I think that we will notice it fairly quickly.

Remember Rome's bread and circuses – we might keep passing out the dole, but without entertainments the mob will go make their own fun. Think massive rioting and bloodshed due to boredom.

There will unfortunately be plenty of idiots who watch this movie. I just hope that it won't be enough to allow the film to recoup its total costs.

The really sad thing is that 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, a genuine brilliant film, barely recovered its $50M budget, but Sony Pictures is more than happy to spend three times that amount of money on what is almost certainly going to be a complete pile of trash.

Sadly, my cynicism tells me that there are at least some morons who will watch and enjoy this drek. Enough that Sony won't go broke over it.

Depressing as it seems: in the end the morons of Idiocracy triumph. Sony wouldn't make this garbage if they weren't damn sure that they'd do better'n break-even. Even if it bombs in the theatre. Which means that they have a way better finger on the pulse of what will actually make some kind of money entertainment-wise these days.

(Also, apparently, in film-land all the research done by the prior Ghostbusters has disappeared – maybe it never existed, perhaps it was burned? – and Teh Strawng Empowahed Wimminz™ have to learn and redo it all for themselves. Way to go Sony. Shades of Obama: "If you've got a business, you didn't build that." Go ahead, insult our minds.)