Earlier this week, the good people at Splitsider posted an article I wrote about The Cable Guy and its undeserved reputation as a bomb. On a whim, I tweeted at Judd Apatow, the producer of the movie and I was blown away when he retweeted it a few minutes later! Here’s a taste:
The Cable Guy was one of the funniest movies of the 1990s and few people know it. If you’ve only seen it once, chances are you probably still think it’s a stinker. If you happened to revisit it at some point in the last 15 years, you know the real deal — it’s hands-down hilarious. When it was released in 1996, the movie was supposed to be a hit. Looking back at the people involved, it’s hard to fathom how it wasn’t. The Cable Guy roster reads like a comedy dream team: Jim Carrey, Matthew Broderick, Ben Stiller, Judd Apatow, Jack Black, Andy Dick, Janeane Garofalo, Owen Wilson, David Cross, Bob Odenkirk… they’re all in there. ButThe Cable Guy was not a hit at all. Even though the movie technically made money, it was regarded as one of the biggest bombs of the 1990s, an undeserved branding that’s only now starting to wear off. So why did both critics and audiences leave it for dead?
Read on at Splitsider…
