Wulverene Wrote:
People always complain that Street Fighter sucked because it didnt even follow the game. Its because its meant to be its own little universe, a part from the games. |
That movie sucked ass in every possible way, not just because it was so unfaithful to the source material.
Thing is, when people are fans of a certain franchise, they like it because it is what it is. When they go see the movie version, of course they're going to be upset if the storyline is contrary to the source material or the characters' origins are wrong. When you make a movie based on an existing license, you should stick to the story that license has already set up, not just take some ideas from it and pile them into a half-assed Van Damme movie. If you want to set up your own little universe, write an original script and don't base it on an existing license.
Obviously the film medium is different from the video game medium, so some parts of the story have to be changed in order for it to work as a movie narrative. But the changes in Street Fighter were too drastic, and mostly pointless too, because the movie was still shit. They may as well have stuck to the original storyline; that way even if the movie was still shit, at least the fans would've respected how faithful it was.
Imagine if, in the MK movie, Scorpion was a ballet teacher and Kano was a friendly fisherman who was in a loving relationship with his journalist girlfriend Sonya. People would've been pissed off, and rightly so. I say if you can't make a decent movie out of an existing franchise without changing major details, don't make the movie at all.
