Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhh
December 20, 2016 8:33 AM   Subscribe

Sometime in the past week, IMAX uploaded a trailer for the new Mummy movie. It was not quite the correct version. Don't miss some of the mashups in the replies.

It's since been taken down from Youtube but the cached version on Twitter still works.
posted by kmz (59 comments total) 14 users marked this as a favorite
 
It's oddly humanizing, because his screaming has the exact devoid-of-dignity tone I would expect to hear from myself if I was on a crashing airplane.
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 8:45 AM on December 20, 2016 [3 favorites]


That is very funny. I think I could watch an entire movie of that and it would be the funniest comedy movie of the year.
posted by straight at 8:46 AM on December 20, 2016 [1 favorite]




The Mummy: This time, it's a lady.
posted by Going To Maine at 8:53 AM on December 20, 2016 [1 favorite]


I watched this on my phone last night, and the effect may have been magnified by the tiny screen but all those extremely Cruisian big stunt scenes look completely unimpressive and goofy without the score and sound design to hold them up.
posted by Lyn Never at 8:53 AM on December 20, 2016 [3 favorites]


Yeah that looks like it only has the Music and Dialogue stems and no FX stem. Spend any time on a mixing stage and you're likely to hear "Ahhh aaaahhh" over and over, dry, as the mixer EQ's one line of dialogue at a time.

Actually in this case it's kind of awesome to hear how much straight up dreamy verb the trailer editors/mixers are throwing on some of those yells (and how dry other ones sound without the effects).
posted by SmileyChewtrain at 8:53 AM on December 20, 2016 [6 favorites]


Chris from Kotaku has the correct version.

Holy shit, that's...amazing.
posted by Lyn Never at 8:54 AM on December 20, 2016


The Mummy: This time, it's a lady.

And apparently Russell Crowe will be in it as Dr. Jekyll for some reason.
posted by Copronymus at 8:55 AM on December 20, 2016


Best of the web.
posted by Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug at 8:59 AM on December 20, 2016


And apparently Russell Crowe will be in it as Dr. Jekyll for some reason.

I don't see a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on the schedule for the Universal Studios Monster's Cinematic Universe, but presumably they think they might want one of those in the future.
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 9:00 AM on December 20, 2016


This reminds me of an incredible old video featurette for THX using the boat scene from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (with James Earle Jones narrating!) as a case study for audio design, showing isolated layers of production audio, foley, fx, music, and ADR. Really good stuff.
posted by SmileyChewtrain at 9:01 AM on December 20, 2016 [11 favorites]


There is a cynical part of me that thinks that this was done intentionally, in order to generate some viral buzz for a trailer that didn't exactly get a loving Internet reception when it originally hit.

For whatever reason (probably because I'm not a huge fan of the Brendan Fraser/Dwayne (the rock) Johnson Mummy movies, and I am a fan of the way Tom Cruise does action movies), I'm pretty stoked for this version, but there was hella haterade being poured on this trailer a couple of weeks ago.
posted by sparklemotion at 9:01 AM on December 20, 2016


I'm pretty stoked for this version

Go watch Dracula Untold, the cornerstone from which they were going to launch this amazing shared universe and you'll see why there's some cynicism.
posted by lumpenprole at 9:06 AM on December 20, 2016 [1 favorite]


I don't see a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on the schedule for the Universal Studios Monster's Cinematic Universe, but presumably they think they might want one of those in the future.

Clearly they had to get that locked down before Untitled Van Helsing Film is released in 2021 to worldwide acclaim and record box office returns.
posted by Copronymus at 9:09 AM on December 20, 2016


We're remaking movies from 1999 already?
posted by octothorpe at 9:10 AM on December 20, 2016


We're remaking movies from 1999 already?

This is what happens when people ignore the warnings about Peak Nostalgia.
posted by mordax at 9:18 AM on December 20, 2016 [5 favorites]


I'm not a huge fan of the Brendan Fraser/Dwayne (the rock) Johnson Mummy movies, and I am a fan of the way Tom Cruise does action movies

Looks like someone's not a Bembridge scholar.
posted by zombieflanders at 9:23 AM on December 20, 2016 [14 favorites]


Go watch Dracula Untold, the cornerstone from which they were going to launch this amazing shared universe and you'll see why there's some cynicism.

I thought the franchise cornerstone was supposed to be Yo, Frankenstein.
posted by straight at 9:34 AM on December 20, 2016


I hear Dracula Untold has been unshared from the cinematic universe.

Unfortunately, still no word on who will be playing Abbot and Costello.
posted by ckape at 9:39 AM on December 20, 2016 [5 favorites]


Aaaaaaaggghh is dialogue!
posted by spitbull at 9:42 AM on December 20, 2016


The Mummy: This time, it's a lady.

A really pale, white lady! Like a mummy from London!
posted by alex_skazat at 9:55 AM on December 20, 2016 [1 favorite]


We're remaking movies from 1999 already?

The Maltese Falcon was first filmed in 1931, then again in 1936 as Satan Met a Lady, and then again in 1941.

It's the 1941 version that we know.
posted by maxsparber at 9:57 AM on December 20, 2016 [10 favorites]


The Maltese Falcon was first filmed in 1931, then again in 1936 as Satan Met a Lady, and then again in 1941.

And don't get me started on Hamlet.
posted by lumpenprole at 9:58 AM on December 20, 2016 [5 favorites]


I really like the first Fraser Mummy film. It's real stupid, but it feels like someone had fun making it, rather than gritting their teeth as they made the edgelordeist product possible.

Also, Ardeth Bey 😍
posted by selfnoise at 10:18 AM on December 20, 2016 [16 favorites]


The Maltese Falcon was first filmed in 1931, then again in 1936 as Satan Met a Lady, and then again in 1941.


I scoff at your Maltese Falcon, and present some men in tights: Robin Hood (1912), Robin Hood (1935), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), The Bandit of Sherwood forrest (1948), The Prince of Thieves (1948), Robin Hood and his Merry men (1952), Sword of Sherwood Forrest (1960), Walt Disney's Robin Hood (1973), Robin Hood: The Movie (1991), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), Robin Hood (2010)
posted by greenhornet at 10:21 AM on December 20, 2016 [1 favorite]


TW: People who are having lunch and think it's safe to watch it because it won't be that funny and they won't inhale and choke on their food.
posted by Joe Chip at 10:22 AM on December 20, 2016 [1 favorite]


i don't understand why they would pretend this has anything to do with the 90s mummy movies. this is oFFENSIVE AND I AM OFFENDED
posted by poffin boffin at 10:22 AM on December 20, 2016


I scoff at your Maltese Falcon, and present some men in tights:

Not to mention the tale of Alan-a-Dale.
posted by maxsparber at 10:26 AM on December 20, 2016 [1 favorite]


So the premise is that the mummy has to uncover who stole the maltese falcon?
posted by beerperson at 10:31 AM on December 20, 2016 [3 favorites]


I really like the first Fraser Mummy film. It's real stupid, but it feels like someone had fun making it, rather than gritting their teeth as they made the edgelordeist product possible.

Honestly, even The Mummy Returns and The Scorpion King have their moments. I have infinitely more time for goofy, fun action movies set in places like 30s/ancient Egypt than I do for the trailer's apparent combination of Generic Tom Cruise Action Movie and Destroying an Iconic Anglosphere City.
posted by Copronymus at 10:39 AM on December 20, 2016 [3 favorites]


Twitter link is now stating that it's been pulled. Any other links? I couldn't get it to load at all when I first tried. Came back and it was gone.
posted by caution live frogs at 10:49 AM on December 20, 2016 [1 favorite]


greenhornet add: Robin and Marian (1976), and I'm on board.

One of these days Cruise is going to fall out of one airplane too many, and I'm going to be there to watch.
posted by mule98J at 10:49 AM on December 20, 2016 [1 favorite]


This Tweet from @Babylonian has been withheld in response to a report from the copyright holder.
Harrumph.
posted by Karmakaze at 10:50 AM on December 20, 2016 [1 favorite]


Oh, and this one seems still to be working.
posted by Karmakaze at 10:52 AM on December 20, 2016 [9 favorites]


Dracula Untold is one of the worst movies ever made.
posted by vibrotronica at 11:01 AM on December 20, 2016


Dracula Untold is one of the worst movies ever made.

I saw it and have literally no memory of it whatsoever.

Usually I remember movies pretty well.
posted by maxsparber at 11:10 AM on December 20, 2016


This is totally viral marketing, right?

I mean, I've had some pretty lackadaisical co-workers, but I can't imagine any of them uploading a video and not at least visiting the page and pressing play to make sure it made it.

On the other hand, that squeak from the woman as she leaves the plane.
Maybe it's just the long con for the Best Sound Editing Oscar.
posted by madajb at 11:49 AM on December 20, 2016 [1 favorite]


The only thing I remember about Dracula Untold is the amazing Toast article about it.
posted by kmz at 11:51 AM on December 20, 2016 [9 favorites]


It's definitely not viral marketing, as evidenced by the fact that the rights holders are yanking it from existence left and right with copyright claims.
posted by destructive cactus at 12:00 PM on December 20, 2016


I'm pretty convinced it's an honest mistake and/or someone who hates their job.

When it happens again in a month with a different movie, that one will definitely be viral marketing.
posted by ckape at 12:09 PM on December 20, 2016


It was those damn Thetans.
posted by Twain Device at 12:13 PM on December 20, 2016 [1 favorite]


I am a fan of the way Tom Cruise does action movies

I can't say I have a problem with Cruise in action movies, but it's approaching "Goddamn, do you have to be in everything?" status.

Is Cruise in some kinda Nick-Cage-owes-the-IRS-money situation? Is he just pissy that he's not in any of the Marvel/DC superhero flicks? Are Statham or Luke Goss on vacation someplace without cell coverage? What's going on here?
posted by soundguy99 at 12:22 PM on December 20, 2016 [2 favorites]


Is Cruise in some kinda Nick-Cage-owes-the-IRS-money situation?

I like to believe that he's just found his niche and just likes being that Jack Reacher/Ethan Hunt internally tortured high stress-in-a-high-tech-world kind of character. And I don't think I've ever not had fun* watching that particular incarnation of Tom Cruise.

The real reason probably has something to do with the corporate cultist stuff, but for some reason a certain amount of hanging off of buildings makes me not care about that so much. It probably also doesn't help that I saw Interview with a Vampire during a formative period in my life and so there's a part of me that just refuses to believe that Tom Cruise actually takes himself as seriously as his characters and the movies around them seem to.

*fun is not a guarantee of movie quality.
posted by sparklemotion at 12:41 PM on December 20, 2016 [2 favorites]


He should make more films like Edge of Tomorrow, where he gets to be sort of dick.
Also Les Grossman
posted by Damienmce at 12:56 PM on December 20, 2016 [2 favorites]


Soundly99 I literally looked at my husband during the preview and said, "Can someone else make a fucking action movie, or does Tom Cruise have to be in all of them?" just this week.
posted by Unicorn on the cob at 12:59 PM on December 20, 2016 [3 favorites]


At any rate, he's turning into Harrison Ford circa Crystal Skull territory with this stuff, IMO.
posted by Unicorn on the cob at 1:02 PM on December 20, 2016


Is he just pissy that he's not in any of the Marvel/DC superhero flicks?

He'd be a really good Cyclops.
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 1:06 PM on December 20, 2016 [6 favorites]


The only thing I remember about Dracula Untold is the amazing Toast article about it.

oh my god it's so beautiful

for reals it is a GR8 movie unless you are the kind of person who likes movies where people talk about their feelings and cry a lot, in which case you are incomprehensible to me and my exploding space robots
posted by poffin boffin at 1:25 PM on December 20, 2016 [2 favorites]


also the first time i saw the rock's mummy spinoff film i was in spain and let me tell you the film's greatness is only embiggened by it being called EL REY ESCORPIÓN
posted by poffin boffin at 1:27 PM on December 20, 2016 [10 favorites]


no word on who will be playing Abbot and Costello

My vote is for Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. "Pegg & Frost meet the Mummy", "Pegg & Frost meet the Wolfman", etc.
posted by fings at 1:39 PM on December 20, 2016 [6 favorites]


I watched Going Clear last night and Scientology recruitment is way down. Maybe Cruise being in everything is part strategy to keep him relevant as their most famous celeb?
posted by Jon Mitchell at 2:31 PM on December 20, 2016 [2 favorites]


your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to make The Room into a profound and moving film via sound effects and incidental music
posted by idiopath at 3:46 PM on December 20, 2016


Is Cruise in some kinda Nick-Cage-owes-the-IRS-money situation?

He's fifty-four years old, maybe it's a "proving you've still got it" kind of thing?
posted by octothorpe at 4:42 PM on December 20, 2016 [1 favorite]


Nah, it's just that he refused to be an action hero for so long in the beginning of his career, that now that's all he can do.

And yeah, the Frasier Mummy is one of those films I love and can watch again and again and again. It just works somehow. Magical.
posted by valkane at 6:32 PM on December 20, 2016


yes it is a terrible shame that they only made 2 of those films, a third one would have been nice but since it doesn't exist i guess we'll never know.
posted by poffin boffin at 8:59 PM on December 20, 2016 [1 favorite]


The only thing I remember about Dracula Untold is the amazing Toast article about it.

There’s also this Flophouse episode if you are podcasts-of-dudes-making-jokes inclined.
posted by Going To Maine at 9:25 PM on December 20, 2016


Holy crap, speak of the devil: An episode of dadfeelings about Dracula Untold with merritt k and Mallory Ortberg. Haven't even listened to it yet, but I'm sure it's going to be amazing.
posted by kmz at 9:26 AM on December 21, 2016 [1 favorite]


The problem with casting Cruise-calibre stars in a film is that, because the film then draws on the star's personal brand, the script gets distorted by their gravitational field; whether it's the star having enough clout to insist on getting things changed, or their presence and marketing value changing the writing/direction of the film to be primarily a vehicle for their brand.
posted by acb at 9:31 AM on December 21, 2016 [1 favorite]




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