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Topic: Mortal Kombat (Read 17583 times)
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Ozzu
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« Last Edit: June 08, 2010, 06:24:04 PM by Ozzu »
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Riggswolfe
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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.
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Aez
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Reptile also worked. Baraka and the black cop are terrible.
I'll watch it.
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UnSub
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Yeah, I always thought Mortal Kombat was too soft and needed a dark re-imagining.  I'll watch it.
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Draegan
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That was pretty much awesome.
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Lakov_Sanite
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Yeah, I always thought Mortal Kombat was too soft and needed a dark re-imagining.  LOL indeed. That said, I'm going to watch this SO hard.
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~a horrific, dark simulacrum that glares balefully at us, with evil intent.
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DLRiley
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I gotta mourn for johnny cage 
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Lakov_Sanite
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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.
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~a horrific, dark simulacrum that glares balefully at us, with evil intent.
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JWIV
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Johnny Cage is not afraid to die!
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Abagadro
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-H.L. Mencken
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UnSub
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Johnny Cage punches men in the nuts as standard. Ergo, he must always die.
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Ozzu
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I wonder if the black cop dude (Jax) will start yanking people's arms off at some point. 
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WindupAtheist
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"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.
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UnSub
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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.
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K9
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Chaps, it's a mortal fucking combat movie. If you're watching it for dialogue, acting talent or plot, you're doing it wrong.
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dusematic
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This is the website lamenting the treatment of the legacy of GI Joe and Transformers.
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Ironwood
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Get over here.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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01101010
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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That 1 sec flash of sub-zero  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.
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Bunk
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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.
You obviously haven't seen Black Dynamite. "I am smiling"
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HaemishM
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I don't know, who put Saw in my Mortal Kombat movie? 
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Slyfeind
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Christ, the '95 movie was perfect imo. What's next, a dark reimagining of SUPERMAN???
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Ironwood
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Red Son Please.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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01101010
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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 This makes me want to see the movie, for better or worse.
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Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
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sickrubik
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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"Okay, so... Mortal Kombat," she tweets. "It's not a game trailer. Actually was made for the director to sell WB on his vision for a reimagined MK film."
Ryan said she did her role as a favor to a friend. "No idea yet what WB's reaction to it was," she adds. I can tell you what my reaction was: stoked.
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« Last Edit: June 09, 2010, 11:10:24 AM by sickrubik »
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beer geek.
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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.
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Slyfeind
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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.
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"Role playing in an MMO is more like an open orchestra with no conductor, anyone of any skill level can walk in at any time, and everyone brings their own instrument and plays whatever song they want. Then toss PvP into the mix and things REALLY get ugly!" -Count Nerfedalot
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dusematic
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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.
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Slyfeind
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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.
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"Role playing in an MMO is more like an open orchestra with no conductor, anyone of any skill level can walk in at any time, and everyone brings their own instrument and plays whatever song they want. Then toss PvP into the mix and things REALLY get ugly!" -Count Nerfedalot
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Koyasha
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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.'?
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Margalis
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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.
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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patience
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OP is assuming its somewhat of a design-goal of eve to make players happy. this is however not the case.
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pxib
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MORTAL KOMBAT!
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Ratman_tf
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« Last Edit: June 10, 2010, 10:13:33 PM by Ratman_tf »
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 "What I'm saying is you should make friends with a few catasses, they smell funny but they're very helpful." -Calantus makes the best of a smelly situation.
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Draegan
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MK has a story and mythology?
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Slyfeind
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I imagine "Code Name Rayden" as an electrician who went insane and cut himself. Raiden’s not going to be an electrician with lasers on his forearm or anything like that. Lol.
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"Role playing in an MMO is more like an open orchestra with no conductor, anyone of any skill level can walk in at any time, and everyone brings their own instrument and plays whatever song they want. Then toss PvP into the mix and things REALLY get ugly!" -Count Nerfedalot
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