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This ain't your daddy's "The Mummy"

posted 8 years ago by BigNadz89
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People are gonna tear this to shreds because it's different to the other "The Mummy" movies.

[–] leesilm 8 years ago

I thought it was interesting how they came to have a mummy-princess. That they didn't want people confusing their character, who would have had an odd skintone and such to make him an outcast who was ridiculed in life, with Sabar from X-MEN: APOCALYPSE. I'm glad they went to a female mummy. Some of the real Egyptian princesses, queens, and regents had amazing stories.

[–] filmklassik 8 years ago

You realize, don't you, that my daddy's Mummy movies weren't the same as HIS daddy's Mummy movies. You get that, right?

Steven Summers reboot from 1999 had about as much in common with the original Mummy series from the 30s and 40s as Velveeta has in common with cheese. Which is to say, almost nothing.

You understand that movies weren't invented in the 1990s, right?

[–] joshuacarpino 8 years ago

right,which is why this new one is not going to be anything remotely like the karloff version,which is why people need to stop going around parroting this "it's going to be just like the original" PR campaign that universal is pushing.

[–] Kelly-130 8 years ago

"it's going to be just like the original" PR campaign that universal is pushing.

One look at the trailer and that PR campaign fails. It's nothing like the original Mummy movies.

[–] BigNadz89 8 years ago

Hey, HEY! Nobody is talking about your granddaddy's The Mummy, I was talking about your daddy's The Mummy, that is The Mummy that this movie will be compared to.

[–] Wombstar 8 years ago

There is no way this Mummy movie will be compared to the Hammer "The Mummy".

If the Universal series is your Granddaddy's mummy.
Hammer would be your Daddy's Mummy.

[–] twofacetoo 8 years ago

No, they'll tear it to shreds because it's *beep*