Pokemon Detective Pikachu: $429,102,251 WW
Rampage: $428,028,233 WW
And the current champ:
Warcraft: $433,677,183 WW
It's getting close! We had a thread before claiming its run was over and it'd be done at #3. Just $4.5m to go to pass Warcraft!
It was based on... Rampage.
So if every Era member goes and watches it this weekend, it'll be #1!
Because it was actually pretty fun.
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Yeah, fair enough.
No, that's still Mortal Kombat by a country mile.It was the best video game movie, I wish it could have made first. I enjoyed Warcraft despite its flaws, but I still wish we had gotten an Arthas trilogy.
The Rock and it was actually entertaining.
I didn't really like the movie tbh, I didn't like Warcraft either but I think WC still deserves the #1 spot.
Mortal Kombat is definitely a so bad its good movie these days.
It's frankly just good. Cheesy good, but good.Mortal Kombat is definitely a so bad its good movie these days.
You... You might want to rewatch the movie.I think the only other non-Pokemon game movie I saw was Prince of Persia which I quite enjoyed. Well, unless you count Digimon the Movie (which is fucking awesome, especially the dub!).
Detective Pikachu was LOTS of fun. Now al ot might be due to being a Pokemon fan so bias is inevitable, but the humor/writing for Pikachu and Ryan's delivery was such a highlight, I feel that you don't really need to be a Pokemon fan to enjoy that.
Yeah, I slightly remember it on the SNES. I also remember the commercials for it. I was underwhelmed.
Yeah, when I made that thread I actually misread how close it was to Rampage.It's getting close! We had a thread before claiming its run was over and it'd be done at #3. Just $4.5m to go to pass Warcraft
There wasn't? What game am I thinking of then?
The game I'm thinking of had a Raptor as a fightable character.
-cheap looking sets, costumes and corny acting (especially the second movie)
Nobody gives a shit about the 2nd movie. The 1st movie has some great performances, some really good fight scenes (Liu Kang vs Reptile when he's not shitty CGI), and a fucking banging script filled with memorable one-liners. Even the shitty CGI for Reptile or Sub-Zero's ice manages to be charming due to the lighthearted and winking tone of the movie. And there are some wonderful practical effects like the animatronics used for Goro.-hilariously bad early cgi that aged like milk
-cheap looking sets, costumes and corny acting (especially the second movie)
-its Mortal Kombat without blood
That's what I meant when I said it's just good. The movie honestly holds up really well. It has some cheesy bits and some of the actors are hamming it up like Christopher Lambert, but that just adds to the theatrical tone.It's outright good. It has great color palette, really awesome cinematography, was a pioneer of wuxia in the west, great casting, the plot doesn't veer from the comic/games, etc.
The people who have to have a caveat about "it's so bad it's good" are just too insecure to actually acknowledge that it's a solid film, even ignoring the entire video game schtick. It's a legitimate kung fu film.
...Wait, whatNobody is talking about the second movie, and the first movie doesn't use sets, it was filmed in actual thai temples.
Shooting locations in Thailand were accessible only by boat, so cast, crew and equipment had to be transported on long canoe-like vessels. Gerrit Folsom constructed an outhouse in a secluded area near the set in order to alleviate the problem of repeated trips to and from the mainland. Filming locations in Thailand include the Wat Phra Si Sanphet and Wat Ratchaburana temples. The arrival of Earth's contestants via boats, Liu Kang's meditation scene and the fight between Liu Kang and Kitana were filmed at the Railay Beach and the Phra Nang Beach, respectively. The bows of the boats were fitted with ornamental dragon-head carvings and used in the movie as the fighters' secondary transport to Shang Tsung's island from his junk.
That's awesome. I had no idea the movie was filmed on location, but it worked really well for the atmosphere.They filmed on location in Thailand. All those "ancient sets" aren't fake, they're real. Filming on location was actually so expensive that they couldn't afford to bring Christopher Lambert out and he was going to use a body double and close ups filmed in LA to get around it, but he didn't want to do that so he essentially did the movie for free, paying his own way to Thailand for the filming.