Mortal Kombat, (the 2021 film, not the cult classic 1995 one) was an aggressively okay video game-to-film adaptation stacked up against a sea of aggressively bad ones, so there’s little surprise it captured audiences decently enough. It’s a film I got on with at the time, but wouldn’t go out of my way to rewatch, […]
Some minor spoilers from early in Exit 8 follow. In the world of popular video games turned into films, there are some broad categories that projects tend to fall into. For properties already rich in story and lore, or with a beloved existing plot, it’s often a case of taking those ideas and squishing them
Seeing the title revealed for the first time. Watching those early trailers. Finding out about Donald Glover’s Yoshi casting. Laughing about and then spending AUD $45 on a novelty popcorn bucket that I’ll never put popcorn in. Glen Powell is playing who? These are the things that will stick with me about The Super Mario
