Current Events > Nostalgia Returns: watching The Mummy Returns. Spoilers

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Wanted to see if it's just as good as the original. I liked that Rachel Weisz and Brendan Fraser were still together in this movie

Also Holy shit lol the actress for Marta (arrested development) was imhotep's lover. Good times

Forgot that they made Rachel Weisz a lot more overtly sexy in this one rather than librarian sexy like in the first one

It's also a lot dumber the more lore they try to add, but still pretty fun

Do you want the shotgun?
No. I prefer the Thompson.

It's always fun to go back to movies like that and look at the casting choices.

A South African guy playing Imhotep
A Jewish dude playing a nomadic Muslim guy who's a descendant of the Medjay
A Venezuelan woman playing Anck Su Namun
And of course Rachel Weisz being the reincarnation of Nefertiri

Noumas posted...

It's also a lot dumber the more lore they try to add, but still pretty fun

That's the second biggest mistake of this movie. They tried to make each member of the main trio into some kind of destined/chosen one archetype, which really diluted the feeling of the first movie when they were just treasure hunters/archaeologists who set upon an adventure together because of circumstance. Now O'Connell is supposedly a Medjai, Evie is the reincarnation of Nefertiri, and Johnathan just so happens to be in possession of the ONE SPECIFIC ARTIFACT that's needed in order to kill the Scorpion King...and to top off the nonsense, they came up with the contrived scenario where a bunch of dudes fight a bunch of CGI dogmen in some random spot of the desert with no significant dramatical payoff.

Of course, I did say the attempt at fleshing out the lore was the second biggest mistake.

The biggest mistake was positioning the kid as a major character. He was really hard to tolerate.

Honestly it's one of those movies that's a ton of fun to watch, with endearing writing, a cool premise, charming leads, and good action...but a few of the missteps really fuck up the experience.

Yup, that kid was the young John Conner of that movie.

Gobstoppers12 posted...

That's the second biggest mistake of this movie. They tried to make each member of the main trio into some kind of destined/chosen one archetype, which really diluted the feeling of the first movie when they were just treasure hunters/archaeologists who set upon an adventure together because of circumstance. Now O'Connell is supposedly a Medjai, Evie is the reincarnation of Nefertiri, and Johnathan just so happens to be in possession of the ONE SPECIFIC ARTIFACT that's needed in order to kill the Scorpion King...and to top off the nonsense, they came up with the contrived scenario where a bunch of dudes fight a bunch of CGI dogmen in some random spot of the desert with no significant dramatical payoff.

Of course, I did say the attempt at fleshing out the lore was the second biggest mistake.

The biggest mistake was positioning the kid as a major character. He was really hard to tolerate.

Honestly it's one of those movies that's a ton of fun to watch, with endearing writing, a cool premise, charming leads, and good action...but a few of the missteps really fuck up the experience.

I agree with all of this. For me even the kid isn't as bad as them being reincarnations of whomever. Like were was Brendan Fraser's medjay tattoo in the first one?

Vicious_Dios posted...

Yup, that kid was the young John Conner of that movie.

That's pushing it, the kid's acting was okay but it wasn't nearly as good John Connor, that role is pretty iconic/high bar