← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · Hugh Lincoln
Thread ID: 8811 | Posts: 9 | Started: 2003-08-06
2003-08-06 17:00 | User Profile
Alright - Jennifer Lopez is practically White. But the idea is, Hispanic chick with White guy. Nobody wanted to see it.
Multi-million dollar advertisements for flop flick Gigli are being pulled by disappointed studio Sony Pictures.
The Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck starring movie has been a complete box office disaster and Sony has replaced the pre-booked TV ad slots with teasers for its more successful film Bad Boys II.
One TV executive confides, "They're making every effort to pull advertising."
Cinema chains are obliged to show Gigli for the next two weeks, but have already relegated to it to the smallest screens at the multiplexes.
AMC Theaters spokesman Rick King says that when a movie bombs in its first weekend "we don't often see it getting better."
Following awful reviews, Gigli took just $3.7 million over the weekend, putting it in eighth place at the box office.
2003-08-07 08:06 | User Profile
Maybe the public is beginning to see J-Lo Class as the ugly, big-assed PR she really is, rather than the Hispanic Superstar Sexpot the jews have made her out to be.
2003-08-07 13:56 | User Profile
I doubt the stinking corpse of GIGLI has much to do with the white guy-Latina backlash. Nor do I think the movie is so horrifically bad it guaranteed to flatline at the box office (in that I'm sure movies every bit as bad come out weekly without GIGLI's instant obituaries). I think the GIGLI debacle is best explained by reading Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery", or maybe "The Day of the Locust".
The public is talked into cheering for prefabricated celebs all the time, and most of the time they're pretty good-natured about getting these flavors-of-the-month rammed down their throats - but down deep there is that building resentment at the fabulous wealth and privilege these mouth-breathing neo-talents enjoy, often overnight, and for little or no reason beyond some cabal of West Coast Jews have decided that Celebrities X, Y & Z are exploitable this season. Lest that simmering resentment boil over and bite these Jewish financiers, it's necessary to toss a few to the wolves now and then. (The line between mindless adulation and mindless rage is very very thin, after all; how many times have you seen footage of screaming fans descending on one pop-star or another and wondered if, given a breach in security, they wouldn't have torn him limb from limb and ecstatically brandished the body parts to the cameras - waving a leg, a forearm, or a severed head in triumph?)
A self-obsessed 'diva' (whose one claim to fame is her ass) and her cipher boyfriend (whose function is to hold her coat until she inevitably cuckolds him) had little claim on the adulation of even an idiot public to begin with. Ben & Jen are roughly the equivalent of Sonny Tufts and Zsa Zsa Gabor anyway - how long could they have expected to be famous for nothing?
2003-08-08 02:01 | User Profile
Il Ragno! How dare you sully the name and reputation of the immortal Sonny Tufts by comparing to him to that smirking weasel Affleck. :lol: :lol: :lol:
Hell, I figured there were only 10 people in the country who know who Tufts ... was. I guess there's 11. Fess up, I'll bet you've read "The Golden Turkey Awards" at some point, eh? Yeah, it was written by ... gasp! ... jews ... but I thought it was funny when I was a kid, and I still find the book amusing now.
2003-08-08 03:22 | User Profile
Sonny was a long-running gag on the old Johnny Carson TONIGHT show. Whenever he did that used-car-commercial skit spoofing Ralph Williams, the "movie" being interrupted ALWAYS starred Sonny Tufts.
2003-08-08 14:40 | User Profile
All I can say is that this movie recieved too much media hype! I personally am fricking sick of hearing all this crap about Affleck and J-Lo getting married. And J-Lo needs to get some liposuction on her ass!
2003-08-08 15:44 | User Profile
J-Lo is trumped up because she's Latin. And we all know that Latin is "in" these days (and not necessarily because of the Mestizo invasion). She's exactly what Il Ragno said--a "flavor-of-the-month", very reminiscent of what we had to deal with a decade ago when Julia Roberts was hyped 24/7 as the "it" girl--and I didn't think she was hot to begin with.
2003-08-08 18:08 | User Profile
I've heard even non-racists call J.Ho an "obnoxious ugly fat-assed sp-c who can't act or sing", as one put it. Relentless media hype braindeadens some people, but quite irritates others. B)
2003-08-09 03:57 | User Profile
*Originally posted by il ragno@Aug 7 2003, 19:22 * ** Sonny was a long-running gag on the old Johnny Carson TONIGHT show. Whenever he did that used-car-commercial skit spoofing Ralph Williams, the "movie" being interrupted ALWAYS starred Sonny Tufts. **
You should have seen Ralph Williams at work for real out here in LA. He ended up having some ... er, problems, and relocating to Texas. Eventually he came back to S.CA and ran a dealership in Orange County. (Then again, maybe you have seen Ralph at work ... :P)
Sonny was a running gag in LA in many ways - and could poke fun at himself. Unlike any of the Gabor whor ... I mean sisters.