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<blockquote data-quote="Cthulhudrew" data-source="post: 1578547" data-attributes="member: 4090">I'm guessing you watched the bootleg version (judging by your &quot;last punchline&quot; comment). The theatrical release (and there are like, 3 or 4 versions of this on dvd now, btw) had a different &quot;happier&quot; ending.Anyway, I saw it in the theater (having never seen the Evil Dead movies at the time) and enjoyed it as mindless entertainment. Not as funny as I'd hoped, but enjoyable. Having watched it again not too long ago (and about 12 years later), I didn't find it quite as fun. In fact, the best part about it was listening to the audio commentary by Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi. I thought that was a lot funnier (and more insightful) than the actual movie itself.What I personally love about the movie is that the cast and crew obviously enjoyed themselves while working on it (at least Bruce and Sam did) and that comes across on the screen, which is kind of rare, IMO. I like the movie as camp- bad camp, yes- but campy fun, and the conclusion of the Evil Dead &quot;trilogy&quot;. Plus, I think Bruce Campbell is a genuinely charismatic guy (even if his character, Ash, isn't).Funny note on that, even Bruce agrees that Ash is just a despicable character, and doesn't really get the hero worship that rabid Deadites have for him.All that being said, I really did enjoy Evil Dead (the first one). I just saw it for the first time recently, and was very surprised by a) how well done it was (especially given the crew's lack of budget and relatively small experience), and b) that it was actually kind of scary. I was especially impressed because, having seen Evil Dead 2 not long before Evil Dead 1 (yes, I actually saw the trilogy in reverse order), I found Evil Dead 2 to be even campier and more hackneyed than Army of Darkness. So, in conclusion, if you didn't like AoD, *don't* watch Evil Dead 2, but you just might enjoy Evil Dead 1.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cthulhudrew, post: 1578547, member: 4090"] I'm guessing you watched the bootleg version (judging by your "last punchline" comment). The theatrical release (and there are like, 3 or 4 versions of this on dvd now, btw) had a different "happier" ending. Anyway, I saw it in the theater (having never seen the Evil Dead movies at the time) and enjoyed it as mindless entertainment. Not as funny as I'd hoped, but enjoyable. Having watched it again not too long ago (and about 12 years later), I didn't find it quite as fun. In fact, the best part about it was listening to the audio commentary by Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi. I thought that was a lot funnier (and more insightful) than the actual movie itself. What I personally love about the movie is that the cast and crew obviously enjoyed themselves while working on it (at least Bruce and Sam did) and that comes across on the screen, which is kind of rare, IMO. I like the movie as camp- bad camp, yes- but campy fun, and the conclusion of the Evil Dead "trilogy". Plus, I think Bruce Campbell is a genuinely charismatic guy (even if his character, Ash, isn't). Funny note on that, even Bruce agrees that Ash is just a despicable character, and doesn't really get the hero worship that rabid Deadites have for him. All that being said, I really did enjoy Evil Dead (the first one). I just saw it for the first time recently, and was very surprised by a) how well done it was (especially given the crew's lack of budget and relatively small experience), and b) that it was actually kind of scary. I was especially impressed because, having seen Evil Dead 2 not long before Evil Dead 1 (yes, I actually saw the trilogy in reverse order), I found Evil Dead 2 to be even campier and more hackneyed than Army of Darkness. So, in conclusion, if you didn't like AoD, *don't* watch Evil Dead 2, but you just might enjoy Evil Dead 1. [/QUOTE]

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