Ishtar
WHAT WENT WRONG
Sad Boom Media
4.8 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Writer/director Elaine May sidestepped Moroccan landmines only for 1987’s Ishtar to bomb her career upon release. This week Lizzie gives us the details as Chris wonders, "Is this film as bad as people who haven’t seen it say it is?"
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| 0:00.0 | Well, by the time our audience here is this, I'll have turned 32. |
| 0:26.7 | Yay! The crushing realization as to where I am in this life may mean that this is the last episode |
| 0:36.9 | but hopefully not because I'm really enjoying doing this. I actually am thrilled that we finally got |
| 0:42.2 | to this film. Me too. By the way guys welcome back to What Went Wrong. I'm Chris Winterbauer |
| 0:46.2 | along here with the unknowingly youthful. Is there anyone you're old? It remains 31 against all the |
| 0:53.9 | advice that I gave her to just age with me? Lizzie tell the folks at home what film we were talking |
| 1:01.3 | about today. We are doing a much requested movie today. It's something a ton of people have shouted |
| 1:06.7 | out but most recently life is strange 2021 on Instagram aka Logan. Thank you Logan for the |
| 1:15.4 | recommendation. The movie is of course Ishtar. Ishtar. Yeah and this is one that you know I when we |
| 1:22.7 | first started doing this podcast I started looking at all these like listicles of oh here are the |
| 1:27.0 | worst movies. The movies that had like that were just such a bomb and everything went wrong on set. |
| 1:32.7 | Ishtar is like high on that list always. It's always in like the top five. Yeah so I was always |
| 1:38.4 | kind of avoiding watching it honestly because I was like it's gonna be bad. Like it has to be |
| 1:42.7 | really bad and then also it's gonna be you know a trash fire to talk about. Neither of those is |
| 1:47.7 | particularly true. No. I would just like to jump in and say Ishtar I thought was delightful and |
| 1:56.9 | I particularly enjoyed the initial 25 minutes of the film which is basically |
| 2:02.8 | Dumb and Dumber meets Simon and Garfunkel and with Warren Dady and Dustin Hoffman. It's like |
| 2:10.4 | Dumb and Dumber inside Lewin Davis and it's so much fun and I thought it was absolutely charming |
| 2:18.8 | and it goes a little off the rails and the middle and towards the end of the movie but overall |
| 2:24.5 | I was so pleasantly surprised when we watched this. It's lovely it's short so if you want something |
| 2:31.0 | fun. It's not for a long it's under two hours. For anyone that doesn't know Ishtar is a movie that |
| 2:37.0 | stars Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman and was directed and written by Elaine May. We're going to |
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