The Double Dragon Movie - What Happened?
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"Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark meets Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" is Uwe Boll levels of delusion.
It's like the Mario film, a cross between Blade Runner and Jurassic Park (yes I know that film hadn't been made yet) but did no one anywhere ask of they'd even played the games! 😂
True, they were so delusional they couldn't see how or why people loved the series to begin with...
@@SapphireSword-pd1ix also true, at least some realised that if you turn that adaptation into a franchise then you can savor it's success and have it keep printing money. The resident evil movies, better or worse basically became that and there's the Sonic the Hedgehog movie that's already getting a sequel with everybody back to return, don't even get me started on Netflix adaptations like The Witcher and Castlevania. Honestly at least now people are actually trying to adapt these properties into something special, Netflix has got the greenlight for a Splinter Cell adaptation with the Writer of John Wick fame and a Sleeping Dogs movie in the works that actually sounds like it could be good. Honestly i would love it if most Video Game Adaptations going forward are good and it seems like it will be on the horizon.
@@bobafett4265 I think part of the issue is that studios constantly only opted for films when a lot of games would probably be better suited being adapted into a TV series due to their complex narratives. There are very few games with a simple enough plot for a film (Resident Evil being one).
Lmaooooooo.
Billy Lee saying "My whole life just flashed before my eyes! Dude... I sleep a lot!" may be the greatest line ever contributed to cinema.
Is it? I'm pretty sure the greatest line in cinema is the entire Bee Movie script
@@CaptainCat101 that’s valid.
"Koga Shuko is an American male who believes he's a reincarnated Japanese warlord."
So basically Geese Howard?
"You cannot escape frooom death!"
"I stain my fist wif yo bludd!"
"predictabo!"
Funny how people always believe they were Napoleon or Genghis Kahn or Marie-Antoinette in a previous life. Nobody ever claims to be the reincarnation of a french canadian insurance salesman.
I'm suddenly aware of how Koga Shuko's hair looks like Ryuji Yamazaki's. And I can't un-see it.
I will straight up say there is no video-game-to-movie curse. It's just the effects of adaptation coupled with zero respect for source material. Books routinely have terrible movie adaptations, that's because Video Games, Novels, and Television Series are all "long-form storytelling", while feature films, novellas, and short stories are "short-form storytelling". Transferring a long-form to a short-form requires cuts and changes, and it is even more confusing because Video Games have a completely different sense of pacing due to gameplay. When you add on top of those issues the fact that the vast majority of writers and directors given the task of adaptation would sooner wipe their ass with the game disk than try to beat the game, you get video game movies.
You know why every likes Raul Julia's performance in Street Fighter? Because he was trying. He wasn't trying for a realistic and human performance, he was trying to be entertaining and fun and just enjoy the role he was given. He was in that movie because his kids asked him to be and he wanted to leave them with something they'd love to remember him before he died. He gave a shit. Not in the "OH THIS WILL MAKE MY CAREER" kind of way, but rather in that he really took a chance to understand what he needed to do to be entertaining in that role.
If we had more directors and writers with a personal, emotional attachment like that, we could get both cheesy-good movies and more "serious" approaches to game adaptations too. We're in the age where more and more creatives grew up with this stuff, so hopefully we see that shift, but if you're not invested personally in the source material, you shouldn't be paid to adapt it.
You're right. There's no real reason why we can't have good video game movies. It's just laziness and a lack of vision. Plus worrying too much about pleasing a general audience.
You nailed it! When you look at comic films, it took decades just to get Marvel right. The MCU could never have existed without Kevin Feige and now it's the biggest money maker out there. Feige was the ultimate comic fanboy who had to claw his way to the top. Recent adaptations like the new Tomb Raider have been better films than movies like Max Payne or Hitman but they still have a long way to go. We just need one dude at the top who has beaten games like Zelda and Metal Gear to get those top tier blockbusters rolling
Sonic and Detective Pikachu were great. Sonic was miles better though.
@@TexasHollowEarth they had good directors that's the big difference. Pretty sure if Fincher made a video game movie it would be a 100 times better than Double Dragon even if it was Pong the Movie. But that Witcher series was pretty good so maybe the next video game movie might be really good.
His performance was the highlight of that movie. "For me it was Tuesday."
The hilarious thing is that there were so many people working on this that went on to make stellar blockbusters. The first script was written by the writer of Batman TAS, the second by the guys who wrote Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, and jokes were added in by the guy behind That 70s Show. Based simply on the future of the people behind it, it should have been the God-Emperor of Blockbusters.
So the producers and lack of a coherent story ruined this movie then?
@@jaywolfenstien What? Alan Silvestri composed music for the Super Mario Bros movie?
This movie just shows how important leadership is with ANY project big or small. You can recruit a team of superstars but end up with something half-assed if you are a terrible leader that is terrible at building morale.
@@ccricers Speaking of the Super Mario Bros movie, wasn't HAROLD RAMIS attached to it at one point?
Bravo Vince?
Robert Patrick is great in this movie. The perfect mix of silly and threatening for a kids’ movie. “I just want total domination of one major American city! Is that too much to ask for?!”
I can’t believe the writers of Breaking Bad were a part of this.
Hey, you gotta start somewhere, no one is great at the start! And that also blew my mind, not gonna lie.
Who would have thought the origins of the creators of Breaking Bad started from this
We all gotta start somewhere
well this explains why they know about meth
I like how Matt was all "let's look at what these chucklefucks went on to do.... uh... oh. Huh. Moving on."
All I see is Super Sentai meets Bill and Ted: The Movie.
but instead of John Wick, you got Zero the Iron Chef instead.
Funny that Mark Dacascos was the very first Red Ranger in the Power Rangers pilot with Bioman footage.
4:20 keep in mind that in TV land 'Created by' is meaningless. In many cases it goes to the guy at the studio who came up with a 1 sentence premise that is so vague as to be meaningless and then hired people to make the actual show.
For a real life example, one studio exec sent an e-mail saying simply 'make me something to do with the concept of time'. That's a real example that resulted in a major blockbuster TV show. That guy who wrote those words (and only those words) and left everything else to the writers is credited on the show as the 'Creator'.
Ah, the Stan Lee approach
yeah but, still, Gould did actually write episodes of the show (like shit he wrote the Saul episode), so I guess you could just chalk up Double Dragon as an inexperience thing
This isn't a good movie, but there are lines that I love "special delivery: AIR MAIL!!!!"
"You're weak like your father!"
"You're ugly like your mother!"
Awesome, haha. XD
You think I'M bad, wait'll you meet my lawyers!!!
@@ChAn-dv9to this is the best line in the movie
So this started after a session of the ARCADE VERSION of Double Dragon THREE.
Can't get much more 'Mistake Number One' than THAT...
Unless if the idea came from the Double Dragon 3 NES version.
Weirder ideas have worked out, though! Like... making a standalone sequel to an obscure, Japan-only installment in Technos' "Kunio" franchise over a decade after the original.
"Twice the pride, double the fall"
"UNLIMITED POWERRRRRR"
Two villains a hell of a lot better than victor guisteman.
@@freezetasticvoyage19 hell, the T-1000 was a better villain than Victor Gueistman.
I only now realized Jimmy was played by Marc Dacascos lmao. Very underrated actor with sick martial arts skills. His performances in "Brotherhood of the Wolf", "John Wick 3" and as Kung Lao in "Mortal Kombat Legacy" were awesome.
Don't forget his performance in Iron Chef America
Holy crap the talent they had access to! What a beautiful mess.
It's a shame, because Mark Dacascos (the dude playing Jimmy) is seriously a really good martial arts guy.
Many people don’t realize that the Chairman of Iron Chef America is one of the Lee brothers.
I was an actor in a movie recently filmed back in 2018 and the on set director was the director of Double Dragon. Actually got to talk to him about the movie because it's been one of my favorite "so bad it's good" movies to watch with friends. He told me they actually got banned from the original country they filmed in because of a tank scene. Their is a historical monument that a tank drives up its steps. The tank actually destroys a lot of the steps, so badly that the country literally kicked them out and banned them from coming back. The movie changed country filming locations mid movie because of this lol. The movie I was in is called Run with the Hunted. He promised me that if by some crazy ass miracle they made a sequel as a joke that I'd get to be in the movie lol.
Anyways there's a fun fact about the movie that I don't think many know about. Keep up the great content Matt!
Guess your role in the movie wasn't as memorial if the only thing you recall was that conversation.
@@Dan-di9jdyour comment makes literally no sense
@@jeffreyshepherd8488 how so? he said he was in a movie, which I assume would be a lot more memorable than the conversation about double dragon. It's like you're going on a trip of the lifetime but the greatest thing you remember about it was the toilet stall convo you had about some random thing.
@Dan-di9jd this is a video about the double dragon movie. He is providing information about the movie and context about where he obtained than information. Why would he come here and talk about a movie he was in in 2018? That would be like going to a toilet in a shitty restaurant and telling the guy in the stall next to you about the trip of a lifetime when he's just trying to take a shit and has no idea who you are anyways
@@jeffreyshepherd8488 the fact that he didn't even mentioned the movie or what exactly his role was in it despite bringing it up is like someone at a really crappy restaurant writing on stalls his number and you call it and he starts talking about this movie he's in but he likes glory holes and you're like why you bring up the movie bit? And he's like it's not in the context of this conversation.
Oh how I've wanted you to cover this masterpiece. I remember seeing this movie in theaters as a kid...I distinctly remember being one of only about 6 people in the entire theater.
I wanted to watch this so so badly but my dad refused, most likely knowing that it was a terrible movie. I saw it some years after and yeah...the rest is history.
This is the worst movie I've ever seen, until The Last Jedi.
@@whosaidthat84 could you imagine if you bug your dad to watch that Vanilla Ice movie? He would probably be like brb, got to buy some smokes and milk at the gas station real quick and never to be seen or heard from again.
@@Dan-di9jd I actually did want to see that 😂 Cool As Ice. And he shut that down right away too.
Hey Matt, not sure if you'll get to read this, but your videos are something I always look forward to especially in these trying times. Thank you for being awesome.
Man, 2007 was a lot different than I remember.
Watching the footage of the cartoon gave me chills.
"All crime is..apparently legal?"
The Purge: *screeches in protest*
And then Zebraman 2 had the same idea before The Purge.
can´t wait until you get into the Mila Jovovich vs Zombies movies. xD
I thought those were good dumb fun
Please do a what happened on waterworld already. I need to know why universal studios still runs a stage show attraction based on one of their most infamous failures.
gotta do something with that license I guess....
Coincidentally, one of the writers of this film, Michael Davis, would later go on to write and direct his own film, also coincidentally produced by Don Murphy who produced Double Dragon. Shoot 'Em Up, one of the most awesome, and highly underrated action films of the 2000s. The fact that he hasn't done anything noteworthy ever since is criminal.
Bimmy is my favorite Final Fight character to play in Streets of Rage
I've long considered Double Dragon to be a bit of a hidden gem of a so-bad-it's-good movie. It's a favorite to haul out on a movie night because it's hysterical and not many of my friends have already seen it. I'm kind of a sucker for that 90's cartoonish post-apocalyptic aesthetic tho, you give me some themed gangs, weird pollution, and neon and I'm good.
The sets and backgrounds are actually really good.
I still play that Neo-geo fighter every once in a while, it's super solid.
Speaking of double dragon and Neo-geo, rage of the dragons might be worth a "what happened?"
that part about the 200 emergency services calls from the under informed explosion in Cleveland had me laughing hard
While what I am about to say was only a very minor factor back in the day, it was still a factor for some. Some kids got hyped up back in the day over movies like Street Fighter and Double Dragon regardless of how bad they were as movies. *Just the fact that a movie was being made from a video game was a big deal. It validated and legitimized video games for kids who maybe had parents who were dismissive of video games as a real art form.* Even if the movie sucked, there was still this energy that surrounded movies that were based on video games. From what I remember, actually living in those times as a teenager, the first Mortal Kombat movie was thought of as the first decent video game movie when compared to Street Fighter and the others.
2:37 I'm not gonna lie: I was oddly obsessed with the Double Dragon cartoon as a kid and it's what led me to discover the game.
I liked the cartoon a bit, but they needed to be more faithful to the concept from the video games.
The same producer of this movie went on to produce the Bayformers movies
I think the way they could've made this successful is if they focused on making an action-packed martial arts set-piece movie with less goofy concepts and more tightly choreographed fight scenes. They could've even kept it relatively family friendly going that route, just focus on the right parts of the property. Coming at it from the "it's a video game movie, so we have to make it *like* a video game" angle was a mistake. They should've set out to make a solid marital arts adventure with some comedy and family content first, and use some of the ideas and framework from the games. If they had done that, people would've seen it back then whether or not the brand of the game was strong, since the product would be quality, and they'd learn it was an adaptation of a video game after the fact.
12:50 Matt ya almost made it to the finish line without an OSW quote! "If ya wanna get over in 20 years, be shit right now" 😂 phew! love ya mate
Thought bimmy to jimmy suplex would have made it.
What bar?
As someone born in '91, I had never actually played a Double Dragon game before seeing this movie on VHS, which may account for why I actually kinda love it. Like, there were some aspects that even kid me could recognize didn't work, but the movie as a whole was still an enjoyably fun romp that I watched numerous times.
They weren’t loyal to the source material. It was Bimmy Lee.
Oh no, it's Alyssa Milano. The all mighty Phoebe has returned. God help us all.
That and I used to watch Charmed and Who's the Boss back in the day
WHO DARES DEFY THE GREAT PHOEBE ONE
I do! For her advice column is stupid and her wardrobe gaudy!
Every demon ever: _A Charmed One!!!_
An obscure one but there's a final fantasy 5 movie sequel that was a strange but artsy take on that world set many years after, I always wondered how and why it existed, also how it got a dub too even though ffv wasn't brought to the west for years.
Film isn't awful just an anime, but good use of open fields big scenes that feel huge, worth a watch
It's called "Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals," and I think it's still available over at fantasyanime.com/anime/ - it isn't awful, but it is very dated.
@@bradlee7875 uch ty :) not seen in a long time
For what it was when it was, the Double Dragon cartoon was alright. It was a syndicated looking cartoon that always aired at the end of Saturday morning line-up hits. Even as a young teen, I wasn't expecting it to win any awards.
I'm surprised there was no mention on the Double Dragon comic book from Marvel! It was published around the same time. (And had "Stan Lee" as Billy and Jimmy's father!)
As a kid my only complaing was how little they actually fight, and how quick the movie ends once they finally become the Double Dragons. But I had a lot of fun watching, and I could quote the entire movie!
I remember me loving this movie as a dumb little kid....and even now as a dumb big adult. Still holds a place in my heart.
It's a good movie. I always wonder why they tried to do the movie theater release especially for a kids movie. Can't imagine a lot of parents would want to spend money on it especially when you could just rent it at blockbuster for way cheaper and you don't even have to watch it with your kids.
Your intro is the best on CZcams by far
Now, imagine watching the movie as your first exposure to Double Dragon and actualy liking it
... I was a weird kid
Oh wow, I didn’t know the game was inspired on Fist of the North Star. 😯
That only makes it better
gba version further proved it
One of the characters in the cartoon looks EXACTLY like kenshiro in the anime
Bruce Lee in a post apocalypse
I've never actually watched this film but I must admit I have a real nostalgic soft spot for that Street Fighter film. Raul Julia was such a good villain!
M. Bison says, "OF COURSE!"
I really did not expect so many creators of heavily acclaimed things to be involved w/ this travesty.
They dodged a hell of a career killing bullet. lol
And to this day, haven't seen the movie to completion, especially for a video, since the lore hasn't really expanded for me to cover, which is a shame.
It’s a great fun time.
I aint gonna lie. I f'in loved the character and how they kept recruited dudes to join their little gang and giving them new powers and abilities. T'was dope!
I remember that movie, and remembered *loving it* as a kid. The show too. It was in that same programming block as stuff like Mortal Kombat, I think.
Being one who did a retrospective of the Cartoon...yeah, anything was better than the movie.
seriously, Matt, thank you for the work you do day-in-and-day-out
Mark Dacascos is a legend! Shame he never really took off as big as others, was great to see him in John Wick 3 though :D
I like how Double Dragon V released more than 20 years before Double Dragon IV. Crazy.
This movie was my childhood! Such a turd but very nostalgic
I think the most entertaining part of the video for me was that Matt didn't even get to the part where Scott Wolf obviously can't fight.
Reminded me of how my trash my tastes were as a kid with that clip of the Double Dragon cartoon 🤣
The cartoon was fine for kids. I loved it every Saturday. Really, no kids cartoon holds up anymore
The cartoon was dope. My favorite part was when they recruited someone new and gave them new powers. Billy and Jimmy themselves upgraded a few times iirc.
@@whosaidthat84 Considering stuff like Power Rangers is still semi-relevant, that DD cartoon seems decent in comparison.
when i was a kid nobody told me this was a bad movie so i watched it a hundred times and i loved it
It would be kind of nice to do a What Happened on an animated film and what better animated film to do one on than the infamous
Food Fight.
Loving the new intro man looks great
I'm still a fan of Double Dragon and hope that one day DD comes back in a big way. Arc System Works just needs to put the love and care they did into River City Girls into a new DD
Wha Happun Shenmue 3 absolutely NEEDS to happen!
Too sad.
@@briansinger5258 All those years of waiting for those fans for something that not only didn't evolve with the times, but objectively was worse than 1 and 2.
7:41 "Koga Shuko is an American male who believes that he's a reincarnated Japanese warlord"
Clearly the inspiration for some of Scarlett Johansson roles
Could you do a What Happened on The Island Of Dr. Moreau
Did you perhaps watch Vee Infuso video about it?
As entertaining that would be, I think Matt only talks about movies when they’re based on games
@@Kinoksis No. He did Godzilla and Alien3
@@SapphireSword-pd1ix Oh yeah, I forgot about those.
In that case I hope he tackles Dragon Ball Evolution or The Last Airbender one day
¿What *didn't* happened on that movie set?
"Koga Shuku is an American Male who believes he is a reincarnated Japanese Warlord" ...Sooo, he's a Dollar Store Geese Howard?
Straight up banger Matt. keep it up
Aww thought you was going to do dragonball evolution : the game of the movie of the anime of the manga 😁
. . . of the Chinese folklore. Yeah, never forget that Dragonball was heavily infiuenced by Journey to the West.
@@BigK13372 And if Dragonball Evolution is any case, maybe that journey wasn't worth it.
Naveek Darkroom Oh no. The adaptions for Journey to the West were all really good films.
@@BigK13372 I meant the west making an adaptation of it. Maybe the joke didn't really work.
Naveek Darkroom Yeah did not get the context of the comment. Thought you was talking about movie adaptions of Journey to the West and not some pun.
Lol I forgot Alyssa Milano was in this movie. I rented this and Mario Bros so many times from Blockbuster as a kid. I don't care if they sucked, i loved em
To be a dragon you gotta be strong, humble never braggin'
Always fight for right
Battling wrong
with the power of the Dragon!
That's the Code
The Code of the Dragon
With the Mark
The Mark of the Dragon
Still the best video game movie, thank you for covering it!
I loved the double dragon movie, i even stole the blu ray copy from my old job lol
My parents had a copy years ago but it just sat on the shelf. I forget whether it was a DVD or a tape. I remember the South Park movie and the second X-Men also being on that shelf.
Idk why when he said “chill out ima dragon too” I laughed way harder then I should have 😆
You’d think a Double Dragon movie would write itself but boy did they screw up
But what does that make the animated series? You know, the one where Billy and Jimmy get ridiculous masks?
MrRuano825 I only remember the theme song for that, every thing else is a blur
To be fair, it'd be pretty mindless, but fun. Just pure action setpieces.
What happened was, they made one of the all time greatest video game films.
I watched this movie a million times as a kid. Got a special place in this heart
I agree; we all make mistakes. It's how we learn and grow. It's when we continue to make the same ones and don't seemingly learn that there's a problem.
Excellent choice on such a forgotten film. I love the series growing up and even as a very impressionable 10 year old the trailers for this movie did no inspire confidence. Even looking back after recently playing the old NES titles I really can't imagine it being made into any kind of a decent movie.
I want to see paul Dinni's script on this
The Double Dragon movie may be cheesy but I like it because the T-1000 himself Robert Patrick is in it.
Yikes....The one on one Fighting game was awesome though
It was the only good thing...shame it was Japan exclusive game that got popular through emulation
@@royshaheer For real? I played it on a countryside arcade when I was a kid. It was the only time I played it tho.
@@royshaheer it got a western release
I never came across it and other videos I watched had Japanese console port used for gameplay. Just need to check thoroughly to get full idea of it.
This movie is a guilty pleasure of mine, it's painted backgrounds are great. Also, the sets are pretty cool.
I love that Jimmy in the cartoon @2:38 is just straight up Goku with his outfit and hair
The infamous scene of the actual Double Dragon arcade game in the background is like a "Self-Product Placement". (5:55)
And speaking of product placement, what about a What Happened episode for Mac and Me or UHF.
Still you gotta admit...that trailer with a techno version of Carmina Burana...pure 90's glee and joy
I never got to watch this movie back in the day though I did had the chance on the Street Fighter movie in theaters. I did however watched the Double Dragon cartoon when it was aired in the mid or late 90's in my country (I think) and seeing this vid made me realize that the Lee Brothers were cosplaying as Kenshiro from Fist of the Northstar.
The only thing I remember from this movie was the line "Huey, Lewis, any news?"
I just watched this with my roommate literally a couple days ago for the heck of it! Don't be fooled folks, this movie is worse than you remember, but for all the right reasons.
Bimmy and Jimmy are legendary video game characters.
I genuinely loved this movie as a kid and still do as an adult.
Just had my own DiCaprio moment when I recognized the Flats in Cleveland (my hometown) in one of the film snippets.
My favorite random trivia for this movie is that the kid that played Bimmy or Jimmy (whichever is the one with the middle-part curtains hair cut) grew up to be the Chairman on Iron Chef America
Mark Dacascos had been in movies before Double Dragon and is one of the most under-rated martial arts actors ever who never found a breakout role. You need to check out Only the Strong, Drive, or Brotherhood of the Wolf. He was even in John Wick 3! He's done way more than that goofy Food Network shit.
"Certainly, we could do better than Mario Bros."
Gotta admit though, it's impressive they didn't.
I find it crazy that this was filmed in my hometown (Cleveland). I wasn’t around at this time, but I’m curious if my family was aware of this movie, especially the explosion stuff.
This movie will forever hold a place in the rose tinted nostalgia chamber of my soul
I know it changed a while ago but I have to say I love the intro.
I would love to hear about the Phillip CD-i and it's history, along with the Zelda CD-i games that were released on it.
I'll always remember the line from the mailman who jumps off that silo:
"Special delivery: AIRMAAAAAAAAIIIL!!!"
I loved that Movie as a Kid...
Hmmm have to see it again! ^^
Nice intro matt
El Shaddai! So often I think I'm the only one who remembers that game. I think it's as close as gaming as ever come to creating a beautiful work of art. An underappreciated gem.
Loved this movie back in the days but wasn't old enough to appreciate how fire the lady in this movie was!
🤘🤘 this was awesome
Alyssa Milano was in this?!
Yeah. She hit the wall soon after.