Like The Mummy 2017, everything we’ve been covering up to this point has lead us here. The Dark Universe has had its fair share of failures but none quite as spectacular as the 2017 reboot/sequel/franchise launching Tom Cruise vehicle The Mummy. With Universal pumping nearly 200 million dollars into the budget including a brand new logo and the reveal of it’s upcoming film slate in a hilarious promo photo featuring the likes of Javier Bardem and Johnny Depp this outing was nothing but an unmitigated disaster. And thats’s why we love it. Not the movie but all the stuff around it. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review

We’ve all been having the best time revisiting different failures within the Dark Universe. This week it’s Dracula Untold, a thinly veiled attempt to turn Dracula into a comic book action hero. Which is weird because Dracula already exists in both the Marvel and DC Universes. Anyhoo Luke Evans stars as Vlad The Impaler, a kind and gentle family man who just wants to forget the time he literally impalled 1000 people. BUT THEN an man from his past returns to get all the boys and Vlad’s like “NO WAY” and he turns into a Dracula. Other things happen but that’s the main thrust of it. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review

In 2010 Universal took another step towards rebooting the Dark Universe with a straight shot at a remake of the 1941 classic The Wolf Man starring Lon Chaney Jr. This time starring Benecio del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt and Hugo Weaving and with the late addition direction of Joe Johnston it does manage to capture some of the magic of a classic monster movie. But also it’s not that good even though Mason liked it. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review!

In 2004 Universal attempted the impossible, recreate the success of The Mummy reboot from 1999 using the classic monsters of old. At it turns out that was impossible and would continue to be so until The Invisible Man in 2020. Over the next four weeks we’re going to take a look at a series of movies that each tried to start their own Dark Universe incorporating classic movie monsters. This week it’s Van Helsing from 2004 starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale which pits Gabriel Van Hesling against a really bizarre version of Dracula. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review

To the surprise of most, Percy Jackson 2010 actually got a sequel in 2013’s in Sea of Monsters. Sure the originally director didn’t come back or a bunch of the original actors including horse Pierce Brosnan but the core trio of Percy, Percy’s friend and Percy’s another friend. This time they’re on a quest for the Golden Fleece which they’re going to use to heal a tree that makes a forcefield that used to be a girl. And Luke’s back if you remember him! Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review

In the midst of Harry Potter fever every studio was looking for their own potential young adult franchise to bring to the big screen. In 2010 20th Century Fox settled on Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series, beginning with Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. They even brought on board Christopher Columbus, the director of the first two Harry Potter movies. Sadly the magic wasn’t replicated and what we got was a muddled half hearted attempt of an adaptation that fell short in almost every way minus the incredible cast of barely trying known names. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review

If there’s one this 2012’s Prometheus needed, it’s some explanations for what the hell just happened. And if there’s one other thing it needed was to be exactly like the movies Alien and Aliens. The solution to both ended up being the 2017 sequel/prequel Alien: Covenant. Doing away with the previous lead character Elizabeth Shawit follows a new crew of expendable and stupid human beings who run afoul of Michael Fassbender’s David along with the Xenomorph. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review!

The Alien franchise was flagging after the middling reception of the previous few entries including a crossover with the Predator franchise. In an effort to bring back both the prestige of Alien and Aliens plus the fan base Ridley Scott returned to the series with Prometheus. Set up as a prequel of sorts with echo’s of future entries it assembled a steller cast, the help of Lost’s Damon Lindelof and a huge budget. To this day it sits as an odd entry to failed to deliever on its promise but not without it’s high points. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review

It’s our final entry in our ‘That’s a comic book movie?!?’ series! And we’re taking a look at an entry that’s barely an entry, 2013’s Oblivion. This is the first pairing of Tom Cruise and Joseph Kosinski who’d later reteam in the much more successful Top Gun: Maverick in 2022. Set in the apocalyptic future of 2077, there’s a big triangle in the sky telling Tom Cruise what to do which you’d think would be fine but it might be bad actually. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review

It’s time for another look at a comic book movie that you might not think is a comic book movie! We’re tackling Bulletproof Monk from 2003, the Chow Yun-fat and Sean William Scott lead action comedy that we discover is completely servicable and forgettable as a movie about a magic scroll that gives you some magic. The fight scenes are okay! The cast chemistry is okay! And the story is okay! What more could you want from a movie nobody has seen or ever talked about. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review

We’re back with the next installment of our look at Comic Book Movies that people might not know are comic book movies! This week, the Pamela Anderson 1996 action vehicle Barb Wire. Based on the comic of the same name published under Dark Horse and Comics Greatest World it sees Barbara “The Wire” Kopetski facing a distopian nightmare future in the far flung future of 2017. And for a movie that isn’t great it sure has it all. Fights! Motor bikes! Explosions! An extended stripping scene whilst Pamela Anderson gets hosed down for a really long time! What a time to be alive. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review

TIMECOP. Sorry I’m getting ahead of myself. Basically we like the idea of doing a series of videos on movies that you didn’t realise were based on comic books. And in the first of four weeks we’re taking a look at peak JCVD (Jean-Claude Van Damme), Timecop. A movie about a man who’s both time and cop determined to stop financial criminality across the centuries whilst not really bothering with the actual ramifications. You can kill whomever in Timecop, it’s totally fine don’t worry about it. Hell of a movie though. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review.