A Belgium guy, Bob Sagat and two Japanese guys walk into a bar...And save the world.
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Street Fighter: The Movie Trading Cards
Street Fighter The Movie was released around Christmas in 1994. As you could probably guess, because we don’t mention bad movies here, it was pretty awesome.
It’s mainly based on the classic one-on-one fighter Street Fighter 2, not the shitty first game despite being called just Street Fighter. It stars Jean Claude Van Damme in what is probably his most acclaimed role (outside of possibly Breakin when he was dancing in the background) as Col. Guile and Raul Julia in his final film role as General Bison.
Now, there’s a lot of people who hate this movie and will get all whiney about it because it doesn’t follow the game at all. They’ll claim Guile is supposed to be an all American character but he’s played by a Belgium guy with a thick accent.
Whatevs.
My question is, have they seen the movie? Jean Claude Van Damme is in it, so you know it’s good. That’s science.
Anyway, I’m not going to review the movie here today. What I am going to do is open my brand new pack of Street Fighter trading cards.
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Back in the 80s and 90s, they made trading cards out of everything imaginable and luckily, I have a large collection of old unopened trading card packs from all sorts of crap.
With that said, I am going to open this son of a bitch pack of cards so hard that the next pack of Street Fighter card wannabes are gonna feel it. Let’s get to it.
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Man, how fitting is it that the first card I got was Jean Claude himself. Despite being a supporting player and an American in the video games, the movie portrays him as a big Belgium dude who love the crap out of America.
What’s he looking at to the left? I bet it’s waffles. Belgium people love waffles.
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This card here is kind of puzzling. It’s apparently titled “Street Fighter”, which odd because there are not any streets nor is there any fighting on this card. It’s more like Weed Squatter.
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Well if it isn’t the star of the Street Fighter video games himself, Ryu! In the movie, Ryu (played by martial artist/actor Byron Mann) was only a supporting character. You probably remember Bryon Mann because you thought he played Keno the pizza boy in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret of the Ooze, but he didn’t. That was Ernie Reyes Jr.
Why do you think all Asian Americans look a like. What’s your deal?
They also tried to put the character’s background stage from the video game on some of their cards, but they messed up. That’s Ken’s stage, not Ryu‘s. So what now every character that shoots a fireball looks a like? Racists.
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Remember this guy? The is the dude that wasn’t in the game. Apparently he was created to replace Fei Long because producers felt that the character resembled Bruce Lee too much. He doesn’t really do anything in the movie except he talks like his voice is dubbed over and what’s he doing just hanging out on E.Honda’s stage?
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Next we have a card featuring full house star actor Bob Saget changing the spelling of his last named for some added flare. I don’t think I have to mention that he buffed up, shaved his head, got a huge scar on his chest and is wearing an eye patch.
Now for the rest…
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We got a behind the scenes card with some trees, M.Bison playing some video games and some fighting on the sand. Again this card is titled “Street Fighter” but this time there is fighting but no still no streets, just sand.
So that’s pretty much it -- a full pack of Street Fighter: The Movie cards. I’d recommend buying this movie on Blu-Ray immediately but don’t be surprised if the world is sold out of them.
-Corey
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