Is this the worst premise ever?

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TWO MUCH

Movie, Comedy, Romance (1996)

A failed artist (Antonio Banderas) falls in with a shady businessman's flighty ex-wife (Melanie Griffith), then invents a twin brother so he can romance her sister (Daryl Hannah).

― jergins (jergins), Saturday, 12 March 2005 03:32 (twenty years ago)

genius.

― Aaron A., Saturday, 12 March 2005 03:36 (twenty years ago)

sounds like something off of
http://queryletters.blogspot.com

― william, it was really nothing (superpopelectro), Saturday, 12 March 2005 03:40 (twenty years ago)

The worst premise ever: Julian Sands obsessed with shrill bitch. Bitch gets in horrible accident and loses arms and legs. Sands captures her and keeps her in a box. And it's all a dream.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Saturday, 12 March 2005 03:46 (twenty years ago)

Heh, this write-up of Boxing Helena offers the following wisdom:

"...Basinger, thinking who knows what, agreed to do the film.

Then she read the script.

It was only a verbal contract, and Basinger wanted out. Then she decided she was out, contract be damned. The makers of the film sued her, and they won. It cost Basinger $8.1 million (the initial settlement) to get out of this movie...

The scary thing about all this is that it was the right decision. Few people ever spent $8.1 million more wisely. As hard as it is to believe, more damage would have been done to Basinger's career if she'd stayed in this movie. How bad is it? Well, it helps to remember that Madonna was also suggested for the part, but didn't bite. This from a woman who cheerfully appeared in Shanghai Surprise and Body of Evidence. You know your movie is in real trouble when it fails the Madonna acid test."

The Madonna acid test!!

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Saturday, 12 March 2005 04:20 (twenty years ago)

I don't think it was probably the right decision since the settlement and legal fees bankrupted her. Basically Helena is a skinamax movie with pretensions and yes its real bad but not any worse than "The Marrying Man."

― Endicott Peapody, Sunday, 13 March 2005 07:26 (twenty years ago)

No, it is. Much worse.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Sunday, 13 March 2005 07:35 (twenty years ago)

In this film, Vin Diesel stars as... etc.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Sunday, 13 March 2005 07:52 (twenty years ago)

certainly the worst title for a film. or one of them.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 13 March 2005 08:31 (twenty years ago)

Verbing Proper Noun is always a bad title for a film. When did this start? It's been going on so long an so seemingly normally that it's hard to trace its roots.

I can think of worse potential titles along this line, though. How about Molesting Emmanuel?

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Sunday, 13 March 2005 08:34 (twenty years ago)

that's a good title.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 13 March 2005 08:36 (twenty years ago)

(i was thinking of "two much" though)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 13 March 2005 08:36 (twenty years ago)

(as a very bad title)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 13 March 2005 08:36 (twenty years ago)

i think i saw part of 'two much' on cable! banderas' way of disguising himself as the twin involved putting on a pair of glasses, for fuck's sake.

― eman (eman), Sunday, 13 March 2005 08:52 (twenty years ago)

has anyone seen that film about a burly homophobic italian proletariat from i don't know where queens probably or something in new york, moving into a gay actors apartment becoming not only an actor himself but completely tolerant of the homosexual dudes, the sub plot dealing in thorny class issues (comments on the trad italians mistrust of the arts being really interesting as well, the father ends up loving the play and pulling a tranny!) - i've seen it twice now, but i can't remember what it is called. anyone?

― scg, Sunday, 13 March 2005 09:12 (twenty years ago)

i guess the gay upper class guy gains alot of respect for the trad wc italians too, he is a very cynical will and grace type character but gradually becomes distrusting of his circle who are snobs. it's fucking good! it seems like the perfect sunday for this film to be on late night bbc 1.

― scg, Sunday, 13 March 2005 09:16 (twenty years ago)

two much sounds great btw. it could be a sons and daughters plot line (which i missed this morning due to e lairyness.) oh god my mum is gonna kill me.

― scg, Sunday, 13 March 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)

banderas' way of disguising himself as the twin involved putting on a pair of glasses, for fuck's sake

Hey, it works for Superman.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 13 March 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

Isn't the Bandera's movie based on a Donald Westlake book?

― Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 13 March 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

That sounds like a recommendation, since Westlake's books are almost all terrific, but the film versions let them down. Biggest gulf, I think, might be Bank Shot, a brilliant book, the great idea in which is summed up in an exchange at the beginning something like "We're going to steal a bank." "You mean rob a bank." "No, steal."

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 13 March 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

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