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16th May '13 6:40:47 AM crazyrabbits

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* {{Tropers/Crazyrabbits}}: ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'': The concentrated idiocy of Kirk's "death" and subsequent resurrection. It's one thing to make homages to ''[[StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan The Wrath of Khan]]'' (the '09 film has many similarities with the former, and is still very enjoyable). It's quite another to rip it off wholesale without any of the drama or character development while bastardizing the canon, for several reasons. (1) In ''[=WoK=]'', Spock sacrifices himself to repair the warp engines, and is seen manually replacing parts in the warp reactor. In ''Darkness'', Kirk accomplishes the same thing by... kicking a piece of shrapnel into place. (2) [=McCoy=] realizes that Kirk can be saved with Khan's blood... because the ''Tribble'' he was experimenting on came back to life. Hinging your Deus Ex Machina on the creature that acts as comic relief? (3) The Enterprise races all the way to Qo'nos (called "Kronos" in this film, for no discernible reason) and lets Spock beat up Khan, instead of pulling the blood from any of the other super-soldiers still onboard the Enterprise and injecting it into Kirk that way. The real capper, though, is that it makes Kirk's character arc in the film (where he's finally faced with the weight of his command decisions, and sacrifices himself to save everyone) is completely pointless - he wakes up and they go on their merry way, proving he hasn't learned a thing from Pike's peptalks.

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* TerrorToad: ''IAmNumberFour'', the film constantly bends over backwards to ensure that the JerkJock Mark is a complete KarmaHoudini. Throughout the whole film, Mark gets away with everything. He and his buddies throw a football at Sam and laugh about it? Mark's friend gets hit when John throws it back, but Mark is unharmed. Mark is being a dick in the hallway to John? John does nothing. Mark is being a dick in the class? John does nothing. Mark is stalking Sarah? No one does anything. Mark puts paint bombs in John and Sam's lockers that explode on them when they open them up and cover all of their belongings in red paint, and then, when SAM finally has enough of Mark's crap and charges him and yells at the bully to leave him alone, Mark shoves him down and goes to attack him. What does John do? He.....pushes him lightly and then, despite having superpowers, pusses out and backs down, doing nothing to Mark while he mocks them and walks off laughing. The biggest dethroning moment? When Mark sends his cronies to outright attack John and kidnap Sarah, John tosses his cronies around, corners Mark, throws him down, grabs his arm annnnndd....pusses out of doing anything to the dick because Sarah says no. Mark continues to be a problem when he teams up with his cop dad to try and get them arrested and then the evil aliens show up and....scare him a little and drag him around a little bit. [[SarcasmMode Yeah, real scary villains.]] Then, at the end of the movie, despite being an absolute bastard the entire film, Mark is easily forgiven by everyone and they depart as friends. This movie should have been titled I Am A Karma Houdini. Hell, Mark is quite possibly even worse in the book! On top of attacking people, he throws food at John and Sam at lunch, outright steals John's phone and even goes so far as to fill John and Sam's lockers with manure! And despite that, despite allll of that, John becomes friends with him at the end again. There are no repercussions for Mark's actions in either version. John should have beaten him to a bloody mess on the ground after what he did with the lockers, but nope! Let him slide! Both the film and the book suck and if the movie is ever remade, it had better involve John beating Mark bloody.

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* TerrorToad: ''Film/IAmNumberFour'', the film constantly bends over backwards to ensure that the JerkJock Mark is a complete KarmaHoudini. Throughout the whole film, Mark gets away with everything. He and his buddies throw a football at Sam and laugh about it? Mark's friend gets hit when John throws it back, but Mark is unharmed. Mark is being a dick in the hallway to John? John does nothing. Mark is being a dick in the class? John does nothing. Mark is stalking Sarah? No one does anything. Mark puts paint bombs in John and Sam's lockers that explode on them when they open them up and cover all of their belongings in red paint, and then, when SAM finally has enough of Mark's crap and charges him and yells at the bully to leave him alone, Mark shoves him down and goes to attack him. What does John do? He.....pushes him lightly and then, despite having superpowers, pusses out and backs down, doing nothing to Mark while he mocks them and walks off laughing. The biggest dethroning moment? When Mark sends his cronies to outright attack John and kidnap Sarah, John tosses his cronies around, corners Mark, throws him down, grabs his arm annnnndd....pusses out of doing anything to the dick because Sarah says no. Mark continues to be a problem when he teams up with his cop dad to try and get them arrested and then the evil aliens show up and....scare him a little and drag him around a little bit. [[SarcasmMode Yeah, real scary villains.]] Then, at the end of the movie, despite being an absolute bastard the entire film, Mark is easily forgiven by everyone and they depart as friends. This movie should have been titled I Am A Karma Houdini. Hell, Mark is quite possibly even worse in the book! On top of attacking people, he throws food at John and Sam at lunch, outright steals John's phone and even goes so far as to fill John and Sam's lockers with manure! And despite that, despite allll of that, John becomes friends with him at the end again. There are no repercussions for Mark's actions in either version. John should have beaten him to a bloody mess on the ground after what he did with the lockers, but nope! Let him slide! Both the film and the book suck and if the movie is ever remade, it had better involve John beating Mark bloody.

7th Apr '13 10:36:12 AM fluffything

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* fluffything: ''ReignOfFire'' is a rather stupid movie all around (Whether you find it SoBadItsGood or SoBadItsHorrible is another matter entirely). That being said, the way they defeat the dragons is so utterly idiotic, contrived, and utterly pisses in the face of basic biology that it makes a cheesy Godzilla film from the 70s look like a well-researched documentary in comparison. To put it bluntly, they kill the only male dragon (Yes, there is only a single solitary male within the entire dragon population) and that somehow makes it so that the female dragons are unable to breed and slowly die off. Quick question-How the fuck did these dragons manage to survive in the first place? This trait of the dragons is such an evolutionary flaw that they should've gone extinct long ago. Yes, it's true that many animal species live in groups with one male and several females. But, here's the thing, there's often other males of the species to mate with the females in case one male dies. Likewise, certain species of animal can change sex from male to female (or female to male) in order to breed. Or, heck, certain species of animal can reproduce via parthenogenesis (IE: A female is able to produce young without a male to fertilize the eggs). Considering all the numerous ways organisms in RealLife are able to find ways to reproduce and form new generations in order to survive, how is it that these dragons, which lack any said reproductive traits, and are wiped out so easily because of them, able to survive for so long? By this movie's logic, the singular male dragon could've simply died by choking on a bone and they would've gone extinct that way. Horrible writing at its worst.

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