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The first movie released back when I was maybe a junior or senior in high school. I can't remember. But I had a friend that was really into cartoons and comics and he was the only one in my circle of friends that had interest in this movie so we decided to just go, the two of us. It was pretty exciting, the idea of seeing Sub-Zero and Scorpion on the big screen. Too, we were both Highlander fans so the idea of Conner MacLeod playing Raiden? Yes, please.
The day was clouding over and a storm was brewing but we made into the lobby just before the bottom fell out. We thought the coincidence was pretty cool though, given the mood we expected from the movie. Unfortunately, the electricity went out during the opening dream sequence of Liu Kang. That outage lasted maybe 10 minutes. The film just picked up where it stopped with a slurred, "rrrrrrrrt rrrreeeahhhhhh," mumble as the audio got up to speed. The projection light had not yet warmed up, I assume, as we didn't have video for another minute or two. I remember being so angry that we missed that intro.
For good or bad (and there was plenty of bad in that flick, lol), it was a great experience. My friend was beaming as we left that afternoon. I'm excited for this moving knowing NOTHING more than the few posts I've caught in this thread. I haven't spoken to that guy in probably twenty years or so except for a random facebook nod every few years for some random life event. I may shoot him a msg with an invite. For old time's sake. I'm not sure he'd be up much for the R rating, but who knows.
GAH. That's assuming it will even be released here. I forgot about that part....