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

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My World Of Flops, My Year of Flops IINathan RabinKevin Spacey, Kate Winslet, flop, Alan Parker
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
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

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My World Of Flops, My Year of Flops IINathan RabinSamuel L. Jackson, sequel, blaxploitation, Shaft, Richar Roundtree
The 2012 Flop A Thousand Words Made Eddie Murphy's Long Break From Movies Eminently Understandable
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.

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My World Of Flops, My Year of Flops IINathan RabinEddie Murphy, Dreamgirls, Bowfinger, A Thousand Words, Dolemite Is My Name, Rudy Ray Moore
The Notorious 2005 Ray Bradbury Adaptation A Sound of Thunder Deserves Its Reputation as One of the Biggest All-Time Flops
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.

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My Year of Flops II, My World Of FlopsNathan RabinEdward Burns, Ben Kingsley, Ray Bradbury, My World of Flops, My Year of Flops II, Peter Hyams