Mortal Kombat II - Fandom Hybrid Podcast #409

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What's up hybrids?
Welcome back to another episode

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of the Phantom Hybrid Podcast.
This is Hanukkah and I am here

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with Anthony and we have a guest
for the first time on the

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podcast.
It how I don't know how this is

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just your first time, but he's
on our panels.

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He does convention stuff with
us.

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You guys see him all the time.
Officially, we are welcoming

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Nick to the Phantom Hybrid
Podcast.

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Welcome, Nick.
It is.

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It's so great to be here.
And this is really the fruition

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of like several years of
pretending friendship and

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weaseling my way into people's
lives just with a Machiavellian

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scheme to get on a podcast.
And finally, you know, unless

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they started over, I'm in.
There's no taking it out.

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I'm in the whole thing.
So yes, finally paid off.

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Try to play it cool.
Ha ha.

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And if if Mike's Michelle
listens to this, yes, I'm I'm

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comfortable with being called a
stalker.

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I did earn that.
So yes, following along until I

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get in.
So I guess.

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That's OK.
We love Stalker Nick, if that's

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what you want to be called.
But welcome, welcome, welcome.

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And we are going to talk about
Mortal Kombat 2.

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It's been quite a while since
we've done a movie review.

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I can't even remember the last
movie review we did because

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we've we've planned on it.
There were some things we

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planned on watching, but the
problem with having six people

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on a podcast team is everybody's
schedule does not match up.

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So it gets kind of difficult,
but we're going to do it.

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We're going to talk about Mortal
Kombat 2.

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We may throw some Mortal Kombat
1 discussion in here.

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And by Mortal Kombat 1, I mean
the version of the movie that

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was rebooted in 2021 during the
pandemic.

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Mortal Kombat 2 that just came
out a few weeks ago is the

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continuation of that.
So let's get started with this.

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OK, so we got to talk about a
little bit about Mortal Kombat 1

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first, because all of us, I
think have played some version

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of the game, probably some more
than others.

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I am one of those people.
I played like the early, early

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90s version of the game and I
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the beginning of the 2000s.
So I'm only a, a a casual fan of

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it, but I know enough about the
Lord to keep up with what's

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going on in the film, right,
Anthony and Nick, you want to

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give a little bit of your
backgrounds on Mortal Kombat

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before we get into the movie
talk?

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More than I do Anthony, so I'll
go.

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I played a bunch of Mortal
Kombat 1 and 2 and then took a

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break from it and felt Deadly
Alliance.

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But I I played mostly.
I'm a Nintendo person, which

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means all of our blood was
edited out in the original

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release.
I didn't know better.

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I got the Genesis version
eventually and as so we were

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learning special moves in the
basement.

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We were figuring it out and it
was a lot of fun.

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But yes, I, I've, I have played
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I have a set up here.
So Eli and I, my kid, we've

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played Mortal Kombat 1 and 2
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bit.
But yeah, there there isn't as

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much of a drive to do the hard
work of studying all the

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finishing moves and doing it
over and over until you get it

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right.
I think I'm more of a Street

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Fighter two person at heart with
the play control, but the

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gruesomeness was fun.
OK, what about you?

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I played.
I played it originally on the

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Sega Genesis system, the
original bloody version, which

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was awesome with my cousins
sitting around the den playing

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each other.
I used to mop the floor with

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Scorpion.
Getting over here was great and

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I've played it off and on
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I think last year I forgot the
PS5I played Mortal Kombat 10,

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which was fun.
And a few days ago, well after

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the a few days ago, Michelle
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again and the only free version
that I can get was Mortal Kombat

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1, which is the I think the
sequel sort of to Mortal Kombat

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10.
It was, it was, it was a little

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fun.
I I it's been a while since I

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played Mortal Kombat 10, so I
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between Street Fighter and
Mortal Kombat is, I think our

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friend Carlos will tell us
street fighters button matching.

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Like, you can get away with this
button matching.

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You can't really do that in
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You actually have to do like,
for real, seriously focusing on

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the combos.
Yeah, because I've tried the

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button matching with Michelle
and it didn't really work out to

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will for me.
But you know, once I figured it

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out, I was like, OK, I got it
now she was done.

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It might be like Guitar Hero and
Rockstar where you learn a

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certain play control and then
you try to go to the other one

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and you're like, this feels
terrible.

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And Mortal Kombat had a dodge
button, a block button.

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And Street Fighter is just like
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You just push away.
But yes, you could you could get

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very good at a few combos on
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But yeah, it's.
Yeah, I was playing.

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I kept trying to block and I
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I kept pressing back and she was
kicking my butt and I was like,

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why am I not blocking?
Oh, I'm playing you like Street

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Fighter.
There's a specific button, you

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have to press the block one
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But they won so many points for
that imagery that it was like,

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you know, it just dominated
after Street Fighter because it

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looks so cool.
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So yeah, this is great.
Figuring out the finishes is is

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where the challenge is, so.
Right, right.

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And I think that was also that
was one of the best parts of of

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of the movie, at least the
second movie.

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But before we get into the
second movie, let's talk a

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little bit about the first movie
because it's it's very

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interesting.
I went to.

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So the first movie came out
during the pandemic and it was I

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think 2021.
So the, I think like the bad

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part of the pandemic was kind of
over, but we were still kind of,

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you know, the movie theaters
were still releasing everything

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straight to streaming.
We were still doing the, the

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social distancing type thing.
So I sat in the house and

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watched it with my son because
that was, you know, that was a

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thing that we used to do when he
was younger, you know, watch

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the, the Mortal Kombat movies.
And like I said, I'm, I'm

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interested in the, the world.
I just, I'm not a game.

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I don't have the time to be a
gamer because I don't have space

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in my life to get addicted to
anything else.

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So we keep that part just firmly
on the side.

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But I watched the movie and I
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when you watch the trailers, the
trailers look good.

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The trailers look good.
The, the, the CGI and all of the

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action, the fight scenes, you're
like, OK, this is going to be a

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good movie.
And then I watched the movie and

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I felt so disconnected.
Like it didn't feel like Mortal

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Kombat to me.
And I think it was because of

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the character, the main
character they had in the first

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movie, which is Cole Young,
played by Lewis Tan, that I was

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like, I don't know.
I just, we had a hard time

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connecting with the movie.
And then the story just didn't

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really grab me.
And I was just, I don't know, it

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was just something about
watching that first movie and I

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was like, I'm interested.
But yeah, so it was like I, I

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had AI had a really hard time
connecting with that story and

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with that character.
But when they announced Mortal

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Kombat 2, I was still
interested.

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I was like, OK, I didn't really
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I'm still going to watch the
second one just because I want

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to see what they do with the
story.

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And when I went to go see the
second one with you guys, it I

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felt like the flow was better,
the story was better, the acting

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was better than the first one,
but it also made me understand

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the first one better.
Did you guys feel like that?

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If it's part of a set, and I
mean, I think people have told

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me that before for movies that
failed and they didn't make a

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sequel, it's like, well, you
gotta understand this is like

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gonna be a trilogy.
So they're like building up.

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And it's so yeah, I, I see that.
But if you do build up a

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character like Cole, and all of
us are digging the iconography.

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So we're like, who's this guy
and why are we spending so much

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time with it?
It's like, hey, Cole, there's

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Liu Kang and there's Kung Lao.
Like, oh, we should talk to them

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or no, focus on Cole, get to
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Like, why?
So yeah, that was an interesting

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choice.
But yeah, I I think it was

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better in the context, Yeah.
For me, it was like this movie

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kind of fixed the fact that they
had coal in the first one.

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It didn't make it easy to
understand.

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It's like, yeah, we messed up.
Sorry, guys.

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Here you go.
Here, here, here's what you

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want.
Because we all know the favorite

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characters are the main
characters.

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Like, why did you have this
movie and you just create a new

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character?
I think we talked about this.

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I could have just watched the
movie with just Scorpion and Sub

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Zero that that could have been
Mortal Kombat 1 and then you

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could have gone into this one.
I I, I didn't really understand

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the choice at the time.
And they kind of made the movie

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sort of block because then it
became sort of like just just

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this invitation of a Mortal
Kombat movie when your main

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characters are not spending
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And then you kill off Kung Lao
and you're like, what are we

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doing?
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Yeah, so it's like like what
Nick said, I think for me, if

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they had done both movies
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it into one movie, the 1st 2
movies, it would have made more

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sense.
But like you, Anthony, I was

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watching the first movie.
Like who is this character Cole

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Young and why do we care about
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Like I'm here to see a Mortal
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So when you introduce him, it's
like, OK, he's going to be, you

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know, part of of the Mortal
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I'm thinking he's going to be
like a throwaway character,

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right?
But then we find out later on in

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the movie, he's actually be like
descendant of Scorpion, who is,

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you know, he was a warrior who
was in constant battle with a

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character named Behind who turns
out to be sub zero and behind

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kills Scorpions family.
His name is Hanzo Hisashi in the

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movie kills his wife and child.
And then there's a there's a

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baby that has been hidden and
this is the this is the child

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that basically Cole is descended
from.

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So they don't really go into a
whole lot of that at the

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beginning of the movie.
We just have this character.

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He has this kind of like, I
don't know, Rocky or Creed type

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story where he's just washed up
fighter or it kind of reminded

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me of Daredevil's father.
You know, he's kind of like this

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washed up fighter who's just,
you know, fighting to make

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money, to take care of his
family.

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And then all of a sudden he's
approached by these people

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about, hey, you have this
tattoo.

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You're one of the you're 1 of
Earth's warriors.

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You got to come fight in Mortal
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He's like, the fuck, what are
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And it's like it felt like there
was so much missing, like as far

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as character development, as far
as story development in the

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first one that I think they got
right in the second one.

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And I think Nick, was it you
that told me that part of the

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difference is that they had the
video game writers writing on

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the second movie, whereas they
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I'm not the one who said it, but
it wouldn't surprise me.

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And the writers did change.
The director did not change, but

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the writers did.
Actually, I was talking about

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I'm there in the theater because
we were all kind of agreeing

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that we like the second one a
lot more.

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And I'm trying to look up what
changed because it's the same

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director.
So yeah, they, they switched out

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directors and I was seeing the
other things that director had

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done.
I'm like, oh, but yeah, that I

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guess the idea with Cole is that
like, hey, you can be, this

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character represents you coming
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and, and, you know, you have
somebody that's new for you or

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something.
And it didn't really mesh at

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all.
We're all just trying to figure

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out why we're spending time on
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characters like Sonya or just
Kung Loud's just over there.

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And these are interesting guys,
but they're sidelined.

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So yes, it, it was strange.
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changed for the second movie,
and I'm guessing they kind of

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figured that out.
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Hollywood, you'll have like a
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go for it.
You know, this is a video game

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movie.
No worries.

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It's hard to tell sometimes on
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Tobias and Boone helped create
the characters means they may be

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listed in writing credits.
So I'm not exactly sure how much

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they actually wrote.
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OK, but Jeremy Slater, who is
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wrote like Umbrella Academy and
Godzilla X Kong and Moon Knight

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and the Exorcist if y'all like
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So he's he's got a little bit
more, I think of a pedigree than

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what they had going for the
first movie.

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OK, yeah.
And I mean the you could tell

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the writing was different.
I mean, even even with the

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characters just their their
growth from movie 1 to movie 2

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that the way they it's like you
can see bits and pieces of the

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personalities of the characters,
but I don't think you really saw

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them shine until the 2nd movie
like in the first movie because

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the movie focused so much on
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Let yes, we got who did we get?
We got Jax, we got Sonya, we got

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Kung Lao, we got Liu Kang, we
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I was not really impressed with
any of those characters in the

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first movie.
It was really kind of like, OK,

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so are they bringing like a new
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I didn't know if that's what
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if they were supposed to bring
new characters in.

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Again, I haven't played the game
in 20, almost 30 years.

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So it's kind of like, OK, were
they were there new characters

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that are now more popular that
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That's kind of what I thought.
And then when we watched the

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second movie, I was like, oh,
no, this is so much better.

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It's like you felt, I feel like
you felt the power of the

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characters more in this one, or
you felt their commitment to to

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who they were supposed to be.
It's it's almost as if they they

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took the criticism from one and
wrote 2.

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Like, I guess nobody will like
Cole, so we got to write him out

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and we have to make all the
other characters more like they

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are supposed to be like from the
game where people expect because

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as as as flawed as the first
Mortal Kombat movie was, you

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know, way back, I don't remember
what the year that was. 95I.

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Think as flawed as that was,
those characters were true to

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the characters in the game and
it feels like they sort of went

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back to that, which is what we
want to see.

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Like we're not expecting some
fantastical, great Oscar worthy

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movie.
We want to see a Mortal Kombat

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movie.
We want to see Sub zero and and

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and and Scorpion go at it.
You know, we want to see Tung

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Lao throw the hat and shred
people.

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That's what we want to see.
You know, don't give us the the

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I don't know what they were
doing in the first one, but they

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were all like echoes of their
video game characters.

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Yes, I I didn't want to say
surface level because they did

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kind of go in depth with Jax and
Sonia, but they were still just

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sort of echoes of what they
were.

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And this video, this movie was
more, it felt more true, like

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you said, more true to where
their characters were.

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On the idea that the plot of the
first movie is really the bad

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guys trying to cheat before the
tournament and that's really

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carrying it.
And you have your one character

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study in the sub 0 scorpion
relationship and we get to know

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their background and it's deep.
And then you have a coal story

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back, get to know it and it's
deep.

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And you have sort of Sonja and
Jax are just around being good,

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but they aren't.
We don't know them that deeply.

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So then with two, they're like,
OK, we nailed it with Scorpion

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and Sub Zero and those actors
are great.

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Now we're going to focus instead
of on this new character, Cole,

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we're going to focus on Cortana
and get deep into her back

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story.
And it it it was good for

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setting the stakes for the
tournament.

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That was kind of a clever
choice.

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But yeah, that's I can't say why
they would go with a a new

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character like that in the first
movie.

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But yes, I'm glad they picked
somebody established.

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But then they make a character
and you're not used in the game

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now.
Like, why did you do?

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Why didn't you do?
Yeah, you.

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Didn't.
Capitalize on the fact that you

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created a character and you
didn't just.

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He was going to be huge.
It was.

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Right, But you know, it could it
could have to do with what you

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said earlier, Anthony, as far as
like we all felt like why why

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should we care about this
character?

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And I think a lot of people felt
that at least the the

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discussions that I've had
because it won, it was very hard

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for me to even find people who
watched the first one.

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I was like, wait, you didn't
watch?

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And they were like, no, I didn't
want to watch it.

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You know, a lot of people have
been burned by video game movies

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by, you know, them not being
true to the game or them being

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fan service or them just not
looking good or not.

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You know, there's so many
different reasons why people

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kind of shield away from it.
And then it's like, if you don't

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like the movie because you don't
like that character, I don't

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think you would put that
character in the game except for

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the fact that people will
probably want to kill that

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character.
And I don't want to say that

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it's it's that I don't want to
say I hated the character.

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I didn't.
And I don't like Lewis Tan did

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the best with what they gave
him.

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But it was like the way, again,
the way I think the way that

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they introduced that character,
it was just kind of like, this

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is supposed to be Mortal Kombat
and you use the first movie to

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kind of set up what was going to
happen in Mortal Kombat.

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But we didn't really get Mortal
Kombat.

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And that just felt kind of
deceptive to me.

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When they really didn't try that
hard to, I don't think sell it.

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Like that thing happened where
they weren't sure about the

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product they came up with, so
they decided to save $20 million

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on advertising or something.
So the people like me that they

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might have gotten to go see it.
It was another one of those

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franchises that had already been
deluded and kind of wandered off

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course.
So it was like they had had

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Mortal Kombat Conquest the
series and Mortal Kombat Legacy

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the series and a bunch of.
Yeah, I didn't even know about

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any of that.
I happened to look at that when

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I when I went to HBO Max to look
at, you know, to rewatch the

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first one.
And I was like, what's all this

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stuff here?
Like, Oh well.

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And that's, you know, it's the
kind of thing that if you wanted

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to, even if they're misfires and
you could try and bring in some

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characters and build some sort
of legacy connection.

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Even if it's missteps like
Elektra and Deadpool, where it's

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like, even if everybody didn't
like this, we can still build

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from that.
But instead it felt like when

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2021 came, they had already
rebooted.

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This would make like the 4th or
5th time.

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So yeah, it was like, I didn't
see it until we had this

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discussion about going to C2 and
I'm like, guess I'll check it

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out.
What is is?

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It's like someone looked at me
and said, well, OK, everybody

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knows Mortal Kombat is Liu
Kang's story.

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He is the main character of
Mortal Kombat, period.

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He is the descendant of Kung
Lao, if I'm not mistaken.

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And they looked at that and they
said, what if we have take

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another one of the iconic
characters and give him a

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descendant and make it sort of
about him where they should have

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just stuck with the original
story with Lou Kane being Kung

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Lao's descendant and just go
with that.

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But they didn't want to do that.
They wanted to come.

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And you know, OK, I'm not trying
to get on the soapbox.

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I'm going to pull it out, but
I'm not going to get on it.

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Yes, you are.
Yes, you are.

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We always talk about how writers
always want to do their own

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thing, especially when it comes
to adaptation or existing

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property.
They don't want to do what

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already exist, they want to put
their own stuff in it.

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Then when it came, that sort of
feels like what happened with

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the first movie is I, I want to
create a new character because

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I'm writing this and I want it
to be my story.

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I want it to be my thing instead
of just going through what

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you've got.
It's a Mortal Kombat movie.

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People want to see fatalities.
That's it.

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They're not expecting anything
else other than vicious, violent

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or rich.
We want to see Mortal Kombat.

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That's what you want to see.
The story is whatever.

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Yeah, but at least, you know,
you did get the really good

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stuff with Sub Zero and
Scorpion.

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That was really good.
That's what makes the movie

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tolerable to watch.
But the Cole Young stuff really

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makes it kind of like, what are
we doing?

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Like get him off the screen, go
back to 7, Zero and Scorpion.

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That's what we want to see.
Yeah, yeah.

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And you know, this is something
I think we have a discussion

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about all the time when it comes
to adaptations.

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Like the whole reason why you're
doing this particular property

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is because it's a well known
property.

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It's a well liked property, It's
a well loved property.

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It has a built in fan base.
So I don't understand, like I

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understand the part about
wanting to put your own spin on

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it, but why would you take
something that's so fundamental

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to what people love about it and
then change it and then expect

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people to like it?
It's like you had a good story

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there.
That's why we liked it.

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What is the problem with you
just bringing that story on and

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and making it come to life?
You know, like you said in the

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first movie, The Sub Zero and
Scorpion stuff that was great.

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The back story at the beginning,
the fight at the end, even the

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way he couldn't, the way
Scorpion kind of connects with

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Cole at the end because that is
his descendant.

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That made sense.
But all of the stuff in the

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middle with Cole having the
visions and, you know, also, I

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think the whole storyline with
Cole was just kind of

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unbelievable because you had
this guy who's told that he's a

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descendant of such and such.
And then you find out later in

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the movie that he's an orphan.
He's like, I'm just an orphan

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from Chicago.
And they're like, well, you're

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the descendant of such and such
and such and such.

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And This is why you are going to
be in Mortal Kombat, whatever.

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And he never asked any questions
like you don't have any.

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You don't have any curiosity
about this family, this branch

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of your family.
You don't ask anything else

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about Will.
How did this start?

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How did my you?
You don't ask anything.

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And that's why I feel like the
the character development for

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him was lacking because I'm
sorry if if, if I got people

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coming to me from other
dimensions telling me that

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because of a tattoo I have, I
have to go fight in this life or

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death battle and the whole of
humanity may be at stake.

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I'm going to want a little more
information.

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But maybe that's just me.
But I'm just, you know, I don't

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know, it just, it just made it
seem very weird.

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Comic book Catherine on YouTube
says that Cole was introduced,

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He was mandated by the studio
and the producers because they

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wanted to get an audience that
wasn't familiar with Mortal

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Kombat as well.
So he's supposed to be the

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person wandering into this world
saying what is it now and

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represent us.
That's not saying that, but they

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didn't.
Even.

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Do.
That right, They didn't even do

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00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:20,680
that right.
They didn't even do that right

444
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:26,720
and I'm sorry, with something as
iconic as Mortal Kombat, even if

445
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:32,480
you are not a Mortal Kombat
person, 9 times out of 10 you're

446
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:36,920
going to know the basics.
You know, it's just, it's just

447
00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,200
like.
No, I, I have now.

448
00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:40,840
I don't know.
And I like this one.

449
00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:45,160
I just thought of it.
It's like doing the Super Mario

450
00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:50,920
Brothers movie and creating a
third brother, Stefan, you know?

451
00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:56,000
Please tell me they didn't do
that.

452
00:26:56,120 --> 00:26:58,960
No, but I'm saying that is what
it's like.

453
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:03,760
You, you, you're like, Oh well,
we want to appeal to people who

454
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:07,800
aren't familiar with the, the
mortal, you know, with the Super

455
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:10,880
Mario Brothers universe and
Nintendo.

456
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:14,920
So we're going to create a third
character, 1/3 brother, you

457
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:18,240
know, 'cause it doesn't say 2
Mario Brothers and it says Super

458
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:20,440
Mario Brothers.
So here's the third one.

459
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:23,520
And that way we'll attract more.
How does that work?

460
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:27,440
Like the people who aren't
familiar with it, they're going

461
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:31,040
to go because you have a new
brother named Stefan.

462
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:37,280
Like how does creating another
character named Cole Young going

463
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:40,080
to invite people who know
nothing about Mortal Kombat when

464
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:42,360
the title of your movie is
Mortal Kombat?

465
00:27:42,360 --> 00:27:46,520
It's Mortal Kombat, yeah.
Which, you know, segwaying into

466
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:51,680
what they got right with the
second movie that we just saw is

467
00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:55,520
they actually leaned into the
characters who they are.

468
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:58,960
We learn about Cortana, you
know, even though we all know

469
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:05,200
Cortana now we know Cortana.
And I forgot about her mother.

470
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:07,760
I forgot.
I I hated playing against her.

471
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:09,960
I forgot about.
Her.

472
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,280
Yeah, you know, like whip her
hair in.

473
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:18,960
Hey, I forgot about her and then
having new say bot like all of

474
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:22,840
the things that we know about
motor comeback here it is in the

475
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,680
movie.
I don't know.

476
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:29,280
I know they, I had heard they
were saying how like the first

477
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:32,480
movie was supposed to sort of
establish the universe.

478
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:35,400
The second movie is the
tournament and usually the

479
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:38,200
rules.
And the third movie is going to

480
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:41,640
be Liu Kang's journey in trying
to find Kung Lao.

481
00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:45,680
I get that.
But you didn't need Cole Young,

482
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,680
the first movie to establish the
the universe.

483
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,120
Yeah, it's, it's already been
established.

484
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:53,200
Or you could have.
You could have done a better

485
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:54,760
job.
You could have given him a

486
00:28:54,760 --> 00:29:01,960
little bit, maybe another 10-15
minutes and some decent back

487
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:08,240
story or some like some yeah.
It just it just felt disjointed.

488
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:13,480
Because it doesn't really make
any sense now with the third

489
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,480
movie, because in the first
movie, you didn't really focus

490
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:21,840
on the the burden that Loot King
has, knowing that he really is

491
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:27,280
supposed to be the one.
And that was that was a heavy

492
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:30,080
burden for him.
That was something he was trying

493
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,680
to live with and and reconcile
that.

494
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:37,040
It's a lot of pressure for him.
Like his ancestor was the last

495
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:40,120
one to win and now he has to do
it.

496
00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:44,880
And this that would have made,
and I know that's what they did

497
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:49,320
in the original movie, but they
could have done, they could have

498
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:52,800
done it so much better than just
having Cole Young because at no

499
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:56,240
point were we ever convinced
that Cole Young was going to be

500
00:29:56,240 --> 00:30:00,400
the one to the tournament.
Even when they got together in a

501
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:04,160
group, everyone's like, well,
that's that's Liu Kang.

502
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:06,480
I guess he's supposed to be the
one that's going to win this

503
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:08,920
thing for us, right?
Yeah.

504
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:10,480
That's him over there.
Hey everybody.

505
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:13,560
He's like, hey, that's how he is
during the whole movie.

506
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:15,120
Hey, I'm.
I'm still here.

507
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:20,680
Hey, I'm, I'm still here.
Oh, I'm, I'm still here.

508
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:22,200
Yeah.
Really.

509
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:25,800
Yeah, And even with the second
movie, I feel like like we got a

510
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:29,600
little bit more of his presence,
but I also still feel like it

511
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:32,480
didn't, it didn't focus.
On it still, it still really

512
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:35,960
gave him to sort of like a
tertiary character.

513
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:39,080
He's the secondary.
He's like a tertiary character.

514
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:42,280
And now we're supposed to go
into this third movie where he's

515
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:43,800
the one that's doing the big
thing.

516
00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:47,680
And I'm, I'm kind of afraid for
where that movie is going to go.

517
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:53,840
But, you know, maybe.
Maybe they feel like 1995 did

518
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:57,600
the Liu Kang hero story and they
want to try and do something

519
00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:01,720
new, and if they just do the Liu
Kang hero story, people will

520
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:04,160
feel like it's just telling the
same story there.

521
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:06,680
Are three freaking Mortal Kombat
games.

522
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:09,800
I'm just saying it's like
there's a parade.

523
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:13,960
So when you play Mortal Kombat
and you have a favorite, maybe

524
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:16,480
they win this time.
It's just like, Oh my gosh, I'm

525
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:18,880
taking noob all the way and like
you can't do that.

526
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:22,160
No, because if you play the
campaign, Luke Payne always

527
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:24,040
wins.
So I mean, that's how he goes.

528
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:28,040
Whichever game you're playing,
he just wins in the campaign.

529
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:30,160
That's just the way the game is
made.

530
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:34,040
It's like, oh, we're going to do
a Harry Potter game, but Luda

531
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:37,640
Lovgans saves the day?
Come on guys, it's not how.

532
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:39,480
It's supposed to Harry Potter
for a reason.

533
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:42,960
Yeah, yeah, I get you.
I get you.

534
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:46,240
But I I do feel like the third
movie if I don't.

535
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:50,160
And I don't even know if they've
been greenlit for a third movie,

536
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:54,360
but if they have been, that's
probably going to be his full

537
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:56,640
story.
Oh, and they still changed it

538
00:31:56,640 --> 00:32:00,800
because he didn't even win the
tournament, Cortana did.

539
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:04,600
Yeah.
But he looked us at the audience

540
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:07,560
in the eye and he said, I know
what y'all are thinking.

541
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,640
It's not that time, all right?
This is the way we're.

542
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:15,040
Talking, yeah, he, he literally
did say it's not my time yet, so

543
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:17,000
yeah, yeah.
So what?

544
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,360
What do we?
And Johnny Cage didn't even win

545
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:22,120
the tournament.
Like you, you still got what you

546
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:25,000
wanted, so you still could have
done what you needed in the

547
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,280
first movie, because the first
movie wasn't even the

548
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:30,200
tournament.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

549
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:33,960
It says that the screenwriter
Jeremy Slater has finished the

550
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:37,600
script for Mortal Kombat 3, but
the studio has not officially

551
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,480
greenlit it yet.
They're waiting to see about box

552
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:42,200
office and streaming numbers for
two.

553
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:47,760
And the box office numbers seem
to be doing pretty OK for them.

554
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:54,800
I think opening weekend they did
maybe 60 million and I think

555
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:58,880
they, I want to say there was
like a $39 million budget or

556
00:32:58,880 --> 00:32:59,840
something.
I don't know.

557
00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:02,960
I, I don't really pay attention
to those kinds of numbers, but

558
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:06,040
they seem to be doing OK.
So hopefully that we will get a

559
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:08,600
third move because I am
interested in seeing how they

560
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:12,040
close it out and like I said.
The question is, are they going

561
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:14,600
to have enough?
Man, you can't Carl Urban back.

562
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:16,400
That's that's going to be the
question.

563
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:20,040
Well, I mean, Carl Urban, like
the boys is ending.

564
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:22,680
He's he's got some time on his
hands.

565
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:25,160
He you know, they might can get
him back.

566
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:29,440
Time's money and are they going
to have enough money for his

567
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:34,600
time?
Yeah, but you know, with the

568
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:38,400
second movie, since we are
talking about Johnny Cage, I

569
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:42,960
will say this, the characters
were a lot more enjoyable in

570
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:45,360
this one.
You know, and I understand the

571
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:47,560
first movie there was a lot of
doom and gloom.

572
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:53,240
They were trying to prevent
Shank Zoom from like cheating

573
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:58,840
his ass off, which you know,
resulted in a death or whatever,

574
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:03,240
but which I'm still irritated
about that death.

575
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:05,160
But we got to see the character
come back.

576
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:08,239
We got to see Cone loud come
back in this one and he was so

577
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:11,199
much better in this one.
Not that he was bad in the first

578
00:34:11,199 --> 00:34:16,760
one, but I don't know something
about him being a darker version

579
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:20,520
of his character.
Everything about him was just,

580
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:24,040
it was, I don't know, it was so
much better.

581
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:27,560
Like the fight scenes, the way
he looked, the way he carried

582
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:32,800
himself, the banter between him
and Liu Kang when they were when

583
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:35,360
they were fighting.
It was just, that was one of the

584
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:38,360
best parts of the movie to me.
Was Kung Laos coming, coming

585
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:41,760
back, you know?
Yeah, with his evil Captain

586
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:44,280
America Frisbee shield at.
Listen.

587
00:34:44,679 --> 00:34:47,960
That's that was, I mean, I don't
know if you have so many good

588
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:52,360
guys like Sonia and Jax and Kung
Lao and Liu Kang standing

589
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:55,760
around, they can be kind of dull
unless you give them something

590
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:58,520
fun to do.
So making him this evil zombie

591
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:01,560
dark side version of Kung Lao
was interesting.

592
00:35:01,720 --> 00:35:04,480
And he wasn't just a zombie.
He they had him talking.

593
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:06,680
He's like kind of there.
That was creepy.

594
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:08,480
So yeah.
Well done.

595
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:11,800
And that scene was on one of the
stages.

596
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:14,280
They like, really use the stages
from the games.

597
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,360
So you see it and you're just
like, oh, we're just here, OK.

598
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:19,080
Cool.
That was, I think one of the

599
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:21,200
best, best scenes of the movie
for me.

600
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:26,320
It was it, it really did kind
of, it almost felt like you

601
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:29,600
weren't playing the game.
And I think that's kind of the

602
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,000
general feeling I got with most
of the movie.

603
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:37,160
It did feel like you were
playing the game, you know, with

604
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:41,920
the background and the settings
and the fight with Sonia and

605
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:44,560
Sandell, they, they were
stressing me out because I was

606
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:49,120
expecting those spikes.
I was like no, my, my, my skin

607
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:50,880
was crawling.
I was like this is too much,

608
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:53,080
y'all playing too much, That's
too close.

609
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:56,240
And then when Sandell finally
got impaled on one of the

610
00:35:56,240 --> 00:36:01,040
spikes, that was just.
But yeah, it it felt like you

611
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:02,880
could be sitting there playing
the game.

612
00:36:03,240 --> 00:36:06,480
Well, that sounded like that.
That talk between Liu Kang and

613
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:10,560
Kung Lao felt like a cinematic
from the later games.

614
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:13,400
Or it's like, you know, I have
to stop you and it's like you

615
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:15,360
won't be able to.
And then but then he like

616
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:18,120
brutally murders him, which is
very game.

617
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:20,080
It's like, OK, I'm going to stop
you, bro.

618
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:22,920
And he's like, bro, do it.
Oh, but the thing.

619
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:25,840
Is I think we were all shocked
at that.

620
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:31,280
Like those of us who have played
the game know how violent the

621
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:33,440
deaths can be.
But I think Anthony was the one

622
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:35,440
who was saying he was like, why
did he?

623
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:37,240
Because I think what, what was
it?

624
00:36:37,240 --> 00:36:39,720
He?
He's going to take a hit.

625
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:42,920
He like, braced himself to take
his head off and we're all like.

626
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:46,960
His hands, his fists stopped
glowing, so it's like he was

627
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:51,040
going to let himself be hit.
And we're just like you, really

628
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,080
about to let him just just kill
you.

629
00:36:54,240 --> 00:36:58,280
What are you doing?
They was like, oh, OK, so when?

630
00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:02,280
He grabbed the arms.
It still took me a split second

631
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:07,080
and then when I saw the the hat
on the I said, Oh, this is no, I

632
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:10,000
can't like I literally I
couldn't watch that scene.

633
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,760
I was like, Nope, The the the
the audio is bad enough.

634
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:17,120
I don't need to watch the video
visual visual but.

635
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:20,760
I haven't taken teenage boys yet
to see it my kid, but I told him

636
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,520
when I saw it.
I'm like, Oh my gosh, you guys

637
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:27,160
are going to really enjoy this
because it is very exactly what

638
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:28,880
you're into.
But yeah, I do.

639
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:34,560
I do have a nitpick though about
the movie as much as I enjoyed

640
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:35,280
it.
What?

641
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:42,680
So OK, so in the beginning, when
Johnny Cage we see what is it

642
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:48,320
Cage fear your and Cage fear
whatever the movie clip and you

643
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:51,600
can tell it's pretty bad.
Like the stunts are bad.

644
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:55,960
The guys are throwing punches.
It it's like watching, you know,

645
00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:58,440
revenge.
Well, whatever.

646
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:00,960
I was about to mention some Star
Trek movie where they were

647
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:05,680
missing hits, Star Wars movie
where they were missing hits and

648
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:10,160
people were taking falls and
diving and like, you know, he's

649
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:13,800
swinging at someone and he, the
guy clearly missed him by like 4

650
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:15,600
inches.
Oh, yeah.

651
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:18,360
He turned to.
I was like, yeah, this is, this

652
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:21,080
is great cheesy 80s action
movie, right?

653
00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:27,160
It was supposed to be.
But then later when Karl Urban

654
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:32,440
starts fighting and you actually
see the difference between him

655
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:34,720
and the stuntman and like, Oh my
God.

656
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:39,320
I did notice that it was like
there was like a quick facial.

657
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:42,160
There there was a there was a
lot of it.

658
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,760
Like I know it's hard to find
martial artists.

659
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:48,600
What is HE64?
They're martial artists Better

660
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:55,480
than Fluid and his size.
Yeah, no, you can see the height

661
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:58,960
difference going from, you know,
he's tiring over Molina.

662
00:38:59,240 --> 00:39:03,000
Then they cut to a fight and
they're either the same height

663
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:07,160
or shorter than her and then
they cut back and he's tall

664
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:10,280
again.
I'm like, I know it was

665
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:12,640
difficult, but they could have
done a better job.

666
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:16,200
They really could have.
It was, it was just really,

667
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:18,280
really obvious and.
Oh wait, you said.

668
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:21,240
Melinda you.
Mean when he was, I mean, I said

669
00:39:21,240 --> 00:39:22,400
Melinda.
I mean Cortana.

670
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:26,720
OK.
But the the first movie, yeah,

671
00:39:26,720 --> 00:39:33,320
the let's not talk about that.
But anyway, I don't know, I, I

672
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:37,560
feel like they could have done a
better job with trying to fool

673
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:41,440
us that Karl Urban can actually
do that stuff.

674
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:47,480
But the size difference it was,
it was just too obvious for me.

675
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:51,160
Like, I wasn't looking for it.
But then I started.

676
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:54,800
So I was like, oh.
See, I didn't need to pay

677
00:39:54,800 --> 00:40:01,440
attention to that part because I
was laughing so hard at just

678
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:05,880
Johnny Cage's whole his whole
demeanor.

679
00:40:06,720 --> 00:40:09,680
His whole attitude, the just
being.

680
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:12,800
Oh, he Carl Urban has it.
He he got it.

681
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:14,080
He got it.
He nailed it.

682
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:20,120
The over the topness and and it
was, it was so hilarious to me

683
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:24,200
that whole scene with him and
Baraka, because I I don't know

684
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:28,480
what I remember of Baraka from
the from the games.

685
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:32,320
I don't remember that.
I don't remember him being like

686
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:33,280
that.
So.

687
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:36,640
He looks exactly that silly.
It is very hard to translate.

688
00:40:36,720 --> 00:40:40,040
Was late in the live action and
they just went for it and you

689
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:41,600
guys go.
I was impressed.

690
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:46,800
But but, but everyone else
looked so good and all the other

691
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:51,200
stunts were so good.
And then his stunts were not so

692
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:54,840
good.
It was, it was, you know, it

693
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:57,480
took me.
Out of it was a a an intentional

694
00:40:57,520 --> 00:40:59,560
choice.
No, I don't think.

695
00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:04,040
I don't think Later in the movie
in the beginning, yes, you know

696
00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:11,000
when he when clearly the woman
shoots the bazooka downward the.

697
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:12,760
Split.
Oh, and it goes up to the

698
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:16,280
helicopter.
To the helicopter, clearly I get

699
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:18,240
it.
That didn't bother me.

700
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:24,120
But later in the movie when he
is fighting everybody, No, it,

701
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:31,120
it, no, it's not the same.
No, it's it's I I would delight

702
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:34,840
towards you better.
When he's your comedy relief,

703
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:38,240
that's hilarious.
So it's like he is funny, but

704
00:41:38,240 --> 00:41:41,840
it's like if you want a silly
character to the side and you

705
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:46,160
choose Karl Irving, this giant
brick of a man, he's just and he

706
00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:48,880
is funny, but it's like, so that
was the tone of the movie.

707
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:53,480
And he fights like first thing
and loses immediately and he's

708
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:55,600
still around.
He's like, well, I mean, I'll do

709
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:57,920
what I can guys.
And you're like, well, he what

710
00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:00,160
is he even still doing here?
But they do find stuff for him

711
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:03,480
to do.
So it's like that was, I think I

712
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:07,440
would have given this movie a
passing grade just on Karl Urban

713
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:11,000
and the bit that he does.
But the fact that they figured

714
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:14,520
out that Kano was really funny
from the first movie too, and

715
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:18,680
they brought him to also be
ridiculous, so you got these two

716
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:21,920
crazy guys with accents was
great.

717
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:26,920
It was it was cool how sometimes
when he was talking to Kano, his

718
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:28,840
accent would come out just a
little bit.

719
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:32,160
Yeah, you would hear it just.
A little bit, yeah.

720
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:40,160
Yeah, but yeah, you know, I
think like I said, his, his

721
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:43,240
fight scenes, I didn't notice
the discrepancy because I was so

722
00:42:43,240 --> 00:42:46,840
busy laughing just at him in
general, just because.

723
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:52,160
OK, so we all know Karl Urban
from a lot of different things,

724
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:56,520
lot of different things.
But for some reason watching

725
00:42:56,520 --> 00:43:00,400
this I just had Butcher stuck in
my head and.

726
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:05,600
Yeah, I heard.
Butcher and I was just like, I

727
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:09,240
can't see Butcher being this
ridiculous, but even when he was

728
00:43:09,240 --> 00:43:14,240
talking as Johnny Cage, I was
hearing Butcher in my head and

729
00:43:14,240 --> 00:43:16,280
that just made it even more
funny to me.

730
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:22,880
Like, but then you get the scene
towards the end where he's in

731
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:27,440
purgatory or hell and he's in
the midst of this fight with

732
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:32,480
Scorpion and Sub Zero and and
and Noob Cybi and and who else

733
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:33,840
was down there?
Cano.

734
00:43:35,240 --> 00:43:37,040
Was it those four?
Because.

735
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:43,440
Somebody.
But it's like, you have this.

736
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:47,360
It was so funny because you have
this person who is just a

737
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:52,360
regular human who is just an
actor who is, you know, as he

738
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:54,360
says, a washed up martial
artist.

739
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:59,120
And he's in one of the biggest
fight sequences in the film.

740
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:03,120
And half the time he's running
around like, I don't even know

741
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:06,480
what the hell I'm doing here.
But OK, I'm going to give it my

742
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:09,640
best shot.
And it's like, I don't know, his

743
00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:15,680
character made the whole film
just so much more enjoyable on

744
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:18,440
top of all the other stuff that
I really wanted to see.

745
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:21,760
Like we got to see Mortal
Kombat, we got to see the

746
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:24,920
diamonds in the sky that kind of
blinked out as your your

747
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:28,800
champions died, or we got to see
all of that.

748
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:32,360
And it was it was great.
But Karl Irving, I think was

749
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:38,280
probably maybe the best part of
the movie for me just just for

750
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:42,360
the sheer ridiculousness of of
what his character was and who

751
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:46,040
he was supposed to be, you know?
When that thing where you can

752
00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:50,080
take the serious and you can
enjoy it and then it's not all

753
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:53,120
Karl Urban like making every
scene silly, but then he is

754
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:57,240
around and he's he's being
taking it very seriously, but

755
00:44:57,240 --> 00:45:00,440
he's just a silly character.
So yeah, that was fun.

756
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:01,600
It lightened.
Up.

757
00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:06,600
If it was all just sustained
fighting, like the awesome scene

758
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:10,120
with Liu Kang and Kung Lao and
just they just awesome, awesome,

759
00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:11,800
awesome, it would have gotten
tiring.

760
00:45:12,240 --> 00:45:17,520
You have to have some of the
weird bits over the side to OK,

761
00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:23,480
look, if you watch all of John
Wick 4 without taking a break,

762
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:28,200
the last 30 minutes is great,
but you're so tired that I don't

763
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:31,840
think you appreciate.
I think you need to pause, step

764
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:34,440
outside.
So I feel like you just take a

765
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:37,800
little bit of a pause.
Yes, it was just like 5 set

766
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:39,680
pieces.
I need to have some kind of

767
00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:44,840
background discussion.
I like how they, I like how they

768
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:50,560
story wise sort of did a, they
had two characters they had to

769
00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:54,880
focus on Cortana and Johnny Cage
and just sort of had the

770
00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:59,840
parallel character development.
I thought that was that was much

771
00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:01,760
better than what they did in the
first movie.

772
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:08,240
It was, it was because even you,
you sort of get their stories,

773
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:12,240
their development.
They both get a climax and they

774
00:46:12,240 --> 00:46:15,720
both get a resolution and it's
really cool to see that.

775
00:46:16,240 --> 00:46:18,920
Yeah.
When you have a parade of

776
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:21,440
characters to get to, it can be
impossible.

777
00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:24,480
And somehow they found time to
have me care about Jade.

778
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:26,480
And I'm like, I really like
this.

779
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:29,520
I'm buying this sister thing you
guys are selling, and it's

780
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:32,400
really, how do you cram that in?
But yeah, they did well.

781
00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:35,440
So, and they they, they balanced
it very well.

782
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:40,160
It's like, I think one of the
things about this film is, is

783
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:44,520
the balance, because you do have
a lot of characters that you're

784
00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:49,400
focusing on and you got to find
some way to tell all the

785
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:51,000
stories.
And I think that was part of the

786
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:53,800
problem with the first one,
because you didn't really get to

787
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:59,200
do that that much.
And this one, I felt like they

788
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:02,000
did really good.
Like, like we said, they they

789
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:06,240
did the Cortana story.
We got the background with her

790
00:47:06,240 --> 00:47:09,680
and Jade, even in a couple of
sentences that you know, like,

791
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:11,880
Oh yeah, you know, y'all found
me.

792
00:47:12,240 --> 00:47:15,320
I was basically on the streets.
You took me in.

793
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:18,360
You treated me like a sister
instead of like a bodyguard.

794
00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:24,200
And you know, it's like with
those two actresses too, though,

795
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:29,200
what they put into it, it made
you care about that relationship

796
00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:33,640
and, and, and what happens to
those characters.

797
00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:39,520
I think the thing that I didn't
really care for in the story,

798
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:45,080
and I think part of it has to do
with the casting is the whole

799
00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:50,960
Shang Soon and Raiden thing,
because I love those actors

800
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:57,520
outside of this this story, but
I don't really care for them as

801
00:47:57,520 --> 00:47:59,480
the characters that they're
playing in this story,

802
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:01,400
especially the the rating
character.

803
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:07,880
I just I mean, Christopher
Lambert was not Asian, but he

804
00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:12,720
was it's something, it was
something about his delivery as

805
00:48:12,720 --> 00:48:16,400
Raiden.
Like he was very he was very

806
00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:20,520
gruff, but he had a you can
still see his humor.

807
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:26,920
And also when he was pissed and
he raised his voice, you felt

808
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:30,320
it.
And there was a moment in this

809
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:35,560
film, I think it was this one,
where Raiden says enough and I

810
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:38,360
was just sitting there like, is
this supposed to scare me into

811
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:40,560
submission?
No, I think it was the first

812
00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:46,560
movie when Shane Soon had
invaded and he yells out enough

813
00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:51,640
and I was like you.
Weren't feeling.

814
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:57,160
It it didn't feel threatening
enough for it to be rated.

815
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:01,600
And I just I don't know that it
kind of carried out carried on

816
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:04,760
with the second film.
I don't know something about

817
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:07,840
those two castings just well,
OK, I will say this.

818
00:49:09,240 --> 00:49:18,120
There's only one Shang zoom for
me and that's that's him.

819
00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:21,600
From.
That's the only Shane soon for

820
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:26,480
me, Just his, his attitude, the
way he enunciates his words,

821
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:30,640
just his whole demeanor.
And I think that's kind of hard

822
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:33,520
to live up to.
So I, I don't know.

823
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:36,800
But something about the way that
those two characters were in

824
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:39,560
this film, even though we didn't
see Raiden a lot because he's

825
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:42,800
literally sitting there.
His essence has been stolen.

826
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:47,680
We don't get a lot of him, but
still it's just kind of like, I

827
00:49:47,720 --> 00:49:50,920
don't know, I just.
Well, as an elder God, you kind

828
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:55,040
of want him to be sort of
intimidating and imposing in

829
00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:58,520
every scene he's in.
And he's just not that.

830
00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:03,760
But I think he's he's supposed
to be sort of like holding back

831
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:07,400
everything because he is so
powerful.

832
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:11,400
OK, I think that's, I would like
to think that would be the

833
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:13,760
point.
But I I see what you're saying.

834
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:19,240
He's he's not intimidating or
he's not scary or frightening

835
00:50:19,240 --> 00:50:24,480
and and he should be, but in
he's really not in the movies.

836
00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:25,880
I mean, he's from the movies.
He's not.

837
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:30,120
They might have been just a
couple characters too many in

838
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:34,480
the juggling characters.
So Shao Khan is the big bad and

839
00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:37,600
Sheng Sung.
There's also the necromancer

840
00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:39,640
running around.
So Sheng Sung, you're kind of

841
00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:41,480
not sure what you're supposed to
even do with him.

842
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:45,840
So and Raiden is difficult
because Raiden is super powerful

843
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:48,760
but also ineffectual.
He can do anything and he can't

844
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:51,240
do anything.
So they had to kind of sideline

845
00:50:51,240 --> 00:50:57,480
him like Professor Xavier in
maybe X-Men one where it's like

846
00:50:57,560 --> 00:50:59,760
we got to get this guy over to
the side.

847
00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:01,560
He's not dead, y'all, He's just
over here.

848
00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:03,880
So we could move on with the
action, but.

849
00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:07,160
And they also kind of did that
with with Liu Kang too, because

850
00:51:08,240 --> 00:51:12,040
to be honest with you, he would
beat anyone he fought except

851
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:15,040
from, you know, Shao Khan is not
a clear victory.

852
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:18,920
But you couldn't put him up
against anyone else because he

853
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:21,080
he'd mop the floor with them.
Right.

854
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:24,200
Wait, who?
Who killed him in this movie?

855
00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:27,440
I forgot.
Eventually, it was Cortana.

856
00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:31,320
Spoiler alert.
No in the movie.

857
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:33,920
Luke.
He was shot Khan.

858
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:35,720
OK, that OK.
OK.

859
00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:39,440
Yeah, he he stabbed him with the
butt of the yes.

860
00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:40,920
That's right.
OK.

861
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:43,920
Impaled him, but I don't think
he was dead though.

862
00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:47,080
I don't think so either.
I don't think that's why.

863
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:51,960
That's why I did the quotes
because he was he was fighting

864
00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:56,560
and it's like at the moment that
he was impaled, that's when he

865
00:51:56,560 --> 00:51:59,720
had his aha moment.
Like, OK, look, I'm not even

866
00:51:59,720 --> 00:52:02,440
supposed to be here right now.
I have a bigger mission.

867
00:52:03,080 --> 00:52:09,520
So, yeah, Deuces and and he just
kind of he had a a pretty death,

868
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:14,440
if you will, you know, where he
just kind of, you know, phased

869
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:16,240
out.
I don't know if that's what you

870
00:52:16,240 --> 00:52:22,120
want to call it, but yeah, it
was just kind of like, OK, but

871
00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:25,000
the but but I mean, some of the
other deaths, I mean the other

872
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:28,840
fatalities, OK, as much as we
talked about Cole Young, he did

873
00:52:28,840 --> 00:52:31,640
not deserve to go out the way he
did.

874
00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:35,480
That was horrible.
Like.

875
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:41,440
I didn't like fighting like a
God Mode bad guy is sort of, I

876
00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:42,920
don't know.
Yeah, he was out.

877
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:45,000
He takes.
A little bit of the mystery out

878
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:48,000
of it where we're just like, oh,
well, we're just going to watch

879
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:50,960
him slowly beat him to death.
But yeah, I like that they threw

880
00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:54,680
in the poison pool.
It was a nice thing, but it was

881
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:57,640
also like, that's just cold.
I mean, we got to know this

882
00:52:57,640 --> 00:52:58,880
guy's family.
Are you?

883
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:00,960
Did you guys think this through?
Right.

884
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:07,040
I mean like you literally
decapitate him by the the like

885
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:10,480
it is Mortal Kombat.
I get it the the deaths are

886
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:15,880
bloody, but y'all have?
Y'all have.

887
00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:18,960
They didn't really have to do
them like that, but I guess they

888
00:53:18,960 --> 00:53:22,280
want to get rid of the character
because they established that

889
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:27,000
you can lose and not be killed.
Yeah, he literally could have

890
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:29,560
just hit him with the hammer and
knocked him into the wall and he

891
00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:31,880
was knocked out.
Even the match will be over.

892
00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:36,120
Yeah, but of course.
You can go home to his his wife

893
00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:40,560
and kid and and be all right.
But yeah, but I guess they also

894
00:53:40,560 --> 00:53:43,400
have to kind of show that it was
no holds barred.

895
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:48,400
Like, OK, anybody can die.
Which, you know, I had.

896
00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:50,480
To wait, now it's it's Mortal
Kombat.

897
00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:53,880
We, I know, and that's the
thing, you know, we, we were

898
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:56,640
talking earlier about the fact
that they brought Cole's

899
00:53:56,640 --> 00:53:59,720
character in because you want to
bring in other people who are

900
00:53:59,720 --> 00:54:03,960
not familiar with Mortal Kombat.
So I guess that was kind of like

901
00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:06,720
one of those things where if
you're coming in and you don't

902
00:54:06,720 --> 00:54:09,480
know anything about Mortal
Kombat, you don't know anything

903
00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:13,840
about the lore.
You know, you could go into this

904
00:54:13,840 --> 00:54:16,680
whole thing thinking, OK, you
know what, the good guys are

905
00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:19,880
going to prevail because that's
what kind of what you want to

906
00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:22,360
see with hero movies and with
video game movies.

907
00:54:22,360 --> 00:54:25,200
Like you want to see the good
guys win and the bad guys lose.

908
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:30,600
And one thing that this
particular movie did show you is

909
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:34,040
that the good guys will not
always win.

910
00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:40,880
You know, you had Cole who was
just like literally half his

911
00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:46,920
body was gone from a hammer blow
and then you have to like add

912
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:50,280
insult to injury by throwing him
into a pool of acid.

913
00:54:50,560 --> 00:54:54,120
That's just horrible.
And then later on you get the

914
00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:58,760
whole thing with Jax, Like the
Jax one, when I looked at I was

915
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:02,200
like, OK, are we really going to
pull this dude's arms off again?

916
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:05,800
Like, I know that's I know
that's video game still.

917
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:09,360
It was kind of like, are we
really going to go there again?

918
00:55:09,360 --> 00:55:11,680
But then when he when he
actually, like, killed him, I

919
00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:14,080
was like, Yep.
OK, well, at least they're not

920
00:55:14,080 --> 00:55:16,480
playing it safe.
At least they're showing us.

921
00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:19,800
Yeah, your favorite characters
can die in this.

922
00:55:20,080 --> 00:55:23,360
It's a it's a moot point.
We have a necromancer walking

923
00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:25,240
around.
We can bring everybody back.

924
00:55:25,960 --> 00:55:29,200
This is true and and this is
apparently what they're going to

925
00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:33,920
try to do in the third movie
because they're their bodies are

926
00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:35,960
gone, but their souls are still
alive.

927
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:38,240
So what they're going to try to
do is bring the souls back.

928
00:55:38,240 --> 00:55:40,960
So there is a good chance that
we will see Jax again.

929
00:55:40,960 --> 00:55:42,560
There's a good chance we will
see.

930
00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:46,240
Hung Lao.
Oh again?

931
00:55:46,240 --> 00:55:49,680
But I mean there were other
characters who also died.

932
00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:54,040
Did sub zero behind didn't die
though right?

933
00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:59,000
They were both in hell.
Yeah, he died and he was changed

934
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:01,480
into, he brought him back, his
new Sabah.

935
00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:06,080
OK, OK, so.
I want to, I want to remind

936
00:56:06,080 --> 00:56:08,600
everybody at home that I was the
one in the theatre who was like,

937
00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:11,400
so who is this?
Is he like smoke or something?

938
00:56:11,400 --> 00:56:12,760
And you're just like, Nope,
Nope.

939
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:13,880
I bought.
It's obvious.

940
00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:18,080
Nick, come on.
I'm like, OK, all right, sure.

941
00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:19,760
And you were right.
But it's just.

942
00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:21,640
Yeah.
It's not stated anywhere.

943
00:56:21,640 --> 00:56:22,800
It's just.
Well, yeah.

944
00:56:22,920 --> 00:56:27,080
Like, duh, that's but.
Yes.

945
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:31,280
Yeah.
Was that me, Nick, that said

946
00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:33,080
that to you?
Yes.

947
00:56:33,480 --> 00:56:36,880
Well, I'm embellishing the duh
and the eye roll and the, you

948
00:56:36,880 --> 00:56:39,600
know.
He's over exaggerated but you

949
00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:41,640
were like.
Maybe a little bit, but you

950
00:56:41,640 --> 00:56:45,200
know, Anthony does sort of A and
that's just it.

951
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:47,800
Yeah, say.
Yeah, this really.

952
00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:51,240
You just pulled my day, right?
That was.

953
00:56:51,240 --> 00:56:53,040
You knew that was.
No, no, yeah.

954
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:57,080
I was like, who is who is the
because I I know some of the

955
00:56:57,080 --> 00:56:59,400
people I couldn't have named
Quan Chi.

956
00:56:59,720 --> 00:57:01,080
I never liked him when he showed
up.

957
00:57:01,080 --> 00:57:05,200
I don't like his look, but but
like, I know Noob Saibot.

958
00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:09,760
I know Smoke and I know Cyrax
and I know you know.

959
00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:12,960
So I'm like, oh, is it this one?
Is it this one?

960
00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:16,000
And you know?
No, no, I just like that you

961
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:18,080
were right.
I like that you knew even though

962
00:57:18,080 --> 00:57:22,080
they didn't say it.
So if if anybody sees this or

963
00:57:22,080 --> 00:57:26,120
hears us and hasn't seen the
movie it's score, it's sub zero

964
00:57:26,320 --> 00:57:33,560
except dead and all in a black
palette and not using sub 0

965
00:57:33,560 --> 00:57:38,280
powers but using shadow powers.
So obviously that's ice in Hill.

966
00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:42,080
Yeah, yeah, no.
I would think that would be a

967
00:57:42,760 --> 00:57:46,160
bit difficult.
But yeah, he's making copies of

968
00:57:46,160 --> 00:57:47,600
himself and jumping it out of
shafts.

969
00:57:47,880 --> 00:57:52,800
Low, low wise, you know,
Scorpion uses a lot of fire and

970
00:57:52,800 --> 00:57:56,760
that sort of since zero lost to
that already.

971
00:57:57,720 --> 00:57:59,600
So that would be kind of
pointless for him to go up

972
00:57:59,600 --> 00:58:02,240
against him again using ice
powers.

973
00:58:02,560 --> 00:58:06,320
Yeah, it wouldn't work for you.
But you do have a necromancer

974
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:08,960
walking around.
So yeah, nobody is safe, but

975
00:58:08,960 --> 00:58:12,960
nobody is truly dead.
Except I think, I think he needs

976
00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:17,760
their body, which is maybe why
they got rid of cold they did.

977
00:58:18,080 --> 00:58:19,480
Like you think cold is
completely.

978
00:58:20,640 --> 00:58:22,520
Done.
Not only did we obliterate his

979
00:58:22,520 --> 00:58:25,400
head, we dumped him in the pool
of acid.

980
00:58:25,640 --> 00:58:27,360
He is not coming back.
Y'all.

981
00:58:27,360 --> 00:58:31,240
So y'all are OK y'all.
Y'all are good you know we we

982
00:58:31,240 --> 00:58:33,800
fixed that problem and is not
coming back.

983
00:58:35,360 --> 00:58:39,960
If the audience is clamor for
Cole to return, all right, it's

984
00:58:39,960 --> 00:58:41,680
all out the way.
You know, the tattoos that were

985
00:58:41,680 --> 00:58:44,360
so important in the first movie
that we're not talking about in

986
00:58:44,360 --> 00:58:46,040
the second movie.
So, yeah.

987
00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:48,800
Do you know the rules of
necromancy?

988
00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:51,320
You know?
And they didn't make it clear

989
00:58:51,360 --> 00:58:54,760
that John the Cage found his.
What is it I want to say?

990
00:58:54,760 --> 00:58:58,760
I can't want to say.
Oh, his superpower, Yeah, was.

991
00:58:58,760 --> 00:59:00,720
That cheap?
Toe.

992
00:59:01,360 --> 00:59:05,680
But then they chose the the
shadow kick, which is an odd

993
00:59:05,680 --> 00:59:11,040
choice for his, but you know,
they gave the glow, which was

994
00:59:11,040 --> 00:59:17,160
kind of cool, so.
OK, favorite part of the movie?

995
00:59:19,800 --> 00:59:21,520
You go 1st.
I have a list.

996
00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:25,280
Well look, start with your list
while Anthony is thinking

997
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:29,080
because Anthony is like.
OK, it's easy.

998
00:59:29,680 --> 00:59:34,280
They had me by the heartstrings
'cause they used the song, the

999
00:59:34,280 --> 00:59:37,080
first one did not use the song.
And I don't know if you can,

1000
00:59:37,720 --> 00:59:42,000
this was the the Mortal Kombat
by the Immortals was, I don't

1001
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:45,400
know, it was based on releasing
the games to home market like in

1002
00:59:45,400 --> 00:59:48,960
the 90s and they didn't realize
that they had created something

1003
00:59:48,960 --> 00:59:54,040
truly magical.
So Mortal Kombat 2 has that

1004
00:59:54,120 --> 00:59:57,280
ridiculous fighting techno dance
mix.

1005
00:59:58,200 --> 01:00:02,520
And you can go, and no matter
what sporting event and whatever

1006
01:00:02,520 --> 01:00:05,320
sport you go to, you're going to
hear it.

1007
01:00:05,800 --> 01:00:09,520
Yeah, that is true.
If the band is playing it, a

1008
01:00:09,520 --> 01:00:12,960
band is playing it or is playing
through the speakers, you could

1009
01:00:12,960 --> 01:00:17,120
be at a cricket match and you're
going to hear Mortal Kombat

1010
01:00:17,480 --> 01:00:21,200
being played.
It is an iconic the classics

1011
01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:25,160
aren't that and Final Countdown
are the 2 songs that you're

1012
01:00:25,160 --> 01:00:27,400
going to get as a sport to do
that.

1013
01:00:27,680 --> 01:00:31,920
Yeah, yeah.
That's one of my many favorites.

1014
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:38,400
What do you all got?
I'm going to go with Scorpion in

1015
01:00:38,400 --> 01:00:40,640
the get over here.
It's never old.

1016
01:00:42,080 --> 01:00:44,120
It never.
It's never going to be old.

1017
01:00:44,600 --> 01:00:48,120
And is it was it just me or did
it sound like they used the

1018
01:00:48,240 --> 01:00:52,160
actual like video game audio
the.

1019
01:00:53,800 --> 01:00:58,200
Trivia says that was Tobias
Boone doing it like he does,

1020
01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:02,040
which makes no sense.
And it was perfect.

1021
01:01:02,040 --> 01:01:04,720
So we all wanted it to be like
the video game, and they just

1022
01:01:04,720 --> 01:01:07,760
did it.
I know I am mad that in Mortal

1023
01:01:07,760 --> 01:01:12,640
Kombat 1, when he says it, it is
not that loud and it's not that

1024
01:01:12,640 --> 01:01:17,200
dramatic and it's very annoying.
It's like, get over here.

1025
01:01:17,720 --> 01:01:20,800
I'm like, that sucks.
It's kind of like rain is

1026
01:01:20,800 --> 01:01:26,880
enough, like it's supposed to
have a certain oomph to it.

1027
01:01:27,160 --> 01:01:30,160
Yeah, yeah.
But we'll just we'll just blame

1028
01:01:30,160 --> 01:01:36,280
that on, you know, freshman, you
know, vibes or whatever.

1029
01:01:36,280 --> 01:01:43,160
With the first one, for me, I
think it it has to be the fight

1030
01:01:43,160 --> 01:01:51,800
scenes, just because I'm a
person who loves choreography in

1031
01:01:51,800 --> 01:01:56,320
any form, whether it's dance,
whether it's fight, it has to

1032
01:01:56,320 --> 01:02:00,600
look believable even when it's
not believable.

1033
01:02:00,640 --> 01:02:04,080
And I think they got a lot of
that right in this film.

1034
01:02:06,520 --> 01:02:11,040
Between the Liu Kang and Kung
Lao fight scene, the fight

1035
01:02:11,040 --> 01:02:14,320
scene, even even the fight scene
with Johnny Cage and Barack.

1036
01:02:14,320 --> 01:02:18,960
It was like, do I really believe
Karl Urban is doing this stuff?

1037
01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:21,960
No.
But does it look good and does

1038
01:02:21,960 --> 01:02:23,200
it look believable?
Yeah.

1039
01:02:23,200 --> 01:02:25,920
Like it's it's very well
choreographed.

1040
01:02:26,400 --> 01:02:29,840
And also the fight scene in
Hell, that was like one of the

1041
01:02:30,760 --> 01:02:34,120
better fight scenes that I've
seen.

1042
01:02:34,120 --> 01:02:40,400
Because you're not just they
they made use of all the space

1043
01:02:40,960 --> 01:02:42,920
you know you've got.
It is.

1044
01:02:42,960 --> 01:02:49,960
It's kind of like the fight in
which one was it, Infinity War,

1045
01:02:49,960 --> 01:02:53,640
where they're on the ship and
you've got all these different

1046
01:02:53,640 --> 01:02:56,840
levels and you're fighting on
all these different levels and

1047
01:02:56,840 --> 01:03:00,160
you're using all of the space.
And the whole thing with Noob

1048
01:03:00,160 --> 01:03:04,240
Cybot kind of going from here to
there back up to here, down to

1049
01:03:04,240 --> 01:03:06,760
here, and you're fighting
multiple people and it's just

1050
01:03:06,840 --> 01:03:12,280
all looks so good.
But it also looks very

1051
01:03:12,280 --> 01:03:15,000
believable.
Like, yeah, I I can believe that

1052
01:03:15,000 --> 01:03:19,280
they're sitting down the hill
just kind of, you know, going

1053
01:03:19,280 --> 01:03:20,880
around the paces with each
other.

1054
01:03:20,880 --> 01:03:25,960
It it just looked really good.
It it really didn't feel like a

1055
01:03:25,960 --> 01:03:29,000
video game movie, like a good
video game movie.

1056
01:03:29,000 --> 01:03:32,440
You know, we we have a friend,
Carlos, who hates video game

1057
01:03:32,440 --> 01:03:34,880
adaptations because he says they
never get it right.

1058
01:03:35,200 --> 01:03:39,560
And I really feel like this film
got it right.

1059
01:03:40,240 --> 01:03:43,400
And they also improved upon what
they didn't get it right in the

1060
01:03:43,400 --> 01:03:44,960
first one.
It's like they really listened

1061
01:03:44,960 --> 01:03:46,640
to people and said, OK, you know
what?

1062
01:03:46,640 --> 01:03:49,000
We can make this better, let's
make this better.

1063
01:03:49,280 --> 01:03:52,280
And they did it.
Well, they kind of know, they

1064
01:03:52,320 --> 01:03:56,680
kind of know what it is and they
took themselves just seriously

1065
01:03:56,680 --> 01:04:00,560
enough, but not too seriously,
you know, and that and that was

1066
01:04:00,560 --> 01:04:02,920
good.
Another one of my favourites was

1067
01:04:03,200 --> 01:04:11,000
anytime Liu Kang was fighting,
he he was sold like I was sold

1068
01:04:11,000 --> 01:04:16,080
on on whatever he was doing and
it just it all looked amazing.

1069
01:04:16,560 --> 01:04:19,640
And the effects, all of the
effects were really good.

1070
01:04:21,560 --> 01:04:27,640
I didn't think piano used his
laser IMF, but he was one of my

1071
01:04:27,640 --> 01:04:31,760
favourites.
Like he's to me, he was more

1072
01:04:31,760 --> 01:04:37,480
like the audience watching what
was happening more so than coal.

1073
01:04:37,520 --> 01:04:39,600
Yeah, yeah, like.
What?

1074
01:04:39,640 --> 01:04:42,080
What are we doing here?
Can I just give my money and go?

1075
01:04:42,640 --> 01:04:45,400
Right.
Well, but also that he's like,

1076
01:04:45,720 --> 01:04:47,840
you think I'm nuts?
I mean, have you seen what out

1077
01:04:47,840 --> 01:04:50,200
world is like?
Like, I want to still be able to

1078
01:04:50,200 --> 01:04:52,440
go to bars and stuff.
Why would I ever?

1079
01:04:52,720 --> 01:04:56,000
So yeah, if I love, I love when
movie characters say the things

1080
01:04:56,000 --> 01:04:59,560
that the audience would yell.
So it's like, yeah, of course

1081
01:04:59,560 --> 01:05:01,120
I'm not going to side with these
guys.

1082
01:05:01,120 --> 01:05:02,920
Are you crazy?
I mean, yeah, you see.

1083
01:05:03,160 --> 01:05:05,320
What they did to entry, like
really?

1084
01:05:05,600 --> 01:05:06,720
Yeah, really want that to
happen.

1085
01:05:06,720 --> 01:05:09,720
No, I don't.
Were you disappointed that Kano

1086
01:05:09,720 --> 01:05:11,400
didn't have a metal face at any
point?

1087
01:05:12,440 --> 01:05:14,680
I feel like in the games later
he just has the eye.

1088
01:05:14,680 --> 01:05:16,000
I'm.
Thinking the game, but I didn't.

1089
01:05:16,000 --> 01:05:18,280
Play those games.
No, he still he still has a

1090
01:05:18,280 --> 01:05:22,240
metal plate.
OK, well, I like that he gets

1091
01:05:22,240 --> 01:05:25,720
the replacement eye rolled
across the floor and he has to

1092
01:05:25,720 --> 01:05:27,840
think about that.
But then he's likes it.

1093
01:05:27,840 --> 01:05:30,880
So he's like immediately hey, do
the other one, do the we're

1094
01:05:30,880 --> 01:05:34,240
like, wow, you just got a new
eye.

1095
01:05:34,320 --> 01:05:36,800
But yes, I think.
Was I think they cheaped out on

1096
01:05:36,800 --> 01:05:38,960
me face for that.
We're like, we don't have to do

1097
01:05:38,960 --> 01:05:41,120
it, so let's not do it.
Yeah.

1098
01:05:41,840 --> 01:05:44,040
Because there there will be
literally something they'd have

1099
01:05:44,040 --> 01:05:46,440
to do every frame that he's in,
so.

1100
01:05:48,080 --> 01:05:49,560
Oh, oh, I see what you're
saying.

1101
01:05:49,800 --> 01:05:51,920
Well, and it might look, you
know, maybe it's one of those

1102
01:05:51,920 --> 01:05:54,360
things where they tried like
they did something and they're

1103
01:05:54,360 --> 01:05:56,000
like, let's look at this, let's
shoot some.

1104
01:05:56,000 --> 01:05:57,640
And they're like.
Yeah, and it probably didn't

1105
01:05:57,640 --> 01:05:59,640
look right.
Yeah, that's why they gave him

1106
01:05:59,680 --> 01:06:03,680
the organic eye and just so he
could just be himself and we

1107
01:06:03,680 --> 01:06:05,080
don't have to worry about that.
Yeah.

1108
01:06:05,760 --> 01:06:08,400
But when you said Hanukkah about
fight choreography, there are

1109
01:06:08,400 --> 01:06:12,000
movies that come out today that
they make it through the

1110
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:15,040
production process and they have
fight choreography that looks

1111
01:06:15,040 --> 01:06:18,440
like if you took a video camera
and me and Anthony to a parking

1112
01:06:18,440 --> 01:06:21,560
lot and told us to make some
crap up and, you know, you shot

1113
01:06:21,560 --> 01:06:25,880
it really close.
I don't know, like Matrix

1114
01:06:26,240 --> 01:06:29,240
Resurrections I think did this a
little bit where you're just

1115
01:06:29,240 --> 01:06:33,160
like the bar is so high that
when you see people who are just

1116
01:06:33,880 --> 01:06:36,720
now I'm going to spit on this
pole and now I'm going to push

1117
01:06:36,720 --> 01:06:38,680
you and then punch.
And he's like, guys, you got to

1118
01:06:38,680 --> 01:06:40,480
get a professional choreographer
you.

1119
01:06:40,680 --> 01:06:44,160
Can't just do these things.
So yes, it it made a noticeable

1120
01:06:44,160 --> 01:06:45,760
difference.
Yeah, that's like the lightsaber

1121
01:06:45,760 --> 01:06:48,880
fighting in the in the later
Jedi movie Star Wars.

1122
01:06:48,880 --> 01:06:49,960
I don't.
Know what you're talking about,

1123
01:06:49,960 --> 01:06:51,000
man, I don't know what you're
talking about.

1124
01:06:51,000 --> 01:06:52,320
Those are solid all the way
through.

1125
01:06:54,520 --> 01:06:58,680
I think I, I, I can't mention
the fight scenes without

1126
01:06:58,680 --> 01:07:05,600
mentioning also the fight
between Jade and Jax because you

1127
01:07:05,600 --> 01:07:10,560
know, for for Jax to be this
big, huge talking guy and for

1128
01:07:10,560 --> 01:07:14,160
Jade to be this kind of small,
petite person and for them to

1129
01:07:14,160 --> 01:07:23,040
fight and be so equally like
dangerous to each other.

1130
01:07:24,120 --> 01:07:28,920
And then also just the the the
funny parts about Jax, like once

1131
01:07:28,920 --> 01:07:31,960
he realized that Jay's Jay can
actually kick his ass, he's

1132
01:07:31,960 --> 01:07:35,760
like, he's like so interested.
He was like, Hey, how you doing

1133
01:07:36,520 --> 01:07:40,120
like that little bit of humor in
the midst of that.

1134
01:07:40,120 --> 01:07:44,480
But just also just seeing those
two because I've also been fans

1135
01:07:44,480 --> 01:07:48,760
of those two people, Tati
Gabrielle and and McCabe Bruce.

1136
01:07:48,760 --> 01:07:50,640
I've been fans of them for a
long time.

1137
01:07:50,640 --> 01:07:52,760
Watch them and loads of
different stuff.

1138
01:07:53,520 --> 01:07:58,640
I've seen Tati fight before in
other shows and she is just

1139
01:07:58,640 --> 01:08:01,320
amazing.
So just to kind of see them get

1140
01:08:01,320 --> 01:08:04,000
to be able to do that, it was
that was great.

1141
01:08:04,000 --> 01:08:06,920
I I loved it.
Well, I like I mentioned the

1142
01:08:06,920 --> 01:08:11,080
sister dynamic, but I really
like that when Jade is saying

1143
01:08:11,080 --> 01:08:15,040
she has this loyalty and this
oath that Cortana does not even

1144
01:08:15,040 --> 01:08:17,319
try and talk her into doing the
right thing.

1145
01:08:17,760 --> 01:08:20,000
She like kind of gives her a
look which it's like they've

1146
01:08:20,000 --> 01:08:23,000
never made a bargain.
She's just like, you know, I

1147
01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:25,560
think Jade's says you've always
treated me like a sister and you

1148
01:08:25,560 --> 01:08:28,160
didn't have to.
So when she's caught red handed,

1149
01:08:28,520 --> 01:08:31,640
Cortana just sort of walks away.
Like, look, you've got to do

1150
01:08:31,640 --> 01:08:34,160
what you've got to do.
And then when she double crosses

1151
01:08:34,160 --> 01:08:37,479
her, she's like, wow, like wow.
But that's it.

1152
01:08:37,680 --> 01:08:41,600
They don't they don't try and do
any of the cliched things where

1153
01:08:41,600 --> 01:08:43,840
it's like, you know, don't tell
anybody.

1154
01:08:43,840 --> 01:08:45,359
And I I can't believe you do
this.

1155
01:08:45,359 --> 01:08:48,960
It's just like.
Yeah, 'cause when she took

1156
01:08:49,160 --> 01:08:52,720
those, when she took the fans
from Cortana, like I was like

1157
01:08:53,720 --> 01:08:56,200
disrespectful.
Oh, excuse me?

1158
01:08:56,200 --> 01:08:59,200
You just took, you gave that to
her as a gift and now you're

1159
01:08:59,200 --> 01:09:00,960
taking a bath.
You're horrible.

1160
01:09:01,359 --> 01:09:04,160
But.
Yeah, I had AI had a flashback

1161
01:09:04,160 --> 01:09:10,720
to Civil War when Cap was like,
when Tony was like that.

1162
01:09:10,760 --> 01:09:12,720
That's not your shield.
That's my dad's shield.

1163
01:09:12,800 --> 01:09:14,840
Yeah, give me that.
Give me that shield back that

1164
01:09:14,840 --> 01:09:17,600
belongs to my daddy.
He just drops it on the floor

1165
01:09:17,600 --> 01:09:19,080
and walks away.
Yeah.

1166
01:09:19,600 --> 01:09:23,319
That is the most trifling Steve
has ever been, like connected

1167
01:09:23,319 --> 01:09:25,040
with him.
But like, you know what, Keith?

1168
01:09:25,560 --> 01:09:26,560
Dance.
Yeah, I think.

1169
01:09:26,680 --> 01:09:29,080
He was.
He was just tired, man.

1170
01:09:29,319 --> 01:09:32,800
Mind you, I could have killed
you, but here, take the seal.

1171
01:09:33,680 --> 01:09:37,000
Take the So yeah, fans.
But I think we go away and we

1172
01:09:37,000 --> 01:09:39,680
come back, characters come back
and they see Cortana tied to a

1173
01:09:39,680 --> 01:09:44,240
fountain and they're like, oh,
OK, there was a shift there.

1174
01:09:44,240 --> 01:09:49,160
So yeah.
But I, I very much got Thanos

1175
01:09:49,160 --> 01:09:54,480
and Gamora vibes from, from that
whole, that whole reveal of the,

1176
01:09:54,800 --> 01:09:57,680
you know, and, and even just the
whole background of the story

1177
01:09:57,680 --> 01:10:01,640
because he literally kills her
father in front of her and then

1178
01:10:01,640 --> 01:10:06,600
forces her to be his daughter,
you know, and did whatever it

1179
01:10:06,600 --> 01:10:10,240
was he did to her mother to make
her mother be like, Oh yeah, he

1180
01:10:10,240 --> 01:10:12,880
showed me the ways of the world.
I'm like, girl, it ain't that

1181
01:10:12,880 --> 01:10:15,320
good.
I I trust and believe that you

1182
01:10:15,320 --> 01:10:22,080
ain't looking all that great,
but but yeah, it it.

1183
01:10:24,320 --> 01:10:26,440
There were some definitely
copied notes there.

1184
01:10:26,440 --> 01:10:30,000
I mean, I think there were some
other Avengers parallels that

1185
01:10:30,000 --> 01:10:32,480
were really obvious while I was
watching it that I can't think

1186
01:10:32,480 --> 01:10:35,280
of now, but that is a good one.
I think there were some some

1187
01:10:35,480 --> 01:10:37,240
Infinity Gauntlet kind of
things.

1188
01:10:37,560 --> 01:10:40,960
But yeah, it's, it didn't
matter, I guess because the

1189
01:10:40,960 --> 01:10:44,160
execution was fun and because it
was so distinctively mortal

1190
01:10:44,160 --> 01:10:46,720
combat that you're like, oh, I
see what you're doing there.

1191
01:10:46,720 --> 01:10:49,800
But, well, no, I mean, it's like
Kung Lao's hat.

1192
01:10:49,920 --> 01:10:54,440
It's like, you know, he didn't
steal that from Steve.

1193
01:10:54,440 --> 01:10:56,560
He was throwing his hat for a
long time.

1194
01:10:56,720 --> 01:10:59,800
But to a modern viewing
audience, it's like you're doing

1195
01:10:59,880 --> 01:11:02,600
some of the shield stuff, OK, It
doesn't matter.

1196
01:11:02,600 --> 01:11:05,800
It's very Mortal Kombat.
But I mean, it's it's like one

1197
01:11:05,800 --> 01:11:08,320
of those things that you see in
those types of movies where

1198
01:11:08,320 --> 01:11:14,640
there's a video game movie or a
hero movie, you always there

1199
01:11:14,640 --> 01:11:18,400
always certain types of tropes
that will be revisited and just

1200
01:11:18,400 --> 01:11:21,480
kind of changed a little bit.
So it didn't bother me as much

1201
01:11:21,480 --> 01:11:25,440
that that was kind of there
because it's kind of like it

1202
01:11:25,440 --> 01:11:28,480
works for the story, especially
for this particular story.

1203
01:11:28,480 --> 01:11:33,440
You have this overlord who is
literally trying to take over

1204
01:11:33,480 --> 01:11:37,680
all of these different
dimensions and how's he going to

1205
01:11:37,680 --> 01:11:39,160
do that?
He's going to do that through

1206
01:11:39,160 --> 01:11:42,880
murder and mayhem and and, you
know, just.

1207
01:11:43,600 --> 01:11:46,120
Beating.
Yeah, yeah.

1208
01:11:46,400 --> 01:11:51,120
So it's kind of like, OK, it
works, But I mean, we got to see

1209
01:11:51,240 --> 01:11:54,840
a very strong female character
come out of it because she

1210
01:11:54,840 --> 01:11:57,440
really was, like, even as a
child.

1211
01:11:57,440 --> 01:12:00,160
Everybody else is bowing down to
him, and she's walking up to

1212
01:12:00,160 --> 01:12:05,040
him, looking at him like, fuck,
I ain't scared of you like it.

1213
01:12:05,120 --> 01:12:08,800
It gave a strong background for
her character, for her story to

1214
01:12:08,800 --> 01:12:13,320
see so that you can understand
why she made the decisions that

1215
01:12:13,320 --> 01:12:15,960
she made.
You know, as far as going behind

1216
01:12:15,960 --> 01:12:20,640
his back, working with Raiden,
trying to, you know, basically

1217
01:12:20,640 --> 01:12:23,840
say, OK, you know what?
Maybe I can't make any changes

1218
01:12:23,840 --> 01:12:28,120
or do anything in public, but I
can at least work behind the

1219
01:12:28,120 --> 01:12:31,200
scenes to try to make things
better or to try to make things

1220
01:12:31,200 --> 01:12:33,040
fair.
At least give give the other

1221
01:12:33,040 --> 01:12:35,920
team a shot.
But then of course, you know,

1222
01:12:35,920 --> 01:12:40,360
they still ratings essence and
it just becomes difficult and

1223
01:12:40,360 --> 01:12:43,920
then people are getting their
whole torsos smushed to death

1224
01:12:43,920 --> 01:12:46,160
with a hammer.
I just want to.

1225
01:12:46,160 --> 01:12:47,960
It still hurts.
I just want to say for the

1226
01:12:47,960 --> 01:12:53,880
record that even in the games,
some of the games and and and

1227
01:12:53,880 --> 01:12:57,040
the series movie series, the
elder gods are trash.

1228
01:12:57,480 --> 01:12:59,600
I just want to say that they're
trash.

1229
01:13:00,280 --> 01:13:04,680
You say reading, even reading is
sometimes can be trash too but

1230
01:13:05,120 --> 01:13:06,960
the the elder gods are trash
but.

1231
01:13:07,200 --> 01:13:10,320
Isn't that the case in most
stories?

1232
01:13:10,560 --> 01:13:12,880
Yeah, because they don't get it.
They don't.

1233
01:13:12,880 --> 01:13:17,200
They don't understand humanity
or life in general.

1234
01:13:18,200 --> 01:13:21,080
You know when when you're
immortal, you know that changes

1235
01:13:21,080 --> 01:13:25,040
your perspective on things.
Yeah, and I.

1236
01:13:25,120 --> 01:13:28,480
And I mean all powerful.
Even the people that we think

1237
01:13:28,480 --> 01:13:31,600
are quote UN quote good when we
look at their motives and what

1238
01:13:31,600 --> 01:13:35,400
they do is kind of like maybe
not so much, you know,

1239
01:13:35,400 --> 01:13:38,840
Dumbledore comes to mind, you
know, and and the things that

1240
01:13:38,840 --> 01:13:42,560
he.
Like, I guess this is this is,

1241
01:13:42,600 --> 01:13:48,720
you know, neither here nor
there, but like, why even set

1242
01:13:48,720 --> 01:13:51,840
this system up where you can
just say, yeah, y'all just don't

1243
01:13:51,840 --> 01:13:54,120
invade each other.
You avoid the whole problem.

1244
01:13:54,280 --> 01:13:57,000
You avoid the whole situation.
We don't have to have mortal

1245
01:13:57,000 --> 01:13:58,880
combat because.
You know why?

1246
01:13:58,960 --> 01:14:03,000
Because people are greedy and
they want more than what they

1247
01:14:03,000 --> 01:14:05,440
have.
Right, but if the elder guys

1248
01:14:05,440 --> 01:14:11,640
said y'all just don't do it and
enforce it, it'd be good, you

1249
01:14:11,640 --> 01:14:14,520
know?
When they set up the system,

1250
01:14:15,080 --> 01:14:18,440
there were teams that had armies
and there were teams that were

1251
01:14:18,440 --> 01:14:21,160
very pacifistic, but they had
really good fighters.

1252
01:14:21,680 --> 01:14:23,760
And he was just trying to say,
screw you armies.

1253
01:14:23,760 --> 01:14:26,120
People who want to invade, you
have to have a good fighter.

1254
01:14:26,120 --> 01:14:29,200
They're like, Dang it, it was a
good the other.

1255
01:14:29,200 --> 01:14:32,320
My other suggestion is that the
Elder Gods just really like

1256
01:14:32,320 --> 01:14:35,320
watching MMA or something.
So like, you know, it would be

1257
01:14:35,320 --> 01:14:38,120
sweet.
You know, you got to win a

1258
01:14:38,120 --> 01:14:40,040
fight.
That's too easy.

1259
01:14:41,160 --> 01:14:44,800
Yeah, yeah, you said ten in a
row.

1260
01:14:44,800 --> 01:14:47,800
Well, what if you just made it
100 in a row and just call it a

1261
01:14:47,800 --> 01:14:51,040
day?
That's a lot of fighting.

1262
01:14:51,040 --> 01:14:53,600
That's a lot of death because
you got to think about it.

1263
01:14:53,600 --> 01:14:57,640
In their minds, the victories
are when the other person is

1264
01:14:57,640 --> 01:15:01,040
dead.
Because really in that kind of

1265
01:15:01,240 --> 01:15:04,320
realm, in that kind of world,
how many people are really going

1266
01:15:04,320 --> 01:15:07,120
to do what Cortana did and be
like, OK, I kicked your ass, now

1267
01:15:07,160 --> 01:15:09,800
you can go home.
Not a lot of them are going to

1268
01:15:09,800 --> 01:15:15,320
do that because there's there's
infinitely more monsters and

1269
01:15:15,360 --> 01:15:19,440
other beings in that world than
there are the human characters,

1270
01:15:19,440 --> 01:15:22,280
right?
So yeah.

1271
01:15:22,600 --> 01:15:25,840
But I think also too, with the
whole, the whole elder God's

1272
01:15:25,840 --> 01:15:30,800
thing, it, it's so interesting
because they tell the warriors

1273
01:15:30,800 --> 01:15:34,360
like, OK, yes, you have this
mark, you're going to fight in

1274
01:15:34,360 --> 01:15:36,840
Mortal Kombat.
But when the person is basically

1275
01:15:36,840 --> 01:15:40,160
like, I don't want to do this,
you give them the impression

1276
01:15:40,160 --> 01:15:41,480
that you're giving them free
will.

1277
01:15:41,480 --> 01:15:42,840
Like, oh, you don't want to do
this.

1278
01:15:42,840 --> 01:15:45,760
OK, we're going to let you go
home and sit on a bar and drink.

1279
01:15:45,760 --> 01:15:49,880
And then the minute something
happens, whoosh, they're pulled

1280
01:15:49,880 --> 01:15:52,040
into this world and they have to
fight anyway.

1281
01:15:52,440 --> 01:15:54,880
Yeah, 'cause Raven says that.
I suck.

1282
01:15:55,280 --> 01:15:59,240
Raven's like, well, you know,
you can stay home if you want

1283
01:15:59,240 --> 01:16:03,000
to, but when it's time to fight,
begin to decide whether you're

1284
01:16:03,000 --> 01:16:05,200
going to fight or not.
It was really nice.

1285
01:16:05,200 --> 01:16:08,000
They threw that line in.
Yeah, that was a small line and

1286
01:16:08,000 --> 01:16:10,240
it was really great.
They were like, they can call

1287
01:16:10,240 --> 01:16:12,840
you anyways, like, yeah, I'll
see you guys because then they

1288
01:16:13,000 --> 01:16:16,800
we at home would have been like,
hey, but yeah, it's like we told

1289
01:16:16,800 --> 01:16:18,040
you, man.
And if Raiden.

1290
01:16:18,040 --> 01:16:20,200
Yeah, I do.
If Raiden wasn't bending the

1291
01:16:20,200 --> 01:16:24,360
rules anyway, if he wasn't been
in the rules, you wouldn't know

1292
01:16:24,360 --> 01:16:27,360
what the Hell's going on.
Yeah, you just show up.

1293
01:16:27,560 --> 01:16:30,120
What am I doing here?
And you're in the middle of you

1294
01:16:30,360 --> 01:16:33,280
know, it's time to fight.
Yeah, but I mean, you can't

1295
01:16:33,280 --> 01:16:36,320
really blame him either because
of Shane soon is going to be out

1296
01:16:36,320 --> 01:16:40,120
here like cheating and trying to
go kill champions before you

1297
01:16:40,120 --> 01:16:43,000
even get to Mortal Kombat.
Then yeah, you know what?

1298
01:16:43,000 --> 01:16:45,600
Maybe we can do a little
something on our side too.

1299
01:16:45,600 --> 01:16:48,040
It's kind of like you got to
even the playing field,

1300
01:16:48,560 --> 01:16:50,880
unfortunately.
It's tough when cheating is part

1301
01:16:50,880 --> 01:16:53,760
of the game.
It's really hard for us rule

1302
01:16:53,760 --> 01:16:57,320
followers when it's like, and
that's the Wizarding World does

1303
01:16:57,320 --> 01:17:00,080
this too, where you assume that
you live in a world where

1304
01:17:00,080 --> 01:17:03,560
everybody cheats all the time.
So it's like the people who are

1305
01:17:03,560 --> 01:17:05,880
rule followers are not good
people.

1306
01:17:05,880 --> 01:17:07,760
They're saps, man.
Come on.

1307
01:17:07,760 --> 01:17:10,640
So it's like, oh, you got to
cheat a little bit.

1308
01:17:10,640 --> 01:17:12,840
They're cheating terribly.
Yeah, this will always bring up

1309
01:17:14,480 --> 01:17:17,920
Davy Eddings, his books The
Melorian and The Bill Garriad.

1310
01:17:17,920 --> 01:17:21,960
Because Bill Graf, the sorcerer,
he's a good guy, but he cheats.

1311
01:17:22,720 --> 01:17:28,080
Like from the day one you meet
him, he cheats through all the

1312
01:17:28,080 --> 01:17:30,760
11 books and he will tell you
I'm cheating.

1313
01:17:31,280 --> 01:17:33,880
Why are you doing this?
Well, I'm setting it up so we

1314
01:17:33,880 --> 01:17:37,240
can win.
Like, why are you having him

1315
01:17:37,240 --> 01:17:40,400
fighting him?
Well, I'm going to make his bow

1316
01:17:40,400 --> 01:17:42,960
indestructible, but that's
cheating.

1317
01:17:43,480 --> 01:17:47,120
Yeah, it is.
Yeah, it's being smart, playing

1318
01:17:47,120 --> 01:17:49,080
it smart.
Yeah, but I mean, you see that

1319
01:17:49,080 --> 01:17:54,040
with with a lot of different
quote, UN quote good beings,

1320
01:17:54,040 --> 01:17:58,240
like even if they're not
cheating, they will find ways to

1321
01:17:58,240 --> 01:18:04,040
manipulate what happens so that
it has the desired outcome, you

1322
01:18:04,040 --> 01:18:07,480
know, so.
And Shao Khan is like, oh, the

1323
01:18:07,480 --> 01:18:09,440
ultimate cheat.
I'm just going to make myself

1324
01:18:10,000 --> 01:18:12,680
immortal and unkillable.
Right.

1325
01:18:12,840 --> 01:18:15,600
And I'm gonna do it by taking
the other, the good guys

1326
01:18:15,800 --> 01:18:18,200
essence.
I'm going to make him power my

1327
01:18:18,200 --> 01:18:23,360
immortality.
I was like, that is so cruel,

1328
01:18:23,360 --> 01:18:27,040
but at the same time it's kind
of smart, like.

1329
01:18:27,720 --> 01:18:30,680
Whoa, That was another.
I told you, you, you feel things

1330
01:18:30,680 --> 01:18:33,240
are familiar.
They literally did like a whole

1331
01:18:33,240 --> 01:18:36,840
Voldemort arc for Shao Khan
where it's like we had to get

1332
01:18:36,840 --> 01:18:39,120
his last four trucks so we could
finally kill him.

1333
01:18:39,560 --> 01:18:40,880
And it's really obvious when
you're watching.

1334
01:18:40,880 --> 01:18:43,600
It doesn't detract from the
enjoyment, but it's just like, I

1335
01:18:43,640 --> 01:18:45,360
see what you're doing, y'all?
But yeah.

1336
01:18:45,640 --> 01:18:48,920
It also got like A Game of
Thrones feeling the mountain and

1337
01:18:48,920 --> 01:18:54,880
the snake in in Shao Khan and
and Cortana's father's fight.

1338
01:18:55,600 --> 01:18:57,480
Like he really should have won
that fight.

1339
01:18:57,480 --> 01:19:00,200
I mean, I feel like he just took
a moment.

1340
01:19:01,240 --> 01:19:04,320
He's being lost.
He was trying to monologue.

1341
01:19:05,120 --> 01:19:06,920
He didn't.
He didn't watch The Incredibles.

1342
01:19:08,680 --> 01:19:10,640
I mean, and I I say that all the
time.

1343
01:19:10,640 --> 01:19:14,560
It's like when you're so close
and all you have to do is kill

1344
01:19:14,560 --> 01:19:17,680
the, you know, make the last
striking blow.

1345
01:19:17,960 --> 01:19:20,720
But you want to sit there and
gloat or you want to give your

1346
01:19:20,720 --> 01:19:24,960
monologue or you want to tell
your your forcibly adopted

1347
01:19:24,960 --> 01:19:28,400
daughter, like, yeah, you still
got time to change your mind.

1348
01:19:28,400 --> 01:19:31,160
Like we can go back to to where
we were.

1349
01:19:31,160 --> 01:19:34,600
You just got to why are you
giving her time to think?

1350
01:19:35,040 --> 01:19:39,760
You are giving her time to be
more pissed off and and giving

1351
01:19:39,760 --> 01:19:42,720
her what she need.
I mean, and it's like that with

1352
01:19:42,800 --> 01:19:45,560
all them.
They they talk too much, they

1353
01:19:45,560 --> 01:19:49,160
gloat too much or they just
they're they're scared to take

1354
01:19:49,240 --> 01:19:51,800
out of, I don't know, maybe
they're scared to take the final

1355
01:19:51,800 --> 01:19:53,360
shot.
Like, OK, I really don't want to

1356
01:19:53,360 --> 01:19:56,800
do this.
I mean, he seemed like he might

1357
01:19:56,800 --> 01:20:00,720
have kind of sort of cared for
Cortana as a daughter.

1358
01:20:00,720 --> 01:20:05,040
But again.
For you to have that horrible

1359
01:20:05,040 --> 01:20:08,440
traumatic beginning, like you
literally killed her father in

1360
01:20:08,440 --> 01:20:10,840
front of you.
You really thought she was going

1361
01:20:10,840 --> 01:20:13,800
to be loyal to you.
You really wasn't expecting that

1362
01:20:13,800 --> 01:20:15,760
she would turn on you at any
given point.

1363
01:20:16,720 --> 01:20:19,720
That's just.
He has a dramatic flair and he

1364
01:20:19,720 --> 01:20:23,840
has a lot of self-confidence.
And I mean, she's, she's not

1365
01:20:23,840 --> 01:20:25,440
killed.
She's chained up.

1366
01:20:26,000 --> 01:20:27,800
I think it's like Yandu and Star
Lord.

1367
01:20:27,800 --> 01:20:30,240
It's like, yeah, we'll let her
down eventually.

1368
01:20:30,240 --> 01:20:33,720
He's just, he's not giving up.
He's very confident.

1369
01:20:34,240 --> 01:20:35,000
I did like.
The.

1370
01:20:36,080 --> 01:20:38,400
I like the character design for
Shao Khan.

1371
01:20:38,400 --> 01:20:41,440
I told you guys at the theater
that I it looks like on the

1372
01:20:41,440 --> 01:20:45,600
credits that the voice was the
huge dude that played him.

1373
01:20:45,800 --> 01:20:48,280
And we can just see, like,
reptilian eyes.

1374
01:20:49,280 --> 01:20:51,200
Yeah, he was.
He was good.

1375
01:20:51,200 --> 01:20:54,440
The look of all the characters
was really good in this one.

1376
01:20:55,480 --> 01:20:58,640
If you have either of you seen
Mortal Kombat Annihilation?

1377
01:20:59,600 --> 01:21:01,000
I.
Did we don't have to get into

1378
01:21:01,000 --> 01:21:02,440
it.
But it's long time.

1379
01:21:02,440 --> 01:21:05,440
Ago.
It's it's useful just when you

1380
01:21:05,440 --> 01:21:09,120
say these characters look good
that it is tricky to try and do

1381
01:21:09,120 --> 01:21:12,720
something video game accurate
and not have it look silly.

1382
01:21:13,080 --> 01:21:18,480
And Annihilation has like the
cosplay spandex version of a lot

1383
01:21:18,480 --> 01:21:20,480
of them like Cindel bright
purples.

1384
01:21:20,760 --> 01:21:25,000
So Shao Khan is a huge dude
stuntman Brian Johnson with the

1385
01:21:25,000 --> 01:21:28,400
big video game helmet.
He looks video game accurate,

1386
01:21:28,720 --> 01:21:32,440
but not cool like at all.
So this was, I couldn't tell you

1387
01:21:32,440 --> 01:21:34,840
exactly what they did different,
but he looked really good.

1388
01:21:35,120 --> 01:21:39,040
Like I thought Goro didn't look
terrible in the first one.

1389
01:21:39,960 --> 01:21:42,000
Yeah.
No, he did great.

1390
01:21:42,240 --> 01:21:44,920
Yeah.
I mean, you know, I'm a big

1391
01:21:44,920 --> 01:21:47,560
defender of animatronics done
well in the 90s.

1392
01:21:47,560 --> 01:21:51,320
But yeah, that's, yeah, Cora was
great.

1393
01:21:51,680 --> 01:21:57,840
Yeah, it was, but.
But the bat lady in 2021 Mortal

1394
01:21:57,840 --> 01:22:00,640
Kombat did not look so great.
And I don't know, like they

1395
01:22:00,640 --> 01:22:02,960
didn't have a lot of time to
finish her effects or something.

1396
01:22:03,360 --> 01:22:06,360
She was one of the ones that we
saw killed Naitara.

1397
01:22:06,800 --> 01:22:10,920
Natara, the human gargoyle lady
who I know enough about the

1398
01:22:10,920 --> 01:22:13,160
later games to know she did not
look like that.

1399
01:22:13,600 --> 01:22:16,640
But yeah, they I don't.
Know figure out.

1400
01:22:16,800 --> 01:22:19,320
Who she was in the first, I was
like, who is this?

1401
01:22:20,200 --> 01:22:23,880
Yeah, and, and I don't know, I
don't think y'all are watching

1402
01:22:24,400 --> 01:22:29,440
the boys, but Syndell's scream
looked exactly like oh, oh,

1403
01:22:29,440 --> 01:22:34,000
father and the boys.
I was like, oh, that looks so

1404
01:22:34,000 --> 01:22:35,160
familiar.
It was.

1405
01:22:35,160 --> 01:22:38,400
OK, yeah, I haven't, I haven't
started Season 5 yet.

1406
01:22:38,400 --> 01:22:40,640
I'm probably going to do that
this weekend.

1407
01:22:41,000 --> 01:22:44,040
Yeah, that's not a spoiler.
Oh, Father screams and.

1408
01:22:44,560 --> 01:22:47,000
Oh, I did like her.
Doesn't she like hold up a

1409
01:22:47,000 --> 01:22:49,640
corpse to like block the scream
and it's.

1410
01:22:49,640 --> 01:22:50,840
Like sitting in the front.
Yeah, that was.

1411
01:22:52,520 --> 01:22:53,840
That was good.
That was a fun effect.

1412
01:22:54,440 --> 01:22:56,880
The effects, all the effects
were really good.

1413
01:22:57,440 --> 01:23:01,920
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, except the stent stunting

1414
01:23:01,920 --> 01:23:04,440
for Carl Urban.
You were the I think you were

1415
01:23:04,440 --> 01:23:06,120
the only one that spotted that
Anthony.

1416
01:23:06,120 --> 01:23:07,680
I think you just had a keen eye.
He.

1417
01:23:08,200 --> 01:23:10,960
Probably, yeah.
And then once he noticed it, he.

1418
01:23:11,200 --> 01:23:13,400
Couldn't stop.
It so he was probably hyper

1419
01:23:13,400 --> 01:23:17,560
fixated on it.
That was yeah.

1420
01:23:17,640 --> 01:23:20,560
And when it comes out, I am not
going to be freeze framing

1421
01:23:21,280 --> 01:23:25,440
anything.
So Oh well, you have to tell us

1422
01:23:25,440 --> 01:23:28,000
when to freeze frame and we'll
spot it for the first time, but

1423
01:23:28,000 --> 01:23:32,480
when you can send a second.
No, no, I didn't see it as much

1424
01:23:32,760 --> 01:23:35,440
then, but I saw it a lot when he
was fighting Cortana.

1425
01:23:36,320 --> 01:23:40,800
OK.
When when Johnny Cage first sees

1426
01:23:40,800 --> 01:23:43,920
Raiden, he asked him if he's
cosplaying Big Trouble Little

1427
01:23:43,920 --> 01:23:47,960
China, which is really, really
great 'cause I think my first

1428
01:23:47,960 --> 01:23:50,800
memory of Mortal Kombat is
seeing it in the arcade and

1429
01:23:50,800 --> 01:23:56,080
saying, hey, they got the guy
from Big Tremble China, so that

1430
01:23:56,080 --> 01:23:58,240
was awesome.
This is also the first movie to

1431
01:23:58,240 --> 01:24:01,440
boldly have a character point
out that they're spelling combat

1432
01:24:01,440 --> 01:24:06,800
wrong, which was great.
Yeah, yeah, I like those little

1433
01:24:06,800 --> 01:24:10,840
touches.
And you know, the film was not a

1434
01:24:12,200 --> 01:24:16,400
serious film, but it was, you
know, you're fighting for the

1435
01:24:16,400 --> 01:24:19,440
sake of humanity and worlds and
stuff.

1436
01:24:19,440 --> 01:24:24,720
So it's semi serious.
But I they had enough comedy in

1437
01:24:24,720 --> 01:24:27,080
there to feel really kind of
balanced.

1438
01:24:27,080 --> 01:24:29,120
It didn't fit.
It didn't feel like overkill.

1439
01:24:29,120 --> 01:24:31,200
It didn't feel like, oh, you're
overdoing it.

1440
01:24:31,560 --> 01:24:34,640
It was a healthy balance and I
think it made the movie a lot

1441
01:24:34,640 --> 01:24:38,400
more fun and enjoyable.
I really did enjoy this one.

1442
01:24:38,400 --> 01:24:43,200
Like I went in with very low
expectations just because of,

1443
01:24:43,320 --> 01:24:46,640
again, coming off the first film
and I was kind of disappointed.

1444
01:24:47,080 --> 01:24:50,320
And I was like, OK, I don't know
if I'm going to go see the

1445
01:24:50,320 --> 01:24:52,800
second one.
And then when they announced

1446
01:24:53,120 --> 01:24:58,320
Karl Urban's casting is Johnny
Cage, I was like, OK, maybe I'll

1447
01:24:58,320 --> 01:25:00,840
go see it.
And then when they announced the

1448
01:25:01,560 --> 01:25:04,640
when they released the first
trailer, I think it may have

1449
01:25:04,640 --> 01:25:10,120
been like a red band trailer.
And I was just like, OK, I guess

1450
01:25:10,120 --> 01:25:11,920
I'm going.
And then I started talking to

1451
01:25:11,920 --> 01:25:13,200
you guys.
I was like, are you guys going

1452
01:25:13,200 --> 01:25:15,520
to see more Mortal Kombat?
I think I, I think I really got

1453
01:25:15,520 --> 01:25:17,840
on y'all's nerves because I
don't know if you guys were

1454
01:25:17,880 --> 01:25:20,480
going to go see it.
No, you're the reason I saw

1455
01:25:20,480 --> 01:25:22,120
this.
I would probably still be like,

1456
01:25:22,160 --> 01:25:26,120
I don't know, it might be good.
And I think listeners at home,

1457
01:25:26,120 --> 01:25:29,320
we don't spend 4 days in a row
together, even if it's

1458
01:25:29,320 --> 01:25:33,520
Hanukkah's birthday.
Like I'd argue even if it's a

1459
01:25:33,520 --> 01:25:36,240
convention, we may not see each
other for all four days in a

1460
01:25:36,240 --> 01:25:38,040
row.
So Hanukkah's like, I know

1461
01:25:38,040 --> 01:25:41,440
you're done with us, but like,
it was really fun.

1462
01:25:41,440 --> 01:25:44,400
Like after three other things,
boom, boom, boom.

1463
01:25:44,400 --> 01:25:49,040
It was like, I think on my way
there, I was thinking, why am I

1464
01:25:49,040 --> 01:25:53,160
going to go see Mortal Kombat 2,
Nick, really Mortal Kombat 2?

1465
01:25:53,200 --> 01:25:57,840
I mean, was 2021 really worth
it?

1466
01:25:57,960 --> 01:25:59,960
Was.
A lot of fun.

1467
01:26:00,160 --> 01:26:02,760
See, I don't steer you wrong.
Well.

1468
01:26:02,760 --> 01:26:04,320
No, you don't.
Well, Michelle and I were going

1469
01:26:04,320 --> 01:26:06,160
to go see it.
We were going to go see it

1470
01:26:06,160 --> 01:26:07,480
anyway.
OK.

1471
01:26:07,600 --> 01:26:11,080
Because, you know, this is me to
see it earlier, but we were

1472
01:26:11,080 --> 01:26:15,040
going to see it.
I mean, it was, it came at a

1473
01:26:15,040 --> 01:26:17,520
perfect time.
It had a great release date.

1474
01:26:17,520 --> 01:26:20,320
Like that week was my birthday
week.

1475
01:26:20,320 --> 01:26:23,800
We did Star Wars stuff on
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,

1476
01:26:23,800 --> 01:26:27,400
Mortal Kombat on Thursday.
Like it was just, I was like,

1477
01:26:27,400 --> 01:26:30,920
OK, it's a it's a nerdy week and
we would all be hanging together

1478
01:26:30,920 --> 01:26:32,840
anyway.
It just happens that all of that

1479
01:26:32,840 --> 01:26:36,760
stuff happened in one.
Yeah, I mean, I won the Diane X

1480
01:26:36,760 --> 01:26:39,440
wing, which was.
Yes, you did it.

1481
01:26:40,520 --> 01:26:42,520
Was ridiculous.
It ridiculous there.

1482
01:26:42,800 --> 01:26:44,520
Oh, do you you happen to have it
right here.

1483
01:26:44,640 --> 01:26:47,240
It's not going to fit on the
screen all at once like.

1484
01:26:47,240 --> 01:26:50,320
It's not going to fit, but it's
how you guys the.

1485
01:26:50,440 --> 01:26:52,680
Trivia it.
Seems it doesn't fit.

1486
01:26:53,680 --> 01:26:57,360
I wanted Star Wars trivia.
Thanks to Honeygo, because 2

1487
01:26:57,880 --> 01:27:02,480
days ago, two days in a row.
We did.

1488
01:27:02,640 --> 01:27:04,840
We clapped.
He walks over with this thing.

1489
01:27:04,840 --> 01:27:06,960
We clapped.
And then I'm serious.

1490
01:27:06,960 --> 01:27:09,680
The room got quiet and I
realized everybody was thinking

1491
01:27:09,680 --> 01:27:11,080
the same thing I do.
It's like, good job.

1492
01:27:11,080 --> 01:27:13,880
And we're like, yeah, I get
that.

1493
01:27:14,080 --> 01:27:17,400
That is really sweet.
So yes, there was some jealousy

1494
01:27:17,400 --> 01:27:18,920
in the room.
It wasn't just me.

1495
01:27:18,920 --> 01:27:22,960
But yeah, that thing is awesome.
So yes, a great week.

1496
01:27:23,160 --> 01:27:25,600
And Mortal Kombat 2 is just the
cherry on top.

1497
01:27:25,600 --> 01:27:27,480
Yeah, that was that was great.
I'm glad we went.

1498
01:27:27,560 --> 01:27:30,160
It was fun.
It, it was a lot of fun and, and

1499
01:27:30,240 --> 01:27:34,440
those things like most of the
times, those movies, especially

1500
01:27:34,440 --> 01:27:38,480
like before the last, I say one
or two years a lot of times

1501
01:27:38,680 --> 01:27:41,920
because I usually go on Thursday
night when it releases because

1502
01:27:41,920 --> 01:27:46,720
now so many people are posting
spoilers immediately after

1503
01:27:46,880 --> 01:27:49,440
seeing it.
So usually if I can't get

1504
01:27:49,440 --> 01:27:52,000
anybody to go, I would just go
by myself.

1505
01:27:52,000 --> 01:27:55,520
But I really felt like that was
one of those movies where it

1506
01:27:55,520 --> 01:28:00,360
will be more fun seeing it with
a group of people or friends

1507
01:28:00,360 --> 01:28:04,000
that I knew would enjoy because
I knew like Nick was sitting

1508
01:28:04,000 --> 01:28:06,400
next to me, Anthony and Michelle
were sitting behind us.

1509
01:28:06,600 --> 01:28:09,040
So I knew that there were
certain things Nick and I were

1510
01:28:09,040 --> 01:28:11,600
going to be kind of like
elbowing each other and laughing

1511
01:28:11,600 --> 01:28:14,520
about, you know, especially once
the movie started, we kind of

1512
01:28:14,520 --> 01:28:18,400
saw where it was going and I
could hear like Michelle every

1513
01:28:18,400 --> 01:28:22,320
once in a while say something.
So it was, it was a lot of fun

1514
01:28:22,320 --> 01:28:26,160
and I had I enjoyed it.
I, I really hope they do get to

1515
01:28:26,160 --> 01:28:30,720
do a third movie because I do
want to see kind of where

1516
01:28:30,720 --> 01:28:32,520
they're going to go with it.
And I want to see if we're going

1517
01:28:32,520 --> 01:28:34,760
to get these, these dead
characters back.

1518
01:28:35,080 --> 01:28:36,960
Jack's at least.
I don't know what they're going

1519
01:28:36,960 --> 01:28:38,800
to do with Cole.
You might be right, Anthony.

1520
01:28:38,840 --> 01:28:44,800
They they may be done with Cole.
He has no body, they they have

1521
01:28:44,800 --> 01:28:47,960
nothing to to bring put his soul
back into.

1522
01:28:48,200 --> 01:28:52,280
Yeah, but his, I will say this,
his, his fight scenes in this

1523
01:28:52,280 --> 01:28:55,720
one were a lot better too.
I mean, the fight scenes in the

1524
01:28:55,720 --> 01:28:59,480
first one were also good, but I
feel like they weren't as long

1525
01:28:59,480 --> 01:29:02,720
as they needed to be again for a
Mortal Kombat movie.

1526
01:29:03,200 --> 01:29:05,480
And I liked what he was doing in
this one.

1527
01:29:05,480 --> 01:29:09,640
And I just like watching him
fight anyway because he's also

1528
01:29:09,640 --> 01:29:11,360
done some other things I know
he's been in.

1529
01:29:11,640 --> 01:29:13,920
I think he was in Cobra Kai,
which I did not watch.

1530
01:29:13,920 --> 01:29:16,560
But he was also one of my
favorite characters in Shadow

1531
01:29:16,560 --> 01:29:19,640
and Bone, which, you know, he
fought in that one.

1532
01:29:19,640 --> 01:29:26,240
So yeah, I don't know.
I just, I'm I'm a little I'm

1533
01:29:26,440 --> 01:29:29,800
conflicted on a character
because I like the actor, but I

1534
01:29:29,800 --> 01:29:33,360
just the character was just, I
could take him or leave him.

1535
01:29:34,760 --> 01:29:38,800
Yeah, the character I, I don't
think since his superpower was

1536
01:29:39,600 --> 01:29:43,160
vibranium, Black Panther outfit,
I don't know that he brought

1537
01:29:43,160 --> 01:29:44,760
anything special.
To the table.

1538
01:29:44,760 --> 01:29:51,240
That was weird too.
I I just felt like, because it

1539
01:29:51,240 --> 01:29:55,680
seemed like he absorbed the
hits, but it didn't.

1540
01:29:55,800 --> 01:29:57,760
It didn't do what to Chalice,
Yeah.

1541
01:29:58,080 --> 01:30:02,400
It was no good payoff.
Yeah, so it was kind of like, so

1542
01:30:02,400 --> 01:30:06,200
you're just making it so that he
can take hits really well, which

1543
01:30:06,200 --> 01:30:08,920
I guess given the fact that he
was getting his ass kicked so

1544
01:30:08,920 --> 01:30:12,120
much in the first film, that was
probably necessary.

1545
01:30:12,120 --> 01:30:14,640
But still, it's kind of like
y'all couldn't think of

1546
01:30:14,640 --> 01:30:16,840
something cooler for him to
have.

1547
01:30:18,120 --> 01:30:21,000
But maybe they were too subtle
because Mortal Kombat is not a

1548
01:30:21,000 --> 01:30:24,920
subtle visual thing where it's
like we want him to look cool

1549
01:30:24,920 --> 01:30:28,200
for a movie.
And this is almost like he man

1550
01:30:28,200 --> 01:30:30,040
figures.
Like if they had given him giant

1551
01:30:30,040 --> 01:30:31,960
mechanical claw hands or
something.

1552
01:30:32,920 --> 01:30:35,560
That's I'm not saying it would
look good, but it'd be more in

1553
01:30:35,560 --> 01:30:39,320
line with the game.
Subtle cool dude with a cool

1554
01:30:39,320 --> 01:30:43,320
look.
It's not very Mortal Kombat, so

1555
01:30:43,320 --> 01:30:48,040
yeah, OK.
I don't.

1556
01:30:48,080 --> 01:30:50,920
I don't know if there's anything
else for us to talk about.

1557
01:30:50,920 --> 01:30:53,640
I mean, like I said, it was, it
was a fun movie.

1558
01:30:53,640 --> 01:30:56,600
I enjoyed it.
I'm looking forward to seeing

1559
01:30:56,600 --> 01:30:58,920
what they're going to do if
they're going to do a third one.

1560
01:31:01,320 --> 01:31:04,880
This franchise does not stop.
I mean, they have more Mortal

1561
01:31:04,880 --> 01:31:07,960
Kombat things than they do pet
cemetery things.

1562
01:31:08,520 --> 01:31:11,200
So, and I mean, there's a,
there's a whole host of

1563
01:31:11,640 --> 01:31:15,400
characters from Paris.
Well, no, but you guys have

1564
01:31:15,400 --> 01:31:17,600
covered some pet cemetery and
it's like, I didn't realize how

1565
01:31:17,600 --> 01:31:21,120
much pet cemetery there was.
But it's like, so every four

1566
01:31:21,120 --> 01:31:23,760
years somebody says we should
redo pet cemetery.

1567
01:31:23,760 --> 01:31:27,760
And I'm like, why?
But Mortal Kombat, I mean, just,

1568
01:31:27,960 --> 01:31:31,200
I think there's a host of
cartoon movies I've never seen

1569
01:31:31,920 --> 01:31:33,480
that aren't publicized where I
look.

1570
01:31:33,840 --> 01:31:35,800
But it's like, Oh yeah, there's
content.

1571
01:31:35,880 --> 01:31:37,680
Crazy.
So people care about the

1572
01:31:37,680 --> 01:31:41,560
characters in the backstories.
So yeah, I'd assume even if they

1573
01:31:41,560 --> 01:31:44,040
don't want to do another 10,
they're doing another one.

1574
01:31:44,040 --> 01:31:46,360
It's just a question of
characters.

1575
01:31:47,200 --> 01:31:49,160
This was good enough.
I think it merits it.

1576
01:31:50,120 --> 01:31:53,400
I think it'll be interesting to
see because I, I find it very

1577
01:31:53,400 --> 01:31:58,160
interesting that in this year,
in this summer, we're getting a

1578
01:31:58,240 --> 01:32:01,040
Mortal Kombat movie, we're
getting he mad and we're getting

1579
01:32:01,040 --> 01:32:05,480
Street Fighter like all within a
month and a half of each other.

1580
01:32:05,920 --> 01:32:08,920
So I think it's going to be very
interesting to see how it holds

1581
01:32:08,920 --> 01:32:11,200
up against those other two
properties because those are

1582
01:32:11,200 --> 01:32:15,360
also very popular properties
from from Gen.

1583
01:32:15,360 --> 01:32:18,080
X, especially with Street
Fighter, because Street Fighter,

1584
01:32:18,400 --> 01:32:21,640
looking at the trailer, Street
Fighter looks like it's going to

1585
01:32:21,640 --> 01:32:25,480
be more fun chaos than anything
serious.

1586
01:32:26,080 --> 01:32:28,680
Like I know when I told aunt,
when I showed it to Anthony, I

1587
01:32:28,680 --> 01:32:33,480
was like, are we watching this?
And he was like, no, I don't

1588
01:32:33,480 --> 01:32:34,880
think you were planning on
watching it.

1589
01:32:34,880 --> 01:32:41,360
Are you planning on watching it?
I wasn't, but the person I live

1590
01:32:41,360 --> 01:32:43,160
with him.
I'm related to my marriage.

1591
01:32:44,040 --> 01:32:47,960
She she wants to watch it.
So yeah, I'll be watching it.

1592
01:32:48,040 --> 01:32:51,960
Yay.
OK, OK.

1593
01:32:52,040 --> 01:32:54,360
Not.
Yet honestly, Street Fighter is

1594
01:32:54,360 --> 01:32:56,680
higher on my list than a Mortal
Kombat movie.

1595
01:32:56,720 --> 01:32:57,360
Really.
OK.

1596
01:32:58,760 --> 01:33:02,000
Oh yeah.
Expectations way down here.

1597
01:33:02,000 --> 01:33:06,680
Way, way down here, Yeah, for a
Street Fighter.

1598
01:33:06,680 --> 01:33:08,600
Yeah, that's true.
And that can only help.

1599
01:33:09,240 --> 01:33:13,200
Now I'm not gonna I I did like
the the Van Damme Street Fighter

1600
01:33:13,200 --> 01:33:13,720
movie.
It was.

1601
01:33:13,800 --> 01:33:16,280
It was actually fun.
Yeah, that was fun.

1602
01:33:16,720 --> 01:33:19,560
I did.
Not I liked, I liked.

1603
01:33:19,560 --> 01:33:22,160
Raw, Julian.
I think everybody liked Raw Gee

1604
01:33:23,920 --> 01:33:26,280
and I'm sorry, Ming NAO Wynn is
Chung Lee.

1605
01:33:27,400 --> 01:33:29,880
I like her.
She was great, but it's just it

1606
01:33:29,880 --> 01:33:35,240
was a it was a hot damn mess.
But but yeah, I I don't know.

1607
01:33:35,280 --> 01:33:38,840
They've shown us Giles haircut
in the trailer, so we can all

1608
01:33:38,840 --> 01:33:42,560
see they're not only going for
it, but it looks both accurate

1609
01:33:42,560 --> 01:33:44,960
and terrible.
I mean, what I said about Kano's

1610
01:33:44,960 --> 01:33:46,840
face maybe not looking great on
film.

1611
01:33:47,000 --> 01:33:50,000
No, this looks terrible.
We're doing it, man.

1612
01:33:50,000 --> 01:33:53,040
It is how it looks, so I hope it
rocks.

1613
01:33:53,080 --> 01:33:56,600
But yeah, it's.
Yeah, I saw, I think I saw a

1614
01:33:56,600 --> 01:33:59,960
trailer where I saw Don Sims arm
stretch and hit somebody.

1615
01:33:59,960 --> 01:34:02,480
It's OK, I can do this.
It'll.

1616
01:34:02,600 --> 01:34:04,400
Be fun.
Oh, he looked cool.

1617
01:34:04,400 --> 01:34:06,880
The character looked cool.
I saw that from the trailer, but

1618
01:34:06,880 --> 01:34:11,400
yeah, yeah, Stretchy does not
look good in real life like Mr.

1619
01:34:11,400 --> 01:34:13,520
Fantastic.
It's a hard superpower to make.

1620
01:34:13,520 --> 01:34:15,680
Look.
I mean, I guess Dawson would be

1621
01:34:15,680 --> 01:34:18,800
fast.
Yeah, yeah.

1622
01:34:19,560 --> 01:34:22,680
October 16th.
I don't know, I'm not sure I'll

1623
01:34:22,680 --> 01:34:24,960
be in a theater with you guys
that's really close to a few

1624
01:34:24,960 --> 01:34:26,520
different things.
Anthony will just.

1625
01:34:26,520 --> 01:34:29,200
Be that when Street Fighter's
coming out October, that's when.

1626
01:34:29,200 --> 01:34:32,280
Street Fighter is coming out.
Oh, that must be he math.

1627
01:34:32,440 --> 01:34:35,280
OK, So why how St.
Rider was coming out a little

1628
01:34:35,280 --> 01:34:37,720
bit earlier than that, But yeah,
you're right, it is later.

1629
01:34:38,320 --> 01:34:39,800
I'll be coming back from a
cruise.

1630
01:34:40,680 --> 01:34:42,800
You'll be celebrating your 50th,
right?

1631
01:34:43,120 --> 01:34:46,080
I may be in Disney.
We will see what happens.

1632
01:34:47,880 --> 01:34:51,120
OK, I still may take long.
I may try if you go.

1633
01:34:51,600 --> 01:34:54,200
Honestly, Lauren may just send
you and me.

1634
01:34:54,200 --> 01:34:55,760
I'm not sure how that's going to
go.

1635
01:34:56,760 --> 01:34:58,840
Don't say that too loud.
Michelle might hear you and

1636
01:34:58,840 --> 01:35:01,760
still make it happen.
I may still well, you know, but

1637
01:35:01,760 --> 01:35:04,360
I mean, I think you guys are,
I'm just going to get off

1638
01:35:04,360 --> 01:35:07,000
tangent on a whole planning
conversation.

1639
01:35:09,600 --> 01:35:11,880
We'll come back to it.
Think a pen and it we'll come

1640
01:35:11,880 --> 01:35:14,280
back to it.
You guys have any final thoughts

1641
01:35:14,280 --> 01:35:17,240
about Mortal Kombat too?
It was fun.

1642
01:35:17,320 --> 01:35:19,440
I'd go see it again.
It was fun.

1643
01:35:20,000 --> 01:35:22,400
Wow, that's high praise from
you.

1644
01:35:26,240 --> 01:35:30,200
And one of my favorite things in
movies like this is iconography.

1645
01:35:30,440 --> 01:35:33,160
And Mortal Kombat has some
really good icon, the

1646
01:35:33,400 --> 01:35:36,400
characters.
And I thought I like that very

1647
01:35:36,400 --> 01:35:38,480
much.
So they hit all of those notes.

1648
01:35:38,480 --> 01:35:41,720
So yeah, I, I had a lot more fun
than I expected.

1649
01:35:41,880 --> 01:35:44,560
I had low expectations, but they
actually pulled a story

1650
01:35:44,560 --> 01:35:46,840
together.
So yeah, yeah, I'm glad I went

1651
01:35:46,840 --> 01:35:49,640
and saw this in the theater.
I don't know.

1652
01:35:49,640 --> 01:35:51,760
I don't know if I'm anxious to
see it as I can.

1653
01:35:54,840 --> 01:35:57,840
I think I might have it recorded
pretty well for now.

1654
01:35:58,120 --> 01:36:00,360
But yeah, down the road,
somebody put it in.

1655
01:36:00,360 --> 01:36:03,080
I would not be like, oh, no,
yeah, I'm going to see it again

1656
01:36:03,080 --> 01:36:05,440
because I really need to show it
to my kid because he's going to

1657
01:36:05,440 --> 01:36:07,760
love seeing the horrible
dismemberment that happens.

1658
01:36:08,640 --> 01:36:10,440
Yeah, we'll watch it again in my
household.

1659
01:36:10,840 --> 01:36:16,160
So, OK, so before we jump off,
Nick, thank you for coming on

1660
01:36:16,160 --> 01:36:18,320
and discussing Mortal Kombat
with us.

1661
01:36:18,720 --> 01:36:21,560
Tell our listeners where they
can find you.

1662
01:36:22,760 --> 01:36:26,120
Oh my goodness, y'all.
I have a podcast that you do not

1663
01:36:26,120 --> 01:36:28,840
have to listen to, but I'm
having a great time doing it.

1664
01:36:29,800 --> 01:36:32,960
It's called Alienating
Ourselves, where Todd and I talk

1665
01:36:32,960 --> 01:36:36,880
about alienation episode by
episode and we're almost done

1666
01:36:36,880 --> 01:36:39,680
with the show.
We have 5 TV movies left.

1667
01:36:39,680 --> 01:36:43,040
So I may stop returning his
calls because I want to slow

1668
01:36:43,040 --> 01:36:45,920
down the whole process.
But yeah, from there we're going

1669
01:36:45,920 --> 01:36:48,040
to slide into Star Trek Next
Generation.

1670
01:36:48,040 --> 01:36:51,480
I think that's the rumor going,
but we'll see what happens.

1671
01:36:51,480 --> 01:36:53,840
That's me.
That'll be fun.

1672
01:36:53,880 --> 01:36:55,600
OK.
It's great to be here.

1673
01:36:57,280 --> 01:37:02,160
And yeah, I think I think that's
that's all we have for Mortal

1674
01:37:02,160 --> 01:37:03,640
Kombat.
Hopefully we'll get a third

1675
01:37:03,640 --> 01:37:07,280
movie and we'll get to talk
about some more fun stuff.

1676
01:37:07,280 --> 01:37:09,040
But for now, that's it for our
show.

1677
01:37:09,400 --> 01:37:13,080
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1678
01:37:13,080 --> 01:37:16,160
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1679
01:37:16,160 --> 01:37:18,120
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1680
01:37:18,120 --> 01:37:20,120
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1681
01:37:20,120 --> 01:37:23,240
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1682
01:37:23,240 --> 01:37:25,880
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1683
01:37:25,880 --> 01:37:27,680
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