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Mat Cauthon posted:Has there ever been any explanation or analysis of why Bruce Campbell didn't have a bigger career? Dude is talented and handsome as hell, I would've figured him to break out more back in the day. I don't think we'll ever really know because he's both handled it well and joked whenever the question comes up, but it seems like a combo of things Getting pigeonholed into things - didn't want to do gory comedy stuff forever, which is part of why he wants to be done playing Ash; when it was discovered he was good at one-off TV appearances too all the shows wanted him guesting; came up at the wrong time of being himself (studios wanted either handsome or goofy, not both because they didn't think at the time audiences saw a lot of potential in, or wanted, both) Also he either wasn't great at auditions or just had bad luck of who auditioned before/after. Lost out on The Phantom, lost out on Barton Fink, lost out on the Rocketeer, lost out on being John Doggett in X-Files, supposedly also lost out on They Live, Pretty Woman, and Speed
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Campbell covers why his career stayed B status in his autobiography - his style of acting is hammy, and he's the sort of guy who's dream project was 2005's Man With the Screaming Brain - it's impressive he's had as big of a career as is!
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Open Source Idiom posted:The opening credits to this are very good, but otherwise the framing sequence contributes nothing, yeah? It's just some other poo poo that randomly happens (and feels like sequel bait tbh). Agreed, not doing anything with that door bothered me way too much. I was convinced it was going to be this story’s narrative equivalent of either the destroyed bridge or ash going into the cellar to retrieve the pages.
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Blood Boils posted:Campbell covers why his career stayed B status in his autobiography - his style of acting is hammy, and he's the sort of guy who's dream project was 2005's Man With the Screaming Brain - it's impressive he's had as big of a career as is! Yeah I'm Confessions of a B Movie actor I never got the impression he was terribly upset he never made it huge. He had a lot of fun and made enough money to be comfortable.
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Campbell's had pretty decent success later on especially with Burn Notice.
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Apparently Bruce suggested to James Gunn that he play Superman for a Kingdom Come adaptation
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Gunn could do it. He’s like Rob zombie in that he props up the best underrated character actors
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Disrespecting Bruce like that. Shameful
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Apparently Bruce suggested to James Gunn that he play Superman for a Kingdom Come adaptation Kingdom Come is a surprisingly bad comic once you get past Ross' art, so they're definitely gonna try and adapt it aren't they . .
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May 4, 2023 03:49
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The suicide jumper scene from All-Star but with Bruce Campbell Superman
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I'm not a superstitious man, but I wouldn't risk putting Bruce anywhere near the "curse of superman". Didn't he play Lex Luthor in the Dean Cain show?
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ruddiger posted:The suicide jumper scene from All-Star but with Bruce Campbell Superman
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Chris James 2 posted:I don't think we'll ever really know because he's both handled it well and joked whenever the question comes up, but it seems like a combo of things I'm sure it didn't help that he was trying to make his break at the same time as Matt Dillon, who basically looked the same and was younger and a bit easier to take seriously. The thing with Bruce Campbell is that he looks a little too much like a movie star. Like, his perfect role is probably playing a movie star, or maybe a gigolo or something. If he had a time machine he could probably clean up doing Rock Hudson-type romance movies in the 50s.
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https://twitter.com/discussingfilm/status/1654554360746057732?s=46&t=TKBWQ50Y9b4x4FPJYcsfEw Already officially made more money than any other film in the franchise, and it's only been out 3 weeks
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Chris James 2 posted:https://twitter.com/discussingfilm/status/1654554360746057732?s=46&t=TKBWQ50Y9b4x4FPJYcsfEw Sam Raimi played the long game and finally won
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This owned, I was ready to like it but it way surpassed my expectations. I think the very end coulda been way punchier though if a deadite cat popped up outta nowhere to attack the girl leading into the opening.
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Do we know who voiced the priest? I cannot find who that was. It sounded so much like Mark Strong because it reminded me a lot of his audio recordings in Sunshine.
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AccountSupervisor posted:Do we know who voiced the priest? I cannot find who that was. It sounded so much like Mark Strong because it reminded me a lot of his audio recordings in Sunshine. Bruce Campbell
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Almost Blue posted:Bruce Campbell
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Is it bonkers to say it sounded like Russel Crowe?
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EDR was okay. felt a couple notches above a decent Blumhouse direct-to-streamer, but not as creative or madcap or original as I’d hoped. I’m bummed!! I’m glad it’s making a lot of money though, hopefully the next one takes way bigger swings (and makes better use of its setting—my god)
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Open Source Idiom posted:Is it bonkers to say it sounded like Russel Crowe? Pope's exorcist crossover event
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Disco Pope posted:I'm not a superstitious man, but I wouldn't risk putting Bruce anywhere near the "curse of superman". Nope, that was John Shea
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Nope, that was John Shea Yeah, he played a different character, but he was in there.
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It's loving bullshit that Evil Dead has been remade or remixed like 5 times since it came out but we haven't gotten a remake of Army Of Darkness
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Speleothing posted:It's loving bullshit that Evil Dead has been remade or remixed like 5 times since it came out but we haven't gotten a remake of Army Of Darkness given how the next will make the reboot a trilogy there is hope they do something wild with it but i doubt anything will ever be as goofy as AoD lol
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I think there were issues with rights-wrangling for a bunch of years that sort of left AoD on the outs—the references in Ash vs are oblique and by the time they got what they needed the show had ended. the game, funnily enough, seems to be the first Evil Dead project with characters from everything; I’m seeing they added Mia and David from 2013 recently! all this to say I think Army is back in the fold now Pretzel Rod Serling fucked around with this message at 00:53 on May 13, 2023 |
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I know they've done all kinds of crazy comic book crossovers with Ash, but I would legit love to see Ash in the old west, even better if it's an Ash/Brisco County Jr teamup.
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Ash n jack of all tades
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Thief posted:given how the next will make the reboot a trilogy there is hope they do something wild with it but i doubt anything will ever be as goofy as AoD lol Are the two reboots in continuity with one another?
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Open Source Idiom posted:Are the two reboots in continuity with one another? Sure
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Open Source Idiom posted:continuity Lmao
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Pretzel Rod Stewart posted:felt a couple notches above a decent Blumhouse direct-to-streamer, I felt the same way until the last twenty or so minutes. That’s when I really felt the evil dead vibe and it was getting pretty fun
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Finally saw this. Was fun, glad it got made, felt like it was gesturing at some emotional beats that it didn't really hit and i wish the kids had a bit more... i dunno, 'zest' in their performances, but on the whole we liked it
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Open Source Idiom posted:Are the two reboots in continuity with one another? they famously only bothered to work out a lore bible like two years ago in preparation for EDR
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FastestGunAlive posted:I felt the same way until the last twenty or so minutes. That’s when I really felt the evil dead vibe and it was getting pretty fun this was also how I felt about 2013: it was a fairly standard 2013 horror movie until the last 20 minutes in the exact way EDR felt like a standard 2023 horror movie. but the ending for EDR, in contrast to 2013’s, didn’t grab me, so imo it mostly fell flat
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Thief posted:given how the next will make the reboot a trilogy there is hope they do something wild with it but i doubt anything will ever be as goofy as AoD lol Who says deadites can't attack a medieval community in the form of a serious and blood-soaked horror movie?
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This was better than it had any right to be and I was pleasantly surprised. The goofy side of ED is fun and everything (the raimi films will always get love from me), but something along the lines of the first film tonally clearly can work too..and I didn't think the 2013 attempt at that was all that great. Glad it did well, I want more deadite insanity without the wisecracks I guess
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I re-watched this since it hit Netflix, and it would be good to see it without trying to read Finnish/Swedish subtitles (I was over there for work when it came out so took myself on a cinema date). It's still good, but probably lower in my tier list than I initially placed it. I can still put on ED2 or AoD on a poo poo day and feel better, but once you've seen Rise once, the buildup just gets in the way of the fun stuff. I still think it's good, but its not going to become one of my comfort movies like the original trilogy.
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