LogFAQs > #950819535

As I said in Gunsl's topic:

The opening looked kinda crappy, the tattoo thing was interesting, and then it got crappy towards the end. Personally I'm not sure how they keep making the movies suck. Although the franchise's story is unnecessarily convoluted, the bullet point is that it's a fighting tournament with superhuman contenders. Simplest shit in the world. How the fuck do you mess that up?

At any rate, I'm annoyed that instead of giving us Johnny Cage, we're getting a new character. It's fucking stupid. Maybe we'll see him in the sequel, provided that this movie doesn't bomb

And I said to your mention of JC's absence in the movie:

Yeah, it's fucking stupid. And it's not even a matter that they wanted to cast an Asian in the lead, because Liu Kang already is Asian. Maybe they wanted to change the backstory and were worried about annoying purists (unlikely), or they just realized that he was the main character in 90s one and wanted to go a different direction.

No Johnny Cage is a shit move regardless.

And, in general, it's just one of those things where these movies play a game of limbo with my expectations. No matter how I low I set that bar, they dive right under it. We've had many fighting game movies and the ONLY really passable one was Street Fighter, and then it was mostly for the camp. (That Bison painting is still fucking dope.)

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