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Originally Posted by Locke
Spiderman = Pretty Good
Spiderman 2 = Tolerable
Spiderman 3 = Arguably the worst film I have seen in the lst 5 years.
Evil Dead = Decent/Tolerable
Evil Dead 2 = A Joke.
Army of Darkness = Hilarious, but a shame to films everywhere.
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Spiderman 2 is a great movie if you skip every scene that has Aunt May or Mary Jane in it...unfortunatley, thats half the movie. Evil Dead 2 is one of the most enjoyable movies I have ever watched, in fact, I've never heard anyone call this movie anything short of 'awesome'. Raimi's appeal is the ability to tell simple, enjoyable stories without making them too pretentious or too dumb. I will concede that spiderman 3 was terrible, but that movie seemed to be directed more by marketing statistics than any individual.
Back when Raimi was casting Spiderman, Freddie Prinze junior wanted to be spiderman, Raimi's response 'No chance, if it was up to me, I wouldn't even let him see the movie.' classic
I would love to see some pre-Hobbit movies from Jackson, he could take creative liberties and no-one would really notice. Given the context of Tolkeins universe, the LOTR trilogy was the equivalent of two elderly, beaten and broken boxers stepping into the ring for one last bout. I want Dragons, gods, Numenor and all the other epic stories from the Silmarillion.
