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What went wrong?
Originally Mortal Kombat?
Anxiety was pure genius *SPOILERS*
So happy to be wrong
Don't think I've ever seen a movie....
Is it just me? (Mel's look)
Is it really that bad? A fresh perspective?
Great film, but one thing I didn't understand... [Spoilers]
OK so there's a good chance you'll think I'm crazy....
Can someone explain to me... (spoilers)
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Came here to say exactly this.
I liked this movie, but it's clearly not a Batman movie. The thick 70s influence throughout, homages to Bruce Lee, James Bond, blaxploitation... Batman appears as a character twice throughout the movie and I'm not sure the name Batman is said even once, referred to as simply "that costume" and called Bruce at all times.
My guess is that work was already underway on the movie, a love letter to 70s media, when someone from marketing came down from on high and told them it simply wasn't going to be profitable unless they could tie it to a big franchise name. So they replaced one of the characters with Bruce Wayne, set a chunk of it in Gotham, and turned it into a Batman movie. He wasn't even the main character in his own movie! That would be Richard Dragon, he is clearly the real protagonist.
It's sad but true that these days animations like this simply won't get made unless they can tie it to a recognised brandname or franchise, it's far too risky as a project. In a fairer world this would have just been called "Soul of the Dragon", Bruce Wayne would have been a different character, and it would have been an attempt (failed or otherwise) to start a new franchise based on Richard Dragon. (Hate that name though, doesn't sound right at all).
When the 3 snake beasts/demons come through the gate, they devour Rip, but Jade is also on the ground at that spot. It's fair to assume they devoured her body too.
They could shut one of them up by saying that the Hulk reflected in the claws was actually She-Hulk....
Ironically you should feel nothing but embarrassment looking back at this post.
Either this is bait, or the most embarrassing post I've ever seen.
Yeah I fucked up, I didn't think that through at all
Yeah I agree, and the ending was the only fault in a film which I feel was otherwise bloody brilliant.
There was a tense moment (ok there were a lot of those...) just before they emptied the car before pushing it into the lake. It was made clear they both had a gun, and for a moment they both disappeared from view. At that moment I fantasized the movie ending like this - a gunshot/flash, and then the van simply drives away, leaving the viewer clueless as to who shot who. Maybe I just have a thing for ambiguous endings, but it's an ending I would have loved!
Ahhh thanks, see that makes more sense.
Sudden influx though - did this movie get rereleased or something?
I literally cannot imagine what kind of a person it takes to go to a website, the purpose of which is the discussion of movies, create an account, and then respond to a question from 6 months ago about a movie over 40 years old with "It's only a movie."
I strongly encourage you to re-evaluate your life.
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