Remember that ending in one of the MK games where Jax uses time travel to prevent the colonization from Africa, causing a bunch of real life white nerds to throw a hissy fit?
Lmao, someone on /r/mortalcombat called it "dispicable (sic) politically motivated bs". Imagine being this mad about undoing slavery with a time machine.
Or when they made Jade slightly darker to match her voice actress and it caused a legit boycott? As did the decision to change the ninja girl outfits? What a fucking series.
MK is Bloodsport with superpowers. Bloodsport is 92 minutes long. This is a perfectly normal amount of time for a movie thats about people fighting in a tournament. Why would anyone possibly want to extend it with what would be obvious filler?
Disney adults / g*mers fail in so many facets of their lives, so often, that getting a shit re-release of a movie with a bunch of filler added counts as a 'win' to them
I just looked up the profiles of these people and they're obsessed with the snyder movie. Literally nothing else. Do these people like anything else other than comic book movies?
MORTAL KOMBAT IS LITERALLY NOTHING BUT MONSTERS AND KARATES FIGHTING EACH OTHER
You're clearly missing out on the Shakespearean drama of orange ninja's quest to get revenge on blue ninja for killing his clan (but it was actually the evil wizard that killed orange ninja's clan).
The backstories of every major Mortal Kombat character:
Liu Kang: I'm asian and I do kung fu because I have to protect earthrealm.
Johnny Cage: I'm White and I do movies and kung fu but now I fight for real because I have to protect earthrealm.
Sonya: I'm girl and I do kung fu because I'm Special Forces which are military but also cops i guess, and I have to protect earthrealm.
Jax: I'm big black guy who is also in special forces and has robot arms. I punch to defend earthrealm.
Raiden: I'm an east-asian god of thunder who is white and I do kung fu because I have to protect earthrealm. I was portrayed by Christopher Lambert in the original mortal kombat movie, and also played the Highlander. My appearance in the Epstein flight-logs makes it difficult for GnastyGnuts to enjoy these performances like he used to.
Shang Tsung: I'm Wizard and I do kung fu to take over earthrealm for my master Shao Khan, but also I sometimes do Starscream type shit and try to usurp him, or maybe that was just in the old TNT show Konquest.
Shao Khan: I'm a big ol' butthole, and I do hammer because it hit with hammer. Fuck you.
Sub-Zero: I'm a cryomancer or some shit, and I use it to do ice kung fu to help earthrealm or shao-khan depending on which sub-zero we're talking about, because there's two.
Scorpion: I'm undead ninja and I say get over here because sub-zero killed my family by being cooler than me.
Baraka: I look all fucked up and have blade hands. I do this shit because what else would I be doing?
Goro: I'm the cool boss character that always seems to be underwhelming whenever they're available to the player. I have four arms, and I'm a "proud warrior race" guy, which is my whole motivation.
Kitana: I'm a princess from another realm and I use blade fans to help my adoptive father/ captor Shao Khan. I mostly exist as a love interest for Liu Kang.
Raiden: I’m an east-asian god of thunder who is white and I do kung fu because I have to protect earthrealm. I was portrayed by Christopher Lambert in the original mortal kombat movie, and also played the Highlander. My appearance in the Epstein flight-logs makes it difficult for GnastyGnuts to enjoy these performances like he used to.
damn it really do be like that :deeper-sadness:
Jax: I’m big black guy who is also in special forces and has robot arms. I punch to defend earthrealm.
Jax in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation was just a roll up of every 90's Black catchphrase into one 'character'. You'd hope that Hollywood has at least evolved since then, but considering that Ray Fisher scrapped with Joss Whedon over adding the line 'Booyah' to the JL script, I'm assuming there won't be much progress on that front.
Not to defend Joss Whedon, but Booyah is literally the character's catchphrase In the comics/every animated version of him lol
Googled it and Fisher had a couple good points. After the Whedon rewrites, Cyborg was pretty much the only black character in the movie. This was one of many disagreements he had about black representation in the movie, not an isolated incident.
Nah I agree with him, I think the booyah line itself isn't worth defending either was just bringing it up since it's sort of part of the character so that alone isn't enough to be annoyed at the team.
But obviously there's way more issues than just that.
I'll admit that I was not aware of that, and it does add additional context to the heat between the two over the line.
I remember every last one of these characters and their story, even though I last played a Mortal Kombat game when I was a kid like 20 years ago
Shao Khan: I’m a big ol’ butthole, and I do hammer because it hit with hammer. Fuck you.
What if Final Boss but literally nobody cares? Hands down the least interesting character in a game that's mostly just color-swapped versions of three base characters.
damn, i really wish this movie would dive into the motivations of ice ninja and scorpion ninja
There have definitely been no movies worth watching that are less than 120 minutes.
Also look at these losers using hours when talking about movie lengths fucking newbies.
Lmao at anglos measuring shit in "stones", "elbows", "gallons", "fahrenheits", "hours" and "minutes". In the international system the rest of the world uses time is measured in seconds. Average movie duration is like seven kiloseconds.
capeshit should either:
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be a tight 90 mins
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be a series if you need to do worldbuilding
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not exist
this nerd needs to heem himself
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Weird gatekeeping. This is what years of capeshit does to you.
Apeshit>capeshit
I think originally it was shown as one but with a built in intermission halfway through.
Apparently they also cut like 50 minutes for the US because Americans wouldn't watch the whole thing.
at what point do we just go full bollywood where every movie's three hours long and is studio mandated to have at least one musical number
MK could be a dope film franchise if it was a cross between 80s slashers and modern CGI blockbusters. I just want to watch big dumb idiots literally punch each other's hearts out
What if Marital Arts Action Movie + Sci-Fi Action Movie + Commando Action Movie + Action-Horror Movie all at once?
The game is a shit premise for any kind of narrative. DBZ demonstrated that pretty handily. But as an opportunity to just do amazing cinematics, it's ideal.
The marital arts are when you call your wife nice things and then she smooches you
Had no clue they made a new MK movie. Nothing can top the original, such enjoyable schlock.
The only good movie Paul W. S. Anderson has ever directed. Alright Resident Evil 1 was okay, if I had a gun to my head and was forced to pick one from that franchise.
I love how shlocky that movie is, but damn watching that scene is painful. 75% of the hits are ruined by bad editing, Holywood never does martial arts action well.
"This isn't 2 monsters fighting each other". No, it's a Bruce Lee rip off and a JC Van Damme rip off fighting each other. I'm pretty sure I can get Liu Kang's backstory from any other Hollywood movie featuring Asian mysticism that was written by white writers.
