{"id":1021,"date":"2008-02-21T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T09:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/02\/yet-another-movie-not-screened-for-critics-14\/"},"modified":"2008-02-21T09:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T09:51:00","slug":"yet-another-movie-not-screened-for-critics-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/02\/yet-another-movie-not-screened-for-critics-14.html","title":{"rendered":"Yet another movie not screened for critics."},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/R72-UKCogUI\/AAAAAAAABI4\/ImoFTIJa-Bw\/s1600-h\/witlessprotection.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/R72-UKCogUI\/AAAAAAAABI4\/ImoFTIJa-Bw\/s400\/witlessprotection.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br><span style=\"font-family: georgia\"><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1001562\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Witless Protection<\/a><\/i> comes out in the U.S. tomorrow, and there are still no reviews at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/film\/titles\/witlessprotection\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Metacritic<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/witless_protection\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>.  This isn\u2019t too surprising, since the film is being released by Lionsgate, a studio that often avoids showing movies to critics in advance, and it stars Larry the Cable Guy, whose previous live-action films <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/yet-another-movie-not-screened-for.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Delta Farce<\/a><\/i> (2007) and <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/more-movies-not-screened-for-critics.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Health Inspector<\/a><\/i> (2006) also had critics-avoidance issues.  The film will open in Canada three weeks from now, and the local publicist says it \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/this-movie-was-not-screened-for-critics.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">will not be screened<\/a> prior to release.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>MAR 6 UPDATE:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libertyfilmfestival.com\/libertas\/?p=9058\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Libertas<\/a> says the film won\u2019t be opening in Canada at all, now.  That wouldn\u2019t happen to be because the film never managed to crack the Top 12 even in the U.S., would it?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Witless Protection comes out in the U.S. tomorrow, and there are still no reviews at Metacritic or Rotten Tomatoes. This isn\u2019t too surprising, since the film is being released by Lionsgate, a studio that often avoids showing movies to critics in advance, and it stars Larry the Cable Guy, whose previous live-action films Delta Farce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Yet another movie not screened for critics.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Witless Protection comes out in the U.S. tomorrow, and there are still no reviews at Metacritic or Rotten Tomatoes. 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