Starring: Brendan Fraser
(ONE OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES)
(ONE OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES)
The Mummy
The movie begins in Egypt, circa 1290 BC. High priest Imhotep is having an affair with Anck-su-namun, the mistress of Pharaoh Seti I. When the Pharaoh discovers this, Imhotep and Anck-su-namun murder the monarch. Anck-su-namun then kills herself, intending for Imhotep to resurrect her. After Anck-su-namun's burial, Imhotep breaks into her crypt and steals her corpse. He and his priests flee across the desert to Hamunaptra, the city of the dead, where they begin the resurrection ceremony. However, they are caught by Seti's guards before the ritual can be completed, and Anck-su-namun's soul is sent back to the Underworld.As punishment for their sacrilege, Imhotep's priests are mummified alive, and Imhotep himself is forced to endure the curse of Hom Dai: his tongue is cut out, and he is buried alive, wrapped like a mummy, along with a swarm of flesh-eating scarabs. The horror of the ritual is that it grants eternal life, forcing him to endure the agony of his wounds for all time. He is buried under high security, sealed away in a sarcophagus below a statue of the Egyptian god Anubis, and kept under strict surveillance by the Medjai, descendants of Seti's palace guards-if Imhotep were ever to be released, the powers that made him immortal would allow him to unleash a wave of destruction and death upon the Earth.
Three thousand years later, an American, Rick O'Connell, is serving as a captain in a unit of the French Foreign Legion, which travels to Hamunaptra in search of the treasure rumored to be there. When they reach the fabled city, a group of Arabs attack. Left in charge when the unit's commanding officer deserts during the battle, Rick retreats into the city when the Arabs overrun his unit. Surrounded by his attackers, O'Connell thinks he will be killed, but suddenly the attackers flee. A confused Rick suddenly hears a disembodied voice and appears to be attacked by the sand, which forms into a face as he flees. He is left to wander out of the desert; unknown to him, the battle was witnessed by a group of the Medjai.
Three years later, Cairo librarian and aspiring Egyptologist, Evelyn "Evie" Carnahan is presented with an intricate box and map by her bumbling brother Jonathan, who says he found in Thebes. After observing the map leads to Hamunaptra, Jonathan reveals he actually stole it from Rick, who is currently in prison. After they contact him, Rick makes a deal with Evelyn to reveal the location of Hamunaptra, in exchange for Evelyn striking a deal with the warden to keep Rick from being hanged. Rick upholds his bargain and leads an expedition to Hamunaptra, where Rick's group encounters a band of treasure hunters led by the famed Egyptologist Dr. Allen Chamberlain and guided by Beni Gabor, a cowardly former Legion soldier who served with Rick and also knows the location of the lost city, whom Rick harbours an intense hatred for, since Beni left him to die during the fight earlier in the film.
Shortly after reaching Hamunaptra, both groups are attacked by the Medjai, led by Ardeth Bey, who warns them of the evil buried in the city. Rather than heed Bey's warning, the two expeditions continue to excavate in separate portions of the city. Evelyn is looking for the Book of Amon-Ra, a golden book capable of taking life away, but unexpectedly comes across the remains of Imhotep instead; much to her shock, Imhotep's corpse is actually a still-decomposing skeleton instead of a preserved mummy. The team of Americans, meanwhile, discover a box containing the black Book of the Dead, accompanied by canopic jars carrying Anck-su-namun's preserved organs; each of the Americans takes a jar as loot.
At night, Evelyn takes the Book of the Dead from the Americans' tent and reads a page aloud, accidentally awakening Imhotep. Although both groups return to Cairo, the mummy hunts down the Americans who opened the box, slowly regenerating with each person he kills. Beni survives a meeting with Imhotep by pledging allegiance to him and helps him track down the Americans and the canopic jars in Cairo. Evelyn hypothesises that if the Book of the Dead brought Imhotep back to life, the Book of Amon-Ra can kill the high priest once again; soon after this, Evelyn is captured by Imhotep, who intends to sacrifice her to resurrect Anck-su-namun, and so they return to Hamunaptra. Rick and Jonathan rescue Evelyn after an intense battle with Imhotep's mummies. Evelyn reads from the Book of Amon-Ra, which takes away Imhotep's immortality, and Rick mortally wounds him. Quickly decaying, Imhotep leaves the world of the living, but not before vowing revenge.
As they are leaving, Beni accidentally sets off an ancient booby trap and is trapped by a swarm of flesh-eating scarabs as Hamunaptra collapses, which devour him in the darkness (Beni's fate is very ironic as he died in the treasure room, where money is what he gluttoned for the entire film). The heroes escape and ride off into the sunset on a pair of camels, unaware that their saddlebags are packed with the treasures that Beni looted earlier.
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MONK, The Simpsons, The X-Files, Family Guy, Chowder, Mutant X, Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends
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Zooey Claire Deschanel, Alexa Davalos, Helena Bonham Carter, Angelina Jolie, Elizabeth Natalie "Bitty" Schram, Gillian Anderson, Halle Berry, Rachel Weisz, Keira Knightley, Natalie Portman
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SOOO
Also: Exercising & Weight Lifting so that i can get more muscle. I like to laugh at people when they fall down, its fun :P
Yo, I'm interested in SkateBoarding, SnowBoarding, Bowling, Texting and Swimming.
Things I want to Buy:
iPod Touch, Airsoft Gun & a Cellphone :D
My favorite color is blue. I <3 Gatorade & Vitamin Water & Video games (favorite ones Halo).
Music:
HEADSTRONG BY TRAPT IS MY FAVORITE SONG!!!
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 EMINEM <3 <3 <3 <3 <3, HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD, LINKIN PARK, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE, Afi, Alice in Chains, Alien Ant Farm, The Airborne Toxic Event, The All American Rejects, Avenged Sevenfold, AVRIL LAVIGNE, Beck, Bon Jovi, Bowling For Soup, Breaking Benjamin, Bring Me the Horizon, Brokencyde, Bush, Carolina Liar, Chevelle, D12, Dead By Sunrise, Dead Season, Deftones, DISTURBED, Drowning Pool, Finger Eleven, Flo Rida, Flyleaf, Godsmack, Good Charlotte, Green Day, Hinder, Jimmy Eat World, KATY PERRY, Killswitch Engage, KORN, Lady Gaga, LAMB OF GOD, Ludo, Matchbox Twenty, MC Lars, Metallica, Metric, MGMT, Modest Mouse, Mudvayne, Muse, MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, Nickelback, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, The Offspring, Otep, P!nk, PAPA ROACH, PARAMORE, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Rise Against, Rock Kills Kid, Saliva, Saving Abel, Scars on Broadway, Seether, SERJ TANKIAN, Shinedown, SICK PUPPIES, Silverchair, SLIPKNOT, Smashing Pumpkins, Staind, Stone Temple Pilots, SYSTEM OF A DOWN, Theory of a Deadman, Three 6 Mafia, THREE DAYS GRACE, Trapt, The Used, Weezer, 3 Doors Down, 30 SECONDS TO MARS, 311, 3oh!3, Apocalyptica and anything else thats good. I listen to the good music (anything on 94.3 WCYY) not that fake stuff that I hate like country and classical that pretends to be music but isn't really its there to trick ppl into thinking its music when its really not....
Movies:
QUANTUM OF SOLACE, THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK, PITCH BLACK, The Bourne Trilogy, xXx, The Dark Knight, The Mummy, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Ace Venture: When Nature Calls, Ghost Rider, The Mask, Yes Man, Underdog, Goldeneye, Casino Royale, Die Another Day, Dr. No, ThunderBall, Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, A View to a Kill, Tommorrow Never Dies, Never Say Never Again, Star Trek, Babylon A.D., From Russia with Love, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, The Living Daylights, Licence to Kill, The World Is Not Enough, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Indianda Jones And the Last Crusade, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Happy Gilmore, Star Wars, The Pink Panther, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Rock, Oceans 11, 12 & 13, Rush Hour, Austin Powers, Transformers, Get Smart, Bruce Almighty, The Fast and the Furious, Madagascar, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Iron Man, Tropic Thunder, National Treasure, The Emperors New Groove, Shrek, Evan Almighty, Saw, Wanted, The Mask of Zorro, The Legend of Zorro, Fun With Dick and Jane, Disturbia, Spider-Man, The Scorpion King, The Mummy Returns, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Night At the Museum, Charlies Angels, Batman Begins, Dumb and Dumber, George of the Jungle, X-Men, Elf, Fantastic 4, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, The Game Plan, Max Payne, The Goonies, Nacho Libre, Conspiracy Theory, Finding Nemo, TMNT, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Hitch, The Three Amigos, The 10th Kingdom, Herbie Fully Loaded, Bench Warmers, The Incredibles, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Tin Man, The Princess Bride, 50 First Dates, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, The Blues Brothers, Harry Potter, Dodge Ball, Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (the only good musical ever made), Clue, A Knights Tale, Zathura, The Simpson Movie, CatWoman, The Flintstones, The Terminator, Batman (1989), Batman Returns, Batman Forever, Batman and Robin, Liar Liar, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Mission Impossible, Back to the Future, RV, Me Myself & Irene, Robots, Ice Age, Men in Black, The Happening, Jumper, All the James Bonds and anything else thats good
TV Shows:
MONK, The Simpsons, The X-Files, Family Guy, Chowder, Mutant X, Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends
Favorite Actors:
JIM CARREY, Vin Diesel, Johnny Depp, The Rock, Daniel Craig, Sean Connery, Heath Ledger, Shia LaBeouf, Ben Stiller, Mike Myers, Nicolas Cage, Will Smith, David Duchovny, Matt Damon, Josh Hutcherson, Steve Martin, Harrison Ford, Tony Shalhoub, Hayden Christensen, Brendan Fraser, Arnold Schwarzenegger
Favorite Actresses:
Zooey Claire Deschanel, Alexa Davalos, Helena Bonham Carter, Angelina Jolie, Elizabeth Natalie "Bitty" Schram, Gillian Anderson, Halle Berry, Rachel Weisz, Keira Knightley, Natalie Portman
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