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After getting home from work this morning I was in that weird in-between stage of caffeine high and fall on my face exhausted. When I get like that I like to put a comfort movie on, something like white-noise where I don't have to dedicate much (or any) brainpower into in order to follow along. I have a few movies like this, ones I can watch over and over again and never, ever get bored with. (Sometimes, when I'm sick I put them on replay and just leave it going.) Today it was the Disney version of Robin Hood (favorite forever).
I seriously love that movie. I have a tradition of putting it on while I'm wrapping Christmas presents - usually on Christmas eve, which gets all kinds of hilarious reactions from people when they call to wish me a merry Christmas and hear the sing. I ks, anyth movie, boocreaming in the background. :D
Sadly, I can't do that with the second Mummy movie, because it breaks my heart.
No lie, the first time I watched it I teared up. In the movie theater. (And it wasn't because of what happened to Evelyn, it was what happened with Imhotep.
I just.
Whenever I watch it I get sad and depressed because, aside from being the bad guy, Imhotep did what he did for love. He went about it in a horribly doomed way (because he's the bad guy, and that's what they do), but I always think that could have been Evie and Rick, if things had gone differently from them. (I constantly do this with everything, with movies, books, anything. I also think about what might happen, or will happen, any given number of years down the road, and more often than not, manage to completely ruin a movie or book or whatever. It's tragic, really.)
I can't remember if they actually say Rick was around in some form when Imhotep and his girlfriend (I can never remember her name) were alive the first time around, but oh, I would like to think so.
...and then I like to think Evie and Rick's relationship back then would have been this sad pining love-thing with clandestine meetings and "We can't, I must marry prince so-and-so for the good of the kingdom" and she does, and he manfully watches her from afar (or, you know, wherever he is whilst protecting her, because official duties of protecting the king, you know, for him, that she always comes first) and they are painfully in love but it cannot be so due to their stations in life, where the good of the many outweigh the good of the few, and, seriously, yes, I know, it's all disgustingly romance novel.
But then! But then they meet thanks to a series of "coincidences" in 1930's(?) Cairo, and this time they get to be in love and get married and have a kid and so on and so on.
...and now I'm going to go watch both movies anyway because it's been forever since I've watched them. *hands*
I seriously love that movie. I have a tradition of putting it on while I'm wrapping Christmas presents - usually on Christmas eve, which gets all kinds of hilarious reactions from people when they call to wish me a merry Christmas and hear the sing. I ks, anyth movie, boocreaming in the background. :D
Sadly, I can't do that with the second Mummy movie, because it breaks my heart.
No lie, the first time I watched it I teared up. In the movie theater. (And it wasn't because of what happened to Evelyn, it was what happened with Imhotep.
I just.
Whenever I watch it I get sad and depressed because, aside from being the bad guy, Imhotep did what he did for love. He went about it in a horribly doomed way (because he's the bad guy, and that's what they do), but I always think that could have been Evie and Rick, if things had gone differently from them. (I constantly do this with everything, with movies, books, anything. I also think about what might happen, or will happen, any given number of years down the road, and more often than not, manage to completely ruin a movie or book or whatever. It's tragic, really.)
I can't remember if they actually say Rick was around in some form when Imhotep and his girlfriend (I can never remember her name) were alive the first time around, but oh, I would like to think so.
...and then I like to think Evie and Rick's relationship back then would have been this sad pining love-thing with clandestine meetings and "We can't, I must marry prince so-and-so for the good of the kingdom" and she does, and he manfully watches her from afar (or, you know, wherever he is whilst protecting her, because official duties of protecting the king, you know, for him, that she always comes first) and they are painfully in love but it cannot be so due to their stations in life, where the good of the many outweigh the good of the few, and, seriously, yes, I know, it's all disgustingly romance novel.
But then! But then they meet thanks to a series of "coincidences" in 1930's(?) Cairo, and this time they get to be in love and get married and have a kid and so on and so on.
...and now I'm going to go watch both movies anyway because it's been forever since I've watched them. *hands*