The Mummy -- REBOOT (2017, D: Kurtzman) - S: Cruise, Boutella -- Dark Universe
05-08-14, 12:51 PM
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Re: Universal rebooting "The Mummy"
I still fail to understand why that one little moment is the cause of so much venom-spewing hatred by so many people, but it's on YouTube, so you can see for yourself without having to watch the whole movie.
05-08-14, 01:12 PM
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The way that people sometimes zero in on the tiniest things with laser precision never ceases to amaze me. I've recently been making posts in defense of Alien vs. Predator, which I know a whole lot of movie nerds hated. I can understand people not liking the movie if they thought the acting, writing, and directing were poor. Fine. But those aren't the reasons I commonly hear cited for why people hated the movie. The #1 reason? The incubation time for the aliens is shorter than it was in previous Alien movies. It went from hours to minutes. Amazing as it seems, that's apparently a Huge Fucking Deal for a lot of folks.
I don't get it, and I never will.
05-08-14, 01:36 PM
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I hate Mummy Returns
05-08-14, 10:42 PM
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05-08-14, 11:01 PM
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Precisely. And even if it was as bad as people make it out to be, it's two seconds in a 100-minute movie that's filled with a lot of ridiculous shit.
The way that people sometimes zero in on the tiniest things with laser precision never ceases to amaze me. I've recently been making posts in defense of Alien vs. Predator, which I know a whole lot of movie nerds hated. I can understand people not liking the movie if they thought the acting, writing, and directing were poor. Fine. But those aren't the reasons I commonly hear cited for why people hated the movie. The #1 reason? The incubation time for the aliens is shorter than it was in previous Alien movies. It went from hours to minutes. Amazing as it seems, that's apparently a Huge Fucking Deal for a lot of folks.
I don't get it, and I never will.
The way that people sometimes zero in on the tiniest things with laser precision never ceases to amaze me. I've recently been making posts in defense of Alien vs. Predator, which I know a whole lot of movie nerds hated. I can understand people not liking the movie if they thought the acting, writing, and directing were poor. Fine. But those aren't the reasons I commonly hear cited for why people hated the movie. The #1 reason? The incubation time for the aliens is shorter than it was in previous Alien movies. It went from hours to minutes. Amazing as it seems, that's apparently a Huge Fucking Deal for a lot of folks.
I don't get it, and I never will.
I'm one of the few people that doesn't hate AVP Requiem. Why? The violence and make-up/creature effects lock it in for me even if the story sucks. It's that simple. I'm also one of the few Paul WS Anderson fans here, too. He's a great big budget B-movie director.
05-09-14, 09:26 AM
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Re: Universal rebooting "The Mummy"
I enjoyed the first 3 Mummy movies for what they were to me: escapist fun. I see no reason whatsover to redo these. This project can only be a cash grab by the studio(s), unless they turn out some outstanding cinematic entertainment (which I seriously doubt) they can bite me.
05-09-14, 09:35 AM
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I don't know, is rebooting The Mummy really a cash grab when it's based off a character/concept that's been around for decades?
05-09-14, 09:37 AM
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Re: Universal rebooting "The Mummy"
Precisely. And even if it was as bad as people make it out to be, it's two seconds in a 100-minute movie that's filled with a lot of ridiculous shit.
The way that people sometimes zero in on the tiniest things with laser precision never ceases to amaze me. I've recently been making posts in defense of Alien vs. Predator, which I know a whole lot of movie nerds hated. I can understand people not liking the movie if they thought the acting, writing, and directing were poor. Fine. But those aren't the reasons I commonly hear cited for why people hated the movie. The #1 reason? The incubation time for the aliens is shorter than it was in previous Alien movies. It went from hours to minutes. Amazing as it seems, that's apparently a Huge Fucking Deal for a lot of folks.
I don't get it, and I never will.
The way that people sometimes zero in on the tiniest things with laser precision never ceases to amaze me. I've recently been making posts in defense of Alien vs. Predator, which I know a whole lot of movie nerds hated. I can understand people not liking the movie if they thought the acting, writing, and directing were poor. Fine. But those aren't the reasons I commonly hear cited for why people hated the movie. The #1 reason? The incubation time for the aliens is shorter than it was in previous Alien movies. It went from hours to minutes. Amazing as it seems, that's apparently a Huge Fucking Deal for a lot of folks.
I don't get it, and I never will.
I just saw AVP for the first time, and thought it was really solid. Might even be the third best Alien movie.
05-09-14, 12:43 PM
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I think what soured some folks on AVP initially was that it was rated PG-13 then released as R rated for DVD and Blu-ray. AVP: Requiem tries to correct that with an initial R-rating right out of the gate but the story sucked.
05-09-14, 02:15 PM
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As for AVP2, I guess I would have enjoyed the graphic violence more if (A) it had been shot an edited in a competent way, allowing me to actually see some of it, and (B) it hadn't been so gratuitous. It feels like they're overcompensating for the PG-13 of the first movie, and just throwing in horrific violence for the sake of horrific violence to appease the gore-hounds. "Hey look, children being murdered! Pregnant women being murdered! Faces getting melted off! Yay, violence!" Couple that with the fact that the story is worthless, the action scenes aren't even 10% as creative as the ones in AVP, and there isn't a single character who isn't an insufferable jerkoff, and you've got a movie that's far worse than the first one.
The second one did have nice costumes, though. Tom Woodruff and his crew always do a great job in that area. It's just too bad that I could only actually see the costumes in the behind the scenes videos on the Blu-ray and not in the movie itself. The movie is so dark and shot and edited so poorly that it's impossible to even know what the hell you're looking at half the time.
05-09-14, 02:26 PM
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But, yes, a tad silly wih the football gesture but the movie was set up like a living cartoon, for better or for worse.
05-09-14, 08:43 PM
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This is so bad. I am not even going to watch this. Its not related to Universal. Its made by Halcyon International Pictures.
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05-10-14, 12:27 AM
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It's sad that we haven't gotten a really good mummy movie since, jeez... 1959? As much as I enjoy and will defend the Brendan Fraser movies, they're really more like Indiana Jones than traditional mummy films. The only mummy film I've seen in recent years that was even halfway interesting was Tale of the Mummy, which I think I mentioned in this topic a while back. It was directed by Russell Mulcahy (Highlander, Resident Evil: Extinction) and had Christopher Lee in a tiny role. It's your typical late-90s horror film trash, but the fact that the mummy attacked people using his bandages like tentacles made it just a smidge more creative than your regular mummy tale.
It's too bad the filmmakers behind Dracula 2000 didn't keep going with revisionist Frankenstein and Mummy films, because theirs was the first truly creative take on Dracula in decades. Instead of the usual "Dracula is really Vlad the Impaler" crap, here we learn...
Spoiler:
Better than what Francis Ford Coppola gave us, no?
Even the more recent Dracula adaptations have gone back to the tired old "Mina is Dracula's lost love reincarnated" plot device, like the NBC TV series with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. I wonder if the new Mummy reboot will bother serving up this story again, since Dracula movies have been stealing it and rehashing it for the past few decades.
05-10-14, 02:34 AM
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I just hope these newer Mummy movies don't become those older Mummy movie sequels. How many goddamn ways can you creatively name your movie while still telling essentially the same basic story? (Thanks Svengoolie!)
About AVP: How is Lance Henriksen considered the 2nd person to be killed by Alien/Terminator/Predator? I heard a Predator "offed" him in AVP, but Bishop was neither human, nor "dead" at the end of "Aliens".
About AVP: How is Lance Henriksen considered the 2nd person to be killed by Alien/Terminator/Predator? I heard a Predator "offed" him in AVP, but Bishop was neither human, nor "dead" at the end of "Aliens".
05-10-14, 03:47 AM
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About AVP: How is Lance Henriksen considered the 2nd person to be killed by Alien/Terminator/Predator? I heard a Predator "offed" him in AVP, but Bishop was neither human, nor "dead" at the end of "Aliens".
05-10-14, 10:42 AM
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Ha, Bill Paxton was killed by a Terminator, too. I forgot about that.
I forgot about Lance but remember the fanboys going wild at "Hudson" getting dispatched by an Alien and a Predator in their respective movies.
I forgot about Lance but remember the fanboys going wild at "Hudson" getting dispatched by an Alien and a Predator in their respective movies.
05-10-14, 10:50 AM
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It doesn't look great and doesn't look awful. It just looks like every other movie, ever.
It's sad that we haven't gotten a really good mummy movie since, jeez... 1959? As much as I enjoy and will defend the Brendan Fraser movies, they're really more like Indiana Jones than traditional mummy films. The only mummy film I've seen in recent years that was even halfway interesting was Tale of the Mummy, which I think I mentioned in this topic a while back. It was directed by Russell Mulcahy (Highlander, Resident Evil: Extinction) and had Christopher Lee in a tiny role. It's your typical late-90s horror film trash, but the fact that the mummy attacked people using his bandages like tentacles made it just a smidge more creative than your regular mummy tale.
It's too bad the filmmakers behind Dracula 2000 didn't keep going with revisionist Frankenstein and Mummy films, because theirs was the first truly creative take on Dracula in decades. Instead of the usual "Dracula is really Vlad the Impaler" crap, here we learn...
Better than what Francis Ford Coppola gave us, no?
Even the more recent Dracula adaptations have gone back to the tired old "Mina is Dracula's lost love reincarnated" plot device, like the NBC TV series with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. I wonder if the new Mummy reboot will bother serving up this story again, since Dracula movies have been stealing it and rehashing it for the past few decades.
It's sad that we haven't gotten a really good mummy movie since, jeez... 1959? As much as I enjoy and will defend the Brendan Fraser movies, they're really more like Indiana Jones than traditional mummy films. The only mummy film I've seen in recent years that was even halfway interesting was Tale of the Mummy, which I think I mentioned in this topic a while back. It was directed by Russell Mulcahy (Highlander, Resident Evil: Extinction) and had Christopher Lee in a tiny role. It's your typical late-90s horror film trash, but the fact that the mummy attacked people using his bandages like tentacles made it just a smidge more creative than your regular mummy tale.
It's too bad the filmmakers behind Dracula 2000 didn't keep going with revisionist Frankenstein and Mummy films, because theirs was the first truly creative take on Dracula in decades. Instead of the usual "Dracula is really Vlad the Impaler" crap, here we learn...
Spoiler:
Better than what Francis Ford Coppola gave us, no?
Even the more recent Dracula adaptations have gone back to the tired old "Mina is Dracula's lost love reincarnated" plot device, like the NBC TV series with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. I wonder if the new Mummy reboot will bother serving up this story again, since Dracula movies have been stealing it and rehashing it for the past few decades.
05-10-14, 12:19 PM
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http://collider.com/the-mummy-andres-muschietti/
If Universal thinks making a family-friendly action-adventure blockbuster of The Mummy is a good thing. They needs to make this a darker scarier horror movie.
Director Andres Muschietti Departs Universal’s THE MUMMY Reboot over Creative Differences
It’s not a great day for Hollywood remakes. First, the Point Break reboot lost star Gerard Butler due to creative differences and a scheduling conflict. Now, Universal’s reboot of The Mummy has parted ways with director Andres Muschietti over creative conflicts as well. Muschietti joined the monster movie less than a year ago, after his work on the more modestly budgeted film Mama generated buzz to go along with its box office take. It seems that the studio’s original plan was to go for a darker take on the horror icon – something Muschietti was on board for – but has recently decided to go in a more family-friendly direction.
According to The Wrap, Muschietti has departed Universal’s reboot of The Mummy in an amicable split over creative differences. Director Len Wiseman, who exited the picture citing scheduling conflicts just before Muschietti joined, previously spoke about the tone of the new film, saying:
“It’s horror. Its epic. It’s more of a modern day version of what would happen if we came across a mummy in our world today. It is pretty fascinating.”
Screenwriter Jon Spaihts turned in the current version of the script, which was apparently darker and scarier than Universal wanted. Muschietti was on board with that take, but has departed due to the decision to develop more of a “four-quadrant, more family-friendly action-adventure blockbuster.” Perhaps the darker tone didn’t mesh with Universal’s plan to unite their horror icons under one mega monster movie banner. The good news for Muschietti is that he may be able to stay in house at Universal and return to the adaptation of the post-apocalyptic novel, Bird Box. The studio, however, will once again have to find another helmer to take over their monster property.
The Mummy is currently slated for an April 22, 2016 release date.
It’s not a great day for Hollywood remakes. First, the Point Break reboot lost star Gerard Butler due to creative differences and a scheduling conflict. Now, Universal’s reboot of The Mummy has parted ways with director Andres Muschietti over creative conflicts as well. Muschietti joined the monster movie less than a year ago, after his work on the more modestly budgeted film Mama generated buzz to go along with its box office take. It seems that the studio’s original plan was to go for a darker take on the horror icon – something Muschietti was on board for – but has recently decided to go in a more family-friendly direction.
According to The Wrap, Muschietti has departed Universal’s reboot of The Mummy in an amicable split over creative differences. Director Len Wiseman, who exited the picture citing scheduling conflicts just before Muschietti joined, previously spoke about the tone of the new film, saying:
“It’s horror. Its epic. It’s more of a modern day version of what would happen if we came across a mummy in our world today. It is pretty fascinating.”
Screenwriter Jon Spaihts turned in the current version of the script, which was apparently darker and scarier than Universal wanted. Muschietti was on board with that take, but has departed due to the decision to develop more of a “four-quadrant, more family-friendly action-adventure blockbuster.” Perhaps the darker tone didn’t mesh with Universal’s plan to unite their horror icons under one mega monster movie banner. The good news for Muschietti is that he may be able to stay in house at Universal and return to the adaptation of the post-apocalyptic novel, Bird Box. The studio, however, will once again have to find another helmer to take over their monster property.
The Mummy is currently slated for an April 22, 2016 release date.
If Universal thinks making a family-friendly action-adventure blockbuster of The Mummy is a good thing. They needs to make this a darker scarier horror movie.
05-11-14, 12:19 AM
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