My Year of Flops
My Year of Flops is a 2010 book by film critic Nathan Rabin based on his columns on the website The A.V. Club.
Background
Starting in 2007, Rabin set out to provide a revisionist look at critical and commercial cinematic failures at a weekly basis.Criteria
Rabin's critique for each film fall into three categories: Failure, Fiasco, and Secret Success.List of films discussed in the book (in order of appearance)
- Elizabethtown
- The Conqueror
- The End of Violence
- W.
- The Great Moment
- Gospel Road: A Story of Jesus
- O.C. and Stiggs
- Scenes from a Mall
- The Cable Guy
- Freddy Got Fingered
- Skidoo
- Breakfast of Champions
- Dice Rules
- The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
- Postal
- The Love Guru
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Pennies from Heaven
- The Apple
- Glitter
- Rent
- Under the Cherry Moon
- I'll Do Anything
- Mame
- It's All About Love
- The Island of Dr. Moreau
- Southland Tales
- Hulk
- Last Action Hero
- The Rocketeer
- The Real Cancun
- The Scarlet Letter
- Body of Evidence
- Exit to Eden
- Tough Guys Don't Dance
- Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
- Lolita
- Pinocchio
- Santa Claus: The Movie
- Bratz: The Movie
- Ishtar
- Paint Your Wagon
- Gigli
- Cruising
- Battlefield Earth
- Heaven's Gate
- Howard the Duck
- Psycho
- Cleopatra
- Joe Versus the Volcano
- ''Waterworld''