Gigli Could Make Them Forget Armageddon

Forbes ^ | 8/4/03 | Dan Ackman

[Arkinsaw]

Review for Affleck's Pearl Harbor were almost as bad, and that opened strongly.

People went to see Pearl Harbor for the special effects of the attack reenactment. They didn't know they would have to drool through a couple of hours of dime store romance novel to see it.

Their fans can still look forward to Jen and Ben in the upcoming Jersey Girl, slated for 2004.

Woohoo! Woohoo!

But they always remember Affleck in Armageddon.

Give me a break. Affleck's character was the most shallow and irritating of all the characters in that movie. The rest of the cast pulled his weight in that film.

[Howlin]

My kids are convinced that J-Lo is going to be the end of Ben.

[Long Cut]

One more reason for a long-held theory of mine...the motion picture industry, as a whole and represented by the oligarchy known as "Hollywood", is patently disfunctional.

No other industry could long endure its workers (actors, directors, etc) demanding huge percentages of its profits individually (whilst still belonging to unions!) and failing to produce. No other producer of products could weather the negative returns of so many of its products. Certainly, none would long survive while so inefficiently run, and with so little attention paid to its customers.

That "Hollywood" has done so is probably due to its so-called "Star Power" and glamour/glitz, which it works so hard to maintain.

I would, however, like to see just how a studio, built and set up according to respected, tested business models would do.

[okie01]

"I would, however, like to see just how a studio, built and set up according to respected, tested business models would do."

It would restrict itself to producing commercials...

[agrace]

I LIKED Armageddon! Steve Buschemi was great, to name one bright spot.

Then again, my husband and I also typically like movies that don't do well. We own a copy of Hudson Hawk, for example.

However, I do draw the line at this one, can't imagine we'd like Gigli...even if we ever rented it.

[A CA Guy]

I didn't even remember him in that flick until I read your post...and I liked that movie.

Yep, soon Ben will tire of making believe he is hetero and he and J-Ho will break apart and he can go back to Ben.

Happily ever after!

[Paul Atreides]

I think it is the other way around.

[Paul Atreides]

Jennifer Aniston

Another overrated actress.

[Howlin]

I loved that movie! That is one that we bought and we watch it when all the family is today.

[Howlin]

Name one that isn't.

[sittnick]

The biggest bomb in recent years must have been "Town and Country", starring that king of high-$$$ flops, Warren Beatty. See: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/TownandCountry-1107209/?rtp=1 This complete bomb had an all star cast, and I don't think this expensive flick even hit $10 mil. Cast includes (Warren "Isthar" Beatty, Diane Keaton, Natassia "Cat People" Kinski, Charlton Heston, Goldie "aging but surgically corrected body" Hawn, and Andie MacDowell.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Re: "Jersey Girl," who wants to bet the director of THAT movie is seriously considering slashing his wrists over having made what most people will automatically think of as "Gigli 2: Electric Boogaloo" ;-)

[Arpege92]

How many times has J-Lo been married now? Is she trying to beat Elizabeth Taylor's record? Only in Hollywood!

[Fraulein]

soon Ben will tire of making believe he is hetero and he and J-Ho will break apart and he can go back to Ben

You mean go back to Matt?

[Paul Atreides]

From what I remember T&C was years in the making.

[Paul Atreides]

Have you seen The Bourne Identity, with Matt Damon. To me, Damon and espionage go together about as much as DiCaprio portraying Alexander the Great.

[Fraulein]

I can proudly say that I have never seen a Ben Affleck movie, and the only Matt Damon movie I have ever seen was The Talented Mr. Ripley. However, I am NO fan of Damon. The Bourne Identity looked awful, btw.

[Long Cut]

Oh, let's not forget Kevin Costner's history...Waterworld, The Postman, Message In A Bottle...

He's lost hundreds of millions just by himself.

And what about big-budget sludge like Ishtar and Heaven's Gate?

How many times has a "Can't Miss" project been turned into effluvia after the Armanis and lawyers and other coked-up H'wood Heroes got ahold of it?

Godzilla? Starship Troopers? I could go on and on...

[freeforall]

** A report from Howard Duck, referred to Gigli as a notorious artistic and financial failure of the year. His report from Ishtar was confirmed by Howard Hawk that it is one of the great box-office turkeys of this decade.He also said it could be one of the most celebrated box-office bombs in movie history.****
Bombs away!!!