BREAKING: Obama not born in USA!

[TheZach]

President Elect Obama has admitted he was not born in the United States. This means he can not be president as stated in the constitution:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vws9fTtQgz4

[Noctivagus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKsNeEXz7QU&NR=1

Kneel before General Nocti, son of Jor El...

[Sophist]

And for those of us with dialup who can't watch YouTube?

[Noctivagus]

And for those of us with dialup who can't watch YouTube?

Comfort yourself in the knowledge that I just sat through the misery that is 'The Mummy III'

[Sophist]

Ohs noes... not Mummy III... that was pretty bad...

[Noctivagus]

Ohs noes... not Mummy III... that was pretty bad...

Actually, just bad... nothing pretty about it.

[Sophist]

T-rue.

Come to think of it, Mummy II weren't so hot neither.

[Noctivagus]

Come to think of it, Mummy II weren't so hot neither.

'The Mummy Returns' was well made but with some serious scripting flaws (notably disobeying what I call Poe's Law) and sub-standard Scorpion King monster effects. Unlike 'Mummy III's weak music... 'Mummy II' had a great musical score by Alan Silvestri to help it along.

[SomethingElse]

I loved 'The Mummy' and 'The Mummy II' (although perhaps not quite as much), but III was poor.

[Sophist]

Come to think of it, Mummy II weren't so hot neither.

'The Mummy Returns' was well made but with some serious scripting flaws (notably disobeying what I call Poe's Law) and sub-standard Scorpion King monster effects. Unlike 'Mummy III's weak music... 'Mummy II' had a great musical score by Alan Silvestri to help it along.

When I saw it a long time ago, I originally thought I really liked it. But I purchased the triple set awhile ago and watched #2 again for the first time in ages and I didn't like it much. I think the storyline was good enough, but the script was... crappy. Bad lines, forced jokes, old formula. I was actually impressed: only after having made one movie prior, they'd already made their "movie formula" cliched by the second movie. --Not many film makers can claim that!

[Noctivagus]

I loved 'The Mummy' and 'The Mummy II' (although perhaps not quite as much), but III was poor.

Ditto

I actually think that 'The Mummy III: Tomb of the Dragon Empiror' was not even as good a film as 'Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace' indeed I'm confident that all three Star Wars prequels were much more successfully made/told than the third 'Mummy' movie. It really is that dreary.

...And where did those Yeti suddenly appear from... there was zero set up for them in the film. Its just plain silly to introduce a fantastical element into a story without sufficient (or any) set up. That's just really rotten story-telling.

[SomethingElse]

Definitely agree with that!

I really liked Jonathan in the first two films and found him funny, but in the last film it all felt really forced? He's the token humorous character, so all that came out of his mouth were one liners. Instead of finding him funny and quite loveable as I previously had, I personally was disappointed to just find him quite obnoxious? I think that's the best way I can put it... Whereas before I could 'buy' that he was supposed to be a big source of comedy, in that last film it wasn't as convincing? Harder to 'allow' that that was his role, because it was just too obvious?

Also, I suppose it's quite possible that someone who had an English accent at the age of eight (is that how old their son was supposed to be? If not just exchange 'eight' for the actual age ) could move to America and end up with an American accent, I found it difficult knowing that the son in the first film was a posh little English kid with spunk to this adult American guy... for me even the relationships just weren't the same. And that woman was completely different to the original Evie (okay, it might have been even weirder if she'd tried to mimic the original, but why just change people in the first place? And then trying to explain it away by having her write books about the adventures and I think she claimed that the character isn't exactly like her? Was that trying to explain her being a different person?). It might as well have been a different film altogether. No original Evie, no Imhotep - it's taking the mick, really, isn't it?

[Noctivagus]

...it's taking the mick, really, isn't it?

Yes.

I think the problem with Jonathan in this third film is that he didn't really have any place in the plot... he was just pushed into the story and popped up occasionally for nothing more than rather unfunny lines. In the previous two movies, his place in the line up happened more naturally... in the first film, he was after some form of recognition and riches... in the second he was a dead-beat hanger-oner... also after riches... and in the third, he was a nightclub owner in China for some strange reason, who wasn't really after anything much but leaving his nightclub inexplicably to Mad Dog at the end... eh???

I think it would have been better if they had simply forgotten about all the characters in the previous two films and focused on the grown up son trying to make a name for himself in the shadow of his adventurous father. Let him have his own side-kicks and let the story develop naturally... rather than awkwardly shoe-horning in the other characters for no good reason.

Why was it Rick and Evie, of all people, were asked to take an artifact to China... do they look like the Royal Mail??? And why did the bad guy tip his hat and pull a gun on them after they had already handed over what he wanted??? Really clumsey and stupid.

[Kaylis-Americanis]

What an elegant de-railing of this forum! Hahahaha

[Sophist]

It seems perfectly cogent to me how we got from Obama to The Mummy III.