Everything GREAT About The Mummy! (1999)

The Mummy! It's back in theatres this weekend for its 25th anniversary! No not the 1932 one or the 2017 one, the perfect one right dead in the middle. The Brendan 'heartthrob' Fraser one. The Rachel 'make you knees buckle' Weisz one. The Imhotep 'suck you dry but not like that' Mummy one. You get the point. Here's everything right with The Mummy '99!

CinemaWins Socials:

[carlosdanger]

The amount of replay value on these movies is bananas. Brendan Fraser is a treasure and if you grew up in the 90's you will forever love him.

[Senior]

Brendan Frasier reacting to the mummies by saying “WOAH!” And then instinctively shooting them with a shotgun, is the most realistically American way I can possibly imagine that interaction going. 5 stars.

[KingsandGenerals]

The length of this video should match the runtime of the movie

[diamondstuddedpunchingbag]

The scene with Beni praying in multiple languages is one of my favorites. It gives him some character development...where he is willing to literally anything to stay alive.

[Maybachdemon]

25 years later, and the scarab beetles STILL freak me out

[raeje]

One of the biggest failures with Mummy 3 was the recasting of Rachel. Her and Frasier had such palpable chemistry, that its absence was a distraction in part 3.

[harmonlanager]

Funny thing about the warden’s death: the hieroglyphic that the scarab jewels are embedded in is of a man screaming in pain - directly telling you what the jewels do.

The warden died to the only trap in Egypt that comes with a warning label.

[sazandmaz]

A win that can be easily missed is when the 2 groups at the dig site have a stand off and when Rick says he’s “been in worse” Johnathan replied “Me too” and it’s treated as a joke, but actually he would have since he would have definitely fought during WW1 going by his age and background

[georgesmith]

Surprised you didn’t win Rick attempting to save Beni at the end. Even after everything Beni did to him and his friends, he’s a good man and genuinely tried to save Beni’s life

[michaelobrien]

I love the theory/unofficial backstory about Jonathan as a WWI vet as a means to flesh out his goofiness while also being a) very comfortable with death and b) more than competent in battle

[AleXandrYuZ]

Brendan Fraser's ability to pull off Good looking action man but also being able to be goofy on the same movie(s) was an underrated quality of him.

[kalef]

Nice touch how all three main protagonists get a thing at the end that distracts them from escaping. Evelyn with the book, Jonathan with the treasure, and Rick with Beni.

[Kerriangel]

Has there ever been a more iconic moment when Beni HAS ALL OF THE HOORRSSEES but he is also on the WRONG!! SIDEE!!! OF THE RIIIVVEERRR!!!!

[camillacarr]

Yes! Rick throwing the chair at Benny is the hottest, coolest, most badass move EVER!

[astaldogal]

Also, i think Evie's damsel in distress works with her character of never having done field work, which is mentioned in the beginning. In the second movie, she's had multiple adventures and is a mother, so more experience to be a badass

[Eamon]

2 cool bits of trivia, Oded Fehr (Ardeth Bay) was meant to have a face full of tattoos, but director Stephen Sommers decided against this because he was "too beautiful to cover up" and during the scene with the mind controlled citizens, one extra was handed a brown cloak to wear that had "Alec Guinness, Obi Wan" labelled on the inside from A New Hope.

[MitchFace]

I always thought the
“You swear.”
“Every damn day.”
was a slight homage to Errol Flynn swashbuckling movies cause there’s a similar exchange in Robin Hood.
“You speak treason.”
“Fluently.”

[mannyvalerio]

I actually adore Evie's damseling here, bc it illustrates this movie's biggest strength: the ensemble covers each other's *genre weaknesses*. They all play in each field, but they only really *win* for their team in their strengths.

Rick is *the* Action/Adventure guy, but lacks in the other two genres. He can quip just fine, but doesn't have much agency in Comedy moments, and can only get a far as stalling the Horror with his physical prowess.

Evie has power in the Horror and Adventure genres; she's the historian and linguist (and outright *beats* Imhotep's sandstorm because she wasn't threatened by it) but has almost no answer to physical problems, and she tends to end up on the losing side of jokes.

Jonathon has Bugs Bunny-level Comedic agency, literally able to solve small off-genre problems through jokes alone, and is passable at the Horror and Action when assisted, but his full commitment to Comedy makes him also sometimes a liability.

Ardeth is Action/Horror; knowledgable in the supernatural and proficient in a fight, but too serious to quip, though he still gets to play as the butt of a few jokes.

[Wearyman]

This is me and my wife's favorite action movie. Partly because my wife is a librarian and the whole drunken "I... AM A LIBRARIAN!" line from Evie sets her rolling every time.

[xxPenjoxx]

"Looks to me like you're on the wrong side of the river!"

There was a burn (small river) near my house where we would play as kids, and we would shout this across to each other 😁
This, and Shrek, were pivotal movies in my childhood.