History Quotes / AuthorAppeal

-->-- '''[[WebVideo/RedLetterMedia Mr. Plinkett]]''' on ''Film/StarTrekNemesis''

-->'''Creator/SchaffrillasProductions''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llx48wTfjQo Top 30 Villain Songs]]

-->-- [[https://reddit.com/r/manga/comments/biwrz1/disc_komorisan_wa_kotowarenai_ch_58/ Reddit discussion]] on ''Manga/KomoriSanCantDecline''

-->--'''''WebSite/{{Cracked}}''''', [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-reasons-why-bad-movies-are-allowed-to-happen_p2 "4 Reasons Why Bad Movies Are Allowed to Happen"]]

->[[Creator/VinceRusso Mr Russo]]: We all know the attractive, popular girls all laughed in your face in high school because you were a dork. But please, get over it and stop subjecting us all to [[HeManWomanHater your women-hating issues.]]

-->--'''[[CalvinAndHobbes/CalvinAndHobbes Bill Watterson]]'''

-->--'''Creator/RogerEbert''' on ''Stoker Ace''

->Thankfully, you didn't have to feel gross for liking a Creator/WoodyAllen movie this year, because he made ''Magic in the Moonlight'' and no one saw it. Does that movie feature yet another man [[MayDecemberRomance wooing a woman who is half his age]]? Of course it does. Just to throw us off, Woody needs to make a movie where Music/JustinBieber nails Cloris Leachman.

-->-- '''MovieBob''' on ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen''

-->-- '''Tom Fischbach''', author of ''{{Twokinds}}''

->Nurse Mahiro and [[Manga/RurouniKenshin Shishio]] Tokiko… I'm sorry. It's not my characters that are out of control. It's me.

->Burt Reynolds used to make movies about people's lifestyles. Now he seems more interested in making movies that fit in with [[GoodOlBoy his own lifestyle.]]

->The breasts of damn near every single woman in this game are [[{{Gainaxing}} their own interactive objects]], with their own {{flavor text}}s and conversation trees attached--usually leading to [[ChivalrousPervert your guy grabbing those breasts]] (without permission and without protests)! …the women in question have a surprisingly non-violent conversation about the minute little scientific details behind their space-boobs. But let's not forget the ''real'' elephant here: That '''[[InfoDump not even boobs are saved from Kojima flavor text]]'''.
-->--'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya8hyJnJzBU George Weidman]]''' on ''{{VisualNovel/Policenauts}}''

->Who said ''Doctor Who'' wasn’t capable of putting the willies up you in the 80’s? And that's not me [[AnythingThatMoves speaking literally]] in the wake of [[Creator/JohnNathanTurner JNT's]] memoirs… Enjoy a moment of bondage on JNT as two skinheads are stripped to their boxers and left hanging from a tree.

->[[Creator/JonPertwee Pertwee]] was perhaps the most physical of Doctors, and he was--rather famously--fond of cars. So Planet of the Spiders features an incredibly gratuitous ([[{{Padding}} and pointless]]) chase sequence that ends with the villain mysteriously disappearing… I enjoy a nice car chase every now and then. Of course, it is quite difficult to film and exciting an compelling car chase on the budget of ''Doctor Who'' in 1974. And it’s particularly frustrating when the sequence is split across two episodes and ''makes absolutely no difference to how anything plays out''. I think that’s the real problem with the touches that were inserted to appeal to Pertwee’s style of ''Doctor Who''. His fight sequences and his car chases don’t ever actually seem to be important to the grand scheme of the plot. It’s as if somebody mapped out the episode and then tried to shoehorn in these little nods towards Pertwee’s own preferences. So the Doctor is always beating up guards, [[TheWorfEffect only to be overpowered]] when the writers and the director think the scene has gone on long enough.
-->--'''Darren Mooney''' [[http://them0vieblog.com/2013/03/29/doctor-who-planet-of-the-spiders-review/ on]] ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS11E5PlanetofTheSpiders}} "Planet of the Spiders"]]

-> In 1987 ABC did a mini-series based on [=MacLaine’s=] book ''Out on a Limb'', in which [=MacLaine=] [[PhonyPsychic converses with spirits]] through channeler Kevin Ryerson. One of the spirits who speaks through Ryerson is a contemporary of Jesus called “John”, who speaks, rather than Aramaic, a kind of [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe fake Elizabethan English.]] “John” tells [=MacLaine=] that she is co-creator of the world with a god, which [=MacLaine=] accepts because, remarkably, this is a belief she has expressed earlier (i.e. [[AnswersToTheNameOfGod that she is a god]]). It is pretty remarkable, isn’t it, that “John” told [=MacLaine=] exactly what she wanted to hear. Proves that the channeling works, right? …I suppose the grandness of ego is an important factor in explaining the attraction between celebrities and mystical powers.

->Jonny Fairplay has freely admitted he was given $350,000 by TNA to do virtually nothing; fellow ''{{Series/Survivor}}'' contest Jenna Morasca was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to have the worst wrestling match in history with Sharmell at ''Victory Road 2009'' (Dixie is a big ''Survivor'' fan, apparently, hence why she goes out of her way to snag these celebrities that [[StuntCasting clearly aren’t worth the money]]).

->Once upon a time, there was [[Creator/GeorgeLucas a short, bearded man from Southern California]] who wanted to make a modern fairy tale. He wanted the world to experience his take on Campbellian mytho-archetypes and the movie serials of his youth. He also wanted to make enough money to swim in it like a cowboy-booted [[{{Ducktales}} Uncle Scrooge]]. Also, he wanted the world to share his [[AnArmAndALeg fetish for dismemberment]] as entertainment.

->Thankfully, you didn't have to feel gross for liking a Creator/WoodyAllen movie this year, because he made ''Magic in the Moonlight'' and no one saw it. Does that movie feature yet another man [[MayDecemberRomance wooing a woman who is half his age?]] Of course it does. Just to throw us off, Woody needs to make a movie where Music/JustinBieber nails Cloris Leachman.

->It's none too hard to look at a movie in which [[Creator/TomCruise (Tom) Cruise]] is playing an eternally recurring soul, using the power of his mind and memory of his past life to expand his capacity as a human being, unlocking his full potential after endless cycles of repetitive exercises, and think, "Hmmmm… this [[ChurchOfHappyology reminds me of something]]."

Peters was ''also ''a producer attached to a film based on Neil Gaiman's ''ComicBook/TheSandman''. The source material already existed and was great, and two writers were brought on to write the screenplay, and they were also great, but when Peters came on board, he, having not read the graphic novel, 'had figured out that what the movie needed to be successful was a giant mechanical spider,' according to Gaiman… If ''Film/WildWildWest'' hadn't come along to satisfy Peters' bizarre robo-spider boner, you can bet your ass he'd be trying to cram it into ''{{Film/Ali}}''.
-->--'''''{{Website/Cracked}}''''', [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-reasons-why-bad-movies-are-allowed-to-happen_p2 "4 Reasons Why Bad Movies Are Allowed to Happen"]]

->...And that's pretty much it for the robots who, once again, only appear in about one fourth of their own movie, and even then usually as background noise to [[BackedByThePentagon endless processions of military hardware]] on hand so Creator/MichaelBay can [[GunPorn jack of his fetish for all things 'army']]"

OMIGOD. Why is she a zombie all of a sudden? Seeing it fresh for the first time just make me realize [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment how little sense that makes.]]

->I'm Russ Meyer. [[BuxomIsBetter I like big breasts.]]

'''Morrissey''': No, no --- not the driver's seat... there was just something about the old leather seats...\\

-->--'''Dan Schneider''', [[LampshadeHanging hanging a lampshade]] on the fact that three of the first four episodes of season 3 of ''[[Series/ICarly iCarly]]'' feature someone being [[BoundAndGagged restrained]] with [[DuctTapeForEverything duct tape]]

->Someone pointed out recently that I draw my characters in bath scenes an awful lot, and I want to make it clear to everyone that this is certainly not due to any perverseness on my part. No, the fact is, I demand the cleanliness of my characters! This is simply an issue of hygiene, and has nothing to do with getting characters [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial in lecherous situations in various states of undress.]]

->Who said ''Doctor Who'' wasn’t capable of putting the willies up you in the 80’s? And that's not me [[AnythingThatMoves speaking literally]] in the wake of [[JohnNathanTurner JNT's]] memoirs… Enjoy a moment of bondage on JNT as two skinheads are stripped to their boxers and left hanging from a tree.

-->--'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya8hyJnJzBU George Weidman]]''' on ''{{VideoGame/Policenauts}}''

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->Nurse Mahiro and [[Manga/RurouniKenshin Shishio]] Tokiko... I'm sorry. It's not my characters that are out of control. It's me.

->The breasts of damn near every single woman in this game are [[{{Gainaxing}} their own interactive objects]], with their own {{flavor text}}s and conversation trees attached -- usually leading to [[ChivalrousPervert your guy grabbing those breasts]] (without permission and without protests)! ...The women in question have a surprisingly non-violent conversation about the minute little scientific details behind their space-boobs. But let's not forget the ''real'' elephant here: That '''[[InfoDump not even boobs are saved from Kojima flavor text.]]'''

->Who said ''Doctor Who'' wasn’t capable of putting the willies up you in the 80’s? And that's not me [[AnythingThatMoves speaking literally]] in the wake of [[JohnNathanTurner JNT's]] memoirs... Enjoy a moment of bondage on JNT as two skinheads are stripped to their boxers and left hanging from a tree.

->[[Creator/JonPertwee Pertwee]] was perhaps the most physical of Doctors, and he was -- rather famously -- fond of cars. So Planet of the Spiders features an incredibly gratuitous ([[{{Padding}} and pointless]]) chase sequence that ends with the villain mysteriously disappearing... I enjoy a nice car chase every now and then. Of course, it is quite difficult to film and exciting an compelling car chase on the budget of ''Doctor Who'' in 1974. And it’s particularly frustrating when the sequence is split across two episodes and ''makes absolutely no difference to how anything plays out''. I think that’s the real problem with the touches that were inserted to appeal to Pertwee’s style of ''Doctor Who''. His fight sequences and his car chases don’t ever actually seem to be important to the grand scheme of the plot. It’s as if somebody mapped out the episode and then tried to shoehorn in these little nods towards Pertwee’s own preferences. So the Doctor is always beating up guards, [[TheWorfEffect only to be overpowered]] when the writers and the director think the scene has gone on long enough.

-> In 1987 ABC did a mini-series based on [=MacLaine’s=] book ''Out on a Limb'', in which [=MacLaine=] [[PhonyPsychic converses with spirits]] through channeler Kevin Ryerson. One of the spirits who speaks through Ryerson is a contemporary of Jesus called “John”, who speaks, rather than Aramaic, a kind of [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe fake Elizabethan English.]] “John” tells [=MacLaine=] that she is co-creator of the world with a god, which [=MacLaine=] accepts because, remarkably, this is a belief she has expressed earlier (i.e. [[AnswersToTheNameOfGod that she is a god]]). It is pretty remarkable, isn’t it, that “John” told [=MacLaine=] exactly what she wanted to hear. Proves that the channeling works, right? ...I suppose the grandness of ego is an important factor in explaining the attraction between celebrities and mystical powers.

->It's none too hard to look at a movie in which [[Creator/TomCruise (Tom) Cruise]] is playing an eternally recurring soul, using the power of his mind and memory of his past life to expand his capacity as a human being, unlocking his full potential after endless cycles of repetitive exercises, and think, 'Hmmmm... this [[ChurchOfHappyology reminds me of something.]]'

Peters was ''also ''a producer attached to a film based on Neil Gaiman's ''ComicBook/TheSandman''. The source material already existed and was great, and two writers were brought on to write the screenplay, and they were also great, but when Peters came on board, he, having not read the graphic novel, 'had figured out that what the movie needed to be successful was a giant mechanical spider,' according to Gaiman... If ''Film/WildWildWest'' hadn't come along to satisfy Peters' bizarre robo-spider boner, you can bet your ass he'd be trying to cram it into ''{{Film/Ali}}''.

-->--'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8hyJnJzBU George Weidman]]''' on ''{{VideoGame/Policenauts}}''

-->-- '''[[RedLetterMedia Mr. Plinkett]]''' on ''Film/StarTrekNemesis''

->''Every series written [by PiersAnthony] post-Literature/{{Xanth}}-success has a pubescent girl involved with an older man. It's just that thing that happens to science fiction authors where their brain passes its "sell by" date and curdles, and they put their fetishes in every book. I call it [[Creator/RobertAHeinlein Heinlein]] Syndrome.''

->As Henry Ford ([[BeamMeUpScotty sort of]]) said about his famous Model T, 'You can have any color as long as it’s black. Or, in [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon McMahon’s]] case, 6’4’’ or taller. Also, [[ButNotTooBlack not black.]]'
-->--'''''{{Website/Wrestlecrap}}''''', [[http://www.wrestlecrap.com/inductions/induction-zack-ryder-vs-kane-friday-the-13th-part-z/ "Zack Ryder Vs. Kane - Friday the 13th Part Z"]]

-->--'''Creator/RogerEbert''' on ''Stocker Ace''

->Jonny Fairplay has freely admitted he was given $350,000 by TNA to do virtually nothing; fellow ''{{Series/Survivor}}'' contest Jenna Morasca was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to have the worst wrestling match in history with Sharmell at ''Victory Road 2009'' (Dixie is a big Survivor fan, apparently, hence why she goes out of her way to snag these celebrities that [[StuntCasting clearly aren’t worth the money]]).

->I believe in the afterlife. I believe in the healing power of Jesus. So a lot of times, I'll have dead loved ones show up for guidance in times of need. So in this case, this is not an internal projection of Jaden's; this is a ghost of his sister. It's just a really beautiful scene. I really like--\\\
* '''''[[ScareChord WHAM]]'''''*\\\
OMIGOD. Why is she a zombie all of a sudden? Seeing it fresh for the first time just make me realize [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment how little sense that makes.]]
-->--"''Film/AfterEarth'' - [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dxAZD7Wr_M M. Knight Deleted Commentary"]]

->Of course, a film maker does whatever he wants, but given the circumstances it is hard to avoid interpreting the movie as reflecting some apparent insight [[Creator/MNightShyamalan Shyamalan]] is bent on sharing with his viewers, and that insight is absolutely moronic. The movie itself is pretty much an [[ScienceIsBad anti-science screed]] based on Shyamalan’s failure to grasp science, reason and rational thought...[[QuantumMechanicsCanDoAnything Choprawoo]] combined with Intelligent Design is not a great combo, and after ''{{Film/Unbreakable}}'' (at least) Shyamalan has been unable to keep his crazy delusions out of his movies.
-->--''[[http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2014/09/1143-m-night-shyamalan.html Encyclopedia of American Loons]]'' on ''Film/TheHappening''

->Thankfully, you didn't have to feel gross for liking a Creator/WoodyAllen movie this year, because he made ''Magic in the Moonlight'' and no one saw it. Does that movie feature yet another man [[UglyGuyHotWife wooing a woman who is half his age?]] Of course it does. Just to throw us off, Woody needs to make a movie where Music/JustinBieber nails Cloris Leachman.

->Once upon a time, there was [[Creator/GeorgeLucas a short, bearded man from Southern California]] who wanted to make a modern fairy tale. He wanted the world to experience his take on Campbellian mytho-archetypes and the movie serials of his youth. He also wanted to make enough money to swim in it like a cowboy-booted [[{{Ducktales}} Uncle Scrooge]]. Also, he wanted the world to share his [[AnArmAndALeg fetish for dismemberment]] as entertainment.
-->--'''[[http://www.rpsteeves.com/2012/02/6-examples-of-how-george-lucas-is.html Rich Steeves]]'''