mortal kombat haters.

[boys from the dwarf]

my friend was wondrin becuase in the thread where i said sonya and tifas storylines have similaritys half of you said MK sucks an my friend ws wondrin why because hes big mortal komat fan and has about ten different mortal komat dvds and has a lot of mortal kombat games too
i can see why some of you dont like it becuase of the storyline is kinda random and leads to almost nothin and some of the effects and stuff are dodgy but it isnt too bad and at least ive seen worse films so whats your reasons for hating it.

[Rye]

I like how they say Mortal Kombat when it starts. MORTOOOOO KOOOOHMBAAAAAAAAAAT.

[Meat Puppet]

JOEL IS MY BEST FRIEND IN THE WORLD.

[Shoeberto]

I enjoy Mortal Kombat, personally.

[Rase]

*Patiently waits for Joel to notice the thread*

Oh yeah, I think the 2D ones were pretty good. I never really got good at the newer 3D ones, but that's just me.

As for the movie, well, I never saw it.

[Erdrick Holmes]

... No, I'm not even gonna bother, have fun playing your crappy games.

[Cloud No.9]

it was dull and slow. and shallow.

the films. were just crap. in very possible way. were badly scripted. badly acted. badly directed.

[DJZen]

I liked the first game a lot, the later games I think went a little too far overboard and the novelty of the fatalities had worn off, and the characters were just progressively less imaginative. Stryker? He's just some random guy! What the heck? (okay, maybe that's unfair, I used to play as him all the time.) As far as the movies go, the second one was crap. And when I say crap I mean SHEER crap. It was just a character introduction cram session with little to offer in terms of plot or character development. The first one was great though. It was essentially an updated version of Enter The Dragon that featured a white guy as a Chinese god with a Japanese name. The effects are pretty bad now, but at the time they were actually fairly good. The laughability of the dialogue is overshadowed by the fight scenes as well as the time tested plot. It's a perfectly good martial arts film. On an ironic side note, the actor who played Liu Kang in the game (Ho Sung Pak) co-starred on a children's martial arts TV show with another actor (Hakeem Alston) who WAS in the film (the nameless staff fighter who Liu Kang fights early on in the tournament), but Liu Kang in the movie was played by a completely different actor (Robin Shou). Trivia is fun, eh?

On another note, the TV series MK Conquest was infinitely more interesting for its plotline than the movie. I used to watch it whenever I could.

[boys from the dwarf]

im not the biggest mortal kombat fan but it was o.k but i can see where cloudno.9 is coming from and also i think the opening theme tune and some of the others were the best parts.oh and darth holmes i would like to know why you hate it becase i need reasons.

[Del Murder]

I like MK. The gameplay is fun and the fatalities are entertaining.

[Shoeberto]

oh and darth holmes i would like to know why you hate it becase i need reasons.

ohgoodnessno.

[Meat Puppet]

I wonder if he would still hate it if Chun-Li got drafted to MK.

[Dreddz]

the originals were fun, but the new ones are crap sticks

[boys from the dwarf]

street fighter vs MK any bets?it mentions stryker in the films.the only completely made up characters are kintaro and the new ones on MK deception.the fatalities on the games are cool so i like the games more than the films.and also mortal kombat has robin shou in it to play lui kang and robin has a realy amazing part in beverly hills ninja (does anyone know what other films robin shous in?)
and i see what gibbi means about new and old MKs because to oldies were great.

[Lionx]

The problem? MK is all about Fatailties. It doenst have much more depth then that. No Crossovers, openings for Supers, or in other words it cannot be played at a tournament level. Its a just-for-fun game, and just-for-fun games usually are not considered even to be a valued fighting game. You need to have competition, and fighting games die a painful death if theres not enough depth in the fighting mechanics to keep it strong like MvC2, CvS2, GGXX, and SF3. Thats why you see those in fighting game tournaments and not MK.

EDIT: BTW MK is horribly clunky even for normal moves.