# latest on JLo and Ben **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 30, 2003, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-on-jlo-and-ben/191907 "2003-07-30T14:30:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-on-jlo-and-ben/191907/1 "2003-07-30T14:30:29Z")
According to [today’s IMdB](http://us.imdb.com/PeopleNews/#2), JLo and Ben have vowed never to work together again. Now if we could just get them to agree to stop working separately, we’d be getting somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-on-jlo-and-ben/191907/2 "2003-07-30T16:19:33Z")
Ah yes, blame the publicity on your crappy movie. [The Onion](http://www.theonion.com/onion3929/gigli_focus_groups.html) has a funny take on the situation. ---
**Author:** ![Kantalooppi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@Kantalooppi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kantalooppi)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-on-jlo-and-ben/191907/3 "2003-07-30T16:39:34Z")
When clicking I was almost sure the OP was going to be about the Onion article. Onion was particularily good, this week. The JLo-Affleck story was hilarious, the one about adorable Democratic presidential candidate was good too, and so was “Gorzo the Mighty” column (I’m almost 100% sure they’ve done another Gorzo the Mighty column previously, BTW, though I don’t remember what it was.) Even Jean Teasdale was great, and I’m generally not a big Jeanketeer. ---
**Author:** ![skin2skin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@skin2skin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skin2skin)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-on-jlo-and-ben/191907/4 "2003-07-31T13:15:49Z")
The best part of **The Onion** for me is the _What do you Think?_ section. The comments go so well with the pictures. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-on-jlo-and-ben/191907/5 "2003-07-31T16:49:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kantalooppi \* > \*\*Onion was particularily good, this week. The JLo-Affleck story was hilarious, the one about adorable Democratic presidential candidate was good too, and so was “Gorzo the Mighty” column (I’m almost 100% sure they’ve done another Gorzo the Mighty column previously, BTW, though I don’t remember what it was.) Even Jean Teasdale was great, and I’m generally not a big Jeanketeer. \*\* My favorite this week was the “hot pug-on-pug action” article. Man, that thing had me rolling for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-on-jlo-and-ben/191907/6 "2003-07-31T17:47:45Z")
I love the comments card suggestings various deaths. ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-on-jlo-and-ben/191907/7 "2003-07-31T18:16:52Z")
The real news isn’t much less funny: [http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=638&ncid=579&e=1&u=/nm/20030730/en\_nm/leisure\_gigli\_dc](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=638&ncid=579&e=1&u=/nm/20030730/en_nm/leisure_gigli_dc) > [@](#): > > Among its biggest problems is a love scene in which Lopez spreads her legs and tells a smoldering Affleck, “It’s turkey time. Gobble, gobble.” > > Humphrey Bogart (news) and Lauren Bacall (news) it ain’t. > > “Witless, coarse, and vulgar, ‘Gigli’ is worse than its advance buzz could have indicated,” wrote Fox News critic Roger Friedman. “The film – if you can call it that – is a total, mindless disaster.” > > The New York Post on Wednesday ran a full-page splash blasting the movie. “The ‘Gigli’ is Up,” the paper wrote, adding, “Ben-Jen bomb was made for walking.” Your collective 15 minutes of fame are up-- gobble gobble! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-on-jlo-and-ben/191907/8 "2003-07-31T18:30:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by twickster \* > \*\*According to [today’s IMdB](http://us.imdb.com/PeopleNews/#2), JLo and Ben have vowed never to work together again. > > Now if we could just get them to agree to stop working separately, we’d be getting somewhere. \*\* I’m looking on the page you linked to, and I don’t see anything about them not wanting to work together again - just a piece about Ben being caught at a strip club. Did IMDb remove the piece? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-on-jlo-and-ben/191907/9 "2003-08-01T04:07:54Z")
Heh, the local paper had a piece on their new movie. Evidently, it’s _horrible_! The original ending had Jo Lo being a lesbian. They reshot the ending, and the reactions at the “unveiling” evidently had the producer and the director in a fistfight!😃 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-on-jlo-and-ben/191907/10 "2003-08-01T04:23:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by interface2x \* > \*\*My favorite this week was the “hot pug-on-pug action” article. Man, that thing had me rolling for some reason. \*\* Damn straight-I ended up screen capping it! ---
**Author:** ![edwino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@edwino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwino)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-on-jlo-and-ben/191907/11 "2003-08-01T04:39:16Z")
[Rotten Tomatoes](http://www.rottentomatoes.com) has them [0/41](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Gigli-1124237/) for good reviews so far. That’s about the worst I’ve ever seen. [Swept Away](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/SweptAway-1116774/) got 4 of 68 good reviews. [From Justin to Kelly](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/FromJustintoKelly-1123183/) got 5/53. That’s freakin’ ugly. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-on-jlo-and-ben/191907/12 "2003-08-01T11:45:41Z")
**dantheman** – link must be to current day’s column, my OP was Wednesday. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-on-jlo-and-ben/191907/13 "2003-08-01T12:03:06Z")
Yeah, I didn’t bother to read the article the day of either…what’s their reasoning behind not wanting to work together again? Is this going to kill the Kevin Smith movie (not like I’m complaining much). ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-on-jlo-and-ben/191907/14 "2003-08-01T12:33:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by edwino \* > \*\*[Rotten Tomatoes](http://www.rottentomatoes.com) has them [0/41](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Gigli-1124237/) for good reviews so far. That’s about the worst I’ve ever seen. [Swept Away](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/SweptAway-1116774/) got 4 of 68 good reviews. [From Justin to Kelly](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/FromJustintoKelly-1123183/) got 5/53. > > That’s freakin’ ugly. \*\* Ye gads! With comments like > [@](#): > > A recent episode of South Park suggested that a fourth-grader’s hand puppet could turn in a better performance than Ms. Lopez, and in the case of Gigli, it’s hard to argue. > [@](#): > > We knew Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez could make bad movies separately, but “Gigli” demonstrates that, in a true example of synergy at work, their combined efforts can generate even more badness. :eek: _Battlefield Earth_, you may have met your match. ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-on-jlo-and-ben/191907/15 "2003-08-01T13:29:08Z")
Am I the only one who now wants to see this movie to experience the horror? That whole “gobble, gobble” line fascinates me for some reason. I may have to wait for this to come out on DVD to add it to the Bad Movie Drinking Game list. I don’t know if I can wait the whole month, though. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-on-jlo-and-ben/191907/16 "2003-08-01T13:40:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Neurotik \* > \*\*Am I the only one who now wants to see this movie to experience the horror? That whole “gobble, gobble” line fascinates me for some reason. > > I may have to wait for this to come out on DVD to add it to the Bad Movie Drinking Game list. I don’t know if I can wait the whole month, though. \*\* You really think that it’ll take _that long_ for this to hit video? I’m thinking two weeks, tops. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-on-jlo-and-ben/191907/17 "2003-08-01T14:54:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tuckerfan \* > \*\*You really think that it’ll take _that long_ for this to hit video? I’m thinking two weeks, tops. \*\* They don’t ordinarily go that quickly to video if they’ve been in the theater at all. My guess is that they’ll wait till the movie’s almost completely dead (tomorrow? today?) and then start pumping up the ol’ publicity machine, i.e., how they were besieged by the media, making it tough to film it, how they Wuv Each Other so much, and so forth. After the studio has built up the offscreen story, thereby distracting people from the onscreen story’s crappitude, they’ll shoot for a fall video release. And I bet they’d put “outtakes” on the DVD, too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![OxyMoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-on-jlo-and-ben/191907/18 "2003-08-01T17:46:12Z")
I swear to god that I didn’t halucinate an ad I saw for last year’s turkey “Master of Disguise”: “See the movie all the critics are talking about!” ---
**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-on-jlo-and-ben/191907/19 "2003-08-01T23:30:33Z")
I am afraid of what the outtakes would look like… Its Turkey Time! CLUCK CLUCK WHAT???