Special Movie Debate: Sam Raimi

[wongojack | 217]

I can't believe Army of Darkness isn't running away with this.  There's no other movie quite like it.  There are a lot of movies that try to walk that line of horror/fantasy/comedy but Army of Darkness really nails it.  So many quotes.

[Link | 2,714]

Funny choice Reed since I just watched Crimewave between the Coen Brothers thread and this one.

I haven’t seen everything. I initially wanted to pick Spiderman 2, but ultimately went with Darkman because that movie deserves way more attention than it gets and is another original story. 

Edited October 4, 2023 by Link

[nrslam | 476]

Seen about half, with Darkman being the most memorable. I'll have to give Army of Darkness a watch.

[Murray | 2,449]

[Reed Rothchild | 9,548]

Back in the day, we were walking into the movie store, and the poster for Army of Darkness was plastered next to the door.  I demanded my dad rent it, and we did.

I would have been 7 

[G-type | 2,482]

Love all of these. I had an army of Darkness poster on the wall in my childhood bedroom. I voted Evil Dead 2 because it’s Raimi at his most concentrated and frenetic.

 

[Sumez | 2,967]

I just randomly found out Drag Me To Hell was apparently on Netflix, which was surprising. It seems most Raimi movies outside of the Spidermen and Evil Deads are always completely impossible to dig up on streaming.

Not sure what to feel about it. I'm probably not alone in this, but it really feels like two completely different movies mashed together. Both could be great individually, but they really just don't work together. There's the straight horror movie tied around some personal drama, which is a little derivative but mostly well made and super engaging.

But then there's the sprinkled in horror/action scenes which are of the Evil Dead brand super goofy deadite stuff, with even established characters seemingly changing personality completely just for those scenes. They prove that they movie doesn't take itself seriously, but most of the other scenes do. It's bold I guess, but it also really falls flat. I think the scenes without the Evil Dead flair (which is a vast majority of the movie still) also just lacks Raimi's general evocative directing style, which I still think he perfected in Spider-Man 2.

Also the movie is constantly attempting jump scares, which is annoying