It’s so cheesy…THANK GOD

Let's go. The big news of the day is that um there's an actual trailer, like a legit trailer and not a teaser for the Street Fighter movie. Yeah, that pretty much looks like a Street Fighter movie, which is crazy because I've seen several other Street Fighter movies that aren't really Street Fighter in many way. I have to uh preface this that there was a pretty cool opportunity a little while back for myself and a few other FGC people because of uh Capcom and Legendary Pictures where we got to literally take a tour of the lot, you know, and I was like, can we actually share this stuff? And then they gave us the pictures and stuff. And they actually gave us a tour of the lot. We got to talk to a few actors, hang out with some of the production crew. It was crazy how many people in the production crew knew me. Like that was actually kind of throwing me for a loop was that like people that were working on the movie they're like I've been watching you since like you know when you first started posting Third Strike videos and I'm like so yeah obviously like Yipes Justin uh a few other like influencers and content creators and stuff got to go. We just got to take like a cool tour of the set. For a lot of people, it was like crazy glitz and glam, like wow, Hollywood stuff. And to me, it brought me back to being a kid because my dad uh worked on the WB lot, you know? He wasn't he wasn't working in the movies, but he was working in like production stuff behind the scenes. Big soundstages and studios and all this kind of stuff. And I'm like, this is all just kind of familiar to me. Anyway, uh all the production, the crew, folks at Legendary Pictures, uh Capcom, they were all very like cool and receptive. They felt like they were very fascinated by what we had to say about stuff and wanting to know our uh our impressions and everything. They were they were very much like eating up the things that we had to say about everything Street Fighter. It was extremely cool. Uh I have a couple more pictures. Um I think this is Andrew Kojet who plays Ryu. You know, there was plenty of other people there like many others. I don't remember the names of but I got to meet Boss Logic for the first time. It was super sick, dude. And uh so this is a little while back. The the craziest thing is that the trailer comes out and it's like you might like see portions and parts of a movie when you're on set. Did you meet Cody? We only met so many people, you know. Uh it was pretty much Andrew and I believe it was Noah who plays Ken. Super cool guys. Like ridiculously cool dudes. Just completely normal people. So we didn't know it's like the entire cast and crew is there. That's not how film production works. Like not everybody is on set at one time. Just as an example, you know, it was just neat. It was just neat being there. And then, you know, I feel like Ken aka Noah, I was sitting here just like, "Hey, can I get a picture, man?" And he's like, "No, we're filming the fight scene right now." And I'm like, "Damn, holy crap." It was very cool. It was just a It was just a very fun experience to be there. And the thing is like you you you show up on set and they tell you about the movie and you see things and like have an understanding of like what's going on with it, but you don't know how like the movie is going to turn out. And when I was on set, it was like, "This feels very retro." And that's when we found out the movie's like in the '9s. And I'm like, "Oh, okay. Wow. Okay. The movie distinctly feels like, and this is from the impressions that I had from like now that we've seen this, and now we've seen like the trailer, it's trying to be an older movie. It's like a throwback in terms of they're going back to Street Fighter 2, aka Super Street Fighter 2 era, where like 1993 is like the goal of the film. The way the movie looks is just really not what I was expecting. And even we got some impressions of that from like a little while ago. Yeah. I mean I I we could talk about the trailer a little bit. The problem is is that the freaking trailer got like a an undistributed Tupac song in it and it also has what's going on. Like the music was like I'm like I remember first hearing the song and I'm like this music is a choice and then it started like really going with the the the the theme of the video a lot and I was like oh okay I get it. It is unfortunately DMC hell. Um um I still want to check it out because I like I like the look of the film and I I noticed one thing as we were looking at it. Let me just bring up the freaking trailer. So yeah, I mean again big shout outs to Capcom, my my friends at Capcom and Legendary Pictures for including any of us in some of the behind the scenes and stuff like that. That was very neat. They did not have to do that. I'm going to look at it backwards. Who actually cares about Street Fighter story? Well, it is a movie, right? Here's what I've always said. the best liveaction Street Fighter thing outside of Ral Julia as Bison. That in itself is the greatest Street Fighter thing ever made. You know what I mean? Outside of that, not many people saw it, but there's a little liveaction show called um and it's a show, not a movie, called Street Fighter Assassin's Fist, which is specifically about like Ryu and Ken in their younger years in like the alpha years growing up and being taught by Master Goken, and there's the conflict with Akuma. It's very good. It actually really tries to make like a coherent story out of those characters. It's and but it's not really a movie. It's like it there's a lot of episodes to it, you know, like there's it's pretty much like a mini show. In my opinion, this is just my personal take. The best telling of any Street Fighter story that ever has been, the best like theatrical telling, in-game telling, anything like that, Street Fighter 2 the movie. And funny enough, Street Fighter 2 the movie, which is an anime, it's an anime featurelength film. Believe it or not, this creates the story of Street Fighter Chat. Street Fighter did not have much of a story. It had characters had some backgrounds and things like that, but Street Fighter did not have that much of a story before this. All I got to say is that like comparatively speaking, I see like a lot of the the tone and elements in this live action come kind of close to that, especially from this trailer. There's also like a lot of nods. Like they literally have, let's just let the trailer play in the background. They literally have like several pieces of this trailer are like direct callbacks to the SF2 animated movie, which is like, whoa, that's weird. I I I think some characterizations are a little funny, you know, like some characterizations like uh like Cammy seem a little weird. I'm like, I wonder if that's what she's going to be like. She's not She's like a stoic killer, you know? And it's like, oh, they kind of they kind of like did something with her character a little bit. So, I don't know. It's like I think the things that I that I dig about what we're seeing here, um, I'm not seeing an astronomical amount of CG, I'm seeing like a ton of like wire work and like a ton of like actors are jumping around and [ __ ] you know? Like that that's kind of the thing that's getting me from what we're seeing so far in in like actual final footage now is that I'm seeing like people doing [ __ ] and I'm like, "Okay, some of it like is probably going to get like, you know, going to go through a process in editing and stuff like that." Yeah, there could be hidden CG all over the place, but they're not trying to go like really over the top until they do their big moves like Zangi moves and stuff like that. I thought this scene was cool. This is one of my my favorite parts of the trailer, even though we cannot hear it. uh is like Ken and Ryu getting back together or something like that and uh and they're like fighting to the music and they're like super pissed off at each other. Anyway, yeah, somebody had a great comment which is like, "Dude, they did not cast Zangi if they found him." And I'm like, "Yeah, yeah." And so, going back to what I was talking about, we I was super super worried when I saw some of the casting in this and I'm like, "What are they doing with this? I could not tell like how cheesy they were going to go. And I think this is my take on a Street Fighter movie. It's It looks super cheesy. And thank God because could you imagine if they tried to tell a Street Fighter story that is anywhere close to like featuring a lot of characters and it's not cheesy. Like there's I don't know if there's a way around it because it would effectively lose what Street Fighter is. And Street Fighter is cheesy. It's just it's always been ridiculously cheesy. So, you almost have to like embrace that. You have to embrace that it's like this is ridiculous. It's a fighting game, dude. And as long as like characters are sort of tied in and there's enough here's here's the big one. It's actually got to have fighting, bro. And I I don't want like vapid fighting. I like characters having character and there being like reasons for characters to do things, but like my Yeah. Like a greatest comparison is like the 1995 Mortal Kombat movie. It's mega cheesy. A lot of people nowadays don't like the MK95 movie and I'm like I don't get that because it's the perfect balance of fun and cheesy and actually as characters I want to see them win by the time it ends. Like I want to see Johnny Cage win. I want to see Liu Kang win. I want to see these characters like get their comeuppins. You know what I mean? To me, it's like if you do this like grounded reality sort of thing, it starts to get closer to like Legend of Chun Lee [ __ ] which is exactly what they did. That's too cheesy. We can't do that. That's too cheesy. We can't do that. You know, like, and that's what that movie did where it's like, oh, this depiction of that character is too cheesy. No, no, no. Just put bison in a suit. And it's like, and the one thing I dig about this is that it's not embarrassed by its source material. The people that are making it like clearly love it. And the people that are like a part of it as I've talked to them like yeah they're super into Street Fighter and [ __ ] like a lot of them grew up with this stuff. The one thing that I'm like actually wanting from a live action Street Fighter movie chat if there's one thing that a lot of Street Fighter movies seemingly don't have a lot of especially the live action ones they don't have a lot of fighting. The majority of the 94 movie of Street Fighter the movie is characters like talking to each other throughout the first portions of the film like the first three4s of the movie and their fights get interrupted. They're about to fight and they don't and then something else happens. By the time the end of the movie happens, you get a big big fight scene and like, you know, action sequence with like Guile and Bison and stuff, but like there's not a lot of fighting. And then Legend of Chun Lee is like the same exact thing. And then Assassin's Fist gives you a little bit more, but it's slower. So, it really paces that stuff out. The only way to do this is that you got to move plot forward with fighting and have characters battle each other. And that's like the issue that Street Fighter has had outside of like animated movies is that there's just not a lot of goddamn fighting, dude. Like they don't know how to tell story and move forward with fighting. And there's few other movies that do that really good, like The Matrix and [ __ ] like that where it's like the the fighting is not just there for the hell of it. It is there for, you know, actually moving plot forward. The Raid is a great example of that. Like even movies without a ton of dialogue and [ __ ] I have high hopes. I feel like I I'm even more critical. And I was like, I'll be real, even when I was talking to like producers and directors and like choreographers and all that kind of stuff, like really nice people. They were actually like very adamant about learning about that stuff if something didn't line up with expectations or feelings or that kind of thing. So that was nice. It wasn't a moment where we were just like going in and being like, "Everything's awesome. It's cool, man. I just want to see more." Everything that I was privy to was pretty much like behind the scenes stuff, and actually seeing it like in a completed piece is very cool. This is one of the nuttiest Easter eggs I think in Street Fighter history. Does anybody know what character assassination means? In the original Street Fighter the movie chat, Ken and Ryu are like drug dealers and they're like hustlers and this is them in their dealing outfits. And for some reason, at some point in the trailer, there's a throwback picture of Ken and Ryu when they were like younger hanging out with each other and they're wearing the same outfits. Bro, that's crazy, dude.