Attention:
1) Possible spoilers.
2) This is the translation of a post that I've published the Saturday right here on Steemit. If you're a Spanish native speaker or a Spanish learner, you can click here to read the Spanish version.
I remember that, when this movie was released in 1999 in my city's movie theaters, my mom was so excited to watch it because she was curious about it, so I was. I was 11 years old when I watched it for the first time, an age where I watched it at least five or six times, if not ten times in a row (I don't remember very well). I always was leaving the movie theaterwith new mental notes for my first scripts, those stories that slowly began to have a form but that I've never finished due to a virus in my PC and my irresponsability on not saving such valuable treasure from my teen days.
Today, 18 laters of watching it on the movie theater and some from watching it on TV, I've watched it again just to spend the time. I watched it again just to discover that the charm and the fascination for the well-written stories didn't abandon me, even knowing that this movie was an adaptation and re-writting of the legendary Boris Karloff's The Mummy.
The latter point must be recognized as such. Stephen Sommers' version did in that year what the new version of this years didn't: Doing justice to Boris Karloff's mummy point by point, creating a sort of balance in the attention to the special effects and the script itself.
And that's something that is not seen so much in these times when it comes to the adaptations from another movies.
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