So I saw the new Mummy movie today.
It was meh. Though I really wasn't expecting a masterpiece in the first place.
I felt that they sort of borrowed a little bit from Last Crusade in this one, but that wasn't really an issue since the series already was in the "Indiana style" to begin with.
One of the problems was that they put a little too much sappy stuff in it. The second problem is the series' continual failure of pulling off their "humorous" bits. I don't know what it is with the Mummy movies, but most of their humor falls flat or comes off as akward.
I suppose the action stuff was alright, but nothing really spectacular. Which was the whole point of the movie. The beginning of the movie was cool since it went into a little back story of the Dragon Emperor. And the last mass battle scene was nice.
It was just all the stuff inbetween that was rather ho-hum.
In other news:
I saw the previews of The Spirit. Doesn't look very interesting.
Saw the previews of Death Race. Looks like another crappy remake. All visual eye candy and nothing deeper than that. Which is pretty hard to do considering Death Race 2000 was considered a B-movie to begin with. I'm having Rollerball flashbacks. (Man, did that remake suck.)
It was meh. Though I really wasn't expecting a masterpiece in the first place.
I felt that they sort of borrowed a little bit from Last Crusade in this one, but that wasn't really an issue since the series already was in the "Indiana style" to begin with.
One of the problems was that they put a little too much sappy stuff in it. The second problem is the series' continual failure of pulling off their "humorous" bits. I don't know what it is with the Mummy movies, but most of their humor falls flat or comes off as akward.
I suppose the action stuff was alright, but nothing really spectacular. Which was the whole point of the movie. The beginning of the movie was cool since it went into a little back story of the Dragon Emperor. And the last mass battle scene was nice.
It was just all the stuff inbetween that was rather ho-hum.
In other news:
I saw the previews of The Spirit. Doesn't look very interesting.
Saw the previews of Death Race. Looks like another crappy remake. All visual eye candy and nothing deeper than that. Which is pretty hard to do considering Death Race 2000 was considered a B-movie to begin with. I'm having Rollerball flashbacks. (Man, did that remake suck.)
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