WEBVTT 00:00:01.550 --> 00:00:03.609 You know what that sound means? It means it's 00:00:03.609 --> 00:00:05.750 another episode of Game for a Movie where we 00:00:05.750 --> 00:00:08.509 ask, are you game for a movie? My name is Mike. 00:00:08.589 --> 00:00:10.570 I'll be your host this evening. I am joined by 00:00:10.570 --> 00:00:15.650 no one, actually. So there's nothing wrong. There's 00:00:15.650 --> 00:00:18.410 no problems, nothing like that. It has become 00:00:18.410 --> 00:00:21.089 ridiculously hard with our schedules to record 00:00:21.089 --> 00:00:23.750 all of us at the same time. Not only record, 00:00:23.949 --> 00:00:26.089 but also watch bad movies together, that kind 00:00:26.089 --> 00:00:28.750 of stuff. I am getting this out here because 00:00:28.750 --> 00:00:33.340 you lovely people. deserve content. I have watched 00:00:33.340 --> 00:00:35.759 a bad movie. I'm going to give you the rundown 00:00:35.759 --> 00:00:38.340 of the bad movie. I also might do this a little 00:00:38.340 --> 00:00:40.060 quicker than our normal episodes. Our normal 00:00:40.060 --> 00:00:43.039 episodes run about an hour. I'm probably going 00:00:43.039 --> 00:00:46.979 to do this maybe 40 minutes or so. Maybe less 00:00:46.979 --> 00:00:51.179 or maybe more. Who knows? I just want to give 00:00:51.179 --> 00:00:55.299 you all of my thoughts on this movie and I want 00:00:55.299 --> 00:00:57.460 to make sure you get that content you've come 00:00:57.460 --> 00:01:01.000 to know and love from Game for a Movie. Andre 00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:03.960 and Jill are still very much a part of this. 00:01:04.140 --> 00:01:06.480 So is Mitchell, so is T -Dog if he ever shows 00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:11.120 up again. Everybody is perfectly fine. This is 00:01:11.120 --> 00:01:14.200 also a very good time to announce that I am launching 00:01:14.200 --> 00:01:17.560 a division of Game for a Movie. Game for a Movie 00:01:17.560 --> 00:01:21.659 is still the main. Be all, end all. I want it 00:01:21.659 --> 00:01:25.519 to be a part of this. But as we keep having weeks 00:01:25.519 --> 00:01:27.599 where we're not able to meet up, that kind of 00:01:27.599 --> 00:01:30.349 thing. To release some content, I've decided 00:01:30.349 --> 00:01:32.609 on a new show that is a division of Game for 00:01:32.609 --> 00:01:36.269 a Movie. It is called iStream. iStream is all 00:01:36.269 --> 00:01:39.489 about ice cream and then whatever you can stream 00:01:39.489 --> 00:01:42.230 on streaming services. I'm going to try to watch 00:01:42.230 --> 00:01:44.650 some of the more up -to -date, newer things, 00:01:44.950 --> 00:01:49.189 tell you if they're worth your shot or not. As 00:01:49.189 --> 00:01:51.989 always, there's going to be some good movies, 00:01:52.129 --> 00:01:55.920 some shit, some TV. Who knows what I'm going 00:01:55.920 --> 00:01:57.739 to get involved into, but that's going to be 00:01:57.739 --> 00:02:00.599 iStream. It is only going to run on weeks where 00:02:00.599 --> 00:02:03.540 we cannot get a Game for a Movie episode together. 00:02:03.920 --> 00:02:06.260 And it's probably just going to be launched under 00:02:06.260 --> 00:02:10.680 the same name or under the same umbrella. Because 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:14.560 I don't want to lose everybody, honestly. It 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:17.979 truly is a blast to be able to talk about good 00:02:17.979 --> 00:02:20.080 movies, bad movies with some of your best friends. 00:02:20.580 --> 00:02:24.849 So, Game for a Movie, main show. It's not going 00:02:24.849 --> 00:02:28.449 anywhere. I would prefer to record Game for a 00:02:28.449 --> 00:02:32.629 Movie episodes over iStream any single day of 00:02:32.629 --> 00:02:36.250 the week. But because you deserve content and 00:02:36.250 --> 00:02:39.210 because I don't want to go like we have the last 00:02:39.210 --> 00:02:42.909 two months without an episode, I am launching 00:02:42.909 --> 00:02:46.189 a separate project. It's not even that separate, 00:02:46.310 --> 00:02:48.909 but I'm launching a separate project so that 00:02:48.909 --> 00:02:52.680 there's constant content coming your way. If 00:02:52.680 --> 00:02:54.719 you like the sound of my voice, please check 00:02:54.719 --> 00:02:57.060 out iStream when I launch it, which is hopefully 00:02:57.060 --> 00:03:02.759 going to be in two weeks. I will be at my good 00:03:02.759 --> 00:03:05.759 buddy of mine's bachelor party this weekend, 00:03:05.860 --> 00:03:07.979 so there's probably not going to be a Game for 00:03:07.979 --> 00:03:11.120 a Movie episode or an iStream episode, but I 00:03:11.120 --> 00:03:14.500 still hope to get new content out for you shortly. 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:18.259 Alright, enough about that announcement. Let's 00:03:18.259 --> 00:03:21.990 jump into What Am I Drinking? We always do this 00:03:21.990 --> 00:03:25.770 on the show. I have a Foam Economics Pilsner. 00:03:26.150 --> 00:03:29.789 It is a slow pour Pilsner from Black Pond Brews, 00:03:29.789 --> 00:03:32.629 which is in Dayville, Connecticut. I host trivia 00:03:32.629 --> 00:03:34.409 there sometimes. They just put this on their 00:03:34.409 --> 00:03:38.289 menu. It is a hoppy Pilsner. And it's been described 00:03:38.289 --> 00:03:41.629 as it takes five minutes to pour. Trust me, it 00:03:41.629 --> 00:03:44.370 is worth every minute waiting for it. It's like 00:03:44.370 --> 00:03:46.250 a Guinness in the fact that it just gets better 00:03:46.250 --> 00:03:49.560 the more you let it sit. I chugged it when I 00:03:49.560 --> 00:03:51.580 was hosting trivia there the other night. They 00:03:51.580 --> 00:03:54.139 gave me a four pack after the night. And let 00:03:54.139 --> 00:03:56.740 me tell you right now, I've let this sit after 00:03:56.740 --> 00:03:58.639 I cracked it open. This is going to be the first 00:03:58.639 --> 00:04:02.740 sip. It's still delightful in the can. And I 00:04:02.740 --> 00:04:05.080 don't get paid more for trivia by giving them 00:04:05.080 --> 00:04:07.960 a shout out. But I do like them a lot. I just 00:04:07.960 --> 00:04:10.639 wish they weren't as far away as they are. They're 00:04:10.639 --> 00:04:12.340 an hour and a half from my house. So it takes 00:04:12.340 --> 00:04:15.219 three hours for me to drive there and back. This 00:04:15.219 --> 00:04:17.560 place would be my local neighborhood bar if it 00:04:17.560 --> 00:04:21.019 was closer. Enough about what I'm drinking. Let's 00:04:21.019 --> 00:04:26.279 talk about what I watched. As being bookish podcast 00:04:26.279 --> 00:04:29.480 guest on our Twitter account, that is at Game 00:04:29.480 --> 00:04:32.060 for a Movie, you can always guess our bad movie, 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:34.439 and you can get your promo featured in the episode 00:04:34.439 --> 00:04:39.319 if you guess it first. I watched 2017's The Mummy. 00:04:39.779 --> 00:04:43.529 The one with Tom Cruise. Yes, that one. So here 00:04:43.529 --> 00:04:45.529 are some of my thoughts on the movie. I'm going 00:04:45.529 --> 00:04:49.290 to tell you basically my notes as I was watching 00:04:49.290 --> 00:04:51.410 this movie because I typed a lot of them. There's 00:04:51.410 --> 00:04:55.750 like five pages of notes. 1 ,010 words. Normally 00:04:55.750 --> 00:04:57.550 it's a little more fun when we have some people 00:04:57.550 --> 00:05:00.230 interject. So if you guys have thoughts, comments, 00:05:00.310 --> 00:05:02.949 concerns, you can reach out to us at GameForAMovie 00:05:02.949 --> 00:05:05.790 on Twitter, at GameForAMovie on Facebook, or 00:05:05.790 --> 00:05:08.850 at GameForAMovie on Instagram. We also have a 00:05:08.850 --> 00:05:11.449 TikTok as well. That's when I'll be taking you 00:05:11.449 --> 00:05:15.089 behind the bad. I don't know why I'm just sending 00:05:15.089 --> 00:05:18.810 you on a wild goose chase to find all our stuff, 00:05:18.949 --> 00:05:21.389 but you should follow us if you love us. Let's 00:05:21.389 --> 00:05:23.149 get started with this movie, The Mummy, from 00:05:23.149 --> 00:05:27.329 2017. We start this movie, and we are in England, 00:05:27.610 --> 00:05:32.629 1127 AD. Yes, England. This is not Egypt. That 00:05:32.629 --> 00:05:34.810 threw me off right off the bat, but at least 00:05:34.810 --> 00:05:38.689 they did kind of cover it. We see a guy go into 00:05:38.689 --> 00:05:41.550 a coffin, and that's all we learn. That's all 00:05:41.550 --> 00:05:44.819 we find. Before we flash to the present, present 00:05:44.819 --> 00:05:48.779 day, they are making a new railway line in London, 00:05:48.860 --> 00:05:52.160 and they just so happen to come across this crypt 00:05:52.160 --> 00:05:56.860 filled with a bunch of coffins of dead... We 00:05:56.860 --> 00:05:59.480 learn through news position, which is exposition 00:05:59.480 --> 00:06:02.399 through the newscasts, that these are Crusader 00:06:02.399 --> 00:06:05.220 Knights, and that they invaded Egypt before they 00:06:05.220 --> 00:06:08.540 returned to London. I don't know why we need 00:06:08.540 --> 00:06:10.959 these Crusader Knights, but they're Crusader 00:06:10.959 --> 00:06:13.699 Knights. They invaded Egypt and they returned 00:06:13.699 --> 00:06:18.399 to London. That's all I know so far. One of the 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:22.180 people that discovers the crypt is Henry Jekyll. 00:06:22.300 --> 00:06:24.399 And the only reason I know this is because I 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:26.759 know what they were trying to do. with the whole 00:06:26.759 --> 00:06:29.519 Dark Universe. If you don't know about the Dark 00:06:29.519 --> 00:06:31.600 Universe, this was going to be the first movie 00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:34.660 of many that brought all the monsters together. 00:06:34.920 --> 00:06:36.579 So there was going to be the mummy, there's going 00:06:36.579 --> 00:06:40.120 to be Dracula, Wolfman, I think the creature 00:06:40.120 --> 00:06:42.620 from the Black Lagoon. All of these were supposed 00:06:42.620 --> 00:06:44.279 to be brought together. Oh, and Frankenstein. 00:06:44.439 --> 00:06:49.540 And Russell Crowe plays Dr. Henry Jekyll. You 00:06:49.540 --> 00:06:53.959 can only guess what monster he plays. So he starts 00:06:53.959 --> 00:06:57.620 monologuing in his head, and I don't know at 00:06:57.620 --> 00:06:59.939 this point if I would have rather him just talk 00:06:59.939 --> 00:07:02.579 out loud to himself, because he's just laying 00:07:02.579 --> 00:07:06.060 out exposition, and he knows this whole story 00:07:06.060 --> 00:07:10.560 of Amunet, who is the mummy in question. She's 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:14.920 played by Sophia Boutella. Basically, she was 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:17.459 promised the throne, and then all of a sudden 00:07:17.459 --> 00:07:20.709 the pharaoh... had a son. And we all know how 00:07:20.709 --> 00:07:24.850 it usually works with these familiar lines and 00:07:24.850 --> 00:07:27.089 everything like that. They always choose a son. 00:07:27.269 --> 00:07:30.569 I don't know why. I don't agree with it. Doesn't 00:07:30.569 --> 00:07:33.490 matter. That is what happens. So, Sofia Botella 00:07:33.490 --> 00:07:37.350 plays Amunet. She notices that her time is going 00:07:37.350 --> 00:07:39.310 to come, that she's going to get passed over. 00:07:40.029 --> 00:07:44.629 She's also an adult when this baby boy was born, 00:07:44.850 --> 00:07:49.100 which is really strange. Mostly because what 00:07:49.100 --> 00:07:51.180 I know of history is people didn't live that 00:07:51.180 --> 00:07:53.839 long and they didn't have babies late in life. 00:07:54.100 --> 00:07:58.120 So that there's like a 20 year gap between Amunet 00:07:58.120 --> 00:08:02.379 and the baby boy or whatever. It was kind of 00:08:02.379 --> 00:08:07.720 strange to see. But she makes a deal with essentially 00:08:07.720 --> 00:08:10.360 the devil. They don't ever clarify. It's just 00:08:10.360 --> 00:08:13.860 this demon that it's like the demon of life and 00:08:13.860 --> 00:08:17.339 death. She makes a deal. She kills the baby, 00:08:17.399 --> 00:08:20.899 kills her father, and then she tries to release 00:08:20.899 --> 00:08:23.379 a demon into the world through her chosen beloved. 00:08:24.660 --> 00:08:27.500 I said at this point, dear lord, this is dark, 00:08:27.620 --> 00:08:30.500 therefore the dark universe. And I will also 00:08:30.500 --> 00:08:32.559 say the color palette was very dark for this 00:08:32.559 --> 00:08:36.179 movie as well. It really was a dark universe. 00:08:36.700 --> 00:08:40.139 So after that happens, basically, she tries to 00:08:40.139 --> 00:08:43.080 kill her boyfriend to release this demon into 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:47.289 the world. She needs to kill a mortal man for 00:08:47.289 --> 00:08:51.750 him to take over this demon. Basically, the ritual 00:08:51.750 --> 00:08:55.090 gets interrupted, she gets mummified, he gets 00:08:55.090 --> 00:08:58.850 killed, all this stuff happens. So now we flash 00:08:58.850 --> 00:09:03.470 to Mesopotamia, or Iraq present day, and people 00:09:03.470 --> 00:09:08.789 are shooting these historical figures, and so 00:09:08.789 --> 00:09:12.230 we meet our two main characters. Our two main 00:09:12.230 --> 00:09:14.570 characters are played by Tom Cruise and Jake 00:09:14.570 --> 00:09:17.129 Johnson. And honestly, at this point, I kind 00:09:17.129 --> 00:09:19.470 of like their chemistry. I think a buddy comedy 00:09:19.470 --> 00:09:22.570 between the two would actually be okay. They're 00:09:22.570 --> 00:09:24.470 trying to figure out how to get rid of these 00:09:24.470 --> 00:09:27.169 insurgents that are shooting all the historical 00:09:27.169 --> 00:09:32.269 artifacts in Iraq and how they can go in and 00:09:32.269 --> 00:09:34.870 steal stuff. Basically, that's what they're doing. 00:09:35.649 --> 00:09:38.509 Jake Johnson says, why don't we launch an airstrike 00:09:38.509 --> 00:09:43.549 that will make them run? And Tom Cruise is like, 00:09:43.629 --> 00:09:45.590 that's a bad idea because then we'll get 20 years 00:09:45.590 --> 00:09:49.909 in Leavenworth and because the military will 00:09:49.909 --> 00:09:53.669 know why we're here. And Jake Johnson goes, well, 00:09:53.769 --> 00:09:56.669 why not? I mean, we are looters anyway. And Tom 00:09:56.669 --> 00:09:58.769 Cruise says to him, we are not looters. We are 00:09:58.769 --> 00:10:03.669 liberators of precious antiquities. This line, 00:10:03.889 --> 00:10:07.230 this, this line, um, it's something else. And 00:10:07.230 --> 00:10:09.659 I mean, it's. It's funny because Jake Johnson 00:10:09.659 --> 00:10:12.740 and Tom Cruise, who, uh, Jake Johnson, his name 00:10:12.740 --> 00:10:17.340 is Corporal Vale. I have to clarify that because 00:10:17.340 --> 00:10:19.960 on the IMDB page it says Sergeant, but he definitely 00:10:19.960 --> 00:10:24.799 never makes Sergeant. So, Corporal Vale and Sergeant 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:29.419 Nick, uh, can't remember his last name, but Nick. 00:10:29.559 --> 00:10:33.100 Sergeant Nick. Basically, Jake Johnson, Sergeant, 00:10:33.220 --> 00:10:36.059 er, Corporal Vale, I'm gonna say Sergeant Vale 00:10:36.059 --> 00:10:39.759 a lot. Corporal Vale says, I'm not going with 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:42.740 you. I'm not going to try to kill all these insurgents 00:10:42.740 --> 00:10:44.940 because it's just not worth it. We're going to 00:10:44.940 --> 00:10:49.340 die. So to get him to do that, Nick cuts his 00:10:49.340 --> 00:10:52.299 water in the desert. And I said, what an asshole. 00:10:53.039 --> 00:10:54.980 Basically, then Jake Johnson's just like, you 00:10:54.980 --> 00:10:57.200 know, the nearest water supply is like 100 miles 00:10:57.200 --> 00:10:59.580 away. This is the most worst thing you could 00:10:59.580 --> 00:11:02.360 have ever done. And Nick goes, no, the closest 00:11:02.360 --> 00:11:07.289 water supply is in the town. Of course. He says, 00:11:07.289 --> 00:11:09.289 we're just going to slip in, slip out, get our 00:11:09.289 --> 00:11:12.509 stuff, and then go. What we didn't know as well 00:11:12.509 --> 00:11:16.570 is he stole this letter for this girl named Jenny, 00:11:16.690 --> 00:11:20.309 and it's signed by Henry, which we can only guess 00:11:20.309 --> 00:11:24.250 at this point is Henry Jekyll. They go in, everything's 00:11:24.250 --> 00:11:26.090 a shitstorm. They're running for their lives, 00:11:26.250 --> 00:11:28.649 running across rooftops. At this point, I've 00:11:28.649 --> 00:11:31.509 actually liked this movie. Like, it's okay. It's 00:11:31.509 --> 00:11:36.240 not great, but it's kind of fun. Decent chemistry. 00:11:36.639 --> 00:11:40.320 I don't know if it would be the best buddy comedy, 00:11:40.419 --> 00:11:41.899 but it would be enough that I would actually 00:11:41.899 --> 00:11:45.580 enjoy myself kind of thing. Well, so finally 00:11:45.580 --> 00:11:47.919 Jake Johnson has enough, and he's like, I'm going 00:11:47.919 --> 00:11:49.899 to launch an airstrike. I know you said not to, 00:11:49.940 --> 00:11:52.879 but I'm going to do it. Airstrike happens. All 00:11:52.879 --> 00:11:55.539 the insurgents run away, just like Jake Johnson 00:11:55.539 --> 00:11:59.240 said. It also reveals this big hole in the middle 00:11:59.240 --> 00:12:02.940 of the town, which reveals Haram, or Haram, or 00:12:02.940 --> 00:12:06.850 whatever it is. H -A -R -A -M. which is this 00:12:06.850 --> 00:12:13.570 old town that basically is cursed. So, our colonel 00:12:13.570 --> 00:12:16.190 comes in, who's played by Courtney Vance. Courtney 00:12:16.190 --> 00:12:19.710 Vance, I love him. I don't know why he's not 00:12:19.710 --> 00:12:22.110 in more things, and he really was a minor part 00:12:22.110 --> 00:12:24.549 in this. Basically, he yells at the two, and 00:12:24.549 --> 00:12:26.230 we're just like, you guys are idiots, you were 00:12:26.230 --> 00:12:29.129 supposed to be 100 miles away, or 100 clicks 00:12:29.129 --> 00:12:31.720 away is what he said. The guys are like arguing 00:12:31.720 --> 00:12:34.320 with him saying, oh, they thought they were prisoners 00:12:34.320 --> 00:12:37.200 or whatever, but the civilians had all been cleared. 00:12:37.460 --> 00:12:40.440 So they got the insurgents out of the way. And 00:12:40.440 --> 00:12:42.379 now we've got harem. Meanwhile, this girl comes 00:12:42.379 --> 00:12:44.620 up and is just like, oh, Morton, that's Nick's 00:12:44.620 --> 00:12:47.539 last name, Morton, Morton. And he turns around 00:12:47.539 --> 00:12:50.960 and she slaps him like immediately. And it's 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:53.039 just like, how dare you steal my letter? How 00:12:53.039 --> 00:12:55.960 dare you go to harem without me? You're the worst 00:12:55.960 --> 00:12:58.210 human being on the face of the planet. And the 00:12:58.210 --> 00:12:59.870 colonel's like, what the hell do you guys have 00:12:59.870 --> 00:13:04.830 relations? And she goes, he thinks I'll be embarrassed 00:13:04.830 --> 00:13:07.389 by this, but I had him in my room the other day. 00:13:07.409 --> 00:13:10.409 He just basically stole this letter from me after 00:13:10.409 --> 00:13:14.190 15 seconds of sex. Yes, we had a 15 second sex 00:13:14.190 --> 00:13:16.549 joke. And that is something that is recurring 00:13:16.549 --> 00:13:20.070 in this movie. At this point, I've made a note 00:13:20.070 --> 00:13:23.649 that Christopher McQuarrie, the writer for this 00:13:23.649 --> 00:13:26.779 thing. He is one of the most interesting guys 00:13:26.779 --> 00:13:29.580 on the face of the planet for writing. A lot 00:13:29.580 --> 00:13:32.720 of his movies are Tom Cruise stars, which is 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:36.360 okay. The funny thing that is about Christopher 00:13:36.360 --> 00:13:38.820 McQuarrie is he got to start on NYPD Blue for 00:13:38.820 --> 00:13:41.879 like one episode as a writer. Then he wrote The 00:13:41.879 --> 00:13:45.320 Usual Suspects, which is my second favorite movie 00:13:45.320 --> 00:13:48.360 of all time. I definitely enjoy it and I think 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:51.159 it's one of the best written even. So it's really 00:13:51.159 --> 00:13:53.330 weird when you... Consider some of the other 00:13:53.330 --> 00:13:55.250 things. He wrote a couple other things, then 00:13:55.250 --> 00:13:59.490 Valkyrie, then The Tourist, both of which I say 00:13:59.490 --> 00:14:03.690 were subpar, then Jack Reacher and Jack the Giant 00:14:03.690 --> 00:14:06.929 Slayer, all of which at this point are just very 00:14:06.929 --> 00:14:09.950 subpar to me. And then he wrote Edge of Tomorrow, 00:14:10.250 --> 00:14:12.750 Mission Impossible, Rogue Nation. The Mummy in 00:14:12.750 --> 00:14:15.090 Between, Mission Impossible Fallout, Top Gun 00:14:15.090 --> 00:14:17.990 Maverick, and the next two Mission Impossible 00:14:17.990 --> 00:14:20.330 movies coming out, Dead Reckoning Part 1 and 00:14:20.330 --> 00:14:22.830 Dead Reckoning Part 2, which I didn't even know 00:14:22.830 --> 00:14:25.370 had a title at this point, but I'm happy to know 00:14:25.370 --> 00:14:27.830 that now. So he's one of those people I just 00:14:27.830 --> 00:14:29.909 think he has the weirdest track record for writing, 00:14:30.029 --> 00:14:31.850 because I think he has some of the best out there, 00:14:31.909 --> 00:14:33.669 and then he has some of the worst out there. 00:14:34.730 --> 00:14:37.389 So they go into this cave, obviously, because 00:14:37.389 --> 00:14:39.590 they need to see what's inside it. And they find 00:14:39.590 --> 00:14:42.289 out that there's just mercury dripping from the 00:14:42.289 --> 00:14:44.289 ceiling and they don't see an issue with it. 00:14:44.350 --> 00:14:46.309 They just like literally catch it on their bare 00:14:46.309 --> 00:14:48.090 hands and they're like, it's mercury. Look at 00:14:48.090 --> 00:14:52.809 this. And obviously Jenny's with them. She's 00:14:52.809 --> 00:14:54.909 an archaeologist. We don't know what of, but 00:14:54.909 --> 00:14:56.649 she's an archaeologist. She knows a ton of stuff. 00:14:57.009 --> 00:14:58.990 She reads this thing and it's like a warning 00:14:58.990 --> 00:15:02.759 to keep or to intruders to keep people out. obviously 00:15:02.759 --> 00:15:06.799 at this point she's reading to a camera so we 00:15:06.799 --> 00:15:10.100 get the most exposition just because she's talking 00:15:10.100 --> 00:15:13.100 out loud to a camera recording herself telling 00:15:13.100 --> 00:15:15.419 people to keep out there's all this jewelry and 00:15:15.419 --> 00:15:17.480 stuff like that so of course our main characters 00:15:17.480 --> 00:15:19.879 jake johnson and tom cruise start stealing anything 00:15:19.879 --> 00:15:23.120 they can get their hands on jenny finds out that 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:27.019 all this mercury is leading into a pool and then 00:15:27.600 --> 00:15:30.320 The watchers, which are these Egyptian gods, 00:15:30.639 --> 00:15:34.460 are facing in towards the pool instead of out, 00:15:34.539 --> 00:15:38.059 which means we don't care about what's coming 00:15:38.059 --> 00:15:41.299 in. We care about what's coming out. So obviously 00:15:41.299 --> 00:15:44.299 it's a prison. This dialogue is completely predictable 00:15:44.299 --> 00:15:46.500 because at this point I've read all of it and 00:15:46.500 --> 00:15:49.500 said basically every line, line for line. They're 00:15:49.500 --> 00:15:53.559 about to get bombarded by more insurgents. The 00:15:53.559 --> 00:15:55.879 radio's like, you need to get out of there. Insurgents 00:15:55.879 --> 00:15:58.139 are coming, blah, blah, blah. Jenny's like, I 00:15:58.139 --> 00:16:00.779 need more time. You need to get this thing out 00:16:00.779 --> 00:16:02.960 of there because I need to see what it is. So 00:16:02.960 --> 00:16:05.799 Tom Cruise just shoots this chain that's holding 00:16:05.799 --> 00:16:09.240 this prison in and basically it rises out of 00:16:09.240 --> 00:16:12.059 the mercury and spiders start coming into the 00:16:12.059 --> 00:16:17.039 tomb and Jake Johnson gets bit. Also, Tom Cruise 00:16:17.039 --> 00:16:20.519 starts seeing flashbacks. We don't know how at 00:16:20.519 --> 00:16:23.820 this point, but he sees flashbacks and basically 00:16:23.820 --> 00:16:27.240 it shows her or shows him the mummy. And she 00:16:27.240 --> 00:16:29.740 has chosen him and they share this passionate 00:16:29.740 --> 00:16:33.639 kiss. And the reason he sees her is because he 00:16:33.639 --> 00:16:37.299 freed her. So I know right now he's the next 00:16:37.299 --> 00:16:39.679 mortal man sacrifice because he's going to become 00:16:39.679 --> 00:16:42.899 the god of death, whatever. They don't even say 00:16:42.899 --> 00:16:44.600 it at this point, but it's pretty obvious at 00:16:44.600 --> 00:16:47.559 this point. So they get out of the hole. They 00:16:47.559 --> 00:16:51.659 get the tomb out. I don't know, or the sarcophagus 00:16:51.659 --> 00:16:53.720 out. I don't know how they did that so quick, 00:16:53.799 --> 00:16:57.090 especially with the insurgents coming. They just 00:16:57.090 --> 00:17:00.669 did somehow. And all these crows start flying 00:17:00.669 --> 00:17:03.250 into the desert and landing. And they're kind 00:17:03.250 --> 00:17:06.789 of like, oh, that's interesting. Hmm. They all 00:17:06.789 --> 00:17:09.210 know it's cursed. They all know Harem is cursed. 00:17:09.450 --> 00:17:11.890 Yet they don't think anything of these crows. 00:17:12.769 --> 00:17:16.250 So what? I don't know what's happening there. 00:17:16.430 --> 00:17:19.049 I also swear at this point they called Jake Johnson 00:17:19.049 --> 00:17:23.150 Nick. So both Tom Cruise and Jake Johnson's characters 00:17:23.150 --> 00:17:26.009 are named Nick. even though one is named Corporal 00:17:26.009 --> 00:17:28.609 Vale, who doesn't have a first name, except for 00:17:28.609 --> 00:17:32.069 maybe this Nick part, and then Sergeant Nick 00:17:32.069 --> 00:17:37.029 Morton. They get onto this plane. Nick sits next 00:17:37.029 --> 00:17:42.049 to Jenny, and Corporal Vale, Jake Johnson, is 00:17:42.049 --> 00:17:46.150 basically laying on his own, and his eyes just 00:17:46.150 --> 00:17:48.890 go into his head. That all happens. He's chilling, 00:17:49.009 --> 00:17:51.819 whatever, blah, blah, blah. Um, Nick and Jenny 00:17:51.819 --> 00:17:54.619 are talking about this 5 ,000 year old sarcophagus, 00:17:54.619 --> 00:17:56.920 blah, blah, blah. You know, it's everything like 00:17:56.920 --> 00:18:00.140 that. And then she, then Nick goes, why did you 00:18:00.140 --> 00:18:02.140 mention to the Colonel that it was 15 seconds 00:18:02.140 --> 00:18:04.700 of passion? Like it was definitely more than 00:18:04.700 --> 00:18:07.700 that. And Jenny's going, this is the biggest 00:18:07.700 --> 00:18:10.759 discovery of my life. And you want to talk about 00:18:10.759 --> 00:18:14.250 the sex? Really? So she walks away. They all 00:18:14.250 --> 00:18:16.569 kind of fall asleep. Nick has a flashback to 00:18:16.569 --> 00:18:20.089 see this girl and finds out that he's being called 00:18:20.089 --> 00:18:25.730 centipede, which is the chosen one. And he wakes 00:18:25.730 --> 00:18:27.589 up all of a sudden out of nowhere because he 00:18:27.589 --> 00:18:30.470 saw that this ceremonial dagger is getting jabbed 00:18:30.470 --> 00:18:34.150 into his chest. And he sees that Jake Johnson 00:18:34.150 --> 00:18:39.849 is standing over the sarcophagus. Courtney Vance, 00:18:39.950 --> 00:18:43.619 the colonel. standing over and going like what 00:18:43.619 --> 00:18:45.460 the hell are you doing get away from that blah 00:18:45.460 --> 00:18:48.799 blah blah and Jake Johnson stabs him twice at 00:18:48.799 --> 00:18:52.140 this point this movie is okay like I'm alright 00:18:52.140 --> 00:18:56.299 on this well they're freaking out about the fact 00:18:56.299 --> 00:18:58.519 that Jake Johnson has like his eyes in the back 00:18:58.519 --> 00:19:00.380 of his head and he's just like walking towards 00:19:00.380 --> 00:19:04.099 them so he accidentally gets shot three times 00:19:04.099 --> 00:19:07.339 by Nick so I'm thinking to myself there goes 00:19:07.339 --> 00:19:10.059 your biggest stars Courtney Vance Doesn't come 00:19:10.059 --> 00:19:11.759 back the rest of the movie, and Jake Johnson 00:19:11.759 --> 00:19:14.400 is gone for a significant amount of time. They're 00:19:14.400 --> 00:19:17.380 trying to figure out where they're going, so 00:19:17.380 --> 00:19:20.359 they go to the pilots, and these birds all of 00:19:20.359 --> 00:19:23.880 a sudden fly into the engine, and they fly into 00:19:23.880 --> 00:19:26.920 the cockpit, and the plane is going down, and 00:19:26.920 --> 00:19:30.359 we get the trailer scene. This is the scene that 00:19:30.359 --> 00:19:34.420 you've seen where the plane's going down. Nick 00:19:34.420 --> 00:19:38.329 gives Jenny a parachute. And like pulls it, gets 00:19:38.329 --> 00:19:41.089 her safe, and then Nick crashes into the ground. 00:19:41.390 --> 00:19:43.869 Tom Cruise is dead. That's the end of the movie, 00:19:43.950 --> 00:19:47.230 right? No, there's much more. I'm going to take 00:19:47.230 --> 00:19:49.930 a quick break. I'm going to give you a promo 00:19:49.930 --> 00:19:52.150 as well for our friend Being Bookish podcast. 00:19:52.970 --> 00:19:57.130 Ray is amazing. Check her out. 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Find every episode 00:21:14.970 --> 00:21:17.589 of Being Bookish wherever you find your podcasts. 00:21:18.930 --> 00:21:22.450 We are back! I hope you enjoyed that promo. Seriously, 00:21:22.710 --> 00:21:24.630 Ray is one of our best friends in the business. 00:21:24.950 --> 00:21:27.369 I'm only on page two of my five -page notes. 00:21:27.490 --> 00:21:29.009 I thought this was only going to be 40 minutes, 00:21:29.109 --> 00:21:31.230 but it may be longer. We'll see what happens. 00:21:31.329 --> 00:21:34.769 Who knows? Tom Cruise is dead. The plane has 00:21:34.769 --> 00:21:39.630 crashed. And basically, they need Jenny to identify 00:21:39.630 --> 00:21:43.869 the bodies. Well... Tom Cruise wakes up and he's 00:21:43.869 --> 00:21:47.289 in a body bag and he unzips himself. And at this 00:21:47.289 --> 00:21:49.710 point, I'm sitting there going, why do they have 00:21:49.710 --> 00:21:53.269 a zipper on the inside of a body bag? That's 00:21:53.269 --> 00:21:56.369 insanely creepy to me. I really hope that's not 00:21:56.369 --> 00:21:59.529 true because if this happens more than once that 00:21:59.529 --> 00:22:02.950 somebody wakes up after being dead, there's a 00:22:02.950 --> 00:22:05.890 problem. He has a toe tag on. He's like freaking 00:22:05.890 --> 00:22:10.500 out. He also sees Jake Johnson. And Jake Johnson 00:22:10.500 --> 00:22:12.660 is still looking like he has his eyes in the 00:22:12.660 --> 00:22:14.920 back of his skull. He basically says to him, 00:22:14.980 --> 00:22:18.500 we're both cursed. You need to do whatever she 00:22:18.500 --> 00:22:21.319 wants so that we can get past this curse right 00:22:21.319 --> 00:22:23.640 away. And then, of course, there's this whole 00:22:23.640 --> 00:22:27.740 scene of Jenny and the medical examiners coming 00:22:27.740 --> 00:22:31.940 into the room and he's naked and he's talking 00:22:31.940 --> 00:22:34.900 to himself in the room. So Jenny's onto him and 00:22:34.900 --> 00:22:38.079 is like, hmm, there's something weird with him. 00:22:38.559 --> 00:22:41.799 Maybe I should take him to go see Henry. Meanwhile, 00:22:41.900 --> 00:22:46.500 we have a scene across London. Basically, there's 00:22:46.500 --> 00:22:49.299 these guards that have found the wreckage of 00:22:49.299 --> 00:22:52.980 the plane. They're trying to figure out what 00:22:52.980 --> 00:22:55.839 they can salvage and everything like that. One 00:22:55.839 --> 00:22:57.980 of the guys comes across the sarcophagus and 00:22:57.980 --> 00:23:00.380 it's empty. And then we get a bird jump scare. 00:23:00.579 --> 00:23:02.859 Because you know what's better than normal jump 00:23:02.859 --> 00:23:06.380 scares? A bird jump scare. The guy is examining 00:23:06.380 --> 00:23:10.819 the sarcophagus. He sees this body outside of 00:23:10.819 --> 00:23:13.160 the sarcophagus and is like, okay, I need to 00:23:13.160 --> 00:23:16.980 check out this body. Flips her around and it's 00:23:16.980 --> 00:23:20.619 the mummy. And she is looking skeleton -ish. 00:23:21.359 --> 00:23:24.500 And so we're all kind of like, cool, you know, 00:23:24.559 --> 00:23:29.839 she's been dead for this many years. The guard 00:23:29.839 --> 00:23:32.140 is just kind of like, this is no problem, blah, 00:23:32.240 --> 00:23:35.039 blah, blah. And then all of a sudden she grabs 00:23:35.039 --> 00:23:38.440 him and kisses him. I don't know why she has 00:23:38.440 --> 00:23:41.960 to kiss him to kill this guy. Basically, she 00:23:41.960 --> 00:23:44.440 sucks the life force out of him. He becomes this 00:23:44.440 --> 00:23:48.559 skeletal mess and also becomes a zombie. There's 00:23:48.559 --> 00:23:51.980 a second round of exposition where Jenny is explaining 00:23:51.980 --> 00:23:58.420 to Tom what has happened, as well as then Tom 00:23:58.420 --> 00:24:00.640 Cruise goes to the bathroom, which is, of course, 00:24:00.700 --> 00:24:04.289 a women's room because, you know, comedy. And 00:24:04.289 --> 00:24:07.390 he sees Jake Johnson in the mirror who also says, 00:24:07.470 --> 00:24:10.230 like, this is the curse. This is what happens. 00:24:10.309 --> 00:24:12.490 You are supposed to be killed because you're 00:24:12.490 --> 00:24:14.690 this mortal man and you will become the god of 00:24:14.690 --> 00:24:18.930 death. He sees also these rats that start attacking 00:24:18.930 --> 00:24:22.910 him. And they're just horrible CGI. But he has 00:24:22.910 --> 00:24:25.450 seen this vision of this church he needs to go 00:24:25.450 --> 00:24:27.849 to. He goes to the church. These zombies attack 00:24:27.849 --> 00:24:30.490 him. Obviously, Jenny comes and saves the day. 00:24:31.079 --> 00:24:33.680 But before that happens, the mummy is like about 00:24:33.680 --> 00:24:37.140 to stab the dagger into his chest and realizes 00:24:37.140 --> 00:24:40.900 the dagger's jewel is gone. And so I call this 00:24:40.900 --> 00:24:44.599 Deus Ex Missing Dagger Jewel. I don't know how 00:24:44.599 --> 00:24:46.440 the dagger got there in the first place. That 00:24:46.440 --> 00:24:48.160 was something that was always very confusing. 00:24:48.559 --> 00:24:52.519 And basically they're talking after they get 00:24:52.519 --> 00:24:55.400 past the zombies, after they get past the mummy, 00:24:55.579 --> 00:24:58.460 they start talking like Jenny and him start talking. 00:24:59.309 --> 00:25:04.569 And it just becomes like so serious, so melodramatic. 00:25:04.670 --> 00:25:07.410 And it's this movie. What the biggest problem 00:25:07.410 --> 00:25:11.109 with it is, is it flips from melodrama to like 00:25:11.109 --> 00:25:13.990 Marvel humor where it's like very forced and 00:25:13.990 --> 00:25:16.490 out of nowhere and it doesn't serve a purpose. 00:25:16.549 --> 00:25:20.410 It's just there. They get attacked in their ambulance, 00:25:20.549 --> 00:25:22.950 which is the most inconspicuous vehicle ever. 00:25:23.450 --> 00:25:27.029 And so like the mummy is like standing over Nick 00:25:27.029 --> 00:25:30.150 and is about to like. Bring him to get the jewel 00:25:30.150 --> 00:25:31.950 and everything like that. When all of a sudden 00:25:31.950 --> 00:25:34.829 she starts getting shot. With all these like 00:25:34.829 --> 00:25:37.490 harpoons and these like blow darts and whatever. 00:25:38.109 --> 00:25:43.230 And basically it's this mysterious crew. We don't 00:25:43.230 --> 00:25:45.309 know who they are. And they also shoot Nick. 00:25:45.609 --> 00:25:50.049 And then Jenny's just fine. We get taken to the 00:25:50.049 --> 00:25:54.640 Monstera de Prodigium. which is basically a warning 00:25:54.640 --> 00:25:59.960 of monsters. This is the home of Jekyll and his 00:25:59.960 --> 00:26:02.859 team. And just in case you didn't put two and 00:26:02.859 --> 00:26:05.000 two together, that is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. 00:26:05.059 --> 00:26:08.839 I think y 'all are smarter than this movie is. 00:26:09.059 --> 00:26:14.400 He basically grabs like this, I'll say cure, 00:26:14.559 --> 00:26:17.799 and he starts transforming into Hyde and jams 00:26:17.799 --> 00:26:20.240 himself in the hand so that he doesn't become 00:26:20.240 --> 00:26:23.299 Hyde. And it just reminds me that they wanted 00:26:23.299 --> 00:26:27.059 this dark universe just so badly. They were setting 00:26:27.059 --> 00:26:28.619 it up and everything like that. They thought, 00:26:28.680 --> 00:26:31.660 no way this fails. We're going to get this dark 00:26:31.660 --> 00:26:37.220 universe. Yeah, no. So they take him over to 00:26:37.220 --> 00:26:41.599 the mummy. The mummy is being like, she is basically 00:26:41.599 --> 00:26:44.720 tied up. They have these things going into her 00:26:44.720 --> 00:26:47.579 neck that are just filling her blood with mercury. 00:26:47.920 --> 00:26:51.109 So it's basically going to kill her. And then 00:26:51.109 --> 00:26:54.829 they're going to dissect her and find out what 00:26:54.829 --> 00:26:57.069 makes her tick and everything like that. And 00:26:57.069 --> 00:26:58.750 of course, Jenny's upset about it. She's like, 00:26:58.769 --> 00:27:00.710 this is the best discovery I've ever made. I've 00:27:00.710 --> 00:27:03.190 been working for you and your secret government 00:27:03.190 --> 00:27:08.509 for forever. What the hell? And they also tell 00:27:08.509 --> 00:27:12.009 Nick that he's connected to her and he won't 00:27:12.009 --> 00:27:15.069 ever get away because he's cursed and she's inside 00:27:15.069 --> 00:27:19.210 his head. so she's inside his head and we need 00:27:19.210 --> 00:27:21.390 to figure out how to get you away from this curse 00:27:21.390 --> 00:27:24.210 there's this whole conversation between jenny 00:27:24.210 --> 00:27:26.490 and nick where she's like i know you're a good 00:27:26.490 --> 00:27:29.069 man i know because you gave me the only parachute 00:27:29.069 --> 00:27:31.170 without hesitation and when the plane was going 00:27:31.170 --> 00:27:34.589 down and he goes i thought there was another 00:27:34.589 --> 00:27:39.210 parachute and like it's like 100 just like awkwardly 00:27:39.210 --> 00:27:43.130 delivered and i just put get wrecked at this 00:27:43.130 --> 00:27:48.529 point Jenny starts talking to the mummy to try 00:27:48.529 --> 00:27:50.930 to get her to, like, release Nick from this curse. 00:27:51.250 --> 00:27:53.670 She, of course, is like, no, he's been the chosen 00:27:53.670 --> 00:27:56.029 one. At this point, I also think if Nick is cursed 00:27:56.029 --> 00:27:57.890 and the chosen one, like, they just kill him. 00:27:58.009 --> 00:28:01.329 Just kill him. Because then she can't get what 00:28:01.329 --> 00:28:04.250 she wants. That's what Jekyll was thinking as 00:28:04.250 --> 00:28:07.609 well. And so they get the jewel and they bring 00:28:07.609 --> 00:28:10.180 it. Because the one place that would be perfect 00:28:10.180 --> 00:28:12.640 for them to bring this jewel and this dagger 00:28:12.640 --> 00:28:16.279 together is where the mummy is. You know, movie 00:28:16.279 --> 00:28:18.359 logic. So they have it all together and they're 00:28:18.359 --> 00:28:20.299 just like, we're going to kill you, Nick. But 00:28:20.299 --> 00:28:24.619 it's for the greater good. And basically, Jekyll 00:28:24.619 --> 00:28:26.559 starts having these problems and you're like, 00:28:26.640 --> 00:28:28.640 oh, he's going to turn into Mr. Hyde. Okay, yeah, 00:28:28.700 --> 00:28:30.920 this is going to be a problem. Nick grabs his 00:28:30.920 --> 00:28:35.349 antidote and... Meanwhile, Amunet is able to 00:28:35.349 --> 00:28:38.269 get free enough from this Mercury thing to get 00:28:38.269 --> 00:28:41.329 a bug that she can control, like a literal bug 00:28:41.329 --> 00:28:44.829 cockroach thing, to go into the security guard's 00:28:44.829 --> 00:28:48.730 ear to free her. So, Hyde and Nick are having 00:28:48.730 --> 00:28:52.789 this fight. There's a security guard that's basically 00:28:52.789 --> 00:28:54.569 worried about the fact that Jenny's just like 00:28:54.569 --> 00:28:56.970 running around in the facility, even though Jenny 00:28:56.970 --> 00:28:59.170 is just like trying to go to the mummy and make 00:28:59.170 --> 00:29:02.460 sure she doesn't escape. Everybody probably should. 00:29:03.019 --> 00:29:07.420 And the security guard frees Amunet. She starts 00:29:07.420 --> 00:29:10.160 vomiting this fake mercury and it's like really 00:29:10.160 --> 00:29:15.940 bad CGI fake mercury. And Nick is having a hard 00:29:15.940 --> 00:29:17.940 time with Hyde, but they're locked in this room 00:29:17.940 --> 00:29:20.680 together because the facility knows what Hyde's 00:29:20.680 --> 00:29:23.079 problems are and they won't let him get away. 00:29:23.500 --> 00:29:25.680 And so they're just like fighting and like throwing 00:29:25.680 --> 00:29:27.420 each other around the room, blah, blah, blah. 00:29:27.579 --> 00:29:30.589 Nick gets... away enough that he can grab the 00:29:30.589 --> 00:29:34.190 antidote and just jabs him in the chest and like 00:29:34.190 --> 00:29:36.769 hides like good work and then throws him across 00:29:36.769 --> 00:29:38.849 the room and then starts convulsing and becomes 00:29:38.849 --> 00:29:42.170 Jekyll when did Russell Crowe become bad at acting 00:29:42.170 --> 00:29:45.690 by the way because this was awfully acted it 00:29:45.690 --> 00:29:48.450 was terrible there's no good delivery of lines 00:29:48.450 --> 00:29:51.250 for either character I was hoping it would be 00:29:51.250 --> 00:29:53.410 better because I thought he could handle this 00:29:53.410 --> 00:29:57.420 this would be a good role for him nope So they 00:29:57.420 --> 00:30:00.819 find out that our Jenny says, well, if we destroy 00:30:00.819 --> 00:30:05.220 the stone, we can save the day and you won't 00:30:05.220 --> 00:30:07.539 be cursed anymore. Blah, blah, blah. They're 00:30:07.539 --> 00:30:09.240 like, OK, we're going to grab this stone. We're 00:30:09.240 --> 00:30:11.500 going to destroy it. So Nick and Jenny run together. 00:30:11.700 --> 00:30:14.119 Of course, there's this fire that explodes up, 00:30:14.180 --> 00:30:18.859 separates the two. And Nick stops because Amunet 00:30:18.859 --> 00:30:21.880 is in his head and is like, I'm going to save 00:30:21.880 --> 00:30:26.190 you. No, that's not what happens. Amunet runs 00:30:26.190 --> 00:30:29.470 away, grabs the dagger and is like, I'll see 00:30:29.470 --> 00:30:32.529 you another time. And like runs away to where 00:30:32.529 --> 00:30:36.289 these this crypt was found because she's like, 00:30:36.369 --> 00:30:39.589 I can make these guys zombies, you know, as they 00:30:39.589 --> 00:30:43.329 do. Nick and Jenny run away. There's this sandstorm 00:30:43.329 --> 00:30:45.230 through the city, which is probably one of the 00:30:45.230 --> 00:30:47.869 best powers that she has. And they only use it 00:30:47.869 --> 00:30:52.630 once. It's a waste of time. And then Nick sees 00:30:52.630 --> 00:30:58.109 Vale. Or Jake Johnson. And Jake Johnson is just 00:30:58.109 --> 00:31:00.170 like, come on, I can help you. I can help you 00:31:00.170 --> 00:31:02.589 get the stone and I can help you smash it. I 00:31:02.589 --> 00:31:05.109 don't get this part. Because literally, Vale 00:31:05.109 --> 00:31:07.630 told him, you need to do what she wants so we 00:31:07.630 --> 00:31:10.650 can break the curse. It's not even like you were 00:31:10.650 --> 00:31:14.230 tricked into this believable situation. You knew 00:31:14.230 --> 00:31:16.230 what his intentions were from the beginning. 00:31:16.450 --> 00:31:19.890 You knew exactly what he wanted. So I just don't 00:31:19.890 --> 00:31:21.670 get it. I don't get that and I don't get the 00:31:21.670 --> 00:31:24.140 zombies and I don't get... anything at this point 00:31:24.140 --> 00:31:26.539 besides the fact that mummy wants to kill nick 00:31:26.539 --> 00:31:29.839 jenny wants to save him and nick's worried now 00:31:29.839 --> 00:31:33.700 because obviously jenny is going to die that's 00:31:33.700 --> 00:31:38.039 what he is told by jake johnson i at this point 00:31:38.039 --> 00:31:42.019 grabbed my beer and literally it was five seconds 00:31:42.019 --> 00:31:45.539 and now they were just underwater long ago in 00:31:45.539 --> 00:31:47.359 the news position they mentioned that it was 00:31:47.359 --> 00:31:50.009 under the river So I'm wondering if the mummy 00:31:50.009 --> 00:31:52.890 like opened the wall or something like that and 00:31:52.890 --> 00:31:56.809 the river just started flowing. And basically 00:31:56.809 --> 00:32:02.369 the zombies grab Jenny away. Nick tries to save 00:32:02.369 --> 00:32:05.829 her. There's like 50 zombies, the mummy, and 00:32:05.829 --> 00:32:09.210 one cursed hero. I wonder who's going to win. 00:32:09.549 --> 00:32:14.509 Amunet has killed Jenny. Jenny is dead. Like 00:32:14.509 --> 00:32:16.799 completely dead. I thought it was just going 00:32:16.799 --> 00:32:19.019 to be one of those situations where like, oh, 00:32:19.140 --> 00:32:21.859 your kiss has woken me up. It wasn't that. And 00:32:21.859 --> 00:32:23.900 Amunet thinks she has a handle on the situation. 00:32:24.039 --> 00:32:27.480 So, of course, she sends away the zombies. She's 00:32:27.480 --> 00:32:31.119 feeling confident. She knows at this point. So 00:32:31.119 --> 00:32:34.450 she's like, I'm in Nick's head. I can kill him, 00:32:34.529 --> 00:32:36.930 he can become the god of death, and especially 00:32:36.930 --> 00:32:39.650 because I killed his girlfriend, if he becomes 00:32:39.650 --> 00:32:42.230 the god of death, he might be able to bring her 00:32:42.230 --> 00:32:44.890 back so that she can live a normal life without 00:32:44.890 --> 00:32:47.710 him, but at least live a normal life while he 00:32:47.710 --> 00:32:49.450 just goes on this rampage and starts killing 00:32:49.450 --> 00:32:53.309 people with Amunet as his queen. Nick's like, 00:32:53.410 --> 00:32:58.509 no, you killed the girl I love, which I've only... 00:32:59.049 --> 00:33:02.170 slept with for 15 seconds or whatever it is at 00:33:02.170 --> 00:33:05.150 this point and so they get into this huge fight 00:33:05.150 --> 00:33:10.069 she throws nick like neck first into a stone 00:33:10.069 --> 00:33:13.950 tablet his body literally crumples in the cgi 00:33:13.950 --> 00:33:17.609 where his neck goes across the tablet and looks 00:33:17.609 --> 00:33:19.809 like it's probably snapped yet he lives through 00:33:19.809 --> 00:33:22.569 it there's a bunch of scenes like that where 00:33:22.569 --> 00:33:27.579 she just kind of like he basically does something 00:33:27.579 --> 00:33:29.400 that would probably kill him and he survives 00:33:29.400 --> 00:33:33.519 somehow so then he's like she's trying to convince 00:33:33.519 --> 00:33:36.700 him if I kill you I make you this god of death 00:33:36.700 --> 00:33:39.400 you can bring her back and he's like maybe this 00:33:39.400 --> 00:33:41.900 is a good idea so he gets close to her and he's 00:33:41.900 --> 00:33:44.339 like I can get the dagger I might be able to 00:33:44.339 --> 00:33:49.059 pull this off and she licks his face I don't 00:33:49.059 --> 00:33:52.299 know why, again, she's just so sexual. I don't 00:33:52.299 --> 00:33:54.799 get it. I don't know why. They never explain 00:33:54.799 --> 00:33:57.079 it. They never say, like, she needs to be sexual 00:33:57.079 --> 00:34:00.380 to get life force or whatever. He says something 00:34:00.380 --> 00:34:03.900 like, I don't remember the exact line, but he 00:34:03.900 --> 00:34:06.779 said, like, I'm going to save her. And so she 00:34:06.779 --> 00:34:10.059 throws him across the room again. There was a 00:34:10.059 --> 00:34:12.780 wooden box coffin that he was thrown into, and 00:34:12.780 --> 00:34:16.800 his dick literally... went into this wooden box 00:34:16.800 --> 00:34:20.559 like it it went curved into it and he just gets 00:34:20.559 --> 00:34:23.639 up fine but he also grabbed the dagger from her 00:34:23.639 --> 00:34:28.800 and starts smashing the stone and she's like 00:34:28.800 --> 00:34:31.079 no no no if you give me the dagger you'll be 00:34:31.079 --> 00:34:33.139 the god of death you can bring him back i bring 00:34:33.139 --> 00:34:38.300 her back do it don't don't don't leave her and 00:34:38.300 --> 00:34:42.340 so he's like if i'm the god of death I can bring 00:34:42.340 --> 00:34:46.179 her back on my own. So he stabs himself and kills 00:34:46.179 --> 00:34:48.699 himself and becomes the god of death. He is set. 00:34:48.880 --> 00:34:53.840 Like, set is the god of death. He is set. So 00:34:53.840 --> 00:34:58.260 he's like walking close to Amunet and is like, 00:34:58.360 --> 00:35:00.800 my love, we will control this world together. 00:35:00.940 --> 00:35:04.099 And he sees behind her Jenny's lifeless corpse. 00:35:04.420 --> 00:35:06.960 And all of a sudden he just starts fighting it 00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:09.659 with willpower. But in the very Tom Cruise way 00:35:09.659 --> 00:35:15.719 of just like, ugh! You know, very Tom Cruise 00:35:15.719 --> 00:35:18.099 way. So he's just going to fight it with willpower. 00:35:18.239 --> 00:35:20.219 You know, that's going to work. And he starts 00:35:20.219 --> 00:35:21.880 seeing all these people that are telling him, 00:35:21.920 --> 00:35:23.519 like, if you kill yourself, you'll be the greater 00:35:23.519 --> 00:35:27.119 good. Like, you'll get uncursed. You'll be able 00:35:27.119 --> 00:35:30.119 to destroy Amunet. And so all of a sudden he 00:35:30.119 --> 00:35:33.099 just gets like this superhuman strength, tosses 00:35:33.099 --> 00:35:35.460 Amunet across the room and keeps fighting her, 00:35:35.519 --> 00:35:37.820 blah, blah, blah. And like, it's just, I'm going 00:35:37.820 --> 00:35:40.309 to destroy you and everything like that. And 00:35:40.309 --> 00:35:43.510 finally he gets her crumbled to the ground. He 00:35:43.510 --> 00:35:46.349 kisses her and sucks the life out of her and 00:35:46.349 --> 00:35:50.849 just throws her skeletal corpse away. And so 00:35:50.849 --> 00:35:54.670 then he like rushes to Jenny and is like, Jenny, 00:35:54.849 --> 00:35:59.190 wake up. Jenny, wake up. Like this deep voice. 00:35:59.250 --> 00:36:01.389 And he has like these crazy teeth and it looks 00:36:01.389 --> 00:36:03.349 like he's almost like a Leviathan or something 00:36:03.349 --> 00:36:05.809 like that. And she wakes up and he's gone. He's 00:36:05.809 --> 00:36:08.769 like 40 feet away. And we don't know this at 00:36:08.769 --> 00:36:11.070 this point, but he's just gone. And she's like, 00:36:11.170 --> 00:36:14.010 how am I alive? And he's like, good, you're alive. 00:36:14.369 --> 00:36:16.969 And she like walks up to him, but he's in the 00:36:16.969 --> 00:36:20.090 shadows. And so we don't know what he looks like. 00:36:20.110 --> 00:36:22.090 We don't see what he looks like anymore, but 00:36:22.090 --> 00:36:24.309 he sacrificed himself for her. So she's like, 00:36:24.429 --> 00:36:27.090 oh my God, like, I'm so grateful for you, blah, 00:36:27.190 --> 00:36:28.869 blah, blah. And he's like, I don't want to hurt 00:36:28.869 --> 00:36:32.699 you. So I'm going to go away before Jekyll and 00:36:32.699 --> 00:36:35.579 his crew come. And so I just kept wondering, 00:36:35.659 --> 00:36:38.159 is he like the Wolfman? Is he Dracula? Is he 00:36:38.159 --> 00:36:40.880 a Leviathan? Is he a mummy now? Like, we don't 00:36:40.880 --> 00:36:44.960 know. And the line that was given as Jekyll comes 00:36:44.960 --> 00:36:46.860 in, he goes, he found his redemption, but it 00:36:46.860 --> 00:36:50.530 was at a great cost. He's a monster now. And 00:36:50.530 --> 00:36:53.030 somehow he also brings Jake Johnson back to life 00:36:53.030 --> 00:36:55.489 now. And they're in the desert back where they 00:36:55.489 --> 00:36:58.190 started essentially. But Nick has his face wrapped 00:36:58.190 --> 00:37:01.409 up by like turbans and stuff. So we don't know 00:37:01.409 --> 00:37:05.030 what he is. And Jekyll just says to Jenny in 00:37:05.030 --> 00:37:07.489 like this exposition to close the movie. Well 00:37:07.489 --> 00:37:10.590 we may have to hunt him one day. But sometimes 00:37:10.590 --> 00:37:13.730 it takes a monster to fight a monster. And they 00:37:13.730 --> 00:37:19.349 put the Amunet into this mercury tomb again. 00:37:19.949 --> 00:37:22.670 And said that he's still connected to her so 00:37:22.670 --> 00:37:25.409 she may come back someday. And that's the end 00:37:25.409 --> 00:37:27.750 of the movie. And that is the end of the dark 00:37:27.750 --> 00:37:29.550 universe that they were trying to create because 00:37:29.550 --> 00:37:33.889 it just didn't work. This movie. I don't know. 00:37:33.909 --> 00:37:37.210 There's just points of just boring. And then 00:37:37.210 --> 00:37:40.269 there's so much talking. It would be totally 00:37:40.269 --> 00:37:42.269 cool if this movie was more action -packed and 00:37:42.269 --> 00:37:44.269 everything like that. And I also don't get the 00:37:44.269 --> 00:37:46.809 tone. Because sometimes it's super serious and 00:37:46.809 --> 00:37:49.960 sometimes it's like the 90s mummy. which never 00:37:49.960 --> 00:37:53.059 got too serious to outweigh the fun, which is 00:37:53.059 --> 00:37:55.980 why I think that movie worked more. Plus, Brendan 00:37:55.980 --> 00:37:59.880 Fraser, I think, is a better comedic actor. I 00:37:59.880 --> 00:38:02.239 know Tom Cruise had his moments earlier on and 00:38:02.239 --> 00:38:04.320 everything like that, and he still has some good 00:38:04.320 --> 00:38:08.420 depth to his comedy, but Brendan Fraser was able 00:38:08.420 --> 00:38:10.420 to balance the action and the comedy, and it 00:38:10.420 --> 00:38:13.380 worked. And I especially think it worked for 00:38:13.380 --> 00:38:15.500 a movie like The Mummy. If you were to put Tom 00:38:15.500 --> 00:38:18.400 Cruise in the 90s Mummy... I don't think it would 00:38:18.400 --> 00:38:20.500 have worked the same. So that's one of those 00:38:20.500 --> 00:38:22.260 things that just throws me off about this movie 00:38:22.260 --> 00:38:24.500 because sometimes it's just super serious, like 00:38:24.500 --> 00:38:28.300 melodramatic, over -the -top drama and everything 00:38:28.300 --> 00:38:30.380 like that. And then sometimes it's this Marvel 00:38:30.380 --> 00:38:34.000 joking like, oh, 15 seconds of sex, blah, blah, 00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:39.260 blah. You know, that kind of stuff. And I don't 00:38:39.260 --> 00:38:42.360 know. It just didn't work. It just didn't. Russell 00:38:42.360 --> 00:38:46.750 Crowe was awful. Jenny was great. She's Annabelle. 00:38:47.250 --> 00:38:48.989 What's her last name? I want to get it right. 00:38:49.050 --> 00:38:52.750 Annabelle Wallace. Sophia Boutella played Amunet. 00:38:52.989 --> 00:38:56.250 And I think she just didn't have enough to do 00:38:56.250 --> 00:39:00.650 because she was actually pretty decent for the 00:39:00.650 --> 00:39:03.130 Egyptian at first and then the mummy for the 00:39:03.130 --> 00:39:05.860 entirety of the movie. Tom Cruise is Tom Cruise. 00:39:05.960 --> 00:39:08.300 He's doing stunts, which is great. He did a lot 00:39:08.300 --> 00:39:11.159 of good stunts. This movie won a lot of awards 00:39:11.159 --> 00:39:14.860 of Bad Movie, Worst Movie of the Year, Worst 00:39:14.860 --> 00:39:17.760 Supporting Actor in Russell Crowe, blah, blah, 00:39:17.760 --> 00:39:22.239 blah. All this stuff. But one of the things they 00:39:22.239 --> 00:39:26.420 did win was Best Stunt Rigging. And I will say 00:39:26.420 --> 00:39:28.840 some of the stunts are very well done. What you 00:39:28.840 --> 00:39:32.519 can expect in a Tom Cruise movie. So yeah, that's 00:39:32.519 --> 00:39:36.239 2017's The Mummy. The bad movie for this week. 00:39:37.300 --> 00:39:43.300 Overall, it wasn't awful, but it wasn't amazing 00:39:43.300 --> 00:39:49.000 either. I'd give it a 1 out of 5. Let's go spiders. 00:39:49.739 --> 00:39:53.920 1 out of 5 spiders. So, yeah, it wasn't terrible, 00:39:54.019 --> 00:39:56.519 but it's not anything special either. I do not 00:39:56.519 --> 00:39:59.139 recommend it for anybody that's looking for a 00:39:59.139 --> 00:40:02.559 funny -slash -action -packed movie. I think there's 00:40:02.559 --> 00:40:05.199 a bunch of better options out there. And especially 00:40:05.199 --> 00:40:07.679 desert themed. If you want a good desert themed. 00:40:08.079 --> 00:40:11.059 Watch Sahara. I think it's an underrated comedy 00:40:11.059 --> 00:40:14.300 action movie. Compared to this especially. I 00:40:14.300 --> 00:40:18.860 think it's Citizen Kane. To this movie. But that 00:40:18.860 --> 00:40:21.260 is 2017's The Mummy. This is Game for a Movie. 00:40:21.559 --> 00:40:23.980 I've been your host Mike. We will hopefully have 00:40:23.980 --> 00:40:26.780 our whole group together. Stay tuned for iStream. 00:40:26.900 --> 00:40:30.340 Which may come out. Hopefully in two weeks, especially 00:40:30.340 --> 00:40:32.599 if we can't get together for a Game for a Movie 00:40:32.599 --> 00:40:34.579 episode. Like I said, that's going to be a lot 00:40:34.579 --> 00:40:37.940 more sporadic because I'm just going to do that 00:40:37.940 --> 00:40:39.539 when we don't have a Game for a Movie episode. 00:40:40.340 --> 00:40:41.900 Obviously, we are trying for Game for a Movie 00:40:41.900 --> 00:40:45.739 to be Game for a Movie. But this is under the 00:40:45.739 --> 00:40:49.719 Game for a Movie Network umbrella. I think I'm 00:40:49.719 --> 00:40:51.460 going to call it Game for a Network. Who knows? 00:40:51.599 --> 00:40:53.679 I don't know at this point. I'm still making 00:40:53.679 --> 00:40:56.980 it up as I go. But yeah. So I've been Mike with 00:40:56.980 --> 00:40:58.780 Game for a Movie, where we ask, are you game 00:40:58.780 --> 00:41:01.500 for a movie? We will see you next time on Game 00:41:01.500 --> 00:41:02.639 for a Movie. Bye.