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"I think Stealth is an interesting choice as an examination of the Hollywood Blockbuster mentality of the 2000s until about now, I guess. It seems like Studio Executive-types were hoping it would be a launching pad for Josh Lucas and Jessica Biel to be superstars, only now all the good roles they'd be getting are taken by Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. It was also the first high-profile movie Jamie Foxx did after his much heralded performances in Collateral and Ray, the latter of which won him a fucking Oscar. So you had this legitimate Academy Award-winning superstar, two gorgeous-looking potential superstars, and a plot and look modeled after Michael Bay movies; it was a movie engineered to be a Big Fucking Deal... only it was NOT. $32 million domestic gross ($76 million total) on a $135 million budget. Yikes. That said... I don't know if it would make a good episode because I've never seen it. Is it fun? Just dumb? I don't know. If you were teaching a class on Hollywood Fuck-Ups, it would be a film to show, to be sure.\n \nMy perennial favorites are Southland Tales, The Happening, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and Dreamcatcher. Lady in the Water would be ok too, but I think that would be less fun and more rage inducing. It's totally arbitrary on my part, but I think my own commentary on that one would yelling \"Fuck You M. Night!\" over and over while I can at least laugh at The Happening. Still, I can't recall a movie that has made me angrier than League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, soooo.... again, totally arbitrary.\n"
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