At best, Kyle Kulinski is a fucking retard. At worst; he's a dishonest, historical revisionist, propagandist, sack of shit. All the scumbags who amplify his idiotic dem-lib talking points should not be given the time of day, I'm looking at you The Vanguard.
Kyle Kulinski: “There is a 0% chance Kamala Harris would have carpet-bombed little girls schools in Iran. There’s no fucking planet where Donald Trump was the better option over Kamala Harris. If you believe that, your brain is motherfucking figgy pudding”
Everyone and their grandmother knew when The Faculty came out, it about kids, not teachers. The ads made it clear. It under performing had more to do with a bit of Scream-fatigue. Even then, it did all right all the way up to video rentals. Not everything can become a phenomenon.
Robert Rodriguez on the reason why 'The Faculty' (1998) didn't perform as well as it could have in the box office & it's cult status:
"Rodriguez: Making 'The Faculty' (1998) was just a blast. There was so much young energy and the actors were just so into it. I will say, I was worried it wouldn’t do well though. I wanted them to use a different title because our target audience wasn’t gonna want to see a movie about teachers. So I fought for a better title.
Interviewer: Did you have some title ideas in your head?
Rodriguez: I did. There was 'Alienated', but my favorite idea was The Others. And the studio was like, “No no, let’s just go with The Faculty.” Then two years later that same studio released a movie titled 'The Others' (2001) with Nicole Kidman. But I came up with that name for 'The Faculty'. I mean, it’s possible that its script already had that title, but yeah, I wanted that title for my movie. I think 'The Faculty' didn’t perform as well as it could have because of the title.
I remember growing up there was a movie with Nick Nolte called 'Teachers' (1984). And I remember being like … what kid wants to see a movie about teachers? That’s what I was worried about with my movie, that we weren’t going to attract a younger audience because of the title. They even had to shoot extra footage of the faculty doing stuff like closing windows and locking doors for the trailer, which just strengthened the idea of teachers being the bad guys. So yeah, I think they didn’t know how to sell it, which is why I think so many people discovered it later and are now coming out and being like, “Hey, this movie is pretty good!”"
("Robert Rodriguez on Hypnotic and the 25th anniversary of his cult hit The Faculty", Keith Langston, digital trends, 2023)
P.S: Happy 58th birthday, Robert Rodriguez!
Interesting how Chinese blockbusters are always propaganda, while Hollywood films featuring military hardware, military advisors, and military-approved scripts are somehow just ‘entertainment’.