61 Nights of Halloween (2025 Edition)

[DyeLorean]

I feel like he biggest issue with Returns is they clearly didn't have a story. The first flows beautifully, with natural character and story work intertwining as it goes on. Returns has extra long sequences of nothing happening because there is nothing to do. So a lot of it is just reference to the first and forced conflict. Still enjoy it, but the first is an all timer and Returns lives off it's legacy imo.

True. The first one also benefits from having a build-up, you know that eventually the Mummy will wake up and the tension and the mystery up that point really works. The second one really doesn't have that, it's closer to the Indiana Jones template of going from one place to another.

On a side note, I always wished that, in both movies, the first version of the Mummy would last a lot longer. It's really eerie and creepy looking, and in both it looks really good. They got that part right.

 

[Lily Adler]

True. The first one also benefits from having a build-up, you know that eventually the Mummy will wake up and the tension and the mystery up that point really works. The second one really doesn't have that, it's closer to the Indiana Jones template of going from one place to another.

On a side note, I always wished that, in both movies, the first version of the Mummy would last a lot longer. It's really eerie and creepy looking, and in both it looks really good. They got that part right.

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I wish these films would get the George Lucas improved CGI treatment

 

[DyeLorean]

I wish these films would get the George Lucas improved CGI treatment

The crazy thing is the first one looks actually better than the second one. They tried to push themselves and the technology just wasn't there.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I wish these films would get the George Lucas improved CGI treatment

 

[Lily Adler]

 

[DyeLorean]

Can we replace Maria Bello with Rachel Weisz in the third one while we are at it? AI was created for this reason alone.

 

[Lily Adler]

Can we replace Maria Bello with Rachel Weisz in the third one while we are at it? AI was created for this reason alone.

 

[Man in the Suit]

Remember the animated series?

 

[Drizzle]

I was always annoyed by Rachel Weisz getting recast in the third one but that wasn't as bad as the son being played by a guy who was pushing 30. Seriously, WTF were they smoking?

 

[DyeLorean]

I was always annoyed by Rachel Weisz getting recast in the third one but that wasn't as bad as the son being played by a guy who was pushing 30. Seriously, WTF were they smoking?

I'm about to rewatch that one. The only things I remember is how badly Maria Bello plays the character (seriously, it ruins the whole thing), and that the action and the special effects were pretty good. Let's see how it holds up.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

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@Snow Queen , I need a thread ban.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Remember the animated series?

I do not.

 

[Drizzle]

@Snow Queen , I need a thread ban.

Hang on, I have a counterattack:

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Hang on, I have a counterattack:

 

[Drizzle]

Remember the animated series?

I forgot all about this but it came out around the time when I stopped watching Kids WB. This must have been one of the last, if not the last, Saturday morning cartoons based on a movie. Men in Black was the one I really remember from that lineup.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I was always annoyed by Rachel Weisz getting recast in the third one but that wasn't as bad as the son being played by a guy who was pushing 30. Seriously, WTF were they smoking?

He's still in his teens. That's just how white British men age.

 

[Drizzle]

I was also annoyed that The Mummy 3 took it out of Egypt. We got Anubis in Returns, where was my horrible CGI Horus in the third one, Universal?!

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I was also annoyed that The Mummy 3 took it out of Egypt. We got Anubis in Returns, where was my horrible CGI Horus in the third one, Universal?!

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I've never seen 3. As much as I love my boy George of the Jungle, you can't have the Mummy without
Weisz. You need the set.

 

[Drizzle]

I've never seen 3. As much as I love my boy George of the Jungle, you can't have the Mummy without
Weisz. You need the set.

I watched it when I worked in a video store at the time it came out and I don't remember it all that well. But I do remember this:



And now that you've seen it, you have no need to watch the rest of the movie.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I watched it when I worked in a video store at the time it came out and I don't remember it all that well. But I do remember this:



And now that you've seen it, you have no need to watch the rest of the movie.

Good looking out, Driz.

 

[DarkKnight88]

I forgot all about this but it came out around the time when I stopped watching Kids WB. This must have been one of the last, if not the last, Saturday morning cartoons based on a movie. Men in Black was the one I really remember from that lineup.

The wild thing about these movies turned kids animated series from the late 90s/early 00s are the movies they didn’t even wait to see if they’d actually be successful. The Godzilla 1998 and Evolution series come to mind.

In an alternate universe we’d be having Evolution: Afterlife at this point.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

The wild thing about these movies turned kids animated series from the late 90s/early 00s are the movies they didn’t even wait to see if they’d actually be successful. The Godzilla 1998 and Evolution series come to mind.

That one I do remember. Made me think we were definitely getting a sequel.

 

[Drizzle]

The wild thing about these movies turned kids animated series from the late 90s/early 00s are the movies they didn’t even wait to see if they’d actually be successful. The Godzilla 1998 and Evolution series come to mind.

It's funny you mention the Godzilla cartoon because in my post I originally typed "Saturday morning cartoons based on a successful movie" but then I remembered Godzilla '98 got one so I erased "successful".

But man, what a marketing campaign that movie had. I really can't fault them for greenlighting a cartoon because the marketing for that movie made it seem like it was going to be a Jurassic Park level blockbuster. I still remember the Taco Bell promotions and the ads that said "His foot is the size of this bus".

 

[DarthSkywalker]

What's that? @DarthSkywalker has to watch all the Scary Movie films now.

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Explain.

 

[Sithborg]

The Godzilla cartoon tends to be why some fans are more accepting of Zilla as a version of Godzilla than others. A pity the movie's toy line failure meant we couldn't get the toys for the cartoon.