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polgas
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada1752 Posts
April 12 2021 22:27 GMT
#9181
Pacific Rim did it very well. They just need someone like Guillermo Del Toro to direct the movie.
Leee Jaee Doong
Archeon
Profile Joined May 2011
3253 Posts
April 13 2021 01:26 GMT
#9182
On April 03 2021 00:38 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
For me, Batman Begins is the best comic book based movie by a wide margin. I don't think any other comic book movie comes close.

#1
Alfred : "you are getting lost inside this monster you've created ...you also have the Wayne name to think about"
Bruce : "i don't care about my name"
Alfred: "well your father did... and that's all that is left of him.."

#2
Bruce leaving an expensive hotel restaurant with 2 hot babes after a long night of partying and he bumps into Rachel.
Rachel to Bruce: "but its not who you are underneath... its what you do that defines you"


Thomas Wayne was a healer... a doctor of medicine. Bruce Wayne was a seemingly erratic violent warrior/guardian.

The acting in Batman Begins is off the charts great.

It's my favorite one of the three as well. While the evil ninja organization is a bit... dated as an idea, I thought that the making of Batman made him a much more relatable character than in dark knight where he is more batman and less Bruce Wayne. And while I prefer the Joker over the villain of part 1 dark knight suffers from having too many villains and too much stuff going on and it imo detracts from the story.
The only thing I didn't like about Batman begins was that his reasoning for why his killing is supposedly legitimate at the end was really dumb.

I find Sin City really hard to compare, but would throw that into the ring for greatest comic book adaptions. Totally different movie though.
low gravity, yes-yes!
Faruko
Profile Joined April 2013
Chile34171 Posts
April 18 2021 23:18 GMT
#9183
The father is BEAUTIFUL.

Incredibly moving
Ross was right // "Jesus Christ nahaz is doing shots before my eyes" (Sn0_Man, 2018)
ZerOCoolSC2
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
8983 Posts
April 23 2021 14:55 GMT
#9184
Just saw Mortal Kombat. Better than Godzilla vs Kong. Fight me.
Velr
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Switzerland10705 Posts
April 23 2021 15:09 GMT
#9185
Godzilla vs Kong was kinda fun but still (way) worse than Pacific Rim (we don't talk about Pacific Rim 2, no one does).


You got me hyped .
ZerOCoolSC2
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
8983 Posts
April 23 2021 15:25 GMT
#9186
On April 24 2021 00:09 Velr wrote:
Godzilla vs Kong was kinda fun but still (way) worse than Pacific Rim (we don't talk about Pacific Rim 2, no one does).


You got me hyped .

It could be the nostalgia glasses, but it really was enjoyable.
Velr
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Switzerland10705 Posts
April 23 2021 15:46 GMT
#9187
The first MK movie wasn't that bad... When compared to other cheap fighting movies of the time. It was actually really fun in a sort of bad but therefore good way. Most others did worse .
ZerOCoolSC2
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
8983 Posts
April 23 2021 15:57 GMT
#9188
This is actually not bad. It's Mortal Kombat so don't expect something earth shattering in the story department. But it does everything you expect and then some exceptionally well. It builds up into a good 30 minutes of just pure awesome. I found myself sitting forward and smiling when the moves came out. I was like "He did the thing! He did the thing!" :D
Starlightsun
Profile Blog Joined June 2016
United States1405 Posts
April 23 2021 18:26 GMT
#9189
The MK trailer looked pretty good..
{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-04-23 18:46:00
April 23 2021 18:45 GMT
#9190
On MK....

+ Show Spoiler +
The Cole character is so fucking dumb as well as boring... What is the point of his character? Add to the fact Johnny Cage isn't in the film so as to make room for this boring sock puppet makes it even worse. Otherwise pretty good film.
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ZerOCoolSC2
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
8983 Posts
April 23 2021 18:51 GMT
#9191
On April 24 2021 03:45 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
On MK....

+ Show Spoiler +
The Cole character is so fucking dumb as well as boring... What is the point of his character? Add to the fact Johnny Cage isn't in the film so as to make room for this boring sock puppet makes it even worse. Otherwise pretty good film.

You nailed it.
+ Show Spoiler +
Everything about him just pissed me off. It was almost an anime protagonist parody that he was that fucking useless the entirety of the film. And Kung Lao? Come on man. That's my dude! Cole was entirely unneeded in the movie and could have been left out to make the flick better. More Scorpion and Sub Zero would have been better as well.


You see the parallels with GvK in what went right and what went wrong Stealth?
Manit0u
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
Poland17257 Posts
April 25 2021 09:26 GMT
#9192
Mortal Kombat

I watched it so you don't have to.

Music: Terrible
Fight scenes: Terrible
Dialogue: Terrible and cringe
Story: Terrible (how do you fuck up a movie about a fighting tournament?)
Characters: Terrible (how come Kano is the most relatable character as most "good guys" are dumb, cringe and horrible people?)
Time is precious. Waste it wisely.
Sermokala
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States13931 Posts
April 26 2021 01:28 GMT
#9193
I saw Mortal Kombat and I really liked it. It had an incredible pace to it and did not care to stop to answer any questions at all. I can appreciate well-acted characters that are given little to nothing to work with. I would watch a hundred movies with the guys who played sub zero and scorpion. They definitely got a lot better fight coordinators and camera folk in their scenes.

The entire rest of the cast and movie was a miss. Chin Han hard Kano+Kabal were all working really hard with the little they were given.

Action movies live and die on good action and good pace. This had both of those.
A wise man will say that he knows nothing. We're gona party like its 2752 Hail Dark Brandon
Manit0u
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
Poland17257 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-04-26 13:58:11
April 26 2021 13:52 GMT
#9194
I really don't see how you can say the action was good in MK? Fight scene choreography and editing were B-movie quality, the hits didn't feel like they had any impact apart from some gruesome deaths followed by super cringe comments like "fatality, flawless victory" etc. made by the person who killed their adversary. It was hard to watch.

The pacing of the movie was also very bad. You've had super long build up where the chosen best fighters gather and then they have to do training? Like, seriously, weren't they chosen because they're the best? Why do they have to train now?

Then you have the problem of not knowing how much time has passed as you get some poor training/healing montage and then protagonist returns to save his family and it seems like it's the same evening he left them?

The only good part of this movie was the first 10 minutes, which gave me hope for an interesting story of Scorpion getting his revenge but then it switched pov to this new shitty loser character...

Also, all the fights took place outside of the tournament so why even bring it up?
Time is precious. Waste it wisely.
Sermokala
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States13931 Posts
April 26 2021 15:28 GMT
#9195
The pacing was great I don't know how to tell you that it didn't feel like it was over an hour let alone two hours. The movie very clearly communicated that time and story didn't matter and everything was done to get to the next fighting scenes.

I mean they said the lines because it's a video game movie and people would be SUPER pissed if they didn't have those. It's literally the thing from the source material.

+ Show Spoiler +
I don't know how you missed that the training was so they could give super powers to people. It was a bit messy at times but the whole scene with the egg roll was great.


When you have a movie that has extreme gore in it you need some weaker moves to give it balance and value. I admit the camera work and editing was choppy for most of the middle part but almost all of the fights didn't follow the standard styles of fighting because we've got a giant dude with 4 arms that isn't the end boss.

And if you liked the first 10 minutes how did you not like that whole ending. That was incredibly well acted shot and choreographed + Show Spoiler +
and gave a payout and ending that was badass for the villain and satisfying for the hero from the start of the film.


Also it's 2021 anything with a budget is trying to become a franchise. It's the nature of the Beast.
A wise man will say that he knows nothing. We're gona party like its 2752 Hail Dark Brandon
hexhaven
Profile Joined July 2014
Finland931 Posts
April 26 2021 17:42 GMT
#9196
On April 26 2021 22:52 Manit0u wrote:
I really don't see how you can say the action was good in MK? Fight scene choreography and editing were B-movie quality, the hits didn't feel like they had any impact apart from some gruesome deaths followed by super cringe comments like "fatality, flawless victory" etc. made by the person who killed their adversary. It was hard to watch.


How familiar are you with the Mortal Kombat games, i.e. the source material?
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Quinton Mitchell
Profile Joined April 2021
3 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-04-30 07:19:27
April 26 2021 18:30 GMT
#9197
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Manit0u
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
Poland17257 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-04-26 21:49:28
April 26 2021 21:49 GMT
#9198
On April 27 2021 02:42 hexhaven wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 26 2021 22:52 Manit0u wrote:
I really don't see how you can say the action was good in MK? Fight scene choreography and editing were B-movie quality, the hits didn't feel like they had any impact apart from some gruesome deaths followed by super cringe comments like "fatality, flawless victory" etc. made by the person who killed their adversary. It was hard to watch.


How familiar are you with the Mortal Kombat games, i.e. the source material?


I've been playing MK since the first one before even such a thing as cd-rom was invented

I don't mind inclusion of iconic quotes but there are way better ways of doing it. If we got an actual tournament and Shang Tsung or whoever would be the judge or announcer of the duels would be saying that I would have 0 problems with it. Seems super strange to smirk and say "flawless victory" or "fatality" yourself after you kill someone, especially coming from the "good" characters...

It seems I'm not alone with my feelings for the movie:



+ Show Spoiler +

They gave the movie 5/10 originally then wanted to bump it up to 6/10 because of Kano but ended up dropping it to 4/10 because of all the bullshit (like Cole who lost every fight and the first and only fight he won was against Goro, WTF?!).
Time is precious. Waste it wisely.
ZerOCoolSC2
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
8983 Posts
April 26 2021 21:51 GMT
#9199
So...you want the 1995 movie. This movie was really good and fine for what it was. Cole was the main part of the movie that sucked the joy out of it. Everything else was good.
Sermokala
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States13931 Posts
April 27 2021 02:15 GMT
#9200
Its really Bizzare to support your agument with the guy whos built his entire platform based around being a hater. His name is Angry Joe not Regular joe.
A wise man will say that he knows nothing. We're gona party like its 2752 Hail Dark Brandon
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