To me, this movie is perfection.

Please don't spend money on this.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Hilarious, Hilarious,Hilarious...Eric Idle in this film plays a great narcissistic self condemning writer;but with some great attitude-hahahahahaha...I so loved it. Its so true to real life; with what i am sure, script writers go through in there daily routines. However, Eric Idle takes it even one step further in laughs and comedy for this film in self preservation. :) It is so funny! The film shows you the realism of Hollywood,as well as what regular people and artists are thinking in Hollywood. Such a great and hilarious comedy. I was rooting for Alan Smithee all the way/lol. Watch it, it really is a great film.It also has some great A listed supporting actors and comedians. I would give it a 12 out of 10,if i could...Hope you enjoy it.

I really don't understand all the negativity around this film. By 2000 or so I was already sick and tired of Hollywood productions turning to money grubbing garbage, and I first saw this movie at around that time.I found it very funny, smart and absolutely spot-on. The actors doing cameos are visibly having a lot of fun mocking the industry, and the film demolishes and makes fun of everything I hate about Hollywood and the star system. People who hated this film obviously didn't get it, and I guess they deserve the dozens of rancid turds Hollywood throws at our faces year after year. If you're a "transformers" or "fast and furious" fan, you probably won't like it, even hate it for having too many "insiders" jokes and references. I didn't think the humor was obscure or ellitist at all, It's just a really funny jab at Hollywood, and god knows how it deserves it. For one thing, I felt thrilled that many people shared the ideas I have about the movie business, it's one of these gratyfying moments where you go "thank god-I'm not the only one thinking this". It really saddens me to see so many people hating this film, because it confirms what I've been knowing for quite some time : most of the people are idiots and have stopped using their brains decades ago, hence the general quality of movies nowadays going downhill very fast, at an ever increasing rate. I'm just clueless as to how this film can be rated below 4 when awful, idiotic and vulgar turd-burgers such as "Ted" get 7+. The answer : humanity is doomed by it's own filthy ignorance and stupidity. Sad.

well, re: the first comment, I can't imagine what either Purple Rose of Cairo or Last Action Hero have to do with Burn Hollywood Burn, or with each other, or with ANYthing... but anyway..."IF YOU LIKE FLY-FISHING, AND ENJOY THE CRISP, TART TASTE OF STRAWBERRY-RHUBARB PIE, YOU'LL LOVE THIS NEXT USER COMMENT..."It's a fairly funny movie. It's always good to see Eric Idle working. Of course, now with "Spamalot" a huge hit, he's set like Mel Brooks.Honest to god, maybe this movie is meant more as an "inside joke", but I feel like it was one that I got - Joe's point is that he was coerced into making a movie ("Showgirls") that was so bad, he wished he could've done anything to prevent them from putting it out - because when they did, and it bombed, he couldn't help but take the blame.Also, you get to see Jackie Chan stoking' some honeys, and Stallone flexing his ego. and the Alan Smithee gag ran for quite awhile. I got the feeling the industry really HATED Ester-H. Where is he now, I wonder ? And why is this movie in the Bottom 100 ?

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.