It doesn’t drop right in. There’s a recap section that explains the backstory enough for the movie to make sense.
Is Army of Darkness the only movie that is a sequel, that isn’t the same genre as the original? Evil Dead is horror/thriller, Evil Dead 2 is a horror comedy remake, and Army of Darkness is a screwball adventure comedy.
My favorite moment in all of cinema is in Godzilla vs King Kong. Godzilla breathes fire on King Kong, and King Kong doesn’t like it, so he reaches down, grabs a tree, pulls it out of the ground, and stuffs it root ball first down Godzilla’s throat to put out the flames.
It’s sublime. Poetry. They should have sent, a poet.
I was making a reference to the car, but I’m not sure if people would really understand Ash without at least the second film. It just seems like his attitude to everything would be confusing.
It certainly is different from everything else–they kind of went back to the tone of the second after that–but I wouldn’t be surprised if it gets a horror tag simply because of the well scene.
The recap thing at the beginning shows the car getting sucked into the portal/vortex/whatever.
I’m not warning anyone away from watching Evil Dead 2, that’s a good movie. But I do think you can watch Army of Darkness alone and understand what’s going on. The deadites might not make much sense, but ED2 doesn’t explain them either; asshole ghosts just possess people sometimes to yell about eating souls or whatever, apparently entirely for fun.
It was just a joke about the car falling from the sky.
As I said, it’s more about Ash’s development for me. Over three movies, he becomes more of a caricature and I am not sure how much people can accept where he’s at in the 3rd movie going in blind. There’s no arc to him in AoD. He starts out over the top and insane. I think seeing at least the 2nd before this gives some explanation to him
Sam Raimi said the motivation for many shots was just to abuse his friends. I think most of the shooting of the second half of Evil Dead 2 was just him with a camera–and maybe a light guy–making Bruce Campbell hurt himself
Basically yeah. Hearing it from Bruce Campbell’s perspective, the plot killing off the rest of the characters meant they could send the rest of the cast home and then Sam and Bruce had time to fuck around, mostly at Bruce’s expense. Not that he hadn’t also kicked the shit out of the other actors, there’s a video out on Youtube of Bruce and the four women from the film basically trading war stories about that film, getting goo in their eyes, being thrown down stairs, having that cellar door shut on their hands…
It doesn’t drop right in. There’s a recap section that explains the backstory enough for the movie to make sense.
Is Army of Darkness the only movie that is a sequel, that isn’t the same genre as the original? Evil Dead is horror/thriller, Evil Dead 2 is a horror comedy remake, and Army of Darkness is a screwball adventure comedy.
M3gan is scifi horror, M3gan 2 is scifi action.
Joker is a thriller, Joker 2 is a musical.
Friday the 13th is a slasher, Jason X is scifi horror.
Godzilla goes from a cautionary tale about the horrors of war and nuclear weapons, to this amazingness
My favorite moment in all of cinema is in Godzilla vs King Kong. Godzilla breathes fire on King Kong, and King Kong doesn’t like it, so he reaches down, grabs a tree, pulls it out of the ground, and stuffs it root ball first down Godzilla’s throat to put out the flames.
It’s sublime. Poetry. They should have sent, a poet.
You could make the argument that Alien is sci-fi/horror while Aliens is sci-fi/action.
You could make the argument that a vanilla soy latte is a three bean soup.
I was making a reference to the car, but I’m not sure if people would really understand Ash without at least the second film. It just seems like his attitude to everything would be confusing.
It certainly is different from everything else–they kind of went back to the tone of the second after that–but I wouldn’t be surprised if it gets a horror tag simply because of the well scene.
The recap thing at the beginning shows the car getting sucked into the portal/vortex/whatever.
I’m not warning anyone away from watching Evil Dead 2, that’s a good movie. But I do think you can watch Army of Darkness alone and understand what’s going on. The deadites might not make much sense, but ED2 doesn’t explain them either; asshole ghosts just possess people sometimes to yell about eating souls or whatever, apparently entirely for fun.
It was just a joke about the car falling from the sky.
As I said, it’s more about Ash’s development for me. Over three movies, he becomes more of a caricature and I am not sure how much people can accept where he’s at in the 3rd movie going in blind. There’s no arc to him in AoD. He starts out over the top and insane. I think seeing at least the 2nd before this gives some explanation to him
Oh yeah the movie is A Midwestern Dipshit In King Arthur’s Court. It’s a movie about throwing rubber skeletons at Bruce Campbell.
Sam Raimi said the motivation for many shots was just to abuse his friends. I think most of the shooting of the second half of Evil Dead 2 was just him with a camera–and maybe a light guy–making Bruce Campbell hurt himself
Basically yeah. Hearing it from Bruce Campbell’s perspective, the plot killing off the rest of the characters meant they could send the rest of the cast home and then Sam and Bruce had time to fuck around, mostly at Bruce’s expense. Not that he hadn’t also kicked the shit out of the other actors, there’s a video out on Youtube of Bruce and the four women from the film basically trading war stories about that film, getting goo in their eyes, being thrown down stairs, having that cellar door shut on their hands…