History Quotes / Padding

->'''Jay:''' This movie is '''challenging''' you to stay awake for the whole thing... And ''I wasn't even tired!'' I can watch a movie super-late at night! If I'm engaged, I'll be into it, it doesn't matter. But I noticed I was starting to nod off, and I was like, "[[ItsPersonal I'm not gonna let this movie beat me.]] It beat Mike. I'm not gonna let it beat me." So that was my challenge for the rest of the movie, to keep me invested: just, not falling asleep. To the point where I had to just get up and walk out the theater for a bit, stretch my legs. I heard ''you'' giggling.\\

->'''Jay:''' This movie is '''challenging''' you to stay awake for the whole thing, a challenge that ''some'' of us were not up for.\\
'''Rich:''' ''(to Mike)'' It wasn't even halfway into it. I heard you snoring. You made it about...25 minutes? And then I just started hearing "zzzzzzzzzzzz"

->''"Aside from the 2007-2008 writers' strike sliding a cactus up TV's collective asshole, one of the biggest problems with later seasons of ''{{Series/Heroes}}'' was that the plot simply lost basic direction.. Season 1 was very clear in that aspect: "Why are they doing what they're doing? To {{save the world}} from a superpowered psycho and the city from an exploding Peter." ...As the seasons went on, the plot got soupier, focusing more on the characters than the overall story. Hiro gets a love interest. [[RomanticPlotTumor And then another love interest. And then one more sort-of love interest.]] Claire [[IJustWantToBeNormal wants to be normal]] and lets us know that through 6 billion rehashed [[CallingTheOldManOut arguments with her father]]. Sylar turns good. [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor Then bad. Then good.]] Then ... something with a carnival. It was never really spelled out for us where these characters were going and why we needed to feel a sense of urgency for them to get there. They were just kind of doing things. [[MundaneUtility With powers]]."''

->''Data reports the cave is unstable. [[CaptainObvious Glad you're here, Professor]]. The shaking and falling rocks didn't tip me off at all. He goes with Worf and Picard to find an escape route. They blow out a wall, revealing... more caves! Which Picard suggests they head for. In screenwriting, this is generally known as "padding". For those less than cinematically inclined, just picture this: term paper due in thirty minutes. 100 words away from the minimum length. You get the picture.''

->''"Wrestling/VinceMcMahon then slapped [[Wrestling/TheBigShow (Paul "Big Show") Wight]], who knocked out the boss for '''[[HeelFaceTurn face turn]] #1''' of the night. It was shaping up to be an amusing episode of ''{{Series/Raw}}''. Yes, it was extremely thin on action, but sometimes you’ve got to tease the audience to convince them to buy the upcoming pay-per-view, especially Wrestlemania... oh right, this *was* Wrestlemania. And here I just assumed all these thrown-together angles and stunts were just ploys to keep viewers from flipping to ''[[Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro Nitro]]''."''

->''"Wrestling/VinceMcMahon then slapped [[Wrestling/TheBigShow (Paul "Big Show") Wight]], who knocked out the boss for '''[[HeelFaceTurn face turn]] #1''' of the night. It was shaping up to be an amusing episode of ''{{Raw}}''. Yes, it was extremely thin on action, but sometimes you’ve got to tease the audience to convince them to buy the upcoming pay-per-view, especially Wrestlemania... oh right, this *was* Wrestlemania. And here I just assumed all these thrown-together angles and stunts were just ploys to keep viewers from flipping to ''[[Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro Nitro]]''."''

->''Here is the movie. Some government guy comes up to Henry and tells him to give the government some steel and Henry tells him to piss off cause capitalism. Then Henry complains and someone asks “Who is John Galt?“ and someone disappears like there is some [[TheAdjectivalSuperhero Objectivist Batman]] running around or something. Another person comes to Henry asking him for steel and he tells him to piss off. Henry complains and someone tells Atlas to shrug. Then another person tells Henry to give the steel, then lather, then Henry has the court asking him for steel, then rinse, then more government people ask for steel, then repeat. I had it all wrong a few paragraphs ago. This movie isn’t slow in telling a story, it is an endless loop. Ayn Rand is SelenaGomez, she [[WaxingLyrical loves this plot point like a love song, and she keeps hitting re-peatpeatpeatpeatpeat.]] Oh god, this review has me quoting Selena Gomez.''

->''You know a movie is in trouble when you start looking at your watch. You know it's in bad trouble when you start shaking your watch because you think it might have stopped.''

->"You know why this game is on three discs? Not because it’s a complex roller-coaster of an epic. It's because it's '''padded like a [[{{Emo}} menstruating]] fire hose.'''"

->''It's just the Doctor playing the Trilogic Game for four episodes while Steven and Dodo meander through a series of arbitrary deadly challenges. The reason it's four episodes long is... that's how long it is. It could have been one. It could have been three hundred. It doesn't matter, because the plot does not build at all, at any point, anywhere in the entire episode. They just eventually run out of games and go free.''

->"I really think there's more 'nothing' in this movie than in any movie we've seen."
-->-- '''Mike'''[='s=] verdict on ''Film/TheStarfighters'', ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''

->''Data reports the cave is unstable. [[CaptainObvious Glad you're here, Professor]]. The shaking and falling rocks didn't tip me off at all. He goes with Worf and Picard to find an escape route. They blow out a wall, revealing... more caves! Which Picard suggests they head for. In screenwriting, this is generally known as "padding". For those less than cinematically inclined, just picture this: term paper due in thirty minutes. 100 words away from the minimum length. You get the picture.''
-->-- '''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''s [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Star_Trek__Insurrection.aspx recap]] of ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection''

->''Data reports the cave is unstable. Glad you're here, Professor. The shaking and falling rocks didn't tip me off at all. He goes with Worf and Picard to find an escape route. They blow out a wall, revealing... more caves! Which Picard suggests they head for. In screenwriting, this is generally known as "padding". For those less than cinematically inclined, just picture this: term paper due in thirty minutes. 100 words away from the minimum length. You get the picture.''

->Q: How many Dragon Ball characters does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
->A: One, but it'll take them three episodes to do it.

->''"I really think there's more nothing in this movie than in any movie we've seen."''

->''“Behold Paradise” is Sybok and his followers approaching the city on Nimbus III. It runs 52 seconds... 52 seconds I will never get back. I wonder what I could have done with that time. I could have spun in my chair, very slowly gotten a drink, or taken a quick piss. Lots of stuff, really. What I’m trying to say is that nothing happens here.''
-->-- '''''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''' on ''StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'' deleted scenes

-->--'''[[TheSpoonyExperiment Miles Antwiler]]''' [[http://moviemoses.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/atlas-shrugged-part-ii-the-strike-2012-john-putch/ on]] ''Film/AtlasShrugged Part II: The Strike''

->''"Meanwhile, the Head-Stapler ships have started firing on the mountains, in an effort to smoke out the villagers. Data reports the cave is unstable. Glad you're here, Professor. The shaking and falling rocks didn't tip me off at all. He goes with Worf and Picard to find an escape route. They blow out a wall, revealing... more caves! Which Picard suggests they head for. In screenwriting, this is generally known as "padding". For those less than cinematically inclined, just picture this: term paper due in thirty minutes. 100 words away from the minimum length. You get the picture."''
-->-- '''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''s [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Star_Trek__Insurrection.aspx recap]] of ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection''

->''“Behold Paradise” is Sybok and his followers approaching the city on Nimbus III. It runs 52 seconds... 52 seconds I will never get back. I wonder what I could have done with that time. I could have spun in my chair, very slowly gotten a drink, or taken a quick piss. Lots of stuff, really. What I’m trying to say is that nothing happens here.''
-->-- '''''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''' on ''StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'' deleted scenes

->Q: How many Dragon Ball characters does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
->A: One, but it'll take them three episodes to do it.
-->-- Classic ''Manga/DragonBall'' joke about the infamous padding.

-->--'''[[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]]''' on ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII''

-->-- ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick''' on ''Film/{{Xanadu}}''

-->--'''Mike'''[='s=] verdict on ''Film/TheStarfighters'', ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''

-->--'''WebVideo/HonestTrailers''', ''{{Film/Twilight}}: Breaking Dawn (Parts 1 and 2)''

->''"Brace yourself for two movies so unnecessarily long that they include [[ProductPlacement five Volvo commercials]], two montages of the previous Twilight movies, four games of chess, and '''the [[PunctuatedForEmphasis MOST]]. [[MundaneMadeAwesome STARES]]. [[UpToEleven EVER]]!'''"''

->"You know why this game is on three discs? Not because it’s a complex roller-coaster of an epic. It's because it's '''padded like a [[{{Emo}} menstruating]] fire hose.'''"

->"You know why this game is on three discs? Not because it’s a complex roller-coaster of an epic. It's because it's '''padded like a [[{{Emo}} menstruating]] fire hose.'''"
-->--'''[[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]]''' on ''FinalFantasyXIII''

-->--'''[[ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]]''' on ''FinalFantasyXIII''

->"Do you know what this game is on five discs? It's not because it's some complex roller coaster of an epic. It's because it's '''padded like a [[{{Emo}} menstruating]] fire hose.'''"

-->-- ''Creator/RogerEbert'''

-->-- '''RogerEbert'''

-->-- '''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick''' on ''Film/{{Xanadu}}''

-->-- '''Mike'''[='s=] verdict on ''TheStarfighters'', ''MysteryScienceTheater3000''

-->-- TheNostalgiaChick on ''Film/{{Xanadu}}''

->Q: How many DragonBall characters does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

-->--Classic ''DragonBall'' joke about the infamous padding.

->''This is gonna be a really short video. But it's a kinda short level, even for VideoGame/YoshisIsland, it's -- ([[BonusLevel Bonus challenge]]!) Oh, well, okay, we can artificially pad things up with Bonus Challenge here. Whew!''
-->--'''{{Raocow}}''', LetsPlay [[GameMod New]] SuperMarioWorld2YoshisIsland [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4bSALBZhr8 1-2]]
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-->-- TheNostalgiaChick on ''{{Xanadu}}''

-->--Classic DragonBall joke about the infamous padding.

->''"I really think there's more nothing in this movie than in any movie we've seen."

->"For the love of God! Cut half this shit out, c'mon!"
-->-- TheNostalgiaChick, ''{{Xanadu}}''