This week in the Deep Hurting Project is going to come early, due to my having Ravinia concerts on Saturday (music of the Baroque) and Sunday (Diana Ross). And now, it's going to be Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. It's one of only a few Sci-Fi/Fantasy movies left in the project available on streaming, and managed to come on Tubi just yesterday. I took advantage and watched the first one, and it's pretty much the Citizen Kane of video game movies (pre-Detective Pikachu, anyway), and that mostly means that it's slightly below average, what with film directors young enough to get into video games only just recently getting old enough to break into the film industry, and maybe that video game plots have only recently started to develop that transfer well to film. And, despite this, Mortal Kombat is just fine as a movie, but as an adaptation, it's great enough that it apparently influenced the canon of the games, and it was given a sequel that dropped the ball so badly it made it to the Deep Hurting Project.
- They just recycled the opening for the first movie for its sequel? Seriously? They're that lazy?
- Mortal Kombat isn't about death, but life. You know, if I hadn't seen the first movie, I'd be calling bullshit.
- Huh. Johnny Cage died within the first five minutes.
- Fucking Hell, Shao Khan is a Young-Earth Creationist.
- So, their victory in the first movie meant nothing.
- That line just becomes more and more ridiculous even in context. Also, how the fuck is she her mother?
- Wow, Raiden sounds nothing like Christopher Lambert.
- They travel through an underground passage by zorbing in a giant steel ball that seems to be powered by two people fucking.
- You got to love the fact that Sonya sees Jax strapped to an operating table with robot limbs and the first question she has is "What have you gotten yourself into this time?"
- "Your Animality, Your Animality, Your Animality," doesn't have the same sort of ring to it that "With Endless Options For Renewal! With Endless Options For Renewal! With Endless Options for Renewal!" has.
- You don't understand all that talk about dimensional merges? Wait until Chris-chan latches onto the idea of a dimensional merge.
- So, Raiden losing his immortality makes him look more like Johnny Lawrence in Cobra Kai?
- They added 50% to the budget, but they somehow managed to make the special effects worse. You can tell what scenes were shot in front of a green screen because everyone has a noticable aura, and the most convincing special effects are still at a Harryhausen-level artificiality.
- Those cybernetic arms are his weakness and not his strength? Okay, that makes sense. I can remember that arc from Archer where Gilette uses his leg
- How many new characters from the previous games are they just going to randomly introduce?
- I can;t take much more of this? Neither can I, honestly. This movie's giving me little to work with, and I suspect that if I were familiar with the rest of the franchise, things might be easier. But I don't do video games, and while I know some of the most basic trappings of the franchise, my expertise isn't much broader than that. Not even foot porn of a character who doesn't even appear in this movie like I have for Street Fighter.
- You know what, with this wolf vs. hydra fight, this isn't even at Harryhausen levels of artifice. Harryhausen's stop motion took time. This is almost at VRChat levels.
- Why the fuck is he randomly flashing back to the World Trade Center being alive?
- What's up with that? Raiden's back to being immortal and apparently he's revived by a pillar of fire and the chrome people from a 1990s Capri Sun ad.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.