History Quotes / SturgeonsLaw

-->--'''''HalfInTheBag''''', ''Franchise/AlienVsPredator'' rifftrack

->''"During Rocky’s training sequence, big rubber sides of beef descend from the rafters, which may be the first time I’ve witnessed a scene transition get its own round of applause...Before you see ''Rocky'', you have to ask yourself what you want out of your Broadway musical experience: a moving, well-crafted drama? Or something that’s only a few steps removed from the ''IndianaJones'' stunt show at Disneyworld? It stays true to the spirit and tone of the original film, but there will be times when you feel like you’re strapped into a ''Rocky'' theme park ride."''
-->--'''''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''' [[http://www.agonybooth.com/agonizer/Rocky_The_Broadway_Musical.aspx on]] ''{{Film/Rocky}}: The Musial''

->''"Of all the poorly animated, poorly written and just downright poor animated shows that came out of the 1980s...this was one of 'em."''

->''"The observation that no man is an island, aside from being only slightly more obvious than the fact that no man is a rutabaga, serves to overlook the simple fact that...\\\
[[MistakenForProfound Oh, fuck it. What am I doing here?]] I mean, really, what has my life come to that I'm trying to come up with anything remotely intelligent to blog about the fucking ''Series/GilligansIsland'' NES game? I mean, what sort of pathetic and self-important ass would I have to be to suggest that there is anything remotely worthwhile to be said about this festering pile of digital feces? There isn't. The very suggestion that this game in any way matters to humanity -- that it is even theoretically possible that this game has some larger metaphorical significance -- seems mostly like a crushingly rude snub on humanity."''
-->--'''[[http://projectnes.blogspot.com/2011/04/in-which-something-finally-snaps.html Phil Sandifer]]'''

->''"Let me take you back to [[TheEighties 1989]]. In the pop world, music is as obnoxiously slick and polished and watered-down as it'll ever be. But if you look beneath the surface, you'll find an increasingly popular genre called hip-hop right now going through it's golden age. A lot of people [[ItWillNeverCatchOn didn't like it.]] 'It's not even real music,' they said. 'It's ugly. [[MoralGuardians It's dangerous. It's threatening.]]' To break through the rampant prejudice against the genre, you had to be the ''tightest, most undeniable, most technically-perfect'' M.C. ever to take the mic. In other words, you had to be... '''Biz Markie'''. Yes, the diabolical Clown Prince of hip-hop, [[SpellMyNameWithAThe The Biz]]. He looked like [[KavorkaMan a cartoon character]]. He sang [[GiftedlyBad like a dying walrus]]. He rapped like he'd just had [[TheUnintelligible his tonsils removed]]. And yet he powered his way to a Top 10 hit... Why ''him?'' Is there anything more to the guy than just being the late-80s version of [[AmericanIdol William Hung?]]"''

->'''Jay:''' So, not only did they ''not'' want to make a Creator/JamesCameron/Creator/RidleyScott/Creator/SigourneyWeaver ''{{Film/Alien}}'' movie, they wanted to make a PG-13 ''Alien Vs. Predator'' [[LighterAndSofter kiddie movie.]]\\
'''Rich:''' That's so missing the point. At least as far as the ''Predator'' movie goes.\\
'''Jay:''' You know what? Whichever movie executive made that decision? From a financial point, it worked out, 'cause this was the most financially-successful movie in the series of movies.\\
'''Rich:''' Are you kidding?\\
'''Jay:''' I'm not kidding.\\
'''Rich:''' Oh, now I'm sad. Everything about this movie is depressing.
-->--'''''HalfInTheBag''''', ''Franchise/AlienVsPredator'' rifftrack

-->-- '''Chris Sims''' and'' Caleb''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/justice-league-1-review/ on]] ''JusticeLeague'' #1

->''"Of all the poorly animated, poorly written and just downright poor animated shows that came out of the 1980s...this was one of 'em!"''

And at first glance, if you just look at the plot of this story, [[AlanMoore [Alan] Moore]] appears to have bought into the Miles version of the 60s. But throughout the story, in the background figures (many, but not all, added by [Kevin] O’Neill), we see the 1960s that is remembered by most of the people who were there ('''and if you can remember the 1960s, you were there but had to work in a factory or as a postman or something because your daddy didn’t own Kent''') – ''OnTheBuses'', the ''CarryOn'' films, ''AndyCapp'', ''SteptoeAndSon'', holiday camps…"''

'''Caleb Goellner:''' Truth be told, some of [[CriticalDissonance that jaded blogger nonsense]] may be why I liked it... So you give me a comic book by GeoffJohns that is basically {{Batman}} mocking a totally clueless [[GreenLantern Hal Jordan]] for 22 pages? It was worth my day-and-date $3.99. Was this a relaunch? I don’t even care. Geoff Johns gave me what I wanted, and I liked Jim Lee’s art a lot!

'''Caleb Goellner:''' Truth be told, some of [[CriticalDissonance that jaded blogger nonsense]] may be why I liked it... So you give me a comic book by GeoffJohns that is basically {{Batman}} mocking a totally clueless [[GeennLantern Hal Jordan]] for 22 pages? It was worth my day-and-date $3.99. Was this a relaunch? I don’t even care. Geoff Johns gave me what I wanted, and I liked Jim Lee’s art a lot!

-->-- ''"[[http://scfrankles.deviantart.com/art/Fan-Fiction-for-the-Unconvinced-446162333 Fanfiction for the Unconvinced"'' by '''SCFrankles'''

-->-- '''Creator/AndrewHussie'''[[http://hussieformspring.tumblr.com/post/11910263285]]

->''"''{{Film/Avatar}}'' takes a fairly straightforward story of postcolonial aliens and adds to it a whole “becoming the Other” plot that ends in a charmingly posthuman species change. ''{{Film/Inception}}'', on the other hand, is an astonishingly well-made execution of the concept of a dumb person’s idea of what a smart movie should be like that attempts to get “{{it was all a dream}}” to actually work as an end-of-film reveal. Neither are particularly good movies, although they’re certainly not bad movies either. [[SoOkayItsAverage They are simply middling movies]]... The implication is that our stories no longer need us. That they can get by perfectly well without us. We are extraneous even to our own cultural objects, which have taken on lives of their own. Tellingly, the other major sci-fi film in this period is ''IronMan2'', the point at which {{Marvel}}’s movie division really revved up its seemingly unstoppable juggernaut [[CashCowFranchise of churning films out of pre-existing properties]]. Film threatens [[ItCanThink to become a nearly self-sustaining medium]], imbued with enough depth and concepts to simply retread existing ground over and over again. Narrative without people. Having [[DeathOfTheAuthor killed the author]], we’ve now killed the audience. "''
-->--'''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2014/03/pop-between-realities-home-in-time-for.html Phil Sandifer]]'''

->''"You know, at the time I wouldn't have picked ''{{Franchise/Uncharted}} 1'' as a sequel-y sort of property, although the "1" on the end should probably have tipped me off. It wasn't awful, but it had fewer original thoughts [[DoctorWho than the BBC program planning department]]; it had one ball from ''GearsOfWar'' in its mouth and another from ''TombRaider'' and [[FollowTheLeader was sucking for all its might]]. The plot was removed by Caesarian section from an ''IndianaJones'' movie so sloppily that doctors were unable to save any of the relatable characters or coherent motivations, and it also took a lead from the DanBrown school of puzzles, i.e. present the viewer some ancient riddle [[ViewersAreMorons and then immediately solve it for them]], because if they were ''smart'' they wouldn't be watching this piss. So I didn't expect to hear any more from this franchise, but I guess if you feed humanity flavourless wallpaper paste for decades then you shouldn't be surprised if that's all they want to eat now."''

->''[[http://hussieformspring.tumblr.com/post/11910263285 "The animes represent a wide body of entertainment which includes some good stuff, as well as an absolutely incomprehensible amount of shit. Like anything."]]''
-->-- '''Creator/AndrewHussie''', creator of ''Webcomic/MSPaintAdventures''

->Art is speech, and democratic society has long understood that respecting freedom of speech exposes us to reams of stupid speech. That is a very small price to pay for the freedom to share thought and learn and grow as individuals and cultures.

-->-- '''AndrewHussie''', creator of MSPaintAdventures

-->-- '''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic''' on ''[[{{Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow}} The Super Mario Bros. Super Show]]''

->''"There’s a good reason history has forgotten so many of these songs: NOW is a Whitman’s Sampler of crap."''
-->-- '''NathanRabin''', [[http://www.avclub.com/articles/introduction,38249/ THEN That's What They Called Music]]

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"What a number!]]" said Candide. "How many good?"\\

-->-- '''RaymondChandler''', ''The Simple Art of Murder''

-->--'''Creator/BenjaminDisraeli'''

-->--'''BenjaminDisraeli'''

-->-- '''[[FrancoisMarieArouet Voltaire]]''', ''{{Candide}}''

->''"How many [[{{Tragedy}} dramas]] have you in France, [[StrawCritic sir]]?" said [[ThePollyanna Candide]] to the [[GrumpyOldMan Abbé]].\\
"[[TechnologyMarchesOn Five or six thousand.]]"\\
"[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome What a number!]]" said Candide. "[[FridgeLogic How many good?]]"\\
"[[SturgeonsLaw 15 or 16]]" replied the other [critic].\\
"[[TakeThat What a number!]]" said [[TheEeyore Martin]].''

->''"The animes represent a wide body of entertainment which includes some good stuff, as well as an absolutely incomprehensible amount of shit. Like anything."''
-->-- '''[[http://hussieformspring.tumblr.com/post/11910263285 Andrew Hussie]]''', creator of MSPaintAdventures

-->-- '''{{God}}''', ''The Simpsons''

-->-- '''[[http://www.formspring.me/andrewhussie/q/1936962937 Andrew Hussie]]''', creator of MSPaintAdventures