And Bruce Campbell can?


C'mon, you get any unknown with a penchant for hamming it up and it will be a viable substitute.


BTW - I like Briscoe County Jr better than the Dead series. Campbell is the King of Camp, but it is still just camp.

True, but he was comparing DiCaprio to Harrison Ford in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

I've never seen Briscoe, but heard some good things about it.....

I guess I just see this differently than all of you. Go figure, eh?

It wasn't Campbell. Raimi could make another Campbell in a heartbeat. It wasn't the storyline. Held by itself it was crap. It was the director. Someone mentioned earlier that a substitute director would work because they could copy Raimi's style - no way, IMO.

The Psycho remake was shot angle for angle and line for line from the original Hitchcock - it was horrible. It was like watching that last fat third grade kid picked on a basketball team playing one on one against Larry Bird - there was no comparison.

It is all about directing and unless someone as inventive as Raimi does the second, it won't be good even if Campbell has the starring role.

Boy that's no lie, that Psycho remake wasn't even suitable landfill material. I agree with you on the direction, but Campbell was a big part of the feel for the original movie. It'll certainly be different seeing someone else play the role.

Did you see the Chainsaw remake? If so, what did you think of that?

I liked it. I am not a horror buff, but the film was adequate for what they were trying to achieve.

If you haven't, check out Rob Zombie's House of 1,000 Corpses. It captures that 70s horror/slash genre perfectly while adding enough madness from today to make it surreal as hell. Again, I am not a horror fan by any stretch, but it was my favorite horror film over the last decade.

No doubt.

But there are things I think you just don't bother redoing.

You don't cover Stairway to heaven, you don't remake Vertigo or Citizen Kane, and you don't abandon what made these what they were.

Campbell is great at what he does, lowbrow humor. You don't ask him to remake An Officer and a Gentleman, and you don't ask someone else to play ash. Ash is Ash.

I hated the Time Machine remake and hated the DOTD remake because they abandoned the whole point of the originals.

Tread lightly...

It's all disposable pop culture bullshit, IMO. Just fun stuff.

Bull$3it. If I know how to run this team better than Carl and Lamar I can damned sure direct my favorite movies... :harumph:

That was a joke, man....please don't hit me.....

I'll let this one just sail by, else I might end up single...

New Evil Dead sequel set up At HBOMAX!


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">‘Evil Dead’ Sequel ‘Evil Dead Rise’ Coming to HBO Max With Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell Executive Producing <a href="https://t.co/FTB0TF9QaL">https://t.co/FTB0TF9QaL</a></p>&mdash; Variety (@Variety) <a href="https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1397598758490214406?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

That's one of the things I love about CP. There is a 100% chance that anything ever discussed by human beings either in person or in the news has had a thread started about it. It might have been 16 years ago, or 16 hours ago....but there has been a thread started about it.

I don't even use google anymore to learn about stuff. I just read about it on CP.

Wow, was this one old...

What a fun bump!