QUEZ CLASSIC #1:
EVIL DEAD II
"Groovy"
Evil Dead II is not a movie. Evil Dead II is an experience. The most unpredictable 84 minutes in movie history.
Evil Dead II is the story of a man named Ashley J. Williams. A guy with a girl's name who replaces his own hand with a chainsaw (which he can somehow start with his teeth) and fights "Deadites" who have the power to kill, possess, and tree rape.
While the first is undoubtedly a Quez Classic on its own, the sequel/remake is on another level. Never has a film series directed by the same person strayed so far from the original that it actually needs a recap of the last movie so events and characters can be changed so drastically. Three characters from the first are completely erased. A rickety wooden bridge barely hanging over a river is now a five lane highway over a cliff. Ash has somehow changed from a quiet soft hero to a chainsaw wielding bad ass with a sawed off shotgun.
With all this in mind, Evil Dead II somehow managed to become the greatest movie ever made. It's scary, hilarious, ridiculous, unpredictable, and just plain fucking awesome. If you haven't seen this movie you need to run to Best Buy, buy all 3 (Evil dead, Evil Dead II, and Army of Darkness), and get all your friends together. Because as I said before, Evil Dead II is not a movie. It's an experience.
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Very Bad Things
Starring: Jon Favraeu (Swingers, Director of Iron Man), Cameron Diaz (The Mask), Christian Slater (Alone in the Dark), Jeremy Piven (Entourage) and Daniel Stern (Home Alone, City Slickers)
Director: Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights
Year: 1998
Genre: Comedy - Very Dark
Run-Time: 100 Minutes (1 Hour and 40 Minutes)
Plot:
Bachelor Party in Vegas gone horribly, horribly, HORRIBLY wrong.
The Good:
Great Cast. Cameron Diaz looks really young and hot. Minus the one weird guy who isn't famous, all of the guys (Piven, Stern, Slater and Favraeu) play their parts to perfection. The plot is nothing special but the story is what separates this movie from the pack. This movie goes to such an extreme level of dark comedy that it reamins unmatched over 12 years later.
The Bad:
There aren't any jokes in the movie. Nothing they say or do is really funny. All of the comedy is derived from the situation, not from jokes are acting.
The Review:
This is one of the most "Holy Fuck! What the Shit is Going On?!" movies I've ever seen. Evil Dead II is its only equal when it comes to unpredictability. Get ready cause this shit is crazy.
