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So what's people take on it so far, good game worth getting full price? Or is this a wait for a sale type game where there's some good but there's more bleh to it?

Linden Ashby Johnny Cage took out 2 big heavy hitter fighters in the 95 movie, my boy killed Scorpion and Goro. Easily the toughest Johnny Cage of the bunch.

So I think the WWE spinner belt is probably one of the most influential world belts of the last 30 years, mainly because of the design.

When John Cena (still doing his rapper gimmick) won the WWE Championship of JBL at WM21, John added his own personal flair to the belt, same way he added his for the US Title, and gave us on April 14 2005, the spinner belt. It started off as a belt specifically for John Cena, to go with his gimmick but the belt ended up being THE belt design for 8 whole years, being held by Triple H, CM Punk, Edge, Miz, Sheamus, Batista, RVD, Jeff Hardy, etc.

That became the companies belt until 2013 after The Rock beat Punk for the belt and gave us a new redesigned belt, while doging on the spinner belt as a "toy" belt, the redesign was to make it look more prestiges, but one thing that stood out from the redesign that urged me to make this post.

Why I say the spinner belt is influential is because, the spinner belt put emphasis on the company's logo, the WWE logo was front and center on the spinner belt, it was the most eye catching piece, while past belt designs also had the company logo on it, this was the first time it was made so prominent in the design. The Rock's redesign made the logo take up more than half the belt space, with the word champion taking up what's left. After the scratch logo was discontinued in favor of the newer, sleeker, corporate board room approved logo, the belt got another redesign, with the company logo now taking all the retail space, with the word Undisputed Heavyweight Champion being a minor footnote on the belt that is barely readable.

This version of the belt became the main design for literally 5 belts of varying colors, with it's current iteration just being the same design but with the strap around the logo filled in with gold plating. Ever since Triple H & TKO took over, many of their belts had redesigns to make them look like proper belts, but 1 thing remain consistent in all of them, the WWE logo is front and center in all of them , even the new World Heavy Weight belt has the company logo etched into the center to let you know what company this belt is from.

However it doesn't stop there at WWE, TNA and even AEW adopted that same design, where their belts have the company name front and center of their title.

This might get me some hate, and I might get a perma ban from the Resident Evil community for this but....this man deserves some recognition for his contributions to gaming.

Like don't get me wrong, he's made a lot of bad movies after the first Resident Evil movie, most of his post 2000s movies are just him finding ways to show off his hot wife, but man Event Horrizon which helped inspire sci-fi horror games like Dead Space, was a banger of a movie, with the scenes he cut out by studio mandate , that got destroyed by poor storage, is one of horror cinemas greatest pains.

Then we can't forget his adaptation of Mortal Kombat, has to be the golden standard of a faithful adaptation, where the Mario movie and even Street Fighter took major drastic liberties to turn the concept from the games into a feature length movie. Mortal Kombat did not, it gave us the story from the arcade, sure it was PG-13 and didn't have the blood and gore of the games, but you still had epic fight scenes, you had the iconic characters from the game, with some of the best casting to date, Robin Shou is Lui Kang, Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa was iconic as Shang Tsung, and the Highlander himself as Raiden, it had everyone you would have wanted to see in the movie, be in the movie, Sub Zero. Scorpion, Reptile, Kano, Sonya, Jax (briefly) Johnny Cage, Kitana, Goro, all there. Plus we can't forget the iconic, the immortal, Techno Syndrom done by The Immortals, to this day that IS the Mortal Kombat theme despite it never showing up in the games, that years later, it was a big deal when MK11 used Techno Syndrom in the trailer for the game, and even brought back Cary to reprise the role of Shang Tsung, imagine being the defining actor to play a character that they had to put you as the character in the game.

Then let's get to Resident Evil, the first movie might as well have been the polar opposite of MK, where it was not based on any 1 RE game, had none of the characters, and was just an original story, but it still kicked ass, it still felt like a story within the world of Resident Evil, it spawned a successful movie franchise that even to this day is still making movies, we even have an Oscar winning director helming it, and the laser scene from that first movie has been so iconic now to the franchise that it has showed up in the mainline games.

Paul Anderson is not a really good director, but he made some major contributions to gaming that I feel he's earned his flowers.

I remember watching this on USA channel back in the day, it's a pretty interesting slasher movie, the whole plot revolves around a killer finding and killing virgins in the town of Cherry Falls. The killer appears to be a long black haired woman clad in black wanting revenge on the town for what they did to her.

The movie stars the late Britney Murphy as our final girl and Michael Bien as her dad, who both have a connection to this killer that she doesn't know, as the body count start to rise, the teens in town actually throw a major sex party to lose their V cards in order to save themselves from the Virgin Killer.

It's a post Scream slasher movie that tries to be subversive with the genre, and I think this one stands out because it does take that typical trope of horny teens being the targeted victims and flips it on its head by making them safe from the killer. Even includes a funny bit where one of the bitchy popular girls can't find a guy in time to pop her cherry.

Worth a watch with a great twist.

Sketch drawing of an orc girl.

So who is excited for this and will be getting it?

Just came from Mortal Kombat 2, and oh boy, this movie was fucking awesome, God damn run that Toasty sound byte because this shit cooked.

Without doing any spoilers (will still tag for spoilers), the trailer is a bait & switch, so much focus was on the inclusion of Johnny Cage, and that it seemed to be his movie, but he shares that with the other protagonist, Kitana. Johnny is still very important and is a major character, but Kitana is the one getting elevated to lead role, (once again sidelining Lui Kang)

The good; The fights are awesome and bloody, some stand outs but the movie generally keeps the action high and never really drags you down with boring bits, everyone does a good job in the movie especially Lewis Tan as Cole Young, he really comes into his own in this movie, feels more fleshed out, and he really justifies his forced inclusion from the first movie. Karl Urban killed it as Johnny Cage, a reluctant hero who has to overcome his own self doubts to be the Johnny Cage we all know and love. The actress for Kitana was fine, she was aight, but she is sharing screen time with Johnny Cage & Kano who end up stealing every scene their in and eclipsing everyone else.

The movie actually feels like the Mortal Kombat tournament unlike the last one where the tournament never even happens, and they really go above and beyond to add iconic locations from the games and give more to see compared to the almost low budget feel of the last one. Also got to say this might actually be my favorite version of Shoa Khan, he always keeps the helmet on, never showing his face even when in speaking moments, I like the voice they gave him too, it's not that try hard raspy voice from the games, but feels closer to that base heavy but distinguished voice from the OG MK2 & 3.

The Cons: Some characters end up not having much to work with and feels less important than the should, Sindel is in the movie, barely does anything and is hardly a character, Noob Saibot is in the movie, but they never call him Noob and he comes way later in the movie and we never get a feel for who he is now as a revenant.

Lui Kang gets snubbed again from being the main character in his own franchise, Shang Tsung is barely a presence in this one, some green screen effects are a bit obvious, and this is more a issue with casting choices of the last movie but I bring it here because it matters. A big beat for the movie is how Kitana & Jade have a close sister like relationship with each other, which ignores the fact that Kitana has a sister/clone, Mileena, and they cast a black woman to play the clone of an Asian woman, we now have Kitana and we know that version of Mileena isn't the clone of her because obviously look at them, and this feels like a problem someone should have brought up in the first movie. Also they had a perfectly good moment to give Kano is cyber eye but instead they gave him a regular eye.

The Ugly: Barracka's face.

Verdict: Honestly it's weird how the original Paul Anderson movie is the best live action Mortal Kombat movie that was followed up with a shit sequel, and this new MK started off with ho hum first movie, only to kill it with a banger of a sequel. It's not the original 90's movie, but damn this is the 2nd best MK adaptation ever. Also Shoa Khan popcorn bucket is bad ass.

Horror has many faces, many weapons, and violent kills, but none are this violent, this terrifying, and a weapon so deadly that no others can match. This is the scariest slasher of them all/s

This was a classic back in the day, just a funny slasher parody some dude made back in ancient youtube times.

I remember playing Star Fox Adventures and thinking this was such a cool villain and was so excited to fight him in an epic boss battle, just to have one of the biggest dissappointing fights. He doesn't hit you ever, he can be beat with 1 hit then he dies because the evil space monkey told him to.

Are they cooler?

I been sitting on this thought for a while now, I don't like Halloween Ends, big shocker I know, that movie is known as a beloved final entry into the DGG Halloween trilogy and a truely perfect end to the 40 year Michael & Laurie saga/s

One of the many flaws of Ends I feel lies with how Michael meets his ultimate demise, in their final battle Michael is killed when Laurie slits his throat and wrist, having him bleed out in on her kitchen table, followed by them dumping his body into a grinder that shreds Michael completely, giving him a very definitive End.

My problem with this is how meaningless it was, Michael was a force of nature, evil incarnate, the Boogeyman, and his death comes in him having his vitals casually slit open to bleed to death, it's anti climatic, it has no greater significance to Michael as a character we have known for 40 years, and as this nightmare being it's a very pedestrian end.

This death is so lackluster because twice in this series Michael was given the perfect death, the first time being the explosive ending of Halloween 2, Michael is crippled by his sister Laurie, shot in both eyes and giving him that iconic tears of blood look, followed with Dr. Loomis, the man who spent all Michael's life trying to study him and understand him, turning on the gas, ready to end the monster he kept hidden away. He explodes the room and the final shot is Michael walking out covered in flames as he burns away.

The fire cleansing him and bringing his rampage to an end, Michael returned back to the pits of Hell he came from.

Fast forward 40 years and Halloween 2018, Laurie finally fights her tormentor, the source of all her and her families generational trauma (for the second time in the series), trapping Michael in the cage she built to protect herself in, and setting her home ablaze, with Michael deep in the basement staring up into the family his evil has haunted for generations, and seeing them triumphantly beating him, ending this cycle of trauma, as the house burns away with all the pain and sorrow created by Michael while he burns in the ground below like a demon of hell being sent back. While you never see him die in the fire (in case the movie made money and they needed a sequel), the symbolic nature of seeing everything burn away, it was a family's legacy of pain being turned into ash and freeing the family to finally live again.

These endings felt powerful and symbolic, but Ends just doesn't have that, the way you kill the slasher has to mean something, it can't just be a fatal blow that kills them, it has to be a symbol to show that the nightmare is over, that the heroes have overcome something greater than just the physical force behind the killer.

Does it bother anyone else that the mask on the poster is a generic hockey mask that is nothing like the actual movie mask?

This might be the first Resident Evil live action movie to have a male protagonist.

The Paul Anderson movies all had Alice be lead character, and while WTRC had both Chris & Leon (I guess you can call them that) that movie obviously favored Claire as the lead with her being the one most aware of the situation and moving the plot along while Chris & Leon were just there.

Zack Cregger's Resident Evil is actually the first one to make main character a dude, just thought that was interesting.

Rewatched the original Friday The 13th last night, and I started asking by the end if the always intended to bring Jason as the killer for the sequel or not.

The original never establishes Jason until the end when Mrs. Voorhees shows up, nor do they ever try to build up a legend around him when the locals talk about the camp being cursed, the only time we hear the name Jason is when Mrs. Voorhees talks about her son drowning which is what sets her off on this murderous rampage.

Yet, the fact they decided to give kid Jason this very deformed look during the flashback and a more swamp creature look during the jump scare at the end. There was a level of thought to his character beyond just motivation for the killer, that I have to wonder if they always planned something with him. I remember people like Tom Savini and other crew members were against the idea of turning the final jump scare of the original movie into the main killer of 2, since Jason was dead.

I think right now we are in a golden age of game to movie adaptations, Sonic The Hedgehog, surprisingly made a great adaptation with each new movie going further and further to bring the cast of Sonic in.

We had the Super Mario Movie that didn't reimagine the Toadstool Kingdom as a grimmy city in a cyberpunk style with evolved dinomen, and we have a Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat movie coming out this year that tries to look like the games and brings in the cast of the games.

So why is it that Resident Evil still can't do that? I am going to watch Zack Greggor's Resident Evil, I don't think it will be bad, instead the trailer looks really good, and while I am not against the idea of making an original story that feels and even might be going on parallel to the games, I still wonder why make something that looks not like an RE game.

I know we had Welcome To Raccoon City that tied to look like the games, but the problem there was instead of them adapting 1 game, they tried doing 2 games, and they made terrible casting decisions and hired a diverse cast to play a white roles, what was worse is despite the swap none of the actors actually played the character they were playing.

Movie Leon does not act, look, sound, or comes off as game Leon, and the idea they had to adapt RE4 with this guy, dear lord if they did, Ashley would be the one saving that version of Leon.

We had 6 Alice lead movies that didn't bother to be like the games past the 2nd movie, a terrible YA netflix series featuring Lance Reddick as Blade, and a terrible mimicry with WTRC.

Again will see this new movie, will probably be great, maybe the best RE movie (low bar) but when so many other movies based on games are making actual efforts to adapt the game to big screen, why is Resident Evil still not even remotely trying.