Akin to the "Musical Picks" topic, I want to hear what your all time favourite movies/television shows are. It can be anything from action to drama to sports to romance (who watches that anyway though?). Don't be shy and don't be mean to other members, even if they really did enjoy Superbaby-Geniuses or whatever that piece of crap was called

 

I'll start off with a couple of my favs; I find most of the ones I put down are great films all together, but have shining endings.

 

Blood Diamond (Thriller/Drama): Leo DiCaprio picks up a sick south african accent in this eye-opening thriller/drama. Great music but if you're a Leo fan, you can probably already guess how it ends lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtPX2kXhu7I

 

Friday Night Lights (Sports): I'm not a football guy, but the cinematography and story made this a refreshing change to the typical, predictable, sports movie. Plus, the instrumental music by Explosions in the Sky fits perfect (note: the trailer is crap, watch the film).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzyp4qOW0F0

 

The Lord of The Rings Trilogy (Fantasy): If you are on a Lego forum where Lego LOTR products are frequently discussed, you probably already know how awesome the films are. If you don't, I'll leave it up to the mods to immediately revoke your membership to BrickPicker (jk).

 

And last I'll just end with my favourite TV show, which is probably going into its final season this year, The Mentalist (crime procedeural): this murder-a-episode series focuses on a former psychic who is now tracking the serial killer who murdered his family. The show can be light and funny, but when the serial killer ("red john") gets involved, it can get pretty unnerving. The series has spent 5 years tracking down murderers so feels a bit tired, but it is still my favourite. And, I'll post a trailer for the 3rd season finally:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzejrms4YLk

 

Phew, if you got through all that... you don't get bored easily, do you? Now tell me your picks!

“WandaVision” is back on track this week, it’s getting good.

“WandaVision” is back on track this week, it’s getting good.

I dig it. I think people who stuck out the first three episodes will be happy. Weird timing that we get the rumor about a Marvel Advent calendar today. It makes me wonder if we’ll see some Wanda Vision domestic characters?

So many questions. Who is Cole? Where is Johnny Cage? Why is Raiden not some white dude with long white hair and/or the Highlander ? Why are Liu Kang and Kung Lao together in 1st movie? They should have saved the time travel thing for movie 2 or 3. 

Sorry, but this Shang Tsung is not as intimidating as the one from the 90s movie
I guess female characters cannot wear anything sexy in R rated movies nowadays

They should have just made a Scorpion vs Sub-Zero movie.  That fight scene is pretty sick

 

I think for the most part they got the look of the combatants right in particular Sonya Blade (Jessica McNamee) here looks closer to her original iterations (between Elizabeth Malecki & Kerri Hoskins). I'm lost how Kano is a "goodie two shoes" now but they kept the Aussie accent established by Trevor Goddard.

It is difficult for anyone to follow in the footsteps of either Christopher Lambert as Raiden or Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as Shang Tsung (Tagawa even reprised his role in the most recent Mortal Kombat entry making him pretty much the definitive Shang Tsung). However Tadanobu Asano and Chin Han respectively are both good actors in their own rights.

As for the girls from what little was shown, they seem to be wearing apparel that makes a bit more sense for combat. Some of the outfits from the games in the past such as Mortal Kombat 9, Sonya was barely in uniform with a heavy focus on her breasts. In the trailer she is wearing clothes I would expect from personnel with a military background.

 

4 hours ago, Darth_Raichu said:

Who is Cole? Where is Johnny Cage?

From what I can gather, Cole Young could be Johnny Cage using a pseudonym to stay under the radar for reasons. Otherwise he's the movie's centrally convenient plot device to bring it all together.

Also allegedly Noob Saibot is in their somewhere for some reason to show up in some point at sometime.

14 hours ago, TheOrcKing said:

From what I can gather, Cole Young could be Johnny Cage using a pseudonym to stay under the radar for reasons. Otherwise he's the movie's centrally convenient plot device to bring it all together.

Methinks Cole Young goes to Hollywood and calls himself Johnny Cage AFTER he wins the tournament. 

14 hours ago, TheOrcKing said:

As for the girls from what little was shown, they seem to be wearing apparel that makes a bit more sense for combat. Some of the outfits from the games in the past such as Mortal Kombat 9, Sonya was barely in uniform with a heavy focus on her breasts. In the trailer she is wearing clothes I would expect from personnel with a military background.

It is a fantasy movie based on video games.  If I want realism I would say Sonya does not have enough muscles to be a convincing fighter and they should have casted one of the MMA ladies like Amanda Nunes or Cris Cyborg.  Plus I was thinking Mileena should have worn something more revealing to distract the boys and to make the TEETH! reveal more impactful. 

14 hours ago, TheOrcKing said:

It is difficult for anyone to follow in the footsteps of either Christopher Lambert as Raiden or Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as Shang Tsung (Tagawa even reprised his role in the most recent Mortal Kombat entry making him pretty much the definitive Shang Tsung). However Tadanobu Asano and Chin Han respectively are both good actors in their own rights.

Eh, Asian looking Thundergod does not make sense to me since thunder was more the fascination of western mythology (ie. Norse & Greek)

11 hours ago, Darth_Raichu said:

Methinks Cole Young goes to Hollywood and calls himself Johnny Cage AFTER he wins the tournament.

I can get behind that one. Johnny Cage is a stage name if I ever heard one.

 

11 hours ago, Darth_Raichu said:

It is a fantasy movie based on video games. If I want realism I would say Sonya does not have enough muscles to be a convincing fighter and they should have casted one of the MMA ladies like Amanda Nunes or Cris Cyborg.

True, the actress could be more muscular to better fit the role. For Mortal Kombat 11, Ronda Rousey voiced and modeled for the Sonya Blade character. Plus she has a history between UFC, MMA, and WWE. Now when I think about it she totally could have played the part in this film as well.

 

11 hours ago, Darth_Raichu said:

Plus I was thinking Mileena should have worn something more revealing to distract the boys and to make the TEETH! reveal more impactful. 

That was her thing wasn't it. Her most recent outfit redesign is probably the least sexualized and should have been fine for the silver screen compared to Mortal Kombat Deception & 9 being the most risque. I had to re-watch the trailer back to Mileena licking off her Sai and ....her teeth look normal. There appears to be small slits across the sides of her cheeks with maybe details of teeth but isn't she supposed to be part Tarkatan with huge f'n chompers?! That's it! Worst film ever! 0 out of 10!

 

11 hours ago, Darth_Raichu said:

Eh, Asian looking Thundergod does not make sense to me since thunder was more the fascination of western mythology (ie. Norse & Greek)

Raijin says "Konnichiwa" with a "Ni hao" from Leigong and wife Dianmu. Also, Big Trouble in Little China? Come on man. You're breaking my balls. Haha.

Recreating the famous title card from John Carpenter's "The Thing" using pretty much the same practical effects of the original film. This came across my feed and thought it was neat.

The pilot and first episode to a fan Mechwarrior series titled "Hired Steel".

 

Just finished last nights finale of For all Mankind (Apple TV) season 2. I really liked season 1 not so much season 2. Rotten tomatoes has it just the opposite with season 2 getting 100%. Will definitely be watching season 3 if Apple keeps on bumping out the free service. 

Had to dig deep to find this one. 

 

You know a movie studio is desperate when the footage of their past movies (1:47) is longer than the footage of their new stuffs (1:24).

50 minutes ago, Darth_Raichu said:

You know a movie studio is desperate when the footage of their past movies (1:47) is longer than the footage of their new stuffs (1:24).

I think quite a few people walked away from Marvel after Endgame and now with no one going to the movies for almost 1 1/2 years at this point they are a bit desperate to get butts in seats, however its not like they are leading off with a necessarily strong slate.

15 minutes ago, zaphoid said:

I think quite a few people walked away from Marvel after Endgame and now with no one going to the movies for almost 1 1/2 years at this point they are a bit desperate to get butts in seats, however its not like they are leading off with a necessarily strong slate.

It reminded me of the trailer for the last so called movie released by LucasFilms   Coincidentally, both Marvel Studios and LucasFilms are owned by the same parent company

Oh, and you can even hear the desperation since they had to bring Stan Lee (RIP) to narrate the trailer 

Maybe they should have started this next phase with Black Widow as planned.  Wandavision started strong but ended with a bunch of inconsistencies and lazy writing.  

A must see for DS9 fans: 

"What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine"

 

55 minutes ago, Darth_Raichu said:

A must see for DS9 fans: 

"What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine"

 

Here is the link to the actual documentary (free on youtube but age restricted): 

 

10 minutes ago, exracer327 said:

Here is the link to the actual documentary (free on youtube but age restricted): 

 

Yes, I posted the trailer because the actual Youtube video became age restricted when I posted it here.  You can watch it for free on Prime too