You know what's (one of 100000 things) funny about The Room is: It cost 3 million dollars to make. That's one reason it's SO singular: it used big-budget cameras, had a real, professional film crew and real, professional actors getting paid, it's just that the script, directing, and lead were all completely botched...and all the same person.
As a bisexual woman ... Ben Affleck?!?! TWO MOVIES thought BEN AFFLECK(?!) could turn a lesbian straight??? Do I just have particular tastes????? Because this man is just not attractive to me.
He looks like a caricature of a vaguely handsome man tbh. The uncanny valley comes into play. And he has shark eyes. As another bisexual woman, I also don't get it AT ALL.
I'm also Bi and he's.... I'll admit he's not unattractive, but he seems really 'meh' to me; in these Romcom / Romance movies, the male leads all start to look the same, especially in the haircut department. It's weird when you see that the lead lady is gorgeous, and the movie tries to convince you that she is destined to be with generic main white man number 72. I'd argue that passionflix and pureflix are very hecking guilty in the "male leads all look the same" department.
I'm straight and Ben Affleck is about as attractive as a bowl of plain oatmeal. There's also just something about him (both in real life and in movies) that I can't pinpoint or describe, but he makes me feel like he's a douchebag idiot who pretends to be sensitive to try to get women. I won't watch anything that he's in because he gives me "ick" vibes.
As a lez, I despised the fact that this was the second film in which Ben Affleck "turned" a lesbian. Not to dismiss bisexuals but that wasn't even a key aspect in this or Chasing Amy. It was "oh, you like women? You just haven't found the right d!ck and Ben's is magically special". At least that's what I took away and it was always gross the way the films used lesbians to feed into the male fantasy.
@@alfie6441 no. Ben Affleck’s character was really upset bc she sexually experimented with guys in HIGH SCHOOL. He literally broke up with her because of it. Unhinged!
Not Ben Affleck being a manic pixie dream for men. He's literally such a man's man for truly just being a fking idiot. Even his role in Goodwill Hunting feels like satire somehow. Idk why but everything Affleck acts in just feels like a joke. Even gone girl, it's just that the joke is on him there, instead of him just being a joke
Why would they even make Jennifer Lopez’s character gay LMAO it’s so tangential to the storyline and she never does gay shit in the movie 😭 like she could reveal she was just lying to keep him away and it would have equal impact
The ONLY thing I could think of is that through the warped view of the writer, a woman ex is 'quirky' and 'not a threat' but a man ex would have been a potential threat to the 'superiority' of Ben Affleck? Or maybe it's some big gross ego boost to say you 'conquered' a lesbian? I don't know. It's all trash and I need to watch something pure to cleanse my mind.
That's supposed to be a common thing, that people dating in real life have no on screen chemistry. Like they have no sexual tension, because they've relieved it. Romanticising something means idealising it. They no longer have an idealised view of each other, but a real one.
Ben Affleck going after and getting a not straight woman is a weird thing that has happened more than once. Besides this train wreck it also happens in Chasing Amy.
I was just going to comment about Chasing Amy! I can hardly believe that there are two movies about a romantic relationship between a guy and a lesbian, but Ben Affleck being the dude in both is bizarre
If they wanted her to like men and women why did they not just make her bisexual? It would still have been absolutely appalling representation, but at least it wouldn't be completely and utterly lesbianphobic, fetishistic and disgusting. Holy shit. This one was rough as hell.
@Day They did not, she is only ever explained as a woman who likes women and who seems quite disgusted and put off by men, but who somehow ends up sleeping with Ben Affliction bc his peepee is just super special. There is even an entire monologue he has saying that she is "missing out" and she is "too hot and sexy" to only be with women because lesbians are lacking according to this film. She is not bisexual in this film. She is a lesbian that gets fixed by a man's penis. Which is just extremely offensive and nobody wants this.
Because then there wouldn’t be the “tension” of him pining for a woman who supposedly couldn’t want him, and then her finally sleeping with him wouldn’t be as big of an accomplishment. 🤢 Media in the early 2000’s was full of the “straight man thinks he can turn a lesbian” trope, and the word bisexual was never said.
i honestly have to give props to B...Bennifer... for having the guts to say any of these lines out loud, and have it preserved on film. Like I thought the theaters were just being dramatic by pulling the movie, but I would have walked out the whole theater after that 5 minute genital diatribe
I preemptively don't want to hear anything from Ben Affleck's mouth regardless of the message (his face puts me to sleep) so listening to this is like -20 out of 10. But it's kinda tolerable with Jennifer bc she's a beauty icon. I just try to look at her and not listen, which helps. I think that was the plan lol
I haven’t seen Kennie this enraged and confused since Cats. 🤣🤣 She is our strongest soldier. I on the other hand am not and will not be watching this movie for my own sanity.
Kennie…Kennie, I’m a disabled lesbian, and when I tell you I SUFFERED even just watching the edited clips. I think my soul died. It ascended shrieking into the ether, leaving behind the shriveled husk of my body. I had to pause and restart this video several times to try to recollect it and remember that life is worth living. I will never forgive either Ben or J-Lo for agreeing to give life to this sewage runoff of a film. Dishonor on the families and the cows of all the cast and crew and ESPECIALLY the writer. How dare y’all?
Never thought I’d find a comment so sewage-related to be quite so lyrical… but then I never thought I’d see anything even tangentially related to this festering Frankenstein’s monster of a film. Jesus. But thanks for the laugh; I needed it as an antidote to the rage. Oh, and if you don’t mind my asking: is your name a coincidence, or a reference to the great HDM?
@@serapekkala8238 amazing! Honestly, even after twenty more years - and possibly thousands more books - that series is one of the best things I’ve ever read. Never fails to get me.
Bruh cheers to my fellow disabled lesbian, this movie was probably... Oh man it's a tie between this and Purple Hearts. They both make me so wildly and deeply upset and I have a horrible sense of discomfort after watching both of these.
Each and every monologue was more painful than the last. The ableism and lesbophobia was just the sh*t frosting on the sh*t cake that was this sh*t movie.
I have spent my whole life thinking that the titular Gigli was the name of Jennifer Lopez' character and now I don't know what to do knowing the truth.
But Kenny, weren't MANY movies like this back in the day? Early 2000s was just a time of sin, we turned our backs from god and ended up with leggings under jean skirts.
I totally agree… I just watched gigli before looking critics . it was fun.. .. and she is bisexual in the movie .. during their conversation with gigli mom …
There were a lot of good bad movies from the early 2000s, but this one took the cake. Before social media, EVERYONE knew it was horrible within a week of it being out, just by word of mouth. And After this, both of them were not taken seriously as actors for a WHILE, and honestly, many believe the horrible reception of the movie was one of the reasons they had to break up. No other movie at that time lead to that kind of real life consequence.
Ohhhhhhhh my god when Gigli was being "teased" by Ricki I started trying to rip my face off just to avoid this "I made her straight by my penial utencil and my manly wiles" trope. AND THEN he just lays there and does nothing after all that. Art immitates life, this movie is trash..... And I will watch it to scream at it and possibly introduce my gay friends to it so they can get out the cathartic scream as well.
My older brother used to work at the movie theater when this came out. In addition to so many people walking out midway and wanting refunds, they ended up pulling the showings of it within 2 days.
As a current film student who dreams of being a screenwriter/director after graduating Uni, films like this give me hope. Anyone can be a screenwriter and/or director, lmao. Anything is possible, man.
@@satviksingh1200 Lol. Well, it's full of terrifyingly creepy fiction (some of it getting made into worse movies). I'm sure every type of community has left its mark.
you said they cast bennifer because people wanted to see an it-couple be intimate in a movie and my brain immediately goes “oh so eyes wide shut, but in comic sans” 😭
Nothing will ever replace this series, bc at 37:48 when Kennie said “-and guess what happened?” I, OUT LOUD, went “….No…NO.” AND SHE SAID “-YES! YES, SHE GIVES HIM PITY PU$SIE” WHEN I SAY I SCREAMED
Yesss the look and the singing at the start, loving the vibe Also, Why is there such an obsession of straight men thinking they can turn gay women straight? like why do you think your sexual prowess is so much better, what is the goal. Why is it such a brag? i don’t understand 😩 I hear it in music lyrics, I see it in movies and i Hear about it in certain spaces. There’s so many women out there that aren’t Lesbians so why
@@christopherbrown5409 wanting to be irresistible is way different than constantly harassing someone that’s telling you they aren’t interested in you. Thinking you’re so irresistible that you can change someone’s sexual preference is not okay. And if someone thinks they’re so irresistible that they can’t be rejected by anyone regardless of someone else’s preferences or orientation whether straight or not, that’s a bigger problem they need to work on.
28:20 Can we please have some appreciation for the sheer gonzo performance Chris Walken turns in here? That whole delivery about going to Marie Callender's for pie was such a baffling choice and I absolutely love it. i think he was the only one who saw how poor the script was and decided to just have some fun.
oh boy, this is something! This made remember every single awful thing about movies from the naughties. like wow, i forgot all about "lesbians need the right dxck" and "extremely offensive autistic character", this movie has everything!
I just want everyone to know that someone was paid to write this. Paid a lot of money, given a lot of resources, to write a movie with Jennifer Lopez, and they wrote this. Sure, studio interference and all that, but is there even anything in here reminiscent of a once decent plot? As a writer seeing videos like this always make me feel good because it ju sets reassures me that no matter what I write, no matter how insecure you may feel about your prose, characters, or originality. You cannot fail. You have won just by trying. You could create the most debased, vulgar, bland, coma-inducing series of words put to paper, so revolting that the government is sent to your residence to steal all remnants of the work and burn it in front of you, only to then burn the ashes and hold your eyes over the smoke as a final punishment as you slowly douse the flame with your polluted tears, and that failure would still be greater and more successful than the entire existence of this movie. You cannot fail. If you can manage to sit down and write a work, no matter how long it takes, from start to finish, and do it (mostly) sober and with both hands, you will have put more effort than everyone who oversaw this monstrosity did and, no matter the outcome, will have succeeded. Go do it.
It makes me think that I'd better not write any monologues or soliloquys or Kenny is going to picture me sitting in a circle, stroking my ego. I meen what if a character gives an overly complicated answer to a question, does that count as a monologue? On second viewing, maybe monologues are O.K. if there are not too many of them.
Thank you I want people like you to be in charge and be heard and have resources!!! Instead of the scary evil patriarchal system that made this, this, I don't even have the words yet I'm too horrified and angry, that this and so many, so many horrible things like this exist. I pray for fall of patriarchy daily. No more movies with these disgusting dehumanizing agendas!
0:14 Good lord I wasn't expecting you to look SO dang gorgeous right off the bat from the first second with no warning, ma'am this look the hair THE LOOK?! 😳
From a sociopolical point of view this movie encapsulates everything wrong with the patriarchy in a neat little 2 hour package. It was also done completely on accident.
I remember watching this as a child and the line that made my brother and I giggle hysterically for days was when Brian speaks after the stalking ex-girlfriend cuts her wrists, "Lady needs some Band-Aids." To this day, I cannot explain to myself why this was funny. It just was.
How is this man in two movies about turning a lesbian? How? I can't think of other movies with this premise. If anyone knows of another movie like this, please enlighten me. Otherwise I will believe Affleck owns the entire lesbian-phobic romcom market
11:20 My favourite thing about the name "Bennifer" is the fact that when Ben Affleck went on to date Jennifer Garner and then eventually got back with Jennifer Lopez, people didn't change the name, they simply kept using it X'D Like, the disrespect X'D
Have you heard of chasing Amy by Kevin smith? It’a another movie where Ben Affleck falls in love with a lesbian. Actually, funny fact, one of my first boyfriends stole a monologue from that movie to get me to go out with him. When I saw the movie I recited the damn thing word for word 😂
My boyfriend did this via text to one of my favorites at the time, Scent if a Woman. He hadn’t seen it and didn’t know I had, but happened to be watch g it in a bar with subtitles on 😭
The way I started hysterically laughing at their conversation in front of the hospital and then you just said "it must be drugs" THAT IS LITERALLY THE ONLY EXPLANATION
Omg. I’m older than the bible and I remember when this movie came out. It wasnt heavily advertised via commercials or anything like a lot of other movies were - it was relying exclusively on the massive “Bennifer” hype at the time. So nobody knew wtf it was about but everyone heard about how absolutely awful it was. Thank you for being the Indiana Jones of bad movies and taking an adventure nobody else wanted to.
I love Kennie’s commentary and work but OH this one was a rough one for my lesbian self 😬 men’s fantasies about WLW are always so gross and skin crawling. An astonishingly bad film, can’t wait for the next bad movies and a beat 😅
I usually watch bad movies with my dad and we always have little things to say but this just left us with few words like what the fuck and just staring at each other like… you seeing this too
This movie ONLY thought it was good due to the level of arrogance that Jlo was existing at back then. She took it very badly when people didn't like it, and she turned it into a huge drama about her relationship, which caused all kinds of issues for her and ben (mainly because he runs to a bottle at the first sign of adversity, expects the woman in his life to take full responsibility for his happiness, and tends to pout in self-pity whenever she's unhappy). This movie was 100% an ego project for jlo, and she was STUNNED when it didn't receive all of the accolades that she was expecting 😂
Dude, while I don’t deny that JLo was really pushing for this movie bacj in the day, your segment all about Ben Affleck made me very uncomfortable. While this can be hard to really comprenhend in this age of paparazzi and constant content, YOU DO NOT KNOW THESE PEOPLE, and acting as if you do (especially when trying to psychanalyse their relationships and apparent alcoholism) is incredibly disrespectful. I know you did not mean anything bad by it but I hope you reconsider your take.
This movie is called Amore Estremo (Extreme Love) in Italy as the original title is the italian word for Lilies. Trivia: in the pilot for Jennifer Lopez's NBC show Shades Of Blue, her character calls lilies an abomination, which might be a dig on this movie.
Wow, this one was an adventure! I feel beat up and exhausted. I'm so incredibly offended by the homophobic and misogynistic portrayal of lesbians as straight women in denial. JFC, straight dudes who wrote/approved/directed this garbage.
I HATED growing up in the early 2000’s. Trying to explain to other 12yo’s calling everything gay is low key bigotry, and having them dunk on me for it. Having my black body type be the least desirable, having my black features constantly ridiculed or conformed to whiteness. Then 2010, and it’s like a magic wand of sanity! I’m not saying it didn’t have problems, but it was like everyone got on board with inclusion.
I work at a pool and I super reccomend Paul Mitchell shampoo 3 for chlorine buildup! Use it in addition to your regular shampoo and you get basically no buildup
Watching Kennie lose her sh*t while explaining every moment the romcom music plays makes me think I should watch this movie. I wont but I'll definitely watch this video again 😝
As a lesbian I'm utterly disgusted. I didn't realize the full premise of this movie. Heard about this movie when it came out and wasn't keen on seeing it. I thought the gay aspect of it was that Ben's character thought Jen's was a lesbian. She's not and 'hilarity' ensues they fall in love. To know she was an actual lesbian... smh just upset my spirit. Ben and Jen just contributing to harmful stereotypes of lesbians, just wow They deserve each other.
I resent that this movie is just a toxic waste dump for the writer's radioactive bad takes, because there's the skeleton of a passable rom com in the overall plot. Hear me out- Rival mobsters working for the same family are forced to work together on a kidnapping gig. The catch? Their mark is a kid, and they have to play a convincing "aunt and uncle" so the kid doesn't get wise to the plot and try to bolt. Shenanigans ensue. Also just drop the badly handled lesbian subplot altogether or just make her bisexual oh my god.
No, don't make her bisexual. Because the main guy would still be a fetishizing creep about her being bisexual. Honestly, even if she was straight, he would do these misogynistic ramblings either way about her ''not wanting him'', so it's a lose-lose-lose situation.
It's so interesting looking back on this movie and seeing Ben and Jennifer date again (AND get married!) decades afterwards. Also: Kennie you were serving some VOCALS in the beginning of the video! 😊😊💖💖💖💖
I do wish people would stop saying ''oh why not just make her bisexual?'' It would still be biphobic, you know that, right? Bi representation was and is already so bad (often we are hypersexualized and villainized, or completely erased and desexualized, and bi is always this 'dirty word' that's left unsaid), I know people saying stuff like that don't mean anything bad by it just... sigh. Honestly, bi authors/creators make the best bi characters overall, so let's just all agree that this movie should not have involved ANY lgbti+ characters whatsoever because they would always have done them dirty.
why are there so many big names in this thing?? why would they all embarrass themselves like this?? THEY must have been kidnapped lol. also - dead rolly polly lying in the sun - great analogy 👏🏽
I usually wear my natural hair out during the spring, summer and fall and wear wigs in the winter because Canadian winters dry tf out of my hair and make it break it off, but it has been so bloody stinking humid in Toronto this summer that every hairstyle I do explodes as soon as I step outside. In summation, wig season began early for me this year lol
I worked at a movie theater when this came out, and we had to set it up and watch it to make sure everything ran correctly, and we had to take turns watching it because no one could sit through the whole damn thing. The yoga scene was THE.WORST.
Girl so glad to see the curls. I finally took the wig off after 2 months and took my braids out. Saw all the thickness and curls and grabbed my flat iron 🤣 I’m not dealing with it
It's legit the worst! I had my stylist silk press my hair 🤣. I gotta get more hair so I can get it braided again. I might wait till it's no longer hundred degrees tho
This was a rollercoaster of wtf at its finest! I was bewildered, aghast, stunned - when you said “And guess what they did?” I yelled out a horror movie “NooOooo!” This was something else and I loved every minute of it 🤣
THE IDO companion to this movie is now live! ua-cam.com/video/MvtmvrLzvWk/v-deo.html
i think "straight dude explaining lesbianism" is the disclaimer that has scared me the most to date
It was genuinely the only thing that made me take pause. Was gritting my teeth the whole video, bracing for impact
She was bisexual..
I still wasn't ready for it despite being warned 💀
no but actually
@@tellmewillcurrently halfway through and terrified. Clenching my fists and crochet hook.
the way straight men write lesbians is just so astonishing
astonishingly bad lmao
The script writer had never heard of the orgasm gap, I guess.
If it wasn’t so disgusting I’d be impressed by the audacity they have
And how do women write or even regard men, gay or otherwise?
@@christopherbrown5409 poo
This is just not a bad movie it is a horrible monstrosity of a movie. Saying it's just a bad movie gives it way way too much credit.
Honestly yeah I completely agree, it's not even a so bad it's good kind of film, it is just a truly offensive pile of dog shit.
@@OctopusWhoSeesAll at least M. Night has never made anything this offensive to gay people and even his bad films are still fun to watch.
😂😂😂😂 well damn💀
Haven't watched it yet, but you're probably right.😐
This movie is like The Room quality bad, except it has a bigger budget and stars…just atrocious. But your hair, is SERVING!! 💁🏾♀️
💯🎯
You know what's (one of 100000 things) funny about The Room is: It cost 3 million dollars to make. That's one reason it's SO singular: it used big-budget cameras, had a real, professional film crew and real, professional actors getting paid, it's just that the script, directing, and lead were all completely botched...and all the same person.
@@Alucard-A-La-Carte And they used green screen for the roof scenes instead of actually shooting on the roof.
HER HAIR LOOKS SO CUTE LIKE THIS
fr she looks gorgeous, I hadn't even put my earbuds in yet and I RAN to the comments
This length looks so good on her!
i love what she did with her makeup too. ❤
she's gorgeous 😍
I was thinking the same thing 💗
As a bisexual woman ... Ben Affleck?!?! TWO MOVIES thought BEN AFFLECK(?!) could turn a lesbian straight??? Do I just have particular tastes????? Because this man is just not attractive to me.
Someone has a big dream for that big headed morose man.
He looks like a foot.
He looks like a caricature of a vaguely handsome man tbh. The uncanny valley comes into play. And he has shark eyes. As another bisexual woman, I also don't get it AT ALL.
I'm also Bi and he's.... I'll admit he's not unattractive, but he seems really 'meh' to me; in these Romcom / Romance movies, the male leads all start to look the same, especially in the haircut department. It's weird when you see that the lead lady is gorgeous, and the movie tries to convince you that she is destined to be with generic main white man number 72. I'd argue that passionflix and pureflix are very hecking guilty in the "male leads all look the same" department.
I'm straight and Ben Affleck is about as attractive as a bowl of plain oatmeal. There's also just something about him (both in real life and in movies) that I can't pinpoint or describe, but he makes me feel like he's a douchebag idiot who pretends to be sensitive to try to get women. I won't watch anything that he's in because he gives me "ick" vibes.
As a lez, I despised the fact that this was the second film in which Ben Affleck "turned" a lesbian. Not to dismiss bisexuals but that wasn't even a key aspect in this or Chasing Amy. It was "oh, you like women? You just haven't found the right d!ck and Ben's is magically special". At least that's what I took away and it was always gross the way the films used lesbians to feed into the male fantasy.
it's so odd bc as another lesbian, i have no issues with dick. what turns me off is whats usually attached to it LOL
Agreed 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
I only vaguely remember that movie but in the end didn’t it turn out that she lied about being a lesbian?
@@alfie6441 no. Ben Affleck’s character was really upset bc she sexually experimented with guys in HIGH SCHOOL. He literally broke up with her because of it. Unhinged!
Not Ben Affleck being a manic pixie dream for men. He's literally such a man's man for truly just being a fking idiot. Even his role in Goodwill Hunting feels like satire somehow. Idk why but everything Affleck acts in just feels like a joke. Even gone girl, it's just that the joke is on him there, instead of him just being a joke
"He just lays there like a dead roly poly in the sun" sent my sides into orbit
Why would they even make Jennifer Lopez’s character gay LMAO it’s so tangential to the storyline and she never does gay shit in the movie 😭 like she could reveal she was just lying to keep him away and it would have equal impact
So true
The ONLY thing I could think of is that through the warped view of the writer, a woman ex is 'quirky' and 'not a threat' but a man ex would have been a potential threat to the 'superiority' of Ben Affleck? Or maybe it's some big gross ego boost to say you 'conquered' a lesbian? I don't know. It's all trash and I need to watch something pure to cleanse my mind.
She was bisexual.. she says she had been with men ..
@@anonymoust2905 THEN IT'S BIPHOBIC TOO THIS IS SOMEHOW WORSE
@@EatyourWafflesplease How does it make it worse? It would've been worse if she was supposed to be lesbian lol.
The fact that these two dated/are dating again yet have absolutely no on screen chemistry is mind boggling.
They’re married now
That's supposed to be a common thing, that people dating in real life have no on screen chemistry. Like they have no sexual tension, because they've relieved it.
Romanticising something means idealising it. They no longer have an idealised view of each other, but a real one.
@@Mecharnie_Dobbs which is such a lie.
@@Mecharnie_Dobbs Joey said that on Friends.
Is not surprising, it has to be awkard having to have sexual tension in front of everyone, while being playing characters, and being directed on how.
As a lesbian I humbly ask people to just...leave us the fuck alone. Cute hair, though!
God, seriously. Please.
gosh, seconded
@Pippi Longstocking Don't act obtuse.
I think that was a genuine question p.a
@@fightingmedialounge519 genuine how.
Ben Affleck going after and getting a not straight woman is a weird thing that has happened more than once. Besides this train wreck it also happens in Chasing Amy.
I was just going to comment about Chasing Amy! I can hardly believe that there are two movies about a romantic relationship between a guy and a lesbian, but Ben Affleck being the dude in both is bizarre
I've never seen this movie and WTF? Another movie where Ben Affleck sleeps with a lesbian??
Also, I can't think of a movie where those roles are reversed...
@@LMason-qd7sq That's because Lesbians Is Hot and Gay Men Is Funny Friend, hope that helps!!! /sarcasm
@@LMason-qd7sq almost as if some men are more likely to ignore boundaries lol
If they wanted her to like men and women why did they not just make her bisexual? It would still have been absolutely appalling representation, but at least it wouldn't be completely and utterly lesbianphobic, fetishistic and disgusting. Holy shit. This one was rough as hell.
@Day They did not, she is only ever explained as a woman who likes women and who seems quite disgusted and put off by men, but who somehow ends up sleeping with Ben Affliction bc his peepee is just super special. There is even an entire monologue he has saying that she is "missing out" and she is "too hot and sexy" to only be with women because lesbians are lacking according to this film. She is not bisexual in this film. She is a lesbian that gets fixed by a man's penis. Which is just extremely offensive and nobody wants this.
Cause bisexual wasn’t taken seriously until recently. :/
Because then there wouldn’t be the “tension” of him pining for a woman who supposedly couldn’t want him, and then her finally sleeping with him wouldn’t be as big of an accomplishment. 🤢
Media in the early 2000’s was full of the “straight man thinks he can turn a lesbian” trope, and the word bisexual was never said.
id still be phobic fetishistic disgusting and bad rep tho lol but ya tea
@@reneedooma I literally said it would still be appalling representation do you read
i honestly have to give props to B...Bennifer... for having the guts to say any of these lines out loud, and have it preserved on film. Like I thought the theaters were just being dramatic by pulling the movie, but I would have walked out the whole theater after that 5 minute genital diatribe
I agree😆
Totally agree!!!
I preemptively don't want to hear anything from Ben Affleck's mouth regardless of the message (his face puts me to sleep) so listening to this is like -20 out of 10. But it's kinda tolerable with Jennifer bc she's a beauty icon. I just try to look at her and not listen, which helps. I think that was the plan lol
Walked out I tell you
Kennie's little rant about what's a good bad movie, reminds me of that line in Megamind where he says '' You don't know what's good for bad!''.
Underrated comment
Yes!
All in the presentation!
Agreed!
“have you ever seen a movie have an identity crisis?” yeah, the first suicide squad 😭
Was someone laundering money? That is the only explanation for this crap.
good point
As soon as you said Ricky was a lesbian I out loud said "oh no" because I could already tell where this movie was gonna do and I did not like it
I haven’t seen Kennie this enraged and confused since Cats. 🤣🤣 She is our strongest soldier. I on the other hand am not and will not be watching this movie for my own sanity.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭
Kennie…Kennie, I’m a disabled lesbian, and when I tell you I SUFFERED even just watching the edited clips. I think my soul died. It ascended shrieking into the ether, leaving behind the shriveled husk of my body. I had to pause and restart this video several times to try to recollect it and remember that life is worth living.
I will never forgive either Ben or J-Lo for agreeing to give life to this sewage runoff of a film. Dishonor on the families and the cows of all the cast and crew and ESPECIALLY the writer. How dare y’all?
Fr. DISHONOR
Never thought I’d find a comment so sewage-related to be quite so lyrical… but then I never thought I’d see anything even tangentially related to this festering Frankenstein’s monster of a film. Jesus. But thanks for the laugh; I needed it as an antidote to the rage.
Oh, and if you don’t mind my asking: is your name a coincidence, or a reference to the great HDM?
@@t.k.h.3913 It is in fact a reference to the Queen of the Svalbard Witches! Nice catch! 😊
@@serapekkala8238 amazing! Honestly, even after twenty more years - and possibly thousands more books - that series is one of the best things I’ve ever read. Never fails to get me.
Bruh cheers to my fellow disabled lesbian, this movie was probably... Oh man it's a tie between this and Purple Hearts. They both make me so wildly and deeply upset and I have a horrible sense of discomfort after watching both of these.
I'm a lesbian and this movie has officially stunned me into absolute silence 😭😭😭
[insert 'gay silence' meme here]
exactly what happened
I know the writer of this movie is now on reddit I just know it
All I remember from this movie is “It’s turkey time…gobble gobble” Like what were the screenwriters on ????😭
When he said "What". I was like same Ben Same.
The man was genuinely confused.
cocaine I guess. lol
That line is iconic, seriously who thought that you can make The JLO so unappealing with just one line! It kills boners faster than thinking of Trump
PLEASE 😭😭😭 this made me wanna watch it
"Gobble me swallow me drip down the side of me"
Each and every monologue was more painful than the last. The ableism and lesbophobia was just the sh*t frosting on the sh*t cake that was this sh*t movie.
I have spent my whole life thinking that the titular Gigli was the name of Jennifer Lopez' character and now I don't know what to do knowing the truth.
Same! Lol
"And he just lays there like a dead roly-poly in the sun" PLEASE THAT'S SO FUNNY
But Kenny, weren't MANY movies like this back in the day? Early 2000s was just a time of sin, we turned our backs from god and ended up with leggings under jean skirts.
and such. TINY. JACKETS💀
I totally agree… I just watched gigli before looking critics . it was fun.. .. and she is bisexual in the movie .. during their conversation with gigli mom …
There were a lot of good bad movies from the early 2000s, but this one took the cake. Before social media, EVERYONE knew it was horrible within a week of it being out, just by word of mouth. And After this, both of them were not taken seriously as actors for a WHILE, and honestly, many believe the horrible reception of the movie was one of the reasons they had to break up. No other movie at that time lead to that kind of real life consequence.
Ohhhhhhhh my god when Gigli was being "teased" by Ricki I started trying to rip my face off just to avoid this "I made her straight by my penial utencil and my manly wiles" trope. AND THEN he just lays there and does nothing after all that. Art immitates life, this movie is trash..... And I will watch it to scream at it and possibly introduce my gay friends to it so they can get out the cathartic scream as well.
Not me yelling "No! No!" and you yelling back "Yes! Yes! …" Got me cackling like a fiend.
My fiancé (lesbian with a disability) and I have decided that we now must watch this for movie night. This should be interesting.
oh please update us with your reactions!!
Tell us how it goes.
Is your fiancé @serapekkala8238 ?
My older brother used to work at the movie theater when this came out. In addition to so many people walking out midway and wanting refunds, they ended up pulling the showings of it within 2 days.
"She was there, she was crazy, and then she left" : my autobiography. Love that you covered this wild ride lmao
I legitimately had no idea what this movie was about. I thought Gigli was JLo's character's name. Nothing about this is what I expected.
not the "straight dude explaining lesbianism" disclaimer
As a current film student who dreams of being a screenwriter/director after graduating Uni, films like this give me hope. Anyone can be a screenwriter and/or director, lmao. Anything is possible, man.
Sure. As long as your parents are already in the biz
“He’s just lays their like a dead Roly poly in the sun.” Had me cackling.
TMI I'm bisexual and the only "big O's" I've ever had are from women and the toys.
Bennifer was the first couple ship name ever created. First ever. That’s how much of a big deal the media made their relationship.
I are absolutely adoreable! 💕
@@OctopusWhoSeesAll I believe so, yeah. I think they got together a few years after Bennifer.
as a lesbian... yeah...this is definitely a movie!
🤣😂🤣😂🤣🥳
This movie feels like it was ripped from the incel section of Wattpad 😂
They have an incel section there?
@@satviksingh1200 Lol. Well, it's full of terrifyingly creepy fiction (some of it getting made into worse movies). I'm sure every type of community has left its mark.
@@thepresence365 yup. I know that
you said they cast bennifer because people wanted to see an it-couple be intimate in a movie and my brain immediately goes “oh so eyes wide shut, but in comic sans” 😭
“they try to gaslight you with horniness” ok so eyes wide shut but handwritten by a teenage boy 😭
Nothing will ever replace this series, bc at 37:48 when Kennie said “-and guess what happened?” I, OUT LOUD, went “….No…NO.” AND SHE SAID “-YES! YES, SHE GIVES HIM PITY PU$SIE” WHEN I SAY I SCREAMED
Yesss the look and the singing at the start, loving the vibe
Also, Why is there such an obsession of straight men thinking they can turn gay women straight? like why do you think your sexual prowess is so much better, what is the goal. Why is it such a brag? i don’t understand 😩 I hear it in music lyrics, I see it in movies and i Hear about it in certain spaces. There’s so many women out there that aren’t Lesbians so why
People, male and female, wanna be irresistible. What kind of dumb question is that?
@@christopherbrown5409 we found the straight man!!!!
@@polly-fe3pq LGBT actually, but that psychology isn't hard to fathom at all. Vanity's a human trait; even you can understand that.
@@christopherbrown5409 wanting to be irresistible is way different than constantly harassing someone that’s telling you they aren’t interested in you. Thinking you’re so irresistible that you can change someone’s sexual preference is not okay. And if someone thinks they’re so irresistible that they can’t be rejected by anyone regardless of someone else’s preferences or orientation whether straight or not, that’s a bigger problem they need to work on.
@@mick7804 sweetie, who said anything about "constantly harassing" anyone? I'll wait.
Accidentally had a convo with Kennie JD by yelling "NO!" repeatedly when she asked what happens next (re: pity sex). That was a rough one man
28:20 Can we please have some appreciation for the sheer gonzo performance Chris Walken turns in here? That whole delivery about going to Marie Callender's for pie was such a baffling choice and I absolutely love it. i think he was the only one who saw how poor the script was and decided to just have some fun.
oh boy, this is something! This made remember every single awful thing about movies from the naughties. like wow, i forgot all about "lesbians need the right dxck" and "extremely offensive autistic character", this movie has everything!
I just want everyone to know that someone was paid to write this. Paid a lot of money, given a lot of resources, to write a movie with Jennifer Lopez, and they wrote this. Sure, studio interference and all that, but is there even anything in here reminiscent of a once decent plot? As a writer seeing videos like this always make me feel good because it ju sets reassures me that no matter what I write, no matter how insecure you may feel about your prose, characters, or originality. You cannot fail. You have won just by trying. You could create the most debased, vulgar, bland, coma-inducing series of words put to paper, so revolting that the government is sent to your residence to steal all remnants of the work and burn it in front of you, only to then burn the ashes and hold your eyes over the smoke as a final punishment as you slowly douse the flame with your polluted tears, and that failure would still be greater and more successful than the entire existence of this movie. You cannot fail. If you can manage to sit down and write a work, no matter how long it takes, from start to finish, and do it (mostly) sober and with both hands, you will have put more effort than everyone who oversaw this monstrosity did and, no matter the outcome, will have succeeded. Go do it.
It makes me think that I'd better not write any monologues or soliloquys or Kenny is going to picture me sitting in a circle, stroking my ego.
I meen what if a character gives an overly complicated answer to a question, does that count as a monologue?
On second viewing, maybe monologues are O.K. if there are not too many of them.
Thank you I want people like you to be in charge and be heard and have resources!!! Instead of the scary evil patriarchal system that made this, this, I don't even have the words yet I'm too horrified and angry, that this and so many, so many horrible things like this exist. I pray for fall of patriarchy daily. No more movies with these disgusting dehumanizing agendas!
0:14 Good lord I wasn't expecting you to look SO dang gorgeous right off the bat from the first second with no warning, ma'am this look the hair THE LOOK?! 😳
From a sociopolical point of view this movie encapsulates everything wrong with the patriarchy in a neat little 2 hour package. It was also done completely on accident.
I remember watching this as a child and the line that made my brother and I giggle hysterically for days was when Brian speaks after the stalking ex-girlfriend cuts her wrists,
"Lady needs some Band-Aids."
To this day, I cannot explain to myself why this was funny.
It just was.
you know it’s a miserable failure when someone like Kennie has a stroke multiple times explaining the scenes
How is this man in two movies about turning a lesbian? How? I can't think of other movies with this premise. If anyone knows of another movie like this, please enlighten me. Otherwise I will believe Affleck owns the entire lesbian-phobic romcom market
I think their was a scientology book on that.
35:45 May my tombstone read “She was there, she was crazy, then she left”
So kind of you to get Bennifer a wedding gift by reminding us all this movie exists. A movie I'm sure is a very proud moment in both of their careers.
Glad you're finally tackling this classicly awful movie based entirely on a celebrity relationship
I've been pronouncing this "giggly" so we're off to a strong start
I remember watching this movie with my roommate a couple months ago and said “I think Kennie JD should do a bad movie and a beat on this one cuz WOW.”
"Straight Dude Falling in Love" being one of the TWs is so funny
“He just laid there like a dead Rollie pollie in the sun!” That nearly killed me.
Also, your hair and makeup in this vid are incredible!!!
The scene I will never forget is JLo opening her legs and saying "Gobble, gobble" so seriously
11:20 My favourite thing about the name "Bennifer" is the fact that when Ben Affleck went on to date Jennifer Garner and then eventually got back with Jennifer Lopez, people didn't change the name, they simply kept using it X'D Like, the disrespect X'D
Oh geez. As a lesbian, the homophobia hits particularly hard. I hate that I love this movie for how much of a trainwreck it is.
Have you heard of chasing Amy by Kevin smith? It’a another movie where Ben Affleck falls in love with a lesbian. Actually, funny fact, one of my first boyfriends stole a monologue from that movie to get me to go out with him. When I saw the movie I recited the damn thing word for word 😂
My boyfriend did this via text to one of my favorites at the time, Scent if a Woman. He hadn’t seen it and didn’t know I had, but happened to be watch g it in a bar with subtitles on 😭
Its giving Reef from Stoked in that one episode😭
@@rissajones1645 I didn’t think anyone alive watched stoked 😭😭 I loved that series as a kid. Low-key used to have a crush on him
@@mielygold423 I LOVE STOKED!!!
@@mielygold423 i didnt watch it growing up but i found all the episodes on youtube so ive been binge watching😭
JLo at 35:55
I am speechless. That analogy I guess was not what I expected. I gasped 🤭🤭🤣🤣🤣🤣
Right?! It's so funny LMAO
oh those clips had me FLOORED. i am never going to feel insecure about my art ever again because this is a movie that EXISTS.
The way I started hysterically laughing at their conversation in front of the hospital and then you just said "it must be drugs" THAT IS LITERALLY THE ONLY EXPLANATION
as a neurodivergent lesbian, this movie is the type of tonal awkwardness that i can only concoct in my nightmares
Omg. I’m older than the bible and I remember when this movie came out. It wasnt heavily advertised via commercials or anything like a lot of other movies were - it was relying exclusively on the massive “Bennifer” hype at the time. So nobody knew wtf it was about but everyone heard about how absolutely awful it was.
Thank you for being the Indiana Jones of bad movies and taking an adventure nobody else wanted to.
My favorite product placement in the movie is the Marie Calendars frozen foods speech by Christopher Walken
I love Kennie’s commentary and work but OH this one was a rough one for my lesbian self 😬 men’s fantasies about WLW are always so gross and skin crawling. An astonishingly bad film, can’t wait for the next bad movies and a beat 😅
I read the commentary at 33:21 and thought she had an actual pet cat and was like "highkey same" before remembering that it's incel monologue move
23:12
Director: Uhh…Your line was: “I’m proud of my work and myself.”
I usually watch bad movies with my dad and we always have little things to say but this just left us with few words like what the fuck and just staring at each other like… you seeing this too
This movie ONLY thought it was good due to the level of arrogance that Jlo was existing at back then. She took it very badly when people didn't like it, and she turned it into a huge drama about her relationship, which caused all kinds of issues for her and ben (mainly because he runs to a bottle at the first sign of adversity, expects the woman in his life to take full responsibility for his happiness, and tends to pout in self-pity whenever she's unhappy). This movie was 100% an ego project for jlo, and she was STUNNED when it didn't receive all of the accolades that she was expecting 😂
Dude, while I don’t deny that JLo was really pushing for this movie bacj in the day, your segment all about Ben Affleck made me very uncomfortable. While this can be hard to really comprenhend in this age of paparazzi and constant content, YOU DO NOT KNOW THESE PEOPLE, and acting as if you do (especially when trying to psychanalyse their relationships and apparent alcoholism) is incredibly disrespectful. I know you did not mean anything bad by it but I hope you reconsider your take.
I mean, their allowed to make judgments about these people coco. Hell you even agreed with some of their judgments.
Here we are two years later and jlo made another- larger- ego project that she funded, Ben is in, that flopped horribly 😂
This movie is called Amore Estremo (Extreme Love) in Italy as the original title is the italian word for Lilies.
Trivia: in the pilot for Jennifer Lopez's NBC show Shades Of Blue, her character calls lilies an abomination, which might be a dig on this movie.
That show is her best acting EVER.
Wow, this one was an adventure! I feel beat up and exhausted. I'm so incredibly offended by the homophobic and misogynistic portrayal of lesbians as straight women in denial. JFC, straight dudes who wrote/approved/directed this garbage.
“Negligent use of romcom music” BAAAAAYYYYYBBBBBEEEEEEEEE!!!!! 😂😂 😂😂😂😂you fucking KILL ME! Can we go to a bad movie together, PLEASE!!!!!
With all those monologues did the writers know that this is a movie and not a play🤔
That intro has me excited. Its been a while since we had a truly terrible movie 😍😍
I HATED growing up in the early 2000’s. Trying to explain to other 12yo’s calling everything gay is low key bigotry, and having them dunk on me for it. Having my black body type be the least desirable, having my black features constantly ridiculed or conformed to whiteness. Then 2010, and it’s like a magic wand of sanity! I’m not saying it didn’t have problems, but it was like everyone got on board with inclusion.
I work at a pool and I super reccomend Paul Mitchell shampoo 3 for chlorine buildup! Use it in addition to your regular shampoo and you get basically no buildup
Listening to Jennifer’s speech at like 33:10 is like listening to Cole Sprouse in a podcast lol
Who?
No matter how many times I rewatch this video, it will never cease to boggle my mind that Kennie never addressed the "Gobble gobble" line. 😂
Watching Kennie lose her sh*t while explaining every moment the romcom music plays makes me think I should watch this movie. I wont but I'll definitely watch this video again 😝
As a lesbian I'm utterly disgusted. I didn't realize the full premise of this movie. Heard about this movie when it came out and wasn't keen on seeing it. I thought the gay aspect of it was that Ben's character thought Jen's was a lesbian. She's not and 'hilarity' ensues they fall in love. To know she was an actual lesbian... smh just upset my spirit. Ben and Jen just contributing to harmful stereotypes of lesbians, just wow They deserve each other.
I resent that this movie is just a toxic waste dump for the writer's radioactive bad takes, because there's the skeleton of a passable rom com in the overall plot. Hear me out-
Rival mobsters working for the same family are forced to work together on a kidnapping gig. The catch? Their mark is a kid, and they have to play a convincing "aunt and uncle" so the kid doesn't get wise to the plot and try to bolt. Shenanigans ensue. Also just drop the badly handled lesbian subplot altogether or just make her bisexual oh my god.
No, don't make her bisexual. Because the main guy would still be a fetishizing creep about her being bisexual. Honestly, even if she was straight, he would do these misogynistic ramblings either way about her ''not wanting him'', so it's a lose-lose-lose situation.
literally the opening shot of kennie STOLE MY BREATH oh my god stunning absolutely stunning 💕
Now I see why Weird Al listed "make your TV record Gigli" as a horrible thing in Virus Alert. Never got the line before but now I do.
It's so interesting looking back on this movie and seeing Ben and Jennifer date again (AND get married!) decades afterwards. Also: Kennie you were serving some VOCALS in the beginning of the video! 😊😊💖💖💖💖
I do wish people would stop saying ''oh why not just make her bisexual?'' It would still be biphobic, you know that, right? Bi representation was and is already so bad (often we are hypersexualized and villainized, or completely erased and desexualized, and bi is always this 'dirty word' that's left unsaid), I know people saying stuff like that don't mean anything bad by it just... sigh. Honestly, bi authors/creators make the best bi characters overall, so let's just all agree that this movie should not have involved ANY lgbti+ characters whatsoever because they would always have done them dirty.
Lmao not negligent use of romcom music, love that 😂
why are there so many big names in this thing?? why would they all embarrass themselves like this?? THEY must have been kidnapped lol.
also - dead rolly polly lying in the sun - great analogy 👏🏽
this girl is mesmerizing can we talk about it😩✋
I usually wear my natural hair out during the spring, summer and fall and wear wigs in the winter because Canadian winters dry tf out of my hair and make it break it off, but it has been so bloody stinking humid in Toronto this summer that every hairstyle I do explodes as soon as I step outside. In summation, wig season began early for me this year lol
I worked at a movie theater when this came out, and we had to set it up and watch it to make sure everything ran correctly, and we had to take turns watching it because no one could sit through the whole damn thing. The yoga scene was THE.WORST.
When I heard that JLo's character was gay I went "Oh no"
Her giving him pitty p...While expected....Crushed me
Girl so glad to see the curls. I finally took the wig off after 2 months and took my braids out. Saw all the thickness and curls and grabbed my flat iron 🤣 I’m not dealing with it
It's legit the worst! I had my stylist silk press my hair 🤣. I gotta get more hair so I can get it braided again. I might wait till it's no longer hundred degrees tho
Bless this comment! All these people whining about the magic of natural hair have no idea how much work it is!
Hi Kennie 🥰👋🏿 Hi Saturday Crowd 🥰👋🏿 I hope everyone had a good week 💓💓💓
It was awful
Hey Zainab! Hope your week was great. Glad it’s Saturday! 💕👋🏼
@@faithgoga3983 I'm sorry about that :/ hope this next one is better for you 🌻🌻🌻
Hope your week was great too!☺
This was a rollercoaster of wtf at its finest! I was bewildered, aghast, stunned - when you said “And guess what they did?” I yelled out a horror movie “NooOooo!”
This was something else and I loved every minute of it 🤣