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        Army of Darkness, but I almost don’t want to tell you that since I think you might need at least Evil Dead 2 to know what’s going on. It just–literally–drops right in

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          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.

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            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.

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              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.

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            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.

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              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.

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                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

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    Niu Lai poster made by a theater because the mom and son who made the movie didn’t have a budget to produce promotional material

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    Quite a few:

    Some of them I can’t find, like the original teaser poster for Pirates of the Caribbean where a skeleton is helming a ship through a storm.

    Edit: this one, too.

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    I know some that are definitely better IMO but since I have this hanging on one of my walls:

    The one I have is without any text or border though.

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    Maybe not favorite, but it’s up there. Best thing about the movie and really tells you all you need to know.

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      This single poster arguably has more depth than the entire prequel trilogy. I remember being absolutely stoked when I saw this poster.

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      Totally for the fans. We knew what was coming already, it didn’t have to say anything. As much as I love the original poster for the first film (had it on my wall forever) this one is the best for Star Wars, even if you didn’t like the prequels. It’s perfection.

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          Me and my buddy were sitting on the couch smoking bowls watching news coverage about all the crowds at the theaters. We were a couple of blocks away from one so we decided to drive by and see how crazy it was in-person. Once at the theater, there was plenty of parking and no lines. We went to the box office expecting there were no lines because everything was sold out but we were able to buy two tickets to the next showing around 9p. We had enough time to go back and smoke more bowls and when we got back to the theater, we had plenty of choices for seats. I remember how much I hated the acting performance out of young Anakin and Natalie Portman, and whatever it was that Jar Jar was supposed to be. When The Force was explained as a blood disease I questioned why I ever liked Star Wars at all. I enjoyed Episode III when the jedi kids were slaughtered, The Force Awakens, and the last bit of Rogue One, but haven’t kept up with any of the side stories or origin stories. The first time I questioned my fandom was when I went to the theaters for the specialized editions. When I saw the CGI I thought if this is what his vision was supposed to be maybe I don’t like his vision.

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          Well, in that we knew there was an origin story coming, somehow he turned to the dark side from being a Jedi, etc. I’m okay with most of the prequels now, wasn’t then. They could have been better, but…

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    This one because it was an accident; somehow a black piece of paper got ‘accepted’ as the artwork instead of the actual artwork and everybody else just kinda rolled with it without asking questions.

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      Had to look this one up. According to Cameron:

      "And I said, ‘Honestly, if I had a choice between that piece of shit and just an all-black frame, I’d go with the all black frame.’ And apparently what happened was I walked out of the office and he called somebody up and said ‘He wants it all black!’ He wasn’t hearing what I was saying. So if you ever wondered why there was literally nothing on the one sheet for Aliens, that’s why.”

      I mean, it works!

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    My Neighbor Totoro’s release in china was delayed by 30 year due to political tensions. The eventual release got a new poster:

    I like it much more than the original

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    Was a toss up between this one, 2001, good the bad and the ugly or back to the future