Future Cops has been added to the reviews this week! The exciting story of StreetFighter, except completely different and wacky! Complete with four movie clips.
Future Cops (Review)
Future Cops
aka Chao ji xue xiao ba wang
1993
Directed by Wong Jing
They’re cops from the future, FUTURE COPS! Actually, these future cops look a lot like characters from Street Fighter 2, because they are! This is a film loosely based on the manga adaptation of Street Fighter, and great liberties were taken with some of the characters and the story. Granted, this is a Wong Jing film (writer of Naked Weapon, director of My Kung Fu Sweetheart) so it will be pretty silly regardless. Street Fighter characters would return again in Wong Jing’s City Hunter, based on a different manga and starring Jackie Chan, who becomes Chun Li at one point there. For this encounter, I went to help from others to organize just who is who in the movie, as I was not a big player of Street Fighter games. Mortal Kombat, yes. So besides a vague knowledge that some creepy guys are obsessed with Chun Li and her high kicks in skirts, I knew little to nothing about the characters before beginning. Thanks to my girlfriend and Wikipedia, I was able to piece together most of the characters. Wong Jing took many liberties, including changing most of the names, flipping people from hero to villain and vice versa, and throwing in a few random things just because he’s Wong Jing. There is also a parade of famous Hong Kong celebrities, too many to list in this paragraph, we will deal with them in the lengthy Roll Call section. This would be like taking the Oceans 11 casts and putting them in a Super Smash Brothers movie. Future Cops is full of wild action, crazy stunts, and zany antics. And it is a whole lot of fun! So sit right back and prepare, this video game don’t need extra quarters or furious button smashing, it is on autopilot!
The Future Cops:
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The villains (Future Rascals):
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The People of 1993:
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New RiffTrax – Eragon!
The RiffTrax for this week will be Eragon!
I reviewed it myself this week, and it will be scary watching it again, but at least Mike and Kevin will be there with me hurling insults all the way!
DTV Sequels, the sequel
Warner Premiere is making Beetlejuice 2, and more DTV fun!:
Just received a press release in the inbox from the gang at Warner Australia, indicating what some of the future Warner Premiere direct-to-video sequels may be. The one that’s going to have most doing a jig is the long-awaited “Beetlejuice†follow-up.
Beetlejuice 2
Dukes of Hazzard II
Return to House on Haunted Hill
Dennis the Menace Christmas
And check out the rumors (though they might be just as reliable as that fake Jaws 5 rumor):
Other titles likely to get the direct-to-video sequel treatment over the next couple of years include “Under Siegeâ€; “Space Jamâ€; “Training Day†and “Dark Castleâ€.
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Warner Premiere will produce up to 15 titles a year, the first of which, “Dukes of Hazzard IIâ€â€”a continuation the storyline featured in the 2005 theatrical release—recently wrapped production and will be made available to Australian consumers on 5 September 2007. Also out in 2007 are “Return to House on Haunted Hill†on 3 October 2007, “Twisted Fortune†on 17 October 2007 and “A Dennis the Menace Christmas†on 5 December 2007.
More DTV Sequel news…
New Line is creating a bunch of urban DTV sequels
Set It Off 2
Friday 4
Undisputed 3
Many of the other New Line urban projects are still in development, including the untitled made-for-DVD Friday sequel. Its original star, Ice Cube, is attached to what is expected to be the franchise’s first straight-to-DVD edition and fourth film in the series.
New Line also is fine-tuning a script for a Set It Off sequel, which would continue the story line of the original 1996 drama about female bank robbers.
Also in the pipeline is a third installment of mixed martial arts franchise Undisputed, co-produced by Nu Image and New Line.
Hey, “urban” is just industry way of saying Black films. Friday 4 is getting Ice Cube to star because they are making a few original films as well, and snagging him means some will be from his production company.
Nerd Rage at its finest! Digg goes crazy
Digg, the social site where you”digg” user-submitted stories, banned an article mentioning a certain hexadecimal key:
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
This key supposedly unlocks HDDVDs for use on Linux or something. The original artical is still here.
This guy posted the original article to digg, which got over 15,000 diggs before it vanished and he was banned.
The people on Digg went nutso, and suddenly were posting the number all over comments, and every story on the front page was just the numbers again:
People posting the comments were getting IP banned left and right, and comments deleted. However, the people far outnumber the few admins on digg, and they are still being overrun 7 hours later.
What is weird was I thought the code had something to do with Lost at first…
But it is fun to see Internet Rage in action! What will happen tomorrow, when no one cares anymore because of a new YouTube video? Only time will tell.
(also, the digg story about being banned wasn’t banned by digg, for some odd reason…)
Special bonus: Digg took money from HDDVD!
The founders of Digg.com – which has been rocked by an unprecedented user revolt over the release of an HD-DVD decryption code – accepted sponsorship from the organization behind HD-DVD last year.
Episodes of the DiggNation video show were sponsored by the HD DVD Promotion Group. DiggNation is produced by Revision3, a company run by Digg founders, Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose. Rose is also a co-host of the DiggNation show. The image below shows the HD DVD logo displayed at the beginning of one such episode.
During the past 24 hours, Digg administrators have apparently deleted dozens of stories which included references to the HD DVD decryption code. These included one story which appeared poised to become the most popular ever seen on Digg, with almost 16000 votes within 20 hours. Administrators have also apparently begun deleting stories criticizing their actions, and also banned numerous members – according to angry statements posted by Digg users on the site and elsewhere.
Bad Movie Websites update for April
Now that I’ve gotten off my lazy butt I can tell you what is going on in the world of bad movie websites for April!
Badmovies.org gives us the Rocky Horror pseudo-sequel Shock Treatment, as well as Hundra and The Flesh Eaters
Foywonder has his April Foyeurism, THE HILLS HAVE OSMONDS, as well as regular reviews on his blog.
Yourvideostoreshelf has turned into podcast central with many new interviews with DTV/B-movie directors and writers, such as Dustin Rikert (Alien Invasion Arizona), Tibor Takács (Mansquito, The Gate), and Christine Conradt (The Rival)
FantasyFilmscapes.com has the April issue of their webzine
Weird Asia had a slow month with the only update being on the Return of the Ninjas page for Shogun’s Ninja.
Bad Cinema Diary had it’s April update as well, with 8 new movies.
Cold Fusion Video is on a Lovecraft movie binge for April
Hopefully I won’t delay so long on getting the May update put on here.