Rarely does the theatrical cut of a movie exceed the director's cut - after all, the director's cut is what the director INTENDED, the cut of the movie they REALLY wanted to make. But every so often, the movie benefits from having some additional creative input.
Such is the case with Army of Darkness, the third film in the Evil Dead series.
Written by Sam and Ivan Raimi.
I could cite any number of reasons why I prefer the theatrical cut of this movie over Sam Raimi's director's cut, but it all boils down to this: the theatrical release contains my favorite quote. I don't know why an inferior line was used for the director's cut (when the rest of the scene is the same), but there you have it.
Hm? Oh. The line. That's easy. It's right after Ash shoots his evil counterpart in the face.
"Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the gun."
Great line. In the director's cut, after Evil Ash mocks him for being a "goody-little-two-shoes," Ash still shoots him, but instead quips: "I ain't that good." Eh. Not quite the same.
A side note: apparently, before the studio decided that it should stand on its own, apart from the first two Evil Dead installments, Raimi originally intended Army of Darkness to have a far more clever title:
Medieval Dead.
Heh. That's a groovy title, baby. Groovy.
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