July 22, fighting game tragicomedy
So, I saw this ad in the newspaper the other day.
I kept refusing to believe this was real when scans of it first hit the internet. I should have learned from that Chun movie, huh?
I saw the trailer Last May, when I accompanied my sister and cousins to Shrek 4. The little kids were like, "Wow Tekken!" and the teens and the adults were like, "Uhhhhhhhh" and shook their heads out of disbelief. How appropriate, I thought.
TV Tropes had this helpful insight on the Tekken movie:
Tekken was released on 100+ screens in Japan on March 20 of 2010, and made less than the equivalent of $7,000 US over the week ending at March 27. That's not just a flop, it's likely a boycott. Due to this, the film, which cost $35 million to make, is being released straight to DVD in America.
Judging from all the b-movies we get every year, it seems that quite a few direct-to-DVD flicks make their way to the big screen here. I thought the Tekken movie would just fade away like the KOF movie (which, mercifully, hasn't had any updates to its official Facebook in months). Of course, that doesn't seem to be the case.
Oh well. This country is full of kids and Tekken is practically the national fighting game. If there's any place that this impending disaster can make a few bucks, it would be here. Then again, it could just be exposing people en masse to yet another horrible adaptation.
I kept refusing to believe this was real when scans of it first hit the internet. I should have learned from that Chun movie, huh?
I saw the trailer Last May, when I accompanied my sister and cousins to Shrek 4. The little kids were like, "Wow Tekken!" and the teens and the adults were like, "Uhhhhhhhh" and shook their heads out of disbelief. How appropriate, I thought.
TV Tropes had this helpful insight on the Tekken movie:
Tekken was released on 100+ screens in Japan on March 20 of 2010, and made less than the equivalent of $7,000 US over the week ending at March 27. That's not just a flop, it's likely a boycott. Due to this, the film, which cost $35 million to make, is being released straight to DVD in America.
Judging from all the b-movies we get every year, it seems that quite a few direct-to-DVD flicks make their way to the big screen here. I thought the Tekken movie would just fade away like the KOF movie (which, mercifully, hasn't had any updates to its official Facebook in months). Of course, that doesn't seem to be the case.
Oh well. This country is full of kids and Tekken is practically the national fighting game. If there's any place that this impending disaster can make a few bucks, it would be here. Then again, it could just be exposing people en masse to yet another horrible adaptation.