The Mummy is great. It was one of the last films to truly celebrate the art of set building, reminiscent of the golden age of grand epics of the '50s and '60s, before the industry shifted towards green screens. But they didn't just shoot inside studio pavilions, there's a large variety of on-location shootings; they actually went to the desert, the cast and crew were actually there, sweating under the hot sun, and it shows. You watch some of these scenes, like the opening scene and think "they really didn't need to go this fricking hard and film like 200 extras riding on horses in the desert". But they did. It adds a layer of authenticity and scale that you just can’t replicate. Nowadays all of this would be entirely CGI.
The score is also great, very distinct, grand and bombastic; it perfectly captures the vibe and excitement of the exotic adventure.
Then there's the great chemistry between the cast. Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, they all just click.
So yeah, The Mummy is great, a truly thrilling adventure, and just a fun movie to watch. They don’t make 'em like that anymore.
This guy knows whats up
mummy milkers
Someone post that one cosplayer with the sexy egyptian cosplay, someone knows what I mean
he has the hands of a seasoned ricefield peasant
Clubbed fingers can be a sign of heart or lung disease
AI fingers
No his fingers are just fricked and expertly hidden on screen. Same as Anthony Stewart Head's demon-hand.
Johnson juxtaposition?
Flattened
wait a minute
wow, that picture is like, you need to bust one out after seeing it. Must be an Egyptian curse
>Anubis
I don't even care anymore, frick it.
Yaya Han?
thats a dude.
stop projecting your fantasies on sexy ladies
you spend too much time on the modern internet
>thats a dude.
No but she is a dyke!!!FACT!!!
hot
>got Weinstein'd so hard during her time in Hollywood that she retired from acting and went full dyke
surprised it doesn't happen more often, honestly.
She did some direct to tv SYFY movies.
I remember seeing her in one on that channel while channel hopping years ago. Had the armor from Starship Troopers in it as well.
>covering your wife in anti-tamper paint everyday
genius and kino I always wondered if Pharaohs really did this
Nah, they didn't have to cover their wives because they could trust their sister not to cheat.
Yep absolutely fantastic advenure film. There's so much fun to be had and so much heart behind the film.
This and Pirates of the Carribean are perfect modern adventure films
>modern adventure films
May I suggest a little more modern ones
I thought Sahara would be a fun adventure film based on the poster and trailer, but then I watched it and it's the most boring shit in the world, a perfect example of false advertisement.
What didn't you like about it? It wasn't a masterpiece but entertaining.
>he didn't enjoy the magic carpet ride scene
Come on man
Not seen either of these
Cheers bro
Matthew is my favourite actor and I’ve seen both of these like 300 times each
yikes
those are "ok" but not "great" like the mummy or pirates of the caribbean
dasryte
Rachel owes me sex
> ANCKSUNAMUN WOULD YOU PLEASE OPEN THE TOOOOOOOOOOOMB
i remember watched this on a movie theater and really thinking this film had a sense of adventure that was absent from movies back then.
Things only got a lot worse.
Steven Sommers doesn't get enough gigs imo
Deep Rising and Odd Thomas are underrated.
Van Hellsing killed his career because he had a complete carte blanche to do anything he wanted after the massive success of the Mummy films, but delivered a huge flop.
>huge flop
Van Helsing made double its budget
Lolno. Budget 170 million x2 for marketing. Made only 300 million. A huge flop.
This is another case of a needlessly overblown budget for a "surefire hit". The Mummy cost only 80 million and made over 400.
I personally enjoyed Deep Rising more than The Mummy, but that's just me.
None of the characters in Deep Rising have the charisma of the characters in The Mummy. Even Beni and the guy who gets Scarab'd outshines all the characters in Deep Rising. The lead in Deep Rising is practically a charisma void. And I say this as someone who enjoys Deep Rising.
I just liked the mash up of genres, which is present in The Mummy as well. I just enjoyed the Mad fish heist horror action comedy movie.
I also love mash-ups like that, which is why I thought I'd love Snyder's Zombie Heist or whatever it was called. But it had literally no heist elements in it and sucked as a zombie movie too.
Damn, I was wondering about that as well... any other films you'd might recommend? I'm okay with dumb.
That movie was weird. What with the robot zombie and all.
It's rare that you get a movie so bad that the fans of it make up moronic theories about different scenes taking place in different universes and it will all make sense once the whole trilogy or whatever is done and you get to cut the different movies up and stitch them back together to new movies that make sense.
"Now What?"
Rip Treat
I agree, The Mummy is a great and very soulful movie.
I actually like it more than Indiana Jones 2 and 3.
I like it more than indiana jones period
ayo hol up
so yo be sayun
we wuz kangz n shieet
It’s very iconic but not particularly great. The second one sucks.
moron, it's a great film
the mummy is great but returns sucks hard
Returns is also good. Or rather the first half of it. The first half is great, the second half they kinda rushed it and it has too much cgi, so because of that it's just good.
The second half is pretty meh but the ending with Imhotep being betrayed is kino of the highest order. Few movies manage to make you feel so much for the villain with so little. With that one thing you realise that he really was motived by love this whole time and it makes you wonder whether all the bad stuff was just down to those butthole priests putting the curse on him. Like, was he actually forced to suck the juices out of those guys because the curse stipulated that it had to happen?
>was he actually forced to suck the juices out of those guys because the curse stipulated that it had to happen?
Yes, but also he did want power and sized what he could in life and after his cursing. But his main motivation was love. It was the court THOT that was the duplicitous one.
Imhotep is a great antagonist because he did nothing wrong. In Returns in particular I like how he basically became the deuteragonist that we follow throughout the film, a very kino writing move. They are now the two sides of the dame coin with Rick, both are chosen ones following their love in the face of a new threat, with very different outcomes.
It's like Arnold Vosloo was born to play this part, you absolutely cannot imagine anyone else in this role. I remember as a kid I was shocked to hear him speak english because to me he just blended into the role.
Yea it was gold star casting. He was menacing when he wanted to be, but he always had that look when doing the romance scenes.
Rick is also perfectly cast.
Brendan was so fit for the adventure format, it is too bad his body just could not keep up. Well that and the b***h of an ex wife.
Yeah Brendan unfortunately can never go back to the role, even in the aged character perspective. It's not a matter of getting into shape, his very physiognomy got changed over the years of relentless Justing.
He had a lot of injuries on the set.
Injuries heal, justing is forever.
wtf is "justing"?
holy tourism, batman
He still looked good in mummy 3
Mummy 3 was before the Justing
>you absolutely cannot imagine anyone else in this role.
Plenty of people imagined someone else in the role, though.
Billy is great but no. First of all he doesn't have that vague Med look that Arnold has, who was born in Africa. Secondly Billy would just chomp on that script whereas Arnold has a lot of subtlety.
It was a joke, anon. So many people literally imagined him in the role that he had to put "Not The Mummy" in his bio.
>Arnold Vosloo
What the frick. All this fricking time, I thought the mummy was Billy Zane. WHAT.
you got ZANE'd
>AARGH SAVE ME Black personMAN I'M GOING INZANE
NAAAAAIIIIII
Monkeys in hell have been recording videos. This is a sight, can you believe this? The gore is making movies in hell.
bot post?
It's one of those things that makes too much sense buddy, it turns back around and stops making any sense. I've been organizing cold tears of the lost under the dim light of the orange moon and weeping stars in hell where all I hear are whispers of a scream in hell.
NANI
Crazy how Mummy also created the one Scorpion King movie, probably the best not-Conan the Barbarian ever made. It somehow managed to copy an established IP while being sufficiently original, less so than Mummy I guess.
They literally have nothing in common other than the Rock. They were probably making a Conan reboot but then decided to use the Mummy IP.
Come on now bro, its a Conan movie tweaked to fit the Mummy canon, the same way Mummy is a Indiana Jones movie.
Still his best movie too.
“I…….STAND ALONE……”vnak
Agreed, he doesn't need much dialogue, his body language does all the work
The second one is good because it allows Darryl Hannah to shine.
you mother fricker
>you mummy fricker
fixed that for you
BIG
CURSE
>reminiscent of the golden age of grand epics of the '50s and '60s
Absolutely this, you exactly articulated my thoughts about this movie. Any other movies like this one? I've been digging and it's like lightning in a bottle.
At least Returns is not *spits* the 3rd film.
Returns is almost great as is, 3 doesn't exist. It's erased from the collective conscience.
All I can remember from 3 are the yetis that kick a field goal and then look at each other and celebrate
>were actually shooting in the sahara
the absolute madmen
I'd fricking hate it if I became an actor and had to just shoot movies in green screen warehouses instead of going around the world for scenes.
You might hate it but I willing to bet all the other actors love it (because they're lazy hacks)
this and LOTR are so depressing to watch knowing that everything has only gotten worse since then
To me the mummy and returns are pretty much the true successors of the adventure genre in the vein of Indiana Jones. There´s been others of-course but it´s as if the genre slowly faded away in the same way fantasy or even action movies did... cinema´s lost much of it´s whimsical nature and it´s kind of depressing.
I've been calling The Mummy "the best fourth Indiana Jones film we'll ever get" for the last 20 years and it's still true.
Despite the influence being very obvious and them even being set in the same time period generally, it's amazing how distinct they are, nobody ever called The Mummy "an Indiana Jones rip off".
Gem
yeah
HAMUNAPTRA
Noo
it's over
Poor guy. He endured an eternity of torment and was willing to turn earth into hell just to be with her and she just left him fall into the underworld to try and save herself (and pathetically died not 10 seconds later)... i mean what else could he have done? what else did he have to give? what else does anyone have to give?
Plus he was fit and a lvl 99 dark sorcerer/ necromancer. I mean... come on lady. Granted she was hot as frick too so she could have had her choice of simps but none that could have made her queen of the world.
>rationalizing women
Ngmi
Let's be real here, she's probably the Pharaoh's sister.
MOMMY
How do we go back?
>Rachel Weisz
She made my little peepee diamonds.
For me it's when he throws the chair at Beni
its amazing how this movie can be all dark and serious yet has hilarious shit like this at the same time. Capeshit doesn't even come close to this gem
>mfw that whole riverboat scene in the first movie
For me it's when he scares Immy off with a cat
for me its jonathan and winston
that poster really sucks, believe it or not the face in it was a physical prop
HIDALGO
Shiet, da kween.
BIG
NIG
yeah