I finally tackle one of the biggest all-time flops, Peter Hyams’ disastrous, almost impressively inept 2005 adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s A Sound of Thunder starring a woefully miscast Edward Burns as a Big Deal Scientist and Ben Kingsley as a capitalist anti-Christ with a thick mane of snow-white hair.
Read MoreNicolas Cage re-teamed with Bringing Out the Dead screenwriter Paul Schrader for the muddled 2014 psychodrama The Dying of the Light, which sucks in a different way than most of Cage’s vehicles from this period, but it still sucks.
Read MoreThe 2015 political drama The Runner was atypical fare for Nicolas Cage at the time but like many films from this era it fucking sucks and was an unmistakable failure.
Read MoreIn 1990 Nicolas Cage made Firebirds, the first of several thousand forgettable action vehicles unworthy of his talent or originality.
Read MoreBilly Wilder’s 1978 Flop Fedora is less a worthy follow up to Sunset Boulevard than a sorry footnote.
Read MoreJohn Cusack is real life serial killer Robert Hansen in 2013’s streaming The Frozen Ground, a movie that really fucking sucks.
Read MoreNora Ephron flopped big time with a world-class cast with the 1994 Christmas dark comedy Mixed Nuts.
Read MoreWriter-director Paul Mazursky stumbled with the navel-gazing, wildly self-indulgent comedy The Pickle, a stinker by, for and about the veteran filmmaker.
Read MoreNicolas Cage’s lean years kicked into low gear with the 2011 stinker Seeking Justice, where the Academy Award winner runs around New Orleans getting jerked around for no good reason, not unlike the film’s audience.
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