"Not only am I an old school Disney fanatic, but I am a Home on the Range 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 Cars in which I loved both films and the Mater shorts."
— DisneyCow82
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on deviantART"I think it's really underappreciated as far as movie crossovers go! I mean, it was no Avengers, but it was still pretty damn decent!"
"In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so."
— Anton Ego reevaluating his position in 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 The Last of Us 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 The Last of Us Part II comes out, and then we have to play as those other people. "How dare Naughty Dog 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."
"I went into this game, fully expecting myself to have... at least an okay time. I went into this knowing people hated it, or at least didn't like it, but I wasn't entirely sure why. […] Usually when that happens, I think to myself, 'Okay, well if people hate it, I probably won't mind it too much; I'm going into this knowing it's probably bad'."
"For a good, like, ten years there, Canadian grunt-rockers Nickelback were one of the biggest whipping boys in pop culture; a nice, reliable punchline that you could use as casual shorthand for shitty music. It all feels now like an artifact of a completely different era, and the backlash to the backlash seems kind of inevitable. I mean, all of that hate for a band who didn't do anything except make music that you didn't like? What's the big deal? And I think that's come around to not just avoiding the jokes, but actually starting to appreciate their music. [...] So these days it seems like people are more inclined to defend them than anything. I am not one of those people. I staked my claim in 2003, and I see no reason to move. I say we could have left Nickelback's name on the 'Worst Band Ever' banner; I would have been perfectly okay with that. That said, this long after their heyday it is a little easier to have a more balanced look at them, and even though I'm not a fan, I'd agree that Nickelback jokes are hacky. Last year, I watched Only Murders in the Building on Hulu take a cheap shot at them, and I swear to God I got offended on their behalf."
"I've gotten some comments from folks who don't understand the hatred towards Tommy. The thing is, aside from the hamfisted intro story where Chacon beats it into your skull that this boring new character we've apparently never heard of is one of the most important people in Sonic's life, Tommy really isn't that bad in a reread. But you have to put yourself in the shoes of someone following the comics month to month. The comics introduced this new character with no real personality or skills or any defining traits aside from being Sonic's apparent friend, and then kept focusing on him over and over again. For several years, they kept doing backup stories about Tommy, none of which made him any more interesting. If you were hoping to get a story about another supporting character like Bunnie, Rotor, Amy, or whoever? Too bad! It's time for more Tommy. And after his reintroduction, he stuck around for nearly three years. Readers probably started to worry Tommy would be stealing the spotlight from more interesting characters for, like... forever."
— ThanksKenPenders on Tommy Turtle from Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics)
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