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Critical-Limit
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i think Mortal Kombat in general is just a hard movie to make.
How over the top and chaotic the fighting is from the games. is very hard to translate into a movie.
Then you gotta cast like 25+ people who have atleast somewhat good acting skills and someone that they can get that looks similar enough to the characters from the game.
I mean would you rather have a guy that looks like Quan chi but has shitty acting? or take a semi crappy looking quan chi with believable acting.
For instance... The people that Nasty_Freak posted for the females, they all "LOOK" like they could be them. But I know damn well they are those high maintenance type girls that don't want to break a finger nail and they'd probably look TERRIBLE choreographing fights.
How over the top and chaotic the fighting is from the games. is very hard to translate into a movie.
Then you gotta cast like 25+ people who have atleast somewhat good acting skills and someone that they can get that looks similar enough to the characters from the game.
I mean would you rather have a guy that looks like Quan chi but has shitty acting? or take a semi crappy looking quan chi with believable acting.
For instance... The people that Nasty_Freak posted for the females, they all "LOOK" like they could be them. But I know damn well they are those high maintenance type girls that don't want to break a finger nail and they'd probably look TERRIBLE choreographing fights.
Easy solutions
- Find a middle ground between brutal martial arts choreo and incorporate special powers within it
- Find actors/actresses who both look the part and can act
- Take the core plot points and characterizations and take minor liberties
- Retain the visual motif of the games and it's mystique
Critical-Limit
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ok... No, they are not easy solutions.
If you had 35million dollars. I have huge doubts you'd make a super great MK movie.
More like easier said than done.
That's like me telling CDjr to uppercut Perfect Legend's teleports.
So easy to tell someone to do that, a whole different thing to actually do it.
With some, it's really all a matter of altering the fabric of the costumes. Take this update to Kitana's costume for instance:
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Critical-Limit
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That's a good example Sweetre
- For someone with little experience in directing.....Of course not
- With that said, When it comes to story, visuals and casting....I can easily put together some solid ideas for an MK film as well as ideas for the right people in the positions of fight choreographer, director etc etc
Critical-Limit
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But then you got the budget. Can't always get the best talent out there, sometimes you have to settle with what you can get.
I was just clarifying it's not as easy as you were making it out to me with that starting sentence
"Easy Solutions"
If it was so easy, I'm sure he'd be right on it.
It's not the easiest job on the planet but keep this in mind...If you're going to do an MK1 movie.
- MK1 only has about 9 characters...so mostly make the film about Kang, Sonya, Cage, Tsung, Subzero, Scorpion, Reptile, Kano, and Goro
- Another thing that should take off Some expense is that MK1's tournament took place on a secluded island fortress that resembles an Asian palace so....the best solution would be to look to Wuxia films that retain these types of visuals on 30 mill and lower budgets. So there's none of the overly CGI required locations like MK2 had since the fantasy was almost strictly brought by the characters.
- Cast mostly relative unknowns in the roles as well.
Critical-Limit
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except that when you play MK9 it clearly has more than 9 people in that tournament.
LOL...now that's mostly up to whether or not the director would be taking major cues from MK9 or not.
EDIT: Or whether or not the extras there would just be faceless/nameless fighters.
Critical-Limit
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Well it would be canon wouldn't it?
Barakka was apparently at the first tournament. According to the OFFICIAL storyline as of now.
Saying what you said isn't that also saying like
"Well that's assuming the director even wants to do realms or anything at all, maybe the director wants to make the movie about a grocery store employee named liu."
I mean, not putting say barakka in now, would be like ignoring him, even though his presence is there.
I'm not saying Barakka needs to be there. It's just It would feel rather stale with only 8 recognizable characters wouldn't it?
It would be like doing a Avengers movie but with only 3 heroes.
Barakka was apparently at the first tournament. According to the OFFICIAL storyline as of now.
Saying what you said isn't that also saying like
"Well that's assuming the director even wants to do realms or anything at all, maybe the director wants to make the movie about a grocery store employee named liu."
I mean, not putting say barakka in now, would be like ignoring him, even though his presence is there.
I'm not saying Barakka needs to be there. It's just It would feel rather stale with only 8 recognizable characters wouldn't it?
It would be like doing a Avengers movie but with only 3 heroes.
Well they are both existing timelines....so as of now, anyone working on MK has more framework to use whether it's a direct translation of the timelines, or a mashup of elements from the timelines.
I mean when it comes to stuff like this, if it has more than one iteration you have more choices with your take as long as you don't stray too far from either.
Which is a good point but I mostly mean in general.....either way, Baraka is definitely going to be there as well as Ermac, Kitana, and Mileena whom were NOT there in the original timeline.
Critical-Limit
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Are you saying First timeline barakka isn't there but the second timeline (Mk9) He is this time?
Because if we travel through time at the beginning of MK9, nothing should be any different than from the original timeline. Raiden doesn't really change anything until a bit later. So MK9 is telling us that despite the first game not even mentioning baraka that he's infact there.
Yes director has leeway, He could probably cut half the cast and still have what he needs to make a movie ONLY about the first tournament.
Because I mean people like Nightwolf and Baraka I mean what signficance did they play outside being someone's opponent in the original tournament?
So I can see your point on that.
Because if we travel through time at the beginning of MK9, nothing should be any different than from the original timeline. Raiden doesn't really change anything until a bit later. So MK9 is telling us that despite the first game not even mentioning baraka that he's infact there.
Yes director has leeway, He could probably cut half the cast and still have what he needs to make a movie ONLY about the first tournament.
Because I mean people like Nightwolf and Baraka I mean what signficance did they play outside being someone's opponent in the original tournament?
So I can see your point on that.
Nasty_Freak
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The best of season 1!!!Kitana and Mileena part 2
Why did they not mention Jade for season 2? :-|