History Quotes / CriticalBacklash

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->''"In many ways, [[SelfDeprecation the work of a critic is easy]]. [[LetsSeeYouDoBetter We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment]]. We thrive on [[AccentuateTheNegative negative criticism]], which is [[CatharsisFactor fun to write and to read]]. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, [[TakeThatMe the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so]]."''

->''Not only am I an old school Disney fanatic, but I am a ''WesternAnimation/HomeOnTheRange'' fanatic. Anyone who has a serious problem with that, don't bother criticizing or insulting me over it because I believe that inspiration can come from anywhere in any form. I listen to my heart, not let others decide my favorite movies for me. Everyone is free to like or dislike whomever and whatever they want which I am aware of. But no one has a right to judge me over my own taste in family films just because a few of them are "underrated" or "unpopular" by society. I would also say the same thing for Pixar's ''Franchise/{{Cars}}'' in which I loved both films and the Mater shorts.''

->''In many ways, [[SelfDeprecation the work of a critic is easy]]. [[LetsSeeYouDoBetter We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment]]. We thrive on [[AccentuateTheNegative negative criticism]], which is [[CatharsisFactor fun to write and to read]]. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, [[TakeThatMe the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so]].''
-->-- '''Anton Ego''' reevaluating his position in ''{{WesternAnimation/Ratatouille}}''

->Now really quick, let's look at things from a different perspective. Let's go to an alternate universe. The year is 2013, and ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs I'' has just come out. It features a doctor and his daughter in a post-apocalyptic world. The doctor's constantly trying to do the right thing, but the world is decaying so fast and it's hard for him to recognize right from wrong. Then at the end of the story he finds a girl who's immune to the virus but he realizes he has to kill her make a cure. And since the world is already looking really bleak, he decides he has to make the hard choice to sacrifice this girl in order to try to save humanity. It's a tough choice, but he knows that he has to do it because he is one of the last people alive who cares about mankind. But then that little girl's dad kills him because humanity truly is selfish and at the end of the day people don't really want to be saved. Seems like a decent story to me, I could see that being in a video game. But then a few years pass, and in this alternate universe ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUsPartII'' comes out, and then we have to play as those other people. "How dare Creator/NaughtyDog make me play as these lunatics! They were clearly the villains of the last game, Dr. Abby's Dad was the true hero! He wanted to save the world! They killed my dad, and now they live in this peaceful country town, are you fucking kidding me? That's not fucking fair. Joel is evil, why would Naughty Dog try to make me feel bad for killing him? Wait, now I have to play as his daughter, are you kidding me? She's a psychopath!" Do you see how silly that sounds? I didn't even change the story, I just put it in a different order. My point is that people are criticizing this game with the most surface-level observations, it's so shallow the way people are talking about this story. I'd say that I enjoyed about 60-70% of this game and the rest either bored me out of my fucking mind or made me angry.

->''Not only am I an old school Disney fanatic, but I am a ''WesternAnimation/HomeOnTheRange'' fanatic. Anyone who has a serious problem with that, don't bother criticizing or insulting me over it because I believe that inspiration can come from anywhere in any form. I listen to my heart, not let others decide my favorite movies for me. Everyone is free to like or dislike whomever and whatever they want which I am aware of. But no one has a right to judge me over my own taste in family films just because a few of them are "underrated" or "unpopular" by society. I would also say the same thing for Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' in which I loved both films and the Mater shorts.''

->Now really quick, let's look at things from a different perspective. Let's go to an alternate universe. The year is 2013, and ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs I'' has just come out. It features a doctor and his daughter in a post-apocalyptic world. The doctor's constantly trying to do the right thing, but the world is decaying so fast and it's hard for him to recognize right from wrong. The at the end of the story he finds a girl who's immune to the virus but he realizes he has to kill her make a cure. And since the world is already looking really bleak, he decides he has to make the hard choice to sacrifice this girl in order to try to save humanity. It's a tough choice, but he knows that he has to do it because he is one of the last people alive who cares about mankind. But then that little girl's dad kills him because humanity truly is selfish and at the end of the day people don't really want to be saved. Seems like a decent story to me, I could see that being in a video game. But then a few years pass, and in this alternate universe ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUsPartII'' comes out, and then we have to play as those other people. "How dare Creator/NaughtyDog make me play as these lunatics! They were clearly the villains of the last game, Dr. Abby's Dad was the true hero! He wanted to save the world! They killed my dad, and now they live in this peaceful country town, are you fucking kidding me? That's not fucking fair. Joel is evil, why would Naughty Dog try to make me feel bad for killing him? Wait, now I have to play as his daughter, are you kidding me? She's a psychopath!" Do you see how silly that sounds? I didn't even change the story, I just put it in a different order. My point is that people are criticizing this game with the most surface-level observations, it's so shallow the way people are talking about this story. I'd say that I enjoyed about 60-70% of this game and the rest either bored me out of my fucking mind or made me angry.

->Not only am I an old school Disney fanatic, but I am a ''WesternAnimation/HomeOnTheRange'' fanatic. Anyone who has a serious problem with that, don't bother criticizing or insulting me over it because I believe that inspiration can come from anywhere in any form. I listen to my heart, not let others decide my favorite movies for me. Everyone is free to like or dislike whomever and whatever they want which I am aware of. But no one has a right to judge me over my own taste in family films just because a few of them are "underrated" or "unpopular" by society. I would also say the same thing for Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' in which I loved both films and the Mater shorts.

->"I think it's really underappreciated as far as movie crossovers go! I mean, it was no [[Film/TheAvengers2012 Avengers]], but it was still pretty damn decent!"

->In many ways, [[SelfDeprecation the work of a critic is easy]]. [[LetsSeeYouDoBetter We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment]]. We thrive on [[AccentuateTheNegative negative criticism]], which is [[CatharsisFactor fun to write and to read]]. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, [[TakeThatMe the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so]].

->How could anyone hate this game? It's a hilariously silly parody of fighters in general. If you played it as a youngster you're more likely to enjoy it later on than people who never did. It's a nostalgic game and is actually really fun with two players. Overall, a game with both Boogerman AND VideoGame/EarthwormJim is at least worth trying just to play as them.
-->-- {{VideoGame/MUGEN}} user '''[=MC2=]''' on ''[[VideoGame/ClayFighter Clay Fighter 63 1/3]]''.

->In many ways, [[SelfDeprecation the work of a critic is easy]]. [[LetsSeeYouDoBetter We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment]]. We thrive on [[AccentuateTheNegative negative criticism]], which is [[CatharsisFactor fun to write and to read]]. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, [[TakeThatMe the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so]]. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the *new*. The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends. Last night, I experienced something new: an [[FoodPorn extraordinary meal]] from [[SwarmOfRats a singularly unexpected source]]. To say that both the meal and its maker have challenged my preconceptions about fine cooking is a gross understatement. They have rocked me to my core. In the past, [[CausticCritic I have made no secret of my disdain]] for Chef Gusteau's famous motto, "[[ArcWords Anyone can cook]]." But I realize, only now do I truly [[CharacterDevelopment understand what he meant]]. [[{{Deconstruction}} Not everyone can become a great artist]]; [[{{Reconstruction}} but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*]]. It is difficult to imagine more humble origins than those of the genius now cooking at Gusteau's, who is, in this critic's opinion, nothing less than the finest chef in France. I will be [[HarsherInHindsight returning to Gusteau's]] soon, hungry for more.

->The original cut of the film was [[LeaveTheCameraRunning 5 hrs and 25 minutes]]. After the critics savaged the film and it had an opening weekend of $12,000, [Michael] Cimino thought it was in his best interest to trim a little. He cut it to about two hours but it didn’t help. [Creator/UnitedArtists] was panicking and tried to sell it to anyone, ANYONE who was interested. Critics still didn’t like it and thought it was too murky and too hard to understand the dialogue. UA was bankrupt, and it was their minor hit of ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'' that helped them sell to Creator/{{MGM}}. Cimino [[CreatorKiller never really got another job again]] and while the movie has a small (tiny) cult following, it will never make its money back. It is the bomb to which other bombs are compared to.\\\
Is it any good? [[ArsonMurderAndLifesaving Yeah, I like it.]]
-->-- '''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Miles Antwiler]]''' [[http://moviemoses.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/heavens-gate-michael-cimino-1980/ on]] ''Film/HeavensGate''

->While on television, it's one of the great punching bags of ''Doctor Who'': Underworld. A story that I could simply and cavalierly lay into for a myriad of faults and get absolutely no comments from anybody suggesting that I was being too hard on the story or being unfair. This is the one Creator/TomBaker story to slot in the bottom ten on the ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' Mighty 200 poll. Lawrence Miles declares it the worst story of the 1970s. It's crap. it's garbage. I kinda liked it.
-->-- '''El Sandifer''' [[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2011/12/playing-pat-cake-with-wall-underworld.html on]] ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS15E5Underworld}} "Underworld"]]

->''The worst Star Trek episode of all time!'' That is what some insane people declare about Profit & Lace (obviously they haven’t seen [[LongList The Naked Now, Code of Honor, The Last Outpost, Justice, Hide & Q, Home Soil, Where Silence Has Lease, The Outrageous Okona, Shades of Grey, Captain’s Holiday, Devil’s Due, New Ground, Man of the People, Aquiel, Suspicions, Descent, Gambit, Force of Nature, Sub Rosa, Masks, Emergence, The Passenger, Melora, Second Sight, Rivals, Meridian, Fascination, Life Support, Sons of Mogh, The Muse, Let He Who is Without Sin, Ferengi Love Songs, Resurrection, The Emperor’s New Cloak]] – and not to mention ''two thirds of [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager’s]] overall output)... ''You might think that I have gone clinically insane to slaughter so many ''Voyager'' episodes and praise this one but I can genuinely see a difference in quality between the two. Plus this gets an extra point for the glorious sequence where the show finally tips over into old school slapstick (I can hear the [[Series/TheBennyHillShow Benny Hill]] theme tune playing) and has Quark running around a table trying to escape the clutches of a lecherous misogynist. I can hear the teeth grinding of po faced ''Star Trek'' fans everywhere during that scene and it makes me laugh all the more.
-->-- '''[[http://www.docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/deep-space-nine-season-six.html Joe Ford]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "Profit and Lace"

->Not only am I an old school Disney fanatic, but I am a ''Disney/HomeOnTheRange'' fanatic. Anyone who has a serious problem with that, don't bother criticizing or insulting me over it because I believe that inspiration can come from anywhere in any form. I listen to my heart, not let others decide my favorite movies for me. Everyone is free to like or dislike whomever and whatever they want which I am aware of. But no one has a right to judge me over my own taste in family films just because a few of them are "underrated" or "unpopular" by society. I would also say the same thing for Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' in which I loved both films and the Mater shorts.

->''The worst Star Trek episode of all time!'' That is what some insane people declare about Profit & Lace (obviously they haven’t seen [[LongList The Naked Now, Code of Honor, The Last Outpost, Justice, Hide & Q, Home Soil, Where Silence Has Lease, The Outrageous Okona, Shades of Grey, Captain’s Holiday, Devil’s Due, New Ground, Man of the People, Aquiel, Suspicions, Descent, Gambit, Force of Nature, Sub Rosa, Masks, Emergence, The Passenger, Melora, Second Sight, Rivals, Meridian, Fascination, Life Support, Sons of Mogh, The Muse, Let He Who is Without Sin, Ferengi Love Songs, Ressurection, The Emperor’s New Cloak]] – and not to mention ''two thirds of [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager’s]] overall output)... ''You might think that I have gone clinically insane to slaughter so many ''Voyager'' episodes and praise this one but I can genuinely see a difference in quality between the two. Plus this gets an extra point for the glorious sequence where the show finally tips over into old school slapstick (I can hear the [[Series/TheBennyHillShow Benny Hill]] theme tune playing) and has Quark running around a table trying to escape the clutches of a lecherous misogynist. I can hear the teeth grinding of po faced ''Star Trek'' fans everywhere during that scene and it makes me laugh all the more.

-->-- '''Phil Sandifer''' [[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2011/12/playing-pat-cake-with-wall-underworld.html on]] ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS15E5Underworld}} "Underworld"]]

->While on television, it's one of the great punching bags of ''Doctor Who'': Underworld. A story that I could simply and cavalierly lay into for a myriad of faults and get absolutely no comments from anybody suggesting that I was being too hard on the story or being unfair. This is the one Creator/TomBaker story to slot in the bottom ten on the ''DoctorWhoMagazine'' Mighty 200 poll. Lawrence Miles declares it the worst story of the 1970s. It's crap. it's garbage. I kinda liked it.

-->-- {{MUGEN}} user '''[=MC2=]''' on ''[[VideoGame/ClayFighter Clay Fighter 63 1/3]]''.

-->--'''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Miles Antwiler]]''' [[http://moviemoses.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/heavens-gate-michael-cimino-1980/ on]] ''Film/HeavensGate''

-->--'''Phil Sandifer''' [[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2011/12/playing-pat-cake-with-wall-underworld.html on]] ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS15E5Underworld}} "Underworld"]]

-->--'''[[http://www.docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/deep-space-nine-season-six.html Joe Ford]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "Profit and Lace"

-->-- {{MUGEN}} user '''[=MC2=]''' on ''[[ClayFighter Clay Fighter 63 1/3]]''.

-->--'''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic''' regarding the first ''Film/AlienVsPredator'' in his review of the Shining Mini-Series

->'''Critic''': I think it's really underappreciated as far as movie crossovers go! I mean, it was no [[Film/TheAvengers2012 Avengers]], but it was still pretty damn decent!

->''The worst Star Trek episode of all time!'' That is what some insane people declare about Profit & Lace (obviously they haven’t seen [[LongList The Naked Now, Code of Honor, The Last Outpost, Justice, Hide & Q, Home Soil, Where Silence Has Lease, The Outrageous Okona, Shades of Grey, Captain’s Holiday, Devil’s Due, New Ground, Man of the People, Aquiel, Suspicions, Descent, Gambit, Force of Nature, Sub Rosa, Masks, Emergence, The Passenger, Melora, Second Sight, Rivals, Meridian, Fascination, Life Support, Sons of Mogh, The Muse, Let He Who is Without Sin, Ferengi Love Songs, Ressurection, The Emperor’s New Cloak]] – and not to mention ''two thirds of [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager’s]] overall output)... ''You might think that I have gone clinically insane to slaughter so many ''Voyager'' episodes and praise this one but I can genuinely see a difference in quality between the two. Plus this gets an extra point for the glorious sequence where the show finally tips over into old school slapstick (I can hear the BennyHill theme tune playing) and has Quark running around a table trying to escape the clutches of a lecherous misogynist. I can hear the teeth grinding of po faced ''Star Trek'' fans everywhere during that scene and it makes me laugh all the more.

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->How could anyone hate this game? It's a hilariously silly parody of fighters in general. If you played it as a youngster you're more likely to enjoy it later on than people who never did. It's a nostalgic game and is actually really fun with two players. Overall, a game with both Boogerman AND VideoGame/EarthwormJim is at least worth trying just to play as them.
-->-- {{MUGEN}} user '''[=MC2=]''' on ''[[ClayFighter Clay Fighter 63 1/3]]''.

->This is an ill-compounded mixture of romance and matter-of-fact. The idea of a connected and collected story has obviously visited and abandoned its writer again and again in the course of composition. The style of his tale is in places disfigured by mad (rather than bad) English; and its catastrophe is hastily, weakly, and obscurely managed…We have little more to say in reprobation or in recommendation of this absurd book…Mr. Melville has to thank himself only if his horrors and his heroics are flung aside by the general reader, as so much trash belonging to the worst school of Bedlam literature — since he seems not so much unable to learn as disdainful of learning the craft of an artist.
-->-- '''Henry F. Chorley''', reviewing ''Literature/MobyDick''

->'''Jack:''' For my pick, the Best of the Worst is ''Film/TheodoreRex''.\\
'''Jay:''' (Oh my God, ''fuck'' you.)\\
'''Rich:''' Jack... you're such a hipster that even in our small group--even in our ''tiny little'' group--you just have to be the dissenting opinion.
-->--''WebVideo/BestOfTheWorst'', "Dinosaur Movies"

-->-- '''Henry F. Chorley''', reviewing ''{{Moby-Dick}}''

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->Seriously? Zero [stars]? It's worse than the remake of ''TheWickerMan''? I guess I'm forgetting all the bad ass light saber duels in that movie.
-->-- '''JoeLovesCrappyMovies''' on the scathing reviews of the film ''StarWarsTheCloneWars''.

->How could anyone hate this game? It's a hilariously silly parody of fighters in general. If you played it as a youngster you're more likely to enjoy it later on than people who never did. It's a nostalgic game and is actually really fun with two players. Overall, a game with both Boogerman AND EarthwormJim is at least worth trying just to play as them.

-->-- {{MUGEN}} user '''[=MC2=]''' on ''[[ClayFighter Clay Fighter 63⅓]]''.

->''"Seriously? Zero [stars]? It's worse than the remake of ''TheWickerMan''? I guess I'm forgetting all the bad ass light saber duels in that movie."''
-->--'''JoeLovesCrappyMovies''' on the scathing reviews of the film ''[[StarWarsTheCloneWars Star Wars: The Clone Wars]].

-> ''How could anyone hate this game? It's a hilariously silly parody of fighters in general. If you played it as a youngster you're more likely to enjoy it later on than people who never did. It's a nostalgic game and is actually really fun with two players. Overall, a game with both Boogerman AND EarthwormJim is at least worth trying just to play as them.''
-->-- {{MUGEN}} user '''MC2''' on ''[[ClayFighter Clay Fighter 63 1/3]]''.

->''This is an ill-compounded mixture of romance and matter-of-fact. The idea of a connected and collected story has obviously visited and abandoned its writer again and again in the course of composition. The style of his tale is in places disfigured by mad (rather than bad) English; and its catastrophe is hastily, weakly, and obscurely managed…We have little more to say in reprobation or in recommendation of this absurd book…Mr. Melville has to thank himself only if his horrors and his heroics are flung aside by the general reader, as so much trash belonging to the worst school of Bedlam literature — since he seems not so much unable to learn as disdainful of learning the craft of an artist.''
-->--Henry F. Chorley, reviewing ''MobyDick''

-->--Henry F. Chorley, reviewing ''[[Moby Dick]]''

-->--Henry F. Chorley, reviewing ''Moby Dick''