Live-Action Film
Dana: Dad's taste ran more to Dogs Playing Poker.
Wolff: I like Dogs Playing Poker. Because dogs would never bet on things, and so it's incongruous.
Wolff: I like Dogs Playing Poker. Because dogs would never bet on things, and so it's incongruous.
Music
If you're in the audience and like what we do
Well, we want you to know that we like you all, too
But, as for the sucker who will write the review...
If his mind is prehensile
He'll put down his pencil
And have himself a squat on the cosmic utensil!
Well, we want you to know that we like you all, too
But, as for the sucker who will write the review...
If his mind is prehensile
He'll put down his pencil
And have himself a squat on the cosmic utensil!
— Frank Zappa, "Packard Goose"
Theater
"Whenever I hear of culture, I release the safety-catch of my Browning!"
—Schlageter by Hanns Johstnote
Web Original
Here’s a fact that I never get tired of: NCIS, a show whose pitch can be summarized as “what if there were crime … in the navy”, is one of the most popular shows in the country, averaging 20.5 million weekly viewers this past season. That puts it just barely behind Big Bang Theory in total viewership; its two spinoffs are both in the top 20. Yet literally nobody in the TV criticism world cares about it! Think of all the rhapsodic analysis of Mad Men we had to endure over the years. Mad Men had 2.6 million viewers a week in its highest-rated season. If an NCIS episode got ratings four times higher than that, think of all the people who would be fired, immediately!
okay, the fnaf movie is out and as i expected this is shaping up to be a "critics hate it fans love it" sort of party, but this one review is just making me laugh
Web Video
"As most of you know, when you become a critic you drink this magic juice that immediately makes you smarter than everyone else. Once this liquid is consumed, you suddenly become a member of the Critic League, meaning your opinion matters 90% more than that of the common riff-raff. Your senses are heightened, your brain becomes bigger, and you miraculously know what's best for everyone in the world."
I give the people what they love
While the critics say I'm evil
Got no time to read reviews
While I'm working on the sequel!
While the critics say I'm evil
Got no time to read reviews
While I'm working on the sequel!
A lone man stands between
The critics and your shame
Protecting all the movies
That the experts claim are lame
These films are all contemptible
By any standard measure
But you need not feel that fears must so
Accompany your pleasure
The critics and your shame
Protecting all the movies
That the experts claim are lame
These films are all contemptible
By any standard measure
But you need not feel that fears must so
Accompany your pleasure
— Joachim Sandberg, Movie Defense Force theme
"As always, if you do like these shows, that's great. It's just my silly, personal opinion. And I'm glad that you can enjoy these shows when I can't. So take this list with a pinch of salt."
— PhantomStrider on his Top 10 Worst lists.
"Obviously, I don't like Styx. I'm a music critic. It's part of the licensing exam. Can't be a music critic if you like Styx."
"Here's another thing to keep in perspective when considering the hype around an artwork: The perspectives of critics are inevitably skewed by the nature of our work. The amount of different and obscure media that we expose ourselves to and the research we do into what goes into the things we love inevitably colors how we view them. I have always loved Cowboy Bebop, but, like I said at the top, I love it even more knowing just how much of a miracle it really was in the context of 90s TV anime production and having watched literally hundreds of other shows to which I can now compare the strengths, weaknesses and novel elements of its writing, direction and animation. By the same token, as someone who's had lots of time to read lots of comics and manga, the innovative, ingenious experimentation in Chainsaw Man's paneling and page layouts stands out to me, whereas a casual manga enjoyer is probably just gonna think it looks real cool. I, like pretty much any serious critic, am inherently biased toward overappreciating stuff with lots of minute technical details that I can spend hours thinking about or genuinely new ideas and imagery that expand my perspective on art, and to underappreciating the simple, accessible, familiar, fun things that so many people enjoy, so what grabs me about a given work isn't necessarily gonna grab most of you, and that goes both ways. And, of course, there's a whole spectrum of media interest and taste levels between casual fan and professional critic that leads to a lot of hardcore anime viewers feeling a similar disconnect between what they love and what broadly appeals to the biggest audiences. Sometimes we get lucky and those factors converge like they mostly did with Chainsaw Man, especially the manga, but most times they really, really don't.
Real Life
"Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar...If the public likes you, you're good."
—Mickey Spillane, author of the Mike Hammer series
"At one point I did set fire to a whole pile of disco records and declare that disco was dead. I think within a month there were three disco records in the top ten, so it wasn't a great gesture."
— Peter Garrett, Long Way to the Top: Stories of Australian Rock & Roll (later in the episode he admits "I kind of like disco now")
In his review of 1975's The Devil’s Rain, Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times film critic, said, "All of this would be good silly fun if the movie weren’t so painfully dull". (That quote alone launched the horror film into [the] stratosphere.).
—Olivia Alvarez
By observing the relation between Meta Scores and total sales in Table 7 we see that the amount of scores on each interval forms a bell curve around the 70's, much like with grades on an exam. As expected, higher scores lead to higher average sales. The only exception is from games scored in the 20’s, whose expectations are similar to that of games in the 70's. It should be noted however that of the 7 titles that scored in the 20’s, 2 have sold over half a million.
"If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste."
— Grace Metalious, author of Peyton Place
Elsa M. Negrín: What do you think of the religious groups that claim that The Blue Lagoon is a terribly immoral film?
Brooke Shields: Until recently I had not learned of those accusations. They are quite stupid.
Brooke Shields: Until recently I had not learned of those accusations. They are quite stupid.
— On the critical backlash by religious groups over The Blue Lagoon; published in Vanidades, fortnight ending June 23, 1981.
