I realise this.. but at best it is beloved b-grade movie that 90% of the population think is utter trash... I mean I love it.. but I'm also not blind to what they both where.
That's fair. But examples of prior MK movies illustrate rather nicely that issue people have taken with what was shown in the OP has very little to do with budget or even quality of writing and acting. Those were not the best over the course of MK's movies history indeed, yet there were things they at least tried to do right.
As much as I would like to see an MK movie with a great production value, there's something to be noted. From the data above (which is probably as fake as it gets, just like previous 2-3 "leaks") we can take that it could as well be a movie unrelated to MK and nothing would've changed. I've seen enough stuff that tried to piggyback on a well-known title while having nothing to do with what was behind it, and that wasn't... interesting.
It could as well be a fine movie for our simple tastes. Or it could fail spectacularly (Avatar: TLA and Final Fantasy: TSW were both crap even though one was rather true to the source while the other was a complete ass-pull). But that's not the point. Point is, whether it's going to be a good movie for an evening or not, it definitely isn't shaping up to be a fan-oriented MK movie.
It may not be a problem per se. But I'm thoroughly unexcited about prospect of having another generic action movie with what it had for a selling point being almost entirely watered down.
NO
THIS IS TYM. TRIGGERING YOU MOTHERFUCKERS
NO TEARS. NO SMILING. NO HAPPY.
ONLY TRIGGERED.
I dunno about you, but I don't see how what people say here lacks basis. Sure, the info in question is too little to judge the whole thing, should it happen. But we aren't. We comment on what was shown, nothing more and nothing less.
On a side note, hostility of TYM is greatly exaggerated. It may not be an exemplar community platform, but I don't see why so many people demonize it.
Perhaps this is because some people look for a circlejerk platform, echo chamber or "safe space", then yeah, TYM isn't one of those. Which I'm personally happy about because I'd rather have a, you know,
constructive platform that can offer criticism where it's due.
The only reason why they think it’s trash is because it’s rated PG-13. Lmao. If you look at the actual MK1 story, there’s only one death that ever happens.
To be honest, I doubt it. Some people are pretty vocal about brutality and gorn being MK's selling point, but if you want some perspective, think that majority of people who watched it back then had no idea what MK is and how it was supposed to look. Hell, even some of alleged MK fans I was hanging out with back then couldn't believe the video game came first, movie second. To them, just as to so many people, video games were some incredibly niche thing and they were not wrong.
And to an outsider it was indeed rather generic action movie, albeit with some unexpected fantasy freakshow in the mix.
This, not to mention the first MK movie still holds up today as a generally fun film and yes compared to every other vid game movie, arguably the best. A shame more vid game movies can't follow suit. Even comic films today they don't follow exact source material and it bugs the hell out of me honestly. They either go way off source material, have horrible miscastings be it the wrong actor or for forced PC reasons. Arggh.
Hey, comic book movies aren't really as off as some video game into movie adaptations were. They may tell completely new stories, but what was par the course for comic books as well, seeing how they ran for decades and went through many reboots. Can't really go off the rails more than that.
I mean, they don't replace speedster Flash with some average Joe kickboxer...
Video game adaptations though, hoo boy. Just see Uwe Boll's shooting spree (Bloodrayne, Dungeon Siege, Hitman) and despair.
I think it says something that DoA was one of the most truthful to a source movies based on vidya.
