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Date: 2005-12-10 15:30:26

Comment:

All i can say to you guys is: Go watch the DOA: Dead or Alive teaser trailer. Now what started out as a good fighting game has been turned into an obnoxious fad of a movie conversion with bimbos on screen who are dying to rip their clothes off for the camera. No dignity of the true art of fighting, but a loada scantily clad women playing volleyball for 1 and a half hours. Would you like Tekken to turn out like this? I bet not, so these suggestions are fine in that they may look like the character but be aware that because its going to be a hollywood movie, it will have that  essence of martial arts removed and replaced by hollywood overblown dramatisation and will keep up with teenage trends at the moment. Being a Media Student, I understand the ideology and essential requirements for a good film and how it can appeal to the audience and what makes a good film. But, as you can tell i do hate hollywood style films, but only because they have ruined perfectly good actor's careers especially those of transitions from the HK Cinema to America which has clearly degraded their performance and judgement. Again i urge the fact for people to recommend actors, possibly unknown ones who would be good for the part by acting and their skill in the martial arts. Nicole Kidman, i doubt will be a good choice, although looking like Nina or Anna, would just be another "Kylie Minogue acting Cammy" sort of role.
Frankly because of this, all game to movie conversions have really sucked, with the only exception of the first mortal kombat movie because it did not contain overblown celebs from hollywood (with part exception of christopher lambert), almost all the cast were not known very well. We want this film to be a new experience for the audience who are both familiar and unfamiliar with the Tekken series of games. Therefore i would think it would be a better idea to get a Japanese cast for the obvious Japanese ethnicity characters and assort the appropriate actors to the other characters (possibly using CGI for characters like Devil, Jack/Jack-2)

Another good point to put across about Mortal Kombat was the fact that it used characters from only the first and second game - which limited the characters, but allowed the audience to understand who they are and actually what they are doing. Piling all characters from all the tekken series into one film is obviously a bad move because it would end up like MK Anihilation where a characters is thrown onto the screen for the hell of it and killed off in 2 secs. Let this film break the boundaries and assumptions of Game-2-Movie conversions! What do you guys think??

-=DH=-