For a good ten years after its release in 1987, Ishtar, the famously ill-fated Warren Beatty/Elaine May/Dustin Hoffman thrilla in the desert, was a literal punchline. Virtually any public meltdown, from a bungled presidential debate to a failed spring line, could be wittily dismissed with the line “Hey, it wasn’t that bad—it wasn’t like it…
Tag: bad movies
I predicted this!
Well, I did, pretty much. I make lots of predictions, often without intending to, and sometimes some of them come true, and this is one of those times. In my exceedingly—though not excessively—long-winded review of Quentin Tarantino’s fitfully entertaining Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, I remarked the following: Much of the violence in Once…
James Franco’s The Disaster Artist: Hollywood Caught In The Act Of Kissing Its Own Ass
Greg Sestero’s now reasonably famous book The Disaster Artist, co-written by Tom Bissell, is much better than Producer/Director/Star James Franco’s quite famous movie The Disaster Artist, each telling the story of the making of Tommy Wiseau’s all-conquering cult classic, The Room. Book beats film! Book beats film! Book beats film! Well, not necessarily, but the…