The less-than 90 minutes long film was delayed in release until late-summer (it had originally been scheduled for a June opening), and Warners' also decided to withheld screenings for the press until the film opened on a Friday evening, so that bad publicity from critics' reviews wouldn't harm business. The studio knew in advance that this dismal, shallow and uninvolving film was going to be a disaster. As in many spectacular films of its kind, two landmarks were decimated: Big Ben with a flaming explosion, and Trafalgar Square with a blizzard. In this horrible remake, Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman appeared as the emotionless and bland couple called upon to investigate the criminal activities of wealthy and eccentric former Ministry member and megalomaniac, Sir August De Wynter (Sean Connery) who had decided to control the weather with a machine called Prospero - and then practice blackmail and extortion upon Britain.
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This unwatchable and uninteresting Warner Bros' $60 million film was based on the popular and cultish 1960s TV series of the same name about special secret agents, featuring Diana Rigg as leather jumpsuited-adventuress and martial-arts expert Emma Peel, and Patrick Macnee as her British agent sidekick John Steed with a bowler hat, umbrella and bullet-proof three-piece suits. Miramax's Harvey Weinstein took the role of a private investigator. Ryan O'Neal (as James Edmunds) and Richard Jeni (as Jerry Glover) starred as fast-talking, self-absorbed and sleazy producers, and two black-gangsta filmmakers who offered protection services to Smithee were stereotypically portrayed by Coolio (as Dion) and Chuck D. The plotline involved the doomed making of an extravagant, $200 million action film titled "Trio" by a first-time director named Alan Smithee (Eric Idle), who was so enraged by producers that re-cut his film that he threatened to burn it, while offering himself up (in a psychiatric institute) for interviews filled with sound-bites, and narrating the story with flashbacks. The second irony was that in the actual film, the disgruntled director was named Alan Smithee - and one must ask, how can he have his name successfully removed from the project? The irony of the picture was that respected director Arthur Hiller had his name replaced with Alan Smithee when he saw Eszterhas' final cut - a case of life imitating art. The unfunny and moronic mockumentary (and 'film-within-a-film'), filled with in-jokes, profanity and snide self-criticism, received its name from the Director's Guild convention of having the pseudonym "Alan Smithee" substituted for the real director's name in the credits, when a director was displeased with creative changes made in a film. The $10 million film opened and closed almost immediately, with hardly any box-office business, and was reviled by critics as a fiasco.
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It was nowhere near the lampooning of the movie business found in Wilder's Sunset Boulevard (1950) or Robert Altman's The Player (1992). One of the most telling quotes from the film was this: "If we love film, then we have the responsibility to protect the world from bad ones" - this film included.
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It was also nominated as the Worst Picture of the 1990s Decade, but lost to the raunchy Showgirls (1995), another Eszterhas creation. This satirical comedy that spoofed the Hollywood filmmaking industry with lots of celebrity cameos (Sylvester Stallone, Whoopi Goldberg, Jackie Chan, and more), and written by the notorious Joe Eszterhas, was taglined: "The movie Hollywood doesn't want you to see." Its only awards were Razzies: with nine nominations including Worst Actor (Ryan O'Neal), Worst Director, Worst Screen Couple, and Worst Supporting Actor (Sylvester Stallone as himself), with five wins including Worst New Star (Joe Eszterhas, tied with Jerry Springer for Ringmaster (1998)), Worst Original Song - "I Wanna Be Mike Ovitz!", Worst Picture, Worst Screenplay, and Worst Supporting Actor (Joe Eszterhas as himself). Studio/Distributor: Buena Vista/Cinergi Productions/Hollywood Pictures Greatest Box-Office Bombs, Disasters and Flops of All-Time