Here comes a new challenger. Again.

Hey look, speaking of the Hollywoodification of nerdish materials, look what showed up on Game Watch earlier today: new shots of Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li. I'm sure Chun-Li fans are shedding a tear at its continued existence though. That's a shame.

If you're a Street Fighter fan, you may want to retcon the original Street Fighter movie from existence like it retconned the game's canon and maligned it into it's own maelstrom of disaster, depending on your perspective of it. I certainly don't want to forget; while it was definitely terrible, it was definitely a hilarious one that I can't get enough of every time I see just to listen to some of my favorite one-liners from it. And yes, it's much worse than Batman Forever, which I stated in my last entry was also hilariously bad.

In an ostensible effort to prove that there isn't a god, some studio execs who thought they were clever decided it would be a good idea to make another Street Fighter movie. This time, the tale would be based around Chun-Li, Street Fighter's leading lady who's totally NOT a news reporter. If you like Street Fighter, you're preconceptions of the project are likely the same as your opinions of the Street Fighter movie. It will either be so terrible as to be intolerable, or bad enough that it's guaranteed to be a front runner for the best comedy of 2009. But wait! Apparently there are a few who are holding out hope for the movie, crossing their fingers that actress Kristin Kreuk couldn't possibly be attached to a movie too bad.

So allow the latest screen captures from the movie to completely dash your hopes of it being any good in any which way. Disregard the fact that Kreuk isn't completely Chinese, or that she doesn't have Chun-Li's thunder thighs. Just look at and try to figure out what the heck is going on in that shot above. I heartily apologize to anyone who was expecting this to be any good; you now have your guarantee that it will be bad...and totally hilarious. Please keep in mind that popcorn will be prerequisite upon entering the theater this movie is playing in.

If you're the kind of person who loves to riff bad movies, definitely look forward to Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li when it hits theaters on February 27th. Now the only question is whether Capcom will make a video game tie-in a la Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game.