Army of Darkness

[Pen Dragon]

Clever, self aware, intentionally bad parody of campy schlockfests, or just an insanely bad attempt at a clever, self aware, intentionally bad parody of campy schlockfests?

I think Ed Wood would have bought the movie poster and stood in line at the local S-Mart to buy 3 of the officially licensed boomsticks myself.

A couple of funny lines. But could have used a story, some character development and an actor in the lead. Bruce Campbell's incredibly bad performance turned this into Plan 9 From Outer Space instead of Big Trouble in Little China.

Whatever happened to Raimi's nifty early visual style? Nox existant in both spidermans

[refriedwhiskey]

:eek:

YOU'RE ON DRUGS!

[Pen Dragon]

are you ever right anymore?

[dpaterso]

Someone's been sucking on their boom-stick.

Campbell plays the cynical shallow jerk to the hilt, he's funny as hell and so's this film. Ash is too crazy to have a character arc.

Next, let's analyze the profound symbolism of Mankind's tragic condition inherent in the the Three Stooges sticking their fingers in each others eyes.

-Derek
Derek's Web Page - stories, screenplays, novels, insanity. (http://hometown.aol.co.uk/DPaterson57/scripts.htm)

[Pen Dragon]

I don't buy it. The guy's in the bad actors hall of fame

He only gets bit parts in Raimi films now out of loyalty. The same way Kevin Smith throws Jason Mewes a bone in everything he makes

And the film wasn't as funny as it tried to be.

And it still could have used even just 1/8th of a story

All I'm saying.

[refriedwhiskey]

DRUGS, I TELL YOU!

[Pen Dragon]

if sea salt and malt vinegar are drugs then yeah

[refriedwhiskey]

You're On Fish And Chips?

[Pen Dragon]

just chips

[BottomlessCup]

Brilliant farce.

"First you wanna kill me... now you wanna kiss me." (Spits grapeseed.) "Blow."

"Ah, baby, that's just what we call pillow-talk."

Bruce Campbell was one of the best in the world at what he did. Admittedly, it wasn't neccesarily acting, but he was damn good at it.

[refriedwhiskey]

He was great in The Hudsucker Proxy. And in The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. And he was very good in a serious role in a couple of episodes of Homicide.

[Pen Dragon]

You actually wasted hours of your life watching Brisco County Jr? I didn't survive episode 1.

To me Bruce Campbell was the Joel Higgins on the late 80's/90's.

You're not gonna have an affectionate moment of nostalgia for 'Best of the West' here I hope, refried

Or, god forbid, Nicodemus Legend

[Pen Dragon]

I have to say though I found Campbell well cast as the campy hero in the Sand Pirates of the Sahara movie within a movie in The Majestic. That 5 minutes was funnier than all of Army of Darkness

[vig]

pennny, i really like you.... i do. you're almost the right mix of cynically aware, and 'liqourly medicated', but you have a nasty side to you that seems to detest the beauty of CULT.

now, porky's is the all time most popular movie in canada, and that must be a black eye for the entire nation, although it was one of my favorite stupidly childish films that is actually getting worse as it 'dates itself'.

but could you please leave the chainsaw hero out of your venemous attachs. just the right amount of glib humor and wonderful sets to make me laugh everytime.

and my brother loves a couple things in life and these movies are one of them and he won't invite you to his screening at his house of this movie if you continue to berate it.

so, please, please try to see the beauty in it and i'll send you a case of black label and a dvd of the box set if you apologize to whiskey about your comment about brisco.

i have fond memories of waking up on saturday morning in college barely able to see, lighting up a fatty and watching brisco county junior.

vig-athem

[Pen Dragon]

My whole problem, vig, is that I saw Dean Martin in Something Big when i was about 9 and it forever raised me to a higher level of appreciation for hilarious parody of any given genre. I wanted more from Army of Darkness. I apologize for this - sincerely apologize - and I promise to laugh at the 'OK you primitive screwheads' line and the dancing miniature Ash's with the helium voices, and maybe one or two skeletons at the end, when I'm in rand's screening room. But dammit I cannot pretend that I didn't yearn for more from it. It was like eating tuna on a dry bun, or drinking flat mineral water, or having an intelligent debate with godman...or meeting dclary minus the moustache

[whitenavel]

Pen...............shop smart......................shop S-Mart.

[whistlelock]

Clever, self aware, intentionally bad parody of campy schlockfests, Got it in one. This movie mocks all of the horrible horror films, ever.

He travels back to some nebulous medievil times, but ends up in a wind-mill and burns himself on a franklin stove.

That's funny.

what he does with the car. builds the hand. All with a high-school chemistry book in the trunk.

The three words.

That's farce.

I have an autographed edition of his biography, which is a good read. I got it when he came to town a few years ago. He was at the Alamo Drafthouse for the anniversry screening of Army and he was pimping Bubba Hoe-tep at the time. He's funny in person, on the page, and on the screen. He knows what kind of actor he is, and he does it extremly well.


and Refried is right; Pen is on drugs.

[postalpictures]

This is one of my favorite movies. Pen is a drug user.

[Pen Dragon]

Pen knows the truth. You children just continue coloring outside the lines here while he goes to the room where the adults are



Where is it?

[velysai]

Hey, Pen, you "primitive screwhead", "listen up!"

This is one of my favorite movies, hands down! And Bruce Campball is a genius at what he does.

"Hail to the king, baby."

"Lady, I'm going to have to ask you to leave the store."

"Good...bad...I'm the guy with the gun."

"Well, maybe I didn't say every single little syllable, but, yeah, I basically said the words."

"The only two things you're leading right now are jack and sh!t, and jack left town."

C'mon, lay off the pipe, man! :bounce:

[Pen Dragon]

"Whoa. Wrong book."

is the only other line I'd consider for my sig quote

[ViningWolff]

I enjoyed it, but prefered Evil dead 2 far more.

I took AOD to be farce, which is semi-unique given the horror aspect.

[razerfish]

It stunk.

Get over it.

[The Big G]

Classic flick.

"Honey, you got real ugly."

[dano68]

Brilliant farce.

"First you wanna kill me... now you wanna kiss me." (Spits grapeseed.) "Blow."

"Ah, baby, that's just what we call pillow-talk."

Bruce Campbell was one of the best in the world at what he did. Admittedly, it wasn't neccesarily acting, but he was damn good at it.

"Was!?" Is he dead?

I thought Brisco County Jr. was good television.

[sarajb]

I'm with Vining. Evil Dead 2, then Army of Darkness.

I also enjoyed Big Trouble in Little China.

Sorry, Pen. Please don't revoke my avatar.

[Pen Dragon]

Kurt Russell in Big Trouble in Little China = 110% FUNNY

Bruce Campbell in Army of Darkness = 3 % funny

[refriedwhiskey]

Pen Dragon on Army of Darkness = 300% WRONG

[Pen Dragon]

factored against your usual percentage of being wrong, I still come out 79% percent right

[refriedwhiskey]

Pen's need to have last word: 10,000% of Normal

[Pen Dragon]

blow

[dpaterso]

Nay, vile one, the memorable quotes (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106308/quotes)be memorable, and thee are not!

-Derek
Derek's Web Page - stories, screenplays, novels, insanity. (http://hometown.aol.co.uk/DPaterson57/scripts.htm)