Fox took one of the great epics of the last 30 years, Ridley Scott's terrific Kingdom of Heaven and already hampered it from the beginning when they forced Orlando Bloom on Scott/Monahan's great screenplay. But Scott somehow managed to turn out a half decent performance out of Bloom. AND YET Fox then takes a 3:10 movie of beauty and cuts its down to 2:15 for theatrical release, removing MANY subplots and characters.
It was a crime, IMO. They did something similar with Daredevil in that it was lesser movie. The original cut, which was about 2:15 was pretty good if quite flawed, and then Fox cut it down to 100 ****ing minutes.
Since then they've just been shoveling **** for their big production releases such as Elektra, Fantastic Four, I, Robot, the butchering of Kingdom of Heaven, X3, Eragon and the next in the long line with Fantastic Four 2.
While Fox Searchlight releases many goodm ovies each year and Fox occasionally releases a great prestige picture every Christmas (Molun Rouge, for example) that is risky, the studio sees most of its movies as only business propositions to make money and treat them with about as much care as a happy meal or a Big Mac being made.
And it is the damn mentality of money-****ing Tom Rothman. But hey to be fiar he is just the movie exec version of Rupert Murdoch's business system of bull****. From Newscorps terrible newspapers. To the Fox Network's need to cancel good shows on a regular basis (Arrested Development, Firefly, Futurama and Drive come immediately to mind) while shoveling the literal worst of network television with relaity tv sand simple minded shows only made for sex to impress teenagers, for the most part.
Albeit, the worst branch off is easily Fox News. A news network that literally just isn't slanted, but downright a propoganda machine that has been caught lying or "miscommunicating" information on more than one occassion as the right hand of the White House.
I HATE Fox.
Done.
