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Less is more?

posted 3 years ago by Indig0Mist (82)
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When I read the news about this movie relying more on practical effects I was excited, but I really couldn't find any of that, the movie was just too overproduced and that dissapointed me, the 1995 movie was actually very atmospheric and lived up to the game's general tone (except for the lack of violence and the terrible look of goro), being simplistic but worked fine as the videogame adaptation.

The action and fight scenes in this movie were filmed in the dark, with shaky camera and 1 second cut scenes over and over again, I struggled to know what was going on in some of the fights and action sequences, I just feel like the filming, special effects, music and the editing in general were just way too overproduced like any other superhero/action movie from nowadays and it kind of ruined the movie for me.

Still, I liked the story and some of the characters.

Btw I didn't find the villians and the ninjas menacing, goro was hulk with four arms.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Good points. The fight in the 95 version, especially scorpion versus cage, were pretty good. I just didn't like the Sonya fight scenes.

[–] Indig0Mist (82) 3 years ago

Yeah, and I liked the scenarios they used for the fights too, I read somewhere that Cameron Díaz was going to play Sonya but she was recasted on the last minute when she injured herself so the new actress didn't have the time for training like the others, maybe that's why her fight scenes weren't good.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

The past tense of cast is cast, not casted (sorry pet peeve).

She went on to marry Tennis champ Pete Sampras.

No one under 40 would know who he is, but he was once considered the best player of his era.

[–] DracTarashV2 (4480) 3 years ago

This flawed (not as flawed as even some of the unbiased critics led me to believe) but thoroughly entertaining and much more faithfully barbaric new adaption with superior action sequences, production values, acting, and of course effects>>> the worser-made original that doesn’t hold up in any way.

The original lived up to the game’s general tone? Heh. The predictable obligatory dig at superhero and action films of today? (Films that often look+ feel like real cinematic productions regardless of their budget and not corny low-level stuff like so many action flicks from back in ‘em good ol’ days did.) Boring. Far from perfection, but hell no was this on par with the original quality wise (bad quality wise, that is). But one knows if this new adaption had been a genuinely great film (an actual acclaimed video game film!) no matter how faithful it was to the game, you’d see no less negativity on these boards (the broke incel reactionaries will naturally complain about anything of any quality if it offends their fragile reich wing old timey minds, so never mind them).

Now, imagine if you weren’t with the majority on this site? Yea, I’m with the uncool minority on these angry (to put it mildly) boards. Kick ass movie.