{"id":1859,"date":"2008-01-23T19:06:25","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T00:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/success-i-mean-failure\/"},"modified":"2008-01-23T19:06:25","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T00:06:25","slug":"success-i-mean-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/success-i-mean-failure","title":{"rendered":"Success! I mean, Failure!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Longtime readers know that I like me some failure. But I’m a failure when I measure up to Nathan Rabin. This guy has managed to review more than 100 movie-failures in a year<\/a>. I’ve been following his My Year of Flops feature for a while, after he caught my attention with he skewered Hudson Hawk<\/a>, my favorite terrible movie.<\/p>\n

You should probably check out his afterword to the whole affair<\/a>, and then wind your way through some of these amazing writeups<\/a>. And make sure to spend some time with North<\/a>. . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Longtime readers know that I like me some failure. But I’m a failure when I measure up to Nathan Rabin. This guy has managed to review more than 100 movie-failures in a year. I’ve been following his My Year of Flops feature for a while, after he caught my attention with he skewered Hudson Hawk, … <\/p>\n

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I mean, Failure!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-tZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/on-the-couch-with-dr-schadenfreude","url_meta":{"origin":1859,"position":0},"title":"On the Couch with Dr. Schadenfreude","author":"Gil","date":"March 26, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"(Of the Millennium Dome, Talk, Enron, and the culture of arrogance) I've long been fascinated by failure. 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