The Mummy (2017)

[SamT]

Title: The Mummy

Tagline: Welcome To A New World of Gods And Monsters

Genre: Fantasy, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Horror

Director: Alex Kurtzman

Cast: Tom Cruise, Annabelle Wallis, Sofia Boutella, Jake Johnson, Courtney B. Vance, Russell Crowe, Marwan Kenzari, Neil Maskell, Javier Botet, Andrew Brooke, Selva Rasalingam, Shanina Shaik, Dylan Smith, Hadrian Howard, Rez Kempton, Bella Ava Georgiou, David Burnett, Stephen Thompson, James Arama, Vera Chok, Sean Cameron Michael, Martin Bishop, Simon Atherton, Matthew Wilkas, Sohm Kapila, Erol Ismail, Parker Sawyers, Rhona Croker, Timothy Allsop, Grace Chilton, Hannah Ankrah, Dylan Kussman, Peter Lofsgard, Shane Zaza, Alice Hewkin, Daniel Tuite, Noof Ousellam, Maryam Grace, Sonya Cullingford, Fionn Cox-Davies, Neus Gil Cortes, Emily Thompson-Smith, Stéphane Deheselle, Madeleine Fairminer, Michèle Paleta Rhyner, Michael Haydon, Jason Matthewson, Kelly Burke, Chasty Ballesteros, Emma Louise Saunders, Ayman Khechini

Release: 2017-06-06

Runtime: 110

Plot: Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.

 

[SamT]

 

[Alf S]

I'm leaning toward taking a pass on this one (theater or rental).

 

[SamT]

Lets wait and see the trailer first. This is just a teaser for the trailer!

 

[Alf S]

I still don't think a trailer will sway me on this one.

 

[Malcolm R]

The trailer during Sunday night's football game was awful. There was nothing about it that seemed related to The Mummy in any way. If that wasn't the title of the film, I'd think it was the latest generic possession/demonic flick with a crossover from Ethan Hunt.

 

[NeatStuff]

I still don't think a trailer will sway me on this one.

Tom Cruise just won't cut it with this one,looks terrible

 

[Brandon Conway]

I thought it looked fine. The Mummy story isn't exactly complex - Mummy is reawakened and causes supernatural conflicts.

I, for one, like the idea of getting a populist, studio system version of the classic monsters again, something not really done as a whole since the 1930-40s. Those films were essentially mainstream general audience entertainments where kids primarily enjoyed the monster related spectacle and adults primarily enjoyed the tragic characters.

There have been plenty of R-rated, more hardcore horror versions of these characters in recent decades (the Brendan Frasier action-adventure comedy Mummy films aside). Time to give the mainstream studio series populist versions of these characters another go, I say. As such, I expect action-adventure with the appropriate supernatural moodiness, a dash of mystery, and hopefully monster spectacle combined with tragic characterizations. That's the mainstream studio film formula of our day, just as the classic 30s films gothic horror style and monster effects driven spectacle was for its day.

 

[SamT]

 

[Race Bannon]

I've got a "not as fired up as a was" feeling about this. I'm not sure the Mummy is a hyper action franchise. We'll see.

 

[dpippel]

Didn't do a damned thing for me. I hope the film is much better than this boring trailer.

 

[Bryan^H]

I'm really picky when it comes to horror movies. Rampant CGI is the one thing that takes me out of a movie(especially horror) quickly. I just don't want to see this now.
Hopefully the rumor of a Tarantino Dracula movie from a few years ago was accurate, and happens. I would love to see a well crafted Dracula film-with proper pacing, and practical effects.

 

[Brandon Conway]

I'm really picky when it comes to horror movies. Rampant CGI is the one thing that takes me out of a movie(especially horror) quickly. I just don't want to see this now.

This series was never going to be a horror series in the modern sense.

 

[Brandon Conway]

 

[Jeff Cooper]

You've seen him hang off the outside of a plane in flight.

Now watch him hang off the INSIDE of a plane in flight!

 

[Johnny Angell]

Looking forward to this. I hope it's good.

 

[Tony Bensley]

I actually liked the 1st Trailer, although I do understand the rampant CGI criticism.

Back in the 1930s, it probably would have been badly done rear projection. Every era has its own set of potential bugaboos, regarding special effects!

CHEERS!

 

[Jonathan Perregaux]

Well, he doesn't really look very much like Brendan Frasier... Oh, I get it, we're rebooting now. Re-re-booting.

 

[Brandon Conway]

I actually liked the 1st Trailer, although I do understand the rampant CGI criticism.

Back in the 1930s, it probably would have been badly done rear projection. Every era has its own set of potential bugaboos, regarding special effects!

CHEERS!

Yep.

And if one watches the Insider video there are quite a few practical effects, from the makeup and sets, to the actors being in a real vomet comet to get the plane crash tumbling shots.

 

[TravisR]

Not like you can make a summer movie without $100 million of CG today but I do long for the days of when the Mummy just slowly shambled around with a bad leg and strangled people.