If all the people who hate this movie made a horror film, it would be grade-A-trash

Rating: 9/10 (19 July 2013)

*I'll try to minimize any spoilers.. there will be a couple
Seriously just blows me away what cattle people can be. It's like they decided to say half their gripes before they even went to the theater. Seriously, it's why there are some movies I'm very picky about who I'll watch them with because it bothers the crap out of me people who can't just relax and enjoy a film and get into it. No! Instead, if they are even paying attention to the movie, they gotta sit there and try to pick out every little storyline detail and ever little edit which didn't specifically go their way or "follow their vision" for Sam Raimi's film. Well I got news for the later folks... It isn't your film or your vision and there is a reason why your Doritos cheesed fingers weren't there in the studio directing under Sams guidance. Especially with remakes and homages to cult classics, these elitists are just the worst sometimes. I don't understand how they sit and enjoy anything made after 1995. They probably don't.
As for the movie, I had high expectations, the Evil dead series being one of my favorite movies from growing up. I had to accept there would be some things different with this film with cgi and a big budget. So believe me I went in the theater with my critic hat on. Some of the CGI was a little too computer gamey for me but for the most part they made good of physical effects nicely polished off with CGI, kind of like the effects in Pandorum. I thought it was a nice touch but probably my only real gripe is that they could have done a tiny, little bit more of the realism to balance the CGI.
The actors did fine if you ask me. Yeah, in the story the characters made some stupid decisions but isn't that kind of what happens in horror films? I see a lot of people complaining about the stupid mistakes the characters made in the story but considering everything is supposed to have happened fairly quickly in the movie I really don't think they were actually so exceptionally stupid compared to your average horror film character. The fact they dabled with the book like fools when they find it made sense with traditional Evil Dead to me. I guess some people just didn't get that or agree. Maybe the part where they split up with the blond girl was pushing the stupidity level a little bit, I'll give you that but really they didn't have the characters act as stupidly as I've seen in a lot of cult classics which seem to get better reviews.
There is a really good couple of scenes with the blond hair girl. I'll just say those specific parts had me feeling weird for about a day or two.
People don't understand how she died and came back and how her soul still influenced the rise of the Abomination. Why is it that in the old Evil Dead these kind of supernatural details you are allowed to play out with your imagination and people do, yet fanboys refuse to be imaginative at all now? It's really not that hard to imagine that maybe her soul was still considered in hell until the abomination was defeated.. I just feel like people are trying to make movies way too explanatory. It's the reason why movies are getting so dumbed down, because critics want everything spelled out for them.
I love how they did the chainsaw. And one of my biggest beefs with all the negative reviews is this expected demand for Ash to be a main role in this movie. You of bad reviews would be bitching if they tried to have an Ash in this movie and here is why. Bruce Cambell is too old to be the same young Ash and they were going for more of a dark/realism than a slap-stick silly homage to ED2 and AOD. If they tried to have someone play Ash, omg now that would have just not worked at all. I was really glad they made this a new story and kept the same basic setting.
It was a really great homage and one of the best films I've seen this year. Definitely going to buy it. If you haven't seen it, please give it a chance. Just enjoy the movie because they did a really good job on it imo. If you sit there like half of the nerds giving bad reviews just picking apart the movie piece by piece or you just fondle your lover for an hour and complain the plot didn't grab you attention then you wont enjoy it. If you let the directors take you on this modern revival of Evil Dead horror and you have an open mind, I think you will enjoy :)