A childhood favorite, a reason I love movies

Rating: Null/10 (21 January 2020)

I'm a snobby movie watcher. Most of my favorite movies are not in English, or are horror movies. I'm the type of person who watches 2-4 movies a day (my therapist and I think it might be time to trim that down, ya dig?). So when I say I love the Mummy, you can rest assured that my taste does not include QT, Nolan, Cameron, etc, but it does include the Mummy with Brenden Frazier. I've seen the movie 1,000 times since I was 9. The original is a masterwork of monster horror, something that helped inspire Psycho, invasion of the body snatchers, and the Gojira series.
The remake has merit only as much as a Nick Cage movie does as an adult, which amounts to something that can only be art. The hammy performances, 8th grade writing project script and Pg-13 jump scares are so bad they are funny. This is a movie that gets exciting, and then your realize you're caught up in something that you shouldn't like.
This movie is like a trip to McDonald's. You can deny that you like it, or that you even had the experience, but deep down, you know a dopamine rush when it happens. And you want more.