John Travolta in GOTTI movie gets rare zero percent on Rotten Tomatoes

oh god how exquisite!! So he FORCED this stupid, boring film that no one wants to see into Cannes, only to be rewarded with this. LOVE IT. That look on his face is priceless too. Hey John? You're are really gross and no one wants to see you in movies anymore.

Please post excerpts from reviews that will make us laugh.

Ooooooh yes please!!!

I keep seeing this film advertised and I’m like “who is this movie for?” Who would want to pay money and sit through this? Well, now we know.

But really: was someone really eager to see John Gotti’s story on the big screen? Why?

Here’s one

Admittedly, Travolta, who produced, is sure having fun. What ham wouldn't? Chewing on the scenery like it was a meatball hero, he swaggers around in shiny suits and silver wigs, barking orders.

June 15, 2018 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…

Stephen Whitty New York Daily News

They should have made it with Lindsay Lohan as Victoria Gotti. There's not a film that Lindsay can't salvage.

I had heard about this recently, but had no idea it was a theatrical release. It sounds like it should be an original movie on basic cable.

Motherfuckers!

I don't understand the hate. Gotti was a fascinating bad guy. Charismatic, dangerous crime boss. What's the problem with a movie about him? It's not The Godfather, perhaps, but why the hate? Travolta seems like a perfect fit for the role.

[quote] What's the problem with a movie about him?

It's starring John Travolta.

Sorry but nobody is buying Travolta as a gangster the dapper don who once chainsaw'd a man in half.

The same Travolta with his hairpiece, gay rumors confirmed by Carrie Fisher, the weirdo scientology stuff, then seen kissing a man -- his boyfriend -- on the tarmac with his airplane........... to play john fucking gotti????????????????????

Nonsense. This movie should be panned on general principle.

W&W R11

"Panned on general principle."

I wish one of the reviews consisted of this single sentence.

From what I remember about its Cannes premiere, this film tries to paint Gotti in a positive light which didn't sit well with reviewers and it was coproduced with Gotti s family so that should tell you how toothless the movie is.

Travolta strikes me as.... not very bright.

Kelly Preston was gushing about her Johnny to Miss Cohen on WWHL. No one was buying it, dear.

"The same Travolta with his hairpiece, gay rumors confirmed by Carrie Fisher, the weirdo scientology stuff, then seen kissing a man -- his boyfriend -- on the tarmac with his airplane........... to play john fucking gotti????????????????????"

Nonsense, there have been gay gangsters. That said, this movie looks stupid.

Earlier thread:

The movie is directed by Kevin Connolly from Entourage.

How can it not be bad?

The review at rogerebert.com is really bad

At least Travolta is still gorgeous with a full head of hair and dancing like a young stud. You'd better keep up.

The avclub review is terrible.

Can we organize a DL field trip to go see this? It sounds soooooo bad.

R20 has a point. How bad can a movie be directed by Kevin Connolly that stars John Travolta actually be?

I guess it's Battlefield Earth all over again.

This movie needed to be made years ago if at all when Gotti was still fresh in people's minds.

I'm tempted to go see it now and I never go to the movies.

I feel for those $cieno sea-org slaves who will be forced to view this multiple times to try and boost ticket sales.

They will be martyrs for their faith.

R11 gave me a good laugh. WW. Travolta is an aspie.

He [and she} have been all over TV this week promoting this thing. I could smell the desperation through the screen. Talk about flop sweat!

I am so loving this thread. Fuck Tarantino for bringing him back and giving us frog eyes Uma Thurman. Fuck that other ugly aspie!

I'm dying to see it!

r23 I thought the same thing, I need somebody to go with me who gets how bad it is

Of course a good many would want to see a Gotti biopic. Americans love mob films generally anyway even if they might be too young to recognise the name.

I'm sorry to learn this is a bomb because I was looking forward to it and, yes, i still like seeing JT

I love seeing these Scientology nuts go down in flames. Cruise. Revolta. Kirstie Alley. Laura Prepon. Danny Masters.

May they all just disappear.

Today's NY Times panned it.

So, this movie is actually deemed worse than that horrendous Scientology piece of crap he did "Battlefield Earth"? I didn't think it got any worse than that.

Jimmy Fallon really does seem retarded in that clip with Travolta.

Yeah, but is it bad/campy or just plain bad/boring?

Does John Travolta have a big cock,? .He does have BDF.

[quote]Can we organize a DL field trip to go see this? It sounds soooooo bad.

Yeah, we can turn it into an MST3K type event.

I'm assuming it's now the front-runner for next year's Razzies.

Whatever happened to the two douche bag sons that were on that Victoria Gotti reality series drone way back.?

How does Victoria afford her lifestyle?

Oh come on, she had several multi million dollar book deals.

One thing you want to read about a mobster movie starring John Travolta is that Marty Ingels was involved somehow.

[QUOTE]Whatever happened to the two douche bag sons that were on that Victoria Gotti reality series drone way back.?

There were three of them.

"A mobster biopic that deserves to get whacked." By Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

"John Travolta, trying earnestly to act his way through a ton of lousy makeup and an even heavier slab of bad screenwriting, plays mafioso John Gotti in this chaotic biopic that jumps all over the place but still fails to manifest a pulse. As the Teflon Don tells us upfront: 'This life ends one of two ways: Dead, or in jail. I did both.' Audiences, sentenced to do time with this corpse of a movie, will know the feeling."

I’d still fuck Travolta

I wouldn’t say Travolta is good looking but he can still cut a rug.

Are you referring to the rug on his head?

He's sexy, it's weirdly true. I think he likes to kiss men too much but he's not good at it and he smells like vinegary sweat and his body is meant to be covered. But he loves to be fucked, is a good grinder and I like his face. I'd lay the full blocks on him.

Ella Blue, bring me the ax!!!!

I love watching those Scienos fail - it's so cathartic.

Oh come on. NO ONE liked it?

This is just the industry deciding to torpedo this movie.

I don’t like travolta myself but zero percent is some vindictive shit.

Yeah R42, can't wait for the Rifftrax version!

Oh R56, Travolta is done and Teflon Don was a peasanty peasant of the lowest order. No one cares about this ginzo. There's nothing there. No looks, short and weasel faced. Only guidos in NY cared or other adjacents who got favors. Man couldn't wear a suit. A genetic Chernobyl. No glamor. No charisma. Nobody but other Italian peasant stock gave a fuck. Short fuck who looked like he came from generations of brick layers. A sociopathic peasant criminal. Why would anyone care today. Ray Liotta was adopted. You think people wanted to see a real ugly ginzo? Godfather days are gone as well. Nobody cares about a group of peasants who don't own the traits people value today.

R56, sounds like you’re volunteering to go see how it is.

Someone needs to go see it and report back!!!!

R58 made me hard. Gotti was sexy man. Travolta used to be too. A guido? How old are you gramps?

R58 were you an adult in the late 80s to early 90s? Because I can tell you people WERE fascinated by Gotti and no, not just Italian Americans.

The only thing that sounds worse than this movie, was when there were the rumors that he was going to make a big screen version of Dallas with him as JR and Jennifer Lopez as Sue Ellen, thankfully I think the Dallas reboot series killed that idea. Gotti is a fascinating story, but anything made about him should NOT have any involvement from his family and it would be better suited to TV.

Ryan Murphy should have done Gotti—like OJ.

R7, there's not a film she can't savage.

What made Travolta think people would pay to see this? Even DeNiro had to do television to do that Bernie Madoff biopic.

It looks like a disaster. Hilariously bad. Awful movie about an awful person. Trump should take note. Love how Travers at RS takes pains to not single out Travolta.

How dare they make a movie about an awful person. Wow. Why is everyone out for Travolta? Because he's vain and foolish and a bit delusional. They will praise Streep for the same things when MM2 comes out next month. Everything she promotes is garbage because she only performs badly in garbage now. Then they nominate her because she was so good at being bad in garbage. Travolta is a bit too cute and queeny for someone his age. So is Meryl.

It's still at 0% on Rotten Tomatoes and the estimated opening weekend box office is only $1.8 million.

The "elite" club of movies that managed to get a Zero Percent on Rotten Tomatoes.

R70 your link doesn’t work.

I assume this is the link r70 was trying to post.

Well that's odd, the link doesn't work for me either. I've never had trouble linking to Wikipedia before.

Try this google link to WP.

Some of the best movies I have seen had John Travolta starring in them. I want to see for myself.

John, we know that's you. Drop the charade. it's embarrassing for everyone.

A Low Down Dirty Shame is worthy of more than a Zero RT. So maybe R74 is right and the movie’s not as bad as critics make it seem.

Funny

He's a robbin' hood...

I thought Kelly left him not too long ago.

Should have made it as a series on HBO

I keep waiting for it to hit The Pirate Bay... so far... NOTHING!

I detest EVERY movie with Travolta in it. He's barely an actor

[bold]'Gotti': How John Travolta Tried — and Failed — to Save His Passion Project[/bold]

[quote]From the Cannes Film Festival to a posh New York City premiere to stops in cities including Phoenix and Miami, John Travolta tirelessly promoted his new movie, Gotti. He even joined social media for the first time in order to spread the word.

[quote]The reason for his dedication? Travolta believed his performance as the late John Gotti, one of the most famous mafia bosses in history, would make him a player in the next awards race, according to several insiders who have been closely involved with the biopic.

This is what I want to do with Cleopatra!

"Travolta believed his performance as the late John Gotti, one of the most famous mafia bosses in history, would make him a player in the next awards race, "

Never underestimate the vanity of an aging actor.

Dear God he is delusional.

R84 Lol, please tell me you just made that up.

[quote]This is what I want to do with Cleopatra!

Angie, don't you mean "this is what I want to do TO Cleopatra"?

Let's come up with some surefire Oscar winning roles for John, to help him out!

JT's wig in 2016's 'I Am Wrath' looks like the top of a Michael Myers mask.

From the Times's review: "For many scenes, it seems that Mr. Connolly (the director) asked himself, “What would Martin Scorsese do?” All his answers are wrong."

Ouch.

Video review with Ben Mankiewicz et alii.

It will be interesting to see if his new movie Moose. directed by Fred Durst will get any traction.

Yeah r93.

[QUOTE]It will be interesting to see if his new movie Moose. directed by Fred Durst will get any traction.

I laughed thinking this was a joke, but then I googled it anyway and lo and behold... 😕

I still like him. He was gay and young in Hollywood when it was impossible to a successful out actor so he's backed himself into corner playing straight for so long. He'stuck in Scio as well. Still like seeing him on the screen.

Sorry haven't read all the posts. Has anyone actually seen the film? And how was it?

No DLer in their right mind is going to pay to see that dreck in theaters. We’ll all wait until it’s on Netflix or cable (and even then most will skip it).

I know this is a naive question but is,the pray or prayer in the Scientology vocabulary. Probably not.

R95 Oh no, did he forget RDJ's advice to Ben Stiller in Tropic Thunder? "Never go full-blown retarded. Sean Penn tried it in I Am Sam and went home empty-handed."

r95, that looks like an SNL movie parody

I don’t think he’s retarded. The role is probably more akin to Robin Williams in One Hour Photo. Eccentric stalker who goes crazy.

John Travolta opens up about 'Gotti'

Kelly Preston Talks Playing Victoria Gotti, Husband John Travolta Visiting Brooklyn | The View

😂 Omg his hair in R103. This guy can’t go a month with a consistent look to his hair.

Some of those comments @R103's link... "He's not gay. He has a wife." ROFLMAO.

r106, that's hilarious.

same R95, in that movie Travolta is obsessed with...Devon Sawa aka Casper the Ghost in that 90s Christina Rocco movie.

It didn’t do too bad at the BO but that’s because 60% of the tickets were bought by MoviePass users.

This crap movie has created a cottage industry of hilarious bad reviews. The one from Esquire is laugh out loud funny.

"in that movie Travolta is obsessed with...Devon Sawa aka Casper the Ghost in that 90s Christina Rocco movie."

So he's stalking cute younger guys - he's just playing himself, then?

Interview: John Gotti Jr. Thinks There's A Conspiracy Against 'Gotti'

The King of New York, man, the King of New York!

R103 I just couldn't bring myself to watch it, who makes the "he's not gay" comments??

^ Headless people, apparently

Poor JT has three movies on the Rotton Tomatoes 0 score list. Someone fire his agent.

Closet case. No sympathy. I hope he’s outed big time and universally shamed for his dishonesty.

He needs to leave the cult behind. They've brainwashed him into thinking he's not gay

The movie has finally hit The Pirate Bay. Has anyone seen it? Can't wait!

I finally watched it on Amazon Prime. Not the best movie but it at least held my attention. The 0% thing is ridiculous—it’s below average at worst.

r120 = Academy Awards' "For Your Consideration" shill