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]

Background[]

Starting in 2007, Rabin set out to provide a revisionist look at critical and commercial cinematic failures at a weekly basis.^[2]

Criteria[]

Three categories fall into Rabin's critique for each film: Fiasco, Failure and Secret Success.^[3]

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")
• Joe vs. The Volcano (1990)
• The Rocketeer (1991)
• Rent (2005)
• Santa Claus: The Movie (1985)
• Skidoo (1968)
• The Conqueror (1956)

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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".^[10][11][12]

See also[]

• List of films considered the worst
• Cult film
• Mystery Science Theater 3000-similar in content
• Cinephilia
• The Onion

References[]

External links[]

• Official website
• AV Club articles