Plus - Jet Li! And Michelle Yeoh!
It struck me, as I was watching TM3:CotDE that there really wasn't much need to make the Amelia Peabody books into movies. Because they'll only be disappointing, more likely than not, and really the Mummy series pretty much scratches that itch for me. With added monsters.
(Mind you, it does drive me insane that these movies have convinced kids that scarabs are flesh-eating demon monster beetles. When trying to teach Ancient Egypt, the kids are all 'yes, yes, we know about scarabs - they EAT YOU ALIVE!!!!' To which I'm all '...er, no. Not so much. But they do roll big balls of poo around, which is still pretty good value for money.' And they just give you these pitying looks, and insist that scarabs eat you alive. And when you start to jump up and down and rail at the heavens, and point out to them that THEY ARE EGYPTIAN KIDS and that THERE ARE SCARABS OUT THERE IN THE PLAYGROUND RIGHT NOW, and that said scarabs are not, in fact, stripping the flesh from the kindergarteners' bones, but are instead calmly rolling along balls of dung, the kids Will. Not. Believe. You. Because they saw it in the movie.
shakes tiny fist at universe.
said scarabs are not, in fact, stripping the flesh from the kindergarteners' bones,
Sounds like a field trip to me.
From the Scott NYT review linked above:
For all its pious, earnest air, “Seven Pounds” cries out to be remade as an Asian horror movie, so that the deep, creepy grotesqueness of its governing premise might be allowed to flourish, rather than to fester beneath the surface.
Wow.
From the Scott NYT review linked above:
Man, that's almost got as much haughty disdain as your typical NYT book review.
There's been discussion (and, of course, spoilage) of Seven Pounds in the Spoilers thread. The whole premise of the movie sounds utterly, utterly depressing. Also, weird.
Man, that's almost got as much haughty disdain as your typical NYT book review.
See, for me, the review read less like haughty disdain and more like a well articulated WTFingF??!?!?!??!!
There's been discussion (and, of course, spoilage) of Seven Pounds in the Spoilers thread. The whole premise of the movie sounds utterly, utterly depressing. Also, weird.
Okay, now I've gotta go over there to see if my guess about the premise is right.
eta: Not quite, because there's no way I could possibly have guessed at that particular ending, but I did indeed get the cheesy side of the plot.
I'm not sure anyone could GUESS the ending. I mean the general sketches of the ending seem apparent from the commercials I've seen, but the specifics slay me. Absolutely slay me.
