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[al-x]

Hello:

Those Mummy movies... Mummy returns etc.


Al...

[The Lorcan Nagle]

Another strange one - TIMECOP. It existed and it was a hit.

Based on a Dark Horse comic, to boot.

[steveuk]

Hello:

Those Mummy movies... Mummy returns etc.


Al...

I wish I could forget 'The Mummy Returns'...

But I still like Sommers' first one.

[Johnny Henning]

Van Helsing is another Sommers movie best forgotten... except that it is so ridiculous, it would be hard to forget it.

Honestly, it could've been a good movie. I mean, it was almost like a live action version of Vampire Hunter D.

[brucegray666]

The first couple of Mummy films were alright. The most recent one though (can't recall the name, it had snow in it though) was horrible though and the less said about the Scorpion King spin offs the better!

[Christian U]

Van Helsing is another Sommers movie best forgotten... except that it is so ridiculous, it would be hard to forget it.

Honestly, it could've been a good movie. I mean, it was almost like a live action version of Vampire Hunter D.

Yeah, I was quite disappointed with that. I liked the first two Mummy movies, and Van Helsing was just so ridiculously bad.

[David Chapman]

Thelma and Louise is not forgotten. It's probably one of the most well-discussed movies ever, at least in terms of MA theses and the like.

It was part of my Introduction to Film Studies class, and is frequently brought up as Brad Pitt's first major movie role. Nobody's forgotten T&L except for Steve... but as this thread is "Movies You Forgot Existed", that's enough.

[garjones]

The second Mummy film though does have the worst CGI put to the public with the Scorpion King at the end. I defend CGI quite a bit here but that is really terrible.

[steveuk]

The second Mummy film though does have the worst CGI put to the public with the Scorpion King at the end. I defend CGI quite a bit here but that is really terrible.

It was a few years too early, they convinced themselves that the technology was ready and it wasn't.

Even today it would be a coin flip whether it would work or not, and that's after Gollum, Davey Jones and a thousand Na'vi.

[Christian U]

The second Mummy film though does have the worst CGI put to the public with the Scorpion King at the end. I defend CGI quite a bit here but that is really terrible.

Yeah, that was horrible, but I didn't mind it.

It was part of my Introduction to Film Studies class, and is frequently brought up as Brad Pitt's first major movie role. Nobody's forgotten T&L except for Steve... but as this thread is "Movies You Forgot Existed", that's enough.

Absolutely, I only objected to him calling it "the forgotten Ridley Scott film".

[Paul F]

The forgotten Ridley Scott film is probably Matchstick Men.

[steveuk]

Or 'White Squall'.

[Steve Sensible]

Absolutely, I only objected to him calling it "the forgotten Ridley Scott film".

I feel as though I should defend myself. I merely meant that in the pantheon of Scott films, it's not necessarily the first one that springs to mind. Or even the fifth.

It's a good movie, it's just not necessarily one I associate with Scott. It belongs more to the stars than to the director, which is actually not that common with a Ridley Scott movie.

[Christian U]

The forgotten Ridley Scott film is probably Matchstick Men.

Yeah, and I quite liked that one.

I feel as though I should defend myself. I merely meant that in the pantheon of Scott films, it's not necessarily the first one that springs to mind. Or even the fifth.

It's a good movie, it's just not necessarily one I associate with Scott. It belongs more to the stars than to the director, which is actually not that common with a Ridley Scott movie.

That's true enough.

[Jim Ohara]

I rewatched them recently and found they were better than I remembered. I wonder if the weight of expectation was just so great that nothing could have lived up to the original.

Also, if you get the chance, watching the Blu-Rays/DVDs with the philosophers' commentary is very entertaining and enlightening, and convinced me that more thought went into their overarching story than I realised.

I think the Matrix sequels were one movie dragged out into 2 movies. There was alot of filler at the end of the second movie and the start of the third (Trinity dying/not dying, Smith being human, Neo stuck in a buffer instead of reloading, all the sex club nonsense, the car chase, the Key master and Jet Li characters, the nonsense at Zion). They wanted to milk too much from the property in a short period of time, and as a result they really hurt the brand. 10 years ago I would have expected The Matrix to be this cult hit with cos players and people playing the game forever, or writing fan fiction and getting tattoos. Instead hardly anyone bothers with it.

[Johnny Henning]

The forgotten Ridley Scott film is probably Matchstick Men.

I'm sure I've forgotten several Ridley Scott films but I can't recall which ones.

[Nicholas Taggart]

Black Rain, Someone To Watch Over Me, that wine movie

[Johnny Henning]

I've definitely forgotten the wine movie.

[Christian U]

There was a wine movie?

[Nicholas Taggart]

Yes