{"id":1001378,"date":"2008-09-07T21:19:48","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T02:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1001378"},"modified":"2008-09-07T21:19:48","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T02:19:48","slug":"the-mummy-returns-but-probably-shouldnt-have-bothered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/pop-culture\/movies\/2008\/09\/07\/the-mummy-returns-but-probably-shouldnt-have-bothered\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mummy Returns (but probably shouldn&#8217;t have bothered)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally caught <cite>Tomb of the Dragon Emperor<\/cite> yesterday. Moving the story to China insead of Egypt, and finding a new mummy was a nice change of pace. Maria Bello was a definite improvement on Rachel Wesiz (if not quite as easy on the eyes) and Brendan Fraser was, well, Brendan Fraser. <\/p>\n<p>However the basic rule for these sorts of movies is that they need to move so fast that you don&#8217;t have time to notice all the holes in the plot. <cite>Tomb of the Dragon Emperor<\/cite> didn&#8217;t quite achieve sufficient speed to lift off. Just when you thought it would; there&#8217;d be a long boring sequence that gave you time to catch your breath and start laughing at how silly the whole thing was. If you haven&#8217;t seen it yet, don&#8217;t bother. It&#8217;s not worth the $10. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally caught Tomb of the Dragon Emperor yesterday. Moving the story to China insead of Egypt, and finding a new mummy was a nice change of pace. Maria Bello was a definite improvement on Rachel Wesiz (if not quite as easy on the eyes) and Brendan Fraser was, well, Brendan Fraser. However the basic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}