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->''"There is so much wrong there that it's just excruciating to watch. The idea of an alternative history where the Soviets with Alexei Leonov were the first to land on the moon. I really think it's a clever possibility for plots, but it... very soon, just a few episodes in, everything became sort-of cartoonish. It sounds like a bunch of actors sitting around a table pretending to be soldiers; "Take point!" and "Sound off!" How come nobody on the American team, not one, speaks a word of Russian? They knew there were gonna be Russians there. I used to be a combat fighter pilot with an armed F-18 intercepting Soviet bombers in the Cold War. These are ostensibly trained astronauts and marines. That's not how anybody's gonna behave, especially when the stakes are that high! They recognize the incredible seriousness of shooting a Soviet, a Russian. You're gonna have to be '''absolutely sure''' that there was a threat."''
-->-- Retired astronaut '''Chris Hadfield''' on ''Series/ForAllMankind''
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->'''Red:''' All right, get ready to fork over that Gym badge!\\
'''Lt. Surge:''' Hah! You won't live long in combat, that's for sure! I tell ya, kid, electric Pokémon saved me durin' the war!\\
''(beat)''\\
'''Red:''' Wait, there was a war?\\
'''Lt. Surge:''' Yep!\\
'''Red:''' Li-like with with guns, and Pokémon, and—!?\\
'''Lt. Surge:''' Yep!\\
'''Red:''' Oh my god, that's insane! But wh-what happened?\\
'''Lt. Surge:''' I'm not tellin'!\\
'''Red:''' What? Why!? I mean, that's just inherently interesting! Y-you can't even just give an ''idea'' of wh—\\
'''Lt. Surge:''' This will never be brought up again!
-->-- [[https://youtu.be/0RFe1RTqiwA "Basically]] ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue''" by '''WebVideo/SolidJJ'''
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->The [[Creator/DavidCronenberg Cronenbergian]] [[UsefulNotes/MediaClassifications 12A]] [[BodyHorror body-horror]] sequence is the best scene in the movie because it's something genuinely unique to the superhero sub-genre but it's only for 5 minutes and none of the characters actually talk about their experiences. Seriously, Reed Richards wakes up with his limbs outstretched and being experimented on by scientists, [[PowerIncontinence Sue wakes up phasing in and out of existence, Johnny is permanently on fire and even exploding]] and Ben wakes up as a living rock. Reed Richards escapes the facility they're being held in and then [[TimeSkip the movie cuts to one year later and the other three have adjusted to their powers]].\\\
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->The [[Creator/DavidCronenberg Cronenbergian]] [[UsefulNotes/MediaClassifications 12A]] [[BodyHorror body-horror]] sequence is the best scene in the movie because it's something genuinely unique to the superhero sub-genre SubGenre but it's only for 5 minutes and none of the characters actually talk about their experiences. Seriously, Reed Richards wakes up with his limbs outstretched and being experimented on by scientists, [[PowerIncontinence Sue wakes up phasing in and out of existence, Johnny is permanently on fire and even exploding]] and Ben wakes up as a living rock. Reed Richards escapes the facility they're being held in and then [[TimeSkip the movie cuts to one year later and the other three have adjusted to their powers]].\\\
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-->--'''Scott "El Santo" Ashlin''', 1000 Misspent Hours, [[http://1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsn-z/robocop2014.htm on]] ''Film/Robocop2014''
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-->--'''Scott "El Santo" Ashlin''', 1000 ''1000 Misspent Hours, Hours'', [[http://1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsn-z/robocop2014.htm on]] ''Film/Robocop2014''
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->There’s an important but oft-ignored rule in pop-culture criticism: review the thing that actually exists, not the thing you wanted it to be instead. It’s very difficult to keep that commandment, though, when you’re reviewing something that continually teases you with what might have been, and when what might have been is so conspicuously better than what is. When I first heard that a ''[=RoboCop=]'' remake was in the works, I figured it was being developed within the context of the current vogue for huge-budget superhero movies, and from a business point of view, I’m still sure that’s more or less true. Jose Padilha frequently nudges ''[=RoboCop=]'' in that direction, too, but what Joshua Zetumer wrote was a legit science fiction story. That’s the upside. The downside is that the sci-fi story in question is a fairly trite celebration of humanity in triumph over computerized adversity that keeps dangling just out of our reach a satire of 21st-century American society every bit as biting as Creator/PaulVerhoeven’s hatchet-job on the 80’s. The argument over the proper scope of use for unmanned military hardware— both the remote-control variety currently in service and the artificially intelligent versions that will surely be developed sooner or later— is one that we very much need to be having, and it’s one that science fiction is uniquely well placed to facilitate by running high-profile thought experiments on some of the possible scenarios. ''[=RoboCop=]'' promises to weigh in on the subject with that brilliant, troubling scene in Iran, but then reneges in favor of yet another exploration of the boundaries of humanness. That too almost yields a film of disturbing relevance, because Murphy’s transformation comes about through an act of corporate malfeasance that exposes the corruptibility of institutions ranging from law enforcement to medicine to journalism. But Zetumer can’t seem to settle on a clear vision of just how corruptible those institutions are, and Padilha is ever ready to chuck everything overboard for the sake of another big-ass shootout.
-->--'''Scott "El Santo" Ashlin''', 1000 Misspent Hours, on ''Film/Robocop2014''
-->--'''Scott "El Santo" Ashlin''', 1000 Misspent Hours, on ''Film/Robocop2014''
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->There’s an important but oft-ignored rule in pop-culture criticism: review the thing that actually exists, not the thing you wanted it to be instead. It’s very difficult to keep that commandment, though, when you’re reviewing something that continually teases you with what might have been, and when what might have been is so conspicuously better than what is. When I first heard that a ''[=RoboCop=]'' remake was in the works, I figured it was being developed within the context of the current vogue for huge-budget superhero movies, and from a business point of view, I’m still sure that’s more or less true. Jose Padilha frequently nudges ''[=RoboCop=]'' in that direction, too, but what Joshua Zetumer wrote was a legit science fiction story. That’s the upside. The downside is that the sci-fi story in question is a fairly trite celebration of humanity in triumph over computerized adversity that keeps dangling just out of our reach a satire of 21st-century American society every bit as biting as Creator/PaulVerhoeven’s hatchet-job on the 80’s. The argument over the proper scope of use for unmanned military hardware— both the remote-control variety currently in service and the artificially intelligent versions that will surely be developed sooner or later— is one that we very much need to be having, and it’s one that science fiction is uniquely well placed to facilitate by running high-profile thought experiments on some of the possible scenarios. ''[=RoboCop=]'' promises to weigh in on the subject with that brilliant, troubling scene in Iran, but then reneges in favor of yet another exploration of the boundaries of humanness. That too almost ''almost'' yields a film of disturbing relevance, because Murphy’s transformation comes about through an act of corporate malfeasance that exposes the corruptibility of institutions ranging from law enforcement to medicine to journalism. But Zetumer can’t seem to settle on a clear vision of just how corruptible those institutions are, and Padilha is ever ready to chuck everything overboard for the sake of another big-ass shootout.
-->--'''Scott "El Santo" Ashlin''', 1000 Misspent Hours, [[http://1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsn-z/robocop2014.htm on]] ''Film/Robocop2014''
->The most promising element of this movie is Sir Lachlan's shabbily dishonest attitude toward his people’s pagan traditions, but Hardy can’t really engage with that unless he’s prepared to offer a straight answer to the question of sequel or retread. If Sir Lachlan really is the fourth Lord Summerisle, then he isn’t just a murderous, conniving asshole— he’d also be the evil antithesis of his great-grandfather, who espoused a religion he never believed in for the sake of downtrodden people whose lives he sought to improve. There’s genuine resonance to that, but Hardy doesn’t seem interested in pursuing it. Nor does he seem interested in the equally important question of how the people of Tressock came to be pagans. The picture painted by the film changes rather drastically depending on''Film/Robocop2014''whether Tressock represents a long-forgotten survival of pre-Christian culture, or the result of an eccentric modern experiment in social engineering. To tell a story is to create a world. If you can’t commit to that world, then you can’t commit to the story either.\\
And that brings me to the really galling thing about ''The Wicker Tree'', that it trips over and then ignores a quite serviceable premise for a ''[[Film/TheWickerMan1973 Wicker Man]]'' sequel before proceeding to screw every pooch in the Scottish Lowlands. Remember that ''The Wicker Man'' finally resolves itself into a clash of sincerely held faiths. ''The Wicker Tree'', however, depicts a clash of grifts in which the sincerely faithful are merely pawns. It shows Christianity and paganism alike hollowed out by power and greed, and thrown into an opposition that the leadership on neither side actually cares about, except insofar as they can turn a personal profit on it. Beth Boothby has zero qualifications for missionary work (and the techniques she’s been taught are tailor-made for failure anyway), but she gets the gig nonetheless because her pastor knows how good it’ll make him look in the eyes of those who write donation checks to his church. Sir Lachlan doesn’t believe for a second that the American kids’ sacrifice will restore Tressock’s fertility (Steve’s untainted gonads are another matter, of course), but the longer he can fob off the problem as the ire of the gods, the longer he can keep his tenants from having the groundwater tested for radioactive contamination. The Robin Hardy of 1973 could have turned that premise into something clever and powerful and engagingly sad. The Robin Hardy of 2011 seems not to have even understood what he had in his hands.
-->--'''El Santo''', ''1000 Misspent Hours'', [[http://1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsn-z/wickertree.htm on]] ''The Wicker Tree''
-->--'''Scott "El Santo" Ashlin''', 1000 Misspent Hours, [[http://1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsn-z/robocop2014.htm on]] ''Film/Robocop2014''
->The most promising element of this movie is Sir Lachlan's shabbily dishonest attitude toward his people’s pagan traditions, but Hardy can’t really engage with that unless he’s prepared to offer a straight answer to the question of sequel or retread. If Sir Lachlan really is the fourth Lord Summerisle, then he isn’t just a murderous, conniving asshole— he’d also be the evil antithesis of his great-grandfather, who espoused a religion he never believed in for the sake of downtrodden people whose lives he sought to improve. There’s genuine resonance to that, but Hardy doesn’t seem interested in pursuing it. Nor does he seem interested in the equally important question of how the people of Tressock came to be pagans. The picture painted by the film changes rather drastically depending on
And that brings me to the really galling thing about ''The Wicker Tree'', that it trips over and then ignores a quite serviceable premise for a ''[[Film/TheWickerMan1973 Wicker Man]]'' sequel before proceeding to screw every pooch in the Scottish Lowlands. Remember that ''The Wicker Man'' finally resolves itself into a clash of sincerely held faiths. ''The Wicker Tree'', however, depicts a clash of grifts in which the sincerely faithful are merely pawns. It shows Christianity and paganism alike hollowed out by power and greed, and thrown into an opposition that the leadership on neither side actually cares about, except insofar as they can turn a personal profit on it. Beth Boothby has zero qualifications for missionary work (and the techniques she’s been taught are tailor-made for failure anyway), but she gets the gig nonetheless because her pastor knows how good it’ll make him look in the eyes of those who write donation checks to his church. Sir Lachlan doesn’t believe for a second that the American kids’ sacrifice will restore Tressock’s fertility (Steve’s untainted gonads are another matter, of course), but the longer he can fob off the problem as the ire of the gods, the longer he can keep his tenants from having the groundwater tested for radioactive contamination. The Robin Hardy of 1973 could have turned that premise into something clever and powerful and engagingly sad. The Robin Hardy of 2011 seems not to have even understood what he had in his hands.
-->--'''El Santo''', ''1000 Misspent Hours'', [[http://1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsn-z/wickertree.htm on]] ''The Wicker Tree''
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The killer meant to kill someone, and hit the wrong target- Accidental Murder is when killing was never intended at all.
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->To me, this isn't really a bad concept in some ways; there's some things I actually really like about it. What I like especially is how [[AccidentalMurder [[MurderByMistake the murder was an accident]], the person who died was [[OneHundredPercentAdorationRating loved and respected by everyone around him]], and for once in the franchise, we could actually see the way someone's death affects those close to them. We could see the way these fun characters react, how they would cope; how their family dynamic would deviate more towards distrust in one another...\\
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->And if [the protagonist] is the reincarnation of UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga, I'd expect this show to be a more thrilling and intriguing adaptation of the real Nobunaga's life and endeavors into a modern setting. I didn't think the creators would ignore this more appealing route in favor of making a plot solely concerning the protagonist's selecting from various women who all inexplicably love him.
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->And if [the protagonist] is the reincarnation of UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga, I'd expect this show to be a more thrilling and intriguing adaptation of the real Nobunaga's life and endeavors into a modern setting. I didn't think the creators would ignore this more appealing route in favor of [[HaremGenre making a plot solely concerning the protagonist's selecting from various women who all inexplicably love him.him]].
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->Director David Raymond’s inability to make sense of his own script is something else - the single interesting aspect of the film, [[AdultFear predators targeting underage girls in social media]], media, is dumped very early on in favour of a sub-par serial killer procedural.
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-->--'''Joshua MacDougall''', ''[[WebVideo/ReallyFreakinClever 64 Things Wrong With]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Wind Waker]]: Part 1''
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-->--'''Joshua MacDougall''', [=MacDougall=]''', ''[[WebVideo/ReallyFreakinClever 64 Things Wrong With]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Wind Waker]]: Part 1''
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->Alright, so the backstory of how a young girl wound up being in charge of a group of pirates; automatically more interesting than the plot of 90% of the other [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Zelda]] games, and we never learn a single thing about it. WHAT?
-->--'''Joshua MacDougall''', ''[[WebVideo/ReallyFreakinClever 64 Things Wrong With]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Wind Waker]]: Part 1''
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->To me, this isn't really a bad concept in some ways; there's some things I really like about it. What I like especially is how [[AccidentalMurder the murder is an accident]], the person who died is [[OneHundredPercentAdorationRating loved and respected by everyone around him]], and for once in the franchise, we could actually see how someone's death affects those close to them. We could see the way these fun characters react, how they would cope; how their family dynamic would deviate more toward distrust in one another...\\
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->To me, this isn't really a bad concept in some ways; there's some things I actually really like about it. What I like especially is how [[AccidentalMurder the murder is was an accident]], the person who died is was [[OneHundredPercentAdorationRating loved and respected by everyone around him]], and for once in the franchise, we could actually see how the way someone's death affects those close to them. We could see the way these fun characters react, how they would cope; how their family dynamic would deviate more toward towards distrust in one another...\\
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-->--'''[[Creator/BenCroshaw Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]] in his ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' review of ''VideoGame/BeyondTwoSouls''.
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-->--'''[[Creator/BenCroshaw Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]] Croshaw]]''' in his ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' review of ''VideoGame/BeyondTwoSouls''.
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->Buried ''somewhere'' in the concept of [[PsychicLink piloting]] [[{{Poltergeist a telekinetic ghost with a grudge against furniture]], there ''may'' be a nice little idea for a game, but in the hands of Creator/QuanticDream it is like [[EpicFail an arthritic horse trying to hold a china teapot]].
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->Buried ''somewhere'' in the concept of [[PsychicLink piloting]] [[{{Poltergeist [[{{Poltergeist}} a telekinetic ghost with a grudge against furniture]], there ''may'' be a nice little idea for a game, but in the hands of Creator/QuanticDream it is like [[EpicFail an arthritic horse trying to hold a china teapot]].
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-->-- '''Lee Burton''', Ringbelles, ''[[https://ringbellesarchive.wordpress.com/2011/09/12/no-surrender-mickie-doesnt-learn/ Mickie Doesn't Learn]]''[[note]]The author would later be informed by Dave Meltzer that TNA didn't know about Rosita's circumstances or the documentary until a day before the pay per view[[/note]]
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-->-- '''[[WebVideo/MrTARDISReviews Trilbee]]''', lambasting the mid-film TimeSkip in [[http://trilbee.com/reviews/written-review-fant4stic-2015 his review of]] ''Film/FantasticFour2015''.
->The fact is, there's a potentially great scenario ''right'' inside ''Film/EscapeFromTomorrow'': a man with a not-terribly-happy marriage and kids he finds kind of annoying finds out that he's been fired right before heading out into [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks a park]] where [[MerchandiseDriven everything costs a fucking shit-ton of money]], and [[StepfordSmiler being cheerful and untroubled is a job requirement of each and every tourist]]. Boom, there's your movie. A ''great'' fucking movie. A movie that, potentially, genuinely investigates the corporatisation of happiness and the presentation of totally artificially physical realities as normal. A movie that doesn't rely on the mildewy, self-consciously controversial sexual perversion that animates so much of ''Escape from Tomorrow'', or the bargain-basement surrealism that aspires to Creator/DavidLynch and misses out badly... Nothing this potentially dangerous should be this tedious to sit through.
-->-- ''Alternate Ending's'' [[http://www.alternateending.com/2013/11/it-all-started-with-a-mouse.html review]] of ''Film/EscapeFromTomorrow''
->The fact is, there's a potentially great scenario ''right'' inside ''Film/EscapeFromTomorrow'': a man with a not-terribly-happy marriage and kids he finds kind of annoying finds out that he's been fired right before heading out into [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks a park]] where [[MerchandiseDriven everything costs a fucking shit-ton of money]], and [[StepfordSmiler being cheerful and untroubled is a job requirement of each and every tourist]]. Boom, there's your movie. A ''great'' fucking movie. A movie that, potentially, genuinely investigates the corporatisation of happiness and the presentation of totally artificially physical realities as normal. A movie that doesn't rely on the mildewy, self-consciously controversial sexual perversion that animates so much of ''Escape from Tomorrow'', or the bargain-basement surrealism that aspires to Creator/DavidLynch and misses out badly... Nothing this potentially dangerous should be this tedious to sit through.
-->-- ''Alternate Ending's'' [[http://www.alternateending.com/2013/11/it-all-started-with-a-mouse.html review]] of ''Film/EscapeFromTomorrow''
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-> There’s an important but oft-ignored rule in pop-culture criticism: review the thing that actually exists, not the thing you wanted it to be instead. It’s very difficult to keep that commandment, though, when you’re reviewing something that continually teases you with what might have been, and when what might have been is so conspicuously better than what is. When I first heard that a ''[=RoboCop=]'' remake was in the works, I figured it was being developed within the context of the current vogue for huge-budget superhero movies, and from a business point of view, I’m still sure that’s more or less true. Jose Padilha frequently nudges ''[=RoboCop=]'' in that direction, too, but what Joshua Zetumer wrote was a legit science fiction story. That’s the upside. The downside is that the sci-fi story in question is a fairly trite celebration of humanity in triumph over computerized adversity that keeps dangling just out of our reach a satire of 21st-century American society every bit as biting as Creator/PaulVerhoeven’s hatchet-job on the 80’s. The argument over the proper scope of use for unmanned military hardware— both the remote-control variety currently in service and the artificially intelligent versions that will surely be developed sooner or later— is one that we very much need to be having, and it’s one that science fiction is uniquely well placed to facilitate by running high-profile thought experiments on some of the possible scenarios. ''[=RoboCop=]'' promises to weigh in on the subject with that brilliant, troubling scene in Iran, but then reneges in favor of yet another exploration of the boundaries of humanness. That too almost yields a film of disturbing relevance, because Murphy’s transformation comes about through an act of corporate malfeasance that exposes the corruptibility of institutions ranging from law enforcement to medicine to journalism. But Zetumer can’t seem to settle on a clear vision of just how corruptible those institutions are, and Padilha is ever ready to chuck everything overboard for the sake of another big-ass shootout.
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-->-- '''WebVideo/HonestTrailers''' on [[spoiler:The Mandarin twist]] in ''Film/IronMan3''
->'''Screenwriter''': We're gonna have this flashback to medieval times when [[{{Hellgate}} the gates of Hell are opening up]], and a bunch of knights storm in, and they have to close it up with the blood of Jesus Christ.\\
'''Producer''': Wow, that actually sounds like a really good movie!\\
'''Screenwriter''': I know, right?\\
'''Producer''': [[LampshadeHanging Sounds like you should have written a movie about that instead of this story!]]
->'''Screenwriter''': We're gonna have this flashback to medieval times when [[{{Hellgate}} the gates of Hell are opening up]], and a bunch of knights storm in, and they have to close it up with the blood of Jesus Christ.\\
'''Producer''': Wow, that actually sounds like a really good movie!\\
'''Screenwriter''': I know, right?\\
'''Producer''': [[LampshadeHanging Sounds like you should have written a movie about that instead of this story!]]
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-->--'''[[Creator/BenCroshaw Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]] in his ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' review of ''VideoGame/BeyondTwoSouls''.
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-->--'''WebVideo/{{Wambu}}''' on "Turnabout Big Top," in "[[https://youtu.be/Bvuaa3am6NE?t=830 Top 5 Least Favorite Ace Attorney Cases]]"
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-->--'''WebVideo/{{Wambu}}''' on "Turnabout "[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll Turnabout Big Top," Top]]," in "[[https://youtu.be/Bvuaa3am6NE?t=830 Top 5 Least Favorite Ace Attorney Cases]]"
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->Watch as Franchise/{{Wolverine}}'s centuries of war are glossed over in one montage to instead make time for things no one wants to see Wolverine do. Go on dates! Chop wood! Get stuck in traffic! And ''fumble around in the bathroom''!
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->Watch as Franchise/{{Wolverine}}'s ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'s centuries of war are glossed over in one montage to instead make time for things no one wants to see Wolverine do. Go on dates! Chop wood! Get stuck in traffic! And ''fumble around in the bathroom''!
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->To me, this isn't really a bad concept in some ways; there's some things I really like about it. What I like especially is how [[AccidentalMurder the murder is an accident]], the person who died is [[OneHundredPercentAdorationRating loved and respected by everyone around him]], and for once in the franchise, we could actually see how someone's death affects those close to them. We could see the way these fun characters react, how they would cope; how their family dynamic would deviate more toward distrust in one another...\\
...but that's not what we got.
-->--'''WebVideo/Wambu''' on "Turnabout Big Top," in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvuaa3am6NE&t=391s Top 5 Least Favorite Ace Attorney Cases]]"
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->My God! [[CoolVsAwesome A giant intelligent gorilla and an alien are about to fight robots on jetpacks]]! WHY IS THIS STORY NOT ABOUT THEM?!
-->-- ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' on ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueCryForJustice''
-->-- ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' on ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueCryForJustice''
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->''There's a [=PS3=] port which improves nothing but tries very hard to hide the vampires with new box art and a new subtitle: ''Altered Species''. This game is so ashamed to be about vampires (it was before the first ''{{Film/Twilight}}'' movie, you know). Despite the title, they don't even call them vampires; they're [[NotUsingTheZWord Nightwalkers]], ok? How can a stealth espionage game about vampires be this bland?''
-->--'''[[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/kusoge/kusoge-vampirerain.htm Paul Chênevert]]''' on ''VideoGame/VampireRain''
-->--'''[[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/kusoge/kusoge-vampirerain.htm Paul Chênevert]]''' on ''VideoGame/VampireRain''
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->As his home is ransacked by Stormtroopers, young Lumpy watches a cartoon. It's about Luke Skywalker and Han Solo trying to find a talisman of invisibility on a dinosaur-filled planet made out of goo. Now, to a child, that description alone is enough to send your spine into happiness spasms. So if you can take that concept and make it [[EpicFail impossible for children to watch]], you're [[CrossesTheLineTwice worse with kids than]] Wrestling/ChrisBenoit.
-->-- '''{{Creator/Seanbaby}}''' [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/a-look-back-at-the-star-wars-holiday-special/#ixzz33R9eBg8b on]] ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial''
->''Film/ThePurge'' is the worst, most tedious take on an interesting, if very silly premise. Everything's legal for one night? So, offscreen, ''Literature/TalesOfTheCity''-style, there are people downloading torrented movies, and [[PokeThePoodle leaving their dog’s poo poos on the pavement]]? And more yuckily, rapists and sex-beasts having a swell old time with no comebacks? Either way, the half-arsed near-future social commentary stuff is a narrative false beard on what's basically a blatant lift of ''[[Film/AssaultOnPrecinct131976 Assault on Precinct 13]]'', but not as good.
-->-- '''[[http://franticplanet.wordpress.com/2013/12/13/my-top-20-movies-of-2013-the-preamble/ Stuart Millard]]'''
->This episode had the potential to [[NothingIsTheSameAnymore completely change the series]]. Instead of a constant barrage of pointless episodes where they find a way home, only to lose it in the last few minutes, the show could have been about ''Voyager'' making pacts and trying [[WestCoastTeam to form a new federation]] of sorts. This new federation wouldn't have been anything like the old one, of course. It would have been far rougher around the edges, and a lot less concerned with doing things by the book.\\\
So what happens at the end of Alliances? ''Voyager''[='s=] potential allies [[BlackAndWhiteMorality end up backstabbing them]]. Janeway breaks off all negotiations, and makes a pointed speech to her crew about sticking to Starfleet principles, no matter what. And with that, the ship merrily cruised off into the [[StatusQuoIsGod status quo]]. In retrospect, that was probably the moment the ''Trek'' franchise died.
-->-- '''''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''' [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Star_Trek/Voyager/Threshold.aspx on]] ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''
->As the culmination of the ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' thing (the Doctor is shown his past, present and future by judgmental forces that want to change his ways), "The Ultimate Foe" should really have had the balls to show the Doctor accepting that he has made mistakes. Maybe they could have had him undertake to try non-interference... or reject his past behaviour as too mild! In the event, however, the Doctor simply asserts his moral superiority [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality and then gets proved right]].
-->-- '''Jack Graham''' [[http://shabogangraffiti.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/order-in-court.html on]] ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS23E4TheUltimateFoe}} The Ultimate Foe]]"
-->-- '''{{Creator/Seanbaby}}''' [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/a-look-back-at-the-star-wars-holiday-special/#ixzz33R9eBg8b on]] ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial''
->''Film/ThePurge'' is the worst, most tedious take on an interesting, if very silly premise. Everything's legal for one night? So, offscreen, ''Literature/TalesOfTheCity''-style, there are people downloading torrented movies, and [[PokeThePoodle leaving their dog’s poo poos on the pavement]]? And more yuckily, rapists and sex-beasts having a swell old time with no comebacks? Either way, the half-arsed near-future social commentary stuff is a narrative false beard on what's basically a blatant lift of ''[[Film/AssaultOnPrecinct131976 Assault on Precinct 13]]'', but not as good.
-->-- '''[[http://franticplanet.wordpress.com/2013/12/13/my-top-20-movies-of-2013-the-preamble/ Stuart Millard]]'''
->This episode had the potential to [[NothingIsTheSameAnymore completely change the series]]. Instead of a constant barrage of pointless episodes where they find a way home, only to lose it in the last few minutes, the show could have been about ''Voyager'' making pacts and trying [[WestCoastTeam to form a new federation]] of sorts. This new federation wouldn't have been anything like the old one, of course. It would have been far rougher around the edges, and a lot less concerned with doing things by the book.\\\
So what happens at the end of Alliances? ''Voyager''[='s=] potential allies [[BlackAndWhiteMorality end up backstabbing them]]. Janeway breaks off all negotiations, and makes a pointed speech to her crew about sticking to Starfleet principles, no matter what. And with that, the ship merrily cruised off into the [[StatusQuoIsGod status quo]]. In retrospect, that was probably the moment the ''Trek'' franchise died.
-->-- '''''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''' [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Star_Trek/Voyager/Threshold.aspx on]] ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''
->As the culmination of the ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' thing (the Doctor is shown his past, present and future by judgmental forces that want to change his ways), "The Ultimate Foe" should really have had the balls to show the Doctor accepting that he has made mistakes. Maybe they could have had him undertake to try non-interference... or reject his past behaviour as too mild! In the event, however, the Doctor simply asserts his moral superiority [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality and then gets proved right]].
-->-- '''Jack Graham''' [[http://shabogangraffiti.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/order-in-court.html on]] ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS23E4TheUltimateFoe}} The Ultimate Foe]]"
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->Piper contracts a contagious disease that sends her into a coma and could eventually kill her. Phoebe and Prue decide to use a spell to heal her, which leads to terrible consequence. Now, this could've been a great premise. Disease is not something you can fight, and Phoebe and Prue cure Piper knowing full well that this will lead to bad things. [[ImmortalityImmorality They're playing God at this point]]. This could spread the disease and get others killed, and it's not for them to decide who lives and who dies.\\\
So, of course, [[ARareSentence they put the disease into a ninja action figure that comes to life and stabs it into people.]]
-->-- '''Creator/AllisonPregler''' on ''{{Series/Charmed|1998}}'' Season 2
So, of course, [[ARareSentence they put the disease into a ninja action figure that comes to life and stabs it into people.]]
-->-- '''Creator/AllisonPregler''' on ''{{Series/Charmed|1998}}'' Season 2
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->'''Linkara:''' It's Captain America and Thor fighting an army of the dead so they can reclaim the soul of Thor's lover and partner in asskicking! [[RatedMForManly This is frickin' awesome]]! [[{{Squee}} This is fantastic]]! This is just a brilliant concept, and I don't know [[TemptingFate how this comic gets such a bad rap with]]--\\
'''Creator/JohnCleese:''' [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus And now for something completely different.]]
-->-- ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' on ''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}''
'''Creator/JohnCleese:''' [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus And now for something completely different.]]
-->-- ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' on ''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}''
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'''Creator/JohnCleese:''' [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus And now for something completely different.]]
-->-- ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' on ''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}''
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->As the culmination of the ''A Christmas Carol'' thing (the Doctor is shown his past, present and future by judgmental forces that want to change his ways), 'The Ultimate Foe' should really have had the balls to show the Doctor accepting that he has made mistakes. Maybe they could have had him undertake to try non-interference... or reject his past behaviour as too mild! In the event, however, the Doctor simply asserts his moral superiority [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality and then gets proved right]].
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->As the culmination of the ''A Christmas Carol'' ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' thing (the Doctor is shown his past, present and future by judgmental forces that want to change his ways), 'The "The Ultimate Foe' Foe" should really have had the balls to show the Doctor accepting that he has made mistakes. Maybe they could have had him undertake to try non-interference... or reject his past behaviour as too mild! In the event, however, the Doctor simply asserts his moral superiority [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality and then gets proved right]].
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-->-- '''[[WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter The Mysterious Mr. Enter]]''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXfWwOa9H78 Shorty McShort's Shorts]]. Specifically, on Too Many Robots and Flip-Flopped
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-->-- '''[[WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter The Mysterious Mr. Enter]]''', '''WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXfWwOa9H78 Shorty McShort's Shorts]]. Specifically, on Too Many Robots and Flip-Flopped
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->It doesn't seem like anyone invested anything into this, or had much of an idea for why it should exist other than it'd be funny to have a song called "Baby" by Music/LilBaby and Music/DaBaby. If that's what you're gonna do, go all out. Sample "[[Music/JustinBieber Baby]]"! Rap about being babies! I don't know, make a rap theme song for ''WesternAnimation/TheBossBaby''! '''Just something!'''
-->--'''WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows''' on "Baby" in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzOMt-Kk_48 The Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 2019 (Pt. 1)]]"
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I'm pretty sure that quote was deleted before for not fitting the trope's definition.
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->It's Franchise/{{Superman}} fighting twin [[{{YouClonedHitler}} clones of]] [[{{UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler}} Hitler]]! ''[=HOW DO YOU SCREW THIS UP=]!!!!!!!''
-->-- ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' on ''ComicBook/SupermanAtEarthsEnd''
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Thinking it over, this fits better on They Wasted A Perfectly Good Character.
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->Now the thing about Bumblebee... I love the concept of what they were going for with this character. He's an unaffiliated drifter. When we open up the show, he doesn't even have the Autobot logo on his chest. Excellent. And I was thinking that throughout the course of the show, Bumblebee would find it within himself to join the Autobot cause because he sees that the Decepticons are much worse. Respecting his individuality, respecting his choices as a soldier, I wanted to see that personal growth. (''beat'') But no! [[ItMakesSenseInContext Magical space ghost.]] So essentially, Bumblebee was forced into the Autobot cause. Lame.
--> '''WebVideo/JobbyTheHong''' on ''WesternAnimation/TransformersWarForCybertronTrilogy''
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->Now the thing about Bumblebee... I love the concept of what they were going for with this character. He's an unaffiliated drifter. When we open up the show, he doesn't even have the Autobot logo on his chest. Excellent. And I was thinking that throughout the course of the show, Bumblebee would find it within himself to join the Autobot cause because he sees that the Decepticons are much worse. Respecting his individuality, respecting his choices as a soldier, I wanted to see that personal growth. (''beat'') But no! [[ItMakesSenseInContext Magical space ghost.]] So essentially, Bumblebee was forced into the Autobot cause. Lame.
--> '''WebVideo/JobbyTheHong''' on ''WesternAnimation/TransformersWarForCybertronTrilogy''
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-> There’s an important but oft-ignored rule in pop-culture criticism: review the thing that actually exists, not the thing you wanted it to be instead. It’s very difficult to keep that commandment, though, when you’re reviewing something that continually teases you with what might have been, and when what might have been is so conspicuously better than what is. When I first heard that a ''[=RoboCop=]'' remake was in the works, I figured it was being developed within the context of the current vogue for huge-budget superhero movies, and from a business point of view, I’m still sure that’s more or less true. Jose Padilha frequently nudges ''[=RoboCop=]'' in that direction, too, but what Joshua Zetumer wrote was a legit science fiction story. That’s the upside. The downside is that the sci-fi story in question is a fairly trite celebration of humanity in triumph over computerized adversity that keeps dangling just out of our reach a satire of 21st-century American society every bit as biting as Creator/PaulVerhoeven’s hatchet-job on the 80’s. The argument over the proper scope of use for unmanned military hardware— both the remote-control variety currently in service and the artificially intelligent versions that will surely be developed sooner or later— is one that we very much need to be having, and it’s one that science fiction is uniquely well placed to facilitate by running high-profile thought experiments on some of the possible scenarios. ''[=RoboCop=]'' promises to weigh in on the subject with that brilliant, troubling scene in Iran, but then reneges in favor of yet another exploration of the boundaries of humanness. That too almost yields a film of disturbing relevance, because Murphy’s transformation comes about through an act of corporate malfeasance that exposes the corruptibility of institutions ranging from law enforcement to medicine to journalism. But Zetumer can’t seem to settle on a clear vision of just how corruptible those institutions are, and Padilha is ever ready to chuck everything overboard for the sake of another big-ass shootout.
-->--'''Scott "El Santo" Ashlin''', 1000 Misspent Hours, on ''Film/Robocop2014''
-->--'''Scott "El Santo" Ashlin''', 1000 Misspent Hours, on ''Film/Robocop2014''
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-->-- '''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall''' on ''ComicBook/SupermanAtEarthsEnd''
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-->-- '''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall''' ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' on ''ComicBook/SupermanAtEarthsEnd''
