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Looking at it now, though, through the lens of over 25 years' worth of technological advancements and - apparently - improvements in scripting, Mortal Kombat is a complete cheesefest that's difficult to sit through without laughing. It's a simple plot, but it was a simple game, and at the time of its release, it all sort of worked. Three Earthrealm fighters - Liu Kang (Robin Shou), Johnny Cage (Linden Ashby), and Sonya Blade (Bridgette Wilson) - are recruited by god of thunder Rayden (Christopher Lambert) to fight against Shang Tsung (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) and the invading forces of Outworld in an inter-dimensional tournament.
At the time of its release, Basic Instinct was plagued with protests from the LGBTQ+ community who claimed it was "the most blatantly misogynistic film in recent memory," specifically in terms of its portrayal of lesbians, who were written as "psychopaths and man-killers." It's a poor depiction of sexual freedom, but it's an even worse view of the LGBTQ+ community as a whole.Īs for Mortal Kombat, which hit theaters in August 1995, it stuck pretty close to the original game's narrative. A scene involving Nick and his former flame, police psychologist Beth Garner (Jeanne Tripplehorn), borders on - if not totally dives into - rape. Typical sexual proclivities are judged to be abnormal - Joe Eszterhas, the film's writer, clearly had no understanding of what exactly "sadomasochism" was. Its depiction of romantic relationships is problematic at best. From sci-fi to prestige dramas, here are some '90s films that haven't aged well.īut pull back all of the innuendo and steamy Catherine/Nick encounters, and you're left with a film that, in spite of putting itself out there as a boundary pusher, is little more than Showgirls with a better cast ( Showgirls, incidentally, was also directed by Verhoeven). And then there are those that are so bad, either in terms of technology or content, that the best course of action is to simply throw them onto the top of a trash heap and say your goodbyes. Many of the films produced during that decade hold up to this day, but other films are, sadly, so of their time that there's little reason to revisit them, save for a quick dose of nostalgia. It was also a huge decade for indie films, teen rom-coms, and dark thrillers.
Movies like Jurassic Park, Terminator 2, and Toy Story all represented the heights that movies could achieve.īut the '90s weren't all CGI and action. Computer advancements paved the way for cinematic masterpieces that could never have been dreamed of before. It was a period of time that, for many, was both analog and digital, and that sentiment was reflected in filmmaking. Things that we now view as commonplace were just beginning to get their footing in the '90s. The 1990s were marked by a huge shift in technology - the rise of the internet, the innovation of gaming, the birth of Netflix.