Mortal Kombat (2021)

[TigerClaw]

The Bluray, 4K and 4k Steelbook Edition are available for pre-order at Best Buy, Its expected to release on July 13. There's no info on the special features yet.
https://media.comicbook.com/2021/05/...=700:427,smart

[IMJ]

This became a no-hard-copy, "digital only" acquisition for me the minute actor-dude criticized LOTR for having too many white people in it. Cancel culture. If you can't beat 'em....

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by IMJ

This became a no-hard-copy, "digital only" acquisition for me the minute actor-dude criticized LOTR for having too many white people in it. Cancel culture. If you can't beat 'em....

Geez.... no Johnny cause 'too many white people'. One of the actors complain that another movie series has 'too many white people'.

This anti-white hatred ******** is spreading and affecting our favorite franchises guys....

[Sumac]

Originally Posted by ChosenOne

I'm still waiting for you to point out where exactly I said that.

I have shown it to you, but if you want to pretend to be ignorant - be my guest.

Originally Posted by ChosenOne

And apparently Mongols don't exist... Odd.

Have you ever read the books? Even in the movies, what do you suppose, say, the Haradrim, were based on? Australians?

I've read the books, but because I am not obsessed with "racism" none of the characters came as being a negative racial stereotype.

[Coola Yagami]

OK, let's stop with the 'let's find racism where there isn't any and pretend to be offended' BS. Lord of the Rings is it what it is. The mythical creatures are just that, mythical creatures. Just stop and get that nonsense out of here, racist.

Yeah, cause people that only see the race into thing and want to force racism where there isn't any are racists themselves.

[ChosenOne]

Originally Posted by Sumac

I have shown it to you, but if you want to pretend to be ignorant - be my guest.

I've read the books, but because I am not obsessed with "racism" none of the characters came as being a negative racial stereotype.

Still waiting to be shown where I said that and/or am "obsessed with racism".

[Sumac]

Originally Posted by ChosenOne

Still waiting to be shown where I said that and/or am "obsessed with racism".

Are you always that daft?

Do you need to understand everything in such a literal manner?

[ChosenOne]

Originally Posted by Sumac

Are you always that daft?

Do you need to understand everything in such a literal manner?

Wait, you're still going on about this? And I'm the one with the obsession? Did you run out of Mel Brooks and Zucker Brothers DVDs to burn or something? Yikes... Alright, mate, you do you.

[Sumac]

Originally Posted by ChosenOne

Wait, you're still going on about this? And I'm the one with the obsession? Did you run out of Mel Brooks and Zucker Brothers DVDs to burn or something? Yikes... Alright, mate, you do you.

Asking question and then crying that your opponent had answered it.
OK, mate.

[Coola Yagami]

Argh this is gonna be tough.

On one side, Cole.

On the other side, Kano. And his Fatality.

On the other hand we have Cole sprout a suit and tonfas outta nowhere while everyone else just gets fireballs of some sort. And he beats Goro singlehandedly. ********.

But then you also get Kung Lao's sweet Fatality and Jax's Fatality.

But then you get Cole helping Scorpion defeat Sub Zero. And the fact that Jax's power was somehow auto-upgrading his arms... Like what woulda been his power if he never lost them?

Remove Cole and all is good. Right from the start they even tried to tie the Earth's champions with Scorpion's bloodline. No. Just no. If anything, the rivalry between those 2 was a subplot.

Just argh. Hard to hate this movie 100% with so much they got right, but why did they have to get so much wrong.

I also liked that we got to see more of the characters. Like Kano only had a scene or 2 before he died in the OG film. Here we got him for the whole movie. And I feel a certain someone got enough screen time and that one cool scene before his time came.

[Andrew NDB]

I never honestly wanted there to be explanations for how they can shoot fireballs. Could just be when they get close to the island, they get certain powers. Or maybe they just don't shoot fireballs in the movie.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

I never honestly wanted there to be explanations for how they can shoot fireballs. Could just be when they get close to the island, they get certain powers. Or maybe they just don't shoot fireballs in the movie.

If they had to say something, it would've been enough to say something like "the best fighters on Earth have learned to channel bio-energy which manifests differently from person to person".

I could've done without the "personal journey" to unlocking your.... whatever they called it. This flick was a fun movie, but I think in some ways it gave everyone something to be jazzed up about. I have to wonder if in hindsight if it won't be picked apart as junk down the road.

Wasn't a big fan of the inclusion of Cole and it drove me nuts everytime actor-guy did an exagerrated, "Power rangers" style fighting stance re-affirmation. I hate that $#!(. There was some voguing in the first MK flick, but Cole's exaggerated, terse, phony fighting stance flex nonsense is annoying. I'd rather see the dufus unknown guy be frozen to death repeatedly by Sub-Zero in the original flick than Cole's "superhero jerk-stop fighting stance" straight out of an 80's flick.

[Coola Yagami]

Yeah they called it arcana, which was kinda dumb cause that almost sounds like something from another game.

I mean, that's one of the problems of grounding things in reality, Before all the Outworld invasion stuff and whatnot that led to the characters visiting Outworld every other Tuesday like they do in MK10 and 11, MK still pretty much takes place in our real world. You can't have the regular Earth people running around shooting fireballs without reason. Especially if you say for example that Liu Kang learned his powers from ancient Shaolin skills or ki or chakra or whatever, cause that won't explain Sonya and Kano having powers.

[Andrew NDB]

Sonya's blasts were tech-based, weren't they? From her wristlets? And until this movie it was basically accepted that Kano had a laser eye (not magical).

[TigerClaw]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Sonya's blasts were tech-based, weren't they? From her wristlets? And until this movie it was basically accepted that Kano had a laser eye (not magical).

Jax's arcana is that he has cyborg arms.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Sonya's blasts were tech-based, weren't they? From her wristlets? And until this movie it was basically accepted that Kano had a laser eye (not magical).

I guess, it was never really explained but maybe? Well Kano's eye beam was always from his cybernetic eye, the movie implies his natural eye can do it.

[TigerClaw]

To be fair, The games never really explain how some of these characters get there powers, Like why does Johnny Cage glow green?

Some of the powers of some of the characters was from science.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by TigerClaw

To be fair, The games never really explain how some of these characters get there powers, Like why does Johnny Cage glow green?

Some of the powers of some of the characters was from science.

Yeah, Johnny Cage's shadow powers was really the only oddity in MK1. Though I think I remember something in an MK comic about him learning that from someone? Or something? Meh. It's been a lifetime.

[Sumac]

Old MK games explained super powers of everyone by basically saying that they were able to harvest their inner chi (ki), I think. And that's really what was needed.

No new concepts or crazy stuff.

[ssjup81]

Originally Posted by Sumac

Old MK games explained super powers of everyone by basically saying that they were able to harvest their inner chi (ki), I think. And that's really what was needed.

No new concepts or crazy stuff.

I actually like this explanation. It's a more traditional approach to the powers thing. No fancy tattoo necessary.