Scarpozzi
Lifer
- Jun 13, 2000
- 26,392
- 1,780
- 126
They beat it to death in the second movie. Any movie can only handle so many special effects. If it's too unbelievable, it goes from being scary/exciting to boring.
In other words, you start to comment on how unlikely things are rather than to get into the moment. Mummy 2 was totally like that in my opinion...
How many more Mummy movies can they make/milk out of this?
"Bello admits to having so much fun, in fact, that she's looking forward to three more "Mummy" movies, confessing that she's already signed on for a whole trilogy of sequels. "
http://www.mtv.com/movies/news...es/1583041/story.jhtml
Maybe the frozen neanderthals are next. :laugh:
Mummy 4
"Bello admits to having so much fun, in fact, that she's looking forward to three more "Mummy" movies, confessing that she's already signed on for a whole trilogy of sequels. "
http://www.mtv.com/movies/news...es/1583041/story.jhtml
Maybe the frozen neanderthals are next. :laugh:
Mummy 4
MichaelD
Lifer
- Jan 16, 2001
- 31,528
- 3
- 76
IMO, The Mummy is one of the most entertaining series made. Great special effects, kinda scary, kinda funny...Pirates of the Carribean is right in the same vein, if you think about it.
I will miss Rachel; she's hot like fire. And she and Fraser play off each other very well. I can't believe Jet Li as The Mummy though....that's too weird.
Mummy's dont' do karate...
I will miss Rachel; she's hot like fire. And she and Fraser play off each other very well. I can't believe Jet Li as The Mummy though....that's too weird.
Mummy's dont' do karate...
No Rachel Weisz... No problem. Her character was fun/quirky in the first one, but in the second one, she had a few 'high-profile' movies under her belt, and he showed on camera. While she didn't have a stick up her ass, it just didn't work as well. Maybe you can call it character development...
Please tell me that little prick from Mummy 2 won't be there! Very annoying kid. This one looks like a pretty cool concept.
Please tell me that little prick from Mummy 2 won't be there! Very annoying kid. This one looks like a pretty cool concept.
sdifox
No Lifer
- Sep 30, 2005
- 100,318
- 17,909
- 126
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/e.../25/content_368631.htmOriginally posted by: venkman
There were mummies in China?
MmmSkyscraper
Diamond Member
- Jul 6, 2004
- 9,472
- 1
- 76
Maria Bello was great in A History of Violence, but no Rachel Weisz makes me sad in my pants :brokenheart:
:brokenheart:
alkemyst
No Lifer
- Feb 13, 2001
- 83,769
- 19
- 81
spacejamz
Lifer
- Mar 31, 2003
- 10,969
- 1,676
- 126
saw the screener tonight...if you liked the first two, then you should like this one...action is pretty good but there was one thing they could have done without (actually there were 3 of them) but I wont' spoil it for anyone, but it was exactly what it was supposed to be. Not much jet li as jet li in the movie though...
LOFL
"Makes the first two Mummy films seem like The Godfather I and II. "
"The Mummy series has been dead for a long time, but like the mummies it depicts, it won't stay buried."
"Seeking box office gold with pretty good special effects and third-rate writing and failing spectacularly, that failure is, in fact, the only spectacular thing happening on screen."
Reviews seem to be reflecting my thoughts from the very first moment I saw the trailer. When I first caught the gist of the concept, I thought it could be really cool...but only if it had been done as the Mummy 2 instead of the rinse and repeat job they ended up doing there instead. This movie is just trying to one up the previous two combined, and unnecessarily so.
Making movies is kind of like cooking...the movie makers find out the audience likes a certain dish and instead of trying to take the spirit of what made that dish good and then recreating it with something new, they just increase the portions, or double up on certain ingredients, or add in more flavors...all without thought as to the consequence of such actions...
"Makes the first two Mummy films seem like The Godfather I and II. "
"The Mummy series has been dead for a long time, but like the mummies it depicts, it won't stay buried."
"Seeking box office gold with pretty good special effects and third-rate writing and failing spectacularly, that failure is, in fact, the only spectacular thing happening on screen."
Reviews seem to be reflecting my thoughts from the very first moment I saw the trailer. When I first caught the gist of the concept, I thought it could be really cool...but only if it had been done as the Mummy 2 instead of the rinse and repeat job they ended up doing there instead. This movie is just trying to one up the previous two combined, and unnecessarily so.
Making movies is kind of like cooking...the movie makers find out the audience likes a certain dish and instead of trying to take the spirit of what made that dish good and then recreating it with something new, they just increase the portions, or double up on certain ingredients, or add in more flavors...all without thought as to the consequence of such actions...
Box office receipts put it in a close second to the Dark Knight. Haven't seen it, but it would probably make for some good/brainless fun.
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