The 50 Worst Things to Happen in Movie History (and 10 of them are about Star Wars)

Jeremy Fassler
15 min readSep 27, 2023
From “Burn Hollywood Burn,” music video directed by Lionel C. Martin.

On Monday, Rolling Stone published an article called “The 50 Worst Decisions in Movie History,” which left off many of the actual worst in favor of “did you know Burt Reynolds turned down this many roles?” Worse, it ranked incidents like Will Smith slapping Chris Rock and Matt Damon turning down Avatar ahead of the tragedy from the set of Twilight

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Jeremy Fassler

Correspondent, The Capitol Forum. Bylines: The New York Times, The Atlantic, Mother Jones, etc. Co-author of The Deadwood Bible with Matt Zoller Seitz.