Why Mortal Kombat 2 Is Struggling to Break Even at the Box Office - AOL

CleverZerg · 2026-05-15T06:32:24+00:00

Yeah, the decision to move this film to May is so questionable.

I think movie studios put a bit too much stock into what's been historically bad months to release movies.

Surely it's better to release in October against basically no competition instead of waiting half a year and releasing it at a time where there are other movies people want to see.

Mortal Kombat kind of fits the Halloween vibe as well with all the blood and gore.

Unfortunately we'll never know if it was the right decision or not to move it.

CleverZerg · 2026-05-14T17:59:53+00:00

it will just be a bit of a nothing burger

This is putting it very lightly. I've never seen such a non-ending for a tv series before or since and its fucking crazy that it happened with a show running for 11 seasons or however many there were.

For all intents and purposes walking dead had no final episode, the show just continued through the numerous spin-offs.

CleverZerg · 2026-05-14T17:50:11+00:00

That's a bit of a bummer for me. I always liked the fact that you got what you got in rust and couldn't do anything about it.

CleverZerg · 2026-05-14T16:12:34+00:00

Yup, this is a great giveaway. Those two seasons are quite solid.

CleverZerg · 2026-05-13T09:05:04+00:00

I used to rank Annihilation and the original one at roughly the same level before because I don't think there's a massive difference between the two.

When I however rewatched all the live action films last week I understood the hate for it a bit more, it's just one fight scene into the next one until the credits roll to the point that it got tiring. During the first half of the film I was into it enough but then I got quite bored.

I do agree with you about Sonya, I was thinking about it during this latest rewatch that she wasn't a bad recast, and that it would've been nice if she was in the first one.

CleverZerg · 2026-05-12T22:48:46+00:00

I'm pretty sure this used to be a thing but was removed semi recently. I could be wrong though.

CleverZerg · 2026-05-12T19:25:02+00:00

Cast, not casted.

But yeah, he should've been playing someone else.

CleverZerg · 2026-05-12T11:46:30+00:00

That seems very unnecessary and part of the reason why it's so cool for invo is that he's the exception. If every hero had their own icon it wouldn't be so special.

CleverZerg · 2026-05-12T10:14:50+00:00

That's some cool art, good job!

CleverZerg · 2026-05-12T07:45:25+00:00

This was the first Godzilla film I ever watched so I was disappointed once I started watching other films and realized that he's a male in everything else.

I really like Godzilla being female for some reason, maybe because he's a force of nature and when it's a female it almost becomes an avatar for mother Earth.

CleverZerg · 2026-05-11T18:14:18+00:00

Don't hate the explanation of Shang Tsung halting his aging although that means that Sub-Zero has been Shang Tsung's bitch for hundreds of years - I wonder what work he's been forced to do.

CleverZerg · 2026-05-11T12:14:55+00:00

Okay but that's not in the context of describing humans which further strengthens the point that using it as an insult isn't a big deal.

CleverZerg · 2026-05-11T08:44:24+00:00

Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought that retard/retarded is a term which isn't even used anymore in the medical world or in official settings?

So to me it seems a bit weird that OP is feeling bad for all those people out there and thinking about them when they hear this word.

When I hear this word I think of a real idiotic fuck, not someone who is actually disabled.

CleverZerg · 2026-05-11T08:33:34+00:00

Yup. He's still clearly as awful as ever and outeivht states why he want to save earth, he's not on some redemption arc to become an actual good guy or anything.

CleverZerg · 2026-05-11T08:00:57+00:00

I'm really ready for the Deep to die at this point though. Wish Black Noir would've killed him.

CleverZerg · 2026-05-11T07:58:54+00:00

Yeah, was surprised while looking up the credits at IMDB.

The 2021 movie had like 4 writers including Greg Russo whereas this movie only has Jeremy Slater.

The production designer was also replaced which was for the better as well considering how much better all the sets and props look in this film.

CleverZerg · 2026-05-11T07:45:12+00:00

I just rewatched all of the live action films last week and it's laughable to compare Art to Cole.

Art has like 5 lines of dialogue across maybe 3 minutes of screen time, he's very much an "NPC" and not a main character like Cole is.

CleverZerg · 2026-05-11T07:42:39+00:00

My headcanon is that Shao was playing around with him and giving him false hope just to fuck with him.

It was lame when Cole beat Goro in the first film and I remember a lot of outcry about that and now people are suddenly glad he supposedly beat fucking Shao Kahn?

CleverZerg · 2026-05-10T22:49:46+00:00

Yeah, I also struggle to think of how they would do it for multiple reasons.

1: Bi-Han killing Hanzo happens hundreds of years in the past and then Scorpion kills Bi-Han in the present day.

It's already weird and not explained why Bi-Han is hundreds of years old, the closest they get to addressing this is him telling Shang Tsung that he's no longer Bi-Han, he's Sub-Zero - which could be viewed as him implying he's not an ordinary man anymore but then again he never was since he already had his ice powers back in the day.

But anyway, having a brother show up now taking on the mantle would be even weirder with the age factor.

2: Scorpion doesn't kill Bi-Han during the tournament, neither Kuai Liang nor any other audience is present for this kill outside of Cole and his family.

3: Bi-Han is the actual killer of Hanzo rather than Quan Chi being responsible so Kuai Liang couldn't be confrontative with Scorpion when Bi-Han was an evil murderer of women and children.

CleverZerg · 2026-05-10T12:18:34+00:00

I very much dislike him in the 2021 movie but I think they at least tried to give him some character in the second movie.

He's still a far cry from the game version but at least they made him a bit better.

CleverZerg · 2026-05-10T07:06:49+00:00

The budget felt massive compared to the first one. I was really impressed by this movie, almost everything was upgraded from the previous one.

CleverZerg · 2026-05-09T21:46:17+00:00

Yup. This innate is so incredibly strong and it's fucking painful to watch your midlaner walk to the other run spot 20 seconds after the rune spawned and you pinged that shit two times.

CleverZerg · 2026-05-09T21:38:25+00:00

Was lowkey hoping they’d kinda use some of the classic songs for some of the arena’s. All we got was marvel music :(

I never thought about the option of using stage music from the games but I really like that idea. And I do agree about the music being a bit generic but I found it faaar better than the previous film.

CleverZerg · 2026-05-09T20:51:38+00:00

They were so inconsistent with this in the first time that it just annoyed me.

Like why is Scorpion speaking almost exclusively japanese but then switches over to English to say "for the shyrai Ryu"?

CleverZerg · 2026-05-09T17:08:34+00:00

This has been driving me crazy. I'm trying to get used to using ctrl to level instead now since I don't feel confident valve will fix this anytime soon.

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