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did they film a #2 concurrently? that's the only way some of these decisions make sense
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The actors for Liu Kang, Kung Lao, and Kano were perfect. I wish they were in a better movie. Scorpion, Sub Zero, Sonya, Mileena, and Raiden did great for what they were given. Shang Tsung and the entire Outworld gang (except Mileena) were AWFUL. Kabal and Goro and General Reiko (the warhammer guy) were unbelievably bad. And the CGI bat wing lady was laughably bad. If there's one hope, it's that the dumbfuck executives at WB got it out of their system and if there is a sequel they bring back the good actors and drop all the generic script bullshit. And drop Cole Slaw immediately. Kill him in the opening scene.
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This new Mortal Kombat movie makes the first one look like a masterpiece. This is barely a movie Say what you want about the original one, but at least it had a clearly defined plot with three really memorable and charismatic performances. I don't want to sound like the "Phantom Menace was better than Force Awakens because it's so weird and interesting" guy but Mortal Kombat: Annihilation is a more engaging and interesting movie than this piece of poo poo
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I think this would actually make a good HITB where they look at both movies and compare them like Godzilla
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Mortal Kombat Annihilation is the absolute zenith of bad filmmaking. It manages to be the worst piece of poo poo without being boring at all. The peak of so bad it's good. The most amazing part is there were no excuses. They had a budget for hundreds of locations (why?), hundreds of costumed characters on horseback in the middle of nowhere (why?), the budget for 90s CGI (spread razor thin in every scene instead of just 3 good effects shots) and none of the hurdles that get in the way of most "so bad it's good" movies. You're just watching money burn on screen as a children's cartoon dragon bites a cartoon hydra while terrible replacement actors say the worst lines ever written. It is genuinely a masterpiece and one of my absolute favorite films.
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Poasty posted:I think this would actually make a good HITB where they look at both movies and compare them like Godzilla mike and jay in lizard suits failing to remember two movies while smashing a cardboard city
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Here's my Mortal Kombat review everyone has been waiting for: The fight scenes are mostly good. The fatalities and deaths on screen are all pretty fun. Cole Slaw was so unnecessary and BORING. All the exposition in this movie was garbage. Why not just start at the tournament? Why have a new unrelated protagonist to the series? Is he supposed to be our everyman for the audience? The Australian guy is so loving corny. It's like they tried to copy paste the dude from The Boys. Cringe. Anyways, I had more fun than I thought. 3/5 stars.
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I'm getting pretty tired of these video game movies always having the same thing: director says "I am a huge fan of the series and I wanted to make sure it was done right and am honoring the franchise", then every single one gets some random person put in because "oh well you have to have someone to be able to relate to or you won't understand what is going on". Assassin's Creed did it (although arguably that was in the original game), Monster Hunter did it. Either that or they make up a new character for no loving reason like Alice in Resident Evil or Karl Urban in whatever the gently caress Doom was. Mortal Kombat was dumb. It was entertaining on some levels but as someone who likes the batshit stupid story in the games, this was just annoying because they took parts of it and then did stupid things for no reason. Arcana was stupid. The everyman character who can't even win an MMA match at the beginning kills Goro, who was the second to last fight in the original game? And as his first real battle? I mean the loving movie didn't even have the tournament in it. They basically imply that will be the second movie as this was just Shang Tsung trying to kill everyone before the tournament starts. The pacing was weird, it really feels like the movie was 30 minutes longer and then they just hacked the poo poo out of it. When they finally get to the fights near the end, they are a montage. Just stop making video game movies.
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What the hell ever happened to just making a movie that tells a full story? MK should have had the tournament, the good guys win, Earth is saved. If you're lucky enough to make a sequel then figure out later how it makes sense. The setting has endless bad guys and ways to bring them back if you really need to.
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TheKingslayer posted:What the hell ever happened to just making a movie that tells a full story? Marvel films
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Marvel films Also the JJ Abrams Mystery Box era requires that you never get answers to questions, so movies cannot wrap up in a satisfying way. You must always be looking forward to the next “piece of the puzzle” i.e. the next movie i.e. the next excuse to charge you 20-30 dollars
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lobsterminator posted:Why isn't there a Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball movie? Endless Trash posted:Expect a visit from the Feminist Thought Police any minute Besides, it would be tough to beat the original DOA: Dead or Alive movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY-DDgOPBRc Mortal Kombat could learn a thing or two about how to adapt fighting games from this disasterpiece
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its weird to me that so much of the blame for the last jedi goes to rian johnson, when all the mysteries having no payoff was down to JJ Abrams just literally not writing any payoff for them. if you set something up you should be required to have a plan for how to finish it if you're gonna hand off the next movie to someone else. i just listened to the episodes of macaulay culkin's podcast with the rlm guys on, mike's extreme excitement about the spirit box mac bought him was very cute
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juggalo baby coffin posted:its weird to me that so much of the blame for the last jedi goes to rian johnson, when all the mysteries having no payoff was down to JJ Abrams just literally not writing any payoff for them. if you set something up you should be required to have a plan for how to finish it if you're gonna hand off the next movie to someone else. The blame should be on Disney for not asking the directors to talk to each other and think of an arching plan. But Rian's choices were generally uninteresting and hard to work upon for the last part. Like, TFA's plot was pretty simple and didn't really throw any hardball's for Rian to build on. But he wanted to subvert every expectation.
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juggalo baby coffin posted:its weird to me that so much of the blame for the last jedi goes to rian johnson, when all the mysteries having no payoff was down to JJ Abrams just literally not writing any payoff for them. if you set something up you should be required to have a plan for how to finish it if you're gonna hand off the next movie to someone else. It was supposed to be Rian's job to come up with satisfying explanations to the stupid mystery boxes but nope, casino planet.
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Apr 24, 2021 11:25
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lmao remember star warz
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So Mortal Kombat sucked then? I seem to remember something very similar in this thread with a bunch of people hyping themselves up over obvious garbage for a couple of weeks with Kong vs Godzilla, then the movie came out.
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Randarkman posted:So Mortal Kombat sucked then? I seem to remember something very similar in this thread with a bunch of people hyping themselves up over obvious garbage for a couple of weeks with Kong vs Godzilla, then the movie came out. Godzilla vs Kong was just meh, and did have some moments of dumb fun. Mortal Kombat was a total mess and not a particularly enjoyable one.
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Four-line conics is indeed from 1961, pretty good guess there. Also Lol Joe Rindfleisch is literally Joe Beef
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The director of literally every comic book/video game/sci-fi series property that's being adapted into a movie: LOL no way bro, this ain't some NERD poo poo!
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these ain't your daddy's justice league!!!
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This Martian Manhunter FUCKS
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men, hence the name
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My daydream is that one of the hyperrich bored people buys all the star wars and comic book rights and just sits on them. Puts out a holiday special every 10 years or whatever when the IP is about to expire. Cram it all in there, the sith have a kryptonite lightsaber or whatever. Not the best thing they could do with the money but better than what they're doing with it currently.
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If you had told me "the Mortal Kombat movie does not contain the Mortal Kombat tournament" before it came out there's no way I would've believed you. It would've been like the GOT or Rise of Skywalker leaks. poo poo I had to google "Cole Young" when that first came up to make sure I wasn't getting hosed with.
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my favorite part of the new mortal kombat movie was when liu kang was fighting goro and did a flip and said 'now THIS is podracing! i mean mortal kombat!'
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Because I'm a parent of young kids, the only new movie I've been streaming these days is Dinosaur Train: The Movie Also luchajones's most-streamed movie, but for different reasons
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I bought and watched Space Cop, am I allowed to ask RLM one question?
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HAmbONE posted:I bought and watched Space Cop, am I allowed to ask RLM one question? no refunds
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Quantum of Phallus posted:no refunds Hahaha This thread has been on fire lately
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I want to know if they’ve ever seen Hard Rock Zombies? It’s my favourite bad movie and I was hoping it would show up someday before the world ends https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089254/
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“Lineage? I’m an orphan from the south side of Chicago!” Does Cole not understand where orphans come from? Edit: it’s pretty fun noticing how often they put two fighters in a situation where they’re basically fighting on a 2d plane. Also a scene where Liu Kang keeps sweeping Kano over and over and baits him into a neutral jump Gutcruncher fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Apr 24, 2021 |
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The United States posted:Straight to HBO Max isn't the same thing as VOD There no way I’m seeing this, I really don’t want to loving cry. Not this year, just the trailer made me water up, instead, I’m all out for a Denis Villeneuve wank fest of gorgeous visuals, bloated excess and fan service that leads no where all wrapped up in a beautiful convoluted mess. Like watching a slow burning oil rig fire in the middle of a storm.
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Im not entirely sure what mysteries people wanted explained in TLJ How hungry were you really for a Snoke origin story
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Mozi posted:my favorite part of the new mortal kombat movie was when liu kang was fighting goro and did a flip and said 'now THIS is podracing! i mean mortal kombat!' there were a few funny meta scenes. Kano getting owned by leg sweeps, and when random fighters would tell fighters to use their uppercut.
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I mean if Snoke's origin was destined to be boring because he was a lovely boring idea for a character maybe don't put him in The Force Awakens.
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Snoke is the only guy in the galaxy with a worse-sounding name than Dooku, so he's got a chip on his shoulder about it that gives him lightning power
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reignofevil posted:I mean if Snoke's origin was destined to be boring because he was a lovely boring idea for a character maybe don't put him in The Force Awakens. If you want every character to have a rich interconnected backstory where they spar with several memorable star wars characters you could just read EU comics Snoke is just the boss who yells at ren to do his job, he exists so ren can cut him in half later, thats his role, he has a Watto or Lobot tier importance to the story, and this is good because not a single person here (me included) would have the patience for a Snoke background dive, cgi loser alien
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Q: are there any babalities in the new Mortal Kombat filme?
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