Is this really the anorexically-thin excuse to get “Drag Me To Hell,” Sam Raimi’s new horror film, and its story mechanics going? A young, bank loan officer/ wannabe go-getter (Alison Loman) denies an old lady an extension on her home which means she’ll be evicted, so the old lady puts a supernatural curse on her ass (Justin Long co-stars, presumably playing a sap again). Cue screams and stuff.
We’ve heard of fun, dumb horror films, but this is narrative leap to propel the story forward is a joke, right? We expect more of Raimi. Maybe it’s supposed to be some sort of post-bailout commentary, but we doubt it considering it was shot long ago.
“….expect more….”
Really? Why? Have you seen spiderman 2?
Actually I meant spiderman 3 but I think 2 works to illustrate my point to a lesser extent.
Yes, totally hear you. I think he trying to be nice, in theory, he’s great. See Evil Dead, etc. i hate all the spiderman films for the record.
yeah it’s been a long time since he did anything decent.
I re-watched Spiderman 1 a few weeks back, it’s actually even a lot weaker in retrospect. After seeing it again the deep slide into 2 and 3 makes even more sense.
and yes I think he is that lazy to use a “what the fuck?” setup.
Think back to the black blob of evil in spiderman 3, no explanation, just dropped from the sky and off-we-go. Felt like it was the product of a 5 minute brainstorming session stuck at a red light.
I fully appreciate that a popcorn movie is what it is, but please st least appear like you give a shit.
the fact that he could really get any project greenlit by Sony and he wants to do more Spiderman movies, after they ran out of any creative juice pretty early on shows where he is on this.
Raimi doing fun horror again = ticket bought.