My wife and I enjoyed it when we saw it yesterday. It is not a highly intellectual movie, but which of the previous mummy movies was? It was a funny action movie, just the kind of thing you want to see on a summer friday night.
My wife and I enjoyed it when we saw it yesterday. It is not a highly intellectual movie, but which of the previous mummy movies was? It was a funny action movie, just the kind of thing you want to see on a summer friday night.
It had to be better than listening to Pierce Brosnan's brutal attempts at singing in Mama Mia! (which I unfortunately agreed to take my mom to yesterday instead of Mummy 3).
DEEP HURTING!
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DEEP HURTING!
Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaandstooooooooooooooooooooooorm.
Haven't seen it yet. I have absolutely no expectations of subtlety, cohesive storytelling, or gripping character development from this film. My one point of apprehension is that they ditched the Egyptian setting, but hey...undead peasant laborers vs clay soldiers? With biplanes in the mix? Sold.
That attitude worked out well for me with the last two movies. It has misfired for me before though.(Van Helsing made me angrier than it probably should have)
I liked it a lot better then the last one. All the critisims you gave are valad, but I knew that going in, its no worse then some of the wild game advantures one goes though. As such it did its job, a wild ride that lets you forget life for a while. My complaint was more about the edit. and the fact that they just had to try to put in more and more action.
Example, and this isn't much of a spoiler, was the air plain landing, had to be a crash and to have a lot of CGI, but the funny part of it was the brother'n'law character and the cow. That should have been the focused it was good and funny. But they instead focused on CGI.
Nevertheless I actually liked it more then Indy 4.
I'll be seeing it regardless. I enjoy escapism in my movies, and that's all I really expect from Mummy 3. I have the DVDs of the first two, and find myself watching both on occasion. Of the two, I liked the first one better. However, I never get tired of watching Patricia Velasquez fighting Rachel Weisz while dressed in body paint....
The third movie was definitely better than The Crystal Skull, of course that is not saying much.
I was playing a lot of diablo 2 when I saw the second one and the little skeleton guys in the jungle just looked like total rip-offs of diablo 2 (if you have played the game you'll know what I am talking about, undead fetishes). But after watching it again, there is a nice example of "rebuke undead" when the mummy basically forces some to back down in that scene.
This movie was so bad, I needed to talk it out in therapy.
The only good thing to say about the movie is that it looks really cool in the previews.
SPOILERS! SPOILERS!
I mean, look at everything that this movie had going for it:
Jet Li
Michelle Yeoh
Jet Li vs Michelle Yeoh
Yeti
Mummy armies
Skeleton armies
Mummies vs. Skeletons vs. Jet Li vs. airplanes
The previews looked great. The whole premise looked great.
The execution of the movie failed on almost every level.
I didn't like the new wife. It's not that they just changed actresses, it's that they turned her into a pastel-dress-wearing, romance-novel-writing, public-reading, boring person with a BAD overly-done English accent. What a crappy role they gave her.
And in the action scenes, she seemed so... stop-actionish? Is that a word?
I felt no connection between her and Brandon Frasier. Everything seemed fake between them. When they tried to act interested in each other, it fell flat. When they tried to act like they were acting to not be interested in each other, it fell flat. Awfully, awkardly, incredibly flat.
Then there was Jet Li. Kind of. He was hardly there, and when he was, it was like the director didn't know what to do with him. He might have had like 10 lines or something.
And he didn't have nearly the screen presence that Arnold Voslo had, nor did he have the motivation of finding his True Love. Just an unrealistic conquest of China.
[olympic humor]Plus, I think some of the mummies were underage. [/olymic humor]
Michelle Yeoh was great. Until she started speaking in English and used as some sore of plot device instead of a kick-ass sorcereress.
Brandon Frasier's kid looked too old for the part and was otherwise not very interesting. I liked Shia Lebouf in the Crystal Skull much better as Indiana's kid.
The Yeti's seemed cool, but, again, the implementation was bad. The good guys are under fire, yet the young female co-star runs up to a spot in the open and yodels? Or something in Chinese, and here come the Yetis right through the CGI snow storm as if they were just sitting there the whole time.
Their fight scenes were cool, though. They seemed like what yetis would be like. Right up to the point that they kicked one of the bad guys right over a pagoda and signaled a field goal.
Not funny. Not cool. Just another BIG gaffe in what should have been a great moment in the movie.
And then there were the sun glasses. They looked so out of place in the wardrobe. You shouldn't notice things like that in a movie. And if you do, it's just further proof that something, possibly everything, has gone wrong.
I was severly dissappointed like I have never been dissappointed in a sequel before. This is worse than Jar-Jar-Binks bad. This is worse than The Crystal Skull bad.
If you go see this movie... you have been warned.
This movie was so bad, I needed to talk it out in therapy.
Call my secretary and book yourself an appointment. Of course if I actually watched this movie, I may change my previous suggestion to both of us attending group therapy with other Mummy 3 Sufferers.
I would have liked for them to have Arnold Vosloo back in this one. It's kind of strange of them to do a 3rd installment and change the main villain this significantly
This movie was so bad, I needed to talk it out in therapy.
Call my secretary and book yourself an appointment. Of course if I actually watched this movie, I may change my previous suggestion to both of us attending group therapy with other Mummy 3 Sufferers.
I would have liked for them to have Arnold Vosloo back in this one. It's kind of strange of them to do a 3rd installment and change the main villain this significantly.
Actually, it is my belief that the impressions conveyed to the negative about this movie are rather ill-placed, especially compared to Indy 4 . Mummy 3 is set about 20 years or so later than the 2nd and frankly handled the 'sequelitis' elements quite a bit better than Indy 4 did. I enjoyed both movies, although if one looks at any movie too closely they fall apart. At least the goofball stuff was no where nearly as blatantly W T F as it is in Indy 4. (Gunpowder magnetizes to the skull ?? Shya ... if so, then most of that building would be a giant ball of compressed metal around the skull.) Suspension of disbelief was much, much easier for me in Mummy 3 than Indy 4.
Desiring therapy in the aftermath of both Indy 4 and Mummy 3 from a cumulative degredation of irreplacable brain cells, however, is certainly understandable. ^_^