Mortal Kombat (2021)

[The Deadman]

Trailer is here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYH2...ab_channel=IGN

[Storm Eagle]

Originally Posted by The Deadman

Trailer is here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYH2...ab_channel=IGN

Not bad.

Best Buy will be releasing a steelbook set with the first two movies on March 30th, which will also include a digital code.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/mortal-...0&mpid=1310690

I might get it so I can use the digital code, but it would be nice if they were released on 4K.

[Coola Yagami]

This is gonna be cool. I don't think back in the 90s the world was ready for fatalities. You have to admit the idea of them was gorier than what the older games showed you. Back then kids played MK and we still had the 'adults shouldn't care about video games' stigma. Parents would be dragged to watch the movie with their kids and if they saw heads ripped off with glee they woulda put the kibosh on playing MK at home.


But now those kids grew up, gaming grew up, adults play MK and the fatalities of MK9-11 have gotten increasingly more violent and intense. Youtube won't even show fatalities of MK 11 unless they're black and white or done on inhuman characters with green blood. For or better or for worse we've gotten desensitized to MK by now so the world is more than ready for a R-Rated Fatality filled 'Sub-Zero stabbing someone with their frozen blood's craziness.

[ZariusTwo]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

But now those kids grew up, gaming grew up, adults play MK and the fatalities of MK9-11 have gotten increasingly more violent and intense. .

Blood and gore isn't "grown up" either.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

Blood and gore isn't "grown up" either.

No, but little kids probably shouldn't see Cassie begging for her life seconds before she's skewered and her eyeballs are yanked out and whatever else in a super-realistic fashion.

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

Blood and gore isn't "grown up" either.

C'mon, guy.

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Also, looks pretty good. The only thing that jumped out as kinda crummy was the abysmal CGI on Jax's arms. Should've just glued some prosthetics on him. Otherwise, pretty good.

Originally Posted by IMJ

I feel like they took too many liberties with the ninja's costumes. Honestly, the web shorts from some time back where better than this.

Eh, I could do without Scorpion's hood, but they've each had 100 different costumes by now, anyway (including a phase where Sub-Zero looked almost exactly like Shredder, for some reason), so I'm over it.

As for the "Legacy" web series... that Raiden episode is all I want, forever. I loved that sh*t.

[ssjup81]

I still like the original Mortal Kombat movie. It wasn't bad for what it was and was close to the story and had elements from the first two games. Did it have issues...yep, most definitely, like "evil bad guy Scorpion" wasn't a bad guy, really and the fact that they didn't keep in Goro's actual fatality...but the bottom line is they pretty much kept to the story, the actors portraying the characters were good (I liked the casting), and it was overall fun to watch with a cool soundtrack which I still listen to to this day (I own the MK movie soundtrack on CD). Mortal Kombat Annihilation....doesn't exist in my mind...that fateful day in the theater its second weekend of 1997 never happened and I actually saved my $5 or $6 that day for the ticket.

Now, I knew of this upcoming film, but not the specifics. It looks like it'll be pretty cool and I hope that it does okay and will not only be about the gore part of the games. Character and story are a factor too. Going back to the original MK movie, with the exception of Goro, (and I did play the games at the time), I was so into the story and characters and atmosphere of the film, it didn't hit me that they didn't use a lot of gore and some of the characters didn't use their signature fatalities. My aunt pointed it out and I was like, "Hey yeah....you're right!" lol So yeah, I hope they don't make it a gore-fest just for the sake of having gore.

Having this center around an OC is a bit iffy with me and hope it doesn't come across like a fanfiction come to life. Junk like that makes me a bit nervous, especially with a video game adaptation, especially when you have a bit roster of characters to center around by this point. I guess, for me, I wouldn't want it to turn out like the Resident "Alice" series of films.

[CyberCubed]

Did they straight up replace Johnny Cage with some new fanfic self-insert character named Cole?

Whelp, that's it, I'm out. Johnny Cage was internal to the story of Mortal Kombat and the first tournament and if he's not there the movie is already ruined forever.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by ssjup81

I still like the original Mortal Kombat movie. It wasn't bad for what it was and was close to the story and had elements from the first two games. Did it have issues...yep, most definitely, like "evil bad guy Scorpion" wasn't a bad guy, really and the fact that they didn't keep in Goro's actual fatality...but the bottom line is they pretty much kept to the story, the actors portraying the characters were good (I liked the casting), and it was overall fun to watch with a cool soundtrack which I still listen to to this day (I own the MK movie soundtrack on CD). Mortal Kombat Annihilation....doesn't exist in my mind...that fateful day in the theater its second weekend of 1997 never happened and I actually saved my $5 or $6 that day for the ticket.

Now, I knew of this upcoming film, but not the specifics. It looks like it'll be pretty cool and I hope that it does okay and will not only be about the gore part of the games. Character and story are a factor too. Going back to the original MK movie, with the exception of Goro, (and I did play the games at the time), I was so into the story and characters and atmosphere of the film, it didn't hit me that they didn't use a lot of gore and some of the characters didn't use their signature fatalities. My aunt pointed it out and I was like, "Hey yeah....you're right!" lol So yeah, I hope they don't make it a gore-fest just for the sake of having gore.

Having this center around an OC is a bit iffy with me and hope it doesn't come across like a fanfiction come to life. Junk like that makes me a bit nervous, especially with a video game adaptation, especially when you have a bit roster of characters to center around by this point. I guess, for me, I wouldn't want it to turn out like the Resident "Alice" series of films.

To be fair, Goro didn't have a Fatality til like... Ulitmate MK3 or something.

[Sumac]

Trailer doesn't look bad, surprisingly.
I don't like that it is too serious and color corrections in sucks, but it doesn't look abysmal, so it is a step in a right direction.

Actors look nice, costumes don't look bad.

My main concerns are the story (in particular this Cole guy) and fights.

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

To be fair, Goro didn't have a Fatality til like... Ulitmate MK3 or something.

Goro didn't had Fatalities of his own until MK Deception (which is MK6).
You can did Fatalities with him in MK4 with a cheat code, but those were finishers borrowed from other characters (Reiko and someone else).

[ssjup81]

I thought that Goro had a move where he held you by his lower arms while beating your head in with the top ones in the first game? Not a fatality but I was expecting that.