Samwise
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Red band trailer (lots of blood and cutting)Raimi, Tapert, and Campbell are all on the project as producers. Raimi worked on the screenplay, as did Diablo Cody (of Juno fame). Director and cast are a bunch of unknowns. I can see myself going to the midnight showing for this one, having it be completely horrible, and still enjoying myself greatly.
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HaemishM
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Damn, that looks pretty fun.
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Why?
I don't care who signed on as a producer. This does not need to be remade.
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On one hand, tree rape, on the other....  Seriously though a remake could be enjoyable except they look to be taking the saw torture-porn route which I never liked. |
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Samwise
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If you're going to complain about Evil Dead being remade on principle, then to be consistent you must also complain about Dead by Dawn. Which was pretty much superior to the original in every way. Although with that one Raimi took it from mostly straight-up horror to half horror and half slapstick comedy, whereas with this one he looks to be going back to the horror roots. I'm interested to see how it turns out.
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Without the semi-comedy angle I'm not really interested in this. I think Evil Dead 2 was about 10x the movie that Evil Dead was.
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Without the semi-comedy angle I'm not really interested in this. I think Evil Dead 2 was about 10x the movie that Evil Dead was.
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Without Bruce Campbell I'm not really interested in this. I think Evil Dead 2 was about 10x the movie that Evil Dead was.
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No, it's not about Bruce as none of the characters are named Ash. (Which would have pissed me off a bit.) When I first heard about it, I thought "Great, redoing the first movie so it flows a bit better in to Dead by Dawn (Evil Dead 2) and Army. Give some more background on the cabin, etc.
But no. Instead it's looking more and more like a "real" horror movie that takes itself seriously. No thanks, come up with a new name instead of trying to lure me in with an old franchise.
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Without the semi-comedy angle I'm not really interested in this. I think Evil Dead 2 was about 10x the movie that Evil Dead was.
Yeah, no idea what they were thinking. No one loved Evil dead for its realistic depiction and serious tone. |
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Samwise
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Stop trying to make me rage by confusing Evil Dead with Dead By Dawn, god dammit. |
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Samwise
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I always figured he just got beat up by trees or whatever for a while, not necessarily killed. But it's open to interpretation. Like a David Lynch film. |
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New trailer is here. That looks amazing.  *BOM BOM BOM BOOOOOM!* Trailers nowadays suck ass. And clouds suck too. Anyway. Could be good for a larf. I don't particularly like the bits of exposition that make it clear that they have to kill the posessed. That was part of the horror of the original. Nobody came up with a goddamn game plan. Shit just happened. I think that's part of the problem of remakes. The original films were made because Sam Raimi wanted to make some fucked up horror stories. This remake, like all remkaes, looks like they want to retell Sam Raimi's story, but without being Sam Raimi in that place and that time, so they lose the spirit of the thing. |
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That thing in the cellar is not my mother the Evil Dead I remember.
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Buckets of blood pouring out of people.
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Samwise
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Buckets of blood pouring out of people.
Is why I'm planning to see the midnight showing.   |
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Buckets of blood pouring out of people.
Isnt there a point in the original movie where you actually see ALL the blood in the movie change color because part way through they managed to completely use up the ENTIRE stock of fake blood they had budgeted for, and had to make their own for the rest of the movie, which turned out to be a much darker color then the original stuff? |
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Samwise
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About to go see this. Will report. |
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The good: nice visual effects, mostly practical stuff. Once the movie got going it had good energy, with half the theater screaming and the other half laughing at the sheer absurdity. The sets and locations were really good, with a lot of nice visual callbacks to the original movie.
The bad: the writer had no sense of tone or pacing. I'd recommend walking into the movie about halfway through so you can skip all the boring angsty exposition at the start about how the sister has a drug problem and the brother neglects everyone emotionally and wah wah wah. Get to the blood spray please, you're bringing me down.
I don't regret seeing it by any means, but I'm unlikely to rewatch it or add it to my DVD collection. Being as I'm a huge fan of the series and the genre as a whole, I suppose that's somewhat damning.
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It seems that a lot of horror remakes fail in that same way - be introducing too much character backstory and explanation in a failed attempt to accomplish I'm not sure what. Halloween being a good example.
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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I didn't really mind the backstory and characterization at all, but then I thought it also worked in Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (that's the one with the younger brother who is trying to dodge the draft). Take that however you will. I did think this movie fell apart a bit in the las few minutes, but that's a discussion for after more people have seen the movie. I also do give this movie a lot of credit for using practical effects rather than cg, and for following the spirit of the first Evil Dead (and even some aspects of Evil Dead 2) while not just straight up remaking it with the same characters.
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Does it take itself seriously or is it as funny as fuck like Evil Dead 2?
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Samwise
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It's much closer to the original Evil Dead on the scale of how seriously it takes itself. Which is to say, more so than the sequels. I was laughing a lot, as I tend to do at over-the-top horror movies, but there aren't a lot of jokes.
Actually, my biggest problem with the backstory-building in the first half of the movie was that it was too serious -- if they were going to pad things out to build suspense (which is fine), funny things should have been happening, not serious family/addiction drama shit. Even though it was trying to be a "real" horror film, the first Evil Dead felt very lighthearted right up until people started dying horribly.
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I did like how she was sitting on Ash's old car at the start of the show. That was cool. It seems a set up for a sequel at the end though. I thought anyway. I liked it, like all horror movies my wife hated it. I suspect at some point down the road I may add it to my movies that I rewatch.
My only disappointment was that they went full on FUCK SHIT COCK BALLS. This was the first movie I've seen in awhile where the language jarred me, but it was only because the original managed to do horror without using a fuckton of cursing. I had seen that Sammy was part of this one and expected the same. Wrong.
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Did none of you stay for that after credits scene? Just wondering since no one has mentioned it.
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Did none of you stay for that after credits scene? Just wondering since no one has mentioned it.
To call it a scene would be to overstate it. Really not much to say about it. |
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I have a serious crush on Jane Levy (Mia). She can do dry humor comedy on Suburgatory (sort of like a non-pregnant Juno); I haven't seen the latest movie but frankly the world does not need another torture porn movie. On the other hand , it would be nice if the sequel went comedy-horror. To tell the truth; I would doubt it given the heavy horror of this one, but still one kind of hopes. |
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I wouldn't really classify this as torture porn (else you would have to go back and reclassify the majority of R-rated horror movies that). Torture porn to me, which I think of as stuff like Saw and Hostel, tend to not to involve the supernatural and the pacing of any scene involving violence tends to be slower so the audience can focus on each individual injury or torment. For the most part in Evil Dead the violence is fast paced enough that with a few exceptions you don't really have time to focus on any particular wound. I mean, you see some pretty painful looking shit, but you don't really get a chance to dwell on it in the same way you would with one of the torture devices in a Saw movie.
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I caught this last weekend and I am a HUGE fan of the original series... Overall I do not regret seeing it but I like Samwise am not going to buy it on dvd, blueray whatever. The pacing was pretty jarring to me and it just did not flow that well. Also the cgi work really stuck out to me as a fairly poor quality. When the jeep was crossing the river at the first why did they CGI it?
At any rate I really wish they had gone more the comedy route than the semi serious route. I did find myself laughing out loud at things there were not supposed to be funny.... Although in my own defense people around me were doing the same thing.
On a side note I was horrified when I saw some parents brought their 4 year old to it. The poor kid cried and wailed a lot and they had to take him out of the theater.
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