MotW: The Mummy (all of them)

Boris Karloff movies are legendary.

When it comes to Brendan Frazer, I always thought his movies were parodies, even when they weren't. For some reason he always striked me as a comedian, even if he wasn't doing comedy.

When I saw The Rock joining the King Scorpion movies, I also thought the same thing. To me these movies looked like they were parodies just like the Scream movies, so it was hard to take them seriously.

That said, many people I know feels nostalgic for some of these movies, and they like them. I would have to watch them again, but my expectations would still be low.

Now with Tom Cruise I didn't watch it because it felt like someone was trying to make something serious out of a series that was mainly a parody, and I was expecting it was going to come off as try hard.

But these are just ideas based on nothing. All these movies could be something completely different, and I just don't know about it because I don't recall any of them, and some I straight up haven't watched.

The 1932 version was a little slow but pretty creepy.

The 1999 version was more like a spiritual successor to Indiana Jones, and it was quite corny at times. A more light-hearted popcorn flick.

Can't comment on the 2017 version. Haven't seen it.

Speak for yourself, I'm curious now.

2 out of 5.

Some of the lines and characterisation from the main cast didn't seem to match up with the tone that the movie seemed to be going for.

Near the end, Tom's character sacrifices himself but somehow didn't turn into a death god host, but he still had the power to revive his girlfriend. And the main villain just seemed to beat around the bush instead of just sacrificing him.

And this movie seemed to be the first in some kind of modern day monster hunter series. Because you see bits of other monsters, like vampires and Black Lagoon monsters, preserved in jars at the secret hq.

There was less scares and more CGI action.

Script needed more ime in development.