I too would have enjoyed a whiskey-dulled, gravely baritone version from an older, wiser man with a thousand yard stare: "Mortal Kombat, man. It really was...Mortal Kombat."
I was once at a Total War recording session where someone, I don't think it was me, but it might have been, got Brian Blessed to yell "Gordon Freeman's Alive?" He had no idea what was happening.
Back in the Good Old Days you’d have been able to unlock a cheat menu for Alien Isolation that replaced all the xenomorph sound effects with that clip.
We watched that movie on our last movie night on a very small Twitch stream I watch! (Because he's so small and isn't trying to make any money he doesn't have to give a shit about his VODs getting copyright strikes lol.) Absolute classic nonsense.
Hey, in their defense, it was April-....
Wait. That's a '7'. Not a '1'.
Maybe the post was delayed a week for reasons? I mean the news can be-...
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Need a new internet trend, where people just turn up to random IRL situations and bellow "Mortal Kombat!" at the top of their lungs, apropos of nothing.
Unironically, they should make a movie about this guy. If I remember the interview correctly, he grew up down the street from Matthew McConaughey and moved out to NYC to try to make it as an actor, got cast in the MK commercial, and his line ended up being the first thing you hear in the movie.
There's another guy disputing the claim that it was him, though. Both appeared in that original MK TV ad it was from, and both claim that it was their voice that was used in the "Mortal Kombat!" scream.
Kyle Wyatt is the white kid screaming "Mortal Kombat" initially in the ad and he claims that the iconic version of the yell was also his voice but pitched down with some special effects.
Cordell Lochin is apparently the black guy also in the ad and he says the iconic yell was actually his voice.
Fun fact: I once made $10 off a kid in my school who dared me to run into the middle of the street and yell "MORTAL KOMBAT!" like the commercial, so I did it. I think he was trying to make fun of me for being a nerd, but he still gave me the money so I feel like he owned himself on that one.
I directed this commercial and I can say that Cordell Lochin is the voice everyone from the ad agency and Mortal Kombat were excited about at the time.
Oh neat. I only know about the Mortal Monday due to other people talking about it years later, so now I'm just curious what other commercials you directed.
The EA Sports guy lived near me in Vancouver. Every once and a while they'd have a BBQ and he would do it for guests. Presumably because no one believed him.
I always wanted to believe that the guy who says RESIDENT EEEEEEEVIL at the start of each game was brought back every time to record the line again, adding unique nuance to each reading.
One title I'm not familiar with. The movies a bit. I wonder if they do just for reasons like this. The guy became the voice of a billion dollar company and didn't get paid for it. Even if he did it would have been peanuts.
That’s the sad thing about Resident Evil, the original game at least. Most of the cast were literally picked up off the street and uncredited. Took YEARS to find everyone since the live action cutscene actors and game VAs were different.
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Mortal Kombat!
https://youtu.be/Zw5_TRAYrWU
Mortal Kombat and Killer Instinct both had great soundtracks, too.
"Finish him"
https://slate.com/culture/2021/04/mortal-kombat-movie-theme-immortals-techno-syndrome-interview.html
Matt Berry, Peter Serafanowicz, Karen Gillan.
Imagine just a compilation of them.
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Wait. That's a '7'. Not a '1'.
Maybe the post was delayed a week for reasons? I mean the news can be-...
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This feels incredibly appropriate for this moment...
Replace all sound effects with BOBs
https://youtu.be/fQoZG4DgJSM?si=yHHPQiE_CLhyjRSC
and if you just need a live recording of the daytona usa theme, there you go.
Here's my try: Mortal Kombat!
Hard to get it right.
This documentary just got way better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=QmcylS4dXJU
Cordell Lochin is apparently the black guy also in the ad and he says the iconic yell was actually his voice.
In text, it becomes transcendent in its absurdity.
https://bsky.app/profile/ausir.bsky.social/post/3lmhg6ina422d