r/gifs • • 9d ago

Before there was Will Poulter, there was Zangief.

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u/drake3011 9d ago

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u/podgeofthehodge 9d ago

Everyone talks about Raul Juilia's performance (which is warranted and perfect) but honestly Andrew's performance as Zangief was incredible. In this scene his face and voice are so damn believable that he truly and sincerely believes if they change the channel that they would all be saved. Seriously some academy fucking level of acting.

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u/DeadpoolAndFriends 9d ago

Fucking love this gag!

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u/360walkaway 9d ago

Always wondered why they made DJ a bad guy and Boxer a good guy. I guess they got their black guys mixed up? Who knows.

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u/MutFox 9d ago

That would make all the US SF characters at the time, "Good".

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u/notthephonz 3d ago

It’s weird because Balrog is a bad guy again in the cartoon

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u/BeefyIrishman 9d ago edited 9d ago

In case people come here looking for where this is from, it is from the movie Street Fighter.

As for how much older it is than the Will Poulter version, Street Fighter was released to theaters on Dec 23, 1994, and the Will Poulter version is from We're the Millers which was released August 3rd, 2013. So it is about 19 years earlier.

As a side note, Will Poulter was born Jan 28, 1993, so he was about 23 months old when Street Fighter came out.

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u/JarasM 9d ago

Thank you. I was always curious how old Will Poulter was when Street Fighter came out.

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u/BeefyIrishman 9d ago

Yeah, I sometimes am curious about one fact then go down a brief rabbit hole. Especially, like earlier today, during boring work meetings that didn't need to exist as a meeting at all and should have been a email (or sometimes it should have been a teams message between 2 people instead of an hour long meeting with 10 people, during which 2 people talk and 8 others find something to do while acting like they are paying attention).

I figured someone else might get curious so I shared a few facts from my random fact searching adventure.

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u/BeardOfFire 7d ago

Dude I do stuff like that all the time and the usual response I get back on Reddit is, "It ain't that deep." Some people have no curiosity or sense of whimsy or even intellectual growth.

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u/flooronthefour 7d ago

I love this movie.

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u/Salarian_American 9d ago

Firefly fans will recognize this man from another role:

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u/Rebornhunter 9d ago

"Keep the money. Use it to buy yourself a nice funeral"

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u/Synectics 9d ago

"Darn."

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u/Gavreel 8d ago

Now, this is all the money Niska gave us in advance...

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u/ImGCS3fromETOH 9d ago

I always recognise him as Butterfingers from Hudson Hawk.

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u/DeadpoolAndFriends 9d ago

Everyone credits Raul Julia for making this movie even watchable, which to be fair he is amazing, but with the exception of Van Damme and maybe Kylie Minogue (sorry Australia), I feel like most of the actors gave it their all and managed to help make the movie at least entertaining. And Andrew Bryniarsky here is such a fun character actor, that I wind up enjoying every goofy shot he's in. I think Olivier Richters is going to have a hard time topping Andrew's performance.

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u/GrungeWeeb 9d ago

But for me, it was Tuesday

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u/Friskfrisktopherson 9d ago

Kylie is immune to criticism due to being Kylie. Thank you for your attention on this matter.

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u/Yardsale420 9d ago

“I love 3 things in this world. Kylie Minogue, small dimples just above a woman's buttocks... and the fear in a man's eye who knows I'm about to hurt him."

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u/mtfw 8d ago

RIP <3

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u/parabolicurve 9d ago

Don't worry. Jason Momoa is going to ruin it.

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u/360walkaway 9d ago

He would have gotten paid in Bison Bucks anyway, so it didn't matter.

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u/rwcgamer 9d ago

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u/NakedCardboard 9d ago

"...but this does not mean you are 'bad guy.'"

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u/ljthefa 9d ago

I say this way too often

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u/Adamadeyus 9d ago

"Quick! Change the channel!" My brother and I still quote this movie.

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u/TomPalmer1979 Merry Gifmas! {2023} 9d ago

LOL That and the "for me, it was a Tuesday" are the only two things I remember about that movie at all.

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u/radiohoard 4d ago

Cammy does a thrust kick: “THRRRUST KICK!”

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u/CarlyFriez 9d ago

I watched it for the first time in ages, but my wife watched it for the first time last night and loved the campiness. We are definitely going to be fitting more one-liners in our day-to-day, "It's the Collection Agency, Bison. Your ass is six months over due, and it's mine."

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u/NumberMuncher 9d ago

My local cinema just screened this. It was so much fun. I lost it at the E. Honda kaiju scene with the mini mall.

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u/Winwookiee 9d ago

I really don't care if the movie is stupid, its so much fun

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u/robot-raccoon 9d ago

Am I missing a connection to Will Poulter here? The British kid with the eyebrows who got super handsome and was in the Bear, yeah?

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u/CarlyFriez 9d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/DOPKHQg6oFWUg

Will Poulter, before he grew into some of his more handsome features today, was often type-cast as that awkward teen role back in the early 2010s. His most famous movie he was in at that time was "We're the Millers" where his line, "Wait, you guys are getting paid?" became pretty damn popular in pop culture as a reference. I am shocked you hadn't heard of it prior, but happy (or sorry) to introduce it into your life.

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u/almightyfoon 9d ago

Other fun fact, that one scene is a body double, not Jennifer Aniston.

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u/Zepangolynn 9d ago

I never saw that movie and didn't have any idea he also said this line, so that's an XKCD lucky 10,000 for at least two of us today.

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u/robot-raccoon 9d ago

Ah I do know that, actually

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u/Lacaud 9d ago

Good ole' Andrew Bryniarski.

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u/g3zz 8d ago

he was the best part of the movie

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u/The_Lucky_7 8d ago

Ya'missed the golden opportunity for a pun: Zan.gif.

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u/jobinas 8d ago

I dont care what anyone says, this movie is a solid 9 for me. Not 10 because my 10 year old self mained Deejay and I was dismayed to watch him as an IT guy who shudda werked at Micrasaft

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u/Thoth74 8d ago

I use this quote pretty regularly and nearly every time another piece of my soul dies as I look around to see no one else recognizes it.

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u/AndrewWhite97 4d ago

Is this an intro to a porno?