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Originally Posted by Leo656
"Dead Or Alive" was in a sense "bad on purpose", but only in that it was doing a very literal "live action video game" the way "Speed Racer" was a live action cartoon. That approach isn't to everyone's taste, but frankly, I think it works better that way. DOA games are ridiculous and absurd, and the movie being so over-the-top was exactly what I was hoping for. Plus... NASH!  I heard from him that pretty much the entire cast had severe food poisoning for the entire shoot and that it was a pretty lousy experience for everyone involved. But the checks cleared, so there's that.
First time I saw "Street Fighter: Legend of Chun-Li" and the DOA movie, I watched them back-to-back. Street Fighter was a total disaster, and beyond that, for something SO bad it actually tried to take itself seriously, which was a huge mistake. Watching DOA right after was actually an amazing contrast, because it did right everything SF did wrong. Except for the lack of Hitomi. I was pretty pissed at the complete lack of Hitomi. She's in the credits but I swear her part must have been 3 seconds long.
I'unno, I like it. It's one of the best video game movies ever, for sure. Very low bar, obviously, but it took a silly premise and had some fun with it.
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Oh, don't even get me started on Street Fighter, that movie was unbearable. And how sad is it that the Street Fighter movie is more violent than the Mortal Kombat movie?
For everything that Legend of Chun-Li did wrong, The
King of Fighters Movie did just as bad, but with a lower budget.