
Box Office Poison
Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops
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Tim Robey
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Tim Robey
A riotous and revealing story of Hollywood’s most spectacular flops and how they ended careers, bankrupted studios and changed film history.
"Failure fascinates, for all the reasons that success is a drag…”
From grand follies to misunderstood masterpieces, disastrous sequels to catastrophic literary adaptations, Box Office Poison tells a hugely entertaining alternative history of Hollywood, through a century of its most notable flops. What can these films tell us about the Hollywood system, the public’s appetite–or lack of it–and the circumstances that saw such flops actually made? Away from the canon, this is the definitive take on these ill-fated, but essential celluloid failures.
Robey covers a vast century of flops, including: Intolerance; Queen Kelly; Freaks; Sylvia Scarlett; The Magnificent Ambersons; Land of the Pharoahs; Doctor Dolittle; Sorcerer; Dune; The Adventures of Baron Munchausen; Nothing But Trouble; The Hudsucker Proxy; Cutthroat Island; Speed 2: Cruise Control; Babe: Pig in the City; Supernova; Rollerball; The Adventures of Pluto Nash; Gigli; Alexander; Catwoman; A Sound of Thunder; Speed Racer; Synecdoche, New York; Pan; and Cats.
From Daily Telegraph film critic Tim Robey, this is a brilliantly fun exploration of human nature and stupidity in some of the greatest film flops throughout history.
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Interesting coverage of the topic, but the author was the wrong choice to read it
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So biting and snarky !
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The ending
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The most entertaining film book I’ve read in years
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Enjoy it, but wanted more
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This book dives deep into the biggest box office disasters in American cinema. It’s the film buff’s equivalent of watching one car crash after another—you can’t look away! You’ll be told who was behind the wheel, what caused the collision, who walked away unscathed, and who didn’t survive the wreck. The factors leading to each crash are as interesting as the crashes themselves.
The Best Book on the Worst Movies
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Excellent BTS analysis of how Hollywood executives make decisions
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Boring and dull
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