Posted by thx3188 at 208.218.130.179 on June 19, 2000 at 14:28:02:
In Reply to: From Dusk Til Dawn 2 - Kevin Cameo?? posted by beemovieguy on June 19, 2000 at 12:02:39:
First of all, the movie sucked. The third pne is much better, but still
not quite up to the standards the first one set.
Moving on, though.
: Is Kevin in From Dusk Til Dawn 2 for about three seconds?? I finally got
around to watching it last night and could swear that he was, and I even
saw a Kevin Smith listed in the credits, but am not sure if the credit was
our beloved director Kevin, or a different Kevin.
Possibly. With Tom Savini being in tight with about 95% of Hollywood,
Kevin and Quentin included, I wouldn't doubt it. Although I do think there
would have been some kind of hub bub about it here, at least the same
amount as what came from Scream 3, so maybe not. And there is always the
possibility that the Kevin Smith in FDTD2 is Kevin "Ares" Smith and not
Kevin "Silent Bob" Smith and the guy you saw was merely a lookalike.
: BTW, the movie, which I rented purposely because I figured it would suck,
was actually very good. Great direction, good acting, lots of in-jokes
(FDTD1 is one the TV at the outset of the film) and Robert Patrick is great
as the Bill Paxton-redneck type criminal. Trejo returns as his own
brother, Maria Checa (Playboy model) gives us all a great eyeful, and
whats-his-name (plays the guy who owns the shop where Rhames and Willis
wind up and calls in Zed in Pulp Fiction) is here as one of the bank
robbers. Bruce Campbell is in it for the opening thirty seconds as well.
The director (forget his name - Spiegel I think?) is obviously a Sam Raimi
fan and this movie is a fine piece of work.
Okay, well...I'll give it all the technical merit stuff, but the film
itself wasn't as good as I had been led to believe or felt I should expect.
Granted, Spiegel's an indie director whose credits include Thou Shalt Not
Kill...Except (Which, by the way, I thought was done extremely well for an
independent movie), so I don't know what I WAS expecting, but the movie
seemed to fall flat on so many levels that I just didn't like it.
On the subject of Scott Spiegel; he worked on all of the Evil Dead flicks,
co-writing the first two, I believe, and he is good friends with Sam Raimi.
He wrote a movie called "Bloodbath" during the filming of Evil Dead,
refined it with a marine, rewrote it again with Bruce Campbell, and then
filmed it under the title: Thou Shalt Not Kill...EXCEPT. He was the reason
Bruce Campbell was in FDTD2.
He also wrote the production notes that came with the Evil Dead Collector's
Edition VHS tape.
thx3188
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