Unironically so. It's one of my favorite soundtracks. Many people think of the film musically, perhaps unsurprisingly, only in terms of the '90s techno scene; you know, MORTAL KOMBAAAAAT unz unz unz. And yeah, it has those bangers, but not many people are aware that Mortal Kombat has an award winning instrumental soundtrack that permeates the film and gives it that oriental mystic energy. It's been 50 years and it's still one of the most striking soundtracks to a major film.
>What happened to the art of film making?
Corporatization / media consolidation. Wall St/brokerage bros think that all content is a commodity, just "buy IP" and you're fine. This makes for very similar movies (like Kevin Feige / the past 15 years) and very conservative choices (don't want to offend, want to be PC).
CGI/larger budgets has also made decision-making more conservative/insular, which has led to current shit in movies getting worse and worse.
Appeals to international markets have meant less "American" movies and more generic movies; horror and action are what are universally appealing, romance and comedy are (largely) country-specific. Even action movies have to be careful who the bad guy is.
Social media has made young (and even not so young) people absolutely terrified of non-conformity. So writers, actors, etc. all write the same thing over and over expecting different results.
The combination of all these has led to an incredible artistic stifling: huge money in blockbusters, but a fading landscape for "established IP", desperate studios, and totally insular/conformist writers that churn out very anodyne shit.
You see the same thing across all art: music is in the same exact boat as movies, and you see a fading music landscape as well. Most record companies now rely on OLD music, not new titles.
Social media really did a number on civilization, didn't it?
No new art being produced, no new relationships being formed because women all have swiping FOMO and hold out for chad or cheat on their non-chad partners with chad
>Social media really did a number on civilization, didn't it?
It's a huge unaddressed problem for society. Def has its pros but real structural issues with society going forward.
But art was on its way down even before social media due to media consolidation/larger budgets. Social media just exacerbated it.
You posted a video game adaptation. The game needed to be made in the first place because people wanted low-stakes action resembling TV and comics, which were an adaptation of literature, which was an adaptation of real life. The link to real life is somewhat attenuated at this point. All the while, people have been living more and more through adaptations and surrogates, which means less "real life" content is being created.
Think about Kill Bill, which really captured a certain zeitgeist of the 2000s. It's a comic book and hong kong movie adaptation, that's straightforward enough, but the characters are all strange solitary dreamers. There's more stories about characters, ideas about characters, unfulfilled hopes of characters than actual acts onscreen. It's as though they spend their lives reading about "real life," while living a spectator existence that's too shameful to call life. Perhaps that is our zeitgeist.
>Watch this >It was better than I expected >Watch the sequel >Turned it off after 10 minutes because I couldn't bear the cringe >Watch 2021 next >It's somehow more terrible than 90s movie
Who thought focusing on literally who OC was a good idea
Jesus, thank you! I felt like I was alone thinking that about the new movie. Everybody seems to have enjoyed it, and I thought it was not only bad as a movie, but also bad as an adaptation. Especially compared to the 1995 one
Annihilation is like a mirror image of the original, what it could have been if nobody cared and all they were trying to make was a literal "video game movie".
That being said, I still love Annihilation for it holds a special place in my heart, in the 90s it was the coolest thing and for us kids ranked above the original specifically because "it was like the games".
Annihilation is like a mirror image of the original, what it could have been if nobody cared and all they were trying to make was a literal "video game movie".
That being said, I still love Annihilation for it holds a special place in my heart, in the 90s it was the coolest thing and for us kids ranked above the original specifically because "it was like the games".
I don't like the film but I did learn to respect it a little more after I watched Street Fighter last year. That film contained none of the things a Street Fighter fan would want to see.
The advent of digital capture has made it way easier for movies/series to be made so a lot of shit-tier stuff gets thrown out quickly.
Not to say good films aren't made anymore. They're just harder to find. I watched Drive My Car (2021) yesterday. It was absolutely breathtaking. It was heavy and yet comfy. Shot beautifully. Scored tastefully. It was incredible experience. I wish I had the balls to watch it at a kinoplex instead of my laptop.
technology, money, israelites
this is what happened to everything anon
Too kino for words.
>This is the part where you fall down
Where did you get these guys?
around what year did Hollywood decide that fun campy movies were verboten?
>campy
There's nothing "campy" about Konflit Mortel.
2008 but it had been trending that way since 2006. 2005 was the last year of fun.
Is it the Paul W.S. Anderson one? That was good yeah
>Is it the Paul W.S. Anderson one?
Yeah, the actually good Paul Anderson
Best soundtrack ever
REPTILE
Unironically so. It's one of my favorite soundtracks. Many people think of the film musically, perhaps unsurprisingly, only in terms of the '90s techno scene; you know, MORTAL KOMBAAAAAT unz unz unz. And yeah, it has those bangers, but not many people are aware that Mortal Kombat has an award winning instrumental soundtrack that permeates the film and gives it that oriental mystic energy. It's been 50 years and it's still one of the most striking soundtracks to a major film.
>Score appriciator
Based
>It's been 50 years
Frick you
close but not quite the best of the best
Got that cd along with my very own Sony cd/tape/radio player one year for Christmas.
It's been gone for a long time, but it will return one day. Stay strong, anons.
>What happened to the art of film making?
Corporatization / media consolidation. Wall St/brokerage bros think that all content is a commodity, just "buy IP" and you're fine. This makes for very similar movies (like Kevin Feige / the past 15 years) and very conservative choices (don't want to offend, want to be PC).
CGI/larger budgets has also made decision-making more conservative/insular, which has led to current shit in movies getting worse and worse.
Appeals to international markets have meant less "American" movies and more generic movies; horror and action are what are universally appealing, romance and comedy are (largely) country-specific. Even action movies have to be careful who the bad guy is.
Social media has made young (and even not so young) people absolutely terrified of non-conformity. So writers, actors, etc. all write the same thing over and over expecting different results.
The combination of all these has led to an incredible artistic stifling: huge money in blockbusters, but a fading landscape for "established IP", desperate studios, and totally insular/conformist writers that churn out very anodyne shit.
You see the same thing across all art: music is in the same exact boat as movies, and you see a fading music landscape as well. Most record companies now rely on OLD music, not new titles.
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>Collapse
Social media really did a number on civilization, didn't it?
No new art being produced, no new relationships being formed because women all have swiping FOMO and hold out for chad or cheat on their non-chad partners with chad
Uncle Ted tried to warn us, he really did
>Social media really did a number on civilization, didn't it?
It's a huge unaddressed problem for society. Def has its pros but real structural issues with society going forward.
But art was on its way down even before social media due to media consolidation/larger budgets. Social media just exacerbated it.
>No new art being produced
not true
>tfw you saw this in theatres when it came out
I wish I could share how based the experience was bros. Can't be summed up.
It was up there with Jurassic Park as one of the best theater experiences of my childhood. Shame about the sequel.
Got to see it at a drive in.
Made it especially terrifying as a kid when the T-Rex broke out.
You posted a video game adaptation. The game needed to be made in the first place because people wanted low-stakes action resembling TV and comics, which were an adaptation of literature, which was an adaptation of real life. The link to real life is somewhat attenuated at this point. All the while, people have been living more and more through adaptations and surrogates, which means less "real life" content is being created.
Think about Kill Bill, which really captured a certain zeitgeist of the 2000s. It's a comic book and hong kong movie adaptation, that's straightforward enough, but the characters are all strange solitary dreamers. There's more stories about characters, ideas about characters, unfulfilled hopes of characters than actual acts onscreen. It's as though they spend their lives reading about "real life," while living a spectator existence that's too shameful to call life. Perhaps that is our zeitgeist.
Get down here!
WELCUM
Post Sonya's webms.
Kano became australian because of this guy (RIP). That's cool
But Trevor Goddard was just using his normal London/English accent.
Brigitte Wilson was my waifu.
Thank God it wasn't Cameron diaz
>OOOOUUUUGGGHH
God, I wish that were me
All forms of art are decaying because they found out it was more profitable to just copy what works.
>Typo
Where did you get this guy?!
*<laughs in Christophe Lambert>*
Sorry.
>Watch this
>It was better than I expected
>Watch the sequel
>Turned it off after 10 minutes because I couldn't bear the cringe
>Watch 2021 next
>It's somehow more terrible than 90s movie
Who thought focusing on literally who OC was a good idea
Jesus, thank you! I felt like I was alone thinking that about the new movie. Everybody seems to have enjoyed it, and I thought it was not only bad as a movie, but also bad as an adaptation. Especially compared to the 1995 one
>Everybody seems to have enjoyed it
Shills and normalBlack folk who were told to like it by the shills.
I couldn't take new Shang Tsung seriously when he was played by I go to Hong Kong guy from The Dark Knight kek
Annihilation is like a mirror image of the original, what it could have been if nobody cared and all they were trying to make was a literal "video game movie".
That being said, I still love Annihilation for it holds a special place in my heart, in the 90s it was the coolest thing and for us kids ranked above the original specifically because "it was like the games".
anymore like this or the one in the op?
>missing the point of the joke
I aint missing a thing sonny boy i like the joke and I want more
>missing the point of the joke
its the zenith of decades of eastern martial arts and mysticism hype
DUNDUNDUN DUN DUNDUNDUN DUN DUN
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Iconic.
Test your Might
MORTAL
This Sonya is the greatest downgrade in cinematic history
Cyrax and Jax fight in the background looks intense
It was destroyed twice. First by sound, then by color. Eventually CGI came along to stamp out the final trace of integrity.
Man, I remember Conquest was the hypest shit back in the 90s.
ask the moron in the reaction thread that says Face/Off is better than 2001: A Space Odyssey
>that comedic timing door open
i need to watch this again and re-evaluate it
It's like this anon said
>This scene was improvised by Christopher Lambert
What a chad
ENTER
I don't like the film but I did learn to respect it a little more after I watched Street Fighter last year. That film contained none of the things a Street Fighter fan would want to see.
The advent of digital capture has made it way easier for movies/series to be made so a lot of shit-tier stuff gets thrown out quickly.
Not to say good films aren't made anymore. They're just harder to find. I watched Drive My Car (2021) yesterday. It was absolutely breathtaking. It was heavy and yet comfy. Shot beautifully. Scored tastefully. It was incredible experience. I wish I had the balls to watch it at a kinoplex instead of my laptop.