Mortal Kombat: Annihilation Was the First Fan-Service Blockbuster
very bad movie.
However, bad movies are often revealing. Part of this is down to their inherent artlessness. It’s easy to get swept up in a well-constructed film and to miss the larger designs at work within it. To use a familiar metaphor, filmmaking is like magic. The key to the construction of a good trick is that the audience never sees the wires. In contrast, with bad films, there’s nothing for the audience to do but stare at wires. There’s a bizarre honesty to misfires like
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