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 AV 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]

Notable films featured in the book

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)

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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".[8][9][10]

References

External links

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[1] AV Club's 'My Year of Flops': 15 Notorious Cinematic Failure Worth Revisiting|HuffPost

[2] Google Books

[3] "Manic pixie dream girl" is now in Oxford Dictionaries (along with "butthurt", more)|AV Club

[4] 'My Year Of Flops': A Very Good Book About Some Very Bad Movies : NPR

[5] Nonfiction Book Review: My Year of Flops: The A.V. Club Presents One Man's Journey Deep into the Heart of Cinematic Failure by Nathan Rabin, Scribner, $15 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978- 1-4391-5312-3

[6] 'My Year of Flops' Teases Out What's Great About Even the Worst Movies - PopMatters

[7] Google Books

[8] Case File #1: Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip|AV Club

[9] The spy who disappointed me case file #85: The Brothers Grimsby|AV Club

[10] About —— Nathan Rabin's Happy Place