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* [[http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_movies_blog/2010/08/movie-review-vampires-suck.html This review]] of ''Film/VampiresSuck'' mentions that the title is “too apt.”
** The review in ''SFX'' starts off saying it's almost too obvious to say that “''Vampires Suck'' … does,” but it's also entirely accurate.
** Peter Travers wrote a zero-star, four-word review: “This film sucks more.”
* [[http://www.totalfilm.com/reviews/cinema/disaster-movie This review]] of ''Film/DisasterMovie''. “Contender for most apt movie title ever.”
* [[WebVideo/LukeMochrieAndTheInners Kinley Mochrie]] took the “random events” line from the trailer of ''Film/{{Devil}}'' and said that it describes the film as a whole perfectly; [[RandomEventsPlot everything that happens in the plot is random.]]

-->“''Oooh, ahhh.'' That's how it always starts. Then later there's the ''running'' and the ''screaming''.”
* Creator/DougWalker's ''Five Second Movies'' do something similar, such as summarizing ''Film/TheMatrix'' with Neo's “Woah.”

** In a series of DVD-exclusive reviews, he reviews a series of films by “The Nostalgia Cricket” (not realizing that it's actually himself). At the end of the last review, he says, “And that was ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee''. And what a shock, it made me want to boldly flee.”

-->“It's so bad.”

** Apart from the above quote, his review of ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' ends with the line, “I close with the hope that the title proves prophetic.”
** “''Dear God'' is the kind of movie where you walk out repeating the title.”
** “All I want for Christmas is to never see ''Film/AllIWantForChristmas'' again.” He used the same line in [[Series/SiskelAndEbert his show with Gene Siskel]], with some added lampshading:

** “Oh no, not ''Film/YouAgain''.”
** Ebert remarked that he walked out of ''Film/TheLonelyLady'' saying the same “brilliant dialogue” that Creator/PiaZadora's character writes for the star of her husband's movie to cry while kneeling beside an open grave: [[BigWHY “Why? Why!!!”]]
** “I know this all sounds so stupid and offensive and unbelievably amateurish that it's hard to believe, but … ''[[http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/why-would-i-lie-1980 Why Would I Lie]]''?”

* At the end of ''Film/JackAndJill'', Creator/AlPacino is being shown the incredibly cheesy Dunkin' Donuts commercial for which Jack hired him to perform. He tells Jack, "Burn this. This must never be seen… by ''anyone''. All copies … ''destroy them''." Cue several reviewers "wondering" if he was actually referring to the movie itself.

** Many reviews of ''Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney'' picked up on Gandalf's line in response to being called out on telling a tall tale in the film “Well, all good stories deserve embellishment” that may or may not have been intended as a TakeThatCritics by Creator/PeterJackson and certainly seems to embody Jackson's adaptational approach for better or worse.

* Several reviewers of ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' who disliked it zeroed in on its scene wherein Cyclops, Jean, Jubilee, and Nightcrawler go to a theater playing ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''. After leaving, they [[BrokenBase bicker]] over whether [[Film/ANewHope the original]] or ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' was the best ''Franchise/StarWars'' movie, but come out agreeing, [[RuleOfThree “The third movie]] [[{{Sequelitis}} is always the worst.”]] Many real-life critics noted it could describe either ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' or ''Apocalypse'', both of which were the third movies in their respective trilogies and were the worst-reviewed.
* The title of ''Film/TheDisappointmentsRoom'' has been quite apt in summing up the film’s critical reception ([[http://variety.com/2016/film/reviews/the-disappointments-room-reviews-1201857437/ this review]] even opens with the statement “Despite Creator/KateBeckinsale’s game efforts, D.J. Caruso’s thriller proves altogether worthy of its title.”) and [[BoxOfficeBomb its box-office performance]]. Quite a few people have pointed out that the movie having this as its title ''and'' being bad was positively begging to be made fun of.
* Is it any wonder that after ''Film/{{Paycheck}}'' was critically panned, many reviewers were mocking the title for [[MoneyDearBoy being the likely reason]] that Creator/BenAffleck signed on to it?
** Ben himself got on this, when Creator/ConanOBrien fed him the question about why he did the movie:
--->'''Ben Affleck:''' The answer lies in the title.

** “The ''[[Film/{{A Nightmare on Elm Street 2010}} Nightmare on Elm Street]]'' remake [[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/nightmare_on_elm_street_2010/ lives up to its title in the worst possible way]].”

** Several of the many negative reviews of ''Film/JackReacherNeverGoBack'' said the film “should have taken its own advice,” and Rotten Tomatoes' [[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jack_reacher_never_go_back critical consensus]] adds that its “title also serves as a warning.”

-->Exclaims [[Creator/TimAllen Allen]] at one point, "I’m being asked to betray kids for money," and, by God, he’s right.

* ''Magazine/RollingStone'''s [[https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/holmes-and-watson-movie-review-will-ferrell-772436/ review]] of ''Film/HolmesAndWatson'' ends with the following:
-->At one point in ''Holmes & Watson'', a character goes undercover as a manure salesman and begins screaming, “Horseshit for sale! Will anyone buy my horse’s shit?” It’s the one genuinely honest, self-aware moment in the movie.

** ''The Hollywood Reporter'''s [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/death-a-nation-1130931 review]] begins with the following:

** ''The Detroit News''' [[https://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/movies/2018/08/02/review-death-nation-blames-liberals-everything/872484002/ review]] ends with the following:
--->D'Souza quotes Hitler (played by Pavel Kríz) in one scene as saying, "if you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed." It’s a concept D’Souza has taken to heart.
* ''Film/FarAndAway'' invited a few of these, such as "[[Creator/RonHoward [Ron] Howard]]'s family saga looks like far and away the grandest new-old movie of 1992" in the ''Hartford Courant'' and "a stinker of a picture ... which was far and away the worst film I have ever seen" in the ''Daily Mirror'' a few years later.
** The ''New York Times'' was compelled to take a gratuitous potshot at it in a review for one of the director's other movies: "[''Film/Apollo13''] is far and away the best thing Mr. Howard has done (and ''Far and Away'' was one of the other kind)."

** ''Rolling Stone'''s [[https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/gotti-review-a-mobster-biopic-that-deserves-to-get-whacked-629327/ review]] has the following:
--->As the Teflon Don tells us upfront: “This life ends one of two ways: Dead, or in jail. I did both.” Audiences, sentenced to do time with this corpse of a movie, will know the feeling.

* The ''Time'' Magazine [[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1083942,00.html review]] of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'' noted the book's parallels to the series' [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets second installment]] and quotes the character Hagrid saying “Chamber o' Secrets all over again, isn't it?”. British newspaper ''The Independent'' reviewed it in its media section with attention drawn to Hermione remarking "Then all of that was a complete waste of time!"

* Not a review, but [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/fpo/survival/whatpowellsthrowsout.html this article]] briefly touched upon a children's book entitled ''I Don’t Think I’m Going to Like This''.

* The ''Series/DoctorWho Discontinuity Guide'' has a bit of fun when characters say things like [[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E2TheCurseOfPeladon “There is no plot!”]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E2ThePiratePlanet “We must act!”]], and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E4ResurrectionOfTheDaleks “I can't stand the confusion in my mind!”]]

* "[[Series/KamenRiderDecade Decade]]... Decade has no story." In universe, it's the reveal that Decade is not meant to live in a world of his own, but drift from parallel world to parallel world to help others. Out of universe, it instantly hit MemeticMutation because of the series's increasingly messy, self-contradicting plot.

* Another disastrous motion controller for the UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem, Creator/BroderbundSoftware's U-Force, was supposed to work by using infrared sensors to track the player's hand movements. It had the slogan “Don't Touch,” [[http://kotaku.com/5755430/dont-touch-this-horror-of-a-nes-controller which sites such as Kotaku considered rather good advice.]]

* The description for the ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM'' WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}}: ''"I'm gonna teach you a lesson about subtlety!" and other ironic quotes from ''Metroid: Other M''.''
** In ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM'', as Adam discusses the current situation with Samus, he remarks, "But then again, none of this makes sense," a phrase that's often used by detractors to describe the plot of the game.
** A blog analyzing the game's story [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/lb_i.php?lb_id=13373815860B43920100&p=1 on this very site]] not only used the "subtlety" line, but also "Then again, none of this makes sense" and "Out of nowhere, I suddenly found myself concerned with his opinion again" (quipping that the latter is Samus admitting she's out-of-character); plus snarking more than once about Adam having "the perfect military mind" (as he was described in ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'').

* Much fun was had by Website/ChannelAwesome detractors with WebVideo/{{Phelous}}' line “{{This is gonna suck}}” in the ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights'' trailer.

--->[We see] various clips from imaginary episodes of early 90’s talk shows that took the subject of WesternAnimation/BugsBunny. […] Daffy is viewing this stuff on his TV and mutters to himself, “This is ridiculous!” He read our minds.

* Music/{{Pitbull}}'s song for ''Film/Aquaman2018'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhfnTs0RZLs "Ocean to Ocean"]], ended up one of the most disliked videos on Website/YouTube within 24 hours of its upload for the combination of Pitbull's verses and its borderline cut-and-paste {{sampling}} of Music/{{Toto}}'s "Africa", practically a SacredCow of Internet meme culture around the time of the song's release. Matters were not helped by the song opening with Pitbull saying "They tried to get rid of me;" quite a few commenters were quick to [[TakeThat mock that line]] with statements along the lines of "We can see why" or "They should have tried harder".

* ''Film/FarAndAway'' invited a few of these, such as "[[Creator/RonHoward Howard]]'s family saga looks like far and away the grandest new-old movie of 1992" in the ''Hartford Courant'' and "a stinker of a picture ... which was far and away the worst film I have ever seen" in the ''Daily Mirror'' a few years later.
** The ''New York Times'' was compelled to take a gratuitous potshot at it in a review for one of the director's other movies: [''Film/Apollo13''] is far and away the best thing Mr. Howard has done (and ''Far and Away'' was one of the other kind)."

* InUniverse in ''Bring on the Girls!'' by Creator/PGWodehouse and Guy Bolton, when the authors reflect on the unfortunate title chosen for the one Princess musical they refused to write, ''Go to It'':
-->Offer a dramatic critic something called ''Go to It'', and he is immediately struck by the happy thought of saying that it should have been called ''Don't Go to It'', for these dramatic critics are as quick as lightning.

* A RunningGag in WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter's review of the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Fresh Heir" is describing the writers of the episode with a scene of Chris and Carter giggling to themselves while the latter sticks his finger into the former's arm fold to simulate penetrating a woman's privates.

* In ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM'', as Adam discusses the current situation with Samus, he remarks, "But then again, none of this makes sense," a phrase that's often used by detractors to describe the plot of the game.

* In ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM'', as Adam discusses the current situation with Samus, he remarks, "But then again, none of this makes sense," a phrase that's often used by detractors to describe the plot of the game.

* When [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bptapTe7Ylk this contestant]] on ''Series/AmericasGotTalent'' chose to audition with the song "You're No Good," [[MeanBrit Piers Morgan]] remarked, "I don't think I've ever seen a singer choose a more appropriate song to sing. What was the lyric again? 'You're no good, you're no good, you're no good, you're no good!'"

* Creator/RogerEbert, as seen in the above quote, and also from his review of ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' [[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100630/REVIEWS/100639999 found here]]: “I close with the hope that the title proves prophetic.”

'''Ebert:''' I think every critic in the country is gonna use that same line; I hope I was first. ''[both chuckle]''

* In forums talking about Wiki/TVTropes, some people who didn't like how popular the site became or what changes were made to it over the years love using ItsPopularNowItSucks or TheyChangedItNowItSucks to describe the sentiment.

* A {{DLC}} for ''VideoGame/OmertaCityOfGangsters'', titled ''The Con Artist'', has [[http://www.gog.com/gamecard/omerta_city_of_gangsters_the_con_artist_dlc collected very unenthusiastic reviews]] from the customers, some of which point out how fitting the title is for a DLC that offers so little content for such a high price.

* Another disastrous motion controller for the UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem, Creator/BroderbundSoftware's U-Force, was supposed to work by using infrared sensors to track the players hand movements. It had the slogan “Don't Touch,” [[http://kotaku.com/5755430/dont-touch-this-horror-of-a-nes-controller which sites such as Kotaku considered rather good advice.]]

-->'''Carter:''' We're not supposed to be doing this. I bet we're supposed to be doing this.

* Creator/MarkKermode found that the title of ''Film/{{Criminal}}'' perfectly described the quality of the film.

* Eyes Adrift's self-titled album was panned in a Rolling Stone review that summed it up as "careers adrift" - this playing off the fact that they were a {{supergroup}} of musicians whose best known work was back in the 90s (as members of Music/MeatPuppets, {{Music/Nirvana}}, and {{Music/Sublime}}).

--->"Listen to me, and listen to me good. You never gonna see another guy like me if you live to be five thousand," [[Creator/JohnTravolta Travolta's]] Teflon Don boasts in the final scene. With any luck, we’ll never see another mob-movie misfire like this either.

* Several reviews for Morbius couldn't help but declare that the movie "sucks more than blood"

** From his worst hit songs of 2012 "How fitting that a song called 'Whistle' totally blows."

* The opening credits of the ''Series/TheXFiles'' spin-off ''Series/{{Millennium}}'' featured the floating words "wait", "worry", and "who cares?" Though this trope did come into play among those who did not, in fact, care, the last phrase mainly incited die-hard internet fans to cry out, "We do!"

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** The critics' consensus for ''Film/Mile22'' runs as follows: "''Mile 22'' lets the bullets fly -- and not much else -- in a thrill-deficient action thriller whose title proves sadly fitting for a film that feels close to a marathon endurance test." For added irony, the percentage of fresh reviews was also at 22% at one point (it is currently at 23%).

-->'''Game dialogue:''' "You look like shit, Jake."
-->'''Scott:''' Thank God this game is self-aware, now I don't need to comment on how the visuals look like if arthritis could code.

** Many reviewers noted that the "1%"[[note]]A shorthand for outlaw motorcycle gangs, derived from a statement from the American Motorcycle Association stating that 99% of motorcyclists were law-abiding citizens[[/note]] in the game's logo would be a fitting review score.