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MariaAndMichelle
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Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 9:02 pm Post subject: Teenage Mummy... |
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Isn't King Tut a teenage mummy? 
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Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:32 pm Post subject: Re: Teenage Mummy... |
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| MariaAndMichelle wrote: | | Isn't King Tut a teenage mummy? |
Nope, he was born around 1342 B.C., so he's 3347 years old today. That means he's even older than Travolta, and deader than Disco.
Seriously, though, you are right, I completely forgot about Tut. Strange, given that he's the most popular of the dead Egyptian guys. Even stranger that I just now remember Tutenstein! He's a pre-teen mummy, even.
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and before the storyarc is over, there will be another thing Dr. Hfuhruhurr has in common with Tut... |
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SlothPaladin
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 5:02 am Post subject: |
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But teenager has such an amarican ring to it, while most people don't picture Tut crusing with his friends at late hours.
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 8:43 am Post subject: |
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| SlothPaladin wrote: | | most people don't picture Tut crusing with his friends at late hours. |
And it's probably for the best that he didn't. Seems he wasn't a safe driver at all.
All the pictures show him running down people and dogs.  |
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Wingsofwrath
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 10:40 am Post subject: |
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Well, considering how new theories into King Tut's demise favour an infection after a chariot accident as his likely cause of death, we can safely assume he wasn't. I wonder if he spent his time knocking down people's mailboxes with his sword while speeding in his chariot...
Anyway... about how Tut expired- you probably remember how a few years ago everybody was absolutely convinced he was murdered, to the point of blaming the deed on his sucessor, Aye.... Earlier theories favoured illnes, and now "accident" seems to be the rage... I wonder if a few years from now they'll come to the conclusion he actually died of old age, since that's about the sole other posibillity left....
On an unlrelated note: I just watched a National Geographic deocumentery about how Ramses the Ist's missing mummy turned out to be in the US, after being purchased by a canadian collector in the 1880's and being on display in the Niagra Falls museum, until, in 2003, the latter's entire egyptian colection was sold to the Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta... There, finally, the mummy was properly identified, and promtly returend to its native country...
So I guess it's a bit ironic that the corpse of a king from a kingdom neighbouring the Sahara Desert ended up lying for over 100 years near the biggest waterfall in the Northern Hemisphere.. |
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Wingsofwrath wrote: | | I wonder if he spent his time knocking down people's mailboxes with his sword while speeding in his chariot... |
I bet he did. 
Naturally, people wouldn't have minded much, after all, he was their living god. And there wasn't any mail service, anyway, so the boxes were pretty useless to begin with. (On a sidenote, Egyptian temples were marked with a flag when the god was assumed to be present - just like American mailboxes.)
As far as Tut's cause of death is concerned, well. He was the son of a highly unpopular ruler, he died at an early age, and he had a hole in his skull - I guess I don't blame early egyptologist for coming up with the murder theory. In fact, it's a remarkable feat of forensics to even have discovered the small clues pointing to another plausible cause of death. In my opinion, there's still a question mark behind this one.
Regarding all other pharaohs, here's an interesting overview of all known surviving pharaonic mummies, cause of death (if known) and state of conservation:
http://www.mummytombs.com/egypt/pharaohmummies.htm
Contrary to what mummy-movies would have you believe, most of these gentlemen are in such poor shape that they would hardly present any threat if risen from the dead. |
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SlothPaladin
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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Contrary to what mummy-movies would have you believe, most of these gentlemen are in such poor shape that they would hardly present any threat if risen from the dead. |
Maybe they need to get more dangerous undead, like some of those wooly mammoths that were frozen in the ice age, I can see it now "Zombie Mammoths from the Ice Caps!" Terrorizing theaters in 2006!
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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| SlothPaladin wrote: | | Maybe they need to get more dangerous undead, like some of those wooly mammoths that were frozen in the ice age, I can see it now "Zombie Mammoths from the Ice Caps!" Terrorizing theaters in 2006! |
Great idea! They are definitely moving it that direction. This film:
http://www.thefallenonesfilm.com/
already has a 40 feet tall mummy, for starters. |
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Wingsofwrath
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 12:03 am Post subject: |
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Joke aside, a frozen 1.5 ton hunk of solid undead meat (AKA preserved mamooth) charging you at over 40 kilometers per hour would be a terrifying sight indeed... after all, modern elephants are considered to be THE most dangerous animals in the world. Too big to be harmed by anything but high caliber rifles, too fast to run from, and too powerful to fight. Also very good memory, enough smarts to be able to plan revenge, and also very, very quiet when it comes to sneaking around.... There have been cases in India, where wild elephants have gratuitously attacked and killed humans, to the point of snatching people out of their homes through the windows, in the dead of night, and then trampling them to death...
Roman: In the case of King Tut, the whole "murder plot" theory was based on what appeared to be a crack in the back of the skull, barely visible on the 1967 set of radio scans... Last year they subjected the mummy to a CAT scan, and the results were surprising: not only was the fracture modern (upmost care was taken when Carter extracted the Boy King from its final resting place, including chopping his head with a blunt axe) but a set of wounds apeared in the lower part of the body: both knees had been hurt, the right kneecap was completely shattered, while the left had a deep gash in it. These were wounds recieved while Tut was still alive, since they had allready begun to heal, but because they weren't completely cured, they occured close to the time of death. The fact that the mummy is completely missing its sternum, also points in the direction of a catastrophic accident, or, as some claim, a battlewound (the gash in the left knee could have been caused by an axe, but that it's not certain) |
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SlothPaladin
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 5:18 am Post subject: |
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The problem with today’s bad movies is they all have good special FX (or at least the bad ones that play in theaters. For example I was watching Underworld the other day with some friends and it was just so funny, if only it had had low budget effects (in addition to the chunk of concrete that floated on water) it may have been a great MS3K movie. What a shame, killing bad movies with good effects.
And if anyone was to make a wooly zombie movie, they should make the zombies king kong style, with stop motion.
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:44 am Post subject: |
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| SlothPaladin wrote: | | And if anyone was to make a wooly zombie movie, they should make the zombies king kong style, with stop motion. |
Wooly stop motion things are great for b-movies - the hair tends to look totally different after each manipulation. But then, woolyness doesn't work to great in cheap CG, as well. |
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SlothPaladin
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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It will add to the whole B feel of it.
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Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 2:57 pm Post subject: |
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| SlothPaladin wrote: | | It will add to the whole B feel of it. |
And result in unusual credits. 'key mammoth comb', for example |
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Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:30 am Post subject: |
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Hey, http://www.thefallenonesfilm.com/ definetely is a B-Movie's B-website. This is the cheapest, minimalistic but ugly webdesign for a movie that I've seen in years.
And I'm not sure, whether the mummy is 40 feet tall or the jeep only one... |
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SlothPaladin
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Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 7:43 am Post subject: |
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I don't normally catch stuff like this but...
| The Fallen Ones wrote: | | The Terror Has Awakened. |
Shouldn’t that be, "The Terror has Awoken", or am I just full of crap, grammer is not always my strong point.
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| The Fallen Ones wrote: | | While battling the giant, and in a race against time, Matt and his friends must stop Ammon before he can again take a human bride, bringing about a new age of the giants...and a reign of tyranny. |
sound like this is some kind of Corpse Bride ripoff 
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