The new Mortal Kombat is out, but the 1995 version still has the best film score of all time!

in #film3 years ago

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The following is some of the music from the Luis Bacalov's Academy Award winning score for the film The Postman. It's delightful, no doubt. Sets a reserved and atmospheric tone, almost like the ambient music they play in the background during those little Pixar shorts before the main movie. Very nice, very nice... but come on, I doubt this song has had much staying power and even those who gravitate to this genre probably don't turn this on first. Also, here's the trailer for the American release of the movie so you can see how the score complements the movie's setting.

The next composition is Praga Khan's Techno Syndrome arranged in coordination with George S. Clinton for the 1995 film Mortal Kombat... try not to punch a hole in the wall listening to this or any of the other East-Asian inspired techno jams on the soundtrack. Say what you will about techno being a artistically deficient genre for knuckle-dragging simpletons who lack any sense of refinement. I don't care. Mortal Kombat has a better theme and better overall musical score than The Postman. Not only has MK score withstood the test of time, but it was immediately and obviously better to anyone who wasn't a wannabe pretentious film snob back in 1995. Also, it complements its cinematic material for better, here's the movie trailer to prove it.

(Flex, did you just make another unnecessarily long and over-supported post just to say that Mortal Kombat 1995 was snubbed by the Academy for the Best Original Score Oscar? Go put another dollar in the jar. We talked about this).

Ok fine, I'll put my dollar in the "the post was unnecessarily long" jar. But that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

Mortal Kombat 1995 is legitimately one of the best film scores of all time. I don't care how cheesy the movie itself is. It deserves recognition and praise and I'm tired of pretending otherwise.