{"id":3599,"date":"2012-07-27T22:05:03","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T02:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=3599"},"modified":"2012-07-27T22:05:03","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T02:05:03","slug":"friday-b-movie-pick-the-scorpion-king-3-battle-for-redemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/movies\/friday-b-movie-pick-the-scorpion-king-3-battle-for-redemption\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday B-Movie Pick: The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B005TK0MFE\/eclipsswebwarren\"><strong>The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This turkey could fly about as well as the one the WKRP staff had shoved out of helicopter. The &#8220;name&#8221; actors in this were Ron Perlman and Billy Zane. I can only hope they did this because they needed the money for their kids&#8217; braces. Bad script, bad acting, low budget, all the elements of a hack B-Movie are here. The one plus is that they shot in Thailand, so they got the elephants cheap. Just how a the main character and his Germananic barbarian sidekick made from the desert to Thailand is kinda glossed over. Don&#8217;t ask how the Roman soldiers , with the overly long swords, made it there either. Really, that is easier to buy into than the Forest Ninja. Yes, I said Forest Ninja. Really, by this point in the film, you&#8217;ve given up on any hope of good movie and are along for the ride.They don&#8217;t explain why the Book of the Dead was in Thailand either.\u00a0There are worse movies you could watch, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0006A9IOS\/eclipsswebwarren\"><strong>Cyberjack<\/strong><\/a>, but really, do yourself a favor and rewatch old epiodes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=3021\">UFO<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=2249\">Firefly<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=2425\">Babylon 5<\/a>. \u00a0I&#8217;m not kidding here,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/snl.jt.org\/char.php?i=31\">Leonard Pinth-Garnell<\/a> could do a special on this flick.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/EWW\/goodreading\/Friday_Movie_picks.html\">Friday B-Movie Pick Archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption This turkey could fly about as well as the one the WKRP staff had shoved out of helicopter. The &#8220;name&#8221; actors in this were Ron Perlman and Billy Zane. I can only hope they did this because they needed the money for their kids&#8217; braces. Bad script, bad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[344,538],"class_list":["post-3599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-friday-b-movie","tag-movie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-W3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}