Yeah, I saw The Mummy 3 today at Cmax and it was actually pretty good until the Mummy showed up... I'm not going to elaborate too far, but here's the gist of why I thought it was terrible. Watching the credits, I noticed there were two scribes, and at this point it became obvious why it was so terribly flawed. We'll call them "Writer 1" and "Writer 2".
So, Writer 1 says, "lets have them walk into a tomb and get ambushed by terrible traps, like realistic-looking bow and arrows and floor traps."
And Writer 2 replies, "lets put in a female ninja in the tomb and have her try to kill our main character, then fall in love with him."
So, Writer 1 says, "lets have some deep character stuff where the mysterious past of our new protagonists is in-part revealed."
And Writer 2 replies, "lets make the Mummy come in and smash his face on purpose like an idiot, and then turn into a dragon because he becomes immortal, and then kidnap the main characters new girlfriend!"
In vain, Writer 1 says, "let us awake an army of terracotta soldiers and have them march menacingly towards our heroes while they shoot them to pieces."
And so Writer 2 replies, "lets wind up every story fourty minutes before the film's conclusion by setting up 20 plot pieces in one scene! Ok, so we have the main character's girlfriend's mother give up her and her daughter's immortality so that they can raise a second army of reclusive skeletons that do very little to help, and then make them do absolutely hilarious slapstick in the midst of a ferocious battle, and then lets make the Emperor turn into a Bear! And then make him take down and airplane, and have him stabbed through the heart twice, and then lets make a BIG EXPLOSION!! That'll be awesome!"
And Writer 1 says, "any other brilliant ideas, you idiot?"
And Writer 2 smiles and says, "NEED MORE SNOWMEN."
'Nuff said, foo'.
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