Still trying to come to terms with the fact I’ll never be a librarian who can speak a dead language and be recruited by a ruggish but handsome explorer for a quest to lift the curse and save the world

because of the pandemic travel restrictions?

Because of the pandemic travel restrictions.

The Mummy

Art by Stephanie Pepper

The Mummy

Art by Stephanie Pepper

Really wish we could go back to a time when movies were worth something as long as they were fun to watch

Like I mentioned the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot (the all-female one) to someone bc i had a lot of fun watching that movie!! And they were like “that movie wasn’t that good it was just a comedy… It didn’t win anything did it?” like bitch …. The first Ghostbusters movie wasn’t fucking good either but I’m still sitting here watching some dudes chase a ghost through a library to some weird synth music so maybe movies don’t have to win awards to be worth watching

Not done.

When I ask people about their fave movies I always ask for two:

1) Which movie do you just fuckin. Watch over and over again (mine is Groundhog Day)?

2) Which movie do you recommend to other people/to me specifically?

Like. These are two VERY different questions. I know my bff from high school is obsessed with the star wars prequels like SHE KNOWS THEY AINT GOOD. I asked my roommate the first question and they were like “fuck dude I just love Mrs doubtfire.” Like yeah you’re not gonna be telling every person you meet to watch Mrs doubtfire! But it’s okay if it’s a movie you like some movies are FUN

There’s an Ebert review, I believe, of the Brendan Frasier Mummy film.  It basically goes, “k, there’s only one nice thing I can say about this movie, and that’s … I enjoyed pretty much every minute of it.”

Like.  Was it a cinematic masterpiece?  No.  Do you want to pop some popcorn and put it on while you hang out with your D&D group or whatever?  Hell, yeah.  It’s fun.

“There is hardly a thing I can say in its favor, except that I was cheered by nearly every minute of it. I cannot argue for the script, the direction, the acting or even the mummy, but I can say that I was not bored and sometimes I was unreasonably pleased.”

-Roger Ebert

Despite the fact that 1999 film The Mummy is regularly considered a “bad” movie I have never met a person who doesn’t like it.

It’s considered bad?!

Like critically just on the border of passable

This upsets me deeply and at the same time makes perfect sense because it’s an obscenely dorky and historically inaccurate movie and yet at the same time it (and The Mummy Returns) is in my list of top ten favorite movies ever. I unashamedly love it so much. When it came out on VHS when I was like 11 or something I watched it literally every day after school.

If I had the time or energy I probably still would. I love this stupid movie to death.

The people who hate it hate it because they’re on the wrong side of the river.

dragons-bones

The Mummy (1999) dir. Stephen Sommers 

#SQUAD GOALS

@paperbagrosie

This is like a study in how many expressions three characters can cram into a frame. The last gif is the story an entire life lived in a moment. This gifset describes a heroic journey. Jonathan is briefly wildly excited by the statue’s feet before resigning himself to his fate. Ardeth’s instant transition from drama to annoyance when Rick lights a match on his beard is highly relatable. why did Rick stop the action just to strike a match on a friend’s rugged jaw. how fantastic are Ardeth’s robes. what are their faces doing in the last gif. is anyone in this film capable of doing anything at a normal level with any modicum of focus, or do they all stumble dramatically out of bed in the morning and pick a fight with the floor. Give me more disasters, that’s what I want. more relatable, distractible disasters. not a single one of them can focus on deadly dangers for more than a moment without being distracted by feet, jawlines, banter, books, swishing their clothes and grabbing each other. none of them can hold a torch properly.

tag urself im rick

if there’s ever a day I don’t reblog the Mummy when it comes across my dash, someone check my pulse… 

I made a meme.

This is the content I'm here for

#SQUAD GOALS

@paperbagrosie

This is like a study in how many expressions three characters can cram into a frame. The last gif is the story an entire life lived in a moment. This gifset describes a heroic journey. Jonathan is briefly wildly excited by the statue’s feet before resigning himself to his fate. Ardeth’s instant transition from drama to annoyance when Rick lights a match on his beard is highly relatable. why did Rick stop the action just to strike a match on a friend’s rugged jaw. how fantastic are Ardeth’s robes. what are their faces doing in the last gif. is anyone in this film capable of doing anything at a normal level with any modicum of focus, or do they all stumble dramatically out of bed in the morning and pick a fight with the floor. Give me more disasters, that’s what I want. more relatable, distractible disasters. not a single one of them can focus on deadly dangers for more than a moment without being distracted by feet, jawlines, banter, books, swishing their clothes and grabbing each other. none of them can hold a torch properly.

‘or do they all stumble dramatically out of bed in the morning and pick a fight with the floor‘ – this question sums up so many of my favorite chaotic dumbass heroes!

The Mummy (1999) dir. Stephen Sommers

Iconic Female Portrayals: Rachel Weisz as Evelyn Carnahan in The Mummy (1999)

Let’s just appreciate Rick O’Connell for a moment

A man that was actually loyal and was so in love with his wife

A man who was almost always done with everyone’s shit

Literally everyone

Truly a man after my heart

@winterbaby89 for reasons

bonus: Rick having to be physically restrained to stop him from going after Evy…