My Year of Flops
My Year of Flops (subtitled The A.V. Club Presents One Man's Journey Deep Into the Heart of Cinematic Failure) is a 2010 book by film critic Nathan Rabin based on his columns on the website The A.V. Club.[1]
First edition (publ. Scribner's)
Background
Starting in 2007, Rabin set out to provide a revisionist look at critical and commercial cinematic failures at a weekly basis.[2]
Criteria
Rabin's critique for each film fall into three categories: Fiasco, Failure and Secret Success.[3][4]
Notable films featured in the book
- Waterworld (1995)
- The Cable Guy (1996)
- Last Action Hero (1993)
- Freddy Got Fingered (2001)
- The Scarlet Letter (1995)
- Heaven's Gate (1980)
- Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993)
- Exit to Eden (1994)
- Lolita (1997)
- Elizabethtown (2005) (the first "file case" where he coined the termed "manic pixie dream girl")[5]
- Cruising (1980)
- Joe vs. The Volcano (1990)
- The Rocketeer (1991)
- Rent (2005)
- Santa Claus: The Movie (1985)
- Skidoo (1968)
- The Conqueror (1956)
- Pinocchio (2002)
Aftermath
In 2011, Rabin started My World of Flops to include TV shows and music-related flops starting with Aaron Sorkin's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and ending with the 2016 comedy film The Brothers Grimsby before opening his own personal site called "Nathan Rabin's Happy Place".[11][12][13]
See also
- List of films considered the worst
- Cult film
- Mystery Science Theater 3000-similar in content
- Cinephilia
- The Onion
Further reading
References
- "AV Club's 'My Year of Flops': 15 Notorious Cinematic Failures Worth Revisiting". HuffPost.
- Google Books
- Rabin, Nathan "Book Review - My Year of Flops". The New York Times.
- "Heaven's Gate" and Film Maudit Culture - Film at Lincoln Center
- "Manic pixie dream girl" is now in Oxford Dictionaries". AV Club.
- 'My Year Of Flops': A Very Good Book About Some Very Bad Movies : NPR
- "Nonfiction Book Review: My Year of Flops: The A.V. Club Presents One Man's Journey Deep into the Heart of Cinematic Failure". Publishers Weekly.
- 'My Year of Flops' Teases Out What's Great About Even the Worst Movies - PopMatters
- Google Books
- From Bomb To Bust by Stephanie Zacharek in The New York Times
- Case File #1: Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip|AV Club
- The spy who disappointed me case file #85: The Brothers Grimsby|AV Club
- About —— Nathan Rabin's Happy Place
External links
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