Nick el Ass
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Bruce Campbell Has Cancer
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He literally calls it the Wonder bread shirt in the videoBruce's shirt.
Nick el Ass
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I hadn't watched it, and that is all I could think about since Wonder Bread started right here in Indianapolis where I live.He literally calls it the Wonder bread shirt in the video
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It really is excellent; Michael Rosenbaum does a great job.
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I thought I was imagining it when I thought Bruce said in Hail to the Chin that they moved back to LA. And looks like they really did. For one year.
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Just finished the interview and I think Bruce will be OK. His body might be sick, but his mind and spirit are in the best place they could be, which goes a long way when it comes to ilnesses like this. He is now basically the embodyment of "live every day like it's your last".
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That AI thumbnail is making me throw up.
I don't think I've heard about that 5 year thing either. Damn…
I don't think I've heard about that 5 year thing either. Damn…
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Yep, this is the first time he's mentioned having five years left.
Nick el Ass
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Adam is a horrible human being so I will skip listening to it, but the 5 years to live thing has thrown me for a loop since I was unprepared to read what was said... and all I have to say is fuck cancer.
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Why is he horrible? I mean his AI thumbnails really don't make me like the guy, but I'm interested to know if there's even more to it.
Nick el Ass
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Even during this interview from what I read about it he can't stop bringing up random stuff about child abuse in the middle of the conversation, and he has a long history of saying the most horrible stuff to get attention.
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I still haven't watched the interview because the host really does seem to be very unpleasant, but YouTube showed me a clip from it where Bruce talks about how AvED failed because fans were pirating it. I know he talked about that when the show got cancelled and he was kind of (understandably) frustrated by it, while now he states it just as a matter of fact. But I'm not sure whether he's really right about that.
Everything gets pirated. The only question is if you're popular enough to overcome it. And I think that Evil Dead suffers from the same blessing/curse that Bruce's career does. That it's too well known to be called a niche or a cult franchise, but not well known enough to be called mainstream.
You could argue that Evil Dead is over all more well known than lets say the Chucky franchise, even though the Chucky franchise has 7 movies (+ the Mark Hamill remake) and a TV show that also ran for three seasons, which is pretty close to Evil Dead. But the difference here is that you can do Chucky movies and episodes much more cheaply than you could do Evil Dead. Yes, the first movie was made on a micro budget, but you can't really squeeze a full TV show from 5 people stuck in a cabin. And the one thing that AvED really deserves credit for is that they never cheapend out. They really tried to make it epic and slick and worthy of the Sam Riami brand (at least visually). So I think the problem with AvED (aside from all the other problems we may have had with the show) was that it punched too much above its own weight. It would have worked fine if they were making a show on a budget of the Chucky show, because the Evil Dead fandom is arguably larger then Chucky's, but because it's Evil Dead, the budget had to be much higher. And it got stuck in that limbo of not famous enough of a franchise to really carry the budget. And at that point, the pirating might have been just the straw that broke the camel's back.
It's I think also why they made it half Evil Dead and half a throwback early 2000s boner comedies, to I guess get another viewership group into the mix, but we've already spent hundreds of posts talking about how that turned out.
Everything gets pirated. The only question is if you're popular enough to overcome it. And I think that Evil Dead suffers from the same blessing/curse that Bruce's career does. That it's too well known to be called a niche or a cult franchise, but not well known enough to be called mainstream.
You could argue that Evil Dead is over all more well known than lets say the Chucky franchise, even though the Chucky franchise has 7 movies (+ the Mark Hamill remake) and a TV show that also ran for three seasons, which is pretty close to Evil Dead. But the difference here is that you can do Chucky movies and episodes much more cheaply than you could do Evil Dead. Yes, the first movie was made on a micro budget, but you can't really squeeze a full TV show from 5 people stuck in a cabin. And the one thing that AvED really deserves credit for is that they never cheapend out. They really tried to make it epic and slick and worthy of the Sam Riami brand (at least visually). So I think the problem with AvED (aside from all the other problems we may have had with the show) was that it punched too much above its own weight. It would have worked fine if they were making a show on a budget of the Chucky show, because the Evil Dead fandom is arguably larger then Chucky's, but because it's Evil Dead, the budget had to be much higher. And it got stuck in that limbo of not famous enough of a franchise to really carry the budget. And at that point, the pirating might have been just the straw that broke the camel's back.
It's I think also why they made it half Evil Dead and half a throwback early 2000s boner comedies, to I guess get another viewership group into the mix, but we've already spent hundreds of posts talking about how that turned out.
Nick el Ass
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Starz didn't really have much to offer at the time outside of Ash vs Evil Dead, and the delay between seasons 2 and 3 did more harm than anything when it came to viewers who did find alternative ways to watch... but in reality Starz was more of a problem since it wasn't even in the top 10 of the most pirated shows in 2018 when season 3 did air.