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4X4: PAUL WS ANDERSON PT 1: EVENT KOMBAT
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4X4 2: PAUL WS ANDERSON PT. 1: MORTAL KOMBAT & EVENT HORIZON
It's the OTHER Paul Anderson in the spotlight for our third 4X4 this season. This is the guy that's married to, and works with, Milla Jovovich, not the guy who has kids in some kind of common law deal with Maya Rudolph and made a few of the best movies of the last two decades.
We start with two early bangers from WS.
Mortal Kombat (1995) literally makes no sense but - BUT - is ridiculously entertaining nonetheless. It is only Anderson's second film but the first to embrace the crazy genre enthusiasm that would define him. If you haven't seen it in a while, here is a spoiler: it is still unintelligibly plotted and acted but Goro still rules hard as a true marvel of practical effects.
On the heels of Kombat's box office success, Anderson's next film, the Lovecraftian space horror film EVENT HORIZON (1997) was a box office disaster. That its reputation has only grown since as a cult favorite makes it a fascinating turning point in young WS's career as a kind of "what could have been" on his artistic trajectory. What do we think, though? (it's pretty good). Anderson was able to make his unappealing version of David Webb People's legendary Solider script before Event Horizon was released and the box office failure of both films put him in director jail for four years until he went back to the well adapting video games with Resident Evil. More on that in part two.
BONUS: This is also part one of two of Jack's swan song before leaving America. Good times.
DOUBLE BONUS: Ken and Jack watched Event Horizon on VHS. This is not an official VHS episode, however, because no one seems to like those (shhh).
THEME SONG BY: WEIRD A.I.
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