Gigli: the next Rocky Horror?

My fertile mind | 7/2/03 | me

[Pharmer]

There is so much hype that this movie sucks that I have to ask this question. Is Hollywood appealling to the grade B crowd? "Showgirls" was pornographic and pathetic (as opposed to "Basic Instinct" which in spite of the porn was a realy good yarn). Yet they bothered to make a DVD of this piece of sh*t. "Pearl Harbor" (also with Ben Aflek) was an insult to the veterans of the event and a mockery of "Tora, Tora, Tora" yet even I have the DVD! There are people out there that love crap movies and make "cult" status to them. Could this be one?

Bad movies abound. One need only to look at "Mystery Theater 3000" on the SciFi channel. They have an audience. "Somewhere in Time" with Jane Seymour and Superman sucked as much as it was sappy. The critics booed. We watch to see the train wreck. "Ace Ventura, Pet Detective" sucked, was trashed by the critics, but it made Jim Carry a star!! And they made a sequal that was even worse!!!! All of this trashing might only prove to draw the audience. This could lead to the cult status of this flick. 5 years you to could be going to it with your raincoats and day old toast!!

[John Beresford Tipton]

Ishtar?

[Senator Pardek]

I'm so gay.

[Paul Atreides]

Warren Beatty has two stinkeroos to his name: Ishtar and Town & Country.

[LurkerNoMore!]

Second!

[breakem]

We've been expecting you to come out.

[BunnySlippers]

What are the odds on this marriage? I give them 4 months.

[Paul Atreides]

Doesn't Ben Aflac taint everything he stars in?

[Paul Atreides]

Also, will they take Matt Demon on the honeymoon?

[JOE6PAK]

IM sure this is all just so much studio hype.

I will just have to go see for myself.$$

must...go...see...for...myself..$8..must...go...see....$8...must...go...$8.

[BunnySlippers]

My Beef: I live in Los Angeles. But all of these flacks came from somewhere else in the Union to soil our state. Send them back! Deport them! :-)

[Ford Fairlane]

One question: does J-Lo get naked in this movie?

Her back porch is way too big, but if she did get naked I might rent the DVD on $1 movie nite at the local video house just for laughs

[Paul Atreides]

I cannot believe that they thought they were making a good movie, in Gigli. I hate mushy dialogue, but to think that they felt that "gobble gobble" is a turn-on is pathetic.

[Pharmer]

If J-Lo gets naked in any film it would be a hit!

[Miss Marple]

"Ishtar" is rivaled only by that horrible mid-60's movie "The Swimmer", as a colossal, time-wasting, stinkeroo, loser movie.

My husband and I rented "Ishtar" one night when everything else was rented, thinking it couldn't be THAT bad.

We were wrong.

[Loyalist]

No major Hollywood movie stunk as badly as Heaven's Gate.

I watched it last year after I read the book about how its making led to the unmaking of United Artists.

I regret that I will never get those three and a half hours of my life back.

[staytrue]

I don't think rocky horror was a bad picture. The plot was absurd, but the movie had a tremendous energy about it and that is why it made cult movie status. Rocky horror had bad aspects to it, but badness alone doesn't cut it. Energy is why we liked Kramer (from Seinfeld). It does not much matter how bad you are, if you are energetic and do it with style, you will be somewhat popular.

[Pharmer]

When to see "Battlefeild Earth" with 3 kids...$30.00 + popcorn and soda..$50.00...bored kids needed more popcorn and soda...$70.00...(sucker)...snore!!!!

[nunya bidness]

Damnit! I can't follow him around all the time. That would be like stalking and might make him think I'm that way, which I'm not. Trust me, I'm not.