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.

guyfromjerzee I was so damn curious about this movie that I was willing to cough up 10 bucks to download it onto my I-Pod. Don't get me wrong, I don't regret spending the 10 bucks. I had to eventually see it, because strangely enough, I'm more fascinated about checking out the films regarded as notoriously bad than, say, the Oscar-winning AFI films. Well, I could totally understand why the movie swept the Razzies and was so bad that the director himself took an Alan Smithee credit (Mind you, in a film that's already titled "Alan Smitheee's Burn Hollywood Burn"). My question is why did they even bother releasing it? On the most basic level, "Burn Hollywood Burn" is a talking head film. What's worse is that it's a talking head film with boring dialogue. It's supposed to be satirizing Hollywood, when it really just regurgitates facts that everyone already knows. Every time an agent or producer comes on screen, we see a title referring to him as "scum" or "a liar." Ooooh, you mean agents and producers are not honest, wholesome people? I'm not getting any sleep tonight! This brings me to another point. The movie uses titles in the same way most bad movies use narration. Whenever a new character appears on screen, a series of adjectives appear on screen, describing him or her. Unfortunately, these adjectives are totally unnecessary and not even funny in an ironic way.The film has cameos by such big celebrities as Jackie Chan, Whoopi Goldberg and Sylvester Stallone. But to give you all a warning, they're only cameos! Ryan O'Neal, Eric Idle and Richard Jeni play the main roles. They each deliver decent performances. But decent performances can't transcend a lackluster script (that is, if this film even had a script).The movie focuses on the making of an ultra-budget action piece starring Chan, Stallone and Goldberg. Now, I understand Hollywood still continues to release overblown trash, but I don't think even Hollywood would release a film nearly this trashy. OK....maybe if this were the early 90's in the days of Steven Seagal and Van Damme, but nowadays a crackhead action flick like this would probably go straight to video and star....Steven Seagal or Van Damme.All in all, "Burn Hollywood Burn" is a satire without any truth and without any laughs. The editing is Godawful, and screws up the timing of some of the (so-called) comic moments. OK, so there's a few hot-looking women and mild chuckles--which is why I'm voting this as a 2, instead of a 1. This is one clunker that's not even worth enjoying on a "so bad it's good" level.

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

FFT5305 This film is actually a rather intelligent, if cynical, satire of the shallow and idiotic nature of Hollywood. More cameos than you can shake a stick at. Ryan O'Neal is great as an amoral producer. Eric Idle is even better as an unfortunate director named Alan Smithee whose movie is corrupted by the studio. He wants to remove his name from the movie, but since Alan Smithee is the pseudonym used for directors who want to remove their name from a picture, he is out of luck and becomes... unbalanced. Very dry, but very amusing. If you liked Last Action Hero and Purple Rose of Cairo, you'll probably like this.