This not being rated R automatically makes this movie terrible
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shareAgreed, they should've unleashed the gore and fatalities
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From today’s POV, sure.
But this was 1995, a time before Matrix, Deadpool, Logan and other rated-R blockbusters. It wasn’t yet established that rated-R films could draw the big bucks. In 1995, it was understood that big money came to PG-13 films, and an R-rating left money on the table.
Um... most action movies of the time were rated R. Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, Dirty Harry, Death Wish, Robocop, Terminator, etc were all action franchises that were rated R at the time (well, Robocop 3 was PG13). Then you have all the horror franchises running around that were R.
shareYour point is only that rated-R films existed at the time. No one said that rated-R films didn’t exist in 1995.
My post doesn’t say that there weren’t rated-R movies in 1995. My post says that, in 1995, the dominant belief was that the PG-13 rating drew the big bucks while the R-rating hurt box-office gains. The feeling was that any studio that went with an R-rating instead of a PG-13 rating was willingly take a profit loss. Terminator 2 at the time had the record for highest grossing rated R film at 500 mil, and no other came close. Whereas films like Jurassic Park were getting 1 billion.
It wasn’t until Matrix Reloaded that the perception towards rated R films changed. Today, after Deadpool, Logan, & Joker, it’s now clear that Rated-R movies can draw money. But 1995 was different.
A Martial Arts\tough guys action flick along these lines would typically have been Rated-R in this period; studio's were way less resistant to the R-Rating in the 90s (at least until 98 or so) than they have been in the 21st Century. The main difference here is Mortal Kombat had a built-in fan base from the arcades and console releases who were primarily under 17, indeed at the time video games in general (except perhaps PC gaming) were seen as appealing mostly to kids and teens.
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