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 jreilly89 wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
They keep trying to restart the Universal Monsters thing. It's not going to happen.

Monster Squad. Van Helsing. Dracula Untold. I, Frankenstein. The Mummy (with Brendan Frasier). All failed.

Huh? You got some iffy's in there, mister. Monster Squad was a great, dumb kids movie. Van Helsing was a fantastic action flick, as was Dracula Untold.

The Mummy movies (the first 2) were great films; how dare you.

That's not what I meant by 'failures'. Each of those was an attempt to start a Universal Monsters-style franchise. Listen to the commentary for Monster Squad--it was made with the express purpose to create a rival franchise to Universal's. Although it is one of my favorite monster movies, it failed to generate traction as a flagship. The Mummy 1 and 2 were very successful, and deserved to be, but for whatever reason they did not translate into a larger shared universe even with The Rock's help.

As for Van Helsing, that movie is a guilty pleasure for me. My favorite character is the ugnaught on the suspended unicycle. I like to contemplate the purpose of his existence.

Dracula: "Ah, yes. All of my minions serve a greater purpose. But there is something missing. You! Hang a unicycle from those wires and pedal around above my laboratory!"

Ugnaught tilts his head as if to ask to what end.

Dracula: "It gives me...joy."

I... kinda like the looks of this.

Also... Cruise seems to get a bad rap for his movie. All I gotta say, he's forever earned a mulligan for every movies he makes since this tidbit:

 Alpharius wrote:
Whatever guy!

Anyway, what's also interesting is that Tom Cruise might actually already be a member of the Undead - he looks way to good to be (x) years old, and hasn't seemed to age in...a long, long time!

The parasite could no longer sustain Dick Clark and chose a new host.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 jreilly89 wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
They keep trying to restart the Universal Monsters thing. It's not going to happen.

Monster Squad. Van Helsing. Dracula Untold. I, Frankenstein. The Mummy (with Brendan Frasier). All failed.

Huh? You got some iffy's in there, mister. Monster Squad was a great, dumb kids movie. Van Helsing was a fantastic action flick, as was Dracula Untold.

The Mummy movies (the first 2) were great films; how dare you.

That's not what I meant by 'failures'. Each of those was an attempt to start a Universal Monsters-style franchise. Listen to the commentary for Monster Squad--it was made with the express purpose to create a rival franchise to Universal's. Although it is one of my favorite monster movies, it failed to generate traction as a flagship. The Mummy 1 and 2 were very successful, and deserved to be, but for whatever reason they did not translate into a larger shared universe even with The Rock's help.

As for Van Helsing, that movie is a guilty pleasure for me. My favorite character is the ugnaught on the suspended unicycle. I like to contemplate the purpose of his existence.

Dracula: "Ah, yes. All of my minions serve a greater purpose. But there is something missing. You! Hang a unicycle from those wires and pedal around above my laboratory!"

Ugnaught tilts his head as if to ask to what end.

Dracula: "It gives me...joy."

Ah yeah, I'd agree with that. It actually made me sad that The Mummy movies were so good and the rest were just kind of, eh.

Looking forward to this because of Sofia Boutella. She was a bright spot in Star Trek Beyond, despite the asinine script she had to deal with.

Geez that looks terrible. And I liked the Mummy movies and the Dracula remake. Van Helsing was pretty crap though- the acting and accent work was *so* bad. Definitely guilty pleasure territory!

Tom Cruise is best when he is not taking himself seriously. Tropic Thunder and Rock of Ages jump to mind.

1. Van Helsing sucked.
2. Kate Beckinsale is hot.
3. This Mummy looks stupid as feth.
4. I enjoyed the first Mummy movie. 2 and 3 were worse than Van Helsing.
5. The chick from the Mummy movies is hot. She was great in the movie Youth

 kronk wrote:
1. Van Helsing sucked.
2. Kate Beckinsale is hot.
3. This Mummy looks stupid as feth.
4. I enjoyed the first Mummy movie. 2 and 3 were worse than Van Helsing.
5. The chick from the Mummy movies is hot. She was great in the movie Youth

Thats no chick! Thats Rachel Weisz!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Weisz#Awards_and_nominations

She was in Constantine, too? That's 3 gakky movies.

Good thing she's hot!

LoL, is it bad that I love every movie that's being bashed in this thread? I think I need to see this Monster Squad and Dracula Untold immediately.
To me it kinda looks like Michael Bay's The Mummy. I'm willing to give it a shot. I really hope there's no reincarnating ancestors again though- the mummy's curse is always the strongest part of these films. Perhaps Cruise's immortality is a spin on that- he can't die until everyone he loves is dead. I could totally get behind a movie with that twist.

 Gitzbitah wrote:
LoL, is it bad that I love every movie that's being bashed in this thread? I think I need to see this Monster Squad and Dracula Untold immediately.
To me it kinda looks like Michael Bay's The Mummy. I'm willing to give it a shot. I really hope there's no reincarnating ancestors again though- the mummy's curse is always the strongest part of these films. Perhaps Cruise's immortality is a spin on that- he can't die until everyone he loves is dead. I could totally get behind a movie with that twist.

Its not your fault, more the fault of Hollywood & friends for making such garbage. You are just a innocent bystander

 kronk wrote:
She was in Constantine, too? That's 3 gakky movies.

Good thing she's hot!

Heresy! Constantine was great.

Yes, her being hot helped too!

So...watched the trailer. Looks awful, painful, and horrible. Will avoid.

I was mildly curious. Then I saw what appears to be a female mummy covered in random symbols that are neither glyphs nor hieroglyphs.

Now I will wait till its in the Wal-Mart $3.97 bin. Unless Suicide Squad is closer to the top and I grab it first.

So they turned the Mummy, a darker Indiana Jones, into a.. summer action blockbuster disaster movie? What the hell?

The last Mummy was a summer blockbuster wasn't it?

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I think New York might beat all of us.

Tokyo has been destroyed in zillion Anime and kaijuu movies

The mummy with Brando Fraser were fun, because it had humor and didn't take itself to seriously,
This Trailer with barely acting Scientology Tom looks uninteresting.

The mummy with Brando Fraser were fun, because it had humor and didn't take itself to seriously,
This Trailer with barely acting Scientology Tom looks uninteresting.

True words.

I liked the Brendan Fraser Mummy movies just fine (all 3 of them), and this one looks to be good, but very different. Less humor and more action seems to be where they are going with it, and that can work okay. I'll wait to see more trailers and stuff for the movie before I decide whether to go see it or not.

The trailer is so much better when they accidentally remove a bunch of the audio from it;





try :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgu7EaRCDBA

...hmm..

..welllll that looks better than before anyway.

Truly, truly awful.

 reds8n wrote:






...hmm..

..welllll that looks better than before anyway.

Loved both trailers - likely love the movie. Looking forward to it.

I loved the previous Mummy movies - I have had a crush on Rachel Weisz for 18 years due to that - but I think this one looks pretty good, too. I'm excited by it and will definitely catch it when it comes out.

What the hell did I just see? Now I wanna go buy the first Mummy movie with Brendan Frazier. You know...the good one. Not this...abomination.

or as one of my film loving chums put it "judging by the trailer, 'When Ethan Hunt Joined Time Team'.", can just imagine the trailer voice over by Sir Baldrick "She wants to take over the world and enslave humanity and, as always on Time Team, we have just three days to defeat the powers of evil" followed by Phil suggesting to wee Tommy C "She's one 'ell of a grumpy thetan Mr Tom, shall us dig trench and 'ope her falls in" before they all start bickering about the geo-phys

I'm.....intrigued.

On the one hand - yuck, Tom Cruise.

On the other....it is a Mummy movie, and other than Dragon Emperor I have enjoyed the others, including the classic Universal and Hammer ones.

Not something I'd arrange a trip to see, but might tag along with others. Definitely one I'd rent download.

Looks like one that falls into the "well, I've got the Unlimited card anyway ..." category.

Music choice for the trailer felt weird to me.

This looks incredibly bad. It does not appear to have any of the humor that made the Frasier Mummy films a hit, no Rachel Weicz either. Instead we have Tom Cruise. Yea...no.