Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - We Gotta Talk About The Street Fighter Movie - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Episode Date: August 11, 2025

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What's up everybody? Welcome back to the Kind of Funny Games cast for Monday, August 11th, 2025. Of course, I am your host, Tim Getty's. I'm joined today by the Poppy of All Trades. Blessing Eddie O. Yeah. Junior. Good day, Tim. How are you? Doing well, Nailed it, by the way. Yeah. I saw the gears turning. They turned. Turned just for a second. But you got it. I was thinking I was like, do I give you a fighting game thing today? Because you also the fighting game. We're doing street fighter. But I was like, no, we got to stick to the Poppy of All Trace. I'll take it. Yeah. How's it going? It's going. It's going. really well. I'm excited for this one.

I'm very excited for this one. This has been an episode of the Games cast that we have kicked around many times. It's rare that multiple people in the audience get like hyped on an idea and we start having a conversation like off content of like we gotta do this and it's like we gotta save this. We gotta save this for a show. And this is one of those things that I'm gonna be honest with you. There's not much to say

but we'll find things to say. Oh yeah. Because we gotta talk about the street fighter movie. It's one of those things where I mean I don't want to get too much into a fore topic of the show. But because of the nature of how they've talked about this movie and announced things for this movie, it's been like, oh, okay, they're working on a street fighter movie. Oh, okay, it's going to start Andrew Koji playing Ryu. Okay, cool. Oh, interesting. Noah Centeno is playing Ken. All right. And then like two weeks later. Oh, Roman and Raines in this movie. Oh, this person. Oh, it started to. There's not been one big drop. No, not only has there not been a big drop.

It also feels like it's not official. Like, even when you're looking at a deadline, there's something about the way the website's laid out, this one particular article that I keep looking at the deadline.com and the URL. I'm like, is there a three instead of an E or something? Is this like a fake gotcha type situation? Like it's so bizarre how the rollouts been, the secrecy, but also just like how vocal some people have been about, oh yeah, I'm doing this movie. I'm this character. And it's like, okay, what's happening here? What the fuck is this movie? We're getting a street front of movie and we need to talk about it. to talk about the new one, we need to go back.

We need to talk about what is Street Fighter. What do we want from a Street Fighter movie? What does the world need from the World Warriors? And we'll get into all of that because this is the kind of funny games cast. Each and every weekday, we get together to talk about the biggest reviews, previews, and topics in video games live on YouTube, and podcast. And podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, and I hope that you do, please support us with the Kind of Funny membership on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcast, or, of course, Patreon to get all of our shows. ad-free and a daily exclusive show.

We call it Greg Way. Normally it's Greg talking about whatever the hell he wants to, answering all your questions. But when Greg's out on vacation like he is right now, we rotate. Everybody is kind of funny. Today's Roger. You get to hear Roger talk about some stuff. I love Roger talking.

Oh, he knows how to talk. He's a yapper. He's a good talker. Real good. For a chance of part of this show, though, submit your YouTube super chats as we go. People are already getting them in. If you have thoughts on Street Fighters,

2026, if you have thoughts on Street Fighter, the games, the stories, the characters, the movies. I want to know about them right now. Because again, we gotta talk about it. There's a lot to break down. We got to get into all of this. Housekeeping, we're an 11-person business, all about live talk shows.

We already got Bless and Mike on Games Daily talking about the surprise Battlefield 6 record breakings that are going on already. California's back. That's what the streets are saying. It's fully back. I mean, I don't want to sidetrack too much. I didn't get the chance to listen to you guys today. Battlefield's back.

People seem to really into it. The game seems good. Yes. Maybe a month ago, we, I think it was me and you, we're on Games Daily talking about all of the insane expectations that EA is putting on. Oh, yeah. Was that us? I don't know Phil's us, but I've had this conversation. So it might have been.

Because they were insane. Like they were just like, oh, guys, you need to figure that out. There's no way that they actually hit them, right? Like, it can't be. It's not that good. I mean, the beta, granted, it's free to play and all the shit, right? But it's like number 18 of like most player can. currents on Steam, which is like pretty high, which says a lot about like hype and anticipation.

And then overall, the, I guess, the result of that being good as far as like how people have enjoyed it. I don't know. Like it might be there. I think if they take what they have and combine it with a good reportedly rumored free to play battle real mode, I mean, you might be able to put it back on the map in a major way. There's also just so many resources that they've been dedicated they've been dedicating to it a lot of like e a studios that were working on other things are now part of battlefield studios like they're betting a lot on this game yeah we'll see i've been watching a lot of clips and it looks chaotic as shit it is watching the game i'm just like oh my god this is overwhelming but cool as shit that's thing is i i i've i know i've talked to mike about

this but i'm i'm historically not a battlefield person i am i've always preferred call of duty and i think part of that is like map size and game size and player count and all that stuff I'm playing this open beta, I think I'm in, I think I'm super into Battlefield. I'm like really enjoying it. It's one of those things where I'm like, damn, when this game comes out officially, like fully, put me on them streams. Put me on them streams. Let's hit in the battlefield. Love it.

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That's not right. We're brought to you by Aura Frames and Shady Rays. But we'll tell you about that later. For now, I'll start with the topic of the show. Tots, Tots, Tots, Tots, Tots, Tots, Tats, Tats, Tats, St Street Fighter 6. Nope, Street Fire 2026. We got to talk about it. Can I tell you?

Mm-hmm. During the Riggum rule. I've been trying to find a succinct explanation of Street Fighter's story You know what, bless? Don't worry Oh Well,

maybe you should be worried Oh Because on one head I got you I have all that prepped I have things But it's maybe not to make the point That you think

Okay Because again We're going on a journey here Yeah Because I guess We're at a good place To start and actually have this conversation You don't know the story

of Street Fighter Do you? No I know dudes are fighting I know in the street fighter I mean I know it's a fighting game Right and When I think of classic street fighter

It's the thing where I project my own story That I have in my head Okay cool I play as Ryu I'm traveling around the world To fight all these different fighters From different locations And occasionally a car That's the story of street fighter in my head

You're not that far off Except you're totally off Because there's a lot of shady corporations involved Oh, yes, of course. And Bison. And Bison's doing his thing. I watched a Street Fighter anime animated movie forever and ever ago that I barely

remember shit about. So there is that as well. Tree Fighter 6 does have a story mode, but it's not a, like, it's not narrative heavy. Let me, let me ask you. Yes. You're the fighting game guy. That's kind of funny. Yeah.

I know that Street Fighter 6 was kind of your biggest entry point into the franchise. You've played before. What is your history with the games? Top level. Top level. It was an Addison joint. It was an Addison. Addison was one of my friends when I was a kid growing up.

He lived in the same neighborhood. He lived at the end of the cul-de-sac, which is always cool. Like, coldestacks. You know what I mean? He had a Super Nintendo while I had an N-64. He had Super Street Fighter 2 on Super Nintendo. So, like, playing that game at his house is like my earliest, like, one of my earliest gaming memories, honestly.

But also, yeah, my earliest street fighter. memory. So there's that. Is this an Addison fucking Zelda character? Yeah. He's the guy who holds up the signs and tears of the kingdom. He is the sign guy. He was Addison. That's crazy that he went places, man. You're your buddy. Went from the coldest act to the open world.

But yeah, I remember playing that game quite a bit. Dalzim was my main and I sucked with him. But there's that. I then remember playing a lot of Street Fighter Alpha 2 on my emulated allegedly Super Nintendo on my Android phone in high school played quite a bit of that at a friend later in life

when I say later in life I mean like college named Ceremel who had a PS3 and he had Street Fighter 4 and I played that game all the time at Ceremel's place and he would what my ass him and Stevie were like the street fighter guys and he also

had to use like my fighting game friend like he was just into the fighting game so he would whoop our ass in that and Stevie eventually got really good at Street Fighter and was able to face off of them. I got good at Tekken, which is the other game the Ceremony would whip our ass at and I got good that was able to face it off with him and Tekken.

But yeah, it's mostly been like never that hardcore. It's always been like, oh man, yeah, I play this casually or oh, I jump in because I like playing some arcade rounds of Street Fighter and then I move on to other fighting games. Street Fighter 6 is the heaviest that I've gotten into a Street Fighter just now where I'm playing ranked and I'm trying to keep up and do all that stuff. But even with that, like, once Tekin came out, I kind of just moved on and stayed in the tech and world.

What about you? What's your history with Street Fighter? I mean, I'm a Street Fighter guy. I'm not good at fighting games, but I incredibly love Street Fighter 2 specifically. But that's, too, is just obviously the starting place for most people my age. Yeah. But Two had so much of the most iconic characters. Street Fighter 2 is the Pokemon red and blue of Street Fighter.

It is the thing that they're always going to go back to. Like, what is the starting place? They're going to, they're always going to go back to Conto. in Pokemon. You're always going to go back to Charzar being like the main guy that they're showing. We're going to get the original eight world warriors plus the bosses like they're always going to be a focus in more mainstream streetfighter stories, right? But I played the hell out of three as well, even the alpha series because I loved the visual identity that those games had. I was hyped as hell like Street Fighter 4 was one of the games that I was like counting down the days to release.

Like I pre-ordered that, got that day one. Five, wasn't really into, like I barely played that. And then, you know, six recently, like, we talked about that last year. But I was obsessed with the world of Street Fighter. Like, I loved the characters. I loved the music. So many iconic theme songs in that game. Like, each character has its own song, which I always loved.

And, you know, some of the composers include the composer of Kingdom Hearts. Like, there's, like, some, like, legendary shit on there. Yoko Shumera? Exactly. So I am in Street Fighter. in a major way. Did you play third strike? Yes. Okay. That's three. Yeah. Yes. Okay. Yeah. Man. I love that one out. But yes. The third strike is a game that I still look at and I'm like, godly, I can't believe this game looks like this good. But it wasn't until around 2008, I think. So it was like before four was coming out that I got really into wanting to know about the story of Street Fighter. And the reason is, Barrett, I just added one more link to the top there, Street Fighter of the later years.

where college humor was like popping off, right? Did you ever watch college humor? A little bit, yeah. This is back in the early days of them really getting their footing of like who they are and what the identity of the website was. They put out one of their very first series, which was Street Fighter the later years. It's still on the Dropout channel.

So this is the Dropout YouTube channel right now. If you wanted to go back, there was nine episodes. And each episode was like three minutes, four minutes long. But I remember being hooked. waiting for the new drops of these things to come out. And the idea was just like, oh, I don't know,

these characters were super popular in the 90s, but what happened in the later years? And, you know, we have, uh, just, Jake and a mirror.

It's a mirror on the left. Oh my God. He just looks so freaking young. Um, but they just have all the original characters here, but it's like what happens when they, when they got older and not popular anymore. And like,

Dalsim was a taxi driver. And like, it's just like, you know, some things don't hold up that well. Yeah. But some things, are awesome. I just loved it though because I was like I want to know why there's rivalries between

these characters. So I went back to replay Street Fighter 2 more from like a critical story standpoint of like I want to know what the narrative is of this because you really just play through the game and you get like the one screen at the end. That's like here's your ending and I'm going tell you. I was like what the fuck? Like there's no story here like how are people finding this? So I was trying to find like a succinct what is the actual story of Street Fighter? Like what is the canon. And it essentially comes down to people writing articles. This is a Donkey Kong situation, everybody.

This is a situation where it's like, the less we care, the better it's going to be. Because it's been retcon to hell and they're just like going to us. There are some things that like follow through and that stay consistent. But overall, it's kind of a disaster. But I want to just tell you the plot

of Street Fighter 2. Please. That's told by Wikipedia. The leader of the Shattalooo organization, Shattaloo, by the way, S-H-H-H-H- A, D-A-A-L-O, sometimes pronounced Shadaloo, sometimes pronounced Shadow-L-L-L-O-O, sometimes pronounced Shadow-Law. Oh, okay. They got a little creepy with it. But M. Bison, in his global domination plan, sets up a world fighting tournament to select the best fighters to work in his shadow-lew organization.

This isn't it yet, Barrett. We're just talking about the game here. Okay. Okay. So the best fighters to work in his Shadaloo organization through brainwashing. Oh, okay. Many of the other characters in the game have personal reasons for wanting revenge on bison.

So then you go down and you look at the actual character list. I just want to pause there because I thought that was going to be a longer read. I opened up the Wikipedia so I can follow along. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It is a very, that's the shortest plot segment I've seen for a video game. Two sentences. Article.

Two sentences. That's crazy. But then each character has their own little story as well that we get to look at and be like, oh, hey, cool. Maybe the character stuff will flesh it out a bit more. Blanca, a beast-like. mutant from Brazil who was raised in the jungle. He enters the tournament to uncover more origins about his forgotten past.

And that's all they give you. Is it, um, do you, was this like, if you know, are these like from the endings or was this from like the manual? I think it's a combination of both. Okay. Yeah. Gile, a former United States Air Force Special forces operatives seeking to defeat Bison who killed his best friend Charlie.

Okay. Mm-hmm. Uh, chunley. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Was that established? Like, did we, because Charlie is a character that shows up later later on. Yeah. Was that like retconned or do you think

was Charlie referenced in that original? Charlie was referenced in Street Fighter 2. That's fucking cool. I never knew that. In Alpha Charlie was a playable character. That's fucking cool. It's pretty cool. And then Chun Lee,

a Chinese martial artist who works as an Interpol officer, much like Gile, she does not enter the World Warrior Tournament for any personal glory except proving that she can defeat any man who challenges her. Good for you, Chumley. I just love that.

This is where we're at. Yeah. And I can keep going, but you get the point. It's just like, here's some characters. They're just archetypes of where they're from regionally for us to just do the World Warrior and to have a tournament for fighting games. It doesn't matter.

Yeah. Some characters are connected. Some characters in our Blanc is green. Okay? Yep. We're just going to deal with that. And so obviously, it's more about the game. It wasn't so much about the story because like, especially back then, like, there was a novelty

to very few video games had good stories. Yeah. And I think back then, right? Like, I imagine the thought process of making Street Fighter was, we want to be. want to make a game where characters fight each other, but they all have different martial art styles because that's cool. Super cool. Yeah.

Which is, which they're right. And honestly, let us have Street Fighter too, which is a fucking phenomenal game, one of the most iconic games of all time. But yeah, when you have to, like, then mush a story in there, that's when we get into freaky territory. And then as you, like, start doing more sequels and prequels and spin-offs, trying to keep all of that story when it's so weird and sparse, I think that it just inherently gets even more complicated. And again, it's a Donkey Kong situation.

Yeah. So, uh, because of the popularity of Street Fighter, the characters, the world, all of it, the game specifically, uh, they did release Street Fighter 2, the animated movie, which is the first Street Fighter movie. Uh, this was back in 1994 and it was a, it was a big hit. People really enjoyed this. Um, not the best movie of all time, but it does have that like, very classic OVA anime movie style. Yeah. That still holds up today. Barrett, if you can bring it up now, like, looking at it, it's like, this is cool as shit. Also, it featured a Chunley shower scene that, for obvious reasons, very iconic to the

obvious reason. Yeah, like, man, I remember, because I watched this, I must have been like 16, 15. This is one that me, Stevie and Ceremo watched at Ceremo's house because we're like into street fighter or whatever. And yeah, like, I remember the shower scene being something that we're all like, oh, what's going on here. Well, that's the thing they, they, uh, ported. They, uh, localized it, uh, in America. They, did the thing that they always do. They added a bunch of, uh, pop American music instead of the soundtrack that the movie had. So like Allison Chains is playing, like, constantly throughout

this film. Yeah. Nick and I did a, a watchalong of this back at the old studio. But yeah, super fun movie. Um, and yeah, the American version cut the Chunli scene, or at least, uh, censored it. And then there was like, re-releases, you know, it's a whole thing. Oh, that's a whole thing. Oh, but. The Chunley fight scene where she beats up Vega after that is dope as shit. Yeah. A lot of the fight scene in this are super cool. The start of the movie is the origin of Sagat getting his scar from Ryu. It's like there's some cool stuff in here, right?

Anyway, this was 1994, but it wasn't the only street fighter movie in 1994 because we also got the Hollywood classic Street Fighter, the movie. Which I never seen. I have also never seen this. It's been on TV. bits and pieces of it. But this is one of those fever dream type things where you're like, you hear, oh, there was a fantastic four movie in the 90s. You're like, really was there?

And you look at this. It's the same type of thing. The cast is absolutely insane. All right. We got John Claude Van Damme as Gile. We have Mingna Wen as Chum Lee. No way. Yeah, dude.

Kylie Minogue is Cammy. Like they were doing something here, okay? But yeah, you look at this movie and it's like, it is the most 90s. bullshit, like, why would you do this type movie? But I'm also telling you right now, I'm looking at this. I'm like, they're kind of doing the thing. Like, look at their stupid-ass outfits. Yeah, I'd be curious if we were to go back and watch this.

I mean, we got to do Street Fighter movie and review when they put out the new one. I think we do. And I'm letting everyone know, today was me doing the research to see what movies are blessed I'm going to have to watch for Street Fighter 2026? And we're about to have a good time. Because it sounds like, yeah, we got to watch the re-watch the animated one. We got to watch this because I, I want to know. how this compares to the Mortal Kombat movie.

Can you go back like 10 seconds, please? Is he green? Kind of? Because I didn't, I missed it. See, I want to see how this compares to the Mortal Kombat. His Mortal Kombat movie, oh my Jesus Christ. Oh shit. Oh, fuck.

Don't like that. Don't like that at all. But like Mortal Kombat movies, right? Yeah. Iconic, but also not quality. Like, not the best movies. especially Mortal Kombat 2. I liked Mortal Kombat 1 movie.

Mortal Kombat 2 kind of goes off the rails. I wonder where this stands in that pantheon or if it's just like a way worse thing. Because Mortal Kombat, I feel like it stood the test of the time is not the right word, but it stuck around. Cold classic, right? Cool classic, yes. Okay, I actually love that you're bringing up Mortal Kombat

right now at this point in time in the Street Fighter movie timeline because this is where we start to do a major diversion. You look at this and this is campy 90s, Hollywood, action movie. There's a big property. Let's get big stars. Put them in the costumes. Have them hit each other. Have some stupid effects and like hopefully make some money. You know. You look at that. You know exactly what they're going for. And is that against the tone of the street fighter games? Not really because like we just said, the street fire game story and all

that stuff. Not really sensible. Like it's not really grounded. It's kind of just like fun for fun sake, right? Mortal Kombat is funny because I think inherently is a much sillier game. Like there's a lot more like funny things about it, but it takes itself seriously. You know, there's something about they, they care about the story a bit more. And I feel like that it's not that it's much deeper, but I do think that there's just like elements of it, the, you know, Earth realm and all that stuff. Like, yeah, they have a story that they care about, it seems. And then when you translate that to movies, it's either like the 90s ones or like our more recent Mortal Kombat movie that we're getting the sequel to this year, which like it's a serious movie. Yeah.

For better or worse. It's like they try to actually go back and give Sub Zero and Scorpy and like backstories that are like grounded to an extent that like they're trying to make these like believable movies. Listen here. I've gone to the Mortal Kombat 1992 original video game Wikipedia, whereas the street fighter plot section, two sentences, the plot for moral combat. Two paragraphs. Yeah. Two paragraphs. And like I think, yeah, I think it really is the reverse, right?

where you look at that cast of characters in Mortal Kombat and it's like, oh, there's something going on here. It might not be fucking deeper or anything like that, right? But even here, you know, if I'm to read the first paragraph of the plot, the game takes place in Earth Realm. Already we've established a location. Yeah, straight up.

We've established a setting where a tournament is being held by Shang Sung's island on which seven of its locations serve as stages in the game. The introduction of Moral Combat explains that Shang-sung was banished to Earth Realm 500 years ago. And then it goes on, right? but like there's a, I feel like moral combat, yeah, like you're saying, from the get-go, kind of establish a little bit more to pull from, even to the detriment sometimes where

you get to the PS2 generation of moral combat games and like it's not the best generation moral combat games. But one thing that I think does stand up as far as when people talk about moral combat from the era is like, who Kang is dead. And that means something. Yes, there's the conquest mode and deception that like people, like, you want to talk about cult classic like things about a video game, right? like you had Armageddon was fucking harkened back to a moral combat one that came out recently right like

there's a story there's like a cult following for like the mortal combat story that is there because the people that are making it from the get seriously took it seriously yeah and like I think have a good foundation to work from where a street fighter the foundation of its story kind of just isn't there and so I feel like every iteration is kind of them I'm going to kind of weave around and be like all right let's create stuff let's or pull things together a little bit they take it seriously and literally and it creates kind of an awkward situation which is what we see with the next street fighter movie do you remember what it is bless the next street fighter movie after after the live action one in the 90s no was it another live action one two thousand nine's live action

street fighter the legend of chun lee i do not remember this you don't remember this no god this this came out around dragon ball evolution that's kind of what i need to tell you yes for you to understand this. They thought they were doing something here. They thought that this was what the world needed. It was them taking Street Fighter so freaking seriously. Did this come to theaters? Oh yeah. Okay. Kristen Kruick is Chun Lee. Oh my God. Like, look at Vega. Like this is just, this reminds me a lot of the pre-MCU superhero movies. You know? Yeah. Like those, the, when you look at the, the bad X-Men movies and like the

what's like why are they all in leather why can't we just have fun like why why does it look this way you know if you go to the end of the trailer Barrett we see her do a I assume Hadukin

and it's offensive it is very very bad yep there we go Jesus yeah so that's what we were dealing with here and you've seen this movie was Ryu in it

or was this like a no so this one this is them trying to take this like trying to take the two sentences seriously yeah and i extrapolated into a actual movie so this is them talking about you know uh chunley works at the uh at interpol yeah right this is them dealing with charlie giles um now dead friend yeah um who charlie and chunley worked together at interpull okay so this is kind of like the movie like their origin story because that's what we needed that seems like a deeper cut like that seems like kind of a yeah a very specific storyline for a live action theatrical release of Street Fighter.

That's true. So, um, I, I am happy to be able to share something with you, Bless. Yeah. That movie brought us nothing good. Okay. But it brought us one thing amazing. And that one thing is the character of Charlie. Okay, Charlie played by Chris Klein.

Okay. Do you know Chris Klein? Remind me was, which American Pie? Which American Pie? Which character was the American Pie? The sensitive one. Yeah, he was like the look. cross player who dates like the acopella singer

learning how to be sensitive. Yeah, I like I vaguely remember it, yeah. So what if I told you he gave his absolute greatest performance of all time in Street Fighter The Legend of Chunley? The fine absolute greatest performance. I don't need to. I'll let you see it for yourself. You just inherited a big problem. Get used to it.

You've spent the last three years of my life chasing around an organization called Shaddle out. His bodies piled up in the harbor. They were the heads of the ruling crime families of Bangkok, correct? Uh-huh, right? And now they're all dead except for one. His name's bison. I've tracked him through 11 major cities on four continents and never come close, not once.

He's, like, damn near breaking the fourth wall here. He's down. And anybody that's against him is either dead or on their way. Now he's the last man standing. You don't want a ticket to this dance, detective. does. Of course. It's front for Shaddle out.

Bison's bringing in the neighborhood to drive the land. I need to know, do the other characters match this energy whatsoever? No, unfortunately. They don't. Because if they did, we're fucking cooking. You know, because that is kind of my entire thesis statement. Okay. On Street Fighter 2026.

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I cannot wait to hear your argument towards this. So here's the argument. we have more video game adaptations than ever. And we have more good ones than ever. There's still some really bad ones. There's still a lot of mediocre ones. We have more than ever. So, you know, they're just going to be, it's a numbers game.

But when we look at the successful ones recently, I feel the majority of them are when they just capture the energy or the vibe of the thing. Or take it and understand, that you either need to faithfully recreate the story and characters people love from the games or which is harder to do and I feel like less have actually even attempted or pulled that off and in the case of The Last of Us you look at it. It's like that is its problem.

And that's what makes it good to some people and divisive to others is how much they feel like it reflects their memories of those games. But then you look at arcane. You look at cyberpunk edge runners, fallout, like some of the most. most well-regarded ones are just in the world of those games and treat the material with respect, but understand what makes the stories and world matter, translating that to a different medium without having to directly adapt the literal story of the games, right? Yeah. Then there's other ones. I'm going to say it. I got to say it. My favorite one right now.

Sonic? Twisted metal. Oh, twisted metal. Twisted metal. Okay. Yeah. Sonic's a different, different beast. Yeah, I was going to say, because Sonic is in its own category a little bit. Yes, and like Sonic, I do think is a good example of maybe like a third vertical almost of like that's... Like a reimagining. It's a reimagining, but like taking elements people loving care about from the games and putting it in. And as you watch those Sonic movies, as we're now three in with the spinoff show, Knuckles. Yeah. Those progressively get more and more inspired by the games.

Yeah. The first one kind of felt like they were scared to go into that. And now where we're at now, I fully expect Sonic 4 to be bashing. shit insane with just Sonic stuff and Sonic characters and all of that because they built up to that. They've earned the trust of the audience. I also think Sonic is an IP in franchise is

so it's different. I don't think any, I don't think many other IP can do what Sonic the movie does as far as like how ridiculous it is how cheesy and campy and corny it is and over the top it is, but also

like how much of a thing it works or how much it works as a thing because it is such a kids movie. And then also, yeah, like, appeals to us as Sonic adults. Yeah. It's a weird, it's a weird different thing. Not many other franchises have that Sonic effect. But Sonic has it and they've earned it because they've had countless TV shows, countless anime movies.

Like, Sonic's putting the work to be a cultural icon. You're right. All right. People that have been putting the work to be cultural icons, twisted metal. Correct. Yeah. Twisted metal. Very big deal. I know that, like, I am the only Twisted Metal fan here. at the office. And I know that like just generally like if you were to just talk to gamers these days about

Twisted Metal, it's not a factor. The last game was 2012, I want to say on PS3. Not that well regarded. Before that it was, you know, PS2 era that these games were, were popping off, or PS1 specifically, and then two with black. They were some of the most well regarded games of those generations. Like highest selling, highest reviewed. They were talked about as like major factors. Like Sweet Tooth was one of the faces of PlayStation. We got, we got a lot of, of Twisted Metal clones, like other games that wanted to be Twisted Metal. Car Combat was a genre because of Twisted Metal, right?

And the story and characters of Twisted Metal was a bigger part of that franchise than Street Fighter in the sense that Twisted Metal was known for it for having like cutscenes to tell the story as opposed to just

like the screens of a fighting game, even though it functioned very similarly to a fighting game. You choose your character, you get an intro story bit, in the middle story bit and at the end story bit. But this Twisted Metal was so campy. And depending on the game, some of them would just be live action. And it was god-awful.

Like, we've seen all the PS1 Resident Evil live action cutscenes. Yeah. The Twisted Metal end game cutscenes from like Twisted Metal 1 are unhinged type shit. But then they got to Twisted Metal Black and tried to take it really seriously. It turned the genre into beating this. Em-rated, incredibly dark take. Every character's in an asylum for some reason,

and they're trying to get out, all this stuff. And it was fascinating to watch. But they took it seriously and tried to take these characters in a direction that I think ultimately worked for what the franchise is, but also killed the franchise. Because here we are, and it doesn't mean shit to anybody. I grew up playing those games. Yeah.

I grew up loving the stupid-ass stories and not thinking it was good story, but like being invested in. So here I am 20 years later watching a Twisted Metal show that really feels like they're taking all that stuff the level of serious that they should but at the end of the day like this is stupid let's make it a comedy.

Like let's have the fun action, let's have the references, let's actually have heartfelt story and characters and but come up with stuff that doesn't need to directly adapt the game because the game doesn't matter, you know? But still, what does matter? What moments? What are the big pop-off moments? What are the things that we can do

to service the actual fans of the old games. And I think Twist's done a excellent job. The more I watch, the more I'm like, this is one of them ones, man. I got to watch it at some point. And honestly, I think, I think you'll enjoy it. I really, really do.

And the amount that I've talked about on the show, people have been like, I'm going to watch it just to see if Tim's fucking full of shit. Every single person I know that's watch has been tweeting me like, dude, I'm in, man. I'm fucking man. And especially right now, we're cooking in season two. They're actually doing the tournament.

Like, they're doing the big thing from the, games and they're just having fun with it and again not perfect i'd probably give like a seven out of ten but my point is i'm loving a seven out of ten because that's what a twisted metal thing should be i mean i don't make twisted metal this prestige fucking drum i think it's about authenticity right like i think everything you're saying is is essentially saying that like this show is authentic to what twisted metal was and it does it justice yes that doesn't mean it's a 10 out of 10 show but it means that for you somebody who's a twisted metal fan you watch it and go fuck yeah, that's exactly what I want for a

Twist the Metal show. And so what do I want from a street fighter movie? Because I love the street fighter games. And I think that it's not because of the story but it is because the characters, but what is it about the characters? It's that they're archetypes. And it's that they have music that themes to themselves. They are from

a certain place and they have certain fighting styles. That's what matters to me. So put them together, allow them interact in stylish ways. And I'm kind of like, you can't fuck this up. But somehow they fucked it up multiple times. Well, like in the past or... Yeah.

Oh, yeah. And also with a lot of fighting games, like even Mortal Kombat, right? It's like there are easy ways that you can just take this simple premise that feels like such a slam dunk, but mess it up still. Do you think, because again, we haven't watched the original live action, street fire movie, but with the legend of Chun Li, do you think that was a thing that they took it way too seriously? Yes. Okay. Yeah. And that was the thing.

It's like, I feel like they need to just lean more into the style of, like, like, like, you know, It needs to be about fights. Yes. Because that's what matters to us is these characters going to different places around the world having cool fights. Yes. And have a story that's serviceable enough to get us from place to place. And some funny moments and having the characters saying the lines that we need them to say, doing the moves that we want to see them do. So having said all of that, we're finally here talking about the cast of the 2026 movie.

We've talked about this on different shows. They keep adding it. It might get even more crazy over time. But where we're at right now, I just need everybody to kind of understand what we're dealing with next year. Because we might have an all-timer on our hands. It's going to be an all-timer. What direction of an all-timer? Is it going to be a masterpiece?

Probably not. Is it going to be a train wreck? Maybe is it going to be one of those, is it going to be a twisted metal? And allow me, I want everybody to, I appreciate that for the last 38 minutes, you've listened, you've partook. You're showing respect in the chat, even when I say some things that might sound not. a line. But I think honestly everything you said so far I'm on board with. And allow me to continue.

Yes. Because I'm going to prove the point here. All right? Please. I'm going to prove the point. So here we are. Barry, if you could bring up the deadline article. So when we look through the characters that they've announced so far. Yeah. I want us to talk about each character and who is tied to it. And the story that

this is building. We have Vidyat Jomwal playing. Dalcine in Street Fighter. I'm unfamiliar with him. Yeah, I'm like trying to find the IMDB now. And I'm finding a lot of movies slash shows that I'm not familiar with. He's known for Thupaki, Force, Kudahafi, and all these, I mean, movies that I assume are popular internationally, right?

I'm trying to find, let's see, given his elaborate expertise in the martial arts, especially the ancient form called Kalari Payatu, which he's trained. And since he was all of four years old, video. Great news. And also like a good trend because the actor who plays Ryu also martial artists. We'll get to that later. He's committed himself to creating a platform for action and stunts in world cinema. His first Bollywood outing, Force, which is a remake of Tamil film Kakakaka, alongside John

Abraham, gave audiences a sneak peek into the kind of action they can expect from video. So an action star from India was boiled down. Cool. Great. Then next up, we have Hiroki Goto as E-Honda. Now who is this? A Japanese professional wrestler for New Japan Pro Wrestling. Fuck yes. Fuck yes. Like that's exactly what you need for this. Yeah. Oh my God.

Moving on. We have. Andrew Koji. Playing Ryu. Tim, I'm loosely familiar with because he was in. bullet train and also he was in the G.I. Joe movies, I think namely Snake Eyes. Yeah, just, I think it was just snake eyes. But, okay.

But Bullet Train, he was fucking awesome. Yes. Doing what? Fighting in the streets. Yep, exactly. And he kicked ass in a stylish over-the-top action movie. Is there I guess, is there a way we can see a scene without getting claimed?

We've already been running a fine line this entire story about a little too. Maybe I'm not looking up on my on my end then because I want to remind myself how he looks in action. And also, yeah, the chat's popping off. He was in Warrior. Okay. I haven't seen, but all my friends are obsessed with. And it's very martial arts driven. Which is exactly, I mean, the one thing that I'm gleaming from all this is that there's going to be a lot of fighting in this movie, which is exactly what I went. Yeah, which is like,

you know, you ask what about a street fighter do you bring forward that is going to be that you can use to make a movie that's authentic to what Street Fighter is. And Street Fighter is a tough one because it's not twisted metal. It's not Moral Combat. It's not tech and even, right? When you're talking about your connection to these characters and like how they bring the personality. I play Street Fighter for the fighting. Like Street Fighter, I think out of all the fighting games, I'm in for the gameplay the most.

And so I want a lot of this movie to be fighting. I want more fighting in this movie, like more. fighting per minute than in a mortal combat. That's what I want. I want people to kick it, kick an ass this entire fucking time. As do I. And you know what else I want? What's that?

I want this movie to be one hour and 30 minutes. Not a second more. Yes. Okay? I agree. Not a second more. Next up, Noah sent a nail as Ken. And this is where we get kind of weird.

Because here's the thing, you look at this and you go, you'll see this picture and you go, no. Right? Just pretend he's. blonde. That's all I need you to do. Yes. Shout out to our boy. Because we might look at him as one of the boys we loved before. But no. He's a man now. This boy is a ripped man.

And that's my thing. And like I have to remove my preconceived notion about Noah Centennial because yes, I know him for all the boys. I know him as the like teenage slash young adult heart throb and I've only seen him in that rule. So he was also in

Black Adam, horrible movie, but he's an adult that looks like he fights like an adult. Which is great. He's going to be a good Ken. I hope so. Because I also think you need somebody who can stand up in terms of physicality and more so, I guess, like, stand up in terms of martial arts output to reuse character. And we know that actor has the stuff. I'm literally watching his bullet train clip right now. And has a hot shot attitude.

He does. Hotson to nail. Hot shot attitude. But I also think he has to have the stuff to back it up as well. Because we have another character named Dan who is like Ryu and Ken as far as like being another kind of clone character. But his whole thing is that he just does not have the stuff. No.

You know what I mean? He's a joke. He's a joke. I mean literally it's like one of the first joke characters in a video game like secret characters or not even secret, but like. Yeah. Like you have to have, I think Ryu and Ken have to have somewhat. of a competitive nature to them so that Dan can be that joke character.

So I need to see Noah Santanao kick some ass. So then we have Chunli is Kalina Liang. I'm not familiar with her. Even looking at her, I'm DB. I haven't seen any of her work before. But I have no fears that they're about Chunley. I think that's one of the characters that are like, we can't fuck this up. Yes.

No, that's an important character right there. Then, God. I need all you to see the vision here that we're building. We have David Das Malchin playing M. Bison. And this I'm fascinated about. It's inspired.

This I'm fascinated about. Fucking inspired. He's in the new season of Dexter. Oh, that's your pull for him. I mean, that's my latest. Because literally,

literally I watched the episode yesterday. And so I'm like, oh, he's fresh on the brain. What are some more things you list off for him? Well, I mean, I first saw him in a very brief role in the dark night. Yeah.

But he is a polka dot man in the sea. He was one of the homies and Ant Man. He was really fun in that. He's the Bobbyaga guy. Yeah. He's great. Like he also was one of those dudes that has a lot of range as an actor. And he's entertaining. Oh, he's an Oppenheimer. And he chooses the scenery. Yes, he is also an Oppenheimer. God. Yeah, this guy's incredible. And visually, he has a striking look to him that I think is going to work very well with who Bison is as a character and how Bison is. and moves about the world, which is obnoxious and one-liners.

Yes. And poses. Yeah. I think for a movie that seems from his casting, like, it's going to be an over-the-top affair. We've not even gone to the most over-the-top castings. But I think if you're, if you want to pull somebody that can play a good cartoon villain, essentially, you have to have somebody who is striking from first sight.

And he's definitely somebody who is striking from first sight. As far as like, oh, shit. Like, in Dexter, he plays, he plays a serial killer because Dexter is the serial killers. Yeah, I know. Surprise, right? dude um but like the kind of serial serial killer that he is like he is somebody that is intimidating like once you see him in the room you're like oh man i gotta like watch out for this guy because he can strike it any second sort of thing i think he's gonna be great as in bison okay so we got a couple

chats i want to address here uh juggle almighty says nope i'm officially out now i like him but fuck this movie that's i'm interested in it why but that's funny passing your seatbelt um and then uh upgrade 88 says i just don't see this guy fighting. Now, I need us all to stop and think about these characters and this movie and what they do. I understand that in a street fighter movie, you want your characters to be good martial artists that can actually fight. Yeah. But that's only true for the characters like Ryu and Ken. The characters that are fighting martial arts fighters.

How does M. Bison fight? He launches himself across the screen wrapped in lightning. Yes. We're going to be okay, guys. Yes, M. Bison's not going to be, like, doing all, like, it's not going to be the fast-paced martial arts that you want to see out of the main characters. It's going to be over the top of shit. Yes, yes. This guy, he's going to be screaming and yelling. It's going to be like Palpatine and Revenge of the Sith, and we're going to fucking like it.

Yes. That's 1,000% correct. Now, moving on to the next casting. Oh. Cody Goddamn Rhodes as Gile. If anyone has anything bad to say about this. I want nothing to do with you and your opinions. This is good stuff.

He already has the tattoo for it. He's the American nightmare. He's the American nightmare. I'm fascinated with this casting. To your point, right? Like, again, not somebody we would associate with like the fast-paced martial artist thing, but Giles not that character. Giles a fucking heavy ass, muslety-ass dude that punches hard.

That's Cody Rhodes. And does the Sonic Boom. Cody Rhodes can knock this roll out of the park. This comes back to the over the top cartoon thing, right? Of like, these characters are all cartoon fucking characters. Especially when you veer outside of the Ryu, the Ken, the Chun Li. You then get to just a hodgepodge of like fucking like over the topness, right? I think this, I think this works.

I think this works perfect. The only thing I'm fascinated about is the hair. Are they going to give him the hair? Yes. How's that going to look? Bless, this is why I'm so excited about this. Every bit of news that we've heard about this And every character we see

It's building the story that I'm like Oh yeah There's no way They don't go all in They're making the choices to go all in Yeah You don't cast the people you're casting here If you're not gonna be as stupid

And just nail it as possible I think his hair is gonna be big I hope so He's gonna have big hair He's gonna be combing that thing a lot And Cody Rhodes is gonna eat that up man I picture his entrance Maybe him walking out of a of a helicopter

Yeah, his actual entrance, right? No, I picture him in character walking out of a, like, a military base or a helicopter or something, and then just the, like that hitting. I mean, that's my thing. It's like, again,

building the case of all of this, I think they're going to use the music. Well, they have to use the guy of music. You have to use it. And then moving on. Guys, I can't wait for this fucking movie. I'm hyping myself up now. Jason Momoa is Blanca.

I forgot that this is a cast. They're going to make him green. This seems, Remember when we were watching the Nintendo direct and they announced the Mario cast? I was going to reference that earlier. And we were just like, what the actual fuck? Yeah. And it was the most insane casting ever.

And then it turned out totally worked for the movie. Is that ideal for Mario? I don't know. We're not talking about Mario. We're talking about Street Fighter. And Jason Momoa as guy as fucking Blanca. I, I got to see it.

I like, but here's the thing. I also don't know who else you cast as Blanca. Like I'm not against it. If you want to see it, bless. Uh-huh. Just blur your eyes a little bit. Look right there.

You know what I'm seeing a little bit. Literally make him green. I'm seeing it a little bit. Make him green. And he has to have orange hair. I think I'm more so. I think the one thing I'm scared of, honestly, is the makeup.

You showed me that Blanca earlier on from the Street Fighter live action movie from the 90s. I don't want that again. You know what I mean? I mean, I don't think it's going to be that, but you just make this man green and it's going to work.

In the comedic way that this movie, the only way this movie can work is if they know how. stupid it is. You can't have a green man. See, yeah. This is one, I gotta watch the trailer. I gotta watch the trailer. Did you see Fast 10? I did see Fast 10. Yeah. Jason Mamoa could do no wrong. No, he did wrong in that movie. I hated him in that movie. What? I fucking hated Jason Moa in that movie. Yeah. How? But I'm also just not, I'm not a big Jason Mamoa guy.

Like, and I think that's why I might turn the corner of being fine with this because like, all right, cool. Blanca's not somebody who's gonna, you're gonna see the entire movie. But I feel like when you cast Jason Mamoa, you want him visible, right? He is a hot, he's the hot buff man in Hollywood. Jason Mamoa has like a star power to him, right? Like how much of Jason Mamoa's Blanca is going to look and remind us that this is Jason Mamoa? I think you have the wrong take on Jason Mamoa. Jason Mamoa leans into the fun.

And Jason Mamoa, I think he, I don't think, he knows who he is and what he is. he's going to be green. Yeah. He was in the Minecraft movie. He was in the Minecraft movie. I didn't watch that movie. Also being ridiculous. Exactly.

He's ridiculous. His ridiculousness just hasn't worked, but also his ridiculousness does align with Blanca. So I'm okay with that, actually. Next up, we have Curtis 50 Cent Jackson playing ballrock. Now this is where they cooked.

This is where they fucking cooked. Again, like, I like how much they're going for star power in the weirdest way in this movie. I mean, Ball Rock is just a boxer,

right? Like, I can see it. He's a boxer with crossed eyes. If they don't make 50 cent cross his eyes, I'm gonna be pissed. Oh, man. I think they're gonna.

I don't know. Man, I think either way I'm in. Either way I'm in. I just need to see how he fits. I mean, I'm looking at this picture and it fits. Like, he fits, but I'm curious on like,

who's he interacting with who's he like is it him fighting Blanca? Who does he fight? Well see that's again what's the matchup here? We're getting through this I'm gonna catch the chase a bit here Yeah with the point that I'm making here These characters

They're all the street fighter two characters We are getting the eight world warriors And we are getting the M. Bison's crew We have bisoned we have ballrog We have Vega and we have Sagan So that's the entire cast of Street Fighter 2 There's one exception though What's that?

You already named it but Dan. Dan yes Yeah was Dan was an industry fighter too. Dan was a leader like just like joking. Oh yeah and Dan's in this. Yes, you're right. But yeah, so we have, so to answer your question of who he's going to be fighting, I imagine that it's bison and his like boss crew is going to be Balrog, Sagat, and Vega.

And so they'll be facing up against some of the more main cast. Yeah. Next up we have Vega. Orville Peck. Now. I need to tell me about Oval Peck. I want y'all to know. He's the same.

South African country musician based in the United States in Canada. And he exclusively wears masks. Yeah, I learned this after they announced this. And I love it. I love it so much. Yeah. Mello Fellow says all these characters in an hour and a half, Tim, L.O.L. I don't think you understand.

Don't give me story. Don't give me development for these characters. It's not going to be that deep. Choose one, maybe two, to lightly follow through the thing. Have the characters pop up, have them fight, have them say their thing. the music gets and that call it a goddamn day. Yeah. Hour and a half in out.

I just need the story to be connected to tissue to get me to the fights. And I need the fights to be as ridiculous as possible. And then Dan Hibicki, played by Andrew Schultz. This is the one that I think most people are up in arms about. People in a tizzy. You have the hate and love him. You don't like Andrew Schultz. I feel like I'm going to go out on a limb and say the majority of our audience, don't

fuck with this guy. Yeah. You know? So yeah. Am I thrilled about this? No. Do I think he's going to be in the movie a lot? No.

Do I think he's going to nail Dan? Sure. Sure. Yeah. This is the casting I don't care about because yeah, I don't really like any drills. But then also, Dan's not a major character in the Street Fighter series. And so I don't expect him to be like that present. He's going to be a joke.

He's going to get his ass kicked. Yes, exactly. Is that it? Oh, no, it's not it. It's not it. Bless. Of course we got to talk about Roman reigns as a Kuma. We got Roman and Cody in this movie.

Was Akuma in Ucuba wasn't a street in Street Fighter 2? It was in Ultra Street Fighter 2. Okay, okay, okay. Let's fucking go. Not Ultra. Turbo. I love Roman Reins.

I love Akuma. I love both these characters. And so yeah, you combine them as one thing. I'm all the way into it. I also love it. The WWE connection in this whole thing is very fascinating. Well, and New Japan Pro Wrestling. Yeah, New Japan, yeah.

They're leaning in to, in my opinion, You're getting this right. Yes, which I think, yeah, it's a good balance of we need somebody, we need people who are, who look the part, who are buff, who are big, but then also people who can, like, do stunts and throw hands and do all that shit, right? Akuma's role I'm fascinated in because Akuma, I'm not going to stay here and act like I fully understand Akuma's backstory and all that shit, but he strikes me as somebody who's a little bit more involved as far as, like, how he's, what his relationship is with

Ryu and the rest of the cast. What if I told you there's an evil Ryu? Well, yeah, I knew, yeah, like the literal, yeah, separate from this, yes, I do know that, yeah. Yeah, but so, yeah, Akuma came in Super Turbo, which added for more characters in addition to him, I'm pretty sure that's right, to the Street Fighter 2 groups. We had DJ, who was like the dancing one, Tomahawk, and Cammy. So I don't know if we're going to be seeing any of them in this movie, unfortunately, but maybe. I mean, there's still time. There is still time.

All right. So you look at all this and you're like, okay, I'm starting to see the vision. When it was just one, two, three of these castings, you're like, what fuck? This is going to be dog shit. But then you see them all together and you're like, all right, we're starting to cook here. Yeah, we're painting a story here. So this is where it gets even more interesting to me. The directors of this movie were going to be Danny and Michael,

I don't know how to say the last name, but Philippa, are you familiar with them? No. So, they recently put out a movie a couple years ago called Talk to Me.

Okay. Huge, huge, huge hit. The film received positive reviews from critics grossed 92 million against the production budget of $4.5 million. Damn. Becoming A24's

highest grossing horror film. All right? These dudes got the stuff. But they didn't start with that. They started on YouTube. They began filming their backyard wrestling matches

with close friends in Adelaide, Australia, when they were 11 years old, inspired by the WWE. Okay. These included scenes of the brothers crashing into furniture, flipping kids over and bashing them head first into the ground

and jumping off of everything, including roofs. They also filmed in a half-built house and caused water to flood the site. They later said some of the things that they did were extremely risky and life-threatening, and were thankful to her friend's elder sister

who helped them steer away from that stuff. They ended up just continuing to do this and getting more and more success, bigger opportunities. They're YouTubers, okay? Yeah. I want to give you an example of this real quick. This is just a for fun thing. Barrett, can you actually bring up the second video,

the one that says watertight? You might recognize. I feel like you've seen some of their videos before. You just wouldn't necessarily know them, but they just pop up all the time. This was one of the stupider things they ever did. They filled a car with water, water. entirely.

I drove it around with like scuba gear on. Jesus. And they're driving out into the streets. This is fucking awesome. And they got arrested for it. Of course.

And they got in a lot of trouble for this. That's so funny because I was going to be my first question is like there's no way this is legal. Yep. Not legal. That's wild. Definitely bad. Anyway, so they're kind of like,

you know, that raised by WWE and jackass generation of kids that we're like, we want to do this too. We want to make movies. We want to make TV. So they got huge on YouTube in like the early 2010s because I put them up there with the quarter digitals of the world. Okay.

Freddie Wong's of they were massively talented with VFX. Okay. So they were creative as shit and we're just like, we're going to just spend time making the most insane videos ever. They would pop off with videos that would get tens of millions of views that were like Harry Potter fight scenes or like Ronald McDonald fighting the colonel. from KFC and it was like incredibly over the top. Very WDB coded,

but they were just like action comedy shorts, right? Um, I loved them. I didn't watch all their stuff. Some of their humor is like definitely like edgier than, uh, I fuck with. Yeah. Um, but I remember being blown away by how much they just got source material or like got like,

what are the dumb fan film stuff? I want to watch a video with you. It's about three minutes long. This is them from over a decade ago, doing a street fighter short. No way. Okay. Let's watch this. Let's watch this one with audio, please.

Oh my God. The Dalzine doing the stretching thing. In Vega. Like, these are just like... Very... Dude. Yeah. Like, making this.

Oh, fuck, yeah. For YouTube, this is very impressive. It is extremely impressive. And the fact that you have so much going on is... Walt Choir grab. Oh my God The Chun Lee doing the kicks Oh my God

That's crazy All right, we can stop now You guys get the point But like they just go all out And they get it They understand kind of the vibe and tone Like obviously this is a YouTube Of course yeah

It's not a movie But in terms of like Okay what is this There's something there Now unfortunately They backed out of directing this movie So they will not be directing this movie But they pass it off

because they made so much money and did so great with their horror film. They made a sequel to that. They made another movie called Bring Her Back that came out recently and was also very well received. But they passed the movie on to a different director.

But I'm very fascinated by. His name's Katow Sakurai. Okay. Emmy nominated for his work on the Eric Andre's show on which he was director and executive producer. Sakurai's otherwise best known for co-directing and writing, Netflix's chart-topping

Hidden Camera Prank Pick, Bad Trip, also starring Andre. So let's stop there real quick. Uh-huh. Huh. Sounds like there's some similar vibes there. Sure. We got the, you know,

hidden camera prank show going for that more, that vibe of like what we just watched. Eric Andre definitely says a lot. Eric Andre featured in the most recent jackass movie. There's an energy that I'm like, okay, I think we're going to be kind of aligned with the former directors in terms of vision for what,

this story's going to be. A lot of the casting started talking even while the other guys were attached. So I think that a lot of the identity of whatever vision the rocker rocka boys had is going to maintain. But let me take you

to my final point. Please. He's also known for directing many different series, including Dave. Oh, love Dave. Fucking love Dave. Yes.

The premise. Okay. Fucking great show. Yeah. He's an EP on the anticipated second season of beef for Netflix. Oh, I love season one of beef. And Twisted Metal. Of course.

Of course. Okay. And I looked into it. I'm like, oh, he directed my favorite episodes of Twisted Metal Season 1. It all comes full circle. It all comes full circle. It all comes full circle. It all comes full circle.

Strap the fucking. We got to talk about Street Fighter. We gotta talk about this movie I can't believe They're making him green They're gonna make him green And now I really gotta watch Fucking Twisted Metal

You gotta, I'm excited for you too I'm excited for you too That's what first of all I love The strings that you pulled together here I love the The thesis statement of your argument The fucking conclusion here How it all fucking connects and how it all

Makes sense because I do think it all makes sense It all makes sense Yes Strap in everybody This is about to be a seven out of ten that is going to be awesome. You've convinced me, yeah, like, you've, you've kind of, like,

aimed my anticipation and expectation now, and I think a very reasonable level of expect authentic, expect over the top, but maybe not expect a fucking masterpiece, which I wasn't expecting any way from the get-go. I'm more excited about this after talking about it with you. Fantastic.

I want to get to some super chats before we leave. Zach Brown says, adrenaline in my soul. Gile is being played by Cody Rhodes. Yeah. And I also expect them to make WWE. references to because they always do that

I remember when they what was the movie with all the action heroes together the expendables expendables yeah they always had the wrestlers do their moves and stuff

like yeah he's gonna crossroads somebody oh yeah fucking Akuma Spears guy uh Antonio says Katow Sakurai from the Eric Andre shows directing this

expect absurdist comedy in the world of street fighter not a typical Hollywood cash grab which I'm down for that's what it needs to be yeah I agree I'd be fascinated

if there's anybody out there that cares super duper deeply about the story and lower aspects of Street Fighter, there's those people for every franchise not saying they don't exist, but I'd be curious to see like what would a Street Fighter movie look like appealing to

those people and like does that even make sense to do? You know what I mean? I feel like on this level you kind of have to lean into more. Sorry, is that appealing to what type of people? Like the people that actually care about Street Fighter lore? Okay, so Kuma Babam says, highly recommend Street Fighter Assassin's Fist. It focused on the brother bond of Ryu and Ken and the falling out of Gokin and Goku, or Gokai,

Akuma. So there are a ton of, whether it's like animated things or live action like YouTube, back in the Machinima days, like the company machinema days of like, you know, there's just like a lot of funding going around. Capcom made a bunch of these things. And they took Street Fighter seriously. It was, they were cool. But in my opinion, that's just not the vibe of what Street Fighter should be.

Which I agree. And, but it's like that stuff exists. and, you know, they take it really seriously, and it's a lot more about, like, the actual, like, meditation of martial arts and all that. Like, you know, there's, like, karate kid and then there's Cobra Kai. Mm-hmm.

A more corporate guy, baby. So I'm with it. Alex J. Sandoval says, fun fact, cul-de-sac translates to ass of the bag. Huh. Ass of the bag. I mean, there's history that I'm going to look at it up. We're looking up the etymology.

D'Rald of Rivia says, will they rationalize the powers and mechanics like the 2021 Mortal Kombat movie Psycho Power, Perfect Perry, drive impact, etc. I mean, I think you're deep in the bag with drive impact. I'm just wondering about the Hadukins.

Like Sonic Boom, Hadukin, do you need to rationalize it? I think if you, at the beginning somewhere, right? Like if you explain it a way of like, hey, people do magic. I really think that might be all you need. And like kind of the understanding of that's what this world is.

I think it comes back to the thing that you're talking about as far as make this shit fun and authentic to what street fighter is you can't over explain that shit in moral combat I kind of wanted them to do it better like I didn't really like how they explained it away in mortal combat weirdly enough ironically enough if they did the same thing for street fighter I don't think I would care as much because street fighter it's like I've never really thought that hard about why you can do a sonic boom or hadukin I just do the sonic boom

in moral combat I'm like oh baraka has claws I wonder why that like I have more of a thought process around that shit here I'm like do the magic let's have fun. The one like Saf says, wow, Assassin's Fist isn't the vibe street fighter should be Tim, Tim, have you seen it? I'm a huge street fighter fan and I have been since 92. It's amazing. No, no, it is amazing.

I'm just saying in terms of what a street fighter movie should be, like, specifically like Hollywood movie in 2020 with the type of cast that we're talking about, you gotta lean into this other side. You cannot take it seriously with Roman Reigns as Akuma. The thing is it's very clear that they've chosen

a vision of what they want this movie to be. And like you got to be on board with the, not that you have to be on board of the vision, but like we are on board with the vision. I like this vision for it. And then Kuma Babam says, Tim, Street Fighter Films in Review,

I think we have to. Yeah. Especially after today. I need you to see all at Chris Klein. I was going to say, I was on board until I saw that Chun Lee movie. And now I'm kind of like, oh, I don't know if I want to watch all that.

But hey, I'll do it. I'll do for the content. J.B. Bonafacio says, watch Warrior bless. He's fucking Bruce Lee. Riccardo says, we've seen Mamoa on all. is fighting in the Apple TV show C.

I can see him working as Blanca. Hell yeah. Interesting. Ed Reed fan says, Tim, are you familiar with the YouTube channel, a wolf in space? If not,

it's a fan-made animated Star Fox series. If it was made in the 1980s, it feels like a show that has reruns on late-night TV. I can't believe you're bringing this up. This is one of the, like, the deep cut Tim things of, I am obsessed with this and I have been forever even before it's modern interpretation.

In the mid-2000s, Freddie Fox, the creator of this, um, put out a, like, Star Fox High School

Saturday morning cartoon where it's like all the characters were in high school together and it fucking rocked man my god it was and there was a Star Wolf musical bit it was this guy is incredibly talented

that's some nerd shit I love that some nerd shit that brings me back to when I was watching fucking Super Mario Brothers Z did you ever heard of this? Yeah of course yeah Super Mario Brothers Z on Newgrounds or somebody animated

like or took like the sprites from like 16 bit Mario and created a kind of like a Dragon Ball Z version of that universe where Sonic and all them came into and like they were getting into dope-ass fights in pixel art. I love that shit.

And then C.J. Splitson says you guys in top of the street fighter animated series. No. I don't think I even... I'm talking about the movies. Yeah, we're talking about the movies. But anyways, I don't know what point I was trying to make besides... No, you made the point. Besides, we need to talk about this movie. Yeah. And we did it. And I think we did a good job.

We talked about the movie. You did the Tim of looping around while your love for the Peacock TV or for the Twisted Metal Peacock TV show loops back around to your excitement for what the Street Fighter movie is doing because the same director's working on it and there's a vision there. I learned so much on this episode

and I'm excited for this now. I think before I was excited from a morbidly curious place but now I'm genuinely excited of like no you can make something that we have a lot of fun with and that's all I want. That's all I want. That's all I need. Are you sold, audience? let us know in the comments below. And if you're not, I don't want to hear for you.

Anyways, we're about to have a lot of fun today. We're doing KF podcast up next. And then after that, Nick is playing Mafia, the old country. Bless thank you for hanging out. Barrett, thank you for hanging out. And thank you, everybody, for watching or listening. Until next time, love you all. Goodbye.