mmm...mmm...good?

The movie "My Name is Bruce" is tongue-in-cheek mediocre -- which means it is mediocre, but that is part of its charm.  I went on Saturday night to see the movie, not just for the film experience, but because the film's star Bruce Campbell would be there.

I never really was obsessed with Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2 or Army of Darkness.  I just enjoy them and his other movies enough to be curious about what this guy is actually like.  Campbell was supposed to introduce the film...he didn't.  That left me sitting for the first half of the movie squirming in my seat worrying that he was not actually there.  I was the one who had convinced my friends to go, and I would have felt pretty bad if he wasn't there.  

The second half of the movie I spent telling myself over and over again that it was intentionally this bad.  When the credits rolled, the audience clapped -- half out of enjoyment, half out of excitement for Bruce Campbell.  A few seconds after the ended, Bruce Campbell made his way down the stairs to the front of the theater.  He looked like a slightly rotund debutante descending for her debut.  The crowd went nuts, blinded him with camera flashes and had their wet Ash dreams fulfilled.

Campbell answered questions for about 45 minutes.  Most were the stock questions of "when is Bubba-Ho-Tep 2 coming out?" and "What was your favorite film to work on?"  Some where a little more entertaining.  One older lady fan asked if Campbell would ever do a Scottish-themed horror film "something like Bruce-heart."  And then there was the obsessed fan who stood up in his spiderman shirt and proclaimed that he worked at Starbucks, but also was Thor: god of Thunder and Lightning.  

Campbell had a stock answer for  a lot of questions and a snarky answer for the rest.  I can only say he fills out the suit of a charming jerk fabulously.  

My comment at the end of the night was that Bruce Campbell seemed like someone I would have dated, been drawn to his sarcastic darkness and charm and been left in pieces as he dumped me because he didn't want to be tied down.  Then, I guess he would have gone off to kill zombies or something.

I always wonder when I see famous people like this if we could actually be friends.  If Bruce Campbell and I had sat down over a beer after the Q & A, would we hit it off?  Not sexually, but just person to person?

Regardless, Bruce Campbell is now an alternate on my list of top 5 celebrities.  So, if something happens to Alton Brown, star of Good Eats on the Food Network, he is in.  

Congrats to Bruce Campbell.