To be fair to Kevin Smith, in “Chasing Amy”, it’s revealed…
[spoiler]That the girl was never exclusively homosexual, only identifying as such and not dating men at the time she met Ben’s character (to the point of lying about her past).
Ben’s character’s inability to deal with her past sexuality is a major feature of the film, and is treated as a weakness on his part. At the end, he comes out looking quite pathetic.[/spoiler]
That said, an actor should only be allowed to make one movie with such a polt point (like man pursues and “converts” lesbian) in his career. Ben needed to stay away from this one.
As a Smith fan, I’m really disappointed that “Gigli” was ever made. I was looking forward to seeing post-Jay and Silent Bob Smith’s work in “Jersey Girl”, and it will have a hard time beating the negative Bennifer aura generated by this film.
Well, in some previous discussions on Ebert, we’ve had people who’ve seen films with him testify that he’s been known to leave the theater midway through the movie, and, as a result, he misses plot points.
So true. I have mentioned the Mick LaSalle anti-movie review method in a thread before, but I felt had I mentioned it here it might actually improve people’s perceptions of Gigli, and that’s the last thing I want to do.
(I still remember his review of Titanic: “Titanic Sinks!!”)
I always thought it was a reference to The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. In it, there is a scene where the heroine’s boyfriend shows his private parts to her, and she later recounts that she thought it looked like turkey gizzards.
If we’re talking about the same Roger Ebert who wrote Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and Up! then yeah, I guess you can say he has a thing for women with a bit of meat on their bones. That also explains his strange lack of dislike for the Tomb Raider flicks.
I was thinking that the “turkey, gobble, gobble” idiocy was referencing the urban-legendy use of turkey basters by lesbians for insemination purposes. I guess that goes to show the level of discourse I expected from this “film.” :rolleyes:
“‘Gigli’ is such an utter wreck of a movie you expect to see it lying on its side somewhere in rural Pennsylvania, with a small gang of engineers circling and a wisp of smoke rising from the caboose.”
Har! The movie apparently stinks, but the reviews are great!
Probably. Just speaking for myself, I’ve got a mental rolodex of unused put-downs saved up for potential future Pit threads. I imagine most critics have something similar.
Well, if nothing else, this movie, when it appears on cable (and that can’t be long now), it will give you the opportunity to test out the “erase” feature on your TiVo.
