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Sinners Sandwich posted:Fifty Shades Darker trailer "Have dinner with me." "Okay, I will have dinner with you...because I am hungry." That scintillating trailer dialogue...
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LesterGroans posted:I will say, I'm not at all surprised Cruise and Wallis have no chemistry in The Mummy. In the trailers alone it looked like there was nothing there. Both characters were completely under-written in the first place. Their relationship is almost entirely a vague insistence that maybe he's a good guy after all and maybe she sees that in him, but they never establish him as a particularly bad guy in the first place -- or give anyone watching a reason to care that he might have cared about her before he one-night-stand'd her, or establish...anything, really, to make him becoming the vessel for an evil god have any shred of suspense. It plays out like the movie's missing at least 1-2 important character-building scenes with their introduction to each other that should have actually started the movie instead of whatever convoluted Russell Crowe/Egyptian backstory nonsense they used. It's like they wanted to replicate Rick and Evie from the 1999 Mummy but didn't bother with anything that might have made the Fraser/Weisz pair work for a lot of people. He also yells "JENNY!" enough in the movie to almost make me believe someone handed him the Forrest Gump script by mistake.
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Jun 10, 2017 01:59
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:I saw The Mummy this weekend and I didn't hate it? The narrative device was loving terrible but it felt like there was a good movie buried in there. Yeah, they badly needed to excise most of that shared universe setup. Especially having Hyde show up to fight Nick for one scene just felt pointless. Introduce Jekyll in the movie, sure (but take out all that loving voice-over exposition and replace it with scenes that actually build up the characters in the movie), but turning into Hyde now adds nothing to this movie's plot or characters. Maybe leave that for a post-credits stinger or something if you really want to be coy with it.
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Jun 12, 2017 13:30
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Inspector Gesicht posted:What's really desperate about the Dark Universe is that it relies on A-Listers who are in their fifties instead of promoting any new or upcoming talent like Marvel. Sort of like how Beauty and the Beast'17 cast Emma Watson in the lead role because of star power, instead of getting an actress who could loving sing and act. (Not that she's middle aged, just that she's already famous) I wouldn't so much say that THAT'S what's really desperate about the concept, though they are definitely banking almost entirely on Tom Cruise selling this movie/that cinematic universe kick-off. The same can't really be said of Johnny Depp as the Invisible Man; he's certainly rolled out his share of poo poo movies and isn't necessarily a guaranteed box office draw unless it's a Pirates movie.
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Jun 14, 2017 02:27
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Leavemywife posted:I barely realized there was a romance until the end. I'm still not fully convinced there really is one. They tried their hardest (or "not at all") but the romance more or less amounted to, "Tom Cruise is not actually a bad guy and maybe he cares about a girl!"
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