Gigli

   I just don't know what to say about this movie. Gigli is a film that really makes me question the intelligence of the entire film industry. The 2003 film tried to be a romantic comedy. I say tried because I don't think it was either funny or romantic. It follow a low ranking mobster with 'a heart of gold' and a lesbian hitwoman are forced to work together after kidnapping a federal prosecutors mentally handicapped brother. I know it sounds so great already. Who could have possibly thought that this was a good idea. Affleck's character makes fun of the mentally handicapped and the film depicts them in a really offensive way. Lopez's character is no better. She has some very bizarre thoughts about sex and sexuality that she delivers while doing some provocative yoga. Of course her being a lesbian doesn't stop the two of them from hooking up and eventually falling in love because all it takes is an idiotic wannabe tough guy to turn a lesbian strait. The entire film makes me hate it. The characters are so stupid, the script is terrible, and the entire premise makes me hate it.
  The film got plenty of attention before it even came out because at that time Affleck and Lopez were together in real life. Their power couple known as 'Bennifer' grabbed a huge amount of attention and hype for the film. Unfortunately for them the film also received a huge amount of terrible reviews before the release. It grossed under four million its opening weekend and Sony pulled all of its ads. The second weekend box office sales dropped eighty-two percent and by the third weekend only seventy-three theaters were showing it. In the end the film grossed $7.2 million while it had a budget of $75.6 million.
    This film really is remarkably terrible. Besides being offensive it was just really boring. Almost nothing seems to happen in a film that somehow lasts two hours long. Al Pacino and Christopher Walken both wander into the film each for one embarrassing scene. You never actually get to feel any connection to any of the characters and honestly I just grew to hate them all. It might sound terrible but I was actually hoping for a car crash or something to just at least try to make the movie interesting. Apparently the fake newspaper The Onion agreed with me when they wrote an article saying that focus groups demanded an ending where both Lopez and Affleck's characters both died.
     Gigli became the first film in history to sweep the top five categories at the Razzies Awards, including Worst Picture, Worst Actor (Ben Affleck), Worst Actress (Jennifer Lopez), Worst Director (Brest), and Worst Screenplay (also Brest). This just show that this movie is terrible and should really have been abandoned long before shooting started. As Marlow Stern, the entertainment editor and writer for The Daily Beast, said when he looked back at Gigli ten years after it came out "it is the movie equivalent of the Hindenburg disaster"(Stern).