YMMV / Bowfinger

• Harsher in Hindsight: Daisy spends the majority of Chubby Rain driving like crazy around Los Angeles. In August 2022, Anne Heche, who was the inspiration for Daisy, died from injuries sustained in an automotive accident.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The film was actually made before Tom Cruise got a reputation as a Cloud Cuckoolander who you could believe would have no idea he was making Interview with the Vampire.
  • Kit mentions wanting to do an Oscar Bait movie with him playing a mentally handicapped person since he comments on white actors constantly winning Oscars for that. Nine years later, Robert Downey Jr., who plays Renfro in this, would star in another film that featured a white action star doing a blatant Oscar Bait film where he played a mentally handicapped person, which ended up back-firing horribly and being an in-universe Star-Derailing Role for him. Compounding it further, Downey then immediately followed up with The Soloist, a painfully straight example of such a film (where he played not the mentally handicapped person but their patron).
• Magnificent Bastard: Bobby Bowfinger is an aging Hollywood director who decides to shoot an Alien Invasion movie starring an action star without him knowing he's in it. Gathering together a group of wanna-bes for his actors and illegal Mexican immigrants for his crew, he follows A-list actor Kit Ramsay around filming him in secret and editing the film around his footage. Unaware that his actions are triggering Kit's Paranoia Fuel about aliens being real, Kit's mentors at Mindhead realize what's happening and bust Bowfinger as he films the final scenes. Bowfinger bounces back with secret footage of Kit flashing himself to the Laker Girls, blackmailing Mindhead and Kit into cooperating. Fast-talking, quick-thinking, and never letting any opportunity go to waste, Bowfinger manages to pull off his scheme and finally make a movie like he's dreamed of.
• Retroactive Recognition: John Cho as the nightclub cleaner who works with Bowfinger.