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Alright, you primitive screwheads! Listen up! This is my Behind the Scenes Pic of the Day!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes pic!
Oh, Bruce Campbell. Army of Darkness marked Bruce’s peak as a leading man… Don’t get me wrong, one of my favorite performances of his was as the elderly Elvis in Bubba Ho-Tep years later, but Army of Darkness was the culmination of his work with Sam Raimi on the Ash character.
Ash had grown from reluctant hero to comedy badass over three films and Universal put real money into Army of Darkness allowing Raimi to go hogwild with the creatures and effects. The downside is the PG-13 rating, but even so we got a batshit crazy studio picture the likes of which we don’t much see these days.
So, hooray Sam Raimi, hooray Bruce Campbell! And hooray for this picture of good Ash and Evil Ash! Enjoy!
If you have a pic you think should be included email me. I’m looking for the iconic, the rare or the just plain cool behind the scenes shots to feature here.
Tomorrow’s Behind the Scenes Pic likes pretty little flowers!
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Previous Behind the Scenes pics:
- Alien
- Big Trouble In Little China
- Clash of the Titans
- Dr. Strangelove
- Sesame Street
- The Birds
- The Dark Knight
- Batman (1989)
- Batman: The TV Series
- Stephen King’s IT
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Superman
- The French Connection
- Tron
- The Road Warrior
- Ghostbusters
- King Kong (’33)
- The Empire Strikes Back (Luke with Slate)
- Rebel Without A Cause
- Taxi Driver
- Metropolis
- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
- Tommy Chong Meets The Blues Brothers
- The Empire Strikes Back (Filming the Crawl)
- John Carpenter’s The Thing
- Jaws
- Die Hard
- Aliens
- Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man
- The Howling
- Revenge of the Creature
- The Empire Strikes Back (Vader & Luke Duel)
- The Godfather
- Rambo III
- Vertigo
- Planet of the Apes
- Pan’s Labyrinth
- Labyrinth
- RoboCop
- The Adventures of Robin Hood
- Marathon Man
- Young Frankenstein
- Viva Las Vegas
- The Empire Strikes Back (Han driving a snow cat)
- Rio Bravo
- Giant
- Back to the Future
- The Time Machine
- War of the Worlds (1953)
- Alien (Chestburster)
- On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
- Dr. No
- The Twilight Zone
- Once Upon A Time In The West
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Star Trek: The Original Series
- The Empire Strikes Back (Luke in Wampa Cave)
- Edward Scissorhands
- The Warriors
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Requiem for a Dream
- The Princess Bride
- Hard Boiled
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
- They Live
- The Empire Strikes Back (Tippet with Wampa)
- Dirty Harry
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- Blade Runner
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (Periscope Ride)
- 1941
- The Godfather (Coppola & Brando)
- The Lady Eve
- 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
- Godzilla
- The Empire Strikes Back (Bald Vader)
- Mary Poppins
- Alien 3
- Total Recall
- The Pink Panther
- Fawlty Towers
- The Trouble With Harry
- Beetlejuice
- The Shining
- Thriller
- An American Werewolf In London
- The Gate
- The Fly (1958)
- Halloween
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Even though it shouldn't have been.
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I fuckin' love these movies and have been trying set aside the time for a triple feature. It will happen. It's October!
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Where did that come from? Army of Darkness was definitely not PG-13.
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Oh Bruce Campbell. He's like an eighties Nathan Fillion.
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This film was badass. It was that awesome kind of hokeyness. Evil Dead 4, please!
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Come Sam before bruce gets to old
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I still prefer the post-apocalyptic ending, but the theatrical ending is just so much fun... Deadite on a trampolin, guys, deadite on a trampolin...
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Evil Dead= scary and creepy Evil Dead II= continues the scares and raises the bar Evil Dead III=disappointingly cartoonish
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On the Evil Dead 2 DVD commentary, I think, Raimi mentions that the "R" rating for AOD was as punishment for some difference of opinion on the rating of his previous "Dead" films. So YES, it is "R" rated, but it skirts a high PG-13 today.
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... now that's good stuff! Seeing Sam and Bruce... it's like coming home. :)
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i love this film. whe he tries to hide the incantation with a sneeze... damn its so awesome.
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This is my BOOM stick!
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Fillion is like a watered down stop start snark snark whedon version of Campbell. This is coming from a Firefly/Slither fan. Not Castle cause really who the fuck is watching that. Ash was a man's man even the manliest of Whedon heroes is a like listening to a hero filtered through the brain of a snarky old queen.
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Seriously, guy on the left.
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Don't know why. It wasn't that violent and I only heard one F bomb. And cool pic, by the way.
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looks like Evil Raimi in a clown wig
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Oct. 7, 2010, 5:40 p.m. CST
the next flick if there is another should be called....
by Quartermass-87
Evil Dead 4: Army of Darkness 2 it fits with the craziness of the entire series. I do hope we get another one because Bruce ain't getting any younger.
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Lakers 2011 NBA Champions!!!
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...And the MPAA hold grudges. And it wouldn't even be a high PG-13 today. Episodes of Xena were more graphic.
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Nowhere near as enjoyable and creative as Evil Dead 1 & 2. Raimi used to be one of my favorites, but after seeing what happened to Spider-Man and Drag Me To Hell, I think he's loosing/lost whatever magic he once had.
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it would have to be less shit 'my name is bruce' though
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...nice work dude.
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As much as I love this film, it sucks how tame it is compared to the others. I wonder what this film would've been like if Raimi hadn't been forced by the studios to make a PG-13 rated film...
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Hell yes!
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Which one is Fake Shemp?
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Remember watching this the day it was released in the theatre...back in high school. Embeth Davidtz was so hot.
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I have to agree, AOD feels a bit watered-down in places, but I love it despite its flaws.
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No, seriously.
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First time I saw it there was a huge billboard in LA, "Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas." I prefer the manic goodness (and slightly less polished) Evil Dead II, but overall the series is highly entertaining.
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Well, I've got news for you pal, you ain't leadin' but two things, right now: Jack and shit... and Jack left town.
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Universal wanted Raimi to make a stand-alone PG-13 rated film, hence the title and lack of gore.
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"Yeah..great..thanks..get the fuck out of my face." Something like that.
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...blow.
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Army of Darkness is fun and a good flick but nowhere near Evil Dead 2 quality. <p> Seriously though, Drag me to Hell sucked. Just make Evil Dead 4. It doesn't need a big budget.
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Was the only good one as far as I'm concerned. I HATED all the other films. I know alot of people just about adore these movies but I just detested them!
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Oct. 7, 2010, 7:04 p.m. CST
is Bruce on the left or the right? they both look bangable...
by Tigger Tales
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the ed trilogy was garbage
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my guess.
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AoD is not watered-down compared to ED2, it is a different genre, and intentionally so. Learn to tell the difference.
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I was never really a fan of this pic like everyone else I knew (I had friends who were crazy about this film, I was like "Meh") I do like Bruce Campbell and the way Sam Raimi utilized him in the Spiderman films and I love is role on the show "Burn Notice"
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The original Evil Dead on the other hand, hells yeah.
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In this movie to not give the rest a pass. The entire first half is pure brilliance. "You want some? Eh? You want a little?" The stuff of dreams, my friends.
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Spider-man must agree with him...
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Definitely one of the most fun trilogies ever. Ash is the Jesus Christ of our times (after Robocop, of course).
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The II repeat had a bigger budget, but lost some horror cred in the translation for the sake of laughs - it a was good time, but certainly not as scary or brutal as the first one. Number III dropped the scares altogether and became a Bruce Campbell comedy showcase...lotsa laughs but not one scare or creepy moment in that last one. Drag Me to Hell was ok, except I figured out the coin switch right away, which kinda spoiled the last 15 minutes for me, plus Justin Long blows.
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And still is today
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After all the dust settled has anybody figured out what happened on SpiderMan3. How did he lose control of the movie. I mean, it's a mess and just reeks of studio micro-management. But after two really successful SM films under his belt you would think he was beyond that...but obviously he wasn't. So what happened? Has anyone ever heard an honest take on this?
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I bet batman & robin is your second favorite film
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Evil Dead was a crazy movie at the time and many like me discovered it on video and got friends into it. It was sorta a grass roots thing so they felt like these were "our" movies. Then later Bruce became a god among the horror-sci-fi convention circuit and this reinforced the trilogy. It's almost like a family thing,, I mean how stoked were you when Bruce appeared in Spider-man?
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What the fuck? It was fucking terrible. It's good only for the journey they took to make it and that it lead to part 2 and 3, otherwise it's fucking near unwatchable shit.
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GET AN AXE
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scared the crap out of me for about a month after I saw it when I was eleven years old back in the good old days of pirate VHS and before the "Video Nasty" backlash in the UK. That was some messed up nonsense. Evil Dead II was a bit daft, but I loved AoD at the time. Thought it was very, very funny.
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BRaaawwwee!!!!
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Considering everyone in the world knows the movies by now...I wonder if it would really be a blockbuster...or bomb like AOD did?
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Gotta love AOD-era Raimi with Darkman and whatnot. The system has changed so much since then. I hope we get totally batshit crazy Raimi one more time of film. I hope its Evil Dead IV
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"Come get some." One of my most favorite films and yes, like most, I found this treasure in the video rental store. Wish I would've seen it at the theaters.
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comes back to life and dances for a bit then yells AHHHHHHH as she flies away is one of the most hilarious things i've ever seen
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Falling dooooooooooooooooooooown.
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but Army of Darkness is still awesome.
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But Army of Darkness is my favorite. Hail to the king baby
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Is it me or is Bruce Campbell giving that Don Draper look. Maybe we now know where Jon Hamm got some of those Don Draper looks from.
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I enjoy all three, but AOD is the weakest...think of it as a goofy harryhausen homage and its fun to the nth degree...
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Nikt...coughcoughcough...
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Sorry I don't have an answer, but I'd also like to hear one if someone does. I'm not a comic geek and I'm not a huge fan of Raimi's SM films, but I liked the origin story and was pretty damn entertained by SM2. And I too, am confused how Raimi could have been muscled by the producers (or Sony suits, or whomever it was/wasn't). I heard he was 'forced' to include Venom by the studio, but then also heard that it was his decision and is just trying to shift the blame because the film was so shitty and unfocused. It's such a shame studios feel the need to jam multiple villains into comic-book films, I'm happy to see one villain done well - hell, that works for most other genres, why isn't it enough for super-hero films? Having said that, Lex Luthor is Superman Returns sucked and I would have happily taken 3 baddies at once (a la SM3) over his bald, boring ass.
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the Jon Hamm comparisons. crazy! cool movies too (all of them), great filmmaking stories also behind these films.
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1. ALIENS 2. THE THING 3. EVIL DEAD 2
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was a studio decision. But it's bad form for a director to publicly blame studio interference for the failure of a movie.<br /><br />Even if Venom was studio mandated, who told him Spiderman needed an Emo dance number?
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"... Now you want to kiss Me. Blow!!" Damn funny movie!
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Always liked Bruce C. great comedic timing. He would have been a great choice for the New Rockford files.
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Not the best, but definitely among the greats. In any case, watching those three movies in any order make for one hell of a night of entertainment.
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<p>ED2 is a horror movie with a bit of comedy dropped in there,while <p>AOD is an action/comedy/fantasy movie with a few horror moments here and there.<br /> <P>ED2 aimed at the horror genre fans,AOD aimed at a much wider audience as a mainstream entertainment movie.<br /> <p>i love all three movies,hell my first nickname in the internet was Deadite.<br /> <p>oh and you can watch in youtube the original short flick that Raimi did for his film school,and for which ED1 was based on as a full length remake.In The Woods i think its called,check it out.
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Instead of just having one head and another that only pops up once or twice.
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Nothing wrong with Burn Notice, and Fat Guys rule.
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Those who say he should/should've been cast in the lead of this or that, don't get it. Yes, as the lead in a B movie (which the Evil Dead series is, after all) or SyFy movie of the week, but as the lead? C'mon. After years of bit parts, I'm sure he's thanking his lucky stars that he's prominately cast in a VERY successful USA series.
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in this picture.
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And other things your primitive intellect wouldnt understand
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I know he claims that he's the boss on set and wants to look like it, but I always thought the point of directors dressing down was so they can get in the trenches so to speak. Raimi looks like he just sits in a chair all the time, whereas a director like Spielberg or Tarantino is dressed to lay in the dirt to get the shot.
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watch it with my kids. Can't watch Evil Dead II with them.
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I swear when I saw this at the theater back in the day, it was PG-13. Being a big fan of the first two, I remember how dissapointed I was when it came out and I saw it was PG-13. I took my wife to see this on one of our first dates and she still went out with me afterwards, what a woman! I will always remember the couple sitting behind us that clearly had no knowledge of the first two movies, saying over and over how it was the most stupid movie they had ever seen. Probably my least favorite of the three, but still fantastic.
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Both my wife and I loved the way he could nail the old fashion good guy hero and still be cool. Darn, that show deserved a few more seasons.
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...and they don't call me 'workshed' for nothing you know. C'mon Sam, Ivan, Bruce. Make the film everyone wants to see. Whatever happened to one for the studio, one for the fans.? Oh, yeah, that was 'Drag Me To Hell' wasn't it. Just make the fucking movie dammit. Evil Dead IV please. Now. Fuck this Wizard of Oz bullshit Sam. Before Bruce is too old and whilst he's buffed up (for his 'Burn Notice' prequel).
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Spider-Man 4's dead, come on Sam! Give Ash his boomstick back!! I've always thought of Bruce as the Hollywood star that should of been..
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