This weekend droves of Americans flocked to the most recent installment in Brendan Fraser’s Mummy series, “The Mummy: The Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” like lambs to the slaughter. Even though we are as sick of the Nolan Brother’s “TDK” as the next guy, we were worried that in its third week it wouldn’t still have to juice to out perform the failing career of Fraser, whose only remaining fan base are Midwesterners who are convinced his cheesy one-liners are the coolest thing in the flickers.
But the kind of scary obsessive ‘Dark Knight’ fanboys did not disappoint, even though the numbers were extremely close, with “The Mummy” bringing in $42.5 million and “TDK” hauling in a ridiculous amount for a three week old movie, $43.8 million. We still died a little on the inside and will struggle to go forward in a world where we know that a respectable mass of Americans would willingly subject themselves to the third installment of a series that was only slightly better than “Dunston Checks In” when it came out ten years ago. But we guess such is the taste of the movie going audiences these days, and now we know why all our favorite indie filmmakers have fallen off the edge of the earth.