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Bruce Campbell movie week (marathon)

I was sitting today (Tuesday) and thought to myself “Hey, why not watch one movie with an actor, for a week and get to know his career better”. And since I watched Evil Dead two days ago, I thought, that Bruce Campbell would be a good choice. I already saw Ash vs Evil Dead and loved it and I like his facial expressions.

I’m gonna spoil of course, because most of this movie are old, so if you haven’t watched them already, you probably don’t want to that much anyway.

Day 1: Evil Dead (1981)

Wow. This looks like a movie made by some friends, that had a good idea and made a timeless horror classic. It’s actually pretty dark and fresh after all this years. I mean, xD, you have to ignore the fact, that it’s an old and cheap movie, so it looks rough around the edges and aged hard. But the tension is built really well. I was a bit surprised, because I was expecting an comedy horror, but this was a full horror, which is not a problem, since I like this type of movies. The worst thing was, that the whole movie I was waiting for his hand to be chopped off, but it sadly didn’t happen. The scene with the decaying dead ones, was so gross, that I almost vomited, and that’s a good thing, I loved it xD So yeah, the final verdict is, that I liked it, it was a good movie, to watch once and watch from where the series came from. Also it’s very interesting, how a 350k $ movie gathered almost 30 million in the box office. Just wow.

My favorite quote: Ash: Shut up, Linda!

I actually wrote this two days after watching this movie, but I still remember the important stuff, so don’t worry.

Day 2: Evil Dead II (1987)

What the hell was that? This was a great movie! (Did I just answer myself? Weird..) I had a lot of fun on this one! I start with the thing, I didn’t like as much, it was the redcon, but it’s okay, at least it changed some things for the better. As I said before, Bruce’s facial expressions are amazing. I mean, the laughing room scene was so funny, I laughed so hard. The hand thing with his hand, just great. I also had fun on watching, how weird this movie was shot, it was actually weirdly (I’m gonna abuse this word, don’t I?) entertaining in it’s unexpected way. Seriously, especially the scene, where they all gathered around in the big room in started to chase the noise with their sight. What else can I say? It was still fresh, to see a good parody movie. It still looked very cheap, but had some magic in it, because of the cheapness. And I love, how the movie teases the third movie in the middle with the pages and that starts the third movie in the end xDD And OMC, it was directed by fucking Sam Raimi! I didn’t know that! The director of the best (and only for now) Spider-Man trilogy creates Evil Dead. I’m even ashamed, I didn’t know that earlier. Good job Sam. You already delivered me 3 hours of good cinema, can’t wait to watch Army of Darkness tomorrow ^^

And this quote:

Ash: [for no apparent reason] ... Groovy.

I actually could change this to Sam Raimi movie week at this point, but nah, I like to know more about my boy Bruce.

Day 3: Army of Darkness (1992)

I was too hyped for this one. But come on, Ash traveling in time, to fight a dead army with some knights. That sound great! But I’m disappointed. For a comedy horror, there was no horror, not even a little, not even some gore. It’s not bad, but it wasn’t what I was expecting. Well okay, it’s not good either. There was a lot of jokes tho, most of them weren’t funny in my opinion. The little Ashes scene was a good idea, but made just okay. The skeletons were okay, like cartoon Clone Wars funny, not minions funny, so that’s good. The movie... it was just lazy writing I guess. The story wasn’t so fresh and new, like the first two, and it was very rushed. It’s a good 2 hour material, compressed to 1:20h. They could cut the budget a little in some scenes and make it longer. In some scenes I thought it was a little inspired by The Mask, but it actually came out two years later, so maybe Sam Raimi likes the comics or something? Idk, it was a good movie to watch once, as the end of this trilogy, but nothing else.

Favorite quote: [Upon getting the powered glove in place of his right hand] Ash: Groovy.

It’s just gets me every time! XD

Day 4: Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)

What a bizarre concept for a movie. Old Elvis Presley (played by the man Bruce) and a black “JFK” (he’s literally called that in the IMDB description) fighting a mummy in a nursing home. Odd, huh? But it had a good rating, so I picked it. Cthulhu, was it slow. When I complained, that Army of Darkness was too rushed, that this movie is too slow. Ist not just slow, it’s actually pretty boring, for an interesting concept like that. I would really like to see this movie with young Elvis and young John. Maybe it would have get a little kick. (It actually is coming, but I get to that in a moment) But this? They were moving as slow, as the movie was going. Elvis at least had an interesting backstory. John had an even funny theory. The jokes weren’t bad. And the nurse was actually my favorite character. So much charisma I guess. The movie, sadly, was a little below average, and that’s disappointing. Ikd what else to say. Don’t watch it. It’s not even worth it.

Favorite quote: Elvis: No offense, Jack, but President Kennedy was a white man. JFK: They dyed me this color! That's how clever they are!

Told you, his theory was good xD

Also, they making a prequel to that, whaaat? I’m surprised, that they want to get back to a buried franchise (if you even can call it that).

I haven’t had a good mood and because of that I had a brake for over a week. So I’m changing the movie week for a movie marathon. Which isn’t a good term, but it’s still a better one then ‘week’.

Movie 5: Running Time (1997)

It’s nice to see a solid Bruce Campbell movie again. It wasn’t great, it was just solid. An 60 minutes experience, just for the actor. The movie was literally 60 minutes, so I didn’t even feel, like I wasted a lot of time watching this. The movie is filmed to imitate real time, which looks actually pretty good. So in 60 minutes he gets out of prison, get some people, performs a heist, runs away and gets the girl. The heist was also well made. Because of the real time experience, it was actually pretty stressful. I mean, after like 10 minutes you just watch, like the perfect plan slowly goes to shit. And it’s also made pretty good. Because of that, the heist scene made me feel stressed, because I hoped they get the money and get out of there. Surprise, it all didn’t go as planed, they got out, but like 1/2 of the team. It’s not a complicated story, so after a while you can guess how it goes. It wasn’t destroying the experience tho. I only wish the dialogues were better, because most of them were average or even a little shallow. But hey, it could have been a lot, lot worse. And the black and white actually adds a little “color” to this movie. Good choice from the makers. The movie was also very cheap, 130k $ budget. I’m surprised that Bruce, after playing in a 11 million dollar movie, decided for one like this. Maybe it was a project he really liked and the money wasn’t so important? Who knows.

Favorite quote: I didn’t have one ;-;

And! I actually saw the blooper, they wrote on IMDb. I was like “wait, was that the camera man?”, went back a few seconds and yeah, it was, in the window of the police car xD

And sadly the post ends here. I really wanted to watch Going Back (1984), but I couldn’t get my hands on it, not even illegal. Also I had a problem to watch Man with the screaming brain (2005) or My name is Bruce (2007). So, yes, the week ends at fifth day (movie). But yeah, Bruce doesn’t have many movies with leading roles. But I hope the next actor will have more of them. And yes, I already decided who that will be.

#bruce campbell #movie week #movie marathon #evil dead #horror #evil dead 2 #comedy #army of darkness #fantasy #ash williams #sam raimi #bubba ho tep #elvis presley #jfk #running time #heist #man with the screaming brain #going back #my name is bruce

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laufire · 5 years

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ENDGAME

Okay. I definitely won’t be able to sleep today, so I might as well pour out all my Endgame feelings right now.

First thing first, I was probably in the WORST POSSIBLE HEADSPACE to watch this film; national elections where fascists could take over Congress (spoiler alert, they didn’t. I literally just cried with relief for over ten minutes) AND being extremely concerned about characters you over-identify with on the same day, all after the worst year of your life, apparently don’t mix well. Who would have thunk.

(btw, I was spoiled as I was voting about That Very Big Thing; everyone who follows me probably can guess what I’m talking about. I almost threw hands tbh. Then almost cried over a dozen times on the way to the theatre because the stress of the day was killing me ugh).

All this to say, my head is a mess right now, I don’t even know if this post is going to make any sense, and I will probably take time to process certain things and have a definite opinion on them LOL. But well, here is now.

And err. Warning for a brief mention of suicide ideation?

(crossposted to dreamwidth, livejournal, and pillowfort)

TONY (& CO)

– In case it wasn’t obvious, the thing I was spoiled about? Yeah, it was Tony’s death. FML. I mean, even if I wasn’t spoiled, I would’ve seen it coming as soon as we saw him after the five years jump, lbr (happily off-screen married to Pepper? With an adorable daughter? Pepper resigned to the possibility of losing him instead of begging him to stay like in IW? And then the movie kept hammering it home LMAO; that and a lot of things for the mains that I kind of saw coming from less than a third into the movie, which IDK if it’s because I was particularly intuitive, or the foreshadowing was that heavy handed xD).

Obviously, I’m not rocking your world if I tell you I’m extremely heartbroken, I guess. Especially because, as I said, my emotions were already all over the place. And seeing a character I adore, and in who I project a lot of my issues on –including, yes, suicidal issues–, sacrifice their lives (no matter how poignant, and moving, and well-written it might be) was incredibly hard for me. So, yeah. I’m going to have to deal with that for a while I guess. Which I plan to do by writing a bunch of Fix-It and Not Actually Fix-It fics ASAP.

But. I mean, out of all the endings Tony could have, this was always my second choice for him. And he was grandiose in this film. He figured out time travel. He created a gauntlet capable of holding the Infinity stones. Beings far more powerful than him were trying to carry that gauntlet to the van and none of them thought to use it, but he did. He was completely vindicated. He is the Saviour of the Universe.

And he looked gorgeous the entire time, which is truly important for me.

– In all seriousness, the thing I take to heart the most is that

his legacy remains intact

, and it’s inspiring, and heroic, and poetic, and prosperous. Clearly, without him, my enthusiasm for the universe will never be the same, but one thing that worried me is that I wouldn’t want anything to do with Marvel for a while after this film, and that’s not how I’m feeling; I’m very much looking forward to further parallels and homages to him in my ever-growing list :P

Tho, honestly, I’m kind of side-eyeing myself for the fact that, the one time!!! I go and fall in love with a male lead character, he happens to be genuinely heroic and self-sacrificing, instead of just using those concepts as lip-service and getting to have his cake and eat it too LMAO. I mean, sure, given my reactions to those characters, the AeJons Snowrgaryens of the world, I wouldn’t have liked him so much if it was the case, but dammit. It’d be nice to experience that high sometime xD

– The Iron Fam is the best part of this movie for me. Tony’s relationship with Morgan was way too adorable to handle it; Pepper was enormous and so poised (and the scene where they circle around each other in their armors… poetic cinema); I didn’t get enough Iron Husbands to satiate me (Rhodey’s caress should have been skin to skin!), but I loved what we got; Happy is an assholes who made me cry ABOUT CHEESEBURGERS.

And let’s not talk about Peter, OMG. My heart. And Harley appeared to Tony’s funeral! Though, honestly, the person I missed the most there was Christine Everhart, who should have been there just on the basis that I like her (plus, ya know, IMO she was important to Tony’s origin dammit).

I’m going to consider Nebula an honorary member, tbh. Her scenes with Tony in space cut me deep; and she and Rhodey are buddies!

Natasha and Fury (I loved his appearance *sniffs*) are honorary members too, because fuck it. They both appeared first vis a vis Tony on his movies, and have two of my favourite relationships with him, and I say so.

– Related to that, one Failure™ of this movie, is not providing a Nat & Tony one-on-one scene. Seriously, I can’t believe they didn’t realize how necessary that was. But I ADORED the scene where they and Bruce are lying down bouncing ideas about the stones (it made me softly whisper “ot3” LOL); it was possibly the only “Avengers” moment that worked for me –other than Clintasha, but that’s on a different league tbh.

I wanted more Nebula & Tony scenes too; I would’ve loved to see Tony interact with Past!Nebula. Yes, realistically, he would probably had made her LOL, but. I needed it. it’s definitely on my to-write-list :P

– I wanted just some positive interaction between Carol & Tony to counteract Current Comics Bullshit and I got Carol rescuing him, smiling beatifically at him, and Tony basically saying she was Da Bomb and the Avengers should follow her lead instead of keep sucking xDD So that was nice.

– I loved the scene at the beginning where he fucking SNAPS, and goes for Steve’s throat. It was probably my favourite scene. It’s resolution with everyone’s reactions and after the flashforward kind of… totally sucked, but whatever. Still amazing.

– The only part of his storyline that I HATED, and I mean absolutely loathed, was his scene with Howard. Jesus Fucking Christ. They went with the most simplistic take they could have, didn’t they. I haven’t felt more insulted in the theatre in my entire life, and my family made me watch both Ocho apellidos movies with them, so Marvel? That’s a feat. The moment where he says his father hit him with a belt so we (Tony included) are supposed to think, well, at least Howard wasn’t physically violent with his son, hooray?

And I think we’re supposed to take his “wouldn’t want my son to turn like me” as motivation for Tony’s actions and like… newsflash, but Tony has “put the worlds’ needs over his own gain” since Iron Man. Fucking. One. It’s literally what he does in this film, because we’re shown that, despite having achieved his happy ending, he was still trying to figure out time travel even if it meant risking his future.

Seriously, if they wanted me to be moved, they should’ve used Maria. Or hell, Edwin Jarvis was right there. And if whitewashing of Howard’s abuse becomes one of those MCU things that ends up bleeding into the comics, I’m gonna riot. Ugh.

BTW, just thought about this. Has anyone confirmed what the H. of Morgan’s second name stands for? Because my immediate idea was that it was for Happy, but now the fear that it might relate to Howard has entered my brain and I need someone to drive it out.

OTHER FAVES :P

– I am a lot more heartbroken over Natasha’s death than I expected to be. I like her character on paper a lot, but sometimes the writing or the acting don’t agree with me; neither was the case in this movie. I thought she was incredible. I loved the scene where she’s leading the post-dusting council. So losing her in this movie, of all movies, really hurts. And I understand why people who love her would be unhappy, and even furious –to some extent, so am I, tbh; specially because I don’t think she was properly honoured by the other characters after the fact–, but I do think it was extremely fitting for her arc.

– I loved Nebula’s storyline; how she was able to form new relationships, and what I know will be enduring friendships. Her interactions with her younger self were fascinating too; I loved that she perfectly followed the time-travel mumbo-jumbo. And she was so adorable at the beginning. Her bond with Tony didn’t have as much screen time as I wish it had, but the rest of the movie really shows how much his kindness touched her, and I love it. I’m a bit sad she didn’t get to kill any Thanos, tho.

– Okay, putting him in the “faves” section doesn’t exactly feel right, but whatever: I maintain that Thanos is a great villain. I don’t know what people that say otherwise are thinking. He’s the perfect foil for so many characters, and he is genuinely villainous; he is so delusional and self-righteous (seriously, his “solution” for the Snap 2.0 was… o.0) his plans feel sincerely menacing. He perfectly spells out his own doom; narratively speaking? He’s a joy of a villain to me. And I loved how he reacted to the information about the future; specifically, that upon learning about Nebula’s “betrayal”, his tactic was SOFTENING towards past!Nebula to make her even more eager to please him.

– Carol didn’t have much screen time, but I liked what she got (like, nothing too deep, but I didn’t expect much). I liked the Carol/Rhodey nod, even if I’m not sure how I feel about the ship in this incarnation. I wanted to hear something about Maria, but welp.

And on a shallow note, I kind of love that fandom absolutely freaked out about her wearing lipstick on a scene (while praising the “~natural no-make-up make up, effortlessly feminine without looking like you’re actually trying” look that she sported on CM, and disregarding that while yes, it was a troubling look that fitted a pattern across movies, A4 was made first so it was hardly a “betrayal” of the semi-grunge style), for the movie to go and give her the butchest look she’s ever gonna get on film lmao (and I will be pleasantly surprised if they’d keep a look like this for a movie where she’s the lead and not a supporting character, tbh).

– Sam and Bucky were So Soft™ with each other OMG. If their show doesn’t have at least ONE episode centred on them going undercover as a married couple, I’ll write it myself, because they are perfect for it (especially if you add some of the early banter/antagonism).

Btw, Sam getting the shield? The only good part of that mess at the end LMAO.

– I have mixed feelings for the Alt!Gamora development. I just… really loved the GOTG-IW versions of her character and her ship, and she’s gone and just… :( And that type of pseudo-amnesia/relationship do-over thing can be so badly written sometimes… But she’s back, and if done right, the role-reversal between her and Nebula could be gr10 for GOTG 3. We’ll see.

THE BAD™

– I know if I walked up right now to the Russos, and asked them why they hate Thor so much, they wouldn’t even understand the question. They would say, but we love Thor?? He’s such a fun character?? Or some version of the sort. They can fool themselves, but not me. You don’t do this to a character for whom you feel a modicum of respect, IMO.

Like, the fat-phobic jokes? The way they dealt with his substance abuse? How his arc about stepping up and assuming responsibilities ended by… him throwing away his responsibilities. Losing his hammer was a turning point for him to relearn the lessons about value and worthiness and power he’d been taught, and then… this movie. I couldn’t even fully enjoy his scenes with Frigga because I was so appalled by it all.

His only great scene, IMO, was how horrified and out of it he sounded after killing Thanos. I really felt that.

I didn’t even enjoy that he passed his power to Valkyrie because… unlike with Sam, that basically came out of nowhere. If they at least had given them ONE more scene at the beginning; seriously, it writes itself: just put her in the room when Bruce and Rocket are trying to convince him to go with them, and have her being the one that does it. Make her help him the way HE helped HER in Ragnarok; show her trying to help him and getting angry and frustrated. IDK, something.

And I know I’m probably alone in this because everyone around me practically creamed their pants when it happened but… having Steve control Mjolnir felt like adding insult to injury. Not just lifting it (which I would’ve been annoyed by too, given that they rewrote the new Asgardian mythology just to have this scene lol), but commanding it as only Thor did. Just. How much more are you going to take from Thor, people.

I want to make it clear that my problem is with the execution, not with Thor going through this; that, written differently, with more care, I could have loved.

– I’ve always been conflicted with MCU Steve. I loved the Captain America old comics I read as a child, and 616 Steve was A Hero. So I wanted to love MCU Steve just as much but… it often felt that he just didn’t measure up.

Well, conflict over. I don’t like the guy. Reading Man Out of Time just a few months ago probably isn’t helping (and yeah, that’s not a fair comparison, but it illustrates why I look at 616 Steve, and I adore him, and then I turn to MCU Steve and just… this guy is not worth my time).

I couldn’t even enjoy the ship, because my feelings for it come solely from my love for Peggy, and she didn’t even get to say a word? Add to that the fact that an endless loop of “OMG HE MADE OUT WITH YOUR NIECE. NOW HIS NIECE. RUN” was going through my head the entire time (the fact that Sharon was absent from the funeral when EVC acted in half of the MCU Russos films is hilarious in light of this xDD).

MISC

– I really enjoyed some of the heist shenanigans. Especially Tony’s plan for a distraction being GIVING HIS PAST SELF A HEART ATTACK. How extra and edgy can my man be xD Tony and Scott are A Duo.

– I was thinking that Alt!Loki might make an appearance in GOTG3 if Thor is really a part of it, and how that might mix, but then a friend reminded me about his show, so I guess that’s where they’re going? IDK, The Avengers’ Loki is probably the one I liked the least out of all his appearances, so unless I hear something really good about it, I’m not picking it up.

– IDK if it’s because I was desensitized, but the white suits and Clint’s hairdo didn’t look as ugly on the final product?

– So THAT was the gay character Feige went on about. I knew he was going to be an unnamed nobody with less than five lines LMAO. Stop being cowards and give us Danbeau and WinterFalcon.

– I was very touched about Ned and Peter’s hug (MY BBYS), but isn’t Ned supposed to be five years older? AKA out of high school? I mean, he looked like he had missed Peter, not like he had disappeared with him too? And the entire class is going on a trip in FFH? Is it because of nostalgia/a friends thing? Were all of them dusted? Because poor teacher then xDD

– I think a lot of emotional threads were unceremoniously dropped, but other than the ones I’ve mentioned, I’m more indifferent towards their recipients so… eh. A great example is the fact that Bruce’s conflicting journey with Hulk was solved off-screen LMAO. Some of the humour felt extra-cringy too tbh.

– I have Tony-related fanart as my lock screen, my computer background, and my phone background. I get teary eyed with just looking at them. I should think of changing them, but I wont xD

– I know I’m forgetting things but whatevs, I can talk about them later.

#tony stark #mcu #marvel #iron family #thor odinson #nebula #natasha romanoff #thanos #winterfalcon #and other stuff but i'd be here all day #marvel (movies)#gamora #avengers (movies)#avengers: endgame #endgame spoilers #my thoughts #talking to the void #marvel thoughts

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