History Quotes / Anvilicious

->''"Don’t know what [[TitleDrop straw dogs]] are? Well don’t worry, because we will literally have the characters sit down and discuss the symbolism of it for three minutes. I’m almost shocked there weren’t flashing words on the screen going “[[AC:Important Theme!!!! Pay Attention!!!]]” We also learn David is writing a screenplay about Stalingrad. [[ProtectThisHouse Don’t get the parallel?]] Don’t worry, we will have a long scene where David explains very thoroughly to the rednecks the importance of the story.''"

->''"I was just having a discussion with a friend about MurrayGold’s music last night where I found myself in a position defending his work but watching this episode I don’t know why I bothered. From the outset it's one of the most predictable and corny soundtracks that has been slapped on ''Doctor Who'' material. Because this is supposed to be tearing your heart out and stamping on, it the piano is omnipresent and the violins are never far away. It makes the soundtracks of the Original Series of ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]]'' look subtle in comparison."''

->Where someone like Creator/HarlanEllison might use the scalpel or the cleaver, Rall can be counted on to reach for the chainsaw every time.

->Don’t know what [[TitleDrop straw dogs]] are? Well don’t worry, because we will literally have the characters sit down and discuss the symbolism of it for three minutes. I’m almost shocked there weren’t flashing words on the screen going “[[AC:Important Theme!!!! Pay Attention!!!]]” We also learn David is writing a screenplay about Stalingrad. [[ProtectThisHouse Don’t get the parallel?]] Don’t worry, we will have a long scene where David explains very thoroughly to the rednecks the importance of the story.

->There’s always a message, rarely a storyline.

->[[Creator/WilliamShatner Mr. Shatner]] shows us the word PARADISE inscribed in the entranceway arch, where someone has painted the word [[Literature/ParadiseLost LOST]]. Wow, that’s really extra-meaningful. It’s almost as if they’re saying that calling something “paradise” doesn’t actually make it so—in fact, it might even become the very opposite of that! What rich irony, indeed.

->It's common for aliens in the Trek universe to be metaphors created to address contemporary political or cultural issues, but in the case of the Kohms and Yangs subtlety was set on fire, strapped to a dump truck full of dynamite and rolled off a cliff.
-->--'''''Website/{{Cracked}}''''' on ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', "The Omega Glory"

->Janeway is always banging on about ''Voyager'' being their family/home but I often find that actions speak louder than words, and this was the first time since Basics when the ship was torn from her that I felt she had a connection with it. It's almost as poignant as the moment Sisko takes one last look around the ''Defiant'' before it is torn to shreds in [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine The Changing Face of Evil]]. Unfortunately, showing this act isn’t enough and before the episode is over Janeway is explaining to the audience that [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs the ship is the home which has sheltered their family]] -- argh! Trust your audience to ''see'' these things, Braga, don’t hammer the point home with a sledgehammer.
-->--'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/voyager-season-four.html Joe Ford]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Year of Hell"

->When a show is going to lay on the symbolism I prefer mine to have the subtlety of ''{{Series/Lost}}'' rather than the smack-in-the-face bugle blaring of a ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' episode. (That's right! There are [[SevenDeadlySins seven]] Lex clones! Can you say ''siete?'')
-->--'''[[http://www.supermanhomepage.com/tv/tv.php?topic=reviews/smallville10-ep01 Julian Finn]]''' on ''{{Series/Smallville}}'', "Lazarus"

->...Chris Carter is not a subtle writer. While he is a phenomenal producer, a great ideas man and a wonderful director, Carter’s writing can occasionally seem just a little bit too heavy-handed. ''{{Series/Millennium}}'' features a character bluntly confronting all the darkness in the world, called [[PropheticName Frank Black]]. He retreats from the darkness into a big yellow house. The dialogue can occasionally be a bit on the nose, particularly when Frank explains his visions to Beltcher. ''“It’s my gift. It’s my '''[[BlessedWithSuck curse]]'''.”'' It’s no wonder that ''Series/MadTV'' chose to parody that line for ''[[Series/SuddenlySusan Suddenly Millennium]]''.

->When living Series/CrankYankers puppet Music/NickiMinaj released the video for her song 'Only' last Friday, a video that looks sort of like ''[[Theatre/TheProducers Springtime for Hitler]]'' crossed with ''HomestarRunner'', she probably didn’t anticipate that it would cause any where near as many pearls to be clutched than her ''WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle'' late-night phone sex ad video for 'Anaconda' did. After all, 'Only' doesn’t feature a single butt! Okay fine, there was one ass (Music/ChrisBrown).\\\
Except I guess Nicki forgot to realize that 'Only' looked like something made in Adobe Flash by [[Film/AmericanHistoryX Derek Vinyard]] in his mom’s basement, and people were not having it. Even the dumbest kid in your high school history class was like [='=]''But where’s the dude with the Charlie Chaplin mustache who yells a lot?''[='=]
-->--'''''[[http://dlisted.com/2014/11/11/nicki-minaj-is-sorry-for-that-nazi-ish-music-video/#more-155770 DListed]]''''', "Nicki Minaj Is Sorry For That Nazi-ish Music Video"

->A good example is the best sermon.

->This story, alas, seems to have a moral, and, in fact, ends by pounding that moral over the reader's head. That is bad. Straightforward preaching spoils the effectiveness of a story. If you can't resist the impulse to improve your fellow human beings, do it subtly.

->A story forced to carry a message will get heavy and die.

->When a show is going to lay on the symbolism I prefer mine to have the subtlety of ''{{Series/Lost}}'' rather than the smack-in-the-face bugle blaring of a ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' episode. (''That's right! There are [[SevenDeadlySins seven]] Lex clones! Can you say siete?'')

->When a show is going to lay on the symbolism I prefer mine to have the subtlety of ''{{Series/Lost}}'' rather than the smack-in-the-face bugle blaring of a ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplore''r episode. (''That's right! There are [[SevenDeadlySins seven]] Lex clones! Can you say siete?'')

[[folder:Newspapers]]

->Mailer is forever shouting at us that he is about to tell us something we must know or has just told us something revelatory and we failed to hear him or that he will, [[TheyCalledMeMad God grant his poor abused brain and body just one more chance]], get through to us so that we will ''know''.
-->--'''Creator/GoreVidal''', "Creator/NormanMailer: The Angels Are White"

[[/folder]]

->I still think Deee-lite had it in them to go a little longer, but then that ''[[ToughActToFollow second]]'' album happened... they got a lot less De-Gorgeous and a lot more De-Preachy. If you were around in 1992, would you want to hear the group that did 'Groove is in the Heart' sing about the ozone layer, safe sex, and the importance of registering to vote? And this isn't just a 'Rock the Vote' number for the record, this is a full song on the album! The one about safe sex is even worse.
-->--'''WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows''', "One Hit Wonderland" ([[http://blip.tv/todds-pop-song-reviews/one-hit-wonderland-groove-is-in-the-heart-by-deee-lite-6901708 "Groove Is in the Heart"]])

!!!Fiction
->'''Buster''': Well, I hope the kids got the message.\\
'''Plucky''': Yeah, drinkin's uncool.\\
'''Buster''': So, do we get to do a funny episode tomorrow?\\
'''Hamton''': I hope so!
-->--'''One Beer''', ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures''

!!!Reviews
->A good example is the best sermon.
-->--'''Creator/BenjaminFranklin''', ''Poor Richard's Almanack''

->This story, alas, seems to have a moral, and, in fact, ends by pounding that moral over the reader's head. That is bad. Straightforward preaching spoils the effectiveness of a story. If you can't resist the impulse to improve your fellow human beings, do it subtly.
-->--'''Creator/IsaacAsimov''', [[SelfDeprecation about his own anvilicious short story]], [[HumansKillWantonly "Day of the Hunters"]]

->A story forced to carry a message will get heavy and die.
-->--'''Shannon Hale'''

->Together, they'll learn: '[[ArmiesAreEvil Military = BAD]]. [[GreenAesop Trees = GOOD]].'
-->-- '''WebVideo/HonestTrailers''', ''{{Film/Ava|tar}}[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUTtt14G31c tar]]''

->'''Rod''': Man, that was a good movie, ''Film/AnInconvenientTruth''.\\
'''Rick''': That is ''it''! I'm getting myself a car that's environmentally friendly!\\
'''Creator/AllisonPregler''': ''(watching)'' I feel like this movie has some sort of message it's trying to tell us.
-->-- ''Film/{{Birdemic}}''

->Okay guys, I get it. The hyperbole is a good way to get people's attention, but you don't think that just maybe referring to Africa as a famine-ravaged wasteland and consigning an entire continent to '[[DoomyDoomsOfDoom chimes of doom]]' might be a bit patronizing?
-->--'''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick''' on "Do They Know It's Christmas Time?"

->I still think Deee-lite had it in them to go a little longer, but then that ''[[ToughActToFollow second]]'' album happened... they got a lot less De-Gorgeous and a lot more De-Preachy. If you were around in 1992, would you want to hear the group that did 'Groove is in the Heart' sing about the ozone layer, safe sex, and the importance of registering to vote? And this isn't just a 'Rock the Vote' number for the record, this is a full song on the album! The one about safe sex is even worse.
-->--'''WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows''', "One Hit Wonderland" ([[http://blip.tv/todds-pop-song-reviews/one-hit-wonderland-groove-is-in-the-heart-by-deee-lite-6901708 "Groove Is in the Heart"]])

->[''Zoom in on smiley face balloon as main characters' souls are taken'']\\
'''Crow''': Oh sure, just shove the irony in our faces, why don't you!
-->--'''''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''''', "Soultaker"

->''Then Hope pulled out a convenient megaphone. “THE JOKE IS THAT THE REBOOT SUCKS!” she said. “DO YOU GET IT NOW, EVERYONE?! DO YOU GET IT?!”''
-->-- ''FanFic/JusticeSocietyOfJapan''

->...Chris Carter is not a subtle writer. While he is a phenomenal producer, a great ideas man and a wonderful director, Carter’s writing can occasionally seem just a little bit too heavy-handed. ''{{Series/Millennium}}'' features a character bluntly confronting all the darkness in the world, called [[PropheticName Frank Black]]. He retreats from the darkness into a big yellow house. The dialogue can occasionally be a bit on the nose, particularly when Frank explains his visions to Beltcher. ''“It’s my gift. It’s my '''[[BlessedWithSuck curse]]'''.”'' It’s no wonder that ''Series/MadTV'' chose to parody that line for ''Suddenly Millennium''.

!!!On works

-->--'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/voyager-season-four.html Doc Oho]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Year of Hell"

->''"A good example is the best sermon."''

->''"Mailer is forever shouting at us that he is about to tell us something we must know or has just told us something revelatory and we failed to hear him or that he will, God grant his poor abused brain and body just one more chance, get through to us so that we will ''know''."''

->''"This story, alas, seems to have a moral, and, in fact, ends by pounding that moral over the reader's head. That is bad. Straightforward preaching spoils the effectiveness of a story. If you can't resist the impulse to improve your fellow human beings, do it subtly."''

->''"A story forced to carry a message will get heavy and die."''

->''"Where someone like Creator/HarlanEllison might use the scalpel or the cleaver, Rall can be counted on to reach for the chainsaw every time."''

-->--'''Chris Sims''' and '''David Uzumeri''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/batman-returns-review/ on]] ''Film/BatmanReturns''

->''"Together, they'll learn: '[[ArmiesAreEvil Military = BAD]]. [[GreenAesop Trees = GOOD]].'"''

->''"Don’t know what [[TitleDrop straw dogs]] are? Well don’t worry, because we will literally have the characters sit down and discuss the symbolism of it for three minutes. I’m almost shocked there weren’t flashing words on the screen going “[[AC:Important Theme!!!! Pay Attention!!!]]” We also learn David is writing a screenplay about Stalingrad. [[ProtectThisHouse Don’t get the parallel?]] Don’t worry, we will have a long scene where David explains very thoroughly to the rednecks the importance of the story."''

->''"There’s always a message, rarely a storyline."''

'''WebVideo/ObscurusLupa''': ''(watching)'' I feel like this movie has some sort of message it's trying to tell us.
-->-- '''''Film/{{Birdemic}}'''''

->''"[[Creator/WilliamShatner Mr. Shatner]] shows us the word PARADISE inscribed in the entranceway arch, where someone has painted the word [[Literature/ParadiseLost LOST]]. Wow, that’s really extra-meaningful. It’s almost as if they’re saying that calling something “paradise” doesn’t actually make it so—in fact, it might even become the very opposite of that! What rich irony, indeed."''

->''"It's common for aliens in the Trek universe to be metaphors created to address contemporary political or cultural issues, but in the case of the Kohms and Yangs subtlety was set on fire, strapped to a dump truck full of dynamite and rolled off a cliff."''

->''"Janeway is always banging on about ''Voyager'' being their family/home but I often find that actions speak louder than words, and this was the first time since Basics when the ship was torn from her that I felt she had a connection with it. It's almost as poignant as the moment Sisko takes one last look around the ''Defiant'' before it is torn to shreds in [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine The Changing Face of Evil]]. Unfortunately, showing this act isn’t enough and before the episode is over Janeway is explaining to the audience that [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs the ship is the home which has sheltered their family]] -- argh! Trust your audience to ''see'' these things, Braga, don’t hammer the point home with a sledgehammer."''

->''"Okay guys, I get it. The hyperbole is a good way to get people's attention, but you don't think that just maybe referring to Africa as a famine-ravaged wasteland and consigning an entire continent to '[[DoomyDoomsOfDoom chimes of doom]]' might be a bit patronizing?"''

->''"I still think Deee-lite had it in them to go a little longer, but then that ''[[ToughActToFollow second]]'' album happened... they got a lot less De-Gorgeous and a lot more De-Preachy. If you were around in 1992, would you want to hear the group that did 'Groove is in the Heart' sing about the ozone layer, safe sex, and the importance of registering to vote? And this isn't just a 'Rock the Vote' number for the record, this is a full song on the album! The one about safe sex is even worse."''

->''"When living Series/CrankYankers puppet Music/NickiMinaj released the video for her song 'Only' last Friday, a video that looks sort of like ''[[Theatre/TheProducers Springtime for Hitler]]'' crossed with ''HomestarRunner'', she probably didn’t anticipate that it would cause any where near as many pearls to be clutched than her ''WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle'' late-night phone sex ad video for 'Anaconda' did. After all, 'Only' doesn’t feature a single butt! Okay fine, there was one ass (Music/ChrisBrown).\\\
Except I guess Nicki forgot to realize that 'Only' looked like something made in Adobe Flash by [[Film/AmericanHistoryX Derek Vinyard]] in his mom’s basement, and people were not having it. Even the dumbest kid in your high school history class was like [='=]''But where’s the dude with the Charlie Chaplin mustache who yells a lot?''[='=]"''

->'''Buster:''' Well, I hope the kids got the message.
->'''Plucky:''' Yeah, drinkin's uncool.
->'''Buster:''' So, do we get to do a funny episode tomorrow?
->'''Hamton:''' I hope so!
-->--'''One Beer''', ''TinyToonAdventures''

-->--'''UsefulNotes/BenjaminFranklin''', ''Poor Richard's Almanack''

-->--'''Creator/GoreVidal''', "NormanMailer: The Angels are White"

-->--'''Creator/IsaacAsimov''', about his own anvilicious short story, [[HumansKillWantonly "Day of the Hunters"]]

->''"Where someone like HarlanEllison might use the scalpel or the cleaver, Rall can be counted on to reach for the chainsaw every time."''
-->--''RationalWiki'' on Ted Rall

->''"Don’t know what [[TitleDrop straw dogs]] are? Well don’t worry, because we will literally have the characters sit down and discuss the symbolism of it for three minutes. I’m almost shocked there weren’t flashing words on the screen going “[[AC:Important Theme!!!! Pay Attention!!!]]“ We also learn David is writing a screenplay about Stalingrad. [[ProtectThisHouse Don’t get the parallel?]] Don’t worry, we will have a long scene where David explains very thoroughly to the rednecks the importance of the story."''
-->-- '''[[TheSpoonyExperiment Miles Antwiler]]''' [[http://moviemoses.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/straw-dogs-2011-rod-lurie/ on]] ''Film/StrawDogs2011''

-> '''Rod:''' Man, that was a good movie, ''Film/AnInconvenientTruth''.
->'''Rick:''' That is ''it!'' I'm getting myself a car that's environmentally friendly!
->'''ObscurusLupa:''' ''(watching)'' I feel like this movie has some sort of message it's trying to tell us.

->''"[[Creator/WilliamShatner Mr. Shatner]] shows us the word PARADISE inscribed in the entranceway arch, where someone has painted the word [[ParadiseLost LOST]]. Wow, that’s really extra-meaningful. It’s almost as if they’re saying that calling something “paradise” doesn’t actually make it so—in fact, it might even become the very opposite of that! What rich irony, indeed."''

-->-- '''''Website/{{Cracked}}''''' on ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', "The Omega Glory"

->''"Janeway is always banging on about ''Voyager'' being their family / home but I often find that actions speak louder than words, and this was the first time since Basics when the ship was torn from her that I felt she had a connection with it. It's almost as poignant as the moment Sisko takes one last look around the ''Defiant'' before it is torn to shreds in [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine The Changing Face of Evil]]. Unfortunately, showing this act isn’t enough and before the episode is over Janeway is explaining to the audience that [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs the ship is the home which has sheltered their family]] -- argh! Trust your audience to ''see'' these things, Braga, don’t hammer the point home with a sledgehammer."''

-->--'''WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows''', "One Hit Wonderland" ([[http://blip.tv/todds-pop-song-reviews/one-hit-wonderland-groove-is-in-the-heart-by-deee-lite-6901708 "Groove is in the Heart"]])

->''"When living CrankYankers puppet Music/NickiMinaj released the video for her song 'Only' last Friday, a video that looks sort of like ''[[Theatre/TheProducers Springtime for Hitler]]'' crossed with ''HomestarRunner'', she probably didn’t anticipate that it would cause any where near as many pearls to be clutched than her ''WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle'' late-night phone sex ad video for 'Anaconda' did. After all, 'Only' doesn’t feature a single butt! Okay fine, there was one ass (Music/ChrisBrown).\\\

->(''zoom in on smiley face balloon as main characters' souls are taken'')
->Crow: "Oh sure, just shove the irony in our faces, why don't you!"
-->--'''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''', "Soultaker"

-> BEN arrives at LIFE and walks past the LIFE MOTTO which is:
-> LIFE MOTTO: To see the world, Things dangerous to come to, To see behind walls, Draw closer, To find each other and to feel. That is the purpose of life.
-> The MOTTO is inscribed on a GIANT 30,000-TON ANVIL which then TOPPLES OVER and CRUSHES THE AUDIENCE. The FILM continues on, its dim light impassively flickering over the ENORMOUS SMEAR OF GOO that was once dozens of innocent people.

-> ''Then Hope pulled out a convenient megaphone. “THE JOKE IS THAT THE REBOOT SUCKS!” she said. “ DO YOU GET IT NOW, EVERYONE?! DO YOU GET IT?!”''

->''"I still think Deee-lite had it in them to go a little longer, but then that ''[[ToughActToFollow second]]'' album happened...they got a lot less De-Gorgeous and a lot more De-Preachy. If you were around in 1992, would you want to hear the group that did 'Groove is in the Heart' sing about the ozone layer, safe sex, and the importance of registering to vote? And this isn't just a 'Rock the Vote' number for the record, this is a full song on the album! The one about safe sex is even worse."''

-> LIFE MOTTO: To see the world, Things dangerous to come to,To see behind walls, Draw closer, To find each other and to feel. That is the purpose of life.

-->-- '''[[http://www.the-editing-room.com/the-secret-life-of-walter-mitty.html The Abridged Script]]''' for ''Film/TheSecretLifeofWalterMitty''

->''(Behind the scenes after the story is over.)''\\
'''Buster:''' Well, I hope the kids got the message.\\
'''Plucky:''' Yeah, drinkin's uncool.\\
''(The three of them leave the studio.)''\\
'''Buster:''' So, do we get to do a funny episode tomorrow?\\
'''Hamton:''' I hope so!

->''"Janeway is [[TastesLikeDiabetes always banging on]] about ''Voyager'' being their family home but I often find that actions speak louder than words and this was the first time since Basics when the ship was torn from her that I felt she had a connection with it. It's almost as poignant as the moment Sisko takes one last look around the ''Defiant'' before it is torn to shreds in [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine The Changing Face of Evil]]. Unfortunately, showing this act isn’t enough and before the episode is over Janeway is explaining to the audience that the ship is the home which has sheltered their family -- argh! Trust your audience to ''see'' these things, Braga, don’t hammer the point home with a sledgehammer."''

->''"Okay guys, I get it. The hyperbole is a good way to get people's attention, but you don't think that just maybe referring to Africa as a famine-ravaged wasteland and consigning an entire continent to '[[DoomyDoomsOfDoom chimes of doom]]' might be a bit patronizing?"''
-->--'''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick''' on "Do They Know It's Christmas Time?"

->''"It's common for aliens in the [[Franchise/StarTrek Trek universe]] to be metaphors created to address contemporary political or cultural issues, but in the case of the Kohms and Yangs subtlety was set on fire, strapped to a dump truck full of dynamite and rolled off a cliff."''

-> '''Rod:''' Man, that was a good movie, ''Film/AnInconvenientTruth''.\\
'''Rick:''' That is it. I'm getting myself a car that's environmentally friendly.\\
'''ObscurusLupa:''' ''(watching)'' I feel like this movie has [[GreenAesop some sort of message]] it's trying to tell us.
-->-- '''Film/{{Birdemic}}'''

->''"Okay guys, I get it. The hyperbole is a good way to get people's attention, but you don't think that just maybe referring to Africa as a famine-ravaged wasteland and consigning an entire continent to '[[DoomyDoomsOfDoom chimes of doom]]' might be a bit patronizing?"''
-->--'''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick''' on "Do They Know It's Christmas Time?"

->''"Where someone like HarlanEllison might use the scalpel or the cleaver, Rall can be counted on to reach for the chainsaw every time."''
-->--''RationalWiki'' on Ted Rall

->''"I still think Deee-lite had it in them to go a little longer, but then that ''second'' album happened. ...they got a lot less De-Gorgeous and a lot more De-Preachy. If you were around in 1992, would you want to hear the group that did 'Groove is in the Heart' sing about the ozone layer, safe sex, and the importance of registering to vote? And this isn't just a 'Rock the Vote' number for the record, this is a full song on the album! The one about safe sex is even worse."''

->''"'With great power {{comes great responsibility}}'\\
That's the catchphrase of old Uncle Ben\\
If you missed it, don't worry, they'll say the line\\
[[ViewersAreGoldfish Again and again and again]]"''
-->--'''Weird Al''', "Ode to a Superhero"

-> A story forced to carry a message will get heavy and die.
-->--'''Shannon Hale'''

->''"There’s always a message, rarely a storyline."''
-->--'''Matthew Paul Taylor''' [[http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/03/left-behind-review-nicolas-cage-s-bible-movie-is-god-awful.html on]] ''Film/LeftBehind''

-->-- '''Website/{{Cracked}}'''

->''"Don’t know what [[TitleDrop straw dogs]] are? Well don’t worry, because we will literally have the characters sit down and discuss the symbolism of it for three minutes. I’m almost shocked there weren’t flashing words on the screen going “[[AC:Important Theme!!!! Pay Attention!!!]]“ We also learn David is writing a screenplay about Stalingrad. [[ProtectThisHouse Don’t get the parallel?]] Don’t worry, we will have a long scene where David explains very thoroughly to the rednecks the importance of the story."''
-->-- '''[[TheSpoonyExperiment Miles Antwiler]]''' [[http://moviemoses.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/straw-dogs-2011-rod-lurie/ on]] ''Film/StrawDogs2011''

'''ObscurusLupa:''' I feel like this movie has [[GreenAesop some sort of message]] it's trying to tell us.

->''"With great power {{comes great responsibility}}"\\
That's the catch phrase of old Uncle Ben\\

Again and again and again''

-> There are five children in this book:\\
AUGUSTUS GLOOP, a [[VillainousGlutton greedy boy]];\\
VERUCA SALT, a girl who is [[SpoiledBrat spoiled by her parents]];\\
VIOLET BEAUREGARDE, a girl who [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking chews gum all day long]];\\
MIKE TEAVEE, a boy who does nothing but [[MeaningfulName watch television]];\\
CHARLIE BUCKET TheHero
-->-- '''RoaldDahl''', ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', the very first page

->''"I still think Deee-lite had it in them to go a little longer, but then that ''second'' album happened. ...they got a lot less De-Gorgeous and a lot more De-Preachy. If you were around in 1992, would ''you'' want to hear the group that did 'Groove is in the Heart' sing about the ozone layer, safe sex, and the importance of registering to vote? IAnd this isn't just a 'Rock the Vote' number for the record, this is a full song on the album! The one about safe sex is even worse."''

->''"I still think Deee-lite had it in them to go a little longer, but then that ''second'' album happened. ...they got a lot less De-Gorgeous and a lot more De-Preachy. If you were around in 1992, would ''you'' want to hear the group that did 'Groove is in the Heart' sing about the ozone layer, safe sex, and the importance of registering to vote? I can't believe this is--''this''. And this isn't just a 'Rock the Vote' number for the record, this is a full song on the album. The one about safe sex is even worse."''

'''David''': I’d just like to say this: exactly why does anyone in the world have a gigantic neon sign in their bedroom that says “HELLO THERE” in asymmetrical letterforms? Other than for a totally hacky wreck-the-apartment scene where she can [[SignsOfDisrepair smash the O and T]] so it can say “HELL HERE.” You’re so damn clever, Creator/TimBurton.\\

->'''David''': ''Smallville''[='=]s Cat Grant is basically MandyMoore from ''{{Film/Saved}}'' Or maybe ReeseWitherspoon in ''{{Film/Election}}''. I mean, she [[InNameOnly doesn’t really act like Cat Grant]] at all. She’s supposed to be [[ReallyGetsAround vamping it up]], you know? Even when she was younger. This Cat Grant is just… like, kind of annoying. I mean, I believe she listens to Glorious Godfrey on the radio, because she seems like the kind of person who’d be into GlennBeck.\\
'''Chris''': All buttoned-up cardigans and homemade cookies.\\
'''David''': I also love how they really twist in the [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything gay metaphor]] when Cat starts going on about '[[HeteronormativeCrusader alternative lifestyles]].' I mean, this isn’t the ''{{ComicBook/X-Men}}''.
-->--'''Chris Sims''' and '''David Uzumeri''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/smallville-shield-recap-review/?trackback=tsmclip on]] ''Smallville'' ("Shield")

->''"I still think Deee-lite had it in them to go a little longer--but then that ''second'' album happened. ...they got a lot less De-Gorgeous and a lot more De-Preachy. If you were around n 1992, would you want to hear the group that did 'Groove is in the Heart' sing about the ozone layer, safe sex, and the importance of registering to vote? I can't believe this is--''this''. And this isn't just a 'Rock the Vote' number for the record, this is a full song on the album. The one about safe sex is even worse."''