I didn't mean to say that "campy" meant "silly" or "not serious." However, I did not make enough separations myself especially since I have not seen the original.
My real point was that there are many who are in a massive uproar against the remake after having seen both of them, and I couldn't help but think of the reasons either being that it was too identical or that it was not identical enough, not just because it was a remake. The quick impressions that I saw simply admired Raimi's work over Alvarez's, and since Alvarez's tone in his film can't be though of as anything else other than brooding, I made a quick shot in the dark that Raimi allowed for some campiness in his version.
Thanks for the heads up, though. I wonder if it's really just one of those things like "If this film was released twenty years ago it would have been great, but since then everything else has been released" kinds of things, like Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead is more of a classic than it is an actual good movie which holds up comparatively to today's standards (as in, if it was released today it would still be as enjoyed as it was then). I shall take no biases into my impressions, though.
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