Which movie is worse?

[Desdichado]

OK, I was just thinking about this the other day -- after seeing two of my favorite intellectual properties butchered on the silver screen in (relatively) recent years, I started wondering which of the two movies -- quite possibly amongst the worst movies ever made -- was actually worse. So, voila! here's a little poll to see what everyone thinks.

 

[KnowTheToe]

This was a really hard decision, but I have to vote for D&D because of potential. Although, really was anybody surprised the movie sucked when they decided to cal it D&D the Movie?

 

[Hand of Evil]

Hard one, got to go with D&D.

 

[Mort]

I remember going to Street Fighter with absolutely terrible expectations (got dragged by friends). It wasn’t as bad as I thought and the movie didn’t take itself too seriously, always a bonus for this kind of movie. Plus the fact that I only paid $3.50 for a ticket didn’t hurt.

I went into the D&D movie with low expectations and the movie slid right under those. Plus despite some comic relief attempts, the movie took itself way too seriously. Add to that, I paid $8.50 for the ticket.

So the D&D movie was definitely worse in my book.

 

[Mark Chance]

Any movie in which the hero distracts a guard contingent of beholders by throwing a rock deserves nothing but derision.

 

[Green Knight]

The D&D movie, by far. I can sit through the Street Fighter movie longer than I can sit through the D&D movie, for one. Plus, I'm not really a Street Fighter die hard. I liked Street Fighter 2 and all its various permutations a lot, but I didn't particularly care about it beyond that. After all, what possible storyline can one derive from a video game which is just a glorified series of boxing matches, with no overriding plot to connect them?

 

[Anavel Gato]

I can't even get past the first 20 minutes of Street Fighter. The casting was horrid (not that D&D's was much better). I mean they could of pulled some guys out of a dojo who would have looked more like the characters they were playing. Miquel Nuneauz was DeeJay...huh, from what I remeber, DeeJay was a jacked, ripped up Jamacian guy. (Miquel was great in Tour of Duty, but he is not DeeJay). The story of Ken, Ryu and Chun Li, terrible. The animes are good. Something's you just can't do live action....

 

[Djeta Thernadier]

Street Fighter was painful, it takes a special film based on a video game to actually be good, usually since they have very little story or character development that you don't already know from playing the game.

D&D on the other hand, had so much potential material that they could have worked with to make it good. Yet, they didn't. It was laughable, in an MST3K sort of way...

so I pick D&D based on expectations.

 

[WanderingMonster]

Out of respect for the dead, I didn't vote for Street Fighter. I generally like Raoul Julia, and any guy who could put his own eye out, and then put his own eye back IN deserves a break. Jeremy Irons, however, made me want to put my own eyes out...in a funny way, he died that day too.

 

[TiQuinn]

With incredibly low expectations and by disassociating it from anything I know about actual D&D, the D&D movie was watchable. Still bad, but not totally, horrificly terrible. I also don't hold much hope for ANY movie that is based off of Dungeons and Dragons...I just don't think it can be done.

I had the same incredibly low expectations for Street Fighter yet I still can't watch that movie. I'd rather have someone peel my eyelids back and use an eyedropper to apply gasoline to my retinas than watch it again.