By Rob Bricken in
Movies, Video Games
Friday, Feb. 20 2009 @ 10:02AM
Of course, by "awesome," I mean "a horrible atrocity of cinema." Variety reports that the film will not be screened for critics, which means even the studio knows and accepts it's a terrible movie, and hopes a few people are duped into seeing it before it becomes common knowledge that the film is a disaster of entertainment.
But you don't have to take Variety's word for it; MovieWeb has 8 (!) horrible clips from the film, each more hilariously awful than the last. It was nearly impossible for me to pick the one that best epitomized the movie, but watching Chris Klein as Charlie scream "BOMB!" and leap in slow-motion out of a small building, followed immediately by a gun fight in which Chun Li stops to give a wry smile to Klein...well, it certainly epitomizes something.
I can't believe the old Street Fighter movie actually stands a decent chance of being better than Legend of Chun Li. Congratulations, filmmakers -- you may have achieved the impossible.
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ThaFame said:
What I find funny is the fact that every recent tv spot I have seen for the movie, they only call it Street Fighter, they don't mention Chun Li. I thought the whole movie was about her?
NeoXorn said:
It looks like shit.
Poor Kristin Kreuk.
This may be a part of the Superman curse.
Arsenal said:
part of the Superman curse?
Have you seen her on smallville? Like an evil wooden puppet, crawling into her lines with 3 facial expressions. He only good performance was in Euro Trip. How she got cast in this movie I will never know
DarkSaber said:
I have seen deeper depth of emotion conveyed in Team America. I will still see this movie just for the unintentional humor. If anyone has seen the old live action Captain America movie from the early 90's will know what I mean.
Zach Oat said:
All of those clips were different levels of awful. The dialogue seems to have been copied out of the Big Book of Bad Movie Dialogue:
"He walks between the raindrops."
"You don't want tickets to this dance."
"Tell him the schoolgirl has grown up."
And the fights are like the worst Hong Kong martial arts movie I've ever seen, complete with dubbed-in grunts and shouts. It's my own fault for looking forward to this, but I am pretty disappointed. I've wanted to see Kristen Kreuk in something besides Smallville for years. Guess I'll have to rent Euro Trip...
Brion said:
Lol Why does each guy awkwardly grunt every time they get shot?! It sounds so misplaced. I have no pity for the people still going to this movie and not thinking it's going to suck. I'll wait to rent it, make a drinking game out of it with my friends, and be wasted 15 minutes into the film
NeoXorn said:
@ Arsenal
Exactly.
It is a curse; her acting didn't improve in spite being on a TV show for sooo many seasons. That SF Movie? Still part of the curse. She is now in a shitty movie.
If we examine further;
Tom Welling? His can't escape his TV career. He wants to do movies but it seems that he is always ending up in crappy movies or movies that nobody remembers and he will always be remembered as CLARK KENT. That's why he doesn't want to don the Superman costume: so the curse won't take its full effect.
Christopher Reeve? I won't discuss this one 'coz all of know what happened.
Bryan Singer? He has a good track record but after the last Superman movie, his reputation is sucktastic. Thanks a lot, Superbaby.
Teri Hatcher? She became a Desperate Housewife.
Dean Cain? Stuck in a TV career as host of Ripley's Believe it or Not.
Brandon Routh? What is he up to? Well he just appeared on Zack and Miri Make A Porno as Justin Long's CUM-DUMPSTER!
See? Almost all of the people attached in the Superman TV/Movie Projects winds up with a bad luck.
The safe ones are the ones who worked on an animated series.
Well let us pray for Geoff Johns. He worked on Smallville. I sincerely hope that BLACKEST NIGHT kicks-ASS!!!
(Or i just ate to much pancake this morning. Spec-tacular! Spec-tacular! Spider-Man!)
Nick Marino said:
in defense of the clips, the audio is really messed up with the voice work on the right and the foley work seriously turned low and on the left. it makes everything seem really amateur. still, those clips do look super corny. i'm going to see it in theaters regardless. i mean, c'mon, that bathroom fight scene is hilarious!
MasterOodFan said:
Oddly enough, that clip makes me want to see this. This movie looks *SO* awful, that it might be worth seeing in the movie theater just to hear the audience's feedback.
I haven't been this excited for a cheesy movie since Jason Vs. Freddy!
THE PR0F3550R said:
I'll still watch it. I'm a sucker for shitty movies like these. Shit I've tortured myself with DOA, MK2, and the SMB movie.
LBD "Nytetrayn" said:
Arsenal: "How she got cast in this movie I will never know"
She's kinda-sorta Asian, and on a sorta-still popular TV show?
"We have a match!"
--LBD "Nytetrayn"
Dude Guy said:
Anyone who pays nine or ten dollars to see this is an idiot. You've got to be able to find something better to spend your money on.
Steve said:
What a bunch of whiners. And Variety's article is bullshit since it's already screened. Not to mention it premiered in Japan where the word was positive.
Kristin Kreuk is Chun Li said:
I'm still gonna see it. How bad can it be. I just hope that Street Fighter is not this year's Speed Racer.
Ade said:
I can't believe that 1/3 of the clip was made up of the explosion. Seriously, WTF?!
