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Originally Posted by newb
Evil Dead 2013
I will have to agree with Cheebs & Elvis
If I had no knowledge of the original I would think this was an ok horror movie. But I am an old fuck and saw the original at the theater on its 1st run. There was nothing like it at the time.....between the gore and the unique camera work....total mind-fuck.
I understand that this director was trying to "make it his own" but the comparisons have to be made.
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I agree as well. Even if it hadn't have been a remake, I still would have though it was "OK". It wasn't great but it wasn't horrible. Probably 6/10.
You automatically know with a remake that they are going to change the ending, etc...because it's what they've been doing for the last umpteen years.
Personally, I think it needed another 20-30 minutes of development with the characters and the actual reading of the book. It just felt like they jumped in too quick. Treat it like this is not a remake and tell me a story, let me actually care about the characters. I didn't like how "Stereotypical Nerdboy" just reads the book. I would have rather had them build up to that point. Go to sleep and maybe the book keeps talking to him in his sleep or they read it over a campfire or something other than the way they did it. Those were my biggest gripes. I could care less if the book didn't have a face on it or whether the Ash character was in it or not. I want to be told a good story and it just jumped too fast for me.