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1997's Double Team Inexplicably Failed to Make Professional Oddball Dennis Rodman the Next Arnold Schwarzenegger

Dennis Rodman. A coked out of his gourd Jean-Claude Van Damme. Mickey Rourke. Exploding tigers. Life-saving Coca Cola vending machines. Tsui Hark. Are you not entertained?

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Poochified My World of Flops Case File #170/Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #148 Domino (2005)

One of you kind souls paid me to re-watch and write about 2005’s Domino, screenwriter Richard Kelly and director Tony Scott’s deranged pop-art take on the life of renegade bounty hunter Domino Harvey.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #108 The Rainmaker (1997)

Francis Ford Coppola ended his career as a studio filmmaker with this perfectly serviceable adaptation of a John Grisham novel.

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The Travolta/Cage Project #4 Rumble Fish (1983)

1983’s Rumble Fish, Francis Ford Coppola’s art film for kids and second S.E Hinton adaptation in eight months (after the much better received The Outsiders) is stunning but poignantly adolescent in its worldview.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #37 Johnny Handsome (1989)

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