tonymurphylee For those who don't know, Alan Smithee is not a real man, rather, a fake name for Hollywood filmmakers to choose if they are not happy with the end result of whatever movie they're making. Generally, these films will be films that were either destroyed by the studio, or were crafted together in an uncaring and unconcerned fashion. Some films that are "directed" by Alan Smithee include HELLRAISER: BLOODLINE(a movie I liked), THE BIRDS 2(which I thought was okay), GUNHED(which I loathed), and SUPERNOVA(which wasn't that bad in my opinion). BURN Hollywood BURN is a film by Alan Smithee. Yep, the director of BURN Hollywood BURN was so ashamed of the result of his movie about Alan Smithee that he chose the Alan Smithee alias as the director of the film. Um... Yeah. Cool? Not really. This film apparently is intentionally bad, but it really takes talent to make something this bad. I wonder what would have happened if instead of Hollywood wasting such fine talent as Eric Idle,Coolio, and Jackie Chan on a half-assed project like this, they decide to quit at the screenplay stage, if there is a screenplay, and pack up, go home, and then continue putting out their usual crap and occasional gems. That would've been cool. If they had done that instead, we wouldn't have gotten this boring, cheap, confusing mess of a picture. Sure, it has it's followings, and sure, people undoubtedly will forever love it for it's energy, wit, talent, and uniqueness, but in the long run, it was a film that never should have been made and will most likely be forgotten about.

elshikh4 This movie had too good intention to present a new dissimilar drama form which aimed at satirizing all of the Hollywood community to declare that the producers in particular with their selfish thinking and avidity for money would do lousy movies had been edited by them not by the directors as it should be (so money is the higher power and the main goal here, not the art !). But this movie itself got the very same disease which it was diagnosing ! Whereas its REAL producer went to wipe off the personality of its REAL director and edited the final cut. Hence, director (Arthur Hiller) denied any connection or whatsoever to that final version because simply it is not what he did or wanted to do ! It's a perfect case of life imitating art imitating life !It's written by (Joe Eszterhas) the one who wrote some of the most famous exciting Hollywood movies (of sex or violence) at the 1990s, and whether they had a smash success like (Basic Instinct - 1992) or a smash in the face like (Show Girls - 1995) ! They're all a commercial movies not high art. Here as a writer for this one, and its co-producer also, it's clear how he's trying to criticize the very system which he worked and had success under its authority, and by its own rules became one of its stars. But is he mocking at the City which made him ?, or exposing negativism that destroyed him?, is he kidding with it or compromising it, or both ?? (Putting in mind that it is his only movie as a writer and producer in 9 years !).Anyhow, the movie suffered from vehement criticism, being described as disassembled, sleazy, boring.. (well, if you want a bigger picture then read the rest of the comments). Though, I think most of these opinions missed the real point. It's obviously not an action, and it's not your usual drama or comedy. Big part of the movie's failure belongs to the stars' names on it (especially Stallone and Chan together), whereas it was totally unpredictable and surely disappointing for some to see these stars in a movie of that kind, so how about them presenting an acrid self-mockery as well ! But despite the wrong way people dealt with it, and despite any mistakes it already made, this movie isn't entirely bad.Along side the unstoppable sarcasm, still the wittiest thing about it is the end's rare nice point of view; it says that all of the violence, shallowness and haphazardness of the Rap culture will balance out with the values that Hollywood's foundation lives by. So it would be the most disciplinary punishment for that gang of bossed producers when they have all of those uncultured gangsters singers as their inheritors. Thus the production of the richest dreams factory ever will be more violent, carnal and flat, with no intellectual awareness at all; it's maybe a prophecy or it's just a warning with too dark sarcasm.(Burn Hollywood Burn) is a satirical mockumentary after all, expresses how Hollywood is not that good, but it has been said in a way which's not that good too. Though its value relies on being originally an attestation about a business from people who knew this business best, showing their experiences with some hard bitterness, and still its highest bitter point, that will make it live long, is being a real or rather the ultimate Alan Smithee Film ever !

Ryan J. Gilmer Burn Hollywood Burn is a terrible movie in every sense of the word and its only redeeming quality is because of an accident that occurred after filming concluded.On concept this high brow yet simple movie of mockery is a thing of genius. I mean make a movie about a guy named Alen Smithee whom is losing control of a big budget movie. However, he cannot disavow the movie because he is the "fake name" he is Alen Smithee. Now thats funny (but maybe only if you know movie history?) Perhaps it is to high brow because nobody went to see this film. OR perhaps it is to English (ie Eric Idle as the leading role). Or perhaps it is just plan terrible.The movie basically, rather than poking fun at Hollywood and the stream of never ending big budget special effect extravaganzas (which Eric Idle's character is making 1 of), pokes fun at itself instead. It jokes about the movie being made is worse than Showgirls (BHB is from the writer of Showgirls), but in reality the movie (BHB) itself is worse than Showgirls.The actors just don't have any fun and are not very good.They are stuck in the middle of hamming it up and actually acting.This is probably because the fake movie is supposed to be bad, but instead that badness overflows into the real movie.Jackie Chan, Sly Stallone, and Whoppie Goldberg cameo as overpaid and past their prime actors demanding huge wages and silly concessions and while some aspects are true, they don't all apply to the actors (Jackie Chan wanting like red M&ms taken out or something?) Anyway, the movie turned out to be directed by Alan Smithee which is almost a saving grace, but it had to be the writers cut which survived to get that moniker and not the directors cut. (the incident occurring after filming wrapped) Perhaps doing as such was a lame attempt to save a lame movie, but this movie about making a bad movie turned out to be just that= aka A BAD movie

n8186w If you are in the feature film industry, what makes this picture so funny is the close parody... some of the characters appear to be modeled on real people. It would not be too far a stretch of the imagination to believe that two of the characters are parodies of Peter Guber and John Peters of Sony Pictures. Read the true story of these two guys' careers, documented in the book, Hit and Run, then watch Burn Hollywood Burn again. You will probably find the film twice as entertaining as the first time you watched it. After having last watched the film 7 years ago, I bought the DVD this week because I wanted to see if I could grab the title track that I liked, and I also clearly remembered (and liked) the graffiti art that was drawn for the movie title. Once I got the DVD in my hands, though, I watched the film all the way through again, and enjoyed it every bit as much as the first time I saw it.