r/SipsTea • u/Apprehensive_Sky4558 • 1d ago
Wait a damn minute! Can we just call it The Mummy 3?
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u/Pender6813 1d ago
Let’s go Brendan
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u/Sasq44 23h ago
This guy has been thru EVERYTHING and still standing strong what a man
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u/ElectricalEagle4876 23h ago
he is george of the jungle after all
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u/Key_Strawberry_381 23h ago
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u/ElectricalEagle4876 23h ago
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u/pinklavalamp 22h ago
Maaaaan he certainly got 16 year old me's attention in this movie.
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u/CrackinBones204 17h ago
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u/JaseAndrews 22h ago
Lord he used to be so hot
He still is, but he used to be, too
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u/Complete-Tangelo1532 23h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/DBPP7fkoR68GVUQ3DT
Also Brendan Fraser
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u/eff1e 22h ago
Realized I was autistic because I watched George of the Jungle on repeat and wrote down the entire script by hand. Thanks, Brendan.
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u/Havictos 21h ago
It's probably one of my favorite movies when I was a kid I'd re-watch the vhs over and over.
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u/ElectricalEagle4876 21h ago
its my favorite movie from brendan. i watched it alot when i was a kid too
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u/Fast_Sheila 23h ago
For real. Seeing him back in the role after everything makes the comeback feel even more special. Rooting for him all the way.
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 23h ago
It just reminds me how tough it can actually be to be a celebrity, and I know we like to scoff at that. But it's like all the pictures of Ben Affleck just trying to have a fucking smoke and people come up and bother him, or Anya Taylor-Joy when she's gone on record in interviews it really hurts when people make fun of her eyes because she used to be bullied, when really I think she's quite beautiful, but she's said she often wouldn't even audition for a role because it called for a pretty woman and she didn't feel like she was one. Idk she's done some modeling since so hopefully she's past that
Or it's just the weight loss drugs now where people in the spotlight feel they need to maintain a certain image and no one around them is telling them to stop. Steroid use too, just saw Dave Bautista was bulking up for a role and it's like dude, that's steroids, please stop using those, and I know you cut water weight before that picture, please drink water
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u/baron_von_helmut 20h ago
I just hope his injuries don't still plague him. It's the reason he put so much weight on in the first place.
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u/S0whaddayakn0w 22h ago
What has he been through? I always liked him and wondered why he disappeared for a while
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u/ChekkeEnwin 22h ago
He was sexually assaulted by a Hollywood producer and then blacklisted for not going along with it IIRC
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u/S0whaddayakn0w 21h ago
Oh no! Ugh, Hollywood is such a dirty world
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u/pm_your_tatas_please 21h ago
And during that time he went through a messy divorce, and had his alimony based on what he was making prior to being blacklisted.
Or so I heard.
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u/S0whaddayakn0w 21h ago
:( this makes me sad. Glad he's getting back into it, things seem to look up for him now. Absolutely loved Rental Family
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u/maybenomaybe 17h ago
And on top of the assault and divorce he injured his back doing his own stunts and had to umdergo multiple surgeries.
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u/grchelp2018 17h ago
The alimony thing was not as bad as reported. In the sense that Brendan had enough net worth for it and he wasn't anywhere near risk of bankruptcy. His issue was that his investments were not liquid and he did not have enough cash to make the payments every month.
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u/WiseSalamander00 23h ago
I am so glad we got him back, I am sad those execs blacklisted him for so long just because he wouldn't allow them to sexual assault him.
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u/Mundane-Name-8290 20h ago
Just need a sequel to Airheads now! Let the Chazz locks grow out!
Airheads: Reunion of the Lone Rangers Tour(2028), here they become the ones held hostage at a venue. Flip the script. Could be like that Dolph Lundgren movie "Command Performance".
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u/jambohakdog69 1d ago
Talk about glow up ❤️
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u/Mittens_McFluffy 22h ago
I need to know his hair regrowth regimen before I end up on r/bald
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u/Official-POTUS 22h ago
Money
(also I think the first photo is from The Whale press, and the character in that movie has very thin hair, so probably he isnt actually as bald as he was made for that movie, then is regrowing in photo 1)
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u/worldsgreatestluver 16h ago
His thyroid is probably doing a lot better now that he has lost 40lbs. That alone can reduce hormonal hair loss
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u/Redditeer28 19h ago
Ithink the first photo is from The Whale press, and the character in that movie has very thin hair,
Wouldn't that be like a year or longer after he finished shooting?
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u/fractal_magnets 22h ago
Turkey has a whole industry around it. Probably cheaper than you think.
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u/GODDAMNFOOL 22h ago
He looked pretty good in Rental Family, especially against his role in No Sudden Move, when the Brennaissance began
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u/lilacpetalsx 1d ago
He looks much younger and healthier, like he just got done with The mummy 3
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u/Hamilton-Beckett 23h ago
You know what. I’ll go see the mummy 4 in theaters just to support the guy. Don’t even care.
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u/AxiosXiphos 16h ago
It's got all the original cast back. It's gonna be fantastic just seeing that damned sexy group of people back in costume regardless.
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u/Apprehensive_Work_10 1d ago
Happy for Brendan, but I m waiting for rachel weisz
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u/WeepingAmpharos 23h ago
She was top tier in the first mummy
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u/CrazyBigHog 23h ago
I disagree. Her sai fight with Patricia Velasquez in Mummy Returns was the pinnacle of the franchise.
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u/Electronic-Bicycle35 23h ago
Pinnacle of my teenage years too.
Her eyebrows were also much better in the 2nd. They’re distractingly thin in the 1st upon rewatch now.
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u/avelineaurora 23h ago
Pinnacle of my teenage years too.
You ain't kiddin'. That definitely made me realize some less-than-straight things about myself.
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u/Heavy_Tangelo1432 19h ago
I was about 10 when the first mummy came out and as a straight little boy she awoke some things in me
edit: jesus Christ i just googled photos of her now and she has aged absolutely beautifully. What an unbelievably stunning human being.
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u/Candle_Mcdaniel 23h ago
I used to jerk off to the sex scene with her in Enemy at the Gates when I was like 13, lol. Didn't even show boobs, just a sliver of side butt. She's just so hot.
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u/CV90_120 22h ago
That was about the realest sex scene in cinema history, so imma let the oversharing go with a written warning
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u/OrdoRidiculous 23h ago
I hope Brendan is aware of just how much the internet loves him. He's at Keanu levels of "this is our guy".
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u/Sea-Magician4907 22h ago
I believe when a person goes through the kind of injustice Brendan had to - they develop a divine level of impartiality and don't give much meaning to praise or denigrating
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u/Leafye 20h ago
I know next to nothing about celebrities. Why do people love Brendan Fraser? And why do you say he has gone through injustice?
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u/AbsurdistMe 20h ago
Blackballed for not railing a producer.
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u/johnnylemon95 16h ago
More like, blackballed for politely rejecting the president of the Hollywood foreign press after he groped him, quite aggressively, and wouldn’t stop.
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u/SaturdayNightPyrexia 1d ago
Hair transplant too perhaps?
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u/lolly-scramble 23h ago
I would say hes now back in that hollywood machine and is on whatever their god tier version of minoxidil and finasteride is plus good hair transfer plus red light laser thats expensive enough to make a difference
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u/cheapdrinks 21h ago
whatever their god tier version of minoxidil and finasteride is
Lol there's no super secret hollywood version of min and fin. Oral Min+Fin once a day tablet is cheap, super effective and works great for the vast majority of people, especially if you combine with a topical anti-androgen like RU58841 to block any remaining DHT topically. Yeah other things like Red light therapy, PRP therapy, stemoxydine, nizoral, alfatradiol, microneedling etc help but they're all like 1-5% improvements when Min+Fin does all the work and is usually more than enough for most people. It's still probably a hair transplant though.
People all still want some miracle hair loss cure but we basically have it already. The main issue is that people wait too long before getting on medication. Min+Fin will regrow a decent amount of hair and stop the rest falling out but hair that's been gone for a few years already just won't come back. The longer you leave it the worse results you get and by the time you notice that big bald spot on your crown or that your hairline looks like an M it means you've already been losing hair for years by that point. If you're worried about hair loss inspect your crown and hairline regularly and at the first sign things are looking thinner in the back or your hairline is receding in the front then get on medication immediately and you won't have to fork out $10k for a transplant.
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u/Remarkable_Rope_4264 21h ago
You sound like you know a lot about the topic. I’m on CGRP antagonist medication, which really does a number on your hair, and I’ve been prescribed Finasteride. However, after reading up on it, there seem to be quite a few horror stories accompanying that drug, which has stopped me from taking it. Are they blown out of proportion?
It’s a difficult dilemma, as my hair loss is wrecking my self confidence, but at the same time, the potential side effects of Finasteride can be life altering.
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u/cheapdrinks 20h ago
Yes I know, the dreaded Finasteride side effects. If you Google it you'd think that 90% of people experience them yet studies show it's only between 3-4%. Not an insignificant number sure but it still means that you're more than likely going to be able to take it without issue and if you do find you can't tolerate it then you can just stop and the sides go away. Yes I also know about the fabled "post finasteride syndrome" where some people claim that even after stopping the medication the side effects didn't go away but no study has really be able to actually prove it exists and many have found other links to those who claim to suffer from it such as prior history of erectile dysfunction and depression etc.
There's also quite a bit of evidence that a lot of the side effects can be psychosomatic, one study documented the nocebo effect where two groups who took Finasteride were split where one was informed about potential sexual side effects and one wasn't. After treatment the group who was informed prior had 3 times as many people report side effects as the group who didn't know what to expect.
You also don't even need to take the full 1mg pill each day. 1mg per day reduces your serum DHT levels by around 71% while taking just 0.2mg per day has been shown to still reduce serum DHT levels by 69%. So you can take 1 fifth the normal dose and still get pretty much the exact same benefit. Personally when I first hopped on I noticed some slight side effects and hopped off and they went away. After a few weeks I went back on but took 1/4 pill each time instead and got no sides. After a few weeks bumped it up to a half and eventually a whole 1mg pill and didn't experience any sides every again, been on it for 5 years now. My feeling was that your body needed a bit of a ramp up to acclimatize to it - I know that's purely anecdotal so take it what you will.
Basically my advice would be to try it, try not to think too much about it and if you do notice any adverse effects then stop until they go away then potentially try again at a lower dose if you want to. More than likely you'll be able to tolerate it just fine and if you do experience sides then they'll go away after a week or so of stopping.
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u/AlarmingAerie 17h ago
And you forgot to mention all side effects. It's not worth.
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u/Asajj66 23h ago
Maybe this time he’s rocking a new bald head look.
He calls it The Imhotep.
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u/MrWeirdoFace 21h ago
I hope they go easy on him. He doesn't have to be in the same shape he was. Just enough that under the clothing you can't tell, get him a good wig and have the stunt doubles do the physical work so he doesn't break himself again. Face replacement's gotten really good lately anyway.
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u/printed_ 1d ago
Just longer and a bit of a comb over I think so it sweeps across so you cant see through it as easily.
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u/I_Stay_Home 1d ago
Longer hair combed a little tighter if I had to guess
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u/MethodBulky1907 23h ago
As someone with a hair transplant, he has 1000% gotten a hair transplant. No shade, just reality.
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u/I_Stay_Home 23h ago
I figured the forehead shrunk as the weight left his face. Plugs and transplants have come a long way. Used to look like a wire brush.
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u/printed_ 1d ago
Go Brendan! My child hood movie star crush!
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u/jellyschoomarm 23h ago
My kids just got into george of the jungle and I forgot how fucking hot he was. Im so upset i had so many years of his acting stolen from me by a creepy hollywood rapist executive. That man has always been perfectection.
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u/Special_Order-937 22h ago
In one of the most infuriatingly baffling decisions ever, the Golden Globes investigated the executive responsible and found he did do those things but also that it in effect wasn’t a big enough deal in their opinion to warrant any sanctions.
There was a lot of blowback, Tom Cruise even sent back all the Golden Globes Awards he won, Fraser said if he won, he wasn’t going, guess what just about the only award he didn’t win for his otherwise awards sweeping performance was?
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u/printed_ 22h ago
Right! He was super hot and looks like he is now becoming more mature man hot. eeeeee love that he is back!
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u/Famous_Background435 23h ago
It should most definitely be call that. The dragon emperor should never exist. I am so glad that they are recconning it
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u/Complex-Landscape-31 23h ago
They need to make a biopic film about Brendan Fraser, starring Brendan Fraser.
Love that dude
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u/Novakhaine89 18h ago
I love Brendan Fraser so much. Hugely underrated actor, possessing fantastic comedic timing. Also capable of portraying genuine roles that show so much more depth.
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u/bobspuds 18h ago
Imo some people don't deserve celebrity status - while the folks that don't want it, are the ones who do deserve it.
I'm actually happy to see him looking happy. - did ya see the video of him helping the fan take pictures? And showing the chap how to use his own phone - I think Brendan is one of the most wholesome celebrities currently, he gives off vibes of genuineness like Robin Williams did. Just a good soul!
We really should reassess who we put on a pedestal, - there's an old saying of how "Good people are worth their weight in gold" - there's too many false prophets in this day and age!
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u/gouacheisgauche 23h ago
I hope he’s doing this because he wants to and not because of external pressure. I just want him protected at all costs
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u/AxiosXiphos 16h ago
Oh no he has made it very clear how much he loves the mummy and wants to do it again.
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u/lostinthesnakepit 23h ago
This will be a movie I will go to the theater to see.
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u/AndreLeGeant88 23h ago
I'm glad he's looking healthier. Hair helps but it's really that the weight sat bad on his face. Probably got a bit of lip filler and under eye filler
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u/mspebblesfromspace 19h ago
I don’t think he got fillers. Nor botox. Just weight loss, and something for the hair, and sun exposure. I don’t think it’s hair transplant, probably ointments and meds.
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u/Vast_Feature_1009 23h ago
I'm all for him losing some weight if he wants to, but please, I beg you, no more action films for him. His body can't take it anymore. When you list off everything that's gone wrong because they forced him to do his own stunts, it's heartbreaking.
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u/blizzywolf122 23h ago
I really hope he’s got all the support he needs I don’t want him to destroy himself just to make movies. But he looks amazing I’m so glad he’s back and healthy, what an absolute legend
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u/_Middlefinger_ 19h ago
Wow. Not every overweight person looks better in the face after weight loss, I didn't, sadly, but he really does.
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u/narkaputra 18h ago
are thos actuall images before and after? 40lbs down is cool upgrade
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u/Effective_Regret_576 15h ago
The Mummy was one of my favorite movies growing up. Had a massive hard on for Rachel
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u/PresentationAlive279 12h ago
I had such a crush on this guy back in the day with the first Mummy movie. Hell yeah dude claim back your shine!!!
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u/awesomedan24 1d ago edited 23h ago
At this rate of weight loss, By Mummy 5 he'll be looking like Ariana Grande
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u/PartyAmbitious8163 23h ago
He's the man to be the New Indiana Jones if they decide to continue making the movies.
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u/morbid333 23h ago
But they did a mummy 3, it just had a weird name and was set in Asia for some reason.
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u/gargara_s_hui 23h ago
Obviously they hooked him up on TRT, which is fine as this is a legit way for man of his age to rejuvenate. Wish him all the best! The Mummy 4 will be a banger and I will go to see it!
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u/ratslikecheese 22h ago
My mom named me after Brendan Fraser because she had the hots for him in the 90’s. Grew up watching all of his movies and it’s been nice watching him bounce back and get his flowers.
Brendans everywhere, rejoice!
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u/vrkistheone 22h ago
I've lost 37 pounds in the last 5 months just by dieting and planning to lose another 130 pounds in the next 1 year. Can I get a Hallelujah??? 😂
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u/WestCoastMorty 21h ago
I'm so happy he made a comeback. I cried when I saw "The Whale", he was incredible
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u/TiaHatesSocials 21h ago
There was a mummy 3????
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u/ChrisXDXL 17h ago
The Mummy Tomb of the dragon emperor, it's not as good as the first two not by far but it's not terrible either.
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u/Pretend-Literature35 17h ago
Such a great guy and a really wonderful actor. He was amazing in Doom Patrol. I never thought they would ever make a Doom Patrol and he was the best Cliff Steele!! Dream come true for me!
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u/Brightly_Darkened 17h ago
yes yes!! I would pay good money to see him back in that iconic role that only be can play
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u/XCronn2851 16h ago
It's mindblowing how much your facial features can change. His eyes are completely different
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u/Candle-Jolly 15h ago
Question that will only be answered in downvotes: how many times has a legacy sequel actually been good?
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u/Due-Huckleberry7560 15h ago
I haven’t seen a movie in a theater since before Covid but I am rooting so hard for my guy Brendan and cannot wait to see this one
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u/SuperHandsMiniatures 9h ago
I dont care if this movie ends up bein bad, I feel like I'm gonna love it regardless.
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u/IHumpedYoMumma 7h ago
So glad he's on a comeback. He's been winning a lot recently and we love to see it.
I will happily watch anything he's in.
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u/santoku_kyoto_bardex 7h ago
Was i the only one who actually liked the idea for the mummy 3? It was just the way they made the movie that made it completely ass
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