r/boxoffice • u/SignatureOrdinary456 Pixar Animation Studios • 13h ago
đŻ Critic/Audience Score Street Fighter gets a 65% definite recommend and a 60% recommend for Kids under 12. 30% of the audience was Latino & Hispanic, 29% Caucasian, 21% Black, 14% Asian American and 6% Native American/Other.
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u/DeweyFinn21 12h ago
This feels like a part 1 of a two part book adaptation. It just stops somewhere because they got to a two hour runtime, but it's not a complete story.
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u/MassiveLie2885 9h ago
The Wuthering Heights movie from earlier this year is basically half the book. The second half is the next generation. People might not want to see that. It's mostly characters being bitter or hurting others until the end.
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u/shadowCloudrift 11h ago
Why do Latinos and Hispanics make up the most demographic?
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u/SpiritualAd9102 10h ago edited 10h ago
Fighting games famously have a massive audience in Latin America. I live in a very Latino / Hispanic area and itâs one of the only places in America with an active arcade culture. Iâm also surrounded by fighting game tournaments regularly.
I know this is anecdotal, but fighting games have always been big in my local demographics, including during the death of the genre in the late 90s / early 2000s. I was so insulated that I was legit surprised when think pieces would be written about the death of fighting games / arcades during that period since we never fully experienced it.
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u/TheCVR123YT 7h ago
Latinos (myself included) love fighting games bad haha
Street Fighter Tekken Mortal Kombat in the US have to be probably the most popular. Now in Lat AM you also have King of Fighters which is super popular.
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u/Shurikenkage 9h ago
Because like in Asia arcades are literally in every neighborhoods stores, drugstores or market corner. Theres tournaments there or online each week fighting games are huge in latin america
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u/distastef_ll 7h ago edited 3h ago
Theyâre the fastest growing demographic in US. Theyâre set to become the largest in the next 30 years.
Edit: Latinos are estimated to become the largest demographic in 2060 NOT 2040
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u/obvious-but-profound 4h ago
Thatâs not true about them being set to become the largest demographic 15 years from now
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u/distastef_ll 3h ago
2040 was the original estimate.
Edit: Nevermind, the estimates were 2060. NOT 2040. But theyâre still the fastest growing.
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u/Dangerman1337 13h ago
That's pretty dire for a small opening, If it's lower than high 60s for the drop I'd be shocked.
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u/Kazaloogamergal 13h ago
So Street Fighter has a worse posttrack and a worse cinemascore than MK2. They really need the international audience to pull through.
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u/newjackgmoney21 13h ago
What, wait? Lmao, is that kids under 12 the lowest rating ever reported by Deadline? Kids are like its trash and I agree.
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u/El_Cance_R 12h ago
I think it's because surprisingly not a very kid friendly movie. Lots of sexual jokes, that even I found off-putting for this kind of movie
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u/Dwayne30RockJohnson 7h ago
Isnât most of that stuff gonna fly over kids heads? Iâd imagine what matters to kids is it entertaining/interesting and are there cool characters.
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u/SpiritualAd9102 7h ago
To be fair, itâs none of those things.Â
But no, the perverted stuff is pretty obvious. Chun Liâs partner dressing up her photos in skimpy outfits, characters constantly commenting on Chunâs body, her partner getting a boner watching her fight, Bison sniffing feet, a zoom in on Chunâs chest through a steamy shower, only to transition to E Hondaâs nipples when the Steam clearsâŚ
Itâs about as overt as you can get while maintaining a PG-13 rating.
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u/roygbivnekron 32m ago
This will anger soccer moms, kids dont give bad rating over things not being kid-friendly, they just found the rest of the movie lame on unengaging in general
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u/SpiritualAd9102 10h ago
It was clear from the casting, but seeing it really shows how this was trying to appeal to Rogansphere chuds.
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u/nicedogeetcup 13h ago
If they do a sequel I hope they hire people to do a proper editing and better writting. Acting was ok ish, the rest was pure dog crap and cringe. Most disappointing movie of the year for me
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u/Dulcolax 12h ago
Terrible for Street Fighter, legs will be awful. The 1994 version was so bad it's good, but this one tried way too hard. It tries to be faithful but it ends up being forced, almost a parody.
The actor who played Bison in this new movie was terrible. Raul Julia's Bison would literally eat him for breakfast on Tuesday. They even tried to repeat Raul Julia's tuesday line in this one, which was completely uncalled for.
The 1994 movie was bad, but it was organic, natural. The new one is bad and thinks it's cool.
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u/Chrizwald 10h ago
Raul was not right for Bison. David killed it. You can be nostalgic, but don't lie to yourself
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u/SpiritualAd9102 10h ago edited 10h ago
Talk about lying to yourself. I donât blame David, but Bison was terrible. Mostly because they took one of the most intimidating and imposing characters in the franchise and turned him into a pathetic, feet sniffing pervert who calls people âweak sauceâ.Â
Julia also wasnât right for what Bison is now, but before Alpha, he was a super powered, skinny dictator. Julia gave the character enough gravitas where you believed people would follow him or be intimidated by him. I kept wondering why Davidâs Bison wasnât being bullied by his minions.
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u/Just1Mom2023 12h ago
It is PG 13. Isn't the whole point that it should not be for kids under 12 in first place?
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u/Heavy-Possession2288 9h ago
Plenty of PG-13 movies are aimed at and quite popular with people below the age of 13. MPA ratings are just a suggestion (and are fairly inconsistent anyways). Would you really argue something like the newer Star Wars movies, Bumblebee, or Ant-Man isnât aimed largely at kids under 13?
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u/SyllabubOk5283 9h ago
Thing is, Ryu, Ken and Chun-Li are videogame all-stars. Theyâre in the likes of Smash and Fortnite. So, thereâs a good chance some familes went into this going like: âHeyyy, its those characters in Smash! Letâs check it out.â only to be severely confused by the movieâs semi-erotic energy.
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u/Heavy-Possession2288 9h ago
Fortnite and some of the Smash games are also rated 13+. The rating doesnât stop stuff from being popular with younger audiences, itâs just a suggestion.
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u/TheCVR123YT 7h ago
Cammy ironically is as well. My brother was really excited to see her bc sheâs in Fortnite
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u/roygbivnekron 29m ago
Absolutely no one in the younger audiences get off-put by ratings since these were a thing otherwise they wouldnt obsess with horror either, they are for the parents just like spider-man not punching people in the 90s cartoon wasnt requested by the kids, but parents dont know what smash is anymore than sf. Smash and Fortnite are also 13+ but then again a redditor not being confidently wrong like trying to blame a bad movie flopping on having a weird moral outrage over bad jokes would break the matrix
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u/Horror_Post6822 8h ago
Lol, Fatality. Mortal Kombat 2 wins.
As the far more superior game series should. Let's just face it. Nobody likes SF anymore. If i was Capcom right now, i'd be thinking about maybe canning SF6 after this season and devoting my energy towards new IPs and IPs people still like like Resident Evil and Monster Hunter.
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u/Kazaloogamergal 7h ago
I wonder how this movie would have turned out reviews wise if they had kept the good directors they had on board at first?
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u/SpiritualAd9102 7h ago
Maybe avoid people who put their thinly veiled fetishes all over it.Â
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u/prodij18 5h ago
I havenât seen the movie. What thinly veiled fetishes?
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u/SpiritualAd9102 4h ago edited 4h ago
Aside from the constant sexualization of Chun Li, (they gave her a partner who dresses up photos of her in different sexy outfits behind her back and who gets an erection watching her fight. Also, almost all of Cammyâs very little dialogue is about Chunâs body), they made Bison a pervert with a foot fetish who catches one of Chun Liâs kicks and stops to sniff her foot mid-fight.Â
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u/Accomplished-Head449 Laika Entertainment 13h ago
It's not the best, but it's a good start. Exactly how I felt after watching the Mortal Kombat reboot
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u/Jubei31 7h ago
Recast all the characters except, Ryu and Akuma
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u/SpiritualAd9102 7h ago
Especially Akuma. Dump all the stunt casting.Â
In fact, itâs awfully optimistic to assume this is getting a sequel, but a potential sequel should be fully animated. Cut the live action before it does even more damage.
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u/fatandfly 5h ago
Keep Eric Andre and Andrew Schulz too. They kept the move entertaining for me
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u/SpiritualAd9102 13h ago
Only 11% kids and families suggests that everyone seeing this are older people with nostalgia for the games.Â
Clocking in at only 60% recommend with such a fan heavy audience is pretty damning. Iâm expecting this to fall off a cliff in the second week. It might crawl past $100 million, but thatâs a horrific result for a movie that needs approximately $200 million to break even.Â