@jordyep I had to say you're wrong about the Chinese market part. Chinese have no recognition of the Mortal Combat franchise whatsoever, since the games never made it to the market. If you said so based on the amount of Asian faces you saw in it, we all know what that means.
@iken it’s not even necessarily about casting Asian actors, though I will say they should’ve gone with Asian actors that were a lot better than the ones they ended up with. What I said about the Chinese market mostly has to do with the last sentence, i.e. the fact that everything is dumbed down and soulless.
@jordyep Yeah, watch a good American movie like "Skyscraper." Art at the highest level.
@schmenky What’s skyscraper got to do with it? Just so you know, I also think that film is trash
@jordyep This film is for the fans of the video game, and by the trailers we saw, we know what kind of a movie it will be. It caters to the fans of the franchise and they made that choice, not for the critics.
@helmheim You're right, they chose to make a product, not a movie.
that’s primarily aimed at the Chinese market"
A quick Google search will tell you this movie isn't even released in China. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293429/releaseinfo
All the filthy load of money they are getting there is from the illegal downloads, which is, surprisingly, zero.
But truth probably doesn't matter because China bad.
Shout by JordyVIP 8BlockedParent2021-04-23T17:40:19Z
It’s not a movie.
It’s just another bland, soulless mass product that’s primarily aimed at the Chinese market.
Now that WB is the only real studio releasing big movies, it really shows what a joke of a studio they’ve become during the last 5 years.
Not that they didn’t release crap before that, but at least there was something like a good Mad Max, Harry Potter, Matrix or Lord of the Rings film somewhere to be found in their slate.
It would seem Villeneuve and Nolan are the only real talents that are left at the studio.
For nearly every other film they make, they seem to think that appealing to the lowest common denominator will give them the biggest return on their investment.
I.e. the action scenes are more important than the story or the characters, and the scale needs to be huge, even if it looks tacky and fake.
3/10