"The Mummy 3"-Hollywood Cold Burger

Thaddeus 2021-11-27 08:01:18

Yesterday, on the premiere day of "The Mummy 3", my sister and sister ran to Wanda to watch this long-awaited blockbuster movie. After "Kung Fu Panda" and "Red Cliff", I have been looking forward to seeing what the sequel to this story looks like after many years. The plot with a Chinese background makes me even more looking forward to its brilliant explosion in the 2008 World China Year.

However, as the film began, the enthusiasm began to fade. Hollywood's screenwriting software succeeded in making this third successful continuation of the plot routines of the first two. The unexpected resurrection of the underground mummy king, with a powerful unimaginable power, summons the undead underground to fight for it, arrogant. But no matter how powerful the king is, even if you are the first emperor, you have the immortal body, transformed into a three-headed western dragon, commanded thousands of terracotta warriors, and played with gold, wood, water, fire, and earth in your palms. The bad luck of combined killing.

America is powerful, Americans are powerful, and American heroes are even more powerful. Even an archeological family, even a family of three plus a Chinese prospective daughter-in-law and old relatives, can overcome all obstacles and kill the King of Qin invisible. This is all destined. You, the first emperor, won the world and immortality, but you should never go out of the ground to compete with this American death squad family. You will never be able to defeat it. It is not that the first emperor is not strong enough, but that the plot does not require you to win. Hollywood screenwriters do not allow you to win. The audience and "The Mummy" fans do not want you to win. Just like the Decepticons in "Transformers", even though they have become airplanes, they will never be able to beat Autobots running on the ground, just as the Green Demon, Dr. Octopus and Sandman will never be Spider-Man's opponents. All of this is arranged, just like a person knows that he will die after all when he is born, but the method of death is different.

The film has been filmed and it is released, and I have finished watching it. After reading it, there was some unspeakable taste, but I couldn't describe what kind of taste it was. Before the movie, my sister and I bought two hamburgers at McDonald's downstairs in order to catch the 5:40 show and planned to eat them in the theater. But when I entered the theater, I was told that it was strictly forbidden to eat foreign food in the theater. At the end of the movie, we took our burgers and returned to McDonald's to sit down and eat. The burger has been cold for a long time. I took a bite and suddenly realized that this movie is just like this cold burger. The taste is ordinary, not very delicious, and the most deadly thing is that it has passed the best period of eating.

In the 1990s, McDonald's entered China as a leader in foreign fast food. As a person who grew up in a small city, the first time I ate burgers was when my sister asked me at McDonald's when I came to Beijing. At that time, she had already made McDonald's the first snack, and she would go to raid every time. She told me to eat it. It's so delicious, so you're sure you haven't eaten it. Indeed, the first time I ate burgers, I felt that the taste was very different from Chinese food. In addition, I was young and curious. Later, as we got older, McDonald's KFC gradually became a kind of convenience food in life, only a kind of food that I had to eat when I didn't have time to eat or when I had an appointment with a friend at McDonald's KFC. In fact, if you can avoid it, try not to eat it as much as possible.

Today's "The Mummy 3" is just such a hamburger, too much to eat, the taste remains the same, even cold and tasteless. The outdated narrative, the old-fashioned plot, the uncomfortable American personal heroism, and the ever-growing computer stunt shots that can never satisfy the audience's visual excitement all have to make me angry. Recall that in 1994, the first Hollywood blockbuster "True Lies" landed in China, let Chinese people know Hollywood, let Chinese people open their eyes and mouths, let Chinese people feel the impact of Hollywood blockbusters. Ten years later, the Titanic sank, Private Ryan rescued, the Lord of the Rings was ruined, the Matrix revolutionized, Harry Potter was about to graduate, and Superman returned with Transformers, Batman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and King Kong. This big burger, this is a layer of cheese today, and a piece of chicken drumsticks tomorrow. Turn it over and sell it in a different way. We have to lie to us and say, "Buy it, buy it, this is a new one!" When we are stupid. ? ?

Hollywood movies, what do you want? ?

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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor quotes

  • Rick O'Connell: Here we go again.

  • Evelyn O'Connell: [speaking of Rick fishing] I'm so happy you found a hobby that doesn't involve guns.

    [takes a bite of the fish and spits out a bullet]