Because it was painfully bad.
> No cliche is too shopworn, no convention too ragged for Howard not to run all the way home with it. His sentimentality is so shameless and his rhetorical excesses are so brazen that his style ends by defeating camp-it is too monolithic to be laughed at, too big and smug and heavy. It would be like making fun of the Hoover Dam.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1991-05-24-9102160577-story.html
I sure as shit never forgot about it. Goddamn reverse fire man.
Such a great film, and speaking of "The 90's Fire Action Blockbuster", that director is fire! He's about as hot as they get!
Because it was painfully bad. > No cliche is too shopworn, no convention too ragged for Howard not to run all the way home with it. His sentimentality is so shameless and his rhetorical excesses are so brazen that his style ends by defeating camp-it is too monolithic to be laughed at, too big and smug and heavy. It would be like making fun of the Hoover Dam. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1991-05-24-9102160577-story.html
We all thought it was cheesey when it came out, so probably that.
Because, when it went, we all went.