Like an entire season of your favorite comic book soap opera scrambled into 2 hours and 19 minutes, forgiveness as a superpower and selflessness as a nonnegotiable lesson when coming of age. Sam Raimi the man who can animate drying paint, that there isn’t a drop of irony in the whole thing is both a comforting escape and sad reminder that these just don’t look like they used to. Mary Jane Watson you are literally stronger than the marines.
Reviews tagged ‘raimi’ by Sydney🚀 Patron
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Evil Dead II 1987
My first thought this time was “when are we gonna stop fucking around and turn this into a stage play”, and that is how I discovered Evil Dead The Musical
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 2022
I love this movie unfortunately! There are several Marvel films that have allowed their directors to shine but this is the most shocking diversion in tone that there has ever been, and I get such gleeful delight from watching Raimi boss it up inside the MCU formula. The scene of Strange dreamwalking in his own corpse is unreal. Every time I watch I notice more parallels to Raimi's own films, and also take more to the script, that I agree is messy, but at least it actually has arcs and believes in something. And it believes that Pizza Poppa always gets paid bitch
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Drag Me to Hell 2009
Absolute gonzo shit of the highest order, pretty sure this is a masterpiece of its own kind, and it was a staple of my childhood for some reason which explains a lot. Didn’t even know it was Sam Raimi just knew I wanted more of whatever it was. Always kind of forget Justin Long is in this too lol
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The Quick and the Dead 1995
Sam Raimi make a movie that isn’t the coolest thing ever filled with lively boyish delight and electrifying technical excellence challenge
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 2022
TL;DW: an endearing mess. I’m sure there are many of us who are inclined to forgive flaws here because of who’s behind the camera, but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, and even so, Raimi breathes so much life into this despite a messy script and the usual confines of the MCU. There are some sick sequences in here, ‘sick’ in the cool way and the totally f*cked up/spooky way. Its personality totally won me over,…
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Darkman 1990
I screamed when Bruce Campbell showed up lmao, and my god… Sam Raimi could make a trip to the grocery store look like the most exciting event of your life IN HIS SLEEP.
I could’ve done with anyone besides Liam Neeson in the lead role (sorry) but wow this was very cool. Raimi is playing around with a lot here that shouldn’t work, but the result is so unique and gritty. His style and the surrounding technical components (I loved…
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Evil Dead II 1987
Oh. Oh okay. Hahaha. I get it now. While the first one I found mostly impressive for style and effects, Evil Dead II really is better and crazier in every way. Raimi was always a genius, but here he is more mature, more controlled, and more confident. So many moments that made me go “ugh i love that” - Bruce’s hand POV, messing with the frame rate, “A Farewell To Arms” (lol), Bruce’s flip - this really is a one man show,…
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Spider-Man 3 2007
*finger guns* Spider-Man 3 is good *hip thrusts*
Sam Raimi hates Spider-Man 3 and has said he didn’t believe in the characters, and you can definitely feel that here when compared to 1 and 2. But I think his pure talent as a filmmaker and the foundation built by the two previous films saves it from being a soulless mess. This is still a really great movie! I say this like every day but the reason why Marvel doesn’t succeed in the…
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Spider-Man 2 2004
Revisiting these I’m appreciating even more Raimi’s attention to what comes together in the train scene (maybe the best superhero scene of all time??) - what a hero means to the community, and Peter’s arc of having to sacrifice what he wants in life for the greater good (with great power comes great responsibility, obv). Only by accepting that is he able to be with MJ and get over his spidey slump. It’s not complicated but somehow no other superhero…
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