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Summer Lovin’: The Worst Moments of the Summer

September 2nd, 2008

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“The Yak Yaked,” THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR
It was hard to pick just one bad moment from the train wreck that was the third MUMMY film (the Yeti sequence was a very close second), but undoubtedly the sequence in the plan where not only does a Yak vomit for an unbelievable attempt at humor, but it’s promptly followed by a cut to an image of Johnathan covered in puke uttering the not even remotely clever line “the Yak yaked.” My soul died a little that day.

“The Ending,” INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL
The less I have to talk about this the better for you all, because it will just end up in a vitriolic rant that will make your toes curl. Regardless, if you’ve seen the film you don’t really need me to explain why the ending of INDIANA JONES qualifies as one of the worst moments in a movie this summer.


“Running in the Fields,” THE HAPPENING
Like the MUMMY, Shyamalan’s latest effort has no shortage of lame moments, but (SPOILER ALERT) none were dumber than when after it’s revealed that nature is what’s “happening,” there’s a sequence where a group of people try to run away from the wind in a widely open field. It’s not just the idiocy of the idea that the wind can be outrun, but that Shyamalan thought it would be a good idea in the first place.

“Exploding Rats,” WANTED
I did enjoy WANTED as an über-violent and ridiculous action extravaganza, but rats as bombs? That was almost as intolerably absurd as anything involving that pretty lame “Loom of Fate” thing.

“After the Credits,” THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE
The perfect antithesis to the awesome “after credit” sequence of IRON MAN, this one in THE X-FILES was just so completely out of place tonally from everything else, and just so unreal, it’s like David Lynch co-directed this utterly pointless, incongruous segment.

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