Pretty Woman is one of the most famous romantic comedies of all time, a modern-day fairytale that fulfills every girl’s dream of being a whore until you find a super rich guy to buy you stuff. It made huge stars of its leads, then 22-year-old Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, but it turns out Richard Gere is sick of getting asked about it (which is funny, because I can think of a few worse things to ask him about). In fact, he says Pretty Woman sucked, and his new movie that no one cares about is going to be WAY better. And hey, have you heard of The Boxmasters?

While promoting his new financial thriller Arbitrage in an interview with Woman’s Day recently, the 62-year-old shared his scorn for the feelgood 1990 chick flick, telling Woman’s Day, “It’s my least favourite thing.”

Richard adds, “People ask me about that movie, but I’ve forgotten it. That was a silly romantic comedy. This is a much more serious movie that has some real cause and effect.” The grumpy star also claims his Pretty Woman character Edward Lewis helped contribute to the global financial crisis, as he glorified greedy and selfish Wall Street types.

“It made those guys seem dashing, which was so wrong,” Richard explains. “Thankfully, today, we are all more sceptical of those guys.” Despite the actor’s high-minded misgivings, Pretty Woman went on to take more than $460 million at the box office and is one of the most successful movies ever in terms of worldwide TV syndication. [NineMSN]

I honestly don’t remember Pretty Woman well enough to refute him here, but come on, know your audience, dude. The interview was with Woman’s Day, not The Economist. I would’ve gone with something more along the lines of, “Of course, I love Pretty Woman! Why, I find rom-coms almost as exhilarating as baking! But my new film is more of a thriller, about out-of-control speculating and predatory lending, which make the world financial markets all cranky and bloated like when you get your period. It’s a huge problem, which threatens our very ability to shop!”

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Apple just released the trailer for The Double, from director Michael Brandt and Derek Haas, who both co-wrote Wanted and 3:10 to Yuma, starring Richard Gere and Topher Grace as a pair of government agents tracking a legendary Soviet assassin (Soviet? Jeez, what year is it?). Richard Gere plays an old CIA salt, whose boss Martin Sheen brings him out of retirement and tells him, “It’s Cassius, he’s back.” And Richard Gere’s all like, “No, it can’t be, I killed him with my own gun!” And then this rookie FBI agent played by Topher Grace jumps up and he’s like, “Oh, I think it is.” And then Martin Sheen’s like, “Dick? Meet Topher, he knows more about Cassius than any snot-nosed rookie Poindexter with no field experience I’ve ever met.”

So then they team up, like a regular Sean Connery and Nic Cage. But next thing you know, Richard Gere is like, “GUESS WHAT, I’M CASSIUS!” And starts garroting people with his fancy watch. Then Topher Grace says, “This entire time… he’s been hunting himself!” Which is kind of lame, because duh, we already knew that. So… Why do we need to see this movie now? I guess just to see Richard Gere scream at chicks.

Back in the 80s our enemy was the Soviets, whose code name here is “Cassius.” Do you think that’s a reference to Cassius Clay, foreshadowing our enemies eventually becoming Muslims named Muhammed? Discuss.

(Arrow added to emphasize titties)

Well this is weird. Just last night someone was talking about Brooklyn’s Finest. He said he’d seen it at Sundance last year and I asked why it wasn’t out yet, and he said probably because the ending was ridiculous and terrible.  It comes from Training Day director Antoine Fuqua (is it just me, or is everyone named Antoine either a flaming gay or a big scary tough guy?) and stars Ethan Hawke, Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, and Wesley Snipes.  As the headline would indicate, it basically looks like if Crash was set in Brooklyn.  So much crime and racism, it’s a shame what’s happened to our inner cities.  If only Sandra Bullock would teach more blacks to play football.

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Every time I read Amelia, in my mind I hear Will Farrell shouting “Amelia!” like in Night at the Roxbury.  Haha, good story, Vince.  Anyway, this is the first trailer for Amelia, starring Hillary Swank as the aviatress who captured America’s heart by promising she could fly around the globe, only to fail miserably and die in the ocean, never to be found.  Ever since, women have been banned from flying, and for that we thank her.

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UPDATE: Some shrivs from Fox wanted us to take down the pictures that were here, because God forbid I advertise their crappy movie.  I like hat kitty here better anyway.

It’s a fascinating day out here in the movie blog world, folks, and it continues with fascinating pictures from the fascinating set of Amelia, Hillary Swank’s biopic of Amelia Earhardt, who in 1937 proved once and for all that chicks suck at flying.  It reminds me of the time I got pulled over by a police woman.  "They let you ladies carry guns nowadays?" I asked her.  Yup, me and the doctor who stitched up my eye had a pretty good laugh about that one.  Women, you know? 

But in all seriousness, the first woman to fly around the world and her name is "Air-heart"?  You couldn’t write that!  …*sigh*