Mortal Kombat

You know what I'm really excited to see?

Mortal Kombat 3.

Oh, okay.

The sequel to...

I mean, it's like a lot of the other fighting games from the 90s.

Mortal Kombat also with, you know, there's a tournament and we brought the best fighters in the world to compete.

The stakes are different compared to Mortal Kombat, but the premise, I think, the idea behind it is very similar, where it's like, yep, here's the best fighters.

That's what the movie kind of is.

I think that's one positive of the movie, I guess, is that I feel like for a general audience member, if they've never engaged with a Street Fighter thing, I think they can, for the most part, They may not get every reference, but they can experience the characters for the first time for the most part.

I don't want to give spoilers, but, like, yeah, there's, like, certain, like, jokes where I was like...

Man, that made it feel awkward when I feel like it wasn't supposed to be.

Or... waiting for a punchline like you said and then like it kind of happens and then you're like but we then move on to the next thing uh i feel like the mid part of this movie like really skipped through i'm assuming a lot of time and i wish we got a little bit more there um i just feel like it was really choppy throughout uh i will say i did like the some of the highs of the fighting scenes like I don't think every fighting scene was good but there was some better ones that I really liked not spoiling any but there's some that I was like alright this feels very anime I like this shit and there's other ones where I'm like oh they're not even gonna show this they're just gonna say it happened and that's kind of disappointing and I do understand your point of like it could really slow down the movie we do match match match match match but then I think about the Mortal Kombat movie we saw this year where I feel like One of our pros for that was at least some of those fights had a decent amount of pacing.

And in the second week with all the name power, with all the star power, it had no power as it dropped 72%.

in his second weekend your thoughts my friend on this and is there hope you know after the disappointing returns for mortal kombat 2 is there hope for the fighting genre left in in movies

know it's hard for street fighter i think because they have already come from a line of like not well or not not it's not not well received but not taken seriously uh like movies right and and short films and things like that so i think they had a harder hill to climb than mortal kombat or it's like mortal kombat is like beloved by all right and people still play the games and they buy the action figures whereas like Street Fighter is kind of the lesser it's like deciding whether you want to shop at Target or Walmart right like if you want those designer names you go to Target and if you want to just like have cheap stuff you go to Walmart I think that's where we're at with Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter which is unfortunate because you know I don't think the Street Fighter games are bad I liked playing the last Street Fighter and I don't um you know i don't know what the what they can do to you know better themselves but yeah i mean i i i have to watch this movie before i can like make a an official call on this but i don't know like i hope that um you know when it hits streaming it'll find new life

and we talked about the variables when it comes to Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat.

I just think at this point, because Mortal Kombat 2, spoilers, it's been a while for a little while, so just that one I can spoil.

At the end, they set up for a number three, and I just don't think they're going to get it, the opportunity to make a number three.

But I think now that with the Parabros coming together, Paramount and Warner Brothers, I think when it comes right down to it, the only way that we'll see these characters continue on, on both one side or the other, is if they face off against each other in a Warner Brothers versus Street Fighter movie.

I think that's the only thing that can gain interest.