Why is this film so disliked?

I have no idea why they hate this movie!, this movie was awesome!, this was evil dead meets detroit!, paul smith, and brion james are hilarious! i just wish it would come out on DVD, the only copy i have is a almost 20 year old vhs that i recorded on cinemax when the movie first hit cable!,(awful recording but its all i have!)
the world needs to see this movie!

I loved this film when I orignially saw it on cable years ago. I taped it and gauged people's reactions when I showed it to them (many looks of horror). I think the humor was very over the top (remember that this was pre-Jim Carey)and had some off color lines ("Where'd ya get the negro, Butch?"). I just Googled the film today and saw that it was written by the Coen brothers and was directed by Sam Raimi. And the lady from Walker Texas Ranger was the love interest. No wonder why I loved it!

For those who thought Bruce Campbell should have had the lead role, it would be like casting Sylvester Stalone as Seymour in "Little Shop of Horrors". You needed a small, put upon nerd who's always looking on the bright side.

Yeah I loved this film since a child too. What I gathered from Bruce Campbell's autobiography was Raimi was very angry at how the studio controlled his movie, requiring rewrites and editing Raimi wasnt happy with, so thats why I think he dissociates himself from the film.
I dont recall if Raimi wanted Bruce as the leading role, maybe..I do remember that he wanted The Heel to have a bigger part.

*SPOILER*: The Heel dying out of nowhere was placed deliberatly last minute so that Bruce's character could be edited out of the movie due to studio constraints and timing. When I first saw that scene I thought it kinda fitted in with the rest of the film's surrealness.



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The Heel is hilarious as well as other parts of the film.

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In Bruce's terrific autobiography "If Chins Could Kill," he talks at length about "Crimewave", aka "The XYX Murders". A lot of things went wrong. It was their first time dealing with studio politics and "creative input" from the corporate accountants, and Sam Raimi & Co were vetoed every step of the way, from the casting choices (yes, Bruce was supposed to play the lead, but the execs felt otherwise) to the title itself. Filming went WAY over budget, and the studio fired many of Sam's regular crew members. Louise Lasser was impossible. Raimi had to fight the studio just to be in the room while his movie was being edited. And then, when the movie was complete, the marketing people didn't have a clue as to how to sell it.

Campbell does assign some of the blame to himself and to Raimi. It was their first time making a "real" movie with a "real" studio, a "real" budget and "real" actors; he acknowledges that they just didn't know what they were doing, and the idiots at the studio only compounded their mistakes.

Of course, the upshot is that after the "Crimewave" debacle, Raimi, Campbell, and the rest of the gang were much more motivated to make "Evil Dead 2" their way, and the rest is history.

Read the book, it's a trip.

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If Chins Could Kill
Confessions of a 'B' Movie actor

will answer all of those questions you might have about the movie.

To sum it up, during hte last few weeks of filming, the interests, investors, were shown teh movie before it was done and, becuas eit was their money, demanded that a new beginning and end be shot for it.

In the end, Sam raimi did not direct, just edited for 'their tastes.'

I'd hate it too if my ending did never show...

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