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There Are More Respectful Ways to Honor Gene Hackman's Death Than By Re-Running This Piece on 1990's Loose Cannons, But It's the One We're Going With

Mismatched Buddy Cop Movie Month begins with the 1990 dud Loose Cannons, a mental illness-themed action comedy about a traumatized cop with an outrageous case of Dissociative identity disorder

The Pope's Exorcist is a Very Silly Movie

This movie was silly.

Mismatched Buddy CopsNathan RabinMay 1, 2024Russell Crowe, exorcism, Catholic church, The Exorcist

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

This was a bad idea.

Max Landis Thought Bright Would Be His Star Wars. Instead It's His Rise of Skywalker

You know how everyone says Bright is total garbage? They're being overly generous.

This Looks Terrible, Scalding Hot Takes, Mismatched Buddy CopsNathan RabinNovember 30, 2023Will Smith, David Ayer, Max Landis

Celebrate Rexsgiving with the Legendary Mismatched Buddy Cop Comedy Theodore Rex

Sigh.

Control Nathan and Clint, Mismatched Buddy CopsNathan RabinNovember 22, 2023Whoopi Goldberg, Theodore Rex, film

My World of Flops Case File #162 Bulletproof (1996)

Adam Sandler dipped a toe into the murky waters of the mismatched buddy cop comedy with 1996’s Bulletproof. The result was quite poor.

Sub-Cult 2.0 # 10 Freebie and the Bean (1974)

Before 48 Hours, Lethal Weapon or Beverly Hills Cop there was Alan Arkin and James Caan in Richard Rush’s wildly influential 1974 mismatched buddy cop cult classic Freebie and the Bean, a weirdly forgotten blockbuster as problematic as it is entertaining.

Sub-Cult, Mismatched Buddy CopsNathan RabinMay 26, 2020Alan Arkin, James Caan, Richard Rush, New Hollywood, Film

Exploiting our Archives: Assault With a Dead Weapon Case File #149/My Year of Flops II #46 Dead Heat (1988)

It’s Lethal Weapon meets Tales from the Crypt, only shitty, in 1988’s Dead Heat, a spooktacularly disappointing zombie buddy cop horror comedy from Shane Black’s brother.

My World of Flops Cinematic Clunker Case File #161 Collision Course (1989)

At the height of the mismatched buddy cop movie boom, funnyman Jay Leno decided to throw his hat in the ring. The results were quite poor.

This Looks Terrible! Number One With a Bullet (1987)

Mismatched Buddy Cop Movie Month continues with Number One With a Bullet, a dire obscurity James Belushi co-wrote but did not star in with Robert Carradine in a role meant for Belushi and Billy Dee Williams as the silky smooth straight man.