Escape to the Movies: Drag Me To Hell
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I love the entire evil dead series but I just hated DMTH. I suppose it's just "not my thing" but vomiting and loud noises isn't enough to make me like a movie. (I liked the absurdity in the movie more than anything)
Well done as always. I'm not a big horror fan though, so I'm going to let this one pass.
But still a good review.
But still a good review.
My major issue is the whole gypsy thing. The villain is clearly of the old skool gypsy variety, the kind that in movies that is always an old lady and knows how to curse. So if this is a 'traditional' movie gypsy, why does she have a mortgage? Why isn't she travelling around?
It just feels like the recession has been crowbarred in there to make the film seem more relevant...
It just feels like the recession has been crowbarred in there to make the film seem more relevant...
... Is it just me, or are his reviews more entertaining when he likes the movie he's reviewing?
Last week's review of Up and this one are a lot better than when he bitches endlessly about a movie he doesn't like. Plus, he seems to make a lot more unbiased opinions when he enjoys what he's reviewing.
Keep that in mind, MovieBob. Obviously, still have the occasional "I'm gonna tear it to shreds" review, but just remember, when you have those, you sound like nothing but a bitching antifan-boy.
Suffice it to say, I really enjoyed your past two reviews. Keep these up!
Last week's review of Up and this one are a lot better than when he bitches endlessly about a movie he doesn't like. Plus, he seems to make a lot more unbiased opinions when he enjoys what he's reviewing.
Keep that in mind, MovieBob. Obviously, still have the occasional "I'm gonna tear it to shreds" review, but just remember, when you have those, you sound like nothing but a bitching antifan-boy.
Suffice it to say, I really enjoyed your past two reviews. Keep these up!
I jumped at the hand clap, I admit it.
I agree, it's too easy to go the Yahtzee route when a film is mediocre or just plain bad, I actually enjoy the nerdlove when it's shown. In fact, I might just watch it again.ZeroMachine said:
It's much better the way it is, in my opinion. When he first started releasing videos it was very obvious that he was just trying to just be Yahtzee for films, and the Escapist is not big enough for two people who do nothing but swear and rant. While I still think he needs to find a style of video that differentiates him more from Yahtzee, I've enjoyed this review and his review of Up! far more than I did any of his earlier ones, because he's managed to find his own style of reviewing.The_root_of_all_evil said:
Spiderman is good, really? After the Wolverine review I thought Bob would tear apart Spiderman, since Raimi ruined Spiderman more than Wolverine killed Xmen IMO. (Just to mention that I'm not saying this as some comic book fan boy, cause I'm not) Something new in comicbook movie genere? How about Dark knight (it has more action and story than all 3 Spiderman movies put together)?
Yeah, I like Sam's "classic" stuff with horror and comedy mixed and Hercules and Xena aren't bad but you can't act like that when you have a 200+ milion dollar budget and a legendary cool character. They took Spidermans' wit and coolness and turned him into an emo, "impotent" (2nd movie), unfunny, badly 3d animated boy. Don't get me started on Green goblin.
And yes Venom, they "forced" him on Raimi? That last movie should have had Carnage and Venom together.
Yeah, I like Sam's "classic" stuff with horror and comedy mixed and Hercules and Xena aren't bad but you can't act like that when you have a 200+ milion dollar budget and a legendary cool character. They took Spidermans' wit and coolness and turned him into an emo, "impotent" (2nd movie), unfunny, badly 3d animated boy. Don't get me started on Green goblin.
And yes Venom, they "forced" him on Raimi? That last movie should have had Carnage and Venom together.
The movie reviews aren't technically weekly yet. It just happens there are a lot of movies out right now we're interested in. Some weeks we'll have a review, some weeks we wont. But we'll have plenty of MovieBob all summer long, so stay tuned.Glerken said:
Woooohooooo.Russ Pitts said:
Also that "I can't believe I fell for that BOO!" was cleverly done.
And yet STILL not quite as good as "Spider-Man 2" or the original "Superman"anian said:
I can agree that he's not as funny in the movies as he could be (movies don't get to have thought-balloons, which is where 90% of comic-spidey's jokes happen) but his over-emotionality and random loss-of-powers is all yanked directly from the same early 60s and 70s books Raimi mainly draws on: The original Peter Parker was a bow-tied weakling with coke-bottle glasses when out of costume, who could barely even SPEAK to women and who would frequently quit and/or lose his abilities when confronted with too much emotional stress. Heck, as it is his entire being is wrapped up in a guilt-complex from the very beginning. The only superhero with more neuroses who isn't also an outright psychopath is Bruce Wayne...
Yeah, true story. He (Raimi) has been pretty open about that, and so were the producers on the DVD for #3. He has no affection for Venom as a character (or, apparently, anything that's gone on in the comics since about the late-70s or so) and had planned #3's villians to be Sandman and The Vulture. But Marvel and the studio overuled him on that and demanded that they use Venom because he's a more "marketable" character (despite never being able to sustain his own series in sales, Venom's image sells TONS of toys and shirts for Marvel) and there was so much fan demand.
Everything you need to know about Raimi's approach to this series is bound up in this equation: He's spent THREE films teasing and building up the possibility of The Lizard (aka Curt Conners, the one-armed scientist Dylan Baker played in 2 & 3 and who was mentioned in the first one) but had to be FORCED to include Venom for about twenty minutes
I'd honestly expect to see Ben Reilly or The Grizzly (he dresses like a bear, that's about it) before Carnage...