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
Mulan (2020) [Movie] Douban Min reol TMDB WikiData IMDb
Mulan
other title:
花木兰
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木兰传说
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When the Emperor of China issues a decree that one man per family must serve in the Imperial Chinese Army to defend the country from Huns, Hua Mulan, the eldest daughter of an honored warrior, steps in to take the place of her ailing father. She is spirited, determined and quick on her feet. Disguised as a man by the name of Hua Jun, she is tested every step of the way and must harness her innermost strength and embrace her true potential.
Peter Pan & Wendy (2023) [Movie] Douban Eggplant.place IMDb TMDB WikiData
Peter Pan & Wendy
other title:
彼得·潘与温蒂
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小飞侠
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Wendy Darling, a young girl afraid to leave her childhood home behind, meets Peter Pan, a boy who refuses to grow up. Alongside her brothers and a tiny fairy, Tinker Bell, she travels with Peter to the magical world of Neverland. There, she encounters an evil pirate captain, Captain Hook, and embarks on a thrilling adventure that will change her life forever.
Nightbitch (2024) [Movie] IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData KevGa-NeoDB
Nightbitch
other title:
夜母
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夜色女人
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A woman, thrown into the stay-at-home routine of raising a toddler in the suburbs, slowly embraces the feral power deeply rooted in motherhood, as she becomes increasingly aware of the bizarre and undeniable signs that she may be turning into a dog.
Freddy Got Fingered (2001) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Freddy Got Fingered
director:
汤姆·格林
actor:
汤姆·格林
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雷普·汤恩
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other title:
漫画家之路
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家有顽童
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Gordon, 28, an aspiring animator, leaves his home in Oregon to sell his ideas to Hollywood. After being told, correctly, that they are quite possibly the most stupid ideas ever and that he needs to spend time rethinking them, he moves back home. But his father, never a kind man, escalates his mean treatment of his rather unconventional son. Meanwhile, Gord has fallen for Betty, an attractive doctor at the hospital where his friend is staying; she happens to use a wheelchair, and to delight in having her paralyzed legs beaten with a bamboo cane; her sexual aggression intimidates him. Gord's family goes to a psychiatrist, and he lies to her that his father molests Gord's brother, Freddy; Gord neglects to mention that Freddy is 25. Soon, Gordon has the house to himself, and comes up with a winning animated series, "Zebras in America" based on his own family. All this is really a framework on which Tom Green hangs his usual crazy stunts.
Tom Green plays Gord Brody, a slacker who dreams of becoming an animator for cartoon shows. He is forced to move back in with his parents, but then refuses to leave. Along the way, he sexually pleasures various farm animals, licks open flesh wounds, accuses his father of molesting his brother, goes scuba diving in a toilet, plays an organ with several sausages attached to it which are suspended in midair, and does a bunch of other stuff that is too insane, offensive, disgusting, or weird to be mentioned here.
好食懶飛搞搞震，氣得父親“紮紮”跳 ！電視搞笑高手湯格連自編自導自演處女作！
終日游手好閒，已經廿八歲了，一直夢想成為荷里活卡通片動畫大師的葛，終於有機會一嚐夢想的工作，但只是暫時性，跟著又跑去芝士工廠做無聊的工作。最後，葛決定回到家去，但父親占士則希望他能長大成熟點，搬離他們，像弟弟法迪般，找一份像樣的工作。葛與父親占士因此事展開父子大戰，葛想出不少古靈精怪的方法來氣父親，弄得占士七竅生煙，使人捧腹大笑……
Tom Green plays Gord Brody, a slacker who dreams of becoming an animator for cartoon shows. He is forced to move back in with his parents, but then refuses to leave. Along the way, he sexually pleasures various farm animals, licks open flesh wounds, accuses his father of molesting his brother, goes scuba diving in a toilet, plays an organ with several sausages attached to it which are suspended in midair, and does a bunch of other stuff that is too insane, offensive, disgusting, or weird to be mentioned here.
好食懶飛搞搞震，氣得父親“紮紮”跳 ！電視搞笑高手湯格連自編自導自演處女作！
終日游手好閒，已經廿八歲了，一直夢想成為荷里活卡通片動畫大師的葛，終於有機會一嚐夢想的工作，但只是暫時性，跟著又跑去芝士工廠做無聊的工作。最後，葛決定回到家去，但父親占士則希望他能長大成熟點，搬離他們，像弟弟法迪般，找一份像樣的工作。葛與父親占士因此事展開父子大戰，葛想出不少古靈精怪的方法來氣父親，弄得占士七竅生煙，使人捧腹大笑……
Josie and the Pussycats (2001) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Josie and the Pussycats
director:
哈里·艾尔方特
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Deborah Kaplan
actor:
瑞切尔·蕾·库克
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塔拉·雷德
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other title:
猫女乐队
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乔西和猫女乐队
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Josie, Melody and Val are three small-town girl musicians determined to take their rock band out of their garage and straight to the top, while remaining true to their look, style and sound. They get a record deal which brings fame and fortune but soon realize they are pawns of two people who want to control the youth of America. They must clear their names, even if it means losing fame and fortune.
Cherry 2000 (1987) [Movie] IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
Cherry 2000
director:
斯蒂夫·德·贾纳特
actor:
梅兰尼·格里菲斯
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大卫·安德鲁斯
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other title:
金甲无敌
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爱妻2000号
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In the year 2017, a rich man travels to the ends of the earth to find that the perfect woman is always under his nose. When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a fuse, he hires sexy renegade tracker E. Johnson to find her exact duplicate. But as their journey to replace his perfect mate leads them into the treacherous and lawless region of The Zone, Treadwell learns the hard way that the perfect woman is made not of computer chips and diodes, but of real flesh and blood!