1996's Mad Dog Time -- what the hell

So I'm vaguely reading through this listicle and

http://cdnl.complex.com/mp/620/400/80/0/bb/1/ffffff/52d6ae221ddbb2ac42234ae962ecc230/images_/assets/CHANNEL_IMAGES/POP_CULTURE/2012/06/the-50-harshest-roger-ebert-movie-review-quotes/maddogtime_264487.jpg

Nearly everything about that photo is bad enough, then I learn more about the movie and good god.

I saw this! I don't remember why, probably for the video review column I was writing then. I couldn't have told you the name of it to save my life. All I remember is that it was very weird and very bad. It felt like someone going for that Alan Rudolph offbeat neo-noir vibe and misfiring wildly.

Can't tell if Henry Silva is eyeing Goldblum, or Ellen Barkin's cans, but either way it's hilarious.

I don't recall ever hearing of this movie. This is funny though:

The film was not well received by critics on release. Roger Ebert gave the film a zero-star rating, noting:

Mad Dog Time is the first movie I have seen that does not improve on the sight of a blank screen viewed for the same length of time. Oh, I've seen bad movies before. But they usually made me care about how bad they were. Watching Mad Dog Time is like waiting for the bus in a city where you're not sure they have a bus line.... Mad Dog Time should be cut into free ukulele picks for the poor.[2]

Roger Ebert and partner Gene Siskel on their television show Siskel & Ebert at the Movies voted this the worst film of 1996. Ebert repeated his written statement that watching this movie was not preferable to 1 hour and 45 minutes of looking at a blank wall, and mentioned how upset he was that Siskel won the right to choose this film after a coin toss

Can't tell if Henry Silva is eyeing Goldblum, or Ellen Barkin's cans, but either way it's hilarious.

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otm - that killed me

this picture is amazing

I just kept looking at it and the descriptive caption and going "What...the...what?"

Also LOL at McLachlan back there looking sad.

he's thinking "so many bad choices, where now for poor old Kyle?"

There's not even much for this on YouTube though maybe we should all be a grateful.

A trailer!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_k3I5lk4hY

A shootout!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoVMtPEQwFU

A love scene?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_O0Q-PfD8Q

An...interview with Gabriel Byrne on the Charlie Rose show?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STBIYyvNHN4

he's thinking "so many bad choices, where now for poor old Kyle?"

Wonder if he thought Showgirls was a step up or a step down at the time.

on the one hand, Verhoeven. On the other hand, Verhoeven.

woah trailer has a lot of faces not in that photo - michael j pollard! rob reiner! burt reynolds!

movie looks perfect for anyone who would have loved Harlem Nights if everyone in it was white.

Jeff Goldblum as Mickey Holiday
Richard Dreyfuss as Vic
Gabriel Byrne as Ben London
Ellen Barkin as Rita Everly
Diane Lane as Grace Everly
Gregory Hines as Jules Flamingo
Kyle MacLachlan as Jake Parker
Burt Reynolds as Jackie Jackson
Larry Bishop as Nicholas Falco
Henry Silva as Sleepy Joe
Michael J. Pollard as Red
Christopher Jones as fake Falco
Billy Idol as Lee Turner
Angie Everhart as Gabriella
Billy Drago as Wells
Paul Anka as Danny
Rob Reiner as Albert
Joey Bishop as Gottlieb
Richard Pryor as Jimmy the Gravedigger

from the "my way" wikipedia page

Anka finished the song at 5 am. "I called Frank up in Nevada – he was at Caesar's Palace – and said, 'I've got something really special for you.'"[2] Anka claimed: "When my record company caught wind of it, they were very pissed that I didn't keep it for myself. I said, 'Hey, I can write it, but I'm not the guy to sing it.' It was for Frank, no one else."[2] Despite this, Anka would later record the song in 1969 (very shortly after Sinatra's recording was released). As well Anka recorded it 3 other times (1) in 1996 (as a duet with Gabriel Byrne, performed in the movie Mad Dog Time), (2) In 1998 My Way in Spanish as (a Mi Manera) (duet with Julio Iglesias) and (3) in 2007 (as a duet with Jon Bon Jovi).[5]

In the photo in the original post, who's the guy with shades? At first I thought that was Goldblum, but then I spotted him on the left.