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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2017 14:34:47 GMT -5
Also Ken was in Blood In Blood out. yes he was. Vatos Locos forever, carnal! unfortunately, he was not in Mortal Kombat, so it has nothing to do with this discussion Hahahah you're right!! I was already thinking about SF. |
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Post by The Thread Barbi on Apr 30, 2017 16:01:35 GMT -5
It was awesome. My favourite film from 1995. Yes, even better than Goldeneye or anything else!
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Post by FinalGwen on Apr 30, 2017 17:52:30 GMT -5
MK is one of the best video game movies ever, because it doesn't try to pretend to be more than it is. It focused on the main characters of the games (looking at you, Street Fighter, with its OOC Ryu and Ken at the sidelines) and told the same story, in all of its cheesy cliched glory, with just enough comedy to mask the silly bits, and just enough drama to give it stakes. Also, Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa was an awesome Shang Tsung. So glad they got him back for MK Legacy. It's this film that I'm convinced has led to the absurd levels of Johnny Cage fandom that I can NEVER understand. WISECRACKS! Mortal Kombat X was worse because all the more outlandish/interesting characters were shoved to the side for Cage, Sonya and their boring Mary Sue offspring. Yeah, I'm bitter. A character loosely based on a real life movie star/martial artist who punches people in the groin in an otherwise pretty-serious game is going to be popular whatever happens.  Though the movie did cement his personality. (Also, Cassie isn't really a Mary Sue. She and her team have their own personal flaws that lead to their downfalls, and they do actually fail a fair bit. She's not universally beloved, with conflict with the other team members along with the family drama with Sonya. A fair few characters are annoyed by her in the intro dialogue too. The only powers and abilities that she has are heavily, heavily foreshadowed from the beginning of the story rather than thrown in to save her from any given situation. The only way she could count as a Mary Sue is if we're using the Max Landis 'any female character we don't like' definition. And nobody wants to be Max Landis.) |
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Post by HMARK Center on May 1, 2017 6:44:59 GMT -5
Yeah, I still un-ironically love the first Mortal Kombat movie, both for nostalgia and for it just being pure fun just about all the way through.
To piggyback off the previous post: no, it didn't try to do too much, and that's why it succeeded. Mortal Kombat is a video game based on cheesy kung fu movies, so for its film adaptation they made...a cheesy kung fu movie. That's perfect.
Annihilation, on the other hand? My friends in sixth grade and I all went to see it when it came out, hyped that the sequel had arrived, and even at ages 11/12 we left the theater going "woof, that was crap." Awful, awful, awful, especially because it seemed to willfully ignore nearly everything that made the first one work.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on May 1, 2017 8:21:10 GMT -5
Annihilation, on the other hand? My friends in sixth grade and I all went to see it when it came out, hyped that the sequel had arrived, and even at ages 11/12 we left the theater going "woof, that was crap." Awful, awful, awful, especially because it seemed to willfully ignore nearly everything that made the first one work. It's a marvel to me that actual money was spent by a legitimate movie studio to make that. It's basically a $30 million porno parody that switched out sex scenes for fight scenes. |
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Post by BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps on May 1, 2017 8:31:14 GMT -5
As someone who was never very good at either MK or most NetherRealm fighters (I'm more a SNK/Capcom player), I marked out like mad for this movie and saw it twice at the theaters.
For me it's in the same "stupid but still entertaining" vein as the live action Street Fighter film.
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Post by eDemento2099 on May 1, 2017 10:30:55 GMT -5
It kept to its source material for the most part with one of the greatest soundtracks of all time...that opening theme is nothing short of legendary. And it was as close to getting this in movie form we got....but I STILL want this as a full fleged movie Yeah, as fine as the movie was, that commercial was a lot more true to the source material than the movie, and had better production value. |
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Post by MrElijah on May 1, 2017 10:49:41 GMT -5
As someone who was never very good at either MK or most NetherRealm fighters (I'm more a SNK/Capcom player), I marked out like mad for this movie and saw it twice at the theaters. For me it's in the same "stupid but still entertaining" vein as the live action Street Fighter film. Julia made Street Fighter the Movie. It helps that the movie invented some sort of unwritten law that Bison is an utter piece of shit and gets more evil with every installment. |
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Post by Ash Kingston on May 1, 2017 20:41:10 GMT -5
Honestly, MK: Annihilation was much more the third game than the second, for better or worse. If they had done it as the Outrealm tournament instead of the invasion of Earth, it would have been a lot better.
The first movie... I think it's still a pretty decent adaptation of the first game, and while some things Goro kinda... sticks out, at the time, it looked damn nice.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on May 1, 2017 22:00:56 GMT -5
Honestly, MK: Annihilation was much more the third game than the second, for better or worse. If they had done it as the Outrealm tournament instead of the invasion of Earth, it would have been a lot better. The first movie... I think it's still a pretty decent adaptation of the first game, and while some things Goro kinda... sticks out, at the time, it looked damn nice. I still think that while Goro doesn't hold up to today's standards of SFX, he still looks pretty impressive for a relatively low-budget movie made in 1995. Reptile, on the other hand... hoo boy. |
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Post by Alucard on May 1, 2017 23:19:27 GMT -5
Loved it as a kid. Like, LOVED it.
Soundtrack was bangin too. KMFDM, Type O, etc.
Now the second...there's a fair chance that movie could have killed me had I seen it at the right time, I've certain I've told this story before but I'll tell it again.
In late 1997 I was in 5th grade, and I fell VERY ill that Fall, started to set in after my birthday but didn't really get severe until November. Parents had no idea what was wrong with me, but I had high fevers and with the diagnosis still a mystery I was pulled from school. Several doctors made house calls, diagnosed mono and some other incorrect illnesses. Finally I was taken to a pediatrician who said something to the effect of "if this is what I think it is you need to get him to the hospital NOW, I'll follow you, hazards on run reds if you have to." And just like that, it was all a blur, but I was hooked up to an ungodly amount of IV's, everything hurt, everything sucked. I was irritable and quick to lash out because...again, *everything* was painful. The lights, the beeping of the IV when it was time to change the bag, everything. I laid there for what felt like weeks, delirious with fever. Mortal Kombat Annihilation's ad started playing on TV and I knew I had to see it. I even talked about it with one of the nurses, who confirmed they had seen it and it was great. I was excited. I was diagnosed with Kawasaki's Disease (yes it's a thing) and was ultimately released after a while, I recovered at home and was home schooled for a while. Anything I did sapped my energy (I'd walk to my room to get a toy and I'd often be found sitting against the wall in the hallway because I had to rest) so I did a lot of laying around. Finally, much later...I got to rent MK: A.
At an age where every movie was still magical, and even the bad ones were still kinda good, I realized what a vast dumpster fire I'd seen. I A. Realized that nurse either lied to my face or must have seen a different movie entirely, and B. Thought to myself...wow. I had I not gotten treatment and sat in the movie theater excited to see this film, I feel like my body would have just given up as I was crushed with disappointment and I'd have died, and whoever bankrolled that movie would've had blood on their hands. That would've been a helluva headline. "Disappointing video game adaptation film kills local child".
So yeah, tl;dr, MK:A could've performed a fatality on me, but fortunately didn't.
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Post by Ash Kingston on May 1, 2017 23:23:14 GMT -5
Honestly, MK: Annihilation was much more the third game than the second, for better or worse. If they had done it as the Outrealm tournament instead of the invasion of Earth, it would have been a lot better. The first movie... I think it's still a pretty decent adaptation of the first game, and while some things Goro kinda... sticks out, at the time, it looked damn nice. I still think that while Goro doesn't hold up to today's standards of SFX, he still looks pretty impressive for a relatively low-budget movie made in 1995. Reptile, on the other hand... hoo boy. ...oh geez, I forgot about Reptile's... uh... reptile form. Yeah, that was worse. I think Goro just sticks out in my mind more because he's in the movie more. |
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Post by andrew8798 on May 7, 2017 1:10:03 GMT -5
So I gave in and watched the second movie after haven't not seen it since it came out.
What a mistake I made.
First movie budget was 18 million and this one was 30. So where in the hell did the money go
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on May 7, 2017 2:52:44 GMT -5
First movie budget was 18 million and this one was 30. So where in the hell did the money go  Literally the best thing to come out of that second movie was the cringeworthy open letter the producers posted on the official website pointing out all the fanservice they'd put into the movie and literally begging everybody who'd already seen it to go see it again. I'm shocked anybody who did see it actually stayed for the duration. |
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Post by andrew8798 on May 7, 2017 3:10:07 GMT -5
Too bad that letter no longer online
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Post by Ash Kingston on May 7, 2017 3:11:58 GMT -5
So I gave in and watched the second movie after haven't not seen it since it came out. What a mistake I made. First movie budget was 18 million and this one was 30. So where in the hell did the money go Motaro and the Liu Dragon vs Shao Hydra fight, if I had to guess. Also... well, hookers and blow. |
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Post by andrew8798 on May 7, 2017 3:18:23 GMT -5
Wonder how the movie would have turned out if they kept Anderson and the original cast
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on May 7, 2017 3:51:27 GMT -5
Too bad that letter no longer online Oh it's not been purged from existence just yet. |
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Post by andrew8798 on May 7, 2017 3:52:10 GMT -5
Amazing what still survives
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Post by andrew8798 on May 7, 2017 3:59:28 GMT -5
Of Course that damn Space Jam site still around
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Though the movie did cement his personality.
