It gets better...
Feb. 22nd, 2008 08:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tj_teejayAs if we didn't know already that for the test screenings of Fanboys, the Weinstein Company wasn't exactly honest, but it gets better. Now Cinematical reports that they put studio plants in the audience on purpose who would encourage the viewers of the no-cancer plot to rate it higher than maybe they would have. Here, read this. I have no words:
Here's where it gets messy: Apparently, both versions were screened for test audiences -- and the new version only tested two points higher than the old version. My super delegate source also claims plants may have been in the audience -- there to pursuade moviegoers to vote against the original version -- but this has not been proven. In two days, after the old version was screened, Brill re-cut the film and they tested it again -- this time it was tighter, dirtier and contained nudity, lots of F-bombs, the whole works. And even with all that, it still only tested two points higher than the old version. But since Weinstein had to justify the fact that they spent an extra $2 million on the re-shoots, they went with the newer, flashier, Without a Paddle-esque version of Fanboys.
Don't you see just how corrupt and manipulated this all is, people? And all just to put the watered down version in theaters, and if it flops, to have the excuse of saying: "Hey, people, we only used that version because you, the fans, wanted it in the first place!" Well, I didn't want it!!!
Man, I hope they will come to their senses. There must be someone involved who's clever enough to realize what they're doing is killing the movie.
Here's where it gets messy: Apparently, both versions were screened for test audiences -- and the new version only tested two points higher than the old version. My super delegate source also claims plants may have been in the audience -- there to pursuade moviegoers to vote against the original version -- but this has not been proven. In two days, after the old version was screened, Brill re-cut the film and they tested it again -- this time it was tighter, dirtier and contained nudity, lots of F-bombs, the whole works. And even with all that, it still only tested two points higher than the old version. But since Weinstein had to justify the fact that they spent an extra $2 million on the re-shoots, they went with the newer, flashier, Without a Paddle-esque version of Fanboys.
Don't you see just how corrupt and manipulated this all is, people? And all just to put the watered down version in theaters, and if it flops, to have the excuse of saying: "Hey, people, we only used that version because you, the fans, wanted it in the first place!" Well, I didn't want it!!!
Man, I hope they will come to their senses. There must be someone involved who's clever enough to realize what they're doing is killing the movie.
