Cinepals - STREET FIGHTER (1994) Movie Reaction & Review! | First Time Watch | Jean-Claude Van Damme | Raul Julia

Episode Date: March 18, 2025

Round one, fight! Achara watches the 1994 movie Street Fighter for the very first time! Based on the popular Nintendo game, in Street Fighter, a military commander leads a team of fighters on a mission to stop a power-hungry dictator from taking over the world. Street Fighter (1994) was directed by Steven E. de Souza (Die Hard, 48 Hrs., Commando). The film stars Jean-Claude Van Damme (Bloodsport, Kickboxer, Timecop) as Colonel Guile, the determined military leader out to stop a global threat. Raul Julia (The Addams Family, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Moon Over Parador) plays the villainous General M. Bison in his final film role. Ming-Na Wen (Mulan, The Joy Luck Club, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) portrays Chun-Li, a journalist seeking revenge against Bison. Damian Chapa (Blood In, Blood Out, Under Siege, El Padrino) takes on the role of Ken Masters, while Byron Mann (The Big Short, Arrow, Altered Carbon) plays his best friend and fellow street fighter, Ryu. Kylie Minogue (Moulin Rouge!, San Andreas, Bio-Dome) appears as Cammy, Guile’s loyal second-in-command. Wes Studi (Dances with Wolves, The Last of the Mohicans, Avatar) portrays Sagat, a powerful crime boss, while Andrew Bryniarski (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Batman Returns, Any Given Sunday) takes on the role of Zangief, Bison’s muscle-bound enforcer. The film blends action, campy humor, and over-the-top performances in a live-action adaptation of the popular video game franchise. Join us on YouTube at https://www.YouTube.com/@Cinepals for the cutdown reaction or becoming a Patron at www.cinejump.com and get access to the uncut reaction for this movie as well as many other movies and shows! SOCIAL MEDIA ~CINEPALS~ YouTube: @CinePals Insta: https://instagram.com/TheCinePals Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheCinePals

Senna. This is a very special film for me that I have been wanting Achara to watch for a long time. I was trying to pair her up with someone else who hadn't seen Street Fighter, but someone who hasn't seen Street Fighter is likely unfamiliar with the game. Achara has just enough knowledge about the game to enjoy the movie. Haddoken! Yes. Showing your knowledge.

Also, my sister works with us on our channel full time. The actor who plays Ken is her godfather. Achar will finally understand the meaning of Zangeef thumbs up. up. I'm so excited for this. We're going to get started here. Here we go. How about that interview? But only if you... Stop staring at her ass.

Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. the fight trainer. If my memory serves me correctly, the director of this film, he's the writer and the director, a studio producer approached him and said, hey,

we have a meeting with Capcom tomorrow and we don't have a story ready for this meeting. Can you write the story? Can you give us a treatment of some kind? And the director was like, yes, under one condition, I have to be the director.

I don't think he directed anything before this. I think this is his directorial debut. And so he pulled an all-nighter and he came up with a treatment. They had a meeting with Capcom, and they liked it. And they signed off on it. And that's how this movie got made.

It was a story he came up with overnight. Wow. I don't know how long he spent on the script, but they approved it. It's a little bit strange seeing the characters, like, have jobs. Do you know what I mean? Sure. I'm not sure what I thought a live action movie of Street Fighter was going to be. But I didn't really think about, like, oh, what would they do in the real world if they weren't just fighting?

I think I was kind of thinking that it was going to be, like, honest. on a par with Mortal Kombat where it's like, oh, then we're just going to go to this like street fight tournament and then we're just going to fight. Or maybe be kind of like the animated movie that we watched. Yeah. Yeah. Whereas this, it was like, oh my gosh, it was so much bigger, you know. There's like a whole, a whole big plot of bison to like take over the world and like be the best and all of that. Raul Julia, like, committed very much so in the role, and I definitely appreciated that.

There were moments where I was like, oh, that really does feel like Gomez-Adams, but, like, just, like, scarier. Well, the plot to take over the world is actually on M. Bison's bingo card. Like, that is something he wanted to do. If you play the game, I don't know if it's all four of them,

you know, Balrog, Vega, Sagat, and M. Bison, or just M-Bison. but one of their endings, at least one of them, is seeing the world domination and them take over. And it's like the four of them, it's in my mind. I don't know how to describe it very well, but you see the four faces as this like people on fire or something are walking towards the camera.

It's something very sinister and dark, you know, if they were. Okay. So I guess, yeah, that is on track, but it was just like, The execution of it is very unique to the film. Yeah. And I guess, yes, Gile is in the army, right? And so that made sense.

And then Cammy, I don't know an awful lot about Cammy except for, like, where she's from. Oh, there's an end credit scene. Solar batteries retouching. Uh-oh. He's back. He's not dead. That rat. These rats survive.

Oh. Good morning, General Bison. What is your menu choice for today? World domination. Replay. Wow. You know, if they managed to squeeze a sequel out of it. But they couldn't, well...

No, it didn't do very well. No. They actually had a Street Fighter, The Movie, The Game. It was like a video game adaptation of the film. Then they had, like, the actors come in, or at least... I don't know if they had all the actors come in. Well, obviously, they couldn't get in Bison, Raul Julia, right? Yeah.

Because he had passed away. But they had a number of the actors come in, like do certain poses and stuff kind of like it was akin to Mortal Kombat the way they produced the game. I feel like unanimously voted as a terrible game. Even though I was into it just because I was into like the

movie and everything like that as a kid even though it was a bad movie. I had fun with it. There were some fun moments in the movie for sure and I liked some of the characters and it was really fun to see characters or actors that I know from other

things lend their talents to this as well. like Ming Na Wen and like she was taking it very seriously which I appreciated and it was it was satisfying as well like you know they set it up in such a way with the different careers that people had which I was kind of like I don't need them to have careers to be honest like okay fine guile yes because it's established that he's an army guy and cammy I guess she's also like British army or whatever just based off of her costume because I don't know an awful lot about her but everyone else I'm kind of like, oh, that's interesting that, you know, Chun Lee is a reporter, although that's really like a cover for her trying to get to Bison, right?

It's like, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's fine, that's fine. I was just waiting. I was waiting for the fighting. The movie's called Street Fighter. I want to see Street Fighting. And it was fun, like, when they got captured by Bison and then, you know, he basically gave them their video game costumes, which was really exciting. I'm like, oh my gosh. Yeah.

She's in like her get-up and, you know, everyone's wearing the suits that we know and love. Was your dad friends with Damien Chappa already when he was shooting Street Fighter? No. The reason why my dad met Damien was because of me. Damien's kid went to the same Catholic school that me and Greg went to. In fact, Damien's kid was in the same class as Greg, and Greg and Damien's kid were friends. What happened was I walked into school one day and I saw Damien sitting there on one of the lunch benches and I, my dad was with me and I'm like, dad, that's Ken from Street Fighter. And he's like, what? I'm like, that's, go talk to him. He's Ken from Street Fighter. I know you can talk to him, go talk to him. My dad was like a grade A world-class smoozer.

By the end of the day, they were best friends. Wow. Yeah, it was pretty well. They were hanging out all the time. That's how he ended up becoming my sister's godfather. Oh, my story's not nearly as What's your story? Oh no, I just, I randomly went to Byron Mann's apartment in Vancouver because my friend, she's friends with him. Why isn't that interesting? That's not as cool. I just went there and I was like, yeah, he was really nice.

I was like, hey. Did he hit on you? No. Oh, okay, your story sucks. Exactly. He was a perfect gentleman, very nice guy. If you were like, yeah, Ryu hit on me, that's a story. No, but yeah, he's cool.

He's really cool. Yeah. Anyway, now that we've done our obligatory, like, oh, we know these people. So it was fun for me to rewatch this because there's a lot of, like, little Easter eggs. I didn't catch as a kid. I didn't realize that M. Bison's symbol was everywhere in this movie. Yeah. It's like on the lamps and everything.

It was decorated everywhere. I didn't catch the gong, the bell, right, that is straight out of M. Bison's stage. I didn't catch the leaning Buddha. Well, that's not really Buddha because it was a woman in the background of the game? No, in the game, it was a Buddha, but here it was a woman. No, it was a Buddha. That was a Buddha, but it had tattas.

Didn't it? I thought it had boobies. No, I don't think so. I'm mistaken. I thought I saw, I thought I saw, you know, a putty cat. No, I don't think so. Okay, look right there. Oh, you're right, you're right.

You're right. Of course. How could I ever doubt you in your Tata radar? I mentioned quite a few times during the movie, but I was just very happy to see Benny the Jet and just how often he was like in the action. He's the, he was the fight, uh, choreographer, yeah. A trainer? Something like that. I didn't say choreographer, but I imagine trainer.

Yeah, okay, that makes sense. Yeah, I mean, he's an instructor. He's a martial arts instructor. I don't know where we talked about Benny the Jet. I don't remember if that was a live stream or a video. So I'm going to talk about it here and I'll try to make the story short. We were at, oh, we were. No, I remember now.

It was like, there was some Jackie Chan thing we had watched. Was it for Wicked? I don't remember anymore. There was a whole street fighter thing that you and I watched because of Jackie Chan. I don't remember why that we watched that. You showed me. Oh, I showed you that at the end of the Street Fighter 2 animated movie, right? We looked at the Jackie Chan Street Fighter thing where he dresses up as Chun Lee.

Yes, yes, yes. I don't remember why Benny the Jet came up. But in case that didn't make the cut, I'm going to say it here. I was at LA Fitness with Achara and I saw Benny the Jet there. And I met him twice before, but I wanted to. Chara to meet him. I'm like, okay, there's a legend here. She's like, there's like, Char, you got to stop what the hell you're doing. Like, there's a legend here and you have to meet him. She's like, who? And so I showed her the Wheels on Meals fight scene

that Ben in the Jet had with Jackie Chan. I'm like, this is the dude. You're going to come meet him right now. So I show her the fight scene she watches it. And then I pull her ass over. I'm like, here, meet him. And then, and then Ben, the Jet, like, he was very nice and shook her hand. And then he just kept talking. He was like, he's all about the philosophy and the martial arts and everything like that and he'll just have a full-blown conversation with you, Kevin Smith style. It's awesome. Like, his head is just full of like all the philosophies he wants to impart with people. It's awesome, but awkward for me. Yeah. And so I just get happy seeing him because he's like the nicest guy on the planet. Really, truly, yes. And he actually like went

into a whole story. Oh, no, that was a video I watched of his. Never mind. I'm mixing up my memories now of like a real life fight he had. That was basically blood sport. Oh, yeah, yeah. Speaking of Jean-Claude Van Damme. Yeah, Jean-Claude Van Damme. He was a good pick for this in a way, right? Just in terms of like, we need an action guy who can throw some kicks. But like, oh my gosh. He was the hottest guy at the time, I guess, that in terms of stardom and martial arts.

Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. But, you know, I saw in the credits that he had a dialogue coach. But wow. You know what? At this, I appreciated at least when I was watching kickboxing. her in Bloodsport, his accent was always kind of explained. Yeah.

And here it's just like, whatever. Also, Kylie Minogue, I think physically great choice as Cammy. I think she looks the part. She looks hot. She's kind of, you know, she's petite. She's really small. She fits the role pretty well with the exception of the accent. Yeah.

I bet she could do an English accent if she wanted to, though. Ernie Ray Sr. did stunts in this as well. Oh. So I don't know how much overlap there is, but Michael and I did a reaction to the last dragon and there's a whole fight scene between ernie ray senior and ernie ray's junior in the movie like they actually have a fight scene together and they also star together in surf ninjas the movie and so ernie ray senior he's just a stunt guy here but it's still cool to see his name like he's part of classic martial arts history and whatnot sorry go ahead it's called him no english accent

she could do it if she wanted to i reckon she could have done an english accent if she really wanted to yeah i i just feel like it's not really about that you know and so many people are playing across race and whatever so yeah i mean you know you mentioned a byron man he's chinese yeah and riu's japanese yeah not that people were really thinking about that back then i mean like we were well in this late as uh zeng ziyi playing memoirs of a geisha so that's totally wrong but you know yeah that's it's full of a chinese cast and so like back then no you forget about it yeah People aren't... Yeah.

E Honda is supposed to be from Japan, but they gave him this Hawaii vibe. I liked it, though. I liked that. I didn't mind that for him, because at least it was explained, you know? Like, oh, he's a sumo champion from Hawaii. Cool. You know who I also really enjoyed was Vega? Vega was very...

He was pretty video game accurate as well. Yeah, he looked great, and I just really enjoyed that he embraced the camp. Yeah, like, just kind of looking at the details in the movie, Vega, he was... He had the agility. He had the look. The flare. The flare, the flamboyantness. The fact that he was so precious about his face.

They got the mask. They got the claw. I really think that they nailed his character. Yeah. And then Zengi, I don't know if he's supposed to be an idiot, but he is perfectly suited for being a dumb character who's just like all brawn. Yeah. And I think that they nailed that in terms of like the faces, the poses, the behavior.

The size, the look. But he just always had. great faces and like you know he's like quick change the channel like the greatest line in the movie and everyone's just like yeah exactly DJ's behavior is not accurate to the game at all but he's still a fun character he's a fun character I liked him DJ is supposed to be kind of on par with like he's just a party kind of guy in my mind I remember when like as being a kid I remember when they announced Super Street Fighter 2. That was such a big deal to me

to get four more characters in this game. You got DJ, you got Kami, Tehawk, and Phelong. And that was huge to get like this Bruce Lee character. I had this like Nintendo Power poster that I cut out of the magazine and put on my wall. I know what DJ looks like. Like he's burning my

mind, his movement, his behavior, his big smile. That's not DJ. You know, he has an accent, but he doesn't have the size or the behavior. Deach is not cynical. In this, he is. He plays off of the seriousness of the situation pretty well. I mean, the absurdity of the situation, I should say.

He's the straight man. Yes. And so in that respect, like the adaptation, the artistic licensing of it, fine, it's fun. It's like when you get some of these characters so accurate to the game, it's weird, like what you do with other characters, you know? I did enjoy, like, the little nods to the game. Like, it was really satisfying when characters would do their signature moves, you know? Well, yeah. I mean, if it looks like...

I know. Okay. Like, yes, I think we can agree that a lot of the fighting was a little bit goofy. But, I mean, overall, the vibe of it is like... In terms of the moves? Like, in terms of the movie, the vibe is kind of funny, right? Oh, yeah. I think that was by design. Yeah.

Yeah. That's what I'm, like, fascinated by. I'm like, wow, you took this and you, like, turned it into this, like, comedic, campy movie. That's what we did, though. That's what Americans did oftentimes with adaptations. and I don't understand why. If you look at the Brady Bunch movie, it's making fun of the Brady Bunch.

I liked that movie. It's not like an adaptation of the show, like, oh my gosh, what if this was like, you know what I mean? It's literally making fun of the characters and the show and the whole premise of it. Right. I haven't watched Adam Stanley in a long time.

I feel like that was actually... That was good. That was actually accurate to the show, right? Kind of? I don't know. I really watched the show all that much. It seemed like adaptations making fun of stuff was actually common practice,

And so Street Fighter was just another one in that kind of just making fun of it more than actually being an accurate adaptation of the story. It borrowed like the characters quite heavily. You know, the relationship between Ryu and Ken is actually accurate. Right. I appreciate, you know, the things that were put in there lovingly, like the moves, like the costumes. Like Blanca. Blanca. And also like that fun little detail where Bison was controlling the weapon or whatever it was.

was with the joystick and the controls. That was really cute. I do wonder, though, would a street fighter movie today taken more seriously and with more of a focus on like the fighting and martial arts and stuff like that, would that work today? I think we'd all buy into it. I think I think we'd love it. I would go and watch a street fighter movie like that.

I honestly think that something like that probably works better as a short run series, kind of like Chernobyl or something, you know, where it's just like a one-season thing. Wow. I don't know what else to reference. I don't know what else to reference. Street Fighter next to Chernobyl. I'm not putting it next to Chernobyl. I'm just saying Chernobyl is an example of something.

Like a mini-series, like a six episode. Yeah. A short-run series, a mini-series, yes. Yes. I think that Street Fighter could work very effectively like that because there's so many characters to talk about. And it's like, where do you even start? We're up to Street Fighter 6 now.

and there's so many characters over the course of the series. It's like I feel like a show is probably the best way to tackle it just because there are so many characters and so many storylines. Yeah, and speaking of the so many characters, I know that we couldn't really explore a lot of them really deeply, but I guess, like, good on them for managing to put all of them in. Yeah, they did a pretty good job. I mean, they kept it strict to, I mean, at the time,

I guess Super Street Fighter 2 was the game that was out. I don't think Street Fighter 3 came out yet. That was the cast of characters that you had, except for Faylong. I don't know why he wasn't in this. There might have been some political situation as to why they didn't cast him or some kind of rights with Bruce Lee. I don't remember. There was some trivia I saw at some point that explained it, but it's very odd that you had this one dude not in the movie who's like to me quite iconic. I can't tell you how happy I was to see a Bruce Lee-like character in Street Fighter.

And then likewise in Tekken and stuff like that. This is just every time. That was my go-to, like, every single time. I'm like, the Brucey character. That's who I'm playing as, you know? It did make me sad to not see him in here. Aw. They just had this random Japanese guy.

Well, at least I got Chun Lee. The cage match thing near the beginning. It's like, there are, I appreciate this movie for what it is. There's so much I would have done differently. But then in my mind, whatever I'm doing is taking it seriously and not making a comedy. Right. You know? Because this was so campy.

Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the right before it changed the channel thing. the whole delivery and the execution of bison sagat from chun lee on the little tv you're going to be blown sky high it was like a very weird staccato delivery but it's all with the intention of a ha ha at the end of it so i guess it makes sense yeah i appreciate a lot of stuff about the film that i didn't care about as a kid you know like the whole thing with there's stuff that you cannot possibly uh um really digest mentally as a child the whole scene with Chun Li and M. Bison when he's got her locked up with the thing, you know, in the red outfit and whatnot. And he's like, you've thrown a punch and blah, blah, blah. As a kid, I understood it, like, conceptually, but seeing the acting and whatnot that

Mingna Wen is committing to, like, she was taking this, like, Joy Luck Club seriously. Seriously, yeah. She, like, she was really, really delivering when she was doing the news. She was, like, on point. And in the scene with, uh, bison she's like so serious at the same time though it does make me sad that we don't we don't have a serious version with the same cast except for shang club ben damn i could have done without him and give me someone else that makes more sense but like you think about um mingna wen she was giving everything she was and it's like no that's a serious thing that oh my god like watching it i'm like yo you had migno wen and she was giving all of it and she was actually kind of hot at the time

in terms of star power because of joy luck club it's just a missed off Opportunity. I think that's the phrase I'm looking for. It's just a missed opportunity. It was kind of neat to see them hitting the beats of the story, but it was a missed opportunity. Although even though she was being very serious, I never felt like she belonged in a different movie. Because sometimes that happens when some actors are doing a very different acting style to what the tone of the movie is. But I think that, yeah, even though she was really giving it her all, she didn't feel like she was out. of place and like in the same way raoul julia was giving his all but his was like full on camp mode camp master type of situation like very dramatic i loved every time he would like

flip his cape like so extra i mean he knew the assignment he understood it i mean i just look at adam's family yeah like he gets it i i mean as a kid i did not like that ral julia was im bison I thought that was like terrible miscasting because I'm like, he's not Thai because I thought Mbison was supposed to be Thai just because Mbison's stage is Thailand. Uh-huh. It turns out that's just where his headquarters is.

Oh, okay. He's not necessarily. It's all right. He's an expatriate. We have a lot of those. No one knows what his ethnicity is supposed to be. Sagat is definitely Thai. Looking at him now as a grown-up, I'm like, okay, that's fine.

It's just that I don't know how tall West Studi actually is. Sagat, in my mind is a giant. The face, like, it matches. Yeah. But it's just like, Sagat's supposed to be this. Riu and Sagat definitely have like backs. They have history. Like, Sagat's scar came from Rio.

The whole thing with Charlie was interesting. Yeah, that was like, I could feel the writer trying his best, the writer-director trying his best to like, it's kind of fit it all. It's like, it's conceptually like, how do you make this into a movie? He did his best, you know, A for effort. Also, talking about Charlie, what the hell, Gile?

like you see your friend like this just like blew my mind his friends all like well it almost blew his mind yeah exactly his friends all like help me and he's like i'll help you yeah by killing you yeah like what you're going to resort to death first what about like let me help you look we can fix you where's that maybe you know dr kovorkan was a huge topic back then what's dr kovorkman and... Oh, you can't talk about it on YouTube? Assisted, you know... Oh, okay.

Yes. Gotcha. You definitely saw some of the moves in the movie. And there were some that I didn't even catch as a kid that I'm spotting here now as an adult. I'm like, oh, that's kind of neat that they tried to pay homage to the characters like that. The one that felt like... There were some that felt really, really strong. Vega, you know, it's more his behavior that felt right.

But Gile, he was doing those crazy kicks on the ground. Yeah. Even though it was like all in editing. It looked kind of weird. that was game accurate and it looked actually pretty decent you know if i don't know what i know in terms of martial arts fight scenes and and uh editing and filmmaking you take all that away and i'm just watching a movie that looks pretty good you know it looks it looks convincing and then he does the blade kick which is one of giles signature moves the only thing i don't think i saw it the only

thing he didn't do with sonic boom oh yeah which is quite unfortunate it's like that's a gile move though, you know, it would have been great if you at least said it or something. Yeah, a little bit. I mean, we kind of got the Hadook in as well. I just kind of want a little bit of like, push, you know, light coming out. It's an homage. It's a nod more than anything. It's like, did you see a flash?

Maybe you didn't. Just a little one. It might have been in your mind. The agility of Chun Li, at least as the movie wants to convince us, you know, her moving around in the cat suit or whatever, you know, and down from the balcony and all that. That is in line with her character, you know. She is supposed to be, like, the most agile character in the game.

It was cool. Like, that's another thing I appreciated as a grown-up, you know, is like, oh, that's really Ming-No-Wen who's doing all this stuff. Right. You know, she, like, she was really selling herself as, like, an action heroine. I'm like, oh, that's actually pretty cool. Like, I feel a little bad for her that she couldn't continue down that. But, I mean, she's immortalized as Moulon, so I guess there's that.

Yeah, and then also in Mandalorian. Oh, that's right. Yeah. That's right. Yeah. That's years later. Years later. But still a badass.

Still a bad. Isn't she an agent of shield? I believe so. Even though this is a film that is campy and not taking itself seriously, I do love, especially now as an adult, I love the just audaciousness of M. Bison and just like how narcissistic he is. He's got a painting of himself on the horse. Yeah, everything.

All of the, like you said. all of the like like fixtures and everything it was all like bison this bison that yeah i'm the best all la la he's like each bison dollar will be worth five british pounds after i kidnapped the queen yeah he's like dude we love your delusions yeah blanca always looked awful to me and he looks even worse now yeah he really does look like luferigno Hulk to me but like But like, but with... Discount. Yes.

Yeah. And with fifth element hair. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. All my little quips and grievances aside, like, this movie is aged beautifully. Like, I really mean that.

It's aged exceptionally well. Because it's like, it's supposed to be just can't be fun. Like, I would watch this movie again and again with friends drinking. I feel like it's a perfect film for hanging out. Sure. Like, it doesn't get any better than this. You get your friends together with a six-pack of... Well, I don't drink beer.

You know, whatever. A bottle of whiskey. Yeah, it's, I feel like this is the perfect hangout movie. Kylie Minogue, I loved her so much. You didn't know her before? No, this is my first time. Not from any of her music or anything. I only discovered her music after this.

And then I connected the dots. I was like, oh my God, wait a second. I guess, like, she was huge. She was, you know, she was huge in Australia and in the UK, you know. Because of neighbors, and I think she was a neighbors, right? But, like, she was a pop star. Right. The thing is, I can just see why everybody's signing up for this movie.

It's like, oh, here's a great opportunity, you know, to break into American cinema. On paper. Get on the map. Sounds like a great plan. Become a movie star on this, like, world famous video game. The IP is strong. It's like, obviously, I have to do this. And then for it to be vivid.

after her, it's just, I'm like, oh, man, it feels a bad. But she made a comeback. She's like the comeback queen, okay? Because, like, she was huge back in the day, like the locomotion. Do you remember that song? No, not at all. Do the locomotion with me. Anyway, she was huge.

And then kind of, I don't remember what happened. But she came back with, like, her dancey music. And she was already older at that point. point but she was looking like banging like I bought her workout video she had a workout video it was like I think it was called like a hot pants workout video or something because like her butt was phenomenal yes it was and and you remember in that music video where she was wearing like that gold outfit with the gold shorts yes yes and so it was a workout video based off of that I did a lot of like bridges and and stuff, but yeah, then she came back

and, like, she's still around. I'm about to blow your mind. Okay, go ahead. So the writer-director of this movie wrote Die Hard in 48 hours. And Commando. Wow. Yep.

Lorcroft, Tomb Raider. Wow. They trusted the... Why would you trust this man to write a Tomb Raider movie? Well, there were certainly some Tomb Raider elements in the movie. God.

He also wrote Knockoff, the Sean Claude Van Dam film, he also wrote Judge Dredd. Wow, he's got a whole history here. And the Flintstones? Yeah, he's done a lot. But yeah, Die Hard, Die Hard, too. He did the screenplay.

Die Hard is a book, by the way, and he just did the adaptation. Oh, gotcha. Still. The Running Man? Die Hard is a classic. Yeah, he's got a long history of writing. Of writing. But as director?

Street Fighter is the only, like, he did a DV film called Possessed an unknown sender. Like, yeah, Street Fighter was, that was his film, you know? Wow. Because before that, he was doing TV movies and stuff like that. He came and went. You know? He went back to, after that, he went back to writing predominantly. I want to say, this film has aged wonderfully.

I had a great time. I'm so glad that we finally got to watch this. It was highly entertaining, even freaking 30 years removed. Wow. 31 years removed. It's fun. Yeah. I guess for you, the nostalgia factor is really high.

Yeah. Yeah, for sure. I can, the anime is way more. game accurate way more like but this is fun it's just fun you know it's it's silly it is silly it's a good silly fun yeah like it's a great drinking movie and i'm sad i didn't have a drink i know me too but uh i had a great time hopefully you guys do too thanks so much i'm jabby kui this is achara kirk peace out