could before I watched the movie. And apparently, there's no, like, real timeline, like, as to, how all of this went is just what they decided to pull out of the game.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. And maybe that was an issue that I had. You guys were talking about the storytelling. And I think the storytelling and, you know, picking a side, it was really kind of bothering me because of what you just said. Like, you're kind of having to make all this stuff up. and tell a story that makes sense. So you have to tell a story that makes sense for people that know it and don't know it. And you have to satisfy both audiences. Yeah, go ahead. I'm sorry, my bad. Are you good?
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Speaker 4: No, so they all had their own stories, though.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. They tell a story for each character. I know, but as a... One story. Yeah, yeah. But you're taking these individualized stories... And trying to stitch it together in this movie format to have them all kind of converge and come together, you know, in this movie. So, and that was, you know, I don't know. I just fell out of it with that part. But, so, yeah. So, then you got six years later, we get more of the back story about Ken and Ryu. And, you know, Ryu just basically became a punk and quit. Because he didn't. He didn't save old boy.
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Speaker 5: That's ramen.
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Speaker 3: Self-fermented pigeons.
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Speaker 1: And Ken decided to go for a white guy, you know, online influencer mode.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: That's basically what he was doing. And then you have, you know, we see Chun-Li who's working with this creeper agent and all kind of other shit. So she's working with Interpol and she wants revenge for her father and all this other stuff. What did you guys think about, like, the introduction of all the, well, now we got Chun-Li, and did the backstory kind of work for you guys in terms of what happened with their division with Ken and Ryu?
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 7: For me, I feel like that's where, like, the plot kind of fell. Like, that's where it started to kind of fall apart.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 7: And I'm going to say this, and y'all can not feel me if y'all want to. I don't know if there's another, like, thicker Asian woman out there, but, like, She was pretty slim for Chun-Li.
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Speaker 5: I know it's a video game.
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Speaker 7: I understand that it's, you know, drawn and animated to look a lot more.
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Speaker 5: But, like, it ain't no other. Like,
just a little bit.
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Speaker 4: I'm glad you're here to say it because I was thinking the same thing. I was thinking the same thing.
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Speaker 1: And they made a comment like she was thick, though. Yeah.
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Speaker 8: No, they were trying to.
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Speaker 5: Play it up like she was like.
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Speaker 4: They had a shot where. No, they had a shot. Yeah, she's like, yo, I heard you. They say a lot about your thighs.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 3: I don't know what's the big deal.
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Speaker 4: Because they weren't a big deal in the movie. So I was wondering, why did they do that? I was wondering that.
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Speaker 3: Maybe they were acknowledging that they couldn't get it right.
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Speaker 4: Huh?
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Speaker 3: Maybe they were acknowledging that they didn't do it.
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Speaker 1: I know.
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Speaker 4: I'm just wondering why. Like, why didn't you? Like, why didn't you cast somebody else for Chun-Li?
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Speaker 6: Or even give her some prosthetics or something, like, just to put more emphasis on, like, her legs or something.
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Speaker 7: Or they could have cut a scene where maybe she, like, did, like, a special move. Like, I think Chun-Li had a move where, like, she would, like.
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Speaker 5: I don't know, that might have been Marvel vs. Capcom where she grabbed your head with her thighs or whatever.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Maybe they could have did that and added the muscle computer graphics.
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Speaker 5: That would have felt better.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, because she did the little spin side kick move She did the fast kick, too.
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Speaker 1: She did do the fast kick?
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Speaker 4: I don't remember.
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Speaker 1: She had a dude in the corner. She did that. That's right.
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Speaker 5: Because they didn't show it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: They didn't show it.
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Speaker 1: They didn't do a good job at showing it. Nah, nah. Same thing with E-Honda.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you kind of saw it, but not really.
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Speaker 1: Don't rob me, man.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was one of my favorite features. They failed at that.
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Speaker 4: You got to nail that. These are iconic moves from these characters.
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Speaker 6: If you're going to do them, you got to nail them.
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Speaker 4: I don't think they did that.
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Speaker 1: Man, you are so right, bro. There were so many moments where I didn't feel the move. We've been playing these games. It's a big deal.
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Speaker 4: That's one thing that Mortal Kombat can get right.
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Speaker 3: They get over here was a big moment in that movie. I liked Ken's when the fire came because I wasn't expecting that.
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Speaker 4: But they didn't even show them build it up, though. It was just like you saw the fire come.
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Speaker 3: I like blockers.
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Speaker 5: No, you're fine. Was that like a budget restriction?
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Speaker 1: Maybe. Possibly.
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Speaker 6: I know, but you did a lot with Akuma. You had Akuma doing some crazy stuff. I don't understand. It could be budget, though, because that might have been why they used the animation, too.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? Oh, yeah. Man, I don't know.
00:21:05
Speaker 6: But, like, yeah, it just seemed like you could have done, like, the famous moves, we should have saw them a lot clearer.
00:21:12
Speaker 4: And it's just like, why?
00:21:13
Speaker 1: I think the other criticism I had in my noise before I even sat down was, why the hell is this shit two hours? Yeah, it shouldn't have been two hours. It was way too long.
00:21:23
Speaker 5: It was way too long.
00:21:24
Speaker 1: It made no sense. Because you spent a lot of time, like, M. Bison wants to get this energy, and this shit didn't work, and now he's going to hold a second tournament. All this shit happened quickly. And then Chun-Li's walking around recruiting all these people. She go to Ken and get him and go to Ryu. And he's like, no, that's when he was selling that shit or whatever. And then he pops up. Oh, she pop up on him and shit like that. And then they get into this fight or whatever. And it's just like all these things are so kind of very generic, basic storytelling-like things. It's just like. We're adults now, bro. We're not kids watching this. I agree with you.
00:22:10
Speaker 3: And they could have put more emphasis on fighting. It's called Street Fighter. We don't really need all of that extra shit that they were showing us. I wanted to see more fights.
00:22:18
Speaker 4: And they didn't even show the fights.
00:22:21
Speaker 3: I want to say the one with 50, that.
00:22:25
Speaker 4: Was really it.
00:22:26
Speaker 7: It was like two of Ken's maybe, like a half, maybe a one and a half. I think my biggest thing with the fighting is they didn't even finish the fucking tournament.
00:22:35
Speaker 6: They barely started the tournament.
00:22:39
Speaker 4: I think we came in on the second round of something like that.
00:22:43
Speaker 8: We missed the first one.
00:22:44
Speaker 5: Ken fights twice and then he leave.
00:22:48
Speaker 4: I thought I fell asleep.
00:22:49
Speaker 6: I was like, did I miss the first round? What is happening? It was just weird. That was the other thing. It felt like they cut out a lot of stuff. Yeah, they feel like they cut out a lot of stuff.
00:22:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, so there's the recruitment. It all just happened fast.
00:23:02
Speaker 4: They get to, like, supposed to be, like, the fight.
00:23:04
Speaker 1: So there's Ryu, her kid's going to be in the fight. So Igo takes Ihanda's spot, which was weird. Because you could have just accepted the fucking invitation. We asked you.
00:23:16
Speaker 5: Right.
00:23:16
Speaker 1: No kidding. Okay, so now you're, because you got
one of the, what's the thing, Willy Walker and the Chocolate Factory? Got to hold the ticket.
00:23:24
Speaker 4: You got to hold the.
00:23:25
Speaker 1: Ticket, bro. Yeah. You know, and you could have just said, yeah. So now you hear that he's going to be in it. Now you're like, oh shit, he's going to win the whole thing and whatever. So now you go fight this man naked. Yeah. None of their towels fell off. Right. I'm sorry.
00:23:40
Speaker 8: He took Yehonda's towel.
00:23:42
Speaker 1: No, he took it off. They're fighting naked. They had them motherfuckers folded tight. At some point, I'm sorry. That shit didn't make any fucking sense. I'm not saying I don't need your spot that bad. Then I got to sit here and fight your ass. We got to fight naked, bro. We got to fight naked, bro. We going to be slipping and sliding all over. And y'all be, y'all be, I got to, hell no. Bro, I don't need to go in the fight. You got it, bro. Right.
00:24:13
Speaker 7: So that wasn't like a video game cut screen or nothing like that.
00:24:18
Speaker 5: That wasn't like something that he does.
00:24:20
Speaker 1: Well, his scene. Oh, he had one of his special moves, yeah.
00:24:22
Speaker 3: The special move and the bathhouse is where he fight at.
00:24:25
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, okay. So that's what that was. All right.
00:24:28
Speaker 7: Because I was wondering, like, it seemed like a stage, like a fighting stage.
00:24:32
Speaker 1: It is, yeah.
00:24:32
Speaker 5: But I was just like, and when you were saying that, I was like, wait, are they there for no reason? Hold on.
00:24:37
Speaker 3: That's what's bad about it, though, because they didn't show a lot of the fighting scenes. Mortal Kombat did a good job of showing the fighting scenes that used to be behind you. The only one in the bathhouse when I think I remember the car shit, I remember for sure.
00:24:50
Speaker 4: And that was just an extra scene. Yeah, they didn't even.
00:24:53
Speaker 3: Put a lot of focus on that. And the prison was real crazy.
00:24:56
Speaker 7: You talking about the one where the cars was on fire, people were standing in a circle?
00:25:01
Speaker 3: No, with him beating up the car. That was a thing on the game when you beat the car.
00:25:06
Speaker 6: But what you're mentioning was part of the game, too. It was just like a scene.
00:25:10
Speaker 1: Right.
00:25:10
Speaker 4: Yeah, so that's a scene. That's a famous scene in the game.
00:25:14
Speaker 1: Which scene?
00:25:14
Speaker 5: I do remember that from Marvel vs. Capcom.
00:25:16
Speaker 7: The arena scene where it's like people outside and it's like just a.
00:25:20
Speaker 4: The barrels burning and stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:25:22
Speaker 5: And the cars and stuff.
00:25:23
Speaker 1: Nah, that's a part of it.
00:25:24
Speaker 5: But that was just a scene and it visually looked great had they used it.
00:25:29
Speaker 1: Right, right. was right there man so anyway yep so he beat him up he beat him up in the bathroom take his spot uh he did the move that he he did the move yeah yeah yeah yeah he did that and did the hand thing right yeah he did the hand thing in the shower too right.
00:25:47
Speaker 6: He did the hand thing and he shot like across the wood his head like headbutt type thing yeah.
00:25:51
Speaker 1: Yep so they got that um and then of course it's a fighting movie so they had everybody fight at a bar yeah I did like that. Yeah, this seemed kind of cool. I didn't like Gal. They played Gal, bro. I didn't like his character. They played Gal. And that used to be my nigga on the game.
00:26:11
Speaker 3: I used to play with him.
00:26:14
Speaker 4: Yeah, because his moves weren't that hard to do.
00:26:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was hard.
00:26:16
Speaker 3: It was easy to do the little lightning shit.
00:26:20
Speaker 1: He was a beast, man.
00:26:22
Speaker 6: They made him and Bison just weird for no reason. I just didn't understand that. I didn't understand why they made him so weird.
00:26:30
Speaker 1: Like, yeah. But, no, the full brawl was kind of cool. You have to have it. Like, you have to have everybody fight, show some powers in there. That was pretty cool. And then everybody came up and they got electrocuted. So I thought that was cool, seeing them fight and stuff like that. And then we get into, like, that's the rest of the movie for me is, like, the tournament. What did y'all think about 50 Years Old? I can't believe it. I can't believe they played his music at the same time.
00:26:57
Speaker 4: Did y'all hear that A.I. Park they played?
00:26:59
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:27:00
Speaker 8: That was A.I.
00:27:00
Speaker 1: Park.
00:27:01
Speaker 8: That was fucking crazy. Yeah, because that's not the song. No, it's not.
00:27:04
Speaker 5: I just thought maybe they had me singing earlier.
00:27:05
Speaker 1: I never heard that verse. That was A.I., bro.
00:27:07
Speaker 3: That had to be A.I.
00:27:08
Speaker 2: Wait.
00:27:09
Speaker 1: Wait, what are y'all talking about?
00:27:10
Speaker 5: I didn't even hear the verse.
00:27:11
Speaker 1: I heard.
00:27:11
Speaker 4: When he walked out to the song, that bitch is as a rider.
00:27:14
Speaker 5: That's not his lyrics.
00:27:15
Speaker 4: But it sounded like that's Park's voice.
00:27:16
Speaker 1: But it wasn't that bitch is as a rider.
00:27:18
Speaker 5: Oh, my goodness.
00:27:19
Speaker 4: Yeah, y'all thought the same thing.
00:27:22
Speaker 1: I was like, no, they did not, bruh.
00:27:24
Speaker 4: Y'all lying.
00:27:25
Speaker 1: Bruh, when you go back and watch it, it's just the same.
00:27:28
Speaker 5: I didn't listen to the verse, but I definitely heard the chorus. The chorus was there.
00:27:30
Speaker 3: Bruh, I know every Pac verse, damn you. I ain't never heard that shit right there.
00:27:35
Speaker 1: I ain't never heard that voice. It was crazy.
00:27:37
Speaker 5: But it did sound weird. It sounded weird.
00:27:39
Speaker 6: It wasn't the lyrics, yeah. That's not the
lyrics to Ambition. But, like, yeah, that was crazy. But to the point with 50, that.
00:27:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, because Vega beat Gal. Man, they still, they played my boy Gal. That character was too good. And then you had Kim versus Balrock, which is what you're asking about 50.
00:27:54
Speaker 3: 50 character was too, like, that character wasn't good on the game.
00:27:57
Speaker 1: He would whoop people's ass in the movie.
00:27:59
Speaker 3: That don't make sense. He didn't even have no special power on the game, I don't think. Like, other than just hitting you hard. It wasn't nothing that he could do special. Yeah, he was boxing.
00:28:07
Speaker 1: Like, he should.
00:28:08
Speaker 3: Always get his ass whooped in these tournaments. There's nothing you can do, bro. The only thing he kicked, he just boxed.
00:28:13
Speaker 1: Nah, he just boxed. Yeah, yeah.
00:28:14
Speaker 4: Yeah, because he would punch high, he would punch low, like that, yeah.
00:28:17
Speaker 1: Damn. And it was kind of, again, I mean, it's a game, I get it, but I don't know, I just think that there's a lot of adults going to watch this game because we grew up playing the game, so you don't have to do a very, like.
00:28:32
Speaker 6: Just fan service. Yeah, just fan service. That's the safe place.
00:28:36
Speaker 1: That's where we came from. So you're having this fight and you have him overcoming this situation because Balrat whooped his ass. You know, oh, my God, Andrew Schultz. If y'all don't get him, the fuck about it. I'm fucking Schultz. I'm fucking Schultz on here. He was good.
00:28:50
Speaker 5: I like the character.
00:28:51
Speaker 4: It ain't no way in hell, Spike.
00:28:55
Speaker 8: It was perfect.
00:28:56
Speaker 4: It was a perfect role.
00:28:57
Speaker 1: It was a perfect role for him.
00:28:59
Speaker 5: He played the character well. He played that character well.
00:29:02
Speaker 1: It was so believable.
00:29:04
Speaker 5: Yes.
00:29:04
Speaker 1: It was believable.
00:29:05
Speaker 3: Slime ball-y, like, grilled. What the fuck you even doing here?
00:29:09
Speaker 1: This is how we get Pete Davidson in the movies, because y'all just allow this shit to happen. No. Schultz was podcasting while the cameras were rolling. That's all he was doing. He was just doing himself.
00:29:23
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it fit, because he was supposed to be a dickhead. I feel like they casted him in a perfect role. He didn't have to do no studying.
00:29:32
Speaker 1: Come on, Ken.
00:29:33
Speaker 8: Get up, Ken.
00:29:34
Speaker 4: You can do it.
00:29:36
Speaker 1: Oh, my God. I was just like, he annoyed me the whole movie.
00:29:38
Speaker 5: I genuinely believe, like, Andrew Shaw sucked it like that. Like, I genuinely believe that.
00:29:44
Speaker 1: Oh, they had a joke. He was like, oh, you lucky. Oh, my, I can't believe y'all locked. What did he say when he ran into Gal? I think you locking down so much oxygen between us. Yeah. That was funny.
00:29:53
Speaker
8: That was hilarious.
00:29:55
Speaker 4: I was like, why did he do that? He said, I didn't do that. That was so weird.
00:29:59
Speaker 1: That was funny. But it was a stupid ass lie. And then he was like, there's no oxygen now, motherfucker. Right. Nah.
00:30:06
Speaker 5: I think I wanted to see him fight.
00:30:09
Speaker 4: I mean, it wasn't, he didn't bother me.
00:30:11
Speaker 1: I'll say that.
00:30:12
Speaker 5: I wanted to see him fight. Like, I was hoping that he was going to get a fighting scene. I mean, I don't know.
00:30:17
Speaker 4: They was about to make him fight, but then they just had him.
00:30:20
Speaker 1: They had him in a Leroy and the Rose fight. They were like, no. Do not let this.
00:30:26
Speaker 4: Motherfucker get out in a Leroy and Rose and fight.
00:30:29
Speaker 1: Like, do not do this.
00:30:30
Speaker 4: He got in the stands and everything.
00:30:32
Speaker 8: He did.
00:30:33
Speaker 1: Like he had been trained with them. And I'm like, ain't no way in hell y'all about to sit here and let him fight.
00:30:36
Speaker 4: He said he trained with.
00:30:37
Speaker 1: Them, bro.
00:30:38
Speaker 5: All three of them trained under the same master.
00:30:40
Speaker 1: The same dude. Go Ken. Yeah. Yeah. Where? We didn't see him. He wasn't there. He said it, though.
00:30:47
Speaker 5: He lied.
00:30:48
Speaker 4: And he came out there like he was really about to do something. I'm like, wait.
00:30:51
Speaker 5: Get away from my best friend.
00:30:54
Speaker 1: It was just out of nowhere, bro.
00:30:55
Speaker 4: Out of nowhere.
00:30:56
Speaker 1: Where did that come from? And why? I'm so glad they didn't fight. I would have walked out. I would have walked out.
00:31:04
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00:31:23
Speaker 1: Now let's get back to the show. But yeah, the Blanca was next. The Balrog fight, it's like whatever. We knew he whooped Ken's ass, and then Ken got up and overcame, and then there's that. 50 wasn't bad, though. It wasn't bad.
00:31:57
Speaker 3: I liked the Blanca scene. That was my favorite character, so I liked it.
00:32:00
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that was Jason Momoa until the end, because it was like right when he came back, I'm like, That look like Jason.
00:32:07
Speaker 3: Momoa The mommy shit Is what gave it away for me I didn't know at first I was like He was like Mommy?
00:32:12
Speaker 1: I was like Jason Momoa Yeah that's Jason Momoa Can you help.
00:32:14
Speaker 8: Me find my mama?
00:32:18
Speaker 5: I actually kind of like.
00:32:19
Speaker 3: That I did though I did I fucked with Blanca That was a good That was the one they did That one was perfect They did.
00:32:24
Speaker 4: His perfect They put
time in him Yeah.
00:32:26
Speaker 3: How he rolled The electricity All of that.
00:32:28
Speaker 7: Was perfect Nah they put time in him That like That might have been Why the rest of that shit Suffered.
00:32:33
Speaker 6: Spent so much on him I know They spent a lot of time on him I wasn't crazy about, like, oh, smell like hot dogs and when he was scratching and stuff.
00:32:40
Speaker 1: I didn't either. I don't know what that was.
00:32:42
Speaker 3: I don't know what the fuck that was.
00:32:46
Speaker 1: That was weird, like Sean said.
00:32:47
Speaker 3: I was like, what the fuck was that?
00:32:51
Speaker 5: Why? Why? But they did that a lot.
00:32:54
Speaker 7: Even, like, when they talked about Chun-Li, like, it was, like, overtly sexual, which I don't feel like was a thing in the.
00:33:03
Speaker 5: Amongst the fans, right? But not, like, in the game, though.
00:33:08
Speaker 1: Oh, no.
00:33:09
Speaker 7: That's what I'm saying. Like, they did a lot of that in the game. Like, they added, like, what they felt like fans would say into the game.
00:33:16
Speaker 1: That makes sense.
00:33:17
Speaker 5: Or into the movie, excuse me. And I felt like that with, like, Chun-Li.
00:33:21
Speaker 7: Like, even dude being weird. Like, I don't remember her being, like, objectified that much. Even with the Marvel vs. Capcom thing.
00:33:28
Speaker 5: Like, I don't.
00:33:29
Speaker 1: There is some of that online now, but you're right, I don't remember that at the time. In the game. Yeah, in the game. So maybe because of what happened over time, they wanted to add that in there. But it was weird that you have this agent that's a creep.
00:33:45
Speaker 5: And he's her handler.
00:33:46
Speaker 3: That was so weird. That was totally unnecessary. Nothing paid off for me. That was weird.
00:33:52
Speaker 7: So maybe that's what they were doing, though, because maybe that's why they did the M. Bison weird eye thing. Because I know his eyes are white, but does he roll his eyes up in his head during the game?
00:34:03
Speaker 5: Is that a thing?
00:34:04
Speaker 4: He don't have eyes in the game.
00:34:05
Speaker 5: So it's just white. So maybe that was just like they took.
00:34:10
Speaker 7: Internet memes and then incorporated them into the movie.
00:34:14
Speaker 4: Is his eyes white in the game?
00:34:15
Speaker 1: I don't know, but yeah. Oh, okay. And I think maybe because at Because right around, like, even before we get to 50 and Balrock's, well, Balrock and Ken's fight, yeah, she ran into her own team and then she whooped up her team. And then we heard Gal lost, but we didn't see it. I'm like, what the? Exactly.
00:34:39
Speaker 4: He came back out. He had a scratch on his face.
00:34:42
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:34:42
Speaker 4: That's what I thought.
00:34:43
Speaker 5: I fell asleep.
00:34:44
Speaker 4: I'm like, man, am I choking up? I'm like, what is happening?
00:34:49
Speaker 1: Vega did it. Yeah.
00:34:51
Speaker 4: I thought I missed something.
00:34:52
Speaker 1: Yeah. So she went to the Interpol agents, was talking to them. Then she just beat them all up and kicked the creeper guy's ass. Or maybe they wrote that in there for that.
00:35:02
Speaker 5: What was the reason for her to take the mark?
00:35:05
Speaker 1: Right.
00:35:06
Speaker 6: None That had nothing to do It didn't do anything Cause.
00:35:10
Speaker 1: My hair fucked up For no reason.
00:35:12
Speaker 3: For no reason And then she came She went to meet him And the next day The nigga didn't.
00:35:16
Speaker 6: Even come He sent his apologies Like what?
00:35:21
Speaker 7: Yeah that was wild Like they made her A double agent for no reason Literally no reason They lost the plot They lost the plot a lot Cause like I think the The fighting part Goes out the window once.
00:35:35
Speaker 5: Ken goes to save Ryu.
00:35:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you had the Blanca fight. I didn't like the character of Blanca. I'm with you guys. I liked the hot dogs and all the little extra mannerisms and stuff he was doing. I think he was trying to fight back the dark version of him. And at one point, I thought that he was actually going to end up fighting all of the prisoners before Blanca rolled out, which I thought would trigger him. which could have been cool. But, yeah, so I think it was on about three sheets of toilet paper. What was that? Three sheets of toilet paper.
00:36:18
Speaker 4: Oh, you know what it was?
00:36:19
Speaker 1: It was one of the prisoners were betting.
00:36:22
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:36:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was it. That was it. I'm trying to make sense of some of these notes I have or some of these things. Yeah, but we talked about Vega dropped out. Conveniently, right?
00:36:34
Speaker 4: All that stuff was just so like, what are we doing?
00:36:37
Speaker 6: And like you were saying earlier, y'all ain't even doing the tournament. Y'all make this big fuss about the tournament and we don't even see the tournament.
00:36:46
Speaker 4: And I think you were saying, like, yo, this is Street Fighter.
00:36:50
Speaker 1: Where's the fighting? Where's the fights? Yeah, there's a lot of that. Who was the movie made for?
00:36:55
Speaker 7: Was it made for, like, Street Fighter fans or was it made for niggas on the internet right now?
00:36:59
Speaker 1: Exactly.
00:37:00
Speaker 6: That's a good point. That's a good point. They should have made it for Street Fighter fans. That's who would want to come out for it.
00:37:07
Speaker 1: Yeah, Gal, we found out, was working on the cover. And then we get the Ken versus Dawson. They were in the semifinal.
00:37:16
Speaker 4: I like Dawson.
00:37:16
Speaker 6: I think they nailed him with the look. I thought his look was really on point.
00:37:21
Speaker 5: I think the CGI they put into it was cool, too. I like that.
00:37:27
Speaker 1: And they had the Indian music playing in the back. Oh, okay. Yeah.
00:37:30
Speaker 4: Even his motion,
like, the way he moved his body.
00:37:32
Speaker 3: I don't know what I thought his name was, but I ain't know who y'all was talking about.
00:37:36
Speaker 1: Oh, Dawson.
00:37:37
Speaker 4: I know you told me.
00:37:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. He was dope. He was cold on the game, too. I liked him. He would do the long stretch thing. Yeah, because he slapped him from afar. Yeah, you can do that stretch thing. That's right. But then you giving me all this advice, bro. Right?
00:37:49
Speaker 5: That's what I was like. So, is he trying to help him beat him?
00:37:52
Speaker 8: Like, what's happening?
00:37:53
Speaker 6: He's like a peace guy.
00:37:56
Speaker 1: So, yeah. Why you beat my ass?
00:37:57
Speaker 8: At the same time. Why are you even marketing?
00:37:59
Speaker 1: It's like. Right. Nah, that was weird. Nah, it was weird. Like, yeah. I don't know, man.
00:38:06
Speaker 4: I was wondering how they were going to do a lot of this, like, fights or whatever.
00:38:09
Speaker 1: Yeah. Then the Kim versus Joe fight never happened. Because he went to go help. and rescue Ryu from captivity, and then he let all the prisoners go. I did like this, though. Like, them fighting, like, a bunch of the, during this whole part, because this is where you get a lot of the fighting and stuff, like, them fighting a lot of the different prisoners and stuff. I think they even hit the poles from the game, you know, when they were standing side by side. I thought that was cool. And they do the fight.
00:38:41
Speaker 5: Yeah.
00:38:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, like, Yeah, so that was dope. Just seeing him kind of get off and just fight as a team and stuff like that. And then he got his costume. He got a costume in this part where Cam brought him the costume and stuff like that.
00:38:58
Speaker 4: Which was random, too. Where did you get that from?
00:39:00
Speaker 5: Because he just decided to leave. He just decided to go. He just decided.
00:39:06
Speaker 4: Like, where'd you get that from?
00:39:08
Speaker 2: I'm leaving.
00:39:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, Chun-Li confronted Bison, and she kind of whooped up on some folks then.
00:39:14
Speaker 5: She also got her uniform from the creep dude.
00:39:17
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, she took it out of the box. Yeah, but, oh, man, she has so many fucking cringy lines, bro. What'd she say? Did she say, bitch, please? Oh, yeah, she did. Bitch, please.
00:39:30
Speaker 5: Yeah.
00:39:31
Speaker 1: That was the middle finger that she did. And I was like, what the fuck? Yeah, she was, that was bad. That was bad. But it was cool seeing her fight, though. And she, you know, she kind of held on against him bison for a little bit. For a little bit. For a little bit. Then he told her it was just Tuesday for him. Yeah. Right. He and her with the move with the little spin. Yeah. Warp move. Yeah.
00:39:58
Speaker 4: I would have liked to see the little slide thing he does.
00:40:00
Speaker 1: I don't remember. I don't think they showed that.
00:40:02
Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying, man. There's so many missed opportunities with moves, with iconic moves.
00:40:06
Speaker 1: And I'm just like, yo, like, man.
00:40:08
Speaker 3: I'm not even sure if they did a good job of him fighting because he used to be hard to beat.
00:40:12
Speaker 1: Oh, my God. Oh, yeah.
00:40:13
Speaker 4: He was almost impossible.
00:40:15
Speaker 3: It was harder than Mike Tyson on Mike Tyson.
00:40:17
Speaker 4: Yeah, because he hits you like one or two times.
00:40:19
Speaker 3: It would be over with. Bison used to fuck you up.
00:40:22
Speaker 5: Is the psycho energy thing part of the game?
00:40:25
Speaker 4: I had no idea. That's new to me.
00:40:27
Speaker 5: Are you serious?
00:40:28
Speaker 8: That was a major plot point.
00:40:30
Speaker 1: Never seen it.
00:40:31
Speaker 5: It was.
00:40:31
Speaker 1: I mean, that was why they were having the whole tournament. So he could get the energy. Yeah.
00:40:36
Speaker 5: And that's a new idea?
00:40:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, that whole.
00:40:37
Speaker 3: Realm monster thing, like none of that. I have never heard of.
00:40:41
Speaker 1: None of that. Nah. Nah. I haven't either. I would have to ask B. I meant to ask him before to see if he had a chance to watch it.
00:40:50
Speaker 5: Are there any new Street Fighter games?
00:40:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, there have been.
00:40:53
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's like a lot. Yeah, like Street Fighter Alpha, Ultra. Like, yeah, Alpha I think is when Evil Ryu came.
00:41:01
Speaker 1: Or whatever, but.
00:41:01
Speaker 4: Like I said, I ain't played that stuff in so long.
00:41:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, me either. But.
00:41:06
Speaker 6: But yeah, I'm guessing the energy is how.
00:41:11
Speaker 1: You.
00:41:12
Speaker 4: Like I said, that's probably how he bulked up.
00:41:16
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying?
00:41:16
Speaker 4: That's what I'm assuming.
00:41:17
Speaker 1: One came out in 2023.
00:41:18
Speaker 3: What was that one called? Street Fighter VI.
00:41:22
Speaker 1: It didn't have like a... Whatchamacallit title? Yeah, but... It was like they had been fighting everybody, and then they got surrounded by all these agents. And then they got the things electrocuted and shot, tased, and captured. I really wanted to see that fight. I really wanted to see them fight all those soldiers. And that shit would have been so dope, but they didn't do it. I think if they would have fought them and been overwhelmed by them and just lost because of the sheer volume of numbers... That shit would have been dope than just tasing him and then waking up and then next thing you know, he's captured and in this thing and can it scoot up to the chair. Try to get to him. And then Blocker comes and save him.
00:42:19
Speaker 5: I like that. I like how they brought that back.
00:42:22
Speaker 3: I like that line too. When he was looking for Rio, he was talking to him by his side.
00:42:27
Speaker 1: He said, where's Rio?
00:42:29
Speaker 3:
He said, obviously he's right behind you. I'm looking right at him. That was good.
00:42:35
Speaker 1: He didn't know that, Spike. He was like, he didn't even break eye contact.
00:42:42
Speaker 8: He was looking right at him, literally. He was looking at him.
00:42:45
Speaker 1: Right, right.
00:42:46
Speaker 4: And then he turned around, scooting his seat.
00:42:48
Speaker 1: That was funny.
00:42:50
Speaker 4: Yeah, they were real silly.
00:42:52
Speaker 1: They were doing some silly stuff in him.
00:42:54
Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying. I don't know, man.
00:42:56
Speaker 1: They just lost the plot.
00:43:00
Speaker 7: I wonder why it's so hard to do video game movies.
00:43:04
Speaker 1: That's a good question.
00:43:06
Speaker 5: I mean, the Mario Galaxy.
00:43:07
Speaker 8: But y'all said Mario was good, right?
00:43:09
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:43:09
Speaker 5: But it didn't.
00:43:10
Speaker 1: Oh, wait. I didn't watch the new one.
00:43:12
Speaker 5: The Galaxy?
00:43:13
Speaker 1: I saw the other one.
00:43:14
Speaker 5: The first one?
00:43:15
Speaker 1: Yeah. There's a new one out right this year. You haven't seen that one, but I saw the one before that. I thought it was good.
00:43:20
Speaker 7: I felt like in the first one, it was more like the video game versus Galaxy.
00:43:25
Speaker 5: Because Galaxy brought.
00:43:26
Speaker 7: In, what was the name of that damn Fox?
00:43:30
Speaker 5: It was a whole bunch of other shit, like Smash Brothers.
00:43:33
Speaker 4: Starfighter?
00:43:35
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think it's called.
00:43:36
Speaker 5: It was Smash Brothers stuff that they brought in.
00:43:38
Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
00:43:39
Speaker 5: Yeah, so it wasn't necessarily like the, yeah.
00:43:42
Speaker 1: I had never heard of that until this week.
00:43:44
Speaker 5: Smash?
00:43:45
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:43:45
Speaker 3: Somebody was telling me it was like Smash Brothers.
00:43:47
Speaker 5: He wasn't a Nintendo kid.
00:43:51
Speaker 3: I had a Nintendo. I had Super Nintendo was the last Nintendo.
00:43:55
Speaker 1: Well, I had a GameCube. Nintendo, Sega Genesis. Yeah. Yeah, GameCube was later, I think. Yeah.
00:44:00
Speaker 3: I have a, what was the one, what was the one after Super Nintendo? With the James Bond.
00:44:07
Speaker 4: Nintendo 64?
00:44:07
Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't have a Nintendo 64. I had the, what was it, Sega? I had a Sega versus Nintendo 64.
00:44:13
Speaker 1: Jeez, man.
00:44:14
Speaker 5: Yeah.
00:44:14
Speaker 1: Damn.
00:44:16
Speaker 5: I forgot about Sega.
00:44:19
Speaker 4: She forgot about Sega?
00:44:19
Speaker 1: Yeah. Sonic, Streets of Rage. That was my shit, man. So we're kind of like at the end of the movie. Blanca saves him. Blanca tries to be his friend. And he was like, nah, I'm good. He tried to give him a chain ride. He tried to chain him. He was like, nah, I'm good. I guess he had flies or something on him. He was stinking or something.
00:44:41
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was a bone chain.
00:44:43
Speaker 1: Yeah. He's like, nah, you keep that. Yeah. And then we get, you know, because the daddy is out now, Akuma. So there's that part. And then we got to get this big final like action scene where he has to fight Akuma. And Akuma came up on scene because he was declared the winner because he didn't show up. And Andre, Eric Andre was the host. I mean, I thought that was Boots Riley. The black guy.
00:45:16
Speaker 5: Nah, that's Eric Andre.
00:45:18
Speaker 4: You funny.
00:45:19
Speaker 5: I just realized what you thought.
00:45:20
Speaker 1: Nah, that's Eric Andre.
00:45:22
Speaker 8: Oh, my God.
00:45:23
Speaker 5: No, that was Eric Andre.
00:45:24
Speaker 1: The whole time I thought that was Boots Riley.
00:45:26
Speaker 3: Why the fuck he decided to be in this movie, man?
00:45:29
Speaker 4: Nah, that's Eric Andre. Nah, I don't even think he was either.
00:45:33
Speaker 1: He lost that great either. Nah.
00:45:35
Speaker 6: Yeah, but the Kuma story, I'm like, what is his point? I'm just trying to figure out, like, what was he trying to do?
00:45:42
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:45:43
Speaker 4: He was trying to pull the evilness out of Ryu just to fight him.
00:45:48
Speaker 5: So he could have a worthy opponent.
00:45:51
Speaker 4: So he could have a worthy opponent. So he's just going around trying to find a worthy opponent.
00:45:54
Speaker 1: Both of them were trying to do similar things. Get him to steal his power, basically.
00:46:01
Speaker 4: But I don't think he was trying to steal his power, was he?
00:46:04
Speaker 1: So Akuma just wanted to fight him? He wanted to be the best fighter in the universe.
00:46:07
Speaker 4: He's like, where's my opponent? Who's the winner of this tournament?
00:46:08
Speaker 1: He wanted to be the best fighter in the universe. So he was like, show enough? Yeah, basically. Basically, that's what he was. Show enough. Is that what we did? That's exactly what they did. That's exactly what they did.
00:46:23
Speaker 5: Oh, okay.
00:46:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, because Joe got... Didn't he kill Joe?
00:46:27
Speaker 5: He got incinerated.
00:46:29
Speaker 1: Joe talked like this, motherfucker.
00:46:32
Speaker 5: That's how they killed the sensei, right?
00:46:35
Speaker 4: Yeah, he went into his heart and he exploded. Yeah, that was crazy.
00:46:39
Speaker 7: That was something that I felt like was kind of weird with the movie. It felt like maybe they were trying to parallel the sensei and Akuma story with Ryu and Ken. And then it just kind of fell apart.
00:46:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, because we got the reveal. I don't know if this even worked at all for y'all that Ken was just basically jealous of him.
00:47:06
Speaker 5: Well, Rio was jealous of Ken.
00:47:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sorry.
00:47:08
Speaker 5: I actually hated that.
00:47:10
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, like what?
00:47:12
Speaker 5: Because it didn't make sense.
00:47:13
Speaker 1: It did.
00:47:13
Speaker 5: Not from what the character I had seen from
the beginning.
00:47:16
Speaker 4: Nah, that didn't make sense.
00:47:19
Speaker 7: And the way he said it was like, yeah, I took it out, burned it, and got rid of you. But you don't even, like, that's not who you are now.
00:47:26
Speaker 1: Right.
00:47:26
Speaker 4: And what are you jealous about? Because it seemed like you were always better than him.
00:47:29
Speaker 8: Like, what was the jealousy coming?
00:47:31
Speaker 1: He was always known as the best friend. His optimism.
00:47:35
Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, yeah. He said his light. He was afraid of his light.
00:47:41
Speaker 4: That is wild.
00:47:42
Speaker 5: That is lazy.
00:47:43
Speaker 1: Lazy.
00:47:44
Speaker 3: They got there and was like, fuck it.
00:47:46
Speaker 5: We're going to make this movie.
00:47:47
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're going to make this movie. We got too much money behind it. We're going to do this. We're going to sprinkle a little bit over here, over there.
00:47:54
Speaker 1: I mean, shit, but that fight didn't work out well for him, though. Right, because he was real. Oh, he was beating his ass. Yeah, he was beating his ass. He was definitely beating his ass.
00:48:06
Speaker 4: He didn't have to save it.
00:48:07
Speaker 1: Yeah. with the fire.
00:48:09
Speaker 5: Yeah, he was attacking Chun-Li, didn't he, wasn't he?
00:48:11
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, that's right. He slapped the shit out of Chun-Li. I don't know what the.
00:48:14
Speaker 8: Hell she was thinking.
00:48:16
Speaker 4: Oh, man, he had to do it like that.
00:48:17
Speaker 5: Did he backhand her? Or was it like, oh, man.
00:48:21
Speaker 1: Man. Bro.
00:48:24
Speaker 5: And it was almost like she wasn't even a fighter.
00:48:26
Speaker 1: Right.
00:48:26
Speaker 4: Like, what are we doing?
00:48:28
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:48:29
Speaker 5: Battered woman syndrome.
00:48:30
Speaker 4: Yeah, we didn't have to do him like that.
00:48:32
Speaker 1: And toss jail bars all across the room. Yeah. I think it was Jeremy. He had slapped the shit out of her. And that's the second time she got slapped because M. Bison did the same thing to her. We thought she was dead. She woke up in a pile of rubble. And she took ass out there again.
00:48:46
Speaker 5: And when she came back, I hate that.
00:48:51
Speaker 1: I hate it.
00:48:52
Speaker 5: I hate it.
00:48:52
Speaker 1: That's hilarious. But he had given in to the dark side. Turned black. His uniform turned black. Yeah. Because, yeah, he beat Akuma, right? Yeah, he beat him to the ass.
00:49:06
Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
00:49:06
Speaker 1: Yeah. And that was it. And then, yeah, that's when they found out. Where were they carpooling to at the end? What the fuck was that about?
00:49:13
Speaker 5: They were going to catch up with him by himself.
00:49:16
Speaker 1: You're right. Bro.
00:49:17
Speaker 4: All right.
00:49:17
Speaker 1: So, so dope. But.
00:49:20
Speaker 5: Right.
00:49:20
Speaker 1: I do got to ask, man. Because they had been trying to, like, write this one away where it would land. But did the Flamin' Hadouken from Ken to save Ryu, did that shit hit at all?
00:49:39
Speaker 4: No, that's what I'm saying. Early on, you didn't even show him forming it up. You showed him this whole movie.
00:49:44
Speaker 6: Not able to form it, and then when he finally does, you don't show it.
00:49:50
Speaker 4: That makes no sense.
00:49:52
Speaker 1: I just couldn't believe they did that shit.
00:49:55
Speaker 7: It didn't feel like a strong enough power to pull him out either.
00:50:01
Speaker 1: Yeah, it didn't.
00:50:01
Speaker 5: It kind of just like, and then.
00:50:03
Speaker 1: He was like, oh, I'm back.
00:50:04
Speaker 4: Nah, bro.
00:50:05
Speaker 1: Nah, bro. We need more people. We need more people. Yeah.
00:50:10
Speaker 7: Everything just kind of felt like it happened too quick. Ryu got captured too quick.
00:50:14
Speaker 5: As soon as he decided to be part of the- Multiple times.
00:50:16
Speaker 7: As soon as he decided to be part of the tournament, now he called.
00:50:20
Speaker 1: Right.
00:50:21
Speaker 4: He never even got a chance to fight in the tournament.
00:50:23
Speaker 1: How much on the tournament did he bring up in jail?
00:50:26
Speaker 4: He did all that with- E-Honda.
00:50:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, E-Honda.
00:50:29
Speaker 4: Just to not even be in it.
00:50:31
Speaker 5: After he was already given the book.
00:50:33
Speaker 1: Right, right.
00:50:34
Speaker 4: It's like, bro, he was playing double-dutch, bro, for real.
00:50:38
Speaker 1: He was just like.
00:50:38
Speaker 4: Nah, that's crazy.
00:50:41
Speaker 5: I don't know who wrote that.
00:50:42
Speaker 4: Nah, yeah, they filled with the writing on this.
00:50:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was really, really choppy in terms of what they were trying to do. I didn't look to see any history, so I don't know if there were multiple rewrites or whatnot.
00:50:59
Speaker 6: I didn't really... care all that much. And they definitely cut some stuff. Like, they definitely cut some stuff out.
00:51:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, they had to. So, Rod, how surprised were you to find out that they're trying to get a sequel and do you think it's going to happen?
00:51:15
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's going to happen. I really want them to get it right, man.
00:51:20
Speaker 6: Because this is like, like, this tugs at the heartstrings. This is like nostalgic, you know? Like, these are classic This is a classic game. And so it's just like I want them to get it right. I don't know if they can. They're going to have to bring in a different writer or something. Like, different writer, different director. If they had that, I feel like they can make this better. But this first one out the gate, it's not strong enough.
00:51:49
Speaker 1: It's not strong enough. Yeah, I was... 51 million first weekend.
00:51:53
Speaker 4: I mean, at the end of the day, it's Street Fighter.
00:51:55
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're going to show up and watch it. So, yeah, yeah, it's Street Fighter.
So they're going to make the money, but... So, yeah, they might get a second one just off the strength of that, right? But they got to make this next one.
00:52:05
Speaker 1: They need to make it better, man. Yeah, it needs to have a strong, and I don't think it is because I think it's getting panned. Like, there's not going to be a surge. There's going to be a decrease. And how much can you make globally, which I think will happen if you go overseas. But I was definitely surprised when M. Bison had Kami take Akuma and leave, and then Kami destroy it. the truck with the rocket launcher and then of course we already y'all already talked about the last scene which was corny as fuck talking about oh yeah watch him turn around watch him turn around yeah and like y'all are and then in that small car packed into the car and then they sing oh my god.
00:52:43
Speaker 3: And then I forgot that stupid ass song oh my.
00:52:47
Speaker 1: God what the fuck oh my god the level of corn did they pay for the song or some shit they had to that's what a budget was even if they it don't matter And then everybody starts singing at the same time. Like, what? Oh, my God, bro. We too old for this. We too old for this.
00:53:09
Speaker 4: But this is the thing. I feel like if it was written better, it would have hit. You know what I'm saying?
00:53:13
Speaker 6: Because I've seen stuff like that in movies before where it's like, okay, you give it grace, right? But with this, because... The writing was just so bad, it just makes that bad as well.
00:53:23
Speaker 1: I agree with you. Like, sometimes you can see it.
00:53:26
Speaker 6: Yeah, and it can land and it can hit.
00:53:30
Speaker 1: To your point about the writing, I don't feel like they set it up to where when they were doing it, I was like, oh, wait, is that what we're doing? Right, right, right. And, yeah, I was like, Jesus Christ. It didn't hit. It didn't hit. And once I saw Schultz come out in the pink robe, I was done. Well, yeah.
00:53:47
Speaker 6: Charlize said something about that, too. Charlize said something about his penis. I think she did. Somebody did.
00:53:52
Speaker 5: She did.
00:53:52
Speaker 1: They said, I watched it with Rios. Yeah.
00:53:56
Speaker 5: What did he do? I thought he was just a manager. I thought so, too.
00:53:59
Speaker 1: He was.
00:54:00
Speaker 4: And then they wrote him later as a fighter.
00:54:01
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then they figured out he was a fighter. Like, what?
00:54:03
Speaker 4: What the fuck are y'all talking about, man? We never knew this.
00:54:05
Speaker 5: Like, what?
00:54:06
Speaker 4: Who is this?
00:54:07
Speaker 1: Surprisingly, he's actually a character, too.
00:54:10
Speaker 5: And he has all those roles.
00:54:12
Speaker 1: He's actually a real character in Street Fighter. He was in Street Fighter Alpha in 1995. They were doing all kinds of stuff with Alpha. So he, all right, yeah, Alpha, then Alpha 2. I know a lot of people probably by now have
put that in the comments. Please go delete your comments about me criticizing Schultz being a fighter. I didn't know.
00:54:32
Speaker 4: Well, I'm talking about the movie, though. The movie, they didn't portray him as a fighter.
00:54:35
Speaker 7: They didn't even show him fighting, so I feel like you're still right.
00:54:38
Speaker 6: No, yeah, they never said that he was a fighter.
00:54:41
Speaker 4: He never showed it.
00:54:42
Speaker 7: He said he was a fighter that he trained with them, but I don't know if they even acknowledged it.
00:54:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, nah. Yeah, so 95, yeah, I probably would. Yeah, I was probably tapped out by then. I was... I was in college, Spike. Yeah, I was playing sports games by 95. Street Fighter. Yeah, 95.
00:55:02
Speaker 3: It was over with for Street Fighter 95.
00:55:06
Speaker 1: Dan, I never heard of Dan. Clearly, I didn't know who the fuck Dan was. That is hilarious. Dan was not on my mind. But yeah, Street Fighter, yeah. So anyway. So yeah, post-credits scene, did you guys see that? Where he ran up on, yeah, and Bison ran up on Sagat, I think, from the beginning.
00:55:30
Speaker 4: Oh, but it was anime.
00:55:33
Speaker 1: Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was anime. I did see that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:55:35
Speaker 4: It was a mid-credit scene.
00:55:36
Speaker 1: Mid-credit, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, he got a visit from Bison and the rest of the lieutenants and stuff like that. Sequel, you guys think it's going to happen? You guys surprised they even had the audacity to even write this movie? knowing that they were going to get a sequel.
00:55:54
Speaker 6: You can't do a Street Fighter movie and not think it's going to be like a sequel or a movie that follows.
00:55:59
Speaker 4: It's Street Fighter.
00:56:00
Speaker 1: It's going to be a series.
00:56:01
Speaker 4: It makes sense for them to do it.
00:56:03
Speaker 1: They just got to do it better. It needs to be better.
00:56:06
Speaker 4: If they want this to survive, they got to do it better.
00:56:08
Speaker 5: They need better writers.
00:56:09
Speaker 1: They do. They need better writers for sure.
00:56:10
Speaker 5: But I definitely feel like the way it looked was great.
00:56:14
Speaker 1: Exactly.
00:56:15
Speaker 5: So if whatever you did there, maybe that's where you spent the money. And, you know.
00:56:21
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:56:22
Speaker 3: It's like Rod said, they got something there. It's just they didn't finish it. They didn't do it like it was supposed to be done, but they did.
00:56:32
Speaker 1: Okay.
00:56:32
Speaker 5: All right.
00:56:34
Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah. I'll watch a sequel. I mean, you have Street Fighter and you have Street Fighter 2, so maybe it's already written in the contract that you can do that. Maybe that'll be the last one. Because Street Fighter 2 was just as popular. I cannot remember Street Fighter 2. It was more popular. Street Fighter 2 was probably the most popular one. Yeah, so it would make sense for them to try to get a sequel. But either way it go, yeah, this was it. But that's me. Three out of four were perfectly okay with the fun and the campiness and the entertainment value of it. So that may be enough to be like, oh, you know what? We can give it another shot.
00:57:17
Speaker 7: I definitely feel like I'll watch it at home. But, you know, spending money going to see it at the movie theaters too, I don't know about that one. But I definitely feel like it'll be something like you can throw on with your friends at the house.
00:57:29
Speaker 5: Yeah. And hopefully too.
00:57:32
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:57:33
Speaker 7: All right.
00:57:33
Speaker 1: Well, Shia, once again, as always, appreciate you coming through.
00:57:36
Speaker 5: Thanks for inviting me.
00:57:38
Speaker 1: Where can they find you? I normally like to do this in the beginning.
00:57:42
Speaker 7: You can find me on all platforms, social media platforms at SmallTimeHero. There is a underscore between the time and the hero because that's how long it takes for me to get to you. And on YouTube, you can find me at Small Time World.
00:57:55
Speaker 5: And there's no underscore there. Just Small Time World.
00:57:59
Speaker 1: All right. And with that. Appreciate having you.
00:58:01
Speaker 5: No problem. I appreciate being here.
00:58:03
Speaker 1: We up. Peace.