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

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morningbus

Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
To be honest, I want these Dark universe movies to succeed enough just so I can see what the fuck their Phantom of the Opera looks like.
 
Maximus.

Maximus.

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Yea well this movie looks like shit. Cruise is generally reiable to star to enjoyable or good movies, so it's disappointing this movie isn't at least enjoyable from the sounds of it. I want a monster universe, but the trailers for The Mummy do not seem to have the right vibe.
 
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brandonh83

Banned
Good.

Tear it to shreds.

Alex Kurtzman directing a modern wink wink nudge nudge Mummy movie starring Tom Cruise is a travesty and pretty much Van Helsing all over again.

Burn it to the fucking ground and get someone who can respect the source material for once but I think that's beyond Universal at this point.
 
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WordAssassin

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morningbus said:
To be honest, I want these Dark universe movies to succeed enough just so I can see what the fuck their Phantom of the Opera looks like.
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Yeah I really want to know what their end goal is for this thing and what the monster designs will look like. We've now got a drastically different Mummy, what will they do to The Creature? Invisible Man? Wolf Man? They just brought in the Phantom and Hunchback, are they gonna use Metaluna Mutant too? That's apparently considered one of the Universal Classic Monsters, and all the monsters teaming up to fight an alien invasion would maybe be a cool angle?

I am wondering why Bride of Frankenstein is gonna be next. Do you not need to establish Frankenstein's monster first? Or does he just already exist in the Dark Universe and they're gonna skip his (admittedly extremely well known) origin?
 
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GAMEPROFF

Banned
WordAssassin said:
I am wondering why Bride of Frankenstein is gonna be next. Do you not need to establish Frankenstein's monster first? Or does he just already exist in the Dark Universe and they're gonna skip his (admittedly extremely well known) origin?
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Just make Frankenstein a neurotic weirdo, who doesnt go well along with women, and so he creates his own bride
 
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WordAssassin

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GAMEPROFF said:
Just make Frankenstein a neurotic weirdo, who doesnt go well along with women, and so he creates his own bride
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Y'know, having never actually seen Bride of Frankenstein, I always just assumed that he made her for the monster. It has only just now occurred to me that he made her for himself, despite knowing that Frankenstein is the name of the scientist, not the monster.

Will wonders never cease?
 
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GAMEPROFF

Banned
WordAssassin said:
Y'know, having never actually seen Bride of Frankenstein, I always just assumed that he made her for the monster. It has only just now occurred to me that he made her for himself, despite knowing that Frankenstein is the name of the scientist, not the monster.

Will wonders never cease?
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He actually created the bride for the monster, but this is the Dark Universe ;)

But to be honest, thats the one movie next to the Phantom of the Opera, I havent seen yet
 
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Zvonimir Boban

Banned
PHOENIXZERO said:
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Perfect.
 
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kevin1025

Banned
WordAssassin said:
Y'know, having never actually seen Bride of Frankenstein, I always just assumed that he made her for the monster. It has only just now occurred to me that he made her for himself, despite knowing that Frankenstein is the name of the scientist, not the monster.

Will wonders never cease?
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The way I remember it (about 20 years back when I was a kid), and I'll spoiler tag it in case they take pieces and put it in the new one:
Frankenstein creates the bride because of his mentor manipulating him into doing so because it will soothe the Monster's terror. But then she rejects him and the Monster decides they both don't deserve to live.
 
DiscoJer

DiscoJer

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GAMEPROFF said:
Just make Frankenstein a neurotic weirdo, who doesnt go well along with women, and so he creates his own bride
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That's close to how the 1985 remake of it worked. In that, Sting (who played the Baron) did create the bride (Jennifer Beals) for the monster (Clancy Brown), but she rejected him and the monster ran off and the Baron grew obsessed with her, acting creepier and creepier.

edit: And just to note, in the original book, it's the monster itself who forces Frankenstein to make a mate for him. In the book, the monster is much, much smarter than in the movies.
 
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Blader

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GAMEPROFF said:
He actually created the bride for the monster, but this is the Dark Universe ;)

But to be honest, thats the one movie next to the Phantom of the Opera, I havent seen yet
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Check it out. It's the best of the classic Universal monster movies. A lot of those flicks are enjoyable in their own way, but Bride is legitimately great and maybe the first good movie sequel in history.
 
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HP_Wuvcraft

Banned
brandonh83 said:
Good.

Tear it to shreds.

Alex Kurtzman directing a modern wink wink nudge nudge Mummy movie starring Tom Cruise is a travesty and pretty much Van Helsing all over again.

Burn it to the fucking ground and get someone who can respect the source material for once but I think that's beyond Universal at this point.
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Universal is the source material.
 
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Fancy Clown

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WordAssassin said:
Y'know, having never actually seen Bride of Frankenstein, I always just assumed that he made her for the monster. It has only just now occurred to me that he made her for himself, despite knowing that Frankenstein is the name of the scientist, not the monster.

Will wonders never cease?
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In the book the monster told Frankenstein to make him a female companion or he'd kill all his friends. He never completes her though.In Junji Ito's dope adaptation he does though (and of course she freaks out when she sees him and rejects him immediately).

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Sgt. Kabukiman

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DiscoJer said:
That's close to how the 1985 remake of it worked. In that, Sting (who played the Baron) did create the bride (Jennifer Beals) for the monster (Clancy Brown), but she rejected him and the monster ran off and the Baron grew obsessed with her, acting creepier and creepier.
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Just did some googling after reading this since I had never heard of The Bride. Worth watching?
I love the book as well as the James Whale films.
 
Inspector Jones

Inspector Jones

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Oh wow! The movie that looks utterly uninspired is getting poor reviews? Who could have predicted this.

I hope all these attempts at starting a cinematic universe all fall flat.
 
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number11

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Surely the box office decides if the franchise is dead rather than the critics. How's that looking?

People seem really angry about the universe idea lol. Isn't Universal monsters the original 'shared universe' in Hollywood?
 
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Sibersk Esto

Banned
Fancy Clown said:
In the book the monster told Frankenstein to make him a female companion or he'd kill all his friends. He never completes her though.In Junji Ito's dope adaptation he does though (and of course she freaks out when she sees him and rejects him immediately).

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This also happens in the Kenneth Branagh Frankenstein film.
 
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SkywardBeam

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brandonh83 said:
Good.

Tear it to shreds.

Alex Kurtzman directing a modern wink wink nudge nudge Mummy movie starring Tom Cruise is a travesty and pretty much Van Helsing all over again.

Burn it to the fucking ground and get someone who can respect the source material for once but I think that's beyond Universal at this point.
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Wait... are there really people who didn't love Van Helsing? oO (I assume we're talking about the same movie here)
 
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kevin1025

Banned
number11 said:
Surely the box office decides if the franchise is dead rather than the critics. How's that looking?

People seem really angry about the universe idea lol. Isn't Universal monsters the original 'shared universe' in Hollywood?
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It was projected to make $40 million opening weekend a while back, now it's ticked down to $35-38 million, and that Wonder Woman will likely beat it.
 
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GAMEPROFF

Banned
Blader said:
Check it out. It's the best of the classic Universal monster movies. A lot of those flicks are enjoyable in their own way, but Bride is legitimately great and maybe the first good movie sequel in history.
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I definitly have to. I have the Universal Monsterbox, but its been a while since I checked out the other movies who are not Dracula and Frankenstein.
 
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- J - D -

Member
That's too bad. On the bright side at least for those wanting a horror fix this weekend, It Comes At Night is also out same weekend and looks to be good.
 
L

LordOfLore

Banned
Current consensus at 28% with 31 rotten reviews:
Lacking the campy fun of the franchise's most recent entries and failing to deliver many monster-movie thrills, The Mummy suggests a speedy unraveling for the Dark Universe.
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