Cleaning Up Needless References To Reviewers

Bringing up the following example from Days of Thunder:

• Genre Turning Point: Film journalist Stephen Metcalf argues that the film's wretched production excesses, and their attendant impact on the film's profits, made auteur-driven filmmaking acceptable again a decade after the notion had been discredited by the box-office failure of Heaven's Gate. United Artists' willingness to indulge Michael Cimino on that film had led to a backlash where studios favored producers like Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer who were effectively the sole creative forces behind their films, with directors merely taking orders from them. After similar excesses on the part of the producers, studios would let directors assert themselves creatively again, and it's no coincidence that Days director Tony Scott's critical reputation improved over the course of the '90s.

Cut all the reviewer mentions and re-write it to make it look like they were never there.

From Anime.Digimon Tamers:

• Parental Hypocrisy: Usually on display through Janyu, or, as JesuOtaku frequently puts it:
  JesuOtaku: Lying to your children/parents! ...It's a thing now.

The example is mostly a ZCE anyway.

I guess delete the reviewer reference, and then just hide the example, unless you can supply more context.

Bringing up this example from The Moral Substitute.

• Colby's Clubhouse is more direct and deliberate, with the titular anthropomorphic computer telling his large troupe of singing, dancing children about God and referring to the Bible. It did have a spinoff called "Colby's Place", a Christian KidCom mocked by Chadtronic here.

Just cut the last four words.

This is on Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022):

• Misapplied Phlebotinum: In his video about the cameos, 3C Films asked why Sweet Pete didn't use the toon transforming machine to make himself younger and thinner.

This should be obviously cut since sounds more like Fridge Logic than anything else.

Yeah, you can cut that.

Found on this on the YMMV page for Denver the Last Dinosaur:

• Memetic Molester: Denver himself, thanks to the Drunken Peasants after they looked too much into the theme song's lyrics.

Edited by DongwaChan on May 23rd 2022 at 8:07:11 AM

You can comment that out as a Zero-Context Example, unless you know the missing context.

Edited by CompletelyNormalGuy on May 23rd 2022 at 6:40:24 AM

One of the two page quotes on Bob Sapp's page is a quote from Seanbaby that seems to be making fun of him. Should I remove it?

I mean, I wouldn't call the quote making fun of him, but pages should only have one quote anyway, and I think the other one is better.

The page quote for Mike Rotunda is one making fun of his "I.R.S." gimmick. Should it be cut?

From YMMV.Tron Legacy:

• Critical Dissonance: While the film wasn't savaged by critics, it was generally viewed as being So Okay, It's Average by said critics. Audiences, however, had a different reaction, particularly Rob Bricken.

Is this reference necessary? Also how is the reaction different from audiences?

...Wouldn't a blogger technically be a critic?

I think they would.

Cut the last sentence.

Edited by DongwaChan on Jun 1st 2022 at 4:49:41 AM

Bringing this up from the pro wrestling subpage for Troubled Production:

Financial abuse was sadly incredibly common in TNA when it was backed by the Jarretts and Dixie Carter, an (unaccountable) heiress to a million-dollar Texas energy company. In fact, TNA won The Wrestling Observer Newsletter's "Worst Promotion of the Year" award every year from 2007 to 2017 - eleven times in a row - specifically for this reason. ^note (The award is based on the business side of running a wrestling promotion; booking quality has no real bearing on which promotion wins this award. TNA actually won both "Worst Promotion of the Year" and "Best Weekly TV Show" for Impact! in 2012.)

This is the page quote on An American Tail:

Eh, I don't necessarily mind it. It gives context as to why the film as these tearjerkers while also referencing a reviewer representing the generation who grew up with it.

Transformers: Earth Wars: Allegedly Free Game: Internet commentator Jim of the Jimquisition once did a story on someone who spent several thousand dollars on this game trying to unlock particular characters.

Mostly because I haven't seen something like this on pages like Angry Birds: Transformers and Angry Birds Epic.

Regarding the An American Tail example - I'd say cut it, since it does seem to kinda be mocking the filmmaker. And for the Angry Birds example, cut it.

Bringing up the following example from Home Alone 3

• Contested Sequel: Easily the most contested of the follow-ups; some, like Roger Ebert, consider it the strongest movie, others like The Nostalgia Critic loathe it. Then you have a middle ground, who concede that it's still a good movie and the main actor is pretty good, but not as strong as the first two movies.

While I could do without equating Ebert and the Nostalgia Critic, I think naming names actually benefits that entry, since it makes it a bit more concrete then the typical vague "trust me, some people hated it and some other people loved it" Broken Base and related tropes writeups.

Bringing up this example from The Snowman (2017):

• So Bad, It's Good: Not the film itself, but Val Kilmer has a bizarre role in the film as another Defective Detective whose few lines are badly over-dubbed (Kilmer had throat cancer at the time of filming), with one reviewer saying he laughed during his scenes and calling him "stupendously awful".