Mortal Kombat Legacy (Episode 9: Post #120)

Mr E

Surprisingly good, very well made. Episode 2 next week.
(Will merge with main MK thread later)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s6UiEuCYXA

Potential-Monke

In the immortal words of the Churchill Dog, OH YES!

Guess Kevin Tancharoen went ahead anyway, bless him. This has made my month!

tman

Awesome... Wasn't expecting any actual "actors" to be in this! (namely the guy from Dollhouse, and whoever plays Sonya looks fairly familiar too...)

Then again I'd heard absolutely nothing about it until I opened this thread:p

ShadowHearth

Holy****... Where did they found actress to play sonya... In elderyhouse?

Potential-Monke

tman wrote: »

Awesome... Wasn't expecting any actual "actors" to be in this! (namely the guy from Dollhouse, and whoever plays Sonya looks fairly familiar too...)

Then again I'd heard absolutely nothing about it until I opened this thread:p

Well, Jax is played by Michael Jai White, Sonya is Geri Ryan, and i don't recognise the rest, but apparently there's a couple of other famous(ish) people in it.

And, after a bit of googling, it is funded by Warner Brothers as a 9 part web-series which is going to include the background for why certain characters are in the Tournament, and also exclusive information on the characters in the upcoming game. Sweet!

Sabre0001

Delighted that this went ahead. Trailer looked amazing and an enjoyable opening. So videogame conversions can be done well!

Potential-Monke

Sabre0001 wrote: »

So videogame conversions can be done well!

As long as they are done by a person whose main interest is the series, and not making money.

tman

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Holy****... Where did they found actress to play sonya... In elderyhouse?

She'd still get it!
Recognise her from the OC (:o), and must have remembered her from Star Trek: Voyager when I shamefully watched that

ShadowHearth

tman wrote: »

She'd still get it!
Recognise her from the OC (:o), and must have remembered her from Star Trek: Voyager when I shamefully watched that

Don't understand wrong m8. I love milfs, but WTF is that?

That's why I newer sow here in my life as I newer been a fan of those star trek stories.

Zero-Cool

Just watching now in 1080p.....Amazing! Thanks for the link!!

krudler

They clearly cast Sonya wrong, they asked for Seven of Nine and got sent someone who was Seventy Nine. :pac:

deathrider

I was dreading this from day one. Hated the trailer/pitch they released last year, and I had this tagged as muck as soon as I heard it was in the makings. However, if this epsiode is anything to go by, I was very wrong. It was an enjoyable ten minutes, and might be setting up for an enjoyable series.

... Didn't like your man who played Sonya Blade though :pac:

KalEl88

Am I the only one who thought it was crap? Full of clichés, posey acting and over-did it on the slo mo.

I did like the trailer though.

Zero-Cool

I really liked it anyway. Sure it had a few chessy lines and some of the fighting choreography was dodgy but they did a great job for a web series. Can't wait for the next one!

Anyone think Kano will come back in episode 2 with a metal plate and shaved head from the

explosion

at the end?

Potential-Monke

sheehy83 wrote: »

I really liked it anyway. Sure it had a few chessy lines and some of the fighting choreography was dodgy but they did a great job for a web series. Can't wait for the next one!

Anyone think Kano will come back in episode 2 with a metal plate and shaved head from the

explosion

at the end?

I'd say thats a given, and probably set Jax (Jacks) up for his bionic arms...

Zero-Cool

Potential-Monke wrote: »

I'd say thats a given, and probably set Jax (Jacks) up for his bionic arms...

Ya I was thinking the same but it didn't look like his arms took that much damage but it makes sense. They should have got the same Sonya from the 1st MK movie.

Napper Hawkins

I'm gonna go ahead and say that Jeri Ryan as Sonya is a great idea, Sonya is supposed to be a little on the mature side.

She's a highly trained, highly respected special forces operative with years of experience under her belt and it would just not be convincing if they'd cast anyone under the age of 35 to be honest.
Jeri Ryan is still only 43 and looks damn fine to be honest. I'm pretty sure Kitana and Mileena will have enough bare flesh titilation going on if that is all you're looking for in a Mortal Kombat tv show/film.
A damn good, well made, faithful-to-the-game tv show/film is what I want. Looks like we're getting it too.

Bridgette Wilson was pretty but not much else, terrible actress and looked like she was fresh out of puberty. She's 37 now though so she could have easily reprised her role and probably fit the character better now but......meh.
In fairness, the only two actors I would have tolerated a return from would have been Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa and Christopher Lambert as Shang Tsung and Rayden, who both (definitely in Cary's case) really understood their characters and nailed their respective roles.


I liked this episode, it was a hell of a lot better than I expected and it looks like it's going to get better.
Michael Jai White is the most convincing Jax so far, Kano's actor is good too(not a patch on the original but hey) and I can't wait to see Scorpion and Sub in action.

Thumbs up so far.

ShadowHearth

Well sonya should not be a 19 year old cheerleader. She was suppost to be hot. There are hot milfs and there are.... Don't know how to call that "thing".

The show is brilliant. Fair play with doing it too, but sonya.... Oh come on...

Mr. K

Jeez lads, I think Jeri Ryan is pretty hot! I guess we have some age differences here!

The guy playing Kurtis Stryker (Tahmoh Penikett) was in Battlestar Galactica. Hopefully we'll see more familiar faces as the series goes on, that first episode is class. How many are they doing?

ShadowHearth

Mr. K wrote: »

Jeez lads, I think Jeri Ryan is pretty hot! I guess we have some age differences here!

The guy playing Kurtis Stryker (Tahmoh Penikett) was in Battlestar Galactica. Hopefully we'll see more familiar faces as the series goes on, that first episode is class. How many are they doing?

Once again, age has nothing to do with it. There are plenty hot milfs! She is just butterface... Look at here...

I will say this thought: you cant argue about taste.

tman

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Once again, age has nothing to do with it. There are plenty hot milfs! She is just butterface... Look at here...

I will say this thought: you cant argue about taste.

I think it's more of a "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" type deelio
As a 28 year old I find her attractive and would definitely give her a root, but as a younger man I might not have found her as attractive

Canis Lupus

That was mostly dreadful.

Grumpypants

Some of ye are very picky

ShadowHearth

tman wrote: »

I think it's more of a "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" type deelio
As a 28 year old I find her attractive and would definitely give her a root, but as a younger man I might not have found her as attractive

Well I am 25 and I find her horrible lol. On the anther hand I find angelina jolie freaking ugly and meh... I don't understand what do people see I here...

And again, I find mila jovivich very sexy and beutifull, which alot of the people would not agree . Like I said before: you can't argue about taste.

Even if someone find her beautiful, she does not suit sonyas image most of us had...it's just an opinion

deathrider

tman wrote: »

I think it's more of a "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" type deelio
As a 28 year old I find her attractive and would definitely give her a root, but as a younger man I might not have found her as attractive

I'm in the same age group myself, but I still didn't think she was any form of eye candy. However, to be brutally honest, I couldn't really give a damn if she's a looker or not, as long as she plays the part well. I wouldn't say no if she was played by a hot chick, but not everyone on TV has to be over-the-top attractive.

unreggd

I actually thought the fights were lame

and way too much slo-mo

Still, its only a web series, so it'll do :P

Could do with bein a bit longer though

FrostyJack

krudler wrote: »

They clearly cast Sonya wrong, they asked for Seven of Nine and got sent someone who was Seventy Nine. :pac:

Damn you I was going to say that !! The years have not been too kind to her. Good to see Helo not say frack for a change. Will see how next episode goes before judging it.

Zero-Cool

Episode 2 now out!

Kiith

Enjoyed that. Some of the Jax/Kano fight scene was awful, but it's really just to show how they become the Jax and Kano that we know from the games. Looking foward to seeing some other characters though.

Sabre0001

I've enjoyed it so far. Think the casting is right (and like some others here, I think Jeri Ryan isn't bad at all!). Slow enough build so far but it has worked, especially with the focus on the likes of Kano and Jax. MK fans know how they end up so it's interesting to see a take on how they get there.

Looking forward to seeing how it pans out. Pity the episodes are short enough / the credits take up a good chunk of the allocated time.

ShooterSF

That was good but way too short. Why the need for a recap on a 10 minute episode? Still.. looking forward to next weeks if I can put the game down at that point

Mr. K

Fun fun, I wasn't

expecting Kano and Jax to get their fancy bits quite so soon. Still, always cool to see a guy get his eye punched out!

Is Shao Kahn gonna show up as some sort of crime boss?

The recap and credits do take up a misleading amount of the running time though, I suspect they'll cut together some sort of complete movie after it's all done. Like I could wait that long...

Zero-Cool

Have to wait till after work to watch this but yeah, would much prefer to wait and watch them all together but I know the dastardly interweb would only spoil it for me at some point!

Zero-Cool

Just watched it, exactly Mr. K! a minute and a half recap in an episode thats 7.40 long is a joke. Fight was crap, especially from Jax but

boxing the eye outta Kano's head

was f*cking awesome!

Potential-Monke

That was awesome. For the people giving out about the time, it's a highly polished free webisode, i'll take it and be very happy with it. And, yes,

punching Kanos eye out

was fricken awesome! It's going to be an interesting 9 episodes! Can't wait to see what happens. The only thing is though, is it going to end where Rebirth starts?

tman

Over 3 out of 9 minutes taken up by the recap and end credits???
The little bit of new material was quite good yet again, despite the ridiculous overuse of slowmo in fights

Zero-Cool

Looks like we watched it just in time, The episode is now censored and is missing the

Kano eye fatality

Mr. K

sheehy83 wrote: »

Looks like we watched it just in time, The episode is now censored and is missing the

Kano eye fatality

Jeez, it's all a bit pointless without that!

Sabre0001

Now I'm glad I watched it at breakfast time!

ShooterSF

Any word who censored it? I thought the benefit of a webcast is there are no censors.. Was looking forward to some more gruesome scenes.

Zero-Cool

ShooterSF wrote: »

Any word who censored it? I thought the benefit of a webcast is there are no censors.. Was looking forward to some more gruesome scenes.

The official group on facebook said they think it's because it was under 1 million hits and blamed having to sign in to watch it putting people off.

Zero-Cool

the FB group posted a link to where someone posted the uncensored version. Maybe they aren't the official FB group as I thought they wouldn't be allowed do this but here it is for anyone who hasn't seen it yet

http://www.vimeo.com/22702454

Potential-Monke

If they go censoring it it'll be pointless, that part wasn't all that gruesome, but suited the feel of the thing. Hopefully it's a once off thing...

Zero-Cool

Good news - Episode 3 is released

Bad news - It's censored

Good news again - Uncensored version will be released on April 29th. Not even gonna watch this, gonna wait for the PROPER version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqlaU5OMsks

KalEl88

I thought this was a lot better than the last 2.

Potential-Monke

sheehy83 wrote: »

Good news again - Uncensored version will be released on April 29th. Not even gonna watch this, gonna wait for the PROPER version.

I'm with you on that one, no point watching it if there's stuff taken out of it. MK without violence is like Ryu without a Hadouken...

Mr. K

I watched it not knowing it was gonna be censored...everyone is better off waiting til Friday!

Sabre0001

Enjoyed the episode but watch the uncensored one on Friday. The silence censoring swear words really breaks the tone and feel. Quite annoying!

Potential-Monke

Why exactly are they censored again? Can they not put an age rating warning on them and leave it the way it's supposed to be?

Zero-Cool

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Why exactly are they censored again? Can they not put an age rating warning on them and leave it the way it's supposed to be?

For views i'm afraid. If the censor it, then anyone can watch it but it's over 18's, you have to log in to watch it and people just get lazy and don't bother. So, they get their views up 1st and then unleash the uncensored version.

djkeogh

i'll wait til tomorrow at this stage for the uncensored goodness