Fighting Game Movies | Triple K.O. 

The best joke in any fighting game movie is in the new MK movie, where Liu Kang just low sweeps Kano over and over and Kano calls it cheap shit.

"[Dead or Alive] is just an excuse to watch girls in bikini fight." Sounds like a pretty faithful representation of the games, then.

Justin breaking Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa's heart is the funniest thing I've heard in a while.

I got to the end of this podcast and I was like "but that's not the end of live action fighting game movies, no one of you mentioned Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist"

In Latin America, the vhs of SFII was censored differently. They left the whole Sagat fight intact, but they changed the hue, so the blood was green instead of red. I didn't understand what was happening at the time and I thought I got a faulty vhs copy.

The two things I remember from the KOF movie, the CGI Orochi ball that floats around the screen from time to time, and the fact Kyo is white, but they insist on having several flashback scenes with him as a kid, and he was clearly Asian.

The Street Fighter Web Series was pretty amazing. Assassins Fist.

As fun and ridiculous as SF the movie was, sweet mercy, could you imagine Raul Julia in a serious SF movie? He'd rock it anywhere. His presence, line reads, all of it was amazing. He will be missed. :( The scene where the infamous Tuesday scene dropped was great between him and Ming Na. Great stuff.

A live action Art of Fighting that’s based on the first game. Gritty 70’s style.

The guy that played Raven in the Tekken movie was a dance choreographer for N'sync and Backstreet Boys.

"Did you grow up in the 90's kinda liking fighting games, RPGs, anime, Saturday morning cartoons, action movies, and wrestling? Have I got the podcast for you... "

I can imagine a young Justin interacting with some shady guy who opens his trenchcoat to reveal a layer of bootleg anime DVD's. Badly subtitled, of course. The Street Fighter Alpha anime sucked ass, but _HOLY SHIT_ was Akuma awesome in that movie. Sagat is played by legendary Native American actor Wes Studi, who's been in films such as _Last of the Mohicans,_ _Mystery Men,_ _Avatar,_ and a ton of others. Man's a living legend. The original Mortal Kombat film pitted Liu Kang against a nameless Jamaican guy, yet somehow that fight - that didn't even include a character who was part of the series - had more gravity, energy and just downright awesomeness than both Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat Annihilation. To this day I want that Tiger/Panther dude on the roster of an MK game.

This was a great session, I enjoy all of them but this was so much fun to listen/watch

For the animated content episode, you guys could look at stuff that got it right: SF2 the movie SF2 V Darkstalkers Fatal Fury OAVs And those that got it...funky: Art of Fighting Samurai ShoDown anime Original Tekken OAV You could also discuss your feelings on the upcoming Netflix Tekken anime, not sure when that's supposed to come out. Do you guys have any animated adaptations you'd love to see happen? Killer Instinct could be incredibly fun animated, and a journeying Soul series show with multiple seasons would be fantastic; start off from Soul Blade, build up the rise and fall of Siegfried, etc I'm a huge Darkstalkers fan, but there's SO. MUCH. LORE and world building that almost never gets talked about. There's a great ol' translated document floating around that gets into stuff like the political situation in the human world on whether Catwoman are considered human and deserve human rights, there's stuff detailing all the stuff going on in Makai Kingdom and why the pressure gets to Morrigan and she just wants to focus on having fun. It also shows how morally evil and mercenary most Dark Hunters (like BB Hood are) they don't care about saving people the way Donovan does, they're made of the worst of the worst. Darkstalkers is made for long form storytelling via an animated series, comics or novels, it'd be fun to see that. Anyway, that's just me rambling, cheers on a great episode guys!

I loved watching Matt and Maffew’s commentary of Annihilation over the actual film. My favourite part is when they attempt to call the Mileena/Sonya “fight” like a wrestling mud match and just start losing their minds laughing. 😂😂😂

SF2 the Animated Movie: I remember finding it on VHS. I found it at Suncoast. Absolutely loved it. Darkstalkers OVA: beautiful art style, taps into the series, and its characters. It flows like water, it is a masterpiece. Street Fighter: I remember seeing this in theaters. Fun cast. Crazy plot. But it was fun. M. Bison totally takes over every scene. It is one of those films that stays with you Mortal Kombat : That film was a masterpiece. It set the bar high. Cast was excellent. Fights were insane. Goro was huge. Shang Tsung gave you the chills. Plus that soundtrack Fatal Fury the Motion Picture: Studio G-1. A phenomenal film. A bit of its own thing, but it blended ideas from the game series. But it was so so good. SFII V: Ryu, Ken & Chun Li travel the world together. This series was so good. An origin story with a fun twist. Street Fighter Alpha: Sweet animation, plus fun seeing the gang together. But that bad guy, and Shun. Yeah.. it was weird SFIV: The Ties that Bind: Adapted the game story okay. But the animation was super wonky. It did not feel finished. SF: Assassin's Fist: So damn good. Nails the energy, every character, mood, and music. Excellent MK Legacy: A web series starring a very cool cast, using ideas from the games. Excellent choreography, characters, and the journey. Surprisingly sweet. Two seasons. A must watch MK reboot: First brutal, second sick, third it was pretty cool to see where they wanted to go with it. But it ends way too soon. It felt like they were building up to something. The duds: Tekken KoF SF: Legend of Chun Li MK Annihilation Uh.. yeah I don't know what happened Tekken ova: It tried to mash so many ideas together. Music was great. But I'm not sure what it was trying to be. Animation looked pretty good. It was just weird Dead or Alive: Um. I'm not sure what it was

Okay, this KI movie idea by Max sounds fun, I'd love it. Use your powers of influence to make it happen!

YO! Penguin Palace...that little mall was where i bought all my Fan-subbed Anime VHS' and all my import Japanese figures and collectables....right on!

Funny how Kano in the first film ended influencing the original from the game, and in the last film, he was the best part of it.

"Street Fighter" (1994) is a good-bad movie, as opposed to "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li" (2009) which was a radioactive turd. No joke, one of the best things about the first live-action movie that I'm not sure was touched upon was the soundtrack if you are into the gold era of hip hop. Nas, Ras Kass, Public Enemy, Anotha Level, LL, Ice Cube & The Pharcyde all feature on it, just to name a few. Also, the animated movie still set the bar for SF adaptations; my first exposure to it was a bootleg tape of the uncensored widescreen Japanese version that a friend lent me when I was in high school in 1994). Thanks to that, I've preferred re-watching it in Japanese with the original OST. You never forget your first Chun-Li shower scene. ^_^

It's interesting you guys brought up DeeJay in Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie because, fun fact: he's voiced by Beau Billingslea (famous for voicing Jet Black in Cowboy Bebop) in his VERY FIRST voice role!

Asassin’s Fist was a good Street Fighter Alpha live action adaptation.

Matt and Justin bringing up FUTURE COPS makes this episode the absolute best. I've probably seen it more than once back in the day and it's really just Dong Dong Never Die: the early years. With 30% more Doraemon references and a song that may be familiar if you're a Filipino. (And if you look around hard enough on RU-vid, you could find it).

I saw DOA in theater and my friends and I were the only ones there, so we got to riff it with impunity. Honestly the fight choreography is actually pretty good. Everything else is dumb as hell but at least it doesn't take itself too seriously. Also there's a part where a guy flexes and his muscles make a gun cocking sound lmao

Matt's DJ impression was SPOT ON!!!😂😂😂😂

I can't wait to see what they have to say about the KoF movie, holy crap ever bit of footage I saw made me weep. It's so much closer to Mk with the ridiculous portals to other worlds bs. Also, Terry as a government agent? WHY. Just put in Ralf and Clark and Heidern if you need such a character.

Funny thing, mentioning Corey Yuen as the director of DoA, then later Max dropping Freddy Wong's name when talking about the CG in the Chun Li film... Apparently Freddy Wong is his nephew. I totally didn't find this out when looking to see if Freddy Wong was still a thing.

Thank you Justin, Matt, and Maximilian, this episode was hilarious I remember seeing the Ral Julia SF Movie in the local dollar theater due to all of the negative word of mouth. A big group of us drove out to the biggest theater we could find to watch the original Mortal Kombat My children and I watched the recent Mortal Kombat movie but now they are reluctant to watch any of the other video game based live action movies that were discussed in this video. Looking forward to the discussion of the animated pieces.

Thousand Pounds is who Max was talking about at the end. They did a Street Fighter short and two Naruto shorts as well as the mentioned SFxT movie which was requested for by Capcom... similarly to how Max did Ultimate Assist Me for Capcom. Fun fact... one member was Amy Johnson who starred as Kimberly in Power Rangers.... so they know a few things about fighting and choreography...

My favourite one will always be bloodsport ( yes I know not a game), not only for the BIG cheese, but the soundtrack, and you can feel all the energies of fighting games gathering in that 80s movie, soudntrack is great, you can see the direct inspiration of stuff like MK and even Fatal Fury.

I can get down for a soul calibur film. It's basically a quest story, not a tournament thing; sounds pretty doable to me.

I've said it a couple of times but the Street Fighter live action adaptation would have been a really good adaptation... if it was an adaptation of GI JOE. Make Bison Serpentor and Guile someone like Duke and it all makes sense.

Street Fighter 2 the animated movie, fun and enjoyable. Mortal Kombat (1995) best adaptation, for its time, video movie. The rebooted version of Mortal Kombat (2021) I give it a fair shake it was definitely enjoyable. Street Fighter: the Legend of Chun-Li should never have been made. A better version of SF is from Jackie Chan's City Hunter. I will say this the best line that Raul Julia (M.Bison) had givin was "The day that bison graced your village was your most traumatic moment of your life. But for me it was a Tuesday." Coldest villian line ever. 56:43 Triple KO ULTIMATE ULTRA COMBO.

Robin Shou was also in the Dead or Alive movie. He plays the leader of the pirates gang that attacks Tina's boat early in the movie.

I love this damn podcast.

Honda is Hawaiian! Dee Jay is a hacker! Dahlsim is a scientist! Me: And Charlie Nash is Blanka! :D

If you guys next episode is animated movies, you guys have to talk about the two new Mortal Kombat animated movies

I would love to see a movie comentary of you guys watching those bad movies for the first time xD well at least max and justing but it be hilarious 😂

I think a episode on weird or cool fighting game merch would be awesome.

I want a _World Heroes_ movie. A kooky time traveler plucks weirdo martial artists from across history to fight a T-1000? HELL YEAH!

You guys should do a Fightcade episode on the podcast. Would love to know you're takes on it, now that more and more people are setting it up and playing ranked/unranked matches online!

With the move for more animated movies in theatres and on Netflix, I'd love a big budget or mid budget animated theatre movie for Street Fighter or just get another anime series like SF2V. I'm sad that we're no longer in the good ol' days of the 90s with OAVs of Fighting games being everywhere. I would love to see more animated treatments instead of awkwardly trying to bring these stylized characters into real life.

I always prefered the name Shadow Law from Street Fighter. You even see it written that way, so I have no clue why it changed over to Shadaloo.

Really fun episode! Really enjoyed it!

I'm really happy Justin talked about Future Cops. That movie was my childhood.

Some fun facts: - Ray Park is in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation and he is a raiden double - Sub-zero in Annihilation is the same guy that played Reptile in first Mortal Kombat

Before I even watch I have to say: The dead or alive movie is one of my top 10 comfort movies

I saw street fighter and Mortal Kombat in theaters and loved them both.

I love how much Matt lead this episode. You could tell how much he loves talking about fighting game movie poverty, everything about them, their history and their production. It's genuinely enjoyable to see enjoy himself with the subject matter, which is honestly right up his wheelhouse.

Ryu and Ken: International Drug Smugglers (well that explains why Ken is rich and Ryu doesn't work and fights all day)

I absolutely love MK Annihilation, exactly for how terrible it is. As soon as Shao Kahn has this stupid monologue or Scorpion screaming "SUCKERS!" at the top of his lungs I just fucking lost it. Or Sindel's actress looking like she just drowned all the puppies for fun and then all the CGI shit. It is just such an onslaught of stupid I can't look away from.

I watch every episode of you guys love the much needed discussion on fighting game culture you guys are GOATEDDD

You've made me a very happy man, Colonel Guile!

When Matt was introducing the animated movie that got us through adolescence, I was thinking the second Fatal Fury animated movie with Mai haha

This is a bit of a stretch, but if you ever want to see what a Soul Calibur movie *could* look like, French director Chistopher Gans, in his movie Brotherhood Of The Wolf, (which by the way features Mark Dacascos as a Native American who knows kung-fu), has given the main antagonist of the movie Ivy's whip-sword in the final fight sequence, except it's made of bones from an animal he hunted, while the main character fights with 2 smaller swords close to Cervantes style.

don't forget Assassin's fist .. it was God like

Waiting for the premier of just Matt slandering that amazing KOF live action movie😂

These roundtable vods are RU-vid life! Thank you guys so much!! 🤘😎

DOA 2 on the ps2 was my first experience with the franchise, started it up with my buddy and began a match which was my first experience with "giggle physics". We were blown away and convinced that we had reached the zenith of body graphics and physics!

Justin, the closest to MvC movie is a short from 'Marvel What the?" Online series. its hilarious, i think is MvC Origins promo

Kylie Minogue as cammy was premo

I'm surprised that Street Fighter: the Assassin's Fist didn't get a mention in this. It was a mini series sure, but I thought part of it got a theatrical run. Would love to hear your guy's thoughts on it.

Do rewatch DOA. It's one of those movies that everyone assumes will be awful, but it knows exactly what kind of movie it is and leans into it. The action is great, the characters are fun and it does not take itself seriously at all, it's legitimately my favourite video game movie.

Nash's "This guy...he walks between the raindrops." line is the greatest line in American movie history 😂😂😂

I heard that a Streets of Rage movie is in development as we speak. Don't know how it's going to go, but I'm hoping they put in these Easter Eggs: - Adam's Bonsais at his house with pictures of Skates/Sammy and a young Cherry Hunter - Blaze's hobby for Lambada - Axel visiting an 80s arcade with the Winners don't do drugs on the arcade screens - Phone Booths having pipes, pepper spray, apples(?), And steel bats in them when they get destroyed. - The Pine Pot... what else can be said? - References to Yuzo Koshiro. Either in music or shout out to a Club Poster where he is a DJ visiting Woodoak. - The Amusement Park from SoR2 - The Bar where Barbon works at. - Reference to Max Thunder's wrestling career. - Woodoak Chinatown with Shiva's Dojo. Not sure who the actors for each character would be, but I would laugh if Robin Shou was given the part of Shiva just sending his men to attack the Trio near the Pine Pot and just being like Cary Tagawa as Heihachi in Tekken the Live Action Film. He wouldn't have to do much if they base the plot on the first game where Shiva isn't present but his men are. If anything Shiva could be portrayed as an Anti-Villain/Anti-Hero trying to protect Chinatown from the Wrath of the Syndicate by sending out assassins on orders of Mr. X. I don't know, but so far Robin has been in Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter (Sadly not the good one 😅), and even Dead or Alive as a non canon Pirate (I wish I was making that part up). But hey, lets add Shiva to his Resume being a Anti-Villain/Anti-Hero Grandmaster in Chinatown. 😂

Guile fights a snake in a tunnel TUNNEL SNAKES RULE!

Say it right now Mortal Kombat 1 is the only good live action movie. The animated ones are Street Fighter 2, Fatal Fury movies.

The Ken Dribing Flashback scene wasn't Silverchair, it was Alice in Chains Them Bones from the album Dirt. A recomend for good 90s rock.🤘🏾

Darkstalkers OVA for animated content episiode

1:13:42 He mentioned it! I was starting to think that even them didn't knew about this thing, and then Justin Wong talked about Future Cop.

Now I need to watch Future Cops. Sponsored by TKO

Glad you mentioned it but City Hunter Jackie Chan gave us the best Chun-Li and E Honda. As for animated asides from SF2 I really liked the Fatal Fury 2 animated movie, KoF Destiny is alright considering its free but aside from Team JApan vs American Sports Team and the Geese origin episode there were many issues.

Funny you should bring up Soul Calibur as a live action movie fever dream, because it was actually supposed to happen in the early 00s. Sammo Hung was attached to direct and there was a production blog in place for it, but it fell apart and never happened for reasons I can't recall.

The fact that Corey Yuen (DOA's director) is Freddie Wong's uncle in mind blowing to me lol

I don’t know if anyone has mentioned it, but there is another Hong Kong movie that borrows heavily from a few fighting games (mostly Tekken), The Avenging Fist. Not only does it have both Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao, but it is co-directed by DOA director Corey Yuen (who too be fair directed a lot of classic Hong Kong action films ranging from the legend of fong sai yuk to No Retreat, No Surrender).

Personally speaking, the 1994 live action Street Fighter movie is a guilty pleasure of mine. I love that movie even to this day!

Thanks for adding the info about Raoul Julia's health-situation. I heard that as a kid but did not think much about it and had then forgotten about it. He does give a great performance The fact that Guile wants to rather put down his buddy Charly as he thinks that he had turned into a monster so as to save him I always found quite deep.

so weird thing about the Future Cops movie -- damn, Justin already mentioned it. Dicky Cheung and Jacky Cheung are huge names. I love that era of Hong Kong movies.

street fighter 2 anime & mk '95 are my favs

Just finished watching the whole thing. Great shout out by Justin for Future Cops. That was one of my favorite fun movies to watch. Also, surprised they didn't talk about Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist. It did get a Blu-ray / DVD release.

First place I saw SF2 Animated Movie was at a friend’s house when it was a new rental. It was the uncut, English dubbed VHS. I loved it so much I went to rent it and double-taped the VHS. It’s long gone now. It’s so good, I should order the uncut blu-ray.

Matt makes every summary he makes, of anything, ever, sounds funny. 😂

One Fighting Game media I never see anyone talk about was the 90s Mortal Kombat: Conquest TV series.

My new favorite podcast. Great job fellas! Love this episode.

This is the one I’ve been waiting for! Like Matt I too am excited as hell to hear y’all talk about this

Idea! How about a episode about IPs that need/should have a fighting game. Love the show! Waiting for Bloody Roar and Def Jam re- release/remake/ anything 😂

1:32:50 my man I was waiting the whole time for him to mention this kind of idea

Don't forget Hellboy 2, Guillermo Del Toro's live action adaptation of Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture featuring some Mignola characters.

This was such a great episode as always. Keep up the good work guys!

I was listening to this while at work today and oh my god Matt’s Street Fighter impressions made me laugh so hard

When we gonna get kenny omega on here lol loved this episode btw

MASSIVE POP for the Maffew story.

Apparently Kylie Minogue and van dam boned behind the scenes

I think all the various live action series, and animated adaptations, and especially the soundtracks helped keep Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter both alive all this time. I guess I'd be considered an SF Normie because I didn't care about much of anything that came out between MVC2 and 3rd strike EXCEPT for all of the animated stuff. SFII V, the two Alpha movies, the two movies that came out with SF4, the motion comic series. Mortal Kombat 9 was largely helped along because of MK Rebirth, that then evolved into MK Legacy. Which debuted at the same time as MK9 with it's heavy Dubstep promotion. I know that a lot of people hated Dubstep during it's peak, but Reptile's theme was always an exception of being a really kickass theme song. MK Legacy being what inspired the cats who did the Street Fighter Legacy fan short. Which in turn became Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist with Capcom's blessing. Then Capcom had them develop a mini-series that tied into the plot of SF5. Then there's the other fighting game animated movies that Bennett The Sage has covered a lot of. Fatal Fury, Tekken, and all those other ones that flew into production after the success of Street Fighter II.

I think a good topic would be, what would you fix or how can you make (stick name of a bad fighting game) better or playable. Eg: Street Fighter 1, Primal Rage, Clay Fighters series, Shaq Fu, ETC.

the street fighter ads for the game in Japan was sick as fuck

The SF2 anime movie i watched on the anniversary edition. First time i saw swearing on anime. Also first time i saw a naked lady. 10 year old me was mind blown

Possible topic: handheld fighting games on the Gameboy advance. Kof had 2 games and street fighter had 3 I believe. Plus ton of other games

I feel like Neal McDonough got the Bison role just because he has a weird toothy grin like Bison from SF4.

I think the recent mk movie messed up by limiting the fighters to just being people with tatoos, they ended up sacrificing kano for sonya to be relevant. I wish they leaned in to them just being exceptional fighters that are super human because action movie logic. Then you can make powers just specific to their characters there's enough lore to justify each in a movie setting.