Gigli

WHAT WENT WRONG

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Hollywood, Acting, Directing, Blockbuster, Movie, Flop, Film, Disaster, History, Tv & Film

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

How did an Academy Award nominated director helm what’s widely regarded as one of the worst movies ever made? 2003’s “Gigli” gave us Bennifer 1.0 and torpedoed writer/director Martin Brest’s career. Find out how NOT to reverse engineer a romcom - especially when your main characters are a straight man and a lesbian. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez do their best, but thanks to one of the craziest post-productions we’ve ever covered, “Gigli” does its worst.

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0:00.0	Caw.
0:01.0	Cawdaw.
0:02.0	Caw.
0:04.0	Caw.
0:05.0	Caw. And action.
0:20.0	Hello dear listeners and welcome back to another episode of what went wrong your favorite
0:25.5	podcast full stop that just so happens to be about movies and how it's nearly impossible to make
0:29.8	them let alone a good one as always I'm one of your hosts, Chris Winterbauer,
0:33.8	joined by your better host, Lizzy Bassett,
0:35.8	and she is taking us back to our roots today
0:39.4	with a real classic of a troubled production I have to imagine based on what I watched.
0:48.0	Kicking it over to you, Lizzy, thanks?
0:51.0	Well, I don't think we can safely say I'm the better host after this one.
0:54.7	Yeah, this is a classic big-time flopper. This is geely everyone and I just want to say it's your fault.
1:01.7	It's your fault. We put four options to you all on
1:05.0	Patreon. They were Speed 2, Burlesk, which I secretly was hoping for.
1:10.5	Wait, what were the other two, Chris? Speed to Burlesque. Glitter and Geely. And you chose
1:18.8	this. Yeah, good for you guys. I can't say I'm happy about it.
1:24.8	But I have a lot of interesting,
1:28.4	well, that's no understatement.
1:30.2	I feel like we're gonna have some interesting disagreements about this film that I'm excited to discuss.
1:35.8	Or maybe not, who knows?
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