Welcome to Everything Actioncast, the official podcast of everythingaction.com. Hello and welcome to the Everything Actioncast, the podcast for the week of May 6, 2024. I'm Ryo Zech. I'm your co-host, Chris. And yeah, this week we are unleashing emo-tap and talking about the 1989 classic The Mummy, which celebrated as 25th anniversary this week. It came out on May 7, 1999. And this is, I don't know about you, Chris, but this is like one of my favorite movies.
It's definitely up there in like, like, top 20, top 30. Yeah, it's definitely one of my favorites, too. Just because nothing else compares to it in terms of just like being a very balanced action horror movie.
Well, it of all the, like if we're talking about like Indiana Jones Amitators, like this is like one of the best, if not the best, because like, it nails the same tone that is Indiana Jones nails, where it's like, there's lots of humor, but there's also like, really awesome action and there's like some like, you know, dark creepy stuff at times, too. And, you know, a fun hero and like the period setting, like it's at like 1926, so it has like, you know, pulpy, like 1920s vibe, too.
Yeah. I see what you mean. Yeah. And plus like anything but a burning freezer has just been beloved by anyone. And this is like, this is like peak brinda Frazier. Yeah, he was, I think he's a little bit of a jungle, like he came out like I think the year before the mummy, or like a couple of years before the mummy came out. And yeah, yeah, fortunately, you know, we're in the Frazier Assants now where he, you know, he's been doing a bunch of stuff recently, which is great.
He was a killer, like it was a far moon last year. I was the whale. Was he the killer? I don't know. I think it was just like a, like a lawyer maybe? I still haven't seen him close the far moon yet. I haven't figured out what day I'm going to like dedicate to watching that movie. Because you have to like dedicate like an entire like it's three, nine hours. You have to be like, what they don't want to kill and watch because of the far moon.
But yeah, the mummy, it was also, it was kind of like the culmination or like one of the culminations of like the kind of, we had all throughout the 90s, there was this kind of like throwback to like, you know, pulpy action adventure kind of stuff. We had, you started out with like Dick Tracy and then you went into like the phantom and the shadow and the rocketeer. And then the year before the mummy came out was the mask of Zorro, which is like another just like peak awesome action adventure.
You know, swashbuckling up like stuff going on. Yeah, I see you. And if you look at that, like if you saw what was giving back in style, it wasn't modern warriors. It was all classic adventurers and like I said, swashbucklers. Yeah. And that's the surprising thing about this movie because if you saw the originals or any of the mummy for like things, you know, no one's fighting the mummy with their hands successfully. And like this movie straight up saves that until the end.
So it's more like just guns blazing for like 80% of the movie. Yeah, definitely, definitely much more action packed than the 1932 original, which is like ostensibly like the night time version is supposed to be like a remake of that movie. It does share kind of the basic same basic premise and also like in with the villain and like in with it's trying to bring an oxen moon back to life. But that's like very special like all the similarities it has with the 1932 version.
Wait, I've only seen the original one in bits. Yeah, that's the same thing. I thought he was just trying to like support support. The first car law for Zimotep and it's kind of the same thing where he gets like he, you know, he was notified because he loved someone he showed. Yeah. And then he's then he's resurrected in the modern time, which is, you know, 1930s. And then he's trying to find a woman to sacrifice so he can bring an oxen moon back.
So the premise is the basic plot or like the scheme that Emma Tubs trying to do is the same as the original movie. But obviously the rich one we didn't have, you know, tons of like, yeah, action sequences and special effects and I mean, I had the special effects of, you know, makeup effects on the worst car law of it's though, but there was a huge action spectacle set pieces, which I tend to be. I remember in the original one, like in motep is just like hang out.
Like he put, he's got time to like wear modern clothes. Yeah, well, that's the thing with the original two is like, yeah, he's the, he's the mummy. He's in bandages for like the first like scene. And then he's kind of like, like, yeah, he comes back and then he's like, the skies is like, like, he's like a priest or something, but he's not in bandage. He's not the mummy. He's like, just like walk around like a normal person. And then they're like, oh, wait, no, he's the mummy. We messed up.
That's actually a real mummy. And I don't think there's anything of him like, you know, sucking the life force out of people to come back, like fully formed. I think he just like takes his bandages off. He's like, I'm good now. Yeah, I think once he's back, that's it. He just is some guy. And then he's in an emotep. Isn't the mummy for like the other, because there's like three more mummy movies in the 1930s, 1940s after that. But it was carous.
It was the mummy and it was launching in junior was the mummy. So, yeah, there's a whole, there's like a whole trilogy of, movies that aren't emotep movies. He's only the original movie. I thought it was the same guy. Yeah. I give it granted the mummy series had emotep come back twice. So, you can count the ride. Oh man, yeah, the ride. I went on a recently. It still holds up. It's still like this time capsule. He's still like the VHS like video of a bread and a fager like, oh yeah.
It's like, hey, good job, you guys made it. Like you survived the ride. Yep. That's still there. Which I mean, the behind the scenes production on the ride is still there. I mean, that just, that just shows the power of the mummy. Oh, huge it was. That's where it got like a giant like multi-million dollar roller coaster. It's still like operational today.
When it came out, it was like, I think it was like one of the biggest like openings of all time or like one of the like it was like the ninth biggest opening of all time when it came out. Like it was only surpassed like that year, but like because like Fana Medicine came out like two weeks later and like dominated everything. But this was like this is like like dominating like the box office for a couple of weeks in 1999 and then eventually made like over $400 million. Worldwide. I believe it.
Now did you see these moving theaters? I don't think I did. I think I saw like VHS or DVD eventually at home, but yeah, I don't think I saw theaters. I saw this in theater. And I don't know what to expect. And this was just like like I said the summer of movies or I mean 99 create. I mean, just like jam packed like wall to wall just like the matrix. This Fana Menace this.
I try like fight club like like if you like just Google like night films that came out 99 and it's just like it's like one of the most banger years of movies ever. It's like $8.84 99 99 are like two of the biggest movie years. So yeah, you want to get into the basic premise of how this just opens. Yeah, which I also I love the opening because I love like like Odette fairs voice is just so good for narrating things like I just listen to like just like narrate like H Egyptian history just all day.
Yeah, it starts with just like hey, you want to see some cool shit about mommy's? Well, this is just just tail and and that like version of Egypt where it's so like golden and the the orange hue. It looks like anytime a day. That's just how it looks like this orange sepia tone look. The sun is always at like a certain angle to like make it look like golden hour like.
And I'm not sure of the outfits are historically accurate because when they introduce a nook and accident a moon like like this is like Steve Summers like that is yours is the real Egyptian like queen outfit or like yeah, I wish you was supposed to be.
Yeah, I don't know if body paint would have been like a practical for your Egyptian like I'm sure that would have like just melted off like within like comments like being in like this is a hair desert like style or style wise it's a it's a mixing impact. Oh, yeah. And I always because I saw the mummy returns I always imagine the fight scene happening first. Like I always remember the weird like sci-fi. Yep, yeah, my return is definitely adds a lot more crazy lore to the franchise.
It's definitely the first one definitely keeps things more simple. And yeah, not so many doesn't really have a lot to do in the first one. She goes like for just for the last guys comes back and has a lot a huge way bigger role in the second one.
But she kind of just is only in the opening sequence and then she and Emma Tepper having the fair and then the the fair will find out about it and they both she kills herself and then but then because Emma types like the high priest, you can like bring her back with the book of the dead.
But that but that fails because he gets caught and then they the person with I hear him in the exact like exact name of the curse, but it's it's it's a crazy curse because I mean, it's horrible for him at the time because he's very alive and like eat my scarves then if he comes back, he's basically a god. So it's like this weird like well, you're going to suffer now.
But if you come back, like you got everything like you're basically like an immortal walking god that can like take over the whole world. Oh yeah, like you suffer for like a thousand years more than that, right? Like I mean, I don't think he was like I mean, he was they were eat like this scares like eating him. But I mean, I don't think he was like he was on a lie for like a thousand years and he was like a lie for like a couple of weeks or something and then like he was like a mummy.
Okay. So then why is the scarves you like they're either really effective of like deboning corpse like people or they take their time nibbling at him. Yeah, I think I think like ritual wise like EVA at one point says like, oh they like devour them slowly, people slowly. But then they like devour a guy like two seconds like piranha. So it's like yeah, I don't know.
Maybe that's his scarves versus the regular scarves or maybe the curse like like makes him like more resistant and that's why the it's it's more of a torture for him. How do you tell the scarves that? I don't know. We're trying to eat him and then he's just like it's like you know, he's regenerated or something.
So that's kind of like one more detail that I always think is kind of weird is he's put in that coffin and it's made it seem like he's sealed in there and then he dies slowly and then he has like his hands free enough to start carving things. Yeah, he digs until like the I'm just like his finger drops something like like digs into like the coffin. He does like his that is only the beginning you know catch raise the way he carves that it's like he had a chisel.
It's something where like I get the scratch marks that's that's messed up you know in the dark. You know, like all he did is all in the dark and he spaced that perfectly with his nail. Not like some messed up like symbols of it's all like you know, like it's very it's very angled.
Maybe he had to put that on as like his last request like yo, can you put a death is only beginning in the inside of the coffin before you guys can like and then the Magi are like yeah, that's not for boating or anything. I mean, it just it seems like a really like I mean, it seems like really kind of short sighted by like for the like the ancient Egyptians where it's like what's that our problem becomes back will be dead by then. It's future people's problems if he goes back. Our civilization.
I do like they spent most of the time in the last whatever how long was just covering up people trying to find the mummy until the 1910 1920. Well, it's when we first meet Brenda Frazier, it's 1923 and he's like in the French foreign region and they've like went to like common up show like the city where EmoTap is because there's there's a lot with like the like EmoTap.
There's also like a giant room full of gold because like all the treasure of like whatever that Pharaoh was like left it brought it all there. So I think they said like they bury like all like the like all the Pharaoh's like sons and like family members there. Ah, because I make more sense. I couldn't figure out what they were doing like how like this whole place is for one dude.
No, it's like they bring everyone who like everyone important dies goes there and they get turned to a mummy and then like bury them. But then it's important that you know, I think they bring you have to bring their treasure with them to take it in the after like with them. So then that's like this huge amass of treasures there because all these like you know important Egyptians are buried there too. That makes sense.
By the time the that like we're skipping ahead about the detail of like the pyramid thing or this magical land was. But yeah, I was was questioning what that what that place was. I'm surprised like that wasn't where the scorpion king was too. Yeah, where's where he's in. Oh, was it I'm sure I think it's like the magical city and my my returns. And it's another another magical city. Yeah, there's a bunch of them.
Yeah, but yeah, but yeah, but it's a a legendary which I think gets forgotten quite a lot. I like throughout the fray with the franchise continues, but yeah, he's like a French foreign Legion member and then he's there with Benny, Kemanji O'Connor, who's like Kemanji O'Connor is like a like Steven Summers, like he's in like a bunch of his movies kind of playing the same character a lot like times like this like like a weasley like just like backstabber.
I also, I know it's the kind of like comic relief as well because he's like his weasel is like conniving weaselie. It's always have like some he's like sort of one liner is like it was just like doing stuff like a hilariously evil way. Yeah, he just teams up with anything and any one that will give him some sort of reading.
Yeah, and then there's like a huge huge like battle kick things off like for brilliant version intro where we see like all like he has like up like a bustling guns like he carries like six guys out of it. And all times like he's I appreciate he's like he's like a dual wielder like pistol guy like he has like dual revolvers, dual pistols like always always on him.
It seems like he's the only person to look for Legion that does that like everyone just has like one like a like the terrible rifles they have and they don't like like getting slaughtered. I don't know like that was the standard rifle to ever because it seems like the opposition team uses the same thing. Yeah, but then but then Rick Rick O'Connor has like two revolvers, two pistols like he's got like so much more like an arsenal with him. Yeah, he's way more prepared than his argument was.
Yeah. And I guess all of them got slaughtered right because it was in Rick like the last man. Well, Benny survives because he's a weasel. And he like went right into the temple. It goes to the door and Rick. And then yeah, then Rick is the last one and then all the guys the guys attacking the four Legion run away because they see like the statues and then they see like the first kind of hit of like emotes power where it's like his face appears in the sand.
Yeah, the sand part is interesting because emotep is just can do that like he's not even released yet. That's just something he can just do. It's just it's just something about like yeah, ham and outro, I guess something like it just has like like it would like if it's just certain all like it would tap face appears to bad policy on whatever Egyptian safeguard it was right like I get the movie traps once
were inside, but emotep can still mess around with the sand outside and then it seems like he is as long as you're close, he can break out like you know me like it there's a bunch of there's a series of things that don't make any sense that like leads them to the right spot where to find emotep body. So I can't I can never tell if that was something that was mystical or just by accident. Yeah, it kind of seems like more like everyone just making terrible decisions.
I'm fine with that, but there's a point where it sort of makes it seem like it's mystical. So it's like oh is he somehow getting stronger until he basically breaks out is he like influencing events like drawing like making them find like the the jars and the book and everything. Yeah, yeah.
It's like I'm like that's what I'm saying like like this curse is like it's like let's make let's make our most evil you know offender let's let's make him like the most powerful force on the earth if he knew he knew already a thing because he was already like a mystic. Yeah, he had the book the book of the dead. Yeah, and then he didn't have to read the book because he just knew the spells. So I get why it's like but I guess like the thing they could do was slow him down was bury him.
Yeah, and then you know the my jive and like guarding him for thousands of years and try keeping him like so that they're keeping him at bay. But yeah, like but there is a there's still like a weird clause like now that you mentioned about him basically getting stronger in like a thousand years later when after they bake him basically like when you take away his power when you do something so that you can't
just easily come back because it wasn't like they were rushing you know it wasn't like some sort of like I think X-Men apocalypse where he gets so coffecist by just the pyramid collapsing so they couldn't really defeat him they could just bury him. Yeah, but in the mummy they just had all the time in the world because they caught up with them really quick they caught up with them like the next night.
And they specifically do this person that will like give him well it's like if you I mean it's bad for you like now but you know if you get out bro you're gonna have you control like the entire desert you can unleash plagues you'll be invincible and immortal. You'll be able to control people's minds like so if you get out I mean it's gonna be really awesome for you.
And they probably like the Egyptians that did that didn't care because you know they're gonna be around like he's like I get out when they're around still so. But yeah so yeah so we're gonna we're gonna see always where I would like this like battle at hamunaptra and then we can introduce two or other characters we get ritual wise is played Evie Karnahan and then John Hannah is Jonathan which I think this is definitely the first time I saw John Hannah and anything.
Yeah me too because like unless you were watching a lot of British shows in the 90s I mean this was like his first like big American debut. Yeah and then it was he does it great like he does a great like hey check out this comedian actor. Oh yeah he is I mean he is fantastic kind of relief like all the bits are hilarious and he's just like a perfect like he's a little like weasley but he's not gonna like he's not gonna betray people like Betty that will like he'll do the right thing eventually
but he's also like is there stretcher I might like grab some treasure before I do the right thing but and he's like any sort of like he's like a pick pocket thief kind of like he's like like that's how he got like the key that opens the book of the dead is
like he pick pocket like Rick at some point I do like that it's off screen and their encounter is waiting for Rick to realize that that's what happened like it was smart because you know me I'm someone who wants to be shown not to hold and this is something that you know
you see Jonathan he's very like oh I want it yeah it's fine and then you realize in the twist and then when you see Rick click it together the first thing does just punch Jonathan yeah which printed for sure like full like George the jungle mode like he has
like super long hair he's like a well madeiac yep and that prison why do they throw him a prison they don't explain they're just like he's just there and it's it's also it's three years after he got back from the like the battle so he's been three years there's
a little like little thing comes up on the screen says like Cairo three years later so he's been like bounce around Egypt a Cairo for like the last three years then it gets arrested for something what it is you don't know bar fight it might have been mentioned in like one
the later yeah you don't know you just know that basically what's he's an American it's it's something bad enough that we're looking to hang him up early yeah what did he do yeah you don't just get hang I get it in that Cairo prison system it's probably just like you still
bred you get hang we don't know there's no caliber but if it's anything but the warden he's like the warden's like a Disney villain yeah yeah he is he's a full cartoon character and the warden I think you mentioned what the warden character he's introduced and we did not
think he would like if you watch this first time you don't think the warden's gonna hang around more than just this one scene yeah that there's definitely no like the little thing it joked on me this time watching it again for like the I don't six or seven time is that yeah the
the warden is like like he sticks around like he's not in it a lot but it's also like a weird that he like goes with them to have an opt out he's he's he's like a very like a um I don't superfluous character because he's basically the same character as like Benny
like he's like like kind of this like weasel who like just wants like treasure and he's just like he's like he's like he's like you have Jonathan who's like the good like kind of like you know weaselie like like treasure greeting treasure guy and then you have Benny who's like the
evil like weaselie treasure guy and then you have the warden who's also a greedy like treasure guy so it's like he's only he's like he's only there so they can show off um there's like these like scarves like we're much like the scarves like they pointed like in the tips tomb like they're
also still there in like the walls and then like he gets killed by one so it was like oh see this is the scarves do but it's definitely it's it's like a hat and a hat for like um he's just like it's like you have three of the sort of very similar characters and you really only need two I mean
you only need one but yet too for like both sides of like the both teams of people yep and um they can't do that again in the second movie there's like the pilot guy that's also kind of like a thief and the comic relief yeah but he but he has more of her because like yeah he's like he's like
pilots the hotter balloon and stuff so he's like more of like a plot like uh you know for a purpose well I feel like they can also made the uh the great war pilot guy the like the British pilot also sort of a comic relief he is a comic relief in it in another way but that guy was on a
suicide mission yeah that was like a whole different thing that like you don't really pay attention to like I noticed that now more is that that guy was like looking to die yeah that's that this is a really dark and he plays it off like he's so like jovial and fun he's like oh you think
I'm like you think I might die awesome like I'm yeah yeah I'm I'm in because all because all his fellow pilots died in the world were one so he's like well I didn't die I didn't get to die with him he's like he's like he's like a like a happy version of like the guts against all of my
his one-made character which is like I I failed to die with my like my fellow pilots and now I want to die yep but yeah but he he only she she's a way later um if you you know jump back to like other like so yeah we're just a Jonathan and Evie and then um they they
they basically buy uh ricks freedom and apparently I was reading on i&db like that when when uh brenner fascia actually gets like when they hang him because he like he doesn't get hanged and they're like they like they his neck doesn't break so then it's like they still got like they like let's them get like the one more chance like bias freedom but apparently like brenner fascia almost died through net stunts yeah it like went wrong it's very famous because uh they're basically
saying like yeah they were just filming it not knowing like I guess the safety harness wasn't like proper and it literally just like gave him like it like fractured or like it did it compress one of his like spinal bones yeah it was something because like even though you don't you drop it won't
snap your neck but the pressure that's like against your neck if it's not proper harness like that's still the enough force like it's still gravity your body weight and brenner fascia is like six foot three like he's not a short guy where it's like it's still all that weight
now in his neck but yeah I mean I mean it looks I mean if you watch it like it looks it looks brutal I mean it looks like it's like yeah I think that's why they got it because like wow it's so realistic it's like oh no because it was yeah yeah
yeah that's another famous like stunt gun wrong like years later was that was real that wasn't like something he he brought up a lot because I think they paid him so much money not to like sue yeah and yeah thankfully you know he made it out of that it was like a you know a brain at
least a choice during that like a horrible incident that like dedicated to him in this movie yeah yeah it's like well that Rick was in it for one scene and then new guy shows up and takes over the guy the guy on the American team that we were talking about is like was like the fake
brother for sure yeah somehow he's in it you be just like why I'm in to Americans but I watched that man hang in a chiral prison well he like he cleans up very well so so we should put the same haircut from the game that's why I think it's confused about that movie
because I didn't realize that the beginning and him like I thought his hair was just messy I didn't think it was like um it really was a wild hairstyle yeah like you know I mean like it's I like I just like I'm shocked because he's wearing the same outfit between everything he does not change
clothes at all nope well you got you I mean it's like kind of lucky I keep that look going but he keeps that white shirt clean like three years in the desert yeah well he does he gets rid of his like French Legion jacket he gets rid of that but then yeah he just he just says like
his like his same shirt shape dance boots and then like his like holsters wouldn't he not have that when he the prison takes that from you and then on the flip side like Richard wise has like I don't know like a dozen different costumes a lot I costume changes yeah I think when they
when later when they um go to a market there's a big like neat cute scene where they really stress that cheese wearing this local outfit well we the way flip it that kind of like Brenner Frazier were like when Brenner Frazier shows up I'll cleaned up she's like oh like when she comes out with
like the like the desert clothes he's like oh okay see that's what I do like that in this direction they're paying attention to like hook and certain like beats so like okay you could see uh there's like a connection and that just like oh he's handsome and she's pretty and that's why
they they fall in love it's like I mean granted he just kisses her in prison because he was gonna die as to he's like I thought it was a good idea at the time don't tell the woman and you also he also called like the first thing he says like who's the broad
that's like the first thing says the TV romantic so I think um one of that what I think one of the best actions because of the movie is probably like the uh it's you know we're talking about like EV changing until like desert clothes that's after they uh escape from like the boats that they're
on because they're taking a boat down the aisle and then it gets attacked by the Maggi and that whole sequence is out like there's so much like cool stuff like like I get sent a fire there's like I love the gag where like Brennan Frazier like it's like loading his like his pistol back up
or then like there's like gunshots like itching closer to his head and then like you just like pull away from like the before he gets shot in the head that's very practical stunt and then this is like a Nia Jones like gag that's like like a straight up just like a Nia Jones joke
yeah I can see that like I can see why this is like a fun uh adventure or title that's pulpy um the um I think I have about the Maggi is that you're supposed to feel like up until you realize their true purpose you just think they're like desert ninjas yeah you know like did they
it's implied that did they swim onto the boat I think so yeah in their whole outfits like they're their long robo robo's yep they got gif in the lake and one and one guy doesn't you have like like oh he has a hook for hand so it's like he doesn't even have like I like only it's like one
hand to swim with and he's like makes up the boat first or something and then I get and they could have just done something else they could have just done like a businessman deal they hit you they you know it was such a like extreme tactic to be like we have to murder these it's well
speaking you know speaking at me the Nia Jones stuff it's it's like straight up like the last crusade like the brotherhood the cruciform sword yes because they're because they like stripped try to kill in the Nia Jones in the beginning like they set that hold like the two wonder the librarian fire
try to kill him okay to to be fair they were trying to kill Nazis well they're trying to kill anyone who's like looking for the grail which is the same thing like they're like the Maggiers trying to kill anyone who's like trying to like find ham and atra or like what was it free of doubt I so all right is a tangent but like I understood that scene as because Indy's working with a Nazi that they knew was a Nazi I mean it's for me partially that but then it's also like their whole mission is they
they need they're keeping keep me anyone from like they don't want anyone to find the grail they're like their whole mission is a perfected grail so if you like if they're getting close if they're getting close because like no no one like figured out that like clue until Indy got there and it's like
oh he's like he's like he's pretty close to find the grail now so like we gotta stop him and yeah the Maggi are like well we gotta stop anyone if anyone gets to the ham and atra like we gotta stop anyone really like it's just gonna look you for that or like you can't let
him at the end of the time like get free so we're just gonna like murder this entire boat of people and then is imply that they themselves don't know where hem and atra is no they they know because if they foul him they I think that guy with hook head wind like the key
in the map because he like just to take it so you don't have it yeah I mean if you take that they don't matter if you find him and atra you can't do anything else yeah but I'm saying they if they knew where they're going wouldn't they just be easier to meet them there and just
fight them at the doors I guess the boats maybe yeah I don't know a lot a lot of strategy here that I can't figure out what the Maggi were doing because all took was like the other guy just to be like oh okay hey we should like team up and the Maggi are just cool team up by yourself no backup even
though the Maggi are like there are like thousands of them yeah they have a whole army that we see it like number your turds but in here just seem like that one squad and they come back like I do appreciate the Maggi are relentless they're just like yeah oh yeah I plan that was kind of like I
forgot about the two was like like they're like the main villains for like the first like half of the movie until that potentials up because they because they attack on the boat and they attack like the dig site after they get everyone gets there like their whole lives is to train and honor these
Egyptian ways and not use guns they're all about swords well until you if you get a big enough machine gun and an artist base like oh yeah I'll use the machine gun for the plane to like kill mummies with I think I think that's like a joke in like my return to where he's just like like he
like Rick's like what what what what gun do you want he's just like oh I'll take that gun I know exactly what kind of gun that is yeah he's a bit more modern in the group oh compare to hookhand guy yeah like the mid those magi guys just think the generations of warriors that have been waiting
to fight mummies and keeping secrets I feel like they definitely could have like just like you know like eventually like eventually it takes like Rick like starting to like blow everyone up with dynamite for like artists maybe like hey all right leave I feel like they could have done that like
maybe sooner just like if you don't leave like instead like we're just running into like murdering people in the camp just be like if you guys don't leave we're gonna we won't kill you but like we'll give you like a day to leave because like it goes like like yesterday it's such a crazy degree
where it's just like Rick has to like start the blow everyone up the camp well that other campside okay so I do like the American Avenger team though it's like comprised of one British dude and three Americans and then a group of just helpers yeah so they were they were they were treasure
hunters right oh yeah they were straight up just like we want treasure that's all we want yeah but why does the British guy on their team seem to know what's going on like he understood like like like the doctor the doctor guy yeah he was more aware of what was that snake yeah how did he get like teed up with these like American cowboy treasure hunter guys like I I thought maybe it'd be interesting if he was like a rival of ebies or former professor and it's
like he doesn't leave her because he sexes I mean he is because he says like oh they're led by women of women so they don't know where there's where they're right I get that but there's no connection you know there's no uh kind of like reason to hate them besides them being guys from the 20s
like the 1920s from like Texas and then I mean I don't I actually remember them with Rick in in the group like way longer but it really is just like maybe 20 minutes or less there's a whole thing of trying to keep those guys alive because of what they do later on
well they're yeah they're they're under own kind of like separate dig and then you know Rick and Evie and Jother are on their own they like they kind of circumvent their digs they they get like kicked out of uh or anything the book like uh treasure's gonna be but then they
just go into like a tunnel like under the statue and find managed to like find the the book and uh or like find imotents graphaes see when they that happens I don't know if imotent was trying to be like now because he randomly just drops in the ceiling hmm it wasn't like they were opening doors
and finding him wasn't like an explosion that drops his sarcophagus it really was just like them just going now what and then the coffin falls in place well they were they were like chiseling up a little bit to tell like make because their plan was they were gonna wait until like the Americans
went to sleep and then like chiseled up and like sneak in under them and then so they're kind of just like waiting around and like jothins like hitting stones like like golf balls and it's applied that like he hits like a stone into stealing a knocks the sarcophagus stone
there's one heck of a golf swing yeah you should quit being a thief and like treasure hunter thief would like be like a 1920s golfer yeah but yeah so they they face him and then um I love when they like open it up and then he's like like you get to see like like the like imotents like mow your flamboyant time and they're like oh he's still juicy yeah I do like that line it's very it stands out to me because even to this day when I think
of something that looks a little gross but what I think juicy and it just looks a gross thing to think well there's a lot of great lines where like um like a character were like like kind of like lead in and then one of the characters will finish it's like he's like he's still and then like
Jonathan and Frick are like juicy yeah there's like great timing yeah and cuts here that like kind of emphasize the comedy part so not everything is a traditional horror movie because if you look at the poster of the mummy half the time I think it's just the one with like the mummy's face
on a pyramid yeah no context on that so when you watch it you realize it's kind of playful it's pulpy it's got good comedic bits between everyone yeah Brenner like Brenner Frick does the same thing himself seriously like he's always like doing like some sort of like he's like
screaming at mummy he's like dropping a one liner but then like he does he's able to turn it on like like if he's like serious action mode he's able to turn that on too so like I mean he's just like fantastic this movie see the problem is I saw the movie a bit dazzle
half of your priorities and uh holy opposite man and I think even the same year or the year after this monkey bone I think those were after oh my god let me tell you because I think the bedazzle was 2000 and then monkey bone was like 2002 or something like that
because he was it was even like like I think we like where is that like like two years before this was George's the jungle that was like the last that was like his last big one before the mummy but still still doing like yeah like comedy stuff like I don't think he was like a full
like action star till the mummy is the mummy his only action movies I mean I guess like um it was like during the center of the earth oh yeah he's got almost a ricconn or type five in that mm-hmm anyway uh yeah the um them discovering Imletep and then them trying to steal the book like
it was all like hey okay we now now need to go when that book that is super fucking scary looking yeah this this black book that you need like a special lock to open that seems fine and also just also just read from it too that seems like a good idea well I mean up into that point
these book of spells aren't exactly like certified they're just it's it's it's very you know it's it's very like evil dead we're like like we're like even just like it's like it's just like just reads from the book it's like oh you just you stupidly read from the book and now you've
unleashed like evil you find straight up evil under it I think she's reads like the first let's just open to a page and she's like reading like a curse like it's just where to spell which I get and it just has to be the one that like oh we can dig with that
and I think the like the CG Imletep holds up pretty well I mean it's not like it's you know it's 99 CG but so it still looks compared to like other stuff that came out around this time like it still looks pretty good oh yeah a lot of the C.I. sorry CGI they use it like nicely and it's all
like at night because I know at the time like C.G.I still wasn't good with like light bending so a lot of it is set at like dusk or like just just as it gets dark so the the weird um and canny valley I guess that's not can't hate you guys too good it's like you know just the two
I guess primal uh graphics that they had going on like the PlayStation 1 was still like a man during this time so it's just like it looks better than a PS1 game and it looks and I mean and everything this movie looks better than like the Scorpion King it is like a movie which is
weird because that's like about three years later well just the rock I think honestly it's just the rock the way he just could not be captured yeah you can't capture the rock and CG but you know the decaying corpse and and it's screaming it still looks fine again it doesn't hold up but I
think that's the point is that unless you through uh what's his face in a full latex mask yeah imagine Arnold uh bolsel fossilou yeah fossilou just like dark manning it I mean here he did that he did that for two movies before this so yeah just like it's just it's the same dark man
makeup but now it's just like slightly tanned he's just like no more no more bandages apparently apparently like the one scene the opening where like he's actually getting like bandaged up apparently it took like four hours and he was just like nope nope no more like no more bandages
I don't understand why that took four hours he's not even talking he's just being held yeah I guess like wrap like wrap him like like so completely wrapping up it took a while I guess I don't know if they got like authentic Egyptian cotton yeah man carefully like roll it yeah
you know what they did they probably took the wrapping of like a real mummy and they put it on him but yeah the you think also on a side note do you think this movie also help uh the addition tourism board I mean probably or just like like just like general kind of like where
where are their museums with mummies like like the British museum and like this this like like Smithsonian or like the like uh you know like the York museums have any sort of like mummies at all like yeah yeah there was like king tuts stuff yeah I remember that like there
was a definitely a period when I was a kid that mummies was cool then nothing there was there was a lot of these mummies alive came out that was yeah but didn't finalize like no that no I think it wasn't that wasn't that after this with it like you think the mummy like inspired they were like oh man
mummies are hot we got like because like a mummy's tea my tea riboff like I don't remember but you know that's not bad if the closest repult they had at the time with mummies alive well I mean the mummy guy it's oh it's cartoon yeah but I was like by the second movie yeah
it was it was the same year as my it was like 2001 when the mummy turns came out it was like also like the anime series came out I think the mummy returns uh anime series was like a sequel to the show or is it pretty cool it was I think it was sort of supposed to be like I think it was like an
alternate take I'm like the mummy turn return because I think like Alex their son had like the thing on his wrist still in the show but then it was like more it was more like a gadget to help them in the show right he was able like do like do magical things so it was like it was like a
weird like alternate like an alternate universe version of other returns and I don't think the sorpey king showed up in the show I think it was just it was just about to up again it has been this terrible like minecraft looking monster like walking around in the show like why is he
different from the rest yeah but yeah I do like that basically once emo tep is unleashed he doesn't give a shit by anyone else but trying to get to those three Americans yeah and out more with the the British dude yeah and that I love like all the like the different ways that I show like
like the guys like like their life force out like a lot of it's off-screen but there's like some cool like stuff we're like you see like the one guy it's like a shadow of his like body getting like just like desiccated like sort of gets a wall yep and then you see the other one where he
just taking parts I don't know why I don't know why one dude he gets his eyes and tongues removed and then he lets him wander and then just to like mess with him more yeah because he because he needs like he needs like his organs too and then he's like oh I'll get those later I guess like
or this EV interrupt that I this is like EV interrupts them but maybe he maybe she did actually kind of stumbles into like that that's all thing happening and that's when like and with that's like oh an accident moon so which is which is weird that seems even weirder after watching memory turns because you would think it would have a no it's like oh no you're not in actually when you're like the you're like the Pharaoh's daughter yeah yeah the unnamed daughter that we all forgot about yeah
but that they do think that in the movie that she's also part of the yeah her about her mom is her mother's Egyptian yeah so there's a chance of lowline as through her but like when they when they do the flashback in my returns like it's it's just ritual wise
so like in particular have seen someone it looks exactly ritual wise in like you know the past and we're like oh you're he hasn't he hasn't been awake it wasn't like he was sitting in a coffin for that long like you know you probably died and then you woke up the next time is this so
yeah his memory should be like oh like you look exactly like the woman who ratted out on like yeah my secret affair yeah but also I do like that a Nuximoon does come back and she tries to kill Eve like she just so it's like there's a little bit of continuity because it because that's
what that's what will finish like I turn it around like so if they kill Evie then like an accident when like soul goes into Evie's body but then that's a dead body well because that's because like yeah because in the movie turns like he like he does like he like any time is the finish
totally finished the spell and then the future of last guys is like whatever whatever characters name is like but not when she's not not an accident of moon like turns into an accident of like there's like the spirit of an accident goes into her but she isn't killed
is she reincarnated of the Nuximoon I think that's a deal in like when it turns like I'm the recreation of the Nuximoon and like I'm just like not yet and then he has to do like the he brings back her memories yeah which is like the shadow the shadow creature from like ghost
like flies out like who was there whatever and like flies into her and then she becomes like oxygen would again so I mean he kind of got the right people right I give him a tip that he got like the people who were around him because Rachel Wise's character is supposed to be the reincarnation
of that character from past yeah and this so in this first movie he just you just wants a woman they can sacrifice them and then that won't return into the Nuximoon I guess what's he what's he sacrifices or either they'll turn they'll turn the Nuximoon or like they'll
like make a Nuximoon returned is like and then like maybe turn it like he does yeah so I assume maybe it's the same deal with the life force where she'll just take her life force yeah I think maybe yeah but instead of three or four guys it takes one woman the ratio is a little off
and if I remember correctly I think I thought a Nuximoon was like like mummified correctly yeah because those those jars like her organs I think like all the jars they find are like her like organs so why did yeah it's like where the parts were what was the
parts that he was gathering for her also I think so I think that I think that that would probably like help regenerate maybe but then he was taking them to rebuild himself to look for a human I don't think I don't think he was using the or I don't think he was using the jar organs I think he was
like sucking life force of the guys that found the jars and then he like the jar the jars are actually like an accident of a woman's like organs and he needed those like complete is ritual whatever yeah sure that makes more sense yeah because I was wondering like he wasn't he replaced his
he took organs from the other people but I think he just did replace his own organs but then life force is really more important than the organs yeah I do I do I do like we get to see like all the all the all the stages of like him like regenerating like you can see like these like different
like levels of like turning into arlovaslo yeah I like I like the second last one where it's like he's most arlovaslo but he's like the weird like jaw still from the mummy and then like harvest the sheaks like still open and they like eats that scarab that crawls in
I thought that scene was from the second movie well I think they they kind of like they kind of like shortcut like his like regeneration the second one just like they like sacrifice like four guys are out of the bat just like here fierce four guys like fully regenerate yourself
well I mean he when he comes back to life he just bosses that up like who just like I'm back yeah which is weird because in this one it's like a whole process it's like days and then their final battle he doesn't get thrown into like a pit or anything
you just sort of get stabbed and died yeah he gets stabbed like walks into like the the sole ooze or whatever that is like the that's where like a noxious like soul came out of yeah yeah like but the problem is that like in that pit of faces I'm like is that just everyone's soul is
it just his I don't I don't know why later on it becomes like a different temple too well yeah my very very sure so he like I think you like literally get set the hell because it's just like he like falls down like the like held cavern like all the souls like just
like throwing him down into hell well that that's a different one that was like the EV increased like the magic so now it's like okay we can't just throw him in a spool of souls you gotta send him to yeah we can't we can't have like a ghost chariot fly into him and like take his soul out
I guess or like his immortality immortal soul and then at least have like mortal I do like that it definitely comes out of left field because it doesn't really hint about his soul or his humanity because you assume it's so powerful that making him human he doesn't know
what to do so he just runs into a guy I'm sword yeah the fight isn't as epic as in number two or somehow his fighting skills have been he's more aware of what's at stake yeah yeah Rick Rick and Rick and what that don't really go like motto a motto in the first one it's more like Rick
Rick is more fight like like the like it would test priests for like the most of the final battle well they're way for the magi to show up and then because he he it was like tells them a magi to like listen to him but then as soon as like John
then it's just like yeah no well I think there's like the mom fight like royal guards or something like the Pharaoh's guards that like yeah mom of fire oh I thought they were like the well the royal guards are the magi yeah yeah but yeah they just sort of forgot what happened
but I think it's like a good ending like it with with the big bad fight and then basically them getting out of the cave it if they never did a sequel I think it's still like a good rule oh yeah hmm I do like that they hint that there could be more because of what they do at the end but
it in terms of like Rick got the girl he killed the bad guy they're riding to the sunset it's like the classic uh n-scene yeah and I love all that yeah though when they really they like amp up all the mummy stuff they're like you know they're like tons of mummies into it like well the priest
show up and lots lots of lots of fun gags when they were like Rick is finding like the preet like it's it's like cool extra stuff but also like it's some like funny yags like he like knocks one of the guys like heads off and he's like bouncing on his hands and stuff and really like he when
like he's trying to grab the sword and then it's like I'm like a cut off like a mummy hand crawling through the sword and then he regress the mummy hand like uses that like cut down the guy yeah uh the mummies are just like roots there's no strategy and it seems like Rick does like a sword
dance fight around them well I was reading I think that no like I need to be tripping a thing apparently like uh like interpret paraphrasing I had to just like do all that like against nothing they didn't even have like you know like tennis balls like she's like like he'd like look
perfectly learn the choreography and just do it all against like nothing and then they put the mummies in afterwards the CGI mummies in I mean they'll just built it around Brendan yeah whatever this happens we'll just put mummies there I mean it's really hard I guess to do action sequences
without anything yeah yeah he's like he's like he's like tend to get grabbed by something and then but there's like nothing like nothing there it was like like a guy like a kringeskrieg suit like grabbing him it's just like you just had to do like I got nothing yeah and you know fun yeah
fun classic like a temple collapsing because like a movie trip gets triggered yeah um I feel like I feel like Benny could like we could like I mean it's it's like a kind of like a good like you know what happens like we've ever seen like what's gonna happen because they
you can see my scaroms and we've seen like like it was all that is but it's it's like all in the dark so you don't really you don't see it happening I feel like I feel like for like all the like all the stuff he did like we kind of like maybe like a more like some sort of like bigger bigger come up
it's yeah I feel like just because Evie said that like you know bad guys get bad endings like a karmic balance yeah I think it would have been more satisfying to watch him get like that swarm on him or maybe him opening up something and then coming at him at the end as a surprise yeah
I guess you can't go too gruesome because the piezer team movie but like some sort of like like final like big kind of scarab thing it's like like you just like maybe like like a close up of him like crawling and then they like eat him or something and it's like his skeletons left or it's like
like like you see like that one like digger guy earlier on like like eating that's like you see like it's like kind of like meat covered skeleton leftover from those scaroms yeah I've been like see plenty doing that I do I do appreciate that like his his come up it's comes because he's like
weight he's like too greedy because like he already got a bag of treasure but he gives me another bag of treasure that's what that's what causes downfall I also thought that maybe he might have like had to change a heart you feel like the movie was hinting towards that I don't know I think
he's just like he's super like he could have but he had way more enough treasure than he needed in that first bag and then it was like no I need to go get another bag of treasure because at that point in my tent doesn't care about him no so he was freed from trying to team up with him and then he
gets locked in the treasure room and it's where he dies the ultimate ironic like ultimate like a carba yeah the bad guy wish you want all this treasure now you can have it all we can't do anything with it I feel like that was a backdoor way maybe of saying that he can come back
man yeah if he backers like a mummy we're like a like a weird like mummy zombie kind of like thing he's like like a a ghoul like Jake Johnson and the other mummy movie was a ghoul like many could have been the ghoul yeah because yeah because he obviously he wouldn't be a mummy because he's
gonna get mummified so he but then if they get bring him back it's like it's some sort of weird like uh yes a dead creature but he came back from event Helsing so he was a Igor of it Helsing but that was a blankly to miss it he or yeah I think was he only in like one scene
or two scenes yeah it's him talking to Frankenstein and him at the end on a bridge chasing after uh bring it up then housings free sprang but uh yeah the mummy I it's it's still great 25 years later it's it's still super fun it's just like like a perfect blend of action and commoners even like and even some like like like there's some like actual like creepy dark stuff in it too like like all like what like Emma says like takes over like like all Kyro like turns everyone to like
like like like boil covered slaves yeah they're a mystery movie and they were willing to be slaves or they were like no I think I think I think artist Bay was like oh he's like Emma tips and slave them all
like something that like one of his powers yeah he's just like like like just he's controlling all of them now I don't know why you can just do that to Rick yeah yeah that's a good point like yeah like he's like that's why if if if my if my control is one of his powers yeah why did you just like
you know my control like everybody that's where that falls for I thought they were already like a cult this people who then in the tap just sort of like hey magic real I'm real yeah and then like this like the stuff with like the scare like the scare of like we see like it's like
like crawling under your skin and it like it goes to your brain that's like that part freaks me out of the kid yeah I are seeing then the other thing is getting very uncomfortable because you're just in the dark and allowed noise room and you just hear the sound effects of the
scarubes and then knowing that basically that that's actually like you know not not like it necessarily like a real thing that could happen but yeah like parasites just things that get in your body just yeah it was just like the last last little bit like like the one that we have is the
warning and it's like you see it like right before it crawls in his brain like that crunching sound and you see the like the bulge go like behind his eyes he's screaming it's like that's like the like the scariest part of the whole movie yeah and I do like you don't see a lot of them PG-13 movie
it's like that was effective for without being bored and then that also feels like you know more like a more Indiana Jones like oh my stuff because I think you know I was like you know raider every Indian Jones movie like like raiders and temple doom there's like
like like it's like you know it's fun wacky adventure but it's like but then also it's like super dark stuff and I'll like all three of them just like dark disturb like people get into heart stripped out like the like end of raiders were like everyone's faces are melting like
so yes so like the like the like the like the corpses like the life force be during that people and like the like yeah the scarab stuff and like the zombie this is not be proud it kind of feels like a homage to that bit of Indiana Jones kind of tone too yeah it's only done for one scene
and it's effective to show that it will tap like if you keep running from him because he's got to you tricks up the sleeve but yeah it really is just like a plot like where he gets naked army and then he said he never does it again in the next movie never does that army again
yeah he never he never does the plays it's like a one-time thing where it's just like the first time he comes back the plagues happen and then they don't happen anymore that scene with the grasshoppers on the other actors like British aggressor hmm yeah were those real grasshoppers probably they look too good to be CG I'm sure I'm sure they probably brought in some yeah so I'm like it's probably pretty easy like bringing some like you know real crickets or real locus whatever they were
I mean when they're like a giant swarm I'm sure it's definitely CG but I even I even like you even get like a little tiny bit of like a disaster movie in this movie too like like the like meteors like smashing it to Cairo oh I forgot about the meteor part yeah that happens and then never happens again yeah because that that's like the third plague I think it's like the like the 10 plagues of Egypt so it's like water trips to blood uh boil like boils and sores comets like
they don't do was it one of them like all the firstborn children died too that didn't happen that is another type of like cards or thing that's more of a yeah blood frogs lice flies pestilence of livestock boils to thunderstorm of hail and fire locus darkness okay death death the firstborn someone was a 10th plague so the kind of just like maybe it was too far even for amateurs like I'm not gonna kill babies like you have like restraint yeah any uh any other final thoughts about the mommy Chris
uh go see the mummy ride in the universal it's a shortcut version of like the haphazard point of this movie uh I think uh it's definitely like worth a rewatch anytime yeah it's on it's uh if you want to watch it it's on peacock um so I think that's like the
best place you can watch it right now I think all the mummy stuff is on there like the and the animated series and all the movies are up there on the peacock and it's it's in uh it's in like 4k like HDR or two if you want to like you have like the TV
they can support that on peacock which I was surprised by I'm like oh this is like like HDR on peacock okay those uh those golden colors you're talking about like we're popping watching it on peacock I watched no DVD of it and it was not that's why the CGI didn't look that bad
but maybe uh it's full blown 4k yeah I think there's like a there's like a trilogy 4k set you can get if you want like a physical copy of all three movies which emperors like a two-moody drag nipper uh definitely stepped out for the franchise this you're trying to mummies aren't exactly a thing
and that was that that was like even even Steve suburbs was like I'm done with this like I made two of them I want to make GIGO or whatever and then in a ritual wise bailed out just like the writing was on the wall yeah in uh was it to has an eight when that came out so uh
I mean actually I mean I think I think we can talk about in July or like August because I think it'd be like the uh would be like actually no we didn't wait until like uh next year I think or like uh whatever is like a five or it's it'd be like whatever like
equals like a 25th or 15th anniversary of it um I don't usually even numbers yeah I can't do the math on top of my head right now but probably probably like a year or two we can like talk about the movie with the drag nipper it'll be that anniversary
yeah go celebrate the uh 21st year you can check it out on watch it again if you haven't seen it a while on peacock or physical media and uh come back next week we're going to be talking about another anniversary it's going to be the 10th anniversary for the start of the monsterverse uh
cuz Godzilla 2014 came out 10 years ago next week so we'll dive into all the orders of the monsterverse talk about uh you know monsterverse Godzilla and Brian Cranston not however thought Brian Cranston was gonna start that movie and then that didn't turn out
how I've been expected so yeah get ready for some monsterverse talk next week and uh headersight for all of our usual stuff we got reviews and news trailers uh we got our Friday 13th part four commentary up there if you want to check that out and we got we got a
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