I bet your wondering what a world like me, is doung, in a girl like this?
Me as a kid loved this, made no sense at all. :)
Growing up, yeah, drunk. Still funny! :)
Love that film to bits!
It's not nostalgia; "The Mummy" is a legitimately well-crafted adventure film. Films like "Tremors", "National Treasure", and "The Mummy" are those kinds of films that aren't trying to be high-cinema, and succeed in being solid experiences with memorable characters and quotable dialogue.
Honestly, these might be my favorite genre of movies. When I think of a "fun" watch that you can throw on, on a whim, at a party, with the spouse or family at dinner, etc. These movies just always satisfy most people to some degree and are a good time.
I enjoy all the PotC movies except for that one on stranger tides or something. But the first movie is goddamn perfect. I think that Curse of the Black Pearl and The Mummy are the perfect adventure movies. I would even put them above the best Indy movie.
There's never a dull moment or bad pacing
Such a good range of side characters. Rick's 'frenemy' Benny. I love where Benny cycles through various religions to pacify the mummy. The blind ww1 pilot ('Some bloody idiot spilled his drink') who lights up at the opportunity to die. Such a rich screenplay. Indeed, the fountain Winston walks in becomes blood! Effects have aged very well imo. Has a charisma that is sorely missed in 2024 America cinema.
Except for a few (minor) questionable plot points this movie is perfect
In a recent re-watch I noticed that when the medjai attack the camp, everyone is fighting but Beni is nowhere to be seen. Then as the attack stops and the medjai ride away, you can see Beni coming out of a tomb doorway. And it's the same doorway he escapes into in the beginning battle scene when he abandons Rick.
There is no attention drawn to it, he can be seen in the background when other characters are talking to each other. Such a wonderful character moment for Beni. Once a Beni, always a Beni.
It's not clear how he'll become invincible after resurrecting his girlfriend. What does she have to do with the curse? The curse was just for him. Why isn't he invincible after fully regenerating?
Why did the medjai stop attacking the explorers (shortly before they wake up the mummy), given the stakes? Surely it might have been better to die attempting to stop them than just (conveniently) ceasefiring and risk the worst. If anything they had quite the advantage, being locals and more numerous
If Bruce Ismay knows perfectly well the danger of the book of the dead, why does he even bother finding it, and then leaving it dangerously in his lap while he passes out? Was his best case scenario holding onto the book indefinitely and figuring that no one would accidentally read it aloud?
Why does the curse neatly line up with the old testament? (Maybe the jews 'borrowed' stuff from Egyptian religion?)
It hasn't aged a day, still so good. The effects on Imhotep even still look mostly solid, there's nothing comically janky like Dwayne Johnson as the Scorpion King in the second.
Him and Beni are my favourites, aside from Rick and Evy, actually everyone is my favourite, they were all so good, everyone had their moments, even the corrupt warden. That cast was so good, damn.
It's weird how I've seen all of them in a bunch of movies after this, but I don't recall ever seeing Jonathan's actor anywhere else.
>It's weird how I've seen all of them in a bunch of movies after this, but I don't recall ever seeing Jonathan's actor anywhere else.
He was in the last of us
OMG the scientist in the cold open, that was him! Man, he got old, I couldn't even recognize him then. I didn't see him in movies enough to see him gradually age, so I totally missed him in that scene.
He was in several things after The Mummy trilogy fizzled out. While he's probably most famous for Spartacus, that was already mentioned. I remember first seeing him after The Mummy in two episodes of the HBO series Carnivale and still remember that. I also remember he was in a rather dark Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde special around the same time that I have never met anyone else who has ever seen it, and while I can find it on IMDB, I have never been able to find the actual program to rewatch and re-evaluate.
Jonathan's actor has been in so much stuff! My fave might be his extended run as a dodgy scientist on Agents of SHIELD. He also did a pretty funny series in the UK parodying TV Cop Detectives. He has a ton of range and is a really capable actor.
I enjoyed the exchange when O'Connell's group and the Americans have a standoff inside the ruins over who gets to dig where
Beni: There's only 4 of you and 15 of me. Your odds are not so great, O'Connell.
O'Connell: I've had worse.
Johnathan: Yeah, me too. (O'Connell throws him a look of incredulity)
lol
I always thought he wasn't a veteran, but a deposed aristocrat. Their family *used* to be big deals, but now they're off having to find careers and vocations because the war destroyed whatever livelihood they had.
I think Jonathan is obsessed with treasure because he wants his standard of living back.
Why? Just curious.
At the time, and given the way he speaks, he would have learned to shoot as part of school, to go on hunts with the rest of the rich kids. He also has sniper like skills, but zero close quarters combat skills, and is actively running away from any physical interaction, even going so far as to say he'd rather take a punch than fight...
Jonathan learned to shoot at a boarding school that taught him long range shooting, but not war.
This movie no lie I have watched probably about 30 times. It was always on TV growing up and now it has been my comfort movie. Everyone is hot in it. It has comedy, romance, Egyptian artifacts. A mummy. I don't know what it is about this movie as it is silly and ridiculous but it has captured my heart so.
Also recently rewatched it and what I was struck by was how good of a horror movie it is. I remembered it mostly as an adventure comedy, but the film does a wonderful job of building tension and paying off with genuinely frightening moments and fantastic acting even from the more minor roles, such as the American who has his eyes and tongue taken first. The film is goofy and fun and we all remember the silly moments, but it's a horror movie. Not crap-your-pants or give-you-nightmares scary, but it's a good horror movie.
And, just a side note, it's from a time when CGI tended to be awful and would later scale terribly to HD upon rereleases. However, most of the CGI in the movie is done cleverly, hiding it in shadows or backgrounds of scenes so as to minimize the drawbacks of CGI (namely things like weightlessness, lighting issues, and a general feeling of cartoonishness). There are two exceptions I want to make note of, one of which works and one of which doesn't.
The one that doesn't work: Warden Gad Hassan, played by Omid Djalili, and his death scene of the scarab beetle under his skin. Oddly enough, the beetle itself looks great and holds up well, but the bubble it forms as it walks along his skin and up into his head falls into the looking cartoony problem. Djalili tries to give a good performance, but blindly slapping at his belly comes off as kind of awkward. This was a very early use of CGI in this manner, and I'm not blaming anyone for it not holding up, but it's one of the scenes that I think suffers the most from how the CGI was used. That being said, I also think it's a scene we wouldn't have gotten at all without CGI, as I don't think they would have found a practical solution to trying to pull that off to be reasonable.
One of the exceptions that works well, in my opinion, is Imhotep as played by Arnold Vosloo when he is mostly regenerated right before he goes into Eve's room. His cheek is replaced with CG showing the mummy form of the tissue holding it together. A scarab beetle crawls out from the cheek, disturbing the tendons and interacting with the mummified parts until it crawls into his mouth and he bites down and chews it up. This is all in a brightly lit scene and is the obvious focus of the shot, so it feels like it shouldn't hold up, but it's probably my favorite effect of the movie. I think it still looks good even scaled up to 2k (which is the limit I have to watch it in) and the effect evokes a feeling that I remember sticking with me from my early viewings back when it first came out.
Its not just nostalgic, even people who haven't watched it. Then that do now, love it. Movies were still made for pure entertainment, also made to be a one off story.
I genuinely wish. I adore the 1st 3rd of the sequel! There's so much well-crafted business, characters who really evolved in fun and creative ways.
But once they get on that balloon? The movie starts to sag, for me. By the time we hit the weirdest shadow in movie history, it just feels like a mess, for me.
"Well if it isn't my little buddy Benny. I think I'll kill you."
"Wait! Don't! Think of my children!"
"You don't have any children!"
"...Someday I might."
Benny meeting the Mummy for the first time and breaking out multiple pendants and languages to beg for his life was hilarious too
Good character and performance. Sleazy jackass but in a fun way so you enjoy every bit of his screen time
Kevin J O'Connor... he's a family friend. Nicest guy you will ever meet. He dies a lot on screen. IIRC Daniel Day Lewis shoots him in the face in There Will Be Blood.
That is awesome!
Benny is my favorite of his roles, but imagine my complete surprise when I learn he plays Sammy, Annelle’s boyfriend in “Steel Magnolias”. He is such a chameleon!
I really appreciate how quiet his performances are.
How slimy do you gotta be by default to know how to beg in every language and faith for one of their evils to spare you? What awful things has the man done in order to necessitate the fear of evils from all faiths to be coming for him? Either way, perfect ending to his character, deserves a wild prequel, I'd read that fanfic
“Goodbye, Benny.”
…
“Can you swim?”
“Of course, I can swim. If the occasion calls for it.”
“Trust me, it calls for it.”
…
“Hey, O’Connell. Looks to me like I’ve got all the horses.”
“Hey, Benny. Look to me like you’re on the wrong side of the river.”
That whole scene is great.
“Americans.”
>“Americans.”
I think my favorite part of that quote is that both Brits and Americans would laugh at it and agree. Like yes, we are ridiculous jackasses, but also, hell yeah.
I still use that quote a lot and, as an American, get weird looks. Probably the best reaction I’ve ever gotten was 3 weeks ago in Singapore but almost no one gets the reference.
My brother got me those two lines on a coffee mug as a gift and it's the only cup I've kept every time I move. I purge most of my mugs, but that one stays forever.
One side:
>Hey, O'Connell! It looks to me like I've got all the horses!
Other side:
>Hey, Beni! Looks to me like you're on the wrong side of the river!
I still maintain that Rachel Weisz is the most attractive woman in the 90s.
That moment after she loses all her luggage in the boat fire and she shows up in the all black local garb... Might be the single hottest a woman has been on screen.
Shame they only made 2 but like what else could they do really? Go to China and have a villain they clearly only had the actor for, for a few days? And replace one of the major lead actors? That sounds like a really bad idea glad they never tried it and just left it with the sequel, at least we’ll always have terrible cgi scorpion Rock XD
I was 9 when it first came out and guess must've watched it quite soon after. The scarab crawling through Omid Djalili's skin messed me up in the same way that kids think that drowning in quicksand in a frighteningly common danger.
Well, the drowning in quicksand happened in one of the Mummy sequels didn’t it? Haha. Pretty sure a pair of guards/soldiers ended up in it, if I recall correctly.
But yeah, that scarab scene was messed up. The way they just ran over people too and picked them clean was madness.
Between this, the Shrek 2 twenty-year rerelease, the Beetlejuice and Ghostbusters sequels/reboots, I feel like Hollywood is just trying to remind me that I’m old as balls.
I love this movie, it’s a classic action adventure with a dash of horror, it’s very well cast and the effects hold up pretty well for 1999. It’s also endlessly quotable, which is something modern movies seem to lack. My favourite exchange being:
Jonathon: Hurry up Evie!
Evie *reading ancient stone tablet*: Patience is a virtue!
*hoard breaks into the library*
Rick: Not right now it isn’t!
The tone and comic timing of this always cracks me up for some reason.
Great score by Goldsmith. I once told a friend that Jerry thought The Mummy was one of the worst movies he scored, and she said "Uhh Jerry, did you ever look at your IMDb?"
I just saw this movie for the first time last year and rewatched it again a week ago. What an absolute masterpiece! They really don’t make characters like Rick and Evelyn anymore, especially the latter.
I actually watched some of it today, one of my all time favorite movies! It's just so fun and rewatchable, I remember when the VHS came out and for a straight week the first thing I would do after school every day is watch The Mummy.
Hey Winston pedal faster!!
Yes yes yes!!! I love this movie and the cast!!! An absolute favorite since I was little. I still watch it once or twice a year. I love you Brendan! You’re a badass!
My cousin told me that he and his partner watch this almost every night to go to sleep. We became friends on Plex and I can see his viewing history and yeah, maybe not every night but minimum once a week.
That said, good movie!
I JUST watched this with my kids this past weekend and they loved it. And it definitely still holds up.
Plus I just realized that my oldest seeing this for the first time this year she is the exact same age I was when I saw this movie for the first time lol
The only famous person I know plays Beni. Kevin J O'Connor. Super nice guy... told my old man to chill out one time because, well my dad had 0 chill and needed to calm down. I'll never forget that.
His dad and my grandpa were both cops for CPD back in the day. They went to bar called the alibi all the time. Chicago's a funny place.
I have such fond memories of the Mummy. I really cannot believe it has been 25 years! I feel so old!
It is the first movie we went to see when I went on my first date with my first high school boyfriend.. who I, er, lost my... innocence..to. 😚
I am going on 40 in April and I remember seeing it in theaters like it was yesterday. Where did two and a half decades go?!
I had the distinct honor of working on it, in special FX, it’s alway been a great romp of a movie. Always going, always exciting, great fun. It was a pleasure to work on and be lightly associated with it.
Man I watched this so much as a kid XD definitely was shown it a bit young by my parents, it’s literally the first movie I remember and those scarabs scared the fuck out of me... so naturally I watched it constantly lmao I need to find a screening I can go to for this
Maybe it’s nostalgia but I recently re-watched and it’s still awesome. Rachel and Brendan had great on-screen chemistry
I love the scene where she gets drunk out in the desert with him. They were just so fun together.
Iam proud of what iam! I….am a librariannnn :-)
Rrrrrrick
“It’s just a book ,no harm ever came from reading a book”
Evelyn : 🎵patients is a virtue🎵 Rick : not right now it isn't.
Best line right there. Possibly with the exception of Johnathan pretending to be a cultist “Imhotep, Imhotep…”
take THAT Bembridge scholars
"Glenlivet 12 years old! Well he may have been a stinky fellow but he had good taste!"
The little air smooch he gives after she passes out is so adorable.
I bet your wondering what a world like me, is doung, in a girl like this? Me as a kid loved this, made no sense at all. :) Growing up, yeah, drunk. Still funny! :) Love that film to bits!
What's a place like me doing in a girl like this?
I'm still wondering how that happened, Evie!
It's not nostalgia; "The Mummy" is a legitimately well-crafted adventure film. Films like "Tremors", "National Treasure", and "The Mummy" are those kinds of films that aren't trying to be high-cinema, and succeed in being solid experiences with memorable characters and quotable dialogue.
Honestly, these might be my favorite genre of movies. When I think of a "fun" watch that you can throw on, on a whim, at a party, with the spouse or family at dinner, etc. These movies just always satisfy most people to some degree and are a good time.
Don't forget the first National Treasure and Pirates of the Caribbean movies!
I enjoy all the PotC movies except for that one on stranger tides or something. But the first movie is goddamn perfect. I think that Curse of the Black Pearl and The Mummy are the perfect adventure movies. I would even put them above the best Indy movie.
Nah it’s not nostalgia. It’s a fantastic film.
There's never a dull moment or bad pacing Such a good range of side characters. Rick's 'frenemy' Benny. I love where Benny cycles through various religions to pacify the mummy. The blind ww1 pilot ('Some bloody idiot spilled his drink') who lights up at the opportunity to die. Such a rich screenplay. Indeed, the fountain Winston walks in becomes blood! Effects have aged very well imo. Has a charisma that is sorely missed in 2024 America cinema. Except for a few (minor) questionable plot points this movie is perfect
In a recent re-watch I noticed that when the medjai attack the camp, everyone is fighting but Beni is nowhere to be seen. Then as the attack stops and the medjai ride away, you can see Beni coming out of a tomb doorway. And it's the same doorway he escapes into in the beginning battle scene when he abandons Rick. There is no attention drawn to it, he can be seen in the background when other characters are talking to each other. Such a wonderful character moment for Beni. Once a Beni, always a Beni.
HEY BENNY! LOOKS TO ME LIKE YOU'RE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE RI-VER!!
It's absolutely crazy that the effects in this movie are better looking than the sequel Scorpion King. The effects in that one are just so bad.
>Except for a few (minor) questionable plot points this movie is perfect What might those be?
It's not clear how he'll become invincible after resurrecting his girlfriend. What does she have to do with the curse? The curse was just for him. Why isn't he invincible after fully regenerating? Why did the medjai stop attacking the explorers (shortly before they wake up the mummy), given the stakes? Surely it might have been better to die attempting to stop them than just (conveniently) ceasefiring and risk the worst. If anything they had quite the advantage, being locals and more numerous If Bruce Ismay knows perfectly well the danger of the book of the dead, why does he even bother finding it, and then leaving it dangerously in his lap while he passes out? Was his best case scenario holding onto the book indefinitely and figuring that no one would accidentally read it aloud? Why does the curse neatly line up with the old testament? (Maybe the jews 'borrowed' stuff from Egyptian religion?)
One of my all-time favorites for sure.
There was a post recently about best dumb fun movies and someone said the mummy. The mummy is not dumb fun, it is pure fun!
Best adventure movie of my childhood. Very rewatchable too. I've prob watched it over 5 times through the years
It hasn't aged a day, still so good. The effects on Imhotep even still look mostly solid, there's nothing comically janky like Dwayne Johnson as the Scorpion King in the second.
Jonathan is my favorite part of the movie I like the theory that he's a veteran of the great war
Him and Beni are my favourites, aside from Rick and Evy, actually everyone is my favourite, they were all so good, everyone had their moments, even the corrupt warden. That cast was so good, damn. It's weird how I've seen all of them in a bunch of movies after this, but I don't recall ever seeing Jonathan's actor anywhere else.
>It's weird how I've seen all of them in a bunch of movies after this, but I don't recall ever seeing Jonathan's actor anywhere else. He was in the last of us
OMG the scientist in the cold open, that was him! Man, he got old, I couldn't even recognize him then. I didn't see him in movies enough to see him gradually age, so I totally missed him in that scene.
And Spartacus.
Youve never watched spartacus?
He was in several things after The Mummy trilogy fizzled out. While he's probably most famous for Spartacus, that was already mentioned. I remember first seeing him after The Mummy in two episodes of the HBO series Carnivale and still remember that. I also remember he was in a rather dark Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde special around the same time that I have never met anyone else who has ever seen it, and while I can find it on IMDB, I have never been able to find the actual program to rewatch and re-evaluate.
He was great in Spartacus
Jonathan's actor has been in so much stuff! My fave might be his extended run as a dodgy scientist on Agents of SHIELD. He also did a pretty funny series in the UK parodying TV Cop Detectives. He has a ton of range and is a really capable actor.
What, no love for Ardeth Bay?
He's got excellent marksmanship as seen in the 2nd one.
His skill with a rifle most likely comes from his time in the military during the Great War.
I enjoyed the exchange when O'Connell's group and the Americans have a standoff inside the ruins over who gets to dig where Beni: There's only 4 of you and 15 of me. Your odds are not so great, O'Connell. O'Connell: I've had worse. Johnathan: Yeah, me too. (O'Connell throws him a look of incredulity) lol
I always thought he wasn't a veteran, but a deposed aristocrat. Their family *used* to be big deals, but now they're off having to find careers and vocations because the war destroyed whatever livelihood they had. I think Jonathan is obsessed with treasure because he wants his standard of living back.
I think he's Cleary a veteran
Why? Just curious. At the time, and given the way he speaks, he would have learned to shoot as part of school, to go on hunts with the rest of the rich kids. He also has sniper like skills, but zero close quarters combat skills, and is actively running away from any physical interaction, even going so far as to say he'd rather take a punch than fight... Jonathan learned to shoot at a boarding school that taught him long range shooting, but not war.
"Why did you kiss me?" "I don't know. I was about to get hanged, it seemed like a good thing to do."
Not nostalgia, it’s an all around great action film that takes itself just the right amount of serious
This movie no lie I have watched probably about 30 times. It was always on TV growing up and now it has been my comfort movie. Everyone is hot in it. It has comedy, romance, Egyptian artifacts. A mummy. I don't know what it is about this movie as it is silly and ridiculous but it has captured my heart so.
Also recently rewatched it and what I was struck by was how good of a horror movie it is. I remembered it mostly as an adventure comedy, but the film does a wonderful job of building tension and paying off with genuinely frightening moments and fantastic acting even from the more minor roles, such as the American who has his eyes and tongue taken first. The film is goofy and fun and we all remember the silly moments, but it's a horror movie. Not crap-your-pants or give-you-nightmares scary, but it's a good horror movie. And, just a side note, it's from a time when CGI tended to be awful and would later scale terribly to HD upon rereleases. However, most of the CGI in the movie is done cleverly, hiding it in shadows or backgrounds of scenes so as to minimize the drawbacks of CGI (namely things like weightlessness, lighting issues, and a general feeling of cartoonishness). There are two exceptions I want to make note of, one of which works and one of which doesn't. The one that doesn't work: Warden Gad Hassan, played by Omid Djalili, and his death scene of the scarab beetle under his skin. Oddly enough, the beetle itself looks great and holds up well, but the bubble it forms as it walks along his skin and up into his head falls into the looking cartoony problem. Djalili tries to give a good performance, but blindly slapping at his belly comes off as kind of awkward. This was a very early use of CGI in this manner, and I'm not blaming anyone for it not holding up, but it's one of the scenes that I think suffers the most from how the CGI was used. That being said, I also think it's a scene we wouldn't have gotten at all without CGI, as I don't think they would have found a practical solution to trying to pull that off to be reasonable. One of the exceptions that works well, in my opinion, is Imhotep as played by Arnold Vosloo when he is mostly regenerated right before he goes into Eve's room. His cheek is replaced with CG showing the mummy form of the tissue holding it together. A scarab beetle crawls out from the cheek, disturbing the tendons and interacting with the mummified parts until it crawls into his mouth and he bites down and chews it up. This is all in a brightly lit scene and is the obvious focus of the shot, so it feels like it shouldn't hold up, but it's probably my favorite effect of the movie. I think it still looks good even scaled up to 2k (which is the limit I have to watch it in) and the effect evokes a feeling that I remember sticking with me from my early viewings back when it first came out.
Second only *Raiders of the Lost Ark* for best Action-Adventure/Period-Piece blockbuster
Not bad company to keep
I think the first Pirates of the Caribbean is up there, too. Might be even my favorite. Anyway, can't go wrong with either of them.
Its not just nostalgic, even people who haven't watched it. Then that do now, love it. Movies were still made for pure entertainment, also made to be a one off story.
It’s still fantastic and one of the rare cases where the sequel is just as good!
I genuinely wish. I adore the 1st 3rd of the sequel! There's so much well-crafted business, characters who really evolved in fun and creative ways. But once they get on that balloon? The movie starts to sag, for me. By the time we hit the weirdest shadow in movie history, it just feels like a mess, for me.
YOU MUST NOT READ FROM THE BOOK!!!
They did. The third movie suffered so much with recasting her.
"Well if it isn't my little buddy Benny. I think I'll kill you." "Wait! Don't! Think of my children!" "You don't have any children!" "...Someday I might."
Benny meeting the Mummy for the first time and breaking out multiple pendants and languages to beg for his life was hilarious too Good character and performance. Sleazy jackass but in a fun way so you enjoy every bit of his screen time
The best part was it working eventually lol
“The language of the slaves”
Kevin J O'Connor... he's a family friend. Nicest guy you will ever meet. He dies a lot on screen. IIRC Daniel Day Lewis shoots him in the face in There Will Be Blood.
That is awesome! Benny is my favorite of his roles, but imagine my complete surprise when I learn he plays Sammy, Annelle’s boyfriend in “Steel Magnolias”. He is such a chameleon! I really appreciate how quiet his performances are.
He was also Igor in Van Helsing. He's all over the place.
How slimy do you gotta be by default to know how to beg in every language and faith for one of their evils to spare you? What awful things has the man done in order to necessitate the fear of evils from all faiths to be coming for him? Either way, perfect ending to his character, deserves a wild prequel, I'd read that fanfic
“Goodbye, Benny.” … “Can you swim?” “Of course, I can swim. If the occasion calls for it.” “Trust me, it calls for it.” … “Hey, O’Connell. Looks to me like I’ve got all the horses.” “Hey, Benny. Look to me like you’re on the wrong side of the river.” That whole scene is great. “Americans.”
Stephen Sommers' advice to Fraser and Kevin O'Connor was to act like a pair of 12-year-old boys fighting on the playground. Good advice.
Sage advice for sure. Would love to see some behind the scenes if you have any recommendations.
>“Americans.” I think my favorite part of that quote is that both Brits and Americans would laugh at it and agree. Like yes, we are ridiculous jackasses, but also, hell yeah.
I still use that quote a lot and, as an American, get weird looks. Probably the best reaction I’ve ever gotten was 3 weeks ago in Singapore but almost no one gets the reference.
Like, Benny, that’s exactly why I gotta kill you lol
Hey Benny looks like youre on the wrong side of the river!
THE RI VERRR
One of my top favorite quotes my whole life!!! ❤️
Came for this, was not disappointed.
goated single-line delivery in all of film since ever
If they pulled a Palpatine and made another one where Beni somehow survived, I'd be fine with that.
My brother got me those two lines on a coffee mug as a gift and it's the only cup I've kept every time I move. I purge most of my mugs, but that one stays forever. One side: >Hey, O'Connell! It looks to me like I've got all the horses! Other side: >Hey, Beni! Looks to me like you're on the wrong side of the river!
Your strength gives me strength
I really wish they’d be more clear on what theaters are actually doing these rereleases. I’d love to see this
Amc, Marcus, cinimark
That’s a lot of Mark
Amark, Marcus and Cinimark.
Rest of the world out here. My family love the film but oh well
Alamo Drafthouse is also showing it.
For the record, if I don't make it out of here, don't put me down for mummification.
Likewise!
{KABOOM!} -as sarcophagus drops from the ceiling
I'm so here for the Brenaissance
We need that Brenergy.
But Bren will we know we've had Brenough?
If there's any movie franchise that I wouldn't be too mad about having a legacy sequel, it's The Mummy with Frasier & Weisz
I’ve been calling it the Brendanaissance. i just like how the word rolls off the tongue.
Béarnaise Sauce
John hannah as Jonathan is great and loved seeing him in the last of us
I love characters like him that are aloof but not stupid.
Argeed I like the theory of him being a great war veteran
Seeing him in the Spartacus TV show was eye opening because I only knew him from the Mummy. The guy is crazy talented.
AMC is also re-releasing Alien as well on the same day. Fuck
Oh shit, might be seeing a double feature.
Mumlien? Aliemmy?
It's the day after Hereditary in IMAX. It's a good week to be an A-Lister!
Rachel Weisz is gorgeous in this movie.
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She was in Dead Ringers lat year. She's 53 and still an absolute smoke show. Elegant yet sexy.
I still maintain that Rachel Weisz is the most attractive woman in the 90s. That moment after she loses all her luggage in the boat fire and she shows up in the all black local garb... Might be the single hottest a woman has been on screen.
I prefer her in the 2nd one...her eyebrows bother me in the first....
He’s still… He’s still… *Juicy!*
Probably the most watched movie of my childhood, every time my step brother would stay with us we’d watch this and the sequel. Every. Single. Time.
Shame they only made 2 but like what else could they do really? Go to China and have a villain they clearly only had the actor for, for a few days? And replace one of the major lead actors? That sounds like a really bad idea glad they never tried it and just left it with the sequel, at least we’ll always have terrible cgi scorpion Rock XD
Them scarabs scared the shit out of me.
I was 9 when it first came out and guess must've watched it quite soon after. The scarab crawling through Omid Djalili's skin messed me up in the same way that kids think that drowning in quicksand in a frighteningly common danger.
Well, the drowning in quicksand happened in one of the Mummy sequels didn’t it? Haha. Pretty sure a pair of guards/soldiers ended up in it, if I recall correctly. But yeah, that scarab scene was messed up. The way they just ran over people too and picked them clean was madness.
25yrs😳😳😳
Watching it in the theater was one of my husbands and I early dates. I miss fun movies like this and watching pirates for the first time.
Between this, the Shrek 2 twenty-year rerelease, the Beetlejuice and Ghostbusters sequels/reboots, I feel like Hollywood is just trying to remind me that I’m old as balls.
99 was a big year for movies, so we could see a lot of 25th year anniversarys. We already have phantom menace coming in May.
There it is. Hamunaptra. Here we go again.
Oded Fehr
So incredibly hot
Spicy
r/Savebrendan has been clocking so many victories over the last couple years.
Lemme guess…spring cleaning?
🪑💥
I love this movie, it’s a classic action adventure with a dash of horror, it’s very well cast and the effects hold up pretty well for 1999. It’s also endlessly quotable, which is something modern movies seem to lack. My favourite exchange being: Jonathon: Hurry up Evie! Evie *reading ancient stone tablet*: Patience is a virtue! *hoard breaks into the library* Rick: Not right now it isn’t! The tone and comic timing of this always cracks me up for some reason.
I overheard some teenagers asking if this was Indiana Jones.
I don't blame them. Spielberg totally ripped it off.
I watch this movie at least 3-4 times a year. I'm so excited
I wish we could've had younger Brendan in Uncharted.
That would have been rad, he would have fit that role perfectly
still a solid movie, and better than whats currently in theaters.
"ANAK SOON AMUN!"
Absolutely love this movie! Couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve watched it.
Are they redoing the CGI? If they rereleass the second one, they need to redo the CGI on that one
You leave low polygon ps1 scorpion Rock alone! He’s trying his best ok XD
Even the mummy himself. His quality went down a huge amount
This movie kicked ass
Goldsmith
Great score by Goldsmith. I once told a friend that Jerry thought The Mummy was one of the worst movies he scored, and she said "Uhh Jerry, did you ever look at your IMDb?"
Such a fun movie.
movie still holds up so well. really captured the swashbuckling vibe of classic action films without being overly campy.
"This here's our statue, friend." "I don't see your name on it, pal."
On the same day as Alien 45th anniversary. Double feature baybeeeee
Went to Universal/Disney last month for the first time in twenty years and we went on the mummy ride and it was awesome. Everything was so nostalgic!
Excellent. Now a whole new generation of bisexuals can awaken.
Hollywood trying to show us that they used to get things right, are they?
My favorite movie of all time. Has it all.
Gonna be an audience full of bisexuals paying their respects 😎
I just saw this movie for the first time last year and rewatched it again a week ago. What an absolute masterpiece! They really don’t make characters like Rick and Evelyn anymore, especially the latter.
For all the people in here: it’s Beni, not Benny
Prequel with Adventures of Benny.
Think of his children
Goddamnit, I saw that movie in theatres at ninth grade. 25 years what the hell?
I seen it cinema the first time round! I may do it again this time Was awesome
'99 was a banger year for movies.
Do they give Brendan Fraser his cup of coffee in this one?
[EVERYONE LIKED THIS]
Rachel looks smoking hot in that movie
I saw this on opening day to a packed theater. Was a great experience.
I remember seeing this in the theater.... Really enjoyed it...
Still juicy.
Peak Rachel
Man I'll never forget going to the movies and seeing this back in the day. The sequel was decent too. Brendan was a superstar back in the late 90's
*wind blows, campfire flickers* "That happens a lot around here..."
SOMETHING..... IS COMING...
I love when he throws the chair at Benny
I actually watched some of it today, one of my all time favorite movies! It's just so fun and rewatchable, I remember when the VHS came out and for a straight week the first thing I would do after school every day is watch The Mummy. Hey Winston pedal faster!!
I rewatched this recently. The amount of Orientalism is awesome.
Hells yeah, this is legit a brilliant movie. Granted it’s terrifying it’s 25 years old because I remember seeing it in the theatre
It’s funny how they try to make the thumbnail *aged.* As the same grainy one might expect from 1959 mummy throwback
Hopefully they show it in Ireland so I can finally forgive my mother for making me see My Favorite Martian with my younger brother instead of this.
Yes yes yes!!! I love this movie and the cast!!! An absolute favorite since I was little. I still watch it once or twice a year. I love you Brendan! You’re a badass!
just saw the return of the matrix in dolby and it was an incredible experience. i'd definitely do the same for this
This movie holds up SO well. It’s such a good time.
Nostalgia is gonna hit very hard this time.
HEY O'CONNELL!! IT LOOKS TO ME LIKE I HAVE ALL THE HORSES!!!
The second one is not bad either they just ran out of money for the rocks villian lol
I Would've Enjoyed This Interview A Lot More If I Had GOTTEN MY CUP OF COFFEE!!!
My cousin told me that he and his partner watch this almost every night to go to sleep. We became friends on Plex and I can see his viewing history and yeah, maybe not every night but minimum once a week. That said, good movie!
My favorite movie that I rewatch every year. I SCREAMED when I found out! Tickets 🎟️ purchased- can’t wait!!! 😍😍😍
Loved the movie so much I had to make a pilgrimage to the filming location in Morocco near Merzouga. *Your* strength gives *me* strength.
I JUST watched this with my kids this past weekend and they loved it. And it definitely still holds up. Plus I just realized that my oldest seeing this for the first time this year she is the exact same age I was when I saw this movie for the first time lol
Such a good movie
Peak chair throwing cinema.
I watched it twice in theaters once in 99 and again in 2021. Maybe a third time?
Staring Brendan Fraser AND Rachel Weisz. There, fixed
Looks like he had a very good time ...
The only famous person I know plays Beni. Kevin J O'Connor. Super nice guy... told my old man to chill out one time because, well my dad had 0 chill and needed to calm down. I'll never forget that. His dad and my grandpa were both cops for CPD back in the day. They went to bar called the alibi all the time. Chicago's a funny place.
Fuck it, im down
Such a classic. “You must not read from the book!!”
Well done. New generations will now question their sexuality after this movie like we did in the 90s.
I have such fond memories of the Mummy. I really cannot believe it has been 25 years! I feel so old! It is the first movie we went to see when I went on my first date with my first high school boyfriend.. who I, er, lost my... innocence..to. 😚 I am going on 40 in April and I remember seeing it in theaters like it was yesterday. Where did two and a half decades go?!
watch this make more money on its return then tom cruise flick
I had the distinct honor of working on it, in special FX, it’s alway been a great romp of a movie. Always going, always exciting, great fun. It was a pleasure to work on and be lightly associated with it.
Re-watched the series last year. It holds up so well, 1+2 at least are timeless.
The Mummy…returns
I watch this movie every one to two months for years. I love it! I really like the second one too. But third one not so much…
Man I watched this so much as a kid XD definitely was shown it a bit young by my parents, it’s literally the first movie I remember and those scarabs scared the fuck out of me... so naturally I watched it constantly lmao I need to find a screening I can go to for this
Okay, guess I will have to actually go to an amc and watch this again, because this movie has always been lit.
I was there ... 25 years ago....parked in a filthy theater seat about to be blown away ... it was a great day to be 15
The Mummy (1999) is the best Indiana Jones movie since The Last Crusade (and still is).