Bizarre movie, but I'm not a huge Quentin Tarantino fan.  The exception to that was Kill Bill, which I enjoyed very much.  This movie is from a Frank Miller graphic novel by the same name.  The entire movie is in black-and-white often with a single color accent, usually red.  There's a lot of blood.  Everything in the movie was in exact novel style, from the directing to the special effects.

Interesting movie that wrapped around itself.  It was told in a series of three or four unrelated chapters.  It wasn't until the very end that we got any type of mutual tie in to join the chapters together.  And the only common thread was that a character was seen in the same night club.  Kinda gory, but then again, it's Quentin.

Marv:  Modern cars.  They all look like electric shavers.

Marv:  I need a set of handcuffs.
Domme:  What style you want?  I have a collection.
Girl:  Just give him whatever you have on you.

Marv:  The killing?  No.  No satisfaction.  Everything up to that is kickass.

After FBI Agent Mackelway is sent to a small branch office because of an improper arrest that got the criminal released, he starts to investigate a serial murderer.  The victims turn out to be serial murderers themselves.  The purpetrator is ex-FBI Agent O'Ryan from a secret government project called Project Icarus studying remote viewing and automatic writing.  Using these skills he's tracking and killing off murderers.

The goverment taught them how to turn on the visions, but did not teach them how to turn them off.  So the agents slowly went insane seeing things that no man was meant to see.. the pure evils of the human psyche.. the depths that sick men go to satisfy their yearnins for improper lust and blood.

Leading Mackelway to the death farm of Suspect Zero who has kidnapped and murdered hundreds of victims from accross the nation, O'Ryan and he finally catch and have to kill the suspect.  O'Ryan begs Mackelway to help him turn off the visions and kill him.  He attacks and is shot by his partner.

A very intriguing film that made me a bit uneasy in places with the subject matter, but overall it was a pretty good film.  Kinda slow, but these types of films often are -- I think they call it Suspenseful.  The beginning was a little difficult to wrap your mind around what was going on and getting to the point that you understood the fact that we were seeing a trained psychic ability and not some sort of flashback of flashforward directing.  But once you got that "Ah-ha" the rest of the film started making sense.  I think this is a see-it-twice film so that you can realize and appreciate the beginning scenes that you were baffled during the first time.

A store clerk, and his 67 Chevy, is ripped back in time to sometime around the year 1300.  In order to return he has to retrieve the Necronomicon.  By a twist of the fates, the lord of the area is also in need of the Necronomicon in order to protect his lands from evils that are surrounding him.

Armed only with a mechanical hand, his double-barrel, and a chainsaw, he goes to retrieve the book.  After bungling the magic words, an army of undead rise from the ground.

This movie is considered the echelon of Bruce Campbell's career.  It defiantly has the largest cult following of any other of his movies.  Lines from the movie has been used in other shows and games, including the line "This.. is.. my.. BOOMSTICK!" famous in the Warcraft games.

It's a great movie, and a definite must-see.  But don't expect an epic adventure.  It's a comedy, it's almost satirical, it's definitely a movie without a stitch of seriousness.

Lessons learned from Army of Darkness:

• Always remember the secret words, especially if the words are in Latin.  Latin words are very important.
• It's always the last one you pick  Even if you try to skip to the last one, it's always the other last one.
• The word "forth" is hard to say correctly when your jaw keeps falling off.
• Skeletons are flammable.

Ash:  This is my BOOMSTICK!

Ash:  Good.  Bad.  I'm the guy with the gun.

Dead Sheila: You found me beautiful once.
Ash: You got real ugly.

Skelly 1:  Retreat!  Retreat!
Skelly 2:  Get the Hell out of here!

Mafia! is another one of the Jim Abrahams entries into the Airplane! genre.  This is not his best work, and isn't near the quality of Top Secret! and Airplane!  Apparently, an exclaimation point is required in the title in this genre.

Still, it's a humorous satire on the Godfather, and many more of the mafia movies done in Abrahams style.  Even pokes fun at President Clinton and Forrest Gump.  ("Run, florist, Run!")

It's not bad, but don't skip the others.