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    So Fine (1981)

    This was the directorial debut of Andrew Bergman. After this film flopped, he went on to write Fletch and made his return to the director's chair in 9 years with The Freshman. He continued his run following the latter's success with Honeymoon in Vegas and It Could Happen to You, before the back-to-back disasters of Striptease and Isn't She Great sank his career for good.
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    Episode 84.5 — Minisode 84.5

    Color of Night is even more ridiculous than Hudson Hawk! The music choices at the therapy group session is just so bizarre, leaving as to which of the patients would out-act the other, has odd editing choices, off-the-wall dialogue and of course a brief glimpse at Bruce Willis's penis. It's also one of the 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies on the Official Razzie Movie Guide.
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    Color of Night

    It's finally happening in two weeks!
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    HDTGM All-Stars

    New addition: Bruce Willis (2): Hudson Hawk, Color of Night
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    Episode 84.5 — Minisode 84.5

    Welcome back Bruce Willis! Not since the days of Hudson Hawk, have we seen a movie that is even more ridiculous than the former, add to the fact that they both won Worst Picture at the Razzies! Plus is this first time we have either Brad Dourif or Lance Henriksen on to the show, because it's got to be.
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    Leonard Part 6

    There's actually already a forum for this one so this needs to be moved.
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    Shining Through

    Winner of 3 Razzie Awards, 1992's Shining Through showcases Melanie Griffith as a secretary joining a mission in World War II as a spy while in love with her boss Michael Douglas. Pretty silly romantic war film that also features a pre-Schindler's List Liam Neeson as the main villain.
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    Shining Through

    According to a source about this movie on Wikipedia, during the making of Shining Through, Melanie Griffith became aware for the very first time in her life, that Germans had done bad things to Jews during World War II, and she was quite outraged about it. This earned her the nickname "brainiac" which was used in Toronto-area print media for some time afterward.
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    Vertical Limit (2000)

    This film was also one of the last major film roles Chris O'Donnell made following the aftermath of Batman and Robin, where after this movie he took a hiatus before eventually scoring a steady TV gig with NCIS: Los Angeles.
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    The Counselor (2013)

    One of the huge letdowns of last year, The Counselor could've been interesting with Ridley Scott directing and Cormac McCarthy writing the script, plus an all-star cast! Yet this movie blows on a wordy and clumsy suspense thriller that is short on suspense or thrills. Most notorious scene is Cameron Diaz humping on a car while Javier Bardem watches in flashback. Plus it was reported that Diaz used an accent for her character, but when test screenings didn't get her dialogue, she had to re-record her lines so people can understand her. That comes one of the reasons why The Counselor fails to gel.
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    Chairman of the Board (1998)

    That Conan O'Brien clip was a classic, even better than the movie itself! Chairman of the Board marked the beginning of the end of Carrot Top's career, where he followed it up by having weird plastic surgeries and buffed up muscles. He and Raquel Welch both got Razzie nominations for their works on the film, but neither won.
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    Just My Luck (2006)

    I actually saw this movie in theaters when I was 14 because I was a huge Lindsay Lohan fan at the time! That was before I even looked at reviews for it because I was still fairly young. I haven't seen it since then but I once I watch Just My Luck again, I will notice that this would be pretty awful.
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    Monkeybone (2001)

    This movie is also one of the last major films that Bridget Fonda made in 2001 (the other was Kiss of the Dragon) before retiring to focus on raising a family with Danny Elfman.
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    One Night Stand

    This 1997 film has a pretty good cast with Wesley Snipes, Nastassja Kinski, Kyle MacLachlan, Ming-Na and Robert Downey, Jr. Plus was directed by Mike Figgis of Leaving Las Vegas fame. But even they couldn't save that movie from being completely snoozeworthy. Tanked at the box office and got pretty poor reviews (28% on Rotten Tomatoes). Originally, Joe Eszterhas wrote the script, where it was a series of loosely-connected sex scenes. But when Mike Figgis scored a hit with Leaving Las Vegas while Eszterhas had back-to-back flops with Showgirls and Jade, Figgis took over the project and rewrote most of the screenplay, which resulted in Eszterhas to take his name off the movie.
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    Episode 83 — Winter's Tale

    I would like to mention that the old woman who plays the grown up sister of Jessica Brown Findlay's character is Eva Marie Saint. She won an Oscar for her role opposite Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront, while younger audiences may notice her as Martha Kent in Superman Returns.
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    Can't Stop The Music (1980)

    Valerie Perrine actually came on the scene before Bo Derek when she was nominated for an Oscar for playing the stripper wife of Lenny Bruce in 1974's Lenny, with Dustin Hoffman playing Bruce. Derek's first major movie role was 1977's Orca.
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    Winter's Tale

    It's happening next week!
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    HDTGM All-Stars

    Shannon, can you update this forum with the previous two above, and that you can now add Will Smith to the 3 appearances club, with Winter's Tale being reviewed next week?
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    Winter's Tale

    Wait a minute, are you saying that they're really doing it for next week or are you just making it up?
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    Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985)

    Here's an interesting tidbit about this film. Joel Grey was even nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for playing the Asian mentor to Remo Williams.
  21. Sean Penn, Kate Winslet, Anthony Hopkins and Jude Law among others star in the 2006 remake of the 1949 Best Picture winner, All the King's Men. It was originally going to be a major Oscar contender like the original, but then the reviews came out and they were scathing to say the least. Criticisms include Penn chewing too much scenery, an absence of political insight, and a lack of narrative cohesiveness. Filmed on a budget of $55 million, it made only $9 million worldwide, causing a huge blow to the cast and crew, most particularly its writer/director Steven Zaillian, who admitted that he was completely stunned by the overall results of the movie.
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    Episode 82 — Double Team

    You guys forget to mention that Double Team was nominated for and won three Razzies, and they're all for Dennis Rodman. He won Worst Supporting Actor, Worst New Star and Worst Screen Couple for him and Jean-Claude Van Damme. In the Worst Supporting Actor category, Rodman beat out the likes of Willem Dafoe for Speed 2 and both Chris O'Donnell and Arnold Schwarzenegger for Batman and Robin! Considering these two movies were previously covered for the show prior to Double Team, that's some tough competition!
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    R.I.P.D. (2013)

    Yes, one of the biggest critical and box office flops of 2013. RIPD has a 13% on Rotten Tomatoes, which makes it the lowest-rated film on the website in both the careers of Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds.
  24. One of the examples of Oscar bait gone wrong, this 1994 adaptation of the Isabel Allende novel showcases a Latin American family through different generations. But instead, the studio decided to cast mostly white actors in the main roles. It has an all-star cast with Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Winona Ryder, Antonio Banderas, Vanessa Redgrave and Armin-Mueller Stahl, but the end result was extremely misguided and was a critical and box office failure. Has a 29% on Rotten Tomatoes and if the movie would've cast some lesser-known Latin American actors as the main characters, if would've been pretty successful.
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    Double Team (1997)

    The show is happening next week!
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