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#9450 2002-10-14 4:14 AM
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I saw Evil Dead 1 & 2 yesterday (and army of darkness years before) I was wondering which one of the 3 do you like better?

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I'm a longtime fan of the flicks, and I have to say that Evil Dead 2 has always been my favorite....

It plays kinda like a goofy, fucked up superhero origin story...

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and gallons and gallons of blood!

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Personally, I never really try and compare Evil Dead with any of its sequels. It was more a straight out horror flick while Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness were more parodies of horror and action with a comic book inspired twist. Quiet frankly, I love both of the sequels too much to be able to decide which is my favorite. It's kinda like having to decide whether you want to keep breathing or your heart pumping blood. You really can't chose one over the other.

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I've only seen the first one so far.

I watched it with my parents a month ago... they absolutely hated it. I on the other hand, loved it... can't wait to rent the sequels.

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Evil Dead 2 is also my fave, though until I saw 2 for the second time 3 was my favorite. You just have to watch them with an open mind.

#9456 2002-10-17 11:19 PM
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I just saw Evil Dead 2... wow. Great movie. I like it even more than the first one.

Love that scene where the furniture is laughing at Ash... hilarious. What adds to its hilarity is that in the horror crapfest "Howling 4: The Original Nightmare" there's a similar scene where all the furniture in a cabin just falls over, like kids playing Cowboys and Indians. Gotta love unintentional humor.

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You need to get one of the like 400 DVD's out there with commentary with Rami, Campbell, and a few others. It's great. They just sit back and make fun of their own film. Plus, Rami points out all the little faults in the film. It's a must see.

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The DVD I rented has commentary. I made sure to get the one with commentary.

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One of the things I find so fascinating about the Evil Dead Trilogy is the dramatic metamorphosis from a "serious"(in that you were expected to take the story seriously) horror movie in the first one to a farsical parody of all the bad horror movies in the second. Both were fantastic in their own respects.

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Army of Darkness was cool... That alternate ending was very predictable, but would have made for an interesting sequel.

Evil Dead 2's commentary was very good... better than the first one's.

Does Army of Darkness have commentary, or does my copy just not have it (yet has everything else), or am I just not looking in the right place?

Anyone else notice that at the end of Evil Dead 2, when Ash blows the head off of the flying demon, causing it to fall, you can see the metal hook thing that one would attach strings to for a flying effect?

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Disco, there are many DVD's for each movie out. Each one has different features and even different commentaries. The Bootleg Edition of Army of Darkness, for example, has the original ending and not the S-Mart ending. It also has the original opening in the special features and a kick-ass commentary by Campbell and Rami. There's also the Bruce Campbell vs. the Army of Darkness Edition. You could literally spend hundreds of $$ getting all of the trilogy's DVD's. I remember one of the Evil Dead DVD's came in a cool looking tin lunch box. Couldn't afford it or I'd bought it when I saw it.

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Damn! DVDs is confusing.

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After hearing a lot about these movies for years, I finally gave in and rented the three Evil Dead movies last night and have watched the first and second so far. I've got the "Bootleg" copy of Army of Darkness and will see it next.

The first one, with all its "student-film" quality, sheer gore, and lack of Hollywood polish is my favourite, hands-down. It's not as obviously "funny" as ED2 is, of course, but the humour is definitely there (and the Bruce Campbell commentary on the DVD was fun to listen to). The second is made in a completely different vein, so it was a bit jarring to go from the first one to the second, but as Doc said, Evil Dead shouldn't really be compared to its sequels. Apples and oranges kinda deal.

Looking forward to watching Army of Darkness director's cut...

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Rami has said that his only intention with Evil Dead was to make a movie that was good enough to play in drive-ins. After the cult following, him, Campbell, and Tapert went back and just had fun with it. Evil Dead 2 has to be the very first remake/sequel in film history.

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i think they recently came out with a double dvd set of army, with the theatrical realese and the bootleg addition. and have to say, the commentaries with bruce and sam are the best commentaries i've ever heard, as i hate the ones that bore you with overly technical bs.

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I just can't separate them in my mind.

All three are great (the first, because of its simplicity and grabbing story; the second for slightly bigger effects and solid story; and the third because it was just SO unlike the first two...)

Not to mention, it is always good to see local boys do good....

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'Army Of Darkness' is, to my knowledge, the only movie where you see animated skeletons fleeing in terror.

For this reason alone, I have a certain fondness for it.

If, in a few years time, my nephew is scared of going to bed because he worries that zombies or skeletons will "get him", I will be able to point out to him that Zombies are really slow and you can easily outrun them.

Then we can both sit down in front of 'Army of Darkness' and I can demonstrate to him that skeletons will run away in fright if you give them a big enough scare.

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I saw ED2 first years ago when it first came out on vhs & it became one of my fave films ever!
The first had been banned over here for years & was not available,but I got a copy of it years later when they finally relented & released it on VHS.
Now I knew that the first ED was cheap & that ED2 was more of a bigger budget remake than an out & out sequel,but I was not that big a fan.

Saw ED3/Medievel Dead/Army of darkness/whatever its called this week when it came out on vhs as well & loved that too,but although its on a par with ED2,it cant quite knock ED2 off of its lofty perch!

I now have all three on DVD and this is whats on the UK releases:

ED1:US trailer,Audio commentary 1 with Sam Raimi & robert Tapert,Audio commentary 2 with Bruce Campbell

ED2:Trailer,Making of documentary,commentary by Raimi,Tapert & Campbell

ED3:Two disc set featuring US theatrical version on one disc,Directors cut on the other,(disc 1) original ending,theatrical trailer,behind the scenes featurette "The men behind the army" narrated by Campbell,talent bios,(disc 2) Audio commentary by Raimi,Campbell & Ivan Raimi,four deleted scenes,directors storyboard

I heard recently a trilogy boxset will be available soon!

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I love all three in their own way, ED1 is possibly the greatest truly independent film ever made. ED2 is about the funniest horror film ever made (although Freddy v. Jason might top it, unintentionally), and Army is just pure fun.

As for DVDs, the ones I have are:
The Book of the Dead (the one with the cool fleshy Necronomicon case).
Evil Dead II (there's only one version that I've seen).
Bruce Cambpell vs. The Army of Darkness Boomstick Edition (it has both the theatrical version and the directors cut).

And slightly off subject, the coolest thing I can think of is that Sam Raimi allowed the creators of the movie Donnie Darko to use Evil Dead clips absolutely free (in comparison, it cost them a couple thousand dollars just to mention Smurfs).

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quote:
Originally posted by Nowhereman:

The first had been banned over here for years & was not available,but I got a copy of it years later when they finally relented & released it on VHS.

And you always go on about how the British are so much more progressive! No wonder we had to save your ass in WW2!

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Silly Germans...

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quote:
Originally posted by britneyspearsatemyshorts:
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Originally posted by Nowhereman:

The first had been banned over here for years & was not available,but I got a copy of it years later when they finally relented & released it on VHS.

And you always go on about how the British are so much more progressive! No wonder we had to save your ass in WW2!
Problem was for years all our movies had to be approved by some fucking 80 year old twat,but when he died they put someone more in touch with modern times in charge!

Now we often get scenes put back into films that the American board of censors thought were too sick or dirty,so now we are better than you again!

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Army of Darkness is the best, imho. Ash is the ultimate action hero in this one. I'm looking for the 2-disc DVD set so that I can have both the original and the bootleg.

And I also think that ED is too different to the sequels. It was made in a totally different vein. It's not fair to compare them.

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Army of Darkness was good, but I didn't enjoy as much as I did the first and the second. Each one is so different. My rating for these movies in order of preference is pretty much in the order they were made.

The multiple commentaries for each movie were fantastic. They really added a lot of enjoyment to the movie experience.

BTW, I've seen both endings for Army of Darkness, and I gotta say that I really hated the S-Mart ending. The original ending with Ash waking up a century too late is much, much better.

One thing that bugged me, though: Wasn't Ash sent to the year 1300? If each drop of that potion he took made him sleep for one century, wouldn't 7 drops have been the correct amount to reach the end of the 20th century rather than 6? He would've only been 10 or 20 years "too late" if anything, not a whole century. If he'd only taken 6 drops, he would've ended up in the year 1900, half a century before he was born. Am I right, or am I right?

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I have to say my favorite is Army of Darkness, but just because Ash is such an asshole to everyone. The way it should be. And the flashbacks that change with each film crack me up, and I still have no idea what Bridget Fonda is doing for two seconds of film.
Did anyone else get the Army of Darkness Playstation Game, or am I alone on this?

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quote:
Originally posted by Selina:
I still have no idea what Bridget Fonda is doing for two seconds of film.

When she found out a new one was being made, she called up Rami and said that she wanted to be in it. I don't think she had much free time, so they rewrote the intro and shot her in place of the girl who played Ash's girlfriend in the previous movie.

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quote:
Originally posted by Selina:
I have to say my favorite is Army of Darkness, but just because Ash is such an asshole to everyone. The way it should be. And the flashbacks that change with each film crack me up, and I still have no idea what Bridget Fonda is doing for two seconds of film.
Did anyone else get the Army of Darkness Playstation Game, or am I alone on this?

I borrowed the game off a friend,it was ok,but not great!


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