{"id":48448,"date":"2014-11-22T21:43:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T04:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/22\/movie-review-again-the-mummy-1999.html"},"modified":"2014-11-23T08:14:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T15:14:50","slug":"movie-review-again-the-mummy-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/22\/movie-review-again-the-mummy-1999.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review (Again): &quot;The Mummy&quot; (1999)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Y&#39;know, I just love this flick. It&#39;s definitely on my &quot;Desert Island&quot; list.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/the-mummy-1999\/1'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/IYxZlrpBbCjVSDfvDJgS_wjvNZyKQXuC_6WqIud_Th_RuGCJMEEY0M8bc9ckDsYmZN4rhLdp83yCjnGgrWMcJPCAYndpp42L0Hj6P7n1RiNLLBL5ZR1pyayszO6ZNqz98WV0wOda65FFcaGqrlVsH8fjfpHXrI7UqSVtDTkq=w120-h120' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/the-mummy-1999\/1'>A &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733; review of The Mummy (1999)<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nYou know, no matter how many times I watch this film, I just plain old enjoy it. Unabashed action, drama, comedy, tragedy, good guys to boo, bad guys to cheer, heroes winning damsels, weasels getting their just desserts &#8230; this film has it all. It&#8217;s the &#8220;Indiana Jones&#8221; films distilled down and given a kick in the butt. I plan on watching it again (and again).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/HFzwW3eiALm'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Y&#39;know, I just love this flick. It&#39;s definitely on my &quot;Desert Island&quot; list. A &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733; review of The Mummy (1999) You know, no matter how many times I watch this film, I just plain old enjoy it. Unabashed action, drama, comedy, tragedy, good guys to boo, bad guys to cheer, heroes winning damsels, weasels getting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/22\/movie-review-again-the-mummy-1999.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Movie Review (Again): &quot;The Mummy&quot; (1999)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39985,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/10\/movie-review-the-mummy-1999.html","url_meta":{"origin":48448,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: &quot;The Mummy&quot; (1999)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 10-Dec-13 10:19pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Y'know, I just love this movie so much, enough to help me forget how quickly downhill the franchise went after it. 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