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The past couple of months have seen some fine, fine examples of popular fighting games adapted for the screen, albeit in very short formats. We had Mortal Kombat: Rebirth, and for the Street Fighter side, we got Legacy and Beginning’s End. The catch, though, is that these were either fan-made or in Mortal Kombat’s case, a pitch for a major studio.

On the shorter, uglier end of the deal, it seems Hollywood still hasn’t gotten its head straight when it comes to turning fighting games into feature-length motion pictures. Let’s see… there’s Tekken, which is bad enough that even the developers hate it; and the upcoming King of Fighters which, judging from the trailer alone, is going to be horrible.

So, what of the bigger Hollywood adaptations of the past decade and a half? Well, as much I hate to say this, they’re mostly bad, ranging from hilariously bad, so-bad-it’s-good, to just plain abortion-level bad. So, let’s take a look at how Hollywood just god awfully whiffed with these moving pictures based on games about people punching, kicking, and in certain cases, flat-out murdering the living crap out of each other. (more…)