Eccentric Flower:199905/the mummy
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may eighth the mummy We saw The Mummy tonight. It was exactly what I expected to get - a well-crafted hunk of cheese with good effects. Note: This is a good thing! That's exactly what I wanted. Actually the movie was ahead of expectations, because I didn't realize that Brendan Fraser can do even the sort of acting that one of these movie-serial-cliffhanger thingies requires. But he acquitted himself well. Plus, he was mighty cute - Those eyes! Those lips! - as was the perky female lead. Something to stare at for everyone. But the real winner in the Absolutely Edible contest was the chief of the Guardians in Black - oh. my. god. Okay, admittedly I have fantasies about being carried off by a sheik, but it wasn't just me. Nonelvis thought he was fantasy-worthy too. And the tattoos on his face added that certain something. Mmmmm. I had two quibbles. In a movie like this, I suspend disbelief pretty easily, but there are some things even I cannot ignore. Neither of these are real spoilers, so don't worry. Number one: Quicksand requires water. It is a suspension of sand particles in liquid. Ergo, there is no quicksand in the desert. Number two: It would be completely impossible for an ancient Egyptian curse/punishment to involve, as part of the penalties for disturbing the accursed, the recurrence of the the ten Biblical plagues upon Egypt (called as such). Why? Because they hadn't happened when this ancient curse was devised! All the legends about what happens when the curse is broken far precede the curse actually having been applied to the mummy ... and the mummy was created, the plot says, at the time of Seti I, which precedes Moses anyway! The reviewer for the Globe said the movie didn't know what it wanted to be ... that it had to decide whether it was a horror movie or an action serial like Raiders of the Lost Ark. The reviewer for the Globe is getting old - has he forgotten the first time he saw Raiders? The Well of Souls sequence, with the corpses coming alive, and the snakes? The whole opening tomb-raid sequence? The horrors of opening the Ark itself? The Mummy may have its share of horror-movie sequences where things jump out at you, but so does Raiders. It's just that everyone's so familiar with Raiders now that the scary parts have lost their scare. No, the only difference between Raiders and this movie is that the former had an A-list cast and this one has a B-list one. Go see it. It's not going to challenge you mentally, and no one's going to be handing out any Oscars for it, but if you liked the Indiana Jones movies, you'll like this. And besides, you have got to see this guy in black. Wow. - - - Ooh, look! Clio has broken her silence. There's a new one about the Chinese calendar, and also some additions to the mail page.
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