My Year of Flops II — Happy Place — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

The Happytime Murders Is the Rancid Sesame Street Spoof We Never Knew We Never Needed

This was a bad idea.

Dennis Rodman and Dane Cook Became the Redford and Newman of the 1990s With 1999's Simon Sez

Yes, Virginia, Dennis Rodman and Dane Cook really did star in a movie together, 1999’s Simon Sez. And yes, it was just as fucking miserable as you would imagine. Robert Downey Jr. really dodged a bullet dropping out of this turkey.

My World Of Flops, My Year of Flops IINathan RabinNovember 21, 2023Robert Downey Jr., Dane Cook, Dennis Rodman

The Life of David Gale is Another Surreally Misconceived Kevin Spacey Vehicle That Misunderstands the Nature of His Appeal

Kevin Spacey’s real-life downfall casts a long, dark shadow over The Life of David Gale, a notorious 2003 flop about the death penalty that casts the American Beauty as a brilliant, verbose man-God academic whose previously charmed life is ruined by numerous false rape allegations.

My World Of Flops, My Year of Flops IINathan RabinNovember 20, 2023Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet, flop, Alan Parker

Despite Its Less Than Stellar Reputation, Henry Selick's Monkeybone is a Twisted, Demented Delight

Nightmare Before Christmas director Henry Selick’s 2001 fantasy horror-comedy Monkeybone was an enormous, infamous flop that suggests a cross between Beetlejuice and Being John Malkovich

My World Of Flops, My Year of Flops IINathan RabinNovember 19, 2023Tim Burton, Nightmare Before Christmas, Batman

There Are Probably More Respectful Ways to Honor the Late Richard Roundtree Than By Re-Running This Piece on the Godawful Shaft Reboot But It's the One We're Going With

Nearly two decades after the release of 2000’s Shaft they decided to make a sequel re-imagining the formerly coolest motherfucker on the planet as your cranky boomer uncle. The film, and the idea, were both #Quitepoor

My World Of Flops, My Year of Flops IINathan RabinOctober 25, 2023Samuel L. Jackson, sequel, blaxploitation, Shaft, Richar Roundtree

The 2012 Flop A Thousand Words Made Eddie Murphy's Long Break From Movies Eminently Understandable

With Dolemite Is My Name wowing critics and audiences, we take a not so fond look at one of the many abysmal Eddie Murphy vehicles that made that comeback necessary, in this case the dreadful, long-shelved metaphysical comedy-drama A Thousand Words.

The Trump Prophecy Argues That Donald Trump Is Literally God-sent. It is not ENTIRELY Convincing

Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University made a part-narrative/part documentary film about how Jesus chose Trump to be president that’s pretty fucked up.

The Notorious 2005 Ray Bradbury Adaptation A Sound of Thunder Deserves Its Reputation as One of the Biggest All-Time Flops

I finally tackle one of the biggest all-time flops, Peter Hyams’ disastrous, almost impressively inept 2005 adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s A Sound of Thunder starring a woefully miscast Edward Burns as a Big Deal Scientist and Ben Kingsley as a capitalist anti-Christ with a thick mane of snow-white hair.

Ray Liotta Does Horrible Things With a Garden Hose in His Riveting Debut Performance in the 1983 Camp Classic The Lonely Lady

Ray Liotta Month kicks off with a mortified look at the actor’s screen debut as a lunatic who does unwholesome things to Pia Zadora with gardening equipment in the notorious 1983 flop The Lonely Lady.

Holy Moly Does the Fred Durst-directed John Travolta Flop The Fanatic Ever Live Down to its Reputation!

The Fanatic, the Fred Durst-directed John Travolta stalker drama that has been the talk of the bad movie world for months is somehow even more astonishingly terrible than it looks, and it looks almost inconceivably bad.