Oh, no. Buckle up for some discussion of high art cinema. First, we hit you with a pair of strips about the cinematic masterpiece that is the 1995 film Mortal Kombat. (The title is stylized with a hard K, as it is spelled in the original French.)
This is– of course– the film that rocketed Bridgette Wilson-Sampras and Linden Ashby to the unparalleled megastar status they both rightfully maintain to this day. I believe there was a failed video game adaptation of the film, too. Funny– that should have shown up on our radar at the time since all we were doing was talking about video games. Some things just get obscured. A lot of movies that were adapted into games just couldn’t keep up with the original film (see: Super Mario Bros).
Things take a dark turn after that, veering off into the no-longer-relatable anticipation of seeing a new Star Wars movie. We didn’t know at the time that LucasArts would choose to move from the hilarious-bad of The Phantom Menace on to the nearly-insufferable bad of Attack of the Clones. A bold move with no consequences on their part, really.
