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188DarkRevived said:
The idea of humans crossbreeding with elves always seems to get me excited.

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Santa doesn't count, he's a fake!

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GreyGhost said:
First catch your elf.
Santa doesn't count, he's a fake!

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if you can summon giant eagles that can carry you over long distances, why didn't you just do that to begin with?

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DooMAD said:
Also, what's up with that sled? It's cool, but I can only assume there's some magic involved there unless friction works rather differently in Middle-earth.

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DooMAD said:
Also, what's up with that sled?

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DooMAD said:
It seems to suffer from the same slight plot hole as the first trilogy in that

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if you can summon giant eagles that can carry you over long distances, why didn't you just do that to begin with?

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188DarkRevived said:
Do you know what really bothers me?
The fact that the company New Line Cinema has put so much effort into making film adaptations of the LOTR novels while putting so little effort into making film adaptations of Mortal Kombat games.

I mean, they recklessly rushed through the storyline of 3 whole games and tried to squeeze it all into only 2 films.
They never showed how Princess Kitana's mother Syndel was resurrected from the dead by Shao Khan and possessed by some other entity.
They never showed how Shao Khan killed Stryker and Kabal, despite showing Shao Khan bragging about this deed to his Elder God father.
And Sheeva never even got the chance to fight Liu Kang in Shao Khan's dungeon. She got lamely killed off by being squashed under a falling cage shortly after greeting him.
And Nightwolf just appeared out of nowhere and disappeared just as suddenly as appearing.

Compared to the LOTR films, that was such reckless and non-passionate production. I actually wish that they put more effort and stretched those old films to 3 hours.

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188DarkRevived said:
Do you know what really bothers me?
The fact that the company New Line Cinema has put so much effort into making film adaptations of the LOTR novels while putting so little effort into making film adaptations of Mortal Kombat games.

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DoomUK said:

So many people complain about film adaptations of video games, but it's not like screen writers are working with quality material in the first place. Mortal Kombat's story and characters are silly and hammy and shallow, much like most other games that have been translated into films - do you honestly expect them to be cinematic masterpieces, let alone if they followed the games' stories even more faithfully?

The most hilarious examples are people who moaned about Resident Evil (the film) having nothing in common with the game. Like watching someone walk down corridors solving absurdly cryptic puzzles for 9 hours is a model of a good movie.

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Quasar said:
The second one was like a fucking Power Rangers episode. It didn't even try; it was like they let retards drool over the script until it was runny and ruined just to make sure nothing quality survived into the actual shoot. Then the director had the actors jump around like monkeys and hoot like gorillas. The result was one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

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Quasar said:
MK2 and 3 are very dark games, even if they have a lot of stuff that's cliche and a bit corny. Writers and directors who aren't total amateur hacks would know that to create a good movie, you work out that kind of stuff in the mix and keep what's compelling.
They just don't respect the source material they are working with enough to bother. That, or, they're just too sold on their own shitty ideas and want to replace the video game's canon with them.

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neubejiita said:
I do not remember this scene from the book.
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Quasar said:
MK2 and 3 are very dark games, even if they have a lot of stuff that's cliche and a bit corny. Writers and directors who aren't total amateur hacks would know that to create a good movie, you work out that kind of stuff in the mix and keep what's compelling.

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• Bad pacing, unnecessary padding. Story took too long to get going, some other scenes didn't feel like they were driving the story forward.
  
• The references to Sauron and stuff diminishes the effectiveness of Smaug as the story's antagonist. Should have at least been left until the third film before people started talking about an even bigger threat than the one that was being surmounted.
  
• I'm not anti-CGI at all, but there were some really nasty digital effects. Particularly some of the stuff in the goblin cave.