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Summary: 1 1/2 hours of Bruce Campbell kicking a**!!
Review: This isn't a visual masterpiece, nor does it showcase the greatest talents in showbiz...but you cant beat the knee slapping one liners and Bruce Campbell demolishing everything in sight. What a movie! Im not worthy!
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Summary: Hilarious, Slap-stick Raimi Classic
Review: Army of Darkness is easily one of my favorite movies. It's one of those rich, cult classics that whenever you meet a fellow fan, you develop an instant kinship. Why? It's the kind of movie that only a specific kind of horror/cult fan enjoys. It's campy. It's silly. And to be quite honest, it's a heck of a lot of fun.In case you live under a rock, Army of Darkness is part 3 of Sam Raimi's zany Evil Dead trilogy. The first film was straight horror. Evil Dead 2 was a kind of horror-comedy. Army is a straight comedy. The transition from the first film to the third is fun ride to behold. If you watch them in a row, you can't help but wonder how such a transformation takes place. Raimi becomes more and more comfortable injecting his special kind of "Three Stooges" humor into each film. It's a treat to watch Raimi's growth from the low-budget independent director of this series to his mainstream success in Spider-Man. Picking up at the end of Evil Dead 2, Ash has been tranported back in time to the Medieval Ages. His only hope for getting home is to find the Book of the Dead, protect the world from the legions of the Deadites, and remember the incantation to keep the book from destroying the world. Knowing Ash, this is easier said than done. You can't take this kind of film seriously, and if you do, you're not going to enjoy it. Don't look for logic, don't look for flaws; just relax, laugh, and enjoy yourself. Allow Raimi's visual talent and humor to work its magic. Sample lines: "You found me beautiful once," says Ash's possessed girlfriend. Ash replies, "Honey... you got REAL ugly." Bruce Campbell pulls his tour de force as Ash. Ash has cycled from full-fledged coward to a inspiring hero who dispatches Deadites with a manic glee. Many of his one-liners in this film have become classic and were used in the "Doom" games. The Boomstick Edition includes both the director's cut of the film and the shorter theatrical cut, making this edition the definitive Army of Darkness edition to own. This is one you have been waiting for folks. Then again, who knows what the NEXT edition for Army will have on it. Seems like they put a new one out every 6 months. The DVD extras are plentiful. The Raimi/Campbell commentary is as good as ever. Sound is great; ditto picture. This leaves us with only one question: "Hey, what's that on your face?"
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Summary: Boomstick Edition Blows Others Away
Review: Among the reviews you'll see here is one for the Official Bootleg Edition of this film by me. I was happy with the movie, no doubt, but my edition of the DVD wasn't satisfying when I discovered this edition. As of yet, "Bruce Campbell vs. Army of Darkness Boomstick Edition" is THE definitive DVD version of "Army of Darkness." While Anchor Bay may very well release another (there are 5 other editions already, this one compiling everything from all of them,) I can't see what else they would add to it. The Boomstick Edition contains the Theatrical Release on one disc and the Director's Cut on the other. Each has their own endings, and dispersed between them are various pieces of information, documentaries, and even commentaries on the Deleted Scenes. The Director's Cut version of the movie still has scenes that look shabby, like in the Bootleg Edition, but it's nice to have extra stuff, as well as the option to see different versions and scenes in various ways. The movie itself is as funny and enjoyable as it ever was, parodying horror and itself. Some of the comedy is a little slapstick, but it's easy to see where certain homages lie, as well as intentionally over-dramatic scenes that don't play out in any other way than entertainment and hilarity. Ash, housewares clerk at S-mart and hero of the Evil Dead series, has been transported to the 1400s. AFter being captured, then being freed with the aid of a wiseman who gives him back his chainsaw, he is sent on a quest to retrieve the Necronomicon, the Book of the Dead that started all his problems back in the first Evil Dead movie. After a few mishaps (and a very enjoyable 1st person creature attack that goes on far too long) he retrieves the book wrong, causing the dead to rise, including Evil Ash, whom he had just buried after a brawl. Ash must bring his 20th century know-how to the mideval knights in order to defeat the Army of Darkness and get home. If you ever intend to own an edition of "Army of Darkness," this is it. This is the best edition of the movie you will be able to find as long as Anchor Bay doesn't release a 7th edition (but who knows.) Until then, hail to the king, baby: The Boomstick Edition. -Escushion
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Summary: camp
Review: certain movies are good because of their very terribleness. this is one of the best examples I've EVER seen of this phenomenon. cheesy, campy, over the top ridiculo action against the undead that speaks straight to me.
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Summary: A Good Movie, A Sub-Par Edition
Review: I love Army of Darkness, despite having only seen it on this DVD. It's very funny, and I enjoy the references made to other horror movies or horror cliches. The quotable one-liners uttered by Ash (Bruce Campbell) flourish throughout the entire movie. Additionally, the stop-motion skeletons are an excellent tribute to a past special effects era. However, this edition is below the movie's level. It amounts to three starts because of the film and deleted scenes. Those aside, the picture is grainy in many places. At first I thought that was just the 15 minutes added to the theatrical release, but then I realized that far more of the movie had such a texture, and the only thing that was clear was that this is a poor DVD transfer. The DVD's packaging is humorous though, but most of it can be viewed in-store: A brown paper bag look with "hand-written" credits and title. The inside is fixiated like a burned DVD-R, and while it IS humorous, it doesn't make up for the poor presentation of the film. Take my advice and skip this edition. Instead, spend a little extra money and get the 2-Disc Boomstick Edition, which includes everything here, plus the theatrical release and even more features. I'll have that in my hands and ready for a review by the time this one appears under this version of the movie. -Escushion
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Summary: The best Evil Dead Movie!!!!
Review: A great movie!!!!!!Funny but at the same time a little scary!!!!
If you are looking for a horror movie you sould buy the first Evil Dead. But I prefer this Evil Dead!!!
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Summary: Good corny fun
Review: This is the third and (so far) final entry in the "Evil Dead" series directed by Sam Raimi. There seems to be a definite progression from one entry to the next: the first one is more or less a "serious" horror film, the second one is more of a horror-comedy, and "Army" pretty much abandons any pretense of being scary in favor of cheesy humor and campy action-adventure antics. That said, this is a very entertaining movie if you have a taste for the weird. Bruce Campbell is very effective as Ash, the average guy who spends half the movie being a braggart coward and the other half being a hero. It's this wacky character who really brings the movie to life, although this also means that the second half (where the character is submerged under numerous battle scenes) is rather inferior to the first. All the same, "Army" is a unique and enjoyable experience. There have been several DVDs of this movie and the "Boomstick Edition" is the biggest package. It features the U.S. theatrical cut on disc one, with the "director's cut" (which is longer and has a different ending) on disc two, along with the requisite commentaries, a special-effects featurette, and more. Now, if only Raimi and Campbell can put together a fourth episode...
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Summary: Boomstick Edition Review!
Review: The ultimate DVD version of a cult favorite has both versions of the film (one of them is the newly-restored director's cut) and every feature included on earlier VHS & DVD formats so you are pretty much getting every documentary and commentary that Anchor Bay has put out with this movie. Funny thing is I own all three video formats (original Universal video, Anchor Bay's 1999 widescreen, and the original limited edition director's cut VHS) and I also bought the bootleg cut on DVD. That's right. I have now purchased this movie five different times. This one DVD has everything included on the four editions that I already purchased (with the exception of the ability to play on a VCR and give or take a few Universal Studios trailers). If only I hadn't spent over $... on those other four because I got this one for like $.... Anyways, this movie is a true cult classic. The third entry in the Evil Dead series with Bruce Campbell going back in time to battle a handful of evil spirits.
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Summary: Damn Fine Movie
Review: The movie has both the original and edited endings which are both superb. I find that the option to hear Sam Rami and Bruce Campbell tell about how scenes were modified is a fine addition for the Dvd collecter of these type of movie.
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Summary: Not Your Average Horror Movie
Review: This DVD is probably the best and most well known work that Bruce Campbell had at least one real hand in producing. In 'Army of Darkness', Ash (Bruce Campbell's character) is transported through time thanks to the evil of the Necronomicon.
Falling (literally) into, or is it onto, the final stages of a battle between King Arthur of England and Henry the Red of the Scotland/Ireland area, Ash is thought to be one of Henry's men. Taken prisoner by Arthur, Ash is condemned to die in The Pit. However, things do not go as Arthur planned, considering that Ash kills one zombie-looking thing and then subdues another. Ash then climbs out of the pit and manages to tick off Arthur. The second zombie then somehow climbs out of the pit while managing to stay in one piece, but not for long. With typical Bruce Campbell action, the character of Ash pulls out his sawed-off shotgun and turns the zombie into about 20-something pieces and then he (Ash) goes into a sales pitch for S-Mart, the housewares store where he works.
Finally realising that he has all of the attention and respect of all the people, things finally begin to go his way, sort of.
Ash wants to get back to his own time, but the only way he can do that is go on a quest for the Necronomicon.
In a way that is conveinent for him because Arthur's wiseman wants the book to defeat the 'Deadites'.
Although it is classified under horror, this DVD is anything but scary. It is filled with sarcastic remarks, inside humour, and for all of the Three Stooges fans out there, look for some stooge-like antics during 'The Dead Awaken' sequence. it's chapter 11 on the DVD.
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