saw the new Evil Dead today. Like I said, the original is my favorite movie. I'm a huuuge fan of the series to the extent I've even watched the misappropriated Italian "sequels" guys. I mean serious stuff. This really could have gone either way with me. Truth be told, some nitpicking aside, I feel genuinely satisfied that we basically now have Evil Dead 4.
Nits:
Really the only complaint for me was the way the brother brought Mia back to life. That was kinda dumb.
Awesome:
I love that they went with straight horror. Considering the success of Cabin in the Woods, and considering that many folks point to the more humorous Evil Dead II as the better film (not me) I was worried they might make it too campy. Nope. This was balls to the walls horror.
On that note, I can't believe I'm saying this, but it was almost too brutal at moments. I'll be honest, the needle in the eye thing -- I had to look away. But this isn't really a complaint. The first two films had buckets of blood, though this one may have had more than both combined.
Oh and that scene at the end with the chainsaw. Beautiful. Like really cinematically stunning.
And I love that this was really like a sequel. No Ash character to be fucked up. Just new kids coming to the old evil.
And I love that Mia is sitting on Ash's car in the beginning.
Not spoilered:
Fans of the series should not be disappointed in any way. Trust me. Perhaps the best thing was how tense I felt thru the whole damn movie. It was just such an incredible rush.
OZ The Great And Powerful: This was exactly the kind of movie I was hoping for and I wasn't the least bit disappointed. I thought James Franco was perfect in the title role and Zach Braff was great as the monkey. If I have a nitpick, it's that the film seemed just a tad too long, but I've noticed that in several Disney movies recently (John Carter and Prince Of Persia come to mind). I'm guessing their philosophy is "we might not do sequels so we'd better cram all we can into this one". If that's the case, then it's forgivable because in the former two cases there aren't likely to be any sequels. Time will tell if OZ joins them in the pile of stillborn franchises or if they actually manage to make a series this time.
I'm not a glitch, I just have pixlexia.
Raiiban wrote:That's a moral dilemma. Capitalism has no morals.
Necropolis, which was recently made available from Full Moon as part of their Grindhouse Collection, though ironically the only real difference between this and a VHS-rip bootleg DVD is the legality. With that in mind, not a BAD bad movie but there are better bad movies out there, but there are also worse. Does that make any sense?
Yes it does. Howard The Duck is a bad movie I love. The Rapture is a bad movie I can't stand (I had to watch that one for a religion in film class and I'm convinced the prof only showed it to us because he wanted to hear the discussion afterwards, which was interesting to say the least).
I'm not a glitch, I just have pixlexia.
Raiiban wrote:That's a moral dilemma. Capitalism has no morals.
Everything the brother character did was kind of dumb. His inner monologue was "Chill out guys, she's just having withdrawal. People cut each others arms off in situations like these". And towards the end of the film I was really concerned that he would take on the role of Ash, since he was doing Ash type stuff, and also he was dressed like Ash. Luckily they threw a curveball.
You knew Sam Raimi's car would be in the movie, right? He puts that car somewhere in every one of his movies. Sometimes it is obvious (Uncle Ben's car in Spider-Man) and sometimes not so much (A Simple Plan).
I found the gore to be hilarious. Not in a mocking way, but in a "Good Lord that is over the top awesome" way. The only scene that made me a tad squeamish was the once involving a machete through a wall.
I was bored last night and found "The Wraith" on Hulu. We watched it in true 80s style - Hulu had the shitty cropped 4:3 version for some reason.
I really love that film. One of my favorites from the 80s. What is it? Is it a car film? Is it a teen horror flick? A Sci Fi thriller? It is all these things and more.
Fun Fact!: Frank Langella said in an interview once that out of all the roles he's played, Skeletor was his favorite. Also, they had planned on doing a sequel, but Mattel raised the licensing fee beyond what they could afford, so the costumes and sets they'd already paid for were used for the film Cyborg instead.
I'm not a glitch, I just have pixlexia.
Raiiban wrote:That's a moral dilemma. Capitalism has no morals.
