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What is with the mecha mummy thing!


Honestly...i didnt get what was up with the walking mecha mummy thing. It just kinda shows up...falls in a crater...and we are suppose to forget about. The heck was its point?

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Good question. Something may have been cut from the script that might have explained this. Pretty weird, though. Not something one sees very often.

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I just rewatched it recently, and there was some vague mention of the purple-robed fat guy cult making it to honor that which they worshipped.

Honestly though, it still doesn't make sense. I mean, the purple-robed fat guys were more worshippers of Amon than his nephalhim, as indicated by the fact that the only thing the head purple-robed-fat-guy says during the whole movie is "AAAAMMOOOONNN! ;-; "

I think it's just a peice of cluttered-up silly randomness resulting from late night drinking in the writing room.

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AND ... the way it was constructed, there was NO WAY those people could have animated the blasted thing. These guys are just hanging on to some sort of superstructure for the most part, there is no way for the thing to move under 'human power'. It was SERIOUSLY retarded and served no purpose....


Dr. Kila Marr was right. Kill the Crystalline Entity.

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Wasn't that walking hollow robot-like mechanical contraption just RAD and COOL?

Sure it was science fiction fantasy. But it supposedly operated on a complex system of integral rods, levers, multiple pulleys, and cables, all of which ostensibly greatly magnified the muscle power of the guys operating the lightweight hollow structure. Thus it was able to 'walk' in a slow, stalking motion but wasn't agile and couldn't make quick turning movements as it wasn't internally balanced properly.

Try your own experiment. Attach a heavy load to a block and tackle pulley system and operate it with a turning lever crank. You'll be amazed how the combination of pulleys and a lever enables you to easily lift the load which just one hand, that you couldn't even budge before with two hands and arms.

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I have no idea what it represented either but when I saw it the first thing that I thought of was Clive Barker's In The Hills The Cities which actually has two such characters! I must admit though, it was the highlight of the movie! Lol!

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The what?

This was a movie?

Huh.

I only watched Kristen Miller!!!

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