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Again, another film taking liberties with the source material.  Some of it works, most does not.  Raul Julia hams it up like no other with his portrayal of M. Bison

"Street Fighter: The Movie" is a 1994 action film based on the popular video game franchise. The film follows Colonel Guile, played by Jean-Claude Van Damme, as he leads an international team of street fighters to rescue hostages from the evil warlord General M. Bison, portrayed by Raul Julia. The story unfolds on the fictional Shadaloo Island, where Bison plans to rule the world with his army. The film incorporates characters from the Street Fighter video game series, such as Chun-Li, Ryu, and Ken. Despite mixed reviews, the film has gained a cult following over the years for its campy and over-the-top portrayal of the iconic video game characters.

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Chicago-based academic and horror obsessive Peter Raleigh joins to discuss reliable journeyman director Peter Hyams and his 1997 creature feature, 'The Relic'. Maligned critically and a failure at the box office upon its initial release, the film has endured as an example of the tactile, sturdy genre work of the 90s with capable hands on both sides of the camera, including brilliant creature designs from legendary special effects guru Stan Winston.

We discuss the film's impressive balancing act, managing to glide over a host ludicrous genre tropes and plot holes with ease while maintining a keen pacing and immersion. Then, we praise the excellent directorial work of Hyams, who serves here as his own cinematographer and generates a mesmerizing, impressionistic array of horror imagery in stark, dimly lit spaces galore. Finally, we discuss the delights of the monster movie, its flattening of distinctions among people that make for compelling survival thrills, and why the sensibilities of the decade were uniquely attuned to the subgenre.

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Vancouver-based filmmaker, educator, and podcaster Devan Scott joins to discuss Street Fighter: The Movie, based on the hugely popular Capcom video game franchise. Dismissed by both critics and fans of the game at the time of its release as a disaster, the film has since found a small but vocal faction of champions nearly 30 years later.

We discuss the film as an example of what Devan calls "The Anti-Masterpiece": A film that through no fault of its author becomes an astonishing work, either in spite or because of a distinct lack of conventional competence. Then, we discuss the pleasure of watching a film featuring a massive ensemble cast, none of whom can seem to agree on what kind of movie is being made - from Jean-Claude Van Damme's incidentially self-referential Colonel Guile to Raul Julia's genuinely great, Shakespearean take on despotic warlord General M. Bison. Finally, we discuss the film's inadvertantly prescient take on the American imperial project of the 21st century, and how its caroonishness and brazen stupidity feel right at home in a post-Trump America. 

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We don't like to brag or anything, but the people behind Madness Madness have accomplished some pretty incredible feats of combat prowess, to the point where several hit movies have been based on our exploits: Avatar, Avengers: Endgame, Avatar: The Way of Water, Titanic, Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens, Avengers: Infinity War, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Jurassic World, The Lion King, The Avengers, Furious 7, Top Gun: Maverick, Frozen II, and of course Barbie. That’s more than $27 billion at the box office just from the ones we can name off the tops of our heads, so honestly we’ve got nothing to learn from Frank Dux, a fight choreographer and semi-professional liar whose “life story,” the 1988 Jean-Claude Van Damme breakout “Bloodsport,” pulled in a mere puff of dust to the tune of $11.8 million worldwide, which I don’t even think is enough money to wipe your ass with these days.

Nonetheless we’ll hear about this valor-stealing boomer schmuck, then imagine him dropped into Cassadaga, Florida (formerly New York), the fortune-telling capital of the world, mouthing off to a series of increasingly irritable palm readers until the ghost of Patrick Swayze manifests and Road House roundhouses him so hard he lands in a different ZIP code from his medals of honor, which turn out to be made of cardboard and cellophane anyway. Join us, won’t you?

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In the 1980s and 90s, Jean-Claude Van Damme used his impressive martial arts skills to become a major action star with movies like BLOODSPORT, UNIVERSAL SOLDIER, John Woo's HARD TARGET, and TIMECOP. But inflated ego, drug addiction and other bad behavior would tarnish JCVD's Hollywood reputation, and he soon found his movies lining the shelves of video stores instead of being seen on the big screen. However, the legend got clean, changed his tune and some of the DTV movies ended up being pretty good! With a new Netflix movie on the way, now's the time to catch up with the Muscles from Brussels and find out “WTF Happened to Jean-Claude Van Damme!”

"I love you less." These were the words Mally uttered to Jonah as the credits rolled on 1989's Kickboxer. But don't let that deter you from listening to this giggle-packed episode, co-hosted by Bruce Wayne, the cat. The Van Damme fanboy is alive and well on the interwebs it seems, much to Mally's chagrin. Directed by Mark DiSalle and David Worth. Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dennis Alexio, Dennis, Chan, Michel Qissi.

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This week ,the Plotaholics are taking it to the streets! We're ready for battle as we take on 1994's Street Fighter, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raul Julia, and Ming-Na Wen. 

In this film, Colonel Guile (Van Damme), leads A.N. forces against dictator M. Bison (Julia) as he attempts to take over the country of Shadaloo. 

Man, oh man, this is an interesting episode today folks!

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Will and Matt spend this episode trying to figure out what Street Fighter was about, Guile's drug habit budget, and what David Duchovny smells like!

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Street Fighter
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starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raul Julia, Ming-Na Wen

Who is the dialect coach for this show? What’s your go-to timesaving distraction prop? And how does this show keep managing to pull us back in? We jump into these questions and more as we watch Season 8, Episode 3 of Family Matters.

Alex Diamond, David Kenny, and John McDaniel heard that the long-running network sitcom Family Matters ends with side character Steve Urkel going to space. And the best way to figure out how that happened - obviously - is to watch the last episode first and make our way backwards through nearly ten years of television.

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Instead of our typical pre-recorded show, we are going live with a special episode of Trailer Talk, and this week we are discussing the return of Jean-Claude Van Damme and his amazing ability to kill people with the splits in his new Netflix film The Last Mercenary. Let's break down this trailer and dive into our POV's on editing to color design to costume design to sound design and more!

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This week we discuss and review JCVD (2008) , directed by  Mabrouk El Mechri and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme,  François Damiens and Zinedine Soualem.

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Zack & Zo travel to Thailand to learn the secrets of Muay Thai  Kickboxing as Kurt Sloane looks to get vengeance for his brother Eric in one of the most brutal environments for professional fighters againsts the kickboxer champion Tong Po.

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Loosely (poorly) based on the Video game series of the same name, Street Fighter assembles an all-action expert fighting cast, including the All American - Muscles from Brussels himself, JCVD and the acting powerhouse known as Kylie... Minogue? Is your head spinning around right now?

I wish I could say to all the Video Game fans that Street Fighter was especially for you, but this ends up being a relatively slow, drawn-out affair, much like these episode notes. Better the devil, you know, I guess.

It may not be to anyone's surprise that we felt the need to Hadouken!! This into the sea. Yet, I can't get you out of my head, Street Fighter.

FilmFloggers would never condone excessive consumption, but If I were dysoning the amount of Coca-Cola JCVD was during filming, I would have leapt into a spontaneous rendition of The Loco-motion. Great song, mere coincidence Kylie sang it.

If it wasn't for Raúl Juliá's Shakespearean turn as Bison, expertly borrowing mannerisms from some of the world's great leaders, including Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, oh...wait. WOW

With my serious cap on, Raul's performance is fun, energetic and captures the spirit of what I'm guessing they were trying to do with this.

A mighty fine actor and an even better father by the sounds of it. 

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Today we're talking about Bloodsport (1988)!  It was the first thing we recorded so Darcy obliquely references the taking of the US Capitol on 1/6/20 and Katie says "like" approximately nine thousand times. Discussion topics include: Are all secret worlds in martial arts movies connected? Sexy fight training montages with Punch Dad, One True Art as created by white American individualist dominance narratives, One True Can of Beer held by Ray the entire movie, Being the pink Power Ranger, Frank Dux's astrological chemistry with Chong Li, What is truth?