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Street Fighter Trailer: Finally Getting It Right? · Gilbert. K Show

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: This is Street Fighter! Such a ridiculous look.
• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: Street Fighter trailer finally getting it right.
• 0:08
  SPEAKER_00: Hey everyone, it's Gilbert K here.
• 0:10
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome back to my channel.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_00: Hollywood has made another Street Fighter movie, and this time I have one serious question.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_00: Who's insuring these people?
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: Because Ken is out here beating up a car.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: Not another fighter, a car.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_00: That car woke up this morning thinking maybe an old change.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_00: By lunchtime, it wasn't in a tournament.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_00: And Cody Rhodes has Giles hair.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_00: This isn't a haircut, that's a piece of real estate.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Gilbert Case Show.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_00: I'm Gilbert, and today we're talking about the Street Fighter trailer.
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  SPEAKER_00: The movie arrives on October 16, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've got Three Yu, Ken, Chan Lee, Jason Momoa as Blanca, and a cast that looks like somebody combined a movie premiere, WrestleMania, and a music festival.
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  SPEAKER_00: What does this look like?
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  SPEAKER_00: The Street Fighter movie fans have been waiting for?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or are we about to spend two hours saying the trailer was better?
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's get into it.
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  SPEAKER_00: A tournament with terrible workplace safely, if you've never played Street Fighter, you can still follow this.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_00: People with very different fighting styles get together and settle their problems by hitting each other.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some throw punches, some throw kicks, some throw fireballs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Already rules feel unfair.
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  SPEAKER_00: I show up with a water bottle and a positive attitude.
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  SPEAKER_00: The other guy shows up with the weather.
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  SPEAKER_00: This movie is set in 1993.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ryu played by Andrew Koji and Ken, played by Noah Santino, have gone their separate ways.
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  SPEAKER_00: Chan Lee played by Kalina Liang brings them into the World Warrior tournament.
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  SPEAKER_00: Naturally, there's a dangerous conspiracy behind it.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_00: And I mean, of course there is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nobody in these movies ever organizes an honest tournament.
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  SPEAKER_00: You never hear congratulations, here's your trophy, your parking is validated and will email the photos.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's always welcome to the tournament.
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  SPEAKER_00: Somebody here wants to control the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can we finish registration first?
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  SPEAKER_00: I haven't even signed a waiver.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what does that waiver say?
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  SPEAKER_00: By participating, you accept the risk of bruising, broken bones, and being launched through a wall by a man whose hair has its own postcode.
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  SPEAKER_00: The trailer understands assignment.
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  SPEAKER_00: What encouraged me about this trailer is the willingness to look ridiculous.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I mean that as a compliment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Street Fighter has characters with huge personalities and moves that don't belong anywhere near a normal gym.
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  SPEAKER_00: The trailer lets that energy show bright looks, big reactions, familiar attacks.
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  SPEAKER_00: It feels like the movie is willing to walk into the room and say, yes, this is what we're doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Good.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're adapting a game where someone can throw energy out of their hands, commit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't spend 40 minutes explaining the science.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't need a professor with a whiteboard.
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  SPEAKER_00: I need someone to duck.
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  SPEAKER_00: For me, the challenge is balance.
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  SPEAKER_00: Give me the fun, give me the strange characters, but give me a reason to care who wins.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because the whole movie of people posing and punching could eventually feel like watching a very angry calendar shoot.
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  SPEAKER_00: January, Ryu, February, Chan Li, March, someone has kicked the camera.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ryu can and one unfortunate vehicle, Andrew Koji as Ryu, is one of the things that makes me curious.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ryu has that focused fighter image, the husband, the training, the serious expression.
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  SPEAKER_00: He looks like someone who gets up before sunrise to improve himself.
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  SPEAKER_00: I get up before sunrise because I drank water too late.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are on a different journey.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then you have Noah Santino as Ken.
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  SPEAKER_00: That contrast could be fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: Two people with shared history, different personalities, and a lot to work through.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ideally, the relationship gives the fighting some weight because I must defeat you.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's harder when these people actually mean something to each other.
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  SPEAKER_00: Otherwise, it's just an argument at a fitness convention when and then there's Ken attacking the car.
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  SPEAKER_00: For people unfamiliar with the game, smashing a car is a famous bonus stage idea from Street Fighter 2.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that moment is a nod to the game.
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  SPEAKER_00: For fans, it's recognition.
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  SPEAKER_00: For everyone else, it's a reason to upgrade their insurance.
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  SPEAKER_00: Imagine calling the company.
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  SPEAKER_00: Was it a collision?
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  SPEAKER_00: No.
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  SPEAKER_00: Was it a vandalism?
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  SPEAKER_00: Technically, can you describe the suspect?
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  SPEAKER_00: Blonde, athletic, possibly on fire.
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  SPEAKER_00: I like that kind of reference because it can work on both levels.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fans get the memory, new viewers get the joke.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's how you invite people into this world.
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  SPEAKER_00: Chan Li and the cast that needs a bigger group chat.
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  SPEAKER_00: Alina Liang plays Chan Li, who brings Ryu and Ken into the tournament.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want her to have real presence in this story.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's such a recognizable part of Street Fighter.
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  SPEAKER_00: Give her something to do beyond explaining why the man needs to stop arguing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's the plan.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's the location, he's the villain.
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  SPEAKER_00: Please stop fighting each other for six minutes.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have a deadline.
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  SPEAKER_00: As a producer, I respect the struggle.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're trying to get people, two people, the same place at the same time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now give them supernatural punching abilities.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then there's Cody Rhodes as Gile.
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  SPEAKER_00: And yes, we need another moment for that tear.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're putting Gile on screen, the look matters.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can't give him a sensible little side part and send him to battle.
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_00: That would be an accountant named Greg.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nobody is buying a ticket to see Greg do quarterly reporting unless he throws a fireball at the spreadsheet.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then I'm listening.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_00: Roman Reigns plays Akuma with him and Cody Rhodes in the cast.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wrestling fans have something to be curious about too.
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  SPEAKER_00: I like the idea of performers who know how to make a physical entrance feel important.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I also want them to feel like their characters.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_00: The costume gets our attention, the performance has to keep it.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_00: Jason Momoa has entered his green era.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jason Momoa plays Blanca.
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  SPEAKER_00: Green screen, orange hair, a very unusual look.
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  SPEAKER_00: The man was Aquaman, now he's Blanca.
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  SPEAKER_00: His career is becoming a pain sample wall.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I respect the commitment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Blanca is exactly the kind of character who tests whether a movie believes in its own world.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because you can't introduce him timidly.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can say, we've made him a little green just around the edges.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bring us Blanca.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let him look strange.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let the other characters accept that this is somebody they might have to fight today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Imagine checking the tournament schedule.
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  SPEAKER_00: First opponent, a boxer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fine.
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  SPEAKER_00: Second opponent, a martial artist, okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Third opponent, an electrical incident with teeth.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_00: I'm a drawing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Something has come up.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's fear.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_00: 50 cents play Balrog with David.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_00: Dasmalchen plays M.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bison.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a lot of personality in one cast.
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  SPEAKER_00: My hope is that everyone gets a clear role.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_00: A big cast can be exciting, but if every character gets 30 seconds, it starts feeling like someone is crawling through the selection screen.
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I know him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I know her.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_00: Wait, why are the credits starting?
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  SPEAKER_00: What could go wrong?
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's my concern.
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  SPEAKER_00: A trailer can give us the best moves, the funniest bits, and the strongest entrances in a couple of minutes.
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  SPEAKER_00: A full movie needs the stuff between those moments to work.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want clear fights where I can follow who's winning.
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  SPEAKER_00: If somebody does a great move, let me see it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't cut away so quickly that I need security footage to understand what happened.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I want enough story to connect everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who are we rooting for and what's at stake?
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  SPEAKER_00: What does this fight matter?
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  SPEAKER_00: And why does this fight matter?
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  SPEAKER_00: Keep it simple, but make it matter.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't need a lecture on tournament administration.
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  SPEAKER_00: I came here for Hadouken.
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  SPEAKER_00: The humor also needs breathing room.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some moments should be funny, some should be tense.
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  SPEAKER_00: If everyone makes a joke after every punch, the villain starts sounding like he's doing crown work.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anybody here from out of town?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, Ryu.
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  SPEAKER_00: Please continue the fight.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_00: My verdict on the trailer, my reaction is cautiously excited.
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  SPEAKER_00: The trailer gives me recognizable characters, game references, and a willingness to have fun with a strange world.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's enough to make me interested.
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  SPEAKER_00: It hasn't proved that the full story works yet, but it gives us a promising starting point.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the fun fact I keep coming back is 1993 setting.
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  SPEAKER_00: It gives the movie a chance to lean into the era that shaped so much of Street Fighter's identity.
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  SPEAKER_00: An era before every disagreement became a group chat.
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  SPEAKER_00: And these people had to meet in person to ruin each other's day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now that's commitment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Street Fighter arrives on October 16.
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  SPEAKER_00: For me, the question is whether this movie can turn the excitement of choosing a fighter into the excitement of following a character.
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  SPEAKER_00: Get that right, and the wild stuff has something to stand on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Get it wrong, and we're left admiring Giles' hair while waiting for the next punch.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_00: Although, to be fair, there's a lot of hair to admire.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_00: Tell me in the comments who are you most excited to see?
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_00: Ryu, Ken, Chun Li, Gile, Akuma, or Blanca?
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_00: And does this trailer make you hopeful?
• 8:58
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• 9:04
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• 9:10
  SPEAKER_00: That's all folks.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for watching.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's my Street Fighter trailer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Finally, getting it right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't forget to check other episodes on my channel and all podcast platforms for the latest film series reviews, trailer reactions, and exclusive film industry interviews packed with tips, inspiration, and recommendations.
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  SPEAKER_00: More stories, more insights, and more movie magic waiting for you.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_00: See you in the next one.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_00: Until next time, Gilbert K.