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[Professor Beef]

Don't forget the terrible Halloween store-quality masks that the Barakas were wearing, lmao

 

[Altazor]

Don't forget the terrible Halloween store-quality masks that the Barakas were wearing, lmao

more like entire costume...

 

[sturgboski]

more like entire costume...

Ugh it's even worse than I remember. You can see the open cuffs where the prosthetic for the arms are. And you can see that the "blades" pierce through the prosthetic and not like a blade through skin but like a haphazardly cut opening in plastic.

 

[Violence Jack]

This one moment was when I knew he made for the perfect Raiden.

And now that I've thought about it, the only other thing I recall from MKA was the godawful dragon fight at the end that looked slightly worse than the California Raisins claymation.

 

[ColonialHawk]

I remember Scorpion vs Subzero, Cyrax vs Jax, Sonya vs Mileena, Motaro vs Jax, Sheeva vs Sonya, Kitana vs Sindel, Liu Kang vs Shao Kahn, I think Ermac fought someone, and I remember Johnny Cage getting his ass beat.

Oh and Baraka vs Liu Kang.

Spoiler

why the heck do I remember these things

 

[Etrian Oddity]

Funny thing about the Mortal Kombat movie: It completely changed the Kano character.

In the original Mortal Kombat video game, Kano was a Japanese assassin (he had the kanji for his name) with a bald visage. This continued up to MK3 or so; but the Australian actor's popular performance convinced Boon and the team to just retcon Kano to being an Aussie mercenary.

Fun stuff.

 

[Bishop89]

Funny thing about the Mortal Kombat movie: It completely changed the Kano character.

In the original Mortal Kombat video game, Kano was a Japanese assassin (he had the kanji for his name) with a bald visage. This continued up to MK3 or so; but the Australian actor's popular performance convinced Boon and the team to just retcon Kano to being an Aussie mercenary.

Fun stuff.

Well deserved, actor was great

 

[Aiii]

Indeed, he was an amazing Kano.

 

[catmincer]

It's amusing because the actor wasn't even Australian.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

Fun fact, Kano was originally American, but the actor in MK1 (Trevor Goddard) who was British was mistaken as Australian by Americans and people loved the portrayal so much they canonically changed the character to Australian

Casting so good they changed the character in the games to fit the actors portrayal going forward.

Funny thing about the Mortal Kombat movie: It completely changed the Kano character.

In the original Mortal Kombat video game, Kano was a Japanese assassin (he had the kanji for his name) with a bald visage. This continued up to MK3 or so; but the Australian actor's popular performance convinced Boon and the team to just retcon Kano to being an Aussie mercenary.

Fun stuff.

Nice

 

[Chinbo37]

My friend and I left in the middle of MKA. I just remember that it was terrible.

 

[Raptomex]

Because the fights in Annihilation were terrible/happened in the blink of an eye so they could ram in every MK character in existence.

This. The entire movie attempted to cater to fans. It was ridiculous and just not very good.

 

[giancarlo123x]

First movie is legit fun. Even as a 9 year old watching it in theaters I knew MKA was trash after the first viewing.

 

[kyored]

Annihilation had cramped in all that garbage but didn't have at least a cameo for him:

 

[DiipuSurotu]

Annihilation had cramped in all that garbage but didn't have at least a cameo for him:

Wasn't there a statue of him in the first film?

 

[caliph95]

Funny thing about the Mortal Kombat movie: It completely changed the Kano character.

In the original Mortal Kombat video game, Kano was a Japanese assassin (he had the kanji for his name) with a bald visage. This continued up to MK3 or so; but the Australian actor's popular performance convinced Boon and the team to just retcon Kano to being an Aussie mercenary.

Fun stuff.

Same thing with Raiden where in the original tournament he was just some asshole God who got bored of mortals fighting and caused the world to be destroyed by having gods fight instead

Then he became the typical wise mentor to the heroes

 

[n00bsauce87]

The fights in Annihilation had too much shitty CGI, or in the case of Jaxx, terrible props. The fights in the first film were at least by and large practical.

This.

The first one did more with less so that forced the stunt men to have better fight choreography.

And the dialogue was better.

And Johnny Cage was in the first MK providing the best one-liners.

And Christopher Lambert was in the first MK as well

In fact, the actors were just plain better

 

[gabbo]

Annihilation had cramped in all that garbage but didn't have at least a cameo for him:

He's long dead by the time the movies take place - Lui is his decedent