New Mortal Kombat flick?

[Magus]

The last one I enjoyed was Deadly Alliance. Story was straight-forward (and they killed off Liu Kang, it was unexpected!) and it introduced the new gameplay which was pretty great...after that it went downhill, partly because they switched up how Scorpion played from DA and I couldn't get back in my groove, and then they added in some dumb "Make your own fatality" into the last one that came out, so none of them were unique to the characters, and they made everyone only have two fighting styles too, if I remember correctly...the only offset was it had basically every MK character ever made in it.

[Aerozord]

taking out all the supernatural elements basically just makes it a generic action flick. Its a "in name only" version

[Magus]

What's funny is it's exactly what should have been done with that last Street Fighter movie since they did it for 99.9% of it but then they still put energy balls into it, whereas flames and ice beams should be in this one...

[Krylo]

So Reptile is a Harlequin Baby that not only somehow survived for thirty years with a debilitating physical illness that modern science can't treat, but he is apparently not blind with his inside out eyes, and is strong enough to rip the head off a body with his bare hands without even missing a beat... but there's no magic?

Meanwhile, the police are releasing an assassin into the streets with explicit orders to kill everyone involved in an underground fighting ring, as opposed to say... using him to find when it is happening and raiding it with goddamn tanks and machine guns? They are relying entirely on a single assassin who isn't even keen on helping them?

And Baraka is a psycho plastic surgeon who somehow became a super ninja or some shit because he went crazy?

It's like the people behind this looked at the series and thought, "You know, having a fighting tournament to decide which of two merging universes will survive because 'magic' is PRETTY stupid, but guys, I think we can do better. I'm pretty sure we can come up with something even MORE stupid, if given the chance."

And then they did. Repeatedly.

[Bells]

You know... the story premise for Superman, Batman, Spiderman, Iron Man and all their "Quasi-magic-super-real-stuff" is also pretty "ridonculous" too.. you guys look like bullies picking on the ugly kid in high school right now...

I dunno, they haven't -really- ruled out Supernatural elements yet. This trailer just makes clear that the Supernatural is not the main point. So far, that's ok... also, i have no problem with Super-Fantasy in a realistic setting. It's GRIMDARK as all fuck... but hey, that's the most effor i've EVER seen to give a Mortal Kombat product ANY sense of a real storyline...

Also, this is a movie based on a Fighting game. those are the worst of the adaptation movies. I dare any of you to pick one of those that looks remotely watchable... this one does.

PS: They could easily be making the movie and the game at the same time.

[Kim]

Originally Posted by Bells

this one does

Not really. It looks like something a teenager would write.

"And... and... Reptile! He eats people's HEADS. It'll be SO GROSS you guys."

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by Bells

You know... the story premise for Superman, Batman, Spiderman, Iron Man and all their "Quasi-magic-super-real-stuff" is also pretty "ridonculous" too..

None of those come remotely close to being as stupid as this.

And really, a lot of the stupid stuff would be fine, if they weren't trying to go all REALISTIC GRIM DARK! with the franchise. Like, ok a Harlequin baby grows up and has super strength and like, I don't know, probably super toughness 'cause his skin is so hard.

I could get behind that in a movie that wasn't trying to remove supernatural/unrealistic aspects from its franchise.

However, in this movie we have, "Reptillian Alien Thing From Another Dimension is TOO UNREALISTIC, so let's replace it with this EQUALLY IF NOT EVEN MORE RIDICULOUS HARLEQUIN BABY IDEA!" which is retarded. Putting in blatantly unrealistic/ridiculous things and/or abusing the fuck out of science is fine in most situations. It's not fine when you're doing it because you thought the original quasi-magic roots were too unrealistic, because quasi-science is even worse.

[Bells]

Originally Posted by NonCon

Not really. It looks like something a teenager would write.

"And... and... Reptile! He eats people's HEADS. It'll be SO GROSS you guys."

Oh c'mon now... The Mystical game-based reptile does that. Nothing absurd for a Nomral Human Detective (that has no problem with dealing with a killer in order to kill a bunch of other killers btw) to get repulsed by that, specially since in this case the reptile is apparently a human psychopath.

Sure, it's Edgy and Darky and Grimmy... c'mon it's a Teenager Gore Flick, what would you expect from Mortal Kombat?

It's not too bad considering the source material...

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by Bells

Oh c'mon now... The Mystical game-based reptile does that. Nothing absurd for a Nomral Human Detective (that has no problem with dealing with a killer in order to kill a bunch of other killers btw) to get repulsed by that, specially since in this case the reptile is apparently a human psychopath.

Sure, it's Edgy and Darky and Grimmy... c'mon it's a Teenager Gore Flick, what would you expect from Mortal Kombat?

It's not too bad considering the source material...

No see, the source material was completely retarded and ridiculous. The fact that the movie is ALSO completely retarded and ridiculous isn't the problem in and of itself.

The problem is that the movie removes all the retarded/ridiculous things from the game, and then replaces them with more/equally retarded/ridiculous things of their own invention that have nothing to do with the franchise. They aren't making it more realistic, or more grimdark, or anything like that. They're just making it unrealistic and stupid and grimdark in different ways and it is pointless and stupid and a disservice to the franchise.

Edit: Comparison, someone makes a Legend of Zelda movie.

They rewrite Link as a grizzled off the beat detective, and Zelda as the president's daughter. Ganon is a South American terrorist that kidnapped her. The triforce is actually a codename for a nuclear weapon.

That movie is completely retarded NOT because an off the beat detective is rescuing the president's daughter from a South American terrorist who wants nuclear weapons. It's completely retarded because there's absolutely no reason to connect it to Legend of Zelda.

[Kim]

There's also a large gap between what is acceptable in a fighting game with the most plot being a cutscene in the beginning that nobody really watched and a two hour movie of this stupid. Plus, regardless of if it's a game or movie, I get the impression that this expects us to take this stuff a lot more seriously than Mortal Kombat normally seems to.