While I'll admit that it was action packed, the film had the weakest story since the Matrix. The audience is just supposed to accept that Rick is a Medjai warrior without any backing from the first movie to support this. Also, we are just supposed to accept that Evelyn is a reincarnated Nefertiri even though in the first movie Imhotep, who knew Nefertiri, didn't recognise her and in fact mistook her for Anak-su-namun. And speaking of Imhotep, why is it that he no longer causes the seven biblical plauges or the end of the world any more?
Now I know a lot of you are gonna say "the movie was just meant to be fun" and "It doesn't need a strong story, stop putting so much thought into it". While all those may be perfectly valid statements, they are also perfectly disturbing things to be hearing a a slashdot forum of all places. This is supposed to be where intellegent and objective thinking people post their comments and oppinions. But the general attitude seems to be everyone wants to bash Katz and defend TMR. By saying "it was just meant to be fun eye candy, let it alone" is a clear message to hollywood that we as movie goers don't feel that we are worth a good story AND good special f/x. Movie ticket prices and consessions are going up more and more every year yet the quality of films seems to be going down. What gives? We need to show the movie industry that people will no longer go see a movie just because it has a trailer with lots of cool special f/x, yelling, gunfire and things whipping past the screen so fast that you can barely see them. Otherwise you can expect to have the standard by which movies are set to be determined by the most easily entertained.
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While I'll admit that it was action packed, the film had the weakest story since the Matrix. The audience is just supposed to accept that Rick is a Medjai warrior without any backing from the first movie to support this. Also, we are just supposed to accept that Evelyn is a reincarnated Nefertiri even though in the first movie Imhotep, who knew Nefertiri, didn't recognise her and in fact mistook her for Anak-su-namun. And speaking of Imhotep, why is it that he no longer causes the seven biblical plauges or the end of the world any more? Now I know a lot of you are gonna say "the movie was just meant to be fun" and "It doesn't need a strong story, stop putting so much thought into it". While all those may be perfectly valid statements, they are also perfectly disturbing things to be hearing a a slashdot forum of all places. This is supposed to be where intellegent and objective thinking people post their comments and oppinions. But the general attitude seems to be everyone wants to bash Katz and defend TMR. By saying "it was just meant to be fun eye candy, let it alone" is a clear message to hollywood that we as movie goers don't feel that we are worth a good story AND good special f/x. Movie ticket prices and consessions are going up more and more every year yet the quality of films seems to be going down. What gives? We need to show the movie industry that people will no longer go see a movie just because it has a trailer with lots of cool special f/x, yelling, gunfire and things whipping past the screen so fast that you can barely see them. Otherwise you can expect to have the standard by which movies are set to be determined by the most easily entertained.