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I've been thinking, what has to be the biggest casualty of the DCEU being a failure by most metrics, is the denial of other properties. We've seen Superman rebooted what 3 times? Bruce Wayne has been recast 6 times. Wonderwoman 1984's failure is likely to lead to less fringier movies.

But this leads to my point. How have we gotten no Batman Beyond? Michael Keaton plays an old Bruce Wayne, some kid is young Terry McGinnis. Everything is a bit more tech forward, the people who grew up watching that show are in prime nostalgia and age demographic.
 
I don't love Tim Burton. I don't hate him. But when I was going through movie taste development a lot of people loved him. I tended to believe he was a bit overrated. Some of his movies rock, but most of them were mediocre. But he has one film that just straight up towers over his others. Big Fish. It's artful, it's told in a convincing way, the story of a father's life told through his tales told through his son. It's so good. The bits of surrounding story, etc.It's truly a top notch film I think surpasses everything he's done.
 
thewupk said:
Mortal Kombat comes out this weekend. As a lifelong fan of the games I hope this turns out well.
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Did you watch the Scorpion/Subzero intro? It looks great. Hopefully the film is a lot like that. Lots of silly combat and some backstory but nothing too wild.
 
zitothebrave said:
Did you watch the Scorpion/Subzero intro? It looks great. Hopefully the film is a lot like that. Lots of silly combat and some backstory but nothing too wild.
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I didn't but I knew that's how the movie opens. Which I like because those are my two favorite characters.
 
Krgrecw said:
I hope so too, but the reviews are to kind
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Eh for movies like that don't bother with reviews. I don't expect people who are trying to only positively review Oscar films to want to watch a movie best enjoyed inebriated or as a teenager.

I compare it to Transformers. It was a fun film. My gripe with those films was they kept making more.
 
Honestly, the first Mortal Kombat film wasn't awful, at least in the genre of video game films. It just sucks that they glossed over Sub-Zero and Scorpion's characters since they are the 2 most popular characters. Reportedly, this new film aims to dive into their characters more. If this film is even remotely any good, I'm sure there will be sequels, since studios will want the make more money. If that's the case, hopefully they've already planned out the series so it flows well. Typically, that's where so many movies series fail. They hope for a trilogy, but don't plan for it. When it's green lighted, it typically gets rushed and whole thing is a mess with a bunch of plot holes that don't follow the original movie.

Speaking of movie sequels which huge plot holes, Fast 9 or whatever it's calling itself looks atrocious. I've never liked these films, but I watched the last one where dude died before finishing filming. Just when you thought they couldn't find a worse actor than Vin Diesel to star in these films, they bring in John Cena.
 
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The new Mortal Kombat is about what you'd expect: they could not have paid more than $20 bucks on that script, but there was some fun stuff to look at. Kind of like Godzilla/Kong in that way, but with obviously a much lower budget and correspondingly less fun to look at.
 
I mean to be fair, Mortal Kombat didn't need a script, it's based on the dumbest video game with the most absurd Lore. It hit many of the notes fans of the game would want. I mean to be fair, the scene already teased with the trailer, was all people wanted, Scorpion shanking Subzero with "Get Over Here"
 
I enjoyed MK. Was clearly made for fans of the games though which is fine. Apparently they have sequels/prequels planned so hopefully it makes enough to warrant that.
 
acesfull86 said:
“How about those Oscars!”
- said no one
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When Tenet was up for 2 minor awards, I knew they were full of themselves. They didn't even go full artsy like Cannes. They're toiling away in mediocrity. Only thing that matters is Daniel Kaluuya got an Oscar. Which he should have won for Get Out.
 
I’m almost never interested in the Academy Awards enough to actually watch the show, but was especially not interested this year given this crop of movies. I saw most of the nominated films, and most were OK, but in a normal year, not sure how many would’ve garnered a best picture nom. Not that that’s a surprise given the pandemic and how many possible contenders were delayed. Maybe it was more stark because I thought last year’s crop of Oscar films was so unusually good.
 
I'm intrigued usually because I root for certain people. This year the only one I was rooting for Kaluuya. I had no other real bones in the game.
 
Mortal Kombat.....meh, I liked the original better. The first like 10 minutes looked like it could be pretty decent. Then it went down hill pretty fast.
 
https://etcanada.com/news/773728/oscar-producers-wouldnt-let-anthony-hopkins-zoom-in-to-ceremony/

More proof the Academy doesn't get it. You have an elderly star, probably shouldn't be going out a ton. He wins, and they cut the show? He offered to Zoom in, you should absolutely let him. Not doing so just makes you look more callous. They could have easily had a drop down screen for if he or Boseman won and shown a message from him, didn't even have to Zoom in. Or with Boseman just a short montage. They did this basically to be memeworthy, that hasn't helped them at all.
 
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