EFAP Movies #23: Mortal Kombat 1995 + 2021 with Chase, Moriarty, JonCJG and LitDev
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- Опубліковано 18 тра 2021
- Mortal Kombat is an ancient tournament organised by Shang Tsung in which combatants battle to the death for the sake of their homeworld...I think?
I don't know if we understood it all that much but by god! it was fun! join us, as we venture through a story told by creators from two very different eras...
MORTAL KOMBAT!
Edited by @DasBoTwitt - Фільми й анімація
EFAP #138 is currently caught up in the processing portion of UA-cam, I will get it out as soon as possible. Another MEMEFAP has been recorded and we have The Snyder Cut EFAP Movies on the way. The next Batwoman episode is also coming too, with some other surprises on the way ;-)
Also just FYI, Shang Tsung in the 2021 version is ACTUALLY played by the guy from the Dark Knight, Lao. Not the dad from Mulan, they just kinda looked similar. Hope ya'll are doing good folks, see yah for the next floomps. o/
Are you saying all Asians look alike? REEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
yikes, sweaty. let's unpack that racist remark that "all asians look exactly the same"
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Asians looking alike - imagine my shock!
Is that the Resident evil 8 review?
did you know that the actor for Kano had to be admitted to the hospital for back injuries, from carrying the entire movie
He was improvising a lot they say. Hope he gets more roles
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I was gonna copy n paste this comment from critical drinkers video too cos I found it hilarious but I would at least pointed out it was copied.
@@dannygrover595 never watched them
@@dannygrover595 that style joke is older than the Internet. Good luck finding the origin.
I genuinely think that Goro getting punched in the nuts is a more dignified way to go out than getting beat up by Cole.
@@shemsuhor8763 facte
Not very faithful to the games though, given that Goro was immune to the nut punch there. Maybe game Goro has no balls lol.
@@jeggsonvohees2201 mechanically speaking "big enemies" were all immune to most attacks.
This includes enemies like Motaro and Shao Kahn.
@@denkerbosu3551 True.
Getting beat up by Cole in a fucking backyard.
I love Mauler saying the dumbest thing he can think of and accidentally accurately predicting everyone's upgrade.
MK 2021 is definitive proof that the people that think that Mary Sue is a solely sexist thing meant to demean female characters are wrong. I've never seen a main character as unappealing as Protagonist Man.
Play Fire Emblem Fates and you might be surprised; Corrin is probably one of the worst protagonists I have ever seen, and the saddest part is that Corrin actually had a fair bit of potential as a character.
They failed to find the interesting protagonist in a half-human half-dragon hybrid who was born to one royal family, raised by another royal family, and has to watch the two kingdoms go to war with each other. How is that even possible?
Well the classic example is Wesley Crusher.
@@matthewmuir8884 the difference is that the characters in that game carry the story, and the protagonist is just a portal for the player's actions. your character is literally a self insert.
@@Fernisvale A self-insert with their own distinct personality, dialogue, and actions independent of the player; making it rather hard to see them as a self-insert (and one reason I cannot understand people wanting to see Link talk in the next Legend of Zelda games).
Also, speaking as a fan of Fire Emblem, the rest of the cast in Fates do not carry the story; Corrin absorbs the story and somehow makes the stuff that shouldn't be all about them, all about them. That is, incidentally, the purest definition of a mary sue: a character that unnaturally distorts the plot around themselves like that. But back to the point about the other characters, they are the worst-written cast I have ever seen in a Fire Emblem; they can't carry the plot because there isn't enough to their characters. I am extremely glad that Three Houses corrected this and made its characters actually have depth and motive independent of anything to do with the self-insert character (and that the self-insert character is actually a self-insert character). Three Houses overall is far from perfect, but it's a lot better than Fates.
Cole was a Mary Sue.
So good of scorpion to learn a single line of English for us fans lmaoooo
It's all he needed.
Its fucking dumb honestly that's like me an American speaking one line in a latin then back to regular english
I am completely fine with it.
@@matthewlugo2417 They have great English classes in Hell.
@@reyhernandez1958 yup, thats a good one
What's great is that Fringe doesn't know that he owes his Australian representation the 1995 movie. Fans loved his portrayal in the film so much that every game from then on retconned Kano to be Australian.
RIP Trevor
@@lordjimbo2 Indeed, RIP.
@@lordjimbo2 fuuuuuck, passed away at 40. gone too soon :(
No, Fans didn't love it so much, Ed Boon! The creator, loved it so much he retconned him to be Australian
And legend says that guy who played him went on to fake his australian accent for the rest of his career.
"Who dat?"
"Dats Katana, right?"
*Rag's, mocking Suicide Squad "THIS IS KATANA SHE'S GOT MY BACK"
🤣😂😭🤣😂😭🤣😂😭
She kan kutt yu all in haff with wun sword strowk, jus' like mo'in da lawn. I would advais not gettin' kileld by 'er. Her sowrd traps da sowls of its viktism.
Not only was Cole a forced insert generic character that MK didn’t need, but they made his power a discount good-guy Baraka without the teeth and actual plot-armor. I couldn’t stop laughing after you guys said it.
Dude had LITERAL plot armor lmaooo
Everyone and their grandma made the plot armor joke already at this point.
@@SwiftNimblefoot well, you’re 1 week in the future of these posts. At that time we settle still early birds haha
I have to do this...
Eh.. yeah. As an MK fan I understand how he's not needed, but as far as action movies goes it's passable and far from the worst additions that could happen.
Regardless I understand the dislike
Kano deserves an award for carrying the entire 2021 film
We need to thank Australia for loaning us their treasure that is Joshua Lawson. Superstore was never the same when Tate the Pharmacist disappeared.
@@DonnaCPunk I want Joshua Lawson to play Captain Boomerang if they reboot the entire DCEU
@@raymond-reviews He'd be great as Boomer. I thought Jai Courtney was fine. It's actually one of the few roles he's done where I genuinely enjoy his performance. That said, I definitely wouldn't say no if they offered a rebooted version to Lawson and he took it.
Too bad they killed him off 😒
@@gp.5989 They can bring him back. With all that magic and shit. The way people have been praising the character, they'd be nuts not to throw bags of money at him if they get a sequel. I really don't think the whole Ryan Reynolds as Johnny Cage thing will go past fancasting.
Correction: The Mortal Kombat theme song "Techno Syndrome" came out *before* the movie, on a soundtrack album by The Immortals, featuring songs representing each of the game's characters, and released alongside the console versions of the game in 1994.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk
Yeah, I didn't want to be the nerd to say that, so I just stayed silent. CHINESE NINJA WARRIOR
@@reallycool God forbid you be a pedantic nerd on EFAP! 😏
interesting, i wonder if 21 savage's song "immortal" for mk11 was a reference to that album
@@BbNaB Oh yeah, most of the Mortal Kombat album tracks are really cheesy. Funny how the *one* track anyone cares about was written solely by the lesser known guy in the duo on a freaking Atari ST lol
@@reallycool With your heart so cold! Dude, that whole album slapped, weird as it was. Standouts for me were the Sub-Zero theme (obviously), the Liu Kang theme and the obligatory title track. So good.
"Shouldve quit while he was a head" john goes unapreciated once again.
What’s the time stamp for that quote? Think I missed it
@@aaronmueller1560 33:20
Rags : "Oh no they have sticks!"
Oh no Rags, you are shit talking Sticks, the wrath of The Shad is upon you now!
steve blackman wants to know rags' location
Sticks can kill. Rags should know this, but he chose to be dumb while watching this movie.
@@adamjenson9369 He was born with a Glock. I doubt he knows much about sticks. Just shoot stuff and refuse to get close with anyone.
A stick is the same thing as a sword, right?
@@dualwieldroxas358it’s a sword-like weapon.
Kano’s back, Scorpion’s back and Sub-Zero’s backs are broken from carrying this movie.
Don’t forget Kabal
Cole's mouth is sore from all that sucking
Sub zero's got multiple backs? Ah, from ripping spines off I see
Scorpions back shouldn't hurt too much considering hewas barely in the movie.
@@Nadie47 Sub-Zero has had a total of like 5 spines throughout the series, if you count Noob Saibot as being "Sub-Zero" and Kuai Liang's Cyberization into Cyber Sub-Zero.
“We get it you’re quippy, let the other characters talk for five seconds” Chase accidentally describing himself.
And I like chase.
Well people will hate in others the problems they have.
He hates the Kano because he’s projecting. He IS the Kano! 🤣
That was some self aware cringe.
@@OutsideTheTargetDemographic that means he’s good! :peepo_yay:
I like when Chase shows up. Even if he does see wet bread everywhere.
Chase's existential crisis and subsequent ostracization due to his instinctive rejection towards Kano at seeing a mirror image of himself in a movie was quite enjoyable.
It boggles the mind that studio execs still think all of these cookie cutter scripts would make a more popular movie, than if they just had 2 hours of gorey combat and Kano lines.
Or we could stretch our imagination and make MK films or shows with fantastic writing *and* gorey fights.
MK has so much story potential in its characters and worlds that is dying to be explored.
We don't have to settle for just fights.
they just avoid risks, from not being relatable/inclusive enough to going against political ideals of people who pay them.
also they’re mostly out of touch.
@@jeggsonvohees2201 and honestly the original mk trilogy opens up so much story wise that you can play with. None of this magic shit making metal arms. The point was there was magic and chi abilities and the people who had neither leaned on tech to be able to match these characters
I still don't understand why we had 2 long ass Godzilla movies where the focus was human drama
But that's ALSO not what we want. What we want is good writing. Saay what you will about Warcraft it actually had a proper plot and memorable characters.
"...Violence is fine"
Mauler, 2021
We MUST figure out his politics!
"Violence is fine"
....lets leave him and his politics alone!
anything that keeps people from actually speaking in a 2021 film is good....
"Boob bad"
-the LongMother
"I appreciate the violence.... but I want MORE violence." -- also Mauler, 2021
*Kano is a played by a great actor
"We will watch your career with great interest." -The Toxic Brood
Calling Kano's significantly better than average physique a "dad bod" really goes to show how the male celebrity body transformations for super hero movies have warped perspectives on what good physical condition is. To look like that, with the chiseled abs and bulging veins, they have to cut down to 10% or lower body fat and dehydrate themselves, and they only do that when they're on a project. Hugh Jackman did this in Les Miserables because he thought he needed to look like Wolverine to play a singing Frenchman and almost permanently damaged his voice. Rags is right, he looks like what an actually physically capable and healthy human male looks like. He has a layer of fat because we are *supposed* to have a layer of subcutaneous fat under our skin for warmth and protection. And he even has visible abs here for crying out loud.
It always funny to me when people realize that being a super cut muscular guy doesn't mean your super strong visible abs and muscles are weaker just look at competitive strong men
And not only but the Kano physique just looks better to me.
Rest of EFAP: That was funny hahaha.
LitDev: *Subtle evil laugh*
He isn't called the Devil for nothing.
Honestly, his laugh might be tops for me.
I don't know if it's natural or not. It gets me every time.
Moriarty and JLB have infectious laughs, but LitDev has my favorite laugh of the whole EFAP crew.
@@TheSlammurai it's both subtle and unnerving. I love it. A hint of pompous too. He should trademark it. Very villainous.
Sonya attacked Cole early in the movie until he showed her the dragon birthmark. Despite the fact that she has pictures of him on her wall of exposition.
Stop making sense. YassCleanSaves or something
The length a genuine, hard felt, dear I say, relatable _"What the f♡ck"_ goes to making a comedic character work is something that has to be taught in film school.
"This game will make your child worship Satan!"
Literature *Devil*: breathes heavily
Seems like Satan is failing in his quest then.
@@yetanotherspuart3993 Satan doesn't seem to have the best of luck these days
*Shang Tsung:* Eliminate Cole Young
*Sub Zero:* Yes master
*Also Sub Zero:* (Teleports 3 blocks away. Makes it snow. Causes hail damage on parked cars.)
*Shang Tsung:* The fuck are you doing?
#JusticeForKano
Note that Kano was "killed" by being stabbed in his laser eye.
100% it's gonna be that warlock scientists revive him and give him the full metal-eye where he got stabbed.
"Oh no, Ice! SubZeros one weakness!"
I about died at that line..
"You got a piece of paper? You wanna write this one down? GET FUCKED!"
Might be one of my favorite lines of the decade. Not the 2020's that's not fair, it's barely started, I mean the last 10 years in total.
The whole movie I just enjoyed Kano as being a rare Fringy/Rags insert character.
No no, it was right. The 2020’s can get permafucked.
Who else was rooting for Goro in that fight against Cole?
Me.
It is a shame how quickly Goro is defeated.
Literally everyone
I was hoping that in the final battle, Subzero and Scorpion put aside their rivalry just to bully Cole for being a bitch.
Better question name someone who wasn't
I think this might be a good example of the original and a reboot both having their strengths and weaknesses. If we can just get a movie with the campy tone of the first one, and the action of the second one, it might just be the perfect live action Mortal Kombat movie.
Personally I'd prefer something like an MK show with the writing quality of early GOT, with humorous bits sprinkled nun to balance out the seriousness, all leading up to the tournament.
@@jeggsonvohees2201 I haven't played Mortal Kombat, but I could see something like that. Some video games would be better adapted as films, while others would be better adapted as shows, and I suspect that something like Mortal Kombat is probably the latter.
Plus, though video game shows are still very likely to be terrible, there are more good video game shows than good video game films.
@@matthewmuir8884 Dude, MK has so much story potential, with 60+ characters, multiple worlds, 4 classes of undead, different clans, factions, the sky is the limit.
All that's holding it back is the studio's lack of faith in the property and the fan's willingness to settle for mindless action. Most modern MK fans don't even know about the lore from MK 1-A, they just know the NRS Era stuff, which is terribly written.
@@jeggsonvohees2201 I see. Sounds like a ton of lore that would be better served in something that can introduce it more gradually like a TV series, which was my point. That's not to say you can't make a good film out of it; I'm sure you can. I'm just saying it would probably be easier to do a show, while something like Subnautica would be easier to adapt as a film than a show.
I agree that lack of faith in the property does seem to be the main thing that holds a lot of these films and shows back. Pokémon: Detective Pikachu worked because the Pokémon Company is a multimedia company that already had experience navigating the film and TV industries and making sure the people working on the project actually had faith in the property. Similarly, Castlevania worked because the project had been in the making since 2007 and all Netflix had to do was pick it up.
@@matthewmuir8884 If you're interested in learning about the lore check out The4thSnake's channel. He covers all types of lore in his videos. He has a good one explaining the different types of undead for example.
the way rags said "firearms" made me think of some human torch shit too lol
Same. There is something about saying "firearms" during a Mortal Combat movie that lends itself to the goofier interpretation.
I legit was trying to remember if she had fire arms as an attack in one of the games.
That was my first thought, too.
There's something amazing about intentionally b-grade movies that don't try to be preachy, political or up themselves
i had just graduated high school in 1994 and had played the games a lot. the movie WAS cheezy and we loved it, esp. the music. the music was so hype back in the day. it was a simpler time and we actually had hope for the future--imagine that.
I love that when you see Kano get his lazer eye, you see 7 glowing green circles as the 7 other hosts of EFAP are losing their shit, and Chase is just like "...yeah, it's alright."
because he sucks
You’d think Reptile being the last of his kind (excluding Khameleon and Chameleon) would make him a more important and meaningful character but the games and movies constantly make him a jobber. We Reptile fans have sadly gotten used to it. At least he was cool in MK1 and MK2....
He got his props with the best fight of the first movie! Although to be fair it made no sense as to where Johnny Cage was.
🦎 be nice to my reptilian friends!
Reptile was in MK1? What do I press to doubt?
@@travisvwright he was a secret character. You had to get like 2 flawless victories and a fatality in a certain location to trigger the encounter.
@@derekrichardson7853 Cool I guess I just wasn't good enough at the game. Thanks.
In the first movie, when Reptile is revealed, I'm almost certain he's about to offer me car insurance for 15% off.
He was just mad that Johnny Cage stole his sunglasses.
If it gets a sequel, they should do Cole how they did Johnny Cage in Annihilation and kill him off minutes into starting the movie.
Oh god please yes. Even better is if Noob does it too. Just teleports in behind him and snaps his neck quick.
I support that, but won't happen, can't kill the minority...
@@SwiftNimblefoot but they killed the Asian villain and the black villain. Also the disfigured burn victim
I remember how pissed I was after watching Annihilation. When the majority of the actors doesn't want to reprise their roles , you should just abort the project - It didn't even register with me that Liu Kang was played by the same actor. Until the credits came on I was convinced that was just some generic Asian dude.
@@SwiftNimblefoot they killed Kung Lao though
Also Jax is all "The real cyborg arms were the ones inside you the whole time".
?Wha’da bring me?” Again. Love it
“Stop teasing Scorpion. Gimme.”
Chase losing his mind will never cease to be funny
Fringy struggles with sarcasm sometimes huh lol love it
Somewhere out there in the multiverse there's a MK movie/series staring Johnny Cage and Kano, and they're like driving around in a van, and solving mysteries by overly-elaborate fight scenes and jabbing dialogue.
And reptile is their Pet Who never gets Credit for being so powerfull
Oo, tango & cash except with Johnny & Kano, good cop, bad cop.
"Jax" is their no nonsense, ballbustin' Captain. They have to infiltrate a "f*ght club" style tournament. (Setting is California, final battle on Alcatraz)
Weirdly enough, Johnny Cage in portuguese has the same voice as Fred from Scooby Doo.
Every movie should have at least one scene where the red hood people come out of nowhere and flip a table over
It would sure liven up 12 Angry Men.
Right after The Last Supper the reds flipped the table over.
Zod: “Where’d you learn to fight, on a farm!?”
(In the background)
*Red hooded dudes flip a table*
The Arby 'n' the Chief guy, Funny Laugh Gamer Man, Smug Daddy Chase, and Satan all in one video? Floompless Victism.
God, I love these EFAP double features
Best of the Movies episodes
I think a new term needs to be made.
Godzilla Syndrome = movies with mandated 'love my family' man getting in the way of the action spectacles you actually cane to watch.
I love how the trailer for the 2021 movie completely spoiled the outcome of most of the fights, and when the fans called the studio out on it they straight up lied and said that there were tons of fights we hadn't seen yet.
Yep, even Reptile's death was in the trailer.
dude the editing is getting better and better on these. I fucking LOVE it! Whomever is doing it, keep it the fuck up!!
I don't always like the editing in these but this one was top notch.
I think it’s still the meme repository. Whomever it is, it’s damn good.
@@leinfare I’m several EFAPs behind.
The description says that Das was the editor.
My only comment is that the volume of the movies is a tiny bit too quiet, and there's not enough moments to hear what is being said. Then again, this is probably purely intentional, as efforts to avoid the Copyright Gestapo.
I think the fact that EFAP kept confusing whether Sub Zero, Smoke, or Noob Saibot was on screen speaks mountains about the poor design choice of making SZ's outfit so dark instead of a brighter blue.
It’s weird because that’s exactly what they did in MK2. Kuai Liang’s Sub Zero wore more of a cyan, while in the original MK Bi Han’s Sub Zero wore a darker blue.
@@tylercoon1791 I meant the MK 2021 movie. His suit is so dark it's almost black.
1:28:45 No, Rags, that is a *very* fatal place to be stabbed. Directly under the collarbone is the subclavian artery and vein, which are *MASSIVE* blood vessels. You'd be lucky to last 30 seconds after getting stabbed like that. You could have a team of trauma surgeons standing right there and I doubt they could save you.
I know its such an obvious joke, but Kabal in mk2021 seriously looks EXACTLY like Mauler’s avatar
He also acts like Deadpool for some reason.
@@BbNaB Yeah, seeing him at first I thought he was Smoke. That mask looked so bad, like some cosplayer made it in his garage.
i was surprised not one of the guys mentioned it
I like the part where johnny cage reveals he’s a gymkarta practitioner
You guys really need to do Mortal Kombat Annihilation. If MK 1995 is Wonder Woman, Annihilation is WW84.
Interesting comparison, as both WW84 and Mortal Kombat 2021 were co-written by the same person: David Callaham. I checked his filmography, and the only good thing on his list is Ant-Man, for which he wrote a minor production rewrite. The first film that he was involved with was the 2005 Doom movie, for which he co-wrote the script, and he also co-wrote the Zombieland sequel that I didn't even know existed and will probably forget existed.
That's an insult to mortal Kombat Annihilation. At least annihilation is actually funny. WW84 just sucks.
I watched the 2021 MK twice then went back and rewatched 1995. I was way more entertained with the old one than this new one. Kano having a personality was one of the few saving graces. Bar the two Bi-Han/Hanzo Hasashi battles and Kung Lao's buzzsaw, the fights were ehhh.
Even with the new additions to Scorp/Zero in the 2021 film, their characters are still so paper thin that I don't really care about them. Those two really need solo movies dedicated to fleshing them out.
A fair assessment.
I’m with chase. Being comic relief is not a personality I’m afraid. I found him dull in both versions. I think the new one struggles with pacing, a cohesive narrative, and tonal dissonance.
"Which Infinity Stone are they fighting for?" "The left one."
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I think the new movie could have had Johnny Cage _and_ Kano. If anything, that could have been a bit of an interesting contrast. For all the attitude similarities they have, they have very, _very_ different moral cores. But since the new movie had Kano initially on the side of the heroes...there's a lot you could work with there. You could have a genuine sense of comradery between Cage and Kano as, for example, the latter is downright _ecstatic_ to discover that the former is every bit the badass he portrays in his movies. Cage, meanwhile, is caught off-guard by this, while others (Sonya and Jax in particular, I imagine) still treat him with little respect as they consider him a self-interested gloryhound. Thing is, Kano _technically_ also considers him that, but he doesn't consider that a problem. Also, maybe Cage is pushed closer to Kano because Sonya/Jax insist on the reasons they hate Kano being kept on a 'need-to-know' basis, not trusting Cage with that level of information.
Then, when Kano turns on the group, and perhaps also thinks that Cage will do so as well (though I can see him trying to soft-sell it), Cage can have a split from Kano that actually mirrors the modern MK story-to-fight format of sudden arguments leading to big fights, only for nobody to die at the end (in this case, because Cage badly injures Kano, presumably with some kind of torso hit followed by an eye-bursting punch that sends him out of their particular arena).
And...eh, why not: something related to Hanzo Hasashi and the Shirai Ryu were in Cage's latest film. Or-
-OH. WAIT. That's our transitional hook! We shift from the opening fight to a Hollywood version, with Cage as some big name Western actor spliced into an otherwise exclusively Asian film with some basis in myth/folklore. Then something something something, and maybe a 'protester' of his inclusion presses a dragon-emblazoned coin into Cage's hand, insisting that there's more to the story of the Shirai Ryu and the Lin Kuei and that Cage has involved himself not so much by his high profile, but by virtue of his hard-won skills as a martial artist.
Point is, you could do a lot of things with this that don't involve Cole Slaw as the protagonist.
Raiden wasn't a bad guy in MK1, but taking part in the tournament and winning, he eventually allowed other gods to compete, resulting in the destruction of Earthrealm. Have a nice day.
They honestly should have just made a Scorpion vs Sub-Zero movie. It would have made an excellent first entry to start a Mortal Kombat movie universe.
So something like an inverse of the Sub-Zero Mythologies spin-off they did on the PS1/N64, except centered on Scorpion for this plot?
John is like a low dps high burst nuker.
He says nothing for half an hour, than he says something great.
Mortal Kombat is a movie i unironically love. Watched it way back when i was a kid and i thought it was awesome at the time and as the years go by, the movie only gets funnier.
:P
I see it as both funny and awesome, the best thing about the 95 movie is that they don’t take themselves too seriously.
I feel like _MK 95_ and the _Ninja Turtles 2: Secret of the Ooze_ are spiritual brothers. Unironically cool when you're 9, a hilarious memefest as an adult.
Its the best video game movie ever made TO THIS DAY.
Just with liking Walker, I ended up liking Kano the most.
Kano, Walker, Joel...it all leads back to the original sin. The attack on our hero, The Don.
@@REEEE-eq6mx My God
How dare you like all of these straight white men?? Get with the times.
what walker
@@antoniosimoes5237 From Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Cole Young is Mortal Kombat's Alice.
Which is ironic considering the 1995 movie was directed by Paul W Anderson. Guess he has not met Mila "I have no boobs" Jojovich or she would have played Sonya and would have been a Mary Sue.
@@SwiftNimblefoot
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Let this never happen!
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The funniest part of the new movie was definitely when Kano said “Da fuk?” 🤣
Before the movie came out I was like "it's gonna be shit". And all the other people were all hyped up like "dude are you serious? It's gonna be the best film you've ever seen". Can't wait to see this video to see how incredibly well the movie has done. Grabbing my popcorn and beer
So now that it's over, what did you think?
When I saw the trailer for the Mortal Kombat movie, I was like, "Okay; this is the second video game movie since Detective Pikachu (which is generally considered to be the first video game film that's "not bad" as there's genuine effort and all that), with the first being that obvious-garbage 'Monster Hunter' film. Let's take a quick look and see who is making it." I then looked at the list on Wikipedia:
*Director: Simon McQuoid -* Never heard of him, and he didn't even have a Wikipedia article until after the movie released.
*Screenplay: Greg Russo -* Never heard of him, and he still doesn't have a Wikipedia article even after the movie has released.
*David Callaham -* The only good film he was a part of is the first Ant-Man film. He co-wrote the 2005 _Doom_ movie, the Zombieland sequel, and
Wonder-Woman 1984.
*Story by: Oren Uziel -* Never heard of him, and no article.
*Greg Russo* again.
So, a bunch of no-names and one guy who mostly co-wrote a bunch of garbage. I immediately predicted that it was going to be terrible.
All MK movies are terrible, but they are fun.
@@matthewmuir8884 Aye! you forgot the Sonic movie! (which,against all odds,was actually pretty decent, as far as family friendly stuff goes).
@@benjamingrant5970 Oh, yeah; I forgot it existed. I haven't seen it, so I can't say if it's good or bad. Considering they only made it because the license was about to expire, I'd say I had good reason for suspecting it would be bad.
Nailed it in one take; Kano's carrying the whole movie on his charisma alone, and we cannot have Johnny Cage because of... reasons...
Where is the Spaceballs EFAP movies with Jay?
No, JayJayBinks would ruin it.
Just let have Spaceballs in peace.I want to laugh, not hear Jay complaining.
Please!!
1:58:27 Is my favorite part. The build up to the laser as he's getting louder, more angry, face turning red, veins popping, and with the "NOW SIT DOWN, SHUT UP, AND PASS ME A FUCKING EGG ROLL!!!" Before groaning and shooting a laser from a single eye is a beautiful combo of writing and acting. I love it more than any other single scene in all of fiction.
If I recall, doesn’t Johnny have magic combat powers from a secret bloodline of warriors?
Yeah, some Mediterranean cult that he is descended from gives him his green energy attack powers.
@@derekrichardson7853xO wuuuachaaaah!!!!!
Plot point of the tenth game, if I got the number right...
Never mentioned before
@@Ramsey276one It was well established in MK9
@@hatemongerofthetoxicbrood6561 they confused with sequel numbers/subtitle coin flipping
XD
The new guy is basically a mortal combat fan SI
A POORLY MADE ONE
I'm dying at Rags calling Kabal "Hunk from resident evil"
This game was "going to turn all the kids into serial killers and Satan worshippers..." Thirty years later 🤣
1:58:42 "a laserbeam! better than fireball you p*ssy" best quote ever 😂
"They're all wearing the same outfit."
It's a Shao Lin temple, they all wear ceremonial robes.
My biggest question is: how have people that love film and play video games never seen this Frankenstein of 90’s madness?
They pretty much explained that in the intro.
Most of them were too young when it came out..... most people who like this flick were teenagers and played the original in the arcades....
alejandromolinac I saw it at 5 years old
@@LupeJustinian you’re not most people then. Did you even read the comment. “Most people” not “all”.
Good grief. Reading is not a crime people!!!
instead of purple energy blasts, Sonya Blade just rolls up On Melina with that goofy ass flashlight shotgun.
Kano was awesome.
Kabal was pretty good.
GIVE US A BLACK DRAGON MOVIE!!!!!
I didn't mind KungLao, Sub Zero, Jax or Scorpion. Everyone else was tiering into meh territory. Culminating in the protag being the most hated person in the movie.
Don't t you mean a "Black Falcon" movie? They can have the Winter Soldier, and THE CHAIR as co stars!
Kabal was good? He was discount Deadpool and did not act at all like his game self.
Everyone talking about how Cole felt like a self insert when the sad thing is he WAS a self insert.
The director made the character because his wife was pregnant at the time and he wanted a fatherly character.
It genuinely burns me inside to think about.
Technically it's said that he did it because it was studio mandate
You gotta get that Asian market right?
Barely into the 2nd movie, and already Kano is maximum Chad.
They should definitely watch the Street Fighter movie from the 90s, its a fun ride.
Raul Julia brought a warehouse's worth of ham to that performance, only to chew the scenery. Simply marvelous.
I love that movie because Raul Julia is a king and Van Damme has hilariously bad line deliveries
When JCVD did the most coke of any 5 single individuals the entire time he was on set. Cinemassacre's Rental Review on it was pretty interesting.
Hell yeah! Make it another double feature, with "the legend of chun li"!
They're both garbage, it'll be great!🤣
And then watch the terrible Chun Li movie next.
Regular EFAPer but the level of tism in this episode has legit brought me an excess of joy.
Does LitDev purposely do the sinister laugh for the character? Don’t really care for the answer I love it anyway: It’s smooth as hell.
Mortal Kombat came out on my birthday and I was old enough to convince my parents to let me get it for the Sega Genesis.
The movie came out when I was a senior in HS, and it was the only time that a completely rowdy crowd was appreciated and added to the viewing enjoyment. The theater i was in completely lost their minds during the johnny cage vs scorpion scene.
protagonist feels like the third wheel in this movie
Even without gore, I still prefer the 1995 movie. At least it doesn't take itself seriously and Johnny Cage is in, not out because "white people can't be heroes", as the director said.
I don't think he ever said that. His (stupid) reasoning was that "Mortal Kombat is a franchise with asian roots" which is complete bullshit given that it was created by two american dudes in the west.
@@SwiftNimblefoot No the director LITERALLY said it would shameful to have a white guy as the protagonist of the movie while making Liu Kang a side kick in a Mortal Kombat movie.
No matter the reasoning, they should've just used Kenshi. He'd be perfect.
@@redbigun If you bring in Kenshi then you have to bring in the Red Dragon which will being in Blaze and Armageddon.
Also, You know, Red Dragon = China. so . .
@@SuperSky9 I doubt the makers would think that far into the character.
...so Kano wasn't originally Australian, it was because of the original MK movie he became Australian
the movie gave him his design and accent. in mk 1 he was just some bald dude
@@conan2096 Last I checked he had the cyborg eye in MK1 too.
@@SwiftNimblefoot he always had the metal eye. but if you look at the new games, they based him on this guy...accent and hair.
I always imagined the little brother turning into Chris Farley's Haru from Beverly Hills Ninja.
The fighters of mortal combat would not stand a chance against The White ninja.
@@BbNaB "I am one with the universe"
“She is leading you around by your short sword.” I still quote that all the time.
I'm absolutely expecting "Mortal Kombat 2021: an Unbridled meh" now
It's kinda more than a meh, it is just really really bad.
@@SwiftNimblefoot I mean, subjectively I believe it's a meh. Objectively, it's a movie hardcore fans of the gameplay from those games would have a good time with while fans of the lore would hate it, and as a movie, well, it has huge issues, but the point of my comment was to pull some fun on the subject, not analyze it XD
@@entropias_gonos As a hardcore fan of MK I think this movie spat on my face for investing my time in this franchise. Tragic characters like Sonya was Captain Marvel, Liu kang was a chump, Kung lao was more powerful for some reason, Mileena was a black for some reason, Jax was accurate tho, Kabal was suppose to be insider but is generic thug, Raiden's best portrayal in the entire franchies was in the first movie to this day, General Reiko was not a calculating mastermind, reptile was godzilla instead of his ninja self and cole young was a joke! This movie was an insult to me as a fan.
@@SuperSky9 I think you are slightly cherry-picking from the games and the movie. Don't take me wrong, this movie is underdeveloped and weak, but I was clearly talking about the action (of which you said nothing by the way) when I said it would resonate with fans of the franchise. On the lore side, I can recognize a lot of your takes, I don't really care for some of them like the race of characters or how the plot either buffed or nerfed them, or if mine or your personally preferable version of a character wasn't picked to portray them on the movie. Not talking about Reiko, Raiden, or how much of an insider Kabal usually is.
At any point, I did enjoy watching parts of this movie while others felt either really blunt or simply forced, like the main character's literal plot armor. I can't go into massive details cause it has been... over a month since the last time I watched this movie, but, I still believe there is enjoyment to be gain from Mortal Kombat 2021 meh edition. :)
@@entropias_gonos No, I was replying to your point of hardcore fans enjoying this movie. No, we didn't. For example this is something only us hardcore MK fans noticed which you plebs didn't - There was no actual mortal kombat tournament in the first mortal kombat movie.
its like they fought in the locker room and called it a day.
And donno if you're new to MK because mileena's race is important. Especially when the devs are trying to replace Jade Kitana Mileena her with Jade Kitana Skarlet.
Mileena's race is important because Mileena is black that means the Tarkatans are black and if the Tarkatans are black that means Baraka is black If Baraka is black that means Shao kahn will be the oppressor of Baraka's tarkaten race, not their emporer. Meaning the next movie is just going to preach bs.
This is all because of that God awful webseries called MK Legacy with evil liu kang with dead gf who works for shang tsung (No, it gets worse), monk kung lao with Liu kang's and Raiden's personality, a lobotomized raiden, a Mad black surgeon Baraka, none sf generic cops sonya, stryker and jax, a psycho johnny, a in-hiding jerrod (kitana's OG father), badly developed kenshi, ermac and reptile and sindel dies and her soul goes in Kitana for some reason. Its where the whole Scorpion family death came from. And now every MK movie is about scorpion's family dying for the millionth time. And this nightmare is the gold standard for making MK movies.
Also, I thought the action was generic hollywood choreography, I was hoping for some real Wushu based action but whatever. The movies only positive was ok graphics and Kano.
Nice line-up tonight. I hope ChaseFace interrupts every single one of them.
His interruptions will be everywhere, like wet bread.
The funny thing is you’re actually not wrong this time
Look at him interrupting this thread
This person is out of control !
@@ChaseFace love you, chase :) despite the interruptions
@@ChaseFace I'd expect nothing less,good sir!
2:12:40 "Elder gods are forbidden from engaging in one realms war against another."
_Raiden teleports all of the heroes out before Shang Tsung can devour their souls._
Seems legit.
In a movie about a fighting tournament, the one from the early days somehow managed to HAVE a tournament instead of a plot about someone who's presence is so miniscule the audience believes he'll become a different character before the finale just to GIVE that character a personality.
1995 goro was actually an animatronic
"You're an obstacle in our fun." *boo-yah!*
I loved the leg sweep scene, such a great call back to childhood. Everyone had a friend that would spam leg sweeps and Kano's reaction mirrored our own. "Is that all you can do?" The deepest of cuts.
Got MK11 on Switch two nights ago
With Baraka I won ONE ROUND like that
I double checked the ping after that
XD
2:14:56 Fringy has to watch his Australian representation die. 🤣
The sad part is he doesn't even realize that it's thanks to the 1995 movie that Fringe has his aussie representation.
Audiences loved that portrayal of Kano so much that every game since retconned Kano to be Australian.
Also the character Sisi Stringer is an Aussie too, I don't freaking get why they casted her Mileena instead of Jade or Tanya who she really looks more like, but they added Cole, who sucked.
@@RollingDodge They erasing mileena from the games so instead of Jade, Kitana, Mileena to Jade Kitana, Scarlet. So they killed off Mileena.
@@SuperSky9 , think they are just set on trying to lose fans with them trying to be PC, pandering, and virtue signaling marking the females ugly and having the males look handsome. But they did kill Liu Kang, too. And NRS, went on about how "unrealistic" it is for females to wear bikinis, despite IRL examples to the contrary and them selling arguably equally as revealing OG costumes for female characters.
@@RollingDodge Yeah, it was funny to see them lose most of their fanbase to PC then then trying to gain them back and fail. Serves them right.
Btw... Jax is played by the same guy that plays Jimmy Olsen in Supergril. Makes sense.
oh yeah i watched that show twice and completely forgot
That's why he looked familiar...
Mechad Brooks. His brother, Billy, is a regular guest over at Double Toasted.
Nah, that makes no sense. He should be playing Johnny Cage then, since he has a penchant for playing blackwashed characters.
@@SwiftNimblefoot Actually wanted to comment on Johnny Cage 'teaser' - from the poster it is not really clear if he is black or not and the movie taglines seem to be... suspicious...
I cant believe they questioned why Johnny cage took the high ground in a fire based location pretty flawless logic cx
The incel chase vs the chad Kano.
Please release the ''KANO CUT"
They think the Kano/Liu Kang fight was lame, but they don't put it together that, in the old games, you could defeat an opponent easily and annoyingly by doing the leg sweep over and over again. Twas an homage.
Still lame
To be fair, noob saibot is the older sub zero, with the younger brother being the common sub, so that confusion makes sense haha