Happy Place — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

My World of Flops That's a Spicy Melodrama Case File #180/The Travolta/Cage Project #63 Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)

Mamma mia! Captain Corelli’s Mandolin is very Italian but not very good-a.

My World Of Flops, The Travolta/Cage Project, Travolta/CageNathan RabinMay 20, 2021Christian Bale, John Madden, Nicolas Cage, Penelope Cruz, John Hurt, World War II, Greece, Italy

My World of Flops, Stormy Weather Case File #179 The Travolta/Cage Project #62 Lucky Numbers (2000)

John Travolta and Nora Ephron flopped big time with Adam Resnick’s deliciously mean screenplay about the darkly comic machinations of some small-time, small town losers in 1980s Pennsylvania.

Shockingly Bleak My World of Flops Case File #178/Control Nathan Rabin #192 Big Bully (1996)

A smartly cast Tom Arnold terrorizes Rick Moranis in the blisteringly dark 1996 comedy Big Bully, which is way more like a Todd Solondz movie than you would ever imagine.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0, My World Of FlopsNathan RabinApril 8, 2021Rick Moranis, Tom Arnold, Don Knotts, Curtis Armstrong, Steve Miner

My World of Flops, Major Paymer Case File #177/Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #191 Carpool (1996)

Our in depth exploration of the films of Tom Arnold continues with a look back at his Oscar-winning 1996 masterpiece Carpool.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0, My World Of FlopsNathan RabinApril 5, 2021Tom Arnold, David Paymer, Rachel Leigh Cook, Rod Steiger, Arthur Hiller

My World of Flops McHale's Folly Case File #176 Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #187 McHale's Navy (1998)

Someone decided to spend 42 million dollars to turn McHale’s Navy into a Tom Arnold movie. It was not a wise decision!

My World Of Flops, Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinMarch 24, 2021Tom Arnold, Bruce Campbell, Debra Messing, Dean Stockwell, Ernest Borgnine, French Stewart, Tim Curry, Film

My World of Flops Coked up Case File #174 The Travolta/Cage Project #53 Snake Eyes (1998)

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.

Travolta/Cage, The Travolta/Cage Project, My World Of FlopsNathan RabinFebruary 22, 2021Nicolas Cage, Carla Gugino, Gary Sinise, thriller, Atlantic City, Flop

My World of Flops Bad Flick, M.A.A.D Shitty Case File #173/The Travolta/Cage Project #51 Mad City (1997)

Hoo boy. This movie is like my ex-wife’s meatloaf surprise: NOT GOOD!

Travolta/Cage, The Travolta/Cage Project, My World Of FlopsNathan RabinFebruary 9, 2021John Travolta, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Alda, thriller, flop, Madison, hostage thriller

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #163/My World of Flops Perving Out in the Jungle Case File #171 Sheena: Queen of the Jungle (1984)

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”

My World Of FlopsNathan RabinJanuary 14, 2021Tanya Roberts, Charlie's Angels, death, colonialism, imperialism, Indiana Jones, T&A, Softcore, Ted Wass, Africa, Control Nathan Rabin 4.0

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, My World Of FlopsNathan RabinNovember 30, 2020Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Christopher Walken, Tony Scott, Richard Kelly, Mo'Nique

My World of Flops Racially Problematic Case File #168 The Travolta/Cage Project #41 White Man's Burden (1995)

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.

The Travolta/Cage Project, My World Of FlopsNathan RabinSeptember 24, 2020John Travolta, Harry Belafonte, race, Lawrence Bender, Kelly Lynch, My Year of Flops