Cleaning Up Needless References To Reviewers

I just found a part with not one, but two reviewer quotes on The Master of Disguise:

• Ending Fatigue: The film makes up for its scant 64-minute run-time by having nonstop outtakes, deleted scenes and other such Padding both during and after the credits.
  Roger Ebert: The credits go on and on and on. The movie is like a party guest who thinks he is funny and is wrong. The end credits are like the same guest taking too long to leave. At one point they at last mercifully seemed to be over, and the projectionist even closed the curtains, but no: There was Dana Carvey, still visible against the red velvet, asking us what we were still doing in the theater. That is a dangerous question to ask after a movie like The Master of Disguise.
  The Nostalgia Critic: And just when you think they couldn't possibly kill anything else, the movie decides it also wants to kill our time. Yeah. Just when you think it's time to go home, it turns out the movie is only an hour and twelve minutes long. God, it feels such an eternity longer, but nevertheless, that's the running time. So they literally fill up EIGHT MINUTES of credits with bloopers, alternate takes, deleted scenes; they're pretty much forcing you to watch all the special features on the DVD, because they know, for a fact, you'll never be interested enough in seeing them!

Neither of those are needed, easy cut.

Bringing this up from the professional wrestling sub-page for Troubled Production. I also think it could count for the complaining thread.

• Because TNA's heyday (so far) happened in the mid-to-late 2000s, it naturally became a font of memes and snarky internet criticism, mostly from the Observer podcasts, 420chan's /wooo/, and Wrestle! Wrestle! By 2010, even the jaded blogger demo had moved on to better things, primarily because 1) all the jokes had been told, and 2) we'd already seen this story play out, scene-by-scene, in WCW ten years earlier. Right down to the company flushing its own collateral just to elevate some old guys.
  WrestleCrap: The main event of the evening was to feature Sting vs. the man who was probably the hottest merchandise seller and most popular wrestler the company ever had, Jeff Hardy. So they turned Jeff heel. Bang.◊

Bringing this up from the Music - Concerts, Tours and Festivals sub-page for Troubled Production.

• The show was a financial flop and a critical disaster (critic Mark Armstrong gave the infamous review "Stop! For the Love of God!") Another issue was putting the show in large 15-20,000 seat arenas, as opposed to the theaters that Ross was playing at the time. The writing was well on the wall when, the show only filled 10,000 seats at the 19,000-seat Palace of Auburn Hills in the northern suburbs of Detroit (AKA the birthplace of Motown). After this, the remaining dates were canceled, and Ross blamed the promoters for the failure.

Bringing up the following example from Fullmetal Alchemist (2003):

• What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?: The 2003 anime portrays the plights of the Ishbalans and the town of Lior as having heavy parallels with The War on Terror and the xenophobia against Muslims that pervaded the early 2000s, especially with the people of Lior being Race Lifted from light-skinned Amestrians in a mountainous region to a different, darker-skinned ethnic group in a desert region. This is despite the fact that Word of God says she based the Ishbalans on the Ainu, the indigenous people of northern Japan who now mainly live in her native Hokkaido. Jacob Chapman goes into detail about these allegories here.

Cut out the final sentence.

Bringing up the following example from Super Little Fanta Heroes:

• What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: The third part of the retelling of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Everyone lives, Clopin turns Phoebus and Fleur-de-lys into hunchbacks, Djali into a human girl for Gringoire to marry, Quasimodo becomes normal looking, regains his hearing and marries Esmeralda with a redeemed Frollo performing the double wedding. Youtuber Bryan Croi Dragon is of the opinion that the writers were on drugs when it came to writing the third part.

Cut the last sentence.

Bringing up the following example from Same Language Dub:

• In the UK it isn't uncommon to find a TV commercial which is actually exactly the same as its US counterpart, just with all the actors redubbed to have British accents, same with Germany and Austria. This is frequently Lamp Shaded and sent up by acerbically embittered deconstruction site Ad Turds.

That last sentence is probably unnecessary and can be cut.

Bringing up the following examples from Wild Wild West:

• In Name Only: The original show was a merging of The Western with the Spy Drama. It didn't really have many Steampunk elements, just some technology that would have been high-tech for the time period. The movie ran with Steampunk and the specific James Bond-style "save the world" spy escapades. The show didn't have anything like the Spider Tank or the magnetic collars, which makes it a very stark contrast going between the two. According to Cracked, the premise of the Wild Wild West movie is based on a Batman: The Animated Series episode that originally starred Jonah Hex. It isn't exactly known how it became a Wild Wild West story.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: The trope centeric podcast "Film Sack" refers to this as "The Chick in the Bucket" after viewing this film, where Jim West leaves the Girl of the Week in a water tower bucket, never to be seen or heard from again.

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

Bringing up the following example from The Mister:

• Spiritual Adaptation: Jenny Trout pointed out in her review that the novel bears some suprising similarities to Poldark, to the point she and others have speculated that The Mister is yet another work of E.L James' that started out as a Hotter and Sexier AU fanfiction with the Serial Numbers Filed Off.

Cut out the critic mention and re-write the entry to make it look like it was never there.

Bringing up the following example from Filling the Silence:

• The Movie Nights review of Theodore Rex notes that the movie is just so full of what amounts to static noise - random grunts, Narrating the Obvious, and mumbling ad-libs that to the extent the movie even manages any meaningful dialog related to the plot, it's completely drowned out and impossible to follow.

If it's literally just "This reviewer says that..." with no additional relevance or explanatory quotes, you can easily cut that first bit and rephrase it.

Bringing up the following example from Most Definitely Not a Villain:

• In This Island Earth, a dinner conversation with Exeter quickly makes it clear he's not from Earth, as if his gigantic forehead with a huge dent in the middle wasn't enough of a clue. When it was chosen to be the experiment for Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie, Tom Servo repeatedly riffs on this part, concluding, "Then I ram my ovipositor down your throat and lay my eggs in your chest. But I'm not an alien!"

Cut out the MST3K references and re-write the example to make it look like it was never there.

Bringing up the following examples from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial:

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Some posit that E.T is mentally deficient for his race. The Robot Chicken sketch in which E.T is portrayed as actually being called "Kleborp" and is bullied for his mental impairment runs with this idea.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: A response generated by the edits for the 2002 20th Anniversary edition, which included replacing guns with walkie-talkies and changing "terrorist" to "hippie." Mercilessly lampooned in the South Park parody episode "Free Hat." Incidentally, while said episode portrays Steven Spielberg as the diabolical mastermind behind editing Raiders of the Lost Ark, with George Lucas only reluctantly following, in Real Life Spielberg later stated that editing the movie was a mistake and restored the original version for the Blu Ray release.

• Vindicated by History: In recent times, there are a number of people who feel that, considering the pathetically-tiny development time, it's not that bad once you know what you're doing. Hell, this sums up the Angry Video Game Nerd's final opinion on it.

Found in Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales:

First one looks like it can be rewritten, second one might need to be axed.

Cut all the reviewer and comedy show references in the E.T. example.

Those each might count if lawyers in general like him, not just one guy.

Bringing up the following example from Explosive Instrumentation:

• The infamous scouter devices in Dragon Ball Z exploded each time they measured a rapid increase in a power source, something that happened regularly during the course of a battle. For a device held on the eye by people regularly fighting powerful enemies, the scientists probably should have reduced the amount of explosives apparently used for its capacitors.
  • One particularly ridiculous example was in a filler scene, when several of Freeza's mooks were watching the fight between Goku and Freeza on a computer, when the scanner explodes and wipes out everyone in the room. Even though they were on a different planet. And they were most likely super-powered Ki fighters.
  • Portable models ceased use for the most part once Frieza actually started fighting with Vegeta, given the power levels were starting to get flat-out ridiculous. In Dragon Ball Z Abridged, Freeza's even says "F**K THIS, I'M OUT" before self-destructing.

Cut out all the reviewer and abridged series references and re-write it to be less nattery and snarky.

Bringing up the following example from The World Is Always Doomed:

• As Linkara puts it: "It's the DC Universe, the end of the world isn't even an excuse for getting off work any more."