{"id":1413,"date":"2008-12-23T18:47:52","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T22:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2008-12-23T18:10:30","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T22:10:30","slug":"my-name-is-bruce-2008-bruce-campbell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/1413","title":{"rendered":"My Name Is Bruce (2008, Bruce Campbell)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose this was probably just as bad as <em>Man With The Screaming Brain<\/em>, but for that one I was in the theater, forced to contemplate its obvious, unfunny crappiness on the big, big screen surrounded by unquestioning fans who just came to get an autograph.  This one I could half-pay attention to while searching the internet for Silkworm bootlegs, a much better idea.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/mynameisbruce1.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Not even half as good as <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/980\">Maniac Cop<\/a><\/em>, which kinda sucked, this stars Bruce as the cult version of himself (washed-up loser asshole with huge ego).  He&#8217;s kidnapped from the set of his latest awful horror sequel by an obsessed fan who wants Bruce to save his small town from a resurrected Chinese warrior demon, which he sorta does, even though the kid awoke the thing himself by stealing some stone that he doesn&#8217;t think to just put back.  Bruce is an anti-hero throughout, killing townsfolk with his cowardice and incompetence.<\/p>\n<p>Ted Raimi plays a bunch of characters, including a couple offensive stereotypes:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/mynameisbruce2.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Directed, of course, by Mr. Campbell, along with the writer of <em>Time Cop<\/em>, producer of <em>Barb Wire<\/em>, and cinematographer of <em>Command &#038; Conquer<\/em> (the videogame series!), and a bunch of actors whose secret hopes that this would be their big break into the movies were surely dashed when they saw the premiere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose this was probably just as bad as Man With The Screaming Brain, but for that one I was in the theater, forced to contemplate its obvious, unfunny crappiness on the big, big screen surrounded by unquestioning fans who just came to get an autograph. This one I could half-pay attention to while searching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[169,605],"class_list":["post-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-awful","tag-bruce-campbell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1493,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions\/1493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}