Maybe with Sigourney Weaver instead of Goldberg.

If they had made a film of all these people as themselves, drinking coffee and talking about random stuff, *that* would have been infinitely more interesting.

@@tristanhartup4936 Or Regina King

I can already see that film looking like a prototype version of the Rush Hour series.

Fun Fact: Stallone reached out to Chan to play the part of Simon Phoenix in Demolition Man. But schedules and stuff.

“The Player” is a movie that does this concept FAR better in execution-and was done six years prior to this flick (1992) with the talents of (among others) Robert Altman, Tim Robbins, Whoopi Goldberg, Vincent D’Onofrio, Dean Stockwell, Richard Grant, Sydney Pollack, and Lyle Lovett involved. AND it was released by the (at the time) smaller Fine Line studios, so you KNOW they have axes to grind and secrets to spill about the big boys of the era. I can’t recommend you watch that film enough instead of this trash!

@@christmashake8968 The Player is one of those movies that I hear is good but never get around to watching. It's on HBO Max now though, so I'll definitely check it out later!

@@tylertheguy3160 how was it?

​@@christmashake8968 It got a 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, compared to Burn Hollywood Burn, which got a paltry 7% on Rotten Tomatoes.

LoL...I just watched that episode for the first time yesterday. So hilarious!

That means he's had the same phone for like 9 years.

@@diggerfan931910 years now.

@@matthewdaley746 The stupid thing is, Disney absolutely deserves all the flack its getting, but when you look at the rest of the film industry it's no wonder Disney is king. Seriously, Universal has the Fifty Shades movies plus Jem and the Holograms, Paramount has those Transformers movies, Fox had Fant4stic, WB has the mess that was the beginnings of the DCEU, and let's not even get into Sony. Disney doesn't have anything as notoriously derided. Disney is indeed an evil money-grubbing corporation, but the rest of the film industry put itself in a position to let it run wild I'm afraid. So it's hard to be mad at Disney for winning.

@@matthewdaley746 Oh no not Frozen.

I feel that ranting about Disney is starting to be basic. Like what's the point going off on them when everyone has done it? From a capitalist and political stand point, yes. But however, every rant about Disney is starting to feel the same.

@@LinkMarioSamus They had the bombs at the beginning of the decade (John Carter and Lone Ranger) and the remakes that have now been deemed terrible just by their mere existence. Saying that they don't have anything as notoriously derided isn't totally accurate. Hell, they had Artemis Fowl this year, which people compared to stuff like Last Airbender and Eragon.

I kind of wish their stuff was more obviously bad rather than just mediocre bad. Then there'd be a clear case for quality improvement, just like there was with Bumblebee or the DC films post Suicide Squad (barring Justice League). But when you make a film that people either deem to be good/great/okay that makes a lot of money, the rule is to continue doing that, so that even when the quality goes down people will still be roped into seeing it.

Haha! So true

BTW, for those who are wondering, the "gay mafia" is actually very real. It refers to David Geffen, Bryan Singer and other such people who've actually been dividing and conquering the entertainment industry to carve it up and cause dissension and chaos. Geffen in particular has done this. He is the master of excavating or even inventing dirt on people on his shit list. Ovitz was a dick, but Geffen is worse; as people like Jon Peters, Peter Guber, Walter Yetnikoff, Don Henley, Laura Nyro, Donna Summer and Neil Young all can tell you. Geffen used his connection with reporters like Bernard Weinraub to spread it out; Ovitz even referred to Geffen and Weinraub as "masters of controlled spin." Geffen also constantly fucked over his supposed creative partners, Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg, because of constantly hiding the true state of DreamWorks from them and denigrating Spielberg as not giving enough time and effort, even though their original 1994 pact included extramural activities and Geffen continued to do so. But worst, Geffen helped facilitate, aid and abet the crimes of not just Singer, but also the predators who violated Corey Feldman and Corey Haim, Weinstein, Trump, Lou Pearlman, Gary Goddard, Garth Ancier, Kevin Spacey, Charlie Rose, Jeffrey Epstein and more, using them as allies of convenience, people to keep tabs on; and helping spread false stories on others to distract from the truth; Geffen also had a hand in smearing the Clintons (after 2000, that is), Obama, and Michael Jackson. So the gay mafia did bring down Ovitz, though Ovitz's lesser (but still bad) actions merely gave ammo for them to use and they didn't have to invent things for him.

P.S. Eisner was actually the one who hired Ovitz at Disney. The problem wasn't that Ovitz did a shit job-it's that he did no job, because Eisner didn't specify what Ovitz was supposed to do, and Eisner was also keeping all the power to himself. Ovitz actually said, "Why did you hire me, I'm not doing anything." Eisner came to agree that it was a mistake, but still let Ovitz have his rich severance package, which did prompt a lawsuit, as the rest of the company was baffled and felt Ovitz was getting too much. It actually became part of the so-called "Save Disney War", when Roy E. Disney and Eisner went head to head over Eisner's micromanagement and thorough mistakes at the end of his run, leading to Bob Iger taking his place as CEO.

Happened to me too, haha

And it DID. I hate this film. Its is hands down one of the Worst FILMS I have ever seen in my 37 years walking this earth. Its easily one of the top 5(Tentacolino,Trucks, Simon Birch,Drop Dead Fred,The Pest are among my most HATED films) WORST films I have ever had the misfortune of seeing. Its Stupid,Ironic,Forced,Contrived,So pious, full of its self, that it has its own head shoved so far up its own ass that EVERY single solitary attempt of Satire and Self Deprecation falls flat on its ass. Burn Hollywood Burn, is a PURE waste of Film. I have NEVER had a Film make me as FURIOUS as Burn Hollywood,Burn. It DESERVED every single Razzie it won in 1998.

@@Tornado1994 I hear S.O.B is a better version of this film, I saw The Player and that was better too. I think the mockumentary style hurt Burn Hollywood Burn, and the fact that the solution wasn't Alan coming up with a new name felt like a missed opportunity IMO.

@@Tornado1994 Why do you hate Simon Birch? I’ll admit that the film has tons of flaws, such as an inconsistent tone, over the top music score and one of the most unintentionally funny “Death By Baseball” scenes ever, which does ruin the more dramatic moments, but I really like the friendship between Joe and Simon, with good acting, the offbeat humour made me laugh, and it was, in spite of being quite corny, a touching story of growing up, challenging your beliefs, and dealing with death.

@@thesapphireone I HATE Simon Birch, because its a Bastardized Adaptation of a Fantastic Anti War Novel called "A Prayer for Owen Meany" and because its Manipulative, Schamltzy, Badly Written, Implausible Horseshit.

@@Tornado1994 Thank you for replying, but why do you use AllCaps?

It seems those Burton fans weren’t simply fans, but apologists. And they weren’t even apologizing for the right guy, especially considering that Burton was off the back of the strangeness that was “Mars Attacks.”

There’s also a rumour that “Mystery Men” was actually directed by Tim Burton. (Tom Waits even said as much in his autobiography!)

That sounds insane. Then again, I remember something similar about how a 1998 film called "Thursday" was directed by Quentin Tarantino under an alias.

Not, to mention, that Sylvester Stallone, beating, Jackie Chan in combat would have been, more, absurd, than, anything else in that film, and, that's, really, saying something, all things considered.

@K Cheng That wouldn't have made sense in 1987, forget about 1998, and, let's be honest, Wesley Snipes really should have been able to totally kick his ass, the only film where he lost, was, New Jack City, and, as he played the villain, he, totally, had to.

@@matthewdaley746 that’s cause he’s not a martial arts fighter In new jack city

​@@theitfactorjameswheezer2852 My point exactly, Ice-T, was, the hero, and, thus, he had to, win, so, the villain can't do the thing that makes the fight a mismatch, there, were, a lot of things about that film that made absolutely zero sense.

Was Jackie Chan the inspiration for Skull Face from the Metal Gear Solid games?

I am looking forward to it already! It should be good

@@matthewdaley746 I didn't know that. Thanks for letting us know mate

@@matthewdaley746 After Earth is a dreadful movie! I think Will Smith (more or less) admitted that himself. As for Movie 43, I don't know what possessed that cast to play in that film. Mark Kermode (the BBC film critic) reckoned at the time that the film studios had found evidence of the actors in compromising situations. There is no way, otherwise, to explain why they were in the film lol

@@matthewdaley746 Yup! You are absolutely right

@@matthewdaley746 I think you are right on both fronts ;)

And he never tried to act again either. I'm guessing even Weinstein was ashamed by his role in his movie. Maybe he was going to play himself, but realized that a man with as many skeletons in the closet as he had shouldn't draw attention to his sleaziness, but also didn't want to be told no? IDK.

He had his lazy eye on Whoopi Goldberg.

Harvey Weinstein *directed* the ‘80s teen comedy “Playing For Keeps” (alongside his brother Bob) so he wasn’t much better at that than he was at acting. If that movie is remembered at all, it’s because it was one of Marisa Tomei’s first films.

Of course

Was that drink Tea?

@@TommyDeonauthsArchives It was, actually.

It’s one of those songs where you hear it and think “if this is one of the tracks that made it into the final film, what were the rejections like?”

That just bothers me now. Also, Disney Cast Members need to get more Work and More Pay, Disney!

If there's an animated movie of theirs that could use a live action do-over, it's 1985's The Black Cauldron. Or adapt all 5 books in the series that movie loosely adapted.

Basically, it's Disney-ception...

Nah, they'll just move on to doing live action remakes of the Pixar movies.

Sit and spin, troll. You know for a fact that will never happen. And the films aren't that bad by any means, especially because they're not "replacements" for the originals, they are complements and the chance to create a new interpretation. None of the films in the bunch have ever been below an 8 out of 10, in terms of how good they are, and certain films labeled remakes actually aren't, Christopher Robin for example. Disney is certainly not above reproach, and indeed COVID has helped bring out the worst, though Walt's union busting in the '40s will forever remain the company's worst act but they are not monsters devouring everything and everyone.

@@matthewdaley746 Disney isn't actually a monopoly though. With the Fox purchase, it has no more than 39 percent of the box office total, especially when the other studios are factored in. And plus, it was time for new leadership at Fox; if there's to be a chance of doing right by the Alien franchise, including the potential hope of reviving Neill Blomkamp's planned legacy sequel to Aliens, there had to be a new broom, and Disney is that new broom. I do feel that Alan Horn should not be studio chair anymore, because he did things like shutterint Touchstone Pictures, insisting on the "no tobacco" guidelines, personally was responsible for the boneheaded situation with James Gunn as well as the potential disaster in renegotiating with Sony for Spider-Man, and despite his talks of "calming the waters", he is in fact an arsonist who is also a firefighter. He personally fucked over Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne, getting them kicked out of New Line and leading Warner Bros. to fully subsume it, for example, by tricking them into greenlighting The Golden Compass and he doubled down on it, but he made Warners blame Shaye and Lynne and not look at his own role in it. But with someone like Meryl Poster as studio chair, things would be brighter and Disney would scale to even better heights, and possibly evolve to be even better.

Yeah, really glad someone actually, sees Disney for the insane racket they always were.

@AT Productions I know it's not a Disney property but Shrek makes fun of Disney all the time. In this case it's not self deprecating humour but yeah, kids and family movies indeed put jokes about a company's business practices or just poke fun at them out of pettiness and rivalry.😏

@AT Productions stop. Stop doing the ‘it’s for children’ excuse.

Oh. I have only known about this movie by name... years ago... and I'm about to find out what it looks like now!

I actually saw this movie, and yeah, you really aren't missing much, unless you're writing a book on 90s Hollywood or something.

I have seen this movie and apart from a few amusing jokes here and there the movie is forgettable. This film is barely a mockumentary as they never really stick with the format for very long without having a flashback or going on a tangent. Every scene is exposition over exposition masquerading as an interview segment. It's more like one of those bad found footage films that forgets it's a found footage film and falls into the troupe of traditional cinema.

Bad Boys was good as well.

@@michaelsinger4638 🤣🤣🤣🤣That was funny!

I'm gonna be the odd one out and agree to that quote. While Michael Bay has issues with his writing (particularly towards his "comedy"), I feel like he gets way too much hate. Especially since I've seen a lot of movies that are subjectively worse. And in some cases, MB isn't entirely one note. Bad Boys, The Rock, Armageddon, The Island, Pain & Gain, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, and 6 Underground were decent enough films to stand on their own. Of course, I'm not here to tell people off for not agreeing with me but I feel like addressing a hot take.

To be honest, Michael Bay films are kind of a guilty pleasure of mine. While there are better movies I could be watching, sometimes I'm in the mood for a little snack film. And ever since the pandemic, I was mostly looking back on stuff I liked as a kid. And while I think a movie like Transformers 2 is a bad film, I kinda have a soft spot for it, mostly for the opening action sequence and the "New Divide" song. And I think Transformers 4 had an interesting premise with the bounty hunter Lamborghini robot Lockdown and C.I.A agent Sideshow Bob.

@@matthewdaley746 Meh, I'm not that worried about critical reception, as my tastes in movies is rather unorthodox for the most part. I mean, films like Titanic, Frozen, and Cuties (Mignonnes) are rated highly on Rotten Tomatoes, but I have zero interest in watching any of them. But I can agree that Bumblebee and Bad Boys For Life are pretty awesome films in their own right. (but I still liked Bad Boys II, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and TF: Age of Extinction, in spite of their issues)

Cinergi did produce it, and it was distributed by Touchstone (A Similar Arm Of Disney To Hollywood Pictures) internationally. So...it was basically free.

Same

Did you sleep already Who Dis?

Let's add "Singin' in the Rain" to the mix. It sort of touches on that awkward transition from silent cinema to the talkies ("The Dueling Cavalier" screen test scene is hilarious). It's also one of the few musicals out there I personally like. Also, Tropic Thunder, Day for Night and Living in Oblivion (it was the big-screen debut of Peter Dinklage) fall into there too.

Also Day for Night, directed by François Truffaut

@@jbvader721 I’ve seen Singin In The Rain, and it was fantastic. The Dueling Cavalier preview was one of my favourite moments. I’ve seen bits of Living In Oblivion and it seems interesting, I also saw Hearts Of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse. I am looking forward to Day For Night as I enjoyed The 400 Blows. I’d also mention Adaptation (2002), as it’s about a man having writer’s block and he’s constantly in his own mind.

I would like to add The Artist (2011).

@@jonathanbarr9764 That's good, too. It's even interesting for non-silent film fans. I was very iffy about it back in 2018 when the Best Pictures would play on TV, and the same was true for Wings (1927). But in 2021, I saw them and enjoyed them.

I’ve only seen him in Barry Lyndon. I know he starred in Love Story and Tough Guys Don’t Dance. I need to see him in Love Story and Paper Moon. If you haven’t seen Barry Lyndon you should give it a try as it’s directed by Stanley Kubrick.

I said that because Ryan O'Neill infamously hit on his daughter Tatum at a funeral because he hadn't seen her in so long that he didn't recognize her. How does one get to that point?

@@alishastephenson1437 I knew they were estranged from each other but I didn’t know why until now.

Yeah, Ryan is an infamous piece of shit, once hit on his own daughter at a funeral because he forgot what she looked like.

Interestingly, Ryan O’Neal comes off as a serious asshole in his co-star Robert Evans’ book “The Kid Stays In The Picture.”

He actually thinks he's funny, he still defends the jokes in this movie. It was pretty much written for an audience of one, himself.

Let´s bring the guy notorious for writing two erotic films with rape scenes to make a comedy... The end result is a bunch of desperated sexual jokes. This, and the Harvey Weinstein cameo, makes me think he is a creep

Yeah, until you remember that she also, did, The Associate, which was bad enough, WITHOUT, the Donald Trump cameo, Eric Idle was always a bigger star across the pond, anyway.

Eric Idle is an absurdist comedian. That's one genre where original script and end result can be completely different, and hard to predict.

@@Ruinwyn This was predictably awful, sorry to say, it's monumentally tragic, either it's going to be a masterpiece, or, a total disaster, his films began to lean towards the latter, and, they never truly recovered.

I do believe Hiller's cut would have been better, but still probably bad due to Joe's writing.

Blake Edwards told the same story in “S.O.B.” with a better cast, even more bitterness, AND we get to see Julie Andrews’ tits. There was also a low budget indie mockumentary called “And God Spoke” about a couple idiots trying to make a low budget Biblical epic that I remember quite fondly.

Same.

As someone else commented, Stallone initially wanted Chan to play the Wesley Snipes character in Demolition Man, but it didn’t work out.

Me too. I can't wait for Basic Instinct 2. I know it might take a while(like 6 or 7 months at this rate) but it's honnestly one of the worst film I've seen in my life! Or at least it's a solid contender amongst films like Jack and Jill and Epic Movie.

He also wrote Chicago and The Greatest Showman.

I believe it was made for an audience of one, Joe himself.

@@matthewdaley746 He shouted from the rooftops for Disney to give it a bigger release.

That would explain the "Critics loved it" situation

“Well…um…” - the producers of “Foodfight”

@@zombiedodge1426 I was talking about live action movies and not computer animated ones.

Just like how Canada used to be a tax shelter, as well as being much cheaper.

The song during the end credits isn't bad, but other than that yeah, it's pretty bad.

@@billybarnett9518 thank you; the song is Synthetic World. Too bad it wasn’t featured in a better film

Yeah, currently, when a good director makes a turkey, they truly have to own their screw-up, no questions asked.

It was _over Nine THOU-SAAAANDDDD??!!!_

Eric Idle backed this story up, he said there are missing scenes from Hiller's cut.

@@billybarnett9518 Not at all surprising. Without opening or end titles the movie barely cracks 70 minutes.

I think that's exactly what Sean talks about at 5:35

@@MrGared22 Can't believe it took two years for some to tell me that.

SAME

Agreed! Sean's videos always brighten the day

And then have the third one of this supposed "trio" be Whoopi Goldberg of all people? I know she was huge at the time, so that may have been why they got her. But last I remembered, she was mostly known for comedies and the occasional drama, not guns and explosions action movies like what that TRIO movie was supposed to be. The closest thing to an "action" movie I can think of that she did around that time was probably Theodore Rex, a movie Whoopi has probably tried blocking out of her memory as much as possible. Seriously, look up what happened to her with that movie, it's a wild story. And then there's her role in Star Trek: The Next Generation, but I don't think she did a lot of action on that show. But having her be the third one in an action film alongside Sylvester Stallone and Jackie Chan is a weird choice.

Seems to be

Yes it was from the thrid Die Hard - www.imdb.com/title/tt0118577/movieconnections/?tab=mc&ref_=tt_trv_cnn

Yes. Also produced by Andrew Vajna and Cinergi.

@@matthewdaley746 yes and no

@@matthewdaley746 He got Over $500 Million dollars, Yeah a Raw deal.

@@matthewdaley746 I mean, he was responsible for all those Disney cheapquels. Though I guess you could argue Iger and his live-action remakes are hardly an improvement.

@@matthewdaley746 After he did Disney Studios Paris, Hong Kong Disneyland, Animal Kingdom, California Adventure, Not to mention several Animated flops, Plus the stream of DTV Films and lackluster ABC Ratings all lead to his leaving.

Quarantine does things to people.

@@TheHeroOfTomorrow Haha, the best reply ever

@@TheHeroOfTomorrow It apparently causes your hair to change color.

Spy folded twice. First in 1994, for a few months, then it was revived, then in 1998 it folded for good. I miss it so much.

Odd, seeing as the great soundtracks, more often find their way into awful films.

He hasn't forgotten, he just chose not to remember.

@@tristanhartup4936 Situationally-convenient amnesia, the worst kind that there is, really bad.

See my username. I recently read Ovitz' memoirs. Every movie fan should.

Yeah, certain films cause studios to go under when they fail, this film, actually, caused a murder, when it failed.

Evans write a memoir in 1994 It was made into a movie in 2002.

@@NJGuy1973 He stayed out of prison, but, none of the other parties did.

I’ve seen people call that the last truly great Francis Ford Coppola movie. (I haven’t seen it.). Maybe he *needs* productions to go disastrously wrong in order to make a masterpiece, as with “Apocalypse Now.” Which might be a good sign for “Megalopolis,” his long-delayed dream project, which is finally in production.

@@NJGuy1973Evans is a weird guy, but that was a really enjoyable book.