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stupidity It is now considered one of the funniest and most predictable science fiction films ever made. But it almost wasn’t like that. At the time of launch, stupidity It was a huge bomb. No one saw it, stupidity It made no money and was out of theaters in less than a week. Thanks to the work of fans and independent publishers, we now know it exists.
goofy The failure was no accident. Despite Mike Judge’s comedy likely to be a box office hit, 20th Century Fox decided to squelch the film before it even had a chance, and the reasons behind the giant’s decision will be very familiar to those of you who follow the company. This is usually indicated by specific and independent postings along with actions taken by Google on this website.
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The director at the time was mike judge completed office space, Beavis and Butthead Ten years after their debut, they were setting their sights on other projects. This time he wanted to make a time travel film that would mock the current direction of American culture. Fox already made a lot of money working with Mike Judge, so they funded him.
That’s what the judge called his new comedy. stupidity.
How Fox Deliberately Destroyed Mike Judge’s Movie
With a smart script by Mike Judge and a major motion picture studio behind it. stupidity It seemed like he was ready to make an impressive play. There was just one big problem. The thing is that 20th Century Fox deliberately decided to destroy the movie.
Things first started going wrong in March 2005. stupidity It was screened to test audiences, but the response was so poor that 20th Century Fox ordered reshoots that delayed the film’s release date indefinitely.
By April 2006, Judge had the Fox team satisfied enough with the film to announce a September 2006 release. Fox agreed to disclose it because it was contractually required to do so. The contract did not require anything else from them.
When the movie’s release date approached on September 1, 2006, stupidity He died on arrival. Fox ensured this by releasing the film in only 130 theaters nationwide to audiences who didn’t know it existed.
Fox never promoted the film. any. stupidity We didn’t even get a trailer for the movie.
The only promotional materials anyone saw were two low-resolution photos. A few independent sites like Cinema Blend have found it and done their best to showcase it. There wasn’t much to work with.
People can’t go see a movie if they don’t know it exists. And no one knew stupidity existed.
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I knew it existed because I was heavily involved in covering Mike Judge at my first independent entertainment news site, Cinema Blend. No other site, especially the big companies, talked about Judge’s next movie at all.
stupidity did not receive advance screenings for critics, so on the day of its release, I drove to the only theater in Dallas, Texas that was showing the film and bought a ticket. The film wasn’t listed on the theater’s marquee, and the ticket agent looked perplexed when I asked to pay to see it. He had to check with his manager before letting me in before taking my cash (people were still using green paper back then).
Hallway sign indicating which theater stupidity It looked as if it had been printed on the Cinemark theater manager’s personal inkjet. The theater where the movie was shown was empty, so I watched it alone and laughed alone.
Two days later, the Cinemark stopped showing the film entirely. It lasted less than a week, but it was fun, and the dozen or so people who actually saw it liked it.
My review was one of only five published on the Internet and published on Rotten Tomatoes. Only three of those reviews were positive. As expected, the most negative was a frustrated critic from Entertainment Weekly, one of the two big brand outlets that reviewed it.
stupidity It completed its theatrical release in one week, grossing less than $500,000 at the worldwide box office.
Fox destroyed stupidity for the same reason Google destroyed independent publishers.
Fox killed their movies. why? Now I believe most people were afraid of upsetting their corporate partners.
all the time stupidityCorporate America is framed as the main antagonist and primary cause of the anti-intellectual culture that has ruined the world. The movie brings some pretty vicious changes to companies like Starbucks.
In the future, Starbucks stopped serving coffee and began serving by mouth. Costco is now its own city-state.
President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho, played by Terry Crews, embodies this corporate mockery. He is a former professional wrestler and porn star who addresses the nation and delivers bombastic and idiotic speeches while firing a machine gun.
In a 2018 interview with GQ, Terry Crews admitted that real advertisers poured money into the film.I thought it would get a positive portrayal. They were shocked to learn that fact. stupidity They turned their business into a full-fledged massage parlor and then accused them of destroying the entire world.
If Crews is right, it confirms that Fox was contractually obligated to release the film, even though it feared upsetting its business associates. So they did everything they could to make it public and at the same time make sure no one saw it. This is all in an effort to avoid upsetting the big brands.
Ironically, this was the same excuse Google gave to independent websites recently when asked why they favored older media outlets. Some things never change.
Mike Judge still won’t say a bad word about Fox.
Taking a more diplomatic approach, Mike Judge generally points to the film’s poor test screenings as the cause. stupidity I have never received it starbucks style Officially released. The judge also said Fox always believed the film would eventually become a cult classic for audiences.
I’m not sure if I purchased it. That guy sounds like a guy trying not to upset his corporate partners.
but it’s true stupidity Thanks to Fox, it quickly became a cult classic.
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A small number of independent websites that conducted reviews. stupidityWe worked hard to spread the word. when stupidity It’s been released on DVD, an independent site supported by readers who’ve seen it rave about it on places like Cinema Blend for months, and have picked up a copy and given it a chance.
The guys watched the DVD, laughed their heads off and became instant converts. they shared stupidity I shared it with my friends.
Thanks to organic sharing of the Mike Judge movie and support from independent entertainment sites, just about everyone knows about it now. stupidity It is the work of a time travel genius.
You can also see praise from big media brands that ignored it back in the day when you actually had to pay to see it.
would stupidity Would it have become a cult classic without independent media? It’s amazing, and I’d like to think so, but the movie is so completely buried in Fox that it’s hard to know.
What we do know is that this scenario is unlikely to repeat itself again, as Google continues to shadow-ban independent media and small publishers, keeping them off the internet.
Mike Judge’s Journey into Stupidity
To understand what happened stupidityYou have to understand Mike Judge, the producer of time travel movies.
In 1993, Judge achieved his first big break with his debut. Bibi and Butthead. It was an animated MTv hit about two teenage boys who aren’t exactly the best and always seem to be in trouble. Of course, while making fun of MTV music videos.
The show has been the subject of controversy, especially from watchdog groups. Bibi and Butthead It increases the reputation of the counterculture and launches the careers of its creators. The Judge found further success when Beavis and his friends released a movie that was a box office hit after the TV show. Beavis and Butthead do America.
Soon after, Mike Judge launched a popular animated series called: king of the hill On Fox. He made the transition to live-action in 2017, writing and directing the funniest workplace comedy of all time. office space. He got Jennifer Aniston to co-star in it, one of her first major film roles.
Mike Judge was well on his way to making a movie. stupidity 2005. Now he is so traumatized by the whole experience that he can barely talk about it.
Idiocracy visits a future full of idiots.
Since 2005, stupidity It centers on Luke Wilson’s Joe Bauers, the most ordinary soldier in the U.S. Army. Joe is upset when he learns that he will be removed from his position as military librarian to participate in a government-sanctioned hibernation experiment. He participated in the experiment with a prostitute named Rita, who was supposedly recruited because she would do anything for money.
Joe went into the experiment confident that it would only last one year. Unfortunately, the government forgot about this project after the lead researcher was imprisoned for illegal activities. Joe wakes up 500 years later in a world completely different from the one he remembered. In most cases it is different. Because the overbreeding of idiots has made everyone in the world very, very stupid.
America’s #1 movie in the future assThat was it for 90 minutes. One butt is on screen the entire time. It won eight Oscars that year, including Best Original Screenplay.
All the crops are dying because they are watered with energy drinks. The English language has degenerated into a mixture of hillbilly, valleygirl, inner-city slang, and various grunts.
Joe, once considered an ordinary man, is now a genius.
