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Mortal Kombat for the 21st century

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look out! Ninjas!:
"But why are you murdering everybody?"

"Oh, I'm just a jerk"

Scandanavian War Machine:

--- Quote from: tender on 08 Jun 2010, 16:13 ---This is quite long for a preview of a movie that is slated for a 2013 release (according to imdb). Probably a teaser for a game, unfortunately. A campy movie like this could be fun.

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I believe it's more like a proof-of-concept. Something to show investors, so they can actually make the movie.

I'm just hoping it's not for a game because I don't think that Mortal Kombat should ever be a game ever again. It's just not relevent or necessary anymore.

Alex C:
See, I figure Mortal Kombat is far less relevant as a movie series than as a gaming franchise. To put it bluntly, there's no other western fighter franchise that ever managed to be more than a blip on the radar. It's almost strictly Japanese territory, with all the stylistic references and cultural baggage that entails. I don't know if there's still a place for a more juvenile, westernized and irreverent approach to the fighter genre, since frankly fighters are something of a dinosaur in general, but I think it'd be more interesting to see someone take a crack at the job than it would be to see another gory low rent action flick.

Storm Rider:
I'm going to be a wet blanket and say that I thought that trailer was kind of awful. Trying to gritty up the goofy Mortal Kombat mythology and give all the ridiculous characters serial killer backstories just struck me as cringe-inducing. It looked reasonably stylish and the fighting scene looked fine, but I think trying to give Mortal Kombat the Dark Knight treatment nakedly exposes just how stupid the story in those games is. Not to malign the games themselves, I don't play fighting games so I don't really care either way. But I don't really like this direction for an MK movie, I think Mortal Kombat has to have a tongue in cheek element to work.

Alex C:
I'll just put it this way: If they try to go the Dark Knight route and support an entire movie with aspirations towards feigning realism, I think it would fail horribly. But I think the more apt comparison would actually be Twisted Metal Black, and as a game that formula could very well be a success. Short vignettes, openly impossible scenarios, some dark humor and over the top action can work out pretty well. Of course, unless the property has changed hands more than I know, David Jaffe (of Twisted Metal and God of War fame) couldn't possibly be heading up this project, and his crew would really be the only guys I can think of who could make something properly ridiculous out of it.

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