Nathan-Rabin

Aspiring writers, artists, really anyone involved in media take note. Your audience may seem dumb, but they’re really not. In what universe does artlessly spelling everything out qualify as an improvement over inference and subtext? It’d be like remaking Citizen Kane, but changing the protagonist’s last words to “Rosebud… which incidentally was the name of my childhood sled and represents a lost childhood Eden of innocence and purity that throws the materialist emptiness of my adulthood into even sharper relief. Alas, I’ve said too much and now I must die, mysteriously. Or not. ...

A smart, talented, accomplished writer-actor like Myers spending years meticulously creating, rehearsing, and refining an obnoxious one-note cartoon like Guru Pitka is a like a group of brilliant scientists working around the clock for a decade to build a malfunctioning fart machine: a surreal waste of time, energy and manpower. -Nathan Rabin. " My Year Of Flops, Kicking A Man While He’s Down Case File #132: The Love Guru" I’ve heard over and over again that I should be reading Nathan Rabin’s entries in My Year Of Flops on The A.V. Club and I finally checked it out. Pretty neat to read measured, researched insights into terrible movies. If you like movies, check some of these out. ...