Apologies in advance for the he said/she said nature of this post, but when this video hit the web earlier today, it was reportedly for a Mortal Kombat video game. Now people are saying it’s a trailer for a Mortal Kombat movie. If you would’ve told me such a movie was happening back in January, I probably would’ve made a fart sound with my armpit. But the trailer has won me over because it stars Michael Jai White, and Michael Jai White is big and black and knows karate. (He’s also been shot twice, incidentally).
UPDATE 2: Cat’s out of the bag. This is for the movie, and it comes from the mind of genius fight choreographer Larnell Stovall. He’s the guy who did the fights for the excellent Undisputed 3: Redemption, on DVD and Blu-Ray right now. [CHUD]
Meanwhile, Drew from Hitfix adds that the director on this was Kevin Tancharoen, who directed the 2009 remake of Fame. I must’ve missed that when I was busy not sucking c*ck. Maybe it’s good? I dunno. Anyway, it seems they’ve taken a “ridiculous-sound-effects” approach to this one, as opposed to the “Chris-Klein-gets-coked-up-and-does-a-David-Caruso-impression” approach favored by the makers of Street Fighter. From what I’ve seen, I prefer this. As I’ve said, Michael Jai White knows karate. I don’t know if black guys should be allowed to learn karate. It seems unfair.
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He knows Jai Karate.
He also smells good.
Completely different from what I was expecting. Part of me wants to bitch that it’s not like game, the other part of me can’t stop watching.
Donk… I believe you were thinking of Terry Crews… but maybe Jai (we go way back, that’s what we called him in prep school) smells of sweet earthly delights as well.
Terry Crewes and Michael Jai White are different people?
I need to update my racist advent calendar…
Frawress veectoree!
Now that I think about it, if they used Michael Jai White and Terry Crewes in a formulaic buddy-cop flick, I’d watch the fuck out of that movie, even if you made it rated PG.
no Donk… a movie with Michael Jai White and Terry Crews would watch the fuck out of you… and make sure you pissed sitting down.
Somebody needs to remix this with the Mortal Kombat song already. Test Your Might….Test Your Might….Test Your Might…..MORTAL KOMBAT!!!
Learning Karate is the next logical step for black dudes. By the time they’re 11 or 12, they’ve already mastered the use of a bo staff.
Good call, heend8. Plus, it would be two hours of the screen yelling at me for a change.
Black people: You can’t beat ‘em, unless you want to be convicted of a hate crime.
I saw the origional Mortal Combat in the theater with a head full of acid. :(
Seriously, though, if you have any more pictures of that bikini chick…you know His email.
Great, now i want to watch a rubbish movie. Could have done with Michael Jai White calling somebody a “Jive motherfucker” though and if they could get young master Smith with his kung fu skills in the tournament too…
[sneaks in, staples used condom to bulletin board]
This is cool because I named my dick “Goro”.
Pass. When are Nintendo gonna get a ‘Killer Instinct’ movie up?
“C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!”
So is the internets broken today or what?
hey! lets never actually make valid comments about the topic at hand, and just say things in hopes of winning “Comment of the Week!!!”
“[sneaks in, staples used condom to bulletin board]” GOD DAMN YOURE WITTY!!
I’d say the vast majority of these comments were valid topical, and those are the ones that are usually nominated. You singled out one of them. And it’s the striving for comment perfection that make the FD comments themselves funnier than the posts (sometimes) (sorry Vince), so too damn bad for you if you can’t separate the wheat from the chaff on your own.
Er, valid and* topical.
“First comment ever” fail.