History Quotes / SturgeonsLaw

->''"[[Music/NotoriousBIG Biggie]] dead. [[Music/TupacShakur Tupac]] dead. Music/VanillaIce '''still alive!'''"''

-->In 1980 I was working for a company that was a sponsor for a film festival, and the deal that I cut with my boss was that I would do all the paperwork and promoting the festival but that mean I got first dibs at all of the tickets. So in 1980, I checked the list, and I saw 253 films in one year. When you see that many films, you realize that the odds are it doesn’t favor with the Usefulnotes/{{Academy|Award}}’s thoughts, it favors with the [[Usefulnotes/GoldenRaspberryAward Razzies]] thoughts. A lot more crud gets out there than quality work.
-->--'''John Wilson''', [[http://awardswatch.com/news/interview-razzies-founder-john-wilson/ giving one reason on why he created the]] Usefulnotes/GoldenRaspberryAward.

-->-- ''WebVideo/HalfInTheBag'', ''Film/AlienVsPredator'' rifftrack

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

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

-->--'''[[http://dlisted.com/2014/10/21/ryan-phillippe-has-only-made-5-good-movies-says-ryan-phillippe/ Michael K.]]'''

->''{{Series/ALF}}'', with its sassy alien puppet that ate cats and cracked wise, for a time, was one of the biggest shows in the world, but you'll never find anyone who can quote a single line or recall a memorable scene. Among the series that did survive as much-loved squares of the nostalgia quilt that we snuggle beneath, is a seeming aberration that could well have been consigned to the same dumpster containing the rotting, [[UncleTomfoolery racist]] corpse of [[Series/PerfectStrangers Balki Bartokomous]].

->''"I think it may be the best thing I've written in years. It could also be utter and complete shit. But when I can't tell the difference, [[GenreSavvy that's a good sign.]]"''
-->--'''Tom Yates''', ''Series/HouseOfCards''

->The internet does, as you say, provide opportunities to obtain information and an extremely wide variety of viewpoints. That's a good in itself. But there is a downside. The downside is that you are so flooded with material that unless you have an understanding of the world that is sufficient to allow you to be selective, you can drawn into completely crazed cocoons of wild interpretation.

-->--'''Andrew''' of "[[http://mindlessones.com/ The Mindless Ones]]", reviewing ''LeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen: [[http://mindlessones.com/2011/08/07/the-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen-century-1969-the-annocommentations-part-iii/ Century 1969]]'' and disputing the above.

-->--'''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2012/01/pop-between-realities-home-in-time-for.html Phil Sandifer]]'''

->''"For most people, the big event of 1967 wasn’t the 14-Hour Technicolor Dream, with its Pink Floyd performance and Yoko Ono art happening, but Steve and Elsie Tanner marrying in ''CoronationStreet''. The big hit singles of 1967 weren’t psychedelic freak-outs but Petula Clark and Englebert Humperdinck."''

->So a gamer in early 1995 was looking at [[SegaSaturn a Sega system]] that cost $399 and only had six titles:\\

-->-- '''''Creator/RedLetterMedia''''' on ''{{Film/Titanic 1997}}''

->Unlike most writers, my competitive instinct -- though highly developed -- [[NothingPersonal was never personal]]. That is to say, I have never begrudged another writer his success, but I have sometimes deplored the taste of the moment that has made what I thought bad work successful. Happily, since injustice is the rule, one is quite as apt [[SelfDeprecation to be its beneficiary]] as its victim.

->{{Anime}} was a mistake. It’s nothing but trash.
-->--Troll quote misattributed to '''Creator/HayaoMiyazaki'''

->''"It's a bitter pill for some to swallow, but there really is a whole other America out there that they know nothing about, made up of people who watch ''Series/DuckDynasty'' and ''HereComesHoneyBooBoo'' and ''TeenMom'', who think of ''Creator/{{Fox News|Channel}}'' as a legitimate source of news, and who love Jay Leno."''

->Sometimes that Rhodes Scholarship is more of a weapon than an asset. I think he was just a little freaked out because ''Film/DumbAndDumber'' came out on the same weekend as ''Cobb'', and ''Cobb'' was his big swing for the fences and [[BoxOfficeBomb that didn’t work out]], and that freaked him out a bit.

-->--"Make 'Em Laugh", '''''Film/SinginInTheRain'''''

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

-->--'''''Creator/RedLetterMedia''''' on ''{{Film/Titanic}}''

->Sure, there were classics squashed among the huddled masses, but for every ''{{Series/Seinfeld}}'', ''{{Series/Cheers}}'', ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' or ''Series/{{MASH}}'', there's a dozen ''Series/PerfectStrangers, Series/SmallWonder, Series/OutOfThisWorld'', or ''{{Series/ALF}}'' -- series that seemingly ran forever, leaving behind impressive non-legacies of zero impact. ''ALF'', with its sassy alien puppet that ate cats and cracked wise, for a time, was one of the biggest shows in the world, but you'll never find anyone who can quote a single line or recall a memorable scene. Among the series that did survive as much-loved squares of the nostalgia quilt that we snuggle beneath, is a seeming aberration that could well have been consigned to the same dumpster containing the rotting, [[UncleTomfoolery racist]] corpse of Balki Bartokomous.

->'''Chris:''' A comic book with this much riding on it, this much promotion, the two creators who are meant to be [[DreamTeam the top guys in the industry working]] with the genuinely exciting premise of doing a bold new unshackled story of some of the greatest fictional characters ever? There’s no reason it shouldn’t be amazing. And yet, what we have here [is] a comic that reads like it came with an action figure...this feels like the next issue of ''[[ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobin All Star Batman]]'', a flashback to right before Hal Jordan got stabbed in the throat by a ten year-old painted yellow.\\
'''Caleb Goellner:''' Truth be told, some of [[CriticalDissonance that jaded blogger nonsense]] may be why I liked it...Is it too late to buy five more copies?
-->-- ''Comics Alliance'' [[http://comicsalliance.com/justice-league-1-review/ on]] ''JusticeLeague'' #1

->''"The UFO Club, and much of the action around its League-verse counterpart, is part of a very particular narrative of the time – one promulgated mostly by Barry Miles, which says that Miles and his millionaire friends like John Dunbar and Peter Asher, who all hung around in the Indica Gallery and bookshop and the UFO Club and were vaguely friendly with a few pop stars, were what was really important in the 60s.\\\
Of course these people, much like their LA equivalent Kim Fowley, never really did anything of note themselves, but were just acquaintances of those who did.\\\
And while they might think that the important things about the time were the underground papers and the UFO Club and the be-ins and happenings, these events were attended by at most a few thousand people in a country of sixty million, most of whom had no clue they were even happening. For most people, the big event of 1967 wasn’t the 14-Hour Technicolor Dream, with its Pink Floyd performance and Yoko Ono art happening, but Steve and Elsie Tanner marrying in ''CoronationStreet''. The big hit singles of 1967 weren’t psychedelic freak-outs but Petula Clark and Englebert Humperdinck.\\\
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 ''Film/CarryOn'' films, ''AndyCapp'', ''SteptoeAndSon'', holiday camps…"''

->Sometimes that Rhodes Scholarship is more of a weapon than an asset. I think he was just a little freaked out because ''Film/DumbAndDumber'' came out on the same weekend as ''Cobb'', and ''Cobb'' was his big swing for the fences and [[BoxOfficeBomb that didn’t work out]], and that freaked him out a bit...I went up to say hi and the blood drained from his face, in such a way that I realized that I had become [[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence the face of his pain]] or something. He got up, kind of shaking, and [[TakeThatKiss hugged me]] and said ‘I hate you. I really don’t like you.’ I was like ‘Wow, okay. Well, what’s going on man?’ And he said, ‘I cannot sanction your buffoonery.’

->''"The symbolism hurt just as bad as the financial loss: Not only did the bold, risky project get crushed at the American box office, it got crushed by ''Film/TheExpendables'', a cynical, pandering cash-grab that couldn't be a more generic-safe-bet-cookie-cutter-assembly-line blockbuster. After an experience like that, is it any wonder that ''any'' studio would suddenly reconsider betting on risky, "big idea" projects? But you know what ''did'' make a lot money for Universal, though?\\\
''[[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious Fast & The Furious 4]].'' Massive hit, great box office. So, guess what we got ''more'' of?"''

-?Exceptionalism is the exception my friends. The brilliant, complex and challenging falls by the wayside, while [[FollowTheLeader the safe and the familiar]] is the norm.

->''"Bad books become bestsellers all the time. And even more great books sell four copies and die a quick death. No one knows why...Anyone trying to figure out why is just a media fartsniffer trying to sell you on their supposedly brilliant ability to psychoanalyze 350 million Americans en masse. The next ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' won't be some shit porno. It'll be some YA trilogy or some high-minded gardening fantasy that captures the public imagination, and it'll be the most random thing ever. I only hope that I'm the one who writes it. WHO'S UP FOR ''THE CHRONICLES OF DORF BLERKHART?''!"''

->Ryan never mentions what his 5 ‘good’ films are, but let’s hop over to his {{IMDb}} page and see if we can’t figure out what 5 movies he’s talking about. Clearly ''Film/MacGruber'' is #1.

->''Coach'' was on for NINE SEASONS. NINE. Really? I think I saw it once and was like, oh, the theme is [[NeverHeardThatOneBefore guys are funny cuz’ they’re stupid]] *eye-roll* and wow, Shelly Fabrares has some big,red hair. She was like the proto-[[{{WesternAnimation/Brave}} Merida]].
-->--'''[[http://dlisted.com/2015/03/27/are-there-that-many-coach-fans-out-there-who-needed-a-sequel/ J. Harvey]]''', "Are There That Many “Coach” Fans Out There Who Needed A Sequel?"