I logged into my Deviant Art account to look at stuff and manage things and I found that one of my sketches had been listed under another member's favorites. Now, this is not really news to me. Things get favorited frequently. In fact, people have marked some of the Avatars strips that I've put there as favorites. But I found that this particular piece was listed under a category that this member entitled, "Worst Sh*t I've Ever Seen."

My first impulse was to send him a nasty message on his main page calling him a prick and defending my piece (it was drawn about 8 or so years ago and was a rough sketch.) I ignored said impulse and decided I'd leave a message saying. "Thanks for the constructive criticism." with the sarcastic emoticon.

As my computer and internet is slow the member's main page had just finished loading by the time I finished these thoughts. I was half disappointed half delighted to find that this member had already been banned from deviant art.

I keep hearing rumors that a new Street Fighter movie is being made. I've yet to see solid confirmation about it, but I hear it is supposed to be based around Chun Li this time. All I can say is that they would be utterly foolish to have it attached in any way to the god-awful Van Damme one. Actually, that isn't all I have to say. I have three (more) main things to say about it.

1.) Either take the base story and do a more realistic direction of it, or completely fudge physics and make every action scene over-the-top and absurd. The latter would be preferred as most Street Fighter fans (myself included) would be highly disappointed with the former. When I say over-the-top and absurd I, of course, mean high paced, mostly CG'd, martial arts done it a way that makes us comfortable suspending our disbelief. Unrealistically high jumping should not have too much attention brought to it. Have the characters jump 7 feet into the air and land before the viewer has time to think, "But that's impossible!" Every attack or action should be seamless and striking. Even a punch to the face should create a screen flash and send gobs of sweat and/or blood flying in all directions. HIGH IMPACT SOUND EFFECTS!!

2.) The characters' signature moves should not be the central focus of the fights. They should not always be used as a finishing attack but should simply be part of the characters' menu of attacks. Have Guile combo with a punch, kick, uppercut, up-side-down kick, summersault, then have Zangief get up right away and punch him in the gut, drop kick him, then suplex him. Also, the Hadoken is not the most powerful and deadly art. It is just a punch for when your opponent is outside of punching range. Which brings me to-

3.) Characters should never yell out the names of their attacks. This may be cool in anime or video games, but in an American action/martial arts movie it's just tacky. Okay, so there may be exceptions. For instance I could see Ken calling out "Shouryuken!" when he's trying to be showy, cuz that's just what the character is like. And Zangief, who is trying to gain a name for his motherland, might even say the moves to create a greater impact. He is a wrestler and probably kind of a showman.

Street Fighter is my bread and water (in the video game area of life) and I would hate to see anyone mess it up again. I hope the makers of this new movie see this and realize that if they screw it up I will be very very mad at them. I may even cry a little. It would be like if I came over to you and spat on your sandwich and then made you eat it. Yes, I am implying that I will be forced to see this movie. I can't not see it. It's Street Fighter.

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