Man, The Mummy and The Mummy 2 are honestly phenomenal movies, definitely some of my top favorites

Hieroglyphs can actually be read right to left, left to right, or top to bottom. It's part of what made translating them so hard. You can always tell which way to read hieroglyphs based on which way animals face, they will always face towards the beginning of the sentence. 🌈

@catlover2223

19 күн бұрын

That’s super cool! Thanks for sharing!!

@laragray1899

14 күн бұрын

😊

@laragray1899

14 күн бұрын

😅

My all-time favourite part is when Imhotep screams at Rick and Rick just screams back.

@daniellemusella1594

26 күн бұрын

@LadyKattrina84 "He said he was just looking for a good time." (4/26/2024)

@vincentstuart9562

26 күн бұрын

the scene with Imhotep and Rick screaming just before Rick follows up with a shotgun blast is just a recreation of everyone playing a zombie game when they get jumpscared

@LadyKattrina84

25 күн бұрын

@@vincentstuart9562 I mean, mood.

@alexbennett8076

13 күн бұрын

its the line be for that far he says there you are can we stop playing hide and seek and get the hell out of this place then the scram its just grate it what everyone would do in that moment with a shout gun

Rachel Weisz is still drop-dead gorgeous

@ericthompson3982

26 күн бұрын

100% correct.

@jailcatjones3250

24 күн бұрын

No doubt, I really want to trace my finger on her gorgeous eyebrows

@fionatsangarides6201

21 күн бұрын

Agreeed

@PukingPanda

20 күн бұрын

Literally how I realised I was bisexual was this movie. As a kid I found myself thinking the exact same things about both the guys & girls 😂

@Emilyweasel2023

19 күн бұрын

I realised I was a lesbian from Rachel Weiz in this film. My mum loved it and whenever it was on I would come and watch just to drool over her and alive Anck-Su-Namun.

The Mummy was released 25 year ago? No way

@mikeblaze7424

26 күн бұрын

Crazy

@houndofoblivion

26 күн бұрын

Talk about feeling old, I was 8 when that came out.

@gkarenko9593

25 күн бұрын

I missed that.

@jailcatjones3250

24 күн бұрын

It makes me feel like I haven't done anything

@lucaskobain

22 күн бұрын

I went to the cinema to see this...

90s for me were the best when it came to use of CGI because movie makers used it ALONGSIDE practical effects. It was never meant to replace it but to do things practical effects couldn't do. Plus I think having actual sets helps the actors get into char more. It's a lot harder for them to fully imagine things at times.

@salvadordollyparton666

6 күн бұрын

and even how pathetic computers were then compared to now, a LOT of them still looked way better than some of the crap spewed out now. and obviously, even better when used sparingly as you said. they were meant to be used that way, for things way too expensive or dangerous to do practically. not just to cheap out and be lazy. or especially in place of telling an actual story.

This film deserves so much love, I would still enjoy it like the first time. The casting was SO perfect and had so much chemistry. I am disappointed how you forgot about John Hannah when mentioning them!

There's also an element of irony to Beni's death. He survived the battle alongside Rick near the start by locking himself in a chamber. And at the end of the film, he's forcibly locked in what becomes his literal tomb.

I'm surprised that you don't mention how Brendan Fraser was nearly strangled to death during his hanging scene because (ironically) the safety rope was too long. He actually passed out and it can be seen in the movie.

@rebabarkley5000

5 күн бұрын

I think because most people know that, and this is stuff people might not know

I asked my wife to go see The Mummy when it first opened and she declined, wouldn’t go see it. Months later we went to a department store and in the section with the televisions the movie had started. I stopped and watched the movie as she continued on shopping. Much later she finally found me still watching the movie as it beginning the act. She was somewhat less than impressed yet I did see most of the movie. I did purchase The Mummy when it came out on VHS and finally the two of us watched it together. Funny, she unexpectedly really liked the movie.

@mskitten39

16 күн бұрын

Women

About him being slightly blind: I saw The Mummy Returns before the first movie, so I was always mistaken that his mistaking her for Anck-Su-Namun was set up for the sequel.

@katelynpratt257

Күн бұрын

I thought this too but both explanations work I guess 🤷🏻‍♀️

Bast(est) is the daughter of Rah and helps protect him travel thru the underworld, hence the theory of cats being protecters of the underworld

Hieroglyphs are always read from top to bottom but sometimes you start on the left side (like in English) and sometimes on the right. The animals, birds or people used in hieroglyphs always face the beginning of the sentence so that tells you where to start.

1 thing I do know about the mummy is that the thumb nail you used of Eevee is from the sequel 😂😂😂

@Elviolli

23 күн бұрын

Damn, that's what I said...just 2 days too late lol

Just watched this rereleased in theaters an hour ago. Still slaps 25 years later!!

@moriah93ohio

5 күн бұрын

I saw it on Wednesday. Still love it

This movie is so good, you don't think of it as a remake.

#17 I don't know about this one. Imhotep knew he would need a human sacrifice to perform the ritual to resurrect Anck Su Namun. Calling Evelyn by her name was just because he viewed Evelyn as said sacrifice to resurrect Anck Su Namun.

I will say if you look it up cats DO guard the underworld, they specifically guard the gates to the underworld and are supposed to be like an alarm system for Osiris. (I found it some time ago, and it does source actual historical stuff, but you know, it could still be wrong I guess lol)

A movie doesn't need to be heavy on CGI. This was such a good movie, due to all the elements being well put together

I love how The Mummy remake didn't splash blood all over but stuck to the more classical scare tactics of the original.

If anything, especially as someone who needs glasses, the whole eyesight thing is a nice touch of continuity! And cats are still sacred, the Tomb of Bastet is literally filled with thousands of mummified cats after all (also, real tomb!) in Her honour!

Omid Djalili was a real highlight in this, amongst many others.

@5:36, this is incorrect. The faces of the hieroglyphics face to the left of the screen so they must read the hieroglyphs from left to right. It’s not convention that hieroglyphs are always read right to left - they are read generally in the direction towards the face of a hieroglyph and can be read up / down, down / up, left to right, right to left.

Anyone, who has seen Boris Karloff's version of the story, would get the "Ardeth Bey" reference. Also, the near-absence of blood can be explained by the spell on the box, which contained the sacred jars. It says that Imhotep would, quote, "assimilate the organs AND FLUIDS" of anyone, who'd been present for the box's opening. (4/26/2024)

He didn't trick the warrior mummies... He has control of them

"Some minor historical inaccuracies." Say it ain't so.

@linda10989

26 күн бұрын

So the Egyptians wouldn't have a city of the dead facing the sunrise? Or have 5 canopic jars? (Clutching my pearls as I gasp dramatically)😮

Actually, per Encyclopedia Britanica, "She is sometimes depicted as a guide and helper to the dead although this was not one of her primary duties," she also was a protector of women and the home. So it fits the movie ok.

@daniellemusella1594

26 күн бұрын

I was in 5th grade, when I first saw this movie, which is about the time when kids are getting their beginning lessons about Egyptian history and mythology. I remember thinking it was hysterical, how a guy raised to believe in animal-headed gods and goddesses still knew what we know today: that cats are shady a-f. I say that, as a cat-owner. (4/26/2024)

Correction, one of the best films. PERIOD.

It’s the Greatest remake of all time

@teeboz6237

22 күн бұрын

I would argue Scarface or the Thing. But yeah, it’s a great remake.

You didn’t mention in the scene where Brendon Fraser is hanged,he was nearly strangled for real.

@Rhymethyme33

21 күн бұрын

It's amazing how often this happens in films. Ex. Michael J Fox in BTTF3

I LOVE The Mummy 1 and 2 but not the 3rd, that was not good. I know I'm all old and stuff, but damn, you really hit home with the 25th anniversary! 😅

I know Ewan wont see this, but i appreciate this video. Mummy (1999) is sentimental for me, and i'm a sucker for behind the scenes facts. Thank you.

Sweet, I got tickets to go see it again in theaters tomorrow. Easily one of my top 10 favorite movies.

@daniellemusella1594

26 күн бұрын

@LonewolfOfSD Mine, too. I got into a conversation with a family friend about it in, of all places, church. After Mass ended, we were looking at some pictures of Jesus on the walls, and we briefly discussed His most likely true physical appearance. We agreed that He probably looked a lot like Oded Fehr, though, obviously, without the face tattoos. (4/26/2024)

Whe I was a teen I volunteered at The Egypt Centre in the local University, it was basically a mini museum, we all loved this film but spent so long making fun of all the inaccuracies in the film. The biggest for us was always the canopic jars, there are 5 in the film where as there are only 4, when would also spend a fair amount of time coming up with a fictional name for the 5th jar, and try and decide what was housed inside.

@Furiora

9 күн бұрын

One of the Historians on youtube pointed out that Eve incorrectly says that they remove the heart, which then other lady she was watching it with pointed out that might be why they had 5 jars in the film.

I went to the rerelease yesterday and the whole time I was watching I couldn’t help but wonder why would the Egyptians give Imhotep a curse that would turn him into a god in the chance he’s brought back

The mummies brendan frasier are the best trilogy

Loved, LOVED everything about this movie. Everyone was perfectly cast. I used to be able to quote it. That's how many times I watched the movie--it was sickening. 😆 And The Mummy Returns was golden too. I have to say that I did not enjoy the third one. I didn't like that Rick and his son's relationship went sour and Rachel Weisz didn't return for the role of Evie bc she had just had a baby. Maria Bello, who replaced her, did not have chemistry with Brendan Fraser. Edit: Thank you @Jedirayden for the correction! It was Maria Bello in the third movie, not Monica Belucci. 😃

@jedirayden

26 күн бұрын

Maria Bello, not Monica Belucci. Similar alliteration in their names, I had to double check myself. But I agree with everything you said.

@MelaninCosplay

26 күн бұрын

@@jedirayden Ah! Thank you so much! You're right, Maria Bello. I went back and edited. 😁

Is he supposed to look like that? He is still, still Juicy

For those wanting to know more about the Mummy and the CGI work that went into it, Cooridor Digital has a video on their channel about it.

Ah...this movie is forever, a perfect adventure!😍🤩 Excellent, interesting video, thank you!

I really love this movie and the 2nd one too.

There should have been an extreme close up of Arnold Vaslo just staring into someone's soul. Ultimate throw back to Karloff

Rachel Weisz’s period accurate eyebrows were top teir!

Very best popcorn flick ever

Absolutely one of my favorite movies❣️🥰 I took my mom to see this on Mother’s Day, Sunday May 9, 1999.

I can't be the only person who misses almost 100% of these things when watching a film.

Here in the states, it's back in theaters this weekend (April 26th, 2024) along with Alien (which is 45 years old).

Regarding cats in Egyptian mythology - cats presided over the living and protected them. I think The Mummy was referring to Aker (AKA Akeru), who is a god often depicted as two lions protecting Ra, who guards the horizon (the boarders to the underworld). However, this would depend on the film makers knowing this detail about Egyptian mythology.

Man! I was 20 when it came out and I’ll be 45 in a few days. My gosh!

The scarab in Jonathon always ticked me off! Cause we see it in his shoulder, but Rick pulls it out of his wrist? And the scarab never backtracks.

Love this I need to watch it again.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Ah yes, the bisexuals' awakening. This movie is so amazing, and the effects still somehow hold up (for its time). Just *chef's kiss*

I watched this movie so many times and missed all these bloopers

"what is a place like me doing,.. in a girl like this" is my favorite movie line ever

#2 they obviously turned around to shoot the priests who came out of the ground behind them. the big gold chest is behind them and then it's in front of them. showing that they turned around. come on, i may not have the smoothest brain but even i was able to deduce that.

@sundalangur3250

24 күн бұрын

I really hate it when they include things like this as "continuity errors" like they don't understand filming 101. The whole point of a cut being that the characters can make actions that we don't necessarily see on screen.

You skipped one error. The scarabs are supposed to take forever to devour someone -- which is why this was such a horrible (first) death for Imhotep, and why there were deep gouges in the inside of his coffin. I guess in the millennia since, the scarabs evolved into the piranha of the desert, stripping the flesh from a body in seconds.

I always assumed the fear of cats was based of Sekhemet, not Bastet. But even Bastet was viewed as a protector of the Pharoah sometimes. But Sekhemet... occasionally a protector, frequently considered a bit of a psychopath- until a part of her myth made her into a protector .

@catlover2223

19 күн бұрын

Maybe the fact that Bastet was a protector of the Pharoah is the reason Imhotep is scared of cats. He knows the Pharoah is still ticked he stole his girl and figures Bastet must be ticked as well. 😂

Let's forget about Mummy 3.

@linda10989

26 күн бұрын

No, please let us erase it from our memories! 🤞🤞

@tonyacosta4574

21 күн бұрын

I liked it

@s1n-n3d

20 күн бұрын

@@tonyacosta4574 I mean it's an okay movie. But the biggest let down for me was Jet Li as the main antagonist. It didn't work for me. His mummy form was bland. There's no scare factor. He was just like a moving rock. Imhotep was a scary villain for sure.

@kelsey2333

16 күн бұрын

​@@s1n-n3dand the fact that the third mummy movie has nothing to do with Egypt or mummies. And the recasting of Evie sucked so bad

Feel like there's room for a "Top 10 movies where the villain got what they wanted in the sequel anyways" list. Like gotta love how the Mummy was stopping him from reaching full form and getting his woman...and he basically gets both in the first 5min of the sequel 😂

@carriesmigla-didier8900

26 күн бұрын

Yeah, i liked the sequel a lot, but they sort of screwed up by not continuing with the whole 'if he regains his powers in full, he becomes a God and Egypt/maybe the world is overrun with the plagues from the bible.' I know it would have been a whole lot extra but it was the whole plot of the first movie- ya can't just ignore it, you have to explain it!

This was great. I liked hearing the stuff about Benny, played by Kevin O'Connor, a criminally underused and yet stellar actor. I had seen him in _Peggy Sue Got Married_ and _Steel Magnolias_ and _Virtuosity_ yet did not recognize him in _The Mummy_ because I thought he was a real Egyptian or Turk or Middle Eastern person. The lack of blood in the film was vital to it getting a PG-13 rating. If they wanted everything else that the movie had, and also for it not to be given an "R" rating, they were not allowed to show a single drop of red.

I fell in love with Rachel Weisz when I saw this movie!

I hope to God someone else laughed as hard at the Twins joke as I did

This is literally my fav movie of all time!!!

I love this movie. ❤

You can be twins and not be identical twins you know. Fraternal twins, also known as dizygotic twins, are the result of two separate eggs being fertilized by two different sperm during the same pregnancy. Fraternal twins can be either the same sex or different sexes, and they may not have the same appearance. They share half of their genomes, just like any other siblings.

Just saw it in theater again this evening.

I remember watching this movie at least twice a day for an entire summer when I was younger. Pretty sure my older sister scratched the dvd up on purpose, in hindsight lmao.

Bastet was a Goddess of Protection, Seduction/Pleasure, and Good Health. Hathor was the Goddess of Motherhood, and Taurt was Goddess of Childbirth & Fertility. Furthermore, There are a number of Feline-aspected Deities in the Egyptian pantheon, such as Sekhmet, Goddess of War and Warfare. This is not only Egyptian Mythology 101, but took less that a minute to reference. The writers are getting lazy w/ their fact checking and presenters should call out inaccuracies if they find/notice them.

@19TheFallen

22 күн бұрын

Looking into it myself, I found out about these ones: Sef and Tuau. They were the guardians of the day and the night, and the Egyptians would place statues of them outside their homes and tombs to guard them from evil spirits. And, then, there's Aker......The guard to the entrance of the underworld, who is usually depicted as a narrow strip of land with two lions or human headed lions (sphinxes) facing east and west. In some versions of the mythology, Sef and Tuau were one and the same as Aker. It's interesting, though.....These ancient deities fit the bill of what the writers of _The Mummy_ were likely going for when they were doing the whole "cat guardian" thing........

This and the original much like alot of early horror really sell the message that some of the scariest horror comes from what you don't see, your imagination does it for you.

8:10 you strike me as a bit like that guy...

Pretty kitty.

The scene where the locusts appear, well the close-ups are real locusts. Especially the scene where they're on top of Jonathan Hyde, who plays Egyptology that finds and opens the box where the book of the death where. The shot was obviously challenging because the actor in question had trouble staying still. But can you blame him, I certainly couldn't stay still myself if I had bugs on me. And the ones used in the film were cold and slow-moving because they were kept cold.

If Universal really wanted to do that whole "Dark Universe" thing, they should have kept the style similar to how this movie was done. Have it set in the 1930's(?) instead of modern times.

There's a scene where Ric has his brown strap on his wrist but in the next shot he hasn't got it on Apparently when they stopped shooting the film for dinner Brendan forgot to put it back on

No wonder the burried alive scene scarred me mentally

Number 17 I didn’t think it was necessarily a mistake. He even calls her “princess” in the first film before we find out she’s the reincarnation in the second film

Bastet was also depicted as the goddess of protection against contagious diseases and evil spirits.

All that, and he still never mentions the disappearing book in the library scene before the domino effect?

Dang I remember watching this with my best friend in theaters....I'm old bro...😂🤷

@daniellemusella1594

26 күн бұрын

@darkmoon0219 Great moment: "Have you no respect for the dead?" "Of course, I do. But sometimes [puts arm around mummy], I'd rather like to join them." (4/26/2024)

Good lords. 25 years.!!? 😮

For me the biggest historical error was that the movie had five canopic jars while actual mummifications had only four. There was one each for the lungs, liver, stomach, and intestines. The heart as the seat of the soul was left in the body. The brain was removed and disposed of due to the belief that it had no critical function. Of course the movie required five in order to move the plot along.

Anyone else here to see if they mention the certain body part slip..

@jedirayden

26 күн бұрын

I've seen the movie a dozen times, but I'm drawing a blank on what you're referring to.

@lalalandlaura

26 күн бұрын

Right? I'm intrigued

@DemonicaaD14

26 күн бұрын

Ah yes... The infamous wardrobe malfunction ​@@jedirayden go watch the scene where Gad Hassan (the Warden) find himself some bejeweling bugs

@daniellambert7889

26 күн бұрын

I was waiting for this 😂

@linda10989

26 күн бұрын

​@@DemonicaaD14I've seen this movie a million times but never caught that. I did see that Anucksunamun wasn't wearing pasties

When I saw the scene where they switch sides , I thought it was because they were surrounded, a d they turned around and fired behind them.

I am a big fan of animal planet and found out something interesting about scarabs. they are also known as dung beetles. they eat dung. totally harmless. so when I saw this movie I laughed so hard at every scene of the bugs. it was comical.

When Rick is being hanged he is actually being choked. Source is the Brendan Frasier commentary on the movie

Crap this whole time i thought it was billy zane playing the mummy this whole time.

Bro, the movie is five years older than me

Lmao @ Hard Target

Dozen? Pretty sure I've seen this one hundreds of times. 😂

I picked up from the very first time I saw the movie that the eyes were not so great.

There was a little bit of blood at the end of the movie when Rick stabs Imhotep through the stomach and Imhotep brings his hand in the camera view there is blood on his hand.

Bastet was the goddess responsible for protecting against evil spirits and curses.

How can there be historical inaccuracies when this story is technically set in a different universe to our own?

Can't be 25 years old... I'm still 17!!!

I'm older then the movie and I don't care because it's a good movie

Here's ONE thing I missed: the whole movie.

If the opening shot is mainly miniatures but LOOKS like outdated CGI then that is a huge shame.

This movie legitamently traumatized me as a little kid. i think i was maybe 5? when i first saw it, i might have been even younger tbh. Some of the imagery of the film terrified me to no end to the point that it was maybe 5 years ago that i actually enjoyed watching it. The one offenders are the fucking scrab scene. like that is still not a scene i can watch. Then also the organ taking in general were terrifiying. My parents took my sister and I to Unviversal Studios in FLorida once and they wanted to go on the Mummy ride, at that time i was still terrified by the Mummy and wanted NOTHING to do with it but i had to go on cause i couldnt wait outside by myself. The ride cemented my Mummy trauma cause the ride was intense and the wildest ride i had been on at that age was maybe a merry go round.

@tonyacosta4574

21 күн бұрын

Lol that's hilarious

Arnold Vosloo? Did Billy Zane change his name?

@raeshuman5296

17 күн бұрын

Different actors

still, i am disapointed about the stupid ending - imhotep sees his immortality gone and still runs in the sword like an idiot...