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post #51 of 61
8/24/03 at 7:42am
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Kevin Matchstick:
Well uh the title "Marci X" is uh a "Malcolm X" joke so uh er well why not?
Don't let me stop you. But you're better than that.
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post #52 of 61
8/24/03 at 1:42pm
Not really, man. But thanks for believing. Made me laugh anyway.
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post #53 of 61
8/24/03 at 3:37pm
I guess what I don't understand is why they released this in a theater at all.

Honestly, it won't even make the money it cost to make 1,000 prints of this back, much less the $7-8 million in TV advertising they took out. Just dump it on video shelves and accept that you wasted $20 million on a stupid fucking idea.

Why lose even MORE money?
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post #54 of 61
8/24/03 at 8:33pm
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Micah Robinson:
I guess what I don't understand is why they released this in a theater at all.

Honestly, it won't even make the money it cost to make 1,000 prints of this back, much less the $7-8 million in TV advertising they took out. Just dump it on video shelves and accept that you wasted $20 million on a stupid fucking idea.

Why lose even MORE money?
Agreed. To me this signals that no matter what the Studios say about "getting it" - realizing that the public has more choices, word of mouth spreads faster due to Technology, when push comes to shove they think the public isn't very bright and can be swayed by some by some catchy TV ads and trailers. And maybe a few shill reviews on certain movie websites (AICN). Also their egos are so overinflated that they refuse to admit failure.
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post #55 of 61
8/24/03 at 8:40pm
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Micah Robinson:
I guess what I don't understand is why they released this in a theater at all.

Honestly, it won't even make the money it cost to make 1,000 prints of this back, much less the $7-8 million in TV advertising they took out. Just dump it on video shelves and accept that you wasted $20 million on a stupid fucking idea.

Why lose even MORE money?
Obviously the money that they thought they'd make on the release was enough to justify releasing it. Either that or they were honoring a contract.
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post #56 of 61
8/24/03 at 8:42pm
Come on, Whispering Smith - you're better than that.
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post #57 of 61
8/27/03 at 6:19pm
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Micah Robinson:
Also, I understand this thing is like 70 minutes longh WITH credits. Is this even a feature? Is this even a film? Clearly, it's been flayed to the bones and most likely is missing several scenes in the trailers like the similarly cut-to-shreds The Medallion.
This seems to be a trend lately, and it's a big indicator of shittymoviehoodness. Studios are cutting the fuck out of comedies that they have no faith in. Most of these are probably lousy in the first place, but when you remove everything but the jokes, you're usually gonna end up with a lousy movie.
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post #58 of 61
8/31/03 at 4:15am
Boy, this movie died a horrible death.

Anway, where have I been?
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post #59 of 61
8/31/03 at 6:16am
Kevin, why else would they release it?
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post #60 of 61
8/31/03 at 2:06pm
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T_Mike Sees Matrices:
Anway, where have I been?
Idaho? People go to Idaho sometimes. That's where people go when they die... an angel told me that once at a Waffle House.

You were missed, T.
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post #61 of 61
9/5/03 at 7:55pm
Not that I ever agree with Lisa Schwarzbaum from EW, but she liked it and thinks it will become a cult-classic.

This part of her review got me though:

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Part of the problem with this lighter-than-Bulworth commentary on class, politics, and art is that for all its lighthearted gibes at rap posturing, mogal vulgarity, socialite vanity, and black-white attitudinizing, the movie feels disconnected from its own objects of ridicule. Pual Rudnick, whose more heartfelt play-turned-1995 movie, Jeffrey, featured Christine Baranski in a "Hoedown for AIDS," at one point continues his disease-gala dissection in Marci X with a charity banquet for Children With No Feeling in Their Arms. I predict a robust rental future from the healthy who, for no other reason, laugh at the sight of youngsters solemnly being stuck with forks as a fund-raising ploy.
Bwahahaha! Count me as one of those renters.
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