NGL I’m excited for this.

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[+] 42 points 1 year ago (5 children)
  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    On one hand, this is cool. On the other, can Brendan still do any action scenes at this point? I’m guessing there will be a younger cast and they are banking on them taking on the mantle for sequels. Fraser and Weisz will have supporting roles and will primarily be used to draw audiences.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    The action scenes were cool but really it was the setting and humorthat made the mummy for me. So long as he can still act I'm happy

    Beni: Hey, O'Connell! Looks to me like I've got all the horses.

    Rick: Hey, Beni! Looks to me like you're on the wrong side of the river.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    You say this knowing full well that Harrison's still shambling out Indiana Jones flicks. 🤣

    late edit: also, each of them (Weisz & Fraser, not Ford) are genuinely pleasant, unpretentious heart-throbs. 🥹🥰 Hell, I'm willing to bet they both totally hang out w/ Keanu on the reg, by that merit alone.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    It’s not just the action scenes but Fraser was perfectly cast and played the role well as young “swashbuckler” or whatever you want to call that trope. Does he still fit that role? Will they write the role differently?

    Just because Harrison Ford could play “young swashbuckler adventurer” well past the age most of us retire, doesn’t mean anyone else can

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Nice! Just this morning I was thinking, "what are some movies that 90s kids loved, that gen Z might have missed?" The Mummy was one of the first ones I thought of.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I've been burned too many times looking forward to sequels and revisiting franchises to work well. But here's hoping for both their sakes and the spirit of the original that it does well. Such a good movie.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    My first reaction is skeptical, based on how much I liked the first one. Brendan Fraser was perfectly cast in the role, but that role was “young adventurer hero”.

    Twenty-six years later, there’s no way he’s believable at the role that made the original great. Will they write a more mature hero? Will he be able to pull that off. Will they model that off the way Harrison ford characters aged?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago*

    Seconded. It’s like watching Harrison Ford totter and groan through the later Indiana Jones films. I love the franchise, but the guy was tool old for the action. Hollywood hasn’t had an original thought in 20 years, and shoehorning old actors into reprisals of old roles isn’t great. Only one that was halfway decent recently was Top Gun, but even that was not much more than a ripoff of the Star Wars Trench Run.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Just make a new original film please. Im so done with nostalgia bombing

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I don't know which news is better. The overwhelming victories in yesterday's elections or this. God bless America for once

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    The one with Jet Li is one of the worst movies I've ever seen in my life and certainly the worst I paid money for.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    have you seen the most recent war of the worlds?

    you should see it.

    it's great 🤣

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    That fiasco has been out 20 years already and can’t hold a candle to the 1953 original

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    Animation >>>>> Live action

    Money goes to artists only, not to overpaid lofty privileged oafs.

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    [–] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I can't imagine what the plot could possibly be, and frankly I don't have a high expectations for the writing. However I'll watch anything with those two in it so I'm in.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are the mummies in this one

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