Eric’s Bad Movies: Glitter (2001)
Whoever guessed “Glitter” last week, you win a gold star! That is the subject of this week’s edition of “Eric’s Bad Movies” at Film.com. I had actually watched it once before, back in about 2002, when some friends and I threw a white-trash party, dressed accordingly, and partook of Mariah Carey’s tour de force. Strangely, when I re-watched it last week, I discovered that I didn’t remember a single detail. I take that as a good sign.
Do you like the guessing game? Well, next week’s Bad Movie is from the second half of the ’90s, and it stars one of those people where you go, “I can’t believe there was ever a time when America thought this man was funny.”
June 12th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Leslie Nielsen?
June 12th, 2008 at 9:20 am
Dana Carvey?
June 12th, 2008 at 9:42 am
Bob Saget?
June 12th, 2008 at 9:57 am
Its gotta be Sinbad
June 12th, 2008 at 10:02 am
Paulie Shore!
June 12th, 2008 at 10:12 am
Robin Williams?
June 12th, 2008 at 10:15 am
I’ll also say Paulie Shore.
June 12th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Carrot Top! Maybe Chairman of the Board?
June 12th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Tom Arnold in “The Stupids.” Paulie Shore is too obvious……
June 12th, 2008 at 11:38 am
“It would be foolhardy to give [Mariah Carey] the leading role in a motion picture, particularly if the role was one that required any show of emotion or charisma beyond what you could expect from, say, a handful of gravel, or an orange.”
So, Mariah Carey = Keanu Reeves?
June 12th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
I bet you it’s Flubber with Robin Williams!!
June 12th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Or possibly Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves with Rick Moranis.
But I think it’s more likely Flubber.
June 12th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
I would’ve guessed Master of Disguise, but there’s already a review for that one.
June 12th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
I’m guessing Paulie Shore for next week… Bio-dome if Eric really wants to torture himself.
June 12th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
I think Paulie Shore was too early. Rick Moranis was actually really good on SCTV and Strange Brew. Sinbad would be my choice.
June 12th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
No, it couldn’t be “Chairman of the Bride,” because to the best of my recollection no one ever thought Carrot Top was funny. My bet is on Dana Carvey.
June 12th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
I’m going with Pauly Shore, too. I can’t believe that man was ever allowed to make a movie, let alone more than one.
June 12th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
My vote’s also for Pauly Shore’s “Bio-Dome.”
June 12th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Gotta be Robin Williams. I actually remember when he was funny. I guess that really dates me.
June 12th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Hmmm.. We have Bio-Dome (Shore), Jack (Williams), and Jingle All the Way (Sinbad) which all came out in 1996. I agree with David, Carrot Top’s Chariman of the Board is out since Carrot Top was never funny to begin with. Dany Carvey is out too since he wasn’t in anything in the latter half of the 1990s. Oh, and Bob Saget is actually pretty freakin’ funny.
I know that Eric has developed a hatred for Robin Williams, so I’ll go with him.
June 13th, 2008 at 5:40 am
Paulie Shore was already played out by the late nineties. I’m gonna have to go with Tom Green. Actually, I never thought he was funny but for a some reason a lot of people did.
June 13th, 2008 at 6:14 am
Something from the Ace Ventura series perhaps??
June 13th, 2008 at 6:55 am
I’m going with The Pest starring John Leguizamo. I’m ashamed to say that I love it.
The concern is, did anybody ever think he was funny?
June 13th, 2008 at 7:03 am
You people are nuts. It is clearly Freddie Got Fingered.
June 13th, 2008 at 7:06 am
You know. Except for the fact that Freddie Got Fingered came out in 2001. Sonofa.
June 13th, 2008 at 10:26 am
The first name that popped up in my head was Paulie Shore, before I even read the comments. Don’t know though.
June 13th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Robin Williams, no doubt.
June 13th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Definitely Robin Williams.
June 13th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
I’m going with Martin Lawrence in “Nothing to Lose”
June 13th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Except Nothing to Lose was the only good movie he ever did.
June 13th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Tim Allen. Eric’s searing hatred for Tim Allen is legendary.
June 13th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Tim Allen maybe? Jungle 2 Jungle was fairly awful…
June 14th, 2008 at 8:41 am
I’m willing to bet that if “Eric’s Bad Movies” keeps going, Eric will eventually see Sinbad, Robin Williams, Pauly Shore and Martin Lawrence in all their glory, as it were.