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There Was No Sorcerer: Box Office Poison, Hollywood's Story in Century of Flops
Thomas W Hodgkinson: There Was No Sorcerer - Box Office Poison: Hollywood’s Story in a Century of Flops by Tim Robey
After William Friedkin won Oscars for The French Connection(1971) and broke box office records with The Exorcist(1973), Paramount pretty much let him off the leash, even down to the choice of the title for his next film, which he dubbed Sorcerer(1977). Witness Waterworld(1995), in which Kevin Costner plays a man with gills, or the pirate hokum Cutthroat Island from the same year, or Speed 2: Cruise Control(1997), which also flouts rule one: its title is boring. My ten-year-old son and I relished a double bill of Speed 2(surprisingly slow) and the oddly diverting Catwoman(2004), a superhero fiasco in which Halle Berry is drowned by bad guys, then randomly revived and given feline powers and penchants by a magic cat.
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