Gigli: A Cinematic Dumpster Fire with Peyton Dix and Hunter Harris | 47

The Big Flop

Wondery

Society & Culture, Comedy, Business

4.6 • 884 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Gigli would go down in history as not only one of the biggest box office bombs… but also the reason Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez broke up the first time. In 2001, Oscar nominated filmmaker Martin Brest penned the gritty tale of a lowlife mobster unable to escape his mundane existence, but by 2003 Gigli had been reverse engineered into a corny, sloppy, rom-com thanks to the Hollywood “it” couple at its center: Bennifer. Gigli was such a cringe-inducing flop, it lost $70 million and earned its place among cinema's biggest disasters.

Co-hosts of Lemme Say This, Peyton Dix and Hunter Harris, join Misha to get LOUD about how bad this movie was.

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to the Big Flop early and ad free.
0:05.3	Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:14.8	How does a Hollywood train wreck unfold?
0:20.4	It isn't hard to imagine, so I'm going to give it a shot with my own little semi-fictional script.
0:27.4	Picture this.
0:29.2	Director Martin Brest gets a frantic phone call.
0:33.5	It's Joe.
0:34.9	Joe who?
0:36.1	Joe Roth, from Revolution Studios.
0:39.3	Don't pretend like you don't know me.
0:41.5	There's a problem.
0:43.1	The test audiences hate your cut of Gile.
0:47.5	What are you talking about?
0:49.1	Says Martin, the picture is exactly what I was going for.
0:53.5	Gritty, meaningful.
0:55.4	Joe cuts him off.
0:57.3	It's depressing, and depressing doesn't get butts in seats.
1:01.5	We've spent millions on this thing.
1:03.8	We gave you two hot stars, your favorite crew, everything you asked for, and it sucks.
1:10.2	Fix it, reshuffle it, Reshoot it. Anything. Make it
1:14.2	nice. Marty leans back in his chair, rubbing his temples. How are you supposed to make a crime
1:23.1	thriller where the protagonist dies at the end? Nice. This isn't some rom-com where you can just
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