My Year of Flops
The A.V. Club Presents One Man's Journey Deep into the Heart of Cinematic Failure
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My Year Of Flops: An Introduction
From an early age, I learned to stop worrying and love the bombs. I’ve always been a failure junkie. I get giddy over toxic buzz, noxious press, and scathing reviews. I’m fascinated by the art and sociology of flops. You can learn a lot about society by the pop culture it embraces, and just as much by what it angrily rejects. As parents are keen to remind their children, there’s no shame in failure, only in not trying. The biggest, most notorious flops generally fail because they try too hard, not because they lack ambition or audacity.
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Disastrous Dramas
Bataan Death March Of Whimsy Case File #1: Elizabethtown
Originally Posted January 25, 2007
As somebody once said, there’s a difference between a failure and a fiasco. A failure is simply the non-presence of success. Any fool can accomplish failure. But a fee-ass-scoe, a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. A fiasco is a folktale told to others that makes other people feel more alive because. It. Didn’t. Happen. To. Them.
—Drew Baylor, Elizabethtown
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