"Bennifer" has some sad news for everyone. From the IMDB:
Superstar couple Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are so distraught at the critical backlash to their movie "Gigli" that they have vowed never to work together again. Sources close to the twosome - who met and fell in love on the set of the gangster comedy - say that although in public they have defended the flick, behind closed doors Latina lovely J.Lo is very upset at the bad press. And the sexy pair believe their incredible fame and the gossip surrounding their upcoming marriage doomed the movie to failure before it was released.
Funny, I thought the movie was doomed to failure by the howlingly bad reviews it was getting. Sony is reportedly hoping that the couple's popular appeal will "offset a torrent of negative publicity and disastrous test screenings."
Buh? What popular appeal are they talking about? There may have been some curiosity before the odious "Jenny from the Block" video, or that hour-long infomercial on "Dateline" last week, but now?
And the hits just keep on comin':
Several "unofficial" reviews have already appeared. FoxNews.com's Roger Friedman this week put the film at the top of his list of all-time bad movies. "Witless, coarse, and vulgar, 'Gigli' is worse than its advance buzz could have indicated," he wrote. "The film -- if you can call it that -- is a total, mindless disaster." Today's New York Post quotes Good Morning America critic Joel Siegel as saying tersely following a screening Monday night, "I was shocked."
Wow. Joel Siegel didn't like it. I think somewhere the seventh seal is opening.
Of course, if it is widely described as the "worst movie ever" I'll have no choice but to see it. It's my duty. And also my curse.
"Gigli" has a 5% on the Tomatometer. I think you owe us a review, dude.