Duke Dixon
Superstar
I watched that animated Mortal Kombat on HBO MAX and that shyt is brutal. I need them to make a second one.
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PoorAndDangerous
Superstar
I mean--the reviews sounded pretty positive, considering my expectations were extremely low for this
Ironman
#Knickstape
My bar is the original and annihilation this can't be bad
Axum Ezana
Driving in the fast lane
it sounds rushed. like someone said mk needs a hbo god level show like game of the thrones. casual fans dont know but its alot of lore/mythology and characters in the series that they cant cover in a 2 hour or 3 hour movie.
They can introduce the main tournament story in a movie yeah, but they cant cover the whole thing and do it justice like a 12 or 24 episode series would. imo.
Thats why they even had the show MK Conquest in the 90s because its so much shyt to cover.
Sadly Liu Kang has been getting disrespected since Deadly Alliance then brought back as a damn Zombie in the later games shyt is not right brehYea I've noticed in recent years the franchise don't really fukk with Liu Kang like that anymore.
Minor spoiler to the recent game and animated movie last year
The campaign of their last game essentially focused on the white actor and his family, the animated movie from last year focused on Scorpion and rectonned Liu's first MK victory as Liu getting obliterated and dogwalked by Goro, and now you get the impression that he's basically the 5th billed character in this live action joint after he was the franchise lead in the OGs.
Liu starting to look like 2021 Patrick Ewing trying to enter MSG but security askin each other hey who's man is dis?
Liu lookin incredulous like yo ain't dis my franchise?
Meanwhile Scorpion/SubZero headlining all the promos like:
The axe murderer
For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
And not even a badass revenant of hellfire and brimstone like scorpion.... a shambling corpse.
Then he becomes a mind controlled one again in the reboot
If anyone has watched the Netflix show Kengan Ashua, it's an episodic fight tournament anime that provides the formula for how Mortal Kombat could be done. You follow the mc for a bit but once the tournament starts, you get so absorbed with the different combatants and their backstories and lore, which are interwoven throughout their actual matches via flashbacks... that you kinda forget about the mc when he's not fighting and you develop favorites and root for upsets, which there are crazy swerves and finishes.
The downtime between fights focuses on the behind the scenes ish that builds on the lore and moves the plot forward. Basically you could take the exact same structure but populate it with MK characters, plot, lore, etc and you'd have an epic for old and new fans.
Moose_Greyjoy
I DO Not Sow
Ok so maybe in the minority here, but I don’t need this movie to be good. I just need this movie to be action packed and brutal. I don’t even need a cohesive story, I just want MK fukkery
The axe murderer
For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
Same. Better that than some shyt that becomes convoluted
So i read spoliers
Bootleg out 
Quality ain't that bad, it's just not in English.
Quality ain't that bad, it's just not in English.
I did too, it was "interesting"
This movie seems like a intro
The 2nd will be a tournament
3rd will be shao khan?
I read the wiki...i dont wana say sumthn n ruin it...what have u read? Evrything
The 2nd will be a tournament
3rd will be shao khan?
I read the wiki...i dont wana say sumthn n ruin it...what have u read? Evrything
I was thinking along a similar line, we'll see if they can pull it off.
Can't go into detail, but we'll see if they can do it