It’s 1933, eight years after the action of the last picture. The plot, of course, is just a pretext to get the mummy and his minions alive and jumping again. But the sheer spectacle of swarms of scorpions rising from the sand mummy warriors marauding through the streets of London a homemade dirigible puttering through deep ravines on its way to a gleaming golden pyramid in a hidden jungle and an army, as big as the desert, of ancient warrior hounds descending over the dunes - all accomplished with extraordinary visual credibility - puts the film toward the high end of visual effects-driven experiences.
The hidden door/secret passageway/magic bracelet/don’t-open-this-box-if-you-know-what’s-good-for-you trappings are straight out of B movies. must have felt liberated by the success of the first venture, for the visions of mythical antiquity they bring to often ridiculous but undeniably eye-catching life are vastly grander this time around. Perhaps unequipped to eradicate these problems, Sommers has fixed on the alternative solution of minimizing them, essentially by filling the screen with so many dazzling sights and distracting incidents that one’s grownup self is eventually persuaded to step aside to allow the little kid inside - if it’s not too mummified - to have a good time. Once again, the dialogue is hokey, every crisis is too easily dealt with and the whole enterprise lacks the flair and sophistication that made “Raiders of the Lost Ark” just as appealing to adults as it was to kids. So shutup, you just sound ignorant.With all the key personnel intact from the initial installment, the new film similarly operates most successfully on a 12-year-old, comicbook-appeal level. So they had no idea what they could and could not accomplish, because no one had tried it to that extent yet, so they tried and fell short, but to make it seem like they were 'idiots' or something only proves you are some ignorant child who is playing at critic and who would have not been able to make something 1/100 as good as the people who did that film at that point in visual effects. So everytime you started a movie you had no bloody idea how you were going to make it work, you literally were doing stuff no one had done before every single movie. The thing was, as the time CG was still so knew, it was hard to know it's limitations, no one did yet.
It was nearly impossible at that time to make realistic humans front and center of the camera at that time.īut show me one other full human face done before 2001 that was so much better?
It wasn't just about budgets running out etc. What is sad is idiots who have no idea how hard it was to make a cg human in 2001 who think they 'know' what they are talking about.
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