Alright, finally getting a chance to do this.

I...enjoyed... is not the right word. It was interesting, and captivating, because I was entirely confused and flabberghasted by what was happening on a filmmaking level. I definitely agree that the characters were just kinda there so that the action could be happening, but outsides of that Raimi seemed to kinda forget they were like, actual humans.

So just looking at it as a low budget piece of horror filmmaking, I'm still so confused. There was definitely a lot of really cool ideas and things going on, and then it just takes a right turn does a backflip, swings by some tree rape, and lands on a creepy laughing carnival demon girl. The thing, oddly enough, that confused me the most...wasn't the tree rape... although yeah, hello left field, how ya doin. Was the very obvious affectation of all the action and demon movement as this bizarre, jerky, animatronic sort of movement. It felt like everything was trying to feel like a theme park haunted house. Which is just so bizarre.

Cause I forgive the bad make-up and less than stellar action editing and all that stuff because of the low budget nature of it, and Raimi just starting to really experiment as a filmmaker, but that part of it, for whatever just sticks in my head as such a bizarre strong choice to make.

Outside of all that, you can definitely tell that this is a very early work by a filmmaker that is going out of his way to experiment with stuff. But it also suffers because it lacks any really strong central backbone to tie itself too. So you'll get these really bizarrely excellently framed Citizen Kane-y shots, followed immediately by a super hand-held almost shakycam shot in the middle of the group as they casually walk over to look at something.

All in all, it's feels like a INSANELY ambitious student film. Which isn't a bad thing, I can see why Raimi came back to the material later when he had more experience under his belt. It's insanely easy to see why Bruce Cambpell became Bruce Gods-Damned Campbell because he is clearly the best part of the entire movie.

The other really bizarre thing that happened, which I'm still laughing my ass off about. Was about half an hour or so in, I suddenly realized I recognized one of the plot points from...drumroll please...Evil Dead The Musical... a show I have listened to waaaay more times than I ever care to admit too. So every once in a while something would pop up that keyed into one of the songs and I went full Captain America, "I know that reference!!! I KNOW THAT ONE!!", and had the majority of the musical running through my head for the rest of the movie.

So, conclusion, I can see why it falls into the sphere of geekdom and filmmaking history, and I'm really excited to get around to watching the 2nd and third one.

Guess I should get my suggestion in...

Week 2 :: 10 :: BigDamnArtist :: Hellraiser (1987)

Just another one I've been meaning to watch.

Yep, mondays are generally pretty open for me.

For style, I'm of the more "there's a vague general sort of goal, but how we get about going there and accomplishing it is up to the players", sort of persuasion.

4. New movie will be picked every Wednesday.
5. Continue to discuss any movie previously watched.
6. Repeat.

Yeah, Critical Role is doing weekly 3 hour sessions and they seem to book through a fair bit. Granted they have Matt Mercer DM-ing...and they all, you know...know what they're doing.

But I think we can probably get through enough to keep things going in that time.

I would totally be down for some cyberpunk craziness.

Also in.

My gut reaction is to say sci-fi, but watching Critical Role, the whole fantasy thing seems really fun too. So I'm pretty much down for whatever right now.

System wise, I've never actually played an RPG before, I understand some of the basic concepts and stuff, but nothing in practice. So yeah, something more accessible would be good.

And availability. That's as tough one, my schedule is all over the place. But if we can schedule far enough in advance and have like a day, I can usually make it work. That said, saturdays are pretty much always booked up for me, but sundays are much more avilable, and then time during the week depends on what my part time job throws at me. And I am mountain standard time.

Also I will say, I would love to be able to like record and post play sessions if they actually turn out and are good content. But that's going to depend on the rest of the group. But I thought I'd throw it out there now.

Can't...tell...if...sarcastic...

Damn dude, that is so awesome.

Although we probably don't want Attack Of The mutant Cheeseburgers in there. As much as I dearly love that movie, it's probably not right for this.