Disappointing Game Movie
Posted by Fred | Posted in Game , Movie | Posted on 22:08
The King of Fighters aka KOF is one of my favourite arcade game that I used to play with my PC in the past.
KOF first game, The King of Fighters '94 until The King of Fighters 2003, I had played KOF for years and finish 10 series of KOF.
KOF storyline was interesting.
To know more about the story, I played each characters on their original team because there will be some differents when the story dialog displayed.
Kinda weird right? Play hard to enable myself to read that few words.
That wasn't enough, that's why I was reading KOF manga like a maniac during my PMR and SPM holidays.
I stop reading KOF manga as well as playing KOF because the storyline after KOF 2003 is not interesting like the past and the games are just dull compared with the past version.
This afternoon after visit Hooi Lip's blog, I was informed that KOF will be on big screen soon!
Sean Faris as Kyo Kusanagi
Kyo is a cocky delinquent high school student who is the heir to the Kusanagi clan, who can use pyrokinetic powers. In The King of Fighters universe, his clan is one of the three clans that sealed the legendary snake entity, Orochi. Due to his clan's past, Kyo fights against the Kusanagi's enemies; his rival Iori Yagami, the last member of the Yagami clan, and the Orochi's soldiers. He enters every The King of Fighters tournament representing Japan and uses his clan's fighting style to combine fire with kenpo. Due to the fact he was highly popular and his outfit changed along the series, the designers created a few clones with his old appearance. He was nicknamed as "King of Fighters Kyo" (拳王京) for leading Team Japan winning the KOF tournaments in a streak.
Will Yun Lee as Iori Yagami
Françoise Yip as Chizuru Kagura
Chizuru is a member of the Yata clan that holds one of the three sacred artifacts that originally sealed the serpent monster Orochi 1,800 years ago. As the heiress of the Yata, she is raised as a priestess and maintains the duty of keeping the diligent seal on Orochi intact. One night, a Orochi servant, Goenitz visited their home to and destroys the seal after killing Chizuru's sister, Maki. Ten years afterwards, Chizuru is a very successful and prestigious business woman. She secretly hosts the tournament in 1996 in hopes of entreating Kyo and Iori to help her replace the broken seal. The three of them succeed in their task at the climax of The King of Fighters '97.
Same as Terry Bogard, Mai Shiranui is a character from both Fatel Fury and KOF. Terry Bogard's brother, Andy Bogard who studied Ninjutsu with her grandfather is her fiance. She typically wears exceptionally low-cut blouses, dresses, and clothing to maximize the exposure of her cleavage, and most fight scenes involving Mai include several shots that focus especially on her breasts and buttocks.
Rugal Bernstein is known as Boss of KOF by KOF developers because of become the final boss for KOF game for 4 times. He hosted all the 4 years KOF tournament that he was the boss character. As the host of the tournaments from The King of Fighters '94 and '95, Rugal plans to turn all the competitors from the tournament into stone statues as part of his collection. To gain stronger power, he exchange his right eye and become stronger than ever. After absorbing the Orochi power, Rugal organised The King of Fighters '98 with his strong power but can't control it well. When NESTS empire falls during The King of Fighters 2001, he used NESTS technology to enable him to control his Orochi power perfectly and continue his domination plan by organising The King of Fighters 2002 which lead to his death after defeated by K'.
Hiro Kanagawa as Saisyu Kusanagi
Both of them are Iori's KOF team members and serving Rugal Bernstein. Vice and Mature represent the image of cruel women and ruthless woman in KOF. They are spies and weilders of Orochi. They were ordered to keep an eye on Iori by Goenitz.
Now let me show you something which is dissapointing me.
Seems like Hollywood gonna make KOF a piece of shit on the big screen just like how they did to Dragonball.
Years ago I really dream that KOF will be on cinema because it has nice storyline,such as Orochi saga and NESTS saga, and the actions are cool.
Now, I'm kinda dissapointing after watching the trailer of this movie and this dissapointment appeared once which is the moment I watched the trailer of Dragonball Evolution before it is on cinema.
If you like Dragonball Evolution, ignore this post and you're an idiot who waste money for lame movies.
KOF first game, The King of Fighters '94 until The King of Fighters 2003, I had played KOF for years and finish 10 series of KOF.
KOF storyline was interesting.
To know more about the story, I played each characters on their original team because there will be some differents when the story dialog displayed.
Kinda weird right? Play hard to enable myself to read that few words.
That wasn't enough, that's why I was reading KOF manga like a maniac during my PMR and SPM holidays.
I stop reading KOF manga as well as playing KOF because the storyline after KOF 2003 is not interesting like the past and the games are just dull compared with the past version.
This afternoon after visit Hooi Lip's blog, I was informed that KOF will be on big screen soon!
It should be a good news, especially for all the KOF fans but NOPE...
Before that, let me briefly introduce to you the KOF characters that will appear in the movie.
Sean Faris as Kyo Kusanagi
Kyo is a cocky delinquent high school student who is the heir to the Kusanagi clan, who can use pyrokinetic powers. In The King of Fighters universe, his clan is one of the three clans that sealed the legendary snake entity, Orochi. Due to his clan's past, Kyo fights against the Kusanagi's enemies; his rival Iori Yagami, the last member of the Yagami clan, and the Orochi's soldiers. He enters every The King of Fighters tournament representing Japan and uses his clan's fighting style to combine fire with kenpo. Due to the fact he was highly popular and his outfit changed along the series, the designers created a few clones with his old appearance. He was nicknamed as "King of Fighters Kyo" (拳王京) for leading Team Japan winning the KOF tournaments in a streak.
Will Yun Lee as Iori Yagami
Iori is the heir of the Yagami clan, who wield pyrokinetic powers and sealed the Orochi demon along with the Kusanagi and Yata clans. However, after betraying the Kusanagi clan, the Yagami are cursed by Orochi giving them powers that cause all members to die young. The character harbors hatred against the other clans, but later becomes obsessed to kill their heir Kyo. Due to that, Iori sometimes helps him in order to have the opportunity to have a final fight against him. He is one of the most popular characters from SNK Games due to his combos and moves are almost perfect.
Françoise Yip as Chizuru Kagura
Chizuru is a member of the Yata clan that holds one of the three sacred artifacts that originally sealed the serpent monster Orochi 1,800 years ago. As the heiress of the Yata, she is raised as a priestess and maintains the duty of keeping the diligent seal on Orochi intact. One night, a Orochi servant, Goenitz visited their home to and destroys the seal after killing Chizuru's sister, Maki. Ten years afterwards, Chizuru is a very successful and prestigious business woman. She secretly hosts the tournament in 1996 in hopes of entreating Kyo and Iori to help her replace the broken seal. The three of them succeed in their task at the climax of The King of Fighters '97.
David Leitch as Terry Bogard
Terry Bogard is is the main character of the Fatal Fury series. In the series, he is an American fighter who enters the worldwide tournaments called The King of Fighters to kill Geese Howard, a criminal who killed Terry's father. Terry becomes a formidable fighter, earning the title of "Legendary Hungry Wolf". In the fourth tournament he participates, Terry manages to kill Geese with help from his friends, but he retracts from this at last moment. He eventually decides to become the guardian of Geese's son, Rock Howard. Terry is an icon for both Fatal Fury and KOF.
Sam Hargrave as Ryo Sakazaki
Ryo is a video game character a fighting game named Art of Fighting. In KOF, Ryo is a martial artist that practices his family's fighting style, the Kyokugenryu Karate. He and his best friend Robert Garcia enter the Southtown city to rescue Ryo's sister, Yuri Sakazaki. In their fights, Ryo and Robert learn that the Sakazaki became the target from the criminal Geese Howard, and decide to face him. Ryo is also a regular character in the crossover series The King of Fighters, in which he participates in fighting tournament in a team composed of his friends a family. Ryo was known as the 3rd strongest fighter in KOF which Kyo and Iori are the only people can overcome him before The NESTS Chronicles story arc begins.
Maggie Q as Mai Shiranui
Same as Terry Bogard, Mai Shiranui is a character from both Fatel Fury and KOF. Terry Bogard's brother, Andy Bogard who studied Ninjutsu with her grandfather is her fiance. She typically wears exceptionally low-cut blouses, dresses, and clothing to maximize the exposure of her cleavage, and most fight scenes involving Mai include several shots that focus especially on her breasts and buttocks.
Ray Park as Rugal Bernstein
Rugal Bernstein is known as Boss of KOF by KOF developers because of become the final boss for KOF game for 4 times. He hosted all the 4 years KOF tournament that he was the boss character. As the host of the tournaments from The King of Fighters '94 and '95, Rugal plans to turn all the competitors from the tournament into stone statues as part of his collection. To gain stronger power, he exchange his right eye and become stronger than ever. After absorbing the Orochi power, Rugal organised The King of Fighters '98 with his strong power but can't control it well. When NESTS empire falls during The King of Fighters 2001, he used NESTS technology to enable him to control his Orochi power perfectly and continue his domination plan by organising The King of Fighters 2002 which lead to his death after defeated by K'.
Hiro Kanagawa as Saisyu Kusanagi
Father for Kyo Kusanagi and previous head of the Kusanagi clan who left his family to face worthy opponents across the globe. After been defeated by Rugal in The King of Fighters '94, he was brainwashed by Vice to defeat Kyo for Rugal. In The King of Fighters 2001, he teach Shingo about Kusanagi fighting skills.
Bernice Liu as Vice and Monique Ganderton as Mature
Both of them are Iori's KOF team members and serving Rugal Bernstein. Vice and Mature represent the image of cruel women and ruthless woman in KOF. They are spies and weilders of Orochi. They were ordered to keep an eye on Iori by Goenitz.
Knowing who are the stars in this movie already?
Now let me show you something which is dissapointing me.
- The picture on the left side is Maggie Q as Mai in KOF The Movie while the picture on the right side is a cosplay picture as Mai. Now, tell me honestly, which of them looks the most like Mai Shiranui?
- The cosplay for being Mai Shuranui cost her about US 200 dollars. Why don't they spent a little bit on the costume to make it more like the video game version?
- If you got notice Rugal's costume in the movie , it's looks like Goenitz's outfits more than Rugal's outfits.
- Beside of costume, try to find someone who look kinda similar to the characters in the video game to join this movie. I don't wanna waste my efforts on explaining it while the differents are so OBVIOUS!
- Actors should study the characters more deeply before they start making the movie. Take the picture below as example:
- Yup, it's Rugal with his two bitchy secretary Mature and Vice. Well based on almost every KOF manga chapters, Rugal never sit on a chair in such rude posture. Ray Park is an excellent actor but this time, he got himself some small mistake in this movie.
- In this movie, characters that appeared mostly are team leader,such as Kyo, Iori, Terry, and Ryo.
- Some important characters wasn't appear in the movie, such as Athena, Heidern and Kim.
Seems like Hollywood gonna make KOF a piece of shit on the big screen just like how they did to Dragonball.
Years ago I really dream that KOF will be on cinema because it has nice storyline,such as Orochi saga and NESTS saga, and the actions are cool.
Now, I'm kinda dissapointing after watching the trailer of this movie and this dissapointment appeared once which is the moment I watched the trailer of Dragonball Evolution before it is on cinema.
If you like Dragonball Evolution, ignore this post and you're an idiot who waste money for lame movies.
As I understand your rage for mismatched actors (I saw Dragonball:Evolution as well). I just wanna say, don't blame the actors themselves, blame the directors, especially the casting director, they can be the worst. Another person to blame is the costume designer. Though, in some cases the original artist of the character is to blame, seeing as how in real life (take Rugal for example, no one could fight effectively. Though the costume designer could at least TRY to make them look similar. Same with Rugal. When I saw movie Mai, I wanted to scream(with anger).
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I think the reason you have no comments is because you can't find the word verification unless you press the "Tab" button to get to it. I recommend fixing that, or complaining about it.
As I understand your rage for mismatched actors (I saw Dragonball:Evolution as well). I just wanna say, don't blame the actors themselves, blame the directors, especially the casting director, they can be the worst. Another person to blame is the costume designer. Though, in some cases the original artist of the character is to blame, seeing as how in real life (take Rugal for example, no one could fight effectively. Though the costume designer could at least TRY to make them look similar. Same with Rugal. When I saw Mai, I wanted to scream. The cosplay definitely looks better
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I'm pretty sure the reason you have no comments is because the verification type box isn't visible. I have to press the "Tab" button in order to find it, so I recommend fixing that, or complaining to get it fixed.
Thanks for the observation (the comment thingy), I'm working on it.