S1E2 - Mortal Kombat (1995)

Cutscenes: A Video Game Movie & TV Podcast

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