Another Movie Review...because I have nothing better to do...

Well...for most of you who know me, you probably won't be too shocked to discover that these movies rank as some of my all time favorites. The Mummy (1999) and The Mummy Returns (2001) are actually pretty old movies, but I thought I'd write about them since I just bought them for 50 cents (a piece) at a garage sale.

The movies' plot centers around what many of you would not consider original at all, but it by golly makes one hell of an action movie. These action/adventure/comedy/fantasy/thriller movies have just about everything a person could ask for out of a film.

The Mummy:

For the Plot Summary on Wikipedia go here.

"The sands will rise. The heavens will part. The power will be unleashed.
The legend you know. The adventure you have yet to imagine.
Adventure Is Reborn.
Prepare. Beware. Behold.
Uncover the secret. Unlock the legend. Unleash the power.
Death is only the beginning." -- IMDb The Mummy Tagline

Memorable Quotes from said film (that I especially enjoyed):
Evelyn: Look, I... I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am.
Rick: And what is that?
Evelyn: I... am a librarian.

Rick: I've been to Hamunaptra.
Evelyn: You swear?
Rick: Every damn day.

[after a mysterious wind blows up for the umpteenth time]
Rick: That happens a lot around here.

Evelyn: You lied to me.
Jonathan: I lie to everyone, what makes you so special?
Evelyn: I'm your sister.
Jonathan: That just makes you more gullible.

Rick: So let me get this straight, they reducted your guts and they stuffed them in jars?
Evelyn: And they took out your heart as well. Oh, and do you know how they took out your brain?
Jonathan: Evy, I don't think that we need to know this
Evelyn: They took a sharp, red hot poker, stick it up your nose, scramble things about a bit, and then rip it all out through your nostrils.
Rick: Ooh, that's got to hurt.
Evelyn: It's called mummification, you'll be dead when they do this.
Rick: For the record, if I don't make it out of here, don't put me down for mummification.
Jonathan: Likewise.

[In a darkened room]
Evelyn: Abdul?
[no answer]
Evelyn: Mohammed?
[no answer]
Evelyn: ... Bob?

Rick: You're sure you oughta play around with that thing?
Evelyn: It's just a book. No harm ever came from reading a book.



The Mummy Returns:

For the Plot Summary on Wikipedia go here.



Memorable Quotes from said film (that I especially enjoyed):
Alex: Hey. The Book of the Dead.
Meela: What a bright little child. Your mother must be missing you terribly. If you wish to see her again, you better behave.
Alex: Lady, I don't behave for my parents, what makes you think I'm going to do it for you?
Meela: Because your parents don't put poisonous snakes in your bed while you're sleeping.

Evelyn: No harm ever came from opening a chest
Rick: Yeah, no harm ever came from reading a book either. Remember how that one went?

[Rick opens up his trunk]
Rick: Do you want the shotgun?
Ardeth Bay: No, I prefer the Thompson.


Rick: Knowing my brother-in-law, he probably deserves whatever you're about to do to him. But this is my house, and I have certain rules about snakes and dismemberment.

[Jonathan and a thug are being chased by pygmies and are running into the burial ground]
Jonathan: There's the burial ground. We're safe. Do you see those sacred stones? They'll never cross those.
Thug: Are you sure?
Jonathan: Well of course I'm sure.
[a pygmy runs past and kills the thug. Jonathan screams]
Jonathan: Sorry, my mistake.

Jonathan: I say chaps, look at that. Shrunken heads. I'd love to know how they do that.
[Everybody looks strangely at Jonathan]
Jonathan: Just curious.
(Sadly, I do know how shrunken heads are made...it's in a book I have somewhere around here...)

[about Ahm Shere]
Evelyn: Alexander the Great sent 1,000 soldiers to look for it...
Rick: Hooray for him.
Evelyn: Caesar sought for it...
Rick: Look what happened to his career.
Evelyn: And Napoleon...
Rick: Yeah, well, we're smarter than him, and taller.
Evelyn: Exactly, and that's why we're going to find it.
Rick: Because we're taller?


Anyways, I just thought I'd share these "interesting" quotes with y'all because I'm bored and I have nothing better to post at the moment. Maybe I'll have more to say after the Thanksgiving Holidays, but I guess you'll just have to wait to find out ;-)