you wanna know a secret? no one knows how the ancient egyptians mummified their bodies and they produced a whole imax film just to tell us that.
wow, theres a secret! and even after spending $11.25 i still dont know the answer to this secret. how lame.
sure its entertaining and you learn a lot of cool stuff. however, none of it is part of the actual secret. it was one of those slap in the face we just wrote a whole movie to tell you there is a secret but provides no solvency. some of you reading this might be sketched out about what i mean. well ill tell ya.
1) they kept saying over and over that the process of mummification is a secret, yet they were able to recreate a mummy and get information without somehow solving the secret. or did they solve the secret and not tell us? they certainly didnt tell us anything except honey was involved and that you can only get dna samples from the bones of the mummies and nothing else.
2) i think this was a science generated film. and i dont mean like historical science, i mean like basically the whole film was about finding out this secret so they can find out the dna to find out cures for now. so basically scientist propaganda about how mummies can cure cancer (sorry to be synical. im down for the whole lets check the mummies for info thing but not for $11.25 which i thought was being spent on historical mummies, not scientific mummies.
3) the historical name drop and dont say anything about them. ramses, all three generations, tutankhamun, and serious a few others which names escape me but i promise they said nothing other than the fact they found their mummies. comeone i thought the whole secret of the pharaophs was like gonna be about their personal secrets and mummies and tombs. apparently im mistaken.
4) ok this one ill admit was dumb but really bothered me. all the statues that ramses the great had built of himself featured him with a beard or goatee rather. however the young hot bod that they had playing him (in those rediculous flashbacks of him looking out onto the nile) had no goatee! im sure that back then, clean shaven was not the norm and im pretty sure although i could be mistaken that facial hair was a sign of wisdom or respect. that the man who could gow facial hair was truly the man or something. idk. not accurate on the facial hair department.
and 5) the completely expensive price for a movie that lasted 45 minutes and left me unsatisfied. it doesnt matter if its an imax film. its ridiculous. way to propagate me to stimulate my pockets scientists of america!
all in all. wait till you local imax theatre puts this on the 5 dollar film nights on tuesday during the summer or whatever.
