Posted by sean at threshold8n.jpmorgan.com on May 21, 2002 at 16:45:57:
In Reply to: Oh yeah... posted by Championship_Vinyl on May 21, 2002 at 16:36:14:
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: That didn't do so well, huh?
: But I'll bet he was fine. Raimi is the kind of director/producer who works on projects he connects with on some level. Either he's a fan of the genre(Evil Dead) or character (Spider-Man).
: For Love Of The Game is a pretty sentimental story, so he must've had some kind of attachment to what it had to say personally, or he would've never done it.
he did it -- as opposed to "End of Days" -- because he was looking to break into more of the mainstream, and despite the flop, that mainstream-ness did help him to get "Spider-Man". He only had the opportunity to do it because he had shown he could do normal (on a smaller budget) with "A Simple Plan".
Still wish he had done "End of Days". That way we'd have had one really cool movie rather than two pretty bad ones. (I like "End of Days", actually, but watching it, I couldn't help but feel how much cooler Arnold fighting the Devil *could* have been.)