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Originally Posted by Marc Vaughan
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn
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I know about this movie because I was working in a video store when it was released. It had Eric Idle in it, among a few others. Maybe even Coolio?
There was a tradition in Hollywood of director's who didn't like the final cut of a movie and didnt want their name on it to release the film as an "Alan Smithee" creation. Smithee was a made-up name, and if you saw it on a film you knew it was going to be a bad one. Ironically, this film (meant to be a sendup of bad movies) was itself so bad that the director had his name taken off, so it actually became a Smithee film. I think it ended up being the last one, because Hollywood stopped using the name in part thanks to this movie ruining the joke.