Tekken: The Movie

[MrWhitefolks]

"The film plays out as a science fiction story set in the near future, about a rebel who rises up against the Tekken Corp. to seize freedom for his people,"

See, this is the shit that fucks over videogame films. Some asshat plays the game for like 30 minutes, then just says "fuck the plot, i can do way better" and goes completely off the radar. Now, we all know that fighting game plots are completely convoluted and that staying true to any of them 100% will lead to disaster, but this shit? Who the fuck is this supposed "rebel", Moses?

I don't know whats worse right now, knowing that this movie will be a complete failure, or knowing that the writers don't give even the most minute shit about the game or it's characters(and incidentally, it's fanbase). It's not like it'd be hard to do research(fucking "Tekken Corp"? what, did they not even bother to read the game manuals?) on the property if you were the one writing the script. A simple call to Namco, or some e-reading would suffice easily(not only for the plot outline, but character motivations as well), and I honestly think that's why I'm pissed right now.

The lack of effort shown by the company doing this movie just shows how much they actually care about the product they are representing, and for any film based off of a videogame to be even a remote success, you need to not only respect the property itself, but the fans when you are in the process of adapting the medium for film. This synopsis show's neither, and I got 5 bucks that says this shit doesn't even make it to a wide spread theatre release(think DOA).

[Dolemite]

Oh, relax. The storyline of Tekken makes no sense anyway.

[YellerDog]

I hope there is a scene where someone is stuck inside a phone booth and is forced to fiercely dial random buttons.

[Gymkata]

Invisible dinosaurs plz

[YellerDog]

Raptors or GTFO.

[Dolemite]

[YellerDog]

Gon's a bad-ass comic.

[Port]

This movie will be on par with DOA just with less titties. So it will be worse.

[MrWhitefolks]

Oh, relax. The storyline of Tekken makes no sense anyway.

Now, we all know that fighting game plots are completely convoluted...

Would've been nice if you actually paid attention to what I was getting at in my post, noob.

It's not a complaint about overall plot, as it is against how Hollywood takes all of these game franchises and just rewrites everything as they see fit, regardless of how easy it is to tie in characters or events from said franchises would be with a little bit of research.

[cka]

I hope there is a scene where someone is stuck inside a phone booth and is forced to fiercely dial random buttons.

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