The New Mummy and Bad Movies

Just saw, for fun, a really, really, really bad movie: The Mummy 3: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.

omg. But hey, its in keeping with the China-ness.

The best part of the movie was the prologue part, the part without the god-awful actors! I mean, Brenden Fraiser did his best (i'll get to that phrasing in a bit), but Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh were the best in the movie. Oh, and Jon Hannah (Jonathan in the movie) too.

There were two big problems with the movie - and would you believe it? The plot isn't one of them. We'll start with the Script.

It was problem #1. The plot was ok, but the lines they gave them were just shit.

Now onto problem #2, the actors.

Rachiel Weis won an oscar, so didn't do the movie (or at least, thats the reason i assume), and got replaced by Maria Bello. She did her best, but her face was kinda odd, and her performance flat. I mean, flat. But she was nowhere NEAR as bad as Luke Ford (playing Alex) and Isabelle Leong (playing love interest and ninja, Ling). omg. awful. flat. terrible.

Here is my thing: there are talented actors out there. Actors that can take crap lines and, while not making them brilliant, making them less cringeworthy. And yeah, the lines were bad but John Hannah made these lines work! And Branden Fraiser to a lesser degree. There are actors out there that can make these lines work. So who the hell cast this movie?

Here's another question: do directors who make POS movies realise, when they are watching the final screening of their movie, that it sucks? or do they say, "wow, i made a great work of art"?

"The Condemned convict climbs the highest peak without fear" ~Chuang Tsu