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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb.

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Speaker 3: And this is Joe McCormick. And today on Weird House Cinema,

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Speaker 3: we're going to be talking about Mortal Kombat two. Not

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Speaker 3: the Mortal Kombat two that came out this year with

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Speaker 3: Carl Urban as Johnny Cage, the one that came out

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Speaker 3: in nineteen ninety seven where Johnny Cage dies in the

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Speaker 3: first five minutes. Today we're going to be doing Mortal

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Speaker 3: Kombat Annihilation, directed by John R. Leonetti, starring Robin Chu,

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Speaker 3: Talisa Soto, James Ramar, and Brian Thompson. This was the

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Speaker 3: sequel to the very first Mortal Kombat film, which came

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Speaker 3: out in nineteen ninety five, directed by Paul Anderson, one

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Speaker 3: that we've already covered on the show. We'll talk more

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Speaker 3: about that previous episode we did, I'm sure as we

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Speaker 3: go on. So the first Mortal Kombat movie was a

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Speaker 3: big deal for me when I was a boy in

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Speaker 3: elementary school. I think it was for for many children

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Speaker 3: my age. Robi, I think it was also pretty huge

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Speaker 3: for you when you were you weren't quite as young

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Speaker 3: as I was when this came out, But you still

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Speaker 3: you were you were you were big with the first movie.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I was in junior high, so it was

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Speaker 2: absolutely the right time to become obsessed with Mortal Kombat.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, I mean I I've been a fan of

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Speaker 2: the franchise since the first game. I've played all the

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Speaker 2: major releases, even though finally even the most recent one,

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Speaker 2: I played around with it, beat it a few times,

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Speaker 2: very little of the extended Mortal Kombat media out there

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Speaker 2: until this week. I think I'd only ever watched the first,

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Speaker 2: very first Mortal Kombat movie from the nineties we previously

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Speaker 2: covered on the show, and I think I watched the

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Speaker 2: first season of the twenty eleven web series Mortal Kombat Legacy,

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Speaker 2: which I remember enjoying and remember being better than it,

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Speaker 2: you know, perhaps had any right to be. But I

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Speaker 2: was never tempted to check out Annihilation because we're about

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Speaker 2: for me, it was kind of like a rocky point

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Speaker 2: in my relationship with the Mortal Commet franchise. It comes

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Speaker 2: out around the time of MK four, which was the

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Speaker 2: finally been re released. I think I actually have it

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Speaker 2: But it's it's from a rough time in the transition

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Speaker 2: of these different fighting games, and I don't know, I

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Speaker 3: Now, am I correct that the Mortal Kombat games have

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Speaker 3: gone back to basically a two dimensional fighting system, like

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Speaker 3: a side side view thing, and that maybe four was

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Speaker 3: this these games where you'd like you could actually fight

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Speaker 3: in full three dimensions? Yeah.

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Speaker 2: MK four was the pivot to like that three D

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Speaker 2: kind of tech in style, and you're moving around, you know,

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Speaker 2: stick with that for multiple games, at least two major releases,

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Speaker 2: and then and I'm sorry, I don't have the dates

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Speaker 2: they're just kind of floating around my head. But they

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Speaker 2: come out back with the one that's just called Mortal Kombat.

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Speaker 2: I want to say, was that twenty twelve that I

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Speaker 2: may have it wrong, but at any rate, yeah, they were.

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Speaker 2: They came back around to like, let's just do it,

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Speaker 3: Okay, So I was kind of like you, except I

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Speaker 3: When I was in elementary school, I played like the

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Speaker 2: This one has a good soundtrack too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I kept up with the games. But I haven't

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Speaker 2: seen either of the two new movies. So I hear

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Speaker 2: like some of the same producers will be discussing here

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Speaker 3: So we ended up having so much to say about

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Speaker 3: do that with Mortal Kombat Annihilation. I think that'll be

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Speaker 3: I was trying to think did I see Mortal Kombat

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Speaker 3: Kombat Annihilation was a generational example. I think for people

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Speaker 3: a lot of them will think of Mortal Kombat Annihilation. Andy,

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Speaker 3: Mortal Kombat movie is a very silly movie. It's a

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Speaker 3: from like the attitude and the one liners of the script,

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Speaker 3: It said, strap yourself in for these amazing morphin sequences.

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Speaker 2: Well, as we discussed in that episode. Certainly go back

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Speaker 3: I'm just trying to acknowledge what I think a lot

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Speaker 3: think the first Mortal Kombat movie really works as just

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Speaker 2: Simple structure too, that works really well. It's like there's

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Speaker 2: It has a natural conclusion because of its tournament structure.

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Speaker 3: By comparison, I would say Mortal Kombat Annihilation makes the

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Speaker 3: It's like the first Mortal Kombat is seven Samurai compared

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Speaker 2: Right. If you haven't seen MK one, this one might

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Speaker 3: Yes, So the premise is Mortal Combat is the name

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Speaker 3: it's in the place that's like the Canyon of the

429
00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:46,040
Speaker 3: Crescent Moon in Indiana Jones movie. I mean it's connected

430
00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:48,320
Speaker 3: to shots that are actually in Petra. I don't know

431
00:22:48,359 --> 00:22:50,720
Speaker 3: if these shots were also there.

432
00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:54,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, those seem great. Those it could be from another

433
00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:56,760
Speaker 2: like Barbarian Sword and Sandal movie.

434
00:22:56,960 --> 00:23:00,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's great. They got a lot of people

435
00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:02,840
Speaker 3: on horseback. It must have been expensive to share.

436
00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:05,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they weren't using their their a CGI budget

437
00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:08,120
Speaker 2: to like produce extra horsemen. I don't think we were

438
00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:11,639
Speaker 2: there yet because yeah, the bad parts of this film

439
00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:14,040
Speaker 2: are bad, particularly the CGI, which we're gonna have a

440
00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:18,000
Speaker 2: lot to say about, and so especially based on the CG,

441
00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:20,360
Speaker 2: I'm going to give a rare watch something else. After

442
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:24,639
Speaker 2: viewing Warning on Mortal Kindbaut Annihilation, I had to immediately

443
00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:29,280
Speaker 2: put on Werewolf Woman afterwards, because you don't want this

444
00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:31,199
Speaker 2: to be the last movie you see. There could be

445
00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:35,400
Speaker 2: some sort of freak accident, something could happen to the world. Well,

446
00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:39,119
Speaker 2: you could lose power. Mortal Kombat Annihilation cannot be the

447
00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:41,679
Speaker 2: last film you watch before you die. You might not

448
00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:44,159
Speaker 2: be able to pass over into the afterlife. That's just

449
00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:44,960
Speaker 2: my warning here.

450
00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,159
Speaker 3: The last thing I remember before I was kicked to

451
00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:52,960
Speaker 3: death by motaro is is Raid and saying like, you

452
00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:58,880
Speaker 3: have to work together. You are a family. Yes, yeah,

453
00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:01,240
Speaker 3: all right, Joe, Wait, that is that the elevator pitch

454
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:01,800
Speaker 3: for the movie.

455
00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:03,800
Speaker 2: I was about to ask you, but I think he

456
00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:04,600
Speaker 2: nailed it already.

457
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:06,960
Speaker 3: Mortal Kombat when you're here your family, right.

458
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:11,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, because clearly they're family. Clearly this is yeah. Clearly,

459
00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:12,679
Speaker 2: that's what they're establishing.

460
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:15,240
Speaker 3: It's like a boss saying, you know, we're a family, yeah,

461
00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:17,800
Speaker 3: or you know, the other way I was thinking of

462
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:21,439
Speaker 3: it is Mortal Kombat. This time it's less personal. It

463
00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:24,200
Speaker 3: does seem it's less personal for Lukang at least. It's

464
00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:26,359
Speaker 3: like the first movie is trying to avenge his brother.

465
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,639
Speaker 3: Lukang is ostensibly the main character. He kind of spins

466
00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 3: the whole movie trying to figure out what his motivation is.

467
00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:36,160
Speaker 2: You know, I'm not sure he finds it, and Robin

468
00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:38,639
Speaker 2: Show has top billing here, like he's the star of

469
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:41,560
Speaker 2: the film, and like again, like he wins the character,

470
00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:43,919
Speaker 2: wins all the tournaments, like he should be the main character,

471
00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:46,840
Speaker 2: and he's just kind of an afterthought in many ways.

472
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:48,959
Speaker 2: I guess he does get that final battle.

473
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:52,360
Speaker 3: But still, yeah, we'll talk about Robin Schee in a minute.

474
00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:57,879
Speaker 3: He immensely charismatic and likable actor. Always like, just as

475
00:24:57,920 --> 00:24:59,639
Speaker 3: soon as you see him on screen, you're like, this

476
00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:02,000
Speaker 3: is the good guy. I'm on this guy's side. Except

477
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,679
Speaker 3: in this movie, it really feels like he is trying

478
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:07,359
Speaker 3: to find ways to not be noticed by the camera,

479
00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:09,480
Speaker 3: despite the fact that he's the main character.

480
00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:13,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, all right. If you're wondering, well, how can

481
00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:18,120
Speaker 2: I be how can I annihilate myself by watching this film? Well,

482
00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:22,040
Speaker 2: you can stream this film with loads of other better

483
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:27,520
Speaker 2: Mortal Kombat choices on HBO Max. That's where I watched it.

484
00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:30,040
Speaker 2: If you want to go the physical media route, though,

485
00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:33,399
Speaker 2: there's also an Alliance Blu ray. There's also a Mortal

486
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:36,959
Speaker 2: Kombat triple feature Blu ray disc where it gives you

487
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:39,760
Speaker 2: it's it's a weird pairing. You get Mortal Kombat, Mortal

488
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:43,760
Speaker 2: Kombat Annihilation, and then Mortal Kombat Legacy, one of the

489
00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:47,520
Speaker 2: series is on there, so you know, those are your choices. Basically,

490
00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:50,160
Speaker 2: you know, rent it if you have a rental store

491
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:50,760
Speaker 2: in your area.

492
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:53,920
Speaker 3: I also watched it on HBO Max, which I noticed

493
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:57,240
Speaker 3: has tons of Mortal Kombat stuff on.

494
00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:01,600
Speaker 2: H including the most recent two films, So yeah, there's

495
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:03,760
Speaker 2: a lot you can really geek out on your combat there.

496
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 3: So maybe they got a deal on putting Annihilation on

497
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:08,960
Speaker 3: there because they've got all the new stuff.

498
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:12,840
Speaker 2: I mean, it's more Mortal Kombat content that's on there.

499
00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:23,639
Speaker 2: All right, Let's talk about the people who made this film,

500
00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:24,720
Speaker 2: starting with the director.

501
00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:25,879
Speaker 3: John R.

502
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:30,600
Speaker 2: Leonetti born nineteen fifty six American cinematographer and director who'd

503
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:34,120
Speaker 2: worked as a cameraman and then cinematographer back through at

504
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:37,520
Speaker 2: least nineteen eighty one, but this was his first turn

505
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:40,880
Speaker 2: as a director. He had served as cinematographer on Mortal

506
00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:45,159
Speaker 2: Kombat one, and then he followed Mortal Kombat Combat Annihilation

507
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:48,160
Speaker 2: up with some directorial work on a couple of TV

508
00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:51,240
Speaker 2: shows in ninety nine and two thousand and one before

509
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:55,479
Speaker 2: returning to the director's chair for the Conjuring Universe film

510
00:26:56,000 --> 00:27:00,719
Speaker 2: Annabelle in twenty fourteen. Okay, so I think you know

511
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:03,560
Speaker 2: the Conjuring Universe more than than I do. I kind

512
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:06,560
Speaker 2: of giggle every time I read the Conjuring Conjuring Universe.

513
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:08,440
Speaker 2: But there have been like a number of films they've

514
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:11,919
Speaker 2: been tremendously successful. So this is a very successful I

515
00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:14,399
Speaker 2: guess you would say modern horror franchise.

516
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,919
Speaker 3: Yeah, Rachel and I watched most of them up to

517
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 3: a certain point. I think they've been making more of

518
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 3: them since we stopped engaging, but we were watching all

519
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 3: of them for a while. I remember we watched this

520
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 3: one also. This was one of my not one of

521
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:29,680
Speaker 3: my favorites.

522
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, but part of the universe, and this director is

523
00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:37,960
Speaker 2: tied to the Conjuring Universe. His subsequent directorial work has

524
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,639
Speaker 2: consisted of twenty sixteens Wolves at the Door, which I

525
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:43,400
Speaker 2: think is a Manson movie. It may or may not

526
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:46,199
Speaker 2: be part of the Conjuring Universe, or it's Conjuring Universe

527
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 2: adjacent unclear. Didn't see that, twenty seventeens wish Upon, which

528
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:54,959
Speaker 2: is a horror movie, twenty nineteens The Silence, which is

529
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:58,680
Speaker 2: some sort of like flying Creature Feature and twenty twenty

530
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 2: two's a Lullaby More Horror, not Conjuring Universe. Leonetti's horror

531
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:07,119
Speaker 2: connections are strong, though. He was a cinematographer on twelve

532
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:10,159
Speaker 2: episodes of Tales from the Crypt and was James Wan's

533
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 2: cinematographer on twenty ten's Insidious, twenty thirteen's Insidious Chapter two,

534
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 2: and twenty thirteens The Conjuring, So yeah, he was in

535
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 2: the Conjuring Universe from the good go all right on

536
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:24,000
Speaker 2: the writing end of things, let's see Mortal Kombat co

537
00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 2: creator Ed Boone still has a video games credit, and

538
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:30,480
Speaker 2: John Tobias, also one of the MK video game originals,

539
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,840
Speaker 2: has a story credit. Story credits also go to producer

540
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 2: Lawrence Kazanoff, who was also EP on the latest two

541
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:42,480
Speaker 2: MK films, and also a story credit goes to producer

542
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:47,959
Speaker 2: Joshua Wexler. The actual screenplay credits go to two other individuals.

543
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 2: First of all, we have Brent Friedman born nineteen sixty two,

544
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:55,600
Speaker 2: American screenwriter with some really fun be cinema credits, maybe

545
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 2: some not so fun, but his credits include eighty eight's

546
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:03,480
Speaker 2: Evil Alter, nineteen nineties Hollywood Hot Tubs, two, Educating Crystal.

547
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 2: This is a comedy, to be clear. Nineteen nineties Syngohennore Sinnghenore.

548
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 2: This one's come up before, but I haven't seen it

549
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 2: a creature movie. Oh, and then nineteen ninety one's the

550
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety one Dan O'Bannon Lovecraft film The Resurrected, which

551
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 2: I have seen not in a long time, but I

552
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:27,560
Speaker 2: remember that one's being really strong. Okay, you know, let's

553
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:32,720
Speaker 2: see ninety three's American Cyborg Steel Warrior ninety threes ticks. Oh,

554
00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:35,640
Speaker 2: that's what we've seen. Yeah, we haven't discussed it for

555
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:37,960
Speaker 2: weird house, but we watched it in a pretty weird

556
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 2: house time. Let's see ninety three's Necronomicon Book of the Dead.

557
00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 2: One we almost covered on here but then decided it

558
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 2: was a little too icky. And let's see, Oh, the

559
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:52,600
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety four satanic Chuck Norris film hell Bound. This

560
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 2: is this is one you've seen, I think.

561
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:58,320
Speaker 3: Joe have I.

562
00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:58,719
Speaker 2: I know it's come up, and I don't know if

563
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 2: we've discussed it in terms of you haven't seen it,

564
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:03,120
Speaker 2: but you've it's come up when we talked about Chuck

565
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 2: Norris films.

566
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,560
Speaker 3: Oh wow, for some reason, I'm not remembering it at

567
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 3: the moment. Maybe if I looked it up it would

568
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 3: jog my memory.

569
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:11,480
Speaker 2: I think it has a speculative element to it.

570
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 3: I know of another Chuck Norris speculative horror movie called

571
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:20,560
Speaker 3: Silent Rage, which is the one where Chuck Norris battles

572
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:26,520
Speaker 3: a Frankenstein monster. Oh. Pretty, that one's pretty wild. I

573
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 3: haven't seen that in a long time. But the thing

574
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:31,239
Speaker 3: about Silent Rage is it has a very cool kind

575
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:35,480
Speaker 3: of minimalist electronic soundtrack worth looking up, like the sort

576
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 3: of the main theme from Silent Rage. It's a little

577
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 3: little tinkly kind of electro music, but it's it's cool.

578
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:44,920
Speaker 2: All right. Let's see. This is a screenwriter also did

579
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:47,920
Speaker 2: pre Hysteria two and three and ninety four ninety five.

580
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:50,360
Speaker 2: Let's see. He was on the ninety six through ninety

581
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:53,560
Speaker 2: seven TV series Dark Skies and then this film followed

582
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 2: by loads of TV credits including Star Trek, Enterprise, Star Wars,

583
00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:59,480
Speaker 2: The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels, as well as some

584
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:02,480
Speaker 2: video games credits. Then we also have a screenplay credit

585
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 2: to Bryce Zabel, CNN correspondent turned screenwriter. His TV writing

586
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 2: credits include Dallas La law and dark skies. Now getting

587
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 2: into the cast. We're going to start at the top again,

588
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 2: Top Build. This is Robin Schu. I think I said

589
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 2: shoo earlier. Robin Schu playing Lou Kaning born nineteen sixty

590
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:26,120
Speaker 2: again playing the true hero of the franchise, the canonical

591
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 2: winner of the first three MK games, and the Top Building.

592
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 2: Returning actor. Here Hong Kong American actor and martial artist

593
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 2: Robin Schu. He was born in British Hong Kong, raised

594
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:40,719
Speaker 2: in la and while at California State University, traveled to

595
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 2: to mainland China to study wushu martial arts. He finished

596
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 2: his schooling in the US, but then traveled back to

597
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 2: Hong Kong, where he got to do stunt work in

598
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 2: Hong Kong cinema. So legitimate Hong Kong cinema roots here

599
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 2: with this guy, and this spilled over into some small parts.

600
00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 2: I think he shows up in like, let's see, there's

601
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 2: like a nineteen eighty eight Sue Hark film, The Big Heat,

602
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:04,520
Speaker 2: and he has a role in that. He's in ninety three,

603
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 2: he's undefeatable. But then he gets cast in Mortal Kombat

604
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 2: and this is his big break. He followed this up

605
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 2: with Let's see he's in Beverly Hills, Ninja, an episode

606
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 2: of The Outer Limits in ninety eight, Death Ray Street Fighter,

607
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 2: The Legend of Chun Lee in two thousand and nine,

608
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 2: Deathrays two and twenty ten, Deathrays three, Inferno in twenty thirteen,

609
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 2: and he's also done some writing and directing. It's best

610
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 2: I can tell he was active through twenty fifteen.

611
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 3: Robin Chew is just great for Lu Kang. He's, you know,

612
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 3: he's very handsome, naturally, very likable, just as I'll think

613
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 3: of him as one of these people who has powerful,

614
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 3: good guy aura. He's just like shining on the screen,

615
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:48,720
Speaker 3: one of these people who's like that's the hero. Yeah.

616
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 3: And also he you know, of course, is like really

617
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:54,640
Speaker 3: strong with the stunts in fight choreography. So he's very

618
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 3: good in the first Mortal Kombat movie. As I said earlier,

619
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 3: in Annihilation, it feels like he is actively trying to

620
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 3: make his screen presence smaller, like he's kind of hoping

621
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:08,240
Speaker 3: people won't notice he's in the movie, which is difficult

622
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 3: because he is the main character. Though he does feel

623
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:14,800
Speaker 3: kind of reduced in importance from the first movie.

624
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I don't know, maybe part of it is

625
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:19,520
Speaker 2: Annihilation is trying to make it more of a is

626
00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 2: that family vibe, It's trying to make it a nonsense piece. Ye,

627
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:27,479
Speaker 2: And it's that's an interesting take. When your structure, your

628
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:31,120
Speaker 2: plot structure should be a death tournament. It should be

629
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:33,880
Speaker 2: battles to the death. At the end, you really should

630
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:36,440
Speaker 2: only have like two people fighting. But at any rate,

631
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 2: you've got to do something different with the film. I

632
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:38,640
Speaker 2: realize that.

633
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:41,120
Speaker 3: I mean, he's still strong in the fight scenes here

634
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:43,880
Speaker 3: and still has the good guy aura, but yeah, it's

635
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 3: I think the weaknesses are largely in the writing. But

636
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 3: also she is just feels less committed to this film.

637
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 2: He still has his own fight choreography, I believe, and

638
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:57,280
Speaker 2: again when he's fighting, he's absolutely great.

639
00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 3: Yeah. I would also say the way this character is

640
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 3: written is much more one dimensional and stripped of wit

641
00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 3: and humor compared to the first movie, and the same

642
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,799
Speaker 3: is true of many characters like Sonya and Raiden. The

643
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:15,480
Speaker 3: first movie is just more openly funny. The way that

644
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:19,800
Speaker 3: Mortal Kombat Annihilation is funny is almost all entirely unintentional.

645
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 3: But in the first movie that you know, you think

646
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 3: of like Johnny Cage and Rayden as the main comic

647
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 3: relief characters, but the other characters get to be funny too,

648
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:32,000
Speaker 3: Like if you go back and watch Mortal Kombat one, Robin,

649
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:34,759
Speaker 3: she has a lot of funny moments, Like he has

650
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:35,760
Speaker 3: like comedy lines.

651
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, and in this all the comedies invested in one character,

652
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:39,840
Speaker 2: as I'll discuss.

653
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right.

654
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 2: He's not the only returning actor though. Telissa Soto also

655
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:50,400
Speaker 2: returns playing Katana born nineteen sixty seven. It was a small,

656
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:53,279
Speaker 2: mysterious role in the first Mortal Kombat film. She gets

657
00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:55,760
Speaker 2: it to like a teaching battle with Luke Kang I believe,

658
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 2: and she'd previously appeared in eighty nine's License to Kill

659
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:03,840
Speaker 2: as the main girlfriend wife of Benjamin Bratt, who she

660
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:07,720
Speaker 2: met on the cast of two thousand and one's Pinero. Again,

661
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 2: interesting that one of another one of our returning cast

662
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 2: members who has like second billing here is also kind

663
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:19,360
Speaker 2: of lost in the shuffle. Basically, her only real plot

664
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:22,959
Speaker 2: line is that she has a difficult relationship with her mother.

665
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:27,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, similar thing. Her role is actually if you

666
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 3: just look at like the number of lines and the

667
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:33,440
Speaker 3: number of scenes she's in. Her role is expanded in

668
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 3: the second movie from the first and yet somehow she

669
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 3: still feels kind of reduced.

670
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 2: It's expanded in the way that if you pour a

671
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:46,480
Speaker 2: glass of water on the floor, it certainly covers more space,

672
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:47,399
Speaker 2: but it's not.

673
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:48,400
Speaker 3: Very very deep.

674
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:53,960
Speaker 2: Okay, so those two are returning. Christoph Lambert does not

675
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 2: return to play raidin Alas, Yeah, which you know Christoph

676
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:01,359
Speaker 2: Lambert was in her. He was essentially a trickster god,

677
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:05,799
Speaker 2: you know, by virtue of being Christoph Lambert. So we

678
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:08,960
Speaker 2: don't get him the second time around. Instead, James Ramar

679
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:12,920
Speaker 2: plays Rayden born nineteen fifty three. We talked about him

680
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:14,840
Speaker 2: previously on the show because of course he is the

681
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 2: star of the Warriors and again his fight double and

682
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:21,919
Speaker 2: this is ray Park of Darth Maul fame. So when

683
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:27,279
Speaker 2: he's fighting looks amazing. When he's acting, you know, I really,

684
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 2: I really enjoyed James Ramar in various works. I mean,

685
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:34,239
Speaker 2: he can be great. He's great in The Warriors. I've

686
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:38,360
Speaker 2: really enjoyed some of his late career pieces. Recently, he

687
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:41,279
Speaker 2: had a solid role in the series it Welcome to

688
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 2: Darry and he plays the blind prophet Tyresius. And Christopher

689
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:50,360
Speaker 2: Nolan's The Odyssey Mortal Kombat Annihilation not his finest, doubting.

690
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:54,279
Speaker 3: True for many members of the cast here. Yeah, he's

691
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:58,000
Speaker 3: a great actor. I enjoy him often. So the problem

692
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:00,840
Speaker 3: is not that he cannot act. I'd say the problem

693
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 3: is in the script, in the situation, like he doesn't

694
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 3: have a lot of options here.

695
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:10,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the character is I don't want to go

696
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:14,319
Speaker 2: on too tangenty, but the characterization of Raid in the

697
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 2: games and the films has been kind of interesting because

698
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:20,799
Speaker 2: in the original Mortal Kombat games, he's initially presented as

699
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 2: you know, I think he's played played by a non

700
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 2: Asian actor in the MOCAP, but it's supposed to be

701
00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:27,400
Speaker 2: or I always got the vibe that he was he

702
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 2: was an Asian figure. And then he's played by a Frenchman,

703
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:34,280
Speaker 2: and then he's played by a sort of a gravelly

704
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:38,400
Speaker 2: voiced American, and then in the video games, eventually with

705
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:40,719
Speaker 2: if we get into the cut scene heavy stuff, he's

706
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 2: also kind of like a gravelly voiced American before eventually

707
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 2: they kind of pivot back to having him be more

708
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:51,400
Speaker 2: Asian centric in the video games, and then in the

709
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:54,320
Speaker 2: more recent Mortal Kombat films he's played by the talented

710
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 2: Japanese actor todde Nobu Osseno, who a number of you

711
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:02,360
Speaker 2: are going to recognize from TV Showgun, the recent Showgun

712
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 2: series as well as if you're into Grimey or cinema

713
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,239
Speaker 2: Ichi the Killer. He's one of the main characters in that.

714
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's interesting. I hadn't really followed through the games

715
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:14,360
Speaker 3: like that, so I wasn't aware of that, but you

716
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:17,600
Speaker 3: can see I guess that kind of like shifting in

717
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 3: that kind of anxiety through the games, and certainly in

718
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:23,000
Speaker 3: these earlier movies too, where it's like, are they trying

719
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:27,920
Speaker 3: to be more appealing they think to American audiences by

720
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 3: having like a you know, a white American actor in

721
00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 3: a role that originally I think is supposed to be

722
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 3: an Asian thunder god of some sort.

723
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:38,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of a combination of a little bit of

724
00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 2: the Japanese thunder god and then also clearly taking a

725
00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:46,399
Speaker 2: lot of influence, a lot of inspiration from the Three

726
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:47,960
Speaker 2: Storms in Big Trouble a Little China.

727
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, So you know, I was thinking about how

728
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 3: the characterization of Raydin is so different in this movie

729
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 3: compared to the first movie, you know, to say nothing

730
00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:01,360
Speaker 3: of you know who an actual thunder god in the

731
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 3: Mortal Kombat universe would be but different in both writing

732
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:08,480
Speaker 3: and in performance. You know Christoph Limbert's Raiden is you

733
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:11,239
Speaker 3: mentioned earlier he's a trickster god. I think that's right.

734
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:15,760
Speaker 3: He is a lovable but slightly edgy weirdo who cares

735
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 3: about humans but also treats them with a mean sense

736
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:22,640
Speaker 3: of humor. Uh. And he's like I was saying, he's

737
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:25,320
Speaker 3: along with Johnny Cage, one of the main comic relief

738
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 3: characters in the first movie, The Rayden and Mortal Kombat

739
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 3: Annihilation is always one hundred percent serious. There is the cop,

740
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 3: he's raiding the cop.

741
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:38,920
Speaker 2: Yes, he's lawful, good like, and he ends up playing

742
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 2: out like this in the games later, Like there's a

743
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:43,120
Speaker 2: there's a bit in one of the cut scenes from

744
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 2: one of the later games that has become kind of

745
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 2: a meme where it's just Rayden saying, I must consult

746
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:50,240
Speaker 2: the elder gods, and he does that in this film.

747
00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:51,480
Speaker 2: He's like, I have to go, I have to go

748
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 2: check with the bosses. I must consult the elder guy.

749
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 3: Raydon is just a tattle tale in this movie. He's

750
00:39:57,160 --> 00:40:00,560
Speaker 3: there's no intentional comedy from him that I Remember he

751
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:05,600
Speaker 3: doesn't have that dangerous edge like Christophe Lambert did. He is.

752
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 3: His main two functions are I'm gonna go tell on you.

753
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:12,640
Speaker 3: I'm telling the elder gods on you. And being a

754
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:16,279
Speaker 3: font of corny, superficial monologues about how we're all a

755
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:18,319
Speaker 3: family and we have to take care of each other

756
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:20,120
Speaker 3: and you just have to believe in yourself.

757
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:23,839
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and getting his butt whipped by Shall Khan,

758
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:25,840
Speaker 2: which happens I think twice.

759
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:28,160
Speaker 3: No, the first time he kind of gets the upper

760
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:30,840
Speaker 3: hand on shell Con but then he I don't know,

761
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:32,760
Speaker 3: he can't can't seal the deal for some reason.

762
00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:35,600
Speaker 2: Yeah. We'll have more to say about Raidin as we

763
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 2: proceed here. So we don't get the same Sonya Blade

764
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:41,279
Speaker 2: as the previous film. Instead we get Sandra Hess born

765
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:45,520
Speaker 2: nineteen sixty eight Swiss fashion model and actress, whose previous

766
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:48,439
Speaker 2: credits included nineteen ninety twos in Sino Man. She played

767
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 2: a cave woman in that and also Beastmaster three The

768
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 2: Eye of Bracus. That is not one I've seen. We

769
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 2: talked about Beastmaster two on the show before and Beastmaster,

770
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:00,520
Speaker 2: the first beast Master film is one of my favorites.

771
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:04,120
Speaker 2: But her subsequent roles included TV work on such shows

772
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:07,320
Speaker 2: as High Lender and Sliders. She was a main cast

773
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:11,520
Speaker 2: member on Pensacola Wings of Gold and also General Hospital

774
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:14,719
Speaker 2: in two thousand and eight. And again I can't quite

775
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:16,040
Speaker 2: put my finger on it, but I thought she was

776
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 2: good here, mostly playing the straight man to Jacks's one liners.

777
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:23,319
Speaker 2: But she's often one of the only good things in

778
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:24,120
Speaker 2: a given scene.

779
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:27,480
Speaker 3: She is biting into the role more than a few

780
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 3: of the other main actors. Like we mentioned, some of

781
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:32,400
Speaker 3: the other top build are kind of trying to hide

782
00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 3: from the movie. She's just there. She's, you know, more

783
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 3: unashamedly participating in the role. But again, she does not

784
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:42,920
Speaker 3: have a lot to work with script wise, I think.

785
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:47,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, now playing Jax, who is the big muscle man

786
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:51,160
Speaker 2: with At times in the games, there's like he has

787
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:55,719
Speaker 2: cybernetic like like alterations to his arms. Other times he

788
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:58,840
Speaker 2: just straight up robot arms. I think it varies depending

789
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:01,759
Speaker 2: on how we're casting it. But Jackson is played by

790
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:06,120
Speaker 2: Lynn Red Williams born nineteen sixty two, pro football player

791
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:09,799
Speaker 2: turned American gladiator, like straight up American gladiators from back

792
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 2: in the day. Ooh, I watched it I think a

793
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:15,759
Speaker 2: lot of you are in the same age range as us.

794
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:18,839
Speaker 2: You watched it, you probably reorganize your living room and

795
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:21,880
Speaker 2: got out nerve blasters so you could do that final stage.

796
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 2: They would do well. This guy was Saber on American Gladiator.

797
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 3: Well, hold on a second. I didn't realize this connection

798
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:30,560
Speaker 3: because I didn't know a cast member had been on

799
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:36,440
Speaker 3: American Gladiators. In this movie. The characters many times have

800
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:39,520
Speaker 3: they introduced this technology in the film That is a

801
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:43,320
Speaker 3: transportation method where the characters get into giant hamster balls.

802
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:45,399
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, and like paddle.

803
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 3: Around on these hamster balls through tunnels in the earth.

804
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:50,360
Speaker 3: Those are like those American Gladiator balls.

805
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:53,840
Speaker 2: I forgot that that was one of the games. Yeah,

806
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:56,759
Speaker 2: I have to for me, American Gladiators. That one I

807
00:42:56,800 --> 00:42:58,359
Speaker 2: was kind of bored with. I like the one where

808
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:01,400
Speaker 2: they fight with the big sticks and then the final

809
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:03,960
Speaker 2: stage with the where's the obstacle course where you're trying

810
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:06,680
Speaker 2: to like blast the tower or whatever. That's the one

811
00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:09,799
Speaker 2: that I mainly mainly dug because that's the one you

812
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:12,360
Speaker 2: could really reenact in your living room without hitting but

813
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:16,760
Speaker 2: anybody in the face with a stick. But anyway, Lynn

814
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:20,719
Speaker 2: read Williams here. This is his most notable role. I

815
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 2: don't think he has a ton of acting credits, but

816
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:26,960
Speaker 2: Jax exists in this film to do three things. To

817
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:30,239
Speaker 2: beat buff, to spit out funny one liners, and to

818
00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:32,640
Speaker 2: punch a centaur in the taint. And you might not

819
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 2: like Mortal Kambat Annihilation, but I think Williams does what

820
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:37,720
Speaker 2: he's asked of him well in this film.

821
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 3: Got to respect him. A lot is riding on Williams

822
00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:43,919
Speaker 3: here because again he's the only character who is explicitly

823
00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:47,920
Speaker 3: supposed to be funny in an otherwise deadly serious affair.

824
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:51,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, and the humor, I think it

825
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 2: lands more often than it doesn't.

826
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:53,320
Speaker 3: I don't.

827
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:55,400
Speaker 2: I there's maybe one or two places where it was

828
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:58,759
Speaker 2: a little bit cringe, but on the whole, I think

829
00:43:58,800 --> 00:43:59,280
Speaker 2: it's fine.

830
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:02,719
Speaker 3: He has a really funny line actually where he is.

831
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:05,480
Speaker 3: It's the scene where he gets mad at Sonya and

832
00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:08,279
Speaker 3: he's walking away from her and he's like, I have

833
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:10,640
Speaker 3: to go to the bathroom and I don't have any

834
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:13,200
Speaker 3: toilet paper and I don't know how to use these

835
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:18,480
Speaker 3: metal arms. That part legitimately had me laughing. And you know,

836
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 3: I mean lots of the movie did. But that part

837
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:22,880
Speaker 3: was supposed to be funny and it worked.

838
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:25,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he does as well discussed He does get

839
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 2: this whole They have this weird plot with his arms,

840
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:30,680
Speaker 2: like his arms. I always thought they were just robot

841
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:33,440
Speaker 2: arms because he gets his arms ripped off, right, But

842
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:36,360
Speaker 2: in this we get this personal struggle where the arms

843
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:39,520
Speaker 2: are like the like the magic item you didn't really need.

844
00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:43,200
Speaker 2: You didn't need the magic, the cybernetic arms, the robos

845
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:44,840
Speaker 2: in you the whole time exactly.

846
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:48,560
Speaker 3: The robot arms are just holding him back there. It

847
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:50,799
Speaker 3: almost portrays them. And there are a couple of things

848
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:52,960
Speaker 3: you could look at in the movie this way as

849
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:57,160
Speaker 3: like a confidence booster for a middle aged man, you know,

850
00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 3: like he's going out and buying the sports car or

851
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:02,720
Speaker 3: something like. Raydon has a midlife crisis in the movie,

852
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 3: and maybe Jacks's robot arms are supposed to be also

853
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:07,719
Speaker 3: his midlife crisis.

854
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:10,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, all of this wrapped up in a movie aimed

855
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 2: at like thirteen year olds. Yeah, all right, it's time

856
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:18,320
Speaker 2: to talk about our main villain. Shallcon all right? Brian

857
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:22,279
Speaker 2: Thompson born nineteen fifty nine American actor of stage and

858
00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:25,800
Speaker 2: screen who, by virtue of his six' four, high muscular

859
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:29,480
Speaker 2: build and very square. Jaw has definitely made a career

860
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:31,200
Speaker 2: playing a lot of action movie.

861
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:32,440
Speaker 3: Villains in, general.

862
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:35,880
Speaker 2: Heavies his credits go back to nineteen eighty, four when

863
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:38,719
Speaker 2: he played one of the trio of punks that makes

864
00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:43,640
Speaker 2: the mistake of running Into Arnold SWARZENEGER'S t eight. Hundred

865
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:47,719
Speaker 2: In The, terminator the punt leader is played By Bill.

866
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:49,799
Speaker 2: Paxton of, COURSE i was just gonna say, That, yeah

867
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:53,240
Speaker 2: is He is he the? Guy it's Not Bill paxton

868
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:54,200
Speaker 2: who gets his heart pulled?

869
00:45:54,239 --> 00:45:54,719
Speaker 3: Out is?

870
00:45:54,719 --> 00:45:58,279
Speaker 2: IT i don't remember what happens To paxxton. THIS i

871
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:01,200
Speaker 2: know That thompson's Character sin's punk is the one that,

872
00:46:01,239 --> 00:46:04,799
Speaker 2: says wash day, tomorrow nothing, clean, right and Then terminator kills.

873
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:06,040
Speaker 2: HIM i don't know if he rips out his hard

874
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 2: or he like punches into the, gut but he does

875
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 2: not last.

876
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 3: Long it's funny BECAUSE i don't remember him looking huge

877
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:14,720
Speaker 3: in that, scene but he looks huge in this. Movie.

878
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:18,040
Speaker 2: YEAH i, mean he's standing next To, arnold so so

879
00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 2: it would be hard to look, huge, right but here

880
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:24,359
Speaker 2: he does look pretty big and, yeah and it does

881
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:28,720
Speaker 2: have a muscular. Physique After, terminator he did some STANDARD

882
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:34,320
Speaker 2: tv heavy, work but also played the villain role in

883
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:38,120
Speaker 2: the nineteen eighty Six GEORGE. P cosmanto's Thriller, cobra Starring

884
00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:41,760
Speaker 2: Sylvester stallone And Brigett. Nelson he played the night, slasher

885
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 2: WHICH i guess, is you, know some sort of serial.

886
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:46,600
Speaker 2: KILLER i haven't actually Seen. Cobra and then he appears

887
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:49,319
Speaker 2: at The German hinchman In The Three amigos the same.

888
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:52,360
Speaker 2: Year but he's had a long career after, this of,

889
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:55,640
Speaker 2: course playing a lot of, heavies a lot of action schlock,

890
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 2: villains AND i was really delighted when he popped up

891
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:03,120
Speaker 2: in the twenty twenty one Film The tragedy Of, macbeth

892
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:08,279
Speaker 2: directed By Joel. Cohen he plays one of the assassins

893
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:11,560
Speaker 2: in that so terrific. Cast in this film he has

894
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 2: just a small role as one of the duo of,

895
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:16,600
Speaker 2: assassins but he's really good like it. Was you, KNOW

896
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 2: i think he has a grizzly beard in, it you,

897
00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 2: know definitely a much older actor, now but you, know great,

898
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:24,839
Speaker 2: voice great, presence did a great job in that.

899
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:29,239
Speaker 3: Picture, yeah, so as we were saying, earlier he just

900
00:47:29,320 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 3: goes headlong into this. Movie most of his lines in

901
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:35,919
Speaker 3: the film are. Shouted did you notice, THAT i would

902
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:39,880
Speaker 3: say literally sixty seventy percent or more of his lines

903
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:41,239
Speaker 3: he is shouting at the top of.

904
00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 2: His, lungs absolutely like he knew the. Mission. Yeah so,

905
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:48,959
Speaker 2: AGAIN i think as far as human performances, go he's

906
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:49,920
Speaker 2: my favorite thing about this.

907
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:52,920
Speaker 3: Film. Yeah it just constantly like you P p Name.

908
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:58,080
Speaker 2: Martin, yeah and IF i remember, correctly he also had

909
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:00,600
Speaker 2: some degree of a martial arts, background like he had

910
00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 2: done some martial arts, Training so in his fight, sequences

911
00:48:04,239 --> 00:48:08,520
Speaker 2: especially the final, fight, like there's a believable physicality to

912
00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:12,360
Speaker 2: all the interactions until things get entirely. Unbelievable but we'll get.

913
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:14,239
Speaker 3: To that in a bit, Now, rob you're going to

914
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:17,880
Speaker 3: have to explain something to me BECAUSE i was so

915
00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:21,920
Speaker 3: confused about this on my first rewatch where in one

916
00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:26,280
Speaker 3: of the early scenes With Chao, khan it Introduces Chau khan's,

917
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:29,440
Speaker 3: dad and even Though Chao khan is supposed to be the,

918
00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:33,200
Speaker 3: emperor he's really like subordinate to his, dad and he's

919
00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:36,719
Speaker 3: also very sad because his dad is like not approving of.

920
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:40,080
Speaker 2: Him hm, hmm, yeah this is AND i don't know

921
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:42,839
Speaker 2: that he ever refers to him by this, name which

922
00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:45,839
Speaker 2: makes me wonder if he didn't like add this later

923
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:47,920
Speaker 2: and they're, like oh, yeah let's make this Character, shinnock

924
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:52,080
Speaker 2: Because shinnock in The games is this fallen elder god

925
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:55,799
Speaker 2: and is basically the best developed uber big bad of the.

926
00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:59,600
Speaker 2: Franchise so he's the main boss IN mk four and

927
00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:02,240
Speaker 2: then they bring him back IN mkx and he's really

928
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:07,680
Speaker 2: really great in, that so major, villain like you, know

929
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 2: believably a step Above Shao khan in terms of like

930
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:14,880
Speaker 2: evil and. Power but here he Is Shao khan's scheming

931
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:19,400
Speaker 2: father and also still an elder. Guy so he's played

932
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:23,720
Speaker 2: here by The german Actor Rainier schoen born nineteen forty,

933
00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:27,160
Speaker 2: Two german actor With german language credits going back to

934
00:49:27,320 --> 00:49:30,359
Speaker 2: nineteen fifty. Seven he appeared in the nineteen seventy Five

935
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:34,319
Speaker 2: Clint eastwood mountain climbing Film The Eiger, sanction and during

936
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:36,400
Speaker 2: the mid to late eighties he seems like he begins

937
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:38,799
Speaker 2: to pop up in a number Of AMERICAN tv shows and,

938
00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:43,640
Speaker 2: films Including america with A k in eighty, Seven Handmaid's

939
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:47,560
Speaker 2: tale in ninety, seven episodes of VARIOUS tv shows Including Star,

940
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:51,720
Speaker 2: Trek The Next Generation Babylon babylon Five. Murder she, wrote,

941
00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:54,520
Speaker 2: BASICALLY i think he was just on the call. Sheet

942
00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:56,960
Speaker 2: anytime you needed A german in a small part in

943
00:49:56,960 --> 00:49:59,160
Speaker 2: one of these, productions this guy was there.

944
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:03,279
Speaker 3: For you do a very sinister Sounding german. Accent. Yeah.

945
00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:07,640
Speaker 2: Yeah more, recently he was in twenty Eleven's. Priest he's still.

946
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:11,040
Speaker 2: Around has remained pretty active as an actor and a voice,

947
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:14,640
Speaker 2: actor particularly when it comes To german language dubs Of american.

948
00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:17,440
Speaker 2: Blockbusters so you look him, up you'll see like credits

949
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:21,080
Speaker 2: For transformers movies and. Stuff and he also had a

950
00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:24,160
Speaker 2: pretty interesting it looks like a pretty interesting musical career In,

951
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:28,320
Speaker 2: germany releasing at least three albums in nineteen, seventy nineteen seventy,

952
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:30,080
Speaker 2: seven and then in nineteen ninety.

953
00:50:30,080 --> 00:50:32,960
Speaker 3: Five IF i had to judge by these record, covers

954
00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:37,120
Speaker 3: it would look like their country, Albums, yes or book or.

955
00:50:37,160 --> 00:50:40,480
Speaker 2: SOMETHING i didn't have time to get a sample of,

956
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:44,480
Speaker 2: these BUT i love the nineteen seventies album. Covers look

957
00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:47,120
Speaker 2: him up on discogs if anyone wants to see. This

958
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:50,360
Speaker 2: but it also his general appearance and the look of

959
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:53,839
Speaker 2: these albums reminded me a bit of The jeremiah sand

960
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:57,360
Speaker 2: character In. Mandy it looked like these could be albums

961
00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:00,799
Speaker 2: created by that fictional folk sing her turned cult.

962
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:05,120
Speaker 3: Leader, OKAY i was gonna say more in the outlaw country,

963
00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:06,640
Speaker 3: vibe BUT i could see that. Too.

964
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:10,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah he's carrying a woman like a, monster like

965
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:13,319
Speaker 2: a nineteen fifty comic monster in one of. These but

966
00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:15,560
Speaker 2: nobody seems frightened by the.

967
00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 3: Scenario he's Like Jackson brown As Tor. Johnson, yep all,

968
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:34,399
Speaker 3: right we have another character, Here. Sindel this Is katana's

969
00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:38,719
Speaker 3: mother and generally a bad, guy one of the. Villains

970
00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:41,239
Speaker 3: but it gets complicated even in the. Games it's, like

971
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 3: is This it's like she seemed like a villain IN

972
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:46,320
Speaker 3: mk two when we first or was IT mk? Three,

973
00:51:46,719 --> 00:51:48,799
Speaker 3: NO i think she WAS mk Three at any. Rate

974
00:51:49,680 --> 00:51:51,359
Speaker 3: she has kind of like a bride Of frankenstein.

975
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:54,680
Speaker 2: Vibe in the. Games she, screams she's a, banshee she floats,

976
00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:58,040
Speaker 2: around and she is in this picture as. Well she's

977
00:51:58,080 --> 00:52:00,480
Speaker 2: played By Mussetta vander born nineteen sixty.

978
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:03,360
Speaker 3: THREE i think she's possessed in some. Way she's like

979
00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:06,239
Speaker 3: under the spell Of, shagan because remember she wakes up

980
00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:08,880
Speaker 3: at the end and then she's. Good But also she

981
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:11,440
Speaker 3: looks different when she wakes up at the. End it

982
00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:14,919
Speaker 3: has removed The Elsa Lynn chester shock of white hair

983
00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:18,200
Speaker 3: from her, hair and her hair is, shorter so like

984
00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:23,400
Speaker 3: the being being unpossessed gave her a haircut. Somehow, yeah,

985
00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:24,279
Speaker 3: Yeah i'm not.

986
00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:28,120
Speaker 2: Sure this character is often a mystery for, me but you,

987
00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:32,120
Speaker 2: know always visually. Interesting but the actress Here Mussette, Vander

988
00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:36,400
Speaker 2: South african dancer and, actress whose previous credits included nineteen

989
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:39,400
Speaker 2: eighty Seven's, gore in WHICH i think she played a,

990
00:52:39,480 --> 00:52:43,520
Speaker 2: dancer dancing roles in the nineteen eighty nine music videos

991
00:52:43,560 --> 00:52:46,200
Speaker 2: for a couple of them For Alice cooper and For Rod.

992
00:52:46,239 --> 00:52:50,680
Speaker 2: Stewart she's in nineteen ninety Four's Oblivion oblivion, two in

993
00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:54,439
Speaker 2: ninety six ninety Five's Project Metal, beast which is a

994
00:52:54,520 --> 00:52:58,000
Speaker 2: cyborg werewolf movie That i've been tempted to look at

995
00:52:58,040 --> 00:53:03,000
Speaker 2: for a weird. House she also right, now, yeah who's

996
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:06,200
Speaker 2: it got in? It Barry. BOSSWICK i want to, Say, okay,

997
00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:10,600
Speaker 2: yeah it looks kind of, rough But i'm here for

998
00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:14,320
Speaker 2: the general plot. Idea she pops up in episodes Of,

999
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:18,720
Speaker 2: Highlander buffy The Vampire, Slayer babylon, five all in nineteen ninety,

1000
00:53:18,719 --> 00:53:21,919
Speaker 2: seven and her Post Mortal kombat credits get even more.

1001
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:25,160
Speaker 2: Interesting she plays a Lady, elara WHO i believe it

1002
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:27,879
Speaker 2: is supposed to be A benijesert in the nineteen ninety

1003
00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:30,239
Speaker 2: eight video like the cut scenes for the nineteen ninety

1004
00:53:30,239 --> 00:53:32,600
Speaker 2: eight video Game dune two, thousand as well as it's

1005
00:53:32,600 --> 00:53:34,520
Speaker 2: two thousand and one, Sequel battle For.

1006
00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 3: Dune is that a real time strategy?

1007
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:39,959
Speaker 2: Game? IT i think it's real? Time, YEAH i NEVER

1008
00:53:40,200 --> 00:53:42,520
Speaker 2: i was never in the place to play, these BUT

1009
00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:45,919
Speaker 2: i think they're real time and not turn.

1010
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:48,000
Speaker 3: Based, yeah oh, okay but either, way it's like a

1011
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:49,040
Speaker 3: top down strategy.

1012
00:53:49,080 --> 00:53:52,080
Speaker 2: Game, yeah, yeah, definitely with different units for the different.

1013
00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:55,600
Speaker 2: Factions these. Were they were widely popular and people still play.

1014
00:53:55,600 --> 00:53:59,080
Speaker 2: Them she's also in nineteen ninety Nine's Wild Wild. West,

1015
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:02,880
Speaker 2: oh big block. Buster she's in two thousand and Five's,

1016
00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:06,000
Speaker 2: mansquito which is not a. BLOCKBUSTER i think that was

1017
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:07,719
Speaker 2: like A i don't know if it was A Sci

1018
00:54:07,719 --> 00:54:10,600
Speaker 2: fi original, picture BUT i remember seeing it advertised on

1019
00:54:10,640 --> 00:54:13,919
Speaker 2: The Sci Fi channel a lot to WHERE i still

1020
00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:18,759
Speaker 2: think About mansquito. Sometimes but she's probably most memorable for

1021
00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:21,880
Speaker 2: her dubbed role In what is probably her best. Film

1022
00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:24,640
Speaker 2: two Thousand's Oh, Brother Where Art? Thou in which she

1023
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:27,959
Speaker 2: plays the lead, siren that trio of sirens that comes

1024
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:31,759
Speaker 2: after our characters in this take on The. Odyssey the

1025
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:35,360
Speaker 2: singing voices for this trio were played were provided By Emmylou,

1026
00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:37,680
Speaker 2: Harris Alison, kraus And Gillian.

1027
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:38,080
Speaker 3: Welch.

1028
00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:41,080
Speaker 2: Wow, yeah but she's the main. One she's the one

1029
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:42,399
Speaker 2: that makes out With clinty.

1030
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:44,479
Speaker 3: From sindel To siren in three.

1031
00:54:44,560 --> 00:54:47,400
Speaker 2: Moves that's, yeah, yeah BUT i love that's a couple

1032
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:52,000
Speaker 2: Of cohen connections, Here, brian that's true And Moseette.

1033
00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:55,160
Speaker 3: EVANDER i wonder how often The Cohen brothers set has

1034
00:54:55,200 --> 00:54:58,600
Speaker 3: people reminiscing about their time on The Mortal Kombat annihilation.

1035
00:54:58,719 --> 00:55:02,480
Speaker 3: PROJECT i like to think that The coen brothers are

1036
00:55:02,520 --> 00:55:07,000
Speaker 3: both both fans of The World combat. Franchise let's see

1037
00:55:07,160 --> 00:55:08,840
Speaker 3: who else we. Got we're kind of getting in the

1038
00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:10,960
Speaker 3: territory now where they're just throwing characters in to be

1039
00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:14,920
Speaker 3: throwing them in Because, jade the green Female ninja shows.

1040
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:18,000
Speaker 3: UP i don't think she does a lot in. This

1041
00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:22,080
Speaker 3: maybe we'll remember this more when we get into she's a,

1042
00:55:22,080 --> 00:55:23,360
Speaker 3: betrayer she's a double.

1043
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:27,120
Speaker 2: AGENT a double. Agent, okay so she's there to move

1044
00:55:27,160 --> 00:55:28,640
Speaker 2: the plot along as, needed.

1045
00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:32,480
Speaker 3: And really she betrays but it doesn't come to. Anything

1046
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:34,680
Speaker 3: she just eaten by a gargoyle.

1047
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:36,400
Speaker 2: Tries to nudge the plot. Along that's, right she just

1048
00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:40,879
Speaker 2: get eaten by cgi gargo played By Irena panteva born

1049
00:55:40,960 --> 00:55:45,000
Speaker 2: nineteen sixty, Seven russian model and actress Of siberian Bouryat.

1050
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:49,839
Speaker 2: Heritage she was also in two thousand and One. Zoolander all,

1051
00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:55,960
Speaker 2: right we also Have, motaro the outworld, centaur played By

1052
00:55:56,440 --> 00:55:59,799
Speaker 2: darren McBee born nineteen Sixty his other credits include nineteen

1053
00:55:59,800 --> 00:56:02,520
Speaker 2: eighty he Ates Elvira mistress of The, dark ninety four

1054
00:56:02,600 --> 00:56:06,960
Speaker 2: Is Immortal Combat, Whoa and then he plays like a

1055
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:10,319
Speaker 2: background thug in two Different batman movies ninety five Is

1056
00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:13,960
Speaker 2: Batman forever And batman And robin in ninety, seven along

1057
00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:15,000
Speaker 2: with you, know VARIOUS tv.

1058
00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:19,400
Speaker 3: ROLES i can't remember the individual thugs from those, movies

1059
00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:22,200
Speaker 3: but there are a lot of. Them, yeah you know

1060
00:56:22,239 --> 00:56:25,600
Speaker 3: that costume thugs In batman. Movie he was, said some

1061
00:56:25,680 --> 00:56:26,719
Speaker 3: diglow paint. On.

1062
00:56:27,239 --> 00:56:32,040
Speaker 2: Yeah here he does a lot of, snarling like aggressive

1063
00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:35,360
Speaker 2: snarling As. Motaro who is you? Know not your typical,

1064
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:38,680
Speaker 2: centaur but he has like it's like a mentar centaur

1065
00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:42,799
Speaker 2: with extra. Spikes this was like the sub boss IN mk,

1066
00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:46,759
Speaker 2: three and even IN mk three looked really, cool kind of,

1067
00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:49,600
Speaker 2: awkward and doesn't really pop up in many of the

1068
00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:52,319
Speaker 2: other games BECAUSE i think it's difficult to integrate like

1069
00:56:52,400 --> 00:56:57,359
Speaker 2: this quadrupedal form into a game where bipedal characters fight each,

1070
00:56:57,360 --> 00:56:59,520
Speaker 2: other and you see a bit of that. Here like

1071
00:56:59,600 --> 00:57:02,799
Speaker 2: Centaur cindars in general are really hard to put off

1072
00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:05,920
Speaker 2: in film pull off in, film and this is no.

1073
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:09,840
Speaker 3: Exception, yeah you're right about the snarling the, sneering and

1074
00:57:09,880 --> 00:57:13,400
Speaker 3: the snarling go way past the end. Zone here he

1075
00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:16,600
Speaker 3: is like, sneering and you know there were times when

1076
00:57:17,520 --> 00:57:21,000
Speaker 3: the camera comes to him and he's already, sneering like you,

1077
00:57:21,040 --> 00:57:23,240
Speaker 3: know he's just been, sneering and you wonder how long

1078
00:57:23,320 --> 00:57:26,520
Speaker 3: is he holding that sneer in between? Takes and, yeah.

1079
00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:30,120
Speaker 2: Yeah So i'm really looking forward to discussing his battle

1080
00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:32,400
Speaker 2: Of Jack's So i'm gonna say anything else to say

1081
00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:36,480
Speaker 2: About mataro until. Then but we also Have. Shiva So

1082
00:57:36,560 --> 00:57:39,880
Speaker 2: shiva is in. This shiva is A shoka warrior Like,

1083
00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:46,120
Speaker 2: goro Like Kintaro forearms played By Margine holden born nineteen sixty.

1084
00:57:46,120 --> 00:57:48,440
Speaker 2: Four we previously talked about her because she was in

1085
00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:51,880
Speaker 2: ninety Two's. Nemesis she was one of The i'm gonna

1086
00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:53,080
Speaker 2: guess a cyborg in that.

1087
00:57:53,120 --> 00:57:55,920
Speaker 3: Movie were there some? CYBORGS i think there were a.

1088
00:57:55,840 --> 00:57:59,560
Speaker 2: Few, cyborgs but she had some fun, credit AS i

1089
00:57:59,560 --> 00:58:02,160
Speaker 2: discussed For she's an eighty nine strip To kill. Two

1090
00:58:02,200 --> 00:58:04,720
Speaker 2: she's In bill And Ted's Excellent. Adventure she's in eighty

1091
00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:09,080
Speaker 2: Nine's Doctor kaligari And John Carpenter's, vampires as well As

1092
00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:14,080
Speaker 2: ghosts Of. Mars they managed TO i think THEY i

1093
00:58:14,160 --> 00:58:17,640
Speaker 2: think they did the forearms bit digitally. HERE i couldn't

1094
00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:20,680
Speaker 2: tell if if it's digital or, practical but one thing is.

1095
00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:23,520
Speaker 2: Clear they did not trust the effect to be able

1096
00:58:23,560 --> 00:58:25,680
Speaker 2: to really give her a fight. Sequence so she doesn't

1097
00:58:25,760 --> 00:58:28,040
Speaker 2: do much in this film except for. Snarl.

1098
00:58:28,440 --> 00:58:31,680
Speaker 3: Yeah she gets like smashed by a giant bird. Cage,

1099
00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:35,560
Speaker 3: yeah before she really gets a chance to. Fight she

1100
00:58:35,640 --> 00:58:39,880
Speaker 3: does verbally spar with, people primarily With, motaro where they

1101
00:58:40,080 --> 00:58:42,560
Speaker 3: argue with each other and she she's, like you belong

1102
00:58:42,640 --> 00:58:45,680
Speaker 3: in the. ZOO i guess because he's got a centaur.

1103
00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:50,000
Speaker 2: Body well again the, GAMES i think the centaurs and

1104
00:58:50,040 --> 00:58:52,240
Speaker 2: the chowkun are like natural, enemies SO i guess they're

1105
00:58:52,560 --> 00:58:55,000
Speaker 2: they're doing, that but nothing really comes to.

1106
00:58:55,080 --> 00:58:55,160
Speaker 3: It.

1107
00:58:56,080 --> 00:59:00,480
Speaker 2: Okay, also Night wolf is in this played by The

1108
00:59:00,640 --> 00:59:04,880
Speaker 2: cherokee actor and Rapper. Lightfoot lightfoot also appeared in ninety.

1109
00:59:04,920 --> 00:59:06,800
Speaker 2: Five is The indian in The. Cupboard AND i think

1110
00:59:06,840 --> 00:59:10,000
Speaker 2: he's Been this guy has been very successful outside of

1111
00:59:10,840 --> 00:59:13,000
Speaker 2: media as. WELL i think he's like a very successful

1112
00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:17,880
Speaker 2: businessman and in the. World Night wolf here very cool

1113
00:59:17,920 --> 00:59:21,400
Speaker 2: character in the. Games doesn't do much, here he's his

1114
00:59:21,480 --> 00:59:24,880
Speaker 2: whole role is to teach Lu king how to do an, animality.

1115
00:59:24,640 --> 00:59:27,280
Speaker 3: Which is can you explain for the non game players

1116
00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:29,040
Speaker 3: what is An animaloty.

1117
00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:32,280
Speaker 2: Animality was like a kind of a, funny gimmicky thing

1118
00:59:32,280 --> 00:59:34,640
Speaker 2: that was introduced in, GOSH i can't. Remember it was

1119
00:59:34,680 --> 00:59:37,240
Speaker 2: M k two or M k, three probably, three where

1120
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:40,240
Speaker 2: you can have your character turn into a glowing animal

1121
00:59:40,640 --> 00:59:44,280
Speaker 2: and then do a fatality as that. Animal it's, been you,

1122
00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:46,120
Speaker 2: know it's been a regular part of the franchise pretty

1123
00:59:46,200 --> 00:59:49,160
Speaker 2: much since. Then but a weird thing to latch onto

1124
00:59:49,240 --> 00:59:52,560
Speaker 2: and like, this let us incorporate this into the plot let.

1125
00:59:52,600 --> 00:59:55,000
Speaker 2: This let's let this be the major thing that our

1126
00:59:55,040 --> 00:59:57,480
Speaker 2: hero needs to learn in order to overcome the.

1127
00:59:58,280 --> 01:00:01,680
Speaker 3: Villain the first thing that Night wolf says in the

1128
01:00:01,720 --> 01:00:05,080
Speaker 3: movie is he attacks Lu kang as a, wolf and

1129
01:00:05,120 --> 01:00:08,640
Speaker 3: then he reversed where wolf transforms into a, man and

1130
01:00:08,680 --> 01:00:13,080
Speaker 3: then he, says pretty. Cool huh it's my. Animality.

1131
01:00:14,840 --> 01:00:20,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah that's not the finest. Moment But lightfoot is fine,

1132
01:00:20,680 --> 01:00:24,440
Speaker 2: here given a given much to. Do Johnny cage is,

1133
01:00:24,480 --> 01:00:26,919
Speaker 2: back played by a different. Actor this, time It's Chris

1134
01:00:26,960 --> 01:00:30,520
Speaker 2: conrad born nineteen. Seventy barely in this, movie as we've

1135
01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:33,920
Speaker 2: referenced more, recently, though this actor has appeared in series

1136
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:38,400
Speaker 2: such As patriot AND Dtf Saint. Louis, earlier he had

1137
01:00:38,400 --> 01:00:40,720
Speaker 2: bit parts in movies like ninety, Fours clear And Present.

1138
01:00:40,800 --> 01:00:44,200
Speaker 3: DANGER i read That Lyndon, ashby who Played Johnny cage

1139
01:00:44,200 --> 01:00:47,480
Speaker 3: in the original, movie read the script and for some

1140
01:00:47,520 --> 01:00:49,919
Speaker 3: reason declined to return to this. Film.

1141
01:00:50,360 --> 01:00:52,360
Speaker 2: YEAH i mean if his script the script he read

1142
01:00:52,400 --> 01:00:54,880
Speaker 2: was the shooting, Script, yeah why? Not he's been it

1143
01:00:54,960 --> 01:00:57,080
Speaker 2: for like three seconds and then he's killed By Shah. Khan.

1144
01:00:57,360 --> 01:01:01,080
Speaker 2: Yeah and then the score once more is By GEORGE.

1145
01:01:01,120 --> 01:01:04,040
Speaker 2: S clinton born nineteen forty. Seven not to be confused

1146
01:01:04,040 --> 01:01:06,880
Speaker 2: with funk Legend George. Clinton this is The chattanooga born

1147
01:01:06,920 --> 01:01:09,600
Speaker 2: film composer who gave us scores for movies such As

1148
01:01:09,640 --> 01:01:13,520
Speaker 2: American ninja two in eighty, seven Hell Bound, Embrace brainscan

1149
01:01:13,600 --> 01:01:16,560
Speaker 2: in ninety, Four delta Of venus in ninety, five And

1150
01:01:16,600 --> 01:01:20,760
Speaker 2: Beverly Hills ninja in ninety. Seven but the soundtrack is pretty.

1151
01:01:20,760 --> 01:01:23,920
Speaker 2: Solid once, more we get that Og Mortal kombat. THEME

1152
01:01:24,200 --> 01:01:26,000
Speaker 2: i think we jump right into it at the. Top

1153
01:01:26,520 --> 01:01:27,160
Speaker 2: this is a great.

1154
01:01:27,240 --> 01:01:28,000
Speaker 3: Track my.

1155
01:01:29,680 --> 01:01:31,760
Speaker 2: Music app decided to play this for me WHILE i

1156
01:01:31,840 --> 01:01:33,360
Speaker 2: was doing it WHEN i was jogging the other, day

1157
01:01:33,400 --> 01:01:36,760
Speaker 2: AND i was, like this is a solid choice, algorithm

1158
01:01:37,720 --> 01:01:42,320
Speaker 2: really great beats. There the soundtrack here also includes some

1159
01:01:42,520 --> 01:01:47,080
Speaker 2: work from electronic mainstays such AS Bt Juno reactor And

1160
01:01:47,120 --> 01:01:50,560
Speaker 2: The Future sound Of, london one of my, favorites plus

1161
01:01:50,560 --> 01:01:55,160
Speaker 2: some heavy and industrial vibes FROM, Kmfdm megadeath And. Ramstein

1162
01:01:55,360 --> 01:01:57,640
Speaker 2: is It ramstein And? RAMSTEIN i never know how to say.

1163
01:01:57,640 --> 01:01:59,840
Speaker 3: It i've always Said, ramstein BUT i don't really.

1164
01:01:59,880 --> 01:02:03,160
Speaker 2: Know, yeah you know it when you hear. It they

1165
01:02:03,480 --> 01:02:05,080
Speaker 2: that the sound as the group that is.

1166
01:02:05,400 --> 01:02:08,560
Speaker 3: Very similar sonic texture to the first film, actually and,

1167
01:02:08,600 --> 01:02:10,680
Speaker 3: it LIKE i, said it reuses a lot of the,

1168
01:02:10,720 --> 01:02:14,400
Speaker 3: tracks so it's mostly gonna be techno, pulses you, know

1169
01:02:14,480 --> 01:02:20,040
Speaker 3: strong hype techno music and then aggressive metal, guitars you,

1170
01:02:20,080 --> 01:02:23,240
Speaker 3: know hitting like a hard. Chord and so like you

1171
01:02:23,320 --> 01:02:25,640
Speaker 3: get at the beginning of the movie as the credits,

1172
01:02:25,680 --> 01:02:29,440
Speaker 3: play you, know you're seeing cgi fire and dragonheads AND

1173
01:02:29,640 --> 01:02:33,360
Speaker 3: i think it's the same techno theme from the Original Mortal.

1174
01:02:33,400 --> 01:02:37,560
Speaker 3: Kombat it's the one that's got the sonia punching or

1175
01:02:37,600 --> 01:02:43,320
Speaker 3: getting punched grunting sound as the ride symbol. Trigger, yeah, yeah, yeah.

1176
01:02:45,640 --> 01:02:45,680
Speaker 1: That.

1177
01:02:45,720 --> 01:02:48,880
Speaker 2: One it's great track. Again, yeah put it on anyone out,

1178
01:02:48,880 --> 01:02:50,520
Speaker 2: There put it on your next, run your next. Job

1179
01:02:50,840 --> 01:02:51,440
Speaker 2: how you will not be.

1180
01:02:51,480 --> 01:03:02,720
Speaker 4: Disappointed so are you ready to talk about the?

1181
01:03:02,720 --> 01:03:06,320
Speaker 3: Plot, oh we're doing. It it has. Begun so the

1182
01:03:06,320 --> 01:03:08,960
Speaker 3: film opens with a montage of scenes from the first.

1183
01:03:09,080 --> 01:03:11,440
Speaker 3: Movie you get you, know Lu kang walking into The

1184
01:03:11,440 --> 01:03:14,760
Speaker 3: temple Of light complex and a cool leather, jacket earth

1185
01:03:14,800 --> 01:03:19,560
Speaker 3: fighters beating Up shangsung's demon. Ninjas and, Meanwhile James ramar

1186
01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:23,440
Speaker 3: is giving a voiceover As. Raiden so the monologue Says

1187
01:03:24,080 --> 01:03:28,960
Speaker 3: Mortal kombat is not about, death but rather the, yeah

1188
01:03:29,000 --> 01:03:32,680
Speaker 3: it is very much about, death but rather the preservation of.

1189
01:03:32,760 --> 01:03:39,640
Speaker 3: LIFE a slaughter house is not about, Death rayden, says

1190
01:03:40,080 --> 01:03:43,160
Speaker 3: Lu kang and a few chosen fighters from The Earth

1191
01:03:43,240 --> 01:03:47,760
Speaker 3: realm Defeated outworld Sorcerer Shang. Sung according to the rules

1192
01:03:47,760 --> 01:03:50,920
Speaker 3: Of Mortal. Kombat their victory preserved the safety Of earth

1193
01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:54,520
Speaker 3: for one more. Generation our chosen ones were returned to

1194
01:03:54,600 --> 01:03:57,840
Speaker 3: Lu kang's home On, earth only to enjoy a brief

1195
01:03:57,880 --> 01:04:01,600
Speaker 3: period of. Peace for someone From outworld has a different

1196
01:04:01,760 --> 01:04:02,960
Speaker 3: point of, view.

1197
01:04:04,960 --> 01:04:07,800
Speaker 2: Different point of, view giving a little he's being too.

1198
01:04:07,840 --> 01:04:11,240
Speaker 3: Fair, YEAH i see things a little. DIFFERENTLY i will Conquer.

1199
01:04:11,280 --> 01:04:14,120
Speaker 3: Earth but so we see basically the same thing we

1200
01:04:14,160 --> 01:04:16,360
Speaker 3: saw at the end of the first, movie though it

1201
01:04:16,400 --> 01:04:19,960
Speaker 3: looks worse. Now so you got gathering storm, clouds purple,

1202
01:04:20,040 --> 01:04:23,080
Speaker 3: clouds you, know purple have we already talked about. This

1203
01:04:23,720 --> 01:04:25,560
Speaker 3: purple seems to be the color Of.

1204
01:04:25,760 --> 01:04:30,880
Speaker 2: Outworld there's that One outworld fight. Stage it looks always

1205
01:04:30,960 --> 01:04:33,000
Speaker 2: was one of my favorites In Moratl kombat, too AND

1206
01:04:33,040 --> 01:04:36,320
Speaker 2: i think that's the reference point. Here very, purple, purple dark.

1207
01:04:36,440 --> 01:04:39,520
Speaker 3: Lighting, yeah, yeah so there's, lightning the temple towers begin to,

1208
01:04:39,560 --> 01:04:43,000
Speaker 3: crumble everything's starting to look very, purple and then a

1209
01:04:43,040 --> 01:04:45,600
Speaker 3: giant ring of fire in the sky opens up and

1210
01:04:45,640 --> 01:04:48,560
Speaker 3: it squirts out some human shaped figures on, fire of,

1211
01:04:48,600 --> 01:04:51,360
Speaker 3: course and they fall to earth and they start hopping

1212
01:04:51,400 --> 01:04:54,320
Speaker 3: and leaping around and doing flips in the, air and

1213
01:04:54,360 --> 01:04:58,840
Speaker 3: it's literally raining, ninjas raining. Ninjas they're just doing, flips

1214
01:04:59,160 --> 01:05:01,840
Speaker 3: and some of the shots are very funny because they're

1215
01:05:01,880 --> 01:05:04,680
Speaker 3: just hopping like, rabbits and you don't see them leaving the.

1216
01:05:04,720 --> 01:05:06,920
Speaker 3: Ground the camera is just pointed up at the sky

1217
01:05:07,480 --> 01:05:11,040
Speaker 3: and you see these flaming ninjas just arcing overhead like,

1218
01:05:11,120 --> 01:05:16,439
Speaker 3: grasshoppers you, know and. Swarm but, anyway so there these

1219
01:05:16,440 --> 01:05:18,640
Speaker 3: are The emperor's bad. Dudes it's the sort of an

1220
01:05:18,840 --> 01:05:23,160
Speaker 3: army of interchangeable martial arts. Henchmen most of them are

1221
01:05:23,160 --> 01:05:26,960
Speaker 3: in some combo of baggy black, pants black, boots wrist.

1222
01:05:27,080 --> 01:05:30,680
Speaker 3: Bracers many are bear, chested a lot of times heads

1223
01:05:30,680 --> 01:05:34,280
Speaker 3: wrapped in some kind of black. Cloth and then our, heroes,

1224
01:05:34,360 --> 01:05:36,640
Speaker 3: meanwhile are standing there watching. This so you got Lu,

1225
01:05:36,720 --> 01:05:41,560
Speaker 3: Kang Princess, Katana, Rayden Sonia, Blade Johnny. Cage they assume

1226
01:05:41,600 --> 01:05:44,120
Speaker 3: they're fighting stances and they're all looking around like what

1227
01:05:44,280 --> 01:05:46,600
Speaker 3: is this all? About, then we get a look at

1228
01:05:46,640 --> 01:05:50,000
Speaker 3: the more distinct named bad. Guys Shau kan is going

1229
01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:53,360
Speaker 3: to call these his, generals but then also confusingly sometimes

1230
01:05:53,480 --> 01:05:58,439
Speaker 3: identifies only one of them as the. General so there

1231
01:05:58,520 --> 01:06:00,800
Speaker 3: is a guy in a similar ja suit to the

1232
01:06:00,800 --> 01:06:04,160
Speaker 3: Original scorpion and Sub, zero but kind of more padded

1233
01:06:04,280 --> 01:06:07,920
Speaker 3: technical look with red. Accents and this guy is Called. Ermak.

1234
01:06:08,520 --> 01:06:10,720
Speaker 2: Yeah in the, games he's like a whole bunch of

1235
01:06:10,760 --> 01:06:13,960
Speaker 2: human souls and a trench. Coat, essentially here you don't

1236
01:06:13,960 --> 01:06:15,439
Speaker 2: really get a sense of what his whole deal.

1237
01:06:15,520 --> 01:06:15,600
Speaker 1: Is.

1238
01:06:15,920 --> 01:06:19,600
Speaker 3: Nice, yeah he's just a red ninja in THIS i, think, well,

1239
01:06:19,680 --> 01:06:23,200
Speaker 3: no he. Does he like creates duplicate, warriors like at

1240
01:06:23,200 --> 01:06:26,520
Speaker 3: the end when he's Fighting, sonya he can make other warriors. Appear,

1241
01:06:26,840 --> 01:06:30,400
Speaker 3: yeah there's a huge centaur with ram horns on his.

1242
01:06:30,440 --> 01:06:34,240
Speaker 3: Head he's the guy. Sneering this Is. Motaro there's a purple.

1243
01:06:34,360 --> 01:06:37,920
Speaker 3: NINJA i think this Is. RAIN i don't know What

1244
01:06:38,040 --> 01:06:38,560
Speaker 3: rain's deal.

1245
01:06:38,640 --> 01:06:42,520
Speaker 2: Is he's like an elemental prince or. Something he's like

1246
01:06:42,560 --> 01:06:44,880
Speaker 2: a good guy, eventually but at this time not really

1247
01:06:44,920 --> 01:06:46,440
Speaker 2: all that. DEVELOPED i think he was like a secret

1248
01:06:46,560 --> 01:06:48,520
Speaker 2: character and obviously a prince.

1249
01:06:48,640 --> 01:06:52,640
Speaker 3: Reference, okay oh, yeah probably didn't get that until. Now that's.

1250
01:06:52,680 --> 01:06:55,320
Speaker 3: Good and then there's the lady with foe arms Like

1251
01:06:55,400 --> 01:06:58,520
Speaker 3: goro from the first. Movie again this Is. Shiva and

1252
01:06:58,560 --> 01:07:00,960
Speaker 3: then another guy squirts down of the sky and this

1253
01:07:01,040 --> 01:07:04,000
Speaker 3: is The emperor Of, Outworld Chao. Khan he is wearing

1254
01:07:04,040 --> 01:07:07,479
Speaker 3: A lord Of bones skull, mask helmet with a big

1255
01:07:07,480 --> 01:07:11,240
Speaker 3: metal chevron sort of suggesting horns that's coming out of the.

1256
01:07:11,240 --> 01:07:14,680
Speaker 3: Forehead it's mounted on a big red. Gem he's got

1257
01:07:14,760 --> 01:07:18,800
Speaker 3: lamellar armor on his, body with black leather, suspenders no

1258
01:07:18,880 --> 01:07:22,200
Speaker 3: shirt of, course you, know pecks are out and a big,

1259
01:07:22,320 --> 01:07:24,840
Speaker 3: cape which is always good to wear for martial. Arts

1260
01:07:25,400 --> 01:07:27,840
Speaker 3: and then he appears on top of a brick wall

1261
01:07:27,960 --> 01:07:32,280
Speaker 3: and shouts the earth was created in six, days so

1262
01:07:32,600 --> 01:07:37,920
Speaker 3: too shall it be? Destroyed and there's. Lightning The outworld

1263
01:07:37,960 --> 01:07:40,960
Speaker 3: goons are still just doing random, flips and then he,

1264
01:07:41,040 --> 01:07:44,520
Speaker 3: says and on the seventh, day mankind will rest in.

1265
01:07:44,640 --> 01:07:47,320
Speaker 3: Peace i'm not going to do the shaukon delivery on every,

1266
01:07:47,320 --> 01:07:49,680
Speaker 3: line but just imagine most of the time he, talks

1267
01:07:50,080 --> 01:07:53,280
Speaker 3: it's like, that you. Know it's the Very Chris well

1268
01:07:53,320 --> 01:07:54,680
Speaker 3: predicts kind of loud.

1269
01:07:54,760 --> 01:07:57,880
Speaker 2: Projection, yeah and this Is Brian thompson's, voice, like this

1270
01:07:57,920 --> 01:08:00,320
Speaker 2: is Not they might, have you, know augmented his voice

1271
01:08:00,320 --> 01:08:03,120
Speaker 2: a little bit to make him sound More, shalcannie but uh,

1272
01:08:03,800 --> 01:08:05,480
Speaker 2: no this is this Is this is him for the most.

1273
01:08:05,480 --> 01:08:08,080
Speaker 3: Part, yeah So earth gonna be destroyed in six. Days

1274
01:08:08,360 --> 01:08:12,080
Speaker 3: Johnny cage, says this is not. Good Lu kang says

1275
01:08:12,480 --> 01:08:14,520
Speaker 3: Lu kang starts talking about, like, hey didn't we just

1276
01:08:14,560 --> 01:08:16,960
Speaker 3: Win Mortal. Kombat you, KNOW i thought our victory was

1277
01:08:17,000 --> 01:08:19,760
Speaker 3: supposed to close the portal To. Outworld do we really

1278
01:08:19,800 --> 01:08:20,360
Speaker 3: have to do this?

1279
01:08:20,400 --> 01:08:20,759
Speaker 2: Again?

1280
01:08:20,920 --> 01:08:24,920
Speaker 3: Yeah and Then raydon turns around and, says what closes

1281
01:08:25,080 --> 01:08:26,559
Speaker 3: can also open? Again?

1282
01:08:29,040 --> 01:08:30,960
Speaker 2: True, true that is how doors.

1283
01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:34,200
Speaker 3: Work. Yeah, yeah uh so our heroes talk about, this

1284
01:08:34,280 --> 01:08:37,439
Speaker 3: but their conference is interrupted by a blood curdling. Shriek

1285
01:08:37,760 --> 01:08:39,920
Speaker 3: it is a woman, screaming and then it seems to

1286
01:08:39,960 --> 01:08:42,920
Speaker 3: kind of echo through everybody's. Bones and then there's a

1287
01:08:43,000 --> 01:08:46,080
Speaker 3: hard electric guitar chord that, plays and a new character

1288
01:08:46,200 --> 01:08:50,120
Speaker 3: walks out onto the promontory With Shao kan's, generals and

1289
01:08:50,160 --> 01:08:53,799
Speaker 3: this Is, sindel An outworld queen in a purple outfit

1290
01:08:54,240 --> 01:08:57,439
Speaker 3: with long black hair with shocks of white. U and

1291
01:08:57,479 --> 01:09:02,080
Speaker 3: Then Princess katana looks up at her and, says, mother you're.

1292
01:09:02,120 --> 01:09:07,599
Speaker 3: Alive sindel puckers her, lips points At katana and, replies too,

1293
01:09:07,640 --> 01:09:13,560
Speaker 3: bad you will. DIE i think this exchange is somewhat, famous.

1294
01:09:14,920 --> 01:09:16,800
Speaker 2: And you know all of this, Too LIKE i think

1295
01:09:16,840 --> 01:09:19,080
Speaker 2: this is all essentially in the. Games but it's one

1296
01:09:19,080 --> 01:09:20,840
Speaker 2: of those things, like, well once you say it out,

1297
01:09:20,880 --> 01:09:23,519
Speaker 2: loud it sounds kind of, stupid you, know once you

1298
01:09:23,560 --> 01:09:27,400
Speaker 2: actually put it in a narrative, structure and maybe doesn't

1299
01:09:27,800 --> 01:09:28,200
Speaker 2: work as.

1300
01:09:28,240 --> 01:09:31,639
Speaker 3: Well so Both raydon And Shao khan do some flips

1301
01:09:31,720 --> 01:09:33,680
Speaker 3: and they end up face to face this. Movie just

1302
01:09:34,040 --> 01:09:38,520
Speaker 3: remember constantly flips are happening all Throughout Mortal Combat. Annihilation

1303
01:09:38,680 --> 01:09:41,080
Speaker 3: imagine we're not going to narrate every time there are.

1304
01:09:41,080 --> 01:09:43,960
Speaker 3: Flips there's just flips every scene as people doing.

1305
01:09:43,960 --> 01:09:46,439
Speaker 2: Flips, yeah and SOMETIMES i guess they're augmented with some

1306
01:09:46,479 --> 01:09:49,840
Speaker 2: sort of computer effect that makes them feel even more

1307
01:09:49,840 --> 01:09:52,439
Speaker 2: detached from. Reality so it's just. Flips it's just like

1308
01:09:52,520 --> 01:09:55,200
Speaker 2: you don't even they don't even feel grounded in the real.

1309
01:09:55,200 --> 01:09:59,200
Speaker 3: World, Yeah raydon, says as long AS i have the

1310
01:09:59,280 --> 01:10:02,280
Speaker 3: power con and you will never rule this. World Shao khan,

1311
01:10:02,360 --> 01:10:05,679
Speaker 3: says as long as the portal remains. Open your world

1312
01:10:05,760 --> 01:10:09,400
Speaker 3: becomes my world and then they start, Fighting rob do

1313
01:10:09,400 --> 01:10:11,479
Speaker 3: you have thoughts on this? Fight minimal?

1314
01:10:11,560 --> 01:10:14,400
Speaker 2: Fight so they both pull off sort of wonky versions

1315
01:10:14,400 --> 01:10:17,479
Speaker 2: of their signature moves and we get some wonky flips in.

1316
01:10:17,560 --> 01:10:19,679
Speaker 2: There that's about.

1317
01:10:19,720 --> 01:10:23,759
Speaker 3: It Chao khan's moves include a kind of rush tackle

1318
01:10:23,800 --> 01:10:26,880
Speaker 3: where he turns into YELLOW cgi like just kind of

1319
01:10:26,880 --> 01:10:29,920
Speaker 3: a smear and then, hits and then he also can

1320
01:10:29,960 --> 01:10:34,280
Speaker 3: shoot green star polygons in the. AIR i like how

1321
01:10:34,400 --> 01:10:37,920
Speaker 3: during this fight everybody else is just sort of doing

1322
01:10:38,080 --> 01:10:40,799
Speaker 3: moves at the air at each other from the. Distance

1323
01:10:40,840 --> 01:10:44,759
Speaker 3: so Like raydon And Sha khan are actually, fighting but everybody,

1324
01:10:44,760 --> 01:10:47,679
Speaker 3: else Like motaro the, centaur is just kind of punching

1325
01:10:47,720 --> 01:10:50,559
Speaker 3: and pumping in the air At lukang And KATANA i

1326
01:10:50,560 --> 01:10:54,400
Speaker 3: guess to scare. Them and so eventually in this, Fight

1327
01:10:54,560 --> 01:10:56,840
Speaker 3: raydon seems to be getting the better Of Shao khan

1328
01:10:57,080 --> 01:11:00,400
Speaker 3: Until Sha kan pulls a dirty. Trick he he gets

1329
01:11:00,400 --> 01:11:02,720
Speaker 3: thrown a whip by one of his lackeys and then

1330
01:11:02,720 --> 01:11:06,040
Speaker 3: he Whips sonia's ankles and drags her to him and

1331
01:11:06,080 --> 01:11:09,240
Speaker 3: puts a foot on her. Neck Johnny cage tries to

1332
01:11:09,280 --> 01:11:11,679
Speaker 3: rescue her by doing a flying kick where he turns

1333
01:11:11,720 --> 01:11:13,559
Speaker 3: into a. SHADOW i think that's a move from the

1334
01:11:13,560 --> 01:11:16,519
Speaker 3: game and s o, kick But Shao kan swats him,

1335
01:11:16,520 --> 01:11:20,800
Speaker 3: down and Then Johnny cage's aviator sunglasses fall to the

1336
01:11:20,840 --> 01:11:25,479
Speaker 3: ground dramatically in slow, motion like not the, sunglasses and

1337
01:11:25,520 --> 01:11:29,240
Speaker 3: then The emperor does a sick elbow drop On Johnny,

1338
01:11:29,280 --> 01:11:32,439
Speaker 3: cage and then he demands That raydon's surrender or he's

1339
01:11:32,479 --> 01:11:36,719
Speaker 3: going to kill this. Earthling raydon tries to. Negotiate he, says,

1340
01:11:36,760 --> 01:11:39,120
Speaker 3: like if you Hurt Johnny, CAGE i will zap all

1341
01:11:39,120 --> 01:11:42,120
Speaker 3: of your generals with this ball of. Lightning But Shao

1342
01:11:42,200 --> 01:11:45,200
Speaker 3: kan calls his. Bluff he, says you would never let

1343
01:11:45,240 --> 01:11:48,240
Speaker 3: one of your precious humans, die and then he Commands

1344
01:11:48,320 --> 01:11:51,040
Speaker 3: raiden to bow at his. Feet it, seems maybe for

1345
01:11:51,080 --> 01:11:53,960
Speaker 3: a second Like raydin's gonna do it unclear what's happening,

1346
01:11:53,960 --> 01:11:57,320
Speaker 3: here because suddenly The emperor just, says you, fool and

1347
01:11:57,360 --> 01:12:01,040
Speaker 3: then he Snaps Johnny cage's. Neck major character is now.

1348
01:12:01,120 --> 01:12:04,080
Speaker 3: Dead AND i think the point of this was to

1349
01:12:04,160 --> 01:12:06,200
Speaker 3: let you know that the stakes are really on this,

1350
01:12:06,320 --> 01:12:08,679
Speaker 3: time like kill off a major character in the first five.

1351
01:12:08,720 --> 01:12:11,479
Speaker 2: Minutes, YEAH i mean otherwise it would work. Here it

1352
01:12:11,520 --> 01:12:13,720
Speaker 2: just kind of feels like we didn't have space for this.

1353
01:12:13,880 --> 01:12:16,720
Speaker 3: Characters, yeah we're gonna go ahead and just write them.

1354
01:12:16,720 --> 01:12:20,720
Speaker 3: Out we get some, tender tearful mourning From, sonya who

1355
01:12:20,800 --> 01:12:23,040
Speaker 3: was in love With Johnny cage from the first. Movie

1356
01:12:23,040 --> 01:12:23,799
Speaker 3: did we establish?

1357
01:12:23,880 --> 01:12:26,800
Speaker 2: THAT i don't, Know maybe maybe she.

1358
01:12:26,800 --> 01:12:29,040
Speaker 3: Has that line in the first movie she's, like don't

1359
01:12:29,080 --> 01:12:33,280
Speaker 3: you dare do this to protect Me Johnny? Cage but,

1360
01:12:33,400 --> 01:12:36,160
Speaker 3: anyway so he's dead, now and she's said and Then

1361
01:12:36,360 --> 01:12:40,920
Speaker 3: Shao kan stretches his arms out in crucifixion pose and,

1362
01:12:41,000 --> 01:12:43,920
Speaker 3: says in six, days you will all bow to. Me

1363
01:12:44,520 --> 01:12:48,479
Speaker 3: it has. Begun it has begun Is shangsung's line from

1364
01:12:48,479 --> 01:12:53,400
Speaker 3: the first. Movie and then a big horned outworld monster

1365
01:12:53,600 --> 01:12:56,519
Speaker 3: statue rises up out of the ground With Johnny cage's

1366
01:12:56,520 --> 01:13:00,760
Speaker 3: body cradled between its. Horns there's some kind of transformation

1367
01:13:00,920 --> 01:13:04,160
Speaker 3: of the physical matter Of earth taking, place Like outworld

1368
01:13:04,240 --> 01:13:08,200
Speaker 3: is intruding on this. World so if That's, outworld by the,

1369
01:13:08,240 --> 01:13:09,639
Speaker 3: way are we in? World?

1370
01:13:10,280 --> 01:13:14,280
Speaker 2: Mmm, no we're just. Starting, okay, yeah, okay but this

1371
01:13:14,400 --> 01:13:16,280
Speaker 2: is the first time we get some sort of like

1372
01:13:16,320 --> 01:13:21,680
Speaker 2: big cgi gargoyle crawling out of the. Scenery this is

1373
01:13:21,720 --> 01:13:22,599
Speaker 2: going to happen again and.

1374
01:13:22,640 --> 01:13:28,880
Speaker 3: Again shaukan instructs his forces by, saying annihilate. Them there you,

1375
01:13:28,920 --> 01:13:31,439
Speaker 3: Go and then our heroes run away into a secret

1376
01:13:31,479 --> 01:13:34,360
Speaker 3: passage in a, temple Which rayden closes behind them with.

1377
01:13:34,479 --> 01:13:37,519
Speaker 3: Magic so now that they have made it to temporary,

1378
01:13:37,560 --> 01:13:40,400
Speaker 3: safety our heroes are going to discuss their. Predicament mostly

1379
01:13:40,439 --> 01:13:44,040
Speaker 3: it's just raid and explaining. Things you. Know raiden, says

1380
01:13:44,200 --> 01:13:47,719
Speaker 3: your planet and outworld have started to merge into one.

1381
01:13:47,840 --> 01:13:50,719
Speaker 3: Realm he, says think of it as hell On. Earth

1382
01:13:51,640 --> 01:13:56,720
Speaker 3: other topics discussed include Lu kang complaining he reiterates his

1383
01:13:56,760 --> 01:13:59,280
Speaker 3: ideas like didn't we just win a tournament to prevent

1384
01:13:59,320 --> 01:14:04,040
Speaker 3: this from? Happening good, Point raidin, says quote, obviously con

1385
01:14:04,120 --> 01:14:07,400
Speaker 3: has cheated and broken the rules he can do. That

1386
01:14:08,640 --> 01:14:12,280
Speaker 3: kitana is surprised her mother's. Alive she thought her mother was.

1387
01:14:12,320 --> 01:14:16,080
Speaker 3: Dead Then raidin, says IF i am, correct your Mother

1388
01:14:16,200 --> 01:14:19,639
Speaker 3: sindell is the key to all of. This, now how's

1389
01:14:19,800 --> 01:14:22,439
Speaker 3: she going to be the? Key raidin says he thinks

1390
01:14:22,520 --> 01:14:26,200
Speaker 3: that The emperor has quote resurrected your mother to keep

1391
01:14:26,200 --> 01:14:30,439
Speaker 3: these portals open. Indefinitely no further elaboration on how that.

1392
01:14:30,560 --> 01:14:34,800
Speaker 3: Works just accept. It, Yeah But raydon also has a,

1393
01:14:34,840 --> 01:14:38,880
Speaker 3: solution he, says by Reuniting kaitana With. Sindell so he's

1394
01:14:38,920 --> 01:14:41,640
Speaker 3: going to reunite mother with. Daughter the spell is going

1395
01:14:41,720 --> 01:14:44,519
Speaker 3: to be broken And sindell's soul can rest in. Peace

1396
01:14:44,600 --> 01:14:47,920
Speaker 3: this will close the. Portals BUT i was just, thinking

1397
01:14:48,240 --> 01:14:50,360
Speaker 3: you've got to reunite them. More they just reunited in

1398
01:14:50,400 --> 01:14:52,599
Speaker 3: the previous scene And sindell threatened to kill.

1399
01:14:52,640 --> 01:14:55,280
Speaker 2: Her they got to have quality time together and they're

1400
01:14:55,320 --> 01:14:57,639
Speaker 2: not just, meeting you, know out in the. Open they've

1401
01:14:57,640 --> 01:15:00,479
Speaker 2: got to spend some time and really like pair that.

1402
01:15:00,520 --> 01:15:01,639
Speaker 2: RELATIONSHIP i GUESS.

1403
01:15:01,439 --> 01:15:03,559
Speaker 3: I think maybe that is the idea is like you've

1404
01:15:03,560 --> 01:15:05,840
Speaker 3: got To you've got to teach her to love again or.

1405
01:15:05,880 --> 01:15:09,120
Speaker 3: SOMETHING a big question is like why are the elder

1406
01:15:09,160 --> 01:15:12,160
Speaker 3: gods allowing this to. Happen raidin doesn't. Know he's gonna

1407
01:15:12,200 --> 01:15:15,519
Speaker 3: go find. Out so the hero's bicker for a bit

1408
01:15:15,600 --> 01:15:17,599
Speaker 3: over which one of them is going to Kill Shao.

1409
01:15:17,680 --> 01:15:20,760
Speaker 3: KHAN i Think sonya wants to because you, know he

1410
01:15:20,840 --> 01:15:23,840
Speaker 3: killed her, Lover Johnny. Cage of course Lu kang wants.

1411
01:15:23,920 --> 01:15:27,360
Speaker 3: To raydon tells them. Enough he, says you're not. Ready,

1412
01:15:28,479 --> 01:15:30,559
Speaker 3: essentially he's, like you got to level up your character

1413
01:15:30,640 --> 01:15:33,880
Speaker 3: before you can fight the final. Boss, also he says

1414
01:15:33,920 --> 01:15:38,640
Speaker 3: with the portals, Open Shao kan's extermination squads will be

1415
01:15:38,720 --> 01:15:43,240
Speaker 3: hunting you everywhere you. Go he also. Says raydon, Says

1416
01:15:43,280 --> 01:15:45,720
Speaker 3: i've got no powers in, outworld and as the two

1417
01:15:45,760 --> 01:15:48,640
Speaker 3: realms continue to, Merge i'm going to gradually lose my

1418
01:15:48,720 --> 01:15:51,800
Speaker 3: powers On. Earth so we've got to act. Fast now

1419
01:15:51,800 --> 01:15:54,120
Speaker 3: here's where we get the hamster. Balls they go into

1420
01:15:54,160 --> 01:15:56,680
Speaker 3: the subterranean realm and get into a thing called a,

1421
01:15:56,880 --> 01:16:01,080
Speaker 3: velosphere these big balls that he umans can get. Inside

1422
01:16:01,080 --> 01:16:03,800
Speaker 3: they travel through tunnels to reach anywhere On earth within.

1423
01:16:03,920 --> 01:16:08,240
Speaker 3: Hours katana says the inner winds propel, you which sounds

1424
01:16:08,240 --> 01:16:11,880
Speaker 3: like a flatulence, joke and then she also says you

1425
01:16:11,920 --> 01:16:14,160
Speaker 3: will be moving so fast it will be as though

1426
01:16:14,200 --> 01:16:16,639
Speaker 3: you're not moving at. All you have to think About,

1427
01:16:17,000 --> 01:16:19,920
Speaker 3: yeah think about that one for a. Minute and Then

1428
01:16:20,120 --> 01:16:22,719
Speaker 3: raydon assigns some. Missions so this is what the characters

1429
01:16:22,760 --> 01:16:24,960
Speaker 3: are going to have to. Do sonia has to go

1430
01:16:25,040 --> 01:16:28,719
Speaker 3: find her Old Special Art Special, Arts Special ops Partner.

1431
01:16:28,880 --> 01:16:32,760
Speaker 3: Jacks he, says, alone you're, vulnerable but if you work,

1432
01:16:32,800 --> 01:16:35,800
Speaker 3: together as a team you can do. Much and Then

1433
01:16:35,880 --> 01:16:38,240
Speaker 3: lukang And katana are going to have to travel to

1434
01:16:38,320 --> 01:16:41,160
Speaker 3: The Hopie mesa to become stronger by learning from a

1435
01:16:41,200 --> 01:16:45,000
Speaker 3: warrior called Night. Wolf, meanwhile raidin he's going to go

1436
01:16:45,000 --> 01:16:47,679
Speaker 3: file a tech support ticket with The Elder. Gods, yeah

1437
01:16:48,600 --> 01:16:50,559
Speaker 3: so they all get in the giant balls and roll.

1438
01:16:50,600 --> 01:16:52,800
Speaker 3: Away and there's a funny thing about the, balls which

1439
01:16:52,840 --> 01:16:55,840
Speaker 3: is that when you ride in, them two humans are

1440
01:16:55,880 --> 01:16:58,519
Speaker 3: basically like stretched out in the middle of the, ball

1441
01:16:58,680 --> 01:17:01,920
Speaker 3: like pressed together face to, face which makes more sense

1442
01:17:01,920 --> 01:17:05,240
Speaker 3: when It's katana and Lu kang. Traveling there's already this

1443
01:17:05,320 --> 01:17:10,200
Speaker 3: vague suggestion of romantic potential between. Them but it's just

1444
01:17:10,280 --> 01:17:12,240
Speaker 3: kind of awkward Been sonia and raid and have to

1445
01:17:12,280 --> 01:17:16,880
Speaker 3: climb into a ball. TOGETHER i don't. Know by the,

1446
01:17:16,920 --> 01:17:18,479
Speaker 3: WAY i want to, say a lot of things in

1447
01:17:18,520 --> 01:17:21,479
Speaker 3: this movie look, bad but the velosphere stuff is practical

1448
01:17:21,560 --> 01:17:25,000
Speaker 3: model work, Mostly AND i thought these, effects they don't

1449
01:17:25,040 --> 01:17:28,400
Speaker 3: look like amazingly, realistic BUT i thought they were tactle

1450
01:17:28,400 --> 01:17:30,200
Speaker 3: in a kind of charming, way kind of like a

1451
01:17:30,240 --> 01:17:33,599
Speaker 3: cross Between Mighty Morphin Power rangers And mystery science Theater.

1452
01:17:33,720 --> 01:17:35,400
Speaker 2: Props, okay, YEAH i can see that.

1453
01:17:35,600 --> 01:17:39,599
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, anyway there is a there's a scene of,

1454
01:17:39,720 --> 01:17:43,680
Speaker 3: oh the scene after This shaukan at. Home this is

1455
01:17:43,720 --> 01:17:47,080
Speaker 3: the one where, okay so we get like a zooming

1456
01:17:47,120 --> 01:17:50,760
Speaker 3: exterior shot of this Giant outworld, Castle Gray skull thing

1457
01:17:50,880 --> 01:17:53,760
Speaker 3: is big tower going into the sky like a lot

1458
01:17:53,800 --> 01:17:57,519
Speaker 3: of things In. Outworld there is a fluorescent purple aura around,

1459
01:17:57,520 --> 01:18:01,200
Speaker 3: it like A uv. Light and then we come inside

1460
01:18:01,200 --> 01:18:03,599
Speaker 3: The throne room And Shao khan is sitting there now

1461
01:18:03,760 --> 01:18:07,320
Speaker 3: out of his Bone storm, costume and it's Just Brian

1462
01:18:07,400 --> 01:18:11,759
Speaker 3: thompson looking like a regular muscular human man with a shaved,

1463
01:18:11,800 --> 01:18:15,120
Speaker 3: head sitting by himself in a BLACK t shirt and

1464
01:18:15,160 --> 01:18:18,360
Speaker 3: brooding and at a certain, angle you could really mistake

1465
01:18:18,439 --> 01:18:20,439
Speaker 3: this for a shot from A fast and The furious,

1466
01:18:20,479 --> 01:18:23,360
Speaker 3: Movie like he looks Like Vin diesel chilling in his auto.

1467
01:18:23,360 --> 01:18:26,120
Speaker 2: Shop, yeah he's way dressed down for this. Scene BUT

1468
01:18:26,160 --> 01:18:30,280
Speaker 2: i think too much because in the, Games Chau khan

1469
01:18:30,320 --> 01:18:32,960
Speaker 2: always has that helmet on and that's his. Signature And

1470
01:18:33,240 --> 01:18:35,760
Speaker 2: i'm not one of those one of those. Fans it's

1471
01:18:35,760 --> 01:18:38,240
Speaker 2: gonna be like, like oh, you this is Like Judge.

1472
01:18:38,280 --> 01:18:41,240
Speaker 2: Dread Judge, Dreads dread's helmet never comes, off should never come.

1473
01:18:41,280 --> 01:18:45,679
Speaker 2: Off Brian thompson has the look and feel Of Shao

1474
01:18:45,760 --> 01:18:48,320
Speaker 2: khan enough that he can take the mask in the

1475
01:18:48,360 --> 01:18:51,599
Speaker 2: helmet off however much he wants. To in this, picture,

1476
01:18:51,680 --> 01:18:53,680
Speaker 2: like he still looks Like Chau, khan but when he

1477
01:18:53,760 --> 01:18:56,280
Speaker 2: dresses down all the way it's a bit of a.

1478
01:18:56,320 --> 01:18:59,519
Speaker 3: Stretch the BLACK t shirt look is pretty. Funny, ALSO

1479
01:19:00,520 --> 01:19:04,280
Speaker 3: i was not prepared For Chao khan to seem like

1480
01:19:04,320 --> 01:19:07,800
Speaker 3: he's experiencing. Melancholy is that something that ever happens in the.

1481
01:19:07,800 --> 01:19:10,240
Speaker 2: GAME i don't think. SO i, mean he's just rage

1482
01:19:10,280 --> 01:19:13,519
Speaker 2: and violence in the. Games he's just you, know it's

1483
01:19:13,520 --> 01:19:13,720
Speaker 2: like a.

1484
01:19:13,720 --> 01:19:16,600
Speaker 3: Demon he's a little bit pitiful in the. Scene so

1485
01:19:16,800 --> 01:19:18,640
Speaker 3: the next thing that happens is a guy with a

1486
01:19:18,680 --> 01:19:22,200
Speaker 3: goatee in a black cultthood silently walks into the throne.

1487
01:19:22,280 --> 01:19:26,519
Speaker 3: Room Then Chao kan notices him and, says, father the

1488
01:19:26,640 --> 01:19:30,200
Speaker 3: merger has. Begun earth is under attack and it is.

1489
01:19:30,439 --> 01:19:33,679
Speaker 3: Glorious he shouts this like arms raised in the, air

1490
01:19:34,560 --> 01:19:38,599
Speaker 3: And Sha kan's father Is this is the Character shinnock

1491
01:19:38,680 --> 01:19:42,000
Speaker 3: we were talking about. Earlier, NOW i was not familiar

1492
01:19:42,000 --> 01:19:43,680
Speaker 3: with him from the games BECAUSE i never made it

1493
01:19:43,720 --> 01:19:46,680
Speaker 3: that far in the. Series but here he does not

1494
01:19:46,800 --> 01:19:49,639
Speaker 3: have the CHARACTERISTICS i gather he has in the. Games

1495
01:19:49,880 --> 01:19:52,160
Speaker 3: he's just a guy in this cult robe with A german.

1496
01:19:52,200 --> 01:19:55,600
Speaker 3: Accent and the other thing is like he is like

1497
01:19:55,680 --> 01:19:59,240
Speaker 3: The denethor. Meme it's Like borimir would have Killed raydon,

1498
01:19:59,280 --> 01:20:04,680
Speaker 3: already just very, disappointed coldly disappointed. Father, yeah he's like

1499
01:20:04,720 --> 01:20:06,360
Speaker 3: the Mom lucille un arrested.

1500
01:20:06,400 --> 01:20:06,920
Speaker 2: Development.

1501
01:20:07,240 --> 01:20:11,680
Speaker 3: Yeah And Shao kan is you, know he's he does

1502
01:20:11,720 --> 01:20:14,479
Speaker 3: a flip for no reason and then he Says radon

1503
01:20:14,600 --> 01:20:18,080
Speaker 3: is of no concern to, us But shinnock is. Mad

1504
01:20:18,200 --> 01:20:22,040
Speaker 3: he he Like, dolly zooms forward and he, says you

1505
01:20:22,200 --> 01:20:26,640
Speaker 3: let him. LIVE i have no use for, excuses and So,

1506
01:20:27,360 --> 01:20:30,080
Speaker 3: rob can you clarify what's the Chau kan is the

1507
01:20:30,120 --> 01:20:33,000
Speaker 3: emperor of out, world but his dad is still his.

1508
01:20:33,200 --> 01:20:35,280
Speaker 3: Boss is his dad like the executive?

1509
01:20:35,280 --> 01:20:40,320
Speaker 2: EMPEROR i guess within this. Film, SURE i don't remember

1510
01:20:40,360 --> 01:20:42,680
Speaker 2: how it really works in the game so, much but,

1511
01:20:43,479 --> 01:20:47,559
Speaker 2: basically After Cha khan is, defeated Like shinnock is. Ascendant

1512
01:20:48,360 --> 01:20:51,360
Speaker 2: SO i never got that could be very wrong in

1513
01:20:51,400 --> 01:20:53,760
Speaker 2: THIS i never got the sense That Cha khan was

1514
01:20:53,800 --> 01:20:56,800
Speaker 2: a direct underling Of. Shinnock's but like once Chau kon is,

1515
01:20:56,800 --> 01:20:59,639
Speaker 2: defeated like the Power vacuum Allows shinnock to really try

1516
01:20:59,680 --> 01:21:00,760
Speaker 2: and the main.

1517
01:21:00,960 --> 01:21:05,240
Speaker 3: Boss, Okay, Well shinnock gives more exposition. Here he, says

1518
01:21:05,520 --> 01:21:08,120
Speaker 3: because we've broken the rules of the tournament to keep

1519
01:21:08,160 --> 01:21:11,920
Speaker 3: the portals, open we're. Vulnerable so if The Elder gods

1520
01:21:12,000 --> 01:21:15,960
Speaker 3: learn of our plot, quote we shall both suffer the. Consequences,

1521
01:21:16,880 --> 01:21:18,840
Speaker 3: NOW i was, thinking it seems like a pretty big,

1522
01:21:18,880 --> 01:21:22,280
Speaker 3: plot like merging outworld With. EARTH i would think The

1523
01:21:22,280 --> 01:21:24,760
Speaker 3: Elder gods would figure that out sooner or. Later but

1524
01:21:24,840 --> 01:21:26,280
Speaker 3: do they have a lot of worlds to?

1525
01:21:26,360 --> 01:21:28,599
Speaker 2: MANAGE i think, so there are a lot of Different,

1526
01:21:28,920 --> 01:21:31,080
Speaker 2: yeah there are other realms that are explored in the.

1527
01:21:31,120 --> 01:21:33,400
Speaker 2: Game so, yeah they're busy and you, know and also

1528
01:21:33,520 --> 01:21:36,479
Speaker 2: they're a little they're like gods in, general like they're

1529
01:21:36,479 --> 01:21:38,559
Speaker 2: a little. Standoffish so, like let's see how this plays.

1530
01:21:38,560 --> 01:21:40,920
Speaker 2: Out we don't want to actually get involved unless we have.

1531
01:21:41,000 --> 01:21:44,200
Speaker 3: To, now they say if they complete the six day

1532
01:21:44,240 --> 01:21:47,880
Speaker 3: destruction Of, earth they will become, Invulnerable but until then

1533
01:21:48,040 --> 01:21:50,559
Speaker 3: they are, vulnerable so they can't take any. Chances they've

1534
01:21:50,560 --> 01:21:52,960
Speaker 3: got to Find rayden and His Mortal fighters and kill

1535
01:21:53,000 --> 01:21:56,360
Speaker 3: them at. Once and Then shinnock, says To Shao. Khan he,

1536
01:21:56,400 --> 01:21:59,759
Speaker 3: says do not underestimate the power of the human. Spirit

1537
01:22:01,400 --> 01:22:13,559
Speaker 3: a little confidence in humanity From. China so Lu kang

1538
01:22:13,600 --> 01:22:16,519
Speaker 3: And katana they go on an. Adventure they're trying to

1539
01:22:16,520 --> 01:22:18,760
Speaker 3: find The Hope mesa to learn from Night, wolf The

1540
01:22:18,840 --> 01:22:23,040
Speaker 3: jedi who instructed me Uh and on the way they

1541
01:22:23,080 --> 01:22:26,479
Speaker 3: stop in a weird misty cave inside a mountain to

1542
01:22:26,560 --> 01:22:29,760
Speaker 3: talk about how you know if anything should happen to

1543
01:22:29,800 --> 01:22:31,839
Speaker 3: me And i'm never gonna lose you kind of, Stuff

1544
01:22:32,240 --> 01:22:34,240
Speaker 3: and then there are a couple of fight. Scenes so

1545
01:22:34,320 --> 01:22:38,759
Speaker 3: Lu kang first faces a cyber.

1546
01:22:38,840 --> 01:22:42,559
Speaker 2: NINJA i, think is this one called? Smoke this would

1547
01:22:42,560 --> 01:22:46,639
Speaker 2: be smoke since it's it's gray in. Color gray cyber

1548
01:22:46,760 --> 01:22:49,680
Speaker 2: ninja's also become like the generic cyber ninja's later on

1549
01:22:49,720 --> 01:22:51,160
Speaker 2: in the, Franchise but at this, POINT i think it's

1550
01:22:51,160 --> 01:22:54,280
Speaker 2: supposed to be. Smoke and, yeah we Get kang Versus,

1551
01:22:54,280 --> 01:22:57,800
Speaker 2: smoke and we get some cool, moves some logical fight progression,

1552
01:22:57,880 --> 01:23:00,160
Speaker 2: here but it's way too, brief and also there's there's

1553
01:23:00,160 --> 01:23:03,240
Speaker 2: not really any narrative weight. Here it's just new character shows,

1554
01:23:03,320 --> 01:23:06,320
Speaker 2: up fighting, ensues and then it eventually.

1555
01:23:06,439 --> 01:23:09,679
Speaker 3: ENDS i like how the cyber ninjas have hair sort.

1556
01:23:09,680 --> 01:23:12,879
Speaker 3: Of they have what's like a top ponytail of braids

1557
01:23:12,960 --> 01:23:16,080
Speaker 3: on their, heads except the braids are not their modem. Cables.

1558
01:23:16,280 --> 01:23:20,320
Speaker 3: Yeah so the cyber ninjas in the movie can shoot

1559
01:23:20,360 --> 01:23:23,240
Speaker 3: missiles out of their chests and. Smoke at one point

1560
01:23:23,280 --> 01:23:26,000
Speaker 3: powers up to blast one at Lu, kang and then

1561
01:23:26,080 --> 01:23:28,720
Speaker 3: Lu kang does what multiple characters in the movie do

1562
01:23:29,360 --> 01:23:32,400
Speaker 3: when like some devastating weapon is being launched at, them

1563
01:23:32,800 --> 01:23:35,880
Speaker 3: which is they sort of move into the path of

1564
01:23:35,920 --> 01:23:38,320
Speaker 3: the missile so they can at the last minute do

1565
01:23:38,400 --> 01:23:40,040
Speaker 3: a backflip and jump out of the.

1566
01:23:40,080 --> 01:23:42,320
Speaker 2: PATH i mean that's not going to work in the.

1567
01:23:42,360 --> 01:23:44,120
Speaker 2: Game you do a. Backflip he was just gonna land

1568
01:23:44,200 --> 01:23:46,880
Speaker 2: on top of. It oh, yeah depending on how fast

1569
01:23:46,880 --> 01:23:48,120
Speaker 2: it's going going to jump. Forward.

1570
01:23:48,200 --> 01:23:52,040
Speaker 3: Yeah and then a new contestant enters the. Picture it's

1571
01:23:52,160 --> 01:23:54,400
Speaker 3: new Sub, zero so he flies in from out of.

1572
01:23:54,479 --> 01:23:59,200
Speaker 3: Nowhere he freezes smoke with his freeze. Powers so this

1573
01:23:59,320 --> 01:24:02,120
Speaker 3: is a guy where during a costume like the original Sub,

1574
01:24:02,240 --> 01:24:05,080
Speaker 3: zero but he has a scar on his. Face and

1575
01:24:05,160 --> 01:24:09,439
Speaker 3: THEN i Think lukang saves this guy from getting shot

1576
01:24:09,479 --> 01:24:14,479
Speaker 3: by the Frozen things. Rocket So lukang is confused when

1577
01:24:14,479 --> 01:24:16,320
Speaker 3: he meets Sub, Zero he's, LIKE i killed you at the.

1578
01:24:16,360 --> 01:24:18,800
Speaker 3: Tournament but the new Sub zero takes off his mask

1579
01:24:18,880 --> 01:24:21,439
Speaker 3: and reveals that the other Sub zero was his older.

1580
01:24:21,479 --> 01:24:24,800
Speaker 3: Brother why did the Sub zero help, them he, says

1581
01:24:25,280 --> 01:24:28,360
Speaker 3: quote because legend has it That Princess katana is the

1582
01:24:28,439 --> 01:24:36,160
Speaker 3: key to Stopping cohn's. Plot legend has. It, Yeah, okay,

1583
01:24:36,840 --> 01:24:41,120
Speaker 3: anyway he. Explains he, says two days, ago kN Reprogrammed

1584
01:24:41,240 --> 01:24:44,680
Speaker 3: smoke to come after you instead of. Me So i'm

1585
01:24:44,720 --> 01:24:47,200
Speaker 3: thinking of con in, there like he's in the command line.

1586
01:24:47,280 --> 01:24:48,479
Speaker 3: Programming these are these?

1587
01:24:48,600 --> 01:24:52,240
Speaker 2: Robots, yeah a little copy and, Paste, yeah just rearranging

1588
01:24:52,240 --> 01:24:55,000
Speaker 2: the central programming for these cybernetic.

1589
01:24:55,360 --> 01:24:57,960
Speaker 3: Ninjas so Sub zero is going to help, them he,

1590
01:24:58,000 --> 01:24:59,680
Speaker 3: says he's going to help. Them but then before they

1591
01:24:59,680 --> 01:25:02,519
Speaker 3: can if there is another outworld fighter, attack and this

1592
01:25:02,640 --> 01:25:06,160
Speaker 3: time it Is scorpion back from the. Dead so rob

1593
01:25:06,200 --> 01:25:07,120
Speaker 3: you had some notes on this.

1594
01:25:07,200 --> 01:25:10,200
Speaker 2: Fight, yeah this is at this point in the. Film

1595
01:25:10,200 --> 01:25:12,880
Speaker 2: this is the best fight so. Far so we do

1596
01:25:12,960 --> 01:25:15,800
Speaker 2: get those wonky, flips but it's a fight you can.

1597
01:25:15,880 --> 01:25:18,040
Speaker 2: Follow it makes cool use of a. Set this is

1598
01:25:18,120 --> 01:25:22,640
Speaker 2: kind of like you, know weird subterranean. Bridge there's some

1599
01:25:22,720 --> 01:25:27,240
Speaker 2: back and forth on that some fun. Effects the benefit

1600
01:25:27,320 --> 01:25:30,679
Speaker 2: also here is that this is a known rivalry In Mortal.

1601
01:25:30,720 --> 01:25:32,840
Speaker 2: KOMBAT i, mean if you play the, games you Know

1602
01:25:32,920 --> 01:25:36,320
Speaker 2: scorpion and Sub zero are are you, know they're always

1603
01:25:36,560 --> 01:25:38,760
Speaker 2: fighting each other or they're teaming up with each, other

1604
01:25:38,800 --> 01:25:43,280
Speaker 2: but they have this long, relationship so we we buy

1605
01:25:43,320 --> 01:25:45,920
Speaker 2: into it on that, level even though their rivalry is

1606
01:25:46,040 --> 01:25:49,640
Speaker 2: not really all that firmly established in this. Film but,

1607
01:25:49,760 --> 01:25:52,120
Speaker 2: yeah they fight for a bit and then we get

1608
01:25:52,160 --> 01:25:54,400
Speaker 2: this great moment at the end where who is it is?

1609
01:25:54,439 --> 01:25:59,679
Speaker 2: It does he Kidnap sonya or is Kidnap? Katana sonya

1610
01:25:59,720 --> 01:26:00,120
Speaker 2: is off.

1611
01:26:00,040 --> 01:26:02,160
Speaker 3: With Rage that's, right she's on the. Checks, yeah he

1612
01:26:02,240 --> 01:26:05,600
Speaker 3: Kidnaps katana Because Shao khan needs her put her in the.

1613
01:26:05,640 --> 01:26:08,720
Speaker 2: Birdcage, yeah and of course we know scorpions catchphrase is

1614
01:26:08,760 --> 01:26:09,479
Speaker 2: get over. Here.

1615
01:26:09,800 --> 01:26:16,560
Speaker 3: Yeah instead he yells, sucker. Sucker it's suckers with A.

1616
01:26:16,680 --> 01:26:18,519
Speaker 2: Z absolutely, yeah.

1617
01:26:19,000 --> 01:26:23,920
Speaker 3: Suckers then, disappears he like disappears With katana into this

1618
01:26:24,040 --> 01:26:27,560
Speaker 3: glob of pink cgi. Goo so uh Oh katana is

1619
01:26:27,560 --> 01:26:30,840
Speaker 3: a prisoner now uh and how are they going to

1620
01:26:30,960 --> 01:26:35,080
Speaker 3: unite her With sindella according to the, legend but Uh

1621
01:26:35,280 --> 01:26:38,200
Speaker 3: lukang wants to go After, katana but Sub zero convinces

1622
01:26:38,280 --> 01:26:41,160
Speaker 3: him that it's a. Trap that's What kahn wants. Instead

1623
01:26:41,200 --> 01:26:43,800
Speaker 3: lukang has to become stronger so he can face what's,

1624
01:26:43,800 --> 01:26:45,759
Speaker 3: ahead so he has to go train with Night. Wolf

1625
01:26:45,960 --> 01:26:48,720
Speaker 3: does Sub zero like return to his home planet at this?

1626
01:26:48,800 --> 01:26:50,120
Speaker 2: Point like do we see a good?

1627
01:26:50,240 --> 01:26:55,479
Speaker 3: QUESTION i don't, Know, YEAH i don't. Remember does he come?

1628
01:26:55,520 --> 01:26:58,400
Speaker 2: Back? Yeah he kind of felt Like scorpion doesn't really

1629
01:26:58,439 --> 01:27:00,160
Speaker 2: come back, either Does he's kind of like Score pen

1630
01:27:00,200 --> 01:27:03,439
Speaker 2: And subzero just pop in for brand recognition and.

1631
01:27:03,600 --> 01:27:06,920
Speaker 3: There so the next thing is we See sonya's mission

1632
01:27:06,960 --> 01:27:10,040
Speaker 3: to retrieve her Partner. Jack's sonya And raiden come out

1633
01:27:10,080 --> 01:27:12,479
Speaker 3: of a. Cave they're staring at a chain link fence

1634
01:27:12,520 --> 01:27:17,640
Speaker 3: that SAYS Us Armed Forces Medical Research, Facility, Oahu, hawaii

1635
01:27:18,040 --> 01:27:20,360
Speaker 3: and there's a lot of like dead grass and things

1636
01:27:20,360 --> 01:27:22,800
Speaker 3: that are on fire in the distance with smoke in the.

1637
01:27:22,800 --> 01:27:27,080
Speaker 3: Air sonya, asks is it like this? Everywhere And raiden's

1638
01:27:27,080 --> 01:27:31,479
Speaker 3: like pretty? Much so every we learn that every hour that,

1639
01:27:31,520 --> 01:27:35,800
Speaker 3: passes the Outworld merger becomes more complete and more Of

1640
01:27:35,880 --> 01:27:38,360
Speaker 3: earth is, destroyed so the sky is starting to get

1641
01:27:38,360 --> 01:27:42,960
Speaker 3: real purple and, there so they're going to part. Ways

1642
01:27:43,000 --> 01:27:44,920
Speaker 3: they make plans to meet back at The temple of

1643
01:27:44,960 --> 01:27:48,960
Speaker 3: The Elder, gods And sonya runs into the. Facility so

1644
01:27:49,040 --> 01:27:51,200
Speaker 3: here's this whole sequence where she has to rescue her

1645
01:27:51,240 --> 01:27:54,879
Speaker 3: old friend and, Partner. Jacks jacks is A Special forces

1646
01:27:54,920 --> 01:27:58,000
Speaker 3: operative who for some, reason has just been through a

1647
01:27:58,080 --> 01:28:01,599
Speaker 3: surgical procedure to turn his own into metal robot. Arms

1648
01:28:01,800 --> 01:28:04,280
Speaker 3: he's still got flesh arms under, there but he's got

1649
01:28:04,280 --> 01:28:08,120
Speaker 3: metal robot arms on the outside of his regular. Arms

1650
01:28:09,000 --> 01:28:13,000
Speaker 3: so it's This Resident evil style nineties biotech lab and he's,

1651
01:28:13,040 --> 01:28:15,880
Speaker 3: there and we're gonna Meet, jack says we talked about.

1652
01:28:15,880 --> 01:28:20,400
Speaker 3: Earlier is the movie's main comedic. Character, he you, know

1653
01:28:20,560 --> 01:28:23,559
Speaker 3: is all like one liners and goofy reaction. Takes HE

1654
01:28:23,640 --> 01:28:25,479
Speaker 3: i think he actually at one point, says now that's

1655
01:28:25,479 --> 01:28:31,439
Speaker 3: What i'm talking. About So sonya wakes him up after his,

1656
01:28:31,520 --> 01:28:34,760
Speaker 3: surgery like all the doctors and staff are, gone you.

1657
01:28:34,800 --> 01:28:37,120
Speaker 3: Know she's, Like jack's good to see. You the extermination

1658
01:28:37,240 --> 01:28:40,920
Speaker 3: squads are, coming and he gets up from the table

1659
01:28:40,960 --> 01:28:43,440
Speaker 3: and then they're. Here so we're gonna have more battles

1660
01:28:43,479 --> 01:28:47,280
Speaker 3: With outworld ninjas and a yellow Cyber. Ninja we've already

1661
01:28:47,280 --> 01:28:49,600
Speaker 3: fought a gray Cyber. Ninja now they're gonna have to

1662
01:28:49,600 --> 01:28:51,160
Speaker 3: fight a yellow Cyber ninja Called.

1663
01:28:51,280 --> 01:28:56,960
Speaker 2: Syrax, yeah So jax Versus cyrax With sonia Versus ninja's

1664
01:28:57,000 --> 01:29:00,880
Speaker 2: kind of happening in the. Background pretty fun, sequence, though of,

1665
01:29:00,920 --> 01:29:03,720
Speaker 2: course with some wonky cgi and H AND i hate

1666
01:29:03,760 --> 01:29:05,840
Speaker 2: to say it BECAUSE i love the Cyber. Ninjas Cyber

1667
01:29:05,920 --> 01:29:07,680
Speaker 2: ninjas have always been some of my favorites in the.

1668
01:29:07,720 --> 01:29:12,200
Speaker 2: Game But cyrax here looks really. AWKWARD i get a

1669
01:29:12,240 --> 01:29:13,400
Speaker 2: real crot robot.

1670
01:29:13,560 --> 01:29:14,960
Speaker 3: Vibe, yes he's got a.

1671
01:29:15,040 --> 01:29:20,479
Speaker 2: Beak yeah, Yeah but but real highlight of this battle

1672
01:29:20,520 --> 01:29:23,880
Speaker 2: is Actually sonia gets to pull off a version of

1673
01:29:23,880 --> 01:29:26,760
Speaker 2: her fatality. Here so she picks up some sort of

1674
01:29:26,800 --> 01:29:30,800
Speaker 2: like weird mad science crystals and blows a kiss at

1675
01:29:30,800 --> 01:29:34,800
Speaker 2: one of the, ninjas which immolates. Him and then and

1676
01:29:34,880 --> 01:29:38,439
Speaker 2: then and, yeah that alone is pretty. Great so they

1677
01:29:38,439 --> 01:29:40,120
Speaker 2: found a way to make that happen because in the

1678
01:29:40,160 --> 01:29:43,040
Speaker 2: games it's pretty, nonsensical like why Can sonya blow kisses

1679
01:29:43,080 --> 01:29:44,280
Speaker 2: that catch people on?

1680
01:29:44,360 --> 01:29:47,720
Speaker 3: Fire i'm, sure but, yeah so she just she has

1681
01:29:47,840 --> 01:29:51,920
Speaker 3: like chemistry dust and, yeah yeah under the. Fire, Yeah

1682
01:29:52,040 --> 01:29:54,920
Speaker 3: cyrax also talks in this. Fight did the cybernin just

1683
01:29:55,000 --> 01:29:55,479
Speaker 3: talk in the.

1684
01:29:55,520 --> 01:29:59,639
Speaker 2: Games you, know they're kind of robocopy in. There they're oh,

1685
01:29:59,680 --> 01:30:01,479
Speaker 2: okay they have things they have you, know they have

1686
01:30:01,680 --> 01:30:03,519
Speaker 2: missions they're carrying. Out SO i guess they kind of

1687
01:30:03,560 --> 01:30:05,280
Speaker 2: talk as much as anybody talks in the old.

1688
01:30:05,320 --> 01:30:08,080
Speaker 3: Games, okay, well, Yeah cyrax when he, appears he says

1689
01:30:08,320 --> 01:30:11,280
Speaker 3: death is the only way. Out Shao khan will be,

1690
01:30:11,400 --> 01:30:19,479
Speaker 3: pleased and Then jack says shaw what So? Yeah, oh,

1691
01:30:19,640 --> 01:30:22,040
Speaker 3: also what's the deal With? Syrax he can shoot out

1692
01:30:22,120 --> 01:30:25,000
Speaker 3: like a flesh dissolving. Acid is that what that? Is

1693
01:30:25,040 --> 01:30:28,080
Speaker 3: like these little balloon marbles that dissolve your flesh and

1694
01:30:28,120 --> 01:30:31,120
Speaker 3: then make you just. Disappear you, fall you turn into

1695
01:30:31,120 --> 01:30:33,719
Speaker 3: cgi bones that fall on the, floor and then the bones.

1696
01:30:33,760 --> 01:30:36,479
Speaker 2: DISAPPEAR i don't think he did, that and he did

1697
01:30:36,760 --> 01:30:39,680
Speaker 2: like laser nets and the old. GAMES i think in

1698
01:30:39,960 --> 01:30:45,960
Speaker 2: the latest game He cyrax the gender Flip, cyrax and

1699
01:30:46,760 --> 01:30:50,880
Speaker 2: she has some sort of some sort of like you,

1700
01:30:50,880 --> 01:30:53,640
Speaker 2: know non violent military putty that she shoots like she

1701
01:30:53,760 --> 01:30:56,360
Speaker 2: can like glue you to the floor and also like you,

1702
01:30:56,400 --> 01:30:58,360
Speaker 2: know tear your body in half with it because It's Spider.

1703
01:30:58,400 --> 01:31:02,640
Speaker 3: Man, yeah, okay uh one did you notice through the

1704
01:31:02,640 --> 01:31:05,960
Speaker 3: fight scene With. Cyrax the soundtrack keeps playing dial up modem.

1705
01:31:06,040 --> 01:31:12,320
Speaker 3: Sounds that's how they. Were. Yeah, yeah then After cyrax,

1706
01:31:12,400 --> 01:31:15,160
Speaker 3: dies this is, Important sonya And jack's watched this little

1707
01:31:15,200 --> 01:31:19,120
Speaker 3: tiny emblem in its body magically turn into a little

1708
01:31:19,160 --> 01:31:21,360
Speaker 3: songbird sized dragon and fly.

1709
01:31:21,439 --> 01:31:26,439
Speaker 2: Away, yeah, ridiculous like terrible. Effect and and it's just

1710
01:31:26,520 --> 01:31:26,960
Speaker 2: going to keep.

1711
01:31:27,040 --> 01:31:30,160
Speaker 3: Happening now there are throughout the movie there are going

1712
01:31:30,200 --> 01:31:33,679
Speaker 3: to be these scenes of the bad guys squabbling inside

1713
01:31:33,760 --> 01:31:36,439
Speaker 3: the war room in the. Outworld keep, like so Shau

1714
01:31:36,479 --> 01:31:38,960
Speaker 3: kan's generals are just arguing with each, other you, know

1715
01:31:39,000 --> 01:31:42,360
Speaker 3: it's like my squads would, have you, know claimed thousands

1716
01:31:42,360 --> 01:31:44,799
Speaker 3: of souls On. Earth, well my squads would have claimed,

1717
01:31:44,880 --> 01:31:48,800
Speaker 3: millions so they you. Know and and Then shiva keeps

1718
01:31:48,840 --> 01:31:51,799
Speaker 3: Telling motaro that he belongs in a. Zoo they're always

1719
01:31:51,880 --> 01:31:54,519
Speaker 3: about to come to blows with each, other Until Chao

1720
01:31:54,600 --> 01:31:58,719
Speaker 3: kan shows up and puts an into. It. Uh there's

1721
01:31:58,720 --> 01:32:01,960
Speaker 3: like literally one part Where eva And motaro start strangling

1722
01:32:02,000 --> 01:32:05,920
Speaker 3: each Other simpson, Style, yeah and then Chau kan is like,

1723
01:32:06,000 --> 01:32:10,960
Speaker 3: silence but he uh at. There at one, Point Hao

1724
01:32:11,040 --> 01:32:14,200
Speaker 3: kan walks in here and he says To, rain, like,

1725
01:32:14,280 --> 01:32:18,120
Speaker 3: hey what's your, Report, rain, says, oh he fills us.

1726
01:32:18,120 --> 01:32:20,440
Speaker 3: In you, know there are only a couple of characters

1727
01:32:20,479 --> 01:32:23,519
Speaker 3: From Mortal kombat three who don't appear as characters in this.

1728
01:32:23,640 --> 01:32:27,240
Speaker 3: Movie they get mentioned. Here rain's, like two Of earth's

1729
01:32:27,240 --> 01:32:32,040
Speaker 3: best warriors have already been, Taken cabal And. Striker, Now

1730
01:32:32,080 --> 01:32:34,600
Speaker 3: kabal's the guy in the game who has. HOOKS i

1731
01:32:34,640 --> 01:32:37,240
Speaker 3: think he's, like, yeah cool hooks and a weird. Mask

1732
01:32:37,320 --> 01:32:38,120
Speaker 3: And striker is.

1733
01:32:38,080 --> 01:32:41,280
Speaker 2: Just a cop And Freddy krueger. Face, yeah, Oh Freddy krueger. Face,

1734
01:32:41,400 --> 01:32:43,880
Speaker 2: Okay striker is just kind of a dumpy, cop you,

1735
01:32:43,960 --> 01:32:46,160
Speaker 2: know with the. Gun he's a. COP i don't think

1736
01:32:46,200 --> 01:32:47,439
Speaker 2: he was ever anybody's favorite.

1737
01:32:47,520 --> 01:32:52,240
Speaker 3: Character yeah. Uh and Then rain says he took them

1738
01:32:52,240 --> 01:32:55,479
Speaker 3: alive instead of killing, them and Chau kan is mad about,

1739
01:32:55,520 --> 01:32:57,640
Speaker 3: this so he picks up a giant hammer and he

1740
01:32:57,720 --> 01:33:02,960
Speaker 3: Knocks rain into a pit of. Fire so, anyway he,

1741
01:33:03,040 --> 01:33:06,080
Speaker 3: says NOW i need a new, general and you, know

1742
01:33:06,160 --> 01:33:09,720
Speaker 3: all of the Others, Motaro, Shiva irmax start fighting over

1743
01:33:09,760 --> 01:33:12,040
Speaker 3: who would be the best. General they're insulting each, other

1744
01:33:12,080 --> 01:33:14,400
Speaker 3: bragging about their, capabilities and Shall con is, like, no

1745
01:33:14,520 --> 01:33:18,160
Speaker 3: you're all. Bad sindel is my new. General So sindel's

1746
01:33:18,880 --> 01:33:22,160
Speaker 3: on the way. Up then we Get lukang's encounter with Night.

1747
01:33:22,240 --> 01:33:24,760
Speaker 3: Wolf you, know he's wandering in the middle of the

1748
01:33:24,800 --> 01:33:27,600
Speaker 3: desert by himself at. Night he finds himself in this

1749
01:33:27,720 --> 01:33:30,880
Speaker 3: camp site with flaming torches under a full. Moon he

1750
01:33:30,920 --> 01:33:33,800
Speaker 3: gets attacked and tackled by a. Wolf then the wolf

1751
01:33:33,880 --> 01:33:36,840
Speaker 3: jumps off of him transforms into a. Man this is

1752
01:33:36,880 --> 01:33:40,120
Speaker 3: the character Night. Wolf Night wolf, says pretty, cool, huh

1753
01:33:40,160 --> 01:33:44,240
Speaker 3: it's my, Animality and then he Looks lukang up and

1754
01:33:44,240 --> 01:33:47,519
Speaker 3: down and he, says so Your raidn's. Prodigy i've seen. Better,

1755
01:33:47,960 --> 01:33:52,040
Speaker 3: haha don't sweat. It i've seen worse, Too and then

1756
01:33:52,080 --> 01:33:54,080
Speaker 3: they kind of bluster at each other for a. Bit

1757
01:33:54,479 --> 01:33:59,200
Speaker 3: lukang brags about how he Won Mortal, combat but Night wolf,

1758
01:33:59,200 --> 01:34:02,320
Speaker 3: explains you know that tournament had. Rules now anything, goes

1759
01:34:02,400 --> 01:34:05,640
Speaker 3: it's war between the. Realms and then kind of a

1760
01:34:05,680 --> 01:34:07,720
Speaker 3: call back to the first, movie or maybe just a,

1761
01:34:07,720 --> 01:34:10,799
Speaker 3: coincidence Night wolf says that to Beat Shao, Khan lukang

1762
01:34:10,840 --> 01:34:13,200
Speaker 3: is gonna have to pass three. Tests there were three

1763
01:34:13,240 --> 01:34:16,360
Speaker 3: tests in the first. Movie he. Remember the first, test he,

1764
01:34:16,400 --> 01:34:19,760
Speaker 3: says is, courage and to test, This lukang will have

1765
01:34:19,800 --> 01:34:23,000
Speaker 3: to go into a dream state and find his. Animality

1766
01:34:24,400 --> 01:34:28,160
Speaker 3: so Night wolf knocks him, unconscious and then he has

1767
01:34:28,160 --> 01:34:31,600
Speaker 3: a bunch of dreams of like a gauzy Ethereal katana

1768
01:34:31,640 --> 01:34:34,519
Speaker 3: SAYING i had faith in, You, lukang but you failed.

1769
01:34:34,600 --> 01:34:37,320
Speaker 3: Me and then he dreams a bunch of other, people

1770
01:34:37,439 --> 01:34:41,080
Speaker 3: various friends and, villains telling him that he, failed you Lost. Katana,

1771
01:34:41,920 --> 01:34:45,120
Speaker 3: meanwhile we see Night wolf sitting by a campfire and,

1772
01:34:45,160 --> 01:34:49,760
Speaker 3: saying find the power inside, you feel your, animality And

1773
01:34:50,080 --> 01:34:55,720
Speaker 3: lukang dreams that his eyes developed snakelike vertical. Slits in the,

1774
01:34:55,800 --> 01:34:59,880
Speaker 3: meanwhile like you just hear voices echoing, fail, Fail, Fail

1775
01:35:00,680 --> 01:35:02,639
Speaker 3: and then he wakes up in the, snow and here

1776
01:35:02,680 --> 01:35:05,400
Speaker 3: we meet a new. Character there is a beautiful woman

1777
01:35:05,479 --> 01:35:07,799
Speaker 3: standing in the snow in a kind of animal skinned.

1778
01:35:07,880 --> 01:35:12,360
Speaker 3: Bikini she introduces herself As, jade and then she, says.

1779
01:35:12,320 --> 01:35:15,120
Speaker 4: Of all the, horrors and of all the, horrors.

1780
01:35:14,680 --> 01:35:17,960
Speaker 3: The darkness holds to die. Alone that is my worst. Fear,

1781
01:35:18,920 --> 01:35:22,800
Speaker 3: okay that's just like basically the first thing she. Says

1782
01:35:23,439 --> 01:35:26,680
Speaker 3: and then she starts kind of getting On. Lukang she's embracing,

1783
01:35:26,760 --> 01:35:29,800
Speaker 3: him caressing, him starts kissing him on the, lips but

1784
01:35:29,880 --> 01:35:32,960
Speaker 3: suddenly he remembers oh, Yeah, kitana so he cries, out,

1785
01:35:33,080 --> 01:35:37,439
Speaker 3: no my heart belongs to. Another and Then jade suddenly

1786
01:35:37,439 --> 01:35:40,840
Speaker 3: transforms into a totally different. Costume this is a green

1787
01:35:40,880 --> 01:35:44,240
Speaker 3: outfit with like metallic. Lipstick she's wielding a big bow

1788
01:35:44,320 --> 01:35:48,240
Speaker 3: staff or, spear and she briefly beats Up lukang and taunts.

1789
01:35:48,280 --> 01:35:50,479
Speaker 3: Him this is that teaching battle you were talking about.

1790
01:35:50,520 --> 01:35:53,080
Speaker 2: Earlier, yeah, yeah we had one of these in The

1791
01:35:53,120 --> 01:35:55,680
Speaker 2: Last World kindbat movie as, Well and it's a pretty

1792
01:35:55,760 --> 01:35:58,320
Speaker 2: much a standard trope in martial arts films in, general

1793
01:35:58,360 --> 01:36:01,840
Speaker 2: from good ones to bad. Ones but the thing about

1794
01:36:01,960 --> 01:36:03,840
Speaker 2: a teaching battle is they do run the risk of

1795
01:36:03,840 --> 01:36:06,880
Speaker 2: having low stakes and minimal, heat and this one certainly.

1796
01:36:06,920 --> 01:36:10,680
Speaker 3: Does, yeah so Lu, kang you, know he, fights and

1797
01:36:10,720 --> 01:36:13,960
Speaker 3: when he finally gets the upper, hand she, says you're

1798
01:36:14,000 --> 01:36:17,040
Speaker 3: even more pure and faithful THAN i. Heard you passed the, Test,

1799
01:36:17,120 --> 01:36:21,480
Speaker 3: Lukang SO i think it was the test of tempting.

1800
01:36:20,760 --> 01:36:23,400
Speaker 2: Him, yeah the last temptation of Lu.

1801
01:36:23,479 --> 01:36:27,680
Speaker 3: Kang, yeah, Okay and then Lu kang says this was

1802
01:36:27,720 --> 01:36:30,320
Speaker 3: just another one of Night wolf's crazy. Tests we could

1803
01:36:30,320 --> 01:36:33,200
Speaker 3: have killed each, other and Then jade, says but we.

1804
01:36:33,280 --> 01:36:37,200
Speaker 3: Live so did you notice that we never got to

1805
01:36:37,240 --> 01:36:39,519
Speaker 3: the third test that was the second, test and then

1806
01:36:39,560 --> 01:36:41,360
Speaker 3: we never find out what the third test was.

1807
01:36:41,360 --> 01:36:44,240
Speaker 2: The third test as he survived that CONCUSSION i both

1808
01:36:44,280 --> 01:36:45,720
Speaker 2: gave him by hit him and hitting him in the

1809
01:36:45,720 --> 01:36:46,000
Speaker 2: back of the.

1810
01:36:46,040 --> 01:36:48,840
Speaker 3: Head, yeah So jade is on the good guy's. Team

1811
01:36:48,880 --> 01:36:50,519
Speaker 3: now she's going to take him to The temple of

1812
01:36:50,560 --> 01:36:54,679
Speaker 3: The Elder. Gods and meanwhile in here we also check

1813
01:36:54,720 --> 01:36:57,559
Speaker 3: in a bit At Shao kan's. Palace we see we

1814
01:36:57,600 --> 01:37:00,639
Speaker 3: See katana in the bird cage dangling for the. Ceiling

1815
01:37:01,000 --> 01:37:02,760
Speaker 3: Shao kan tries to get her to drink from a,

1816
01:37:02,840 --> 01:37:06,040
Speaker 3: chalice but she just spits it in his face and

1817
01:37:06,120 --> 01:37:09,040
Speaker 3: The emperor he's, mad but he won't kill her because he,

1818
01:37:09,080 --> 01:37:11,559
Speaker 3: says a struggling worm on a hook lands a bigger

1819
01:37:11,600 --> 01:37:15,439
Speaker 3: catch than a dead. ONE i guess that's. True Now

1820
01:37:15,479 --> 01:37:18,799
Speaker 3: here we get some adventures Of sonya And. Jack's they

1821
01:37:18,920 --> 01:37:21,840
Speaker 3: wander around a blighted landscape And jackson is doing a

1822
01:37:21,920 --> 01:37:25,960
Speaker 3: running commentary on house that things seem bad like he

1823
01:37:26,040 --> 01:37:28,639
Speaker 3: did not like getting in the spinning ball which occurred off,

1824
01:37:28,640 --> 01:37:33,360
Speaker 3: screen and he talks about. That sonia says the merge

1825
01:37:33,360 --> 01:37:36,200
Speaker 3: of The realms is almost, done And jack, says you, Know,

1826
01:37:36,280 --> 01:37:39,280
Speaker 3: sonya you keep talking about merges and realms and all,

1827
01:37:39,320 --> 01:37:42,400
Speaker 3: that but it don't mean squat to, Me and so

1828
01:37:42,600 --> 01:37:44,800
Speaker 3: they argue And jack's gets mad at. Her this is

1829
01:37:44,800 --> 01:37:47,320
Speaker 3: the part where he gets mad and he tries to walk.

1830
01:37:47,360 --> 01:37:49,640
Speaker 3: Away he's, like you, know you wake me, up you

1831
01:37:49,720 --> 01:37:51,960
Speaker 3: drag me out of the. Hospital ninjas are trying to kill.

1832
01:37:51,960 --> 01:37:55,920
Speaker 3: ME i don't understand. Why and this is the line

1833
01:37:55,960 --> 01:37:58,400
Speaker 3: where he, SAYS i wrote this. Down he, Says i'm

1834
01:37:58,400 --> 01:38:01,120
Speaker 3: stuck in the middle of nowhere BECAUSE i don't even

1835
01:38:01,160 --> 01:38:03,400
Speaker 3: know WHERE i. AM i need to use the. BATHROOM

1836
01:38:03,680 --> 01:38:06,439
Speaker 3: i got no toilet, TISSUE i got metal things on my.

1837
01:38:06,560 --> 01:38:07,599
Speaker 3: Hands sonia.

1838
01:38:07,600 --> 01:38:12,760
Speaker 4: Blade it's, Good, yeah it's.

1839
01:38:12,840 --> 01:38:14,439
Speaker 2: Good like these two are never.

1840
01:38:14,479 --> 01:38:17,400
Speaker 3: Boring these two are always amusing on the, screen for.

1841
01:38:17,439 --> 01:38:21,840
Speaker 3: Sure So sonya wanders off by. Herself jax is presumably

1842
01:38:21,880 --> 01:38:25,840
Speaker 3: figuring out how to wipe with his arm, enhancements and

1843
01:38:25,920 --> 01:38:28,960
Speaker 3: While sonya is, alone she gets. Attacked she gets attacked

1844
01:38:29,000 --> 01:38:32,720
Speaker 3: by a character Named, molina who is a ninja in.

1845
01:38:32,880 --> 01:38:37,160
Speaker 3: Pink she's wielding two si as weapons Like raphael The Ninja.

1846
01:38:37,200 --> 01:38:39,559
Speaker 3: Turtle she flies out of a rock and tries to

1847
01:38:39,600 --> 01:38:42,840
Speaker 3: Kill sonya AND i don't. Know this is the fight

1848
01:38:42,880 --> 01:38:44,559
Speaker 3: where they fight in the mud they get covered.

1849
01:38:44,520 --> 01:38:48,040
Speaker 2: In, yeah it's a mud, fight but it's not very,

1850
01:38:48,080 --> 01:38:51,360
Speaker 2: long but it's probably one of the tightest mini fights

1851
01:38:51,400 --> 01:38:54,439
Speaker 2: in the. Movie some great martial arts doun't work, here

1852
01:38:54,760 --> 01:38:58,600
Speaker 2: some cool, kicks some inventive, choreography and of, course you,

1853
01:38:58,640 --> 01:39:01,400
Speaker 2: Know molina is a very cool care OR i think you.

1854
01:39:01,479 --> 01:39:03,120
Speaker 2: Know in The, games we find out she's actually like

1855
01:39:03,160 --> 01:39:07,080
Speaker 2: a twisted clone Of. Katana so these two have beef

1856
01:39:07,120 --> 01:39:09,280
Speaker 2: in The, games and we can if we come into

1857
01:39:09,320 --> 01:39:12,599
Speaker 2: the film knowing The, games we bring that excitement with,

1858
01:39:12,680 --> 01:39:14,240
Speaker 2: us and so it doesn't last, long but it's.

1859
01:39:14,240 --> 01:39:19,160
Speaker 3: Good After sonya Beats, molina she's got a black black

1860
01:39:19,400 --> 01:39:21,559
Speaker 3: tattoo on her, shoulder kind of like the one On,

1861
01:39:21,680 --> 01:39:24,080
Speaker 3: cyrax and it comes alive and flies away in the

1862
01:39:24,120 --> 01:39:29,000
Speaker 3: same way we saw. Earlier, meanwhile Behind sonya's back there

1863
01:39:29,120 --> 01:39:33,840
Speaker 3: is this reptile statue and it suddenly morphs into a

1864
01:39:34,160 --> 01:39:37,880
Speaker 3: terrible looking cgi meat, dinosaur looks like something out Of

1865
01:39:37,880 --> 01:39:41,280
Speaker 3: beyond The Mind's, eye and it is about to Bite

1866
01:39:41,320 --> 01:39:44,479
Speaker 3: sonya's head, off but Then jax appears and starts punching

1867
01:39:44,520 --> 01:39:46,960
Speaker 3: it with his metal, arms and this drives it back

1868
01:39:46,960 --> 01:39:50,880
Speaker 3: into the, earth and it does not look. Good it's,

1869
01:39:50,960 --> 01:39:54,080
Speaker 3: like for a, SECOND i couldn't actually Tell jax was

1870
01:39:54,080 --> 01:39:56,080
Speaker 3: supposed to be hitting, it you.

1871
01:39:56,120 --> 01:39:59,640
Speaker 2: Know Off, mike we were talking about the effects in the,

1872
01:39:59,680 --> 01:40:03,160
Speaker 2: film AND i had to remind myself That. Spawn spawn

1873
01:40:03,240 --> 01:40:07,200
Speaker 2: came out the same year AND i have memories of

1874
01:40:07,240 --> 01:40:09,240
Speaker 2: THE i haven't Seen spawn in, many many years and,

1875
01:40:09,360 --> 01:40:13,519
Speaker 2: DECADES i, guess BUT i remember from the last TIME

1876
01:40:13,560 --> 01:40:16,200
Speaker 2: i watched any clips from it that some of THE

1877
01:40:16,200 --> 01:40:18,240
Speaker 2: cgi was maybe a little shaky and had an age that.

1878
01:40:18,280 --> 01:40:21,800
Speaker 2: Well BUT i had to pull up a scene from From,

1879
01:40:21,840 --> 01:40:24,120
Speaker 2: spawn and in at least in the scene THAT i,

1880
01:40:24,520 --> 01:40:27,240
Speaker 2: watched the one Where clown turns into the, violator it

1881
01:40:27,280 --> 01:40:29,479
Speaker 2: was like it was pretty, solid held up pretty pretty.

1882
01:40:29,520 --> 01:40:31,599
Speaker 2: Well so much better than what we see.

1883
01:40:31,640 --> 01:40:34,360
Speaker 3: Here, yeah compared to, THIS i, mean it looks amazing

1884
01:40:34,360 --> 01:40:37,640
Speaker 3: And spawn And spawn has you, KNOW i don't. KNOW

1885
01:40:37,680 --> 01:40:40,000
Speaker 3: i haven't seen that movie SINCE i was much, younger

1886
01:40:40,000 --> 01:40:42,320
Speaker 3: But i'd be interested to revisit. THAT i wonder how

1887
01:40:42,320 --> 01:40:42,679
Speaker 3: it holds.

1888
01:40:42,760 --> 01:40:44,280
Speaker 2: Up oh, yeah it's got a great. Cast.

1889
01:40:53,720 --> 01:40:56,639
Speaker 3: Anyway we should also check in With raiden because, remember

1890
01:40:56,640 --> 01:40:58,320
Speaker 3: he's got a, file a complaint with the older.

1891
01:40:58,360 --> 01:41:01,120
Speaker 2: Gods he's been in the waiting, room like a beetlejuice

1892
01:41:01,160 --> 01:41:03,519
Speaker 2: style waiting, Room oh my, god waiting to.

1893
01:41:03,640 --> 01:41:07,800
Speaker 3: Consult so he's walking around in this sacred desert with

1894
01:41:07,880 --> 01:41:11,080
Speaker 3: his arms outstretched like a painting Of. JESUS i don't

1895
01:41:11,080 --> 01:41:13,400
Speaker 3: know why he's posing that. Way it looks like he

1896
01:41:13,439 --> 01:41:16,000
Speaker 3: should have a bunch of children crowding around him or.

1897
01:41:16,000 --> 01:41:20,320
Speaker 3: Something but, Anyway raydon goes into this big marble arena

1898
01:41:20,360 --> 01:41:22,880
Speaker 3: and he summons the elder gods to complain at, them

1899
01:41:23,400 --> 01:41:26,360
Speaker 3: and they appear as these fuzzy balls OF cgi light

1900
01:41:26,520 --> 01:41:29,120
Speaker 3: and talk with computer voices like it sounds like they've

1901
01:41:29,120 --> 01:41:33,040
Speaker 3: been drinking the too far. Juice AND i think there

1902
01:41:33,080 --> 01:41:35,599
Speaker 3: is an air, god a water, god and a fire,

1903
01:41:35,680 --> 01:41:37,559
Speaker 3: god BUT i didn't see any sign of an earth.

1904
01:41:37,600 --> 01:41:41,680
Speaker 3: God the elder gods Tell raydon he's got three. Questions.

1905
01:41:42,160 --> 01:41:46,280
Speaker 3: Go raydon, says why was this treachery? Allowed they, say,

1906
01:41:46,320 --> 01:41:48,960
Speaker 3: basically it's none of our. Business it's up to mortals

1907
01:41:49,000 --> 01:41:52,320
Speaker 3: to change their own. Fate second, question he's not using

1908
01:41:52,360 --> 01:41:55,040
Speaker 3: his three questions. Well the second question is a reiteration

1909
01:41:55,160 --> 01:41:57,479
Speaker 3: of the. First it's like you're really gonna let this,

1910
01:41:57,600 --> 01:42:01,439
Speaker 3: Happen and then they tell, him, unprompted that he is

1911
01:42:01,560 --> 01:42:04,679
Speaker 3: correct and Thinking Princess katana is the key to Defeating

1912
01:42:04,760 --> 01:42:08,639
Speaker 3: Chao khan and closing the. Portals third question is how

1913
01:42:08,640 --> 01:42:11,920
Speaker 3: DO i know the portals will stay? Closed they, say

1914
01:42:12,000 --> 01:42:15,000
Speaker 3: only When chaokan is destroyed will the future be. Safe

1915
01:42:15,960 --> 01:42:18,479
Speaker 3: and then also they Ask raydon do you love humans

1916
01:42:18,600 --> 01:42:21,479
Speaker 3: enough to sacrifice your? Immortality so do you want to

1917
01:42:21,520 --> 01:42:24,560
Speaker 3: be de godded so that you can go fight for the?

1918
01:42:24,640 --> 01:42:28,680
Speaker 3: Humans And raydon looks like, determined like, yeah maybe he's

1919
01:42:28,720 --> 01:42:33,280
Speaker 3: going to do. That, Yeah so our heroes all meet

1920
01:42:33,360 --> 01:42:35,400
Speaker 3: up at The temple of The Elder gods and joined.

1921
01:42:35,400 --> 01:42:39,680
Speaker 3: Forces here we've Got, Sonya, Jacks, lukang And. Jade and

1922
01:42:39,720 --> 01:42:41,640
Speaker 3: then here we have one of those scenes that you

1923
01:42:41,680 --> 01:42:43,760
Speaker 3: were talking about earlier that actually looks pretty. Good you

1924
01:42:43,840 --> 01:42:46,479
Speaker 3: kind of had this army come riding in through the

1925
01:42:46,520 --> 01:42:50,439
Speaker 3: canyon of The Crescent moon and they're on, horseback so

1926
01:42:50,520 --> 01:42:53,200
Speaker 3: we got real, horses cool, costumes though some of the

1927
01:42:53,280 --> 01:42:56,960
Speaker 3: rider's faces are covered in black cloth with no, gaps

1928
01:42:57,040 --> 01:43:00,840
Speaker 3: WHICH i think works better in shadow like obscured by a,

1929
01:43:00,840 --> 01:43:04,200
Speaker 3: hood like you, know to suggest a face just hidden in.

1930
01:43:04,280 --> 01:43:07,240
Speaker 3: Darkness in broad, daylight the full black face covering does

1931
01:43:07,280 --> 01:43:11,200
Speaker 3: look kind of. Funny But shaukan And sindel are riding

1932
01:43:11,240 --> 01:43:14,680
Speaker 3: at the head of this army and our. Heroes they

1933
01:43:14,720 --> 01:43:17,000
Speaker 3: run away and they meet up With raydon and he

1934
01:43:17,439 --> 01:43:20,160
Speaker 3: teleports out of the air doing a flip of, course

1935
01:43:20,520 --> 01:43:24,040
Speaker 3: and he lands telling them never give up. Hope and

1936
01:43:24,400 --> 01:43:27,760
Speaker 3: Now raydon has a whole new. Fit he has cut

1937
01:43:27,800 --> 01:43:30,720
Speaker 3: his hair short and bleached it. Blonde he looks Like.

1938
01:43:30,800 --> 01:43:34,840
Speaker 3: Sting it's a bit Like metallica in the nineties when

1939
01:43:34,840 --> 01:43:37,879
Speaker 3: they all cut their hair. Short it's, like, oh something

1940
01:43:37,960 --> 01:43:41,280
Speaker 3: different is going on. Here he swapped out his long

1941
01:43:41,320 --> 01:43:46,200
Speaker 3: white robes for a black, vest shirtless. UNDERNEATH i was

1942
01:43:46,200 --> 01:43:47,840
Speaker 3: looking to see if he has a single ear ring,

1943
01:43:47,920 --> 01:43:51,120
Speaker 3: now but alas and not one of. Those but it

1944
01:43:51,120 --> 01:43:54,479
Speaker 3: it is just very midlife. Crisis he looking like a

1945
01:43:54,520 --> 01:43:57,000
Speaker 3: redo of somebody's. Look he looks like a forty five

1946
01:43:57,120 --> 01:44:00,080
Speaker 3: year old who suddenly decided to try to look like

1947
01:44:00,080 --> 01:44:02,479
Speaker 3: a twenty year. Old, yeah and he's going to a

1948
01:44:02,479 --> 01:44:03,000
Speaker 3: three to eleven.

1949
01:44:03,040 --> 01:44:06,240
Speaker 2: Concert, yeah you know, This this version Of raydin has

1950
01:44:06,240 --> 01:44:11,240
Speaker 2: a leather. Jacket, This, yeah this is so ridiculous BECAUSE i,

1951
01:44:11,240 --> 01:44:13,160
Speaker 2: mean this IS i don't think this is in the

1952
01:44:13,200 --> 01:44:16,320
Speaker 2: games at, all and it's just such that's neither here nor,

1953
01:44:16,360 --> 01:44:18,799
Speaker 2: there because it just it just it makes the character

1954
01:44:18,840 --> 01:44:23,679
Speaker 2: look so much. Stupider it's, like you, know white haired Wise,

1955
01:44:23,760 --> 01:44:27,680
Speaker 2: Raisin Raisin. Raydin but now this New, raidin who we

1956
01:44:27,720 --> 01:44:32,280
Speaker 2: could Call, RAISIN i, guess is just it just feels

1957
01:44:32,320 --> 01:44:34,400
Speaker 2: like he's lost his, way like this IS i guess

1958
01:44:34,439 --> 01:44:36,800
Speaker 2: the idea is it is a midlife crisis because now

1959
01:44:37,280 --> 01:44:39,639
Speaker 2: there can be a middle to it because he's, mortal

1960
01:44:40,080 --> 01:44:44,559
Speaker 2: he can, die and so he's having to process that

1961
01:44:44,640 --> 01:44:48,880
Speaker 2: and in perhaps some strange ways like all.

1962
01:44:49,080 --> 01:44:53,679
Speaker 3: So, yeah so Lu kang admits That katana was taken

1963
01:44:53,720 --> 01:44:55,960
Speaker 3: By Shao. Khan he, says it's all my, fault and

1964
01:44:56,000 --> 01:44:58,559
Speaker 3: Then rayden, REPLIES i wrote this. Down he, says, quote

1965
01:44:58,640 --> 01:45:01,519
Speaker 3: this is not about. Blame we're together in. This each

1966
01:45:01,560 --> 01:45:03,920
Speaker 3: of us must help and support the others like a.

1967
01:45:03,960 --> 01:45:06,240
Speaker 3: Family what's the deal with your? Arms?

1968
01:45:07,640 --> 01:45:11,240
Speaker 2: Yeah raydon has some really weird lines in this section

1969
01:45:11,320 --> 01:45:13,479
Speaker 2: two which made me initially think, like is this the

1970
01:45:13,560 --> 01:45:15,880
Speaker 2: Real raidon or is this like Dark? Raidon is there

1971
01:45:16,120 --> 01:45:20,679
Speaker 2: is he's gone? Rogue but, no just he's. Spicier, NOW i, Guess.

1972
01:45:20,560 --> 01:45:23,760
Speaker 3: Yeah what's the deal with your? Arms and Then Jacks's

1973
01:45:23,960 --> 01:45:26,679
Speaker 3: jax takes. Offense he's, Like i've known you one, Minute

1974
01:45:26,840 --> 01:45:30,360
Speaker 3: you're already insulting. Me But rayden's, LIKE i mean no.

1975
01:45:30,439 --> 01:45:34,320
Speaker 3: Disrespect he, says you have real, skills but those arms

1976
01:45:34,400 --> 01:45:36,160
Speaker 3: are not your. Strength they're your.

1977
01:45:36,200 --> 01:45:40,559
Speaker 2: Weakness we'll have to explore this in fight format later. On.

1978
01:45:40,840 --> 01:45:44,040
Speaker 3: Yeah he also tells them faith in yourself is all you,

1979
01:45:44,120 --> 01:45:47,200
Speaker 3: need AND i say that to all of. You so

1980
01:45:47,320 --> 01:45:49,720
Speaker 3: next they're gonna they're gonna open a portal To outworld

1981
01:45:49,760 --> 01:45:52,160
Speaker 3: and they're gonna go to the castle and Rescue. Katana

1982
01:45:53,080 --> 01:45:56,000
Speaker 3: we also get a part here Where Shao khan instructs

1983
01:45:56,080 --> 01:46:00,559
Speaker 3: his forces to destroy everything and See sindel like scream

1984
01:46:00,680 --> 01:46:04,200
Speaker 3: Bomb petra In jordan and they destroy. Everything the heroes

1985
01:46:04,240 --> 01:46:06,639
Speaker 3: go through the portal and Then Shao kan And sindel

1986
01:46:06,720 --> 01:46:09,559
Speaker 3: both just sit on their horses laughing villain. Laughing ha

1987
01:46:09,560 --> 01:46:14,160
Speaker 3: ha ha ha. Ha so, anyway our heroes go To

1988
01:46:14,240 --> 01:46:18,400
Speaker 3: outworld and we're getting more of that purple purple. Everywhere jack,

1989
01:46:18,479 --> 01:46:21,559
Speaker 3: says my skin is burning And i'm freezing. Inside it's

1990
01:46:21,600 --> 01:46:25,479
Speaker 3: LIKE i got microwaved or, something And raydon's, like, yeah

1991
01:46:25,560 --> 01:46:29,400
Speaker 3: you never get used to. That it's. Outworld and then

1992
01:46:29,680 --> 01:46:32,400
Speaker 3: Lu kang looks up at something and, says is that

1993
01:46:32,520 --> 01:46:34,639
Speaker 3: WHAT i think it? Is and we cut to it

1994
01:46:34,720 --> 01:46:37,640
Speaker 3: and it's just obviously The golden gate bridge floating in

1995
01:46:37,680 --> 01:46:40,600
Speaker 3: the purple? Air does it at least In New york or?

1996
01:46:40,640 --> 01:46:41,080
Speaker 2: Something is?

1997
01:46:41,120 --> 01:46:44,360
Speaker 3: That? How, well it's all, twisted everything's like jumbled from

1998
01:46:45,040 --> 01:46:47,839
Speaker 3: We later we'll see The Eiffel tower floating in the purple.

1999
01:46:47,880 --> 01:46:54,000
Speaker 3: Air So jade explains that there is a secret passageway

2000
01:46:54,040 --> 01:46:56,400
Speaker 3: they can use to get Into Shao kan's. Castle she,

2001
01:46:56,439 --> 01:46:59,519
Speaker 3: says it was the ONE i used to. Escape oh

2002
01:46:59,600 --> 01:47:02,960
Speaker 3: she came from. There didn't know, That so they head for.

2003
01:47:03,040 --> 01:47:06,320
Speaker 3: That we know That Chao kan is setting a trap

2004
01:47:06,400 --> 01:47:09,000
Speaker 3: to kill the mortals here In, outworld and he's very

2005
01:47:09,040 --> 01:47:12,800
Speaker 3: confident that it will. Work he explains everything to his,

2006
01:47:12,920 --> 01:47:15,200
Speaker 3: dad and his dad, SAYS i will take your soul

2007
01:47:15,280 --> 01:47:19,160
Speaker 3: myself if you fail me, now and the camera gets

2008
01:47:19,200 --> 01:47:22,240
Speaker 3: like right up In Chao kan's nostrils as he barks

2009
01:47:22,280 --> 01:47:25,559
Speaker 3: At katana that the merger will soon be. Complete, god

2010
01:47:25,640 --> 01:47:28,200
Speaker 3: there's so much talk about. Mergers it sounds like people

2011
01:47:28,200 --> 01:47:32,439
Speaker 3: are talking about. Business. Yeah, yeah so there's kind of

2012
01:47:32,439 --> 01:47:35,920
Speaker 3: a long action oriented stretch here we can maybe summarize

2013
01:47:35,960 --> 01:47:38,719
Speaker 3: kind of. Quickly But raiden battles a bunch of ninjas

2014
01:47:38,760 --> 01:47:42,000
Speaker 3: sent By. Sindel she's standing on top of a, pillar

2015
01:47:42,080 --> 01:47:45,559
Speaker 3: whipping her hair around and. Screaming Lu kang runs off

2016
01:47:45,600 --> 01:47:48,439
Speaker 3: to Rescue, katana and along the way he battles a

2017
01:47:48,479 --> 01:47:51,280
Speaker 3: new character who appears from the. Games this Is, baraka

2018
01:47:51,320 --> 01:47:53,719
Speaker 3: who's sort of A Freddy krueger monster with knife.

2019
01:47:53,800 --> 01:47:58,200
Speaker 2: Arms barako is always one of my. Favorites in the first,

2020
01:47:58,240 --> 01:48:00,920
Speaker 2: game he's created By, LIKE i think they Glued lee

2021
01:48:01,000 --> 01:48:04,080
Speaker 2: pressed on nails on A nosfaratu, mask but still the

2022
01:48:04,120 --> 01:48:07,240
Speaker 2: base Is nosfaratu with swords coming out of his, arms

2023
01:48:07,280 --> 01:48:09,800
Speaker 2: so you, Know Junior, High i'm totally on board for. That,

2024
01:48:11,160 --> 01:48:13,439
Speaker 2: YEAH i think he's pretty cool. Character it looks pretty goofy.

2025
01:48:13,479 --> 01:48:16,960
Speaker 2: Here and oh and then we also just kind of

2026
01:48:17,360 --> 01:48:20,680
Speaker 2: Kill shiva off as a side thought and just an

2027
01:48:20,720 --> 01:48:25,200
Speaker 2: afterthought in this as. Well like, AGAIN i, think however

2028
01:48:25,240 --> 01:48:27,439
Speaker 2: they did her, arms they realized they couldn't really put

2029
01:48:27,439 --> 01:48:29,439
Speaker 2: her in a fight, sequence so we just dropped that

2030
01:48:29,479 --> 01:48:30,720
Speaker 2: cage on top of her and she's.

2031
01:48:30,720 --> 01:48:32,840
Speaker 3: Dead, yeah oh in those.

2032
01:48:32,920 --> 01:48:35,439
Speaker 2: Ninjas ninjas have never looked more goofy than they do

2033
01:48:35,479 --> 01:48:38,559
Speaker 2: in that battle with, right, though there was some good

2034
01:48:38,600 --> 01:48:39,479
Speaker 2: stunt work in, there to be.

2035
01:48:39,560 --> 01:48:42,240
Speaker 3: Clear somewhere in here there's a funny part Where Shao

2036
01:48:42,320 --> 01:48:45,519
Speaker 3: khan is giving a scene chewing speech to a bunch

2037
01:48:45,600 --> 01:48:49,240
Speaker 3: Of outworld warriors dressed in black. Hoods they're on a

2038
01:48:49,280 --> 01:48:52,720
Speaker 3: mountain with The Eiffel tower floating in the. Backgrounds it's

2039
01:48:52,760 --> 01:48:55,479
Speaker 3: all like you will bear witness To earth's final. Day

2040
01:48:55,600 --> 01:48:58,679
Speaker 3: two realms will be, one and it's one of These

2041
01:48:58,720 --> 01:49:01,840
Speaker 3: i'm thinking of this as a genre of, scene one

2042
01:49:01,840 --> 01:49:06,360
Speaker 3: of these tonally and situationally weird villain Speeches i'm reminded,

2043
01:49:06,400 --> 01:49:09,559
Speaker 3: of like the speech By General hucks or a speech By,

2044
01:49:09,680 --> 01:49:13,400
Speaker 3: bain a kind of rallying of troops that don't seem

2045
01:49:13,439 --> 01:49:14,000
Speaker 3: to need any.

2046
01:49:14,120 --> 01:49:18,800
Speaker 2: Rallying yeah, yeah in both these, cases you know. That

2047
01:49:18,960 --> 01:49:21,240
Speaker 2: i'm also reminded of of the best example of this

2048
01:49:21,320 --> 01:49:24,080
Speaker 2: sort of thing that actually, works and that Is Thulsa

2049
01:49:24,200 --> 01:49:28,880
Speaker 2: doom getting his followers revved up to commit mass suicide

2050
01:49:29,000 --> 01:49:31,479
Speaker 2: or burn the, world you, know or some combination of the.

2051
01:49:31,479 --> 01:49:34,439
Speaker 2: Two at the end Of conan the, barbarian but that

2052
01:49:34,439 --> 01:49:38,920
Speaker 2: that actually has purpose and you know he's riling them

2053
01:49:39,000 --> 01:49:40,720
Speaker 2: up for a. Reason but, yeah at this point it's, like,

2054
01:49:40,760 --> 01:49:44,000
Speaker 2: yeah aren't we already destroying slash merging the? World shall

2055
01:49:44,120 --> 01:49:44,840
Speaker 2: we should be good to?

2056
01:49:44,880 --> 01:49:47,559
Speaker 3: Go? Right, well like the speed the people that the

2057
01:49:48,360 --> 01:49:51,320
Speaker 3: that he's giving the instructions to just seem like totally,

2058
01:49:51,360 --> 01:49:56,439
Speaker 3: committed undifferentiated like henchmen who are not doesn't seem like

2059
01:49:56,479 --> 01:49:57,120
Speaker 3: they need any.

2060
01:49:57,160 --> 01:50:01,960
Speaker 2: Motivation, yeah we're here on pain of, anyway like we

2061
01:50:01,960 --> 01:50:03,400
Speaker 2: were fully. Motivated let's just do.

2062
01:50:03,439 --> 01:50:06,000
Speaker 3: It so, yeah you, Know raydon and his mortals are

2063
01:50:06,000 --> 01:50:07,840
Speaker 3: gonna bout my feet that kind of thing. Here and

2064
01:50:07,880 --> 01:50:11,080
Speaker 3: then in this, Scene chinnak finally puts a hand on

2065
01:50:11,200 --> 01:50:13,680
Speaker 3: Chaw kan's. Shoulder it gives him a little, smiles the

2066
01:50:13,720 --> 01:50:14,960
Speaker 3: first sign of fatherly.

2067
01:50:15,000 --> 01:50:18,639
Speaker 2: Approval, oh this is arrested.

2068
01:50:18,680 --> 01:50:22,760
Speaker 3: Development so there's a ritual scene here Where katana is

2069
01:50:22,800 --> 01:50:26,960
Speaker 3: being reunited with her, Mother. Sindel sindell's lying unconscious on a.

2070
01:50:27,040 --> 01:50:31,280
Speaker 3: Slab raydon, says only your love can reunite her soul and. Body,

2071
01:50:31,400 --> 01:50:34,559
Speaker 3: katana your love can break the power con has over

2072
01:50:34,640 --> 01:50:39,720
Speaker 3: her and closes portals On. Earth So katana kisses the Unconscious.

2073
01:50:39,760 --> 01:50:42,080
Speaker 3: Sindel she wakes. Up for a, second it seems like

2074
01:50:42,120 --> 01:50:45,200
Speaker 3: it's gonna, work but Then sindel breaks out in a maniacal.

2075
01:50:45,280 --> 01:50:47,559
Speaker 3: Laugh she, SAYS i never loved. You you are such

2076
01:50:47,560 --> 01:50:52,720
Speaker 3: a pathetic. Child here, Also jade reveals that she was

2077
01:50:52,760 --> 01:50:55,880
Speaker 3: a double agent working For Chao khan the entire. TIME

2078
01:50:56,000 --> 01:50:58,040
Speaker 3: i don't know what the effect of this. IS i

2079
01:50:58,040 --> 01:51:01,479
Speaker 3: don't think it comes to. Anything she, says it's over,

2080
01:51:01,560 --> 01:51:04,280
Speaker 3: Mortals you've been, tricked and then she. Disappears and then

2081
01:51:04,360 --> 01:51:07,320
Speaker 3: later there's a scene At Shao kan's palace where he's

2082
01:51:07,400 --> 01:51:09,880
Speaker 3: mad at. Her so THE cgi monster just bites her

2083
01:51:09,880 --> 01:51:14,599
Speaker 3: head off and then the monster Burps. Yeah, meanwhile where

2084
01:51:14,640 --> 01:51:17,479
Speaker 3: the heroes were trying to do the, Ritual sindel dashes

2085
01:51:17,560 --> 01:51:20,320
Speaker 3: their hopes by telling them the merger. Again more about

2086
01:51:20,320 --> 01:51:23,400
Speaker 3: the merger nearly, complete she, says the legend was a.

2087
01:51:23,439 --> 01:51:27,320
Speaker 3: Lie the portals stay open this whole. TWIST i was

2088
01:51:27,400 --> 01:51:30,160
Speaker 3: not really following The whether the legend is true or,

2089
01:51:30,200 --> 01:51:33,840
Speaker 3: NOT i don't. Know But sindel she's, like basically like

2090
01:51:33,920 --> 01:51:35,800
Speaker 3: whatever plan you were trying to, do it's not really

2091
01:51:35,880 --> 01:51:38,240
Speaker 3: going to. Work and then she starts twirling around kind

2092
01:51:38,280 --> 01:51:43,599
Speaker 3: of lazily looking and transforms into. Light and then after,

2093
01:51:43,640 --> 01:51:45,920
Speaker 3: this our heroes debate what to do. Next there is

2094
01:51:46,040 --> 01:51:52,120
Speaker 3: moderate despair Until sonia realizes That raydon, Himself raydan has

2095
01:51:52,160 --> 01:51:55,559
Speaker 3: a tattoo on his, shoulder exactly like the ones she

2096
01:51:55,640 --> 01:51:59,280
Speaker 3: saw On cyrax And. Molina now you might, think is

2097
01:51:59,320 --> 01:52:02,320
Speaker 3: that part of his new, Look but, No he's always

2098
01:52:02,320 --> 01:52:06,600
Speaker 3: had this tattoo, apparently so maybe it's actually functional that

2099
01:52:06,640 --> 01:52:09,719
Speaker 3: he's not wearing a shirt, anymore you, know because somebody

2100
01:52:09,800 --> 01:52:12,160
Speaker 3: has to be able to see the. Tattoo, yeah a

2101
01:52:12,160 --> 01:52:15,920
Speaker 3: lot is being sacrificed for this tattoo, nonsense WHICH i

2102
01:52:15,920 --> 01:52:18,560
Speaker 3: don't know doesn't feel overly important to the, plot but.

2103
01:52:18,720 --> 01:52:22,000
Speaker 3: Okay sonya says that, Tattoo i've seen it before on

2104
01:52:22,040 --> 01:52:25,000
Speaker 3: a robot and a. Woman they both tried to kill.

2105
01:52:25,040 --> 01:52:27,200
Speaker 2: Me it was worth it for that. LINE i got

2106
01:52:27,200 --> 01:52:28,120
Speaker 2: a real chuckle out of that.

2107
01:52:28,240 --> 01:52:32,200
Speaker 3: Line raidin explains the tattoo is a family. Crest it

2108
01:52:32,200 --> 01:52:35,639
Speaker 3: belongs only to his. Bloodline raydon's got a blood. Line

2109
01:52:36,880 --> 01:52:40,240
Speaker 3: anybody who wears it can safely pass through the, portals

2110
01:52:40,520 --> 01:52:44,000
Speaker 3: and he says the robot and the woman only had temporary. Passes.

2111
01:52:44,160 --> 01:52:47,080
Speaker 3: Quote they did not share my. Bloodline the robot didn't

2112
01:52:47,080 --> 01:52:51,360
Speaker 3: share his blood. Line but this leads to the big.

2113
01:52:51,400 --> 01:52:54,919
Speaker 3: Reveal the big reveal is That rayden's father is actually

2114
01:52:55,000 --> 01:52:58,920
Speaker 3: an elder God. Shinok shinok is his father And Shao

2115
01:52:59,000 --> 01:53:02,080
Speaker 3: khan is his. Brother and then it pans around it

2116
01:53:02,160 --> 01:53:04,920
Speaker 3: everybody And jax is looking at the floor shaking his.

2117
01:53:05,040 --> 01:53:11,840
Speaker 3: Head but there's there's some kind of, choice, yeah some

2118
01:53:11,920 --> 01:53:15,720
Speaker 3: kind of prophecy where Either raydon Or Shao khan has

2119
01:53:15,760 --> 01:53:18,120
Speaker 3: to kill the other one so that they can ascend

2120
01:53:18,160 --> 01:53:21,360
Speaker 3: to the. Throne so they've fought before And raydon, won

2121
01:53:21,439 --> 01:53:23,800
Speaker 3: But raydan could not bring himself to kill his, brother

2122
01:53:24,000 --> 01:53:26,040
Speaker 3: so he gave. UP i guess he went and became

2123
01:53:26,080 --> 01:53:28,640
Speaker 3: a thunder god. Instead so it's kind of like how you,

2124
01:53:28,640 --> 01:53:31,000
Speaker 3: know second sons of nobility they have to go join

2125
01:53:31,040 --> 01:53:34,559
Speaker 3: the military or the. Clergy here you can go become

2126
01:53:34,840 --> 01:53:36,920
Speaker 3: a thunder god if you can't be the ultimate elder.

2127
01:53:36,960 --> 01:53:41,519
Speaker 3: God So raidin also, says you, know he still can't

2128
01:53:41,600 --> 01:53:44,479
Speaker 3: kill his. Brother even, now seems Lu kang is their only.

2129
01:53:44,520 --> 01:53:48,000
Speaker 3: Hope so we're going to the final. Showdown it's all out.

2130
01:53:48,040 --> 01:53:51,760
Speaker 3: Now Lu, Kang Katana sonya And jack's are going to

2131
01:53:51,800 --> 01:53:55,599
Speaker 3: Face Shao khan and his. Generals we got some stuff

2132
01:53:55,600 --> 01:53:59,040
Speaker 3: in the, Background manhattan. SKYLINE i Think temple Of. Light

2133
01:54:00,120 --> 01:54:03,080
Speaker 3: Chau khan is, there and he says prepare for a final.

2134
01:54:03,400 --> 01:54:08,000
Speaker 3: Battle raydon also pops up after, all even though he

2135
01:54:08,080 --> 01:54:10,280
Speaker 3: said like he couldn't take part in this, fight he

2136
01:54:10,320 --> 01:54:13,760
Speaker 3: shows up and he argues With. Shinnock shinnock Thinks raydon is,

2137
01:54:13,760 --> 01:54:17,160
Speaker 3: weak But raydon shouts that it is not weak to value,

2138
01:54:17,240 --> 01:54:21,160
Speaker 3: life and So shinnock, says you, know last, chance come

2139
01:54:21,160 --> 01:54:23,320
Speaker 3: to my side and rule all the realms with your.

2140
01:54:23,360 --> 01:54:27,320
Speaker 3: Family raydon, says, no these, weak pathetic, mortals they are my.

2141
01:54:27,439 --> 01:54:31,559
Speaker 3: Family so Shau kan Blasts rayden with some green energy

2142
01:54:32,040 --> 01:54:34,880
Speaker 3: and kills him And. Raydon his last words, Are i'm

2143
01:54:34,920 --> 01:54:47,720
Speaker 3: proud to die a mortal like You. Burgh so here

2144
01:54:47,760 --> 01:54:49,720
Speaker 3: we get the pair ups in the final. Battle rob

2145
01:54:49,760 --> 01:54:51,680
Speaker 3: you can take your pick of things you want to comment.

2146
01:54:51,720 --> 01:54:55,040
Speaker 3: On But sonya is gonna Fight, irmak The Red. Ninja

2147
01:54:55,400 --> 01:54:59,760
Speaker 3: jax Fights motaro The Sinaur jack's, says mister ed is

2148
01:54:59,800 --> 01:55:05,680
Speaker 3: My kaitana Fights sindel her, mom and Lu kang fights Show.

2149
01:55:05,760 --> 01:55:09,600
Speaker 2: Kan, yeah so all these are happening at. Once but but,

2150
01:55:09,680 --> 01:55:11,760
Speaker 2: yeah these are gonna be our final. Fights let's. See

2151
01:55:11,800 --> 01:55:15,880
Speaker 2: let's let's start With jack's Versus. Motoro better than it

2152
01:55:15,920 --> 01:55:18,720
Speaker 2: had any right to. BE cgi is is going to

2153
01:55:18,760 --> 01:55:21,560
Speaker 2: be a continual, factor but still looks better THAN i.

2154
01:55:21,640 --> 01:55:25,640
Speaker 2: EXPECTED i think that the horse part of The centaur

2155
01:55:25,760 --> 01:55:31,080
Speaker 2: was maybe a mix of of like actual physical extension

2156
01:55:31,160 --> 01:55:34,760
Speaker 2: and then also some computer generated, stuff so ambitious and

2157
01:55:35,080 --> 01:55:39,040
Speaker 2: doesn't completely fall, flat didn't look, abysmal has some nice

2158
01:55:39,080 --> 01:55:42,760
Speaker 2: beats in the. Fight the arm thing is ridiculous, though

2159
01:55:42,800 --> 01:55:45,880
Speaker 2: Where motaro's, like you don't need those, arms the real

2160
01:55:45,880 --> 01:55:52,120
Speaker 2: strength is inside. You, Yes mataro is like getting them to, yeah,

2161
01:55:52,200 --> 01:55:54,480
Speaker 2: yeah oh, Okay so in a way it's kind of

2162
01:55:54,480 --> 01:55:58,440
Speaker 2: a teaching battle for some ridiculous. Reason jackson also gets

2163
01:55:58,440 --> 01:56:00,760
Speaker 2: to Punch motaro in the tink part of the. Centaur

2164
01:56:00,880 --> 01:56:06,800
Speaker 2: that's you, know it's neither horse nor. Man and, yeah

2165
01:56:06,840 --> 01:56:09,720
Speaker 2: and So jacks ends up ripping off those those robot

2166
01:56:09,880 --> 01:56:12,440
Speaker 2: arms so that he can use his real strength in

2167
01:56:12,560 --> 01:56:13,360
Speaker 2: order to defeat the.

2168
01:56:13,400 --> 01:56:17,880
Speaker 3: Centaur and he. Does, yeah let's, see we Get sonya Versus,

2169
01:56:17,960 --> 01:56:22,160
Speaker 3: irmak the Red. Ninja irmak generates Other ninjas to fight

2170
01:56:22,200 --> 01:56:24,160
Speaker 3: and Then jacks has TO i Think jackson sort of

2171
01:56:24,240 --> 01:56:27,040
Speaker 3: motivated to go Help, sonya which is why he has

2172
01:56:27,080 --> 01:56:28,040
Speaker 3: the strength to beat Up.

2173
01:56:28,040 --> 01:56:31,600
Speaker 2: Motaro, yeah And sonia gets to kick butt here and

2174
01:56:31,760 --> 01:56:35,120
Speaker 2: gets a very nice fatality combo on The Red. Ninja

2175
01:56:35,200 --> 01:56:38,560
Speaker 2: she does a headstand into a leg scissors punched to the,

2176
01:56:38,600 --> 01:56:41,960
Speaker 2: face then a hurricane rana and then a heel twist

2177
01:56:42,120 --> 01:56:43,680
Speaker 2: next snap to finish him.

2178
01:56:43,720 --> 01:56:44,040
Speaker 3: Off so.

2179
01:56:44,440 --> 01:56:44,760
Speaker 2: Nice.

2180
01:56:45,120 --> 01:56:49,000
Speaker 3: Yeah also in here we got A katana Versus. Sindel

2181
01:56:49,120 --> 01:56:51,720
Speaker 3: this this one is not in terms of choreography very.

2182
01:56:51,720 --> 01:56:55,200
Speaker 3: Interesting they're just kind of. Bopping there is some banter

2183
01:56:55,480 --> 01:56:58,360
Speaker 3: like they smack and Then sindel, says is that any

2184
01:56:58,400 --> 01:57:00,920
Speaker 3: way to treat your? Mother and Then katana, says my

2185
01:57:01,040 --> 01:57:03,880
Speaker 3: mother is, dead and Then sendel says and soon will

2186
01:57:03,920 --> 01:57:08,200
Speaker 3: be her. Daughter, okay kind of works out to. That

2187
01:57:08,840 --> 01:57:10,960
Speaker 3: but let's talk about Lu kang Versus. Shakan this is

2188
01:57:10,960 --> 01:57:14,080
Speaker 3: the real final. Fight this is our main pair.

2189
01:57:13,920 --> 01:57:17,200
Speaker 2: Of this is the main, event and when they're actually physically,

2190
01:57:17,240 --> 01:57:20,120
Speaker 2: fighting this is pretty darn good because you have two

2191
01:57:20,160 --> 01:57:24,040
Speaker 2: great physical performers, here both with martial arts training of

2192
01:57:24,080 --> 01:57:26,280
Speaker 2: some sort or. Another, certainly Lu KANG i think has

2193
01:57:26,280 --> 01:57:29,280
Speaker 2: the MORE i Think shoe has the more extensive training,

2194
01:57:29,320 --> 01:57:31,280
Speaker 2: here but still you can tell these guys are both.

2195
01:57:31,320 --> 01:57:34,880
Speaker 2: Physical you, know they're putting on a good. Show but

2196
01:57:35,040 --> 01:57:36,760
Speaker 2: of course they're going to have to bust out those

2197
01:57:36,840 --> 01:57:39,760
Speaker 2: animalties because it is written it is legend or, whatever

2198
01:57:40,200 --> 01:57:43,160
Speaker 2: so which means these two are going to instead of

2199
01:57:43,200 --> 01:57:46,360
Speaker 2: just continuing to like to punch each other and kick

2200
01:57:46,400 --> 01:57:49,880
Speaker 2: each other and throw on some, holds we're going to

2201
01:57:50,400 --> 01:57:53,879
Speaker 2: proceed to have some of the WORST cgi ever committed

2202
01:57:53,920 --> 01:57:58,120
Speaker 2: to a theatrically released. Film As Lu kang turns into

2203
01:57:58,160 --> 01:58:02,240
Speaker 2: a quote dragon and Then Shao khan turns into something

2204
01:58:02,240 --> 01:58:04,240
Speaker 2: That i've seen loosely, described AND i think in the

2205
01:58:04,520 --> 01:58:07,640
Speaker 2: credits it is described as a, hydra but you would

2206
01:58:07,640 --> 01:58:10,520
Speaker 2: be hard press to guess what either of these TWO

2207
01:58:10,600 --> 01:58:12,520
Speaker 2: cgi monstrosities are.

2208
01:58:12,960 --> 01:58:18,000
Speaker 3: That the Dragon lukang turns into looks so. Dopey it.

2209
01:58:18,080 --> 01:58:22,720
Speaker 3: Is it's got like, stumpy short like legs and small.

2210
01:58:22,760 --> 01:58:26,640
Speaker 3: Wings it just does it's not impressive looking at, all

2211
01:58:26,720 --> 01:58:30,800
Speaker 3: like a pointy. Gargoyle yeah. Yeah and the hydra That

2212
01:58:30,880 --> 01:58:33,000
Speaker 3: Shau kan turns into is kind of a pink and,

2213
01:58:33,120 --> 01:58:39,240
Speaker 3: white gross like silent hill flesh. Hydra yeah, yeah just,

2214
01:58:39,360 --> 01:58:43,160
Speaker 3: terrible so, again very believable physical match up, here and

2215
01:58:43,200 --> 01:58:45,200
Speaker 3: instead of just getting a great, fight or even just

2216
01:58:45,240 --> 01:58:48,240
Speaker 3: a passable, fight just just a few nice hits and moments,

2217
01:58:48,240 --> 01:58:53,600
Speaker 3: here instead it becomes this cgi just, blasphemy just the

2218
01:58:53,640 --> 01:58:57,080
Speaker 3: worst thing you'll ever see. Again should not be the

2219
01:58:57,160 --> 01:59:02,480
Speaker 3: last last theatrical that you see before you pass out

2220
01:59:02,480 --> 01:59:04,640
Speaker 3: of this. Realm, now in the middle of this, fight

2221
01:59:04,680 --> 01:59:07,400
Speaker 3: when Lu kang gets the upper, Hand shannak's supposed to

2222
01:59:07,440 --> 01:59:09,880
Speaker 3: come in here and cheat because he's gonna like Shoot

2223
01:59:09,920 --> 01:59:14,240
Speaker 3: lukang and kill, him yeah something, Yeah but then suddenly

2224
01:59:14,640 --> 01:59:17,880
Speaker 3: a couple of figures, appear these two random old people

2225
01:59:17,920 --> 01:59:20,760
Speaker 3: in frumpy. GOWNS i think these are the elder. Gods

2226
01:59:21,200 --> 01:59:23,640
Speaker 3: they put a hand On shinanok's shoulder and he's, like,

2227
01:59:23,720 --> 01:59:27,400
Speaker 3: oh never, mind, Okay i'm. Boiled and so everything now

2228
01:59:27,440 --> 01:59:30,160
Speaker 3: has to be decided the fair way In Mortal. Kombat

2229
01:59:30,360 --> 01:59:32,840
Speaker 3: so it's a fair fight Between lukang And Chao, khan

2230
01:59:33,320 --> 01:59:35,960
Speaker 3: and The Mortal kombat, theme the techno theme from the

2231
01:59:35,960 --> 01:59:40,520
Speaker 3: first movie. Plays Chau kan keeps Taunting lukang about destiny

2232
01:59:40,600 --> 01:59:44,200
Speaker 3: and power and, such but finally Lu kang knocks him

2233
01:59:44,240 --> 01:59:46,880
Speaker 3: out with a backflip, Kick so finally one of the

2234
01:59:46,920 --> 01:59:51,000
Speaker 3: flips in the movie had narrative. Consequence. Yes and after this,

2235
01:59:51,040 --> 01:59:54,880
Speaker 3: Happens Chao khan's dragon tattoo peels up off his skin

2236
01:59:54,920 --> 02:00:00,600
Speaker 3: while he screams. No shanak transforms into a bunch of

2237
02:00:00,640 --> 02:00:04,480
Speaker 3: flat square television screens and then folds up into the phantom.

2238
02:00:04,600 --> 02:00:08,640
Speaker 3: Zone and then a HUGE cgi dragon flies out Of

2239
02:00:08,680 --> 02:00:11,480
Speaker 3: Shao khan's, backbone and then the rest Of Chao khan

2240
02:00:11,640 --> 02:00:12,280
Speaker 3: is just a skin.

2241
02:00:12,400 --> 02:00:15,680
Speaker 2: Pile, yeah kind of, melts kind of turns into a.

2242
02:00:15,720 --> 02:00:18,240
Speaker 2: Skeleton but it is not a like in the, games

2243
02:00:18,280 --> 02:00:20,960
Speaker 2: he explodes and it's always kind of cool When Shaal khan.

2244
02:00:21,000 --> 02:00:24,000
Speaker 3: Explodes here it is not. Cool it's just very. Lackluster it's,

2245
02:00:24,040 --> 02:00:27,600
Speaker 3: like come, on and basically instantly everything's. Fixed The Golden

2246
02:00:27,600 --> 02:00:30,200
Speaker 3: gate bridges back where it, Goes Eiffel towers back where it.

2247
02:00:30,240 --> 02:00:33,280
Speaker 3: Goes none of this ever. Happened taking it all, back

2248
02:00:34,040 --> 02:00:37,960
Speaker 3: we See sindel without her, band she, makeup She sindel

2249
02:00:38,920 --> 02:00:41,800
Speaker 3: And kitana. Hug NOW i guess she's not evil. Anymore

2250
02:00:42,400 --> 02:00:45,240
Speaker 3: the elder gods breathe some life back Into raydon and

2251
02:00:45,280 --> 02:00:48,640
Speaker 3: he wakes. Up take that back, too he's. Fine and

2252
02:00:48,680 --> 02:00:51,560
Speaker 3: then the elder god with the computer voice, says it

2253
02:00:51,640 --> 02:00:54,600
Speaker 3: is only right That shinnock's son be allowed to take

2254
02:00:54,640 --> 02:00:57,600
Speaker 3: his place in the Eternal. Palace so it Seems raydon

2255
02:00:57,680 --> 02:01:01,560
Speaker 3: is an elder god. Now and he walks around telling

2256
02:01:01,640 --> 02:01:04,200
Speaker 3: all his, weak pathetic mortals that he's so proud of,

2257
02:01:04,240 --> 02:01:08,480
Speaker 3: them and he, says and, remember be there for one.

2258
02:01:08,520 --> 02:01:12,960
Speaker 3: Another you're family, now Even. SINDEL i, guess.

2259
02:01:13,120 --> 02:01:16,480
Speaker 2: Yeah just one big happy, family Because Mortal kombat it's

2260
02:01:16,560 --> 02:01:18,160
Speaker 2: not about, death it's about.

2261
02:01:18,160 --> 02:01:21,400
Speaker 3: Family. Yeah Then raydon blows away AS cgi in the,

2262
02:01:21,440 --> 02:01:25,520
Speaker 3: breeze and then we get The Mortal kombat and that's the.

2263
02:01:25,640 --> 02:01:28,600
Speaker 2: End, Yeah AND i think you can find this if

2264
02:01:28,640 --> 02:01:30,280
Speaker 2: you look. Online but originally there was going to be

2265
02:01:30,280 --> 02:01:33,720
Speaker 2: a stinger Where shinnock is Bringing Kwan chi into the

2266
02:01:33,760 --> 02:01:36,200
Speaker 2: fold and it's, like all, Right Quan chi be ready

2267
02:01:36,200 --> 02:01:38,760
Speaker 2: for the next. Movie BUT i think everyone decided we're

2268
02:01:38,760 --> 02:01:41,360
Speaker 2: actually not ready for the Next Mortal kombat. Movie we

2269
02:01:41,400 --> 02:01:43,720
Speaker 2: need to take some time and really think about what

2270
02:01:43,720 --> 02:01:44,520
Speaker 2: we want to do with this.

2271
02:01:44,600 --> 02:01:47,920
Speaker 3: Franchise, WELL i feel as IF i have participated in

2272
02:01:47,960 --> 02:01:50,560
Speaker 3: a martial arts tournament. MYSELF i am all tuckered out

2273
02:01:50,600 --> 02:01:53,200
Speaker 3: from talking About Mortal kombat, annihilation AND i don't know

2274
02:01:53,240 --> 02:01:54,760
Speaker 3: how much MORE i can say.

2275
02:01:54,720 --> 02:01:59,880
Speaker 2: It annihilates one as, advertised That's Mortal, kombat AND i

2276
02:02:00,040 --> 02:02:04,480
Speaker 2: nhilation again a film that has it's not just a complete,

2277
02:02:04,480 --> 02:02:08,520
Speaker 2: disaster but, geez it's it's pretty. Rough it's pretty.

2278
02:02:08,600 --> 02:02:11,880
Speaker 3: Rough you can queue up make a good combo, though

2279
02:02:11,920 --> 02:02:14,880
Speaker 3: to queue up alongside like a really good martial arts,

2280
02:02:14,960 --> 02:02:18,400
Speaker 3: movie like watch it With fist Of fury or. Something, yeah,

2281
02:02:18,520 --> 02:02:22,240
Speaker 3: YEAH i enjoyed, it, Though LIKE i, say it's it's

2282
02:02:22,520 --> 02:02:24,840
Speaker 3: it is so, bad it's. Good we rarely say that

2283
02:02:24,880 --> 02:02:27,520
Speaker 3: about a film on weird house, cinema but, THIS i

2284
02:02:27,560 --> 02:02:31,600
Speaker 3: think is a clear cut example of. That it transcends

2285
02:02:31,960 --> 02:02:34,000
Speaker 3: our judgments and becomes a thing that we can we

2286
02:02:34,040 --> 02:02:37,840
Speaker 3: can fully embrace and. Enjoy i'm surprised it hasn't been

2287
02:02:37,880 --> 02:02:39,840
Speaker 3: more embraced in the game because the video games have

2288
02:02:39,960 --> 02:02:42,680
Speaker 3: done stuff, like you, know Bring Chris Christoph lumbert in

2289
02:02:42,800 --> 02:02:45,880
Speaker 3: and do some voice work and put his version of

2290
02:02:46,080 --> 02:02:48,400
Speaker 3: raiding in the, game and so there's a lot of

2291
02:02:48,400 --> 02:02:50,520
Speaker 3: that fan service with the First Mortal. Kombat BUT i

2292
02:02:50,560 --> 02:02:53,040
Speaker 3: don't know that they've done anything With Mortal Kombat. ANNIHILATION

2293
02:02:53,480 --> 02:02:55,040
Speaker 3: i THINK i think it would be pretty cool Bring

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Speaker 3: Brian thompson, in, yeah or anything or some of those

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Speaker 3: CGIs THAT i don't, Know, well that would be pretty.

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Speaker 3: Good it plays with a lot of like alternate universes

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Speaker 3: and other, dimensions, right so you can have different versions

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Speaker 3: of the same. Character AM i right about?

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Speaker 2: That, yeah that's what they've been doing on the more recent.

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Speaker 3: One for.

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Speaker 2: Sure they're all into the, multiverse you, know in good

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Speaker 2: ways and bad. Ways so absolutely there's a multiverse out

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Speaker 2: there that Is Mortal Kombat.

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Speaker 3: Annihilation, yeah definitely bring in the reiner shown a shinnock

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Speaker 3: to just be disappointed and kind Of. German yuh, yeah all,

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Speaker 3: right there we, Go Mortal Kombat, annihilation flowless.

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Speaker 2: Victory we'd love to hear what everyone out there has

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Speaker 2: to say about. This did you if you saw this

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Speaker 2: in the, wild if you saw this at the? Theater

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Speaker 2: definitely right? In if you you, know how do you

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Speaker 2: feel this film fits into Your Mortal kombat? Fandom what's

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Speaker 2: it like seeing this film without knowing anything About Mortal.

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Speaker 2: Kombat these are questions we would like, answered so right,

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