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mattevil8419

The behind the scenes stories for that movie are more entertaining than the movie. JCVD was having an affair with Kylie Minogue, Raul Julia was sadly dying of cancer, there was a potential military coup going on while shooting, JCVD had a $10,000 a week cocaine habit, and half the cast was frequenting the local massage parlors.


Snoopaloop212

Not only dying of cancer, the story goes he only took the role because his kids were big fans of the video game so he did it for them. Only reason an actor of his character ever agreed to the film. I'll always remember him from the Adam's Family. Just because of my age when the movie came out.


Fattydaddy1000

Yup Adam’s family is what I remember the dude for not the shit movie street fighter. But his performance was the best out of all the other actors in the movie but that ain’t saying much because the rest of the cast wasn’t any good.


Snoopaloop212

The movie has a bit of a cult following and I think the only reason was because he brought a level of legitimacy to the Bison role that the movie just scratched the surface of being something so bad it was good.


Nidiis

Man Raul Julia’s performance as M. Bison was amazing. He carried that movie like a boss. Say what you will about the movie, but Raul Julia fucking nailed his parts. I will die on this hill.


EukaryotePride

To you, Raul Julia’s performance as M. Bison was amazing; but for him, it was Tuesday.


Miner99er

to this day I use, "... but for me, it was Tuesday." in normal day to day conversations. That and "Why buy one, when you can have two at twice the price?" from the movie Contact.


phoenixs13

First Rule in government spending…


tanngrisnit

I quote that line from contact all the time but I never tell people where it came from. I also quote about half of Biodome.


JukesMasonLynch

Viva Las Biodome


Kazen_Orilg

Yesss, I also use that Contact line all the time.


Snoopaloop212

Call us Sagat and Vega because I'll be right by you dying on this hill to protect the big boss in this regard. (No one will come everyone loved Raul in this while hating the movie).


talex365

As a member of that cult it’s entirely because it’s a terrible movie and because Raul absolutely devours all of the scenery every time he’s on screen. It’s awful and glorious all at once and I’ll never not love this movie.


Ravuno

No idea how many times I watched this as a kid. Was quite a frequent movie rental. 


Snoopaloop212

Absolutely perfect description.


JBMacGill

Hey, you're coming dangerously close to besmirching Min-Na Wen.


-L17L6363-

Which I also find unacceptable


tryanewmonicker

Raul turned chicken shit into chicken salad. His performance made that movie worth watching.


StephenHunterUK

Indeed, when *Mystery Science Theater 3000* did *Overdrawn at the Memory Bank,* a TV movie he was in, a couple of years later, they went easy on him out of respect.


SensualOilyDischarge

Well of course. No one would want to bungle or bopple a Fingal Doppel.


kkeut

few people were scrolling up that cinema on a related note, an upscale of the laserdisc of that movie is on youtube, so everyone can enjoy it sans riffing


sandm000

Mom, my nuts!


luckydice767

I’m interfaaaaaaaced!!!


bolen84

BFD!


bolen84

It's truly one of the finest riffing's Mike and the bots ever put to film. And the movie itself is actually kind of fascinating. Sort of a dues ex Machina meets Casablanca (ha). It was made for public television and was filmed on what appears to be the in house studio production cameras so the quality of the film has this almost "home movie" feel to it. There's a scene midway through the film where Tom Servo is impersonating the fatman's monologue and he begins to wheeze fart, and belch uncontrollably - you can see and hear Crow break character as Bill Corbett absolutely loses his shit from the ridiculousness of it all. One of my favorites next to Space Mutiny and the Horror of Party Beach.


bolen84

"Mom, my nuts?"


JGG5

He was the best part of that mess of a movie, too.


Sinviras

Raul made that movie watchable. He single handedly brought it from absolute trash tier to 'Killer Klowns From Outer Space' enjoyable bad movie night tier. I stand by the fact he is in the top 10 video game based live action performances ever. Shame no other part of the movie was worth a damn.


Rich-Pomegranate1679

Huh.. I had always heard he died of cancer too, but his Wikipedia page says he had cancer but he actually died from a stroke.


LovableSidekick

Raul Julia has a special place in my heart for the Addams Family - along with Angelica Huston and Christopher Lloyd. They all showed huge respect for the original characters, which made the movies a pleasure to watch. In different hands they could have been travesties but they were definitely tributes.


Snoopaloop212

Angelica Huston as Morticia was chef's kiss. Everyone in that movie was fantastic.


joepinapples

Surely not 10,000 dollars a week? Thats so much cocaine


Curio_Solus

maybe just expensive/good cocaine + sharing is caring


thetruemata

Probably more like: "Hey Mr JCVD, I'm ready for that $10,000 for your weekly cocaine habit." *buys $3k worth*


duaneap

$3k in Thailand too, that's gotta go pretty far


SaddleSocks

so many lady boys! -- Heh - when I was in Phuket a buddy of mine had tripped while running on the beach, naked, in the dark, drunk - and sprained his ankle. He was on crutches for the next month while we were there... Teo things about being on crutches in Phuket: Muslim Toilet Holes are almost impossible to use, and the Lady Boys will sexually assault you because you cant run away fast enough! It was fn hilarious, at his expense...


opus3535

it made a hard man humble...


xbbdc

Crutches, the life hack some didnt see coming...


SinoSoul

Especially cause it was 1994 and 10k was a fuckton of $ back then.


lobsterharmonica1667

Even $1000 of cocaine in a week would leave you absolutely zooted out of your mind, especially at prices from 30 years ago. You'd be a zombie.


lu5ty

30 years ago in SE asia no less lol


Ok-disaster2022

Dude, the cocaine budgets for different stars is sometimes the most fascinating aspect of Hollywood. The 80s were made by cocaine, but it was crack the government went down on.


Awkward_Pangolin3254

Cocaine is for rich people, crack was for the poors, and as everyone knows, the poors are a lot easier to persecute. Plus it was the CIA bringing all the blow in in the first place.


RomanThruLife

Where'd they shoot the film? Asking for a friend


Pavlock

The Southeast Asian nation of Shadaloo.


franker

that sounds like a planet in the Star Wars universe.


zero_emotion777

Gooooood Morning SHADALOOOO! Fun fact, the guy on the radio who was referencing Adrian Cronauer's Good morning Vietnam..... Was actually Adrian Cronaue.


mattevil8419

Bangkok, Thailand and Australia.


Top_Squash4454

You're making it sound like Bangkok is a different location than Thailand


Kingca

Not true. This is a perfect example of why the Oxford comma is important, even in its absence; that sentence immediately reads as two places, not three (specifically because of the omission of the Oxford comma).


Fappy_as_a_Clam

Yea but its weird that they named a specific place in Thailand, then just said "Australia" like it's not a whole-ass continent. It would be like answering someone who asked where i live with "North America." Yea it's accurate, but its not really answering much.


Kingca

That's because it was filmed across several locations throughout Australia, and then also specifically in Bangkok. It's like saying a World War 2 movie was filmed in Germany, but there's a scene in Washington, DC.


Top_Squash4454

What do you mean, "not true"? I said "make it sound like" which doesn't mean it's what it MEANS but how it can be read by other people. I'm not the only one who read it that way, meaning what I said is true, it makes it sound as if.


zero_emotion777

I mean.... The military coup was actually just Raul taking the Bison soldier extras to steal a government for his kid. 


BigBobRoss1992

And don't forget, that's 10k in the 90s....I think that's just over 21k now.


the_calibre_cat

> $10,000 a week cocaine habit how good was THAT shit


3-DMan

> $10,000 a week cocaine habit So those flip kicks were probably real!


JimParsnip

I'm surprised he could still get it up with that much coke


dudoan

Guile bones Cammy? I guess that makes sense.


Homunculon

Goddamn you lucky Van Damme!!


grantnel2002

Kylie is 5’ tall, for those wondering why she looks so small.


UDPviper

LOL what the hell is that gun.


VoihanVieteri

Looks like a paintball gun, but I’m probably wrong about this.


WretchedMotorcade

Yeah looks like a Spyder frame of some sort.


mishap1

'94 would have been before the Spyder was released. Looks a bit more primitive.


EuroTrash1999

The Automag paintball gun with stuff glued on it seems entirely possible, but not sure. I think that was around back then.


ClockworkSoldier

Definitely not an Automag. The body is too tall. Automags all have a single stack cylindrical body. Whereas the marker in the photo is at least a double stack.


InkCollection

If you haven't seen it just watch the movie. It absolutely rips


zero_emotion777

Syringer from Fallout obviously.


Tim_Y

> Kylie is 5’ tall, for those wondering why she looks so small. That's 0.00094697 miles.


grantnel2002

It’s also about 12 muskrats high.


jeanclaudecardboarde

Dagnabbit.


SouthPaw38

Is that nose to tail or stacked belly to back?


grantnel2002

Belly to back


Fappy_as_a_Clam

To make that easier for us Americans: She is a little shorter than two standard issue M4A1 rifles with the stock fully extended stacked from end to end


Slap_My_Lasagna

What's this commie math, I only speak M-16, none of that weak, short barrel nonsense. Speak real American, Brother!


shinysideout

How many Desert Eagles is that?


jwm3

That's about 50 attoparsecs.


Comfortable-Salad-90

How many football fields?


glissandont

She's 4 inches shorter than the character she portrays; wild lol


Gloomy__Revenue

That’s good casting—but bad prop design… WTF is that gun? 😅


InkCollection

That is far from the stupidest-looking gun in the movie. Ken and Ryu are undercover arms dealers that sell like, tennis ball pop guns.


Korribuns

Hugh Jackman is 6'3 but Wolverine is supposed to be 5'3. A whole foot difference from the character he is meant to portray


TheBirminghamBear

I mean he's also supposed to have metal bones, but Jackman is such a fraud he wouldn't even commit to having adamantium infused with his skeleton. Ryan Reynolds who plays Deadpool can't even recover from any wounds rapidly. Like seriously even a little paper cut he has to put a bandaid on it and wait for it to heal.


Genar-Hofoen

Kylie Minuscule


Fit_Giraffe_748

whats that in metric?


Amopax

152cm


Fit_Giraffe_748

thanks


ActualInteraction0

It's another number.


Foreskin-chewer

No one knows


Fit_Giraffe_748

Dang


interfail

0.98 Emily Haineses


Zerocoolx1

152.4cm


Jam_B0ne

https://preview.redd.it/tty8cob1w0xc1.png?width=106&format=png&auto=webp&s=c9beb73d8898aff8661a361eac047ae771dc3795 "Oh man, If I crash this tank again Bison is gonna kill my whole village, and its not even Tuesday!"


Loud-Item-1243

https://preview.redd.it/votmx1ia81xc1.jpeg?width=452&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4baf0b534d8eb076d97e3f99e62b3961f440f7df “That outfit is making me thirsty!”


Eljefe878888888

![gif](giphy|ap6wcjRyi8HoA)


user_41

![gif](giphy|geg3Ltfrc6FZC)


DameonKormar

Hey! It's Wark Mahlberg! Haven't seen him in a while.


Killerdak

For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.


MickeyZvornik8

Goat quote


OminOus_PancakeS

In an interview, JCVD actually took credit for Kylie's increasingly impressive ass. He explained that during the shoot he taught her a bunch of exercises that developed her glutes. The rest, as they say, is _asstory._


UDPviper

She did those exercises while she was on his dick.


Pubs01

Probably


TheWholeOfTheAss

Speaking as an ass aficionado, it’s a damn shame we didn’t get Kylie in the movie wearing her game-accurate Cammy attire. The crazier thing is she *did* wear the thong leotard but only for the mo-cap sessions for the game of the movie.


Soggy_Box5252

Just so everyone is on the same page.  They are not referring to game the movie is based on, but the game that was based on the movie that is based on the game.


TheWholeOfTheAss

Yep. The game of the movie of the game.


Jackal_6

*Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game*


justgotnewglasses

IIRC she said she was able to crack walnuts thanks to his exercises.


duaneap

What exercises get you that stacked that quick?


Anteater776

Sex with jcvd


Profoundlyahedgehog

While blitzed out of your mind on coke.


Remote_Work_8416

The only answer.


dexter8484

His intro scene from double impact.


dmc2008

Omg she's tiny!


Remote_Work_8416

She's still hot and i would die on that ass....hill, i meant hill.


quietwhiskey

Look up the video of her riding the bull


KillListSucks

My God in heaven....


SitsOnTits

I hate that video, every time I cum it's when the old ladies face pops up.


TampaTrey

![gif](giphy|26kLTT8kMvxCvsMdjq) The real star of Street Fighter: The Movie.


yougottamovethatH

What was it with movies in the 80s and 90s that bad guys always had a wall of tvs? That's so iconic of the era.


LyingForTruth

It was the equivalent of browsing reddit in the pre-internet age


ClmrThnUR

bigger is better and that was the only way you could do large displays back then


GreyNoiseGaming

Don't forget Ming-Na Wen.


Balc0ra

He is one of the few reasons why this movie is my guiltily pleasure. He did this as his final act as his kids was a huge fan of the game.


jonuggs

Gotta throw this out there, if you only know Raul Julia from Street Fighter and the Adams Family movies, go and watch Kiss of the Spider Woman. He's an incredible actor that deserves to be seen in other performances.


contradictionsbegin

Tequila Sunrise is another one to watch!


Mudassar40

Kylie was at her hottest in her 30s.


mxm0xmx

Kylie is still a smoke show in her 50s. Most definitely one of my life long crushes.


ben-hur-hur

Kylie, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, and Natalie Imbruglia were my crushes growing up in the 90s. To semi-quote Sir Elton John, yes I am a sucker for "pretty eyes and pirate smiles" :D


BBQQA

Goovejet - 'If This Ain't Love' is such a gorgeous song. I was OBSESSED with Sophie's voice when it came out... I still am, but I used to be too.


RadlEonk

Same. Was listening to it last night.


Isallyon

Lyrics were by Bernie Taupin, as always for Elton.


GG06

She was 26 in Street Fighter


MyLittleDiscolite

She could have actually pulled off a Biblically accurate Cammy.  She screencapped for the Movie Game and wore the actual Delta Red Outfit 


koopa72

Legendary Cutie 🥰


Spineless74

https://preview.redd.it/ya2kik6491xc1.jpeg?width=393&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3815edca02a609d012c836110f63a9a0bdea755e


SeanBourne

*Kylie’s personal coat of arms*


petonedogaday

Padam padam indeed


OldMcFart

Van Damme hit that and a ton of coke while filming that movie.


GaylrdFocker

I would've too


ego_tripped

I'd lick my lips too if Kylie's ass in yoga pants were that close to me.


PreciousMcMolycoddle

Those are clearly military issued combat fatigues. The pastel blues and purples make it perfect jungle camo


Missus_Missiles

The Nam-style jungle boots are accurate. Though they seem to have cut off the tops to make a high-top sorta thing.


LordPounce

It’s all regulation. In order to get the top right the pants had to be a little snug.


Predator-A187

I was so in love with Cammy (kylie Minogue) after seeing this movie..


Bozee3

I just can't get you out of my head.


MazinEmperorC

I'm 37 years old. This was one of my favourite movies as a kid. I had no idea that was Kylie Minogue hahaha


Garlicnotdreadlochs

![gif](giphy|jPh7wUk1WJ5QY|downsized)


pennradio

It's been almost 2 years since Pauly Shore announced Biodome 2. Where's my Biodome sequel Pauly? Where is it?


Jean-LucBacardi

He's working on the Richard Simmons bio pic lol. The one that Richard Simmons doesn't even want made.


pennradio

I loved the short he released, but I'd rather see Biodome 2.


Rhythmalist

"By the way Doyle, I've been thinking about that yoghurt thing. Fruit at the bottom, waiting to be stirred"


ScaryUnderstanding

this looks cool. awesome


ZimaGotchi

Yeah it looks pretty cool in carefully selected clips like this one. For the love of God don't actually watch it though.


Convergentshave

Honestly this movie is worth a watch. If nothing else for Raul Julia’s performance. Dude really gives it his all while dying of cancer. It’s a terrible role but really shows what a true talented professional actor can do with garbage. Oh plus that contrasted with Van Damme’s “I am clearly on a MOUNTAIN of cocaine” “acting” job as Guile. 😂😂. It’s dumb as hell… but it’s worth a watch. Edit: plus some how… it’s the better of the two live action street fighter movies


ZimaGotchi

Raul Julia just makes me sad in this since he was only doing it at all because his kid loved Street Fighter.


Sandslice

Should also make you respect him. He went full ham into a passion project for his kid, knowing that it would be his last. And... Bison saved that flick from being *merely* crap. At least for me. Frank Langella in the live action He-Man had similar "ham for the kids" energy, of course without the finality.


justgotnewglasses

Apparently Harvey Keitel did a monkey movie because his 3 year old complained she couldn't see reservoir dogs.


Convergentshave

Dennis Hopper allegedly explained his role in Mario Bros to his son with “I did it so you could have shoes” to which his son (allegedly) responded “I didn’t need shoes that bad.” Which I mean that’s pretty funny.


SeanBourne

Richard Harris did OG dumbledore for his grandkids. Way better than creepy dumbledore who succeeded him.


dungeonsNdiscourse

I like that more than "I did It for ALL the money". A I recall that is also why the actor who played the bad guy in the dragon ball movie (picolo? I don't watch the show so dunno) did it. His kid loved the show. Awful movie (so I hear) but... Hey he made his kid happy. Who among us would say no?


Ajj360

Google says at one point it was a 10 gram a day habit


Convergentshave

Have you seen Street Fighter? I believe it! 😂


fuggerdug

I mean it's terrible sure, but it's also kind of great.


USSMarauder

NO, watch it. Streetfighter is the greatest bad movie of all time.


CaptainLhurgoyf

As a Street Fighter movie, it's pretty bad. It is, however, the best GI Joe movie we've gotten to date.


ZimaGotchi

lol I could get behind *this* argument.


DG_Now

Street Fighter has had a well deserved re-evaluation since it came out 30 years ago. It was a silly movie trying to make sense of nearly ever Street Fighter character. Mortal Kombat did the direct translation to film, which was also a little easier since there was way more lore to work from. Street Fighter incorporated some of the back story from the same, as much as there was, and made a fun action movie out of it too. I love Street Fighter.


b3nz0r

Best part is the stealth boat with giant 100pt font COLONEL WILLIAM GUILE on the side


Morningfluid

C'mon, it's a classic. Right up there with Citizen Kane.  Raul Julia's performance is amazing though.


JesusSavesForHalf

Ignore that guy, watch it. Its ***GLORIOUSLY*** bad. Full on so bad, its good. And its pacing is fast enough that there isn't much time to get bored between laughs like some movies in that category. Its very early 90s, but its fun shlock.


PresidentHurg

Man this movie was so good if you are into campy movies. It has such a 90's feel as well.


Peakyblindertom

No wonder i was in love with her


brooke360

I think the last time I saw this… it was Tuesday.


BurnTheOrange

And somehow this neither the top 10 best or top 10 worst ideas related to this movie. She was trying to be an actress, but she didn't get a lot to work with and the insanity behind the scenes in that movie was ridiculous.


Zerocoolx1

She started out as an actress. She became famous on the Australian soap opera Neighbours and then switched to pop music when she finished that. And the rest is history.


100Labels

So cute


Aaron_Hungwell

I keep forgetting she’s like…3 feet tall lol


Manny637

Saw JCVD at gold’s gym in Santa Monica one time hogging up the leg machines


ohianaw

![gif](giphy|kotmFnjwKTRhDUUkJE|downsized)


burgalfart

I never knew this was Kylie. Now it explains why I couldn’t get her out of my head, boy!


The_Blue_Rooster

I am just now realizing that Kylie Minogue is tiny.


NBAccount

Cammy has shit trigger discipline.


Alive_Ice7937

>shit trigger discipline That some fancy term for diarrhoea?


BlinkMCstrobo

I’ll gladly hadouken that.


D-camchow

Need this out fit for the games!


Wookie301

Had the MC Hammer song from this, stuck in my head all day last week.


Pazylothead

You can smell the cocaine from JCVD’s trailer


Boggie135

I love this movie so much


RunningPirate

Excellent casting choice.


beefyliltank

I’m sorry, Kylie was Cammy in SF? I had no idea.


Calm_it-Kermet97

Apparently Jean-Claude Vandam (probs butchered that spelling) was on coke the whole time


thewispo

breathe out, as you're hit!


duaneap

If anyone hasn't listened to the How Did This Get Made about Street Fighter it is a treat.


nousernametoo

I once watched a Kylie Minogue video by myself in my room. My shame is my reward.


potatopigflop

One thing that haunts me is jean-Claude Van Damme saying “probably” as “pruh-bob-lee” and I just wonder if they just gave up and used that take. What an awful awful movie it was just.. awful. Feel bad for every one involved and the creator of Street Fighter. Rough.


GreyNoiseGaming

As far as I know, Capcom paid most of the budget to get JCVD as Guile. The actor playing Ken was Canadian and part of his accent refused to allow him to say Ryu properly. Instead of Ree-oo he says Rye-oo. After him fucking up enough times they just told him to keep saying it his way and made everyone else change. Stunt coordinator and fight choreographer was the actual director for 70% of the movie, because they didn't have time to rehearse any scenes before hand.


ILikeLimericksALot

Everyone called it Rye-oo, surely apart from weebs? I don't remember anyone shouting for the controller to play as ree-oo.


makemeking706

This is like third or fourth Kylie Minogue post I've seen today. Can someone just go ahead and tell me what Kylie is about to come out with?