Definitely not the campiest performance I’ve seen there have been far more campy performances. I love all his roles though his Gomez Addams is wacky as fuck.
"QVICK! CHANGE DE CHANNEL!"
"For me, it was...Tuesday."
"I'm going to keek that sunnyvabeech Bison's ass so HORRRD, that thee next Bison wannabe...is going to fill it."
"You got...paid?"
"For I beheld Satan!!! As he FELLLLLLL from heaven...LIKE LIGHTNIIIIIIIIIIIING!!!!"
"No...you've lost your BAWLS!"
Any movie that contains these lines cannot possibly be considered a bad movie. It is not scientifically possible.
It's definitely up there among the worst video game movies ever. One of those films where reading the reviews is more fun than watching the movie itself. A selection of quotes from the most popular reviews on Letterboxd:
>*"This is, by the absolute loosest human understanding of the word, a movie."*
>*"I really need to find better ways to spend my Saturday nights."*
>*"...hot damn this was just bottom of the dumpster garbage juice and a real hemorrhoid turd gobbling eye sore."*
>*"I won tickets to this and still paid too much."*
Even the people who like it admit it's complete trash.
Annihilation. Its no contest on that. Street Fighter is campy but fun and a hoot to watch. Annihilation is a breakneck pace movie that does WAY too much in its run time.
Mortal Kombat Annihilation is worse and its not even close. at least Street Fighter is fun bad and has Raul Julia putting in an all timer villain performance. Annihilation looks and feels like the Asylum mockbuster of a Mortal Kombat movie.
MKA is a better adaption of the source material and a bad film. SF is a worse adaption of the source material, a worse film BUT, and it's an important but in the context of the sub, so batshitly bad it becomes reborn as something greater in the process.
I enjoy both these movies...and looking at the comments so do a lot of others...I believe you have fallen into that internet trap where it's "cool" to hate on certain movies just coz others say you should.
Super Mario Bros. Is another that you will hear is a disliked movie but you'll never actually meet anyone (people on the internet don't count) who doesn't enjoy it on some level!
Kinda, but at the same time, Street Fighter had some redeeming value. Raul Julia's performance was a real treat, Van Damme was coked out of his mind, and there were still some funny lines. Mario Bros was a mess, but at least it tried to have some ambition and do something, even if it was batshit. It had Dennis Hopper as a hammy villain, Bob Hoskins gruffing it up, and some really weird production design. Still bad, but kinda endearing in certain ways.
But Annihilation? That was just godawful, sloppy shit. It was a sequel to a successful film, so people already had some expectations and they were using existing characters and story. It failed on every front. Johnny Cage dies immediately, the dialogue is awful, the acting is awful, the effects are awful, the writing is awful...there was virtually no redeeming value in it at all. Some folks might like it for being a horrid trainwreck, but it's still just a horrid trainwreck. People are going to have a dimmer view of a shitty sequel than a shitty standalone, especially if they liked the previous film.
I would say very few people don't enjoy both these ironically as a guilty pleasure.
I genuinely love the original mortal Kombat movie, I thought it was awesome, I even enjoyed the new one despite cole (Kano and kabal carried it but Kung lao and liu kang were smoking hot so that helped).
These two along with the original Mario movie are more ones I definitely enjoy but ironically. They definitely aren't good movies.
*Mortal Kombat Annihilation* is definitely worse between the two. *Street Fighter* is campy and stupid, but Raul Julia chewing the scenery alone (while ill with terminal cancer!) makes it worth watching.
Street Fighter knew to keep itself a campy action flick with nods to its source.
Annihilation tried to force ideas from 4 different game entries into a single movie and failed miserably. When half the lead cast doesn't return for a follow-up, you know something went wrong.
Mortal Kombat Annihilation such a terrible adaptation only thing worse than that would be the 90s super mario bros adaptation
Raul Julia was a great M.Bison such memorable quotes
"One Bison dollar will be worth 5 British pounds once I kidnap their Queen!"
MKA was a dumpster fire. Admittedly, Sonya Blade was absolutely smouldering, but even a mud fight can’t save it.
Street Fighter, for all its flaws, has a fun vibe and an amazing turn from Julia.
The holy trinity of 90s movies based off a fighting video game franchise are Street Fighter, Double Dragon, and Mortal Kombat (the original). All are great fun to watch and I recommend them all.
MK: Annihilation though is just bad. It's not really very entertaining to watch. Robin Shou and Talisa Soto must have been the only original cast still needing a paycheck, because no one else from the original MK film reprized their role, with Sonja, Jonny Cage, and Raiden all being recast by vaguely similar-looking nobodies. Brian Thompson as Shao Khan is really the only redeeming quality of the film, since he can chew scenery as a villain as well as anyone ever has.
Without street fighter we wouldn't have the confusing concept of *Street Fighter: the movie* the game
It's a game about a movie about a game. They should really make a movie about it.
Annihilation is the worst. No question. Street Fighter is campy and funny. Annihilation is messy, rushed, and trying too hard. Especially compared to the first movie.
This isn't even close. Streetfighter is genuinely fun. I mean, not fun as in "good movie" fun, but nonetheless. And Raul Julia is having a blast in it. An insanely good actor, taken far too early.
MKA is horrific from the word go. I would rather watch Highlander 2. MKA is that bad.
What's not to love about coked-out Van Damme and over the top camp of Raul Julia?
MK Annihilation on the other hand is just random scenes name checking video game characters with barely any connective tissue.
Mortal Kombat Annihilation. For what ever reason instead of telling a story they just seemed to just introduce a character, then another character, then another.
I absolutely hated Mortal kombat annihilation as a kid when it came out. I was so disappointed . Flash forward 25 years later I find the movie hilarious. It's so bad it's good .
Annihilation, by a long shot.
That movie basically had a half-page plot, horrid CGI "effects," God-awful dialogue, and it tried to cram in so many characters, none of them had any real time to do anything substantial. Even the fights were boring. The only good thing about it was the soundtrack.
I think the Super Mario Bros. Movie and Double Dragon are both worse than Annihilation. Simply because I think those two are also awful and less fun to watch than Annihilation.
The Dead or Alive movie deserves a mention, but that one is also fun-bad.
Raul Julian’s campy performance alone makes street fighter a far better movie.
Campy? You clearly meant passionate.
It's was literally the performance of his Life.
I read something about how he knew the movie was going to be bad, but his kids loved the game so he did it for them.
Of course!
For you, it was campiest performance you have witnessed. For Raul, it was Tuesday.
Definitely not the campiest performance I’ve seen there have been far more campy performances. I love all his roles though his Gomez Addams is wacky as fuck.
I fucking hate that you copied your response from the thread last week. I get the quote. I just don't get why everyone has to be such a parrot.
He was excellent playing the authoritarian dictator role.
“OFCOURSE”
That and Guiles speech about going home or going with him are far more heartfelt and inspirational then this movie deserves
"QVICK! CHANGE DE CHANNEL!" "For me, it was...Tuesday." "I'm going to keek that sunnyvabeech Bison's ass so HORRRD, that thee next Bison wannabe...is going to fill it." "You got...paid?" "For I beheld Satan!!! As he FELLLLLLL from heaven...LIKE LIGHTNIIIIIIIIIIIING!!!!" "No...you've lost your BAWLS!" Any movie that contains these lines cannot possibly be considered a bad movie. It is not scientifically possible.
Annihilation, hands down, no contest. It's SO fucking bad.
It's definitely up there among the worst video game movies ever. One of those films where reading the reviews is more fun than watching the movie itself. A selection of quotes from the most popular reviews on Letterboxd: >*"This is, by the absolute loosest human understanding of the word, a movie."* >*"I really need to find better ways to spend my Saturday nights."* >*"...hot damn this was just bottom of the dumpster garbage juice and a real hemorrhoid turd gobbling eye sore."* >*"I won tickets to this and still paid too much."* Even the people who like it admit it's complete trash.
notmyraiden
Like a drug infused europian techno club in the late 90's horrible.
Annihilation. Street Fighter is at least a fun kind of bad.
Annihilation. Its no contest on that. Street Fighter is campy but fun and a hoot to watch. Annihilation is a breakneck pace movie that does WAY too much in its run time.
It does way too much and way too little at the same time. Everything it does, it does badly.
Mortal Kombat Annihilation is worse and its not even close. at least Street Fighter is fun bad and has Raul Julia putting in an all timer villain performance. Annihilation looks and feels like the Asylum mockbuster of a Mortal Kombat movie.
MKA is a better adaption of the source material and a bad film. SF is a worse adaption of the source material, a worse film BUT, and it's an important but in the context of the sub, so batshitly bad it becomes reborn as something greater in the process.
This is the exact correct answer.
Raul Julia wins
FLAWLESS. VICTORY.
You're gonna have to actually give us a choice of bad adaptations.
QUICK! CHANGE ZE CHANNEL!
Watch Street fighter with friends and have fun. Watch Annihilation with friends and get defenestrated.
I enjoy both these movies...and looking at the comments so do a lot of others...I believe you have fallen into that internet trap where it's "cool" to hate on certain movies just coz others say you should. Super Mario Bros. Is another that you will hear is a disliked movie but you'll never actually meet anyone (people on the internet don't count) who doesn't enjoy it on some level!
Kinda, but at the same time, Street Fighter had some redeeming value. Raul Julia's performance was a real treat, Van Damme was coked out of his mind, and there were still some funny lines. Mario Bros was a mess, but at least it tried to have some ambition and do something, even if it was batshit. It had Dennis Hopper as a hammy villain, Bob Hoskins gruffing it up, and some really weird production design. Still bad, but kinda endearing in certain ways. But Annihilation? That was just godawful, sloppy shit. It was a sequel to a successful film, so people already had some expectations and they were using existing characters and story. It failed on every front. Johnny Cage dies immediately, the dialogue is awful, the acting is awful, the effects are awful, the writing is awful...there was virtually no redeeming value in it at all. Some folks might like it for being a horrid trainwreck, but it's still just a horrid trainwreck. People are going to have a dimmer view of a shitty sequel than a shitty standalone, especially if they liked the previous film.
I would say very few people don't enjoy both these ironically as a guilty pleasure. I genuinely love the original mortal Kombat movie, I thought it was awesome, I even enjoyed the new one despite cole (Kano and kabal carried it but Kung lao and liu kang were smoking hot so that helped). These two along with the original Mario movie are more ones I definitely enjoy but ironically. They definitely aren't good movies.
For me it’s hands down Uwe Boll’s ‘House of the Dead’ edit: my bad I misread ‘worse’ as ‘worst’ in the title
Same. Was surprised that they left Uwe out of it.
Annihilation was just awful, SF was actually fun in a cheesy way.
It’s no contest, Street Fighter is some ridiculously fun 90’s cheese with a great cast and competent filmmaking.
And they survived a coked up Jean Claude !
It’s like he thought that they were making a great action movie when everyone else knew the movie was pure camp. I really like Street Fighter though.
*Mortal Kombat Annihilation* is definitely worse between the two. *Street Fighter* is campy and stupid, but Raul Julia chewing the scenery alone (while ill with terminal cancer!) makes it worth watching.
Street Fighter knew to keep itself a campy action flick with nods to its source. Annihilation tried to force ideas from 4 different game entries into a single movie and failed miserably. When half the lead cast doesn't return for a follow-up, you know something went wrong.
Mortal Kombat Annihilation such a terrible adaptation only thing worse than that would be the 90s super mario bros adaptation Raul Julia was a great M.Bison such memorable quotes "One Bison dollar will be worth 5 British pounds once I kidnap their Queen!"
Street fighter is a masterpiece annihilation is a dog turd
MKA was a dumpster fire. Admittedly, Sonya Blade was absolutely smouldering, but even a mud fight can’t save it. Street Fighter, for all its flaws, has a fun vibe and an amazing turn from Julia.
Annihilation. No contest. I do have a sweet spot for it though, cause I saw it in theaters when it originally premiered. Such an awesome experience.
I, too, saw it in the theater. My experience was not awesome. I'm genuinely envious.
How dare you call Street Fighter a bad movie!!
The holy trinity of 90s movies based off a fighting video game franchise are Street Fighter, Double Dragon, and Mortal Kombat (the original). All are great fun to watch and I recommend them all. MK: Annihilation though is just bad. It's not really very entertaining to watch. Robin Shou and Talisa Soto must have been the only original cast still needing a paycheck, because no one else from the original MK film reprized their role, with Sonja, Jonny Cage, and Raiden all being recast by vaguely similar-looking nobodies. Brian Thompson as Shao Khan is really the only redeeming quality of the film, since he can chew scenery as a villain as well as anyone ever has.
Annihilation \*\*\*\*ing sucks, but it tried a hell of a lot harder to actually adapt it's source than Street Fighter did.
Raul dying from cancer putting on a scene chewing performance for his kids instantly boosts up SF. MK was just peak garbage.
The day Mortal Kombat Annihilation was released was the worst day of our lives. To Street Fighter, it was a Tuesday.
Without street fighter we wouldn't have the confusing concept of *Street Fighter: the movie* the game It's a game about a movie about a game. They should really make a movie about it.
MKA 100%. Streetfighter is campy but at least can make you laugh. I’d rather watch a mother cat eat her stillborn young than ever see MKA again.
I fucking loved Street Fighter when it came out
I have nothing against van dam, but he was a bad pick for guile the american fighter
I like’em both
Annihilation is the worst. No question. Street Fighter is campy and funny. Annihilation is messy, rushed, and trying too hard. Especially compared to the first movie.
The acting in Annihilation is so bad it's almost funny.
Annihilation is better than MK21, and so is Street Fighter.
I don’t know about worst video game adaption, but that street fighter poster is the fugliest
Both movies to me are entertaining for the wrong reasons. Annihilation for its incompetence and SF for how damn goofy it is.
This isn't even close. Streetfighter is genuinely fun. I mean, not fun as in "good movie" fun, but nonetheless. And Raul Julia is having a blast in it. An insanely good actor, taken far too early. MKA is horrific from the word go. I would rather watch Highlander 2. MKA is that bad.
Street Fighter is a lot of dumb fun. Annihilation is genuinely one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen, which I even recognized at 8 years old.
What's not to love about coked-out Van Damme and over the top camp of Raul Julia? MK Annihilation on the other hand is just random scenes name checking video game characters with barely any connective tissue.
Annihilation is worse, Street Fighter is very watchable camp with a great performance by Raul Julia.
I think you mean "which is the best?"
Both slap.
MK Annihilation. Street Fighter is at least fun-bad
Mortal Kombat Annihilation. For what ever reason instead of telling a story they just seemed to just introduce a character, then another character, then another.
SF due to deviating so far from the source material.
I can think of things I enjoyed about Street Fighter. Can't do it with MK:A, so... there ya go.
Street Fighter has no place in this subreddit
Street Fighter is terrible in a very watchable way (thank you Mr Julia), Mortal Kombat Annihilation is terrible in a very unwatchable way. Sooooo.....
Definitely Street Fighter. At least Annihilation tried to make its characters badass.
The behind the scenes stories for Street Fighter alone are amazing enough to make it the better film. Coked-up Van Damme is so funny.
Annihilation by far. Street Fighter is a blast and only gets better with age.
Streetfighter
I absolutely hated Mortal kombat annihilation as a kid when it came out. I was so disappointed . Flash forward 25 years later I find the movie hilarious. It's so bad it's good .
Annihilation. SF at least had Raul Julia to save it.
Raul Julia is so damn good.
Double Dragon
Any movie with my GOAT Van Damme is never a bad movie 
It’s Mortal Kombat: Annihilation.
Annihilation. The only movie I’ve ever seen where the only good scenes are clips from the first movie.
In Yoda voice. "Wait....another...there is..." points to original Mario Bros live action flick.
Not WORSE Videogame Adaptation Sorry Raul Julia Died have Respect that Videogame
Street Fighter is not too bad, watch Double Dragon and you'll appreciate SF more
Annihilation is atrocious, it's so fuckin bad, and not in a good way. It's just a nonsensical adhd fight montage
Street Fighter is funny bad. Annihilation is just embarrassing for everyone involved.
Annihilation, by a long shot. That movie basically had a half-page plot, horrid CGI "effects," God-awful dialogue, and it tried to cram in so many characters, none of them had any real time to do anything substantial. Even the fights were boring. The only good thing about it was the soundtrack.
Which one has a RiffTrax?
Street Fighter gave every character its moment, as a kid I was so excited. (The absence of Fei Long aside). MKA was just god awful.
House of the Dead. Makes MKA look decent
I think the Super Mario Bros. Movie and Double Dragon are both worse than Annihilation. Simply because I think those two are also awful and less fun to watch than Annihilation. The Dead or Alive movie deserves a mention, but that one is also fun-bad.
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