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Early 'The Mummy' reviews, "Dark Universe is dead on arrival"

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Chris R

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Kinda glad to see this thing is a stinker.

Only joy the movie will have brought me will be the leaked trailer with 90% of the sound missing.

Might even watch the OG Mummy tonight, that was a fun movie.
 
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morningbus

Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
The Mummy is the latest stinker from Tom Cruise. He doesn't act anymore he's on... Cruise control!

Haha! I just made that up!
 
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VeryGooster

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I'm being presumptuous maybe based on the trailers but I wouldn't have minded if they just went back to the well and made it a Tom Cruise serial adventure vehicle like the '99 movie was instead of what looks kind of joyless. Movie has a solid cast, too.
 
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Xater

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Man I was spot on with my prediction. Of course this turned out to be a turd. Some people get too easily swayed by a big name and a somewhat decent trailer.
 
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LastNac

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That's what happens when you have any creative input from Alex Kurtzman at all, let alone him being In the director chair.

Kurtzman and Orci...just terrible.
 
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Sojgat

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What? This Alex Kurtzman directed first entry in a proposed Universal monsters cinematic universe isn't very good? No fucking way, dude!!
 
GeorgioCostanzaX

GeorgioCostanzaX

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Doesn't surprise me but I think the concept kinda does have potential. I was totally obsessed with the Universal Monster mashups in my youth but it's kind of hard to recapture that self serious cheesy magic with a huge CGI budget.
 
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Blader

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Ridley327 said:
Oh, I know. It's just surprising to me that I would like it less, since Tod Browning's take on the Dracula material left a lot to be desired whenever Lugosi wasn't on screen. The Mummy is shot very well (Freund was a rather accomplished cinematographer, after all), but its atmosphere is oddly inert for the subject matter and it somehow has far less interesting non-monster characters. I guess for me that it comes down to Dracula being elevated by Lugosi as he's so well utilized, while The Mummy wastes Karloff, which is insane considering how much they reuse that one shot of him staring right at the viewer.
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The first 20 minutes or so of the Lugosi Dracula are great. The rest of the movie is a huge bore, but the atmosphere and art direction in that first act + Lugosi's performance are so good.
 
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chrisPjelly

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Well shit. TBF, a single mediocre first outing hasn't stopped other studios from continuing their Cinematic Universe.
 
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Xater

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chrisPjelly said:
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Well shit. TBF, a single mediocre first outing hasn't stopped other studios from continuing their Cinematic Universe.
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But this is their second attempt. They failed so spectacularly with the first one that they would like you to forget about it.
 
Grizzlyjin

Grizzlyjin

Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Bad reviews are gonna sink this movie. Normally, I don't think it would matter. But Wonder Woman just had a great first weekend and really positive word of mouth. That's gonna snatch up the dollars again this weekend. The Mummy's only saving grace is having Cruise Control.
 
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Fancy Clown

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Blader said:
The first 20 minutes or so of the Lugosi Dracula are great. The rest of the movie is a huge bore, but the atmosphere and art direction in that first act + Lugosi's performance are so good.
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I haven't seen it in ages, but that lines up with my memory of it as well
 
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GAMEPROFF

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kevin1025 said:
How dare you say its name. None speak its name.
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I am sorry. Even thinking on this pile of shit makes me angry.
Which idiot thought people want to see Count fucking Dracula flying around in broad daylight and wrecking armies? What where they thinking.
 
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Trace

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Trailer looked like absolute dogshit, so this doesn't surprise me. Is it that hard to find a competent director and writer in Hollywood nowadays?
 
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Spike Spiegel

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After that thread about studios blaming early reviews and Rotten Tomatoes for tanking films, and seeing people here chime in with "I knew it!" hot takes based on the narrative set by the OP's thread title and single negative review, followed by a trickle of both negative reviews and average reviews, I find myself wondering how this thread would have turned out if the OP had begun with a single positive review instead of a single negative one.

The 1999 remake was an average-to-bad film too, people.
 
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Undrey

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Honestly I hope this does well enough to greenlight the next few movies. I'm interested in seeing where this universe leads.
 
andythinkpad

andythinkpad

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Holy shit worst movie Tom Cruise evrr made?

Wait what's the previous worst Tom Cruise movie?

Austin Power in Goldmember? Jack Reacher 2? I got nothing.
 
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Discotheque

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Spike Spiegel said:
After that thread about studios blaming early reviews and Rotten Tomatoes for tanking films, and seeing people here chime in with "I knew it!" hot takes based on the narrative set by the OP's thread title and single negative review, followed by a trickle of both negative reviews and average reviews, I find myself wondering how this thread would have turned out if the OP had begun with a single positive review instead of a single negative one.

The 1999 remake was an average-to-bad film too, people.
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It's confirmation bias at play i think. The 99 movie got similarly middling reviews as this for sure but it was so fun.

This hasn't looked nearly as entertaining tbh. I'm pulling for this whole idea to take off but the directors they have on these are some shit

Where's Neil Marshall and Fede Alvarez among others? They're not expensive and know what they're doing in this genre
 
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GAMEPROFF

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Spike Spiegel said:
The 1999 remake was an average-to-bad film too, people.
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Who cares. It had still soul and wasnt stupid shit constructed around nonsense to make a action movie out of a classic property.

Also, I am very antagonistic since the very second we knew that this is a movie about a navy seal in afgahnistan.
 
Alebrije

Alebrije

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Well , since only want to see it for the special effects , seems the movie will be fine for me.

I mean who really expected a good movie called the Mummy.
 
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Spike Spiegel

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GAMEPROFF said:
Who cares. It had still soul and wasnt stupid shit constructed around nonsense to make a action movie out of a classic property.

Also, I am very antagonistic since the very second we knew that this is a movie about a navy seal in afgahnistan.
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The 1999 movie absolutely was that. It was also absolutely fun, but it was still exactly what you just described.
 
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Ridley327

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Discotheque said:
It's confirmation bias at play i think. The 99 movie got similarly middling reviews as this for sure but it was so fun.

This hasn't looked nearly as entertaining tbh. I'm pulling for this whole idea to take off but the directors they have on these are some shit

Where's Neil Marshall and Fede Alvarez among others? They're not expensive and know what they're doing in this genre
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Neil Marshall is working on the Hellboy reboot and Fede Alvarez is doing an adaptation of The Girl in the Spider's Web.
 
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GAMEPROFF

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SlipperyFishes said:
It's not part of this universe iirc
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Yeah. But it was orignally.

Spike Spiegel said:
The 1999 movie absolutely was that. It was also absolutely fun, but it was still exactly what you just described.
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Nope. It makes more sense then moving a egyptian mummy to irak, just to have the possibility to have a navy seal acting in a action movie.
The Brendan Fraser Remake tapped in the right tropes. This doesnt.
 
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Discotheque

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Ridley327 said:
Neil Marshall is working on the Hellboy reboot and Fede Alvarez is doing an adaptation of The Girl in the Spider's Web.
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Meh to another dragon tattoo movie (with recasts from the stellar cast it had before and no fincher too)

But man I'm pretty pumped about the new Hellboy. Going more in a horror direction is just what that franchise needed for live action tbh. Could be cool.
 
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MANGOD

Banned
Not going to see a film because of someone else's opinion on it? Stay classy now.
The world we live in......
 
M

Markitron

Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
Empire's review made it sound OK, which is what I was expecting. I'll check out the Blu-ray.
 
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Ridley327

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Discotheque said:
Meh to another dragon tattoo movie (with recasts from the stellar cast it had before and no fincher too)

But man I'm pretty pumped about the new Hellboy. Going more in a horror direction is just what that franchise needed for live action tbh. Could be cool.
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Yeah, a new Hellboy that sticks a bit closer to the comics sounds like just what the doctor ordered. I've got nothing but respect for Del Toro with where he took the character, especially since Ron Perlman is an easy top 5 casting choice for a comic book movie, but the property can definitely support more than one interpretation.
 
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Surfinn

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It looked pretty terrible from the very first trailer on, so these scores are in alignment with what they've shown on screen IMO. Just seems like an empty shell of what it's supposed to be.

Hopefully they take future movies in new directions.
 
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Blader

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Spike Spiegel said:
After that thread about studios blaming early reviews and Rotten Tomatoes for tanking films, and seeing people here chime in with "I knew it!" hot takes based on the narrative set by the OP's thread title and single negative review, followed by a trickle of both negative reviews and average reviews, I find myself wondering how this thread would have turned out if the OP had begun with a single positive review instead of a single negative one.

The 1999 remake was an average-to-bad film too, people.
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Frankly, I think the narrative was set when Universal announced a 10-part cinematic universe that would be spearheaded by a Mummy reboot directed by Alex Kurtzman. They're practically inviting the knives to come out! And the trailers weren't that hot, either.

MANGOD said:
Not going to see a film because of someone else's opinion on it? Stay classy now.
The world we live in......
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Huh? Is there something undignified about using reviews as a measure of whether or not to see a movie?
 
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