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Post by H-Virus on Sept 25, 2019 19:42:44 GMT -5
Some documents related to the general outline of the movie've leaked, with some character descriptions. Main highlights are... {Spoiler}{Spoiler}Movie's still about Cole's relationship with his daughter, Liu Kang and Kung Lao are brothers, Kung Lao speaks in sign language due to taking a vow of silence, Mileena's explicitly said to basically just be Electra, Scorpion isn't even mentioned in the cast listing so he's presumably basically just an extra, Sub-Zero's Cole's evil rival, and Kano's an antihero who comically bickers with Sonya. Yeah, this is going to be dogshit. Why even bother calling it Mortal Kombat at that point? It would make just as much sense to give everyone generic names like Cole Turner himself and call the movie Fist of the Tiger or some shit. People still probably wouldn't care about it, but at least you could avoid all the backlash from the MK fanbase.
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Post by James Fabiano on Sept 25, 2019 20:21:08 GMT -5
Wonder if she wrote Chun-Li Xiang's newscasts?
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Post by thegatewaydrug on Sept 25, 2019 20:50:29 GMT -5
So... Mileena without Kitana?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2019 20:54:05 GMT -5
So... Mileena without Kitana? Really that whole thing reeks of, "We've got the love interest, we've got an evil woman for her to have a token girl fight with, we've got a third girl, why would we need any more?" In general this movie just seems like such a relic in every way imaginable.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2019 21:20:23 GMT -5
This movie sounds like one of those obscure Jalal Merhi martial arts movies...but bad.
I wanted to give this is a chance but the way it was always spoken of was
"WE ARE GONNA HAVE GAME ACURATE FATALITIES"
Hey did you hear we are gonna have game accurate fatalities
This is literally what they are banking on and could not care less clearly about any of the story , lore and accurate depictions of the characters.
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Post by ronin705 on Sept 25, 2019 21:25:31 GMT -5
Oy, I really hope that isn't true. Who or what's a Cole Turner??
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Post by The Thread Barbi on Sept 25, 2019 22:14:05 GMT -5
The original movie Johnny Cage and Liu Kang play Mortal Kombat and discuss the upcoming film.
These guys are awesome and really need to be reintroduced into any MK movie franchise.
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Post by aka Cthulhu on Sept 25, 2019 22:23:53 GMT -5
This is like reading through the threads about that Fantastic Four movie and reading, I don't remember the exact words back then, that Doctor Doom is some sort of hacker or blogger. Like whaaaaaaaaaaa-aaaat?
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Post by Welfare Willis on Sept 26, 2019 4:09:30 GMT -5
Oy, I really hope that isn't true. Who or what's a Cole Turner?? A character from the old version of Charmed. No idea why he is in Mortal Kombat now.
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Post by Bub (BLM) on Sept 26, 2019 4:18:58 GMT -5
Some documents related to the general outline of the movie've leaked, with some character descriptions. Main highlights are... {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}Movie's still about Cole's relationship with his daughter, Liu Kang and Kung Lao are brothers, Kung Lao speaks in sign language due to taking a vow of silence, Mileena's explicitly said to basically just be Electra, Scorpion isn't even mentioned in the cast listing so he's presumably basically just an extra, Sub-Zero's Cole's evil rival, and Kano's an antihero who comically bickers with Sonya. Yeah, this is going to be dogshit. Why even bother calling it Mortal Kombat at that point? It would make just as much sense to give everyone generic names like Cole Turner himself and call the movie Fist of the Tiger or some shit. People still probably wouldn't care about it, but at least you could avoid all the backlash from the MK fanbase. Completely missing the point of source material is a Hollywood staple. Especially for stuff like video game adaptations.
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Post by Glitch on Sept 26, 2019 4:42:46 GMT -5
I can't wait for the excuses when this bombs hard.
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Post by Perpetual Nirvana on Sept 26, 2019 5:45:14 GMT -5
This movie sounds like one of those obscure Jalal Merhi martial arts movies...but bad. I wanted to give this is a chance but the way it was always spoken of was "WE ARE GONNA HAVE GAME ACURATE FATALITIES" Hey did you hear we are gonna have game accurate fatalities This is literally what they are banking on and could not care less clearly about any of the story , lore and accurate depictions of the characters. It's the same as AVP Requiem when they made a big thing of how they were going balls out with the blood and gore and sure enough, that film had a lot of tasteless scenes like in the hospital that seemed to be added for the hell of it and not a lot else.
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Post by dav on Sept 26, 2019 6:35:35 GMT -5
I can't wait for the excuses when this bombs hard. I'm half-expecting this to be a sort of Springtime For Hitler thing.
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Sept 26, 2019 6:39:56 GMT -5
I love how simple film concepts like a fighting tournament can be completely ruined by hollywood types who think they know better.
Just repeat/update Bloodsport but with supernatural powers, it's not hard.
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Post by BorneAgain on Sept 26, 2019 6:42:59 GMT -5
What I find amazing is that Mortal Kombat 11 is selling like gangbusters, the franchise has been around in pop culture for 25 years now, its had at least one film adaptation that was relatively faithful (albeit it campy)... and Hollywood is still treating it like its a niche series that needs major rewrites to be acceptable to a movie audience.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2020 15:24:59 GMT -5
The movie will be out on HBO Max on January 15th.
I'll watch it but I'm not exactly hopeful.
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Post by Scoops on Dec 7, 2020 17:05:08 GMT -5
Why are they making another Mortal Kombat when Annihilation is already perfect?
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Post by thechase on Dec 7, 2020 17:20:24 GMT -5
The movie will be out on HBO Max on January 15th. I'll watch it but I'm not exactly hopeful. (langauge)
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Post by chrom on Dec 7, 2020 17:22:21 GMT -5
It takes a really special brand of suckiness to make Annihilation look good in comparison.
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