Twas
a callback to Waterworld though I'm told that urine does taste disconcertingly like Fresca

Byrne
I like Gabriel Byrne alot as well (he was really good in those twenty or so films where he played an amiably tipsy Irish dad) but it is weird to think of him as a studio-mandated leading man box-office draw. Byrne's a really good actor but this wasn't much of a role for him.

Not to give away trade secrets
but Wikipedia has a great entry on this. I also highly recommend Tasha's interview with Ralph Bakshi. As Tony the Tiger might say, it's really good. Also I gave it a "Fiasco" because Bakshi was really going for something, at least initially. The animation isn't great (To paraphrase…

Nice post Steve
The next time you're in the Chi I'll have to buy you a drank.

To find out more
There's a really nice appreciation of Anderson here: http://www.chud.com/index.p… and here:
http://filmstew.com/showBlo…

Albert
I willingly concede that this contains far too many shots of folks heroically delivering mail in slow motion. Also Giovanni Ribisi plays the latest in a long line of grating, mentally-challenged man-children. Wait, are the pros still outweighing the cons?

For the record
Studios generally only get to keep about half the total gross on movies. The rest goes to the theaters that show the films. So while Waterworld grossed eighty something million dollars domestically it only gets to keep about half of that. It's possible "Waterworld" turned a profit overseas (it certainly…

The soundtrack
was huge and it did O.K, but not great, at the box-office but it was eviscerated by critics and destroyed Diamond's film career (and Arnaz's as well). I think it's safe to say this film is widely considered a flop. History has not been kind to The Jazz Singer.

Hey Jewfro
That's what I'd always been told but sometimes facts get mixed up with mythology, which could very well have been the case.

And yet
"The Jazz Singer" makes it appear Diamond's core audience is ninety percent black and overwhelmingly young, not Jewish women between the age of 50 to 100, as would seem to be the case.

Costner Kraziness
I hereby vow to write about both "The Postman" and "Waterworld" in a future week. Also I am very morbidly fascinated by this "Mister Brooks" movie but not enough to actually go out and but a ticket.

Hey Fat Charlie/point taken
When I was writing this piece I was worried that it might cross the line from ironically, irreverently spoofing the media's obsession with Demi Moore's breasts and being genuinely pervy/unbecomingly leering. As several of the commentators here have eloquently argued however "Striptease" is…

Augmentation
I don't know why people seem convinced Moore got breast implants. Most women only develop once they've reached they've reached their mid-thirties and it's professionally advantageous for them to do so. That's like saying Barry Bonds must be using steroids or something just because he looks like the…

Guilt and sin
are total downers and consequently have no place in a Demi Moore movie. Laughs either, apparently.

Yep
The really sad part is that Moore infamously rationalized the new upbeat ending by saying that so few people had read the novel that it didn't really matter that they changed the ending. Yikes.

For the record
My last entry, "Big Trouble" was a secret success and a positive take on a certain movie with Tom Hanks and a volcano lurks in the very near future. As for script-doctoring Rudnick reportedly worked on "Addams Family" and "My Step-Mother Is An Alien" though I highly doubt either will merit mention in…

Hey Saddleback Tramp and Milkman
Thanks for the 411. Tis much appreciated. Incidentally Napa's lovely this time of year (though I wrote my entries before I went away). For this project I try to either re-watch a flop I've seen before and consider interesting enough to write about or seek out a flop I've never seen…

D'oh!
This should be a Fiasco. I done messed up. Sorry bout that.

Hey Megan
There is, as far as I know, not a link to all my My Year of Flops entries, I'm afraid. It had its own subheading for a while but that has mysteriously disappeared.

Bully/Gordon Levitt/9th
For the record I actually really like "Bully", one of the few youth-gone-wild films that's intentionally funny. I was hella disappointed in Gordon-Levitt's nothing role in "Havoc" though. Granted he hadn't quite made the unexpected transition from child star to the next Johnny Depp by that…