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Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
1997 · Film · 95 min
Part of Mortal Kombat Collection
Directed by John R. Leonetti
A group of heroic warriors has only six days to save the planet in "Mortal Kombat Annihilation." To succeed they must survive the most spectacular series of challenges any human, or god, has ever encountered as they battle an evil warlord bent on taking control of Earth.
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Not the earliest by any means, I joined the Internet (or, "surfed the information superhighway" as it were) in early '96. A few things come to mind:
- Accessing web pages (specifically www.idsoftware.com) using listservs that responded with HTML contents, when I had a free email account with Juno and no WWW yet
- Using various free web providers that were ad-based (I remember Freewwweb), and using various hacks to not see their ads
- Making a couple hundred bucks through AllAdvantage, which would pay to display an ad on your computer while browsing - more hacks
- Playing an online trivia game (Cosmo's Conundrum) with live chat, so many hours spent on it, very strong community there that is still connected via Facebook
- Getting excited about VRML and quickly getting over it
- Building pages in Frontpage/HoTMeTaL/others, then with Flash
- Finding pages primarily through Yahoo (+ web rings), then random search engines (Dogpile, HotBot, Excite, Infoseek), then standardizing on Altavista, then being blown away by Google
- AOL CDs everywhere and also AOL keywords in commercials before .com addresses became commonplace
- Early memes such as the dancing baby, the hampster dance, Mahir's "I kiss you" page, etc
- Listening to RealAudio radio stations online
- Downloading my first movie online - Mortal Kombat Annihilation in all its 32MB glory, in the now-defunct VIV format
- Being there when the DivX format started spreading like wildfire on IRC via movie trailers, the Matrix trailer blew me away
- Early p2p file sharing - first with Hotline (which nobody remembers about these days, it seems), then with Napster (finding someone with a song you're looking for, then checking out their whole library was amazing)
There's much, much more that I'm forgetting. It was a magical time when the Internet felt both huge and small at the same time.
This Wiki seems to have all the details; here's Jax specifically:
https://mortalkombat.fandom.com/wiki/John_Parrish
Also, ChatGPT (sorry, but I was curious) says:
One example is Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, who played Shang Tsung in the 1995 Mortal Kombat movie and its 1997 sequel, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. Tagawa has had a long and varied career in film, television, and stage, appearing in a number of popular movies and TV shows such as The Phantom, Pearl Harbor, and Hawaii Five-O.
Another actor who appeared in the Mortal Kombat movies and has had a successful career is Robin Shou, who played Liu Kang in both films. Shou has appeared in a number of action movies and TV shows over the years, including Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, DOA: Dead or Alive, and NCIS: Los Angeles.
Other actors who appeared in the Mortal Kombat movies and have gone on to have successful careers include Bridgette Wilson (Sonya Blade), Talisa Soto (Kitana), and Linden Ashby (Johnny Cage).