Universal Horror shared Universe (2017-soon)

Hmm, yes, you always have to consider little details like that. I anticipate at least a couple of scenes where people can't tell the difference between a mummy and a wrapped-up invisible man, as well. Particularly after the mummy has made himself invisible under his bandages. It will lead to philosophical thoughts of, well, what is the difference between a man and a mummy when you take off their wrappings and they're both invisible?

What if there were no monsters? Just a thought.

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in the final credits, Cruise realizes the monster was him all along.

Or maybe they could name the mummy Miscavige.

the thing I hate about these movies is that the supernatural leads are near-invincible so they're almost always defeated in lame ways

"OH NO YOU SAID THE MAGIC PHRASE ON THE BOTTOM OF THE CAMPBELL'S SOUP LABEL, MY POWERS ARE DRAINING!"

A Dracula falls asleep under a tree in 1869, he wakes up in 2019 and decides to run for President. And get this, his opponent is Van Helsing, who drives a stake through his heart during a debate. The rest of the monsters appear as pundits.

I don't agree that there's that many classic monster films, at least in this mode

what is "this mode"? no idea if Universal horror movies are considered to have a certain style. but there are many classic films, from the originals with Chaney & Lugosi, the iconic Frankenstein monster, etc. and the later era spin offs are even worth seeing (i saw Abbot & Costello recently, it was a riot). then you have 50s/60s Christopher Lee-Peter Cushing era monsters and gothic romance versions of Dracula, which continued into the 70s with many of the same actors and sets but in a post-Manson Family post-Rosemary's Baby world, when it kind of became more about murder cults.

is Hammer Horror really different than Universal i have no idea

What is the proper collective noun for multiple draculas?

more boobs...

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draculae

Adam- Worth seeing yes, but not many great films. And I say this as someone who's really really into all this stuff. Still some gaps to fill in like House Of Wax, Spanish Dracula, Tower Of London (Karloff version). I don't want to be exhaustive though, because there's a lot that nobody seems to like.

I would consider Hammer similar enough in their monster films.

xp, no, is it like, "A gaggle of draculas?" A pride? A herd?

An exsanguination of draculas, iirc.

(i saw Abbot & Costello recently, it was a riot)

There are at least six(?) Abbott & Costello Meet a Horrific Beast that Unaccountably Fails to Murder Them movies.

a mouthful of draculas

Collective noun
'Coven' has been used as a collective noun for vampires, possibly based on the Wiccan usage. An alternative collective noun is a 'house' of vampires.(128) David Malki, author of Wondermark, suggests in Wondermark No. 566 the use of the collective noun 'basement', as in "A basement of vampires."(129)

Wiccan usage, like those loons could even spell their own names

just reading up on this because I was finally subjected to the mummy trailer. these movies are going to be a money bonfire.

Let's all laugh at the Universal Dark Universe

i'm sure Frankenstein is going to be a superspeedy brute force killing machine that says monosyllabic one-liners

http://www.vulture.com/2017/11/universal-has-reportedly-given-up-on-its-monsterverse.html

You know what would be a really good idea? Rebooting the Universal Monsterverse! Think about it: Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolf-man, Bride of Frankenstein, Mummy, Invisible Man ... they're monsters! It writes itself.

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https://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/dark-universe-cast-may-2017_universal.jpg

What a hunk of high profile pop culture detritus that photo is.

really regretting my decision to watch the tom cruise mummy twice in the last three weeks now

would you rather watch some behind-the-scenes video of that photo shoot or eat a roll of tinfoil?

Noooooooo, now I will never see Stephen Dorff's Creature from the Black Lagoon team up with Kevin Corrigan's Dracula to battle Tom Sizemore's Igor!

Bizarro- why twice?

surely the live action Looney Tunes cinematic universe must be due soon

X-Men: First Class scribes Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz are going a little looney, and directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa may soon join them.

The power writing duo has been hired to write the untitled Acme movie project being developed by Warner Bros. At the same time, Ficarra and Requa, who directed Crazy Stupid Love for the studio, are in early negotiations to direct the project, which has its roots in Warners' classic Looney Tunes cartoons.

Steve Carell, who toplined Crazy Stupid Love, is attached to star in the project, which is being produced by Dan Lin and Roy Lee. The latter two were behind the mega-successful and franchise-launching The Lego Movie, and the studio and producers are envisioning the Acme project as an event movie that will also launch a franchise.

Plot details are being kept under an anvil, but the Acme Corporation is a fictional manufacturer of crazy and sometimes dangerous products (that also tend to malfunction at the most inopportune times) that are used by many a Looney Tunes character. The company's products are most commonly used by Wile E. Coyote in his never-ending quest to capture the Road Runner.

The movie, however, would not center on the Looney Tunes characters and is being planned as a CG/live-action hybrid.

from 3 years ago though :(

I finally saw Looney Tunes: Back in Action, and it was awesome.

There's an awful 90s video film that seems like the writers went on strike and the bosses had to write it themselves. Some of the worst garbage I've seen from a major company, like shockingly amateurish.

Space Jam was rad.

they should just remake that. it even has ironic/magic Bill Murray.

Bizarro- why twice?

first time was on a plane with a limited selection of movies i han't already seen, second time was with my wife who refused to believe my reporting of how shitty and tin-eared the introduction of tom cruise's character is - once we started watching she wanted to see how much worse it could get so i ended up sitting through the whole thing again

have we talked about cruise's intro itt? he and jake johnson are allegedly-charming special forces rogues who steal antiquities from the middle east. we meet them fighting isis for control of a site of historical and archaelogical importance. they get in over their heads and are only saved by calling in an airstrike which... atomises the site of historical and archaelogical importance

tfw when you aim to write a lovable han solo character and end up overshooting the mark and have him help isis achieve their goals instead :(

Gritty reboot of isis in syrian civil war universe