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WTF Happened to Mystery Men (1999)?

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Chris In 1999, Ben Stiller got to play a superhero. Well, kind of. You see, he was one of the leads in Universal’s big-budget superhero comedy Mystery Men. The first (and last) movie directed by noted commercial director Kinka Usher,...

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WTF Happened to Top Secret! (1984)?

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Chris In 1980, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker (ZAZ) took the world by storm with the spoof of disaster films, Airplane. It utterly changed the genre overnight, with the laugh-a-minute style being tremendously influential. Rather than cash in...

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WTF Happened to Escape from New York (1981)?

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Chris John Carpenter’s Escape from New York (1981) is the movie that made Kurt Russell a bad-ass. Going into this film, Russell was best known for a run of Disney films, such as The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, The World’s...

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WTF Happened to Robocop (1987)?

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Chris Paul Verhoeven’s Robocop (1987) is one of the greatest films of the 1980s. You may be wondering why we’re covering it on WTF, but the fact is, as good as the finished product ended up being, the production itself...

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WTF Happened to Catwoman (2004)?

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Chris This week sees the release of DC and Matt Reeves’ The Batman, which is getting some of the best reviews ever gotten by a superhero film. Truly, the genre has become dominant, with it seemingly being propelled to new...

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WTF Happened to Death to Smoochy (2002)?

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Chris Danny DeVito’s pitch black children’s TV satire Death to Smoochy was one of the biggest financial flops of 2002. The film only grossed $8.3 million on a $50 million budget for Warner Bros, despite the presence of Robin Williams...

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WTF Happened to Kill Bill (2003)?

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Chris Flashback to the fall of 2003. Quentin Tarantino was about to debut the first half of his ode to exploitation cinema, Kill Bill. At this point, he hadn’t made a movie since 1997’s Jackie Brown, and folks were wondering...

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WTF Happened to Speed Racer (2008)?

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Chris With the release of Lana Wachowski’s The Matrix Resurrections, the Wachowskis are back in the limelight, with renewed attention on The Matrix franchise and some of their other, more neglected films (although Lilly Wachowski wasn’t involved with the new...

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WTF Happened to MacGruber (2010)?

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Chris First appearing on Saturday Night Live shorts in 2007, Will Forte’s dimwitted bomb-detonating special agent MACGRUBER certainly didn’t seem like feature film material. But he proved popular enough to justify an R-rated 2010 movie… which completely flopped at the...

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