When The Dark Knight came out, some critics complained that Two-Face's coin flipping was a rip-off of No Country For Old Men. I shit you not.

Yeah film critics have one hell of a history when it comes to knowing jack shit about the source material of movies, I mean I know they're not the comic book reading crowd, but since they're paid "professionals" a little fucking research never hurt anybody.

I remember one review that accused Richard Williams (who is the most technically gifted animator alive btw) of ripping off Aladdin with The Thief and The Cobbler, a movie he started production on in 1964. It was butchered by studo executives and made INTO an Aladdin clone. But the review made it sound like a cartoon that some random hack made quickly to cash in on Aladdin when it's a movie that this guy had been working on for 28 fucking years.

I mean shit like that just pisses me off. FUCK movie critics.

Here's a review so awful it actually made me angry:

A Failing Grade to X-Men: First Class

Wow, that review wasn't really about.... anything.

Did Anpass write this?

The part where they bitch about setting it in the 60's was great. Maybe cause it makes chronological sense?

Indeed, some of the artwork, general plot and other random shit in Aladdin are definitely homages to and arguably stolen from an earlier version of The Thief and the Cobbler, and some of the people who worked on Aladdin outright admitted as much.

Not actually related to film criticism but remember when Morgan Webb called Beatmania a Guitar Hero ripoff?

Stupid fucking bitch.

Remember this?

Yeah, turns one of those guys said that he'd rather see The Three Musketeers than Meek's Cutoff if given the choice.

What's awful about it? The film is mediocre and the author did a decent job of explaining why.



He wasn't bitching, he was explaining the choice of time period and how it relates to the film's themes and influences.

A steampunk version of The Three Musketeers is a cool idea for a movie and it worked out great.
^^^^^^^^^^stupid film criticism

Doug Walker, aka The Nostalgia Critic, indirectly attacks every avant-garde/surrealism filmmaker (while praising some to be on the safe side) and insults the people who like them:

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/33139-the-cell

Did I mention he uses the word 'pretentious' a lot?

For some ungodly reason I used to think this guy was funny, I dunno if it was an incredible decline in quality or a brief period where I was completely insane.

I mean he's a terrible critic, and I hate critics who just do it "for the humor" because they're pretty much never funny enough to justify such a lazy critique.

He doesn't actually say all avant garde film is bad though, his commenters however... Well I've said it before but when it comes to terrible internet personality fanbases NC's almost rivals Yahtzee's.

Seriously, just a bunch of FF VII obsessed fuckwits who think any art that doesn't have a "coherent, easy to follow story" is bad. Oh but they DO like complex movies, like the work of Christopher Nolan, whose films are so brilliant that they actually brag about all of their fucking complexities (which are only complex in plot structure and most definitely not complex in any other way) until they're not complex anymore. Seriously TGWTG almost exclusively caters to these kinds of people, people with no imagination who have nothing to offer but the most shallow of criticisms and laugh at the most shallow of jokes.

Sometimes he can make a funny quip or good observation, but his voice is almost physically painful to listen to, and his snarky attitude is so forced and truly irritating, a know it's a character, but it doesn't work anymore.

There's also that time he called Jim Varney a bad comic actor because he's too hammy... REALLY? The irony/hypocrisy there is just amazing.

Oh and there's also his constant Randy Newman bashing, which would be ok if his whole mindless fanbase didn't jump on the bandwagon.

FUCK this website, seriously.

agreed, critics who put up vids of their reviews tend to be ftl.

Confused Matthew is the Antichrist and will be the end of us all.