[Robert McNay]

For me, a story needs to be a "story", it has to make me want to read more or learn more about the character. I like a progression and purpose to it, if it's part of something larger (a series, world, an epic) all the better.

The biggest nit I have to pick is the types of characters some writers populate their stories with. I have to actually like or find something redeeming in a character to enjoy a story. So many female muscle stories contain nothing but a whole cast that should just be lined up in front of a wall and shot. The guy will be a total sleeze trying to take advantage of the woman in some way. The woman will be complete psychotic who loves to torture men or she'll literally get off on killing people. Or worse.

The best example of this was a story that was posted to the femuscle story Usenet group. It concerned a total jerk of a guy who comes up with a muscle growth formula that needed lillies and protein to work. His girlfriend steals it from him and proceeds to hold him captive and torture him forever. She also gives it to her younger sister and she participates. Everyone in the story was so morally bankrupt, that I can't describe how lousy I felt. I needed a mental bath to wash it out of my head.  😛

[Robert McNay]

After watching the first movie, I just want to know the Hollywood guy who had the … umm… nerve… to make another Street Fighter movie.  I remember the first one, it made my eyes bleed, at least it felt that way.

I would say that I hope this one will be much better, but the only way it could be worse is if they showed a blank screen for an hour and a half.

Most people didn't like the Van Damme SF movie because it was so obviously a parody of the gaming genre. No where did it take itself seriously.

Raul Julia, an awesome actor, so blantantly overacting. Honda and Zangrief fighting across the model of Bisonopolis with the Godzilla soundFX playing. Cammy and Chun Li's comments on each other's hair. The background announcements in Bison's headquarters for people to remember to return their health forms to HR. The whole Bison/Chun Li bedroom scene (the clothes changing, the self portrait of Bison as a clown, etc.)

There were some great lines in it, also. Like where Chun Li has her big speech to Bison about her quest for revenge and tells him in detail of the day he killed her father and she is expecting him to remember it.
Bison looks blandly at her and says "I'm sorry, I don't remember any of it. For you, the day Bison graced your village, was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday."
The look on her face is priceless.

StreetFighter was a parody and a fun movie.

[Robert McNay]

Yeah… but I forgot…was Beckah's legs are good as her upper form…cause that was mostly what I saw. lol.

I know what you mean, her upper body is pretty "hypnotic", but her legs are pretty nice, too. They aren't as large as in the game, but still very nicely shaped and powerful looking.
Looks-wise, she'd be more in the vein of the "realistic" Chun Li usually depicted in figures.

[Robert McNay]

She's a very pretty woman, but other than being 4" shorter than Chun LI (KK – 5' 4"/ CL – 5'8"), she's going to have to do some serious bulking and buffing up.
She is incredibly thin.No way she could be plausible as a street fighter.

Ming Na, in the first SF movie, was more athletically built and believable than she is.

I wonder if Rebekkah Kresila would like to get into acting. She'd be perfect.

[Robert McNay]

Uhh….

Believe it or not depth of field blurring is an INTENTIONAL camera effect, as with some digital cameras it's possible to have both the background and character in focus.  Depth of field blurring is used to make the actors POP out on the screen, which is why you see it in movies so much.  So, not sure what they'd be accomplishing with that technology, and considering most of what's on that trailer is all special effects, I doubt the depth of field technology would be much use to them.

According to what I read, it was to enhance the "anime come to life" feel. In a cartoon, everything is in focus, you see detail no matter where it is in frame or how far it's supposed to be, unless the animator purposely blurs it.

[Robert McNay]

I seriously doubt it's going to suck. Speed Racer is being directed by the Wachowski Bros., the same guys behind the Matrix Trilogy and "V for Vendetta".

I read somewhere that they developed a new camera technology that would capture everything in frame in perfect focus, no depth of field blurring, just like an animated cel.

Besides, any movie that gets a full scale, drivable, totally accurate replica of the Mach 5 and Racer X's cars built is okay in my book.  ;D

[Robert McNay]

My preference has been for average to above average looking characters with a "hidden" strength. In stories I've written, the women are slightly taller than average (5'9" to 6") but are built in such away that in the right clothes, they don't look that far out of the ordinary. The only hints are shoulders being somewhat wider than most, thighs being a bit thicker and the such. Underneath the clothes is an incredibly powerful and muscular body.
Probably my favorite example in published media is the anime' "Ghost in the Shell". Throughout the movie, the main character, Major Kusinagi, is a very sexy, well built woman (albeit a biological android). But at the end, when she's fighting a tank,she leaps atop it and starts to pry open the top hatch with her bare hands. All the sudden all these muscles pop and bulge to amazing size and power.
Unfortunately, she exerts so much power pulling on the hatch, she literally pulls herself apart.
This is not to say that I don't occasionally find more extreme characters interesting. Of the artists on here, I find something incredibly attractive, possibly even sexy, about Getter's Queen of the Ring, woman curling and similar pictures.

[Robert McNay]

A good place to find books like that is Bud Plant Comic Art

budplant.com

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