The day nobody knew about this movie:

 

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Caught this with my nephew one afternoon. Never knew there was a Looney Tunes film that was released. The poster isn't even on Joblo.com. I decided to just look at some movies playing and voila! A Looney Tunes film. Look at Wikipedia for the synopsis for I won't be doing it here. All I will say is that my theater had at least 11 people including us. The bad marketing for this flick has pretty much put WB on some heat because they continue to shelve legacy characters. Look up Coyote vs Acme up; though there maybe some light at the end of the tunnel for that flick as you are reading this. 

As for this flick, there is a twist to the end of this film and it gets revealed why the flick is named the way it is. Your heroes as you can see is Porky Pig and Daffy Duck, whom are both voiced by Eric Bauza who does a fantastic job doing so. Petunia Pig also makes her re-debut here on the big screen though I don't recall her character much while growing up to Looney Tunes. 

All I am going to say is that this flick was ok for me. Some of the Looney Tunes slapstick makes it here while some parts of this flick is done to please a more modern audience. Especially the beginning where there are some butt jokes literally that maybe should had been truncated. Bugs Bunny sits this one out so I am spoiling it now that if you are expecting him, don't. I understand he is the flagship character of Looney Tunes, but for once, Daffy and Porky is all you have. Also, if you are expecting the Chuck Jones's version of Daffy, look elsewhere again. This is the Looney 30s/40s version of Daffy. The one that likes to go Whoo hoo, bounce around and smash things. This is the version I really grew up with so I had no qualms. 

As I write this, the film is starting to gain some momentum off the net, also allowing theaters to broadcast this flick for another week or so. If you are a big fan of Looney Tunes, you owe yourself this treat. Not much 2d animation around these days and this film delivers in this category. I think its worth a watch just to relieve any stress you've been dealing with as of lately. It doesn't hurt to see some wackiness on the big screen. 

Mortal Kombat Conquest: The show that should had got a 2nd season.

 Mortal Kombat Conquest

I just got back into watching the entire season (the only season) again on the Max channel. 22 episodes of MK tv lore. Was it worth the hype? So many people claim today that it is cheesy by today's standards, which I do agree partially. Not only that but the show dragged on from time to time.

Well, I'll just jump into it. It was very nostalgic for me to re-visit the series. Besides some of the campiness I'd mentioned. It was a good series after all. The fight scenes still hold up very well today. Especially the Sub-Zero vs Scorpion fight we all grew to love in "The Serpent and the Ice" episode. Shao Kahn was portrayed as the evil and cunning emperor Earthrealm grew to fear. Brian Thompson's  portrayal of the emperor in MK Annihilation just left a lot to be desired. There were lots of women in skimpy outfits in this show and it was around that time I found Angelica Bridges and Sung-Hi Lee to be super attractive. Nearly 30 years later, my opinion still stands. 

We all know by now that there was no 2nd season because nobody was left to pick up the tab as Bruce Locke (Shang Tsung) or Jeff Meek (Raiden, Shao Kahn) had mentioned. 

The show premiered pretty much after the abysmal MK Annihilation. Perhaps it didn't quite recover from the stench that flick was. On the contrary, the show was very successful especially appearing after WCW Nitro (another show the buzzed off a few years later). But Jeff Meek said it best that the show was successful but no money came in. 

Credit to Action Gems

Around the 2 minute mark, Jeff Meek confirms this. 

According to google, the show was also too expensive to produce. Budget and financial reasons, right? Going back to the fight scenes, most fans speculate this is the reason why the show got too costly. The fights were so good but also expensive at that same time. 

I would like to write a long report about this show rocked and what not but I felt others had already done that.

Yes, it was amazing that we got to see Kitana, Noob Saibot, Reptile, and a few other characters that appeared in the video games. Then again, some of them are playing ancestors or a whole new other character based on the same name: Sub-Zero and Scorpion come to mind. Keep in mind that this show takes place at least 500 years prior to the original MK 1 timeline; yes this show is a prequel to MK 1995 and Annihilation. 

Reptile and Rain are done justice in this show btw. They are shown how menacing they are as opposed to their movie counterparts (MK 1 Reptile fight scene was amazing though I'll admit). Annihilation Rain, well, you know how that turned out.

The Jarring aspect of this show, as to no surprise, is that darn cliffhanger ending everyone has critiqued over the years. If the shadow priests are that powerful, why didn't Kahn just sent them in the first place to rid of his enemies? This segment also comes right after the show introduces Kreeya, who appeared to be the new threat to both Earthrealm and Outworld. She is quickly dispatched and we have this rushed ending. 

Other besides that, the only other negative thing I couldn't shake off was how I always saw Kung Lao's stunt double fighting all the time. The stunt double really looked more taller than the actual actor. And  from that point on, I had to look at who was fighting with a stunt double and what not. 

Not only that but why did we have two actresses playing Kitana? I'm thinking Dara Tomanovich couldn't reprise her role after her one and only appearance in "The Essence." I liked her simply because she bore a closer resemblance to Talisa Soto. The other actress, Audie England was cute but could had easily passed for another character. Then again, she portrayed Mileena after all who is not a clone created by Shang Tsung in this timeline. 

Well, I have a lot to say but that's all I'm going to get off my chest for now. Mksecrets has the full storyline including season 2. 

https://www.mksecrets.net/index.php?section=mkc&lang=eng&contentID=5900&title=Mortal-Kombat-Conquest-Ending-and-Story-Timeline

Scroll to Chapter V btw if you want to read how season 2 would had played out. 

It appeared that the Elder Gods undid everything and Shao Kahn would be banned from appearing in every MK tournament thereafter. And the Shadow Priests had to take a back seat and let everything unfold. Seriously, a secret weapon so powerful that only Raiden could defeat? I'm still baffled by that. 

Forever in our dreams will we be able to dream of a season 2. Lots of story arcs that could had been tied up or told. I'm pretty sure we would had seen what happened to Sub-Zero especially he was chased by Smoke at the end of his season 1 arc. What about Jola of the Black Dragon? Or what did Noob Saibot do for 16 episodes after he made his appearance? I'm pretty sure this be all explained had a S2 sufficed. But you know as well as I that Shao Kahn spoke it best as he taunted Raiden, this show is "dead!"