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A short MK "movie" or teaser of some type. It has some decent names in it, so I'm not sure if it's just an 8 minute Youtube video or if there's an actual movie to follow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_MqZn7E-mk&v

Edit: Yeah, it's a movie.

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni2782669/

Looks shitty. Jeri Ryan is too old for Sonya. Killing off Johnny in the trailer is a mistake. The black dude was a terrible actor. The only thing that worked for me was Scorpion.

Reptile also worked. Baraka and the black cop are terrible.

I'll watch it.

Yeah, I always thought Mortal Kombat was too soft and needed a dark re-imagining.  :grin:

I'll watch it.

That was pretty much awesome.

LOL indeed.


That said, I'm going to watch this SO hard.

I gotta mourn for johnny cage  :ye_gods:

Thinking about it though, the travesty of this movie will be if they end up following an uninteresting character like sonya.  If the whole movie were scorpion? yes but I get the feeling we'll be stuck focused on liu kang again.

Johnny Cage is not afraid to die! 

This is a "proof of concept" or "test" short that is sometimes made to try to sell studios on greenlighting a picture. So Cage dying won't necessarily happen in the actual film.

http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/2008-12-6-motion-captured/posts/what-is-that-mysterious-mortal-kombat-video?m=p

Johnny Cage punches men in the nuts as standard. Ergo, he must always die.

I wonder if the black cop dude (Jax) will start yanking people's arms off at some point.  :why_so_serious:

"We had Johnny Cage working for us undercover. Yeah, the old action star. Because I figured, hey, a guy whose face has probably been seen by everyone in the world would make a great undercover cop. Inexplicably, he was somehow beheaded on his first case."

But yeah, a Mortal Kombat flick with a hard R rating? I'm down.

If you start to pick away at that, next you'll be asking how a deranged plastic surgeon became a martial arts expert, or why he didn't just stab Cage first thing.

Chaps, it's a mortal fucking combat movie. If you're watching it for dialogue, acting talent or plot, you're doing it wrong.

This is the website lamenting the treatment of the legacy of GI Joe and Transformers.

Get over here.

That 1 sec flash of sub-zero  :drill:

That said, I will probably wait till it goes to PPV or DVD. But I will see this at some point. Lets hope they slut up Katana.

You obviously haven't seen Black Dynamite. "I am smiling"

I don't know, who put Saw in my Mortal Kombat movie?  :oh_i_see:

Christ, the '95 movie was perfect imo. What's next, a dark reimagining of SUPERMAN???

Red Son Please.

(http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s146/phliptop18/subzero.jpg)

This makes me want to see the movie, for better or worse.

Looks like it was simply a pitch for someone's vision for a reboot. Not even sure how I feel about it. I may just not care enough about MK anymore. The only thing that made me giddy a little bit is hearing the "GET OVER HERE" after the fade to black. Well, and Cage dying was great.

http://kotaku.com/5558850/that-mortal-kombat-trailer-jeri-ryan-explains

That was just completely stupid.

I'll probably watch it via one of the free networks at some point in the distant future. If it gets made.

I like how they explained everything with science. That's what made the Street Fighter movie such a hit. And it's DARK!!! Like Batman. So the two together should make it AWESOME, LIKE HOW UWE BOLL DESCRIBED THE DUNGEON SIEGE MOVIE AS A CROSS BETWEEN BRAVEHEART AND LORD OF THE RINGS!!!

Christ that looks stupid. It's trying way too hard to be taken seriously.

I mean doesn't a MK film have to be dark?  It was the most violent and hardcore fighting game of its time.  Seems like a pretty natural direction.

I'd be ok with violent and hardcore, if it was still apeshit weird. Giving Reptile a skin condition is like making vampirism a disease.

I didn't get past "Code Name Baraka" before turning it off. I imagine "Code Name Shang Tsung" as a stage magician who went insane and cut himself, and "Code Name Rayden" as an electrician who went insane and cut himself. And "Code Name Sub Zero" as a dude with fire extinguishers...who went insane and cut himself.

Yeah, that's what makes this whole thing insanely moronic.  The looks and such are ok, but the premise is ridiculous.  What, did they look at the existing Mortal Kombat movies and go, 'you know, what was really wrong with these was the Mortal Kombat universe/storyline/mythology/etc, let's take all that out.'?

Mortal Kombat should be dark but not "gritty" or "realistic." Mortal Kombat is stupid and makes no fucking sense, trying to force it to make sense is retarded.

I watched the trailer without sound, it looked like a boring generic martial arts movie with goofy characters. Yeah, it's more "serious" compared to actual Mortal Kombat but it's still goofy as hell compared to a real movie.

Guys settle down. The director pitching this concept is way ahead of you.

It's more like Grim Dark Harry Potter meets TDK.



 Exclusive Interview with MORTAL KOMBAT: REBIRTH Director Kevin  Tancharoen; Learn How Short Film Came Together and What He Wants to do  in a Feature. (http://www.collider.com/2010/06/09/kevin-tancharoen-interview-mortal-kombat-rebirth-feature-film/)

He spent his own money and social capital to make this project happen but he already has it in mind to insert some mysticism into the project if he is picked. He's just going to make sure the mysticism has some grounded rules instead of making everyone McGuffin.

CHINESE NINJA WARRIOR!

Pass on the Se7ening of Mortal Kombat. I'm sorry, Codename: Mortal Kombat: the seriousning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2o7XyM7Dv8

MK has a story and mythology?

Lol.

Not that most people who play the games would ever know, but yeah.  I stumbled across some wiki with lots of information once when I was looking for a picture of Sheeva, and it went on and on about characters, story, etc.  Pretty coherent for the most part, too, it seemed.  The point about the mysticism having grounded rules and all that, that this guy talks about, is already there.

Personally I hated all the outer-world BS that they created in order to market some type of story-driven 3d action adventure/fighting game that one of Mortal Kombats 12,000 reiterations on the PS2 became.

Id like to see MK vs DC Universe 3d action gorefest with nukes and the original guy who played Goro in the 1995 version.

ARISE! Seems to be they are moving to webisodes for this. Part 1....annnnnd, action!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s6UiEuCYXA

(http://www.narimanmousavi.com/sandbox/untitled%20folder/terrible-fall.jpg)

 :ye_gods:

That guy's riding my bike!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTSEa--Alkw

Part 2 is up. I can't say I am fully appalled by it, but it does feel like amateur hour.

It's not bad. It's over the top and the first two parts don't really seem to have much to do with Mortal Kombat, though it's also mostly just backstory. It's certainly better than Mortal Kombat 2. I want Jax to pull out some Black Dynamite shit, thought.  :why_so_serious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqlaU5OMsks

part 3... zzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz........  :oh_i_see:

I'm actually enjoying this series quite a bit.  Mostly through poking fun at it MST3K style, but I unironically enjoy most of the fight scenes and their different twist on the MK world.  My expectations being as low as they could get and simultaneously playing through the new Mortal Kombat game helped quite a bit, too.

For a small budget affair, it hasn't been half bad so far.  Still plenty of time for it to go off the rails, I suppose.  I don't really get Jeri Ryan as Sonya, though.

Don't get how? As in, "how did they get her," or, "why did they cast her?"

For the second, because she's hot and has geek attraction factor.  For the first, all I can guess is she owed someone a favor.

Or she hasn't really done anything in a long time... all about the bills man.

I'd offer that, but then I actually went and looked at IMDB.   :oh_i_see:

She's a regular on "Body of Proof" was on "Leverage" for a while and prior to that was on "Shark" with James Woods.  She was also in "O.C." and "Boston Public" with a few guest star appearance roles scattered throughout.

Just because she's not playing sex vixen for geek mastrubation aid doesn't mean she hasn't worked.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIFbGNqs0JQ

 :oh_i_see:

Yikes...  :facepalm:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4QRSbf9H5M

Missed posting part 5... I am sorry (for posting it at all)  :ye_gods:


edit: part 6 is up...as well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tWh4Z42SJk

ok part 6 is much better... they almost lost me with the Mileena/Kitana bullshit.

Episode 7: Scorpion and Sub-Zero Pt. 1 (http://youtu.be/O5Wnc8OyUj0)

Mostly dialogue, and they haven't put up Pt. 2 yet, so it's sorta meh.

I liked the concept behind Episode 6, though.

This series is taking a huge step away from what was put out in the trailer link on the first page. I am hoping this is just back story and it catches up to that, or else I may rage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQv-kYsclSM

Part 8... just to be consistent  :ye_gods:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OwDyWfjb48

episode 9... Cyrax and Sektor. meh..