My Name Is Bruce
October. 01,2007 RB Movie Legend Bruce Campbell is mistaken for his character Ash from the Evil Dead trilogy and forced to fight a real monster in a small town in Oregon.
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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Sadly Over-hyped
Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast
Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
The people who never liked or even knew BC will never understand this film. This film is the second BC effort as a director and not only actor after so-so Man with a Screaming Brain. I see many people bashing the film because of how "The filmmakers" described Bruce as a total whiner and looser... hey, did you even see who is that "filmmaker"?. It is Bruce Cambpell himself. And the film is self-irony humor done in an excellent way (like when the lady screams: You sucked in Moontrap). not everyone likes this kind of humor maybe, but I completely do (my kind of humor that goes well with my Zodiac sign).The special effects are top notch, the main villain is funny as hell (what can be more funny than God of War & bean curd). Actually the real Guan DI, or even Guan Yu (http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/324162/Guandi) is a real historical general and became god, and is still worshiped especially in southern parts of China, hong Kong, etc...What can I add, a great horror comedy (less horror, more comedy) for Bruce Cambpell fans
Bruce Campbell is cursed by his own talent. If I ask somebody over here in Germany what they know about Bruce, they would just tell me that he was in the original Evil Dead trilogy. Me as a movie geek I know who he is and I love all of his films. But as much as I love em, I can't deny that his choice of roles didn't get any better, and that's really sad, as he is a really good actor.So I wonder how far does this film represent Bruce's career/private life.The film itself does a good job with making you laugh. Bruce Campbell is a funny guy, the story is idiotic but the film is aware of that and most of all the stereotypes are very well played out. Especially the scene at the town hall makes me laugh a lot.Good film. Get it.
I loved every moment of this film! Massive horror and Campbell The storyline is pretty simple but yet something different, playing himself is a nice touch. Mocking himself and his career, even his fans is quite amusing and nice to see he's not taking himself too seriously. The monster is all right, didn't blow me away but cool enough. If you're looking for scares, try a different film it's not really a horror film even though that's where I would imagine I would find it amongst that genre in a shop, it's more like a black comedy. Quite silly at times but with lots of laugh, you would probably have to be a fan of Bruce Campbell or at least horror movies to enjoy this too its full potential, i'm not sure if it would be everyone cup of tea. The slapstick violence and cheesy one liners from Campbell with the added Ted Raimi cameos make this a great watch for the majority of horror and Campbell fans.
In the small town of Goldlick, four horny goth teenagers trash an old graveyard, which is the resting place of a hundred Chinese labourers who died in a mining accident years before. As a result, they awaken the Chinese god Guan-Di (James Peck), who instantly starts hacking them up. B-movie and Bruce Campbell worshipper Jeff (Taylor Sharpe) manages to escape. Meanwhile, Bruce Campbell is finishing low-budget film Cave Alien 2 when he is kidnapped from his trailer by Jeff, who takes him to Goldlick to help fight off Guan-Di. Thinking it's a birthday present from his hapless agent Mills (Ted Raimi), he plays along and tries it on with Jeff's mother Kelly (Grace Thorsen), until, that is, he realises the killer is real.I really wanted to like this movie. I'm a huge fan of Campbell and the Evil Dead (1981-1992) films, and it's an interesting idea to have the actor playing a fictionalised version of himself in a horror setting, a genre he is certainly no stranger to. But as lovable as Campbell is (here he directs as well as taking the lead role), the film falls flat on its face, and it is as bad as you could ever imagine it to be. Campbell's inexperience as a director is the main problem, with the film never finding a pace or a tone it is comfortable with, and I couldn't quite figure out what audience he was aiming for. It's too childish for adults, too tame for horror fans, and too outright unfunny to appeal to comedy fans.It is first and foremost a comedy, with Campbell portraying himself as way over-the-hill, complete with run-down trailer, recent divorce, and alcohol problem. It is an amusing performance, but the script is just too damn awful to serve him justice. Add that to the mix of racial stereotypes, homophobic jokes (they're only acceptable is they're funny!), juvenile slapstick, and needle-slipping-off-the-record sound effects, the film ends up being about as funny as contracting AIDS. And I still can't understand why the townsfolk would employ Bruce Campbell, who they know is just an actor, to fight off a god. Reading some other reviews on IMDb by fellow Bruce Campbell fans, it would seem other people actually like this film. The Greatest Chin in Movies can literally do anything and still be worshipped.www.the-wrath-of-blog.blogspot.com