“The less said, the better”

20 years after its release, the director of Extreme Love is Tough Love is once again talking about the infamous Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez flop.

lilies (Extreme love – Tough Love), a 2003 film directed by Martin Brest, is a romantic comedy in which Ben Affleck like a clumsy puppet Jennifer Lopez in the cases of a ruthless and seductive killer: they are both charged with kidnapping the mentally retarded younger brother of a federal prosecutor.

The film was heavily panned by critics, becoming one of the biggest box office flops in history: it is still considered one of the worst films ever made. During a new interview published by Variety, Brest is back to talk about his greatest failure, a real open wound for the director:I call it “the G movie”. Probably better not to say more about it, the less said the better.

“Initially, the film was very different from the final product. I wonder if a movie has ever changed so much… I’m sure it’s been in the history of Hollywood, but this one has changed so drastically. The theme of the film was radically different. The texture was different. The purpose of the film was different. But I can’t blame the studio alone, it really is a total mess that deserves to be vilified.“, explained the director.

“Acrimonious disagreements between the studio and me used up an eight-month hiatus in post-production. Ultimately, I was left with two choices: give up or be complicit in the distortion of the film. To my eternal regret, today I feel responsible for this. scary movie corpse. After the key scenes were cut, it became like a joke without a climax,” Martin Brest concluded.