goddamn, was Evelyn such a lovingly charming character (as was everyone, really). She was a great spin on the damsel-in-distress; she knew she was out of her depth in certain instances but still tried to get through it. Like her grabbing the shotgun and screaming out of fear before firing off a shot
And too many such characters are written as bitterly defensive over their own profession. But Evie isn’t, she loves her work and isn’t ashamed of it. “I am proud to be a librarian!” and that goddamn smile, love it every time
exactly, and it helped she wasn’t written as a Mary Sue character. Evie was a klutz, admitted to not having field experience, and so on but she is competent. I like it when movies aren’t afraid to show their protagonists as imperfect as they power through trial and error or make them have an experience arc
"Mary Sues" – god I hate what that term has become – can be clumsy and have faults, it just all has to be some kind of positive for them and when characters call them out on it, it's they who are somehow in the wrong.
Yes, and she was unapologetically feminine. I grew really tired of "strong women" that took on predominantly male characteristics, because that's the only way they could be strong characters
Both have a very nice awareness of self confidence, self awareness, and strength, but not too much of any. Rick is great cause he’s a man of action and adventure, he’s a treasure hunter, but he’s not an idiot either.
Patricia Velasquez in Anck-su-Namun getup was the start of mine (straight piece of white bread here). I was around 8 or 9 when I rented the movie and when she popped on screen, I said “that’s it, I get it now”
100%,her replacement in the 3rd Mummy movie just didn't have the chemistry with Fraser that Weisz did among other things wrong with that movie,nothing but love for Jet Li though.
I do love an exasperated Brendan Fraser performance. My favorite line in anything he’s ever done is him screaming about his coffee on the Mummy roller coaster.
Rachel Weisz returning after being recast in the third Mummy is the real life version of the 22 Jump Street end credits joke. Where they show clips from future instalments and replace Jonah Hill with Seth Rogen for one due to contract disputes they resolve before the next one
They should have paid her what she deserved and not fumbled her last time
They've confirmed that they're just ignoring the third one... which I think people already did in the first place. (Idk, haven't watched them, just know the third one is apparently a bastard child.)
I've never heard anything about it being a pay dispute. I've always heard she didn't like the script, especially not enough to speed up her time off after giving birth
It wasnt a money dispute, Rachel Weisz dropped out herself. Her agent called and told director Rob Cohen she wasn't comfortable with her character being the mother of a 21 year old in that movie when she herself was only 37.
I watched the mummy movies on the regular just to look at these 2 be beautiful, adventurous and charismatic together.. definitely part of my earliest bisexual memories
Ngl I didn’t remember her until googling as I havent seen the movie in over a decade but believe me, the evil, sexy mummy couple were just as vital to that bisexual memory 😍
He looks so much healthier! Is what he is wearing his character's outfit? Looks kind of modern, though I guess the new movie will take place in the 40s or 50s?
The original mummy from the 90s was set in the 20's/30's. Would make sense for character aging if it was set either marginally before WW2 or after it had settled down a bit mid 50's.
Mid 50's would be incredible. I hope he participated in the war and has some kind of ptsd from it and after all these years he once again discovers something related to Egypt and Mummy and it brings him joy again and makes him forget about his experience in the war.
I think what happened here is what exactly with Hayden Christensen, he must have went to a convention and saw what this role meant to alot of people in turn he saw what it meant to him and was inspired to go back and I love that for him after what he's been through.
Great example!!! I think he has definitely matured into the role and he’s also been given some wonderful stuff with it now because of it.
I hope it’s the same with this film. I was super eh about some of the older Indie stuff Harrison Ford was given. It’s like they forgot total aspects of the character. :/
I saw him at a con a few years ago and he was clearly in so much pain. Dude was a pro and was very kind through the Q&A, but you could tell that he was suffering. Like he'd wince and grimace when he moved in his chair.
It's amazing seeing how much better he seems to be doing (as far as we can tell)
He looks so much better than those AI on set photos that were circulating. Still think they should have gone for a beard but maybe it makes him a bit too Orson Welles. At least some grey at the temples.
I was ready to swoop in and say these were just reposts of the AI once from a few weeks ago, but I guess we’re agreeing that these (slightly different ones) are real? Who can know.
The Mummy is the movie that made me want to be an actor. It also got me into directing and writing.
Now a days I just write but The Mummy was what got me into it. My mom still has the first 30 page book I wrote when I was nine. It was about Donkey Kong fighting Sonic.
I stil watch The Mummy and The Mummy returns about three times a year. Love those movies. Hope this is good
I mean, she looks great, but she's clearly got a good amount of filler and botox going on. Brendan looks like he hasn't had anything done other than the hair transplants. I'm not trying to be a hater, I just don't want people to look at this and think this is what aging actually looks like without intervention .
Brendan has a wig on. it does look great on him though, if he decided to make it permanent I don't think anyone would blame him for getting 'cosmetic surgery'.
I am so bad at recognizing wigs. I literally spent 5 years with someone and had no idea. Please, help me. How do I spot them so I don't say things like "your hair looks nice today did you get it cut recently" and look stupid? Ugh, I cringe so hard at it.
lol Fraser was going Dr. Phil style bald in the 00s. He’s had tons of transplants. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but yeah, Encino man was a long time ago.
He absolutely has had hair transplants. You can look it up, as there's plenty of photo evidence. Sometimes you need several for them to take. My guess is he gave up and moved to using hair systems instead.
Yeah that first pic I was surprised…maybe it’s just a bad pic but she has so much filler in her face. I feel like people here forget people’s faces thin out as they age but celebs never seem to do that
The best part of the Mummy 3 was this part of Roger Ebert's review of it.
Moviegoers who knowingly buy a ticket for “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” are going to get exactly what they expect: There is a mummy, a tomb, a dragon and an emperor.
Number of things. Quick search revealed script dissatisfaction, family commitments (she just had a newborn and didn't want to leave them to be in China for filming), and then scheduling conflict with another film that was probably closer to home.
The inuniverse reasoning was that Weisz was the book version that Evie wrote of herself and the first two mummy films were her recounts of them. 4th film could just do it straight back and have Evie say the 3rd film was her book account of it.
Seeing these two back together completely heals the childhood trauma inflicted upon us by the absolute historical erasure that was The Mummy Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.
I don't care if the plot requires Evie and Rick to fight mummified cyber-aliens in space at this point; if these two are on screen together, I am buying a ticket.
Brendan did speak out and admitted that part of the reason why he wanted to film another Mummy movie was to give him motivation to get back into shape., so definitely!
I'm in, just hoping the Rock doesn't barge in and start ranting about his return as the badly animated scorpion king and how it's about to shake the foundations of cinema again.
Where were you when you heard about Mummy 4 being in production? I was in a dark corner asking God what is the point of going on. And then He answered.
It's Brendan Fraser. And it's The Mummy. It'll be good. Maybe not spectacular, but good and enjoyable. The Mummy is one of those cozy comfy movies that you can casually rewatch every couple of years or even months and it's always still a cool watchable, enjoyable movie.
Original Total Recall has that kind of vibe too. Or Journey to the Center of the Earth, also with Brendan Fraiser. Or Bedazzled. It's so cheesy and corny it's really cool. And I always laugh so hard when Brendan's character is granted a wish to be rich and wakes up as a drug lord. That part is so fucking funny him speaking spanish and russian. XD
Hollywood spent billions trying to find the next iconic on-screen duo when all they ever needed to do was put Brendan and Rachel back in a room together.
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u/Stefan988 13h ago
Such an iconic duo, warms my heart seeing them together again. Their chemistry really is unmatched.