What are the moments in your life that you remember? Which memories have stuck and how come you have forgotten a lot of others? Some say that the reason that some events stick is because there was a strong emotion attached to it. If I think about it, it seems to be valid point if I dig through my own memories. Applying it to movies, it is the reason I can remember a lot about one movie and have no clue what someone is talking about if I didn’t find a movie particularly appealing.

Mortal Kombat is a movie I saw when I was a lot younger and which I remember well. First of all because I used to play a lot of Mortal Kombat with a friend of mine and had a lot of fun playing it. I also strongly remember seeing the movie when it was released, partly because it was one of the first video game movies I saw but also because after seeing it I really liked it and thought the game had translated well to the big screen. Then one of the most well-known movie critics in the Netherlands slammed it and it is that fact I always remembered, because at the time I was quite angry about it. I just felt he was wrong about it. At the beginning of this year I actually met that reviewer (who now also produces movies) and it was the first thing I thought about (although I didn’t talk about it with him). When this movie showed up on the on demand service my cable operator provides I just had to revisit it to see if I was wrong at the time or if I still I thought it was as awesome as I thought back then. Continue reading →