Let's all laugh at the Universal Dark Universe

Bride of Frankenstein, but also Frankenstein cuz she cannot decide on gender so he keeps taking out the stitches to swap out the junk.

Get thee to a Frankenhooker, Øystein.

omg

It's not quite what you describe but there are indeed some Frankensteinian gender-swapping hijinks in that acclaimed film.

universe where every1 is invisible xcept one guy and he is the visible man

Also it's Dark

"Truly, we humans were the real 'invisible man' after all."

"We have met the wolfman, and he is us."

'he who fights with universal monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a universal monster. and if you gaze long into a black lagoon, the creature also gazes into you'

"The only thing we have to fear is a dracula."

Knowledge is knowing that Frankenstein is not the monster. Wisdom is knowing that Igor is the bride.

lol @ bothering with this 'universe' crap for a load of long out of copyright characters

Ned probably started with that thread title, but crumpled it up

It was a process of experimentation

now i'm imagining ned working in the lab, late one night

Is anyone actually planning to see The Mummy?

*crickets*

even for slumming hollywood shit this is getting toxic reviews

It doesn't look even a little bit good or interesting. Universal's previous foray into Mummy-dom doesn't exactly give me any confidence that they're on the right track this time.

Not so much for the sake of enjoying a schadenfreudegasm (which is just a pleasant side-effect), but I kinda want this to die on the vine in the hopes that these studios will stop thinking they can grow some expansive franchise out of a single, untested seed.

i thought the first mummy reboot movie with brendan fraser was dumb fun, but there's nothing appealing about this one at all afaict

i only just found out russell crowe is in this as dr jekyll, which seems like a particularly egregious misuse of the shared-universe shoehorn

Whut

It's just kinda fucking dumb, too. Because he will surely only appear AS Dr. Jekyll, leaving us all to ponder HMMM WONDER WHAT WILL HAPPEN WITH THIS MYSTERY MAN IN THE FUTURE, OH THE MYSTERY OF IT ALL.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It was great working with @RussellCrowe on #TheMummy (even though we were kicking each other's ass). pic.twitter.com/ZfPOWb7pVL

— Tom Cruise (@TomCruise) June 7, 2017

I think you mean licking, Tom.

crowe's wearing one black glove in that fight scene so i assume he's already afflicted by monsterism

fuck i just remembered that benicio del toro's wolfman only came out a few years ago and tanked too - man, they're really intent on doing this until something, anything sticks, aren't they

xposts Oh, that's just Russell being Russell.

http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/259/034/857.jpg

Yes, and when this one turfs out...well, obviously Bride of Frankenstein is the one that was REALLY intended to kick off the franchise. Naturally.

I was joking earlier about them pulling their '50s sci-fi stuff into the mix at some point, but decent remakes of that stuff (and yes, a fucking "universe" if they must) would be infinitely more interesting than them cranking out the 5,819,392,492,813th Frankenstein movie in existence.

i feel like there's potential to update frankenstein to explore contemporary stuff like genome-editing and growing spare parts for humans from scratch but uh let's say i don't have a lot of confidence they'll want to take any interesting approaches to the characters

Looking forward to the 2024 slate of Renfield vs. Igor, Mohel of Frankenstein, and Abbott & Costello Fey & Poehler Meet the Scorpion King.

FTFM Universal.

Only very very tangentially related because Scorpion King but I just saw the comedy issue of GQ on the stands yesterday, featuring everybody's favorite funnyman Dwayne Johnson on the cover.

is that the one with the caity weaver profile of the rock? cuz that's a great piece (as caity weaver articles invariably are, tbf)

I couldn't say, as I never got past those bulging biceps or those dreamy eyes staring back at me from the rack.

Stare into them, deeply

http://media.gq.com/photos/5911e2845607d02ba9e29932/master/w_800/The-Rock-Cover.jpg

we're usually on the same page on pop-culture, old lunch, but if you're not on the dwayne johnson hype-train too i dunno if we can be friends anymore, i'm sorry

and the caity weaver hype-train tbh

Here's my hot Rock take (as I steer this train all the way off the rails): he seems like a swell dude and I like him just fine as a personality but I'm pretty unenthused about his presence in non-action movies (aside from his role in The Other Guys, which he will likely never top because how can you top one of the greatest moments in Western culture).

No beef with Caity Weaver!

I guess by that metric, Dwayne Johnson is partially responsible for one of my most hysterical laughing jags ever and so maybe he does belong in the comedy HOF after all.

Let's all laugh with Dwayne Johnson in the Universal Rock Universe.

If this Dark Universe thing does take off and he doesn't make at least a cameo reprising his role, I'll eat my hat.

the rock is the maybe closest we'll ever have to a real-life superman

i love him

In the new FastFurious, he leads a soccer team of 10 year old girls in a haka

Dwayne the Rock Johnson is entertainment itself

I think the nu-fast films are sorta insanely overrated and even I think the rock is a delight

Which means it'll instead be Hart & Johnson Meet The Scorpion King.

Universal has no idea how to make movies people actually want to see and I think the Fast & Furious franchise was successful on accident

Johnson is really good in a lot of things - I still maintain his performance in Pain & Gain was award-worthy, and Snitch didn't get nearly the audience it deserved. But I'm glad the Baywatch movie face-planted commercially.

The Rundown is an overlooked classic

Universal Horror shared Universe (2017-soon)

There was already a big thread.