Mortal Kombat 2021 is fucking dogshit, but Mortal Kombat 1995 is not only the best video-game film of all time by the low standards of video-game films but also a genuinely good film in its own right. And its soundtrack is fucking kino. Mortal Kombat 1995 is SOVL and the ending (especially with that Orbital track playing in the background, which is my favorite track of all time) is surprisingly heartfelt for a fucking Mortal Kombat movie (of all things). Happy 30th anniversary to Mortal Kombat 1995, the greatest video-game film of all time.>"One day, we will be reunited. But until then, my spirit will always be with you. Go in peace, my brother." - Chan Kanghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV-hSgL1R74
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This is peak woman btw
Tomb raider was my first dvd and I watch it on repeat. So that is the best video game movie. Elevation!
>>215351907>and I watch it on repeatYou should probably stop
>>215351252having Scorpion and Sub-Zero be unmasked guys in samurai armor is unironically one of the worst trends in all of modern fiction
>So many souls and you still don't have one of your own. I pity you sorcerer! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVKskvoKobA
>>215351252>the best video-game filmDamned by faint praise. It's the typical 90's martial arts flick. Just because it has your favorite childhood fightanslop in it doesn't make it special.
>>215352063It's fucking cringe that everyone in MK now has to be a chink just because Ed Boon created a fantasy world where it's kinda Asia but everyone is still huwite
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>>215352161dumb zoomer, fuck off from here, you don't have the slightest idea what a 90's martial arts flick is
>>215351252The sound track was ghost written by lords of acid and they are kino.https://youtube.com/watch?v=DgNCs_A3uv8In many ways they were ahead of their time
>>215351252Also Hackers and Mean Girls song.
>>215351252my pals and i hated mortal kombat 1995 back then. we were all playing the game every night. it sucked. the techno track was cheezy and cringe.
>>215351252Also has one of the best bad sequels ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHCDfxOo_D4
>>215352243Our Little Secret was absolutely based God Bless LoA
>>215352253You're cheese and cringe dumb faggot.
>>215352253it deserved to be a big production, well crafted, immersive. good, fun, whatever makes that kind of action fantasy movie pop. it was not it, and i just checked , the director ended up making a series of garbage movies resident evil that i never could take seriously, tried to watch the first one and fucking belched fuck this shit franchise.
>>215351872there wasn't a single guy on set who could show her how to throw a punch?
>>215352232If you only knew how much me hate your kind. A living reminder to never ever be as weak and pathetic as you lot were.dnv4
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>>215352346>ESLgo to bed, rajesh
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>>215352043Used to before I got internet and more access to films. It must have been on the rotation of dvds i had for 4 years. Even listened to the audio commentary. Has there been one for me dvd?
>>215351872> That Veronica Vaughn is one piece of ace
>>215352243I must increase my bust with ranma anime is a staple of early 00s culture.
Every piece of Mortal Kombat media that revolved around a melodramatic story about sub zero or scorpion sucked.
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>>215351907>Tomb raider was my first dvd and I watch it on repeat.It's clear that Paul W.S. Anderson did the same.
>>215351252Paul was pure kino before he got Milla drunk and retarded.MK and Event Horizon are both kino
Always liked how it managed to lock in legitimately unsettling deaths while still keeping a PG-13 rating. It wasn't as gory as the games, but it made up for it in smart ways. There isn't a single death in this movie that's forgettable.
>>21535228090's im a big guy
Films are so unbelievably bad today that movies that were considered bad back then are retroactively good in comparison.
>>215352206It was honestly more interesting when the ninjas were white and it wasn't some big clan family feud trash.
>>215354249No, Mortal Kombat was good back then, too; this isn't a retroactive thing in this case. Critics have always hated video games, even the ones who review them for a living.Paul Anderson, before he married Jovovich, actually made good movies.
>>215351252there was a mortal Kombat in 2021???
>>215354290>CriticsHuh I thought they loved some of em?
How can Johnny Cage that is just a martial arts actor defeat supernatural warriors like Scorpio and Goro?
>>215354394Nope. Sorry chud.
>>215354437He's one of the best unironically. Watch/play the game/movie
>>215354437He literally used his "shadow" kick ability against scorpion in the forest anon,it didn't work he got teleported to heck instead, don't ask me how he even got out of that one!
>>215351252My favorite aura farming scene
>>215353676It's the same guy from resident evil, holy shit! I am flipping out! Is the assistant also the assistant in the dark knight rises and the jeager movie he is a scientist? Nah, it is a different guy.
>>215354437My head canon is that the more time you spend outside the Earthrealm the stronger you become.
>>215354469That doesn't explain anything.>>215354558Scorpio and Goro live in the other world so that doesn't make sense.
>>215354652Hence why they're so strong.
>>215354676And how is Johnny Cage that has been days or less time there, stronger than them?
>>215354708He's one of the best.
When is killer instinct or even bushido blade going to get a film?
>>215351872Did you know prime Cameron Diaz was originally cast in the role of Sonya?
>>215354717Best at what? He is just a martial arts actor and then he defeats someone like Scorpio that is literally like a demigod with superpowers and shit.
>>215354761Goes to show how good he is.
>>215354652>>215354708See >>215354717Like the island they go to is an in-between and that's where they first start to get stronger. The Outerworld maxes this power. It's kinda like Superman with the yellow sub. And it's why suddenly they can do more superhuman attacks.
>>215354801I've always wanted to visit that Island IRL, its in Tailand or something right?
>>215354801Yeah I know they get superpowers like in the new one but in the 1995 movie all we see about Johnny Cage is him making a scene in a movie and then he is defeating Scorpio. They should have shown that he was also a martial arts master outside the movies or something.Liu Khan we see has been trained the monks all his life for that tournament, that's believable.Another one is Sonya. We only see her making a police raid and then she is good fighting... why exactly?I know it's a dumb videogame movie and I shouldn't give importance to those details but...
>>215352161>typical 90's martial arts flickNot really. Typically 90s martial arts movies were about a scrappy cop with a checkered past taking on terrorists or gangsters with his bare hands, not extradimensional magic fighting tournaments.>>215354184>PG-13People complain about it not getting made with more gore but there's something campier about bloodless deaths.
>>215352308No, it deserved to be gory and violent with severed heads and spinal columns torn off and flying through the air. That was the whole appeal of the games. The gameplay was much worse than Street Fighter, Samurai Shodown, etc. We only played it for the realistic graphics and violence. The people playing the game didn't want to see this kind of kiddy PG-13 movie.
>>215354859Wasn't there beach with leo filmed nearby?
Another thing, Kitana is 10,000 years old or something like that, and then she can't defeat Liu Khan?If she is that old, with all that time to train martial arts and magic... she should be much more powerful than the humans.
>>215354963>People complain about it not getting made with more gore but there's something campier about bloodless deaths.More than that it also forced the team to be more creative with making them disturbing. They could've been lazy about it, but they wanted to keep the brutality of death intact, even if they couldn't use as much blood. Shang Tsung decomposing instantly, that one guy getting his soul ripped out of him, Kano getting his neck snapped, most of the deaths left an impression.
>>215351252That is correct though admittedly it´s mostly because the premise of the original MK game was simple as fuck. All they had to do was accurately depict the characters the fans were already familiar with and use the iconic music theme, which they did, because back then producers weren´t completely retarded.That said i guess the ´93 Mario Bross movie kind of proves the opposite, that even the simplest of concepts can be adapted terribly wrong. Good lord... i´m reliving it, make it stop. The horror... the horror.
>>215354969The Mortal Kombat legends cartoon movies were pretty gory.
>>215352161>It's the typical 90's martial arts flick.Mortal Kombat (1995) basically copies Enter the Dragon (1973) in its story and structure though.
>>215355115>and use the iconic music theme,The theme was made for the movie it wasn't in the game. No game music is used in the movie.
>>215355115This is what makes fighting games easier to adapt. You can do whatever you want with the story, as long as you get the characters right.Assassins fist did this.
>>215352346>If you only knew how much me hate your kind.What are you gonna do about it? Call me a bloody bitch benchod?
Another thing that makes 1995 better than 2021, is how it doesn't fuck around and just gets straight to the point. The entirety of 2021 is basically just an origin story, a setup for another movie that they weren't sure would even happen. 20 minutes into 1995 we already have Scorpion and Sub Zero and people kicking ass.It's a problem with the entire industry, where you can't just make a singular finished product, everything has to be a setup for the inevitable sequel and franchise and spinoff.
>>215351252I was disappointed when it came out, funny how every other MK movie is so fucking bad that this is the best
>>215351252I think the games now suck bc they lost their soul. The story in the newer games in an incoherent clusterfuck of time travel/multiverse shit and the games filled with random IP slop characters. Also, I think the series focused too much on gore. This movie was PG-13 with little to no blood and it still feels like Mortal Kombat. The over the top fatalities were more fun when it was crappy graphics, but now its just kind of gross. The ridiculous fun aspect of it is what made it great, along with the in universe characters taking themselves and situation seriously.
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>>215355563>Mortal Kombat 1 is supposed to be a full franchise reboot, bringing it back to it's roots with a small cast of the best classic characters>lol just kidding here's tons of shit new characters no one cares about, please buy our Omni Man DLC
>>215355563>This movie was PG-13 with little to no blood and it still feels like Mortal Kombat.Paul understood that it wasn't the gore that made MK great.
Tekken anime had stabbing westward and that is pretty fucking cool. They need to do a bloody roar or the one with a venom dinosaur and primate that shot ice. Primal rage? King Kong and gorilla have proven it possible.
>>215351252such a nice heartfelt ending wasn't something i expected in a mk moviemodern movies lack heart, everything has to be miserable or sarcastic now
There were two kinds of kids growing up; Street Fighter kids and Mortal Kombat kids. Which one were you?
>>215352346>ESL>typing captcha in postactual knuckle dragging subhuman
>>215355758both?
>>215355758other than Rauls scenes, Street Fighter is unwatchable
>>215354884that's the whole point, you go into the movie (if you know nothing of the lore) thinking "man, this movie actor is joining this fighting tournament? hah!" expecting him to be way out of his league and just an egocentric douchey actor. but then he starts fighting and oh shit he's actually good!
>>215355257Was it? I guess i´m entering that miss remembering phase of old age...
>>215355758Sf was on canal 5 all the time as a van damme movie marathon along with lion heart and universal soldier. I had only seen the trailer for years till I got internet. Mingna and Kylie minogue were good consolation prizes.
>>215354437Back then action movie stars were usually started as stunt doubles and were actually martial artists before transitioning to acting and becoming stars.That's why for the longest time Cage character arc was imposter syndrome, in that he questioned himself if he was just an actor or could actually put up a fight.
>>215352253What a faggot. I was playing the games and had been for years at that point and me and my friends all loved it. Fucking perfect movie for school aged boys.
Van dammed turned down the role for nic cage and that is why he did street fighter.
>>215354761>demigodHardly and Johnny is the 2nd best martial artist on earth.
>>215354884Are you fucking retarded?
>>215354969Mortal kombat always had a cool design and cool lore.
>>215355026Edinia got cucked because they were a peaceful realm.
>>215355758I can watch and unironically enjoy Mortal Kombat right now.I will not sanction a fucking belg*an playing an American hero.I was a live action MK, anime SF2 kid.
>>215356479>animeExplains your bad taste.
>>215356499Watch the movie and find out. If you don't, you won't get your answer.
>>215356479>we got a less violent MK movie and a more violent SF2 movie practically at the same time>both kinoThat's still so odd to me.
>>215352308Obvious bait. Ridley Scott and Wolfgang Petersen both proved that you can be a good director in your early career and go to shit later. The RE movies being shit aren't magical proof that MK is.
>>215356499t. baguette-eating franco-belgian scum
>>215356479Did you know the character of Johnny Cage was designed with Jean Claude in mind for the first MK game? The movie was slotted to have him starring as well, but he passed on it to do Street Fighter instead. MK was literally “his game.” >>215356595MK movie was originally supposed to be R-rated, but producers wanted to be able to market it to families and kids. It was a savvy move, because those families and their kids turned out in droves; MK was a sleeper hit nobody thought would bank.
>>215351252kino indeed
>>215356760>Did you know the character of Johnny Cage was designed with Jean Claude in mind for the first MK game? The movie was slotted to have him starring as well, but he passed on it to do Street Fighter instead. MK was literally “his game.”Thank God he shitted up the SF movie instead. SF2 animated made up for it.If anybody Ashby was Cage, MK would've been worse for it. Especially a fucking frenchie who can't speak English.
>>215351252Goro from the 95 movie is amazing compared to the shitty cgi goro from 21
>>215356869Animatronics almost always mog CGI
>>215355758Street Fighter movie end credits song is INSANELY goodhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV3_P1jxiCA
>>215356980Good but not as good as Mortal Kombat's.
>>215356825He was a shit choice for both roles. Cage is a pretty boy California movie star and Guile is an all American military man. Whoever thought VanDam was the best choice for either role should have been fired in the spot.
>>215357024Here's your Guile for the new Street Fighter movie. Say something nice about him.
>>215357024Absolutely true. He's fine in unique roles that could conceivably be a belgian guy, but casting him for aggressively American characters is insane.
>>215356980Based!I love how the entire video feels like an anime ending, with little snippets of the characters in the shadows.PURE SOVL
>>215357040He looks like he gets fucked by men. Best I can do.
>>215356375he also fuck the shit out of Kyle Minogue while filming
