16 Behind-The Scenes Stories From The Trainwreck 'Street Fighter' Movie

Street Fighter was huge in the early ‘90s. It's one of the highest-grossing game franchises of all-time, so when a movie was announced, expectations were high. And those expectations were swiftly, painfully KO’d when the film came out. Ugh, the thing stunk worse than an 80's mall arcade, and those stunk like the worst BO and feet. 

There was real talent behind the production. Golden Globe-nominated actor Raul Julia was in the thing for heaven's sake. You do not put Raul Julia in a film as “Mr. Bison” and expect it to fail. Jean-Claude Van Damme had a beret and a full bevy of hard-hitting Bloodsport-tested JCVD moves. There was no reason for Street Fighter to be… well, what it was. What happened? As it turned out, many things happened to turn it into a mess, some say a glorious mess, but a mess nonetheless -- these things happened, for example…