WarGalley Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 Gosh I remember watching both Mortal Kombat movies in the theaters as a kid. You'd have to pay me a 100 bucks to watch those movies again. I remember almost laughing at the visuals of the Animality scenes in the second movie. It was like clay animation from the old Clash of the Titans movie.. except Clash of the Titans was better. Anyways.. this version didn't interest me so much as that 2 minute fan film they did a few years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 6 minutes ago, Martell Spy said: Still recovering from how bad Goro looked in that second I saw him. Who am I kidding though, I'm still going to watch it. I did not learn after making the mistake of watching the 2nd movie. Looks terrible. Did you catch Reptile in it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martell Spy Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 1 hour ago, Tywin et al. said: Looks terrible. Did you catch Reptile in it? Had too look for it, missed it the first time. Hahah. Yeah, they probably should have done a movie about the rivalry of Sub Zero and Scorpion instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLastWolf Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 On 2/18/2021 at 9:29 AM, TheLastWolf said: 8 1/2 Reveal hidden contents W. O. W My favorite International (read: non us/uk/aus/eng speaking) filmmakers... In no particular order, mind you Ingmar Bergman Akiro Kurasawa Satyajit Ray Vittorio De Sica Fedderico Fellini Abbas Kuroistami Jean-Luc Goddard Jean Renoir Sergio Leone (i daresay) Roman Polanski Werner Herzog Pedro Almodovar Alfonso Cuaron Alejandro González Innaritu Guillermo Del Toro Boong Jon Hoo Majid Majidi David Lean LJP Mani Ratnam Anybody else worth mentioning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ithanos Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 7 hours ago, Tywin et al. said: Damn, this looks.....bad. Depends on where you're coming from. As one who paid cash money to watch the original in cinema back in '95 (the experience was never anything to openly admit), this looks pretty damn good. Except for Goro, who still looks shit. I'd watch it just for Hiroyuki Sanada as Scorpion and Joe Taslim as Sub Zero. 1 hour ago, Martell Spy said: Had too look for it, missed it the first time. Hahah. Yeah, they probably should have done a movie about the rivalry of Sub Zero and Scorpion instead. They released the animated movie, Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge last year which was basically this. It was pretty entertaining, but be warned, there's a shit-ton of gore. 20 minutes ago, TheLastWolf said: My favorite International (read: non us/uk/aus/eng speaking) filmmakers... David Lean Anybody else worth mentioning? Huh? Anyway your list could do with a more French directors. Luc Besson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLastWolf Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 8 hours ago, ithanos said: Huh? David Lean's films take place in global scenarios. Asia, Africa, Europe maybe even Americas, if I've missed it. International enough by my standards. 8 hours ago, ithanos said: Anyway your list could do with a more French directors. Luc Besson. Ok. Are you French by any chance? If so, Pardonnez mes péchés monsieur ou madame Jean Renoir Luc Besson Jean-Luc Goddard Francois Truffaut Jean Cocteau Jacques Rivette " Audiard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 9 hours ago, ithanos said: Depends on where you're coming from. As one who paid cash money to watch the original in cinema back in '95 (the experience was never anything to openly admit), this looks pretty damn good. Except for Goro, who still looks shit. I'd watch it just for Hiroyuki Sanada as Scorpion and Joe Taslim as Sub Zero. I loved the movie as a kid. Rewatching it as an adult though...woof. Scorpion was always my go to player, so I did like what I saw there, but still... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbunting Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 1 hour ago, Tywin et al. said: I loved the movie as a kid. Rewatching it as an adult though...woof. Scorpion was always my go to player, so I did like what I saw there, but still... My go to was which ever one I could remember the finishing move on! Usually sub zero, scorpion or Raiden(?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3CityApache Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 11 hours ago, TheLastWolf said: Anybody else worth mentioning? Krzysztof Kieślowski, Michael Haneke, Wim Wenders, Thomas Vinterberg, Lars Von Trier, Milos Forman, Xavier Dolan, Giuseppe Tornatore, Lasse Halstroem, I could go on like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted February 19, 2021 Author Share Posted February 19, 2021 Some names I'd add: Wong Kar-wai, Alfred Hitchcock, Andrei Tarkovsky, Robert Bresson, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jacques Tati, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Bernardo Bertolucci, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujirô Ozu, Zhang Yimou, Ken Loach, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 16 minutes ago, dbunting said: My go to was which ever one I could remember the finishing move on! Usually sub zero, scorpion or Raiden(?) Rain and Noob Saibot were the easiest when I played the game as a kid, but Scorpion's fatalities were the best. And the version I played most was I believe MK2 on a Gameboy, and special moves didn't work on Goro, Shang Tsung and Shao Kahn, so you just had to pick the ninjas that could jump a little bit higher, get over them, kick them in the back and bounce away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 12 hours ago, ithanos said: Huh? Anyway your list could do with a more French directors. Luc Besson. Besson should be off all lists except the sex offenders register. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ithanos Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 7 hours ago, TheLastWolf said: David Lean's films take place in global scenarios. Asia, Africa, Europe maybe even Americas, if I've missed it. International enough by my standards. Ok. Are you French by any chance? If so, Pardonnez mes péchés monsieur ou madame Jean Renoir Luc Besson Jean-Luc Goddard Francois Truffaut Jean Cocteau Jacques Rivette " Audiard Not French but I thought on balance their cinema history is as strong as any other. Agree about David Lean. His classics should be compulsory international viewing. 3 hours ago, polishgenius said: Besson should be off all lists except the sex offenders register. Didn't know that, had to look it up. Dammit, will have to be mindful of great movies made by shit people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartofice Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 Didn’t Besson create Leon originally as a flat out romance between a grown man and a child? Didn’t I hear that ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 18 hours ago, TheLastWolf said: My favorite International (read: non us/uk/aus/eng speaking) filmmakers... In no particular order, mind you Ingmar Bergman Akiro Kurasawa Satyajit Ray Vittorio De Sica Fedderico Fellini Abbas Kuroistami Jean-Luc Goddard Jean Renoir Sergio Leone (i daresay) Roman Polanski Werner Herzog Pedro Almodovar Alfonso Cuaron Alejandro González Innaritu Guillermo Del Toro Boong Jon Hoo Majid Majidi David Lean LJP Mani Ratnam Anybody else worth mentioning? Among many others, here's this Polish director, Jerzy Hoffman. If you watch his trilogy of 17th Century Poland, adapted from the Nobel Prize for Literature winner author, Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz, you will see how much both Tolkien got from the novels, I think -- due to him living among the many displaced Catholic Polish intellectuals in England for a long time, and Jackson got from these films Also, particularly lately. there are brilliant Africans doing great work, which I've fallen down on seeing due to pandemic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted February 19, 2021 Author Share Posted February 19, 2021 10 minutes ago, Heartofice said: Didn’t Besson create Leon originally as a flat out romance between a grown man and a child? Didn’t I hear that ? There's claims that the original draft was like that, but I've never seen it confirmed that the script that circulated was actually real. It's also alleged that Portman's parents forced Besson to drop it, and , I think that part is definitely BS. From what was actually filmed, there was a scene where Mathilda asked Léon to become her lover, but his feelings towards her are not sexual in the film (at least not at that point when cameras started rolling) and he rejects the advance. It was cut because audiences didn't like it, but it may have been restored for the European/international cut at some point. Strangely, I've never seen the film here in Sweden. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughn Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 3 hours ago, ithanos said: Didn't know that, had to look it up. Dammit, will have to be mindful of great movies made by shit people. Yikes - married a 16 year old when he was 31? That's unacceptable and creepy AF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLastWolf Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 11 hours ago, 3CityApache said: Krzysztof Kieślowski, Michael Haneke, Wim Wenders, Thomas Vinterberg, Lars Von Trier, Milos Forman, Xavier Dolan, Giuseppe Tornatore, Lasse Halstroem, Gee, thanks. I can't believe how I missed the emboldened. Especially the first. 11 hours ago, 3CityApache said: I could go on like that Pls do 6 hours ago, ithanos said: Not French but I thought on balance their cinema history is as strong as any other. Fair 6 hours ago, ithanos said: Agree about David Lean. His classics should be compulsory international viewing Hell Yeah 4 hours ago, Zorral said: Among many others, here's this Polish director, Jerzy Hoffman. If you watch his trilogy of 17th Century Poland, adapted from the Nobel Prize for Literature winner author, Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz, you will see how much both Tolkien got from the novels, I think -- due to him living among the many displaced Catholic Polish intellectuals in England for a long time, and Jackson got from these films Also, particularly lately. there are brilliant Africans doing great work, which I've fallen down on seeing due to pandemic. Roger Roger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3CityApache Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 13 hours ago, TheLastWolf said: Pls do Ok, here's few more: Jean Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro, Andriej Tarkowski, Wojciech Smarzowski, Chan-wook Park, Luca Guadagnino, Nicolas Winding Refn, Neill Blomkamp, Paweł Pawlikowski, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 Checked out the first one and 1/2 episodes of Netflix-Germany's Tribes of Europa. It stinks, it's so awfully stupid with world building and characterization, as well as derivative of every post apocalyptic tv, movie and novel from any period you have seen and read. Looks as cheap and cheesy as the script. The only good thing are views of what are forests in presumably German, Czech Republic and Croatian forests. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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