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(More customer reviews)Here's what you get:
NOTE TO KINDLE USERS: The illustrations are present in the Kindle edition, and there is a clickable table of contents.
Brand New Reviews:
- The Conqueror
- W.
- The Great Moment
- Gospel Road: A Story of Jesus
- The Cable Guy
- Skidoo
- Postal
- Dice Rules/The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
- I'll Do Anything (the original musical cut)
- Mame
- The Last Action Hero
- The Scarlet Letter (1995)
- Lolita (1997)
- Cleopatra
Interviews:
- Richard Dreyfuss (W.)
- Austin Pendleton (Skidoo)
- Michael Jai White (Breakfast of Champions)
- Dave Foley (Postal)
- Wallace Shawn (Southland Tales)
- Roberto Benigni (Pinocchio)
- Tom Noonan (Heaven's Gate)
- John Patrick Shanley (Joe Versus the Volcano)
Other Material:
- About a dozen illustrations of various flops, done up in the style of carnival posters
- A new introduction and afterword
- The minute-by-minute review of Waterworld
- A reconsideration of the original MYOF case file, Elizabethtown
Otherwise, the rest of the book is taken straight from the AV Club's website. The new material is a blast: the new reviews are often twice as long as the older entries and the interviews help shed some light on how a movie can go spectacularly wrong. For the exclusive writing, I felt the book was $10 well spent (and perhaps help spawn a Volume 2), but be aware that the majority of this book is made up of material you can read for free on the AV Club's website. If you're unfamiliar with MYOF, your best bet is to go the site [ ... ] and read up on the (as of this writing) 173 entries and see if it's for you.
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In 2007, Nathan Rabin set out to provide a revisionist look at the history of cinematic failure on a weekly basis. What began as a solitary ramble through the nooks and crannies of pop culture evolved into a way of life. My Year Of Flops collects dozens of the best-loved entries from the A.V. Club column along with bonus interviews and fifteen brand-new entries covering everything from notorious flops like The Cable Guy and Last Action Hero to bizarre obscurities like Glory Road, Johnny Cash's poignantly homemade tribute to Jesus. Driven by a unique combination of sympathy and Schadenfreude, My Year Of Flops is an unforgettable tribute to cinematic losers, beautiful and otherwise.
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