Monster of the Day #1342

There is a long detailed list of all the various characters and critters from these games on the Hardcore Gaming 101 site. I tried to post a link yesterday by leaving off the www but it still went into comment moderation. Searching for Hardcore Gaming 101 Mortal Combat should work but it doesn’t seem to come up at the top of the search results though.

If you spell everything out by putting each subfolder on its own line–
something dot com
trailers
ghosts
hercules html

You can get away with “links.” If the URL is too long, try the above method with TinyURL dot com.

Ah, ok I see it in any case. Thanks again!!!

PS: Oddly I normally use Duck Duck Go as a search engine and the Hardcoregaming101 site won’t come up on it. Comes up right at the top on Google though…

I wonder if it wasn’t a ‘Giant Claw’ issue — that they perhaps farmed out the SFX and didn’t know what they were getting until they had it in hand.

Again, given how well they did Sheeva’s arms, I would wonder if there were two (or more) SFX teams, or if they just ran out of money, time, or both.

Hummm…’The Giant Claw law.’ A new Jabootu term. summed up as ‘Never pay for the FX until you see them first.’

I don’t think that’s the case; they would’ve seen the poor CGI from the first movie and realized they needed to improve it, I would hope. Although since it’s just as bad, and at some points arguably worse, than the original’s, who knows? And yes, as I mentioned earlier in the week, the Sheeva thing baffles me since it’s actually a damn good effect, about the only one in the whole movie.

This scene is indicative of one of the many ways this movie failed to add in game stuff properly, whereas the original succeeded in such attempts. This was a pretty hamfisted attempt to shove in Animalities, although it’s trumped by Nightwolf attacking Liu Kang as a wolf, transforming back, and then actually calling it his Animality. Meanwhile, in the first movie, Johnny Cage drops an autographed photo of himself (or has it fall out of his pocket, or whatever) as he dives away from an exploding Scorpion. Not only is it a funny punchline in and of itself, and provides a nice breather after the very intense fight the two had, but it’s a subtle callback for fans, as Cage’s Friendship in MK II has him giving his opponent a photo of himself with the exact same message on it. If they’d done that in the second one, Johnny would have tossed the photo on Scorpion’s remains and said, “Here. A token of my friendship.”

Anyway, one positive result of this week of MK:A…I’m totally rewatching the original this weekend.