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The Scorpion King
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Inspired by the legendary Egyptian warrior, "The Scorpion King" is set 5000 years ago in the notorious city of Gomorrah, where an evil ruler is determined to lay waste to all the nomadic peoples of the desert. The few remaining tribes, never natural allies, have to unite or perish. Knowing their enemy relies on the visions of a sorcerer, they hire a skilled assassin, Mathayus (Dwayne Johnson), to eliminate the visionary.
Release date: April 17, 2002 (USA)
Director: Charles Russell
Film series: The Scorpion King
Box office: 180.6 million USD
Budget: 60 million USD
Adapted from: The Mummy Returns
Music composed by: John Debney
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Introduction to The Scorpion King
00:00:01
Speaker
What's going on, listeners?
00:00:02
Speaker
Welcome back to Matt Goes to the Movies.
00:00:05
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And we are getting back into the Mummy franchise, and we are taking a trip.
00:00:13
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Back 5,000 years before the first Mummy movie in the official timeline.
Dwayne Johnson's First Leading Role
00:00:22
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And we are going to review The Scorpion King starring Dwayne The Rock Johnson long before he was a mega, mega movie star.
00:00:34
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This was actually his first starring role.
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And...
00:00:39
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Something that was interesting to go back and watch because this is very, very 2000s.
00:00:47
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I'm not saying that I'm not saying that's bad.
The Rock's Rise to Hollywood Stardom
00:00:52
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But boy, does this movie show some of its age and what movies were back in the day, so to speak.
00:00:59
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But Rob, yeah, funny thing, because again, like I said, this was
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well before The Rock was a huge movie star, just his first starring role.
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Interesting rewatch.
00:01:16
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Yeah.
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You're right.
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This was his first starring role.
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He had that smaller part in the previous Mummy film, The Mummy Returns, as the Scorpion King, and that made them decide to go ahead and spin that off into...
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This film, his first major starring role, and who would have known at that time that this would have turned into one of the most bankable stars in Hollywood?
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I mean, The Rock can open a movie just on his name alone in ways that, I don't know, maybe...
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half a dozen ish.
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And that might be a lot that I might be way too high.
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Other actors in Hollywood could right now, like other than the rock, how many other actors could just on their name alone, open a movie and have it be profitable.
00:02:03
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I mean, it used to be Will Smith, like three slap Will Smith was that guy, you know, Tom Cruise at various points.
The Rock in Action Films
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I, I still think Tom Cruise probably is that guy.
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Um, I don't know how many others are there.
00:02:16
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Yeah, I mean, he was really being positioned.
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I mean, the Scorpion King came out.
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He was being positioned as like this big, like this action hero.
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Like they were really trying to make him be the next like Arnold, the next Stallone.
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It was some of the things that happened.
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I mean, he did the rundown in 2003, Walking Tall in 2004.
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He did do that quick little trip to do, you know, the game plan and the tooth fairy.
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But you look at these movies that he did, you know, he had faster that came out in 2010 race.
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I mean, way before race to which mountain snitch gridiron gang he doom, which, you know,
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He was be cool.
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The other guys get smart.
00:03:17
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Like all of these movies and various voice roles, you know, really took off in the Fast and the Furious franchise.
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I think that's really when he really, really got.
00:03:33
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noticed um is like holy cow because once that hit and he was in fast five i mean he did hercule he did hercules he did skyscraper ramp like rampage probably couldn't have opened up with any other person at the time other than the rock
00:03:54
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And you mentioned it was, I think it was, was it skyscraper?
The Rock's Box Office Appeal
00:03:57
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Was that the one where he was like a, an amputee and the building was falling?
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I didn't see it, but I remember seeing a trailer for it going.
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There's nobody else you can put in that role that people will buy tickets for to see this movie, the way they're presenting it right now, besides him.
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Yeah.
00:04:12
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He did Santa, you know, San Andreas journey to the mysterious Island, central intelligence, Shumanji Baywatch, like,
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He's got a lot of stuff in his filmography where it's him running around the jungle in a khaki colored shirt.
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Yeah.
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There's actually a really funny meme that it's actually a picture of him.
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And it's like, this is four different movies and he's literally wearing the exact same outfit.
00:04:41
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You know, the funny thing is, is if you're on Google and you type in the Scorpion King and you click the cast button, you
00:04:50
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They don't even show The Rock on the cast.
The Scorpion King's Timeliness and Reception
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Really?
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Yep.
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He's not even on the cast listing.
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And he's the main star of the movie.
00:05:04
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Well, because let's just go ahead and get this out of the way.
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This is a very forgettable film.
00:05:09
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This is, as you said, it's very much a... It's a...
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you know, sign of the times, you know, it is a, it is a film of its time, early two thousands.
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It's got all the new metal you want on the soundtrack.
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If it wasn't for the fact that this was part of the mummy franchise and the rock starring role, his, his inaugural starring role, this would just be consigned to the dustbin of history with, you know, probably, you know,
00:05:44
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you know, a hundred other movies that came out during this timeframe that were sort of okay-ish action movies that either went straight to DVD, straight to Blockbuster.
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Remember kids when Blockbuster was a thing?
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Like, they would have like, and it's funny because we even talked about how the sequel to this movie, The Scorpion King 2, was a direct-to-blockbuster movie.
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Yeah.
00:06:05
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Back before, you know, it would just go straight to streaming and that doesn't even really have the stigma it once did, but...
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This is like, this is a straight to like Tubi or voodoo kind of movie that is, if it wasn't for those two things, nobody would even remember this thing existed.
Box Office Success Despite Forgettability
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No, I mean, the funny thing is, is at the time, though, it did very well at the box office.
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I mean, again, you hear these numbers now, and it's kind of funny because maybe people think.
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But back in 2002, a $36 million weekend was really well, especially considering the, you know, the the type of movie that it was ranking number one at the box office.
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largest opening in April, you know, held on to number one for three weeks.
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It was and $60 million budget and $180 million.
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So, you know, overall this movie was successful, but if you go back and look at this movie, you know, one of the things that you can sit there and really, really get from rewatching this movie is,
00:07:25
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If you didn't know it back then, and there were certainly people who said this, you could see the makings of at the time it was Dwayne Johnson.
00:07:36
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He really didn't want the
The Rock's Charisma Amid Film's Flaws
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rock.
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He wanted to be as far away from his, his WWE persona as possible and make it as an actor.
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Um, yeah.
00:07:46
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you could see there was the acting chops there.
00:07:49
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Um, you, you can definitely see the charisma.
00:07:52
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Like if you didn't know the rock, really, if you never watched WWE, but you're like, okay, I know who this guy is.
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Um, I think there's a lot here that shows the early screen presence and like charismatic, likable guy, depending.
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Um,
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that he would kind of become.
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I think a lot of that shines through in this movie, even if the movie is mostly forgettable.
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It does show what, what will become of a very credible action star that can, that can keep the,
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the dramatic moments in between action set pieces moving.
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I actually really liked him in walking tall.
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I like, I've liked him in several movies that I was kind of surprised, like, wait, the wrestler.
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Cause I guess it, it doesn't seem so crazy now, but back then, uh,
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Having a wrestler, a fake fighter, kind of crossover into the realm of true Hollywood action films was not a guaranteed.
Wrestlers to Hollywood Transition
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John Cena, major star now, certainly owes a lot to The Rock paving the way for him.
00:09:07
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That was not like a guaranteed sort of like that would work.
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I can.
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Do you ever see the movie with Hulk Hogan in it called Suburban Commando?
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That was like terrible.
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I was just going to say that because really before The Rock, what people have for wrestlers crossing over into movies is.
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you know, Suburban Commando, No Holds Barred.
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You know, it was Hulk Hogan.
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And while those movies today are considered, you know, like cult favorites because so bad they're good, at the time they were just
00:09:44
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critically panned and you know it wasn't what it was now where those movies are looked at in good light just because they're entertaining it was jesus these guys can like they cannot do this um so let's forget jesse the body ventura uh yeah that's true and uh okay and rowdy piper but
00:10:07
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I mean, his, his scene and, you know, I'm here to kick ass and chew bubble gum.
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Like it's one of the greatest lines of all time.
00:10:13
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Let's be real.
00:10:14
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You know, that was a dirty word, so to speak.
00:10:19
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Uh, wrestlers coming into, to movies and, and actually being good.
00:10:25
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Um, and, and while he's not great, um, um,
00:10:31
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again, there there's definitely the, okay, I could see this guy and I liked him in walking tall.
00:10:36
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I liked him in the rundown, um, you know, journey to the mysterious Island.
00:10:42
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I, which was a followup to originally the Brendan Frazier, uh, you know, movie, um, race to which mountain he was in.
00:10:51
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And I saw those because of, because of the kids, but I did like him.
00:10:55
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Um, um,
00:10:57
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I don't know if I was a little biased because I was a huge wrestling fan and, you know, I was watching wrestling when rock was at his peak in WWE and things like that.
Critique of Action Scenes
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But, um, I certainly think he does some good things here, but one of the things Rob with this movie, I immediately, immediately this opening scene left because when he comes in and starts fighting, um,
00:11:25
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Does, is he on the super soldier serum?
00:11:28
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Because he shoots those arrows.
00:11:31
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And if you remember, Rob, I don't know if you caught this, but he shoots arrows.
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He does it at first.
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Um,
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He shoots the arrows through the smoke and the guys go flying.
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But then he shoots three more and a guy literally acts like he was shot out of a cannon and shoots through the like the house that they're in or the hutch or whatever you want to call it.
00:11:59
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And like literally flies up into the sky.
00:12:02
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Like, did you catch that guy?
00:12:04
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The very first note that I wrote is that this opening scene has some of the worst air ratchet work I've ever seen.
00:12:10
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Since when does an arrow have the force to launch a man upwards 30 feet through a roof?
00:12:15
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This is utter nonsense.
00:12:17
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That's literally, I just read it verbatim.
00:12:20
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That's what I wrote down.
00:12:21
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First note I made.
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It's...
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It was unbelievable.
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I was like, what the, what the hell is that?
00:12:30
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Like, how strong is this guy supposed to be?
00:12:33
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Like, what is going on here?
00:12:35
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There's multiple times with really just, it's almost like they, they bought or rented the air ratchet and the air Ram for this movie.
00:12:43
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And the stunt coordinator was convinced that he needed to get his money's worth out of it because it is so overused.
00:12:50
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There are just palace guards flying through the air,
00:12:55
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because physics got turned off or something like that for reasons that make no sense at all.
00:13:01
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And okay.
00:13:02
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So you're trying to, you know, convince us he's, he's bad-ass and he's, you know, this great warrior, but it's, it just doesn't make sense.
00:13:11
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Yeah, no, it, it doesn't make sense with that.
00:13:14
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And, you know, we talked about to this movie being very 2000, you know, very two thousands.
The Rock's Charisma vs. Film's Clichés
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Um,
00:13:24
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And it's every single scene.
00:13:28
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And I think one of the only things that makes this movie actually watchable is actually The Rock's charisma.
00:13:39
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He has some pretty good comedic timing.
00:13:41
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He's got a good on-screen presence because there are so many things.
00:13:45
Speaker
Like you said, this movie is just forgettable.
00:13:49
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And I think if you remember anything of this movie,
00:13:52
Speaker
It's it's him because not there's not a lot that happens.
00:13:57
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You know, there's there's not a a set piece that draws you back.
00:14:02
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There's not a really great action scene that you're like, you know, we've talked about it before.
00:14:07
Speaker
A YouTube moment that you would, you know, throw on.
00:14:10
Speaker
Yeah.
00:14:12
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because there's a lot of, there's a lot of cliches in this movie.
00:14:15
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There's a lot of just by the numbers.
00:14:18
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And, you know, it starts when he's supposed to, you know, there, you know, him and the three remaining Acadians are, are hired to, you know, go in and kill, um, a sorceress who can predict the future.
00:14:36
Speaker
So this King is never challenged and, um,
00:14:39
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You know, just again, very, very typical for this, you know, for these types of movies.
00:14:46
Speaker
And, you know, why doesn't he kill her?
00:14:49
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That's the job.
00:14:50
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He has no, you know, he has no loyalty but the mission and we get jobs done.
00:14:56
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But, you know, I mean, let's just face it.
00:15:00
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He saves her because she's hot.
00:15:03
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Like that's, that's what it boils down to.
00:15:07
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She's good looking.
00:15:08
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She's good looking.
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Like that's it.
00:15:11
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That's the only reason that he saves her.
00:15:13
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She's alive because of pretty privilege.
00:15:15
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If that was a fat dude, dead movie over roll credits.
00:15:21
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Yep.
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Yeah.
00:15:22
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Right.
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Right.
00:15:24
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Exactly.
00:15:25
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Nope.
00:15:26
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Because she shows mid drift and has a pretty face.
00:15:29
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It's like, oh, well, I guess I should get to know you.
00:15:34
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Exactly.
00:15:35
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Well, and it's funny because when we did the first two...
Lack of Memorable Scenes
00:15:38
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movies in the mummy series we both had moments of those two films that we couldn't wait for the movie to get to because we look forward to them so much every time we watch those movies it's like oh good it's this scene now yay i'm excited this is fun like this is those movies are charming those movies are are just engaging and just just a total amount of fun to have and
00:16:00
Speaker
And this one, I even said at the time, God, it's been years since I've seen it.
00:16:03
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I don't really remember much about it.
00:16:04
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I think I made that comment to you.
00:16:07
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And it's interesting because I have vivid memories of very standout scenes of The Mummy.
00:16:13
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I have no memories of this movie.
00:16:14
Speaker
No.
00:16:15
Speaker
I just finished watching this 20 minutes before we rolled tape, and I have already forgotten most of it.
00:16:21
Speaker
There's just...
00:16:23
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Yeah, there's nothing memorable about this.
00:16:26
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Nothing tends to stand out.
00:16:27
Speaker
You mentioned some of the humor lands, some of it doesn't.
00:16:30
Speaker
It's very paint by numbers.
00:16:32
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It's very much a product of its times.
00:16:35
Speaker
The humor is very immature.
00:16:37
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It really is.
00:16:38
Speaker
This does not hold up well today.
00:16:42
Speaker
The CG is garbage.
00:16:43
Speaker
I mean, those fire ants in the beginning...
00:16:45
Speaker
They're bad.
00:16:46
Speaker
They're not plastic Dwayne Johnson bad, but they're bad.
00:16:50
Speaker
There's a Cobra towards the end of this movie that is abysmally bad, like just just awful.
00:16:56
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Yeah.
00:17:00
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Yeah, it's again, it is it is so forget.
00:17:04
Speaker
I didn't remember going back and watching this.
00:17:07
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I didn't remember a single thing.
00:17:10
Speaker
And some of it came back to me once I saw it because that's just how I am with movies.
00:17:15
Speaker
But like thinking about this movie before rewatching it, I really couldn't remember like a single thing except for like, I did remember that closing shot of like him standing there, like holding up the bow, um, with Cassandra.
00:17:32
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Like I just, I, I remember that, um,
00:17:37
Speaker
But I couldn't really think of anything that happened in this movie before I watched it again.
00:17:44
Speaker
I didn't even remember the whole thing about the sorceress with Kelly Hugh.
00:17:47
Speaker
Like I forgot all of that stuff.
00:17:49
Speaker
Cause again, it just been so long and really just nothing stood out.
00:17:53
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I mean, there are a couple of funny lines, like when he's running around with the kid in the, towards the beginning, he's like, I'll kill half and you kill half.
00:17:59
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Like that was actually a funny moment for me.
Humor and Character Dynamics Analysis
00:18:03
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There's another funny moment during the escape later, which he there's the kid throwing the coin and the wishing well, and then
00:18:10
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you know, that's when the sorceress comes out and like, like that's actually funny in a very immature humor sort of way.
00:18:17
Speaker
Um, that kind of doesn't really hold up as well anymore, but there's, there's a few moments that are actually kind of funny, but overall, like, um,
00:18:26
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there's not a joke that's so laugh out loud.
00:18:28
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Great.
00:18:29
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Um, you know, like, I guess you can look at the character of our pit, the guy that helps him throughout, um, you know, he was supposed to be killed early and ends up kind of being, uh, his, his helper kind of reminds me a lot of, um,
00:18:42
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Rob Schneider's character from judge dread.
00:18:44
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Like I felt like so many crossovers between those two characters.
00:18:48
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They, they felt like they were pretty much like, you know, it's like, Hey, you can copy my homework, but just make sure you change it a little.
00:18:55
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Like that's, that's sort of what it felt like to me.
00:18:58
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And there's, there's parts that he's, he's legitimately funny.
00:19:01
Speaker
Like he's, he's not quite in the Jar Jar realm of comedic character.
00:19:07
Speaker
That's actually annoying.
00:19:08
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Like he's, he's not there.
00:19:11
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He's,
00:19:13
Speaker
he's not in the same zip code, but he's probably in the same area code.
00:19:17
Speaker
I think where it's like, he's getting kind of close.
00:19:20
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I mean, dude gets knocked out like four or five times in this movie.
00:19:24
Speaker
He gets punched out by the rock at least two or three times.
00:19:27
Speaker
He gets his lights turned out by like two or three other characters.
00:19:30
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There's absolutely no way he finishes the events of this film without CTE.
00:19:35
Speaker
Like he's constantly getting punched in the head and going unconscious.
00:19:39
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Right, exactly.
Predictable Plot Developments
00:19:41
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He does have some funniness, but it was... I thought the one funny part is towards the end when, you know, after he wins, which again, that whole opening battle, that opening, that whole closing battle too is just, you know...
00:20:05
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pulling the arrow out of his back and oh my god it's like okay like you know what's gonna one that doesn't have the barbs right you know what's gonna happen why is this in slow motion what but um i did chuckle and i laughed because when um
00:20:22
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when she's like, oh, I see, uh, you know, uh, an era of peace and prosperity, but it, you know, won't last forever.
00:20:29
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However she says it.
00:20:30
Speaker
And he's like, oh, I thought, you know, you couldn't see anything after.
00:20:33
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Cause again, another typical thing, like, of course, of course they have to have sex in the movie.
00:20:40
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Like, you know, of course that has to happen.
00:20:46
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But I did laugh at that.
00:20:47
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Cause again, his just delivery on it and his, his facial expression, um,
00:20:54
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That was funny.
00:20:55
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Um...
00:20:58
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But the battle that you're talking about that happens kind of like right before that, the one-on-one stuff where it's just Matthias and Memnon or like he's fighting kind of like one or two palace guards, you know, it doesn't do anything new.
00:21:12
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It doesn't do anything groundbreaking.
00:21:13
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It's nothing memorable.
00:21:15
Speaker
Again, there's like you said, there's not a YouTube-able moment there where you're like, oh yeah, I wanted to see that move.
00:21:20
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That was cool.
00:21:21
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But it's effective.
00:21:22
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It works.
00:21:23
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Once you get outside that,
00:21:25
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you know, kind of on the palace grounds, that's when it gets really bad.
00:21:28
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Like the one versus seven stuff is awful.
00:21:32
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Like they've got a very, very petite woman who's taking on like, you know, army regulars pretty easily.
00:21:41
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And, and it's, it's pretty bad.
00:21:42
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Just, um,
00:21:43
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A lot of guys waiting around, just waving swords in the air, kind of waiting their turn to get their ass kicked.
00:21:49
Speaker
It's, you know, the choreography is pretty bad.
00:21:53
Speaker
The cinematography is pretty bad there.
00:21:56
Speaker
The fact that the sorceress is able to, with no reason to assume she's had martial training, she just picks up a knife and holds her own against, like...
00:22:07
Speaker
guys that are part of the army.
Criticism of Character Interactions
00:22:09
Speaker
That's kind of dumb and that doesn't work.
00:22:11
Speaker
Also, why does she think that a snake is a good defensive weapon when Memnon's holding a steel sword?
00:22:19
Speaker
She's holding it as though that's an equivalent
00:22:22
Speaker
defensive tool and it's not it's organic and would just as likely sink its teeth into her forearm as it would like you know attack him until it gets his head chopped off like that whole bit was especially because the cg is so so bad just awful yeah it is the cg in this is is not very well done um
00:22:48
Speaker
You know, even the battle between Matthias and... Baltzar?
00:22:58
Speaker
How does he pronounce it again?
00:22:59
Speaker
Michael Clark Duncan's character?
00:23:01
Speaker
Yeah, Balthazar.
00:23:02
Speaker
Yeah.
00:23:02
Speaker
I mean, even that's just the so typical.
00:23:06
Speaker
Oh, we're two big men.
00:23:08
Speaker
I don't like you.
00:23:09
Speaker
You don't like me.
00:23:10
Speaker
Oh, we are best friends.
00:23:11
Speaker
Yes.
00:23:12
Speaker
I have respect.
00:23:13
Speaker
Let's shake.
00:23:14
Speaker
Like, oh, my God.
00:23:15
Speaker
Like, I'll say your catchphrase.
00:23:17
Speaker
You say mine.
00:23:18
Speaker
Right.
00:23:19
Speaker
Like the ultimate again, you know, any movie like this in.
00:23:24
Speaker
Any action movie like this where you have like two big like the ultimate, you know, supposed dick measuring contest where it's like.
00:23:32
Speaker
Who the like who the frig acts like this, like legitimately, like who acts like this in real life?
00:23:40
Speaker
Oh, wait, idiots, idiots act like this in real life.
00:23:44
Speaker
The one thing I'm really happy about, though, was that they didn't try to... Like, what was The Rock's big move when he was wrestling?
00:23:50
Speaker
Was it The People's... The Rock Bottom.
00:23:52
Speaker
Oh, The Rock Bottom.
00:23:53
Speaker
I didn't see them do anything that was overtly pro-wrestly.
00:23:57
Speaker
You know what I mean?
The Rock's Wrestling Identity Separation
00:23:59
Speaker
He does that in... It wasn't really until Fast Five that he actually did any kind of...
00:24:07
Speaker
Maybe he did it in the rundown.
00:24:09
Speaker
I think he does it in the club scene where he kind of gives a guy a rock bottom, so to speak.
00:24:14
Speaker
And I apologize to anybody who's listening to this right now that is a big wrestling fan.
00:24:19
Speaker
You know, I watched it a little in the early 2000s, you know, in my dorm in college because everybody was doing it, was watching it back then.
00:24:26
Speaker
But that's like I really haven't gotten it.
00:24:28
Speaker
you know, been into it for a very, very long time.
00:24:30
Speaker
So I, I'm not, I'm not into it.
00:24:31
Speaker
So please don't, you know, don't at me.
00:24:34
Speaker
It's not my fault.
00:24:35
Speaker
No, I mean, but that was, that was one thing I was surprised at when, and it probably didn't do that.
00:24:42
Speaker
It probably was him.
00:24:43
Speaker
Cause like I said, this was in the time when he really, you know, again, it was this, this movie was Dwayne Johnson.
00:24:51
Speaker
It didn't say the rock.
00:24:53
Speaker
It was no, he, he said, you know, my name is Dwayne Johnson.
00:24:58
Speaker
like the rock was WWE.
00:25:00
Speaker
I'm now doing this.
00:25:02
Speaker
My name is Dwayne Johnson.
00:25:03
Speaker
So it was, and I feel like there was several films after this where there was like produced by WWE films or something like that.
00:25:10
Speaker
I think walking tall and the rundown both were like produced by WWE films and it had him as Dwayne, the rock Johnson in there.
00:25:17
Speaker
I remember something about them owning the rights to the character.
00:25:20
Speaker
I don't really remember how that works.
00:25:22
Speaker
Correct.
00:25:23
Speaker
Um,
00:25:24
Speaker
And I think that's because, you know, it was all right, I'm going to try and tap into this a little bit more because it did seem to annihilate some people that he was so, you know, like the people that followed him in wrestling.
00:25:40
Speaker
When he first started doing this and being so, nope, you know, I'm Dwayne Johnson.
00:25:46
Speaker
I think he kind of realized like, I need to backtrack on that a little bit because people are kind of taking that personally.
00:25:51
Speaker
Like, hang on a second.
00:25:53
Speaker
Like, yeah, great.
00:25:54
Speaker
Good for you.
00:25:56
Speaker
happy that you're doing something else, but it, it kind of sound like a dick right now.
00:26:01
Speaker
Like, cause you wouldn't even be at this spot if it wasn't for like for wrestling.
00:26:06
Speaker
So you don't have to sit there and say, you know, it, it was kind of like you went a little bit too far.
00:26:14
Speaker
I think to some people was saying like, no, I want nothing to do with that too.
00:26:19
Speaker
Well, yeah, this is just my new thing now.
00:26:21
Speaker
So I think he backtracked a little bit.
00:26:23
Speaker
Yeah.
00:26:23
Speaker
Yeah.
00:26:24
Speaker
We've seen other times that professional athletes have crossed over, particularly as mixed martial arts has gotten bigger and bigger.
00:26:32
Speaker
And some of those athletes have crossed over.
00:26:35
Speaker
You know, we've seen George St.
00:26:36
Speaker
Pierre.
00:26:36
Speaker
We've seen Randy Couture.
00:26:38
Speaker
We've seen Ronda Rousey.
00:26:39
Speaker
We've seen Gina Carano.
00:26:40
Speaker
We've seen there's there's several others that have that have crossed over.
00:26:44
Speaker
And honestly, I just said Randy Couture, he's in the sequel to this that we will not be reviewing because there's nothing to say about it because it is just terrible.
00:26:52
Speaker
But like there's a scene in the throne room where he's like a sorcerer, I think, and he does, you know, he has an arm bar.
00:26:57
Speaker
And every time Gina Carano has been in a film, she has to, you know, put an arm bar in or something like that.
00:27:02
Speaker
I think George St.
00:27:03
Speaker
Pierre, when he was in Winter Soldier, I think he had to use an Uchimata or something like that.
00:27:08
Speaker
It just they can't help but did a Superman punch.
00:27:11
Speaker
Yeah.
00:27:12
Speaker
Oh yeah.
00:27:12
Speaker
Yeah.
00:27:12
Speaker
They had one of those, you know, as these things get bigger, you know, they, they add that in and to me, I don't like it.
00:27:18
Speaker
It's just, it doesn't make sense.
00:27:19
Speaker
It's kind of scene breaking.
00:27:21
Speaker
Like, you know, I, I recognize these people are athletes from other, you know, other places, but like, let's, let's make sure whatever they're doing makes sense.
00:27:29
Speaker
Right.
00:27:30
Speaker
Exactly.
00:27:31
Speaker
It's yeah.
Scorpion King Franchise Sequels
00:27:32
Speaker
Yeah.
00:27:33
Speaker
This Scorpion King series actually released a,
00:27:38
Speaker
Four.
00:27:38
Speaker
It went up to Scorpion King for the quest for power.
00:27:42
Speaker
Billy Zane is in one of these.
00:27:47
Speaker
Yeah.
00:27:48
Speaker
Actually, I think was there was there a fifth one?
00:27:52
Speaker
Yes, there was the fifth one.
00:27:53
Speaker
The Scorpion King.
00:27:54
Speaker
The is it a book of souls?
00:28:00
Speaker
Are you sure that wasn't a Blair Witch sequel?
00:28:02
Speaker
Right.
00:28:02
Speaker
I know.
00:28:03
Speaker
And it's funny because Roy Nelson was in the fourth one who was a UFC, an MMA guy.
00:28:09
Speaker
Big Country Nelson?
00:28:10
Speaker
Yep.
00:28:11
Speaker
He was in that.
00:28:12
Speaker
You know, like you said, Randy Coutures.
00:28:14
Speaker
He put a good old boy in ancient Egypt?
00:28:17
Speaker
Yep.
00:28:18
Speaker
So they went.
00:28:20
Speaker
God, they went... I didn't realize there were actually that many.
00:28:23
Speaker
I remember I did watch the second one, and I think I watched part of the third one just because I saw it, but I threw it on just laying in bed because I was going to bed and just fell asleep and never turned it back on.
00:28:44
Speaker
But wow, five of these.
00:28:46
Speaker
That is...
00:28:49
Speaker
That's wild.
00:28:51
Speaker
It's probably four more than should have been and maybe even five more.
00:28:54
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:28:57
Speaker
Yeah.
00:28:58
Speaker
I mean, there was supposed to be this was supposed to be a sequel with Dwayne The Rock Johnson.
00:29:08
Speaker
That got scrapped.
00:29:09
Speaker
And then I don't know if you remember this, Rob, but way back in 2020.
00:29:13
Speaker
Yeah.
00:29:16
Speaker
There was actually a remake that they were going to do, like just start over.
00:29:23
Speaker
And that Dwayne Johnson was going to serve as a producer for it.
00:29:28
Speaker
And it was going to be universal and seven bucks.
00:29:32
Speaker
I actually did some research, seven bucks productions were, were going to reboot this and nothing really ever came of it.
00:29:42
Speaker
No, he just went on to be in Fast and the Furious 23.
00:29:44
Speaker
Yep, exactly.
00:29:47
Speaker
So interesting, uh, you know, interesting thing here.
00:29:52
Speaker
And it was, I often wonder, you know, I would have been interested because I really don't have much more to say about the, um,
00:30:10
Speaker
Like, I really don't have a lot more to say about this movie, but I do wonder after watch, you know, watching this again and, you know, the mummy returns and things like that.
Inconsistencies in Character Portrayal
00:30:21
Speaker
Some of his character just doesn't line up with how this movie ends to, you know,
00:30:28
Speaker
oh, he has the battle and then all of us... Because in The Mummy Returns, it really makes it seem like he was just this warlord.
00:30:37
Speaker
And he prays to Anubis to spare his life after he loses a battle, which is not the portrayal in this movie.
00:30:46
Speaker
So I always wondered if a sequel would show...
00:30:50
Speaker
Maybe him becoming more of like a dictator, like warlord type of leader, as opposed to what we got at the end of this movie, because his character does not line up when you actually think about these movies together.
00:31:05
Speaker
Not at all.
00:31:06
Speaker
He is clearly a villain from the start of when we meet him in The Mummy Returns.
00:31:12
Speaker
He is not a good dude.
00:31:14
Speaker
He is a feared person.
00:31:15
Speaker
He is somebody who's despised and hated.
00:31:17
Speaker
And then he comes out as the plasticky, worst looking piece of CG that's ever been created.
Villainous Convenience
00:31:24
Speaker
That's a dreamcast.
00:31:25
Speaker
Like that is still, we talked about it, but that is a dreamcast level cut scene character.
00:31:33
Speaker
It's unbelievable.
00:31:36
Speaker
So my youngest daughter has this app on her school iPad called flip clip where she can make little like line drawings and animate it.
00:31:44
Speaker
And I've seen better like character animation in her line drawings than what they did for the mummy returns.
00:31:52
Speaker
Yeah.
00:31:52
Speaker
But I digress.
00:31:54
Speaker
But yeah, and they show him here as like this benevolent ruler that is beloved by all of these people.
00:31:59
Speaker
They celebrate him.
00:32:00
Speaker
They worship him.
00:32:01
Speaker
And it does seem very odd that they go from that to where we first meet him in The Mummy Returns.
00:32:09
Speaker
I'm not sure that was really well thought out.
00:32:12
Speaker
But then again, what was in this movie?
00:32:14
Speaker
Yeah.
00:32:15
Speaker
No.
00:32:15
Speaker
There's...
00:32:18
Speaker
There's one other scene I do want to kind of touch on here.
00:32:22
Speaker
So, you know, they've got this whole idea that she only keeps her powers as long as she keeps her virginity, which is kind of a dumb idea to begin with.
00:32:28
Speaker
But OK, whatever.
00:32:29
Speaker
You know, then it turns out that wasn't really the case anyways.
00:32:32
Speaker
But I'm always fascinated.
00:32:33
Speaker
So they do this scene.
Overall Forgettable Nature
00:32:35
Speaker
where memnon pulls out, you know, these big clay pots and has these dudes bring in, you know, like four snakes for six pots or whatever.
00:32:43
Speaker
And he's like, okay, you have to put your hand in and pull out the two pots that don't have anything to prove that you still have your site.
00:32:49
Speaker
And I'm just fascinated by this concept that villains have all this complex stuff just laying around for them when they call for it.
00:32:56
Speaker
Like,
00:32:57
Speaker
like Memnon just has these people ready to bring them clay pots and snakes ready to do that.
00:33:01
Speaker
Is it snake test?
00:33:03
Speaker
Like he just has this stuff.
00:33:05
Speaker
Like he just fills out like requisition orders.
00:33:07
Speaker
Like, all right guys, just make sure you've got some snakes laying around and might need those later.
00:33:10
Speaker
Get some clay pots just in case I got a tester.
00:33:13
Speaker
Like they just have this stuff and he just like,
00:33:15
Speaker
in most cases they either snap their fingers and guys just know, Oh, it's that finger snap or he claps twice.
00:33:21
Speaker
And these guys just bring out all this stuff.
00:33:23
Speaker
Cause they just knew like, Oh, the, the two clap thing.
00:33:26
Speaker
We practice this, everybody.
00:33:27
Speaker
That means bring the snakes and bring the clay pots.
00:33:30
Speaker
Like it's just, it's amazing how this stuff just works in movies with villains.
00:33:35
Speaker
Right?
00:33:35
Speaker
Yeah, it is.
00:33:37
Speaker
It's always funny.
00:33:38
Speaker
Um,
00:33:39
Speaker
But yeah, I don't have anything else because again, I mean, certainly not the worst, certainly not even close to the worst thing I have seen.
00:33:54
Speaker
But just on all levels, one of my final thoughts is just an all around forgettable movie.
00:34:02
Speaker
There is nothing...
Low Film Rating and Rewatchability
00:34:07
Speaker
that would ever, and all of his film roles, I could go back and watch walking tall.
00:34:13
Speaker
I could go back and watch the rundown.
00:34:17
Speaker
I could certainly, for some reason, if it was, I mean, I can't think of one right now, but you know, what, watch race to which like a reason to watch one of his kids movies.
00:34:30
Speaker
The tooth fairy, I think is dumb.
00:34:32
Speaker
The game plan.
00:34:32
Speaker
I actually like, I actually think the game plan's kind of a sweet, you know,
00:34:37
Speaker
kind-hearted movie.
00:34:40
Speaker
But this is probably like...
00:34:44
Speaker
This might be at the top of the list for like his well-known films that I would just go.
00:34:50
Speaker
There's no reason to ever watch this again because it's not so bad that like, oh my God, I'd watch it to laugh at it like I do with movies.
00:34:57
Speaker
Like this is like one of his films that I'm like, there's no reason to ever watch this again.
00:35:04
Speaker
And there's no reason to like ever talk about this because
00:35:08
Speaker
for like movie history, unless it was like a trivia night.
00:35:11
Speaker
And somebody was like, what's the first starring role that Dwayne, the rock Johnson ever had, then you would need to know this.
00:35:19
Speaker
Yeah, I would rewatch probably almost anything else he's been in that I've seen.
00:35:23
Speaker
Like I would like Jumanji is great.
00:35:25
Speaker
I watch that anytime.
00:35:25
Speaker
It's fun.
00:35:26
Speaker
Like it's that's fun.
00:35:29
Speaker
But I yeah, if we were to assign this like a rewatch ability rating, it's extremely low.
00:35:37
Speaker
I struggle to think about.
00:35:40
Speaker
why I would ever watch this movie again.
00:35:43
Speaker
And I don't think I've got a good reason.
00:35:45
Speaker
I've probably seen this movie for the last time in my life now.
00:35:49
Speaker
Yes.
00:35:49
Speaker
Yeah.
00:35:50
Speaker
A hundred percent.
00:35:52
Speaker
So yeah, let's let's grab some popcorn and head into popcorn time.
00:35:58
Speaker
And I'll just, I'll go first.
00:36:01
Speaker
And I will say that
00:36:05
Speaker
It's weird that I'm going to say this because I've certainly I've disliked things way worse than this that I've given better ratings to.
00:36:17
Speaker
But because this movie is so forgettable and like you said, it's almost as soon as you're done watching it, it's almost over.
00:36:27
Speaker
Um, it's almost over in your head.
00:36:30
Speaker
Like it's almost erased immediately.
00:36:33
Speaker
Anything that has happened, you almost forget about it.
00:36:35
Speaker
Um, because there's no good soundtrack.
00:36:39
Speaker
I mean, what, I think the only song I remember is God smack.
00:36:42
Speaker
I will survive.
00:36:43
Speaker
Is that God smack?
00:36:44
Speaker
Uh, I stand alone.
00:36:45
Speaker
Yeah.
00:36:47
Speaker
It's the song at the end credits.
00:36:48
Speaker
Yeah.
00:36:49
Speaker
I think that's the only thing, but this is a one bucket movie for me just because it is absolutely forgettable.
00:36:58
Speaker
Yeah, it's not in that Batman and Robin so bad that it's good.
00:37:02
Speaker
It's not in that Daredevil with Ben Affleck where you watch it just to absolutely laugh at the clown show that that movie is and didn't have to be.
00:37:14
Speaker
This is one and a half for me.
00:37:16
Speaker
There are one and a half bucket movies that I dislike more than this, but this is just not like...
00:37:24
Speaker
It's not it wasn't worth my time.
00:37:26
Speaker
Like I found myself being very distracted while this was on and not really caring that something was happening that I might miss.
00:37:35
Speaker
Because you don't miss anything.
00:37:36
Speaker
You don't you really only need like sorry.
00:37:40
Speaker
You only need the beginning to know what his mission is.
00:37:45
Speaker
And to watch the end.
00:37:47
Speaker
If you watch the first 20 minutes of this movie and the last 15 for 35 minutes, you know everything you need to know about this movie.
00:37:58
Speaker
Yeah, it's it serves little consequence.
00:38:01
Speaker
Its existence doesn't seem to matter.
00:38:04
Speaker
So, yeah, I'm going one and a half.
00:38:07
Speaker
And I'm I'm honestly are you surprised that you rated this movie this low?
00:38:12
Speaker
Like thinking back, yes, like two months ago when we were when we were doing The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, would you have imagined that you would have given this movie a one bucket and I would have given it one and a half?
00:38:23
Speaker
Because I thought for sure I would have rated this higher.
Reflection and Future Reviews
00:38:26
Speaker
Yeah.
00:38:26
Speaker
I thought I would probably go with three.
00:38:29
Speaker
Um, you know, max of three.
00:38:33
Speaker
Um, just because of the fact that like, okay, I don't remember, like, again, I didn't remember it, but I was like, I don't remember hating it.
00:38:43
Speaker
I don't remember.
00:38:44
Speaker
You know, I don't remember ever hating this movie and I still don't hate this movie.
00:38:47
Speaker
I just don't care.
00:38:50
Speaker
But no, after watching it, I was like, and this is, you know, what we sit there and say of like, okay, bucket rating out of five, whatever the case may be.
00:38:59
Speaker
Because again, certainly there are worse movies than this, but for my personal enjoyment, it's a one because there's no enjoyment to be had in this movie for me.
00:39:13
Speaker
Yeah.
00:39:14
Speaker
No reason to ever revisit it.
00:39:17
Speaker
Limited reason to ever talk about it amongst a group of friends, like very limited reason to just even acknowledge that the film exists.
00:39:24
Speaker
Yeah.
00:39:26
Speaker
So that'll do it for the Scorpion King.
00:39:30
Speaker
We're going to end up finishing this series off with the Scorpion King tomb of the dragon emperor.
00:39:41
Speaker
Now,
00:39:42
Speaker
I remember that movie much better than I remember the Scorpion King.
00:39:46
Speaker
I remember absolutely not liking it, not despising it, but not liking it and being severely disappointed.
00:39:57
Speaker
Has time changed that opinion?
00:39:59
Speaker
I don't know yet because I haven't done my rewatch.
00:40:02
Speaker
I will be doing that here within the coming weeks so that we can jump back on and review it.
00:40:08
Speaker
But that will be our conclusion today.
00:40:11
Speaker
for the mummy series.
00:40:12
Speaker
And yeah, I will be curious to see what time has changed, if anything good or bad for tomb of the dragon emperor.
00:40:25
Speaker
I've seen it once and it was a long, long, long time ago.
00:40:30
Speaker
I remember being disappointed because it didn't have that fun charm of the mummy series.
00:40:34
Speaker
And the fact that at the time that I had seen this, I was like a massive Jet Li fan.
00:40:39
Speaker
I was, uh,
00:40:41
Speaker
I was studying a lot of Chinese martial arts myself.
00:40:43
Speaker
So like, it was something that was like, I was really into like, cause he was like the best, you know, and his movies were great.
00:40:51
Speaker
I still love going back and watching some of his, his stuff that came out originally in China and eventually made its way over here.
00:40:58
Speaker
I mean, fist of legend is just, it's just like the best Kung Fu movie that's out there.
00:41:03
Speaker
Like I might die on that Hill.
00:41:06
Speaker
You know, you can say a lot of great things about Bruce Lee and I, and I won't argue if, if,
00:41:10
Speaker
enter the dragon is your favorite Kung Fu movie ever.
00:41:12
Speaker
I won't argue with you, but fist of legend by Jet Li is it's brutal.
00:41:18
Speaker
It's clever.
00:41:19
Speaker
It's interesting.
00:41:20
Speaker
The choreography is amazing.
00:41:22
Speaker
It's so good.
00:41:23
Speaker
Um, and, and I've probably seen it a hundred million times.
00:41:26
Speaker
And when, when that came out, I just remember being, Oh,
00:41:29
Speaker
Why?
00:41:30
Speaker
So I am looking forward.
00:41:32
Speaker
I'm going to watch it with fresh eyes because I'll have remembered virtually nothing about it.
00:41:37
Speaker
So I'll be curious to see if my opinion has changed either.
00:41:40
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And we will break it down for you, the listener.
00:41:43
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Yeah.
00:41:44
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You know, just just one last thing before we go with Jet Li.
00:41:48
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You know, when when this movie was coming out, this is when I was really.
00:41:55
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I'm like a Jet League kick because the Tomb of the Dragon Emperor came out in 2008.
00:42:01
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But I remember watching his movies.
00:42:06
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like not originally when they came out.
00:42:08
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Cause he had like some of the movies that I'm talking about.
00:42:11
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Romeo must die came out in 2000 unleashed 2005 cradle to the grave 2003.
00:42:17
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The one, which is one of my like sleeper favorites for Jet Li is the one, or just one of my sleeper movies.
00:42:27
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Um, not well reviewed, but it's better than people give it credit for.
00:42:31
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Oh, war is so good.
00:42:32
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War with Jason Statham.
00:42:34
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Um,
00:42:35
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you know, even lethal weapon four with him in it.
00:42:39
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But I was on sort of a Jet Li kick.
00:42:44
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Oddly, right before this movie was like, oh, this is going to be, you know, so it was, um, I was like, oh man, Jet Li.
00:42:51
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So I was into it for a very different reason and really looking forward to it.
00:42:55
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Um, um,
00:42:58
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because of the simple fact that like I had just watched some of these Jet Li movies right before it had come out and was like on a really big kick with him.
00:43:08
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Um,
00:43:09
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So, you know, to have that and then also, too, it wasn't as much as I am now.
00:43:15
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But, you know, to know that Rachel Weisz was not coming back for this movie, hearing some of the things and finding out that she just didn't want to do the movie because she didn't like the script was like, ooh, yeah.
00:43:29
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that's a little bit worrisome.
00:43:32
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And then at the time, and again, I'll, I'll be interested to see this, seeing the lack of chemistry between Brendan Frazier and his co-star Maria Bello, who, you know, now played Evelyn O'Connell.
00:43:50
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It was just like, Holy crap.
00:43:52
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Like these two, like,
00:43:55
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in the first two movies, you believed that Rick O'Connell and Evelyn or like Brendan and Frazier and Rachel Weisz, like you could believe that they were a couple in real life.
00:44:06
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And this one, it was like, oh shit.
00:44:08
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Like, what are you two doing together?
00:44:10
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Cause you act like, you look like you hate each other.
00:44:14
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Yeah, and that stuff matters.
00:44:16
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You know, that believability, that everything that makes a deposit in the bank of willing suspension of disbelief helps.
00:44:24
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And if you stop believing in something like that's why, you know, we complain about bad CG a lot, but it matters.
00:44:31
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The immersion matters.
00:44:32
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When you are reminded that you're watching a movie, it breaks the immersion.
00:44:37
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It breaks that fourth wall.
00:44:38
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You stop suspending your disbelief.
00:44:41
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And, and it takes you out of the experience.
00:44:43
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And that's why these things matter.
00:44:45
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Yeah.
00:44:46
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Yep.
00:44:46
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Exactly.
00:44:47
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So we will see if anything, uh, if our opinion has changed on that, because I believe I've seen this movie twice.
00:44:55
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I know I actually went to the theater and saw it.
00:44:57
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And then I know I, well, I actually know that I watched it once at home again.
00:45:03
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Um, at a time it was on FX.
00:45:07
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Um, yeah.
00:45:08
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So I have seen this movie twice, but it has been an incredible, feels like a lifetime since I've actually seen this movie.
00:45:16
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Um, I do remember things about it.
00:45:18
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I do remember specific scenes and specific moments from this movie.
00:45:22
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So, uh,
00:45:24
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Be curious to go back, rewatch it, finish up this series, and jump right back into Halo this week and episode four, which I'm excited for, to see what we get and then discuss what we're going to do next and get back to more consistency.
00:45:41
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I know we talked a little bit today of maybe looking at the Olympus Has Fallen series with Gerald Butler, but excited to get back into it.
00:45:54
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00:45:57
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