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What the Fuck Was Sia Thinking When She Made The Notorious 2021 Film Flop Music?

Critics, audiences and the autistic community were horrified by Sia’s flop musical Music. They were right.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0, My World Of FlopsNathan RabinAugust 29, 2023Sia, flop, Leslie Odom Jr. 28 Comments

So I Married an Axe Murderer Is an Eminently Re-Watchable Cult Classic from Mike Meyers' Glorious Heyday

Everybody loves So I Married an Axe. Murderer. Everyone is right.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJuly 6, 2023Mike Myers, Nancy Travis, Charles Grodin, Michael Richards, Anthony LaPaglia, Thomas Schlamme, Amanda Plummer, Alan Arkin, Brenda Fricker, dark comedy, Austin Powers, flop 65 Comments

Robocop III Provides the Commie, Jet-Pack-Fueled Insanity We Both Crave and Need

We Hate Movies just covered the glorious monstrosity that is Robocop 3, so I figured there’s no better time to re-run my piece on it.

Control Nathan RabinNathan RabinMay 21, 2023Robocop, sequel, flop, Stephen Root, Rip Torn 61 Comments

1962's Two Weeks in Another Town is a Flawed but Fascinating Follow-Up to The Bad and the Beautiful

Vincent Minnelli and Kirk Douglas’ 1962 follow-up to The Bad and the Beautiful isn’t as good as its predecessor but what is?

Fractured Mirror 2.0Nathan RabinMay 16, 2023Kirk Douglas, Edward G Robinson, Edgar G Robinson, George Hamilton, Vincent Minnelli, flop 2 Comments

In Its Notorious Season Season, Baywatch Nights Shamelessly and Ineptly Ripped Off The X-Files as It Pivoted Nonsensically to Supernatural Mystery

In a desperate bid to stay on the air Baywatch Nights turned into an X-Files clone in its second season.

It did not go well.

Literary excerpt, My World Of Flops, The Joy of TrashNathan RabinApril 17, 2023Baywatch, Baywatch Nights, The X-Files, David Hasselhoff, Angie Harmon, flop, 1990s, mystery, monsters, horror, science fiction 18 Comments

The Enduring Wonder and Mystery of Halloween III

I finally got around to seeing Halloween III: The Season of the Witch, the Michel Myers-free Michael Myers movie with the robots and Stonehenge magic and evil novelty companies (but no witches!) and it was fucking insane and kind of great.

Control Nathan and ClintNathan RabinOctober 2, 2022Halloween, horror, horror sequel, flop, cult movies, Tom Atkins 33 Comments

The 2009 Manga Adaptation Astro Boy is the Confused Marxist A.I Knock-Off We Never Knew We Didn't Need

This is not good.

Travolta/Cage, The Travolta/Cage Project, My World Of FlopsNathan RabinAugust 29, 2022Nicolas Cage, Samuel L. Jackson, Charlize Theron, Eugene Levy, manga, flop, robot 16 Comments

The Curious Psychology of the Batgirl Cancellation

Usually studios tell the public that their dodgy movies are GREAT and everyone should see them. Not WBD. They don’t want anyone to see Batgirl and took drastic measures to ensure that happens by cancelling its release.