Movies

One of the new movies on the counter at my local video rental place was one called All the Queen's Men. I picked it up. It seemed interesting.

It's got Eddie Izzard, who's got a broad, bizarre sense of humor that I enjoy very much.

It also stars Matt LeBlanc, who makes an ugly, ugly woman.

And Nicolette Krebitz, who is really hot. Though the picture on the page I've linked to doesn't do her a lot of justice.

Here's a better page for that. This page is in "German."

The movie is some crap, however. Just to warn you. It's about a group of soldiers in WW2 who infiltrate German society by cross-dressing. Their mission is to obtain encryption codes. And things go awry, and there's some male-female kissing, and some accidental male-male kissing. And also a little girl who thinks the old, curmudgeonly soldier is her mother.

An interesting bit of trivia, though. From the IMDB's trivia section:

This film holds the record for the greatest box office loss (as a percentage). The movie cost $15 million but only grossed $22,000 - a return of 0.08% of the studio's investment.

And don't get me wrong. It's really horrible. But you'd think that you could schmozz advertise it to the Friends crowd, and make people think they're going to see a zany comedy (and it is neither really zany, nor that much of a comedy: it's more dramatic than it is a comedy).

I'd say based on the Joey-crowd, you could have made back $5 to 8 million of the $15 million investment, and possibly more.

And it wouldn't have hurt LeBlanc too much, would it? I mean, people seem to have an affinity for Rob Schneidery shit. It couldn't have hurt Matt too much--they'd keep coming back for more, wouldn't they?