If you’re going to have a cute blond engineer in the cast, at least have her make some engineering decisions.
Deciding not to drill through solid granite with a hand auger is not an engineering decision.
Being terrified of a phantasm is…
The high point of the plot was the giant mechanical monster operated by real people pulling strings and pulleys up within the monster itself. (Now THAT’S engineering.) The giant mummy was pretty damn dull by comparison.
Although having little mummies pop out of the thing when it died was pure genius — is that how the big mummy worked? With little mummy people inside pulling pulleys and strings? Way cool — best part of the whole damn plot, if you ask me.
They should have spent more time showing how that monster thing-y was built. Time well spent, in my book. If you’re going to spend half your budget on building something, it’s only logical you spend more than a couple of frames on it in the final production.
Was the cute lady engineer secretly enticed by the bad angel to build this thing for him? Is that why we needed a real engineer in the cast? I WANT A REMAKE. Or at least a “how-this-film-was-made” DVD. Sequel??? P-lease….
The way Hollywood sees it, the Bible is a bottomless source of lame B stories that can be played by horrible actors in amateurish settings, but still — every single time! — these productions have a guaranteed audience of gullible idiots like me, and the damn thing pays off.
It’s little wonder why people no longer believe in religion any more, in any way, shape, or form.
What little pertinence remains for the Bible after liberals, archaeologists, scientists, engineers, politicians, and communists get through with it is obliterated on the silver screen so Hollywood can squeeze a few last cents out of the pitiful true believers.
What in tarnations will Hollywood do when religion is totally vanquished? Religion is the prime subtext in 85% of all films. That resonance will be gone, and so will Hollywood.
There will be no more lame settings in which to project a male-female romance. Gone will be the chance, in so doing, to imply that all romance is passe, antiquated, and just so irrelevant any more. Liberal Hollywood, you’re shooting yourself in the proverbial foot here.
You’ll always need the evil antagonists in your stories, and the Bible is the best source of chacters like that you’ll ever, ever find…
Tinsletown, can’t you see?
