the thing about the mummy movies is that you really spend most of the time thinking “wow brendan fraser’s character is so cool” or “man oded fehr is so mysterious and heroic” when the fact of the matter is that these two
are the absolute most batshit insane heroes in the entire franchise
these two are intellectual loner siblings with archeology backgrounds who read and speak ancient egyptian, hire a dude directly out of prison to take them to a lost city of gold, and fight mummies literally with their bare hands. twice.
no one in these movies stands a chance against the carnahans. frankly they’re lethal in how willing they are to make the absolute and most undeniably deranged decisions. jonathan pickpockets a dude on fire. evy’s resurrected from the dead and immediately remembers how to use sai. they’re racking shotguns from a cliff in this scene and then proceed to blow away half the antagonists.
My teen years were spent living through the PEAK of 2000’s YA fantasy romance.
You have no. idea. how SEATED I am for My Golden Blood 👏🏼 it’s cheesy, it’s ridiculous, the cgi effects are SO silly, the SOUNDTRACK IS INCREDIBLE 😂 the romance began 12 seconds into the fist episode AS IT SHOULD!! Tong IS Bella Swan, he IS Elena Gilbert and his hunky hero of a troubled broody vampire is here to protect him and be sexy about it and WE. LOVE. THAT. FOR. HIM.
This show is everything, it’s got insta romance it’s got “you’re not like other girls” but GAY and I’m living for it.
10/10 no notes, in these trying times this is the show we deserve. It’s a straight up gift actually.
The common cold is the most powerful force in the Thai bl world. For most people a cold is uncomfortable but if you’re a character in a Thai bl I am so sorry because you’re gonna be on your deathbed. It’s been 5 minutes since you first coughed and you’re passing out in the hallway, you’re unconscious, you’re helpless, you don’t know what’s happening. Why do you have absolutely no memory of the last 72 hours? Oh right because you went outside in the rain for six seconds and caught an insta-cold and now you’re in your crushes’ house having nightmares of a past life. The only thing standing between a bl boy with a cold and the sweet embrace of the grave is a bowl of room temperature water and a washcloth
Not to get emo on main but you ever think about how the troop sang about their dreams of finding “a girl worth fighting for”, and they think their girl worth fighting for is one of romance, but the song abruptly comes to a halt when they find a different girl worth fighting for.
A tiny girl that had been killed at the hands of the Huns. A child too weak, too small to have any chance of withstanding the murderous invaders. That is their girl worth fighting for.
This is fucking horrific
It’s also worth noting that ‘A Girl Worth Fighting For’ is the last song in the movie. Up until here, it’s a fun movie, and the imminent invasion feels like it’s just there to keep the plot moving, and to provide a little bit of drama to spice things up. None of the soldier’s are quite taking this seriously yet; sure, Mulan wanted to save her father from the draft, and on some level she was aware that he would die if he went to war, but beyond that she’s interested in not being caught, and not shaming her family. Her motives are good, but they’re entirely self centered. All the other soldiers are more or less in the same boat - they want to get tougher, they want to impress girls, they want to be cool soldiers. Shang’s easily the most serious of the bunch at first, and even then it’s just because training bad soldiers will reflect poorly on him, and important people are paying attention.
The abrupt ending of ‘A Girl Worth Fighting For’ is the wake up call. The soldiers and the audience get slapped in the face with the realization of what’s really at stake here. China is being invaded. Villages are burning, civilians are dying, and this isn’t going to stop until the country is conquered or the invaders are defeated. This is not a fun musical, this is a major crisis.
Mulan is such a good movie for so many reasons, but the abrupt tone shift is such a major reason why. It’s an excellent commentary on the reality of war, and it being a kids movie just meant they had to make their point without showing any actual gore, which I’d honestly say makes it that much more poignant.
That moment, when they come over the rise and see the razed village is one of the best scenes in film. Period. Somehow, instead of giving me tonal whiplash, it took my breath away, and that’s one fuck of a balancing act.
say what you want about the heroes of olympus series. but plucking your main character out of a story. giving them amnesia. and placing them in a different world with different rules goes so hard. allowing the audience to watch the character grow. allowing the audience to grow up with the character. allowing the audience to fall in love with the character. and then plucking said character out of a world with their name stamped on it. and the main character nonetheless? is such a genius move.
