Hot take:
This is a pro us military story about intervention to help a native population against the monsters who are going to wipe them out without our help.
IE: we are officially living in Starship troopers.
Are you doing your part?
I'm genuinely curious what their argument is regarding why they had to do it this way.
Like obviously the real answer is: "Can't afford all those cgi monsters without that sweet us military propoganda money."
But I assume that's still gauche to say out loud....
isekai
Some day we'll get a major Hollywood film where the first scene is the main character getting hit by a truck and dying, but not today.
Yearning for the dulcet tones of dub Kuwabara's "You're-a-meshi"
E: discussion just brought up some self-suppressed memories of early bi feelings toward Kurama, now idk how to feel other than a bit sad and nostalgic
Paul W.S. Anderson
Hey, Mortal Kombat was good! Twenty-five years ago...
Nowadays it seems like Anderson's directing career exists solely to keep his wife's acting career afloat. Not that I don't respect the hustle.
wait... love of imperialism is on the rise in my age bracket? :horror: noooooooo
we were the chosen ones, we were supposed to destroy the imperials not join them!
I mean, I can buy the idea that a concept of badass US soldiers fighting fantasy monsters is more palatable to a lot of Americans than just a weird fantasy universe they've never heard about.
I'm reminded of Gate - Thus the JSDF Fought There! and how stupid that was.
That trailer looks exceptionally horrible. The characters are in this huge desert setting but they barely move at all, I would bet cash money that they parked the HMMV in a big garage, set up green screens around it, and filmed half of the movie in one fucking room.
Honestly I was bothered by it being a Monster Hunter fan.
But then when you think about it, its pretty damn rare that a video game movie is ever really meant for fans of w/e game its based on.
On the other hand I don't really see how this is going to catch the interests of people who've never even heard of the game. Might as well pander to the game fans as much as possible.
Might as well pander to the game fans as much as possible
Hollywood will never learn this lesson, but they really should. The only fondly remembered video game films are The Wizard and Mortal Kombat, and while MK is extremely cheesy frankly that was the correct choice because the game is too.
"Hey kids, if you join the military, you can be heroes too, just like your favourite videogame!"
Thanks for ruining Monster Hunter for me Hollywood.
Back in the eighties it was cheaper to have your fantasy characters travel to Los Angeles and fight a bad guy in our world, nowadays it's cheaper to have your real world characters go to the fantasy world via a green screen room.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MonsterHunter/comments/jbqm1f/a_reminder_that_the_director_of_the_monster
W S Anderson is not good, folks.
Edit: when I get off work imma rant about how a non-shit director could adapt monhun
I don't think Capcom could afford him, but now I'm insanely curious about how he'd do a video game adaptation.
Anyone involved in making this about the US military should never be allowed to make films again.
