| 词条 | The Underground Comedy Movie |
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| name = The Underground Comedy Movie | image = The Underground Comedy Movie.jpg | image_size = | caption = | director = Vince Offer | producer = Maria Levin Jeff Jaeger Mark Shlomi | writer = Vince Offer Dante | narrator = | starring = Vince Offer Slash | music = NOFX Guttermouth | cinematography = Michael Hofstein | editing = Vince Offer Luis Ruiz | distributor = | released = {{Film date|1999|05|14}} | runtime = 88 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = $500,000 | gross = $856 }} The Underground Comedy Movie is a 1999 film directed by and starring Vince Offer. Alongside short comedy sketches it features music by NOFX and Guttermouth, among others. It is considered by many as one of the worst films of all time. SynopsisThe film mainly consists of skits featuring celebrities in various roles, based on concepts Offer had originally performed on a public-access television show he had hosted. Skits included Gena Lee Nolin posing as Marilyn Monroe, supermodels loudly using the restroom, and a superhero named "Dickman" who dressed in a penis costume and defeated his enemies by squirting them with semen. Cast
ProductionAlthough the film was released and screened in 1999, Offer was bankrupt by 2002 and home video distribution plans were shelved. Offer, who had previously been a successful vegetable chopper salesman and businessman, resumed selling vegetable choppers at swap meets to support himself and raise money to complete his film project. Within a few months, he had earned enough to resume production, and the movie was finally completed, released, and marketed entirely on late-night infomercials that Offer paid for with his earnings from the swap meet vegetable chopper sales. The film has reportedly sold in excess of 100,000 copies.[1] ReceptionAccording to IMDb, The Underground Comedy Movie played on one movie theater screen on May 16, 1999, earning $856.[2] The film earned less-than-favorable reviews, receiving a 33% from Rotten Tomatoes based on 6 reviews.[3] The New York Post said it "may be the least amusing comedy ever made." Lawrence Van Gelder of The New York Times offered a scathing review, describing the movie as "a series of sketches built around subjects like masturbation, defecation, alienation, urination, necrophilia, voyeurism, casual brutality, and mockery of the unfortunate." Van Gelder added that tasteless or offensive material can be funny in the right hands, but that Offer "makes the common mistake of equating the recognition of comic potential for comedy itself. For the successful, talent bridges the gap, but, here, [talent] is absent."[4] LawsuitsThe film was the subject of several lawsuits filed by Offer against others. On September 23, 1998, Vince Offer filed a suit against 20th Century Fox and the co-directors of There's Something About Mary, Bobby and Peter Farrelly. Offer claimed that 14 scenes in Mary were lifted from his film. The Farrellys released this statement: "We've never heard of him, we've never heard of his movie, and it's all a bunch of baloney."[5] The case was dismissed with prejudice on a motion for summary judgment by order of the court in 2000, and 20th Century Fox was awarded $66,336.92 in attorneys' fees.[6] In 2000, Offer successfully sued Anna Nicole Smith for $4 million, claiming that Smith had agreed to be in his movie, but backed out in 1996 over fears that appearing in the movie would be detrimental to her career.[7] In 2004, Offer sent out a press release through prnewsonline.com announcing his intention to sue the Church of Scientology. In 1997, while production was ongoing, the Church of Scientology had allegedly begun a large-scale smear campaign against Offer and his film (Offer was a Scientologist at the time).[8] The director claimed the Scientologists' "Celebrity Center" in Hollywood labeled him a "criminal" (based on the rules of Scientology) and threatened his Scientology friends in the movie business with "condemnation" punishment that could be lethal to their careers if they did not write malicious reports against Offer.[8] SequelIn June 2010, it was revealed that Offer had completed filming of scenes starring Lindsay Lohan and model Joanna Krupa for a follow-up movie.[9] The film was released in 2013 with the title InAPPropriate Comedy.[10] References1. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.cnbc.com/id/28880253 |title=First Interview with Vince from ShamWow! |last=Rovell |first=Darren |date=2009-01-27 |publisher=CNBC.com |accessdate=2009-02-04}} 2. ^https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0201290/business?ref_=tt_dt_bus 3. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/underground_comedy_movie/ | title=The Underground Comedy Movie | publisher=Rotten Tomatoes | accessdate=December 10, 2011}} 4. ^{{cite news |last=Van Gelder |first=Lawrence |title=FILM REVIEW; 15 Minutes (Count 'Em) Of Infamy |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9805EFDF1F31F93BA15756C0A96F958260&scp=1&sq=underground+comedy+movie&st=nyt |work=The New York Times |location=New York City, New York |date=1999-05-28 |accessdate=2008-12-15}} 5. ^{{cite news| url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,285287,00.html | work=Entertainment Weekly | first1=Dave | last1=Karger | first2=Suna | last2=Chang | title=Monitor | date=16 October 1998}} 6. ^Offer v. Farrelly, Case No. CV 98-7697 RAP(RCx) (C.D. Cal. Jan. 13, 2000); id. (Mar. 14, 2000). 7. ^Movie & TV News @ IMDb.com – WENN – 23 October 2000 8. ^1 "Filmmaker Sues Church of Scientology" 9. ^Lindsay Lohan Shoots Paparazzi with Guns in Comedy Sketch 10. ^Someone Thought It Was a Good Idea to Spend Money On This External links
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