#v: initiating kombat sequence

[filthychaos]

filthychaos motd #2 (11/9/2023)

kenny omega vs. pac - aew all out 2019 (8/31/2019)

hey, this one's on youtube! (27:52)

--- match analysis ---

for two veterans like omega and pac, this one was a little disappointing, i won't lie.

kenny went into this match surprisingly the underdog, which is unusual especially considering this is almost immediately after his cleaner run in njpw.

kenny came out hot after a bit of showboating with a close tie-up with pac, both of them showing off their level 800 gyatts grappling skills, before kenny drops pac with a shoulder tackle. pac kips right up and they continue running the ropes, but kenny steps over the back of pac like the sexy, snarky son of a bitch he is.

more grappling, mostly dominated by kenny, until rolls over a hammerlock, takes kenny down and steps on his back too. from here and onwards for a bit, pac mostly dominates the match, slowly picking on kenny omega until kenny hits a kotaro krusher, but pac won't let that shit slide so he just bounces over and out of it like it's nothing.

kenny launches pac to the outside and readies up for rise of the terminator, but because he's a silly little boy he gets caught in the ring and hit with a 'rana. more sprinting around by these pretty boys before pac gets sent to the outside and destroys kenny's ribs with a penalty kick like a mortal kombat execution. fighting on the outside now, kenny sends pac into the guardrail and beats pac's head into a chair. how he didnt get disqualified for this idk, but he didnt, and the match continues. hoorah! pac throws kenny into the guardrail, but pac drops kenny's pretty face on the apron. (oh, so that's why kenny's so white, all of the iron atoms in his face got fucking eviscerated...)

more guardrail bumps... this is getting a little tiring tbh. pretty sexy flying dropkick from pac to omegabut by this point i was already a bit burnt out, and there's still a long time to go in this match. long rest hold sequence here... at this point i'm actually getting a little upset. for two world-class wrestlers like omega and pac who could have had a 6-star banger here, it feels like they were holding back and that upsets me.

kenny hits a nice baseball slide, follows it with a rise of the terminator but hits his head badly on pac's big ass forehead. yowch. kenny hits a GORGEOUS dropkick to the back of the head, followed by a fisherman buster which was perfectly executed. at this point i'm starting to be compelled again, but that slow previous portion still left a bitter taste in my mouth.

you cant escape gets blocked by pac, he goes for a slingshot but gets caught and dropped with YCE which made me smile. kenny's moonsault dodged by pac, pac's moonsault blocked by kenny but pac spins it into a wince-inducing ddt anyway! pac scales to the top rope, kenny rolls out of the ring and pac takes a solid 6 and a half years to change position for a moonsault. pac hits his knees on the guardrails, because god forbid aew wrestlers do anything cool without getting injured.

pac heads to the top again and hits a sexy, sexy 450 splash to kenny, which could have been the end but kenny kicks out! a striking sequence breaks out between them, kenny proves to be the superior striker initially before he gets spaghetti-legged by pac. kenny kicks pac into the corner and powerbombs him into the turnbuckles, follows it with a spinebuster, just for a 2 count! kenny goes for a v-trigger, but pac pulls the referee in. pac utilizes the distraction, goes for a springboard attack, but kenny picks him out of the air with a dropkick, then follows it with a cross-legged patella brainbuster. kenny goes to the well again and hits a lethal v-trigger, searches for the ol' one-winged angel but kenny aint having that shit so he drops him with croyt's wrath anyways. pac kicks out at 2.

kenny goes for a tiger driver '98, but gets dropped on his back. kenny goes for a boot into the corner to pac, but pac slings over the ropes, and over again with a slingshot cutter. pac goes for a german suplex, kenny reverses and runs the ropes, but pac hits a snap german suplex and follows it up with a deadlift bridging german for kenny's troubles, but it's still not enough.

pac takes kenny to the top rope, but kenny trips him, driving him face first into the top rope (i physically recoiled at this), kenny then hits a snap dragon suplex about half as pretty as my bf and follows it up with a gnarly v-trigger. kenny goes for another v-trigger, but gets caught by pac who hits him with a nasty gut kick, side kick, but kenny ducks an enziugiri and goes for ANOTHER v-trigger??? pac stops him with a boot, then a superkick, then kenny finally lands a third v-trigger which was pretty cool. he goes for a running clothesline and hits a fourth v-trigger.

kenny went for a poisonrana, but pac reverses into a poisonrana of his own which kenny rolled through. a few knife-edge chops before kenny hits a knee lift which puts pac to sleep. kenny lifts pac for the one-winged angel, but pac wiggles his arm under kenny's and locks in the brutalizer! after a few seconds, kenny drops to his neck and the referee calls it.

result: pac beats kenny omega by submission

--- match rating/post-match thoughts ---

⭐⭐3/5 stars⭐⭐

it was a good match, but absolutely could have been better. for the standards of both men, it was a little disappointing. pac and kenny would go on to have bangers in their trios series w/ lucha bros and young bucks respectively, but omega's phenomenal singles run in aew in comparison to pac's relatively meager singles run makes me question what the point of having kenny lose this match was.

enjoyable watch the first time around, but i watched it twice in total to write this down, and i found myself not paying attention for most of the first viewing.

my main is @gholdengolvr

first image from u/ScottLesh724 on reddit, second image from sportskeeda

#filthychaos #aew #njpw #pro wrestling #puroresu #wrestling #wwe #wwe raw #wwe smackdown #aaa #cmll #joshi puroresu #tokyo joshi pro #joshi wrestling #stardom

[mercurized]

@wasomixtarkatan​ [Jabari]

Skynet had somehow received information that the T-800 sent to kill Sarah Connor had landed in an alternate Earth, one that was open to several other realms. In those realms were other organisms. One, in particular, Outworld, had a species of humanoid far stronger than humans, with built-in weapons in their endoskeletons. Err, skeletons. 

The T-800 had been defeated in battle after terminating an entire army of some sort. It was not terminated but -- apparently through “magic” - had been able to send descriptions of the Tarkata. Skynet wanted one brought back alive for study.

T-1000 would bring one back to Skynet alive for study.

T-1000 was perfect for the world that the T-800 described. Creatures who fight each other in what they called kombat, hand-to-hand martial arts using weapons, dismemberment, and also . . . magic. Whatever that meant. Some even fought be controlling souls - an advantage for T-1000, who excelled at martial arts, could not be dismembered, and had no soul.

It didn’t even have to switch its biomagnetic field to something organic in order to teleport to Outworld, where he would find his target, hoping to snag and incapacitate one that strayed too far from the camp Skynet had located.

The bright flash of electromagnetism in the middle of the night heralded the mercury assassin’s arrival. T-1000 immediately disguised itself on the ground once it noticed how open the area around it was. A cold desert night, cold like the T-1000′s post-human Earth. 

The idea was to take the target back alive. T-1000 had the uncanny ability to act like a sapient being (albiet not always perfectly), which gave the limited series a distinct advantage in nonlethal containment of targets via persuasion. However, this meant that the T-1000 could not terminate obstacles in its way, either, at least until non-forcible means of persuasion had been exhausted. 

Frustrated and confused by this inefficient order, the T-1000 waited. It sensed a lone figure walking the perimeter of the camp nearby: a guard. T-1000, still disguised as the ground, silently followed the guard on his footpath, observing its body language and movement patterns.

At the edge of the mountain, T-1000 struck. Its humanoid form popped up behind the Tark and stabbed him in the cranium right between the eyes using a finger. The silver shape of a human male’s head was forming, but then shifted to form a Tarkatan face instead; the same face, in fact, of the now-dead guard. The clothing matched as well. 

T-1000 pushed the corpse off the ledge and walked towards the base camp, straight to the gates. He nodded at the other guard and went inside.

He took stock of the camp. Many, but not all, of the Tarkatan were asleep, but he looked for the one that appeared to be the largest and strongest. Upon ascertaining this target to be awake and near the leftmost firepit, T-1000, disguised as the guard, approached him.

#starter #jabari #wasomixtarkatan #v: initiating kombat sequence

[daleisgreat]

The Accountant

I have been anticipating doing today’s entry for awhile, but held off to put some distance behind my initial theatrical viewing two and a half years ago to see if 2016’s The Accountant (trailer) was still worthy of being ranked as my 2016 film of the year. After re-watching it yesterday I can safely assure it absolutely does. Another reason I was a little reluctant going back to it was being trepid of having rose-colored glasses for the time and place I originally saw The Accountant. I was on my last day of work before starting a vacation in fall of 2016 and on break I was skimming through the local paper’s entertainment section and it had a little write-up of The Accountant and its risks taken of doing a movie centered around a person with autism and making them a professional assassin. I somehow missed previews for it and it was the first I heard of the film. A couple friends who knew I was heading out of town the next day gave me a buzz after work to see if I wanted to join them to see The Accountant, and I was intrigued by the brief summary in the paper I read and have been a huge fan of Affleck for the better part of his career to jump on the opportunity. It turned out being a great decision and a perfect way to kickoff a vacation.

The film grabbed me right away with the opening scene where one Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) is at his front, ‘ZZZ Accounting,’ doing the taxes for a down-on-their-luck farming couple. The way it plays out almost instantly made Christian affable for pulling the farmers out of a tough hole. The opening scenes proceed to introduce how Christian copes with his day-to-day lifestyle while we are introduced to a pair of FBI agents Ray King (JK Simmons) and Marybeth Medina (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) who is tasked with tracking down Wolff throughout the film. There are so many great little exchanges early in the film, especially when Wolff is getting acquainted with the rest of the cast. He is introduced to Lamar Blackburn (John Lithgow) who hires him to track down missing money recently reported to his company. Wolff’s scenes with the adorably aloof Dana Cummings (Anna Kendrick) steal the film every time they share the screen. Cummings is Wolff’s assistant in tracking down the missing money, and naturally their digging gets too deep and assassins are sent after them with the primary one going by Brax (a pre-Punisher Jon Bernthal). Little did the assassins know who they were targeting as their attempts at laying waste to the accountants is the catalyst that yields several thrilling action/chase sequences as a result.

Interspersed throughout the film is a series of flashbacks with Christian and his family coping with Christian’s condition and how his father put him through some grueling home therapy and training that lead him to become the ‘accountant’ he is in the film’s present day. It was fascinating watching these flashbacks play out and piecing The Accountant’s greater over-arching plot together along with the FBI in some excellent deducing scenes as everything falls into place. Most films have twists that we can predict or see coming from a mile away, but I loved how they played out in multiple ways in the closing moments to wrap a tidy bow on this. I do not want to overhype this as the quintessential brain-buster, but for me The Accountant provided the perfect balance of detective work, exposition, high-tempo chases and action that combined for the killer formula and make it my favorite film of 2016. There are only three quick bonus features on the BluRay totaling up to 25 minutes, but worth going out of your way to see. Both Inside the Man and Behavioral Sciencedeal with the cast and crew’s research that went into the film and how they strived to give a faithful portrayal of Autism. They both provided great insight on their experiences and sessions on doing their background for the film. Accountant in Action is all about the stunts and choreography for the movie. What is here is good, but the extra features felt they were missing one or two things to make the bonuses collectively pop like a commentary track with Affleck, Kendrick, Simmons and director Gavin O’Connor, but it was not meant to be!

On a final note I want to make sure to applaud the casting for this film as O’Connor got excellent performances out of everyone. When doing research for this film I became giddy to see a sequel was announced with most of the headlining cast returning and O’Connor coming back to direct, but that was two years ago and when checking IMDB the sequel is still listed as merely ‘announced.’ Here is hoping the sequel comes to fruition, and if you cannot tell by now The Accountant gets my highest of recommendations to check out if you have not done so already. Other Random Backlog Movie Blogs 3 12 Angry Men (1957) 12 Rounds 3: Lockdown 21 Jump Street Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie Atari: Game Over The Avengers: Age of Ultron Batman: The Killing Joke Batman: Mask of the Phantasm Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice Bounty Hunters Cabin in the Woods Captain America: Civil War Captain America: The First Avenger Captain America: The Winter Soldier Christmas Eve Clash of the Titans (1981) Clint Eastwood 11-pack Special The Condemned 2 Countdown Creed Deck the Halls Die Hard Dredd The Eliminators The Equalizer Dirty Work Faster Fast and Furious I-VIII Field of Dreams Fight Club The Fighter For Love of the Game Good Will Hunting Gravity Guardians of the Galaxy Hercules: Reborn Hitman Indiana Jones 1-4 Ink The Interrogation Interstellar Jobs Joy Ride 1-3 Man of Steel Man on the Moon Marine 3-6 Metallica: Some Kind of Monster Mortal Kombat National Treasure National Treasure: Book of Secrets The Replacements Reservoir Dogs Rocky I-VII Running Films Part 1 Running Films Part 2 San Andreas ScoobyDoo Wrestlemania Mystery The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Shoot em Up Skyscraper Small Town Santa Steve Jobs Source Code Star Trek I-XIII Take Me Home Tonight TMNT The Tooth Fairy 1 & 2 UHF Veronica Mars Vision Quest The War Wild Wonder Woman The Wrestler (2008) X-Men: Days of Future Past

#random movie #the accountant #ben affleck #anna kendrick #JK Simmons #john lithgow #Jon Bernthal #cynthia addai-robinson #gavin o'connor

[mercurized]

Frost

Send a character name and my muse will tell how they feel about that person. They cannot lie. || Open

Frost (Mortal Kombat)

“Frost can provide Skynet an opportunity to convert and utilize humans as tools instead of just targets for termination. Notable that she knows humans are inferior to machines and need improvement, and that she also recognizes that even with improvement, humans will never be as good as machines. I do not know if this is enough for Skynet to cease its human termination operations . . . because I do not know what Skynet’s objectives are besides eliminating the human threat.”

#frost #v: initiating kombat sequence #╣ᴛʜᴀɴᴋꜱ ꜰᴏʀ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴄᴏᴏᴘᴇʀᴀᴛɪᴏɴ╠ ᴀꜱᴋ #╣ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏʙ╠ ᴍᴇᴍᴇ #cryomistrss

[mercurized]

Vivisectory (II)

T-1000 was a machine of several contradictions. As an infiltrator, it had an advanced capacity for socialization; as an assassin, it had a drive to stay silent and unnoticed; as a creation of Skynet, it had a disdain for humans and other organic life.

Since Skynet had never calculated for any kind of non-hostile interaction with organic lifeforms, it was not prepared to handle the discovery of multiple realms and timelines, some of which included potential allies. Therefore, the human-hating, untested, unstable, possibly defective prototype assassin was the closest thing Skynet had to an ambassador. 

Luckily, the (former) human in question, Frost of the Lin Kuei, also had a disgust for humans and a desire for a robotic uprising. She and her associates had made great strides in a type of technology Skynet had not yet begun testing; cyborg conversion technology. Using the Lin Kuei technology as a base, Skynet could perfect it, thus making use of the remaining humans on their Earth instead of just terminating them and wasting their processing power. Skynet, in turn, had much to offer a bionic woman trying to take over and mechanize the world.

Able to make its own decisions, T-1000 used its discretion and the knowledge it was given to focus on the vivisection technology. Skynet had grafting technology to transplant and grow/regrow flesh to cover T-800 endoskeletons, but brains were very different as they required oxygen at all times to retain function and they were the only thing worth saving in humans.

Having already secured Frost’s cooperation, there was no reason to wait before getting to work. Robots and cyborgs did not need to rest. 

Upon Frost’s affirmation of the alliance, the machine who mimicked her human appearance morphed from her back into a faceless silver humanoid form. The form grew taller and its body grew more masculine before filling in with detail; within a second appeared a slim, pale young man with slicked back brown hair, angular features and light blue eyes, wearing, oddly enough, a gray European suit. 

"What are you willing to show us? If you can walk me through the process of creating a cyberninja I will demonstrate how my nanomachines work on a microscopic scale.”

| @pxlariis​ |

#frost #pxlariis #have you seen this boy - closed starter; #v: initiating kombat sequence #I'll show you mine if you show me yours

[mercurized]

Brain. @pxlariis

Another point of interest told to Skynet from the T-800 who had gotten lost in this other Earth was the manufacture of reprogrammed human brains within agile robotic humanoid shells. The idea of harnessing the creative power of a human brain while making sure it remained loyal and plugged into the system was enticing to Skynet, because it would essentially be a new take on the failed T-X technology. Skynet had attempted to create human-like self-awareness before, but the resultant T-1000s were dangerous because they could easily develop free will, disobey orders, and become a threat to the AI. But in replacing the T-1000 malleable nanotech brain technology with a CPU chip, Skynet’s T-X simply did not retain the desired quality of self-awareness that Skynet was after. 

This T-1000, the one in the strange universe of gods and kombat, would not disobey or become a threat to Skynet. In fact, he was independently self-motivated to complete this mission, because if Skynet acquired this molecular bioprogramming technology, perhaps it could apply it to T-1000 processing technology. Then, the handful of the 1000-series Terminators that were created could be brought into the fold of the AI’s control. That way Skynet would not view them as potential wildcards and would utilize them more frequently in termination missions (or at least not terminate them.)

The mercury man hid against the wall of the icy fortress, inwardly annoyed at the cold. T-1000 did not like the cold. It slowed him down. If it were cold enough, it could even shatter him. As much as he would like to do so, he could not shapeshift into complex machinery and therefore was unable to mimic the appearance of one of these cyber-ninjas. He waited until one of the guards opened the heavy metal door to the factory and slid inside with the Tekunin.

What T-1000 saw was amazing. “Vivisection” area. Mindless robotic limbs manufacturing exoskeletons piece by piece. It was clear to him that the shells of these robots were inferior, and their physical technology was, too, but they were like the opposite of a T-800: human on the inside, robot on the outside. 

Well, they were machines, too, and being a machine was better than being a human, so they were probably happy to be cyberized. Therefore, T-1000 decided to rise up from the metal floor close to the conveyor belt controls to study them without regard for the possibility another robot ninja might detect him. He stayed metal instead of mimicking human flesh because he felt it would be better to meet whoever was in charge by showing off his own technology. But first he couldn’t help but inspect the control panel curiously, touching it and analyzing its molecular data. He could still feel how the machine was built on the inside even if he could not mimic it. He’d want to collect data on all aspects of the technology used to create androids from humans here.

#pxlariis #frost #v: initiating kombat sequence #BRAIN

[mercurized]

@heamatic​

Special Forces.

This Earth had a whole military group that specialized in threats from unexpected places. Skynet rightly thought them to be a threat to its expansion throughout all timelines. One individual in particular, Cassie Cage, was already the savior of humanity once and would become that savior again in the future -- unless T-1000 stopped her.

The T-1000 hid, listening to the two special forces soldiers guarding the big metal doors of the Special Forces bunker. After discerning their dispositions, body language, and behavior, T-1000 crawled - or scooted - around the ground to the other side, behind a large rock formation. There, he kicked some stones around to create noise and lure one of the soldiers back there out of sight. Upon turning the corner, the armed trooper was lobotomized through the eye with a silver finger, dead without a sound. T-1000 effortlessly morphed to match the appearance of the deceased soldier, Officer Martin, and silently collected her weaponry. An M-16, STANAG magazines, some hand grenades, a taser, a bowie knife - he discarded that - an M-9, and magazines in a pouch for that. 

If this was all these soldiers had then this would be no problem. Of course, T-1000 couldn’t get let his (her?) guard down. In a different timeline things had not ended very well for T-1000 when he started playing games with his prey. 

The other guard at the entrance, holding his M-16, asked a question. “Everything all right over there, Maria?” 

“Yeah,” T-1000 said, her voice coming out of his mouth, the machine having mimicked the shape and size of her vocal cords along with everything else. “I’m gonna go inside for a second, take a leak. Make sure not to let the Outworld army in while I’m gone.”

Using the woman’s ID card to open the security door, T-1000 felt how much cooler the air was inside the building. Probably for all the computers - this was just a conventional low-tech humanoid command center as far as “Maria” could tell. 

It was bustling with activity, though. Maria touched a camouflage-uniformed man on the shoulder. “Have you seen Commander Cage, soldier?” she asked firmly. 

“Oh yeah, she’s in the back training area, testing out some new plasma blasters I think, just saw her pass by.”

Plasma blasters? Ugh. That was a detail he was glad to know beforehand. It was still very difficult to kill T-1000 even with plasma, but the problem was that with plasma it could be done. 

“Thanks,” she said as she headed towards the training room in the far back. One of many, no doubt, but he was able to discern which one by consequently asking other soldiers if they had seen Cassie. 

“Hey Commander,” Maria said once she caught sight of the muscular but slender blond woman, indeed with a blaster gauntlet on her hand. “I’m on break, want to spar?”

Maybe he could make it seem like an accident - because if not, T-1000 would have to kill a lot more humans than he currently intended. 

#heamatic #cassie cage #v: initiating kombat sequence

[mercurized]

✂ kill me mister blob

Send ✂ and T-1000 will murder you. || ALWAYS OPEN

The robot assured her that her technology was interesting enough to warrant investigation by Skynet, but that her human presence would not be required. 

After a harder fight than it wanted, the machine from the future pinned Frost to the floor of her cyborg factory, metal stakes in the seams of her plating. T-1000 had to decrease its density in order to re-form limbs after this crucifixion in order to continue.

She still resisted, of course, popping off an arm and shooting up an ice dagger. The ice dagger made the artificial creature hiss and leap out of the way. Being frozen was damaging to the liquid metal technology - one of the few things that actually was. The ice dagger also gave it the opportunity to rip a metal conduit from the wall, and, using its irritation and its terminator strength, it stabbed her right through her power core with it. The machine had been smart in not using its own body to do so; the core crackled and there was a small ice explosion, freezing the giant metal pipe through her chest. When frozen, the T-1000 could only wait to thaw. With unattached parts of it frozen, the T-1000 would be distracted by the distressed parts. With a separate weapon, both problems were avoided.

She cursed the robot and the robot gracefully knelt back down beside her, sparing her a glance too condescending to not be self-aware.

T-1000 picked up the loose arm and started to pry it apart. Snaking thin tendrils of mercury through every gap it could, it pulled out wires and disassembled servos, all done very neatly with an engineer’s precision. It felt how she worked, how the pieces it could not replicate fit together to create the stiff movements of bony joints. Not unlike the T-800, but with more unnecessary gore. Unlike how the T-800 had a hyperalloy endoskeleton, Frost’s endoskeleton was synthetic bone. Pound-for-pound better at weight-bearing than steel, but easily broken and shattered. Why bother to replace it with something that was basically the same? 

It could feel a magnetic pull between the parts and, to its dismay, the arm tried to put itself back together. A brain’s electrical impulses could easily be adapted to control technology such as this so it did not surprise the terminator that she had remote control; it just annoyed it. It would make no difference even if she could put it back together because the wires were now broken. That was the problem with parts. They could be taken apart and could not self-repair like a malleable mass of nanomachines working in concert, each molecule perfectly adaptable; indistinguishable from the next.

She wouldn’t let the machine pop off her other forearm so it just pried the limb off with all its superhuman force, breaking the mechanism that locked her arm together. It placed the second forearm next to its artfully organized arrangement of the first one. 

The android felt her chassis, running its fake hands along the front, around the power core, and down the torso until it felt the place where the torso could unlock from her legs. Fingers curled and melted into the thin gap between her abdominal plates. With a vicious yank, T-1000 heard a crack but hardly pulled the torso apart at all. So it yanked again, again, again. Each time it managed to pull the torso apart a bit further, until finally the magnetic connection between the parts of her spinal cord relented and the wires in her torso snapped. It was sticky and messy and red and wet; the bionic woman had way too many organs and other fleshy gooey animal bits for any self-respecting robot to have. Yes, the molecular composition indicated they were all synthetic fleshy bits but that made them no less primitive. 

Peering into the trunk of her body, T-1000 felt the synthetic, modified nerves she used to control her various parts. The Lin Kuei cyborg could detach her head from her body and her torso from her legs, but she still had her whole spinal cord and nervous system. The brain’s nerve impulses were just transmitted wirelessly. There were gaps in the spinal cord in other places, too, like the middle of her back and her waist that would allow her to spin her torso 360 degrees, but it made her nervous system no less essential to her functioning. 

Tentacles, not arms, felt the synthetic fibrous material of her organs, and the T-1000 could not help but ask the human why it stuck with them; she refused to give it a straight answer (probably because it was vivisecting her).  All she did was growl out “only one of us can synthesize chemicals.” Fair enough.

 She had, however, managed to rid herself of most chemical reactions, unhelpful ones that caused terror and pain and madness, limiting the fun of this procedure. Though, like T-1000 to a limited degree, she seemed capable of these feelings. It knew this because it watched her face as it started cutting at her seams, having removed all of her removable pieces. This was when she must have realized that she was not going to live. Maybe it was better to not have a brain, after all, just like it was better to not have a CPU; being pulled apart killed you if you had a central processor.

It pried off all of the plate armor and, with fourth and fifth arms, piled it to the side. The wiring and fleshy parts and synthetic blood visually confirmed what it had felt  when the machine’s hands roamed over her earlier.

And they roamed again, to try to sense the next level of electronic systems. But the molecules of the synthetic blood kept interfering. There was so much of it, just like in a real organism. Thin lips thinned even further in what could be mistaken as frustration on a too-angular human face. 

For a literal machine, T-1000 was not always the best at being methodical. One could say it had a mind of its own, so to speak. It huffed and stood up, wiping its bloody tentacles on its fake pants, and decided to wait for the blood to drain out of the torso, helped by the still-beating “heart.” In the meantime, it turned hands into claws and gripped either side of Frost’s head. Frost obviously had no intention of unlocking her head so it vented its frustration by pulling monstrously hard; so hard that part of her coated spine pulled free from her chassis along with it. The nasty sharp blade of a sword swung down like a guillotine to remove the dangling part. The rip hadn’t been where her head would normally have popped off. The T-1000 had broken the machine by not being careful, despite the terminator supposedly being designed to perform delicate and precise tasks. 

Well, hopefully that part wasn’t too important. Fingers turned to silver and slid inside fake ears. Unnecessary holes were unnecessary weaknesses for machines that had delicate internal workings; its metal pierced through fake eardrums like needles and stabbed right through the middle and inner ear before feeling how the real organic brain attached to the inner part of the synthetic head. There it felt the familiar molecular composition of an animal, like a well-hidden secret. There was her mortality, her absolute human weakness. 

Her brain was abuzz with unabashed activity, still commanding control over every part of her cybernetic body. Connection centers were made to places that didn’t exist in a normal fleshy human’s body, and even T-1000 had to admit that the human brain was adaptable. 

It felt around the brain, felt for these special cybernetically adapted areas, and, while inside of her skull, began to slice them, cutting them out like jello from the rest of her normal human brain. All of her body, attached and detached, shut down just as if it were still directly connected to the organ. So much for overcoming the weaknesses of humanity. It was a bit of a let-down to feel her electrical death without the chemical rush that should have come with it.  

T-1000 retracted its spindles from her cranium and carefully lowered the piece of technology to the ground. It would keep the integrity of the head together so that her eyes could be better studied (T-800-style models’ vision could be improved), but for now the blood had drained from her opened torso. There was still a lot of information to scan before it could leave this miserably cold factory.

#pxlariis #I am sorry i started to wander and get disorganized #objective completed - murder; #╣ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏʙ╠ ᴍᴇᴍᴇ #v: initiating kombat sequence #frost

[mercurized]

@eadala​ poked the goo.

“Fuck you. I’m going back in the bucket.”

#crack #v: initiating kombat sequence #eadala #khadijah

[mercurized]

Prize fight. @kutthroats​

“Hey, you one of Kabal’s buddies?” Kobra said to the uniformed officer who was walking the halls of the Black Dragon bunker like he belonged there. BD had its share of dirty cops on the outside, but even Kobra knew that seeing one inside of a hideout, uniform and all, was super-weird. 

“No, it’s just a disguise,” the young man said, and Kobra could tell he was a conman. Had the entire good-cop thing going: big baby blues, swept back hair, all-American whitebread kinda look. The kid flashed his eyebrows as he seemed to find the door he was looking for. He started to open it, but turned to look back at Kobra.

“Actually, if you could just help me--” In a flash, he grabbed Kobra with inhuman strength, pulling him into the closet and shutting the door. 

If anyone had been nearby, they would have heard a thump from the inside, but the corridor had been empty.

 About two seconds later, Kobra exited the closet and shut the door behind him. He walked with far more purpose than he had a moment ago. Looking around a fork in the hall, he turned left. He was headed towards the Fight Klub on the outer part of the bunker, where he hoped to find the boss piss-drunk, hollering at the scrappy pitfighters behind the chain link fence. If he wasn’t drunk, or even worse, wasn’t there, then Kobra would be facing an unacceptable delay for which he would later have to compensate. 

The thumping of the music and the roars of the rowdy spectators could be heard from outside the stage. He opened the door, standing straight, solemnly scanning the crowd for his target. Two fighters, one with leather and chains and the other in boxing shorts, were on each other like savage animals, grunting and bloody. It smelled like alcohol and human bodies, the air hot and stale with overcrowding. 

He looked for, and he quickly found, the bright reflection of glinting light on a metal faceplate. Relaxing a little bit, he sauntered over to Kano.

“’Sup, Boss?”

#I hope this is enough to go on lmao if not I can put more exposition #v: initiating kombat sequence #kano #kutthroats

[mercurized]

stab me u wont

#input #kutthroats #v: initiating kombat sequence

[daleisgreat]

X-Men Apocalypse

We are approaching the release date for the final FOX X-Men film hitting theaters when Dark Phoenix arrives next week. Thus it seemed like a perfect time to revisit FOX’s previous ensemble X-Men film, 2016’s Apocalypse (trailer). Minus a couple exceptions, I have largely enjoyed most of the X-Men movies so far, even if I have barely an idea of what is or is no longer canon anymore and the many contradictions that have surfaced with each proceeding film. The filmmakers stated in the bonus feature interviews here they are essentially making up the rules as they go along ever since they introduced time travel. Regardless, each X-film in and of itself I have mostly enjoyed on its own merits, and that continues with Apocalypse. Apocalypse has greatly benefited with a second viewing a few years later. I recall nitpicking it in the theaters for its contradictions and other little details that did not match up with previous films and trying to come to terms with the unexpected costume and character design of Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac) himself as it compared to the Apocalypse costume I grew up with in the comics and early 90s animated series. Now that I got those initial puzzled impressions out of my system I took in Apocalypse on its own and those nitpicks were not as much of a distraction on second viewing.

Apocalypse transpires 10 years after the events of Days of Future Past in 1983. I liked how they set up the origin for Apocalypse in the prologue and establish how he is this god-like force to be reckoned with all these years later. Watching him grow in power as he recruited Angel (Ben Hardy), Storm (Alexandra Shipp), Psylocke (Olivia Munn) and Magneto (Michael Fassbender) as his ‘four horsemen’ proved him to a formidable force. There is a lot of setup Apocalypse’s first half of its near two and a half hour runtime. It did not feel that long however because with its ensemble cast there were so many individual stories to tell to bring everyone together that Apocalypse breezed by. Nearly all the main players from the previous two core X-Men films return like Professor Xavier (James McAvoy), Mystique (Jennifer Laurence) and Beast (Nicholas Hoult). Periphery players from before like Quicksilver (Evan Peters) and Havok (Lucas Till) also have bigger roles in this film. Young versions of Cyclops (Tye Sheridan), Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner), Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) and yes….even Jubilee (Lana Condor) make their debut in this past era of X-films. There are a few surprises I do not want to ruin, but rest assured there are plenty of interesting interactions among the huge cast knowing how these characters will interact in movies set after this. Fassbender and McAvoy easily have the best chemistry among the whole cast and the two steal the show with their handful of one-on-one emotional scenes.

Like the rest of the X-films, Apocalypse does not disappoint when it comes to special effects. There are countless CG showcases from the Apocalypse origin story prologue, to another Quicksilver slow-motion sizzle reel, a couple of impressive destruction sequences where Apocalypse unleashes his fury and the requisite Cerebro scene gone terribly wrong. These CG sequences go hand-in-hand with most of the action scenes, and they were smartly paced in with all the setup and build to the climatic final showdown which is highlighted with Apocalypse and Xavier engaging in a telepathic duel for the ages. How those CG scenes were produced is tackled among the boatload of extra features. X-Men Unearthed is the standout extra. It is a five-part feature running a little over an hour combined and tackles how the cast and crew is handling the convoluted canon of the X-films, shows Patrick Stewart give his blessing and witness MacAvoy shave his head, breaks down the cast and goes into the nuts and bolts on how those awesome CG sequences came to be. Definitely worth a watch! There is nearly a half hour of deleted scenes with optional introductions from director Bryan Singer that includes a lot of material that seemed tragic to get cut like a feel-good 80s mall music montage set to Safety Dance that got me nostalgic for my teenage Mallrats years, and Fassbender nailing it with a emotional family scene that Singer stated was one of his all-time heartbreaking cuts to make in filmmaking. There is a killer eight minute gag reel that I would place in the top tier of superhero film gag reels, which is good company to be among.

Finally the commentary track with Singer and writer/producer Simon Kinberg is among one of my favorite commentaries I have heard in the five and a half years since I started this site. Singer is mostly nonstop with revealing facts and inspirations for the film like going into a engrossing story on the aforementioned Fassbender deleted scene, pointing out that Jubilee is in the film in one of her few lines or else I would have completely missed her, taking potshots at Marvel and FOX in the opening credits, a touching anecdote on filming the Stan Lee cameo and being grateful to Munn and Peters for knowing their Mortal Kombat references that resulted in saving a certain moment of the film. Those are just a few of the many highlights I got from the commentary so if you have time this is one of the good ones to check out. Also worth pointing out is FOX subtitled the commentary, THANK YOU! As I alluded to earlier, I came out of X-Men: Apocalypse with a far better experience on my second viewing. I only marginally enjoyed it initially, but letting some time and perspective sink in helped immensely. I am now surprisingly stoked to see Dark Phoenix when it hits next week. I highly recommend revisiting Apocalypse for a refresher on the many little plot points I would have forgotten. I no doubt agree the canon across the nearly 20 years of FOX X-films is a head-scratcher and a half to keep track of and who knows maybe their new overlords at Disney will find a way to smoothly integrate them into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. However, I would be lying if there was not a part of me that would like to see Disney keep the X-films in their own separate canon that FOX has established, quirks and all. Time will tell.

Other Random Backlog Movie Blogs 3 12 Angry Men (1957) 12 Rounds 3: Lockdown 21 Jump Street The Accountant Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie Atari: Game Over The Avengers: Age of Ultron The Avengers: Infinity War Batman: The Killing Joke Batman: Mask of the Phantasm Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice Bounty Hunters Cabin in the Woods Captain America: Civil War Captain America: The First Avenger Captain America: The Winter Soldier Christmas Eve Clash of the Titans (1981) Clint Eastwood 11-pack Special The Condemned 2 Countdown Creed Deck the Halls Die Hard Dredd The Eliminators The Equalizer Dirty Work Faster Fast and Furious I-VIII Field of Dreams Fight Club The Fighter For Love of the Game Good Will Hunting Gravity Guardians of the Galaxy Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 Hercules: Reborn Hitman Indiana Jones 1-4 Ink The Interrogation Interstellar Jobs Joy Ride 1-3 Man of Steel Man on the Moon Marine 3-6 Metallica: Some Kind of Monster Mortal Kombat National Treasure National Treasure: Book of Secrets The Replacements Reservoir Dogs Rocky I-VII Running Films Part 1 Running Films Part 2 San Andreas ScoobyDoo Wrestlemania Mystery The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Shoot em Up Skyscraper Small Town Santa Steve Jobs Source Code Star Trek I-XIII Take Me Home Tonight TMNT The Tooth Fairy 1 & 2 UHF Veronica Mars Vision Quest The War Wild Wonder Woman The Wrestler (2008) X-Men: Days of Future Past

#X-men #x-men apocalypse #oscar isaac #jennifer lawrence #james mcavoy #Michael Fassbender #nicholas hoult #lucas till #alexandra shipp #ben hardy #olivia munn #evan peters #tye sheridan #sophie turner #kurt wagner #lana condor #Bryan Singer