"They could literally retitle this 'Mission Impossible VIII: The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb' and nobody would be able to tell the difference." This is the best way to summarize the problems with this movie.
Yes he was the problem with The Mummy and this wasn't the first time, according to R. Lee Ermey it was Stanley Kubrick's last film Eyes Wide Shut which Tom Cruise wrecked with his ego.
The only good parts of this movie were every scene where Tom Cruise gets hit. I don't know what it is, but watching Tom Cruise getting punched in the face and knocked around is hilarious. Maybe that's why I love Edge of Tomorrow so much.
The first major thing that pissed me off, I know there is a long list with this movie, was the complete disregard of Egyptian Mythology. Set was a god of evil and chaos, the chaos specifically of the desert and storms. (Destroyer of life essentially) HE WAS NOT A GOD OF DEATH! Osiris was the god/king of the dead, with Anubis as the "ferryman" of the dead. Death in Egyptian Mythology was NOT evil, that is a Judean Christian belief, The destruction of life was evil to the Egyptians. Death itself was seen as a journey to another plane of existence. Even the 90's comedy Mummy movies were accurate, somewhat, to Egyptian mythology.
I agree with you and Set has a lot in common with Ares than Hades. Because Set was The God Of War and like Ares fought wars for chaos, destruction, violence, and mayhem unlike Athena or Tyr who fought wars for the side of right.
@@somedudewhodraws9377 but here is what I don't get, why is ok for Godzilla and the other Toho Monsters to be revamped and yet not okay for Universal to do their monsters.
Let this be a lesson to all wanting to start their own cinematic universes: do NOT start producing your future movies until you've made the first one work and do NOT make your first movie all about foreshadowing. Pick a titular character and FOCUS on them.
Fingers crossed the upcoming Black Lagoon, Hunchback & Invisible Man remakes are at least passable. Those are the three I'm most interested in checking out.
With the right people, I could see CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON and REVENGE OF THE CREATURE becoming one movie. But I don't think it would fit into the Dark Universe. The remake should probably be its own standalone story.
@@ToylandChairman666 I have a feeling that given The Mummy's underperformance Universal will be downplaying future installments DU connections until they figure out how to better approach the whole shared cinematic universe concept. Hope they succeed. I want a crossover movie with Dracula as the main villain & the other characters gathered together Monster Squad style. That'd be AWESOME!!! :)
@@alexlemonds2838 They should have done that, and called that movie THE DARK UNIVERSE. I'd love to see Dracula get the scroll of Kharis, and use that mummy to kill. Would make more sense than him controlling Frankenstein's Monster or the Wolf Man.
@@ToylandChairman666 Totally agree. But right now I just hope Black Lagoon, Hunchback & Invisible Man are enjoyable to sit through. I see alot of potential to do good, modern revamps of those stories.
For Dr. Jekyll needing to use his serum to suppress Hyde, maybe they wanted to do a spin on the character. He has clearly been alive for several years, so maybe after so many years of taking the serum, Hyde essentially became a part of Jekyll to the point that he didn’t need the serum to appear. And maybe it got so out-of-control that Jekyll had to alter the formula to create an antiserum to suppress Hyde. But even if that’s what they were going for, they STILL didn’t explain or justify it in the movie.
Erod, but that is exactly how Dr.Jekil serum works. By the end of the novel he begun to turn in Mr.Hide on his own and needed twice the amount of the serum to turn back.
GLJohn Stewart Wait...DC is...actually, y’know, I’m not surprised, are they going to blow the wad with this super hero as well and ultimately give them no where else to go for future single movies cause apparently DC Films can’t think ahead?! But no, seriously, the rest of the cast in Justice League was spot on (except Superman) everyone played their parts really well, why move backwards?!
Yeah, this movie is just a massive parade of stupidity and lack of understanding Egyptian mythology. Set, also known as Seti and Seth, is the Egyptian god of Chaos, Anubis is the Egyptian god of the Dead. While it is accurate that Set is a being of evil, Anubis is a bit of a different story. Anubis is a War god in addition to being the god of the Death, while Osiris is the god of the Underworld and is said to have dominion over the Dead. Funny thing about Anubis and Osiris, they're both depicted as good entities in the ancient Egyptian mythos.
Hollywood does seem to have a problem with getting things historically, and culturally, right for some reason. The spear was one of the prevalent weapons on the battlefield for centuries, but you wouldn't get that feeling from the swordfest Hollywood seems to like perpetuating, it's the same with weapons on the small screen and in games. Do I expect them to get their historical and cultural stuff right, not entirely, but I do expect them to do some actual GOD DAMN BLOODY RESEARCH and show it. That's the lest they can do, this film shows a complete lack of research. If this film was a report on Egyptian mythology and its relation to the modern society, I would tell the person who turned it in they have an entire year's worth of detention and to write me a better report and turn it in at the end of their detention period and if they fail at that report then I am going to give all their assignments the lowest grade possible without even reading them, soon as I see their name on it I would just give them an F--- minus and move on. If they didn't take the time to do actual research, I shouldn't have to waste my time reading what they consider acceptable work.
would had been more creative sense of the mummy was working for seth as it originally said but was curse by Osiris for her transgration and it was him that help the "tom cruise" character out. So instead of stabbing himself the movies comes up with a way that allow Osiris to take possession of cruise while he battle Mummy who is control by seth
Being knee deep in Egyptian mythology as part of research for work I'd like to point out that Set was NOT the god of the dead, that was Osiris as god of the underworld (who was one of the main gods BTW), Set was the god of chaos and foreigners. Also how do you mummify somebody alive?? Who wrote this?? Ah, Alex Kurtzman, the franchise destroyer himself, it all makes sense now.
the priest use their priestly power to keep someone alive as they remove there internal organs and they buried them alive.. in the original film.. he was the guardian of his love mummy.. so if you want to split hair.. he was buried alive and force to guard the mummy...You can look at it that way. or like I said earlier.. you know magic. cause magic solve all plot holes
Another well-deserved busting. I only have one question: Who's the kitty and why didn't you pet said kitty on camera? Kitties always need love like bad movies need busting, eRod!
The biggest problems with this movie (and Universal's planning with the Dark Universe) was that they made what should have been relatively inexpensive horror movies into really expensive action movies, and that they thought that name actors would be the draw rather than the classic monsters names themselves being the draw. Their best option at this point is to humbly beg Guillermo DelToro back and promise him every bit of creative control that he demands.
10:26 They got that plot point from the Season 3 finale of Legend of Korra? I know they never say what the poison is, but what else could it be besides Mercury?
Would you be shocked to learn that in the Book Mr. Hyde does actually use the formula to change back into Jackal? It plays a symbolic role as Hyde becomes the more dominate personality both psychologically and physically; until at the end Hyde is able to overtake the Doctor who kills himself to stop the transformation fearing that he's never turn back sense his attempts to recreate the formula fail.
13:10 and quite literally did he not have it. When you watch from 12:59 slowly when she throws him, you can see Tom's both hands empty, without the dagger thing.
I like the idea of Jekyll taking the serum to prevent the transformation actually, it implies a dramatically different dynamic in that it would basically have to mean that Hyde is the natural state and that the serum is still working as intended in the original Source material in that it brings out a different side, just in this case the different side that it brings out is the Civilized side instead of the Monstrous side
Well if the Dark Verse kept his origins, Dr Jekyll would be over 160 years old (He's a doctor in 1887). Could be He's used the formula for so long he flips personas without it now when he starts to get angry or upset (which is what he does in the scenes he starts to change) and needs the new formula to keep Ed in check. It's however one of the many things they should have saved for another movie instead of trying to ram rod all these lore bits and Easter eggs in the first movie to make a shared verse. Reeks of desperation when DC's attempt to railroad one in only two movies looks reasonable by comparison.
@@Citrakite oh I agree the movie sucks and definitely has a lot of problems, my friend and I were talking about it and we basically came to the conclusion that what they should have done if they wanted to build a Marvel style Cinematic Universe using their Universal movie monsters was that they should have focused on the organization that Jekyll is heading up for the first movie, have it be a Men in Black Style Secret Force specifically meant to take down Things That Go Bump in the night, have the organization be called the Helsing organization and have it focus on a descendant of the helsing's or my friend's suggestion was to have the title of Van Helsing be an honorific title of sorts basically, in which case you could basically recreate Men in Black pretty close to point for point with k being the current holder of the Van Helsing title and the J stand in being groomed to be his or her replacement
@@RDeathmark "have the organization be called the Helsing organization and have it focus on a descendant of the helsing's" So, basically, the Anime "Hellsing" with Integra heading the organization?
@@AlecDraven I was thinking something more along the lines of Men In Black but replace aliens with zombies and stuff, but you get the idea, and wouldn't that definitely be better than what we got?
That is true and yet Brendan Fraser fanboys think that Fraser was the original or first remake when Boris Karloff was the original and Christopher Lee was the first remake.
I was so excited when I heard they were going to make the Mummy female. I mean, we rarely get such interesting female (live action) villains, it would've been so interesting to see a bad bitch who didn't care about how bad she was. Then Tom Cruise decided that, instead of focusing on the MONSTER in this monster movie, it should be all about him, and so we had the Mummy and a 34-year-old conventionally attractive woman both chasing after a 56-year-old guy who is so scared to death of aging, he had an actor two years younger than him call him "young man" in this movie. I'm sorry, I don't like Tom Cruise.
They should have gone for either Jason Ritter, Jensen Ackles, or Jared Padalecki instead of that circus midget, because he did ruin The Mummy with his ego like what he did to Stanley Kubrick's last film Eyes Wide Shut according to R. Lee Ermey in an interview back in 2006.
@@jalenikezeue4114 I agree with you and there was no need to get that Circus Midget Tom Cruise since The Mummy was going to be Female, because he was THE Problem.
@@biguy617 Well you said Wolfman wasn't that bad to you, I thought DU wasn't that bad to me. Just a matter of opinion *shrugs* At least that tried to be its own film first rather shove so many exposition and unsubtle foreshadowing.
Well, hidden in London would make sense if they weren’t hidden in Medieval fare, there was a HUGE surge in the late 19th and early 20th century of England taking ALOT of Egyptian artifacts and doing horrible things with them, including unraveling the mummies as a party game no doubt horribly damaging the incredibly fragile dead person. But because they chose to involve British Knights, for some reason (unless you are going to add Merlin and Morgan Le Fey to everything, this is stupid) it’s stupid.
Not only Deadpool cares about others despite being almost immortal BUT he's also funny and likable. I CARE about his objectives, dreams, hobbies etc. The merc with a mouth is a well developped character unlike Tommy who's just a douchebad from begining to end. There's nothing interresting about this guy!
13:10 - this reminds me of that stupid thing in "Legends of Tomorrow" when Nate Haywood lost a bigass book on Roman Empire he was *literally holding in his hands* and noitced it only after the history was changed.
ERod, my dude; could you, somehow upload your Honest Review of Lucha Underground to your RUclips Channel? I know it's on your Dailymotion account but due to my browser, it can't play there
I just got an epic fail of a commercial. It showed up just as the Transformers theme started playing, right before the singer shouted: "TRANSFORMERS!!!". I hate commercials that show up in the middle of videos. They have a really bad habit of breaking the flow of the video.
erod quick note. set ( sometimes also called seth) wasn't god of the dead. he was god of a god of chaos, the desert, storms, disorder, violence. and brother to the actual god of the dead Osiris. whom was father to Anubis whom was god of making sure mommys were made correctly basicly a glorified funeral home manger. its a rather confused family tree
Um, Erod? Hate being "that guy", but in the original story "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson, the "good" doctor took the serum so often that his body started naturally producing it. He started changing during his sleep and by the end of the story he needed to take the serum to change back. If you want to get mad at something here, get mad at the fact that they were so arrogant as to not give him his own movie to explain it! Let alone that it somehow doubles as an fucking IMMORTALITY SERUM as this movie takes place in modern times and he's from the Victorian Era!!
Universal should have repurposed the script to make a fourth movie in the brendon Fraser movie series and just have Alex o Conner be the lead and have his father be retired but is approached by van helsing to work with him to stop Dracula from gaining the spear of destiny and along the journey they bump into other classic monsters 1-The Mummy:Spear Of Destiny(Dracula 2-Frankenstine 3-The Wolfman 4-Monsters Unleashed
Awesome, this Halloween just got even more awesome. Great episode, I not ashamed to admit there were some aspects of this movie I liked. For starters, I liked that it was trying to be more horror oriented than the previous Mummy movies, it even had some legitimately creepy moments (Amanet attacking those expendables). Also the acting and visuals were for the most part decent. However everything else was just...meh. Personally I'm glad that this "Dark Universe" is scrapped, they may have found a way to get all these famous literary monsters into one movie in the past, but today, it'd be kind of difficult, and I won't go into detail since I've pretty covered why I think Universal's "Dark Universe" was a dumb idea. 🎃Happy Halloween Erod🎃
I don't know why, but i could watch the last two Transformers movies without wanting to shove knives into my ears. That doesn't mean they don't deserve the hammer though
Maybe they should restart the franchise and create a new universal monsters cinematic universe, starting with Frankenstein, then followed by Dracula, then later by the Wolfman, and so on. And this time, have the films focus only on one narrative first BEFORE connecting the films together. And then, maybe create some new original monsters that could be exclusive to the franchise universe and let them have their own movies (like a bat monster, or the slug-woman or something). You could possibly have crossover films to go with the universe, like Dracula meeting the Gil-man or Frankenstein’s monster going against Van Helsing...that would be awesome and the genre doesn’t have to be anything than a classic style b-movie horror film (well, maybe add a little action if they could wish). It’s only just an idea, but then again, who knows. Something that any classic universal monster movie fan could look forward to. So what do you make of this?
Also, Universal, why is Dr Jekyll the one in charge? I wouldn’t put the head of my secret organization to a guy who literally saught out to bring out humanities evil in themselves!!
I suppose calling Set the god of the dead makes him sound more menacing? Ancient religions are very convoluted, and film-makers tend to pick and choose whatever they think fits their story. That's why they keep depicting Hades as a villain, even though he was probably one of the more level headed gods in Greek mythology.
Great review. I think this is my favorite of the year so far... The movie looks dreadfully bland. Great commentary throughout... Also, it was cute to see Scooter appear! I loved the finale. The special effects were terrific... I just knew that defeat of Una St. James in "The Bye Bye Man" was too good to be true. ERod's gonna need some major roof repair... Can't wait for the "Transformers: The Last Knight" review!
Also, Deadpool is primarily a comedy, Deadpool works cause Ryan Renolds knows not to screw with the character (Not in that way, Deadpool would probably want to be screwed in that way, with a mariachi band outside) and hire competent people to write a smart*** fourth wall breaker
I think the point was to make Jekyll and actual good guy by preventing Hyde from coming out, like how Bruce Banner tries to keep the Hulk in check. In the book, Jekyll really isn't a good guy. He uses Hyde to play out his desires and changes willingly.
ERod, I would like to point out that at the end of original Robert Louis Stevenson's story "The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde" *Jekyll was uncontrollably turning into Hyde and was trying to recreate his serum to find an antidote* .The main problem he faced was that the glass he made the original serum had some kind of residue that couldn't be recreated because the company that sold Jekyll the glass didn't have it anymore. So Jekyll was left without the key ingredient and couldn't find the way to cure himself and the only way to do end this nightmare was death.
Universal: "We need to reboot the Monsterverse, make it new, fresh, dark. Rival the Marvelverse!" Del Toro: "I gotcha, mate" (no clue why he's a Londoner all of a sudden) Universal: "Great, when can you get started?" Del Toro: "I just have two more weeks to finish up this project, then I'm all yours for the next 15 years" Universal: "Unacceptable! We're getting Tom Cruise. He's known for directing good films, right?"
Set is actually the god of Chaos. The actual Egyptian God of Death is Anubis. So the mummy already has the powers of Set, check it out Set on Google. Look it up Erod, best to do research.
At least we got a decent video game out of this movie... serious, the mumie demastered. Actually quiet fun and you don't have to know the movie to play it. Also in little defense of Jekyl, if I remember right, in the original story it happened that after some time, Jekyl started turning into Hyde without taking the serum at all. So here you could argue that this is a different kind of serum, slightly blocking the effect of the original and the reason he turned into hyde anyway is that he seem to get slowly imune against the new serum.
Btw the Gullmerio Del Toros film didn’t win a Oscar. It won 4 best production design, best score, best director(for del toro himself), and best picture.
There's one way (that I can think of) to save the Dark Universe. It's time for me to start Operation: Manimal Island. If you can decipher its meaning, I'll make sure to fix this movie. A hint; It wasn't ORIGINALLY distributed by Universal.
"Everybody knows that mummies' weakness are adorable kittycats!" AWWW, THAT'S AN ADORABLE KITTY! EDIT: And about the ruby: It was explained! Some knights discovered a ruby and hid it in London in 1127. EDIT 2: Reached the end of the video. First: BY GOD, WE DODGED A NUKE-SIZED BULLET WITH TOM CRUISE. Second: What about "Epic Fiasco"? Check out the opening narration of "Elizabethtown" for definition. Last: YYYEEEEEEEEESSSSS!
If they wanted to have a "Dark Universe," why not have a cinematic universe of "Darkstalkers"? All of the characters are able to hold their own stories & they are all different but connected to each other. Mythology nitpick: Set/Seth is not the Egyptian God of Death, he was the God of Chaos....and he had an aardvark head. P.S. What cute kitty!!!😊😊😊
the shape of water is proof this can work, if you keep the spirit in mind of the original but thee did not and now thankfully the dark universe is no more
@SNB Sixteen6stars so you don't believe that Jason Blum can make The Universal Monsters scary, because Alex Kurtzman was the problem and he is a hack who wanted the monsters to be awesome action heroes when they are tragic villains of horror. Plus Jason Blum has had success with horror, look at the new Halloween movie along with Get Out, Happy Death Day, Unfriended, Insidious, Ouija, The Purge, and more. Plus The Dark Universe needs good directors to help it like James Wan, Scott Derrickson, Tim Burton, Sam Raimi, Michael Dougherty, Joe Dante, Mike Flanagan, Robert Eggers, and Bill Condon. That as well as getting B-Z Lister Stars instead of a lot of A List ones. My point is that is seems that you believe is Del Toro being able to make it work with The Shape Of Water and yet have no faith in Jason Blum wanting to make The Dark Universe true horror.
Well..... universal is going to reboot the Universal monsters yet again but this time Jason Blum under his Blumhouse production is going to overseas this franchise with low budget filmmaker driven films starting with the Invisible Man next year, so their is some hope
"They could literally retitle this 'Mission Impossible VIII: The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb' and nobody would be able to tell the difference."
This is the best way to summarize the problems with this movie.
#Agreed
"Tom Cruise and his creative control". Don't forget his Scientology money.
Yes he was the problem with The Mummy and this wasn't the first time, according to R. Lee Ermey it was Stanley Kubrick's last film Eyes Wide Shut which Tom Cruise wrecked with his ego.
The only good parts of this movie were every scene where Tom Cruise gets hit. I don't know what it is, but watching Tom Cruise getting punched in the face and knocked around is hilarious. Maybe that's why I love Edge of Tomorrow so much.
Oooooh, that's why that bathroom scene in the last Mission:Impossible was so enjoyable to watch!
Sometimes a list star can't always make a movie Better
The first major thing that pissed me off, I know there is a long list with this movie, was the complete disregard of Egyptian Mythology.
Set was a god of evil and chaos, the chaos specifically of the desert and storms. (Destroyer of life essentially) HE WAS NOT A GOD OF DEATH!
Osiris was the god/king of the dead, with Anubis as the "ferryman" of the dead.
Death in Egyptian Mythology was NOT evil, that is a Judean Christian belief, The destruction of life was evil to the Egyptians. Death itself was seen as a journey to another plane of existence.
Even the 90's comedy Mummy movies were accurate, somewhat, to Egyptian mythology.
I agree with you and Set has a lot in common with Ares than Hades. Because Set was The God Of War and like Ares fought wars for chaos, destruction, violence, and mayhem unlike Athena or Tyr who fought wars for the side of right.
Wrong of office is the god of chaos Anubis is a god of death Seth is the god of the wilderness get your Facts right buddy
This is Why home work is important 📒✏️🗂👓 it's like Book report you Can't Just make stuff up
R.I.P dark universe you will never be missed also happy Halloween E Rod
but i was so looking forward to woody woodpecker dark universe movie
Dark Universe is being revamped and Jason Blum wants to spearhead it.
They just need to stop trying already. Is it so hard to get this Universe started? I mean these are the Classic Universal Monsters for godsakes!
@@somedudewhodraws9377 but here is what I don't get, why is ok for Godzilla and the other Toho Monsters to be revamped and yet not okay for Universal to do their monsters.
I swear I thought you were going to say Lara Croft was the hottest archaeologist. When you said Indy instead it made me so dang happy! Love you BB!
Let this be a lesson to all wanting to start their own cinematic universes: do NOT start producing your future movies until you've made the first one work and do NOT make your first movie all about foreshadowing. Pick a titular character and FOCUS on them.
MCU is to DCEU as Monsterverse is to Dark Universe.
Fingers crossed the upcoming Black Lagoon, Hunchback & Invisible Man remakes are at least passable. Those are the three I'm most interested in checking out.
With the right people, I could see CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON and REVENGE OF THE CREATURE becoming one movie. But I don't think it would fit into the Dark Universe. The remake should probably be its own standalone story.
@@ToylandChairman666 I have a feeling that given The Mummy's underperformance Universal will be downplaying future installments DU connections until they figure out how to better approach the whole shared cinematic universe concept. Hope they succeed. I want a crossover movie with Dracula as the main villain & the other characters gathered together Monster Squad style. That'd be AWESOME!!! :)
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They should have done that, and called that movie THE DARK UNIVERSE. I'd love to see Dracula get the scroll of Kharis, and use that mummy to kill. Would make more sense than him controlling Frankenstein's Monster or the Wolf Man.
@@ToylandChairman666 Totally agree. But right now I just hope Black Lagoon, Hunchback & Invisible Man are enjoyable to sit through. I see alot of potential to do good, modern revamps of those stories.
13:20 unsurprisingly the same guy behind Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
How does he still have a career?
@Jurassic Hero He also directed this movie, and the reason he (A. Kurtzman) and his partner (R. Orci) got careers because of J. J. Abrams.
And also the guy behind modern Star Trek.
For Dr. Jekyll needing to use his serum to suppress Hyde, maybe they wanted to do a spin on the character. He has clearly been alive for several years, so maybe after so many years of taking the serum, Hyde essentially became a part of Jekyll to the point that he didn’t need the serum to appear. And maybe it got so out-of-control that Jekyll had to alter the formula to create an antiserum to suppress Hyde.
But even if that’s what they were going for, they STILL didn’t explain or justify it in the movie.
Why are these ancient Egyptian artifacts in London? Well, colonialism happened. In a better movie, this would have meant something.
Yeah I started to question that they should of ketp the story in Egypt 🇪🇬 because this didn't Feel like a mummy 🎥🍿🎥
Erod, but that is exactly how Dr.Jekil serum works. By the end of the novel he begun to turn in Mr.Hide on his own and needed twice the amount of the serum to turn back.
Love the Dr who memes work of genius
This is why Tom Cruise should not be Green Lantern. Seriously DC you cast Tom Cruise and I will never see another DC film ever again.
GLJohn Stewart Wait...DC is...actually, y’know, I’m not surprised, are they going to blow the wad with this super hero as well and ultimately give them no where else to go for future single movies cause apparently DC Films can’t think ahead?!
But no, seriously, the rest of the cast in Justice League was spot on (except Superman) everyone played their parts really well, why move backwards?!
Tom Cruise as Hal Jordan sounds more like rumor than fact.
What if he was Lex Luther? Couldn’t be worse than Eisenberg
Rollercoaster Rider No someone like Ed Harris should be Lex Luthor or They should cast him as Mr Freeze.
@@Teatime7771 Billy Zane should be Lex Luthor.
Yeah, this movie is just a massive parade of stupidity and lack of understanding Egyptian mythology. Set, also known as Seti and Seth, is the Egyptian god of Chaos, Anubis is the Egyptian god of the Dead. While it is accurate that Set is a being of evil, Anubis is a bit of a different story. Anubis is a War god in addition to being the god of the Death, while Osiris is the god of the Underworld and is said to have dominion over the Dead. Funny thing about Anubis and Osiris, they're both depicted as good entities in the ancient Egyptian mythos.
Exactly. That ticked me off a lot.
They failed at basic film making and script writing, what made you think they could get right complex dimensions of the Egyptian Pantheon? XD
Hollywood does seem to have a problem with getting things historically, and culturally, right for some reason. The spear was one of the prevalent weapons on the battlefield for centuries, but you wouldn't get that feeling from the swordfest Hollywood seems to like perpetuating, it's the same with weapons on the small screen and in games. Do I expect them to get their historical and cultural stuff right, not entirely, but I do expect them to do some actual GOD DAMN BLOODY RESEARCH and show it. That's the lest they can do, this film shows a complete lack of research. If this film was a report on Egyptian mythology and its relation to the modern society, I would tell the person who turned it in they have an entire year's worth of detention and to write me a better report and turn it in at the end of their detention period and if they fail at that report then I am going to give all their assignments the lowest grade possible without even reading them, soon as I see their name on it I would just give them an F--- minus and move on. If they didn't take the time to do actual research, I shouldn't have to waste my time reading what they consider acceptable work.
It's like if in "Thor" they said Loki was Odin's brother. It involves a remarkable amount of not giving a shit.
would had been more creative sense of the mummy was working for seth as it originally said but was curse by Osiris for her transgration and it was him that help the "tom cruise" character out. So instead of stabbing himself the movies comes up with a way that allow Osiris to take possession of cruise while he battle Mummy who is control by seth
Emoji movie is the true horror movie here
Being knee deep in Egyptian mythology as part of research for work I'd like to point out that Set was NOT the god of the dead, that was Osiris as god of the underworld (who was one of the main gods BTW), Set was the god of chaos and foreigners. Also how do you mummify somebody alive?? Who wrote this?? Ah, Alex Kurtzman, the franchise destroyer himself, it all makes sense now.
To be fair, being "mummified" alive is from the original film.
Yeah, you're right, I yield on that point :P
the priest use their priestly power to keep someone alive as they remove there internal organs and they buried them alive.. in the original film.. he was the guardian of his love mummy.. so if you want to split hair.. he was buried alive and force to guard the mummy...You can look at it that way. or like I said earlier.. you know magic. cause magic solve all plot holes
It was very hard to find the worst Tom Cruise movie to bust Erod, but I guess the right one.
In the original story, after taking the serum for a while, Jekyll had to start dosing himself to stop being Hyde, so that actually checks.
I'm surprised you didn't cover the big scene of Russel Crowe as Mr Hyde, that was comedy gold!
Another well-deserved busting. I only have one question: Who's the kitty and why didn't you pet said kitty on camera? Kitties always need love like bad movies need busting, eRod!
The cat's name is Scooter.
For anyone curious to know what song is that near the end, it's 'Return of the Mack' by Mark Morrison
I have a question: what would you do if you had the chance to conclude the Spectacular Spider-Man tv show, what would you do?
Good to see your uploading in youtube again.
The biggest problems with this movie (and Universal's planning with the Dark Universe) was that they made what should have been relatively inexpensive horror movies into really expensive action movies, and that they thought that name actors would be the draw rather than the classic monsters names themselves being the draw. Their best option at this point is to humbly beg Guillermo DelToro back and promise him every bit of creative control that he demands.
I heard that Jason Blum wants to spearhead The Dark Universe.
10:26 They got that plot point from the Season 3 finale of Legend of Korra? I know they never say what the poison is, but what else could it be besides Mercury?
Would you be shocked to learn that in the Book Mr. Hyde does actually use the formula to change back into Jackal?
It plays a symbolic role as Hyde becomes the more dominate personality both psychologically and physically; until at the end Hyde is able to overtake the Doctor who kills himself to stop the transformation fearing that he's never turn back sense his attempts to recreate the formula fail.
Great job Erod
13:10
and quite literally did he not have it.
When you watch from 12:59 slowly when she throws him, you can see Tom's both hands empty, without the dagger thing.
I like the idea of Jekyll taking the serum to prevent the transformation actually, it implies a dramatically different dynamic in that it would basically have to mean that Hyde is the natural state and that the serum is still working as intended in the original Source material in that it brings out a different side, just in this case the different side that it brings out is the Civilized side instead of the Monstrous side
Well if the Dark Verse kept his origins, Dr Jekyll would be over 160 years old (He's a doctor in 1887). Could be He's used the formula for so long he flips personas without it now when he starts to get angry or upset (which is what he does in the scenes he starts to change) and needs the new formula to keep Ed in check. It's however one of the many things they should have saved for another movie instead of trying to ram rod all these lore bits and Easter eggs in the first movie to make a shared verse. Reeks of desperation when DC's attempt to railroad one in only two movies looks reasonable by comparison.
@@Citrakite oh I agree the movie sucks and definitely has a lot of problems, my friend and I were talking about it and we basically came to the conclusion that what they should have done if they wanted to build a Marvel style Cinematic Universe using their Universal movie monsters was that they should have focused on the organization that Jekyll is heading up for the first movie, have it be a Men in Black Style Secret Force specifically meant to take down Things That Go Bump in the night, have the organization be called the Helsing organization and have it focus on a descendant of the helsing's or my friend's suggestion was to have the title of Van Helsing be an honorific title of sorts basically, in which case you could basically recreate Men in Black pretty close to point for point with k being the current holder of the Van Helsing title and the J stand in being groomed to be his or her replacement
@@RDeathmark "have the organization be called the Helsing organization and have it focus on a descendant of the helsing's"
So, basically, the Anime "Hellsing" with Integra heading the organization?
@@AlecDraven I was thinking something more along the lines of Men In Black but replace aliens with zombies and stuff, but you get the idea, and wouldn't that definitely be better than what we got?
@@RDeathmark "Zombies and stuff." You mean like Ghosts?
.......Isn't that just R.I.P.D.?
Couldn't find this episode on Dailymotion.
Problems again?
You would think that a cross between Indiana Jones and American Werewolf in London would be awesome. Damn, I was wrong!!!
Happy Halloween Erod! and technically the Brendon Fraser film was also a remake of an old classic Mummy movie.
That is true and yet Brendan Fraser fanboys think that Fraser was the original or first remake when Boris Karloff was the original and Christopher Lee was the first remake.
I was so excited when I heard they were going to make the Mummy female. I mean, we rarely get such interesting female (live action) villains, it would've been so interesting to see a bad bitch who didn't care about how bad she was.
Then Tom Cruise decided that, instead of focusing on the MONSTER in this monster movie, it should be all about him, and so we had the Mummy and a 34-year-old conventionally attractive woman both chasing after a 56-year-old guy who is so scared to death of aging, he had an actor two years younger than him call him "young man" in this movie.
I'm sorry, I don't like Tom Cruise.
They should have gone for either Jason Ritter, Jensen Ackles, or Jared Padalecki instead of that circus midget, because he did ruin The Mummy with his ego like what he did to Stanley Kubrick's last film Eyes Wide Shut according to R. Lee Ermey in an interview back in 2006.
😞 It's a Real Shame because this movie 🎬 🎞 🎥 🎦 📽 Could of been The best If Cruise Didn't get his Hands on it
@@stainshield
#AgreedWithYou
@@jalenikezeue4114 I agree with you and there was no need to get that Circus Midget Tom Cruise since The Mummy was going to be Female, because he was THE Problem.
@@billymccrary2246 thank you.
I have a guilty pleasure for the Bencio Del Toro Wolfman. I don't think it is that bad.
Yeah, and even Dracula Untold.
@@carbootstudios2459 No I hate Dracula untold.
@@biguy617 Well you said Wolfman wasn't that bad to you, I thought DU wasn't that bad to me. Just a matter of opinion *shrugs*
At least that tried to be its own film first rather shove so many exposition and unsubtle foreshadowing.
@@carbootstudios2459 It did nothing new with Dracula. that is why the movie was bad,
@@biguy617 Like I said, a matter of opinion
11:55 Anubis: God of funerals and judge of the dead.
Set: God of chaos and desert storms.
Can you see where these bone heads screwed up?
Well, hidden in London would make sense if they weren’t hidden in Medieval fare, there was a HUGE surge in the late 19th and early 20th century of England taking ALOT of Egyptian artifacts and doing horrible things with them, including unraveling the mummies as a party game no doubt horribly damaging the incredibly fragile dead person. But because they chose to involve British Knights, for some reason (unless you are going to add Merlin and Morgan Le Fey to everything, this is stupid) it’s stupid.
Hey erod can you please bust Beauty and The Beast 2017?
Well, now I want to watch the Fraser trilogy again!!
Not only Deadpool cares about others despite being almost immortal BUT he's also funny and likable. I CARE about his objectives, dreams, hobbies etc. The merc with a mouth is a well developped character unlike Tommy who's just a douchebad from begining to end. There's nothing interresting about this guy!
13:10 - this reminds me of that stupid thing in "Legends of Tomorrow" when Nate Haywood lost a bigass book on Roman Empire he was *literally holding in his hands* and noitced it only after the history was changed.
ERod, my dude; could you, somehow upload your Honest Review of Lucha Underground to your RUclips Channel? I know it's on your Dailymotion account but due to my browser, it can't play there
Hey Erod, do you can do an honest review of the 12th doctor from doctor who, just like you did with the 11th doctor?
I just got an epic fail of a commercial. It showed up just as the Transformers theme started playing, right before the singer shouted: "TRANSFORMERS!!!". I hate commercials that show up in the middle of videos. They have a really bad habit of breaking the flow of the video.
It’s also written by the guy who wrote the amazing Spider-Man 2 and transformers 2 revenge of the fallen.
Now everything makes sense...
Remember, Tom Cruise starred in Edge of Tomorrow, which was DAMN good. But then again, Emily Blunt's the one everyone remembers. (with good reason)
3:58 you forgot to mention John Dimaggio as bender, the robo-king of lovable jerks
erod quick note. set ( sometimes also called seth) wasn't god of the dead. he was god of a god of chaos, the desert, storms, disorder, violence. and brother to the actual god of the dead Osiris. whom was father to Anubis whom was god of making sure mommys were made correctly basicly a glorified funeral home manger. its a rather confused family tree
Um, Erod? Hate being "that guy", but in the original story "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson, the "good" doctor took the serum so often that his body started naturally producing it. He started changing during his sleep and by the end of the story he needed to take the serum to change back. If you want to get mad at something here, get mad at the fact that they were so arrogant as to not give him his own movie to explain it! Let alone that it somehow doubles as an fucking IMMORTALITY SERUM as this movie takes place in modern times and he's from the Victorian Era!!
Aw man, was really hoping Universal would've learned their lesson by now.
This movie was a massive mystified moment of murderous madness
Set isn’t the god of death, he’s the god of dark magic, chaos, and storms
did the people who made this movie didn't ask someone who at least know something about egyptian mythology?
Universal should have repurposed the script to make a fourth movie in the brendon Fraser movie series and just have Alex o Conner be the lead and have his father be retired but is approached by van helsing to work with him to stop Dracula from gaining the spear of destiny and along the journey they bump into other classic monsters
1-The Mummy:Spear Of Destiny(Dracula
2-Frankenstine
3-The Wolfman
4-Monsters Unleashed
10:31 Scooter: Put me down, Stinky Feets. I gots tunas to eat!
Why wasn't the Bye-Bye Man review uploaded to RUclips?
04:30 second?
Nah, she's 4th
3rd: *Nathan Drake* (UNCHARTED).
2nd: *Lara Croft* (TOMB RAIDER).
1st: *Indiana Jones* (INDIANA JONES).
It's videos like this that make me want to get a Twitter account just so I can talk to him and maybe James Rolfe
I want Mission Impossible 8
The Mummy's Tomb.
10:29 Awwwwww!
Awesome, this Halloween just got even more awesome. Great episode, I not ashamed to admit there were some aspects of this movie I liked. For starters, I liked that it was trying to be more horror oriented than the previous Mummy movies, it even had some legitimately creepy moments (Amanet attacking those expendables). Also the acting and visuals were for the most part decent. However everything else was just...meh. Personally I'm glad that this "Dark Universe" is scrapped, they may have found a way to get all these famous literary monsters into one movie in the past, but today, it'd be kind of difficult, and I won't go into detail since I've pretty covered why I think Universal's "Dark Universe" was a dumb idea.
🎃Happy Halloween Erod🎃
I press like the moment you did the bird joke XD
I don't know why, but i could watch the last two Transformers movies without wanting to shove knives into my ears. That doesn't mean they don't deserve the hammer though
Maybe they should restart the franchise and create a new universal monsters cinematic universe, starting with Frankenstein, then followed by Dracula, then later by the Wolfman, and so on. And this time, have the films focus only on one narrative first BEFORE connecting the films together. And then, maybe create some new original monsters that could be exclusive to the franchise universe and let them have their own movies (like a bat monster, or the slug-woman or something). You could possibly have crossover films to go with the universe, like Dracula meeting the Gil-man or Frankenstein’s monster going against Van Helsing...that would be awesome and the genre doesn’t have to be anything than a classic style b-movie horror film (well, maybe add a little action if they could wish).
It’s only just an idea, but then again, who knows. Something that any classic universal monster movie fan could look forward to. So what do you make of this?
Wolfman, Dracula and The Mummy failed where Invisible Man succeeded.
Now let’s give Frankenstein another chance
What's about the Gillman from Creature from the Black Lagoon?
BUSTED! Tom Cruise was literally the reason I never watched this movie.
It’s refreshing to see someone civil with their enemy
Also, Universal, why is Dr Jekyll the one in charge? I wouldn’t put the head of my secret organization to a guy who literally saught out to bring out humanities evil in themselves!!
Wait, Set is the god of death?
Osiris is the god of death. Anubis is a death god. Set is the god of Chaos, Storms, and Evil.
I suppose calling Set the god of the dead makes him sound more menacing? Ancient religions are very convoluted, and film-makers tend to pick and choose whatever they think fits their story. That's why they keep depicting Hades as a villain, even though he was probably one of the more level headed gods in Greek mythology.
I say we have The Shape of Water re-re-re-re-jump-start the dark-verse.........Lovecraft style!!!!
Great review. I think this is my favorite of the year so far...
The movie looks dreadfully bland. Great commentary throughout...
Also, it was cute to see Scooter appear!
I loved the finale. The special effects were terrific...
I just knew that defeat of Una St. James in "The Bye Bye Man" was too good to be true. ERod's gonna need some major roof repair...
Can't wait for the "Transformers: The Last Knight" review!
My heart goes out to you dude. Hijole.
Also, Deadpool is primarily a comedy, Deadpool works cause Ryan Renolds knows not to screw with the character (Not in that way, Deadpool would probably want to be screwed in that way, with a mariachi band outside) and hire competent people to write a smart*** fourth wall breaker
I think the point was to make Jekyll and actual good guy by preventing Hyde from coming out, like how Bruce Banner tries to keep the Hulk in check. In the book, Jekyll really isn't a good guy. He uses Hyde to play out his desires and changes willingly.
ERod, I would like to point out that at the end of original Robert Louis Stevenson's story "The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde" *Jekyll was uncontrollably turning into Hyde and was trying to recreate his serum to find an antidote* .The main problem he faced was that the glass he made the original serum had some kind of residue that couldn't be recreated because the company that sold Jekyll the glass didn't have it anymore. So Jekyll was left without the key ingredient and couldn't find the way to cure himself and the only way to do end this nightmare was death.
This film would have been so much better if Ford was in it. Indy vs the Mummy would have been a fantastic film.
So you’re saying the Love Bug /Flubber /Dexter Riley/Shaggy Dog shared universe was not successful while preceding the MCU?
where'd you get that cat?
Universal: "We need to reboot the Monsterverse, make it new, fresh, dark. Rival the Marvelverse!"
Del Toro: "I gotcha, mate" (no clue why he's a Londoner all of a sudden)
Universal: "Great, when can you get started?"
Del Toro: "I just have two more weeks to finish up this project, then I'm all yours for the next 15 years"
Universal: "Unacceptable! We're getting Tom Cruise. He's known for directing good films, right?"
Set is actually the god of Chaos. The actual Egyptian God of Death is Anubis. So the mummy already has the powers of Set, check it out Set on Google. Look it up Erod, best to do research.
So episode 299 will be The Last Knight! What will 300 bring?
The Emoji movie I believe!
At least we got a decent video game out of this movie... serious, the mumie demastered. Actually quiet fun and you don't have to know the movie to play it.
Also in little defense of Jekyl, if I remember right, in the original story it happened that after some time, Jekyl started turning into Hyde without taking the serum at all. So here you could argue that this is a different kind of serum, slightly blocking the effect of the original and the reason he turned into hyde anyway is that he seem to get slowly imune against the new serum.
Btw the Gullmerio Del Toros film didn’t win a Oscar. It won 4 best production design, best score, best director(for del toro himself), and best picture.
There's one way (that I can think of) to save the Dark Universe. It's time for me to start Operation: Manimal Island. If you can decipher its meaning, I'll make sure to fix this movie. A hint; It wasn't ORIGINALLY distributed by Universal.
Great video
"Everybody knows that mummies' weakness are adorable kittycats!"
AWWW, THAT'S AN ADORABLE KITTY!
EDIT: And about the ruby: It was explained! Some knights discovered a ruby and hid it in London in 1127.
EDIT 2: Reached the end of the video. First: BY GOD, WE DODGED A NUKE-SIZED BULLET WITH TOM CRUISE. Second: What about "Epic Fiasco"? Check out the opening narration of "Elizabethtown" for definition. Last: YYYEEEEEEEEESSSSS!
take note never let Alex Kurtzman do a cinematic universe
Or a beloved sci-fi franchise.
Oh I get it! The 300th Episode is gonna be the Emoji Movie!
If they wanted to have a "Dark Universe," why not have a cinematic universe of "Darkstalkers"?
All of the characters are able to hold their own stories & they are all different but connected to each other.
Mythology nitpick: Set/Seth is not the Egyptian God of Death, he was the God of Chaos....and he had an aardvark head.
P.S. What cute kitty!!!😊😊😊
the shape of water is proof this can work, if you keep the spirit in mind of the original but thee did not and now thankfully the dark universe is no more
Jason Blum wants to spearhead The Dark Universe which is on hold.
@@stainshield oh dear this is Just gonna go to sleep and come back from the dead again huh? Well Lets get ready for the next epic monster fail
@SNB Sixteen6stars so you don't believe that Jason Blum can make The Universal Monsters scary, because Alex Kurtzman was the problem and he is a hack who wanted the monsters to be awesome action heroes when they are tragic villains of horror. Plus Jason Blum has had success with horror, look at the new Halloween movie along with Get Out, Happy Death Day, Unfriended, Insidious, Ouija, The Purge, and more. Plus The Dark Universe needs good directors to help it like James Wan, Scott Derrickson, Tim Burton, Sam Raimi, Michael Dougherty, Joe Dante, Mike Flanagan, Robert Eggers, and Bill Condon. That as well as getting B-Z Lister Stars instead of a lot of A List ones. My point is that is seems that you believe is Del Toro being able to make it work with The Shape Of Water and yet have no faith in Jason Blum wanting to make The Dark Universe true horror.
also the wolf-man was great and deserves better
I kinda liked Dracula Untold. Not too long, Kinda during daytime-ish, Only problem was the fight scenes.
Thank you God you saved marvel from Tom.
So does that make Professor River Song the third hottest archaeologist?
I'd place River second.
What’s bigger? Tom Cruise’s ego or the planet Jupiter?
Well..... universal is going to reboot the Universal monsters yet again but this time Jason Blum under his Blumhouse production is going to overseas this franchise with low budget filmmaker driven films starting with the Invisible Man next year, so their is some hope
My sole problem with this movie is honestly tom cruise if any other actor played it it might of had a chance.
Well someone watch Legends 3rd season.
I think I read Universal is resetting the franchise again but this time they're just going to let Blumhouse do all the work.
"This episode is old." It just came out; is it a Smartphone or something?