5/7     Mummy Returns - typical hollywood cookie-cutter trash.
        \_ Did you pay $7 at a theater or did you d/l it? If you d/l'ed
           did it suck bad enough that you feel the time spend getting
           it could have been used to get a better movie?
        \_ Mmm, cookie-cutter trash.  Is hollywood trash really that much
           worse than foreign cinema sentimentalism?  Sometimes, between
           watching some artsy french film (in fuzzy black & white) dealing
           with the effects of losing a cat, and watching a certified
           brainless hollywood trash film with all the standard jokes, I'd
           rather go with the latter.  Unless the cat happen to belong to
           militant prostitute lesbians on a mass murder binge, of course.
           \_ that's almost funny enough for me to reconsider. hollywood's
              efx laden eye-candy are only midly interesting and
              overpaid stars are utterly disgusting. one day a bomb will
              go off in teh academy awards and wipe the slate clean
              \_ Upon reconsideration, I realized that I'd rather see the
                 lost cat film afterall.  But the point is, Hollywood trash
                        \_ less artsy, more fartsy!
                 has its place--in the gutters of society, maybe, but some
                 people enjoy it.  For that matter, so do Hollywood celebrity.
                 Everyone idolizes _something_.  It may not be a blond
                 bombshell with fake boobs, but it might as well be.  I mean,
                 are people who idolize Nietzsche that much better than people
                 who idolize Britney Spears?  If you think so, you might as
                 well be a nazi.
                 \_ This is intellectual relativism.  Nietzsche is a person,
                    with a mind.  Britney Spears is a vagina + marketing.
                    You are a troll + too much time on your hands.
           never seen before. The Mummy Returns provided most of that.
                    \_ Regardless, britney is hot, Nietzsche, still dead.
                       \_ what about us necrophiliacs?
                    \_ Britney is in the Mummy Returns?
                 \_ "everyone idolizes something" != "for each thing, there
                    is someone who idolizes it"
        \_ There's just as much junk in the foreign film / Cannes / independent
           market. It's just not enough people have seen those to know there's
           crap there too. I'm not really trying to defend Hollywood, but can
           it really be all that bad when they give me exactly what I want? I
           go to theaters to escape reality, to have fun, to see stuff I've
           never seen before. The Mummy Returns provided most of that. After
           spending 50-60 hours the past week overloading my brain with C++
           at work, do I really want to continue using my brain to discover
           the meaning of life from rotting cheese from some overemoting actor?
           No. I just wanna turn off my brain and enjoy over-the-top action
           galore.
           \_ After loading my brain for 50 - 60 hours, I would go mountain
              biking.  The problem with many Hollywood movies is that they
              are no longer "fun" and "never seen before".  However I did
              liked Mummy, so I am going to give Mummy II a try.  Maybe it's
              because I have always liked this Egypt/Archaeologist/Raider's
              of The Lost Ark genre.  Yes, I hate boring and meaningless art
              films too.  They should be meaningful and preferably
              entertaining too.  I am not as interested in style without
              content.
              of The Lost Ark genre.  Yes, I also hate art films that are
              boring and meaningless.  They should be meaningful and
              preferably entertaining too.  I am not as interested in style
              without content.  Pure style has its place but it's not for
              me.
        \_ I was disappointed with Mummy Returns as well.  Hopefully the 3rd
           installment will be much better (like the Indiana Jones trilogy).
           Have you seen Deep Rising?  That's another film my Stephen Sommers
           that I really enjoy, it's pretty much your ultimate big-budget
           B movie.