{"id":961,"date":"2008-03-25T19:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/03\/yet-another-movie-not-screened-for-critics-12\/"},"modified":"2008-03-25T19:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T19:51:00","slug":"yet-another-movie-not-screened-for-critics-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/03\/yet-another-movie-not-screened-for-critics-12.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:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/R-nB1N6twpI\/AAAAAAAABYs\/RCOb1OWWv4s\/s1600-h\/superheromovie-a.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/R-nB1N6twpI\/AAAAAAAABYs\/RCOb1OWWv4s\/s400\/superheromovie-a.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br><span style=\"font-family: georgia\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nypost.com\/movies\/archives\/2008\/03\/star_wars_fans.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lou Lumenick<\/a> notes that the next film to be released <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/this-movie-was-not-screened-for-critics.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">without being screened<\/a> for critics first is <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0426592\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Superhero Movie<\/a><\/i>, which opens this Friday.  He also notes that the film may become a casualty of the \u201cgrass-roots fan boycott\u201d that some irate <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/stop-look-at-city-pronounce-warn-carry.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Star Wars<\/a><\/i> fans have launched against the Weinstein Company; apparently an independent, <i>Star Wars<\/i>-themed movie called <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0489049\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fanboys<\/a><\/i> has become the latest acquisition to get hacked up by Harvey \u201cDarth\u201d Weinstein, and the boycotters want the movie released in its original form.  I have no particular interest in seeing <i>Superhero Movie<\/i> myself, but I have to agree with <a href=\"http:\/\/hollywood-elsewhere.com\/2008\/03\/planet_eater.php\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jeffrey Wells<\/a> that the clip below is a fun little parody of <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/lions-for-lambs-reviews-up.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tom Cruise<\/a> and that <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5002269\/the-cruise-indoctrination-video-scientology-tried-to-suppress\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Scientology video<\/a> of his that made the rounds a couple months ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pzIM5Ya0yYM\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pzIM5Ya0yYM<\/a><br>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pzIM5Ya0yYM\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a> if the video file above doesn\u2019t play properly.<\/p>\n<p>MAR 26 UPDATE:  Reader Doug reminds me of this <i>other<\/i> amusing spoof of Cruise\u2019s video, starring Jerry O\u2019Connell \u2014 who, incidentally, co-starred with Cruise in <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0000639FE\/petertchatta\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jerry Maguire<\/a><\/i> (1996):<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www2.funnyordie.com\/public\/flash\/fodplayer.swf<a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/videos\/3f716ffebe\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the parody video Tom Cruise WANTS you to see!<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">FunnyOrDie.com<\/a><br>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/videos\/3f716ffebe\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a> if the video file above doesn\u2019t play properly.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lou Lumenick notes that the next film to be released without being screened for critics first is Superhero Movie, which opens this Friday. He also notes that the film may become a casualty of the \u201cgrass-roots fan boycott\u201d that some irate Star Wars fans have launched against the Weinstein Company; apparently an independent, Star Wars-themed [&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-961","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=\"Lou Lumenick notes that the next film to be released without being screened for critics first is Superhero Movie, which opens this Friday. 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