The Weekly Planet - Mortal Kombat 1995 (Extended) - The Weekly Planet Podcast

Episode Date: April 8, 2021

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May 10th. Tickets on sale now. This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network. Visit planetbroadcasting.com for more podcasts from our great mates. Welcome back everybody to another episode of Caravan of Garbage because we are here to talk about one of the all-time classics. Some people call it the greatest video game to movie adaptation of all time. And maybe, but... classics some people call it the greatest video game to movie adaptation of all time and maybe but i mean it's not it's not impossible but what a field what a field to be the head of you know yeah and even then is it i don't think it is to be honest i like the new tomb raider i think that's probably up there for me it's not bad yeah what about you are you a detective pikachu fan not

especially uh assassin's creed is the boring. That is the most boring. So that's an achievement of sorts, isn't it? And I guess that's the thing about this movie is, first of all, we're covering it for a couple of reasons. Mortal Kombat is coming back with another live-action movie reboot. With a vengeance. With a vengeance.

They're going to get you all. That's right. Specifically. And also, of course, Paul W.S. Anderson, who directed this, he's directing the new Monster Hunter movie. Yeah, and course, Paul W.S. Anderson, who directed this. He's directing the new Monster Hunter movie. Yeah, and probably some more Resident Evil films at some point. Probably at some point.

See, here's the thing about that guy. I quite like a lot of his movies. Why? Event Horizon. That's not why. Death Race. I like the first Death Race. I like some of the Resident Evil movies

or parts of some of the Resident Evil movies. And you know what? I mean, it is Mortal Kombat, isn't it? It is certainly closer than, say, the previous year's Street Fighter to its origin and its video game roots. And, you know, people just screaming catchphrases and the names of who they are or somebody screaming the names of who they are. You know what I mean? All the greats. All the greats, exactly.

I mean, it's also very dated. There's a lot of, like, chroma key sky replacements. Yeah, for sure. And, like, morphing and mullets. The CGI is a real mixed bag, and by mixed bag I mean mostly terrible. Having rewatched this yesterday, I only just remembered that this movie has an appearance from Reptile, one of the Outworld ninjas.

And in his Reptile form, he looks like a 3DO mascot. Remember the old video game system, 3DO? Gex. I was going to say he looks like Gex on crack. That's what he looks like. Well, they also didn't know at the time. Not good is how Gex would look on crack. He would look bad.

Out of place in a major motion picture. This feels like. This is like you're wearing a suit. This is a New Line production. Yeah. And it does feel absolutely like dead on with most New Line stuff of the 90s. That kind of like. Before Lord of the Rings.

It's dark and grainy and just. That was like this and like Dungeons and Dragons I think they did. Yeah. Just. Yeah. But that being said, I think also there's a lot of craft in this which of course is limited by what you could do at the time there's moments where like scorpions you know harpoon comes out of his hand and there's like a few seconds where i'm like it's not

it's okay that's an interesting take because in the game obviously he just throws like a like a dagger or a spear with a rope on the end yeah and in this they were like let's just say like a nightmare dragon fly snake creature lives in his hand and it screams also if you miss and hit a tree it dies yep okay it's a separate entity i guess but yeah also uh they decided that in this movie that Scorpion only speaks in variations of his catchphrase, get over here. So sometimes he might say, get down here. Get back here.

That's Ed Boon. He's doing it. Ah, yep. Creator of Mortal Kombat, a one-off. I think also there is some very good casting in this and some not as good casting. And some bad casting. Some bad casting. I think Liu Kang is excellently cast.

Yeah. He later returns in a number of Death Race movies. Oh, yeah, he does too. Because I guess he and W.S. Anderson are friends. Of course he does. Shang Tsung is amazing. I mean, that's the standout performance from this, right? There's so many lines from this which then are folded into, like,

other Mortal Kombat games and media and things like that. Your soul is mine. The soul is mine. Your brother's soul is mine. That guy's soul also mine. How come he gets the soul at the end of the fight? I think it's greedy.

It's like, you know, when you have a pizza and there's the last bit and someone's like, yeah, I'll have it. No, I'll give it to me. Yeah, it's the guy. It's like, no,

we're being polite, idiot. Well, there's still one piece of pizza. Yeah, but nobody wanted it. Nobody wanted the soul. Nobody wanted the soul. So I guess, what's God got to take the soul?

I'll take the soul. You're exactly right. And this, it's interesting that this, because obviously the plot of Mortal Kombat is that there is a martial arts tournament between Earth and the Outworld, the mysterious evil realm.

And if the forces of Outworld defeat the forces of Earth, then Outworld gets to take over Earth. So the good guy's got to win in this tournament. Yes. It's interesting. There's so much to win in this tournament yes it's a it's interesting there's so much to unpack about the tournament i think but i think the number one is that there is a very rapid escalation between just like a couple of dudes fighting on a beach with sticks and then like a day later you have to fight like a four-armed goliath monster you know just yeah

on a precipice yeah you're exactly right yeah they're just like on a beach and there's some sticks and then it's like you're in a forest randomly and now you're in hell it's just like okay i'd be more worried if i went to hell i'd be like if i win this am i stuck here if i kill him do i live here now yeah yeah you'd be asking a lot of questions as somebody's chasing you with a flaming skull or a dragonfly snake exactly what they actually aim to do with this i was watching some behind the scenes stuff where they're like hong kong action movies are terrible like the lighting's bad and they're cast weirdly and they don't look good that's what they were saying this is what they

were saying this i'm paraphrasing but this is it right but they're like but the action's good so what we want to do we want want to combine Hollywood filmmaking techniques, but we're going to borrow their action. So we're going to combine it. We're going to take the best element. We're going to take the only good thing they can do because everything else is utter dog shit, and we're going to make the best movie ever made.

But I would argue that the martial arts in this is, well, clearly some people can do it and some people cannot. Yeah, right. Yeah, some people are just acting. That's right. But yeah, this was not the movie that broke Hong Kong martial arts action into Hollywood. That was The Matrix four years later.

I was going to say that was the movie Face Off. Oh, yeah, maybe. But yeah, this is, again, they tried, but they weren't in the right mindset. They weren't, I guess, I mean they said, you know, they were like, well, we've seen a few of these Hong Kong action movies but clearly they hadn't absorbed what made them great and the long continuous shots and the long combinations of moves and stuff like that.

Clearly they were just like, get a guy to sort of do a cartwheel off a rock or whatever. That's what these movies are about. Well, because this was Paul W.O. Sanderson's first major movie, he would film the fights in one continuous shot and he would tire out all the actors and it had to be like people pulling him aside and be like, this is not how you do it. Like you film in pieces. So he was right.

I think also when you just, you know, film everything wide and it's not choreographed that well, it doesn't look great, does it? But I guess in the sense that, again, going back to The Matrix, there was a lot of training wide yeah and it's not choreographed that well yeah it doesn't look great does it but i guess in the sense that that again going back to the matrix there was a lot of training for those movies there was months and months of martial arts training and endurance training so it was like yeah okay let's do 10 moves in a row and film it like that yeah whereas in this i guess they were just like can you sort of do a sweep kick there's some really poor sweep kicks in this mason have you seen these?

Have I seen this movie? Yeah, I know. You've said Johnny Cage does one early on, and then Sonya Blade does one later. Well, hey, Lyndon Ashby, who plays Johnny Cage, is a professional martial artist. I don't believe you. See those?

He's doing those spinning roundhouse kicks. Yeah, you're right. But I guess, again, I think there is also a difference between being a professional martial artist and making that look spectacular for the screen. Absolutely. That's not entirely in your hands. And if you're like, all right, I'll do one to warm up.

And then they're like, okay, that's done. We've got the take. Out you go, kind of thing. You'd be like, you know. Exactly. Not everything goes to plan when you're trying to spin kick a giant Muppet. You need some time to get used to that. But if they're just like, we'll do one and leave,

then you're kind of stuck. They're absolutely right. Question for you. Did Liu Kang's brother make it all the way to the end of the tournament? Because it's a bit vague. I mean, I know because you can challenge anybody at any time or whatever. But like, did he get all the way or was it like round one? You're fighting Shang Tsung.

What? Can I fight Goro at least first, please? Did he get through Goro? Like, he couldn't have. I think that what we see at the start of the movie is, well, it's a dream sequence. And I think it is just, I think it is, it's either part of Liu Kang's imagination or it is part of a spooky message sent from Shang Tsung to Liu Kang. So I think maybe he just fell off that balcony

onto the Mortal Kombat logo full of spikes maybe. Yeah, absolutely. Speaking of the fighting. Like at lunchtime. He didn't even get into the martial arts part. He was at that big feast and they're like, we're going to part the tables or whatever. We're going to bring in the sweaty shirtlessless, oiled, masked men to tip all the tables.

And he's like, oh, I want to see how this plays out. And he just falls on a spike. Or he just gets pinned under a table. Yeah, maybe. Yeah. So there's also a couple of people in this, namely Shang Tsung and Liu Kang, who don't know what a flawless victory is. They claim flawless victory, when it's clearly not.

There's been like a number of kicks and or punches. That connected without blocking and without the loss of any of their life bars. They should have said regular victory. Should have said regular victory, yeah. By the skin of their teeth victory. That's correct. Punch them in the balls, then a victory. Yeah.

Yeah, that's all I'm saying. Also, speaking of, we are talking about the action a lot, but really that's all this movie is. What else we got? The acting? I don't think so that's all this movie is. What else have we got? The acting? I don't think so. I don't think so. Got him, got him.

We got him. There's a lot of, like, the heroes punching a villain or whatever and then just taking a few steps back and waiting to see how it plays out. At one point, Johnny Cage does his signature, I'll do the splits and I'll punch Goro in the nuts, and then he just runs away and gives Goro time to fully recover and then fights him on a rocky outcropping. I would argue

that he didn't fully recover. He punched him in his two dicks and four balls, presumably. I presume that's his setup. Let's talk about Goro though because I guess if you're going to say that there's one thing like special effect that you can take away from this, it's the Goro animatronic rig that took between 13 and 17 people to operate

and it barely works. But it's mostly convincing, but it also looks like this is just going to tip over. He's got a very odd centre of gravity, doesn't he? It's amazing that he... Here's the thing, though. He's also Prince Goro. Yes. And we never see him fight anyone before this movie.

So I think maybe he just got on there because his dad was a king or whatever. And he's wandered. In this, before he fights Johnny Cage, he just beats up a regular man or a regular martial artist in an arena. Oh, that guy, when everyone's like, that guy. It's the guy, right? No. Not him.

Mr. Champion guy. No. Flawless victory. Flawless victory. Flawless victory. But then he beats him after some amount of trouble, and then Goro's like, yes, I've done it. I reckon that was his first real win. He just looks threatening.

He's one of those guys who looks really big and dangerous, so nobody ever actually tries to fight him. I think you might absolutely be right. I think in his kingdom, you know, he's like a real oddball with an odd centre of gravity. And so no one wants to fight him. All the other Goros distract him. One Goro distracts him and the second Goro

crouches down behind him and the first Goro pushes him over. That's right, exactly. I've been speaking about everybody going like, no! A lot of that. There's a great deal of people absolutely not getting along and then at the end they realise they're all the best of friends and in love. Did you notice that?

You mean like Sonia and buddy whatever his name is? Mr Carry My Bags? Yeah, Mr Carry My Bags, Mr Johnny Cage. Sonia's acting tip, I think, was I think Paul W.S. Anderson would just like just scowl with disdain, sneer with disdain at everything. Yeah, absolutely. For this entire movie. Also, sneer with disdain at everything. Yeah, absolutely.

For this entire movie. Also, there's a scene where we're going to tie you up and tease your hair. Just tease it right out. You know what I mean? Sure. Remember that shot when it pans up the tower and you see her in there and she's clearly on a weird green screen?

Yeah. I loved it. I loved all the parts where they're climbing a massive tower but it was just a green screen. Johnny Cage loses his bags down a massive green screen. He certainly does. It's pretty great, right? That's it.

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Exactly. And also his weakness, as we find out from Katana, is you can throw some water at him. But also, no time for this riddling around where it's like you must use the element which is close, whatever it is. I can't remember. She gives him a riddle when they're fighting. It's what brings life.

That's right. Exactly. Which is water. Dirt. family you must have feed him with your family circle him and hit him with brooms so just yeah just like like my boys that's right so like he pointed to his balls everybody but uh sh Shank still knows that she's like betraying him and can't hear what she's saying. Just tell him, just like, throw a bucket of water at him, mate. Just chuck a bucket of water at him.

Unbelievable, yeah. Is Scorpion a big fan of Johnny Cage? Because that's how I took it. You know when Scorpion exploded? Yes. And then you see the photo of Johnny Cage signed. For a second, and it's not what it's supposed to be, I thought Scorpion was a massive fan.

And he'd been carrying that sign photo around for years maybe before he was turning what happened is obviously uh he was murdered yes by by the lin kuei uh ninjas no it was kwan chi mason fine whatever uh and and what a combat for and he's being dragged down to hell there's a demon who's like you can bring one thing with you and he's like like, my side photo of Johnny Cage, please. I'll take it. Yeah, so it's actually Johnny Cage's friendship. It is, yeah.

That is true. Two, I guess. I'd imagine it was Mortal Kombat 2. Probably two. Probably two, yeah. Also, if you want to beat Goro, just do continuous jump kicks. That's how you do it in the game. That's how you do it in real life.

You topple that guy right over there. I love Raiden's catchphrase. I don't think so. I love it too. He maybe uses it three times. And of course the movie culminates with the appearance of, what's his name again? Shao Kahn. Shao Kahn.

Yeah. Where he's as big as a tower and he's like, I've come for your souls. I don't think so. And then there's the pose. Now I know there's a sequel to this movie, which we will talk about next, but how's that fight got to go, really?

Like, if they had made a proper sequel and not a bad sequel, were you going to fist fight him? Yeah, they would have clammed it up. Like Shadow of the Colossus. Punched him in the ears. Okay, man. You're absolutely right, yeah. The soundtrack, we had a debate prior to this recording.

I said it was a massive success, and you were like, it wasn't a massive success. I, yeah. No, look, well, Wikipedia's told me that it wasn't a massive success. But I mean, that does not gel

with my experience with it as a kid, which was that it was everywhere all the time and everybody loved it. Go into an arcade, it's played. In a way, James,

it was the imagine of our time. It really was, wasn't it? Because it brought people together. Can you imagine how different the year 2020 would have been if Gal Gadot had gone and posted on Instagram a video of herself looking sort of beatifically at the camera and then going, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam,

and then Kristen Wiig like, Mortal Kombat! Ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba, you know? I think this is controversial because I know it's beloved and it was the first EDM record to ever receive a platinum certification in the United States, but it's a bit much. Is it really? Maybe I'm just getting old, but it's just like it's from the second it starts. It's just like unrelated.

It's like being waterboarded. We're talking specifically about the single which is called Techno Syndrome by the Immortals, which people know as the theme to Mortal Kombat. Which was in a couple of the games, it was in the movie. I know it's blasphemy to say that. But it is, like it is...

It's like sideways hail hitting you. Do you know what I mean? It's just like coming at you. What I forgot, because I hadn't listened to it in a while, what I've forgotten is, in addition to being the bad,bab-bab, there's samples of all the character names from the game. There's the announcer saying, test your might. There's just constantly that effort of somebody being hit,

where it's like, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh. That's what I mean. It's a bit much. It's incredible. Yeah. So this, though, it's interesting because it does inform a lot of what is to come in Mortal Kombat. So cast members, of course, have cameoed in Mortal Kombat 11. They come back and they voice and they get kind of re-skinned. And there's also things in lore that have been changed.

I think Kano was originally supposed to be Japanese, but because he's played Australian. Ish. Yeah, well, I think Paul W.S. Anderson thought that the actor who played him was Australian and that's why he's Australian, but I think he might actually be British in this. I can't tell what they're doing. But pulling up, W.S. Anderson was like, so you're Australian, huh? We're thinking about giving you a bigger role

and your character will be Australian. This guy's like, yeah, governor. Abso-fruitly. Yeah. That's an Australian expression, isn't it? Yeah, absolutely it is. Maybe the character's name originally was Kane and they're like, well, Kano.

Kano, mate. So I got some Mortal Kombat trivia here, but the trivia's with a K. So it's Mortal Kombat trivia. Okay, great. You happy with that? I'm very happy with it. Yeah, good.

So Van Damme actually turned down the role of Johnny Cage to appear in the Street Fighter movie, which of course makes sense because they wanted to model the original Mortal Kombat game around Van Damme. That was the idea. Yeah, Johnny Cage is sort of a fading martial arts superstar, is in many ways reminiscent or modelled on Van Damme,

which is interesting because Van Damme then later went on to be in the movie JCVD where, in fact, he is a failing version of himself. Exactly. I want to play that game. Yeah. Yeah. Steven Spielberg was a fan of the game

and was supposed to cameo. He couldn't make it, but, of course, there is the director who's like, we need you, Johnny Cage. He looks like Spielberg. Spielberg, of course, went on to cameos himself in Austin Powers 3. So, you know, dreams come true. He's like, oh, I guess I'll be in this renowned comedy franchise.

Sean Connery was the first choice to play Raiden. Connery, however, turned down the role as he wanted to play Golf and wasn't interested in a physical role. But, of course, we get Christopher Lambert. He didn't want to do that one time where he flipped Liu Kang, but just the once. Well, that's the thing. So Christopher Lambert was the highest billed cast member.

He was paid the most. Also, he flew himself out on set because he was only supposed to do, like, the in-studio appearances. And he doesn't do much fighting, if any. But apparently he was, like, really gracious and really kind of brought, like, brought up the production kind of situation. He kind of made everyone feel more at ease. I think he's good as Ray, and I like him.

I think so too, yeah. There's a bit of a wink and a nod, you know what I mean? There really is. And he didn't come back for the sequel, if I recall. No, James Remar. Ah, from Sex and the City. That's right. And no other things.

That's right. That's exactly right. Cameron Diaz was cast after producers saw her dailies from The Mask. However, Diaz broke her wrist during training, so she had to drop out. So they did train for this, some of them. Seems that way. There you go. Speaking of training, I do have some questions about the Mortal Kombat tournament.

Here we go. Is there some sort of magical reason they can't tell the participants from Earth that they need to beat this tournament to save the world like prior to immediately inviting them to it because nobody knows what they're walking into like maybe you could have said hey in 10 years you know this thing happens once in a generation well maybe you could get good at this so the world doesn't end yeah i guess lu kang sort of knows but he doesn't believe, even though he saw it in his mind. You know what would have helped him?

What was that? If Raiden showed up and was a lightning man, maybe then Liu Kang would believe in the powers of people with lightning. And, like, train him how to do, like, his signature fireball. And kicks and stuff. Remember he did that kick? I remember he did a kick. He's a good man.

He's doing some good martial arts, that dude. He knows what he's doing. Anyway, back to trivia. So according to the actor who played Johnny Cage, Lyndon Ashby, the medic on set in LA also acted as a set security guard, and the man took his job very seriously. When Tom Cruise happened to be in the area and came to take a look at the set, the medic sent him off since Cruise wasn't in the movie.

Nice. Even blocking some Tom Cruise, mate. He's the Johnny Cage of this era, I think, maybe. He is, yeah. Yeah, I think he is. He gains his power from the Shadow Realm. He's a long descendant of some sort of demonic force. Exactly.

And, of course, also there's been a number of kind of spin-offs and situations that spawn just from this movie alone, right? So there was an in-between cool animated movie called Mortal Kombat The Journey Begins, which was released before as like a primer to be like, get ready for Mortal Kombat. movie alone right so there was an in-between cool animated movie called mortal combat the journey begins which was released before as like a primer to be like get ready for mortal combat anyway you won't understand this movie if you don't read this if you don't see this oh yeah it's it's set on the there's these dudes and they fight you you won't even you don't even know mate so it's bad and it's on the boat on the way to the tournament oh like that episode that episode of Dracula. Exactly. Like that episode of Dracula.

There's also some moments where they put in some, but then there's a bunch of like 3D stuff. Oh, yeah. Atrocious. And also there was, I believe, a Mortal Kombat live on stage production of some sort, right? I think some of them, it might have been the guy who played Kano reprised his role.

Cool. I might be wrong. And there was Mortal Kombat on ice. Was it all Sub-Zero? Yeah. Great. The dancing Sub-Zeroes, yeah. Just pirouettes. Yeah. Just might be wrong. And there was Mortal Kombat on ice. Was it all Sub-Zero? Yeah. Great. The dancing Sub-Zeroes, yeah. Just pirouettes.

Yeah. Just again and again. And there was Mortal Kombat in a pit of fire. What? It was all stuntmen in scorpion suits just burning alive. Dangerous. It was very dangerous. But that's Mortal Kombat, isn't it?

Mm-hmm. You know what I think also? It's a PG-13 movie, but it's not entirely toothless. They get around a lot of the deaths by being like, ah, you can cut through like a scorpion because he's a skeleton man and who cares. Yeah, right, uh-huh. But you don't see like a lot of people super impaled. I mean, you know, you see the bad guy get super impaled,

but not super Mortal Kombat impaled. Sure, yeah. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So just to cap this off, quickly after this movie's box office success, Paul W.S. Anderson was asked by New Line to helm the sequel, but he had his mindset on doing something completely different,

which is why he did Event Horizon, and he later expressed some regret over not being involved with the making of Annihilation, which he disliked, and it was one of the reasons why he remained involved with the making of the Resident Evil movies, because he wanted to shepherd the franchise. So lessons were learned, Mason. Evil movies because he wanted to shepherd the franchise.

So lessons were learned, Mason. So his whole deal was I want to be at the helm of the Resident Evil movies because if I don't, they'll be really, really bad, and I just want them to be kind of bad. That's right, and also only some of them because he only does some of them. That's right. Anyways, this has been Mortal Kombat 1995, Mortal Kombat. The next episode we'll be back to talk about Annihilation, I guess. Great.

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We'll see you next week. It's just, it's a lot. Right? That's what I'm saying. You could have, like, had some build-up. Yeah, yeah. Had some low points. Who do you think would have said, test your might?

Do you think it would have been Will Ferrell or Pedro Pascal? In the video. In the video? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pedro Pascal, right? Yeah the video. In the video? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pedro Pascal, right? Yeah, yeah, good, good. Yeah, that would be a good one. This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network.

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