The Mummy (1999)

On Monday night, I went to see The Mummy at the cinema with cosmolinguist and P. This was part of Cineworld's '99 Season, showing films that are 25 years old this year. I'd not seen it before, but was aware of its memetic status as being responsible for many people's bisexual awakenings.

It's a very 90s film certainly. The sexual assault leading to romance, the omnipresent racism... I suppose both are accurate to the 1920s time period, but then so are revolvers which fire six shots between dramatic pauses for reload rather than the 10-15 that Rick routinely fires.

It's also a very horny film. The Carnahan siblings are having a brother-sister battle for who gets to fuck Rick. Evelyn also clearly has the hots for Imhotep while he's still... juicy, and loses interest once he looks more human. Everyone wants to fuck Ardeth, including Ardeth. So yeah, I can see how it awakened things in a lot of my friends.

It's the perfect age for "CGI is hugely expensive so we only use it sparingly" - that means the ageing CGI doesn't distract too much, while the majority of the effects are practical and still stand up.

All in all a great way to spend an evening!