Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Fiasco
"With the Paint Your Wagon decision makers having already made several questionable artistic decisions, things only got worse."
If that sort of sentence piques your interest, I recommend the book I'm reading right now, Fiasco: A History of Hollywood's Iconic Flops, which tells the stories of 15 major movie disasters, from Cleopatra all the way up through Battlefield: Earth. It's mindboggling the number of terrible decisions that went into some of these movies, and the way negative momentum just kept building on them.
Great companion reading for Fiasco can be found at The Onion AV Club's "My Year of Flops," which has the same general theme but looks more at the on-screen product than the behind-the-scenes shenanigans, and takes advantage of its web setting to cover a lot more movies.
And since I started you off with Paint Your Wagon, here's the single best Paint-Your-Wagon-relevant item I know of.
If that sort of sentence piques your interest, I recommend the book I'm reading right now, Fiasco: A History of Hollywood's Iconic Flops, which tells the stories of 15 major movie disasters, from Cleopatra all the way up through Battlefield: Earth. It's mindboggling the number of terrible decisions that went into some of these movies, and the way negative momentum just kept building on them.
Great companion reading for Fiasco can be found at The Onion AV Club's "My Year of Flops," which has the same general theme but looks more at the on-screen product than the behind-the-scenes shenanigans, and takes advantage of its web setting to cover a lot more movies.
And since I started you off with Paint Your Wagon, here's the single best Paint-Your-Wagon-relevant item I know of.
