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Gigli was such a notorious flop that director Martin Brest can’t even bring himself to say the name of the Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez movie.

Martin Brest directed Beverly Hills Cop, Midnight Run, Scent of a Woman, and Meet Joe Black, but his last movie was such a flop that it brought his career to a grinding halt — Of course, I’m talking about Gigli.

Gigli was a romantic comedy crime movie starring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez. The movie was a huge success at the box office because the two actors were romantically involved. Woof. The failure of Gigli affected Martin Brest so much that he told Variety he can’t even bring himself to say its name.

Of all the movies that I’ve worked on, I know them inside and out. I honestly don’t know what the movie looks like because of how it was made. Even the name… I refer to it as ‘the G movie.’ Probably the less said about it the better.

Martin Brest went on to explain how studio interference gutted the movie to the point where he didn’t recognize it. “The entire context of the film was upended so profoundly, the original intention was pretty much obliterated,” Brest said. “I’m curious if a movie has ever been altered so drastically… I’m certain it has happened in Hollywood history, but this was done so radically. Brest continued: “The movie’s themes were radically different.[But] The plot was changed. The movie’s purpose was different. But I can’t escape blame. It’s weird, I don’t even remember the movie I released because I wasn’t under the hood like I was in all my other films. So it’s really a bloody mess that deserved its excoriation.“

There were so many disagreements between me and the studio, that we had to shut down post-production for eight months as we fought it out.” “I was left with only two options: quit or be complicit to the mutilation of the film. To my eternal regret I didn’t quit, so I bear responsibility for a ghastly cadaver of a movie.“Although he hasn’t directed a movie since Gigli

, Martin Brest does still have projects he wants to make… if anyone will let him. “I had written a script, then put it aside, then I had another script I have been burning to do for a few year, but I will have to burn as nobody else wants to burn with me.“, he said. I think that’s mine.“I’ll admit to never having seen Gigli (perhaps that’s for the best), but was it really so bad that Martin Brest deserved to be driven out of Hollywood? I guess that’s mine.

“I’ll admit to never having seen Gigli