‘The Mummy’ Returns, Hopefully, for the Last Goddamn Time
Can anyone count how many movies there have been? Maybe I’m just not that smart or I don’t want to revisit the fact they keep churning out these big budget horror-adventure films until the contents of my stomach churn up, flying out of my mouth and get slapped into a film canister and shipped off as the next “Mummy” movie. I call it being pro-active.
Now there’s another one coming this summer to a theater near you called “The Mummy: The Curse of the Emperor’s Tomb of the Dead of the Pharaoh of the Desert of the Sphinx” or whatever the hell it’s called. A new trailer hit the web today and we, of course, have given it a run through patented “Trashed Trailer” treatment. Enjoy.
00:29 – A sarcastic sounding sidekick who probably will get killed 30 minutes into the film tells Brenden Fraser, “Good going, you raised another mummy.” I would have said the same thing. Having to sit through two of these was more than enough of a waste of time.
00:58 – A pilot tells his crew, “I’d tell you to fasten your seat belts, but I was too cheap to buy any.” He must work for Ford.
01″06 – The overpaid deep voice trailer guy says, “Beyond death…beyond imagination…lies an adventure…that will live…for all eternity.” Is it against WGA rules for trailer voiceovers to speak more than three words at a time? It feels like…this sentence is…taking an eternity.

Jillian Said,
October 15, 2008 @ 12:27 pm
I knew this one wouldn’t be as good because they changed the actress who plays his wife. The had absolutly no chemistry together and didn’t the son have an English accent in the 2nd movie? What happened?