I just finished watching "The Fanatic" and shame on all of you for not telling me about this film before. It's one of the worst films of the year and is completely unintentionally hysterical. John Travolta is so incredibly bad in it and Fred Durst's direction is... well... exactly what you think it would be. The movie is so completely illogical and pointless. It's a 2/10 but also simultaneously a must-see.
share3.9 for a reason
https://moviechat.org/tt7869070/The-Fanatic
i don't watch john travolta films as a general rule.
shareBut if you like laughing at him, this is a movie for you. He's so bad. He plays an obsessed fan like he's mentally challenged.
sharelol, i DO enjoy laughing at him, i'll check it out.
(he is pretty much the only actor i don't like)
Here's a short clip of JT going for that Oscar.
https://youtu.be/LJVfilrfdHQ
omg, it's Simple Jack! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGZHSfmQuZs
shareBen Stiller as Simple Jack > John Travolta as Moose
shareThis is not a comedy???
shareOh my! That is shockingly bad even for JT. Didn't anyone on the set see this and think to tell him? Or perhaps they knew it was a lost cause by then.
If you look at the guy in the singlet before JT tackles him, I swear you can see the actor almost laugh/briefly break character for a moment.
The thing is, he's hilariously bad every single scene. His name is Moose in the movie and there is a scene where he enters someone's house and finds antlers and puts them to his head and he keeps repeating "Moose". They weren't even moose antlers. The best line in the movie is when Travolta is talking to a guy at a store and he says: "I can't talk too long. I gotta poo."
shareOh my god. So does someone actually write that shit or is that JT going off script, thinking he is being a genius? And why wouldn't you get moose antlers if that was part of the scene?
Shame they couldn't have a Welcome Back Kotter episode playing in the background of one scene which would give JT an opportunity to do a little "Barb, Barb, Barb, Barbarino" dance.
I guess the scary thing is that from what I have seen so far, I have actually met and even worked with people who are a little like this guy. Just really simple and lost in their own worlds.
I have actually met and even worked with people who are a little like this guy.
Fair enough, I haven't seen the film other than the clip you posted. Based on that clip I recognized the character as being rather simple and just plain dumb.
shareHa!
Never go full fanatic:)
Red Letter Media reviewed it
https://redlettermedia.com/half-in-the-bag-the-fanatic/
The guy on the left is being way too generous.
shareit's a future classic for sure
shareafter reading all the comments i have to see it now. lol. I love to watch bad movies, that don't know they are bad. Or maybe this one did?
Judge for yourself with these short clips.
https://youtu.be/vxbqEEGi108
https://youtu.be/mXqP_pWX730
Those clips scared me.
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