Gigli

source: Gigli

This movie had two major flaws. The first being that it has no ending and leaves all the plot lines loose. The second being that it attempts to rip off Kevin Smiths: Chasing Amy in so many ways its laughable. BUT, this movie is NOT THAT BAD. Its an okay movie. One of the many many movies that we see that we probably wont watch again unless its on basic cable when nothing else is on. The rating it gets is very undeserving and mostly out of anger that Ben and Lopez were in a movie together and nobody wanted to see that. I would say this movie deserves about a 5 or 6 rating. I find the people that rated it a 1 a bunch of sheep. You're all sheep. Followers. You believe every word that the media tells you. You make me sick.

I like this Film, I don't know what's should be so wrong with this Film, that many People on IMDb gave this movie such a bad reputation. I don't mind so much, but think about the Rating. R-Rating in the US and 12 in Germany. The US-People are famous for their problem with sexual language (I am sorry 4 them). Me; I am German. Had a lot of fun, and my girlfriend too. Sure there is the f-word a 100 times or more (in Germany the say something like s**t) but who cares? The film is funny from the start to the end. Beside it was a good idea to choose the altered ending... Maybe this film has not the strongest part from Ben, sure he can do better and sure the are a lot of better films but 2 from 10 is not right. JeyLo is very good and I love to see her. Heard a lot of funny stuff about her diva behavior; but not in the film. people got to separate between „real" live an player. For me it's straight 7 out of 10. Greetings from the Bergisches Land. Watz

Can anyone locate a plot for this movie? I won't bother spoiling anything for you because wel...there isn't anything to spoil. Absolutely nothing happens in this movie! Thank god I only watched it with my friends as a joke to add to a school project. Let's just say there are a lot of lines that bring this movie down a lot. I'm sure all the late night hosts have already summed these up in one way or another. I was lost after the first ten minutes, and it's hard to get through the first five! My advice to you is...if you want to see a movie that is at least remotely watchable...AVOID this one. For the love of God!!

Maybe there's 2 other people who like this movie, but oh well. ANyways, what's up with all the negative reviews and the other horrible things that have happened because of the reaction this movie received? From beginning to end, I though GIGLI was very enjoyable, well acted, well written with great diologue, and had a good pace. Ben Affleck was having a good time with his role. Some people may say he doesn't have that tough guy persona, but he showed it really well here. Weather he was being a wisecracker or getting angry, he put in a great performance. Jennifer Lopez was excellent as Ricki. This is her best role. (That might not sound right to many people out there, but I mean it, and it's saying a lot.) Her delivery of her lines was great. And of course she and Ben had very very good chemestry. It is hard to beleive that they weren't in love at the time of this film. It was kind of like watching Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz in VANILLA SKY where you could see both actors falling for each other. Such a thing was a joy to watch. The movie had the feeling of GET SHORTY or OUT OF SIGHT with it's quirkyness. Even something of a HUDSON HAWK feel. (Another horribly blasted movie which was really a great film. Maybe these two have something in common.) Christopher Walken and Al Pacino come in to deliver their own monologues. I always love watching Chris act. He is so funny. Al was his usual self, and I never get tired of his acting. I don't know what it is that people hate about this movie. Maybe it's because too many people are offended by how much Ben and Jenn are given so much attention because of their real life relationship. I really don't know what that has to do with hating a movie. Maybe it's because people expected something big? Like what? It's really sad that few people will be able to see into this film as being entertaining. Martin Brest hasn't directed a movie in 5 years. (MEET JOE BLACK, A very underrated film) I get the feeling that he won't be able to direct another movie for a long time. He is a very good director. The producer, Joe Roth is saying the movie's failure is his fault too, so that's a sign that Martin will be blacklisted because of this. What kind of injustice is that? Ben and Jenn will probably have to apologize about this movie too. It's a good thing they already have other movies coming out, or else their careers could be seriously hurt. ATTENTION ALL OPEN MINDED PEOPLE: This isn't the best movie of the year, but there really is a good movie in here. 8 out of 10

I don't quite understand why this movie is rated so low. No, it's not a "good movie", no it doesn't have anything going for it as art or political commentary, no it does not make you think. But it's not particularly annoying and has quite a few entertaining scenes. The actor that plays the mentally different young man is quite good. I didn't get the impression that any of these characters or their motivations couldn't exist although the scenes with Walken and Pacino doing their standard character acting seemed thrown in just to have them in the film, especially the former. By the way I don't particularly like Affleck and rather dislike J-Lo. In this they weren't so bad. Pick it up when it comes out on "One Dollar DVDs." It's no "Sex Lives Of The Potato Men" (a truly great vulgar comedy) but I don't regret watching it from start to finish.

I watched this movie with the family over the Christmas holiday. As a little background info, I am for the most part a movie snob. That said, I had no part in selecting the movies we viewed that evening. In the lineup were Gigli, Boat Trip, and Tomb Raider 2. Suck, Suck, and... suck. Let's back up. Two of these movies are down right awful. Much worse than Gigli, which has some redeeming qualities, these movies didn't seem to find their way to the IMDB's bottom 100 of all time. Aside from the glaring contrast between these movies from the same time frame, we aren't here to talk about them. Gigli does feature Affleck at his worst (and I know he can and has done a lot better); however, Jennifer Lopez was surprisingly good in this movie. She exhibited a great deal more range and showed that maybe she's just getting a bad rap from naysayers like the ilk over at Aint It Cool. The movie itself has a pretty respectable comedy element and is definitely worth a rent. Not to get too carried away, the movie is bad, but not to the standard in which it's been held.

I actually thought this movie was pretty good. I was flipping through the channels and it caught my attention. So it must have been pretty good. I didn't think the acting was all that bad and ya know they do what the directors tell them to do! But over all i actually did like this movie...but i didn't see the beginning so i will have to watch it again. I really liked how after they were driving in the car J Lo kinda gave it and gave Ben what he wanted. I mean even if she was a lesbian. I was really umm i don't know the word intrigued by her little spiel when she was on the yoga mat and they were discussing which is the better of the two sexes. In a way, i would never give up *...but he speech did sort of somewhat make sense. I would never be a lesbian but I'm sure the lesbians out there may agree with her statements made. Personally, i would recommend going to see it because i thought it was a nice movie.

You know how you get a Greatest Hits Album and there's a handful of good songs, the ones you know and love, and then the rest are stinkers? Filler just put there to pad out the time? That's basically like Gigli, a movie that's not particularly good as a whole, but has some knockout individual scenes. First off, let's be honest...it's not as bad as we've been led to believe. Look at the message board - more and more people are admitting "it's not that bad". Not exactly praise, but considering SO many people voted this into the Bottom 100 (it's at #29 when I wrote this), I think it's safe to say most of those were just padded votes, mainly from people who wanted to hate this movie and hated the whole "Bennifer" thing. Ebert gave it mild thumbs down and said he was deluged with hate mail complaining how he didn't hate it ENOUGH. Gimme a break. OK, the plot is awful. No bones about that. In case you don't know, here it is: A mafia hit-man kidnap's a DA's retarded brother so the case won't go to trial. He's a notorious screwup, so the mob sends a 2nd hit-man, who's a lesbian and looks like a supermodel, to make sure Hit-man #1 doesn't screw up. They sit around an apartment, talking and debating. Random people show up and they have to hide the retarded kid. Every once in a while they go out for Mexican (in a convertible with the top down!!) What in the world?? And this was supposed to be a big summer movie? I suspect writer/director Martin Brest came up for the storyline in a dream and for some reason thought it was a good idea. It's not. Watching this movie is akin to having an annoying roommate who keeps changing the channel between Rain Man, Prizzi's Honor, Chasing Amy, a failed sitcom about hit men, and any play with one set and no budget. Why do I kinda like this movie then? Same reason I dig Brest's Beverly Hills Cop - there's scenes in here that are to die for. I remember as a kid, i'd rewind scenes in Beverly Hills Cop over and over again, because I thought they were the funniest things ever. Same here. There's at least 3 or 4 awesome scenes, and about 5 good ones as well. The rest is filler. Witness: The "rip that tears the past". The speech in front of the mirror. The yoga scene. "Turkey time. Gobble Gobble." "The Baywatch." The Tabasco sauce. The morgue. The plastic knife. The "sweet hetero-lingus". Christopher Walken, showing more fire in 3 minutes than he has in YEARS, talking about ice cream and Marie Callendar's pies. Pacino's scene. Yes, he's YELLING again. He's playing a mobster again. So what? Now name another recent movie with that many rewind-worthy scenes. I can't either. Jennifer Lopez is sexy in this movie. Anyone who says she's not is lying. Ben Affleck is not. Nor is he supposed to be. People who say he's trying to be "sexy and dangerous" missed the point somewhere. He's doing a riff on Andrew Dice Clay, plain and simple. He knows he's acting like a buffoon. Anyone who likes him on SNL should like him here. Everyone should see this movie at least once. You'll have a good time. Even if you're watching it to see how bad it is, you won't be disappointed. No, I wouldn't want to sit through the whole movie again. It's too long and i honestly can't remember what the hell happened at the end. But movies like this are why DVD was invented.

How much does this movie suck? Words fail me. I took a date to this movie. She didn't like me afterward. You don't watch this movie. You ENDURE this thing, like an abscessed tooth. The most extensive vocabulary in the universe could not find words to describe the putridity of this film, but I will try. Let's see: The characters are unbelievable. The plot is a goof. The subplots are thin at best. Afleck looks like he's been hit over the head with a two by four. And what do you say about the acting talent of his fat butt leading lady? Only that in her case, "acting talent" is an oxymoron, like "civilized divorce". I don't know what I find the most revolting. The fact that this bomb cost 54 million, yes, kiddies, I said MILLION, dollars to make, or that some studio geek OKAYED it?! Afleck is a good actor. He's got some range, and a flair for comedy. But he walks around like a zombie. Perhaps this is how one looks when dying of embarrassment on film. Lopez must have some sort of, ahem, skills. She does seem to torture one male after another in her personal life. But she is a marginal singer, at best, and an ABYSMAL actress. Up until now, I thought the worst movie of all time was that Sybil Shepard horror, "At Long Last Love". That puppy kept the top spot for a long time on my list. But this complete disaster makes it look like "Casablanca". I'm a Catholic, so naturally I believe in Hell. I now have another reason to live a good life and not end up there. This odious waste of time you will not get back has got to be the number one film in Hell's Multiplex. If they'd used this thing in "A Clockwork Orange", Malcom McDowell would have been selling Bibles in about ten minutes. NEVER watch this film! It has NO redeeming moments! You will want to chug anti-freeze before the first half hour has D...R...A...G...G...E...D on by. On a scale of One to Ten, I give this a 12 Barf Bag rating. It's a wonder to me that mobs did not storm the theaters with torches for robbing them of nine bucks to see this mess. The only good thing you could do with this movie is to take every copy and give them all to really poor people who have no heat so they can burn them to stay warm this winter. Oh, and the DVD's make very nice coasters, too.