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The_Rob posted:Dude so much of it holds up. The screenplay is easy, simple and to the point. The characters all look like they’re supposed to and do their moves. The soundtrack is still full of bangers. The scorpion/ Cage fight scene is legit awesome. In fact most of the fight scenes are good to great. Goro is an amazing animatronic. The sets are all well done and interesting to look at. I really don’t know what you’re talking about. Having just watched MK '95 again, it's amazing how that movie has about two games' worth of plot and still teases a sequel at a time when MK was barely a game series, while 2021 seems afraid to use even one whole plot despite having a kind of ridiculous amount of material for a videogame franchise to choose from.
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Him bailing everyone out multiple times and even killing goro gives scorpions revenge the vibe that this is a story being told to you directly by scorpion
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Scorpion's Revenge was a lot of fun and also better written than MK2021.
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Halloween Jack posted:Scorpion's Revenge was a lot of fun and also better written than MK2021. People keep saying this, but how graphic is scorpion's revenge? If it's super gory I don't want it. The perk of live action is they have to hold back in some ways when animation doesn't have to. And we already have the game if we want animation. I love the lore but I had to tap out a couple games ago as graphics caught up. But also, live action martial arts will always be superior to me for the weightiness. Plus the fun of seeing how they implement crazy moves into the real. It's not 1 to 1 but I'm always baffled when people link their favorite clone wars show fight, and it's just a weightless swinging and twirling dance.
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Halloween Jack posted:Scorpion's Revenge was a lot of fun and also better written than MK2021. I really couldn't get into the character design, or maybe it was the animation? Like the fighting was great but everything else felt static.7
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bushisms.txt posted:People keep saying this, but how graphic is scorpion's revenge? Very graphic. Noggins get split, there are X-Ray moves, organs spill out, the whole deal.
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davidspackage posted:Yeah, it's a real fun movie and holds up fine, I don't get this "actually, it was trash" mentality. To be fair, it was a lovely movie back then as well. A lot of people were just like, 7 years old when it came out.
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Grimdude posted:To be fair, it was a lovely movie back then as well. A lot of people were just like, 7 years old when it came out. My friends and I were all in our late teens/early twenties and we liked it just fine. It has a handful of memorable setpieces and a bangin' main theme and, most importantly, an extremely goofy good-natured vibe that sort of permutates the entire movie and makes even the uneven/less successful stuff tolerable. If you think it's truly lovely, then to me all that it reveals is it pushes some button you have or you haven't seen a lot of genuinely lovely action movies. Megaman's Jockstrap fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Apr 29, 2021 |
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Apr 29, 2021 19:43
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MK '95 was the Fast n Furious of its day
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bushisms.txt posted:People keep saying this, but how graphic is scorpion's revenge? If it's super gory I don't want it. The perk of live action is they have to hold back in some ways when animation doesn't have to. And we already have the game if we want animation. I love the lore but I had to tap out a couple games ago as graphics caught up. Yeah, it's graphic. I think the first dead ninja gets his head split in half with a knife, just to give a quick indication. But at the same time, it's cartoony, so at least to me, it didn't seem as bad, despite the ridiculous ultra violence at times.
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I think if you could handle the gore in MK 2021, you can handle the gore in Scorpion's Revenge, and while I wasn't super crazy about the animation/art style, Scorpion's Revenge definitely has the goods as a Mortal Kombat movie more than MK 2021 does.
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Mortal Kombat non-game media power rankings. 1. All the MK game commercials, especially the one for MK2 2. MK 95 movie 3. Those MK comics you had to get through the arcade machines 4. MK Scorpion's Revenge animated movie 5. MK 2021 movie 6. MKX comic prequel 7. MK Legacy web series 8. MK Rebirth short film 9. MK Conquest live-action show 10. MK Defenders of the Realm cartoon 11. MK Malibu comics 12. MK prequel novel 13. MK Annihilation movie 14. MK Live Tour 15. MK Journey Begins animated movie 16. MK Federation of Martial arts web series
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Hollywood needs to realize that while karate is good for movies but bad for real fights, the exact opposite is true for MMA.
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Gavok posted:Mortal Kombat non-game media power rankings. If we are counting your various articles chronicling all of the extratextual MK garbage, I think we should slot them in at #3. Yeoman’s work.
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As a kid Conquest was one of those shows where I kept waiting for it to get to the game characters and I think it got moved to a different channel before it did so I lost track of it. I'd love to see a retry at something like that. Exploring an older timeline of the MK series. One of the original tournaments. Do it Spartacus style.
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I think Lucha Underground should be considered an honorary Mortal Kombat work.
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bushisms.txt posted:People keep saying this, but how graphic is scorpion's revenge? If it's super gory I don't want it. The perk of live action is they have to hold back in some ways when animation doesn't have to. And we already have the game if we want animation. I love the lore but I had to tap out a couple games ago as graphics caught up. Dudes get cut into multiple pieces horizontally like ten times and there’s at least a dozen people run through with the chain. Impalements, x-Ray broken bones and amputations feature heavily. It moves quickly so it doesn’t really linger on the shots but it’s still very gory. I wasn’t joking about Scorpions kill count being near triple digits.
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Ahhh, the MK Live Tour! https://youtu.be/zK8FLwj8qIw
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:I think Lucha Underground should be considered an honorary Mortal Kombat work.
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Jerkface posted:As a kid Conquest was one of those shows where I kept waiting for it to get to the game characters and I think it got moved to a different channel before it did so I lost track of it. I'd love to see a retry at something like that. Exploring an older timeline of the MK series. One of the original tournaments. Do it Spartacus style. Not only is this a cool idea but now I want a Netherrealm Spartacus fighting game.
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I wish we got a full fledged WWE: Immortals game, beyond just a janky phone fighter.
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I want a standalone Scorpion game in the style of DMC / Bayonetta. Or maybe Darksiders if they have to care about "puzzles" and "anything apart from combat" like cowards.
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The MK spin-off monkey's paw still has a couple of fingers left, so it probably wouldn't turn out very good if they made it.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:I think Lucha Underground should be considered an honorary Mortal Kombat work. Obligatory video response. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLu3kzS2cbU
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well why not posted:I want a standalone Scorpion game in the style of DMC / Bayonetta. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7upY8OE103A
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:If we are counting your various articles chronicling all of the extratextual MK garbage, I think we should slot them in at #3. Yeoman’s work. Shucks, thanks. I'm now kicking myself for forgetting about the MK album. How could I forget?
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Gavok posted:Obligatory video response. Goddamn! Gavok you are the MVP of this thread.
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I really enjoyed the spit out of this movie. I don’t know quite what I expected going into it, but it ticked all the boxes for me for what I would want out of a new Mortal Kombat film. Perhaps it was that I was with a group of good friends I hadn’t seen in awhile, or perhaps that that I saw it in a populated cinema, with a active audience that were laughing at the comedy bits and audibly disgusted at the gory bits, or the fact it was filmed in my home town so we could snigger and joke about the locales we recognised, but it definitely left me with a smile on my face. I think most of the criticism in this thread is valid, but those moments didn’t particularly bother me personally, because as much as I adore Mortal Kombat, It’s always been a bizarre mix of immensely cheesy b movie with some self seriousness parts, and I felt the film did a half decent job of capturing that. Not being a big fan of remakes or adaptations, I’m glad it did something new with a new lead character / not focusing on the tournament, as otherwise it’s just be another retread of a plot we’ve seen before. Perhaps we have been spoilt in the last decade or so with high budget Marvel films proving that adaptations can be both faithful to their source material and be well written, impressive films on movies in their own right. For me I’m still impressed by a video game movies that don’t suck.
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well why not posted:They specifically said they wanted an Asian lead, which is pretty reasonable considering how much MK has copied from Asian culture. I turned it off after like 30 mins. Its a kids cartoon but with ultraviolence, I don't really get it. Imo the animation wasnt good enough to make the fights interesting and it's almost all fights. The new film is a lot better hands down
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Mortal Kombat Mythologies Sub Zero or whatever that lovely game was is not part of the Mortal Kombat universe. I do not accept it.
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boop the snoot posted:Mortal Kombat Mythologies Sub Zero or whatever that lovely game was is not part of the Mortal Kombat universe. I do not accept it. Disagree. Mythologies and Shaolin Monks are the only canon in my book. drat they need to remaster those two
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Mythologies honestly wouldn't be that awful a game if it didnt have instadeath pits (and a second level built around instadeath pits/moving platforms/wind fuckery). The transition between the platforming and the combat works pretty well (they're both bad mind, but its the badness of MK fighting + their first platformer, rather than from accomodating both). Shaolin Monks slaps though.
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I want a full on Yakuza-like. Give me kombatants playing MK1 as a mini game and sassing each other during play, heartfelt side quests to rescue some Tarkatan kid’s monster puppy, and karaoke to the original soundtrack.
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next movie is going to have sheeva doing nothing but stomping on people next movie is fetish porn is what i'm saying
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Sheeva is incredibly cool. Now that they got rid of that dumb bikini and made her a literal Queen Grappler I like her.
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Given that they didn't put Mileena in a C-string, I'm hoping that Kitana and Jade and so on won't be wearing ninja lingerie.
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Halloween Jack posted:Given that they didn't put Mileena in a C-string, I'm hoping that Kitana and Jade and so on won't be wearing ninja lingerie. Jade’s default costumes in MK11 are pretty great.
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I never thought I'd see an action setpiece which focused on Goro tearing apart a barn on a foggy American farmstead, but 2021 is a year of strange surprises
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I have a lot of fun mashing buttons in mk 11 but I get slaughtered in online play. I think my longest streak in the towers is in the high 20s.
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I'm more interested in a move towards giving men the same sort of sexual expression as women receive in games (specifically, stop wearing pants at grandpa height to avoid The Devil's Belt), but its still pretty cool to see more variety in the MK women's roster than "floss bikinis" and "the MK ninjas, but sexy". As far as Sheeva goes, there's some iterations of Goro that feel somewhat fair. I'm not mourning either of them putting on layers though.
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