Phantoms
Ben Affleckadmits his $ 5.8 million - grossing 1998 repugnance movie with Peter O’Toole was “ complete scraps , ” but says there was an upper side too , like getting paid $ 100,000 . TheOscar - winningGood Will Huntingmarked the boot - off point for Affleck ’s emanation as a star , but his vocation journey in the coming years would not always be a smooth one , either critically or at the box government agency .
Affleck did regain his way into some acclaimed motion picture in the years after winning a written material Oscar along with Matt Damon forGood Will track down . He playact a support role in the Oscar - winningShakespeare In Love , re - team with Damon for the Kevin Smith comedyDogmaand joined the ensemble financial thrillerBoiler elbow room . Unfortunately , he also accepted roles in the critically - pan suspense filmReindeer Games , the much - maligned magnanimous - budget epicPearl Harborand , most splendidly of all , the massive bombGigli .
Affleck Thinks The Horror Movie Phantoms Was Garbage, Despite Starring Film Legend O’Toole
It Grossed Only $5.8 Million
1998’sPhantomsprovided an ascending Affleck with an early revulsion vehicle , as well as a chance to deal the screenland with multiple - Oscar - nominee O’Toole , but the resulting moving-picture show was a bomb . conform by horror novelist Dean Koontz from his own novel , the pic puke Affleck as a sheriff investigate orphic going - on in a sleepyheaded Colorado townsfolk , alongside the like of O’Toole , Rose McGowan , Liev Schreiber and Joanna Going .
Called upon to talk about every movie he ’s ever been in for a recentGQvideo piece , Affleck briefly touched onPhantoms , joke that he was “ the bomb ” in the pic , then touch on that he did come to like some of the people he worked with on the film , include the great O’Toole :
“ I was the turkey at Phantoms . Everyone knows that . Peter O’Toole , by the way . Peter O’Toole signed my Lawrence of Arabia post-horse . That ’s out there on Phantoms . Nicky Katt , Liev Schreiber , I loved doing that movie … Well , no , I did n’t love doing that movie , but I wish those people .
Affleck then call the movie “ utter refuse ” but did manage to check off a few positive thing about the experience of making it , include getting stoned with his famed co - champion :
The movie was a sewer monster movie , let ’s confront it , and I was a sheriff in Colorado . I was , like , 20 years old . It ’s entirely laughable . The movie was utter garbage but I did get to ski . I made , like , $ 100,000 , so I was like , ‘ I ’m fructify for life , I ’m withdraw . ’ And I met Peter O’Toole and , like , got stoned with Peter O’Toole . I was like , ‘ What else happens in my life that top this ? Nothing ’ .
Our Take On Affleck Calling Phantoms Garbage
Critics Agree With The Star’s Assessment
Affleck sounds like he had a in effect time makingPhantoms , but few critics had much playfulness watching it , as evidenced by its 9 % overbold military rank onRotten Tomatoes . Audiences were likewise unimpressed , as the movie hitch to a $ 5.9 million everlasting after opening in 9th place with $ 3 million its first weekend ( in 3rd that weekend was Affleck ’s ownGood Will Hunting , which gross $ 8.5 million on its elbow room to a $ 138 million loge office run ) .
For Affleck to be so brutally honest aboutPhantomsisn’t really a surprise , hold the star ’s many prior statement denigrating his own picture . OfGiglihe once toldVariety , “ the less say about it the better . ” His superhero bend inDaredevilis also a sore subject for Affleck , who said “ Daredevil I did n’t like at all . ” The ace famously took down theMichael Bay sci - fi epicArmageddonin a brutally honest DVD commentary that has gone on to become fabled .
Koontz ’s novelPhantomsincluded numerous H.P. Lovecraft references that , for some reason , do not show up in the celluloid
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