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.”
Leslie Nielsen?
Dana Carvey?
Bob Saget?
Its gotta be Sinbad
Paulie Shore!
Robin Williams?
I’ll also say Paulie Shore.
Carrot Top! Maybe Chairman of the Board?
Tom Arnold in “The Stupids.” Paulie Shore is too obvious……
“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?
I bet you it’s Flubber with Robin Williams!!
Or possibly Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves with Rick Moranis. 😛 But I think it’s more likely Flubber.
I would’ve guessed Master of Disguise, but there’s already a review for that one.
I’m guessing Paulie Shore for next week… Bio-dome if Eric really wants to torture himself.
I think Paulie Shore was too early. Rick Moranis was actually really good on SCTV and Strange Brew. Sinbad would be my choice.
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.
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.
My vote’s also for Pauly Shore’s “Bio-Dome.”
Gotta be Robin Williams. I actually remember when he was funny. I guess that really dates me.
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.
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.
Something from the Ace Ventura series perhaps??
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?
You people are nuts. It is clearly Freddie Got Fingered.
You know. Except for the fact that Freddie Got Fingered came out in 2001. Sonofa.
The first name that popped up in my head was Paulie Shore, before I even read the comments. Don’t know though.
Robin Williams, no doubt.
Definitely Robin Williams.
I’m going with Martin Lawrence in “Nothing to Lose”
Except Nothing to Lose was the only good movie he ever did.
Tim Allen. Eric’s searing hatred for Tim Allen is legendary.
Tim Allen maybe? Jungle 2 Jungle was fairly awful…
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.