Someone decided to spend 42 million dollars to turn McHale’s Navy into a Tom Arnold movie. It was not a wise decision!
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Nicolas Cage is a very bad cop investigating a sinister conspiracy at an Atlantic City boxing match in Brian DePalma’s enjoyably ludicrous 1998 tour-de-force Snake Eyes.
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Hoo boy. This movie is like my ex-wife’s meatloaf surprise: NOT GOOD!
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In honor of the late Tanya Roberts (who we’re absolutely certain is dead this time), we take a nostalgic look back at her 1984 vehicle Sheena: Queen of the Jungle, an inexplicably PG-rated colonialist wet dream that puts the T&A into “Tarzan knockoff”
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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.
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John Travolta slathers on allegorical blackface to play a poor white man at the end of his rope in the muddled racial allegory White Man’s Burden, which imagines an alternate universe where the racial dynamic of our country has been reversed, with African-Americans in power and poor white folks the primary victim of racism.
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In the weird mid aughts Disney and Devo joined forces to create Devo 2.0, which was just like Devo, but for kids! Astonishingly, it was not a big success.
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Travolta’s rudderless career hit another nadir with 1991’s Eyes of an Angel, a barely released melodrama about dog-fighting, Chicago, the world’s smartest dog and its unluckiest man.
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You know what movie has aged beautifully? Joe Dante’s wonderful, timely and prescient 1998 satire Small Soldiers.
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Phil Hartman is hilarious as a villainous schemer in Jonathan Lynn’s muddled 1994 flop Greedy, which starts out mean and strong and quickly loses its way.
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