"The reason he didn't kill you, Megan, is because you're a cute little number. Besides, it was too early in the game, he had orders to save you for later. And now, they want us to get all friendly like, chat, so the audience can like us. Root for us. So when the fun starts, it won't just be pieces of meat they'll be cutting up, but twenty-year old law student Megan Lowry from Seattle."
— Devon White, Slashers
"Instead of just having a monster, if you invest in these characters, and feel for them, care for them, you're going to appreciate and have a better experience when the monster arrives, than when you're like 'Oh it's a person, I don't know who it is that was just crushed, oh okay whatever.'"
"A good murder mystery has plenty of character development, that way you actually give a shit when people start turning up dead. This isn't a big secret either, it's Writing 101. In fact, even the shittiest of horror movies spend plenty of time developing the characters. I'm looking at you, Alien vs. Predator."
— SydLexia
, reviewing Mystery House
, reviewing Mystery House"So we start the movie with a bunch of unlikable jackasses looking to do nothing else but party and have sex."
"I think this is supposed to establish Character Development, but let's face it, we're just getting an early peek at the buffet. We know these guys are Alien chow and we're just looking at the clock until they get munched on."
"When the parade of out-of-work actors in their mid-to-late twenties pretending to be carefree teenagers with unfeasibly easy access to expensive holiday real estate seem to find no end in amusement in jumping out at each other ten million times across the first hour as the soundtrack shrieks like Sharon Stone just recrossed her legs in front of the violinists, Jason Voorhees is acting out the growing desire of the audience as he starts slitting them up like Christmas presents with good dentistry."
"Make sure you arrive an hour late so you don't miss out on all the good bits."
— Martin/Molloy review of Titanic
Noah: You gotta remember that the whodunit may not be as important in our story.
Riley: So it's a whydunit?
Noah: No...you need to forget that it's a horror story, that someone might die at every turn. You see, you have to care if the smokin' hot lit teacher seems a little too interested in his female students. You have to care if the team wins the big game. You have to care if the smart, pretty girl forgives the dumb jock.
Riley: Sounds like Friday Night Lights.
Noah: Exactly. You root for them, you love them, so when they are brutally murdered...it hurts.
Riley: So it's a whydunit?
Noah: No...you need to forget that it's a horror story, that someone might die at every turn. You see, you have to care if the smokin' hot lit teacher seems a little too interested in his female students. You have to care if the team wins the big game. You have to care if the smart, pretty girl forgives the dumb jock.
Riley: Sounds like Friday Night Lights.
Noah: Exactly. You root for them, you love them, so when they are brutally murdered...it hurts.
— Scream, 1x01: "Pilot"
"Because that's what I want to see in a tornado movie: couples arguing!"
— The Nostalgia Critic review of Twister
Q: Why on earth would anyone make a film about giant robots but have myriad scenes of some random douchebag's first day of college?
A: I don't have the faintest clue.
A: I don't have the faintest clue.
As to the plot: Sam Witwicky is trying to live a normal life, heading off to college. It's a move that strains his relationship with both his parents and his girlfriend Mikaela, already under stress owing to their oversight by the secret military-uh, um, I'm sorry, I'm sorry... DO YOU CARE?! Does anyone going to see this care what happens to douchebag Peter Parker, the walking RealDoll, the cut-rate men in black, the tacked-on army guys or any of the useless human characters overflowing these films so that Bay can continue to pretend he's not doing a film in a franchise he openly despises?
— MovieBob review of Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen
