05/09/2017 · 2:35 pm
No reboot of Mortal Kombat has come close to the cultural coup-de-grace of the original series from the 1990s. It doesn’t matter how many new “Fatalities” there are, or how much blood, or how realistic the fighters look. There’s still a crucial ingredient missing.
The techno.
If these words are screaming in your head right now, you know what I’m talking about.
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Tagged as 1990s, 1992, 1994, 1995, Earthworm Jim, Killer Instinct, Lords of Acid, Mansion of Hidden Souls, Mortal Kombat, Nintendo, Paul W.S. Anderson, PlayStation, Praga Khan, Primal Rage, R.C. Pro-Am, rave, Resident Evil, rotoscope, Savannah, Sega, techno, video games
08/21/2016 · 4:58 pm
When analyzing or criticizing animated feature films, it’s important to keep three factors in mind:
- The talent
- The resources
- The date of production and release
Production designer: the late great Michael Gross, who gave you National Lampoon Comics and the Ghostbusters logo (for a movie Ivan Reitman directed that you might have heard of).
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Tagged as 1980s, 1981, Angus McKie, Animal House, animation, Bernie Wrightson, Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, breasts, comix, Cornelius Cole III, DEVO, Donald Fagen, Elmer Bernstein, Eugene Levy, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Frank Frazetta, Harold Ramis, Heavy Metal, Hey Good Lookin', Iron Maiden, John Candy, John Vernon, Journey, metal, Michael Gross, Moebius, movies, National Lampoon, NSFW, Percy Rodriguez, Ralph Bakshi, Richard Corben, Riggs, Rodger Bumpass, rotoscope, Sammy Hagar, Star Wars, Stevie Nicks, The Transformers: The Movie, Watership Down
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