Comments on: X DEFILED http://www.entertainmentgeekly.com/2008/08/05/x-defiled/ Sat, 05 May 2012 18:19:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: cybergosh http://www.entertainmentgeekly.com/2008/08/05/x-defiled/comment-page-1/#comment-3166 cybergosh Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:27:23 +0000 http://www.entertainmentgeekly.com/test/?p=262#comment-3166 <p>fuckin’ catalina wine mixer </p> fuckin’ catalina wine mixer

]]> By: bURNT http://www.entertainmentgeekly.com/2008/08/05/x-defiled/comment-page-1/#comment-3165 bURNT Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:13:23 +0000 http://www.entertainmentgeekly.com/test/?p=262#comment-3165 <p>Great post, Shanty.  Pretty brilliant and entertaining.  And I, too, Stepped up for the Brothers.  Big fan!  We must all get out o Catalina asafp! </p> Great post, Shanty.  Pretty brilliant and entertaining.  And I, too, Stepped up for the Brothers.  Big fan!  We must all get out o Catalina asafp!

]]> By: cybergosh http://www.entertainmentgeekly.com/2008/08/05/x-defiled/comment-page-1/#comment-3164 cybergosh Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:55:56 +0000 http://www.entertainmentgeekly.com/test/?p=262#comment-3164 <p>I can’t get boats and hoes out of my head.  After two times, I need to go back to the fuckin catalina wine mixer.  It’s my third fave of the year and up there with my all-time favorite comedies ever. </p> I can’t get boats and hoes out of my head.  After two times, I need to go back to the fuckin catalina wine mixer.  It’s my third fave of the year and up there with my all-time favorite comedies ever.

]]> By: junky http://www.entertainmentgeekly.com/2008/08/05/x-defiled/comment-page-1/#comment-3163 junky Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:38:59 +0000 http://www.entertainmentgeekly.com/test/?p=262#comment-3163 <p>Can’t speak to the files, but boy did Mummy 3 disappoint.  I agree that Maria Bello was charmless in this film and greatly threw off the mojo.  The original Mummy movies grew on me over time to the point that I think the first one is a really fun and inspired little movie.  Lots of character charm and fun action with exceptional chemistry between the leads.  Was never a big Rachel Weisz fan, but she shows great comic timing in that first film from the moment she’s introduced on screen.  Her scene with Brendan at the prison has an old hollywood snap to it - in fact the whole film is kind of an homage to the best of classic hollywood genre pictures. </p> <p> Didn’t love the second as much, though admittedly seeing the Rock with lobster claws is worth any price of admission.  </p> <p> And Imhotep was always a tragic villain - he just wanted to be reunited with his lover.  That fact always made him more interesting to me than some typical, power-hungry uber-baddie.  </p> <p> Mummy three had nothing going for it.  The chemistry between the leads is ruined, we’re expected to believe they’ve retired in their thirties, and that O’Connell is a bad father who can’t connect with his son --- clearly his son shares his parent’s own passions. </p> <p> Everything just felt forced and tacked on and poorly sold.  Add to this an overly complicated Mummy (technically are they even mummies?) plot in which the O’Connell clan barely have any involvement—they just follow secondary characters around, watch them read from spellbooks, blah blah blah. </p> <p> Zero charm, zero magic or laughs, despite some shaggy friends who provide a moment of eye candy and a few funny lines from the Jonathan character.  (When this annoying second banana is the highlight of the movie you know we’re in trouble...) </p> <p> BTW—A mummy who can shape-shift at will but not during hand-to-hand combat?  WTF?  A love affair between an immortal and a human based on what?  An army of undead from under the great wall of china?  How many more movies must force us to watch digital armies attacking one another while the main characters just sit and stare? </p> <p> Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh are both wasted - each are much better than this movie allows them to be.  That kid should have been recast.  I guess Shia Lebouf wasn’t available. </p> <p> <img src="http://www.entertainmentgeekly.com/images/smileys/rasberry.gif" width="19" height="19" alt="rasberry" style="border:0;" /> </p> Can’t speak to the files, but boy did Mummy 3 disappoint.  I agree that Maria Bello was charmless in this film and greatly threw off the mojo.  The original Mummy movies grew on me over time to the point that I think the first one is a really fun and inspired little movie.  Lots of character charm and fun action with exceptional chemistry between the leads.  Was never a big Rachel Weisz fan, but she shows great comic timing in that first film from the moment she’s introduced on screen.  Her scene with Brendan at the prison has an old hollywood snap to it – in fact the whole film is kind of an homage to the best of classic hollywood genre pictures.

Didn’t love the second as much, though admittedly seeing the Rock with lobster claws is worth any price of admission. 

And Imhotep was always a tragic villain – he just wanted to be reunited with his lover.  That fact always made him more interesting to me than some typical, power-hungry uber-baddie. 

Mummy three had nothing going for it.  The chemistry between the leads is ruined, we’re expected to believe they’ve retired in their thirties, and that O’Connell is a bad father who can’t connect with his son — clearly his son shares his parent’s own passions.

Everything just felt forced and tacked on and poorly sold.  Add to this an overly complicated Mummy (technically are they even mummies?) plot in which the O’Connell clan barely have any involvement—they just follow secondary characters around, watch them read from spellbooks, blah blah blah.

Zero charm, zero magic or laughs, despite some shaggy friends who provide a moment of eye candy and a few funny lines from the Jonathan character.  (When this annoying second banana is the highlight of the movie you know we’re in trouble…)

BTW—A mummy who can shape-shift at will but not during hand-to-hand combat?  WTF?  A love affair between an immortal and a human based on what?  An army of undead from under the great wall of china?  How many more movies must force us to watch digital armies attacking one another while the main characters just sit and stare?

Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh are both wasted – each are much better than this movie allows them to be.  That kid should have been recast.  I guess Shia Lebouf wasn’t available.

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