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Flopuary 2025

28 movies  

My list for Flopuary 2025, created by jazzercise. Don't think I'm going to have time for 28 movies in 28 days outside of my normal awards-season viewing, but I'm certainly going to pick some of the more recent prime cuts (like 2024's Megalopolis, Nightbitch, etc.) out for review. Everything here is on my personal watchlist, so I'll get to them all eventually at any rate.

Original list and criteria can be found here: https://letterboxd.com/jazzercise/list/flopuary-2025-sophomore-slump-or-comeback/

Criteria:

(2) Box Office Bombs that lost more than $50 million dollars (2) from Nathan Rabin's My Year/World of Flops (2) covered on the How Did This Get Made? podcast (1) film covered in Tim Robey's new book Box Office Poison, or MUBI's podcast it inspired (1) Sophomore Slump (2) Disappointing Follow-Ups to a Best Director nomination (1) from Indiewire's 50 Great Movies That Bombed At the Box Office (1) from The Anti-Letterboxd 250 (2) films with one of the 250 worst wide box-office openings (1) "2" sequel to a film you've already seen, & that did worse than its predecessor (2) movies released pre-1985 (5) anniversary movies released in a year that ends in "5" · Some helpful reference lists – 1985 | 1995 | 2005 | 2015 (1) from 2024 (1) starring a musician in a lead role (inspired by Maxson Morris' Flop of the Pops list) (1) pair of Twin Releases, one of which flopped (inspired by Mister Anderson's list) (1) directed, produced, or executive produced by Roger Corman (RIP) (2) from a filmmaker who STARTED on a Roger Corman film (1) Disney® movie (non-Marvel, non-Lucas Film) (1) novel, or graphic novel adaptation (1) movie related to the US presidency (for President's Day) (1) underperforming Peter Pan adaptation (1) from Amy Adams' 2020s "Rotten" streak (1) starring either Tom Arnold, Carrot Top, Chris Farley, Tom Green, Larry the Cable Guy, or Pauly Shore in a lead role (1) feline flop picked from: The Cat in the Hat, Cats, Cats Don't Dance, Catwoman, Josie and the Pussycats or Tomcats

(BONUS) Watch either of Steve De Jarnatt's films – Cherry 2000 or Miracle Mile

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Megalopolis (2024)
Megalopolis
★ 4.2 (38 ratings) director: Francis Ford Coppola actor: Adam Driver / Giancarlo Esposito …
other title: 메갈로폴리스 / Megalópolis: Una fabula …
Genius artist Cesar Catilina seeks to leap the City of New Rome into a utopian, idealistic future, while his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero, remains committed to a regressive status quo, perpetuating greed, special interests, and partisan warfare. Torn between them is socialite Julia Cicero, the mayor’s daughter, whose love for Cesar has divided her loyalties, forcing her to discover what she truly believes humanity deserves.
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Babylon (2022)
Babylon
★ 7.3 (326 ratings) director: 达米恩·查泽雷 actor: 布拉德·皮特 / 玛格特·罗比 …
other title: Babylon - Rausch der Ekstase / 巴比伦 …
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.
AtomicPwrdRobot: Box Office Bomb
Indiewire 50 Great Movies That Bombed
250 Worst Openings
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Superman III (1983)
Superman III
★ 5.5 (36 ratings) director: 理查德·莱斯特 actor: Christopher Reeve / Richard Pryor …
other title: 슈퍼맨 3 / スーパーマンIII／電子の要塞 …
Aiming to defeat the Man of Steel, wealthy executive Ross Webster hires bumbling but brilliant Gus Gorman to develop synthetic kryptonite, which yields some unexpected psychological effects in the third installment of the 1980s Superman franchise. Between rekindling romance with his high school sweetheart and saving himself, Superman must contend with a powerful supercomputer.
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Babe: Pig in the City (1998)
Babe: Pig in the City
★ 7.7 (23 ratings) director: 乔治·米勒 actor: 玛格达·苏班斯基 / 詹姆斯·克伦威尔 …
other title: 꼬마 돼지 베이브 2 / ベイブ／都会へ行く …
Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Babe has to go to the big city to save the farm.
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Marie Antoinette (2006)
Marie Antoinette
★ 6.5 (224 ratings) director: 索菲亚·科波拉 actor: 克斯汀·邓斯特 / 杰森·薛兹曼 …
other title: 绝代艳后 / 玛丽皇后 …
The retelling of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and ultimately the fall of Versailles.
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The Postman (1997) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Postman
★ 6.9 (34 ratings) director: 凯文·科斯特纳 actor: 凯文·科斯特纳 / 奥莉维亚·威廉姆斯 …
other title: 포스트맨 / The Postman: O Mensageiro …
In 2013, there are no highways, no I-ways, no dreams of a better tomorrow, only scattered survivors across what was once the Unites States. Into this apocalyptic wasteland comes an enigmatic drifter with a mule, a knack for Shakespeare, and something yet undiscovered: the power to inspire hope.
AtomicPwrdRobot: Sophomore Slump
Disappointing Follow-Up to Best Director Nom
My Year of Flops
Adaptation
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Explorers (1985)
Explorers
director: Joe Dante actor: Ethan Hawke / River Phoenix …
other title: 冲向天外天 / 探险家 …
Middle schooler Ben spends his free time watching sci-fi films, playing video games and reading comic books. Surprisingly, his affinity for all things fantastical yields a real result – when he has a vivid dream about technology, his prodigy best friend Wolfgang manages to create a working spacecraft. Joined by their buddy Darren, the boys take off into outer space and encounter some very odd extraterrestrial life.
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Legend (1985)
Legend
★ 6.3 (19 ratings) director: Ridley Scott actor: Tom Cruise / Mia Sara …
other title: 黑魔王 / 诡秘怪谈 …
Set in a timeless mythical forest inhabited by fairies, goblins, unicorns and mortals, this fantastic story follows a mystical forest dweller, chosen by fate, to undertake a heroic quest. He must save the beautiful Princess Lili and defeat the demonic Lord of Darkness, or the world will be plunged into a never-ending ice age.
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Waterworld (1995)
Waterworld
★ 7.1 (221 ratings) director: Kevin Reynolds actor: 凯文·科斯特纳 / Jeanne Tripplehorn …
other title: 未来水世界 / 水世界 …
In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship. But the trio soon becomes the target of a menacing pirate who covets the map to 'Dryland'—which is tattooed on Enola's back.
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BloodRayne (2005)
BloodRayne
director: Uwe Boll actor: Kristanna Loken / Michael Madsen …
other title: 吸血莱恩 / 嗜血黑天使 …
In 18th-century Romania, after spending much of her life in a traveling circus, human-vampire hybrid Rayne escapes and plots to take down her father, Kagan, the evil vampire king. When she's discovered by three vampire hunters, she manages to convince them to spare her life and join her cause. But slaying a vampire as powerful as Kagan will be no easy task.
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Bones (2001) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Bones
director: 欧内斯特·迪克森 Ernest R. Dickerson actor: 帕姆·格里尔 Pam Grier .... Pearl
other title: 阴魂咆哮 / 追魂骸骨 …
Over 20 years after his death, local legend and benefactor Jimmy Bones returns as a ghost to get revenge on those who killed him and restore his neighborhood.
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The Raid (2011)
The Raid
★ 7.4 (295 ratings) director: 加雷斯·埃文斯 actor: 伊科·乌艾斯 / 乔·塔斯利姆 …
other title: 突袭 / 突击死亡塔(港) …
Deep in the heart of Jakarta's slums lies an impenetrable safe house for the world's most dangerous killers and gangsters. Until now, the run-down apartment block has been considered untouchable to even the bravest of police. Cloaked under the cover of pre-dawn darkness and silence, an elite swat team is tasked with raiding the safe house in order to take down the notorious drug lord that runs it. But when a chance encounter with a spotter blows their cover and news of their assault reaches the drug lord, the building's lights are cut and all the exits blocked. Stranded on the sixth floor with no way out, the unit must fight their way through the city's worst to survive their mission. Starring Indonesian martial arts sensation Iko Uwais.
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Dredd (2012)
Dredd
★ 6.2 (126 ratings) director: 皮特·特拉维斯 actor: 卡尔·厄本 / 詹森·库伯 …
other title: 特警判官 / 超时空战警: 重装上阵(台) …
In the future, America is a dystopian wasteland. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma, a prostitute-turned-drug pusher with a dangerous new drug and aims to take over the city. The only possibility of stopping her is an elite group of urban police called Judges, who combine the duties of judge, jury and executioner to deliver a brutal brand of swift justice. But even the top-ranking Judge, Dredd, discovers that taking down Ma-Ma isn’t as easy as it seems in this explosive adaptation of the hugely popular comic series. (TMDB)
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