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S1E2 - Mortal Kombat (1995)
Cutscenes: A Video Game Movie & TV Podcast
English - August 20, 2020 10:05 - 48 minutes - 33.8 MBFilm Reviews TV & Film TV Reviews Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In our second episode of Season 1, the team fights their way through Outworld's best in Mortal Kombat.
Hosted by Jacob McCourt (@JacobMcCourt), Katie Lesperance (@lesperak) & Travis Colenutt (@TravisColenutt).
Show Notes:
1:05 The Tutorial (our 60 second plot summary)
2:10 Our familiarity with the Mortal Kombat series
4:10 The opening of the film
9:10 We discuss the movie's set budgets and tie this movie to Reboot and Dinosaur
13:00 Travis makes his case for the "good part" of this movie
19:50 We were very confused about the rules of the tournament and the film cannon
24:50 We toast the Liu Kang vs. Reptile fight
28:40 The end of the movie
30:45 MinMax - the segment where we cover the pros and cons of this film
36:45 Critical Hits (our review of Metacritic user reviews)
41:10 Before we close, we play a game of Real of Fake with the MK Universe!
45:00 Should this movie be cut or seen?
47:15 Show close and our "quote of the show"
Cutscenes is a seasonal podcast at the intersection of video games and TV/movies. Stick around for our seven episode first season airing through the end of September 2020.
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Music (used under Creative Commmons): "Introduction" by Lifeformed | Intro Voiceover by DJ Stormageddon