Why didn't Whoopi Goldberg kill herself?

[Johnny_Q]

@Tuckerfan

There’s been a couple of cases where actors have claimed that the movie they signed on to make was not the movie which came out, and that the script was changed against their objections. Samuel L. Jackson tends to be rather blunt in his discussions about the Hollywood “suits.”

It would be interesting to hear what he thought Amos and Andrew was supposed to be.

[Jolly_Roger]

@Little_Nemo

It’s easy for us to be all moral on this issue. Nobody ever offered me a million dollars to star in a really stupid movie so I can’t claim I turned them down.

What I don’t understand is why anyone would be willing to watch a movie like Theodore Rex.

I enjoy bad movies on some level. I used to write for Dante’s Inferno and All Night Video Store. If the site still exists you can look up all kinds of bad movies there.

[lissener]

@Johnny_Q

It would be interesting to hear what he thought Amos and Andrew was supposed to be.

Uh . . . have you seen Amos and Andrew? It’s a pretty smart satire on racism.

[outlierrn]

@lissener

Uh . . . have you seen Amos and Andrew? It’s a pretty smart satire on racism.

Concur. Never seen this Rex of which you speak, and now I won’t have to, Thank you, Lissener

[gonzomax]

@RickJay

Avoiding bankruptcy is a remarkably motivating thing.

She has done 109 movies. She has a successful stand up act for many years, She is on the View. I don’t think she has too much money trouble.

[Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM]

I work with a guy named Theodore Rex Lastname. His paycheck says T Rex Lastname. His license plate is T REX.

[Beware_of_Doug]

Nothing like the book, I gather.

[RickJay]

@gonzomax

She has done 109 movies. She has a successful stand up act for many years, She is on the View. I don’t think she has too much money trouble.

Kim Basinger was loaded, too.

[lissener]

@Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM

I work with a guy named Theodore Rex Lastname. His paycheck says T Rex Lastname. His license plate is T REX.

Wow, that’s . . . strangely hot. Can you send him my email, ask him if he has any openings for a stalker?

[lissener]

@Beware_of_Doug

Nothing like the book, I gather.

Well, exactly like the book, actually, except replace “POTUS” with “Muppet Dinosaur” and everything else with “Whoopi Goldberg.” With those adjustments, it’s a pretty faithful adaptation.

[Tapioca_Dextrin]

@lissener

Is there ever a reason for anyone, anywhere, to agree to star in a movie like Theodore Rex?

A lot of actors flat out like to act. It’s what they do, even if they they know it’s a really crappy movie. I like to post here and, heavens knows, I’m well aware that none of my posts is ever going to win an Oscar.

[Prelude_to_Fascination]

@Tuckerfan

There’s been a couple of cases where actors have claimed that the movie they signed on to make was not the movie which came out, and that the script was changed against their objections. Samuel L. Jackson tends to be rather blunt in his discussions about the Hollywood “suits.”

Arguably, the most famous situation that fits this description is Caligula, where Peter O’Toole and Sir John Gielgud were especially vocal about not knowing they were participating in a big-budget hardcore porn movie.

Jolly Roger, I used to like going to Dante’s Inferno bad movie site, but quit after it hadn’t been updated in months (a year or more?). I think it’s still on the web, but as I say, no longer updated.

[Jolly_Roger]

@Prelude_to_Fascination

Arguably, the most famous situation that fits this description is Caligula, where Peter O’Toole and Sir John Gielgud were especially vocal about not knowing they were participating in a big-budget hardcore porn movie.

Jolly Roger, I used to like going to Dante’s Inferno bad movie site, but quit after it hadn’t been updated in months (a year or more?). I think it’s still on the web, but as I say, no longer updated.

I can tell you why it hasn’t been updated in some time. the hosts of the site needed the reviews edited for language, and that took some time. I don’t think I managed to re edit half of them. Having to that with work and having any kind of a life not watching bad movies and you know, going outside made it too difficult. Especially as I had just moved to Europe at the time.

I enjoyed working on the Inferno and at times want to start it up again, but I have so many other priorities right now its kind of impossible.

[Skywatcher]

@obfusciatrist

There is the fact that sometimes things that sound really stupid (“see, your a private detective and will solve a murder involving a rabbit and his drop-dead gorgeous,but human, wife; so Bob Hoskins, do you do it or jump off a bridge”) turn out to be fine.

Sometimes you can only prove something was a horrible idea by going out and doing it.

Just ask Eddie Murphy, who turned down a role in that movie.

[gonzomax]

@RickJay

Kim Basinger was loaded, too.

I thought she bought a town and blew it all.

[D_Odds]

@jsgoddess

To me, making a bad movie is pretty far down on the list of horrible sins one should die before committing. Actually, now that I double check, it’s not even on the list.

You are, of course, correct. However, on the list might be taking overtly facetious statements literally.

[Bryan_Ekers]

@John_DiFool

Anyone else think Whoopi’s best role was as Guinan?

It’s be a pretty poor comment on her career if it was. Guinan was a terrible character, straight out of the “inscrutable magical black advisor” book that gave us Bagger Vance.

[Sublight]

@gonzomax

I thought she bought a town and blew it all.

Lucky constituents.

[lissener]

Someone just rented Theodore Rex. . . . Was it one of you?

[wonky]

@lissener

Someone just rented Theodore Rex. . . . Was it one of you?

Maybe someone in the bad movie club.