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Raimi Remaking 'Evil Dead'?
Matt writes "Has Hollywood's staleness finally rubbed off on Sam Raimi & co.? Get this, Sam Raimi is remaking 'Evil Dead', the 1981 horror cult classic. Oh and if that wasn't shocking enough, he won't even be directing it... But somehow Rob Tapert and Bruce Campbell are onboard as well."
NO MR. RAIMI! Don't do it or, as Linda and Cheryl said,
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Raimi and Ash are what makes ED... Evil Dead.
To remove the possessed guiding hand (Raimi) and replace it with a chainsaw (??? New Director)...
This can't be good.
I wonder which of the following will appear?
Stars of the WB
Tree Rape
Necrinomicon
I think more of the former rather than the latter... ugh...
I, for one, welcome our new evil self animated severed hand overlord.
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Why else would Raimi make this movie again, again?
It doesn't ruin the originals but it cheapens the "franchise". Look at how the Alien series degraded to corn-laden turds after Alien and Aliens.
Next we'll see remakes of Blade Runner, Citizen Kane and Casablanca. All staring Ben Affleck. All title tracks by Eminem.
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I haven't seen Evil Dead II.... yet.
"Well hello Mister Fancypants."
I'd think that you're a cinematic idiot and I'd feel sorry for you. It's a brilliant film! It's so funny and violent and the soundtrack kicks fucking ass. I never thought I'd say this, but can I go to work now?
"good bad... I'm the guy with the remake..."
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Ed TV is really where the trilogy went down hill
Evil Dead 4: The Army of Darkness 2.
That'd crack me up.
Duke Nukem Forever is right around the corner!
Can't recycle the same old one-liners, there needs to be another Evil Dead/Ash movie first!
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"But somehow Rob Tapert and Bruce Campbell are onboard as well."
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Really not surprising that Bruce Campbell is jumping at any job offer he can get
I mean, Evil Dead 2 was really a 1.5 release... (as it bridged the gap between being a remake and a sequel)... and the third film, "Army of Darkness" (aka. "Medieval Dead", a.k.a "Bruce Cambell vs. The Army of Darkness") was never formally referred to as "Evil Dead 3"... but while those names are technically up for grabs, the studio wouldn't actually name the new remake "Evil Dead 2" or "Evil Dead 3" as this could be confusing to the moviegoers, and higher numbers ("Evil Dead 4") are also out the window as that would turn off people who never saw the earlier ones.
Therefore, the only possible method of titling this film is to use a branching versioning scheme, and therefore (after accounting for the special edition version of Evil Dead 1 released to DVD) it is entirely clear that the re-remake's title will be: Evil Dead 1.5.2
Seeing the inevitability of this I have registered that domain, and expect a call from "Ghost House" productions any day now...
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He's the senator of Intliana.
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But does it sound like he's going to see it?
I have just been "dying" to say this. With the purchace of Sears by K-Mart, does this mean they will rebrand under the name S-Mart?
Just think of the tie ins!
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I'm pretty sure that Ben Affleck is a replicant.
Ding ding ding ding! You've won the Evil Dead movie title guessing contest. Evil Dead 4: Evil Dead Again.
Next we'll see remakes of Blade Runner, Citizen Kane and Casablanca. All staring Ben Affleck. All title tracks by Eminem.
You shut your filthy mouth.
You never know what Hollywood types might be reading this right now looking for ideas.
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and getting rid of the cheesy jokes in the remake will completely lose the spirit of the original. Like when he saws off his own hand which has become possessed, and traps it under a bucket. Weighs down the bucket with a stack of books, the top of which is Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms".
There are 2 kinds of people in this world. Those that can keep their train of thought,
The comment "put more boobs in it" gets modded informative? Now *that's* funny.
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It doesn't sound like this will be it, though.
Here's a hacksaw and some soap so you can go wash that mental image out of your brain.
Oooh, Evil Dead: The Musical? I likee.
I'll swallow your sooooooooul!
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
How about a prequel, this works for every worn out franchise. The synopsis would go something like this: Some really interesting shit which happened to the characters before, but was never referenced in the original movies, and probably introduces plot holes. The actors will also be older (despite being set in the past), but we'll use a soft lens, and hope you don't notice.
Eh. Once I decided to try and find the most different covers of a single song.
The song I could find with the most covers was "Kick out the Jams"... I've got almost 30 of them. Not that I like the song much... just thought it was interesting how many people had thrown out their take on the song.
Given that this is the 3rd version of Evil Dead (AoD doesn't count as a remake), I think it could be interesting to see yet another version of it. Hell, let everyone make a version! Open source it! It could be the cinematic equivelent of a jazz standard. Everyone should take a swing at it. Imagine:
Evil Dead - a Merchant Ivory Film
Evil Dead - Pixar
Evil Dead - Shaw Bros.
Evil Dead - the Royal Shakespear Company
Evil Dead - By Weebl and Skoo
Evil Dead - starring Clint Eastwood
Evil Dead - starring Tom Cruise
Evil Dead - starring Jim Carrey
Evil Dead - starring Mcauley Culkin (sp?)
Evil Dead - starring Will Smith
It'd be sweet.
Thats so bad I don't even think S-mart will carry it.
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I think you meant:
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Well I think Casablanca is the most overhyped movie in history, but if somebody did that with Blade Runner, I'd have to hunt them down, kill them, then move to Los Angeles to hide from the authorities.
Here's what Mr. Bruce has to say:
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http://www.bruce-campbell.com/projects/evil-dea
so does this mean that large explosions will feature a corona effect now? :>
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Sure, we know who Joni Mitchell is- she's that chick who does a cover of that Counting Crows/Vanessa Carlton song, "Big Yellow Taxi."
Although the soundtrack is awesome, this is one movie where it was more amusing when the sound failed. Me and some friends were watching EDII at a midnight showing, when the sound went out shortlty after the clock stopped, when the Candarian Demon is first trying to bash its way into the house. At this point, the camera keeps panning wildly around, supposedly following where the demon would be outside the house. However with no sound people in the audience (all Evil Dead fanatics, I'm sure) started making "whoosh" "Zoom" "Zing" sounds that were simply... hilarious.
One of the few times where "audience participation" (AKA being that annoying guy in the theatre) actually contributed to the filmgoing experience.
There weren't even any complaints about how the sound went out that night...
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... Will Ash be replacing his hand with a walkie talkie?
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