Blessed are we have to have lived in an age where 'the mummy' franchise is being resurrected; not too unlike its pivotal angry evil mummies that are forever hell bent or rather mirroring purgatory on our dearest beloved blue planet.
Because a mummy is never content being bound in swads of tissue paper, they have to wake up and wreak havoc on poor unsuspecting civilians who'd nothing to do with invoking the well past decayed spiteful villain of the past, past so ancient that it's actually ancient.
It's probably some historian/librarian/curator/art mongering evil doer/archeologist who has mistakenly read from the book (he was most earnestly asked to not read).
Not just that, it has a mummy for a lead actor too. Tom Cruise playing his role as the oft practised action packed munchkin sized saviour of good people of the world.
I have no problem with this franchise, in fact I am one of the most eager 'mummy' movie fans. The first 'mummy' being my absolute favourite and among one of my top movies to watch when randomly playing on television.. but talking of restarting the franchise so soon.. when the ashes of the last disastrously boring chinese mummified remains still linger fresh in our memories.
These are the kind of movies that lose their awe factor if you keep rebooting them all so damn soon. Maybe thirty years from now had this endeavour been unleashed, the nostalgia alone would have sent us leaping for joy.. but really, this quick? Talk of being lazy, this is a sheer apathetic attempt at inattentive movie machinery.
'Let's spin the money churners but we're too lazy to come up with something new or innovative, so we'll wipe off the dust from five different Tom Cruise movies and splice it with a movie not done for a long while and restructure the damn thing'
man oh man. This is a reboot no one asked for.. yet here it is. glaring us in the face.
ugh.. and sigh.
Because a mummy is never content being bound in swads of tissue paper, they have to wake up and wreak havoc on poor unsuspecting civilians who'd nothing to do with invoking the well past decayed spiteful villain of the past, past so ancient that it's actually ancient.
It's probably some historian/librarian/curator/art mongering evil doer/archeologist who has mistakenly read from the book (he was most earnestly asked to not read).
Not just that, it has a mummy for a lead actor too. Tom Cruise playing his role as the oft practised action packed munchkin sized saviour of good people of the world.
I have no problem with this franchise, in fact I am one of the most eager 'mummy' movie fans. The first 'mummy' being my absolute favourite and among one of my top movies to watch when randomly playing on television.. but talking of restarting the franchise so soon.. when the ashes of the last disastrously boring chinese mummified remains still linger fresh in our memories.
These are the kind of movies that lose their awe factor if you keep rebooting them all so damn soon. Maybe thirty years from now had this endeavour been unleashed, the nostalgia alone would have sent us leaping for joy.. but really, this quick? Talk of being lazy, this is a sheer apathetic attempt at inattentive movie machinery.
'Let's spin the money churners but we're too lazy to come up with something new or innovative, so we'll wipe off the dust from five different Tom Cruise movies and splice it with a movie not done for a long while and restructure the damn thing'
man oh man. This is a reboot no one asked for.. yet here it is. glaring us in the face.
ugh.. and sigh.
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