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i think "straight dude explaining lesbianism" is the disclaimer that has scared me the most to date

the way straight men write lesbians is just so astonishing

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.

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.

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.

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.

This movie is like The Room quality bad, except it has a bigger budget and stars…just atrocious. But your hair, is SERVING!! 💁🏾‍♀️

HER HAIR LOOKS SO CUTE LIKE THIS

"He just lays there like a dead roly poly in the sun" sent my sides into orbit

The fact that these two dated/are dating again yet have absolutely no on screen chemistry is mind boggling.

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

As a lesbian I humbly ask people to just...leave us the fuck alone. Cute hair, though!

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'm a lesbian and this movie has officially stunned me into absolute silence 😭😭😭

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

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

All I remember from this movie is “It’s turkey time…gobble gobble” Like what were the screenwriters on ????😭

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!''.

“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.

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.

not the "straight dude explaining lesbianism" disclaimer

as a vaginally afflicted lesbian i am in immense pain rn. hair looks lovely though

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?

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.

"And he just lays there like a dead roly-poly in the sun" PLEASE THAT'S SO FUNNY

My fiancé (lesbian with a disability) and I have decided that we now must watch this for movie night. This should be interesting.

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.

This movie feels like it was ripped from the incel section of Wattpad 😂

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.

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 lesbian... yeah...this is definitely a movie!

TMI I'm bisexual and the only "big O's" I've ever had are from women and the toys.

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.

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.

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” 😭

Not me yelling "No! No!" and you yelling back "Yes! Yes! …" Got me cackling like a fiend.

Bennifer was the first couple ship name ever created. First ever. That’s how much of a big deal the media made their relationship.

"She was there, she was crazy, and then she left" : my autobiography. Love that you covered this wild ride lmao

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.

“He’s just lays their like a dead Roly poly in the sun.” Had me cackling.

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

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.

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 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

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.

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

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

The scene I will never forget is JLo opening her legs and saying "Gobble, gobble" so seriously

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

"Straight Dude Falling in Love" being one of the TWs is so funny

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

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.

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 😂

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.

With all those monologues did the writers know that this is a movie and not a play🤔

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 😂

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.”

Okay, so now that this has happened...please watch Mariah Carey's "Glitter".

my face as a lesbian listening to the breakdown of this movie: 😟

“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!!!

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.

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.

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.

That intro has me excited. Its been a while since we had a truly terrible movie 😍😍

JLo at 35:55 I am speechless. That analogy I guess was not what I expected. I gasped 🤭🤭🤣🤣🤣🤣

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.

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 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 😅

When I heard that JLo's character was gay I went "Oh no"

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 😝

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

My favorite product placement in the movie is the Marie Calendars frozen foods speech by Christopher Walken

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.

Listening to Jennifer’s speech at like 33:10 is like listening to Cole Sprouse in a podcast lol

23:12 Director: Uhh…Your line was: “I’m proud of my work and myself.”

The black girl hair struggle is real 😭😭😭

Wait stop that’s her natural hair???? The volume and thickness??? 😩 I kept trying to clock the lace but then I realized it’s her REAL HAIR 😍

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’m Filipino and I read the name of the film as GIGIL which means exploding from cuteness 💀💀

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.

my life is changed by the line, "he just lays there like a dead roly poly in the sun". poetry

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.

GATHER THE PEARLS THAT EMANATE FORTH FROM ME 🤣🤣 I cannot finish the video cause this part has me crying

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

this girl is mesmerizing can we talk about it😩✋

I’m so glad never watched Gigli all those years and watched Kennie instead 😂

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

Lmao not negligent use of romcom music, love that 😂

"I'm too cool a guy to be literate" is only thing I found funny about all of this

The cherry of this movie has to be that fake latino accent Jlo uses. La negrita del Bronx could never!

literally the opening shot of kennie STOLE MY BREATH oh my god stunning absolutely stunning 💕

It somehow kept getting worse and we already started from like Rock Bottom 😂

Like if an actor i fancy has a sex scene a part of me is quite happy to watch...but when its 2 actors that actually are together irl..... OOOOOOOOOOH it just gives me the ick. Like tom hardys version of wuthering heights, he plays along his wife and every kissing scene made me feel like i was a peeping tom.

Kennie's reaction to a movie so bad it makes her excited is kinda how i feel when I see a video where she's already got her makeup on. There's a chance there's so much nonsense in this movie she just had to concentrate on talking only and i love that

Ricky reminds me WAAAAAAAAYY too much of someone I met in highschool except her monologues were all religious sermons (and I told her every time that I’m an atheist)

Her giving him pitty p...While expected....Crushed me