The Weekly Planet - Street Fighter The Movie (Extended) - Caravan of Garbage

Episode Date: April 3, 2025

In 1994 the Street Fighter name was riding high off the back of Street Fighter II, an arcade classic. This meant it was the perfect time to release a movie adaptation and who better to play the role of Guile than Jean-Claude Van Damme at the height of his fame. Much maligned at the time it’s become somewhat of a cult classic despite being more GI Joe than Street Fighter. But at least some of the actors look like some of the video game characters. Plus it has Australia’s own Kylie Minogue and an incredible performance from Raul Julia. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage reviewSUBSCRIBE HERE ►► http://goo.gl/pQ39jNVideo Edition ►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n8Z_pb7-jIHelp support the show and get early episodes ► https://bigsandwich.co/Patreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.coQm/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrownPatreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesT-Shirts/Merch ► https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-sunday-moviesThe Weekly Planet iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4The Weekly Planet Direct Download ► https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanetAmazon Affiliate Link ► https://amzn.to/2nc12P4 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Okay, that's great. It's good to know that I like this. Nostalgia. I do like that. Think about how we spoke about it last week and color and live wave of Familiarity is just washing over you. I do like that. Yeah fond memories and had that medallion that turned you into a ghost We remember we remember fondly. That's right. Anyways this week, please leave a like because we're talking about 1994's

Street fighter people are loving this one. I would say people love this more than Double Dragon. Definitely. I mean, nobody remembers Double Dragon. All likes it. All likes it. But this is a cult classic, I think. I like this movie. Interesting.

Does it do most things wrong? Yes. Yes. But it is interesting. Yes. I think it's an interesting movie, even in all of its faults and a bunch of very strange behind-the-scenes stuff including drug addiction We'll get into it

Let me ask you this question if they removed the street fighter characters of this and just replace them with generic guys Would it really be any different? It's funny You say that because as I was watching this I was like this is a GI Joe movie, right? Because it's Cobra and bunch of people people in different costumes, not doing street fighting. There's very little street fighting, isn't there? Yeah. There's some cage fighting? No, there's not really.

I mean, not with the main characters. There's a street shooting. Yeah. A man is gunned down in the street and he's fighting for his life. Except he's not fighting for his life because it's a ruse. It's a fake out. It's a ruse. Do you think we would have got to Street Fighter 6 if these games were called Street gunfighter?

Maybe yeah, I'll have a present a man. She's like a hell of a premise James I don't know. What do you like about this movie James? Okay, just to get into it Oh, I just want to say this was pitched by its director Stephen a D'Souza as a GI Joe movie. There you go. So he went to Capcom and he was looking through like all the artwork and everything and he found this piece of material which was M. Bison's base and it's got submarines in different compartments and layers and whatever. Now but what did Capcom have to do with GI Joe?

Was he just snooping around the Capcom headquarters? No, no, because they wanted to make a movie. A GI Joe movie? A Street Fighter movie. Then what's the thing with the GI Joe thing? Because he was like, I'm pitching this as a GI Joe movie. To Capcom? Yeah, I'm making a GI Joe movie with Street Fighter characters.

Oh, cuz I do remember they did have the toys. Yeah, that's right. They were Street Fighter GI Joe toys. I had a Ryu or a Ryu. How do you say it? I say it different every time. Yeah, good. To night people was Street Fighter GI Joe toys. I had a Ryu or a Ryu. How do you say it? I say it different every time. Yeah, good. They do in this movie, too I just want to also shout out the reason I know that is because there's this amazing Street Fighter documentary called here comes a new challenger

Oliver Harper's got an incredible YouTube channel, which people should check out But he also makes the occasional doc and it's just a very in-depth look at the origin of Street Fighter as it started as you know The the oft-forgotten Street Fighter 1 rubber buttons rubber buttons Which you mash down through to like all the iterations of Street Fighter 2 and beyond they talk a lot about this movie in it I'll link it below. Would you say it's more in-depth than what we're gonna cover here? 100% I'll link it below, you can stream it, you can buy a physical copy. If you have any passing interest in like video games or fighting games or Street Fighter specifically, it's great.

Buy a physical copy, then download this video and burn it to a VCD and put it on the same shelf. That's right. There's perfect companion pieces in my opinion. 4Kems. Mmm, that's right. Yeah. So basically, he pitched it like that and not as a tournament movie.

He's like, I don't know if that's really gonna work. I mean, Mortal Kombat did a tournament movie and that worked for the most part. And then the new Mortal Kombat movie didn't quite get to the tournament. No. It never quite got to the Mortal Kombat, did they? They're gonna get to it this year, Mason.

Imagine if the Minecraft movie didn't get to the Minecraft. Wow. We don't know yet, do we? At time of recording. That's true, we don't, yeah. Yeah. So, the director of this you might know because he's more known as a writer. He wrote 48 Hours, Commando, The Running Man,

Die Hard, Die Hard 2, Judge Dredd. Wait, oh, the Stallone one. The Stallone one, yeah. Okay, right. Does that make sense? Yeah, it does make a lot of sense, honestly, yes. Yeah, speaking of bookends, I feel like this and that go together.

Yeah. Really. But yeah, they had to run all of this through Capcom, because Capcom are a co-financer of bookends, I feel like this and that go together. Yeah. Really. But yeah, they had to run all of this through Capcom because Capcom were a co-financer of the film. And so every element of the production required their approval. And due to numerous setbacks, I'm gonna talk about a whole lot more. They were constantly behind schedule

when shooting in Thailand. It also shot in Australia. Oh, I know. Yeah. Kylie's in it. Kylie Minogue's in it, mate. Kylie Minogue's in it. She acted two or three times in her life. That's right. Yeah, well, she started on Neighbours, obviously, I know. Yeah, Kylie's in it. She acted two or three times in her life. That's right Yeah, well, she started on neighbors obviously, but yeah that counts as one that only counts as one that is true

Stephen E. D'Souza employed something called the old John Ford trick where because he was behind he kept tearing pages out of the script Do not compare yourself to legendary film director John Ford. This guy is Yeah, working on Street Fighter was exactly like I director John Ford. I'm not basic. This guy is. Okay. Yeah, working on Street Fighter was exactly like, I'm John Ford, basically. Yeah. His spirit left his body when he died and it went into me and then I made Street Fighter. Yeah. So he would tear pages out of the script to get back on track. But then of course, during editing, they were like, oh, there's a bunch of stuff here that doesn't mesh together or is gone completely. It's almost like there's multiple pages missing. Yeah. Like the fight at the end where they finally have the showdown with Vega

that was reshot in Vancouver because at the time they didn't have time to film the cage fight. Okay. So things like that. Also it explains why Chun-Li and her friends get captured and you just are told that through satellite imagery. Right. Because I guess they didn't film that either. How do you feel about the fight against this though? It's better than Double Dragon. I'll give it to you. Yeah.

Some people are clearly better than others. Some people were hired for their look, as opposed to whether they're better at martial arts. I mean, Van Damme, and he had massive problems around this time, which again, I do want to talk about. I mean, he's just very athletic, you know? Sure is. You can do all those kicks.

Biceps for days. Biceps for days. American flag biceps for days Mason. That's exactly right. It's more of a dealt. Doesn't matter we won't get into it. I will say this of this though at least some of the people look mostly like the characters in the game some of the time. Some of the time they do but also it's like they've just assigned the characters from the game to random jobs Yes in the movie world like you know guile military guy sure and bison He's the bad guy But then it's like what about Ryu and Ken two guys who travel the world as famous Streetfighters, and they're just sort of small-time common. I guess yeah, they're just that what about Chun Li and e Honda and Balrog

I mean they have some fighting skills, but they're a news crew. Yeah. Like Balrog's famously a bad guy. Why is he on the side of the good guys? DJ's a good guy, but he's on M Bison's team. Yeah. You know, Dr. Dal Sim. Yes.

I mean, maybe he's a doctor, but I know mainly as the stretchy yoga fire guy. He doesn't do any stretchy yoga fire stuff. In fact, nobody does anything. No. Nobody does any of their signature moves. Here's a list of signature moves, James. Ken does a sort of dragon punch. It's an uppercut.

He sort of does an uppercut. I think maybe one of his feet leaves the floor. At one point you see Ryu do like a two open handed punch and it's kind of a flash of light. And it's like, is that his fireball? Ehon never does his hundred hand slap. he doesn't that would be do it like that and you speed it up Vega does his role and stab he does do a role and stab yeah that's a good point guy all does his flash kick but without the flash it's just to the king that's right yeah friend the flash being well there's a

reason for that my family doesn't do it anything really no no one does that thing where they the drag what's the dragon kick? Which was the kick where they spin around a lot? Hurricane kick. Hurricane kick. You gotta be doing a hurricane kick. This came out after Street Fighter 2 the animated movie, did you know that? Did, I think it came out before didn't it? Wasn't that from 95? Maybe. Yeah, no you are right. That's right. Well that is true but I can't imagine these were, there was much cooperation between these two productions. Oh absolutely not. Well maybe there was and cooperation between these two productions. Oh absolutely. Well, maybe they was and maybe the animator... maybe they had to call dibs.

Maybe the animator guys were like, we're gonna use all the cool moves and the cool character designs, we're gonna have the characters do accurate things to their video game counterparts. Oh, so you called all that. Well we'll do just unrelated stuff I guess. Also you said earlier Capcom had to approve all of this. Yep, correct. They did did they? They did. Crazy. You know the Japanese are like... unpredictable? Unpredictable Mason! But like all people that's not Japanese specific. If you

thought I was being racist I wasn't. That's seen in that Jackie Chan movie where he hallucinates his Chun-Li. That's more accurate than this. Yeah I mean that's in that documentary I mentioned. So the stunt coordinator on this Charlie Peserni, which I think is how it's pronounced or maybe it isn't, he filmed most of the action sequences to save on time. And he thought the moves in the game weren't realistic. Okay. But that became like a conflict between him and the director. He's like, well, if we're doing this, we need to put their moves in because that's the only

thing that people know about these characters. Okay but I'm assuming the same dib system occurred here and Charlie went how about I call dibs on them not doing anything. Maybe. And Steven was like I guess so. Well Kylie Minogue's stunt double does that black widow flip around the head. Yeah okay. Really slowly. I guess that's a move from the game. Somewhat, I think Min Na-Wen is good in this I enjoy her a lot. I also like how none of the actors in real life bear any kind of there's no racial similarities, it's just completely scattershot like e-honders from Hawaii or whatever and it's just look that's neither here nor there

I guess but it's just strange that they didn't go I don't know, do you wanna get a Japanese guy to play Ryu or Ryu as it were? And they nearly did and they ended up casting him as like a minor street fighter character. Captain Sawada. Yeah, exactly. No, not a minor street fighter character.

Minor in this. No, but a character they invented for this. Captain Sawada's new for this movie. He wasn't in a prior version of this. So that actor, Kenya Sawada, he's a famous Japanese actor and Capcom wanted him to be in this movie as Ryu, but they'd already cast Byron Mann.

So they're like, let's invent a new character for this guy and give him four lines of dialogue. I agree. And he's in the movie game. He's in straight part of the movie, the game. Oh my God, we should talk about that. Let's talk about that now. So they digitized the movie characters. got most of the actors depending who was alive

I think that I know Kylie Minogue was there they got Van Damme for like four hours and they did the Mortal Kombat method Yeah of taking images of them and then you know key framing it together So you're making a kind of a realistic animation, but they weren't allowed any of the Street Fighter source code So it plays badly. Sure. The arcade, more so, when it came to home release... Is that because Capcom just got tired of working with them? I guess! Yeah?

But the home... Maybe that's a trade secret thing. Maybe it is, but the home release fixed a bunch of that, apparently. Not a beloved game. I think it's interesting that they did it, but... I think the guys making that game should have just gone and bought one of those weird arcade versions. You know, bought one of those weird bootleg versions where you can just hit select and change your character mid-game. Oh yeah!

Remember when you could do that? I do remember that, yeah. And all those bootleg versions, you could just be air fireballs and... Ooh! Etcetera. And so forth, yeah. I think Vega looks incredible. He looks pretty good.

God, he's just... he's looking good! I look at that and I'm like, oh that's... You could not nail that... No, that's a good look....Bore. Yeah, yeah, that's a good. I look at that and I'm like, oh that's You could not nail that. No, that's a good law. Yeah. Yeah, that's a good look I also love that there's a scene where he goes to prison and he's in prison for like an hour and he Makes his own sort of home brew. Yeah Instead of Claude Claude gauntlet and also immediately gets it kicked out of his head as well but then you've got people like Blanca or monsters like Blanca who get turned into a Blanka monster because of VR and DNA mutagens

And Dr. Dalsim And Dr. Dalsim and he doesn't again he doesn't even crouch into a ball and do electricity Mason Yeah Okay, but I do want to talk about and I can't believe it hasn't come up yet. Raoul Julia as M. Bison Amazing. I know everybody knows this But just playing it completely straight, his kids were a fan of the game, he was also dying of stomach cancer when filming this. And you know, you see in the action sequences, often it's him or he's up on wires or whatever,

not strictly. So it's pretty incredible. Apparently he was great, like he was amazing to work with, incredible lines, you know, the day by. All I want to do is create the perfect genetic soldier Not for power Not for evil what for good? Yeah good stuff the village and it was a Tuesday I would yeah, that's what his plan is to kidnap the Queen at some point. It's right. Just casually mentions that yeah, I

Appreciate that he puts so much into this because he took traits from like various dictators Across the centuries to work into this performance performance and it's like you don't have to but he did you could have just stood on your your ex and said your line yeah you got somebody else up on the wires you could have Jeremy Irons Dungeons and Dragon Dits so true but you didn't no shade to Jeremy Irons that you gave that movie the exact amount of attention it deserves right yeah also obviously this was his final performance Rob Julia Julius. That's true. Very sad.

But I don't know. I don't think it's the worst thing to go out on, honestly. Probably not. You couldn't look at this and go, he sucks. I think a lot of people misinterpreted at the time also some of the funniest stuff as being dumb. Like, you know, the line about change the channel when the truck is crashing. Yes.

I think that's a funny line. No, that's fine. That a funny line Zangief is like yeah when they see the truck full of explosives about to crash into them yeah okay that's fine I mean talking about a guy who looks like a guy in the game like Zangief I mean if you're recasting these days you'd get the guy on Reacher who's a bigger Reacher. Bigger Reacher. He could be his Reacher. He'd be Guile. Which I think he was rumored for. Might be. I don't know yeah. When he's finished being Batman exactly. Anyway, this whole thing was a disaster for a number of reasons. Here's something, from a Polygon article.

A crew member required medical attention for skin irritation caused by contact with the water in the Chow Pryah River. I'm sorry, I don't know how to pronounce anything. The line producer suffered a heart attack and never returned to the production. Another producer, the one in charge of the film's completion bond, unaccustomed to driving on the alternate side of the road turned into oncoming traffic and collided with a bus sustaining serious injuries he also never returned later in production an actor was busted at Australian customs for

possession of steroids I can't find who that was but there's only a couple of very muscular people in this movie so true but I couldn't tell you specifically which one was busted with steroids Yeah, yeah regardless welcome to the Stallone Club That's right, but speaking of so Jean Claude Van Damme in this He had a drug problem at this time and was apparently doing ten thousand dollars worth of cocaine a week In Australia, that's one bump of cocaine. It is god. It's expensive here I've never done it, but I have friends who do it,

and I don't know why they're throwing all their money away on it. Let's ask them. Yeah. It's a video interview with one of your friends. The studio had to hire a wrangler to keep an eye on him, but apparently that person was also a bad influence. He would call him sick, be late to set. They'd have to film things like around him.

Though apparently his physical performance was just top-notch You could get him to do a sweep kick over a person's head or whatever. He was he was in incredible shape Mm-hmm. I guess he was also fueled by cocaine. That's true. Yeah. Hey Jean-Claude. Can you do this? Absolutely? I can I thought a hundred times in a row Collin Minogue on the other hand people loved her said she was how much cocaine did she do? I don't know doesn't say say any oh do you think she was the one that caught on the other hand, people loved her. Said she was... How much cocaine did she do? I don't know, doesn't say any. Oh, do you think she was the one that caught up the border with the Roids? Yes.

That's what I thought. Almost certainly. Apparently she was very professional and generous. She would buy drinks for the entire cast and crew during the shoot. And again, Raoul Julia, incredible to work with. You know, bought a lot of levity and gravitas to the movie set. Not just in that flying suit he had. No, exactly.

So much levity and gravitas in that. Oh my god, I loved how much levity and gravitas I had a memory of this that he got magic powers at the end, but he doesn't have magic Nobody has magic powers They should have given everyone magic powers. I agree. I mean, I feel like there's magic in guile speech to the UN They're not the UN but you know, I think you're on there an There's no magic. You know, like the magic. I love the fact that he was just like, what is that treason? What is that? Yeah. Cause the guy, the pencil pushes like you can't go to war with them bison. And he's like, actually I'm going to go to

war. I'm going to use all this military equipment on all these soldiers that I don't own. Yeah. And I'm going to go to war on my own behalf. Regardless. Yeah, is that terrorism? Depends whether we win or not. That's right, and they did. But just, I mean, watching Van Dam in this, he's just not a good actor. Oh no. Don't you think?

In this or just generally? I would say in this specifically. You said JCVD? It's good. Yeah, I know he's good in that, but like, it's not a good, I mean, it's entertaining. Yes. But it doesn't fit this at all.

Like it's not, his cadence is so strange. It's interesting of course, because you know, if you were to say who would be the lead in a Street Fighter movie, I would say Ryu. But obviously, they were like, this is going to the American market, Guile's the American character. I think people would have been fun with Ryu and Ken. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. If they weren't arms dealers.

If they weren't arms dealers. When they get the costumes. I mean, everybody has those costumes. They're in a room of it. That's right. Who gets a red one and who gets a white one? How do you decide? Good question, Mason.

Do they just come out of the vending machine alternate colors? You get whichever one you get and you don't get upset? You don't get upset. Well, maybe it was the cocaine. It was probably the cocaine. Yeah. I think the final showdown in this is all in all pretty good.

I like the, again, it's a reshoot, the Vega versus Ryu happening. I didn't like that. You know why? Why? Because Vega and Ryu are traditionally not rivals. You know, who are traditionally rivals, Ryu and Sagat are in the same room. Didn't he give him his scar or something? Yes! Which you never see because that guy never takes his shirt off.

He does at the end, doesn't he? No, Sagat doesn't. I thought he was shirtless at the end. I thought he did get the scar. I'm not remembering much either. It's a good movie though. I love nostalgia. Just thinking about us talking about this.

I'm just saying this should have switched. They could have invented a rival between Ken and Vega or whatever. They're all rivals, man. I mean they wanted to do the the the Ryu Rival because they're gonna have a cage match and then they didn't because the tank came in a big missile on it And when you're all under arrest, that's funny. Yeah, it's funny. It seems irresponsible though. Yeah, I'll just Just I just drive this tank directly through a wall. Yeah, there are two nuclear warheads on the on the table Yeah, yeah, I'll just use those to punch through walls. Probably fine. We know this guy likes war crimes

Yeah, it's true. He's loving it. He's loving it God and just him fighting bison Who's flying around the room with magic magnetic shoes and yeah shooting electricity. It's just nonsense It's so funny and then I just love it The end held del sim turns up just looking like he does in the game I just rolls in bald with that ring around his neck. Which is normally the skulls of his dead children. Is it? Yep.

Okay. I guess they can save that for the sequel. They can save it for the sequel, yeah. Which they nearly did. And then of course they all do the Street Fighter pose at the end. They sure do. They all do their wind poses. Fantastic stuff all in all.

Because they're supposed to be reacting to the explosion that's happening. Yeah. But Cammie is just like, she's just one of these. That's how I react to explosions. Tee hee hee. Agreed. Yeah. Anyways, what was the time for?

What was the time for? Strivia five-ire. Nice. This is the trivia section of the show. Did you know that Kylie Minogue and Jean Claude Van Damme had an affair on the set of this? Okay, but who was married at the time? I think Van Damme was. I know Van Damme was. Well then Kylie Minogue technically Damme had an affair. Whoa. On the set of this. Okay, but who was married at the time? I think Van Damme was.

No, I know Van Damme was. Well then Carly Manon technically didn't have an affair then, did she? Good point. Yeah, she's in the clear. She wasn't married to Jason Donovan? Was that Only Your Neighbors, the TV show? That was Only Your Neighbors,

that was a fictional marriage. And that dog that got hit by a car didn't really get hit by a car. Buster or? Bomber or bouncer? Bouncer. Yeah, it was shot in the head instead. Good. Yeah, but anyway, the people bouncer? Bouncer. Yeah, it was shot in the head instead.

Good! Yeah. But anyway, the people's princess in the clear. Agreed. Jean-Claude Van Damme shame on you. Well he was asked about it a few years ago and he said yes, okay, yes, yes, yes it happened. I was in Thailand, we had an affair. Sweet kiss, beautiful love making. Sweet kiss, beautiful love making. Hell yeah. It would have been abnormal not to have had an affair. She's so beautiful and she was there in front of me every day with a beautiful smile Sympathico so charming she wasn't acting like a big star. I do Thailand very well, so I showed her my Thailand She's a great lady. I can't even know that's actually very nice Might not even be true. I made it up. He might have invented it in a cocaine haze. He kissed a Kylie Minogue that he made in cocaine.

Was it a stunt person? Might have been the stunt person. Not to throw somebody else out of the bus. Maybe he kissed a Super Street Fighter 2 machine. He might have. Because that's the one that had Cammie in it. It did. Ming-Na Wen, who played Chun-Li, said that she cringed after seeing the finished film

for the first time and told her then-ER co-star George Clooney that she feared her career would be over. Clooney remarked, Oh honey, it takes a lot to kill a career. I should know hinting at his role in the critically panned return of the killer tomatoes. And also you did Batman. And he did the flash. And he did the flash. Oh, the flash. I fucking hated the flash. I also love the Clooney's. Clooney's got a little line for everything. Yeah, it's ready to go.

Oh honey. Oh honey. George Clooney's got a little line for everything. Yeah, it's ready to go. Oh honey. Oh honey. George Clooney says this. I think we talked about this when we covered the Mortal Kombat movies, but Jean-Claude Van Damme turned down the role of Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat to do this film, which I think they also, they wanted him for the game initially.

Weren't they gonna build the game around him? I think they were, something like that, yeah. Finally, he got to be a digitized man in this game. And he's not been in, it's Carl Urban, he's gonna be Johnny Cage in the upcoming sequel. According to an interview with MTV, Jean-Claude Van Damme was originally off of the role of Guile in Street Fighter the Legend of Chun-Li. That's what he says. Again, like, I don't know man. I mean that's not related to this like at all. No, the characters there, but they're all played by different people. Yeah, some of the characters. And also you dodged a bullet there JCVD. That's way worse. That one's

worse somehow. Maybe we'll look at it. The last video in this series is up for grabs. And this is fun Mason. Fabio was considered for the role of Vega but he wasn't fast agile limbo acrobatic and flexible so he couldn't do it. Also that seagull flew into his face on the roller coaster. That's true, ruined his beautiful face on the rollercoaster. It's true ruin his beautiful face He's still not allowed to be vaguer anymore, but he's still beautiful, isn't he? They could they could have got Sean McCallif as far be a Here is great reference Mason. Thank you Anyway, the box office for this on a budget of 35 million dollars that spiraled a bit, but it did make 99.4

Okay profitable and not only that merch did really well home rentals exploded home release was good in general There were two soundtracks like this and it still makes money Okay, this movie was highly successful even though they paid Van Damme eight million dollars He said that this kind of tanked his career because after that for the next movie He was in he wanted to match Jim Carrey who was getting like 20 million a movie And they were like you're not worth that And then his career just went in a different direction from then on out. He never really did anything, I would say,

as big as this after. I mean, I know he did expandables and whatever, but I mean as a property that he headed up. Yeah, I don't know. I'm sure there's examples after this that he did that probably did okay, but yeah. I don't know them off the top of my head. Maybe an ad where he's doing the splits between two trucks? where he's doing this between two trucks where he's doing cocaine between two trucks

It's all right the drain that was an ad for cocaine trucks calm Download the app and do cocaine between two trucks. Yep, the ultimate thrill ride if you love cocaine and But you want to do it in a dangerous way. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, so there is a There was I should say talk of a sequel, which of course there was. Yeah, because it did well enough. But I don't I think people kind of made fun of it like it wasn't beloved. Well they're not doing that anymore. Are they?

No, they've got other things to make fun of. Eventually, of course, we did get the reboot in The Legend of Chun Li and there is a reboot in the works at the moment. It's coming in the next couple of years, maybe depending on, I know they lost directors, the Australian guys who did talk to the hand, they stepped away from that. But of course, yeah, like you mentioned, there's animated stuff, there was an animated TV series, which is G.I. Joe-esque. There's a bunch of video games, I don't know if you know. How many?

So many, too many. There's 19 versions of Street Fighter II. There is. And they're all the same. Aren't they? There is. And they're all the same! Aren't they? No, James. They're all the same. They're not. That's...

I think they're all the same. That's a ludicrous thing to say. Ludicrous? Madness. Don't mind if I do. Here's one of his songs. We can't. We can't?

No, for legal reasons. You know him though, don't you? Yeah. And he wouldn't. He doesn't like me personally. Oh, but you do know him. He knows me. But I don't...

I guess if he didn't know you, he might like you. That's what I'm saying. But I have met you do know him personally. He knows me. I guess if he didn't know you, he might like you. That's what I'm saying. But I have met you and I get it. That's exactly right. You and Ludacris should become friends. I agree. Yeah.

Anyway, what do you think of the two big name fighting game adaptations? Which do you prefer, this or Mortal Kombat, the first one? I think this is funnier. I don't know. I know they're kind of hard to compare. Mortal Kombat is just like a straight shot at Mortal Kombat. And I have fondness for it. But I think the camp element to this really wins it over.

And the fighting despite everything that happened, it's not terrible. It's better than Double Dragon. It's better than Double Dragon. Well, when you put anything through the lens of is this better than Double Dragon, I suppose. Yes. Well, speaking of, do you know what we're doing next week? I actually don't know.

Here's a hint. What is it? Wing Commander. Oh, I've not seen that. Remember that was a movie? Yeah. Apparently it's terrible. That's great for us.

Agreed. And again, that last video we're doing, the fourth one is still up for grabs. Oh, so if people want to put in the comments what we should. Uncharted, Tekken. Yeah, yeah. Dead or Alive? Dead or dead or alive with the great Eric Roberts is in that legend of Chun Li. Let us know sure Yeah, let's do whatever. Yeah, but if you don't want to see any of these videos early

You can actually head over to big sandwich dot-co where in addition to early videos we do video game. Let's plays Oh my god, so many so many we also do movie commentaries where we talk over the top of movies We do so many we do bonus podcastaries where we talk over the top of movies. So many. So many. We do bonus podcasts. There's literally thousands of hours of stuff there. Exclusive if you do want to check it out. It's helped support the show and keep it ad free.

And also our podcast, The Weekly Planet, where we talk movies and comics and TV shows, that comes out there early on Sunday as opposed to Monday. But if you want to listen to that, it's on its own YouTube channel, Spotify, Apple, etc. It's everywhere. You can find it. It's in so many places. We've littered the internet. We're thinking of taking it down. Yeah. Just in its entirety. But we probably won't. wherever you can find it. It's everywhere, it's too many places. You've littered the internet. We're thinking of taking it down.

Yeah. Just in its entirety. But we probably won't. The people have demanded it. That's true. Your friend Ludic, not friend, the guy you know Ludicrous said, Thank you. Don't do that anymore.

But we might have to. Anyways, thank you so much to Ben for the edit. Thank you, Ben. See you on the next one. Grab that gem you guys, we'll see you next week. Bye. Yah! Yah!

I've done a huge big fireball on you. I'm doing the Kylie Minogue pose. Well, too bad. It's not fireball proof, is it? I don't want it to be. Well, good. You're dead. Now you're dead. Good.