Mystery Mortal Kombat Trailer Will Blow You Away
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Man that is the boot up the arse any MK reboot needed! I hope it's legit and in production.
EDIT: It seems to be legit and called Mortal Kombat: Rebirth
EDIT: It seems to be legit and called Mortal Kombat: Rebirth
What about hiring an actor as a secret agent for no reason, installing impossible metal blades into your arms, a cannibal called Lizard, and a person called Sub-Zero who looks like a machine in that trailer?Akalistos said:
Serious and realistic aren't the same thing.
Well, hot damn, a [too lengthy by normal standard] trailer that has actually piqued my interest for a game that died out in the dawn of the new millennium. You can tell Hollywood has pretty much lost all of its originality. I'd still like to see it though, just to see what direction this goes in without all of its demon magic and alternate realms and such and replaced with near tangible realism.
Sooo... anyone gonna predict how the game [made after the film] is going to turn out?
Sooo... anyone gonna predict how the game [made after the film] is going to turn out?
One need the other or it's pointless. That what i meant. But like i said, i didn't like Street Fighter Chun-li, tho i like Kristin Kreuk, and that trailer shanked it for me. I don't want a MK Mythology Scorpion mix with the Suffering.TheTygerfire said:
I see what you did there.Deofuta said:
On topic: To all you people bitching about the lack of magic, remember 2 things. One, people bitched when it turned out that the Dark Knight's Joker was using makeup instead of having permantly dyed skin yet when it came otu it was awesome and two, despite the down-to-eath origins of Reptile and Baraka, Scoprion has no irsis and sub-zero looks like he's got a breather mask permantly infused on his face. So it's possible they're saving the supernatural stuff for later. If not, this is still awesome.
Look up 'like', 'enjoy' is another way of saying you 'like' something.Tehlanna TPX said:
Like
verb
find agreeable, enjoyable, or satisfactory.
So, you are saying they must 'enjoy' or 'like' something, or else they are not open-minded.
They can do neither, and still be open-minded.
They don't have to like the trailer, and a trailer or teaser is a way for people to judge a film before they see it, to see if they will like or dislike a movie based on what is presented.
So yes, they can dislike the trailer, and disagree with or dislike the movie.
It's the same as reading the blurbs on the back of a book, for one that either has or has not come out yet.
Thanks though.
This is... what... wow... I can't.. oh... wow... AWESOME.
OK, deep breath.
Mortal Kombat hasn't been something we've been able to take seriously since we were 13 years old (whatever year that was for you, it was the last time you could take it seriously). This could be what we need to make a serious movie out of a non-serious game series. People complained about the Super Mario Brothers movie because it took out all the brightly coloured Mushroom Kingdom trappings of the games, but honestly those would have been unfilmable anyway; the problem was that the movie replaced them with interdimensional dinosaurs. This is Mortal Kombat without the Outworlds, Thunder Gods and magic, but it keeps the important points- a fighting tournament, a cast of bizarre freaks and an insane level of gore. As Moviebob pointed out, the Prince of Persia movie being a decent film was no big deal because the games themselves were already so cinematic that making a non-crap adaptation was no great achievement. THIS really could be THE BIG ONE.
OK, deep breath.
Mortal Kombat hasn't been something we've been able to take seriously since we were 13 years old (whatever year that was for you, it was the last time you could take it seriously). This could be what we need to make a serious movie out of a non-serious game series. People complained about the Super Mario Brothers movie because it took out all the brightly coloured Mushroom Kingdom trappings of the games, but honestly those would have been unfilmable anyway; the problem was that the movie replaced them with interdimensional dinosaurs. This is Mortal Kombat without the Outworlds, Thunder Gods and magic, but it keeps the important points- a fighting tournament, a cast of bizarre freaks and an insane level of gore. As Moviebob pointed out, the Prince of Persia movie being a decent film was no big deal because the games themselves were already so cinematic that making a non-crap adaptation was no great achievement. THIS really could be THE BIG ONE.
Just plowing thru the thread from the start, and had to comment on this argument.Wedlock49 said:
Surely Jax, being a law enforcement officer, and promoted, is probably being played as quite clean cut and uptight, and so his use of the word mutilation would be his view of just about anything beyond an earring, it's not what everyone in the world things, just a projection of one fictional character's opinion.
However, yes, going as far as surgically implanting retractable blades into your forearms, counts as mutilation I'd say, again, my opinion, not fact.
i think this looks awesome! though why are ppl saying the original is great and this is crap? why cant both be good? i loved the original movie, and Johnny Cage and scorpion are my 2 fave characters. sucks that Johnny keeps dying but cool that scorpion is the main guy. i think that if they made a true remake of the original movie now, ppl would find it boring and done before. Making everything real i think is a good step at the moment.
My first thought was "Who got Condemned in my Mortal Kombat?"
It seems that it's been confirmed that this is for real...
http://chud.com/articles/articles/23984/1/IS-THIS-VIDEO-FOR-THE-NEW-MORTAL-KOMBAT-MOVIE/Page1.html
To be honest, I've been a fan of MK back in one and two, three made me start not care with the whole 'dial a combo' game play and the moves to 3D didn't make it much better to me. I did like MK vs DC, but with almost no one around me that wants to play it and I not thinking much of online since it just feels the same as playing a computer, just with more time between matches, I didn't get a lot of play on it.
As for the first movie, I thought it was as perfect as you can get with the source material. If I remember right, the first game was set up as a mystical Enter the Dragon, I even remember something about a big celebrity was supposed to be in it (I think Van Damn, but could be wrong). Well, this turned it back into that, used the set up mythology and did something that was important in anything like this, kept it simple. That's where the problems started with the second movie.... though the problem list for that would take forever.
So now we are here, 15 years later, all the things that made MK a big deal back in the day are rather common. While I didn't play the games, I did fallow the stories and I do honestly think they stretched what they can do with the base story they started with the first after 3, tacking on more and more like it was The Land Before Time or something (Though not as badly as that.. just an extreme example). This is why they need to start out fresh, one way is to relook at it.
First off, they badly need to cull the heard, much like Sonic the Hedgehog, there's way too much of a supporting cast (especially if you want to make a movie), even the games have had several that are just bloated as hell as notable by the pallet swap Ninjas.
Next there's the lack of mystical elements in the trailer, I don't think it means that they are completely out, hell, who says Outworld is out. All we see is in this incarnation is that the government at least knows that the tournament is going on and that some nut jobs are going to be in it they would rather not see come back. They don't seem to know (or don't say) what this Scorpion is in for, just that Subzero is going to be there.
Well, I think I'm rambling now, I'll keep an eye on this and hope for the best, at least they seem to have decided to get away from the "we still want to get kids out to see it" vibe that got us the animated toon and took things away from what the game's story was far more then this clip did.
It seems that it's been confirmed that this is for real...
http://chud.com/articles/articles/23984/1/IS-THIS-VIDEO-FOR-THE-NEW-MORTAL-KOMBAT-MOVIE/Page1.html
To be honest, I've been a fan of MK back in one and two, three made me start not care with the whole 'dial a combo' game play and the moves to 3D didn't make it much better to me. I did like MK vs DC, but with almost no one around me that wants to play it and I not thinking much of online since it just feels the same as playing a computer, just with more time between matches, I didn't get a lot of play on it.
As for the first movie, I thought it was as perfect as you can get with the source material. If I remember right, the first game was set up as a mystical Enter the Dragon, I even remember something about a big celebrity was supposed to be in it (I think Van Damn, but could be wrong). Well, this turned it back into that, used the set up mythology and did something that was important in anything like this, kept it simple. That's where the problems started with the second movie.... though the problem list for that would take forever.
So now we are here, 15 years later, all the things that made MK a big deal back in the day are rather common. While I didn't play the games, I did fallow the stories and I do honestly think they stretched what they can do with the base story they started with the first after 3, tacking on more and more like it was The Land Before Time or something (Though not as badly as that.. just an extreme example). This is why they need to start out fresh, one way is to relook at it.
First off, they badly need to cull the heard, much like Sonic the Hedgehog, there's way too much of a supporting cast (especially if you want to make a movie), even the games have had several that are just bloated as hell as notable by the pallet swap Ninjas.
Next there's the lack of mystical elements in the trailer, I don't think it means that they are completely out, hell, who says Outworld is out. All we see is in this incarnation is that the government at least knows that the tournament is going on and that some nut jobs are going to be in it they would rather not see come back. They don't seem to know (or don't say) what this Scorpion is in for, just that Subzero is going to be there.
Well, I think I'm rambling now, I'll keep an eye on this and hope for the best, at least they seem to have decided to get away from the "we still want to get kids out to see it" vibe that got us the animated toon and took things away from what the game's story was far more then this clip did.
I'm conflicted here. On one hand, I want to declare this as pure awesome and tell all the "But it's not Mortal Kombat!" ninnies to go sulk in the corner, but that would be hypocritical since I get my panties in a twist when one of my favourite franchises gets "rebooted" (*cough* XCOM *cough*).
Overall, looks like it might do for Mortal Kombat what the last two Batman movies did for the Batman franchise - move it into present day while retaining a solid core of the original. But I also understand people not liking the change. Not because they're afraid of change, but because they see it as calling oranges apples...
Overall, looks like it might do for Mortal Kombat what the last two Batman movies did for the Batman franchise - move it into present day while retaining a solid core of the original. But I also understand people not liking the change. Not because they're afraid of change, but because they see it as calling oranges apples...
Found on the internet:
"From Jeri Ryan's Twitter feed (Follow her on Twitter at: @JeriLRyan),
"It's not a game trailer. Actually was made for the director to sell WB on his vision for a reimagined MK film.
More MK FAQs: I did it as a favor to a friend. No idea yet what WB's reaction to it was. And I'm not sure how you can contact WB...
...(cont.) to push them to make it. But you guys are resourceful...! ;-)"
This explains there is no new MK movie in the works... but a director is trying to sell producers on making a new one.
"From Jeri Ryan's Twitter feed (Follow her on Twitter at: @JeriLRyan),
"It's not a game trailer. Actually was made for the director to sell WB on his vision for a reimagined MK film.
More MK FAQs: I did it as a favor to a friend. No idea yet what WB's reaction to it was. And I'm not sure how you can contact WB...
...(cont.) to push them to make it. But you guys are resourceful...! ;-)"
This explains there is no new MK movie in the works... but a director is trying to sell producers on making a new one.