More just keeps rolling in and it couldn't happen to a more nauseating couple:
observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1011373,00.html
J-Lo and Ben's £30m turkey is carved up
Film critics round on Hollywood's golden couple Lawrence Donegan in San Francisco
Sunday August 3, 2003
The Observer
'It's turkey time. Gobble, gobble,' announces lesbian gangster Rikki, played by Jennifer Lopez, as she lies on a bed during a seduction scene in the new release Gigli.
Never has a leading lady uttered a more prophetic line. The film, which also stars Lopez's real-life lover Ben Affleck, has already gathered some of the worst reviews ever written and is a major contender for the industry's least coveted title: Hollywood's Greatest Turkey.
'Gigli doesn't need a review, it needs an inquest,' said the San Francisco Chronicle, while the Wall Street Journal decided it was 'the worst movie of our admittedly young century'. More stupefying follies may come, it added, but 'it is impossible to imagine how they'll beat this one for staggering idiocy, fatuousness or pretension.'
These are harsh words for a film on whose set Lopez and Affleck fell in love. Yet they are only a few of the startlingly offensive criticisms hurled at the movie, with critics engaging in an unofficial battle to publish the most scathing putdowns.
'The movie has no sense of structure, no urgency, no compelling reason to exist or be endured whatsoever,' said the Washington Post. 'It's both giggle-free and jiggle-free. Worse, it's enervated, torpid, slack, dreary and, oh yes, brutish and long.'
Lopez and Affleck, who were reportedly paid a combined fee of $30 million, play star-crossed lovers. Affleck is Gigli (pronounced jeee-lee), a Mob hitman ordered to kidnap the disabled son of a federal prosecutor. Lopez plays that lesbian gangster, sent to oversee Gigli's work.
It's hardly a grabby plot line and, even during production, reports suggested that all was not well. For months there was negative coverage in the press and on the internet. One report (strenuously denied) suggested J-Lo's famously curvy figure had been retouched on a movie poster to make it curvier. Another said director Martin Brest and Revolution, the studio that financed Gigli, were involved in a long-running argument over the film's title and ending.
Then the critics saw the final cut. 'Nearly as unwatchable as it is unpronounceable,' announced the Los Angeles Times, adding that Gigli 'would stink even without its big-ticket stars'. The New York Times noted that Lopez's character threatens to gouge out the eyes of one gangster and remove his visual cortex so he will not only be blind but will also lose all memory of what he has seen. 'Having seen Gigli, I must say the idea has a certain appeal,' said the critic.
It is all great fun - for the public and critics - but the relentless tide of abuse and criticism has had grim repercussions for Affleck and Lopez who both now face the awesome task of trying to rebuild their careers and reputations as bankable Hollywood actors.
Already the pair, who are planning to marry, have agreed not to star together again, believing the relentless coverage of their relationship left the public bored with them and, most importantly, reluctant to pay the price of admission to watch them act out their romance.
Ken Sunshine, Affleck's publicist, said reporters have dwelt so much on the couple's relationship that they 'aren't giving Gigli a chance'.
Now film company Miramax has delayed the release of Jersey Girl, another romantic comedy starring Lopez and Affleck, in an effort to distance it from the critical panning that has drowned Gigli.
It has been a horrible time for Hollywood's brightest couple. Only Joel Siegel of ABC television managed to find sympathetic words. 'At least it's not as bad as Madonna's last movie,' he announced, 'or any of Madonna's movies for that matter.'
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CG, I'm too young to recall
Apocalypse Now's first reviews but I really can't believe they were bad, mixed maybe, many great films are, but bad like anything approaching this, I doubt it.
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