"Its trailers made it seem like it could go either way"
Yes. I was rooting for it to go the "actually pretty fun" way. The "2-3 really clever scenes" way. Or, the very least, the "Cage is perfect in the role, all we needed was even more of him" way.
I have this on my to-watch list, but I pivoted to one of the other survey options and saw "Evil Dead Rise" first. Boy oh boy, I wanted to love it; I really did. When all was said and done, it's a solidly made film with good performances, but as part of a series (reboot, offshoot, whatever) there are some expectations, for me at least, that weren't met.
All of the previous entries, at least since part 2 and even including the previous reboot, included one element to a degree and that is humor. Aside from a couple of quips or callbacks, it was missing, and overall it made it more generic of a supernatural horror film with a few familiar tropes/lines/gimmicks. Even the Starz TV series had the good sense to lean hard into both the horror and comedy that the overall series was known for.
It reminded me of my expectations for "A Good Day to Die Hard" back in 2013 where afterwards I likened it to pizza. Bad pizza is better than no pizza - Bad Die Hard is better than no Die Hard. I can understand if people otherwise liked, even loved this new Evil Dead entry, but it didn't hit the spot for me. Got to imagine it's similar to getting hyped up for a crazy, fun-looking Nic Cage film that doesn't bring the crazy or fun as expected.
Man I fucking hate "Well that happened!" and am going to steal that term. But I will say that in Joss Whedon's prime before he was rightfully thrown out of Hollywood he did make it work... either because he genuinely did it better or because it was genuinely kind of novel at that point, I don't even know which anymore.
I was really hoping RENFIELD would be a twisted comedy with Cage as the Literal Boss From Hell in a world where everybody thinks say that is metaphorical.
Damn sorry to hear this. I'll still watch it though. It was written by Ryan Ridley who wrote one of my favorite episodes of Community (the grifting one).
"Its trailers made it seem like it could go either way"
Yes. I was rooting for it to go the "actually pretty fun" way. The "2-3 really clever scenes" way. Or, the very least, the "Cage is perfect in the role, all we needed was even more of him" way.
Nope!
Worth a shot.
I have this on my to-watch list, but I pivoted to one of the other survey options and saw "Evil Dead Rise" first. Boy oh boy, I wanted to love it; I really did. When all was said and done, it's a solidly made film with good performances, but as part of a series (reboot, offshoot, whatever) there are some expectations, for me at least, that weren't met.
All of the previous entries, at least since part 2 and even including the previous reboot, included one element to a degree and that is humor. Aside from a couple of quips or callbacks, it was missing, and overall it made it more generic of a supernatural horror film with a few familiar tropes/lines/gimmicks. Even the Starz TV series had the good sense to lean hard into both the horror and comedy that the overall series was known for.
It reminded me of my expectations for "A Good Day to Die Hard" back in 2013 where afterwards I likened it to pizza. Bad pizza is better than no pizza - Bad Die Hard is better than no Die Hard. I can understand if people otherwise liked, even loved this new Evil Dead entry, but it didn't hit the spot for me. Got to imagine it's similar to getting hyped up for a crazy, fun-looking Nic Cage film that doesn't bring the crazy or fun as expected.
Man I fucking hate "Well that happened!" and am going to steal that term. But I will say that in Joss Whedon's prime before he was rightfully thrown out of Hollywood he did make it work... either because he genuinely did it better or because it was genuinely kind of novel at that point, I don't even know which anymore.
Ouch.
I was really hoping RENFIELD would be a twisted comedy with Cage as the Literal Boss From Hell in a world where everybody thinks say that is metaphorical.
yeah, they had a bunch of ideas for this movie that they threw together haphazardly to create something very disappointing.
That most frustrating kind of bad movie, where premise could have been made into good movie in someone else's hands.
Ha.
Can’t agree about everything.
I loved this movie, and I think it will be my favorite film of the year.
Ha out loud, as the kids say.
Nic Cage was the bomb diggy in this. Best of.
Damn sorry to hear this. I'll still watch it though. It was written by Ryan Ridley who wrote one of my favorite episodes of Community (the grifting one).
About what I expected, sadly.