Why was a Chinese Odyssey so cold at the box office?

When filming a Chinese odyssey, almost everyone in the crew called Stephen Chow and Liu Zhenwei crazy. At that time, most of the staff came from Xi 'an Film Studio. When shooting started, many people stood at a distance and watched Liu Zhenwei and Stephen Chow filming, just like watching monkeys: "What a mess!" Liu Zhenwei was very sad at that time, because he thought he had written a genius script, and the whole world scolded him. Many people think it is extremely shameful that this kind of film is associated with Journey to the West. In fact, what Stephen Chow and Liu Zhenwei want to thank most is a group of people, and this group of people is college students. 1996, the filmmaker sent a copy of A Chinese Odyssey to the Beijing Film Academy. Unexpectedly, as soon as the film was shown in school, college students went crazy in an instant and immediately regarded the film as their own treasure. University teachers saw this posture and immediately studied it as a great academic work, saying that it contained a lot of postmodernism, but in fact, Stephen Chow and Liu Zhenwei were all ignorant after hearing this word. What the hell? Postmodernism? We've never heard of it. Come on!