Mummy 3..finally

[RobertScorpio]

First off; we saw it on our new 240hz hidef TV..and...again..it will take time to get use to this. The movements are so life like,that any slight movement of the camera makes it look..well..fake. Hard to put into words.

MUMMY 3 is not as good as the first two, but it was okay. Not as bad as I expected. Had they not gone with the YETI stuff, it could have been better. Yeah, I know, Mummy's coming to life are about as realistic as Yetis..but still, that part of the movie pushed it a bit toward the campy side...

I didn't like the recasting of the mother (cant remember her name). Nothing against the actress, but she just didnt have that exotic look. And Luke Ford (?) was okay as the son...but seemed to boring at times.

I felt that Jet Li was totally wasted here. I expected more interplay between the LI and Fraiser. I am not sure if they didn't get a long, or pride was the issue, but they just didn't seem to be on the same page.

The opening 'narration' of the movie dragged on a bit too much. I know it sets up the story, as the other two movies had narration as well at the start, but it just seemed to drag on and on.

But...having said all that...the movie was still fun to watch. Like RETURN OF THE JEDI it hit all the numbers (for a MUMMY movie anyway) but as with Jedi, some of the actors/actresses seemd to phone in their parts...And the final showdown, with the army of chinese warriors, and the skelatons of the workers who died making the wall, wasn't as big and climatic as i had hoped for.

scale from 1-10? 7...RENT IT..dont buy it!!

Rob scorpio

 

[RoJoHen]

This movie seemed way too short for me. I finished it, and while it wasn't bad, I was left thinking, "That's it?"

 

[RobertScorpio]

This movie seemed way too short for me. I finished it, and while it wasn't bad, I was left thinking, "That's it?"

I totally agree...the climax was too short. I mean, they cut away from the soldiers as they were still disolving into sand..what??? Seemed rushed. I think too much time had passed by between this one and the last one. Could have been a better movie if they had taken the chinese folk lore a little more differently than making it seem like a chinese version of egyptian lore...

Rob

 

[Thrall]

I thought it was just the first one with Asians rather then Middle-Easterners. Jet Li was more of a cameo then a main villain. The son looked older then the dad did. New Evie didn't act anything like the old one. But the Yeti's did rock though.

It was your typical Steven Sommers movie. Stupid, mindless, and cheeseball. Except all of his other films usually have some heart to them. This one didn't.

 

[sojourner]

Rumor I hear was that Racheal Weiz did not want to reprize the part when she found out she would be playing the mother of a full grown adult.

Which leads me to to my question. They had what I thought was going to be writing her out of the script. We get a from the back shot of the character doing a book reading. I thought for sure this was a setup to have her be "on tour" and unable to join the boys in China. Imagine my "wtf?" when they revealed her face and she spent the rest of the movie with nothing to do except sound bad with her fake accent.

The grownup son was a very bland actor. Funny enough, I though Hayden Christenson would have at least looked the part of Brendan Fraser's son. Not sure if it would have improved the acting though.

 

[Skywalker]

Eh, I thought it was okay, but not all that great. The Mummy series progressively worsened from movie to movie. I loved the first one, and thought the second was decent but a little overblown.

No offense to Maria Bello, but I missed Rachel Weisz. Jonathan became even more of a charicature in this one, and Luke Ford's Alex was kind of dull. I'd have preferred they'd kept Alex younger; maybe set the third Mummy five years after Returns, rather than thirteen, so that Alex would be a young teenager instead of an adult who almost could have passed as older than his father.

Oh, and what was up with that ending? "I'm off to Peru. Hopefully there won't be any mummies!" Mummies were later discovered in Peru. Come on. The caption was pretty unnecessary.

If they do another one, hopefully it will be better.

It was your typical Steven Sommers movie. Stupid, mindless, and cheeseball. Except all of his other films usually have some heart to them. This one didn't.

Rob Cohen directed Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, not Sommers.

 

[Brikar99]

Saw it on cable a week or so back... very "meh". I couldn't even really get invested in the action sequences, and the sequel humor was annoying.

 

[Gaith]

No tear-my-eyes-out-Evy-is-a-reincarnated-Egyptian-princess plot means that this was better than Returns. It was pleasant enough, and I appreciated the nods to the first movie, but it could and should have been so much more.

 

[Thrall]

Rob Cohen directed Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, not Sommers.

Well, that explains that part then. Sommers's action scenes are at least somewhat memorable.

 

[Mr Light]

Mummy 3 was alright. Not as good as the first two but moderately entertaining. I really enjoyed the first two.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Michelle Yeoh plays yet another mystical Asian woman.

I want to see her play a mystical Irish woman...strech a little.

Jet Li was in the movie? Oh, yeah...near the end.

Mummy 4: Peril in Peru...this time it's Peru-sonal

 

[RobertScorpio]

Mummy 3 was alright. Not as good as the first two but moderately entertaining. I really enjoyed the first two.

so did I. People love to make fun of them, as they do with National Treasure movies, but I find both movie series fun, and, SHOCK, better than two of the four Indiana Jones movies..(temple and Skull)

Rob

 

[Hermiod]

I watched this on Sky Anytime over the weekend. It just wasn't any fun. The first movie was fun, the second movie was slightly less but still enjoyable.

This was just a series of action sequences punctuated by some fairly pointless exposition. It's a shame, as Maria Bello and Michelle Yeoh are two of my favourite actresses. Oh well.

 

[mostly_nameless]

I want to hear more about the 240hz hi-def tv. Was it a blu-ray dvd? Did different kinds of movement look fake or just the cgi action parts?

As to the movie, I hated every minute of it, even though I loved the first and second ones. No Ardeth, an Evie with no chemistry, and I didn't care for the son. Oh yeah, and a yeti. I was fastforwarding by the time we got to the yeti.

 

[Joy]

I've never thought any of the movies were really all that great. Maybe a bit fun, but that's about it. I mostly just watch 'em for John Hannah.

Joy

 

[Hermiod]

I want to hear more about the 240hz hi-def tv. Was it a blu-ray dvd? Did different kinds of movement look fake or just the cgi action parts?

If you're interested, there's a good discussion of the benefits of 240hz HDTVs in the first episode of HD Nation here.

 

[bdb]

I want to hear more about the 240hz hi-def tv. Was it a blu-ray dvd? Did different kinds of movement look fake or just the cgi action parts?

While I don't have a 240hz tv, I do have a 120hz. I never use the capability on movies. It makes everything look like video.

It is however useful for video games and sports.

 

[RobertScorpio]

I want to hear more about the 240hz hi-def tv. Was it a blu-ray dvd? Did different kinds of movement look fake or just the cgi action parts?

If you're interested, there's a good discussion of the benefits of 240hz HDTVs in the first episode of HD Nation here.

Not sure what they said, but I have one, and I'll tell you what I have experienced; it take some time to get accustomed to it. As I have said elsewhere, the first thing we watched was the start of IRONMAN, inside the hummee. Have you ever watched a show like ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT or HOLLYWOOD INSIDER and they take you to a movie set and they show you a scene being filmed and you think to yourself, huh, it looks so..well..fake.

That is how the scene in the humee. Its like when you watch what your filming through the eye piece on your own video camera. It just doesn't look like a movie...

Last night we watched part of the Patriot game and, wow, it was like you're there. Or better yet, when watching golf last week, along with my 7.1 sound system, its like I'm sitting on my couch RIGHT there on the green...

Its perfect, too perfect perhaps. So when I read elsewhere, and I have, that its no different than 120hz or whatever? I know these people are lieing and haven't seen it. I have...and its crazy real..

Rob

 

[mostly_nameless]

Thanks for the info on the 240hz tv. I've always been partial to plasma, but lcd is catching up. I'm amazed how much they've improved in just the last 2 to 3 years.

 

[Arrqh]

Not sure what they said, but I have one, and I'll tell you what I have experienced; it take some time to get accustomed to it. As I have said elsewhere, the first thing we watched was the start of IRONMAN, inside the hummee. Have you ever watched a show like ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT or HOLLYWOOD INSIDER and they take you to a movie set and they show you a scene being filmed and you think to yourself, huh, it looks so..well..fake.

You're not entirely correct here, but a lot of people get confused by this because of the way the TV's are marketed. 120/240Hz TV's actually have two things happening.

What you are experiencing is NOT a direct result of the TV being 240Hz. What the high refresh rate allows the TV to do is cleaning step between different frame rates... specifically 24fps (movies) and 30fps (TV). This does NOT produce the "fake" like quality you see... it simply reduces blur and gets you a sharper image.

The "fake" quality is due to what's generally referred to as a de-judder or motion filter. What that's doing is taking the extra refresh space inbetween frames and blending between them. Some people like it, some people don't. Personally I can't stand it and I have that option turned off for all inputs on my 120Hz TV. But even if you turn it off you are STILL getting the benefits from the TV being 120/240Hz. Most TV's have this configurable somewhere in the menu and if you don't like it... just turn it off. No reason to get used to a motion effect that you don't like.