The Mummy is one of my favorite movies. I love Rachel Weisz as the brainy, beautiful leading lady, Brendan Fraser as the adventurous man of action, and Arnold Vosloo as the chief villain. Also, they did get the mummification practices correct when Evelyn described how ancient Egyptians removed people's brains (minus a slight omission): The embalmers used the hook to also punch a hole in the person's skull so the brain drained out when they were rolled over. And I always get jumpscared when Jonathan is toying around in that damned sarcophagus, no matter how many times I've seen the movie. Side trivia: 1. In the scene introducing her as Ankh-su-namun, model/actress Patricia Velásquez was completely naked with the exception of a loin cloth, a few pieces of jewelry, pasties & body paint (body paint took four hours to apply). 2. Brendan Fraser revealed on a recent episode of “The Kelly Clarkson Show” that he had a near-death experience during a stunt gone wrong while filming “The Mummy.” The Oscar winner said he was “choked out accidentally” during the scene in which he had to be hanged from the gallows in the Egyptian prison, which resulted in him being resuscitated by on-set medical personnel. 3. In the desert race to Hamunaptra, you see camels and horses. Horses are faster (on flat land), but camels are adapted to life in the desert. Even though they do eventually have to eat and drink, camels can live off the fat reserves inside their humps, their long eyelashes keep dust out of their eyes, and their feet are big and wide to keep them from sinking into the sand as they move. 4. After Evelyn unknowingly awakens Imhotep by reading The Book Of The Dead (which is actually a funerary scroll in real life) and the locust swarm flies into the encampment at Hamunaptra, the locusts crawling on the Egyptologist are actually grasshoppers that were refrigerated to make them sluggish. On a similar note, the scarabs in real life were merely dung beetles, not vicious flesh eaters.
Interestingly, they would preserve certain organs for the dead to use in the afterlife. They had no idea what the brain did, so they just discarded it.
Such a fun movie, obviously influenced by the adventure films of the 50's but made for a late 90's audience, just like Indiana Jones was the same thing for the early 80's audience. Speaking of Indiana Jones, the influence is obvious, archeology, a charming adventurer with a 'bad boy' vibe, the strong headed love interest, presence of the supernatural and plenty of action. Brandan Fraser is great in the role and there's a lot of chemistry between him and the beautiful Rachel Weisz. The sequel, The Mummy Returns is great also. The late 90's early 2000's had a lot of films that had sequels who were on par, if not better than the original: Scream 2, American Pie 2, X-2 (the sequel for X-Men), Spiderman 2, Blade 2 just to name a few.
Such a fun action adventure fantasy movie! Originally, a lot of horror film directors were considered for the job of making THE MUMMY since the 1980's, from John Landis, John Carpenter, Mick Garris, Clive Barker, David Cronenberg, Joe Dante, and George Romero. Stephen Sommers was hired for the job as he was a huge fan of the classic Universal Horror films and The Mummy was his favorite, after his last film DEEP RISING bombed at the box office in 1998. Brendan Fraser almost died while making the film, where he was actually hung by his neck during his execution scene, and nearly passed out, until the stunt coordinator saved his life. A lot of security was hired by the producers and even had the actors sign a contract that would have involved preventing them from getting kidnapped off the set of the movie. Before Brendan Fraser played Rick O'Donnell, Kurt Russell, Sylvester Stallone, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Matthew McConaughey, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Tom Cruise were considered for the role. Cruise would later star in the 2017 reboot, which was not well received by critics or fans of the Mummy Trilogy.
- Anck-su-Namun was played by Patricia Velasquez, a Venezuelan supermodel, and I expect all men and most women who saw her in that outfit were at risk of spontaneously combusting just from how hot she was... - There was a famous ancient Egyptian named "Imhotep", whom the mummy is named after. Rather than being a treacherous priest who became a cursed mummy, the historical Imhotep was famous for being the architect who designed and built the first pyramid: the "Step Pyramid" of Pharaoh Djoser. - I had the HUGEST celebrity crush on Rachel Weisz after I first saw this movie around age 20. - Brendan Fraser was accidentally hanged for real in the hanging scene and passed out from lack of air. Fortunately, he was all right after some quick medical attention. - O'Connell's line when he sees Beni again is one of my favorite lines from any movie. "Well, if it ain't my little buddy Beni!" I went through a phase where I was constantly quoting it! - I used to own a copy of this movie on DVD, and it had a director commentary as a bonus feature. According to the director, they had to digitally alter the footage of Evie in her nightgown after she had been swimming in it, due to the fact that when the nightgown got wet, it showed enough of Rachel Weisz that the movie would have gotten an "R" rating if they had left the footage unaltered... - I got to ride a camel once. I enjoyed the experience, which was very different from riding a horse. Instead of bouncing you up and down like a horse does, a camel sways you from side to side. - I had an older cousin who took a trip to Morocco when she was college age, around the year 2000. While she was there, some of the locals tried to buy her using camels as currency so that is, in fact, still a thing! - The Egyptologist with the "Cowboy" Americans was a little old-fashioned in his attitude towards women, even in the time the story is set in (the 1920s). While still far from modern levels of equality, women in Western countries usually had at least basic education (though a woman educated to Evie's level were still relatively rare) and had won the right to vote in both the UK and the US a few years before. - The shotgun O'Connell is packing is a Winchester M-97, which was used by American forces for raiding German trenches in World War 1, and was so effective that the Germans (the same Germans who were using things like poison gas, mind you) were complaining that its use in war was "inhumane". That's a large part of why O'Connell was initially so confident that he had "taken care" of the mummy after shooting it with that gun. - The scene with Jonathan Hyde (who played the Egyptologist) covered in locusts asking "what have we done?" in a horrified tone required several takes due to the fact that they used real locusts in the scene and their feet tickled the actor, causing him to repeatedly crack up while trying to act distressed and regretful! - Ardeth Bay, leader of the Medjai (the descendants of Pharaoh's bodyguards), was played by Israeli actor Oded Fehr, who was widely considered to be the "sexiest" actor in Israel at the time the movie was made. He was originally supposed to have his face entirely tattooed, but the ladies in several of their test audiences objected strongly to this, so they altered the look of his character so that his face showed more clearly! - The actor portraying Imhotep, South African actor Arnold Vosloo, also did the motion capture for the scenes before Imhotep fully regenerated. He was covered in bits of motion-capture tape, which he described as feeling like a Christmas tree, or like an actual mummy! He chose to play the role straight, interpreting the story as being "like Romeo and Juliet" from Imhotep's point of view. - The "Ten Plagues of Egypt" included plagues of water turning to blood, infestations of frogs, lice, and flies, burning hailstones, a disease on livestock, locusts, boils, darkness, and finally the taking of the lives of the firstborns sons of every household. - The sequel to this movie, "The Mummy Returns", explores the origins of Evie and her connection to Anck-su-Namun much further... - The first time I saw the scene of Jonathan chanting "Imhotep" and pretending to be one of the crowd under Imhotep's control, I laughed so hard I almost passed out! - Winston was so happy to pass away due to the fact that he had "survivor's guilt", a very common psychological ailment among surviving World War I veterans... - Your "maybe gain some muscle" comment is especially funny in the context of what happened to John Hannah (the actor playing Jonathan) before filming that scene. According to the director commentary, the day they shot the scene with Jonathan getting attacked by the scarab was difficult for a rather amusing reason. John Hannah had been feeling self-conscious about the scene, as he would be appearing shirtless, so he spent the previous day working out at the gym. While this didn't alter his appearance at all, it did give him severely sore muscles, causing him to constantly wince in pain while filming! - When watching the Disney "Aladdin" movie (the cartoon one, as the live-action remake hadn't been made yet) as kids, my sister would always tell Aladdin to "grab a handful of treasure!" as he fled from the lava through the treasure room. I tend to jokingly quote those "instructions" in this movie as they run through the treasure room as the temple is collapsing. - The satchel of treasure Beni unwittingly provided Rick and Evie was VERY lucrative, as you will see in the form of their home in "The Mummy Returns". I look forward to your review of that!
The Mummy is the closest any other movie has come to matching the tone and fun of the original Indiana Jones trilogy. It even takes place in the same time period.
"The Mummy" (1999) is much more action/ comedy than horror--that's certainly true. I went to the theater expecting to see a horror movie in 1999 when I first saw "The Mummy," and the fact that my expectations were so confounded really put me off on this film for a long time. I had to rediscover it many years later before coming to fully appreciate it for the great movie that it is, as I do now. I met Oded Fehr, the man who played your "handsome stranger," Ardeth Bay, at Cincinnati Comic Expo just a week ago and got an autograph. "The Mummy" was his feature film debut. I saw Patricia Velasquez, who played Anck Su Namun, at Steel City Con in Pittsburgh last year and obtained her autograph.
16:45 "How did these people not freeze to death?" Well, I mean, they're in _Egypt._ I caught wind, ages ago, about conditions in Cairo getting cold enough for ice to form on the roads and the number of car accidents was through the roof. Ice was such a small part of their lives that _no_ one had learned how to _drive_ on it. Historically, civilizations that have thrived in this part of the world have done so by orienting their sleep schedule so they're active at _night._ You pitch your tent and _sleep_ during the day, because daytime heat is oppressive, so being active during the day is impractical.
I work in a library and when I watch the movie or see a reaction to it that scene makes me cringe every time because I would be one of the people cleaning it up.
I recommend watching “Bedazzled” also with Brendan Fraser, a fun comedy with many characters! But The Mummy was the sexual awakening of a whole generation 😂 and we all had the same dilemma, everyone is sooo beautiful it was hard to not fall in love with multiple characters! The room got hot for all of us 🥵🔥🪭
Dark fact that hanging scene that plays for a few seconds when Brandon just falls through the gallows nearly killed him. The reason is the safety harness did not work right and he nearly hung lucky the crew realized quick enough to save him.
Great reaction! I love this movie so much! I also love the sequel, The Mummy Returns! The entire cast of surviving characters returns. There is a third, but it’s not that great. Also, in the third, they completely change Evie’s character, and a different actress plays her. But DEFINITELY do a reaction to The Mummy Returns!!! Btw, there was an accident during the hanging scene, but fortunately Brendan made it through. So, there’s a reason it looks so realistic.
They came for Treasure🤑they awakened a Monster!Excellent Choice; Stephen Sommers has Directed quite a few of My Favorite Adventure Movies, ALL of which (including this one) cleverly-combine Action with Humor and Horror!👍 Those other Favorites of Mine include "Deep Rising" ('98), "The Mummy Returns" ('01), "Van Helsing" ('04) and "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" ('09)!👌
Happy to see you reacting to this late 90s movie that takes me back to my childhood I miss the 90s big time. Happy Halloween 🎃 you should do a reaction video on The Mummy Returns which is just as good as this first Mummy movie.
Being a fan of the original movie (The Mummy 1932) starring the legendary Boris Karloff, I did not watch it in the theatre as I thought it would not be very good. However, I did buy it on a DVD about a year later and was pleasantly surprised at how well they had melded the original with a more modern imagining. Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz and the rest of the cast gave excellent performances. Trivia-For some reason all the camels took a disliking to Kevin J. O’Connor (Beni) and would spit at him when he came near them. Excellent review as always. Namaste 🙏.
This is a real classic. Brandon Fraser is able to bring not just charisma, but also a wholesomeness. I’m really glad he’s been getting his career back. I haven’t seen the Tom Cruise remake, but I have heard that it was decidedly lacklustre. I haven’t bothered to check it out because, really, how could you ever improve on this?
The Mummy 2017 movie is embarrassingly bad, script must be written by a monkey. People have no problem believing that a 5,000-year-old Mummy could come back to life and run amok, but the reboot had such an absurd premise that it lost the temporary suspension of disbelief. Everything from the Mummy's unlikely tomb in Iraq to the impossible set of circumstances that led to its discovery had fans disbelieving all the events of the film.
@@wackyvorlon I know right? AI and a Monkey could write a better script. See.. people like different things for different reasons, i am fine with that.. but.. quality..is everyone's concern for every kind of work you do in life. And if you "don't care anymore" which is the case for Mummy 2017..then you got the wrong job.
Great movie. This is a fun adventure movie. They don't make movies like the anymore . The last fun adventure movie is Prince Of Persia 2010. The Mummy 2 is also a good movie but the third one is horrible. The modern remake with Tom crusie is very different but it is decent and more horror. You should also see Blast from the Past and School Ties (A great drama movie with also Matt Damon and Ben Aflec) with Brandon Frazer. Also The National Treasure movies.
half of the success of the film (and the sequel!) is due to the incredible chemistry between Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz. this guy was one of the funniest comedians back in the day!
Interesting fact, the language Imhotep is using is as close to what ancient egypt is supposed to have sounded. They tried to recreate it from all known sources. Incredible, I'd say
Just to be that "well, actually..."-person: (And this is just what I heard many years ago. So if I'm wrong, please correct me.) Often what was interpreted as a jackal in Egyptology, for example representing the god Anubis, has now been identified as a wolf (A now extinct species, I think.) by zoologists and archaeologists. But the appearance is closer to what jackals look like today rather than wolves, so the mistake is understandable. But your point was more relevant. Not a horse.
I like to let reactors know that Winston was played by veteran supporting actor Bernard Fox. Versatile, and all over tv and movies during the 1960s and 1970s, he's probably best known as the eccentric and magical Doctor Bombay from the tv series "Bewitched": ua-cam.com/video/nlm53N3v-I4/v-deo.html
3:32 Lol because it was a dem.on, imposing as her soul (aka dark magic). 5:36 😅IKR he was so good looking ❤ people only seem to mention George of the Jungle (1997) but not his previous ones in order such as Dogfight (1991), Encino Man (1992), School Ties (1992), With Honors (1994), Blast From the Past (1999), Airheads (1994), The Passion of Darkly Noon (1995), Gods and Monsters (1998), Dudley Do-Right (1999) followed by Blast From the Past (1999) within the same year THE MUMMY (1999), MUMMY RETURNS (2001) and MUNMY III: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR (2008). Beginning of 2000s: Bedazzled (2000), Monkeybone (2001), The Quiet American (2002), LooneyTunes: Back In Action (2093), CRASH (2004), Journey to the End of the Night (2005), Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) followed by InkHeart (2008), Furry Vengeance (2010), Extraordinary Measures (medical drama, 2010), No Sudden Moves (2021), The Whale (2022). TV DRAMAS: Texas Rising (2015), The Affair (2016-2017), TRUST (2018), CONDOR (2018), Doom Patrol (2016-2023). Stage Credit: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Eling.
The Mummy comes near the end of the pulp revival started by Indiana Jones, but is one of the most iconic. For more 'why are they all so hawt?!' 90s pulpiness- The Phantom(96), The Shadow(94), and The Rocketeer(91)
The actor who played Beni, Kevin J. O'Connor, was also in Deep Rising (1998), playing a similar character, but nicer. Although not as good as The Mummy, it has a very similar tone: officially an action-adventure, there's just enough comedy to cut the tension from the horror. Regarding Evie's education, don't forget that she's British, her parents had money, and this is the early 20th century. While female higher education wasn't common, the first British university to allow women did so in 1868 and the following year saw the first group of women allowed to study medicine. Even before this it was pretty common for wealthy women to be educated, but it was done with private tutors.
Thank you for the diss against the Mummy 2017 movie.. with Seth.. the God of Death. Mhm. Well ...i am not a Egyptologist, but when you make a movie about these topics.. There fore you should know... Seth is the God of War and Anubis is the God of Underworld. It's related to death but more like the moment from death (specially mummification) and the path to the next stage. Death itself and Afterlife belongs to Osiris. But anyway.. But who cares. Bad movie. There are good movies, there are phenomenal movies, and there are movies that are so bad, they are actually good kind of movies, but that Mummy movie was like bad-bad. The second Mummy movie with Fraser is even more fun and totally over the top. The third is.. well.. no spoilers but Rachel Weisz (Eve) don't sign up for this because the script was not good. Bad sign i guess.
The age-old question... If he's stolen eyes from the guy with bad sight, shouldn't Imhotep need glasses too? And actually Benny's multiple choice beliefs is funnier than it might be on the surface. Iirc, description/script specifies that Benny is ukranian, and considering the timeline - very likely a Soviet Russia one, born during the tsarist period (with Nicholas 2nd being the emperor) running away from the country, which was *_very_* heavily anti-faith. So it's funny that someone who was born during the period of very superstitious beliefs and then fleeing the very anti-belief country, he's tried to embrace *_EVERY_* belief under the sun, just in case, seeing as he didn't know where he would end up and what faith would be the right one in the area.
Apparently the glasses/ eye sight thing was in the original script and it's supposed to be the reason why Imhotep mistakes Evie as Anuk Su Namun, but that story point was edited out as being unnecessary. This was before longer films were common. At 2h04m, The Mummy was the third longest film in the top 10 highest grossing for 1999 (the other two being The Matrix and Phantom Menace).
For around 5:00: Nope, sorry. Sacred bodyguard is mine.😉 Just to clarify: he wasn't being hanged for Evie but for the "very good time" he had prior to. So Evie not responsible for that.
The zombie mummies and the skeletons are probably a tribute to the great creature animator, Ray Harryhausen, who, in the movie "Jason and the Argonauts" orchestrated a stop motion battle of about 7 or 9 skeletons against the main cast. It was one of the hardest feats of stop motion created and here it is: ua-cam.com/video/H-pw7Nw6y4I/v-deo.html
Idk why this happens to some reactors, but there was supposed to be subtitles when they’re speaking “Ancient Egyptian”. When Benny held up the Star of David and speaking Hebrew, Imhotep said “the language of the slaves?”. So he used him as a slave. Since the Jews were slaves in ancient Egypt.
It was the fact that he now had a common language as Beni and could communicate his instructions to him otherwise he would only have charades and interpretive dance to get his orders to his living minions.
21:05 " SEXY BOLD GUY " `= ARNOLD VASLOO. He had also played in a lot of TV series like BONES, NAVY CIS and NACIY CIS L.A.; also in lthe Video Game BOILING POINT searching for his disappeared daughter in an unnamed South American Country BENI `= KEVIN JAMES O´CONNOR for references
That was a lovely reaction. Great laughs. For me as well, haven't seen it in a while. Have seen this in theater with my mom and my brothers, and even she had a ton of fun with that. It was summer and i was 13-14 and this movie dodged the R-rating for sure, just like the first Venom movie.
I have loved this movie since the first time I saw it on TV a couple of years after it came out. My first time watching it was interesting in a unique way. My sister had just adopted a little tuxedo kitten, which kept head-butting me for attention, usually at the most intense points of the movie, which made me jump!
In the early 20th century (the movie is set in ca. 1930), a lot of women were educated. Public schooling was a regular thing and women could attend university (if not necessarily for all subjects). Technically the 'what does a woman know' guy shouldn't be saying it, either, because in the Arabian world, many women were well-read at that time, too. Women in the west, like Evie, could also own property (she and her brother both inherited from their parents, but he already squandered his money away) and their own money.
I wont be able to watch this movie again without hearing "sexy bald dude" running through my head. And i think shree will need many cold showers after this movie
One of my favorite movies. Good reaction. The sequel, Mummy Returns, is also very good. Sadly, the third movie was a failure - they had major production problems, worst of which was having to use a different actress for Evie. It does have good bits, but simply never "works" anywhere near as well as the first two.
"Prince of Persia" is another favorite of mine. People didn't like it because it compares it to the video game, and that's completely NOT fair!! Jake Gyellenhall was THE perfect actor to m
The Mummy part 2 is agreat one as well you shoudl definitely check it out when you can.
Will do definitely 😍
@ShreeNation Glade to hear however be warned one special effect in the mummy 2 did not age well.
That one flaw aside the rest of the sequal is great.
If you like Brendan Frasier, watch "George of the Jungle". He was in his best shape ever for that Film.
The part of that movie that kind of confuses me is how there's an Asian elephant in the jungles of Africa (Shep).
@@rainbowpegacornstudios That's a common trope in silly comedy movies, same mistake in Airplane.
@MrBigPicture835 There was an elephant in Airplane? 😱 😉
@@torontomame Yes, in the scene where Elaine is having a "Supperware" party with the native women.
Oh please no. The humor in this movie is for 6y olds.
The Mummy is one of my favorite movies. I love Rachel Weisz as the brainy, beautiful leading lady, Brendan Fraser as the adventurous man of action, and Arnold Vosloo as the chief villain. Also, they did get the mummification practices correct when Evelyn described how ancient Egyptians removed people's brains (minus a slight omission): The embalmers used the hook to also punch a hole in the person's skull so the brain drained out when they were rolled over. And I always get jumpscared when Jonathan is toying around in that damned sarcophagus, no matter how many times I've seen the movie.
Side trivia:
1. In the scene introducing her as Ankh-su-namun, model/actress Patricia Velásquez was completely naked with the exception of a loin cloth, a few pieces of jewelry, pasties & body paint (body paint took four hours to apply).
2. Brendan Fraser revealed on a recent episode of “The Kelly Clarkson Show” that he had a near-death experience during a stunt gone wrong while filming “The Mummy.” The Oscar winner said he was “choked out accidentally” during the scene in which he had to be hanged from the gallows in the Egyptian prison, which resulted in him being resuscitated by on-set medical personnel.
3. In the desert race to Hamunaptra, you see camels and horses. Horses are faster (on flat land), but camels are adapted to life in the desert. Even though they do eventually have to eat and drink, camels can live off the fat reserves inside their humps, their long eyelashes keep dust out of their eyes, and their feet are big and wide to keep them from sinking into the sand as they move.
4. After Evelyn unknowingly awakens Imhotep by reading The Book Of The Dead (which is actually a funerary scroll in real life) and the locust swarm flies into the encampment at Hamunaptra, the locusts crawling on the Egyptologist are actually grasshoppers that were refrigerated to make them sluggish. On a similar note, the scarabs in real life were merely dung beetles, not vicious flesh eaters.
Wow, thanks for this wonderful breakdown! 🙏❤️
@@ShreeNation You're most welcome. I'm honored to help.
Interestingly, they would preserve certain organs for the dead to use in the afterlife. They had no idea what the brain did, so they just discarded it.
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With the heart being the most necessary to enter the afterlife, since it was used in a ritual called The Weighing Of The Heart.
@@wackyvorlon Ya they thought the brain produced mucus.
Such a fun movie, obviously influenced by the adventure films of the 50's but made for a late 90's audience, just like Indiana Jones was the same thing for the early 80's audience.
Speaking of Indiana Jones, the influence is obvious, archeology, a charming adventurer with a 'bad boy' vibe, the strong headed love interest, presence of the supernatural and plenty of action.
Brandan Fraser is great in the role and there's a lot of chemistry between him and the beautiful Rachel Weisz.
The sequel, The Mummy Returns is great also. The late 90's early 2000's had a lot of films that had sequels who were on par, if not better than the original: Scream 2, American Pie 2, X-2 (the sequel for X-Men), Spiderman 2, Blade 2 just to name a few.
Agreed! Can't wait to watch The Mummy Returns 😍 Hope you enjoy the show!
@@ShreeNationI very much look forward to your reaction to The Mummy Returns.
@@ShreeNation 45:33 he lamented not joining with his squadron since he's the only one who survived.
The guy who plays Benny did such a great job of portraying a despicable, ruthless coward!
Agreed 💯
Such a fun action adventure fantasy movie!
Originally, a lot of horror film directors were considered for the job of making THE MUMMY since the 1980's, from John Landis, John Carpenter, Mick Garris, Clive Barker, David Cronenberg, Joe Dante, and George Romero.
Stephen Sommers was hired for the job as he was a huge fan of the classic Universal Horror films and The Mummy was his favorite, after his last film DEEP RISING bombed at the box office in 1998.
Brendan Fraser almost died while making the film, where he was actually hung by his neck during his execution scene, and nearly passed out, until the stunt coordinator saved his life.
A lot of security was hired by the producers and even had the actors sign a contract that would have involved preventing them from getting kidnapped off the set of the movie.
Before Brendan Fraser played Rick O'Donnell, Kurt Russell, Sylvester Stallone, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Matthew McConaughey, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Tom Cruise were considered for the role.
Cruise would later star in the 2017 reboot, which was not well received by critics or fans of the Mummy Trilogy.
I was going to say, there’s a reason why the hanging scene looks so realistic.
- Anck-su-Namun was played by Patricia Velasquez, a Venezuelan supermodel, and I expect all men and most women who saw her in that outfit were at risk of spontaneously combusting just from how hot she was...
- There was a famous ancient Egyptian named "Imhotep", whom the mummy is named after. Rather than being a treacherous priest who became a cursed mummy, the historical Imhotep was famous for being the architect who designed and built the first pyramid: the "Step Pyramid" of Pharaoh Djoser.
- I had the HUGEST celebrity crush on Rachel Weisz after I first saw this movie around age 20.
- Brendan Fraser was accidentally hanged for real in the hanging scene and passed out from lack of air. Fortunately, he was all right after some quick medical attention.
- O'Connell's line when he sees Beni again is one of my favorite lines from any movie. "Well, if it ain't my little buddy Beni!" I went through a phase where I was constantly quoting it!
- I used to own a copy of this movie on DVD, and it had a director commentary as a bonus feature. According to the director, they had to digitally alter the footage of Evie in her nightgown after she had been swimming in it, due to the fact that when the nightgown got wet, it showed enough of Rachel Weisz that the movie would have gotten an "R" rating if they had left the footage unaltered...
- I got to ride a camel once. I enjoyed the experience, which was very different from riding a horse. Instead of bouncing you up and down like a horse does, a camel sways you from side to side.
- I had an older cousin who took a trip to Morocco when she was college age, around the year 2000. While she was there, some of the locals tried to buy her using camels as currency so that is, in fact, still a thing!
- The Egyptologist with the "Cowboy" Americans was a little old-fashioned in his attitude towards women, even in the time the story is set in (the 1920s). While still far from modern levels of equality, women in Western countries usually had at least basic education (though a woman educated to Evie's level were still relatively rare) and had won the right to vote in both the UK and the US a few years before.
- The shotgun O'Connell is packing is a Winchester M-97, which was used by American forces for raiding German trenches in World War 1, and was so effective that the Germans (the same Germans who were using things like poison gas, mind you) were complaining that its use in war was "inhumane". That's a large part of why O'Connell was initially so confident that he had "taken care" of the mummy after shooting it with that gun.
- The scene with Jonathan Hyde (who played the Egyptologist) covered in locusts asking "what have we done?" in a horrified tone required several takes due to the fact that they used real locusts in the scene and their feet tickled the actor, causing him to repeatedly crack up while trying to act distressed and regretful!
- Ardeth Bay, leader of the Medjai (the descendants of Pharaoh's bodyguards), was played by Israeli actor Oded Fehr, who was widely considered to be the "sexiest" actor in Israel at the time the movie was made. He was originally supposed to have his face entirely tattooed, but the ladies in several of their test audiences objected strongly to this, so they altered the look of his character so that his face showed more clearly!
- The actor portraying Imhotep, South African actor Arnold Vosloo, also did the motion capture for the scenes before Imhotep fully regenerated. He was covered in bits of motion-capture tape, which he described as feeling like a Christmas tree, or like an actual mummy! He chose to play the role straight, interpreting the story as being "like Romeo and Juliet" from Imhotep's point of view.
- The "Ten Plagues of Egypt" included plagues of water turning to blood, infestations of frogs, lice, and flies, burning hailstones, a disease on livestock, locusts, boils, darkness, and finally the taking of the lives of the firstborns sons of every household.
- The sequel to this movie, "The Mummy Returns", explores the origins of Evie and her connection to Anck-su-Namun much further...
- The first time I saw the scene of Jonathan chanting "Imhotep" and pretending to be one of the crowd under Imhotep's control, I laughed so hard I almost passed out!
- Winston was so happy to pass away due to the fact that he had "survivor's guilt", a very common psychological ailment among surviving World War I veterans...
- Your "maybe gain some muscle" comment is especially funny in the context of what happened to John Hannah (the actor playing Jonathan) before filming that scene. According to the director commentary, the day they shot the scene with Jonathan getting attacked by the scarab was difficult for a rather amusing reason. John Hannah had been feeling self-conscious about the scene, as he would be appearing shirtless, so he spent the previous day working out at the gym. While this didn't alter his appearance at all, it did give him severely sore muscles, causing him to constantly wince in pain while filming!
- When watching the Disney "Aladdin" movie (the cartoon one, as the live-action remake hadn't been made yet) as kids, my sister would always tell Aladdin to "grab a handful of treasure!" as he fled from the lava through the treasure room. I tend to jokingly quote those "instructions" in this movie as they run through the treasure room as the temple is collapsing.
- The satchel of treasure Beni unwittingly provided Rick and Evie was VERY lucrative, as you will see in the form of their home in "The Mummy Returns". I look forward to your review of that!
The Mummy is the closest any other movie has come to matching the tone and fun of the original Indiana Jones trilogy. It even takes place in the same time period.
"The Mummy" (1999) is much more action/ comedy than horror--that's certainly true. I went to the theater expecting to see a horror movie in 1999 when I first saw "The Mummy," and the fact that my expectations were so confounded really put me off on this film for a long time. I had to rediscover it many years later before coming to fully appreciate it for the great movie that it is, as I do now.
I met Oded Fehr, the man who played your "handsome stranger," Ardeth Bay, at Cincinnati Comic Expo just a week ago and got an autograph. "The Mummy" was his feature film debut. I saw Patricia Velasquez, who played Anck Su Namun, at Steel City Con in Pittsburgh last year and obtained her autograph.
Wow, how lucky 😍
16:45 "How did these people not freeze to death?"
Well, I mean, they're in _Egypt._ I caught wind, ages ago, about conditions in Cairo getting cold enough for ice to form on the roads and the number of car accidents was through the roof. Ice was such a small part of their lives that _no_ one had learned how to _drive_ on it.
Historically, civilizations that have thrived in this part of the world have done so by orienting their sleep schedule so they're active at _night._ You pitch your tent and _sleep_ during the day, because daytime heat is oppressive, so being active during the day is impractical.
In Egypt, it's not so much freezing to death you need to worry about, I'd be more concerned about the hippos and crocodiles.
Ah i see, thank you 🙏
51:19, It's the Indiana Jones effect, it's both scary, intense, thrilling and funny, you're not sure on how you should react.
I work in a library and when I watch the movie or see a reaction to it that scene makes me cringe every time because I would be one of the people cleaning it up.
I recommend watching “Bedazzled” also with Brendan Fraser, a fun comedy with many characters!
But The Mummy was the sexual awakening of a whole generation 😂 and we all had the same dilemma, everyone is sooo beautiful it was hard to not fall in love with multiple characters!
The room got hot for all of us 🥵🔥🪭
Haha, i can imagine 😁😍
You should check out the sequel, just make sure the translations are on so you'll know what Imhotep and others are saying.
Will do!
Dark fact that hanging scene that plays for a few seconds when Brandon just falls through the gallows nearly killed him.
The reason is the safety harness did not work right and he nearly hung lucky the crew realized quick enough to save him.
Ouch!
@@ShreeNation Ouch indeed it took a while for Brandon to fully recover from that injury.
Great reaction! I love this movie so much! I also love the sequel, The Mummy Returns! The entire cast of surviving characters returns. There is a third, but it’s not that great. Also, in the third, they completely change Evie’s character, and a different actress plays her. But DEFINITELY do a reaction to The Mummy Returns!!! Btw, there was an accident during the hanging scene, but fortunately Brendan made it through. So, there’s a reason it looks so realistic.
Thank you, will do 🙏 I'm glad Brendan wasn't permanently injured by it, sounds horrifying!
The Mummy Returns is even better
Can't wait!
They came for Treasure🤑they awakened a Monster!Excellent Choice; Stephen Sommers has Directed quite a few
of My Favorite Adventure Movies, ALL of which (including this one) cleverly-combine Action with Humor and Horror!👍
Those other Favorites of Mine include "Deep Rising" ('98), "The Mummy Returns" ('01), "Van Helsing" ('04) and "G.I. Joe:
The Rise of Cobra" ('09)!👌
Nice, thank you so much for the recommendations 😍 Hope you enjoy the show!
Happy to see you reacting to this late 90s movie that takes me back to my childhood I miss the 90s big time. Happy Halloween 🎃 you should do a reaction video on The Mummy Returns which is just as good as this first Mummy movie.
I will definitely, very soon! Thanks for watching, and Happy Halloween 🎃👻
"why couldn't they mummify capybaras?" 🤣 that is THE BEST SUGGESTION about mummies i have EVER heard! 😂 GREAT REACTION, thanks! 👍☺
Haha thank you, glad you enjoyed 😊🙏
Being a fan of the original movie (The Mummy 1932) starring the legendary Boris Karloff, I did not watch it in the theatre as I thought it would not be very good. However, I did buy it on a DVD about a year later and was pleasantly surprised at how well they had melded the original with a more modern imagining. Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz and the rest of the cast gave excellent performances. Trivia-For some reason all the camels took a disliking to Kevin J. O’Connor (Beni) and would spit at him when he came near them. Excellent review as always. Namaste 🙏.
Haha, even the camels were convinced by his performance 😂 Thanks for watching!
This is a real classic. Brandon Fraser is able to bring not just charisma, but also a wholesomeness. I’m really glad he’s been getting his career back.
I haven’t seen the Tom Cruise remake, but I have heard that it was decidedly lacklustre. I haven’t bothered to check it out because, really, how could you ever improve on this?
The Mummy 2017 movie is embarrassingly bad, script must be written by a monkey. People have no problem believing that a 5,000-year-old Mummy could come back to life and run amok, but the reboot had such an absurd premise that it lost the temporary suspension of disbelief. Everything from the Mummy's unlikely tomb in Iraq to the impossible set of circumstances that led to its discovery had fans disbelieving all the events of the film.
@@GirlofCulture you inspired me to watch it. Oh my god. You are absolutely right. It’s as though somebody took a hammer to the script! Unbelievable.
@@wackyvorlon I know right? AI and a Monkey could write a better script.
See.. people like different things for different reasons, i am fine with that.. but.. quality..is everyone's concern for every kind of work you do in life. And if you "don't care anymore" which is the case for Mummy 2017..then you got the wrong job.
Great movie. This is a fun adventure movie. They don't make movies like the anymore . The last fun adventure movie is Prince Of Persia 2010. The Mummy 2 is also a good movie but the third one is horrible. The modern remake with Tom crusie is very different but it is decent and more horror. You should also see Blast from the Past and School Ties (A great drama movie with also Matt Damon and Ben Aflec) with Brandon Frazer. Also The National Treasure movies.
Thank you, will do 😍🙏
half of the success of the film (and the sequel!) is due to the incredible chemistry between Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz. this guy was one of the funniest comedians back in the day!
For some reason I feel bad for Benny, but then again... he did it to himself, like being on the wrong side of the river 😂
This movie is packed with hot lead characters. It was the sexual awakening movie for alot of 90s kids. lol
Interesting fact, the language Imhotep is using is as close to what ancient egypt is supposed to have sounded. They tried to recreate it from all known sources. Incredible, I'd say
This movie is awesome
Agreed!
6:23 Its a Jackal not a Horse
Just to be that "well, actually..."-person:
(And this is just what I heard many years ago. So if I'm wrong, please correct me.)
Often what was interpreted as a jackal in Egyptology, for example representing the god Anubis, has now been identified as a wolf (A now extinct species, I think.) by zoologists and archaeologists. But the appearance is closer to what jackals look like today rather than wolves, so the mistake is understandable.
But your point was more relevant. Not a horse.
I like to let reactors know that Winston was played by veteran supporting actor Bernard Fox. Versatile, and all over tv and movies during the 1960s and 1970s, he's probably best known as the eccentric and magical Doctor Bombay from the tv series "Bewitched": ua-cam.com/video/nlm53N3v-I4/v-deo.html
Thanks for sharing 🙏
3:32 Lol because it was a dem.on, imposing as her soul (aka dark magic).
5:36 😅IKR he was so good looking ❤ people only seem to mention George of the Jungle (1997) but not his previous ones in order such as Dogfight (1991), Encino Man (1992), School Ties (1992), With Honors (1994), Blast From the Past (1999), Airheads (1994), The Passion of Darkly Noon (1995), Gods and Monsters (1998), Dudley Do-Right (1999) followed by Blast From the Past (1999) within the same year THE MUMMY (1999), MUMMY RETURNS (2001) and MUNMY III: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR (2008). Beginning of 2000s: Bedazzled (2000), Monkeybone (2001), The Quiet American (2002), LooneyTunes: Back In Action (2093), CRASH (2004), Journey to the End of the Night (2005), Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) followed by InkHeart (2008), Furry Vengeance (2010), Extraordinary Measures (medical drama, 2010), No Sudden Moves (2021), The Whale (2022). TV DRAMAS: Texas Rising (2015), The Affair (2016-2017), TRUST (2018), CONDOR (2018), Doom Patrol (2016-2023). Stage Credit: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Eling.
The Mummy comes near the end of the pulp revival started by Indiana Jones, but is one of the most iconic.
For more 'why are they all so hawt?!' 90s pulpiness- The Phantom(96), The Shadow(94), and The Rocketeer(91)
Nice, thank you 😊
The actor who played Beni, Kevin J. O'Connor, was also in Deep Rising (1998), playing a similar character, but nicer. Although not as good as The Mummy, it has a very similar tone: officially an action-adventure, there's just enough comedy to cut the tension from the horror.
Regarding Evie's education, don't forget that she's British, her parents had money, and this is the early 20th century. While female higher education wasn't common, the first British university to allow women did so in 1868 and the following year saw the first group of women allowed to study medicine. Even before this it was pretty common for wealthy women to be educated, but it was done with private tutors.
The Mummy is such a hot movie, there's something for everyone.
Thank you for the diss against the Mummy 2017 movie.. with Seth.. the God of Death. Mhm. Well ...i am not a Egyptologist, but when you make a movie about these topics.. There fore you should know... Seth is the God of War and Anubis is the God of Underworld.
It's related to death but more like the moment from death (specially mummification) and the path to the next stage. Death itself and Afterlife belongs to Osiris. But anyway..
But who cares. Bad movie.
There are good movies, there are phenomenal movies, and there are movies that are so bad, they are actually good kind of movies, but that Mummy movie was like bad-bad.
The second Mummy movie with Fraser is even more fun and totally over the top. The third is.. well.. no spoilers but Rachel Weisz (Eve) don't sign up for this because the script was not good. Bad sign i guess.
If you want a good horror/suspense movie check out HOUSE from the mid 80's. Has Richard Mull in it from the old sitcom NIGHT COURT.
Thanks for the recommendation ☺️
The age-old question...
If he's stolen eyes from the guy with bad sight, shouldn't Imhotep need glasses too?
And actually Benny's multiple choice beliefs is funnier than it might be on the surface. Iirc, description/script specifies that Benny is ukranian, and considering the timeline - very likely a Soviet Russia one, born during the tsarist period (with Nicholas 2nd being the emperor) running away from the country, which was *_very_* heavily anti-faith. So it's funny that someone who was born during the period of very superstitious beliefs and then fleeing the very anti-belief country, he's tried to embrace *_EVERY_* belief under the sun, just in case, seeing as he didn't know where he would end up and what faith would be the right one in the area.
Haha smart Benny 🤣
Apparently the glasses/ eye sight thing was in the original script and it's supposed to be the reason why Imhotep mistakes Evie as Anuk Su Namun, but that story point was edited out as being unnecessary.
This was before longer films were common. At 2h04m, The Mummy was the third longest film in the top 10 highest grossing for 1999 (the other two being The Matrix and Phantom Menace).
If you like movies about Egypt, I hope you check out "Prince of Egypt". A great '90s animated classic and an awesome rendition of the story of Moses.
Will do, thanks ☺️
For around 5:00: Nope, sorry. Sacred bodyguard is mine.😉
Just to clarify: he wasn't being hanged for Evie but for the "very good time" he had prior to. So Evie not responsible for that.
When do we fight to the death? Ardeth is mine. 🥰
The zombie mummies and the skeletons are probably a tribute to the great creature animator, Ray Harryhausen, who, in the movie "Jason and the Argonauts" orchestrated a stop motion battle of about 7 or 9 skeletons against the main cast. It was one of the hardest feats of stop motion created and here it is: ua-cam.com/video/H-pw7Nw6y4I/v-deo.html
Idk why this happens to some reactors, but there was supposed to be subtitles when they’re speaking “Ancient Egyptian”. When Benny held up the Star of David and speaking Hebrew, Imhotep said “the language of the slaves?”. So he used him as a slave. Since the Jews were slaves in ancient Egypt.
It was the fact that he now had a common language as Beni and could communicate his instructions to him otherwise he would only have charades and interpretive dance to get his orders to his living minions.
@ well yes that too. Haha
21:05 " SEXY BOLD GUY " `= ARNOLD VASLOO. He had also played in a lot of TV series like BONES, NAVY CIS and NACIY CIS L.A.; also in lthe Video Game BOILING POINT searching for his disappeared daughter in an unnamed South American Country
BENI `= KEVIN JAMES O´CONNOR for references
That was a lovely reaction. Great laughs.
For me as well, haven't seen it in a while. Have seen this in theater with my mom and my brothers, and even she had a ton of fun with that. It was summer and i was 13-14 and this movie dodged the R-rating for sure, just like the first Venom movie.
Thanks for watching, and for sharing your experience 😊🙏
this is such a great Sunday afternoon movie to watch. Thanks for the reaction Shree!!!
Thanks for watching!!
I have loved this movie since the first time I saw it on TV a couple of years after it came out. My first time watching it was interesting in a unique way. My sister had just adopted a little tuxedo kitten, which kept head-butting me for attention, usually at the most intense points of the movie, which made me jump!
Haha aww how cute 😸🐈⬛
The first time I saw this was in a hotel room, it was one of the pay per view movies available at the time.
In the early 20th century (the movie is set in ca. 1930), a lot of women were educated. Public schooling was a regular thing and women could attend university (if not necessarily for all subjects). Technically the 'what does a woman know' guy shouldn't be saying it, either, because in the Arabian world, many women were well-read at that time, too. Women in the west, like Evie, could also own property (she and her brother both inherited from their parents, but he already squandered his money away) and their own money.
Love the glasses, kinda the dirty librarian look . Really nice
Woo hell yeah here for it
Sorry to see that your AC started working in reverse at about 12:30 in the video. ;)
Hey shree all the movies I saw Benny in He’s a POS DEEP RISING and VAN HELSING 🤦♂️😂😂👍👍🇹🇹
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Actually, that statue is of Anubis, a jackal.
Thanks for letting me know!
Watching one of my favourite movies, with my favourite content creator...don't mind if I do! Thank you Shree ❤ Also, thirsty Shree is the best Shree 😂
Haha thank you so much 😊🙏
Many people don’t know this, but it’s pronounced Brendan (Fray-zer)
You might enjoy the Moon Knight series ;-)
Thanks for the recommendation!
There's a reason why a lot of people say this movie was their bisexual awakening. Well, three reasons.
4 and 5 for me, because of Ardeth and Anck Su Namun 😄
@@ShreeNation them too, I should have increased my number, lol.
I wont be able to watch this movie again without hearing "sexy bald dude" running through my head. And i think shree will need many cold showers after this movie
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One of my favorite movies. Good reaction. The sequel, Mummy Returns, is also very good. Sadly, the third movie was a failure - they had major production problems, worst of which was having to use a different actress for Evie. It does have good bits, but simply never "works" anywhere near as well as the first two.
Thanks for watching 😊
😂 love your comintary and reviews, you make my day ❤
Aww thank you so much!!
11:37. The hanging scene was real...
The second one is great but the 3rd one is not worth the time. They changed the actress for Evie and it did not work.
Hilarious reaction 😂😂😂 thanks for sharing ❤❤
Thanks for watching 😊
25:58 this is simply not true😂
"Prince of Persia" is another favorite of mine. People didn't like it because it compares it to the video game, and that's completely NOT fair!! Jake Gyellenhall was THE perfect actor to m
Will check it out 😍