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Memento posted:Was that the one with The Rock as a terrifyingly bad CG scorpion man? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnVPUK-8P0M
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That's the greatest thing I've ever seen
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Apr 14, 2016 02:02
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I had forgotten all about that but I laughed like a loon when I first saw that scene
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Apr 14, 2016 02:05
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Vosloo: poo poo poo poo sorry I missed my cue, can we do another take, Stephen? Sommers: We used all our budget on the Rock's eyebrow, so no.
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Apr 14, 2016 02:08
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 Hoooly poo poo I'd totally forgotten about the priest guy running over.
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Apr 14, 2016 02:10
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Apr 14, 2016 02:14
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I saw The Scorpion King and in it The Rock is a pretty badass warrior in ancient Egypt and I realize that both of those movies take place in the same universe but uhh... does the movie ever explain why or how the hero ended up becoming a giant digital evil scorpion-God creature?
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Apr 14, 2016 03:40
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He gives his soul to Anubis to save himself. When he eventually does die he's made the guardian of the temple or whatever, and I guess gets upgraded.
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Aphrodite posted:He gives his soul to Anubis to save himself. When he eventually does die he's made the guardian of the temple or whatever, and I guess gets upgraded. This sounds like a pretty fuckin' sweet deal all around.
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Apr 14, 2016 05:04
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Mister Adequate posted:This sounds like a pretty fuckin' sweet deal all around. They frame it like it's a raw deal but you get to be an immortal scorpion centaur and what's not to love about that?
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Apr 14, 2016 05:06
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They don't have wifi in the temple
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Apr 14, 2016 05:26
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AnonSpore posted:They don't have wifi in the temple But TripAdvisor said they did! Assholes.
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Apr 14, 2016 05:30
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God Hole posted:I saw The Scorpion King and in it The Rock is a pretty badass warrior in ancient Egypt and I realize that both of those movies take place in the same universe but uhh... does the movie ever explain why or how the hero ended up becoming a giant digital evil scorpion-God creature? They don't explain it in Scorpion King, which I love. The movie ends on a happy note, with everyone gathering around The Rock and going "Finally, a just king that will usher in an era of freedom and enlightenment" with the audience being fully aware that he will become a conquest-bound doofus who will sell his soul to Egyptian Satan at the drop of a helmet.
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Apr 14, 2016 08:26
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It's kind of funny how they just kind of keep making Scorpion King movies. They even ended up with one that was a prequel to the first one. So it was a prequel to a prequel to a sequel.
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Apr 14, 2016 11:45
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The Mummy Returns is great.
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sassassin posted:The Mummy Returns is great. also the "omg there's a huge wave of sand coming right for us but maybe flying will save us" scene was one of the most ridiculous in the original and they replicated it twice i'm fresh off of just watching the original a few days ago and Returns just now so there sorry for contributing rationally irritating movie moments
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sassassin posted:The Mummy Returns is great. Have you tried watching it recently?
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Apr 14, 2016 14:19
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sassassin posted:The Mummy Returns is great. gently caress you
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Apr 14, 2016 14:21
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muscles like this? posted:It's kind of funny how they just kind of keep making Scorpion King movies. They even ended up with one that was a prequel to the first one. So it was a prequel to a prequel to a sequel. It also feels completely appropriate, as Scorpion King is exactly the kind of movie that should get a bunch of cheap DTV movies. It's basically Beastmaster.
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FFT posted:they turned into terrible parents of an 8-10-year-old in like two years I don't know who the gently caress thought audiences would want to see the exciting main characters of the first movie saddled down with a kid. Then in the third one they jumped ahead even more in time and the kid was fully grown up.
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FFT posted:they turned into terrible parents of an 8-10-year-old in like two years I don't know who the gently caress thought audiences would want to see the exciting main characters of the first movie saddled down with a kid. Then in the third one they jumped ahead even more in time and the kid was fully grown up.
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Apr 14, 2016 21:17
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Well Manicured Man posted:Have you tried watching it recently? Look, it had been 20 years since Raiders of the Lost Ark came out and Pirates of the Caribbean wouldn't be out for another few years. We were all thirsty for humorous action adventure romps and had to take what we were given.
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Vulpes posted:But TripAdvisor said they did! Assholes.
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Guy Mann posted:Look, it had been 20 years since Raiders of the Lost Ark came out and Pirates of the Caribbean wouldn't be out for another few years. We were all thirsty for humorous action adventure romps and had to take what we were given. If you wanted a humorous action adventure romp, instead of watching The Mummy Returns you could have just watched The Mummy again.
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Guy Mann posted:Look, it had been 20 years since Raiders of the Lost Ark came out and Pirates of the Caribbean wouldn't be out for another few years. We were all thirsty for humorous action adventure romps and had to take what we were given. You say that, but there is a definite line people drew as to how much utter crap they would put up with in their humorous action adventure romps. It was a line drawn across a throat with a knife. On an island.
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Apr 15, 2016 02:35
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I'm gonna be 100 percent honest and take the flak that comes with it, but I much prefer Cutthroat Island over any of them Pirates of the Caribbean films.
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Well Manicured Man posted:If you wanted a humorous action adventure romp, instead of watching The Mummy Returns you could have just watched The Mummy again. The Mummy Again!?! (2017)
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The drop in quality between The Mummy and The Mummy Returns was crazy. It's not like The Mummy is great cinema or anything but it's solidly made and really, really fun. The sequel just goes "bigger! BIGGER!" and loses everything that made the original so entertaining.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:The drop in quality between The Mummy and The Mummy Returns was crazy. It's not like The Mummy is great cinema or anything but it's solidly made and really, really fun. The sequel just goes "bigger! BIGGER!" and loses everything that made the original so entertaining. Did you... did you not see the giant-rear end scorpion-wrestler-centaur?
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Ugly In The Morning posted:The drop in quality between The Mummy and The Mummy Returns was crazy. It's not like The Mummy is great cinema or anything but it's solidly made and really, really fun. The sequel just goes "bigger! BIGGER!" and loses everything that made the original so entertaining. Which was the one with the zombie pygmies? "You two must sacrifice yourself so that I may live. You will be rewarded in heaven" *runs off screaming*
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Which was the one with the zombie pygmies? thanks for reminding me
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Which was the one with the zombie pygmies? Returns is hilarious and great. The Mummy is also great. I'm glad they didn't make the same film again.
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Oh dear lord now Felicia day is being written as Black Widow. Who thought that was a good idea? Edit: Apparently she has a doppleganger.
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Mister Nobody posted:I'm gonna be 100 percent honest and take the flak that comes with it, but I much prefer Cutthroat Island over any of them Pirates of the Caribbean films. That movie is dope as hell, and the Pirates films only wish they were as cool. Plus the score owned too. So what if Klaus Badelt and Hans Zimmer did the music in those dumb Depp films, Cutthroat Island features a score written by the guy who did the music for Heartbreakers. (coincidentally enough, John Debney also composed the music for The Scorpion King  )
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sassassin posted:Returns is hilarious and great. I like The Mummy movies, but I don't labour any illusions that they are any form of high cinema or actually all that good for that matter in regards to the sequels. But Brendan Fraser is a good actor and more believable as an action hero than, say, Bruce Willis. In fact, Fraser should be in the next Expendables.
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Who What Now posted:I like The Mummy movies, but I don't labour any illusions that they are any form of high cinema or actually all that good for that matter in regards to the sequels. But Brendan Fraser is a good actor and more believable as an action hero than, say, Bruce Willis. In fact, Fraser should be in the next Expendables. If you like it, it's a good movie. The film has succeeded in entertaining you. Any other definition of "good" in cinema is pretentious nonsense.
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Speaking of dumb movies based in Egypt, one of the things that bothered me about the all around terrible found footage horror movie The Pyramid was that in it, the main characters are exploring a newly discovered pyramid that had remained closed for thousands of years, and inside they discover mutant cats that had survived those thousands of years in their closed off ecosystem through cannibalism. Uh are you kidding me. You would run out of cats before even the third generation. Conservation of energy doesn't work like that. Same thing with the 2009 horror film Pandorum (which despite its faults I actually liked). An interstellar space ship is crewed by and shipping the last remnants of humanity to a new habitable planet until a crazy crew member awakens portions of the human cargo from stasis and rules over them like a king for thousands of years. The humans are forced to cannibalize themselves and mutate into terrible creatures over that period within the space ship, but again, a closed of system like that would never be able to sustain itself for so long. Mammals just aren't that efficient.
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Isn't The Mummy Returns the one that has him racing to the pyramid with his son before the sun could strike it, ignoring the fact that a rising sun behind them would mean that the shadows would be moving TOWARD them?
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Mortanis posted:Isn't The Mummy Returns the one that has him racing to the pyramid with his son before the sun could strike it, ignoring the fact that a rising sun behind them would mean that the shadows would be moving TOWARD them? Magic did it
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