Prepare to once again lose all the dignity shed in tears for Up's relationship montage. This hand-drawn animated short from Japan will take you on a similar journey through the stages of a lifetime relationship--starting at reluctant courtship and ending the way all things do, in affirmation that time will inevitably strip us of all that we love. It's deeply emotional and at times tragic, but because it's Japanese, it also has that weird Japanese reaction shot window, and that eventually reveals the film's creator: Tekken, a comedian who has named himself after the Tekken video games and wears idiotic face paint. Try to ignore that part. Best not to look behind the curtain.
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I'm really not sure which. Which one is more likely to have a Samurai Green Goblin?
Maybe this next photo will help. Is this a character from Tekken, Battle Axe Tom Selleck, or, as I'm hoping, is Tom Selleck with axes a character in Tekken?
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You know how movies based on fighting games, like all the Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat movies, are notorious for being embarrassing, nearly unwatchable feats of cinematic disaster that leave your brain feeling like your mouth would feel after eating a platter of chalk? No reason to reassess that view:
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If you were an adolescent in the mid-'90s, no doubt you spent endless hours playing the 3-D fighting game Tekken--unless you were more into Virtua Fighter or building socialization skills, or, like me, were too caught up exploring your newly-developing body.
Anyway, despite the warning to never make a fighting game movie that was screamed from Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat movies, they're doing it anyway.
At least they're finally answering the lingering question of how the letter 'T' stands up so well in a field. It turns out there's some sort of support beam behind it.
Tekken Poster [ComingSoon]
