After the resounding success of “Dahmer” on Netflix, this October it will return with more premieres on the streaming platform. But this time, far from recommending a film, we have come to make you a warning and even a kind of challenge. In the next few days an old movie will arrive that meant a resounding failure for Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck: “A Dangerous Relationship” (Gigli).
It is a film so, so bad, that its director, Martin Brest —which until then had had a respectable career— ended up professionally sunk after its premiere. Would you dare to see it?
the end of a race
Martin Brest is not just any director, but the man behind cinema gems like “Women perfume”with Al Pacino; “Escape at Midnight”with Robert De Niro; “A detective on the loose in Hollywood”, with Eddie Murphy; Y “Do you know Joe Black?”with Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins.
With these and more films directed between the 70s and 90s, Brest did not start the new millennium on the right foot. 2003 became the year of his death as a filmmaker, because after the infamous “Gigli” he never directed again.
After its premiere, the tape received a wave of bad reviews. In fact, it is listed on IMDb with a rating of 2.6/10 based on 49k reviews. Also, Rotten Tomatoes gives it just one 6% from film experts and 13% from the audience.
What was it about?
The film followed Gigli, a thug who receives a dangerous assignment from the mafia. His contractors, not trusting him, send an assassin named Ricki to watch him. This gives way to a strange romance.
The movie it cost 75 million dollars and barely raised a little more than 7 million worldwide. In a nutshell: the end of martin brestwho did not suffer the same fate as his protagonists.
A valuable lesson
Ben Affleck, who at that time had a relationship with Jennifer Lopez, pointed out that despite the fact that the film’s failure “engendered a lot of negative feelings”finally propelled him to be a director.
Later, in 2013, Affleck would win the Oscar for best picture with “Argo” and would later establish himself as one of the DC Comics fan favorite Batmans.
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