Mystery Mortal Kombat Trailer Will Blow You Away
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This isn't Mortal Kombat, this is just some brutal beat-em-up movie that has no sense and overly violent. True that's what made the original Mortal Kombat game good, but it boasts not having any of the mystical/magical elements. That's part of what made Mortal Kombat. I watched this trailer and while I admit it's good, I got absolutely no feel of Mortal Kombat.
Yaaaaaaaawn. What a disappointing trailer. As an action film, sure, that looked fine. But as Mortal Kombat? Not at all.
The redesigns of the characters I can deal with. In fact, some were pretty cool. The fight scenes were impressive. The acting and dialogue was over-the-top, but in a good way. The plot... eh, I'll pass on by that. The Mortal Kombat feel? Completely nonexistent.
The redesigns of the characters I can deal with. In fact, some were pretty cool. The fight scenes were impressive. The acting and dialogue was over-the-top, but in a good way. The plot... eh, I'll pass on by that. The Mortal Kombat feel? Completely nonexistent.
Just read MovieBob's article and decide to give this a look. I disagree with him. This looks a HELL of a lot more interesting than the other movies they tried. It seems like they have a viable story rather than the crap they tried to pull out of the games.
Now I can pin down what bugs me.
When they say "Codename" it sounds like GIJoe or something...
If a murderer has a street name it would be an alias.
So if we are cleaning up Mortal Kombat... you just made it even goofier to explain how they throw fireballs at each other....
When they say "Codename" it sounds like GIJoe or something...
If a murderer has a street name it would be an alias.
So if we are cleaning up Mortal Kombat... you just made it even goofier to explain how they throw fireballs at each other....
This looks bloody retarded. It's Mortal Kombat in name only. It's almost like they tried to make some gorefest/crime drama movie but didn't want to compete with Saw so they slapped on a familiar brand. Seriously, if you're looking forward to this movie, you're as dumb as the studio execs think you are and you'll watch anything with Mortal Kombat in the title.
If they weren't insulting their viewers by calling it Mortal Kombat when it has NOTHING to do with it, other than the character names, I'd actually be interested.
Can say it adds back story but MK already had back story and it wasn't a gang of freakshow serial killers in New York or whatever city this is. All the over the top fantasy stuff is being stripped away for what? Not only are they rewriting/ruining all the characters to make the "gritty" and "real" (because that's what sells!) but the entire premise of the game series is flat out gone now. There's a tournament here, but for what? What's at stake if a bunch of psychos kill each other? Yeah the originals were cheesey and stupid but they were obvious cash ins and so is this. They stuck that MK title on there to see how many lemmings they could pull in.
If they weren't insulting their viewers by calling it Mortal Kombat when it has NOTHING to do with it, other than the character names, I'd actually be interested.
Can say it adds back story but MK already had back story and it wasn't a gang of freakshow serial killers in New York or whatever city this is. All the over the top fantasy stuff is being stripped away for what? Not only are they rewriting/ruining all the characters to make the "gritty" and "real" (because that's what sells!) but the entire premise of the game series is flat out gone now. There's a tournament here, but for what? What's at stake if a bunch of psychos kill each other? Yeah the originals were cheesey and stupid but they were obvious cash ins and so is this. They stuck that MK title on there to see how many lemmings they could pull in.
This is actually a short film technically called "Mortal Kombat: Rebirth". It is entirely unofficial and a stand-alone project but it also serves as a proof of concept for a possible REALISTIC Mortsl Kombat film.
Not that movies based on fighting games and/or "Infiltrate the highly illegal fight-to-the-death tournament that every government agency we have seems to already know A LOT about so we can take it down" films have ever done that well, I'm just saying.
Not that movies based on fighting games and/or "Infiltrate the highly illegal fight-to-the-death tournament that every government agency we have seems to already know A LOT about so we can take it down" films have ever done that well, I'm just saying.
Yay, Scorpion as the main protagonist! Liu Kang was a crappy white pretty boy chick magnet!
Not that I'll actually get a chance to play the game/watch the movie...
Not that I'll actually get a chance to play the game/watch the movie...
They tried Mortal Kombat movies the way we know it, and it failed.
This trailer, it comes off as something Uwe Boll would do when making a movie based off a franchise. The only difference is, this way seems to work.
This trailer, it comes off as something Uwe Boll would do when making a movie based off a franchise. The only difference is, this way seems to work.
I find this little argument hilarious. I love it how Zeithri is talking about this (quite intriguing) little trailer is ridiculous and silly, when we're talking about Mortal Kombat - a game who's original idea was "Like Street Fighter, but with gore turned up to level ABSURD."Zeithri said:
Is this 'our' MK? No. That's the point. I applaud whoever is behind this for taking a beloved and ill-treated franchise (let's be honest, MK Vs DC was baaaad), spinning it in a new and exciting manner (Scorpion's harpoon now being a CO2-powered grappling hook and punching through a guy's neck? AWESOME), and allowing us this teeny tiny sneak peek. Is the movie going to be about a lot of detective work? I'd bet my right nut* that it isn't. That is the thin veneer of writer's excuse for the eventual next hour and a half of watching a renowned assassin slaughter his way through a modern reimagining of some of our most beloved (and, looking at Reptile, FUGGIN' CREEPY) characters. I hope to the gaming gods that this movie is real and in the works.
To those of you whining about how this isn't like how the games were originally designed, just stop. We've got two movies that fulfill that little quota (not one, but TWO) of fan nostalgia, and look how they turned out. We've got Hollywood's version of 'our' MK; let's let the writers and producers behind the cameras take our beloved Mortal Kombat and craft it into something new and, gods willing, awesome.
*No actual bet or payout will be granted.
I like. It looked quite dark and violent, but it doesn't seem to take itself particularly seriously.
