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Early 'The Mummy' reviews, "Dark Universe is dead on arrival"
- Thread starter LordOfLore
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They did, but kept it quiet until release, and even then, it was only a tease in the after-credits scene that no one had known was going to be there. After Iron Man was a super blockbuster they moved ahead with their plans and ramped them up.
BvS might have been crap, but it made bank. Not as much as a Batman/Superman film should have, but it still made bank. Suicide Squad sucked but it made money.
This film doesn't have that guarantee attached to it, nor do any future films from this aspiring franchise. It could easily flop and make no money for them.
LordOfLore
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who is the cyborg of the Cinematic Universe?
Messofanego
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Alex Kurtzman
It actually worked really well for the original reboot of The Mummy, but that had the advantage of being fully committed as a period piece and feeling like a genuine serial story of that era.
I really do wish that Universal took a different approach by making a slate of decently budgeted period pieces that are straightforward horror films that made slight nods to one another, but are otherwise standalone stories. Basically, like what they tried to do with The Wolfman before the production problems cranked the budget up to irreconcilable levels.
Yeah, they should have gone with Goyer instead.
The review said that he was one of the best parts.
Goyer wouldn't be much better but he got some of my favorite movies under his belt.
Bronson
Baron von Loathsome
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Crazy Buttocks
Green is Noise
FaintColt38801
The Terrorist's Law
Blamespace's Shopping Adventure
$30 Italian Meal
All culminating in the team-up movie Space Moors: The True Story of America.
Lionel Mandrake is the universe's Nick Fury figure.
thecouncil
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LordOfLore
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LordOfLore
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(Today, 09:26 AM)
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uh, did you write this review?
No, it's 15:46 here in Sweden.
Also, that's Donna Troy.
digitalrelic
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Actually we can make it the Citizen Kane of gaf-universe. His rise and fall from grace will bookend phase 1.
Spike Spiegel
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The narrative is set.
thecouncil
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Messofanego
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"And from there begins what is basically a two hour film where an increasingly beautiful woman cannot stop pursuing Tom Cruise, and thats just the tip of the iceberg on the ego stroke of its star."
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"The few times we arent dealing with orations about the 'new world of evil', were treated to awful, cringe inducing romantic overtures between Morton and Halsey, and let me tell you, Wallis has romantic chemistry with Cruise that registers somewhere around unfamiliar coworker. This is supposed to be the central emotional hook of the story."
#NotMyMummyCouple
Remember the chemistry between Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz?
*swoon*
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"The few times we arent dealing with orations about the 'new world of evil', were treated to awful, cringe inducing romantic overtures between Morton and Halsey, and let me tell you, Wallis has romantic chemistry with Cruise that registers somewhere around unfamiliar coworker. This is supposed to be the central emotional hook of the story."
#NotMyMummyCouple
Remember the chemistry between Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz?
*swoon*
Internally, of course. But the Iron Man 2 - Avengers slate wasn't publicly announced until shortly (like, a few days) after Iron Man came out and blew up the box office.
Bloodporne
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The trailer alone looked like a massive insult to the original, so yeah...how shocking.
Uh oh.
Not wrong either way. lol
This. Goddamn Kurtzman sucks. His friend Orci too.
LordOfLore
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Teen Titans. The less said about her Wonder Woman connections the better.
Legendary's doing pretty ok with theirs right now.
BewareTheBatsie
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Why announce a film universe when your first movie isn't even out and it could totally bomb? Do they think the appeal of a shared universe will attract people to go see it?
The Horror the horror
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Probably the same way they got Damon for The Great Wall: owed someone a favor.
TheSecondSpitter
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Go ly dow, is the all-time GAF classic thriller.
Somebody even made a movie poster for it.
oh right! i am still eagerly awaiting Kong on blu ray so i can watch but you are right
Now I got an idea: Money Mummy, the rich mummy wrapped in money, reawakening to life in modern day LA!
Hire me Hollywood, my ideas are as bad as yours!
Lower expectations.
the anime man
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Where does Pentagod fit in?
cr0w
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It did, yes, but like you said it benefitted from being a serial pulp piece in the vein of Indiana Jones, and it was incredibly fun. I think this new take on the Mummy herself looks interesting, but I'm just not feeling the modern day setting.
He's one of the greatest screenwriters in Hollywood.
I actually sent an email to him asking about how to improve my screenwriting, he's fantastic and you should feel bad for dismissing him.
The announcement of Marvel Studios was premised on making the slate of films that corresponded to MCU Phase One.
It helps that theirs is only building to a one-on-one Vs movie, and they've kept the quality high. The biggest issue with this Mummy reboot is it looks awfully generic, like it could be any superhero/disaster/action flick released in the last five years.
I feel like the 2014 Godzilla and Kong films stand out as their own thing.