Screentime: Street Fighter (2026) Spoiler Discussion

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Round one fight because it's 
time for the old switcharoo 

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where we're talking gaming retro
with Mike and Jaymo. 

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I'm Mike. 
And I'm Jaymo we're the often 

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catalog and some Sega games too.

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But in this special screen time 
episode, we are throwing hands 

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and fireballs as we do a spoiler
filled review of Street Fighter,

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directed by Kitao Sakurai and 
released by Legendary Pictures. 

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your thoughts in the comments 
below. 

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Joining us ringside is the 
nomadic warrior who struggles 

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with his ability to contain 
massive amounts of power and 

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pancakes. 
It's Ryan from Instagram. 

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Brian dot S dot Lee Brian. 
How to feel the dust off that 

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ghee after 20 years of 
hibernation? 

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God, 21 actually. 
So it's a little bit more than 

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half my life ago that I first 
put together this costume, or 

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rather, I had a ghee from from 
an Aikido class and I just 

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decided like, am I willing to 
cut the sleeves off to be real? 

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And like, you know what, I'm 
sure I'll get lots of mileage 

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out of it. 
I wore it for one Halloween 

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costume party and then never 
again for another 21 years. 

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But you know what Street Fighter
weekend it was like? 

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I felt like it was a perfect 
opportunity to dust it off so. 

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Thank you. 
And then, and that was just for 

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a costume party, right? 
Yeah, yeah, MM was there too. 

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So it was a Halloween themed, 
sorry, it was a video game theme

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Halloween party. 
So. 

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And your old Hadukins from I 
guess 2006, 2005. 

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Yeah, were were tennis balls 
wrapped in blue tissue paper. 

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Yeah, which I didn't really even
like affix it to it. 

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I just figured if I just bunch 
it up, it'll stay on there, 

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right, Right. 
They immediately separated when 

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I try to like haduken them, you 
know, but but yeah, you know, 

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I'm glad you you provided me 
this one with, you know, one of 

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those like little. 
I don't know what you call this 

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like a firm koosh ball type of 
thing, but there we go. 

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And it lights up if you hit so. 
Put that on my head. 

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Stone firm koosh ball. 
No, it's a dog toy. 

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Just squeeze it like right now. 
Squeeze is. 

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It a dog toy. 
I mean, I guess big dog. 

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Give it a squeeze. 
Shit, I had no idea it did that,

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did that. 
That's great. 

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And kicking her way onto the 
stage, making her triumphant 

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return from the season 3's Mario
Party extravaganza. 

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It's the strongest woman in the 
world, Chun Li, played by Sarah 

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Ford. 
Sarah, years ago, you jokingly 

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pulled off the perfect Chun Li 
laugh. 

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And that was the moment that 
made me want to dress up for 

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this movie. 
How'd it feel slipping into the 

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Chun Blues for the first time? 
Well, slightly culturally, 

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appropriationally, but, but you 
know, I did it anyway. 

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I did it. 
I did it for Jamo. 

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You rock it well, very well. 
Chun Li was always my favorite 

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character. 
I feel like, OK, it's tough 

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because it's also, she's also 
the only girl. 

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That's why I I wanted to play as
the only girl because of course,

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you know, I got to Rep the girl.
I always Rep the Princess and 

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you know, Mario and Mario Party.
So when you only have one girl, 

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like you can't be worried about 
her race you know so well. 

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And you can do the yatas really 
well. 

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Yeah. 
She was the first female 

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fighting game character in 
history, so you know. 

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Cameo wasn't in the very first 
game, I guess she was later. 

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Right. 
She was in Super Street Fighter,

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too. 
I'm glad to wear my glasses. 

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But yeah, I mean, you don't need
to tell me about feeling 

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conflicted about your costume 
because like, you know, I'm 

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Andrew Schultz's version of Dan,
who is Japanese in the games. 

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You know what I mean? 
But they recast him and it's 

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interesting because like, you 
know, we'll get into it when we 

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get into the spoiler filled Plot
Summary. 

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But the movie addresses it like,
I think it's who played Don 

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Savage was that he's the 
comedian Eric Andre. 

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Eric Andre was like, you still 
pretend to be Japanese. 

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And I was like, oh, OK. 
Like, we're full on addressing 

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it. 
He was a big pleasant surprise 

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for me, the Don Savage 
character. 

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But, you know, I was very 
relieved to see that there was 

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nothing about this portrayal 
that associated with the exact 

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the more problematic things 
about the guy. 

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You know, So like, I kind of 
feel like everyone has to kind 

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of decide what they're going to 
engage with at this point 

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because also, you know, it's 
going to this was the first 

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movie with the Paramount and 
Skydance logo, merger or merger 

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logo. 
And I think we all have like, 

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kind of conflicting feelings 
about a studio that makes all of

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these movies about, you know, 
fighting perverted fascists and 

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then in real life does something
very different. 

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So if you have conflicted 
feelings about this movie, I 

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think they're totally valid. 
I don't know if you. 

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Absolve. 
You absolve me basically. 

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I do, I do, and I do also want 
to point out the costume Sarah's

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wearing for the zoom is not the 
one she wore because this one 

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was a little bit more. 
I I just wore the blue like the 

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under. 
There you go. 

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I just wore that to the. 
Premiere See, you're you're 

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wearing the part that got burned
in the fireplace, you know? 

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Yeah, well, I thought, you know,
for the zoom, it doesn't really 

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come across as much. 
So I was like, for the Zoom, I 

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gotta wear the like, you know? 
The more Street Fighter Alpha 

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look. 
Yeah, the more Street Fighter 

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look, yeah. 
It's nice, it's very snazzy. 

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I love the the the Sheen of it 
too. 

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Yeah. 
All right. 

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So you guys ready to kick? 
Is the best. 

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You guys ready to kick it? 
Shall we get started? 

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Sure. 
Hell yeah. 

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So let's deep dive into Street 
Fighter, released in theaters 

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worldwide 2026. 
As described on imdb.com, street

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fighters Ryu and Ken reunite 
with Chun Li when Chun Li 

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recruits them for the World 
Warrior Tournament. 

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As they face a hidden 
conspiracy, they must confront 

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each other and their past or 
face destruction. 

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So we got a big group together, 
a lot of switcheroo alums and 

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some faces. 
You'll be meeting soon to go to 

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the TCL Chinese Theatre for my 
birthday. 

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So big thanks to everyone who 
showed up for me And costumed up

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for me not in the zoom is our 
friend Margo. 

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She was from our Season 2 Mario 
episode who did a cami white 

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outfit. 
But above the Chinese Theater is

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this really striking poster of, 
I guess, our three protagonists,

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Ryu, Ken and Chun Li, each kind 
of doing a signature move. 

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Chun Li is kicking high, Ryu is 
doing a show where you sorry, 

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Ken's doing a show where you can
uppercut. 

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And Ryu is, of course, charging 
that iconic Hadouken Fireball. 

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Mike, I know this isn't the one 
on letterbox, but what did you 

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think of the one hanging above 
the Chinese? 

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I didn't really notice it. 
No. 

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No. 
OK. 

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So I I don't really have 
thoughts on it because I didn't 

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really see it. 
You gotta look. 

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Up I I also didn't notice it, 
Mike. 

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And then Kyle took a picture of 
me in front of it and he told me

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to pose. 
And I go, well, tell me how to 

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pose. 
And he's like, oh, that's good, 

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whatever you're doing, that's 
good. 

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And then when I looked at the 
picture he took, I'm like, dude,

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why didn't you tell me to do her
move? 

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Like she's like this with her 
leg up. 

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And he's like, yeah, that's 
good. 

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And I just went kind of like 
this with my leg down and I'm 

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like, it was, it was right 
there, dude. 

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It was right there. 
Just tell me to put my arm up 

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slightly and put my leg up. 
Oh, I just keep it up in the. 

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Photo and I think it looks great
and like, I mean, yeah, you 

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don't have to necessarily match 
exactly. 

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If anything, the one I took, 
which I'm which I'm well, I'm 

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proud of the one I took. 
It's right there. 

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Sure. 
But like now when I look at it, 

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it's like, oh, I didn't do the, 
I did the hands kind of in the 

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opposite orientation. 
I'm like exactly because me, I'm

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trying to emulate it. 
You, you're just doing an 

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alternate pose. 
I feel like that, that maybe 

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you're gonna work. 
Oh, OK, well, but. 

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But nobody told me to emulate 
it. 

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I was like, I didn't even see 
it. 

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I didn't even realize it was 
there. 

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Kyle's like. 
Oh no, I was. 

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Like, oh, he told me, because 
the poster's right there. 

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But then he told me he had a 
pose. 

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Well, and let it be known, I 
have been in many body combat 

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classes with Sarah. 
She can do the kicks like she is

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she. 
I know I can do the kicks. 

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Yeah, you guys will see. 
I mean, maybe like in that video

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that we shot that will probably 
be up at the time this is out, 

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so. 
Yeah, I like it. 

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I think that it really 
establishes that this is going 

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to do something that a Street 
Fighter movie never has before, 

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which is you're going to get 
your iconic moves. 

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We've seen two Street Fighter 
movies released in the West, not

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counting the animation, which 
we'll talk about later. 

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But like, you know, in the 1994 
Jean-Claude Van Damme movie that

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Sarah fell asleep 20 minutes in 
and woke up 20 minutes left. 

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So Sarah's seen the 40 minute 
cut of the Sleepy Sarah cut of 

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The Street Fighter. 
But you had fun with it. 

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Yeah, yeah, I think I got the 
gist. 

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If anyone's interested, Mike and
I did a stream team with a 

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friend of the show Kyle talking 
about that movie. 

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So if you if you want to get 
your Street Fighter double dose,

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go check out the stream team 
recording. 

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That was a lot of fun. 
But you know, this is the first 

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time we see the fireballs, the 
flying uppercuts, like a lot of 

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the signature moves that we love
so much and that those are such 

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a part of the series and of the 
characters identities, like 

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really fun getting to see those 
properly. 

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Yeah, I agree. 
And I feel like especially given

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that, you know, it's been the 
first live action movie was 90. 

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Or 4. 94 OK, yeah, so we're 
talking about like over 30 years

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since we had a movie that at 
least, you know, opinions will 

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vary about it, but at least it 
embraced the the look and feel, 

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the camp of the of the series, 
you know which you know, I guess

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that second movie you're talking
about the what? 

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The legend of Chun Li. 2009. 
To be fair, and I was talking 

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about this with Mike, I never 
actually saw that one, but I 

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remember a lot of the discourse 
basically kind of confirming 

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what you could sort of see from 
the trailers. 

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It looked like the kind of movie
that was like because I know 

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that focus particularly on Chun 
Li and and and Bison. 

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I don't know how many of the 
other characters really appeared

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in it, but it looked like like 
like they don't. 

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They clearly made the creative 
choice for better or for worse. 

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But I guess in most fans eyes, 
like they don't look like Chun 

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Li and M Bison to you at a 
glance, you know, it looked like

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they were they were trying to 
ground it in a way that like you

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guys, this is an over the top 
fighting game where where they 

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throw fireballs out of their 
hands. 

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And like these characters are 
kind of crazy and iconic and 

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have these appearances that 
you're not really capitalizing 

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on. 
So there's been a long given 

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that this has been a popular 
game franchise forever. 

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I feel like, you know, it's nice
to see a movie embrace the camp 

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and this the the feel of the 
game, which also means being a 

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little ridiculous. 
Yeah, yeah. 

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The color palette, you know, 
because I in that Kristen Crook 

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movie, like the only one you'd 
recognize is Vega and that's cuz

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of the mass right? 
You know? 

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So according to Deadline, this 
movie had a budget of 

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82,000,000, which is small I 
think for a movie with this many

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characters and special effects. 
According to 

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virginiaglaze@ign.com, actor 
Kalina Liang did two hours of 

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legs and ate 12 eggs a day to 
prepare for the role of Chun Li,

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increasing each increasing each 
leg size by 2.6 inches by the 

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time the film wrapped, which 
like that is a lot of muscle 

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gain. 
She. 

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Really did she really did put in
the work. 

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I'm I'm it's very impressive. 
And I mean, you can see, 

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especially in that brief fight 
she has with the people who are 

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trying to like, like right 
before she heads back in to, to,

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to go into the, to go into the 
fray when she has that red 

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dress. 
But you can see like her thighs,

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like, oh, damn, she has like 
tone to them. 

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And in shots that you can tell 
like, oh, they couldn't use a 

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stunt double for this because 
you know, like she put in the 

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work. 
It's it's incredible. 

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Yeah, that scene only existed to
show off her legs because like, 

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why is she beating the hell out 
of her Co workers? 

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Like, did we need this scene? 
And it's like, yeah. 

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I mean, I get it especially, I 
mean, there's a lot of discourse

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to be said around the the the 
pressures that tend to get put 

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on on actors to portray iconic 
characters and, and the bodies 

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that they have that they. 
Yeah. 

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Like with Marvel, you see how 
much it's done and how much 

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like, and, and the fact that 
it's like they have to even 

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dehydrate themselves the day out
to show as much of like The 

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Wolverine 6 pack or in when they
do the shirtless scene or 

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something like that. 
But I mean like it's, it's, it's

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incredible what the the and, and
the the work that they'll put 

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into and if anything, the fact 
that this movie is coming so 

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long after this game. 
As you know, this is a a 

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generation after that 90s one. 
Pretty much everyone involved 

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like they, they, they grew up 
with the franchise. 

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A lot of them are at least 
casual fans themselves and want 

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to do the characters justice. 
So like, if they're going to 

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put, if they're going to put in 
that work, yeah, you got to show

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it off. 
And so to bring it back to that 

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scene, it's like, yes, that was 
meant to showcase Chun Li's 

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thighs, but look at them. 
I'm like, holy shit. 

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Well. 
I'm just glad we've reached an 

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era when thick thighs are 
appreciated in a woman because 

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it's it was not always that way.
That's absolutely true. 

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Absolutely true. 
Brian, you mentioned, you know, 

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so much of the cast and crew and
people working on this movie 

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were fans of it growing up. 
So Cody Rhodes apparently always

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wanted to play Colonel Guile. 
And when he learned that the 

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shooting of the movie was going 
to make him miss the birth of 

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his son, he declined the role. 
And his wife is like, no, you 

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have to do this. 
You have been talking about this

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for years. 
And so and. 

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He's such an inspired choice for
Guile too. 

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You know, like, well, I mean, 
and plus, you know, quick, 

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quick, sorry, quick continue. 
But quick aside. 

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Like I remember the first 
glimpse that I got, or I think a

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lot of people got of this 
production at all. 

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Yeah. 
Was the I think he put into his 

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Instagram stories his own photo 
of his silhouette wearing the 

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wig. 
And you can just see from the 

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silhouette like, oh, wow, 
they're embracing like he's 

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doing full on flat top. 
You know, like this is all 

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right, they're going cap for 
this. 

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It was actually Andrew Scholz 
took the picture and it was his 

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shadow on the pavement. 
But it was the iconic. 

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You saw the shape and you're 
like, oh, they're really doing 

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this. 
Yeah. 

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Yeah. 
So in addition to playing the 

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leather clad dictator and bison,
David Dusmulchin also wrote the 

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back story for his own character
in the upcoming graphic novel 

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adaptation. 
So I thought that was pretty 

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cool. 
Yeah. 

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And I think that's what I got 
for the trivia other than this 

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thing is just stock full of fun 
cameos and things that like 

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probably I only caught like 
there's a prison break scene 

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later in the movie and pretty 
much everyone in the cell is a 

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fighting game community 
influencer or YouTube. 

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So there's this fun little meta 
joke of like Bison torturing all

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these people that have been 
playing the fighting games and 

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the bosses torture them in the 
game because they're trying to 

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beat it on like the hardest 
difficulty, you know? 

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And now Bison like, literally 
has them captive. 

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So let's go over the joy pros 
and joy cons of each section as 

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we work our way through the 
Wikipedia Plot Summary. 

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Full spoilers from here on out. 
So the story begins in 1987. 

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Japanese born Ryu defeats Sagat 
in the First World War Warrior 

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Tournament using the Dark Hado, 
attracting the attention of the 

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deity Akuma. 
Shortly afterward, Akuma murders

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Ryu's mentor Gokan to provoke 
Ryu into unleashing the Dark 

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Hado. 
The incident drives Rio and his 

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adoptive brother Ken apart, and 
Rio disappears from the martial 

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arts world. 
Six years later in Bison, 

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dictator of Shadow Lou organizes
the Second World War tournament 

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in metro Laos city to draw Rio 
out of hiding. 

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Chun Li, an undercover Interpol 
agent, seeks revenge for her 

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father's murder at Bison's 
hands. 

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Recruits Rio and Ken and other 
fighters from around the world. 

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So let's stop there for a 
second. 

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Kind of doing this stream team 
style. 

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Mike, what did you think? 
Because you're not really a 

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Street Fighter guy, so I was 
wondering what the animation 

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prelude did for you. 
So. 

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That was definitely a thing. 
I just didn't expect it to do 

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that at all. 
To the point that because I got 

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in a phone call right before 
coming in and stepped back out. 

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I came in during that and I 
thought I was, I thought I was 

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still on a, it was still on a 
trailer for something because 

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that was, you know, that wasn't 
live action. 

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So I didn't even realize that 
the movie had started. 

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And I think for me it was the 
strongest point. 

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Like I like the animation 
seconds that they did. 

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Yeah, I did too. 
A lot of video game movies do 

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that thing where it's like, oh, 
for a second it looks like the 

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game. 
So like the Doom movie has the 

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first person moment and like the
Golden Axe series just does the 

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thing where it's like actually 
the pixels, but I like this 

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better. 
I think if they had like shown 

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like 16 bit game footage, it 
would have felt a little too 

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hokum or at least for the 
direction that this like was 

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going. 
Had any of you guys watched the 

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animated movie that came out in 
like 95 I'm. 

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Glad you're mentioning that 
you're talking about Street 

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Fighter Alpha. 
Not well St. not it's it's 

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called Street Fighter. 
The movie Street Fighter Alpha 

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was an anime series, but I know 
it's the one you're thinking of 

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with. 
With with Chun Li in the shower,

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yes, and Vega in the hotel room.
Yeah, no, I do. 

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I feel like I remember watching 
both of them. 

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But it's Street Fighter Alpha 
that you're saying it's a 

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serious. 
I could swear it was a it was a 

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movie or maybe I saw a version 
that edited it together into a 

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movie or something. 
Cuz I remember just having a DVD

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of Street Fighter Alpha and it 
was like a complete. 

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It was edited as if it was like 
1 long movie. 

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Yeah, yeah, I know. 
It's when you're talking about 

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that's the one with like akuma 
is kind of what the antagonist. 

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 
Either way, I mean, they're 

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they're great. 
I mean, there are really 

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brilliant Street Fighter anime 
adaptations, which I felt like 

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it was so cool to see this movie
on some level I felt like 

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harkening to them too. 
Like we're acknowledging that 

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because obviously as we'll get 
into it later too, this movie 

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will acknowledge is the 94 
movie. 

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But the anime intro was a 
surprising, but also like I was 

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like, oh, but that's so 
befitting way to tell the the 

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flashback stuff, you know? 
Yeah, yeah, I really dug that. 

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And right away, the movie 
establishes itself in my mind as

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a comedy. 
This movie works best when it's 

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making jokes. 
And the the moments of the movie

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where I kind of like, started to
lose interest is when like a 

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fight scene went a little too 
long and was played a little too

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earnestly. 
I like, like, like the like I 

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was watching. 
But also this movie was so 

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engaging. 
I didn't. 

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I was standing in the hall 
waiting for a good bathroom 

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moment because it was the Blanca
versus Ryu fight and he's like 

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zipping around the ball and, you
know, he gets the Hadouken and 

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sets him free with it. 
I mean, I'm jumping ahead, but I

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was going. 
To say where? 

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Where are we going here? 
Sorry, sorry. 

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I'll, I'll reel it back. 
I'll reel it back. 

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Sure. 
But so, Sarah, you were saying 

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you didn't really like the whole
Ken Masters MTV segment to do 

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the recap of the story? 
Yeah, I did not like that at 

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all. 
I thought so. 

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I thought it was weird because 
it was like, why are you? 

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I think any point in which your 
exposition goes over a minute, 

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you've lost. 
You've lost the audience, you've

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lost the storytelling propulsion
that you need to get people 

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engaged in the movie. 
So I think that some of that 

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could have been told in 
flashback or they should have 

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made it as like, hey, Bison's 
doing this big tournament. 

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Here's a background on some of 
the players. 

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You know, how they do in the 
Olympics or even when you're 

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watching like a sport and 
they'll like, you know, someone 

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goes up to the plate and to 
pitch and they'll like tell you 

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a little background information 
about them. 

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Like they should have done it 
like that as opposed to this 

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weird. 
It was this weird like way too 

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long exposition that didn't 
really fit in anywhere except 

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for it just seemed like lazy 
storytelling to me. 

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I feel like there was a better 
way to do it. 

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That being said, I was really in
on Ken and reuse relationship. 

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I really love that setup. 
I love the like we're childhood 

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besties, but now we're kind of 
like maybe enemies, but. 

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We're not sure. 
We're not really sure where they

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stand. 
I love that dynamic. 

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So I think it was really smart 
to set that up from the 

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beginning. 
I just think it could have been 

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set up a little better. 
And I did love the animation. 

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I thought it was really 
beautiful so. 

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I actually I like the sort of I 
kind of framed as in my mind as 

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how like it might be like the 
behind the music kind of things 

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as well. 
And he's like, honestly, if they

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just did this for the full 
movie, I think I actually would 

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would have dug it with I think 
The only exception being it's a 

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little weird when they do like, 
you know, 19 days over this. 

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Now it's six years later and 
it's 1993. 

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And I was like, OK, that's a 
little bit like just say it's 

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been 6 years and now they 
haven't talked. 

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I don't need you to to do like 
we need to say the current year.

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That's what I mean, it wasn't 
framed correctly. 

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Like I like your behind the 
music idea but frame it then 

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that way. 
Right now, I was, I was telling 

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Mike on the on the drive home 
after the movie that like, I 

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guess I'm, and I feel like this 
is probably the case for a lot 

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of people, given the campiness 
level of this movie, which is 

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sort of like, which is something
that they were particularly 

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striving for. 
I feel like I was more willing 

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to forgive what feels like 
particularly overly expository 

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dialogue. 
But the same time there's 

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obviously there's a point, you 
know, like that at some point 

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where it's it's it's, it can get
a little too heavy. 

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But otherwise, the only other 
thing I would mention, 

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particularly about the animated 
segments, which were gorgeous. 

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I was also telling Mike that I 
feel like for better or for 

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worse, there was a particular 
tonal shift every time you would

436
00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:00,600
go back to the live action stuff
like you. 

437
00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:04,400
I like that it brought a lot of 
like, like there were times that

438
00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:06,680
maybe they should have done it 
more like, like like Sarah 

439
00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:09,920
mentioned with the with the Ken 
stuff of like placing it later 

440
00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:11,680
and showing us flashbacks. 
But there were particular 

441
00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:14,880
moments that flashback later, 
you know, like like particularly

442
00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:17,960
in the the Blanca fight, which 
you I guess jumped a little 

443
00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:19,280
Jerry. 
But like that moment. 

444
00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:22,680
Where did you catch that glimpse
of and Bison meeting that really

445
00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:26,160
cute, adorable, very brief 
glimpse into like young, young 

446
00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:29,960
Blanca, like in the woods, like 
just looking for his mom And 

447
00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:32,560
like, but it would cut back to 
live action and it would almost 

448
00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:35,880
feel like it's shifting to 
something that it feels a little

449
00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:38,320
bit goofier. 
You know, even though it's live 

450
00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:40,840
action and you're you're seeing 
like a stylized version of those

451
00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:43,960
flashbacks with all those 
flashbacks are so serious. 

452
00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:48,400
And so for for better or for 
worse, like the the scenes that 

453
00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:52,800
intercut with them felt like it 
was shifting in tone. 

454
00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:55,240
But at the same time, I'm not 
sure how else you would do it. 

455
00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:57,120
Because I want the movie to 
embrace the campiness. 

456
00:22:57,360 --> 00:23:00,040
I love that the that the the 
flashbacks are shown in a very 

457
00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:03,560
super serious and a very 
gorgeously animated homage to 

458
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:07,360
the previous anime adaptations 
of Street Fighter. 

459
00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:10,920
But yeah, it's a bit of a mixed 
bag because of that. 

460
00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:14,440
I think what this movie is not 
going to get enough credit for 

461
00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:19,440
is actually very deftly 
navigating the waters of Street 

462
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:22,360
Fighter fans because they are so
diverse. 

463
00:23:22,360 --> 00:23:25,880
There are people who think that 
it should be silly and stupid. 

464
00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:29,480
And then there are people who 
take the lore very seriously. 

465
00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:32,680
And then there are fans who love
the female empowerment. 

466
00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:35,480
And then there's fans who love 
seeing female booties. 

467
00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:38,920
And like this movie, like really
tried to give. 

468
00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:41,840
I mean, Sarah's like, well, so 
Sarah, I want to ask you because

469
00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:45,760
like, so it's well, so Jackie 
kind of got the ick and I don't 

470
00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:49,480
I I totally understand it of the
number of like ash shots of like

471
00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:52,360
every female character. 
And like there's a scene where 

472
00:23:52,360 --> 00:23:54,440
Chun Li is getting into the 
shower and. 

473
00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:57,280
It's so unnecessary. 
I looked at Jackie and I was 

474
00:23:57,280 --> 00:24:00,120
like, what the hell? 
So you see her naked silhouette 

475
00:24:00,120 --> 00:24:03,800
and in the anime movie that 
Brian and I watched as young 

476
00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:07,120
men, very formative for us, 
there is a very gratuitous Chun 

477
00:24:07,120 --> 00:24:11,520
Li shower scene that is very 
horny like 1995 anime. 

478
00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:14,560
OK, and this movie is setting 
that up. 

479
00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:17,880
But then you see it's actually 
Honda's body that like, it cuts 

480
00:24:18,120 --> 00:24:22,000
to and like, and it felt like it
felt very immature, but I got a 

481
00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,960
smirk out of it. 
Yeah, I like the subversion in 

482
00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:27,440
that moment too. 
And like, we know this game and 

483
00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:30,920
a lot of games like it have been
have leaned very male gazy. 

484
00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:34,960
But if anything, I appreciated 
the moments in this movie like 

485
00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:37,800
that one that sort of felt like 
it was kind of trying to subvert

486
00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:42,360
that a little bit, you know, but
but yeah, anyways, that's there 

487
00:24:42,360 --> 00:24:44,360
is a point to be made. 
I mean, even as Sarah mentioned 

488
00:24:44,360 --> 00:24:46,200
right off at the bad at the 
beginning, it's like Chun Lee at

489
00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:47,480
the beginning, like she was the 
only girl. 

490
00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:50,760
There wasn't a lot of like, and 
she was she was made to be, you 

491
00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:55,480
know, to be to to to cater to in
a lot of adaptations, especially

492
00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:59,320
like in like in the anime or, 
you know, to to cater to male 

493
00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:02,240
fantasy. 
And, and the guys were like, you

494
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:06,680
know, the, the sort of the, the,
the fantasy of, of, of 

495
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:09,320
themselves, of strength of, you 
know, but at the same time it's 

496
00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:12,560
a yeah. 
All that to say, I like the way 

497
00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:15,480
that that movie like that, that 
that way that I mean, it's 

498
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:18,520
played for laughs that that fade
into a Honda's body, for 

499
00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:20,800
example, that that it kind of 
like. 

500
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:23,720
Just beautiful in its own way, 
let's be real. 

501
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:28,640
But so, Sarah, as a fan of Chun 
Li and as a fan of these games, 

502
00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:32,120
what did you think of how this 
movie navigated like the sexy 

503
00:25:32,360 --> 00:25:36,560
waters of it all? 
I don't know if I have an 

504
00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:41,240
opinion about this sex appeal as
much, but I thought it was 

505
00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:44,400
interesting how both movies they
sort of took her out of the 

506
00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:47,880
fighting role and put her into 
this like behind the scenes 

507
00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:51,400
role. 
So in the older movie they she 

508
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:56,360
was a reporter and in this movie
she was like a double agent and 

509
00:25:56,360 --> 00:25:58,880
I was kind of like, why can't 
she just be a fighter like the 

510
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:03,760
dudes? 
Like I thought it was sort of, I

511
00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:07,040
guess we're supposed to think 
like, oh, it's good because she 

512
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:11,040
has an extra super special role.
But to me it felt kind of like, 

513
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:14,440
but I thought she was just like 
a fighter like with the dudes. 

514
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:17,320
Do you know what I mean? 
Like I'm not sure why she has to

515
00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:21,720
be a behind the scenes. 
Side quest. 

516
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:24,400
Side quest person. 
Yeah, exactly. 

517
00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:28,120
So I I didn't, I don't think 
that's necessarily bad. 

518
00:26:28,120 --> 00:26:30,920
I think it was actually an 
attempt to give her maybe like a

519
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:34,120
bigger role because she's the 
only girl. 

520
00:26:34,120 --> 00:26:36,360
So I don't, I don't think it's 
like a bad thing. 

521
00:26:36,360 --> 00:26:42,080
I just to me, it's like when 
playing the game, she was equal 

522
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:44,880
with the guys, right? 
And that was the cool thing 

523
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:47,720
about her. 
And I kind of don't like this 

524
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:52,760
idea that, oh, we have to take 
her and give her this like it's 

525
00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:56,160
because of her dad. 
Like she can't just fight for 

526
00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:58,160
the glory like the dudes do, you
know what I mean? 

527
00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:00,600
But that just bothers me. 
I don't know why. 

528
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:03,200
But what is word Sarah? 
I did sort of feel like like 

529
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:07,040
they're doing this intrinsically
tying her so much more to all of

530
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:10,760
M Bison scenes just because they
want big, just because they 

531
00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:13,720
didn't want to like like as an 
economy, as almost like an 

532
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:16,680
economy, a storytelling kind of 
decision of like, well, if we 

533
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:20,840
just have her tied more tied 
story wise to M Bison, then we 

534
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:24,560
can just accomplish all of their
the scenes they wanted to show 

535
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,040
to show that, you know, that she
has a personal vendetta against 

536
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,480
him and get that, you know, but 
at the same time, you're right. 

537
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:34,080
It is a ship from from what we 
saw her before as more the a 

538
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:36,560
separate party. 
You know, like, like at least in

539
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:39,120
the that original movies case. 
I don't know about the Canon of 

540
00:27:39,120 --> 00:27:41,480
the games per SE, where where 
she sort of had she was trying 

541
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:45,240
to investigate this thing and I 
guess they more or less still 

542
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,720
have her in a news van of sorts,
but it's not it's not the same 

543
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:50,400
thing. 
You know, they they definitely 

544
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:52,760
really shifted with her And but 
at the same time, the thing 

545
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:54,960
does, you know, not to jump too 
far ahead necessarily, but I 

546
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:57,600
feel like a lot of that was set 
up for future things too, 

547
00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,040
because there's so much 
unresolved with them. 

548
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,840
Bison and there's obviously, you
know, movies like this, they're 

549
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:05,800
always are leaving the door open
for where they could potentially

550
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:06,600
take it. 
But I mean. 

551
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:08,080
You're saying leave the door 
open? 

552
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:09,720
This straight up. 
Back to the future, to that. 

553
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:14,320
Yeah, very Into the spider 
verse. 

554
00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:17,520
No, Across the spider verse kind
of ending. 

555
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:20,080
Didn't even try to wrap it up. 
But we're definitely not at the 

556
00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:23,160
ending yet here, so let's. 
So let's get to the next part of

557
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,400
the plot here. 
Ryu initially declined to 

558
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:28,040
participate in the tournament, 
but Akuma threatens to destroy 

559
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,520
the tournament's winner unless 
Ryu enters. 

560
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:33,480
Fearing that Ken will win, Ryu 
travels to Metro out to dissuade

561
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:35,000
his brother, who refused to 
listen. 

562
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:37,600
Rio defeats a Honda to take his 
place in the tournament. 

563
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:39,560
The night before the 
competition, the fighters brawl 

564
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:43,560
in a bar before Bison soldiers 
incapacitate them and take Ryu 

565
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:47,480
to Bison's Spire. 
This, this is I think when the 

566
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,240
movie is at its best. 
I think the fight against a 

567
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:53,480
Honda is so fun. 
I love that it's it's in a bath 

568
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:55,480
house, which is his stage from 
the game. 

569
00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:59,880
I love that you got the hundred 
hand slap the flying head butt. 

570
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,960
Yeah, but like I also. 
Love all in Japanese too by. 

571
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:07,080
The way that's what I was going 
to say, yeah, is that, you know,

572
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:09,960
they, they previous, because the
previous one, he was a Samoan 

573
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:14,000
actor, I believe in 1994. 
Yeah, I believe some sort of 

574
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:16,360
yeah. 
Yeah yeah, cuz he yeah, but but 

575
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:19,240
and Hawaiian. 
Right. 

576
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:23,040
More so, but it's nice that I 
mean, particularly to have 

577
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:26,480
Andrew Koji, not only because he
can speak Japanese so well, but 

578
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:29,200
I mean Andrew Koji, I don't know
if you guys were familiar with 

579
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,040
him before this. 
The main thing I knew him from 

580
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:35,360
was the lead in warrior the the 
series that like was actually 

581
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:39,160
originally, you know, conceived 
by Bruce Lee and for him to star

582
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:43,200
in that, that they sort of like,
well, he's like the lead in that

583
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,720
and he's just so damn good. 
And also like holy holy shit, 

584
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:51,120
like how well, how ripped he got
for this and and how how well he

585
00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:53,600
plays in that scene where he's 
just where it's fully in 

586
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:55,760
Japanese too. 
I couldn't help but feel though,

587
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:59,520
during that fight scene, as much
as like as I felt like maybe in 

588
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:03,440
general with this movie, it was 
so beautiful in its fanservice. 

589
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,680
But ultimately, like that was in
Honda's entire role in this was 

590
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:10,080
to be just like a guy that where
you could just replace in a 

591
00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:11,920
tournament where ultimately it 
didn't even matter. 

592
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:15,200
So it's like, I wouldn't fault 
somebody who isn't a fan of the 

593
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:18,360
game to come out of it 
afterwards going like, So what 

594
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:20,160
was the bathhouse lean for? 
Like what? 

595
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:23,560
This random guy who never said 
something otherwise, But to the 

596
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:26,040
rest of us, we're like, Oh my 
God, it's a Honda and he's doing

597
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:28,480
the thousand hand slap. 
He's even doing that like head 

598
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:31,000
charts thing he does. 
Yeah. 

599
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,640
It was such good fun. 
Isn't this though, kind of a 

600
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:35,520
staple of a lot of Kung Fu 
movies? 

601
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:38,040
Like Timmy Mike, I don't know if
you've watched a lot of Kung Fu 

602
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:41,920
movies, but like I know Timmy is
a big aficionado of them and he 

603
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:44,080
was describing how a lot of Kung
Fu movies have these really 

604
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:47,800
wacky opponents and it's like 
kind of 1 kooky encounter after 

605
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:50,320
the other. 
So like, I kind of feel like if 

606
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:52,280
you weren't a fan of the games, 
you'd be like, oh, remember that

607
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:54,960
scene where he fights a sumo 
wrestler in the bathhouse? 

608
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:56,560
Like, that was fun. 
Yeah, I. 

609
00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:58,640
Can't help but feel like, yeah, 
there's got to be at least some 

610
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:00,520
people who like, even if you 
don't know these characters, you

611
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:03,360
can have fun with it in the way 
that I've had with movies where 

612
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:06,320
like, I don't know the source 
material, but like, that was a 

613
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:09,240
cool ass light, you know, so. 
Yeah, yeah. 

614
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:15,400
I think this actually has within
this section, this has the my 

615
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:20,240
two favorite bits out of fights 
and they are totally like very 

616
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:28,160
different. 
OK. 1 is the Ryu and Ken sort of

617
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:31,360
fights. 
Oh yeah, in the hotel room. 

618
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:33,880
And I think partially because 
it's it feels like relatively 

619
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:35,480
long. 
It felt like it was longer 

620
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:37,440
shots. 
I don't know if it was, but it 

621
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:40,080
it didn't feel like it was a 
bunch of quick shots of just 

622
00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:43,960
like Ryu just avoiding 
everything Ken's doing. 

623
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:48,200
And like, that feels like the 
kind of thing that comes out of 

624
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,480
other martial arts movies of 
that, like that kind of scene of

625
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:57,320
someone just showing like, I am 
so in control of this that I 

626
00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:00,920
don't have to try to hit you. 
I can just let you do this. 

627
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:02,880
Back in his chair like he 
doesn't even get up. 

628
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:05,640
I like using your momentum 
against you. 

629
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:07,080
Isn't that like in the karate? 
Yeah. 

630
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:07,960
Or whatever. 
Yeah. 

631
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,360
But it's also, it's such good 
storytelling though, because 

632
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:13,880
like you're establishing what 
kind of man Ryu is, You're 

633
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,520
establishing what kind of man 
Ken is, You're establishing 

634
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,360
their different skill levels or 
I guess perceived skill levels. 

635
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:20,360
We'll get to that in a second. 
And. 

636
00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:23,040
I like how dynamic that is in 
their particular story 

637
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:24,840
throughout it. 
And obviously right off at the 

638
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:26,840
at the beginning with the 
information you have, you're 

639
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:30,480
like, oh, Ryu was the star 
student of their master. 

640
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:33,360
Even though Ken is obviously an 
incredibly capable fighter, Ryu 

641
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:37,000
has full control in that scene. 
He's he's shown to be the the 

642
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,080
person who who was capable of 
doing the Hadouken first. 

643
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:43,440
And like, you know, but then, 
yeah, as we'll get into it 

644
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:47,080
later, like the dynamic of how 
that changes and how the the 

645
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:48,680
twist that comes ahead too. 
And so. 

646
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:51,760
Yeah, so Mike, was your was your
other favorite scene, the bar 

647
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:55,000
scene? 
It's a specific shot in the bar 

648
00:32:55,000 --> 00:33:00,920
scene, which is it kind of just 
goes into brawl just because 

649
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:03,400
like I don't think it's well 
motivated for a lot of that. 

650
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:06,240
Like some of it has caught, has 
triggers in a lot of it seems 

651
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,640
like, well, I guess we're doing 
a fight scene now. 

652
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:12,680
Understandably, it was their way
to shoehorn in, you know, 

653
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:15,160
certain fanservice with other 
characters. 

654
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:19,280
Like we never see Zangie fight 
except, well, yeah, except for 

655
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:21,240
except for that scene and and 
the way he gets involved is 

656
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:22,920
because they knock over his 
table. 

657
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:25,680
That's. 
Actually that bit, actually I 

658
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:27,800
was more OK with the other bit. 
A lot of the other bits felt 

659
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:29,520
like it's like, well, I guess 
we're just going to have a fight

660
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:31,440
now. 
Like he at least had a reason to

661
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:36,080
be mad. 
But that I think it is when Ken 

662
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:40,480
gets kicked and then it goes 
kind of like slow MO reaction 

663
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:45,360
shots of everybody else in the 
club of just everyone that just 

664
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:49,000
in shock. 
And the shot of Zengeef, who is 

665
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:52,440
still looking at shock. 
And you can, it goes to him like

666
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:55,000
in a punch, and he's look up in 
shock and then he just continues

667
00:33:55,000 --> 00:34:00,560
to punch while distracted. 
And in shock, that was the 

668
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:02,320
probably the Best Song Geef 
moment in that. 

669
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:05,400
But at the same time, yeah, on a
very basic level, as much as 

670
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:09,199
this is a video game adaptation,
of course of a fighting game, it

671
00:34:09,199 --> 00:34:11,159
is also a martial arts movie 
and. 

672
00:34:11,159 --> 00:34:15,400
And you got to have fights in 
there and a lot of times with 

673
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,679
with the surplus of characters 
that you like and you at least 

674
00:34:18,679 --> 00:34:22,040
intrinsically root for. 
So, you know, on a very basic 

675
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:24,560
level, a lot of this is an 
excuse to how do we frame this 

676
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:26,600
in a way that makes sense? 
And it's fun and you're going to

677
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:28,560
be on board with it without 
rolling your eyes too much. 

678
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:31,159
And if anything, the the bar 
fight scene was a little bit 

679
00:34:31,159 --> 00:34:34,280
like, OK, you didn't really. 
I mean, this is just for the fun

680
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:37,880
of it, right? 
Because the way they just have 

681
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:40,639
it be the smorgasbord of a of a 
fight. 

682
00:34:40,639 --> 00:34:46,560
But yeah, I mean, otherwise it's
I feel like a lot of them, a lot

683
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:50,199
of those those fight scenes are 
are well justified for for for a

684
00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:51,920
movie of what it is. 
Everyone's going into this 

685
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:53,800
knowing that's an adaptation of 
a fighting game. 

686
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:55,600
You're going to have fight 
scenes, you're going to have 

687
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:57,760
moments or like, we was just 
going to show up and be like, I 

688
00:34:57,760 --> 00:34:59,400
want your place in the fight. 
Well, then you're going to have 

689
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:00,840
to fight me. 
And that they fight, you know, 

690
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:03,800
and I remember leaning over to 
Ryan to like at some point going

691
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:08,920
like, wow, those are some very, 
very tightly well tucked towels 

692
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:12,800
until the moment that he Honda's
gets ripped off and he's like, 

693
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:16,440
but like they're they're going 
no holds barred at each other. 

694
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:19,320
And somehow their towels, their 
towels are still holding. 

695
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:22,040
But yeah. 
And the way, but also the way 

696
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,840
they use that environment too, 
where like where really like 

697
00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:29,040
douses the fresh water on the on
the, on the hot stones and stuff

698
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:30,760
like that. 
And like using that as cover. 

699
00:35:31,720 --> 00:35:35,280
That was that would be cool. 
So I I wanna talk about this 

700
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:39,880
subtext of the movie because the
movie was like it felt way more 

701
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:44,440
gay coded than I expected. 
The like E Honda gets his wet 

702
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:47,520
ass slapped with a towel and 
there's like a booty jiggle 

703
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:50,280
shot. 
And then the one that shocked me

704
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:54,480
the most was Cody Rhodes 
portrayal of Guile as being a 

705
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:56,840
super obsessed. 
With the Vega. 

706
00:35:57,720 --> 00:36:00,800
And all kinds of dudes and like,
he gives a beer and he's like, 

707
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:02,640
suck on this and like if 
anything. 

708
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:05,480
I really appreciated that 
because that's sort of like, you

709
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:07,840
know, in combination with the 
moments that are very, very 

710
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:10,080
thirsty for like, like the Chun 
leasing we were talking about 

711
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:14,240
before too. 
It did it like, yeah, like if 

712
00:36:14,240 --> 00:36:17,600
anything, I found that 
refreshing as almost like a 

713
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:20,000
counter counteract to all that 
too. 

714
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:23,400
And it all got laughs every time
those there were those moments 

715
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:25,240
is like, Oh well, all right, the
movie went there. 

716
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:29,400
There was also that bit between 
Dan and Guy where Dan's like 

717
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:35,480
there wasn't so much oxygen 
between you and me and he just 

718
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:40,680
just inhales as he moves closer.
And it is just like, I don't 

719
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:42,520
know where this movie thinks 
it's going with this. 

720
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:47,960
But like, and also I I was very 
happy to like the character of 

721
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:52,000
Dan so much in this movie. 
He had really good comedic 

722
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,520
timing and good delivery. 
So after that scene, he like 

723
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:56,280
kind of looks at the camera goes
like that was weird. 

724
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:58,080
That was really weird. 
That was. 

725
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:00,640
And like, I think my favorite 
Dan joke is when he's in the 

726
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:04,400
hotel room and he can't get his 
key to work and it's just so. 

727
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:08,320
So Jabo coded Vega. 
He's got all the bags. 

728
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:10,560
Yeah. 
Vega was so Kyle coded Kyle, if 

729
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:12,600
you're listening, we love you, 
but you should have dressed up 

730
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:15,800
as that guy. 
So do we. 

731
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:17,880
All look like they're just 
having so much fun with these 

732
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:19,720
characters too. 
Like especially in that bar 

733
00:37:19,720 --> 00:37:21,160
fight scene. 
I think that that's the first 

734
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:25,280
time we really see Dulcim and 
like, Oh my God, like how what a

735
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:27,800
performance that was too. 
He just and he looks like he's 

736
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:29,640
just having the time of his 
life. 

737
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:32,800
The way he's also just like, 
calling out to Ken to like their

738
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:35,480
old buddies. 
Yeah, yeah. 

739
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:37,160
These these actors, look, 
they're having a lot of fun. 

740
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:41,160
I think I agree with Jabo that I
think this was the most fun part

741
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:43,960
of the movie. 
Like because this like to me, I 

742
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:45,440
was like, oh, they're setting 
up. 

743
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:48,200
There's going to be this whole 
tournament and we're going to 

744
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:52,480
see all of my faves are going to
fight each other and like this 

745
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:55,600
is just gravy. 
Like now I get to see EE Honda 

746
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:59,840
fight in the sauna and then I 
get to see all my faves bar 

747
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:02,120
fight like before even the real 
fight. 

748
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:04,880
Like, to me, it was just like, 
oh, this is just like, you're 

749
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:07,000
putting like icing on top of the
cake, right? 

750
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:10,000
Because I get we haven't even 
gotten to the real fight yet, 

751
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:14,400
which like purportedly was going
to be this tournament. 

752
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:18,640
This. 
Is the best run of the movie. 

753
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:20,960
Exactly. 
Well, and also just one one 

754
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:23,960
quick note too, the about the 
that E Honda fight, because I 

755
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:28,080
feel like that's the first fight
where, as I recall, where 

756
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:31,280
somebody does a signature move 
from the games while saying the 

757
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:34,000
thing that they do. 
And you see like rue, just 

758
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:36,800
through the midst of the steam 
that he just created, do his 

759
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:39,680
hurricane kick and you hear the 
that's a Maki San Pooh kick. 

760
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:44,240
Oh man, and it sounds like the 
game they even like. 

761
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:47,960
If anything, I kind of respect 
that. 

762
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:52,160
I don't know what they sampled 
the original audio files, but it

763
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:55,920
sounded much more like the audio
files than the actor playing 

764
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:58,880
them on screen almost, and 
almost felt like so almost felt 

765
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:02,520
like a subtly auditorily 
breaking the 4th wall when they 

766
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:04,400
did that. 
But I just like, I don't know, I

767
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:06,160
love. 
It like they took the old one 

768
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:08,080
and like punched it up. 
Yeah, that's what I. 

769
00:39:08,240 --> 00:39:09,800
Thought. 
And you like but it. 

770
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:12,000
Was a nice touch. 
And you like the needle drops, 

771
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,440
Sarah? 
Like you were pretty taken with 

772
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:17,280
this whole soundtrack I think. 
Yes, I thought it was so smart 

773
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:21,520
to just do straight 90s bangers 
because they know like the 

774
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:24,640
people who grew up with this, 
like they're probably old. 

775
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:28,640
Yeah, it was kinda cool too, but
I didn't, I didn't know until 

776
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:32,680
the movie that that it was being
that it was a period piece. 

777
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:36,200
Cuz I mean, now that I think 
back on the trailers, yeah, now 

778
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:37,800
that I think back on the 
trailers, yeah, I can see the 

779
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:39,400
signs of that. 
But also, you know, we have 

780
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:42,080
these over the top characters 
and that's not how people 

781
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:46,040
necessarily hung out and dressed
in in the in you know, 93. 

782
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:49,120
But like, if anything, that was 
a perfect opportunity then for 

783
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:53,480
them to play 90s era music of 
the needle drops are great. 

784
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:57,840
The score, like the way that 
they I felt like they they 

785
00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:00,640
without going too heavy into 
just a recognizable things from 

786
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:02,280
the games. 
They just found those key 

787
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:06,160
moments to play like Giles theme
reuse theme camis that you know,

788
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:10,280
like it's just like it's it's. 
The the music fan service in 

789
00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:12,760
this was so good And and and 
just I thought thought like 

790
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:17,000
really well blended in amongst 
the needle drops character like 

791
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:20,000
signature themes in the game. 
You know, it was yeah, that 

792
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,400
guile theme when you first hear 
that, I was like, that's 

793
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:25,880
awesome. 
They're, they know what they're 

794
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:28,800
doing, you know? 
So let's get to the next part of

795
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:29,520
the plot, though. 
Here. 

796
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:33,000
So go, Mike. 
Since the music cut has been 

797
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:37,520
brought up, I actually found it 
frustratingly distracting that 

798
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:38,920
they can't. 
It felt to me like they only 

799
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:41,480
went halfway with with the idea 
in that they were like, OK, 

800
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:47,240
we're going to do some amount of
like 90s music, but they made 

801
00:40:47,240 --> 00:40:51,520
like they make this big deal 
like it's 1993 and then you 

802
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:55,920
know, who let the dogs out isn't
isn't like a walk out song. 

803
00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:59,240
Say, I didn't notice a few of 
those songs were like 2000, 

804
00:40:59,240 --> 00:41:00,480
maybe 2000. 
Like that, right? 

805
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:04,440
That was like 90 like that when?
My kids were little, like, I 

806
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:05,480
don't know. 
Yeah. 

807
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:07,480
There were a couple of those 
that I was like, yeah, this is 

808
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:10,760
not necessarily. 
And this is not 93. 

809
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:13,680
Yeah, exactly. 
It's almost a decade late, but 

810
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,560
at the same time, I, I think 
moments like that, like you 

811
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:18,320
mentioned, you know who let the 
dogs out? 

812
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:22,200
I was like it occurred to me 
that at least the way it the 

813
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:25,040
scene is played, that that could
be soundtrack rather than 

814
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:28,480
diegetic. 
But at the same time it's like I

815
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:29,720
kind of was I'm kind of with 
you. 

816
00:41:29,720 --> 00:41:31,400
Like of like that would have 
been nice if they were 

817
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:35,040
consistently like this. 
This is all music from at the 

818
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:37,640
latest 1993. 
Yeah, it's like 4 Non Blondes, 

819
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:41,400
which obviously gets beat their 
their song What's Up, which the 

820
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:46,360
song everybody thinks is called 
What's Going On that what year 

821
00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:49,440
is that song? 
That song was like. 95 or 

822
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:52,480
something. 
It was spring of 93, which would

823
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:56,240
be alright if not for the fact 
no, no, no, hold on. 

824
00:41:56,440 --> 00:42:01,360
Except it is shown to be a thing
that like Ken and Wright. 

825
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:04,200
Already on. 
Karaoke six years earlier. 

826
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:08,080
So it's I was like, I was just 
barely under the what? 

827
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:10,920
Now only is it anachronistic, 
but then you have a point where 

828
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:14,840
it's just Ken sadly singing it. 
So you now have it being sent 

829
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:18,840
sung anachronistically by only 
one person who is blonde. 

830
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:22,880
Sure. 
Wow, he's been waiting for like 

831
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:24,760
no no 12 hours. 
Like that joke? 

832
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:27,480
No, I remember that thought even
crossing my mind when I was 

833
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:29,600
watching that. 
But you know, and and also just 

834
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:34,000
the fact that Noah Centineo, who
is awesome as Ken, his natural 

835
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:35,720
hair color is is like a dark 
brown. 

836
00:42:35,720 --> 00:42:40,200
So he's technically a non blonde
the but but if anything, the 

837
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:44,080
other quick side note, like as 
somebody who loved masters of 

838
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:48,560
the universe this year, which 
had a very appropriate and 

839
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:54,120
relevant needle droplet, it 
really at the very least four 

840
00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:57,480
non blondes and and having 
what's up in that movie made 

841
00:42:57,480 --> 00:43:01,200
perfect sense given the meme of 
he man set to that song. 

842
00:43:02,240 --> 00:43:04,400
So I was like, oh, they're doing
it again this year. 

843
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:07,240
But you know, it's such a great 
song that I love the way that 

844
00:43:07,240 --> 00:43:10,200
it's woven into this movie. 
I think. 

845
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:13,120
The the. 
Key moment towards the end where

846
00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:14,320
the where the characters are 
singing it. 

847
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:17,560
I was singing right along to it.
Yeah, I think it accomplished 

848
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:20,800
what it wanted, which is it got 
people our age to be like, Oh 

849
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:26,680
yeah, you know, I don't think 
they were going like realism, 

850
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:29,200
right. 
And as far as like that goes. 

851
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:31,440
Yeah, I don't think this is 
based on a true story. 

852
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:34,880
So I'm willing to accept that 
maybe that they they were 

853
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:39,720
listening to that song in what I
guess 1987 in their universes. 

854
00:43:39,720 --> 00:43:42,080
They just got a little earlier. 
Yeah, we could shoot fireballs 

855
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:43,760
from our palms. 
But wait a minute. 

856
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:46,720
That movie. 
Doesn't count and we burn on 

857
00:43:46,720 --> 00:43:49,160
blinds for spot out. 
Like I remember people like 

858
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:51,920
analyzing the MCU too. 
Like I can't remember what song,

859
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:56,720
but I saw somewhere online that 
like, you know, because it's a 

860
00:43:56,720 --> 00:44:00,720
certain pop song gets referenced
in the MCU in some movie or 

861
00:44:00,720 --> 00:44:04,200
something in universe and they 
timed it to when it released. 

862
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:06,240
Now it's like it was it would 
have been right after Thanos a 

863
00:44:06,240 --> 00:44:08,320
snap. 
So it confirms that this musical

864
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:11,000
artist survived the snap in the 
MCU. 

865
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:13,200
It's like, well, OK, but it's 
the Marvel Universe. 

866
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:16,880
Also, it could have been a 
posture posthumous release 

867
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:19,080
right? 
Is that kind of posthumous if 

868
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:20,600
they've been snapped or is it a 
different term? 

869
00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:24,280
If. 
They've been snapped. 

870
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:28,000
They still existed, right? 
So like they could have still 

871
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:31,720
music or do they are they gone 
from existence like they should 

872
00:44:31,720 --> 00:44:33,120
just? 
They're forward. 

873
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:34,080
It doesn't. 
It doesn't work. 

874
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:37,200
Remove them from the past. 
OK, just making sure, I guess. 

875
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:39,320
You know, I should have asked 
that many years ago, you know? 

876
00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:41,960
I first watched asking a tough 
question. 

877
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:43,120
Here. 
Yeah, exactly. 

878
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:46,640
Now I'm asking what you asking 
is now Sarah or you? 

879
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:50,800
Well, it's a complicated thing 
about like a, a, a fake universe

880
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:53,600
like this or like Street Fighter
or the Marvel Universe that 

881
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:56,000
references pop culture, things 
that we have in our world. 

882
00:44:56,240 --> 00:44:57,520
Because it's like, wait a 
minute. 

883
00:44:57,520 --> 00:45:00,520
So does that mean like when they
reference the Big Lebowski and 

884
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:04,080
and and Thor like, then like 
does the guy who played the Big 

885
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:06,440
Lebowski just like everyone 
talks about how much he looks 

886
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:08,520
like Obadiah Stain, you know, 
so. 

887
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:12,720
So let's let's let's run through
some matchups in this movie 

888
00:45:12,720 --> 00:45:13,440
here. 
Yeah. 

889
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:16,160
So this is kind of where, like, 
the tournament begins. 

890
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:19,600
It says Vegas of Vegas, Vega 
defeats Guile, which I don't 

891
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:21,160
think you actually see. 
Actually, I know you don't see 

892
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:24,040
it because there's a great gag 
at the end where Cody Rhodes has

893
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:26,760
three horrific scars across his 
cheek. 

894
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:28,920
And Dan goes, guy, what 
happened? 

895
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:31,560
He's like, well, I don't know 
who in the tournament uses 

896
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:36,040
claws, Dan. 
Yeah, Vega uses claws. 

897
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:38,080
Getting vaccine like. 
It was Cody. 

898
00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:40,480
Cody stole the show in this 
scene, so it was so good. 

899
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:43,040
I'm a little sad that we didn't 
get to see that fight, but it 

900
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:46,160
was great to just to see see it 
framed in that way. 

901
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:49,600
It was interesting also because 
it has mostly just Guile 

902
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:54,120
complaining about it and Eric 
Andre's character just telling 

903
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:59,760
him to shut up. 
What you has some funny bits, 

904
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:05,200
but also kind of is like it's a 
giant arena and he's one guy 

905
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:08,200
over there complaining. 
Like you can ignore that really 

906
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:12,600
easily, but. 
Eric Andre's character had, I 

907
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:15,120
thought, the best joke in the 
movie where because he's he's 

908
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:18,760
imprisoned, he Bison forces him 
to be his personal announcer. 

909
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:23,280
And it's really sad in like a 
like North Korea kind of 

910
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:26,440
situation. 
But like when he comes back on 

911
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:28,880
the air and clearly haven't been
tortured for months, he's like, 

912
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:32,920
I'm sorry, Lord Bison, you are 
an appropriate size for your age

913
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:34,360
and height or whatever, 
something like that. 

914
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:37,200
Because like, the movie actually
acknowledges that M Bison 

915
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:39,720
doesn't really have a physically
imposing body and he's so 

916
00:46:39,720 --> 00:46:43,680
insecure about it that he like 
needs to suck the suck the male 

917
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:46,520
juice out of all the other male 
characters in the movie. 

918
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:50,160
But then, you know, he's like, I
want to positive that comment I 

919
00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:51,960
made. 
I was on a new medication. 

920
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:55,280
Please forgive me. 
And the the throwaway joke about

921
00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:58,520
saying something when you're on 
new meds made me spit my drink 

922
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:00,240
all over Jackie. 
And like it was. 

923
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:04,440
Put your drink on me too for. 
The I'm sorry, Sarah, it's. 

924
00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:07,000
OK though, because I was 
laughing at the joke as well 

925
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:09,000
because. 
It was a spit take worthy joke. 

926
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:12,040
It really was funny, yeah. 
At least on the note of that 

927
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:14,440
character, I love how you know, 
because obviously he does not 

928
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:16,480
like Ken. 
And there's that exchange later 

929
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:18,880
where he talks about like, 
because, because he's the the 

930
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:21,920
announcer, I guess, or that the 
MC or, you know, like calling 

931
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:24,240
out the fights. 
And they're like where Ken calls

932
00:47:24,240 --> 00:47:26,560
him out for, like, you're 
supposed to be impartial, you 

933
00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:29,360
know? 
But he makes it very clear in 

934
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:32,760
the way he announces them out on
stage who he's rooting for us. 

935
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:35,960
That one's at some point. 
Why do I keep betting? 

936
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:40,520
Against him, yeah, but how 
inspired to make the round one 

937
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:42,640
fight voice a character in your 
movie? 

938
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:48,080
Like you know what I mean? 
Ken defeats ball rug. 

939
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:50,400
Big moment for me because I've 
always wanted to see like a 

940
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:52,960
screen accurate or a game 
accurate show where you can. 

941
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:56,160
And I love the moment where Kens
like losing and he's remembering

942
00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:59,760
the advice where you gave him 
and that's what he uses to get 

943
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:00,880
the win. 
I'm like, okay, good 

944
00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:03,080
storytelling. 
And I love that they saved that 

945
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:04,840
move just for him in that 
moment. 

946
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:07,280
Like you never see Ryu do 1. 
I don't think so. 

947
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:10,400
No, in the big final fight scene
he does the Super. 

948
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:13,800
Trooper one yeah, but also like 
showing moments like that, which

949
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:16,000
although that it's not implied, 
like that's the first time he's 

950
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:19,440
done the short you can like you 
see you know, not to jump too 

951
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:22,080
far ahead, but like that that 
can because of the way they they

952
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:24,760
set this up too with with the 
the opening scene that Mike was 

953
00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:28,120
talking about between the 
between him and Ryu that Ken is 

954
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:33,520
Ken's getting his edge, you know
and and and so and tapping into 

955
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:36,520
the same things that Ryu has you
know, yeah, yeah, because he 

956
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:41,040
because they established yeah he
Dan and Ken all had the OR sorry

957
00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:46,400
he, Dan and Ryu all had the same
master yeah. 

958
00:48:46,720 --> 00:48:50,920
Yeah, so at at this point in the
movie, Bison is sniffing Ryu's 

959
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:53,520
feet. 
And just like they'd had this 

960
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:56,800
whole thing where like M Bison 
gets like orgasmic pleasure from

961
00:48:56,800 --> 00:49:00,360
other people's pain, like people
will get punched or burned and 

962
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:02,520
he'll kind of roll his eyes back
and his lip quivers. 

963
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:05,280
And I was like, OK, this is 
like, this is kind of low 

964
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:07,000
hanging fruit. 
But I like that you had like a 

965
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:09,960
new take on the character. 
It wasn't all just like an 

966
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:12,440
attempt to be Raul Julia or to 
play it super straight. 

967
00:49:13,240 --> 00:49:15,800
But he. 
There was also a bit in there 

968
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:20,400
which I don't know if this is 
what it was meant to be going. 

969
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:24,280
For. 
But when and Bison has Rayu 

970
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:30,960
imprisoned, he basically invites
him to eat snails. 

971
00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:38,160
OK. 
And for how this was playing 

972
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:42,640
around with things you can see 
is leaning towards like 

973
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:49,440
sexuality as a topic. 
There's a fairly famous bit out 

974
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:53,920
of Ben Hur about like eating 
snails, where apparently it is 

975
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:56,520
meant to be. 
The way the conversation goes is

976
00:49:56,520 --> 00:50:02,600
meant to allude to, I think. 
But I think bisexuality in a way

977
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:07,160
that like, I think Charlton has 
something like in the movie 

978
00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:09,240
didn't know it was doing. 
And you basically had this thing

979
00:50:09,240 --> 00:50:13,520
like, yeah, there's a whole 
extra tone going on here that at

980
00:50:13,520 --> 00:50:17,080
the time was quasi subversive 
that the way this did. 

981
00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:20,680
And I'm like, this is a weird 
enough thing to focus in on, but

982
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:23,160
I'm like, this feels like 
someone was inspired by that to 

983
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:25,360
throw this in here. 
There was like a parallel 

984
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:28,720
conversation happening, yeah, 
kind of between the characters 

985
00:50:28,720 --> 00:50:30,080
and then between the movie and 
the audience. 

986
00:50:30,080 --> 00:50:31,920
Fascinating. 
I didn't pick up on that at all.

987
00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:34,840
Yeah, for a movie that's another
To die before, a movie that, as 

988
00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:38,280
Jeremy astutely pointed out 
before, is at least at certain 

989
00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:40,680
times, kind of gay coded. 
It's interesting to see. 

990
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:43,000
Maybe that was a little bit of 
the subtext that they intended 

991
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:44,680
with that scene, but. 
Yeah, I think there was 

992
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:47,120
something about like some people
like snails and some people like

993
00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:48,880
something else. 
And I like both kind of. 

994
00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:54,200
The same first scene too that 
you're talking about where he 

995
00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:57,160
rolls his eyes back and is like 
getting pleasure it. 

996
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:00,480
It looks like he's getting a BJ.
I'm just. 

997
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:02,680
Saying right I. 
Noticed that like the way it was

998
00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:05,600
shot, I was like, whoa, that was
like super sexual, right? 

999
00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:07,400
Yeah. 
And then they did it like two 

1000
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:10,200
more times and I was like, oh, I
think we're they're just showing

1001
00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:13,120
that he's like a sadist. 
But the first time it was very 

1002
00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:15,760
much shot like, and I forget who
it was, but they were like 

1003
00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:19,680
kneeling before him and I was 
like, this looks really, really 

1004
00:51:19,680 --> 00:51:22,160
sexual. 
Well, so there is this whole 

1005
00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:25,320
aspect of the Bison character 
that is kind of like Epstein 

1006
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:28,440
coded like that because as Sarah
pointed out in the group chat 

1007
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:31,080
this morning, she was expecting 
there to be revealed that Cami 

1008
00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:33,720
was under the control by some 
potion or something. 

1009
00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:36,000
And I don't know if you guys 
caught it, but when Chen Lee's 

1010
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:38,560
doing her investigation, there's
a paper on the cork board that 

1011
00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:42,040
says doll program. 
And in the games, Bison 

1012
00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:46,520
brainwashes beautiful women into
being his like assassin slash 

1013
00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:51,520
courtesans kind of. 
So it it is very much like 

1014
00:51:51,520 --> 00:51:54,920
there's always been that sort of
like sexual menace to Bison that

1015
00:51:54,960 --> 00:51:58,080
they never really put in movies 
until this one. 

1016
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:02,760
So this gets us into the scene 
where Ryu refuses to use his 

1017
00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:06,800
dark power because Bison. 
He wants Ryu to tap into his 

1018
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:10,560
most evil self so he can suck 
the bad juju out of him and 

1019
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:13,800
power his own body with it. 
And when Ryu refuses, he puts 

1020
00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:17,440
him in a prison and says that 
you know, OK, you'll have to 

1021
00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:19,680
unleash your evil self to defeat
this beast. 

1022
00:52:19,680 --> 00:52:22,800
And then we get Jason Momoa as 
Blanca. 

1023
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:24,760
Sarah, did the Blanca scene work
for you? 

1024
00:52:24,760 --> 00:52:27,280
Because we've been waiting to 
see a Blanca Blanca for a while.

1025
00:52:28,040 --> 00:52:31,800
Well, I really appreciated the 
fact that it was like it looked 

1026
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:34,120
like the game like with the 
prisoners and the. 

1027
00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:34,800
Kids. 
The background. 

1028
00:52:35,160 --> 00:52:40,120
I was like, OK, I really respect
that, but I was annoyed with at 

1029
00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:44,800
this point in the movie, I felt 
like the whole first third or 

1030
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:47,680
maybe 25% was setting up this 
fight. 

1031
00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:50,760
And so I was really looking 
forward to the fight in the 

1032
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:54,640
bracket and seeing the win loss 
record and I kind of wanted to 

1033
00:52:54,640 --> 00:52:59,400
stick with the fight. 
And it just to me, it's also 

1034
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:03,600
didn't make sense narratively 
that like Ryu was like, I'm 

1035
00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:06,160
going to fight a Honda to get in
this competition. 

1036
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:09,280
OK, but now I'm out of this 
competition. 

1037
00:53:09,280 --> 00:53:12,600
I'm. 
Like and ultimately it didn't 

1038
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:14,200
even matter. 
The competition didn't matter at

1039
00:53:14,240 --> 00:53:15,800
all. 
No, it didn't matter at all. 

1040
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:18,280
There was no stakes. 
I I think there was a better 

1041
00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:23,720
version of this movie where you 
just raise the stakes of the 

1042
00:53:23,720 --> 00:53:26,240
competition as you go. 
And I kind of like that they 

1043
00:53:26,240 --> 00:53:28,880
showed like, oh, everyone has a 
different view of this 

1044
00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:31,720
competition and thinks it will 
bring them something different, 

1045
00:53:32,240 --> 00:53:36,560
right? 
Like Ryu has a different reason 

1046
00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:40,080
for wanting to compete than Ken.
Ken is the least mature, right? 

1047
00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:43,520
He just wants to prove himself. 
Whereas like Ryu and like Chun 

1048
00:53:43,520 --> 00:53:47,280
Li have like a higher purpose 
and being at the competition and

1049
00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:49,040
I like that. 
I'm fine with that. 

1050
00:53:49,040 --> 00:53:51,600
Like everyone kind of having a 
different understanding of it. 

1051
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:55,640
But I thought it would be more 
fun to see that play out on the 

1052
00:53:55,640 --> 00:53:59,080
stage that they set up, which 
was like, OK, this competition 

1053
00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:04,040
is where all this will play out.
Yeah, I feel, yeah, on some 

1054
00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:07,520
level it's it's, it's, I mean, 
that's a framework of why you 

1055
00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:09,920
can have a story built around so
many people fighting that 

1056
00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:12,280
there's some sort of competition
at the core of it you. 

1057
00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:14,560
Know exactly. 
And I was really looking forward

1058
00:54:14,560 --> 00:54:17,600
to that and I think that going 
sideways and Oh well, now we're 

1059
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:21,120
going to have this private cage 
match with Blanca. 

1060
00:54:21,120 --> 00:54:26,320
To me it didn't. 
I didn't like it as well as if I

1061
00:54:26,320 --> 00:54:30,000
would have liked if that scene 
took place, maybe when someone 

1062
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:34,440
won and it was like, well, now 
you got to fight this guy, 

1063
00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:36,120
right? 
Because then it would have been 

1064
00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:37,960
in the context of the 
competition. 

1065
00:54:38,240 --> 00:54:42,560
Or maybe it could have just been
before they could even join, 

1066
00:54:42,560 --> 00:54:43,880
they had to do that. 
I don't know. 

1067
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:48,960
I just, to me, there was too 
much, there was too much 

1068
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:53,120
narrative darting about and I 
really wanted to stick with the 

1069
00:54:53,120 --> 00:54:55,360
competition. 
And I got annoyed at this point 

1070
00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:59,040
in the movie because I wanted to
see the bracket. 

1071
00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:00,760
Right. 
Yeah. 

1072
00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:03,360
No, I feel you. 
Who's losing ultimately? 

1073
00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:07,200
Like I see what you mean, Sarah.
Like, if anything, I mean, I'm a

1074
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:11,520
little amused too, because it 
reminds me of the of what our 

1075
00:55:11,520 --> 00:55:15,960
friend and our friend Lisa, like
criticizes about the first of 

1076
00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:19,760
the of the two new Mortal Kombat
movies, where like Mortal Kombat

1077
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:23,360
is also based on a fighting game
and, and it's structured, at 

1078
00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:25,680
least story wise around some 
sort of big tournament. 

1079
00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:29,600
But none of the fighting in the 
first Mortal Kombat movie is 

1080
00:55:29,600 --> 00:55:31,280
actually part of said 
tournament. 

1081
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:32,960
Safer. 
Maybe the flashback scene at the

1082
00:55:32,960 --> 00:55:35,360
beginning or the intro scene. 
I guess it's not flashing back. 

1083
00:55:35,600 --> 00:55:39,440
But then for, for a story that's
all built around the tournament,

1084
00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:42,720
which is the, the, their story 
explanation for why all these 

1085
00:55:42,720 --> 00:55:45,080
people are fighting each other, 
They actually don't use that 

1086
00:55:45,080 --> 00:55:47,920
device that much or in that 
movie, not at all. 

1087
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:51,600
And so, but ultimately, the way 
my, my counterpoint to, to, to 

1088
00:55:51,600 --> 00:55:54,640
when I, you know, argue about 
this with Lisa, at least 

1089
00:55:54,640 --> 00:55:57,560
particularly about that Mortal 
Kombat movie, is that like, but 

1090
00:55:57,560 --> 00:56:00,840
this is still a movie about 
people who fight each other. 

1091
00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:03,240
And, and they're still even if 
there's not in that framework, 

1092
00:56:03,240 --> 00:56:05,120
you're getting plenty of that. 
You're getting that with this 

1093
00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:07,760
movie. 
But I'll well, at the same time,

1094
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:09,760
I, I see what you mean about 
like, especially with how much 

1095
00:56:09,760 --> 00:56:11,600
they frame it with those 
brackets. 

1096
00:56:11,920 --> 00:56:16,200
And ultimately, if I may jump a 
little bit ahead, Joe is the one

1097
00:56:16,200 --> 00:56:17,800
who wins this tournament. 
I. 

1098
00:56:18,120 --> 00:56:20,520
Don't even see him. 
You never see him fight until 

1099
00:56:20,520 --> 00:56:22,680
the end. 
I ultimately I I still laugh and

1100
00:56:22,680 --> 00:56:25,120
like the way they framed it that
way, because you get that moment

1101
00:56:25,120 --> 00:56:28,120
where like even the guy who won 
the tournament at the center of 

1102
00:56:28,120 --> 00:56:30,880
all this, the one who the one 
that really like worked his way 

1103
00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:32,440
to get into and ultimately it 
didn't matter. 

1104
00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:35,600
Like just gets defeated. 
So like he's nothing. 

1105
00:56:35,960 --> 00:56:41,040
And so, you know, I don't know, 
like at the same time, I would 

1106
00:56:41,040 --> 00:56:45,200
have liked to see some some way 
that it factors into the story 

1107
00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:47,680
more than ultimately that it 
did. 

1108
00:56:47,760 --> 00:56:50,080
But I just. 
I like competition movies. 

1109
00:56:50,120 --> 00:56:54,040
I'm a sucker for. 
I love a movie that just has a 

1110
00:56:54,040 --> 00:56:57,160
very pure setup like that. 
Like that's one of the reasons I

1111
00:56:57,160 --> 00:56:59,720
love Speed Racer. 
It's like, will he win the race 

1112
00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:01,880
or not? 
You know what I mean? 

1113
00:57:02,120 --> 00:57:04,760
I love the pop racing sequence 
in Star Wars. 

1114
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:08,760
I love the I love Monsters Inc 2
where it's just like, are they 

1115
00:57:08,760 --> 00:57:10,800
going to win the competition or 
not? 

1116
00:57:11,640 --> 00:57:14,480
Like there's something about it 
that's just very like, OK, I 

1117
00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:17,800
know what the stakes are and 
they're very like a lot can 

1118
00:57:17,800 --> 00:57:21,760
happen within that framework. 
But like, I think I like the 

1119
00:57:21,760 --> 00:57:25,720
organization of that. 
There's something about it that 

1120
00:57:25,720 --> 00:57:31,000
appeals to my brain of like, OK,
like I know they want to win the

1121
00:57:32,480 --> 00:57:35,240
the competition. 
Like I can relate to that. 

1122
00:57:35,720 --> 00:57:38,120
And you can still have that 
third act that it's more than 

1123
00:57:38,120 --> 00:57:40,080
just the competition, obviously,
but ultimately. 

1124
00:57:40,240 --> 00:57:42,560
This would. 
Be the competition didn't matter

1125
00:57:42,560 --> 00:57:45,120
at all. 
Yeah, I think there's a go 

1126
00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:46,600
ahead, Mike. 
Can I ask the broader question 

1127
00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:50,280
of who the heck Joe is? 
Joe is the first, is your first 

1128
00:57:50,280 --> 00:57:54,040
opponent in Street Fighter One. 
He's the first guy you ever 

1129
00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:56,040
fight. 
He's essentially Glass Joe like 

1130
00:57:56,040 --> 00:57:59,040
Nick and I were talking about is
he inspired by Glass Joe 'cause 

1131
00:57:59,040 --> 00:58:02,200
this predate or punch out 
predates this movie. 

1132
00:58:03,640 --> 00:58:06,440
And so he is, he is laughably 
easy to defeat. 

1133
00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:10,400
And so it's a, it's, it's really
a joke cause Brian said this is 

1134
00:58:10,400 --> 00:58:12,760
just a in joke reference 
machine. 

1135
00:58:12,760 --> 00:58:16,400
But you know, it's a joke for 
the Street Fighter fans who are 

1136
00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:18,720
insane enough to have played the
first game because it's very, 

1137
00:58:18,720 --> 00:58:21,920
very, very, very, very bad. 
The 1st Street Fighter game, I 

1138
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:24,400
can't believe it got a sequel, 
let alone a sequel to change the

1139
00:58:24,400 --> 00:58:28,600
industry in the world forever. 
But I think there's a version of

1140
00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:32,240
this movie where that was Dan 
and Dan entered the tournament 

1141
00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:35,080
too, because he wanted to prove 
himself to can or something. 

1142
00:58:35,080 --> 00:58:37,440
And Dan gets killed at the end 
of the movie. 

1143
00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:40,440
But I think they realized when 
writing it, or maybe even once 

1144
00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:43,120
they started shooting it, like 
Dan's fairly likable. 

1145
00:58:43,760 --> 00:58:46,240
Let's hold on to this character.
I don't. 

1146
00:58:46,320 --> 00:58:49,280
I don't think he makes it out of
the second movie alive because 

1147
00:58:49,280 --> 00:58:53,840
Sagat is his rival. 
And the end of this movie teases

1148
00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:56,560
Sagat entering in the second 
film. 

1149
00:58:57,040 --> 00:59:00,960
But you're right on some level, 
at least with Dan, most 

1150
00:59:01,040 --> 00:59:05,640
depictions of Dan depict him as 
very much the Joe character, 

1151
00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:07,680
right? 
The guy who's like, he's the Joe

1152
00:59:07,680 --> 00:59:09,560
character because of how 
terrible he is. 

1153
00:59:09,560 --> 00:59:11,720
And even though canonically he 
is, he does have that same 

1154
00:59:11,720 --> 00:59:15,040
master, He does have some trait.
He is a fighter at the very base

1155
00:59:15,040 --> 00:59:18,720
level and the fighter that you 
can play as in the games. 

1156
00:59:18,720 --> 00:59:21,200
He's just not, you know, like 
all his stats are basically the 

1157
00:59:21,200 --> 00:59:23,040
worst or something. 
Isn't that kind of the ongoing 

1158
00:59:23,040 --> 00:59:25,600
thing with him Is that like he's
almost like a handicap. 

1159
00:59:25,600 --> 00:59:28,280
If somebody's really good, you 
make them play Dan or something.

1160
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:30,520
At least I know that was the 
case with the Super Puzzle 

1161
00:59:30,520 --> 00:59:33,480
Fighter where like, you know, 
where everyone dropped, you 

1162
00:59:33,480 --> 00:59:36,960
know, the the colours and, and 
without having to go too far 

1163
00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:40,280
into the game mechanics, if 
they're all certain blocks of 

1164
00:59:40,280 --> 00:59:41,800
colors, you're giving your 
opponent the advantage. 

1165
00:59:41,800 --> 00:59:44,360
Dan dropped nothing but red. 
So you're actually doing the 

1166
00:59:44,360 --> 00:59:46,240
other person a favor when you do
like. 

1167
00:59:46,280 --> 00:59:48,880
So. 
Yeah, I love the the I love that

1168
00:59:48,880 --> 00:59:51,160
depiction of Dan. 
And on some level I lament that,

1169
00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:54,720
you know, you don't see him 
being framed as that kind of 

1170
00:59:54,720 --> 00:59:56,920
character because Joe's serving 
that purpose in this movie. 

1171
00:59:57,320 --> 01:00:00,680
But obviously they because Joe, 
like, he's completely 

1172
01:00:00,680 --> 01:00:02,160
obliterated, right? 
Like he's not. 

1173
01:00:02,360 --> 01:00:05,280
Yeah, I know he had Bison turns 
or Akuma turns him into dust, so

1174
01:00:05,280 --> 01:00:07,040
let's so let's get to that part 
of the plot though. 

1175
01:00:07,040 --> 01:00:12,640
So Ryu spares Blanca and uses 
Hadouken to blow a hole into the

1176
01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:15,960
prison, which frees Blanca. 
And then Blanca will savor you 

1177
01:00:15,960 --> 01:00:18,040
later and have a great 
conversation about like, what 

1178
01:00:18,040 --> 01:00:19,880
are you doing Friday? 
I'll show you my favorite tree. 

1179
01:00:20,200 --> 01:00:22,200
And Rio was like, hey, I kind 
of, we don't really know each 

1180
01:00:22,200 --> 01:00:23,720
other like that. 
Like I don't wanna hang out 

1181
01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:27,320
super funny. 
It was a fun very Han so like 

1182
01:00:27,640 --> 01:00:29,880
coming back in in the last 
minute to save the day kind of 

1183
01:00:29,880 --> 01:00:31,240
payoff moment. 
That felt really nice, 

1184
01:00:31,240 --> 01:00:34,120
especially given that, like, Ryu
freed him and even pulled him 

1185
01:00:34,120 --> 01:00:36,720
like, look, buddy, like I'll 
help you find your mom, you 

1186
01:00:36,720 --> 01:00:38,760
know? 
But like, my quarrel's not with 

1187
01:00:38,760 --> 01:00:41,280
you. 
And just, yeah, it was just also

1188
01:00:41,280 --> 01:00:44,280
so funny that moment where he's 
just like, he just wants to hang

1189
01:00:44,280 --> 01:00:45,040
out with him. 
Just. 

1190
01:00:45,480 --> 01:00:48,520
Hang, we're done to thank you. 
Very agent. 

1191
01:00:48,520 --> 01:00:51,120
I got a Agent Woo from the Ant 
Man movies. 

1192
01:00:51,120 --> 01:00:53,120
I was like, what are you doing 
for like, you know, like when I 

1193
01:00:53,120 --> 01:00:57,960
get dinner. 
So then Ken and Ryu become 

1194
01:00:57,960 --> 01:01:02,600
estranged when Ryu confesses to 
having destroyed Ken's 

1195
01:01:02,600 --> 01:01:05,880
invitation to the First World 
War tournament, essentially 

1196
01:01:05,880 --> 01:01:08,800
artificially stunting his 
abilities in his martial arts 

1197
01:01:08,800 --> 01:01:12,040
career. 
This is cute because in the 1st 

1198
01:01:12,040 --> 01:01:15,120
Street Fighter game you can only
play as Ryu for the story and 

1199
01:01:15,120 --> 01:01:17,560
Ken is always just player 2 for 
the versus mode. 

1200
01:01:17,920 --> 01:01:21,000
So it's very funny they gave a 
canonical reason for why Ken 

1201
01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:24,400
wasn't playable. 
But to me, this is also where 

1202
01:01:24,400 --> 01:01:28,360
I'm like, well, we already know 
that like a Nazi is sucking 

1203
01:01:28,360 --> 01:01:31,360
people's souls out. 
The stakes of You Burned My 

1204
01:01:31,360 --> 01:01:36,280
Invitation didn't seem really 
shocking enough for like their 

1205
01:01:36,280 --> 01:01:39,280
friendship to end. 
Like I kind of felt like, oh, 

1206
01:01:39,280 --> 01:01:41,440
the stakes. 
This movie has weird pacing. 

1207
01:01:41,440 --> 01:01:45,080
The stakes are weird. 
But ultimately, it's a device to

1208
01:01:45,080 --> 01:01:47,240
make them fight each other in 
that moment in the story. 

1209
01:01:47,440 --> 01:01:50,440
But I'm a little bit with you of
like, is this the kind of thing 

1210
01:01:50,440 --> 01:01:53,120
that would make Ken suddenly 
attack like the guy he 

1211
01:01:53,120 --> 01:01:55,800
considered the brother like? 
Because they just escaped from 

1212
01:01:55,800 --> 01:01:59,640
Bison's prison together. 
And also like, that was also a 

1213
01:01:59,640 --> 01:02:01,800
weird thing because like this 
movie, we're going to get to it 

1214
01:02:01,800 --> 01:02:03,520
in a second, but it doesn't 
really end. 

1215
01:02:03,720 --> 01:02:07,240
But we had a whole 20 minute 
fight scene against like Ice in 

1216
01:02:07,240 --> 01:02:10,280
the prison where they're just 
beating up all the masked agents

1217
01:02:10,280 --> 01:02:11,840
or whatever. 
And I was like, you probably 

1218
01:02:11,840 --> 01:02:15,080
could have cut all that. 
That was fun, but it did nothing

1219
01:02:15,080 --> 01:02:17,040
to advance the story. 
Were. 

1220
01:02:17,280 --> 01:02:21,720
Those supposed to be agents of 
the government or were they 

1221
01:02:21,720 --> 01:02:24,840
supposed to be Bison's people? 
I was very confused by that 

1222
01:02:25,360 --> 01:02:28,440
because. 
Those are the same because Bison

1223
01:02:28,440 --> 01:02:29,920
controls the government, doesn't
he? 

1224
01:02:31,120 --> 01:02:33,160
No, but I wasn't. 
Wasn't that Interpol agent sent 

1225
01:02:33,160 --> 01:02:35,520
by Chun Li to break them out of 
prison? 

1226
01:02:35,800 --> 01:02:37,920
I thought that's what they said 
because they said, oh, she's the

1227
01:02:37,920 --> 01:02:39,760
author of this little prison 
break. 

1228
01:02:39,760 --> 01:02:42,120
I was like, OK. 
And then one of them, Ken, was 

1229
01:02:42,120 --> 01:02:44,560
dressed as one of them. 
So I was like oh Chun Li sent 

1230
01:02:44,560 --> 01:02:49,320
him in with all these agents but
then he can and Ryu just start 

1231
01:02:49,320 --> 01:02:52,600
killing them all so. 
Most of them are the guards, and

1232
01:02:52,600 --> 01:02:55,360
he's there disguised as a guard,
yeah. 

1233
01:02:56,320 --> 01:02:59,480
OK, so he just infiltrated, but 
then why did they say she was 

1234
01:02:59,480 --> 01:03:01,640
breaking them out? 
Oh, I guess, she said. 

1235
01:03:02,000 --> 01:03:04,960
She helped coordinate it. 
I, I, I would frame it as like 

1236
01:03:05,080 --> 01:03:07,880
the Death Star rescue of like, 
yeah, they're dressed as a 

1237
01:03:07,880 --> 01:03:10,640
stormtrooper in this scene, but 
all the other stormtroopers are 

1238
01:03:10,640 --> 01:03:13,640
just Stormtroopers. 
I thought it was very confusing 

1239
01:03:13,640 --> 01:03:16,640
and I thought that could have 
used, I could have used 

1240
01:03:16,640 --> 01:03:20,440
something, a tiny little scene 
of between Chunli and Ken. 

1241
01:03:20,640 --> 01:03:23,400
She could throw them the beret 
and be like, put this on, you're

1242
01:03:23,400 --> 01:03:26,760
going in to get your friend out.
You know something because I was

1243
01:03:26,760 --> 01:03:29,480
like, what is? 
That I think they wanted to. 

1244
01:03:30,680 --> 01:03:34,760
I think they wanted to set up 
surprise that Ken decided to go 

1245
01:03:35,240 --> 01:03:39,200
rescue Ryu and that you wouldn't
know he actually had decided to 

1246
01:03:39,200 --> 01:03:40,040
do that until. 
That. 

1247
01:03:40,040 --> 01:03:42,120
Moment. 
I mean, it's sort of the purpose

1248
01:03:42,120 --> 01:03:45,200
ultimately, whether or not it 
was set up well enough, you get 

1249
01:03:45,200 --> 01:03:49,280
that fun moment of of that, you 
know, of 10 sort of redemption. 

1250
01:03:49,280 --> 01:03:53,200
They're seeing them finally for 
the first time together, wearing

1251
01:03:53,200 --> 01:03:55,960
their signature outfits. 
And then and then it's owning a 

1252
01:03:55,960 --> 01:03:58,920
whole bunch of people rather 
than specific characters. 

1253
01:03:58,920 --> 01:04:00,760
So. 
But ultimately it's like, yeah, 

1254
01:04:01,200 --> 01:04:03,640
was this explained well enough? 
I don't know. 

1255
01:04:03,640 --> 01:04:05,880
I was having fun just watching 
them go out. 

1256
01:04:05,880 --> 01:04:08,880
A whole army of people, which 
you wouldn't necessarily get in 

1257
01:04:08,880 --> 01:04:10,240
this ancient fight. 
I suppose so. 

1258
01:04:11,960 --> 01:04:14,520
So back at back at the 
tournament, kickboxer Joe is 

1259
01:04:14,520 --> 01:04:16,880
declared the champion. 
Basically all because of 

1260
01:04:16,880 --> 01:04:21,960
forfeits and after. 
Oh yeah. 

1261
01:04:21,960 --> 01:04:24,280
After Ken fails to appear for 
the final fight, true to his 

1262
01:04:24,280 --> 01:04:27,040
promise, Akuma arrives and 
easily kills Joe before 

1263
01:04:27,040 --> 01:04:29,560
confronting Ryu. 
Overwhelmed by Akuma, Ryu 

1264
01:04:29,560 --> 01:04:33,360
transforms into his corrupted 
Persona, Dark Ryu, and defeats 

1265
01:04:33,360 --> 01:04:35,800
Akuma. 
Ken, Chenli, and Ken's manager 

1266
01:04:35,800 --> 01:04:39,720
Dan Hibiki attempt to stop Ryu, 
but he proves too powerful. 

1267
01:04:40,000 --> 01:04:43,080
Ken ultimately incapacitate him 
with a flaming Hadouken which he

1268
01:04:43,080 --> 01:04:47,480
unleashes for the first time. 
And then the the the Plot 

1269
01:04:47,480 --> 01:04:51,320
Summary doesn't mention this but
basically they kill Ryu and then

1270
01:04:51,880 --> 01:04:55,560
what's up him, what up what's 
UPS him back to life? 

1271
01:04:55,560 --> 01:04:58,400
They sing him back to life, 
which I thought was like so 

1272
01:04:58,400 --> 01:05:01,440
funny. 
And I also just loved the like, 

1273
01:05:01,440 --> 01:05:03,880
I particularly laughed at the 
moment where like, because Ryu 

1274
01:05:03,880 --> 01:05:05,640
was just unconscious for a 
moment there. 

1275
01:05:05,760 --> 01:05:07,640
He didn't. 
He didn't you didn't even 

1276
01:05:07,640 --> 01:05:09,200
realize what was happening to 
him. 

1277
01:05:09,480 --> 01:05:12,360
And even though he you got that 
moment where he reveals him, 

1278
01:05:12,360 --> 01:05:13,560
like, yeah, I burned your 
invitation. 

1279
01:05:13,560 --> 01:05:16,160
Like, dude, like you have so 
much like he knows the potential

1280
01:05:16,160 --> 01:05:19,520
that Ken has to even be 
potentially better than Ryu. 

1281
01:05:19,800 --> 01:05:22,360
And in that moment where he's 
just like, yeah, dude, I just 

1282
01:05:22,360 --> 01:05:24,400
had opened you. 
Like, no, really. 

1283
01:05:24,400 --> 01:05:25,480
What? 
What happened? 

1284
01:05:26,160 --> 01:05:31,880
The shit out of you. 
Why didn't they show a scene of 

1285
01:05:31,880 --> 01:05:36,760
them singing that song together?
Because only showed Ken singing 

1286
01:05:36,760 --> 01:05:38,880
it, didn't they? 
No, there was a flashback in the

1287
01:05:38,880 --> 01:05:40,920
MTV bin. 
With both of them. 

1288
01:05:41,240 --> 01:05:44,400
Yeah, where they're at karaoke 
and then they like someone makes

1289
01:05:44,400 --> 01:05:47,120
some comment and they both jump 
off stage and get in a fight. 

1290
01:05:47,120 --> 01:05:51,400
And that's when then you get the
shots of them with the, you have

1291
01:05:51,400 --> 01:05:55,040
them singing together and then 
you have it lead to a fight. 

1292
01:05:55,040 --> 01:05:58,320
And then there's the bit where 
they're both getting, like, 

1293
01:05:58,320 --> 01:06:01,040
their mug shots taken and Ken's 
like, hey, can I keep this? 

1294
01:06:01,240 --> 01:06:04,680
Yeah. 
OK, because I was like why was 

1295
01:06:04,680 --> 01:06:07,440
that important for his song? 
For some reason, when I thought 

1296
01:06:07,440 --> 01:06:11,000
about the beginning, I only 
remembered Ken drunkenly singing

1297
01:06:11,000 --> 01:06:14,040
that himself. 
He has a later bit than when 

1298
01:06:14,120 --> 01:06:17,080
he's just all alone and he's 
singing, but it's part of it is 

1299
01:06:17,080 --> 01:06:20,080
it's him missing that moment. 
Sure, but I feel like I would 

1300
01:06:20,080 --> 01:06:22,440
have thrown in maybe at least 
another moment of like that of 

1301
01:06:22,440 --> 01:06:24,640
that with them because like, 
even though it played for great 

1302
01:06:24,640 --> 01:06:27,480
laughs, the fact that Ken goes 
right to it when he's like 

1303
01:06:27,480 --> 01:06:30,040
trying to figure out if his 
friend is dead, you know it's. 

1304
01:06:30,040 --> 01:06:31,080
Like, right, Right. 
Yeah. 

1305
01:06:31,080 --> 01:06:33,600
Maybe 1 little one more little 
thing to reinforce. 

1306
01:06:33,640 --> 01:06:35,560
That, well, I mean that. 
Could be my. 

1307
01:06:35,760 --> 01:06:38,720
Attention. 
But I feel you like if it had 

1308
01:06:38,720 --> 01:06:40,840
been like maybe a little bit 
more set up as like something 

1309
01:06:40,840 --> 01:06:41,840
that was really important to 
them. 

1310
01:06:41,840 --> 01:06:44,000
But it's still, you know, it's a
nice. 

1311
01:06:44,000 --> 01:06:48,600
Moment, I kind of felt like the 
the combo of that brawl of like,

1312
01:06:48,600 --> 01:06:52,200
that's their karaoke song 
because then Ken sadly singing 

1313
01:06:52,200 --> 01:06:55,760
it where he's like, it's clear 
he's like not a blonde. 

1314
01:06:56,880 --> 01:06:59,760
And then but then also he's 
sadly singing it when he thinks 

1315
01:06:59,760 --> 01:07:02,080
Ryu is dead. 
There's a great moment when all 

1316
01:07:02,080 --> 01:07:05,200
the characters start singing for
non Blondes and it cuts to Don 

1317
01:07:05,200 --> 01:07:08,600
Sauvage crushed under rubble 
singing the song. 

1318
01:07:09,880 --> 01:07:12,720
It's no one's helping him. 
He's not even really asking for 

1319
01:07:12,720 --> 01:07:14,160
help. 
It's just such such a funny 

1320
01:07:14,160 --> 01:07:14,840
comedy. 
Beat it. 

1321
01:07:14,840 --> 01:07:18,080
Was a nice elevation even from 
that beat that they do with and 

1322
01:07:18,080 --> 01:07:20,720
and Dan where they they had a 
line to it, but they're also 

1323
01:07:20,720 --> 01:07:23,080
like you can tell they're 
emotionally like because they 

1324
01:07:23,120 --> 01:07:26,000
thought that Ree was just died 
or something and then they cut 

1325
01:07:26,000 --> 01:07:27,400
the dot. 
Savage is just yeah, it was a 

1326
01:07:27,400 --> 01:07:29,440
nice elevation of that moment. 
They're all just singing it 

1327
01:07:29,440 --> 01:07:32,000
together because everyone just 
feels compelled because who 

1328
01:07:32,000 --> 01:07:35,320
doesn't love that song? 
I'll say I don't know if Akuma 

1329
01:07:35,320 --> 01:07:38,520
worked for me as the big bad 
because I felt like the fight 

1330
01:07:38,520 --> 01:07:41,440
was so CG that it was kind of 
hard for me to get too 

1331
01:07:41,440 --> 01:07:44,520
emotionally into it. 
So I like the kind of switch 

1332
01:07:44,520 --> 01:07:47,400
that like, OK, they Ryu defeats 
him and now now they have to 

1333
01:07:47,400 --> 01:07:49,880
control Ryu. 
And Sarah mentioned like how 

1334
01:07:49,880 --> 01:07:52,680
clean it is to have that 
tournament structure and how 

1335
01:07:52,680 --> 01:07:54,760
bullshit it was that Chun Li 
didn't get to be in the 

1336
01:07:54,760 --> 01:07:57,280
tournament because that would be
kind of what actual equality 

1337
01:07:57,280 --> 01:07:59,880
looks like. 
But I do think it's such an 

1338
01:07:59,880 --> 01:08:02,960
effective story technique of 
showing Ken being impotent with 

1339
01:08:02,960 --> 01:08:05,640
his hadookins and then in the 
triumphant moment he shoots his 

1340
01:08:05,640 --> 01:08:08,480
and all of his is red. 
That's like the Ken version and 

1341
01:08:08,480 --> 01:08:10,720
like that's that's not how it is
in the games, but it's OK. 

1342
01:08:10,800 --> 01:08:11,920
It's still neat. 
I liked it. 

1343
01:08:13,000 --> 01:08:17,000
So this is where the movie ends.
Much to Sarah's shock and 

1344
01:08:17,000 --> 01:08:20,880
surprise, Bison orders Cami and 
his troops to retrieve Akuma's 

1345
01:08:20,880 --> 01:08:22,640
body. 
Cami destroys Chen Lee's van 

1346
01:08:22,640 --> 01:08:25,920
with a rocket launcher. 
Which like, was the van a thing 

1347
01:08:26,120 --> 01:08:27,880
when they blew it up? 
They acted like they wanted me 

1348
01:08:27,880 --> 01:08:29,479
to be sad for it. 
They. 

1349
01:08:30,240 --> 01:08:32,080
Did they really did? 
Yeah, and I. 

1350
01:08:32,520 --> 01:08:35,399
Kyle Mooney's like TV van or 
whatever. 

1351
01:08:36,080 --> 01:08:40,359
Something so it. 
But like Kyle Mooney. 

1352
01:08:40,680 --> 01:08:43,520
Spot it was, yeah, like their 
little investigatory van or 

1353
01:08:43,520 --> 01:08:46,359
whatever, but. 
So that prevents the heroes from

1354
01:08:46,359 --> 01:08:48,160
pursuing them. 
The following day, Ryu, Ken, 

1355
01:08:48,160 --> 01:08:51,319
Chunley, and Dan leave Shadowlou
with Guile and Dolson providing 

1356
01:08:51,319 --> 01:08:53,680
transportation. 
They're basically hitchhiking. 

1357
01:08:54,240 --> 01:08:56,520
And I think that's for some 
reason, my favorite shot of the 

1358
01:08:56,520 --> 01:08:59,160
whole movie is just Guile 
driving with Dulcim riding 

1359
01:08:59,160 --> 01:09:00,520
shotgun. 
And they're just like, what's 

1360
01:09:00,520 --> 01:09:03,120
up, fuckers? 
Like, it was like, it was so 

1361
01:09:03,120 --> 01:09:05,399
good. 
I just love when characters feel

1362
01:09:05,399 --> 01:09:07,600
like they know each other and 
there's a back story and 

1363
01:09:07,600 --> 01:09:09,120
friendships there. 
Yeah. 

1364
01:09:09,800 --> 01:09:12,640
And then meanwhile, A scarred 
Sagat receives a visit from 

1365
01:09:12,640 --> 01:09:14,399
Bison and his remaining 
lieutenants. 

1366
01:09:15,800 --> 01:09:20,920
So this, it doesn't even wrap up
any of the Bison plot. 

1367
01:09:21,319 --> 01:09:24,080
He defeats Chun Li. 
And I do think I like the fight 

1368
01:09:24,080 --> 01:09:27,640
with Chun Li and Junie and she 
takes them both out and like 

1369
01:09:27,640 --> 01:09:30,399
Kyle's up against the wall and 
Chun Li, Sarah is just kicking 

1370
01:09:30,399 --> 01:09:33,479
him in the face over and over 
again and his mask is shattering

1371
01:09:33,479 --> 01:09:35,960
from the kicks. 
But then I also get why, like, 

1372
01:09:35,960 --> 01:09:38,560
if you want Bison to be this 
recurring villain, you kind of 

1373
01:09:38,560 --> 01:09:40,479
can't have him lose in the first
movie. 

1374
01:09:40,960 --> 01:09:43,319
We need to be like, scared of 
him, so he does the big psycho 

1375
01:09:43,319 --> 01:09:44,800
crusher. 
I don't know Sarah, though I 

1376
01:09:44,800 --> 01:09:46,840
like Raul Julia's psycho crusher
better. 

1377
01:09:47,200 --> 01:09:51,560
The finalists. 
And then, yeah, the movie just 

1378
01:09:51,560 --> 01:09:53,960
ends with all the dangling 
threads. 

1379
01:09:53,960 --> 01:09:55,320
I. 
Mean for what it's worth, I feel

1380
01:09:55,320 --> 01:09:58,040
like it gives some degree of 
closure to at least this story. 

1381
01:09:58,040 --> 01:09:59,960
I mean, obviously they're 
they're leaving some some 

1382
01:09:59,960 --> 01:10:03,000
threads open with Akuma, but I 
feel like it the they defeat 

1383
01:10:03,000 --> 01:10:08,720
Akuma is the main like the fact 
that he becomes in a big way, 

1384
01:10:08,720 --> 01:10:11,320
kind of the big bad of the of 
this movie, at least with how it

1385
01:10:12,080 --> 01:10:16,280
with with the last act of the 
movie where you know, like that 

1386
01:10:16,280 --> 01:10:18,320
was the subversion that the 
tournament doesn't matter 

1387
01:10:18,760 --> 01:10:20,720
ultimately. 
And it's just it's just about 

1388
01:10:21,000 --> 01:10:23,840
this guy Akuma who shows up. 
But but I will give you Jeremy 

1389
01:10:23,840 --> 01:10:28,480
that like I wanted to. 
I mean, obviously I feel like a 

1390
01:10:28,960 --> 01:10:34,640
an accurate version of Akuma is 
going to require some CG 

1391
01:10:34,640 --> 01:10:37,840
trickery or some blend with 
Obviously it's a blend of some 

1392
01:10:37,840 --> 01:10:39,720
degree with with a live action 
performance. 

1393
01:10:40,200 --> 01:10:43,960
But did it didn't match? 
Something about it was just a 

1394
01:10:43,960 --> 01:10:46,600
little bit off compared to how 
the aura that you got get from 

1395
01:10:46,600 --> 01:10:50,560
Akuma in the animated segments. 
Well, I think the comparison is 

1396
01:10:50,560 --> 01:10:53,680
the way that they did the Dalzum
fight versus his fight, because 

1397
01:10:53,680 --> 01:10:56,240
the Dalzum fight, as you pointed
out, does really good camera 

1398
01:10:56,240 --> 01:11:01,000
work to imply the stretching so 
that it doesn't look too CG and 

1399
01:11:01,000 --> 01:11:03,440
too silly. 
And they maintained his very 

1400
01:11:03,440 --> 01:11:06,400
real sense of impact, whereas 
Akuma, who should be easier to 

1401
01:11:06,400 --> 01:11:10,560
do, he doesn't stretch. 
It felt it felt just more like a

1402
01:11:10,560 --> 01:11:12,840
kind of a cutscene versus really
being in it. 

1403
01:11:13,800 --> 01:11:15,840
So Mike, we were all pretty 
shocked when the credit stopped.

1404
01:11:16,000 --> 01:11:18,680
But per personally for me, like 
I was ready for the movie to be 

1405
01:11:18,680 --> 01:11:20,720
over. 
And so when there was clear they

1406
01:11:20,720 --> 01:11:23,240
were doing it Back to the Future
part two thing, I was like, you 

1407
01:11:23,240 --> 01:11:25,760
know what, it's cool. 
I'm ready to go home. 

1408
01:11:25,760 --> 01:11:28,560
I liked what I had. 
I don't think I would like this 

1409
01:11:28,560 --> 01:11:30,320
movie as much if it was another 
20 minutes. 

1410
01:11:30,320 --> 01:11:33,600
So let's, let's call it let's 
all go home. 

1411
01:11:33,920 --> 01:11:36,040
Feels good. 
Mike, did you find the ending 

1412
01:11:36,040 --> 01:11:38,080
abrupt? 
Yeah, I mean, part, part of it 

1413
01:11:38,080 --> 01:11:39,880
being a Back to the Future 2 
ending is you don't realize it's

1414
01:11:39,880 --> 01:11:42,680
an ending until they're just 
like, and there's the and 

1415
01:11:42,680 --> 01:11:47,160
there's some credits like it was
very sudden and how it did that.

1416
01:11:47,600 --> 01:11:53,360
Yeah, yeah, Sarah was right. 
So anything else to say in 

1417
01:11:53,360 --> 01:11:56,080
praise or criticism of the movie
before we render our verdict? 

1418
01:11:57,560 --> 01:12:01,440
I just want to say, I know you 
were, you would think that I was

1419
01:12:01,440 --> 01:12:04,080
overthinking it when I said what
is What if it's about data 

1420
01:12:04,080 --> 01:12:07,920
centers? 
But I'm just saying the whole 

1421
01:12:08,200 --> 01:12:13,360
thing is like a rigged game that
doesn't really matter and the 

1422
01:12:13,360 --> 01:12:15,880
whole thing is just the quest 
for energy. 

1423
01:12:16,480 --> 01:12:18,440
And you're stealing the 
techniques of people who did it 

1424
01:12:18,440 --> 01:12:21,360
before you. 
Yeah, I just kind of feel like 

1425
01:12:21,400 --> 01:12:25,880
like those things, OK, even if 
it's not like this movies has 

1426
01:12:25,880 --> 01:12:29,960
some big major statement, I 
think like those themes are 

1427
01:12:29,960 --> 01:12:35,960
enough in our current zeitgeist 
that they're there. 

1428
01:12:36,440 --> 01:12:38,960
You know what I mean? 
I think they're in the movie. 

1429
01:12:39,320 --> 01:12:41,520
That's a good read only. 
As much as I don't like the 

1430
01:12:41,520 --> 01:12:44,440
fact, like I want to see them 
play the tournament, it's like 

1431
01:12:44,440 --> 01:12:46,920
there is this part of me that's 
like, but that's what it's like 

1432
01:12:46,920 --> 01:12:49,400
nowadays, right? 
The tournament's just a show. 

1433
01:12:49,560 --> 01:12:53,640
And like, Joe wins by forfeit 
because it doesn't matter. 

1434
01:12:53,720 --> 01:12:55,640
The rich guy's going to win 
anyway. 

1435
01:12:55,760 --> 01:12:58,760
Do you know what I mean? 
Like the rich guy is just going 

1436
01:12:58,760 --> 01:13:01,520
to take all the power and do 
what he wants to do with it 

1437
01:13:01,760 --> 01:13:03,840
anyway. 
Did I make a snarky comment 

1438
01:13:03,840 --> 01:13:07,080
about that read? 
I think you you were just like, 

1439
01:13:07,080 --> 01:13:08,480
no way they were thinking of 
that. 

1440
01:13:09,480 --> 01:13:11,400
I think no, I think that's very 
possible. 

1441
01:13:11,400 --> 01:13:12,600
I actually think there was some 
I. 

1442
01:13:12,600 --> 01:13:15,160
Was like, no, I don't think they
were either necessarily. 

1443
01:13:15,160 --> 01:13:17,320
But you know. 
I also thought about like, 

1444
01:13:17,320 --> 01:13:21,080
manosphere and like male 
toxicity in this movie. 

1445
01:13:21,080 --> 01:13:23,720
And there's this idea of like, 
there's a certain type of, well,

1446
01:13:23,720 --> 01:13:27,080
there's a lot of men who are 
like glorifying violence and you

1447
01:13:27,080 --> 01:13:30,360
have to dominate and you have to
be able to beat up every other 

1448
01:13:30,360 --> 01:13:32,520
guy in the room, otherwise 
you're not a real man. 

1449
01:13:32,520 --> 01:13:36,120
And this whole movie is like, 
don't go down that path because 

1450
01:13:36,120 --> 01:13:41,000
there's no turning back from it.
Like you need, you need to, you 

1451
01:13:41,000 --> 01:13:44,400
need to push down those the 
awful instincts that we have 

1452
01:13:44,400 --> 01:13:47,040
inside of us and be better 
people by choice. 

1453
01:13:47,560 --> 01:13:50,120
Right. 
And it was like the the bad guy 

1454
01:13:50,120 --> 01:13:52,960
is ultimately manipulating. 
Yeah. 

1455
01:13:53,360 --> 01:13:57,000
Ryu And it's like he had to 
fight himself, like it wasn't. 

1456
01:13:57,080 --> 01:13:59,800
And I think that's so much 
about, you know, even what's 

1457
01:13:59,800 --> 01:14:02,360
going on in culture now is like,
kind of trying to fight this 

1458
01:14:02,360 --> 01:14:09,040
inner nihilism and, like, be 
earnest and earnestly, you know?

1459
01:14:09,360 --> 01:14:13,400
But but Bison, is Facebook 
creating dissent by feeding you 

1460
01:14:13,400 --> 01:14:17,680
what makes you want to fight 
blocking the no kings account. 

1461
01:14:17,680 --> 01:14:22,120
Like, OK, I can like I, you know
what? 

1462
01:14:22,160 --> 01:14:24,000
Thanks for saying that. 
I I actually like the movie a 

1463
01:14:24,080 --> 01:14:26,920
little bit more now. 
All right, guys. 

1464
01:14:26,920 --> 01:14:29,640
Well, I think we covered the joy
pro, the joy cons and every bit 

1465
01:14:29,640 --> 01:14:31,800
in between. 
Let's render our verdicts. 

1466
01:14:32,000 --> 01:14:37,360
Street Fighter 2026, a Nintendo 
or a Nintendo Don't, Mike, can 

1467
01:14:37,360 --> 01:14:39,240
we kind of go clockwise around 
the zoom and start with you? 

1468
01:14:39,960 --> 01:14:43,160
All right. 
I think it's a close call. 

1469
01:14:43,160 --> 01:14:48,160
I think ultimately I don't 
intend don't really I like the 

1470
01:14:48,480 --> 01:14:50,560
like, I like the animated 
segments. 

1471
01:14:50,720 --> 01:14:55,920
There's some parts in the rest I
like, but a lot of the camera 

1472
01:14:55,920 --> 01:14:59,280
work I didn't like. 
I found a lot of it just boring.

1473
01:14:59,280 --> 01:15:01,080
Like I was waiting for it to get
to something that would be 

1474
01:15:01,080 --> 01:15:02,920
interesting. 
To the point that I've looked at

1475
01:15:02,920 --> 01:15:05,640
some other stuff that's 
described it as like joke a 

1476
01:15:05,640 --> 01:15:08,000
minute and I'm like, I feel like
I watched a different movie. 

1477
01:15:08,000 --> 01:15:10,480
Like, not that there wasn't 
stuff that was jokes, it just 

1478
01:15:10,480 --> 01:15:16,640
they felt sparse to me. 
And I think some of that may 

1479
01:15:16,640 --> 01:15:22,240
well be how much of this was a 
fan service movie and is not a 

1480
01:15:22,240 --> 01:15:24,440
fan. 
I think things that maybe, oh, 

1481
01:15:24,440 --> 01:15:27,600
people like that, that's like, 
that meant nothing to me. 

1482
01:15:28,120 --> 01:15:31,360
Yeah, I feel like I should pull 
up our and standings just so I 

1483
01:15:31,360 --> 01:15:34,200
can make anyone who's listening 
realize how much you hate Street

1484
01:15:34,200 --> 01:15:38,760
Fighter 2. 
And I think, I mean, you know, 

1485
01:15:38,760 --> 01:15:45,840
it's you know, it's still better
than I think of like wasn't 

1486
01:15:45,960 --> 01:15:51,040
Street Fighter the legend of 
Chun Li, which I recount 

1487
01:15:51,040 --> 01:15:55,240
outright a bad movie? 
This just felt just very mad. 

1488
01:15:55,760 --> 01:15:59,520
And I think it probably is. 
Also, I like the 94 Street 

1489
01:15:59,520 --> 01:16:02,120
Fighter a lot more because I 
feel like kind of what it used 

1490
01:16:02,120 --> 01:16:04,320
it as an inspiration, but it 
kind of did its own thing. 

1491
01:16:04,800 --> 01:16:08,480
Whereas this I think I get the 
impression try to do so much 

1492
01:16:08,480 --> 01:16:14,240
from the games and that just 
that doesn't carry any weight to

1493
01:16:14,240 --> 01:16:15,760
me because it doesn't have any 
meaning to me. 

1494
01:16:16,520 --> 01:16:20,480
Yeah, I think that's fair. 
I also would say that, like, you

1495
01:16:20,480 --> 01:16:25,000
know, MM saw this movie sober 
and I did not, right. 

1496
01:16:25,000 --> 01:16:28,440
And so if, if you are of age, I 
would I, I do not think this is 

1497
01:16:28,440 --> 01:16:29,880
a movie you're meant to see 
sober. 

1498
01:16:30,240 --> 01:16:33,680
It is purely ridiculous. 
I think it's a great addition to

1499
01:16:33,680 --> 01:16:37,560
a night out with friends. 
I laughed so much. 

1500
01:16:37,560 --> 01:16:39,880
I think they should be 
advertising the comedy more. 

1501
01:16:40,480 --> 01:16:42,360
I think this is a definite 
Nintendo. 

1502
01:16:42,360 --> 01:16:44,920
I had a really good time, and I 
would say it's a Super Nintendo 

1503
01:16:44,920 --> 01:16:47,080
if you're a fan of the games, 
because we've been wanting to 

1504
01:16:47,080 --> 01:16:50,040
see something like this for a 
very long time. 

1505
01:16:50,480 --> 01:16:54,080
And I was very nervous when 
Mortal Kombat 2 was so good that

1506
01:16:54,080 --> 01:16:56,480
I didn't know if there was room 
in my heart for another one. 

1507
01:16:57,760 --> 01:17:00,400
I would probably still slightly 
give the edge to Mortal Kombat 

1508
01:17:00,400 --> 01:17:02,000
2. 
Like that's probably a nine and 

1509
01:17:02,000 --> 01:17:05,840
a half and this is a nine, but I
love the hell out of this movie,

1510
01:17:05,840 --> 01:17:07,480
Margot said. 
Like Jeremy, I think that movie 

1511
01:17:07,480 --> 01:17:11,040
was made specifically for you. 
And it's like, it's very Jeremy 

1512
01:17:11,040 --> 01:17:12,440
coded. 
It's very obnoxious. 

1513
01:17:12,440 --> 01:17:16,360
It's very bombastic. 
It it, it's having a good time 

1514
01:17:16,360 --> 01:17:20,640
even if you're not. 
So I, I adore this movie. 

1515
01:17:20,640 --> 01:17:26,720
It's I'm very, very happy. 
So I did I, I did also still put

1516
01:17:27,040 --> 01:17:28,640
Mortal Kombat 2 slightly above 
this. 

1517
01:17:28,640 --> 01:17:30,880
I think I'd given that three 
stars and I gave. 

1518
01:17:30,880 --> 01:17:34,680
I ended up giving this 2 1/2. 
Brian, how about you though 

1519
01:17:34,680 --> 01:17:37,000
we've been talking about seeing 
and a portrayal of RE you like 

1520
01:17:37,000 --> 01:17:40,040
this for some time. 
Oh sure, and at the same time, I

1521
01:17:40,040 --> 01:17:42,240
mean to piggyback off of you 
guys both mentioning the 

1522
01:17:42,240 --> 01:17:45,120
comparison to the other big 
fighting game movie this year, 

1523
01:17:45,120 --> 01:17:47,640
Mortal Kombat 2. 
I similarly give the edge to 

1524
01:17:47,640 --> 01:17:50,040
that one. 
But I love that these are both 

1525
01:17:50,040 --> 01:17:57,960
movies that that for better and 
arguably also for worse, lean 

1526
01:17:57,960 --> 01:18:01,000
very, very hard into the camp in
the fanservice in a for 

1527
01:18:01,000 --> 01:18:06,720
franchises where fans of it have
kind of been starving for a 

1528
01:18:06,720 --> 01:18:12,560
properly fully fan embracing 
camp, embracing depiction of 

1529
01:18:12,560 --> 01:18:15,960
these characters. 
You know, without the without 

1530
01:18:15,960 --> 01:18:17,680
loss of a serious edge to it 
too. 

1531
01:18:18,080 --> 01:18:23,120
But at the same time, yeah, I 
can't necessarily recommend this

1532
01:18:23,120 --> 01:18:26,040
to anybody who isn't already at 
least a casual fan of the 

1533
01:18:26,040 --> 01:18:28,880
franchise and knows his 
characters because I'm not 

1534
01:18:28,880 --> 01:18:31,280
surprised that a lot of those 
people are watching this movie 

1535
01:18:31,280 --> 01:18:33,720
going, like, what I'm supposed 
to care about. 

1536
01:18:33,720 --> 01:18:39,160
Like, yeah. 
But at the same time, if you 

1537
01:18:39,160 --> 01:18:43,080
can, even if you aren't a fan, I
feel like there are a subset of 

1538
01:18:43,240 --> 01:18:49,040
of of people who might find in 
person the way that this movie 

1539
01:18:49,040 --> 01:18:53,320
introduces a very faithful 
version of virtually all of 

1540
01:18:53,320 --> 01:18:56,720
these characters. 
You know, with some, with some 

1541
01:18:56,720 --> 01:18:58,640
changes, obviously, like we 
mentioned before with Chun Li, 

1542
01:18:58,640 --> 01:19:01,360
But at the same time, I I love 
that at least in that case, like

1543
01:19:01,360 --> 01:19:05,800
Kalina, Kalina Liang really 
brought a lot to and her and her

1544
01:19:05,800 --> 01:19:09,320
own fandom into, you know, into 
portraying this, this character 

1545
01:19:09,320 --> 01:19:11,520
the way the way that we kind of 
all remember it. 

1546
01:19:11,800 --> 01:19:16,400
So in that vein, I know you 
don't allow decimals, Jeremy, 

1547
01:19:16,400 --> 01:19:18,800
but I've I've in a lot of ways, 
coming out of the movie, I was 

1548
01:19:18,800 --> 01:19:22,040
like, I get this maybe like a 
7.5 because it's not perfect 

1549
01:19:22,120 --> 01:19:23,320
either. 
You know, there's definitely 

1550
01:19:23,320 --> 01:19:26,600
jokes that I rolled my eyes at 
that, that I'm not going to 

1551
01:19:26,640 --> 01:19:28,480
forgive just because it's a 
camping movie. 

1552
01:19:28,480 --> 01:19:30,760
It's like, yeah, I would have 
polished this and polished that,

1553
01:19:30,760 --> 01:19:35,160
as you know, but but as a fan, I
was like, I got to bump this up 

1554
01:19:35,160 --> 01:19:39,160
to 8, I think out of 10 because 
it's just like this is at the 

1555
01:19:39,160 --> 01:19:43,960
very least, it's so much fun. 
There are there are some warts 

1556
01:19:44,240 --> 01:19:47,360
and all with the movie, but it's
a nice Dan sticker. 

1557
01:19:47,960 --> 01:19:51,440
But yeah, it's good fun. 
And at the very least, hopefully

1558
01:19:52,280 --> 01:19:55,040
I would, I would love to see a 
sequel of this movie. 

1559
01:19:55,680 --> 01:20:00,400
I think the these actors are 
such a fun take on all these. 

1560
01:20:00,680 --> 01:20:03,080
I want to see them chew the 
scenery more in the way that 

1561
01:20:03,080 --> 01:20:04,880
Mortal Kombat 2 did to Mortal 
Kombat 1. 

1562
01:20:04,880 --> 01:20:06,560
Because I think it sounds like 
we're in agreement. 

1563
01:20:06,560 --> 01:20:09,400
Mortal Kombat 2. 
Was better than the first, the 

1564
01:20:09,400 --> 01:20:13,560
movie that it's a sequel to, 
which also still very much got 

1565
01:20:13,560 --> 01:20:18,600
rightful praise for embracing, 
you know, a more faithful take 

1566
01:20:18,600 --> 01:20:20,720
on on the characters as we 
remember them. 

1567
01:20:20,920 --> 01:20:23,240
This movie does that too. 
But it's. 

1568
01:20:23,800 --> 01:20:25,440
Yeah. 
If there's not that that's not 

1569
01:20:25,440 --> 01:20:28,080
your kind of bag, then you're 
probably going to roll your eyes

1570
01:20:28,080 --> 01:20:30,040
at this. 
But yeah, it's good fun. 

1571
01:20:30,200 --> 01:20:32,240
It's good fun, Yeah. 
And. 

1572
01:20:32,320 --> 01:20:36,440
And if anything, it makes me 
more hopeful for like the 

1573
01:20:36,440 --> 01:20:39,280
potential that a sequel could be
even better than this. 

1574
01:20:39,960 --> 01:20:41,840
Yeah, especially with everything
in Bison that they didn't 

1575
01:20:41,840 --> 01:20:43,880
resolve so much with him. 
But at the same time, I didn't 

1576
01:20:43,880 --> 01:20:45,640
bother me too much because I'm 
like, at least that leaves the 

1577
01:20:45,640 --> 01:20:48,480
door open with him, given that 
he's such a central big bad of 

1578
01:20:48,480 --> 01:20:52,200
this franchise. 
And and like you said, Jeremy, 

1579
01:20:52,200 --> 01:20:55,080
like they play with the fact 
that like, he's not capable in 

1580
01:20:55,080 --> 01:20:57,200
his own right. 
He needs to take everyone else's

1581
01:20:57,200 --> 01:21:00,320
supernatural power to to build 
himself up. 

1582
01:21:00,320 --> 01:21:03,240
And I would love to see that 
have some kind of pay off in a 

1583
01:21:03,240 --> 01:21:04,080
sequel. 
So. 

1584
01:21:04,840 --> 01:21:06,800
It's a Nintendo for you, Sarah. 
Take us home. 

1585
01:21:06,920 --> 01:21:08,000
Nintendo. 
Nintendo. 

1586
01:21:09,240 --> 01:21:13,560
I think it's a Nintendo. 
If you played the game, I think 

1587
01:21:13,560 --> 01:21:15,840
if you didn't play the game, I 
don't think you're going to get 

1588
01:21:15,840 --> 01:21:18,680
much out of it. 
I think you're going to be more 

1589
01:21:18,680 --> 01:21:23,160
confused and notice the plot 
holes a lot more. 

1590
01:21:23,640 --> 01:21:28,680
So I gave it A7. 
I feel like I'm definitely the 

1591
01:21:28,680 --> 01:21:32,880
audience for this movie. 
Like the parts that I loved, I 

1592
01:21:32,880 --> 01:21:39,760
really loved and I just feel 
like I just wish, I just wish 

1593
01:21:39,800 --> 01:21:43,320
like there's a few things that I
would tweak. 

1594
01:21:44,760 --> 01:21:47,800
Like again, I loved the setup. 
I just think like the back half 

1595
01:21:47,800 --> 01:21:50,960
of the movie, it didn't land for
me and I just, I really wish it 

1596
01:21:50,960 --> 01:21:55,160
had because I I enjoyed the 
ride, but I still enjoyed it, 

1597
01:21:55,720 --> 01:21:57,040
right? 
I still thought it was a lot of 

1598
01:21:57,040 --> 01:21:59,880
fun. 
So yeah, 7 out of 10 for me and 

1599
01:21:59,880 --> 01:22:02,280
definite Nintendo, especially if
you're a fan of the game. 

1600
01:22:02,840 --> 01:22:04,800
Awesome. 
My prediction is that Street 

1601
01:22:04,800 --> 01:22:08,000
Fighter 2 will handle characters
in Street Fighter Three, much 

1602
01:22:08,000 --> 01:22:10,240
like how Street Fighter was 
basically Street Fighter Two, 

1603
01:22:10,760 --> 01:22:14,640
and they'll always be one behind
in the numerology of it. 

1604
01:22:15,160 --> 01:22:17,320
Well guys, we're going to call 
that game over for today. 

1605
01:22:17,320 --> 01:22:18,960
This concludes our final 
verdict. 

1606
01:22:18,960 --> 01:22:22,280
Street Fighter for 2026 is a 
Nintendo. 

1607
01:22:23,040 --> 01:22:24,880
Brian, It's always great to 
throw hands with you. 

1608
01:22:25,120 --> 01:22:28,040
Why don't you let our listeners 
know once again where they can 

1609
01:22:28,040 --> 01:22:32,080
find your stuff? 
Well, I am on Instagram and 

1610
01:22:32,080 --> 01:22:37,160
TikTok as Brian dot S dot Lee 
and on YouTube as Brian Lee. 

1611
01:22:37,160 --> 01:22:41,560
No spaces, no middle initial. 
You can find just various 

1612
01:22:41,560 --> 01:22:45,120
cosplay stuff. 
I do music stuff, I do activism.

1613
01:22:45,120 --> 01:22:47,920
I mean, it's a solid just you 
know, the content I put out 

1614
01:22:47,920 --> 01:22:50,040
there. 
But but yeah, find me there. 

1615
01:22:50,800 --> 01:22:52,240
Excellent. 
And Sarah, I want to let people 

1616
01:22:52,240 --> 01:22:54,000
know where they can get that 
sweet chunli outfit. 

1617
01:22:54,000 --> 01:22:57,360
Was that an Amazon Original? 
That was an Amazon original. 

1618
01:22:57,760 --> 01:23:00,960
There we go everyone, it sounds 
any excellent. 

1619
01:23:00,960 --> 01:23:03,640
Join us next time for a fun 
filled light switch episode in 

1620
01:23:03,640 --> 01:23:05,760
which Mike and I will be talking
about the other games we've been

1621
01:23:05,760 --> 01:23:09,680
playing in our offseason as we 
gear up for Season 5. 

1622
01:23:10,200 --> 01:23:13,160
Until next time, Please remember
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1623
01:23:13,160 --> 01:23:16,080
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1624
01:23:16,080 --> 01:23:17,720
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1625
01:23:17,720 --> 01:23:21,920
www.theoldswitcharoo.com to find
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1626
01:23:22,040 --> 01:23:23,920
We'd love to hear what you 
thought of for this episode and 

1627
01:23:23,920 --> 01:23:25,600
what you'd like to hear in 
future episodes. 

1628
01:23:25,800 --> 01:23:28,360
Check out Season 1 for our 
coverage of Street Fighter Two. 

1629
01:23:28,600 --> 01:23:31,120
And as always, thanks for 
listening to the old Switcharoo.

1630
01:23:31,200 --> 01:23:33,400
We've been talking gaming retro 
with Mike and Jaymo. 

1631
01:23:33,640 --> 01:23:35,640
I've been Mike. 
And I've been Jaymo. 

1632
01:23:35,920 --> 01:23:43,400
Game on, everyone. 
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