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 Case File #191 The Squeeze (1987)

My World Of Flops, Lovable Losers MonthNathan RabinSeptember 28, 2021Michael Keaton, Rae Dawn Chong, Joe Pantaliano, con man

My World of Flops, Race Jam Case File #190 Let it Ride (1989)

My World Of Flops, Lovable Losers MonthNathan RabinSeptember 27, 2021Space Jam, Nancy Dowd, Jennifer Tilly, Richard Dreyfuss, David Johansen, Joe Pykta, Funny Farm, Loose Change, gambling

My World of Flops, Trigger Happy Case File #189 The Survivors (1983)

Lovable Losers/Bad With Money Month gets off to a bit of a sleepy start with a look at Michael Ritchie’s muddled 1983 survivalist satire The Survivors, with Walter Matthau as a lovable everyman and Robin Williams as a right-wing gun nut/militia member. Its problems include casting Robin Williams as a right wing gun nut/militia member.

My World of Flops Hot, Hot, Hot Case File #188/Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #220 Palmetto (1998)

One of you generous weirdoes paid me to revisit the scorchingly sexy 1998 Neo-Noir Palmetto

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0, My World Of FlopsNathan RabinAugust 10, 2021Woody Harrelson, Elisabeth Shue, Film

The Sonny Boy Ain't Right! My World of Flops # 187/The Travolta/Cage Project # 69 Sonny (2002)

Nicolas Cage made his directorial debut with the hopelessly overwrought 2002 hustler melodrama Sonny, featuring one of Brenda Blethyn’s worst performances and a cameo by the director bonkers even by his standards.

My World of Flops Mars Needs Better Movies Case File #186 Mars Needs Moms (2011)

For Wild Disney Animation Month I finally get around to writing up one of the biggest box-office bombs of all time, the staggeringly misguided CGI animated flop Mars Needs Moms, which ultimately takes place not on Mars or Earth but in the most nightmarish recesses of the uncanny valley.

My World of Flops Case File #184/The Travolta/Cage Project #67 Windtalkers (2002)

Good intentions go terribly awry in Windtalkers, John Woo’s muddled tribute to Navajo code-talkers in World War II.

My World of Flops Crazy People/Pre-Loqueesha Case File #183 The Couch Trip (1988)

Charles Grodin Month continues with a look at the 1988 dark comedy The Couch Trip, which is just like Loqueesha only not racist, sexist and terrible.

My World of Flops Psycho Vs. Psychlo Case File #182/The Travolta/Cage Project #66 Domestic Disturbance (2001)

It’s Psycho Versus Psychlo in the cinematic war of the millennium!

My World of Flops, One Is the Floppiest Number Case File #181 The Lonely Guy (1984)

Charles Grodin is hilarious and heartbreaking in one of his best and most overlooked performances as the world’s saddest man in the otherwise middling 1984 comedy The Lonely Guy.