The mummy is a woman now??? This sjw garbage needs to end. - The Mummy (2017) Discussion

[–] Modern-Prometheus 8 years ago

Jesus Christ.

1) "The Mummy" was never one character, so if the Mummy happens to be a woman, what's the big deal? They didn't do a gender-swap of Imhotep, this is a whole new character. Just like Kharis was when they did the sequel to the original film.

2) This is not the first time a cinematic Mummy has been a woman. There are numerous cinematic examples, most notably Blood From The Mummy's Tomb from Hammer Films.

3) There are many more literary examples from the Victorian period, which the original Mummy films draw on primarily. Most notable is the novel by Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars, which was adapted to the film I just mentioned.

4) We've had how many years of vampire and werewolf women with no issue, but a mummy woman is a big deal? That's not just sexist, it's an amazing lack of awareness. Cognitive dissonance on a pretty large scale.

Take a fµcking hint and shut up when you don't know what you're talking about.

Warning! The Monster is loose!

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[–] CountVladDracula 8 years ago

It must suck to be wrong kid. This is THE MUMMY and they changed the gender.

Actually the first reanimated Mummy story (which was by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) had a female Mummy. It was Universal Studios who changed the Mummy to male. And in the 1944 follow up film restored the original character to her rightful place for both The Mummy's Ghost and The Mummy's Curse.

Technically only three Mummy movies actually were about a male Mummy and the original short story that inspired them it was female.

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[–] woozle_wuzzle 8 years ago

Aw, did you get triggered snowflake?

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[–] Modern-Prometheus 8 years ago

You talking to me, jackass? Your post was gone before I saw it. Based on what I've seen though, I'm not impressed with you. Just another jive-talking dipshït without a clue who feels threatened.

Run your dumbass mouth somewhere else, 'kay? You don't have jack shït to prove me wrong. You're just pushing your moronic agenda. You got no brain, no heart, and no balls, and you may be too dumb to realize it yet but the wizard ain't got shït for you in that black bag of his.

In short, I'm done with your dumb ass. Bye Felicia.

Warning! The Monster is loose!

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[–] CountVladDracula 8 years ago

He's run out of actual arguments and now just wants to fluster so I've started to reply to him in his native Trollese tongue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nS-QeM2ne8

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[–] PeterJasonQuill 8 years ago

Yeah he was a troll on the Star Trek beyond board about the 10 second scene that shows the gay sulu.

Guys stop we gotta talk this through

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[–] woozle_wuzzle 8 years ago

You talking to me, jackass? Your post was gone before I saw it. Based on what I've seen though, I'm not impressed with you. Just another jive-talking dipshït without a clue who feels threatened.

Run your dumbass mouth somewhere else, 'kay? You don't have jack shït to prove me wrong. You're just pushing your moronic agenda. You got no brain, no heart, and no balls, and you may be too dumb to realize it yet but the wizard ain't got shït for you in that black bag of his.

In short, I'm done with your dumb ass. Bye Felicia.

ROFL! Yup, triggered!

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[–] CountVladDracula 8 years ago

ROFL! Yup, triggered!

Woozle_wuzzle, I'm here to Bargain!

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[–] Modern-Prometheus 8 years ago

The dying breaths of a moron with nothing to say. You got wrecked, boy. Bye Felicia.

Warning! The Monster is loose!

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[–] woozle_wuzzle 8 years ago

Sorry son: you had a meltdown, claimed to win, then say "bye" yet keep returning.

#triggered

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[–] Modern-Prometheus 8 years ago

You're the jackass who doesn't have a single argument to make. You just pop in every once in a while to pretend you know what you're talking about, but you clearly don't. You got wrecked, fool.

Warning! The Monster is loose!

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[–] woozle_wuzzle 8 years ago

Says "bye" several posts ago, keeps coming back crying. ^

#triggered

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[–] fred1239 8 years ago

OP you need to understand that this film has nothing to do with the Brendan Fraser films universe. So the film never "changed" the mummy or any other character in it from one thing to another.

Anyway you say the topic isn't about women being a mummy yet it says right there in the first post that you want the film to bomb because of that very fact.

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[–] woozle_wuzzle 8 years ago

How bout you try a retort without using fail logic, banana ass.

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[–] fred1239 8 years ago

You're just not bright enough to understand simple things, nor are you intelligent enough to post anything without an insult attached to it. Either way people are going to go see the movie, you wont and we'll all move along just fine.

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[–] TennmanT 8 years ago

Just another jive-talking dipshït without a clue....

That is awesome. You have to let me use that. I know a >100 bloggers who need to be told that. There are too many of them.

...keeps alive the weak, the stupid, the lazy that breed and multiply, weakening the human race

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[–] Modern-Prometheus 8 years ago

Let you? Use whatever words you want. They're not mine, I just borrow them.

Warning! The Monster is loose!

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[–] Monk_Drunk 8 years ago

you sound pretty triggered in your OP tbh

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[–] nickm2 8 years ago

2) This is not the first time a cinematic Mummy has been a woman. There are numerous cinematic examples, most notably Blood From The Mummy's Tomb from Hammer Films.

HAH! Hammer chick Mummy movie! Cleavage galore. I loved those late sixties sexed up offerings. The best/worst offenders: Scars of Dracula-AKA: Tits of dracula; Horror of frankenstein-Tits of frankenstein. Now I had forgotten the lovely Valerie Leon was the star of Tits of the mummy.

Why can't you wretched prey creatures understand that the Universe doesn't owe you anything!?

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[–] Modern-Prometheus 8 years ago

It certainly makes a great counter in an argument about Ahmanet being sexed up. In this case it is a notable film, however, largely because it's the most well known adaptation of a Bram Stoker novel. In other words it's a cinematic precedent based on a much older literary precedent.

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[–] Zantor169 8 years ago

So with them branding it as rebooting the Mummy movie series starring Brendan Fraser and they are changing the Mummy to a woman. Bet it will have some LGBT scenes in it also. You want to bring up, ohhh weell, 50 - 100 years ago the Mummy was female line. Give me a break, idiots like you are why Trump why and the left are having tons of emo tears and buying up all of the play doh and crayons.

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[–] vrad85 8 years ago

It's a good change of pace. I mean every mummy movie is male and this way they can tell there own origin story and do what they want. The trailer looks amazing also

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[–] CountVladDracula 8 years ago

I mean every mummy movie is male

Not even remotely true. You should watch the original Universal Mummy movies and Hammer movies and then come back to this thread but I'm glad you at least support the idea instead of dismissing it based on your own lack of classic horror knowledge.

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[–] rbrown22 8 years ago

I definitely agree that changing all these lead or important characters to women is beyond ridiculous. Last two leads in last two star wat movies are women. It's pretty pathetic actually. Hollywood is practically has no balls (excuse the pun) and dnt wanna take any criticism from crazy sjw nuts

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[–] CountVladDracula 8 years ago

I definitely agree that changing all these lead or important characters to women is beyond ridiculous. Last two leads in last two star wat movies are women. It's pretty pathetic actually. Hollywood is practically has no balls (excuse the pun) and dnt wanna take any criticism from crazy sjw nuts

But The Mummy is NOT a specific character but a type of character and there have been female depictions of reanimated or immortal mummies since the late nineteenth century...

What you are complaining about is equatable to complaining about a ghost being a woman, or a vampire being a woman.

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[–] WestAllenIsForever 8 years ago

CountVlad, Just wanted to say I remember you from the Penny Dreadful boards. I rarely ever commented but I always enjoyed the information you put into your posts. Did you study these sort of topics in university or is this all sort of a passion you discovered in your spare time?

Also, I don't think there is any point in arguing with the OP of the thread. I honestly believe they want to just throw around the SJW stuff and complain about PC things and essentially troll.

You're everything to me, always have been... the sound of your voice will always bring me home.

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[–] CountVladDracula 8 years ago

CountVlad, Just wanted to say I remember you from the Penny Dreadful boards. I rarely ever commented but I always enjoyed the information you put into your posts. Did you study these sort of topics in university or is this all sort of a passion you discovered in your spare time?

Also, I don't think there is any point in arguing with the OP of the thread. I honestly believe they want to just throw around the SJW stuff and complain about PC things and essentially troll.

I have always loved Gothic Horror. One of the first books I ever read in my entire life was In a Dark Dark Room by Alvin Schwartz. It's a life-long passion of mine.

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[–] kevinmccall-35942 8 years ago

This isn't like ghostbusters where they did it for political correctness. The mummy franchise has always had different mummy characters, some not even from Egypt. There's Imhotep, Kharis, etc. I like the actress playing this new mummy. And trust me, I hate sjw bullcrap too, but this really isn't the case.

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[–] woozle_wuzzle 8 years ago

This isn't like ghostbusters where they did it for political correctness.

Ha ha, you sure are naive, champ.

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[–] CountVladDracula 8 years ago

Ha ha, you sure are naive, champ.

Previous female mummy depictions.

Lot 249 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The Thing on The Doorstep by H. P. Lovecraft
The Mummy's Ghost (1944 Universal Studios)
The Mummy's curse (1944 Universal Studios)
Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (Hammer Horror film)
Ultrasylvania (Graphic novel series)
Tanis (Scooby Doo and the Ghoul School)
The Incan Mummy Girl (Buffy The Vampire Slayer season 1)
The Mummy from Highlander the series (season 2, I believe)
The Mummy or Ramses the Damned by Anne Rice (Second mummy)
Under Wraps (Second Mummy)
Cleo (Monster High animated series and movie franchise, plus doll line)
Tale of the Guardian's Curse (Are you Afraid of the Dark? episode)

Now let's see if you can actually name as many male Mummy stories. Go on. I'll wait. Only three or four come to mind for me and I'm a collector.

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[–] woozle_wuzzle 8 years ago

rofl you still actually think this is some dumb argument about female mummies existing? Wow talk about missing the point...

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[–] CountVladDracula 8 years ago

As you entirely ignored that the first reanimated mummy story dealt with a female mummy and have yet to actually counter this I don't see any point provided except for your fear of "Dem dames getin' power!"

Calm down and relax. You're the one trying to turn something very common in the horror genre into a political issue.

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[–] woozle_wuzzle 8 years ago

Aw, someone missed the point and isn't going to drop his stupid argument he's been going on about. LMAO keep providing us free entertainment, clown.

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[–] CountVladDracula 8 years ago

Aw, someone missed the point and isn't going to drop his stupid argument he's been going on abouWt. LMAO keep providing us free entertainment, clown.

Woozle_Wuzzle, I'm here to bargain!

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[–] woozle_wuzzle 8 years ago

Still returning and posting nonsense cause you can't admit you totally missed the point. 😅

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[–] KthulhuX 8 years ago

The Thing on The Doorstep by H. P. Lovecraft

More a story of possession. When a reanimated corpse does show up (and this only occurs at the very end of the story), while it is stuck in a female body, it's actually the mind of a male character.

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[–] CountVladDracula 8 years ago

Changing the mummy into a female just to get praise from morons

For several months now, we - actual horror fans- have had to deal with morons like this. Not the ones described in the above post but the post itself.

They don't seem to realize that a mummy is a TYPE of monster and not a particular one. Nor do they realize that there have been several female mummy characters in horror, including one created by H. P. Lovecraft. There was also the one in Blood from the Mummy's Tomb, an episode of Nickelodeon's Are you Afraid of the Dark, Under Wraps had a female mummy near the end, Anne Rice's The Mummy: Or Ramses the Damned, the sadistic and powerful female immortal mummy in Ultrasylvania and even the one that appeared in Highlander: The Series.

But that requires actually knowing horror instead of getting offended at the presence of boobies.

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[–] kevinmccall-35942 8 years ago

Ikr! These idiots aren't even true fans of the franchise. They're just here because they've dried out Ghostbusters and are ready for a new target.

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[–] rbrown22 8 years ago

Hey Kevin buddy. I really liked the mummy with Brendan Frasier. I've never seen Ghostbusters. I just hate feminists from watching to many YouTube videos so stop bustin my balls

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[–] Modern-Prometheus 8 years ago

Pretty much. The whiners are either people who only know the franchise from the Brendan Fraser film (and even in THOSE the Mummy wasn't just one character) or people who aren't familiar with it at all and are just whining because of their agenda.

Warning! The Monster is loose!

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[–] CountVladDracula 8 years ago

Pretty much. The whiners are either people who only know the franchise from the Brendan Fraser film (and even in THOSE the Mummy wasn't just one character) or people who aren't familiar with it at all and are just whining because of their agenda.

Right.

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[–] woozle_wuzzle 8 years ago

SJW clowns have gone off in a ridiculous direction in an attempt to deflect and pretend what they are arguing has anything to do with the topic. Keep embarrassing yourselves. Also, stay butt hurt!

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[–] CountVladDracula 8 years ago

If this mummy doesn't spend half the movie making sandwiches and telling everyone "I'm ok, really" then I don't see how this movie is going to stay realistic.

You're trolling too hard. You're going to damage your tail.

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[–] woozle_wuzzle 8 years ago

Yet you were butt hurt enough to report his harmless post.

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[–] CountVladDracula 8 years ago

Yet you were butt hurt enough to report his harmless post.

I never report posts. It goes against my views on freedom of speech.

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[–] woozle_wuzzle 8 years ago

And you're a liar to boot! Stay classy, kid.

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[–] CountVladDracula 8 years ago

And you're a liar to boot! Stay classy, kid.

Nope, don't lie. You must be bored to try to resurrect this now. What happened? Cable went out?

I'm here to bargain!

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[–] woozle_wuzzle 8 years ago

Watch what you say guys! This kid gets butt hurt if your post rubs him the wrong way and he will clearly report you!

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[–] CountVladDracula 8 years ago

I have my concerns too. I'm not a Russell Crowe fan and I fear Universal Studios doesn't know how to do Traditional Gothic Horror anymore. Look at the Goth Action film Van Helsing. And they seem to think the time period was the problem so they are now setting the current franchise in present day "So they can all meet" even though all the main characters are immortal (including The Wolf Man if you follow the lore from the forties movie). So yes, I am very concerned that this can go bad. But not because the mummy has boobs.

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[–] Janine-The-Barefoot 8 years ago

And for me, the problem is Tom Cruise. Personally, I've found him pretty one dimensional over the years in films that were, for all intents and purposes: "Tom Cruise is the best of the best fighter jock pilots", or "Tom Cruise is the last honest lawyer in an office full of other attorneys who have learned how to lie, cheat and betray others at ivy league schools from all over the country", after which you have "Tom Cruise has apparently become one of the last people on Earth" followed by "Tom Cruise puts on a super suit and gets taught to kick alien ass by a woman"... a woman who is so clearly a better actor than he's ever been, it actually made the movie work (insert guy of your choice into a "Super Suit" and rock on the GRRRRLLL POWER!). Also, let us not forget that "Tom Cruise is THE BEST SPY EVAHHHH....." in a rebooted TV series the foundation of which could have played like The Bourne... (insert favorite of the film series here) and actually been spectacular, instead of just ridiculously well-marketed.

OOPS...Did I just "troll" on Tom Cruise?... YES, I think I did! 

But then, everyone knows I'm pretty much just a crazy woman wandering the boards of IMDb inserting my personal observational biases whenever I feel the need to blow off some steam! 

Oh yeah... the OP... Me? I got no problems with The Mummy being a woman I just want it to be a thoughtful analysis with both a plot and some character development. On the other hand, I also thought the Luke Evans Dracula was the best of the bunch with the solitary exception of the silent "Nosferatu" Max Schreck gave us. Which should make it entirely obvious that I make eccentrics look perfectly reasonable in whatever their eccentricity of choice may be.   

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[–] evolution_500_2 8 years ago

"I fear Universal Studios doesn't know how to do Traditional Gothic Horror anymore."

Well, they did "The Wolf Man" remake with Benecio Del Toro, which was pretty good as a Gothic Horror. Maybe not as exact, but better in comparison to a lot of remakes, including the Brendan Fraser "Mummy" movies.

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[–] woozle_wuzzle 8 years ago

The Wolf Man was absolute trash.

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[–] WickedMMGirl 8 years ago

What is SJW?

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[–] CountVladDracula 8 years ago

What is SJW?

A Social Justice Warrior. A new way of saying PC (politically Correct) police.

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