Fixing The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 มิ.ย. 2018
- The Mummy 3 was terrible. This video essay / review explores an alternate universe where it was actually good, and speculates what could have been.
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At the end of the movie, Ardeth Bay says " We will take the sword far away, somewhere the Nazis would never think to look. Argentina, perhaps..."
Or even better; the British general says: “well take that sword off your hands.” “Where are you taking it?” “Do not worry, it is in the hands of top men.” “Who?” “Top. Men.”
Suddenly it cuts to a man pushing a box in a warehouse. Surprise! It’s apart of the Indiana Jones CU! Take that! Fuck you! I’m out!
LOLOL
Evira! Evita!
@@harveygriffiths9383 Or how about some armoury, and as we see the curator walk past each weapon their is a name tag and its all the mythical weapony from around the world.
@@Thought_Processing_ We see the curator from behind, holding the sword with one hand, his other held in front of him. When he finally places the blade in its place, we see that he is holding a bright red baby with one extremely large hand.
"Well, my boy, perhaps some day you may wield this. We shall see."
Yes, it's part of the Hellboy CU!
I'm sure I'm not the first to mention this, but here goes. If we are dead set on having the third film take place in China, then the bad guys should be obvious. The Japanese. After all the Japanese Empire committed a lot of atrocities, and they had a good military uniform as well. The Imperial Japanese Army should have been the big bad guys in TOTDE, since they are looking for a way to end the war in China, kick the British, French, and Americans out of the Pacific, and secure their position against the Soviet Union. An unstoppable Terracotta army, that doesn't need sleep, food, or water would sound pretty awesome to me if I was Emperor Hirohito or Hideki Tojo. We shouldn't need a Sure Fine, Chinese warlord substitute for Nazis when the Japanese exist, and they are just as bloodthirsty as their European counterparts. Forget not knowing set up and pay off, apparently the writers slept through history class as well. Otherwise, I do love the alternative movie you set up.
But like jet li, and fighting,and like china.
You would have alientated the island nation of japan, and that would mean less dolla dolla and Joshua need to keep is cocaine addiction rolling to support the sex cult that runs hollywood.
If they blow the Yasukuni shrine to grit and dust and dump the whole site into the sea I shall buy five of the DVD.
Well, the whole "rogue army" thing kind of has precedent. In the years following the Japan's withdrawal from China, there were warlords in certain parts of China that had to be dealt with as the PLA tried to unite the country. This is essentially the plot of "The Taking of Tiger Mountain" (a lovely piece of Chinese Communist propaganda that is also way too fun of an action flick).
I think a good compromise would've been a Mongolian mummy, kind of like Tamerlane. He was a Turk-mongolian warlord who conquered the Middle East and his tomb was famous for a certain inscription: "Whoever opens my tomb shall unleash an invader more terrible than I." Mere hours after the soviets opened it, the Nazis invaded.
So while they aren't Chinese or Egyptian, a Mongolian warlord might be a good compromise between the two, with an East Asian aesthetic and access to mystical mummy stuff in Egypt.
Edit: I watched the rest of the video and I think that it would also fit in with the main character's espionage activities during ww2. With the nazis trying to recruit a mummy army against the Soviet Union.
"If it smells like a duck, looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it's probably Hitler." is my new favourite quote.
Try this one. "The winner at the Westchester Kennel Club is still a dog"
Lol
If it looks like a goose, quacks like a goose and steps like a goose....
@@benlowe1701 its probably Mussolini
Someone did NOT remember the meaning of convergent evolution. Said Halim Pasha for instance, can seem uncannily like Hitler yet he can't be influenced by Hitler due to being active during World War I.
I kind of felt sorry for Imhotep. Going through all that bullshit for that chick and then she leaves him to die in the second movie... In the third and final chapter he really could redeem himself by helping the Connels.
It took him millennia for him to internalize the eternal philosophy of "bros before hos."
Imhotep is beyond redemption.
@@banzaiperson don't say that about my prince!
@@banzaiperson Hey when she left him in Mummy Returns that should have been a wakeup call
It would have felt like a trilogy than a sequel
i hope for a Mummy 4 WITH THE ORIGINAL CAST
My favorite part of this type of fan recreations is that you don't try and actually write a script. You really just get down to what a better movie needs to evoke or feature. Letting your and our imagination fill in the gaps.
Thank you for repairing a terrible wound inflicted upon my childhood.
ToTDE is a brilliant subversion of expectations, bro. You're just a sexist, racist, man child offended by the diverse cast of a movie that's *literally* about undead ancients
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Please tell your joking
cmon the movie wouldn't be that bad if it has different actors, title, and characters, just called the "attack/rise of the emperor dragon", with better CGI effects and very serious scenes, and that movie would be nice ta watch
You forgot about Evi being the reincarnation of Seti's daughter. That was been awesome to include a standoff between her and Seti recognizes her.
The fact that the little Alex from the second movie is a more interesting and charismatic character than the adult Alex we had in the third movie is a testament to the many many major issues of the movie
Honestly, fascist Italians might’ve worked better than Nazis. Could’ve tied in Ancient Rome with the Mummy story.
True. As good as this scenario is, having Nazis prowling through Egypt, just like in Indiana Jones, would have gotten this nixed by the movers and shakers as obvious plagiarism. There was plenty of fighting between the Italians and British in North Africa before the Germans became involved. But like it or not, setting it in China was probably smart move and ultimately the Asian sales might have made it far more of a success than another "Egyptian Mummy seequel considering the first Egyptian Mummy sequel as a bit lackluster.
Well, the Etruscans did mummified their dead so it could kinda work... not Romans but...
Well there's an obvious twist: don't have them fight GERMAN Nazis, have them fight BRITISH Nazis, have them deal with a rogue 5th column operating behind the lines and the O'Connells are framed as axis spies even though they're the only ones who know the truth to stop this ancient evil.
When the film ends a British 'M' type intelligence officer decides to cover up the whole incident "last thing we need is panic spreading amongst the troops". Okay there will be SOME German archaeologists, but the main antagonists will be 5th columnists.
There were Romans mummified in Egypt.
Look, Mummy Cleopatra rising up to case Mummy Caesar from Egypt would be pretty cool.
Has anyone, anywhere, ever taken fascist Italy seriously? It’d have worked if you wanted the Italians to surrender to Rick at the start of the first gunfight, but that kind of kills the pace of the film.
I really enjoyed your version a 3rd Mummy movie. I actually gasped when Anck Su Namum can out. lol
I would argue there could be a good Incan themed mummy movie. Mummies in their culture could still own land and were treated as if they were living. Including having full dinners with other mummies. There would be a 'speaker' for a mummy that essentially ran things for them.
Could be an Incan Mummy resurrects and starts raising the dead Incans of the past to rebuild and reclaim his title of Sapa Inca. But instead of killing the mummy, they have to find a descendant of the Mummy's last speaker to communicate with him in Ancient Quechua. And it ends with a climatic stand off between Peruvian Forces and the Mummy's undead army with the heroes trying to stop both sides. With the moral being "Colonialism was bad. But we cannot remake the past. But we can make a better future tomorrow."
Coming from a South American country were we've gone the way of glorifying this ancient civilizations hinting that they practically had spaceships and are indoctrinated to hate Spain when our countries wouldn't even exist like they so were it not for the Conquista I so so so love the moral
@The Martial Lord of Loyalty There were dismal abuses no one can condone. Yet there was also an effort to enact royal laws to protect the natives, there was never a concerted effort to commit genocide against these peoples. Spain even went to war with other Spaniards from Perú that didn't want to let go of the abusive colonial system that was first enacted and that benefited them and which the Crown wanted to change (look for Guerra de los encomenderos if you're interested) and you hardly hear about that.
Also as any genetic test or a look at modern Peruvians can tell you, there was a lot mixing, much more so than killing.
@@Bicicletasaladas shit I thought the “Incans had space ships and aliens built Machu Picchu” was a US thing
I loove that movie bit not as a sequel to the mummy
Hell yeah, the bad guys could be Nazis who escaped to South America after the war, and want to raise the mummies to lead a war against America, and restore the Reich by turning Mexico City into Welthauptstadt Tenochtitlan or something.
For the scene when you talk about with the young Egyptian lady. I think it’s perfectly OK for Evelyn to chew her out but also have her feel a bit sympathetic towards her, because she went through a similar experience when she was young.
Can we kickstart this so you can film it?
Also Peruvian mummies could of worked better.
I would gladly put up the first hundo.... LOL!
Yea, but there’s not a massive Peruvian population to sell that movie to.
@@ZSC001 we beg to differ
Rodrigo Valencia the whole reason so many action movies are taking place in China is to make money off the massive Chinese market, sorry but Peru doesn’t compare, and honestly and unfortunately, most people across the world probably can’t find Peru on a map.
Well actors are bit older by now...
This sounds like a genuinely good alternative of the movie. The only thing I would point out is that Alex would likely be the one serving in the British army because well, there is a war on and there's no way a young able body man in his prime would be on the sidelines unless he was serving on the home front. I would perhaps instead of him being an oxford student, make him an intelligence analyst at Bletchley Park where decoded Nazi transmissions provide a clue to their plan and so that's how he gets involved.
I hate Tomb of The Dragon Emperor so much. Especially since the 1999 film is my favorite movie of all time. And I love the fact that there is someone else is also a huge fan that they too would come up with a way to fix it.
Damn, they should’ve hired you for the movie, this is AMAZING!
Dr. Von Murderall is the apex villain. cant wait to see him again in the sequel where he tries to resurrect Incan Mummies in South America.
He’s finally defeated when it’s revealed the Incan mummies were really just disguised Mossad agents laying in wait who promptly surprise the good Doctor and bundle him up in a conveniently-placed sarcophagus for the long journey across the Atlantic to stand trial.
This is a great video. 3rd movie was so bad, you bring some nice ideas. New reboot with Tom Cruise missed the mark too. Stephen Sommers needs to make a comeback.
The recent one made the third one look great in my opinion. At least it wasn't trying to create a shared universe nobody asked for. That being said the third one was a mess.
Fact fiend did a video on how Tom cruise basically commandeered the production to make himself look good.
I always thought this was a great spiritual successor to Indiana Jones. Watching your concept for a third act highlights that even more.
Modern versions of pulp stories shouldn't be a dozen failed attempts with Rocketeer, The Phantom, The Shadow and glimmers of brilliance with The Mummy and the first three Indiana Jones films.
I fucking love your version of the movie, it's the exact same thing I thought when watching The Mummy Returns "Why can't we have a movie where Imhotep is like... an ally?" Much like Barbossa turns in the POTC franchise
As he’s fading away to sand, you have to have Imothetop say “Death... is only the beginning...”
It sounds like you put more thought into this movie than the people who actually made it.
That's the problem with doing anything by committee -- people are dumb enough on their own, but they're infinitely more stupid in groups.
1: don't knock scotch and Vicodin. 2: you sold me on this. When do we start filming? I'll front you 50 bucks.
I'm pretty good with a rifle. I can come and be one of the British soldiers.
I'd go a step further, and fully embrace the rule of the trilogy a la Scream 3- what you thought you knew in the first 2 films was a lie...
Have it be revealed that Seti was always the bad guy, but that the legends of the Medjai were simplified over the generations due to the fact that Imhotep was also a villain- and whose return they were guarding against.
Anck Su Namun can be revealed to be just trying to get out of a forced marriage to a despot, and Imhotep to be a man driven to dark magics to try and help her. Dark magics originally researched so that Seti could become the living embodiment of Set- and kept secret from his daughter, Nefertiri, and the Medjai.
Link back to reference the mix up the Bainbridge Scholars had in the first film, by having the initial partial resurrection of Seti by one of their expeditions- which Alex is accompanying as part of his Oxford education. He realises they are making a mistake, as this tomb has similar inscriptions about a Mummy's wrath- but appears to be set up to actively encourage the resurrection of the occupier once enough time has passed for the magics invoked to take hold. But being a junior member of staff, they don't listen to him as they think the tales he and his parents told are simply fiction. Oops, one angry Pharaoh is now loose...
The race against time element can be trying to stop Seti from obtaining the last of the magic he was trying to locate in life with his wars against his neighbours- which was interrupted by his murder. Yep, Nazi archaeology expeditions can be co-opted if required at this stage, though mind control and the plagues worked in the first movie. This time though they are in the hands of a general, not a priest, so could be even more formidable.
As part of the subsequent chasing down of Seti, the heroes have to also bring back Anck Su Namun as part of the deal to get Imhotep to join them. They initially want him to use equal powers against Seti, but Imhotep can't access them because he has been returned to the earthly plane in mortal form.
This could lead to a lot of interesting interplay between the heroes and anti-heroes, some of whom have literally killed each other in the past- and Imhotep loving, but not forgiving, Anck for her trying to abandon him in the last movie.
The tale can then end with a form of redemption for Imhotep at the end, as it's revealed that the Magi were originally assigned to guard against the return of Imhotep because it was prophesised that whoever killed Seti in life, would be able to do so again in death. But, once they reach the final conflict (after much shenanigans and set pieces) it doesn't work!
Imhotep stabs Seti with the blade that killed him before, and Seti just laughs in his face and cuts him down. At which point Anck Su Namun leaps on him and stabs him to death, revealing that only the pair of them can fulfil the prophecy.
With Seti defeated, Evie stops the army of the dead with the book and returns them to their graves- and also calls for Anubis to judge Imhotep and Anck Su Namun. For defeating Set's plan to enter the mortal realm, Ra grants them a new life with the scales rebalanced.
Ardeth questions what the Medjai will do, now that their whole purpose in the world has turned out to be a lie. Imhotep simply remarks that they should go back to hunting dark creatures, as was their original purpose before Seti took them on as his personal guard.
That should also sort out redoing the Mummy remake in a better manner, and a better lead in to a Dark Universe whilst we're at it.
People tend to not like the whole forget everything you know trope.
@@fightingmedialounge519 to be fair though it was thousands of years ago so I think you could get away with it
I wish they would at least make a video game with this story line and get Brendan, Rachel, and the rest of the cast to mocap it....
Also.... HOW THE FUCK DO YOU ONLY HAVE 800 SUBS?!
I Don't know about.
Imohtep as a "designated evil team-mate?"
I dig it.
SOMEONE PRESENTS THIS MASTERPIECE TO MR SUMMERS NOW PLEASE.
I still daydream about this movie while watching your video ;-;
11:50 I did not ever notice the "club obi wan" easter egg. Thanks now I feel dumb.
FANTASTIC video, very well thought out and entertaining
r1000v totally
I love how you interspliced scenes from The Train into this review! Low-key one of my favorite WW2 movies!
I love how they completely missed the fact that in the 1940’s there was still very much so a civil war going on, and alternatively not in China.
No Japanese interventions? No exploration of the Chinese state at this time period?
No?
So just putting the movie in a place simply for the martial arts ?
Awesome. Just wonderful.
The China setting could have even been done better.
Ugh.
"Like a little bald man in a BMW" is my new favorite quote
For the new characters, I would use these actors:
Dr von Murderall: Christoph Waltz
Andrea Bey: Nasim Pedrad (Dahlia from the Aladdin remake)
What do you think?
Christoph Waltz is perfect fucking casting.
That is pretty good. Although I would change the scene of Imhotep dying. I would make it that Imhotep is dying, but not before making peace with the O’Connells and Ardeth.
Otherwise, pretty excellent
When I was a kid, I watched the Mummy every single day. Rick was my hero! I cannot express in words how disappointed and depressed I was after I saw the Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. You did a good job fixing it sir! I would have loved to see your vision of the film!
An amazingly entertaining, informative and through-out video. I've been bingewatching your channel, I'm in love with your passion for history snd storytelling and your humor and am very much looking forward to your authorial work.
I was honestly just waiting for one of the Yeti to just eat a dude, but it never happened.
SUBTITLE AT 7:06 :-D ''IMHOTEP'' ---''YOU F*#* MY WIFE ?'' FUNNY AS HELL
Came here for the critique of the Dragon Emperor, keep on returning here over half a decade later for the goddamn amazing reimagining of Mummy 3 instead.
Honestly, your version is so much better than what we actually got it is almost comical!
Thanks for your lovely comments, everyone. I also fixed The Mummy 2017 - check it out: th-cam.com/video/Cyvn9sNanXg/w-d-xo.html
You should make one about the Indiana Jones and the fourth movie that I refuse to acknowledge exists. Come to think of it, just make videos about ruined beloved franchises, and how they should've been instead!
This made me so sad, man. I've only discovered your channel in the last few months, and I've been slowly going through your back catalogue. I'm glad I stuck around.
This was amazing! I love these films, and your changes to the third film make so much sense!! Great job :)
This whole thing was worth watching just for Anything Goes in Chinese over a montage
It's crazy how good your Aredeth Bay impression is
Dude I love your channel, never stop making these type of vids
I always kinda felt this is one of the many heavy stones that weighed on our man Brendan until the weight of all the bullshit broke him.
this is serious an amazing video/analyze topic good job you know should do more videos of this sort of thing how bout fixing series where you cover any film that is bad and fix them in your own interpretation like this video hoping it can help grow your channel with the amout of content if your interested i'll be glad to watch supporting your channel and give you fresh ideas in the comment section
Your assessment of into the badlands, without seeing it, is spot on. It's very highly produced, clearly has skilled people working on it - but feels like it's aimed at tweens. It looks excellent for a 13-15 year old.
You pretty much covered my problems with it. I would've brought back Freddie Boath who was around the same age the character was supposed to be by the time that movie came out. I would've used Kharis from The Mummy's Hand from 1940 and the 3 sequels that were made. The Mummy's Tomb, The Mummy's Ghost and The Mummy's Curse. There was also an animated series that had the characters traveling around the world. And they even went to China and Peru. Which is where they would've gone in that fourth movie that was never made The Mummy: Rise Of The Aztec with Antonio Banderas. Why Stephen Sommers didn't return ? Who knows ? Is like Terminator without James Cameron. I guess he was busy with G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra. But i wish he would've wrote the script and be more involved in it. He could've had other writers helping him with the scrip just better writers than those. And a better director. Someone like Joe Johnston could've replaced him. Similar to Star Wars where George Lucas didn't directed The Empire Strikes Back but developed the story and produced it and hired a director.
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I think this is a reference to the cartoon (if you really think it wasn’t the highlight of my Saturday mornings, you’re mistaken).
In this cartoon, we see Alex’s adolescence as he trains to be a Medjay and works to foil imhotep (yes he’s still around, he’s purple, don’t ask), so by the time all’s said and done he’s a more than capable soldier.
Unfortunately, you’re right. The idea that boys take after their fathers is antiquated and dumb. Luke is terrible and his half-assed Indiana Jones schtick is aweful.
Also, in regards to Yang, he’s a Kuomintang. It’s pretty obvious from the setting that we’re in the middle of the Chinese Civil War, and the Communists are the good guys (gotta get that China money).
Remember, this is the same year we get Batman going to Hong Kong for a somewhat unnecessary 20 minute sequence solely to a) plant the Echograph phone, and b) get that sweet China money.
I just subbed because you are very informative :D!!!! Keep up the great work mate
Genuinely exciting pitch, I could totally SEE your version of the movie
One mummy movie about Alixander The great One with Timur lenk but that one is called the Curse of Timur In the USSR during world war 2.
That Oded Fehr impression was great.
I would pay to see this version
Knowing where Checkmate, Lincolnites! and Frozen '50s Man would end up going plot wise, this video feels like dramatic foreshadowing
Thank you, I needed that. By the three way sword fight you had me complementing you out loud.
11:23 The irony of the song is not lost on me. Thank you.
My new favourite channel. I love it! That Egyptian girl was life changing for me also🤣🤣👏🏻
This series started a fascination with Egypt. My father just surprised me with tickets to see Dr. Hawass give a lecture this spring.
Multiple times throughout this video, I forgot you weren't doing a movie summary (for the fixed version) and would be sorely disappointed when you reminded me
Godammit, I love you. Take the keys, go to some randos house, take their kids, go to some big studio and PITCH THIS SHIT SON! YOURE BRILLIANT! MWAH!
I stumbled across this video at 3am in the morning and a little tibbly . . . and I genuinly have loved these amendments, and have been reminded about the greatness of the first films.
Dude you rock
Been watchin all your videos and this one warms my heart
Ok. I have to say, that whole Anything Goes bit, that was pure genius, and I both love and thank you for it XD
This is pure Gold. I'm sorry it took me so long to find it! Big Mummy and Indy fan ;)
I agree to your premise, and this video is simply bangin'
I loved your voice acting in this!
I would have LOVED the movie you've just described. This is AWESOME.
You, sir...need to write this as a fan fiction! 💗💗💗
Thank you for restoring my faith in humanity! The Mummy is my favorite movie and Dragon emperor, well compare to it the other pelages were a joy but I liked the way you brought a little dignity to this film and gave a more enjoyable story, it gave me much joy :)
Damn, now I have to do homework and actually watch tomb of the dragon emperor to properly enjoy this video.
The first mummy movie is one of my favorites, the second one was pretty awful so I never bothered watching the third one. Until now, at least I know there will be an entertaining video for me to watch out of the deal when I finish.
„Imoteph... you f...ked my wife???“ I am preatty sure, thats not how it was, but found it hilarious xD
I was feeling super unfulfilled after watching the third installment. now I feel like my brain can rest.
I know this video is "old af" in internet tie but damn, I would watch the SHIT out of it! I can't remember which video of yours got me on the Atun-Shei rabbit hole (maybe the one about Ravenous) but I love the way you explore and explain history, and your funny voices (and "roommates"), and I like it when you talk about movies in the way you did about this one. I'm off to watch your Dracula video now because I've already given up on waking up at a reasonable hour and what the heck, it's entertaining!
This is amazing.
Benni cameo is genius
11:53 was that a fecking easter egg I didn’t realise for years!!!
Hey man you're amazing.I had a great time watching this.. very clever and funny
i almost never comment of videos but omg this is fricken brilliant!!!! the part with ardeth bey on the train was had me in stiches. For real though, please make this a reality with seti the first
As bad as this movie was, it’s way better than the 2017 version. At least this one had our boy Brendan
... and the love theme !
I never saw the movie but was riveted by your re-do-view. Thanks 😂
30:40 I guess you could say the yetis in this movie were more like the Adorable Snowmen.
As is my opinion with half of all movies that take place in that time period and could conceivably be set in or near North Africa, why tf was it NOT the Afrika Korps?
God damn your opening scenes and set-up of the Korps and the archeologist working against the heros got me so excited, I wish it was a real movie!
I’m afraid I can’t give you more upvotes just for having footage of one of my favourite films in your review - The Train 10:05
7:09, I'd like to think that was an Eddie Izzard reference, but its probably just the rum, great channel my dude keep up the good work.
Thank you! A bit long but your so right in many ways. great job!
Yeah, this is DEFINITELY the MUMMY 3 that we should've had! Now that I have seen this video, I realize that there were other things wrong with it - and these points relate more to its release than its actual creative and technical merits (or lack thereof - emphasis on lack, more's the pity!)
I was 13 going on 14 when the first MUMMY film came out and I saw it with my whole family, and it was such a relief to watch a couple of hours after we just finished seeing the abysmal THE PHANTOM MENACE. It was just so much fun, and I watched it many times on home video! THE MUMMY RETURNS, which I saw when I was 15 going on 16, again with my whole family, shortly after we just finished watching a Barter Theatre stage production of THE GRAPES OF WRATH (there was definitely a patterned tradition developing here even months before the first LORD OF THE RINGS film came out), was kitschy blockbuster fun - not as fresh as the first one, but still dependable escapist entertainment. I was already a fan of the original MUMMY and had fun with these two, so of course TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR failed to bring back the same childhood feeling! For crying out loud, I was already a college graduate at this point in time in 2008, the first two movies were already a distant childhood memory at this point (God I feel so old!) and having a third MUMMY at this point was so obviously an ill-fated, avaricious attempt by Hollywood to replicate the process and feeling!
There's also something else about the third one going immensely against it - namely, in that it came out way too long after THE MUMMY RETURNS, which had been released months before 9-11. Now, if the 3rd MUMMY film had come out after 9-11, maybe in the summer of 2003, not only would it most likely have Sommers and Co. return and again be set in Egypt, but it actually probably would have fit the mood of the times - you know, having a plot set in WWII with the characters pitted against Nazis to match the tone of the real-life war set in the Middle East against terrorists, all while bringing the series full circle. (OK, that's just my own opinion, of course, but we all know how almost every film is a product of its time and the first two MUMMY films were no exception.) By 2008, with the war already having overstayed its welcome and extending into a second Vietnam, leading to anti-authoritarian feelings against the Bush dynasty, already the times and audience perceptions were quickly changing, and so had the trends. Comic-book movies were the main draw at this point, and there was no way that a long-delayed, sloppily-written and poorly rehashed reboot like TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR would stand a chance against the likes of IRON MAN (the first MCU film) and THE DARK KNIGHT (the best Batman movie ever made!).
Finally, I have to add that this is a pretty piss-poor representation of Asian culture, a damn shame, considering that I am fond of Asian culture (particularly Edo-period Japanese) and Michelle Yeoh in particular. And if you want a movie about Yetis, go back and watch 1957's black-and-white Hammer flick THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN, which despite being dated, is not only far more intelligently written, but also has the same elements of exotic adventure and atmospheric horror that distinguished the first MUMMY.
I really would have enjoyed seeing your version of the third mummy movie
Having to bring back baldy to kill the pharaoh from the prologue of the first movie would've been awesome
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend" type of thing 🙂
Your sarcasm is actual genius. Thank you.
Alternatively, if you wanted to get away from the cliche Nazi trope, you could have the main bad guy an Italian officer and Alex's love interest his daughter who spent her youth with her grandfather, who was an Egyptologist. Either way, yours sounds like such a better movie then the one we got! The second Rachel Weiss left, they should have shelved the project. Honestly, if they wrote in that she died or left Rick, I would still have hated it, but I would have accepted it more then what they did.
Lol do you know how many times I've rewound & watched that scene where O'Connell wings that chair at Beni?? I'm binge watching this entire channel bc I think we're simpatico
I watched this movie, totally forgot about it. Thanks for filling that hole in my memory...
My one complaint:Jonathan knows the word from The Mummy Returns so he should be apart of the O'Connells shouting the word.
Why is your fix is better than the actual movie. Also I would let Imhotep and Rick both summoning an army together since Rick still have the ownership of Anubis army due to the fact that he stab the scorpion king with a sword
I realize this video is three years old now...but I only found it now. And I'm legit angry that the film you proposed is not the one we ended up getting. Your version sounds far better.
God, I would kill for a 'Rick O'Connell and the Tomb of the Dragon Emperor' radio serial.
I want to see your Mummy 3 come to life!!
Interesting take on how to fix that mess. Personally I wouldn't have done a 3rd mummy, so no fixing, but I can imagine the O'Conners involved in others adventures, maybe with the yetis in Tibet but no mummies. Maybe with vampires to build a "universal's monsterverse/O'Connerverse".
This movie does not exist.
Great video!
This is incredible. Made my day!