Already do. When I read the books, if the book takes place before A New Hope, it doesn't exist. Makes it much easier to read.robinkom said:
Things that destroyed your favorite movie/series
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Family Guy became less about being funny and more about being an incredibly liberal soapbox, I consider myself on the left side and I found it to be annoying.
Plus the Conway Twitty stuff, and all that other BS.
Interestingly enough it was after South Park had made the episode parodying Family Guy, but admitting that it never let the message get in the way... that Family Guy started letting the message get in the way.
I still enjoy the older episodes, but a lot of the newer ones just kinda annoy me now.
Plus the Conway Twitty stuff, and all that other BS.
Interestingly enough it was after South Park had made the episode parodying Family Guy, but admitting that it never let the message get in the way... that Family Guy started letting the message get in the way.
I still enjoy the older episodes, but a lot of the newer ones just kinda annoy me now.
Midichlorians made me sad 
They destroyed the whimsical, mysterous fantasy of what it meant to be a Jedi.
Interesting that this was brought up; I was just having a discussing about this with a friend last night. Anyway, I can't think of anything really great off the top of my head, except for that, but one thing that bugged me about a movie I like: the wolves in The Day After Tomorrow. I know it's not a great movie, but I love movies where the Earth gets all fucked up and things go really, really badly for people. I digress... the wolves played a very short part, but goddamn... *facepalm*. Like, right through my face.
They destroyed the whimsical, mysterous fantasy of what it meant to be a Jedi.Interesting that this was brought up; I was just having a discussing about this with a friend last night. Anyway, I can't think of anything really great off the top of my head, except for that, but one thing that bugged me about a movie I like: the wolves in The Day After Tomorrow. I know it's not a great movie, but I love movies where the Earth gets all fucked up and things go really, really badly for people. I digress... the wolves played a very short part, but goddamn... *facepalm*. Like, right through my face.
Oooh, you're good. You almost had me, but you overplayed your hand and I'm calling Poe's law.EOD Tech said:
WHY firefly WHY? stupid fox and their stupid idea of putting the show on the air out of order and not airing all the episodes and then canceling it. I SUSPECT FOWL PLAY!
How to ruin a beloved series:
1. Take game.
2. Remove helpful cheats
3. Set in a time period that has the pacing of a old person riding a tortoise through quicksand.
4. Make a retarded campaign that will cause the whole world to hate you if you walk 1mm into Spain's territory.
5. Make economy so hard to understand that the first time I played I cried.
6. Put in ship combat that isn't really ship combat at all, it's just land battles but now the quicksand is full of wet concrete and lettuce for the tortoise to eat very slowly.
Anyone guess the game yet?
Congratulations Empire:Total War, for ruining the series so much that I can't play you for more than 10 minutes before turning off, turning on Rome:Total War, starting a Julii campaign and declaring war on Gaul.
1. Take game.
2. Remove helpful cheats
3. Set in a time period that has the pacing of a old person riding a tortoise through quicksand.
4. Make a retarded campaign that will cause the whole world to hate you if you walk 1mm into Spain's territory.
5. Make economy so hard to understand that the first time I played I cried.
6. Put in ship combat that isn't really ship combat at all, it's just land battles but now the quicksand is full of wet concrete and lettuce for the tortoise to eat very slowly.
Anyone guess the game yet?
Congratulations Empire:Total War, for ruining the series so much that I can't play you for more than 10 minutes before turning off, turning on Rome:Total War, starting a Julii campaign and declaring war on Gaul.
Mostly when shows like South Park and Family Guy became all political, I quit watching.
Okay, granted, a few of the newer episodes are enjoyable to watch, but still...
Also, finding out from TVTropes that certain characters I liked/tolerated were considered... "unlikable", which also turned me off from watching certain TV shows. *COUGH*StarTrektheNextGeneration*COUGH*
Or when animes like Bleach and Naruto drag on for FREAKING-EVER!
Or season 2 of Heroes, which totally threw a perfectly good show out of whack, no thanks to the Goddamned writer's strike.
Not to mention when perfectly good shows get cancelled and replaced with crap, especially tweenie-pop/real-life based crap that permeates kid's TV channels nowadays...
...Yes, I'm very bitter, why do you ask?
Okay, granted, a few of the newer episodes are enjoyable to watch, but still...
Also, finding out from TVTropes that certain characters I liked/tolerated were considered... "unlikable", which also turned me off from watching certain TV shows. *COUGH*StarTrektheNextGeneration*COUGH*
Or when animes like Bleach and Naruto drag on for FREAKING-EVER!
Or season 2 of Heroes, which totally threw a perfectly good show out of whack, no thanks to the Goddamned writer's strike.
Not to mention when perfectly good shows get cancelled and replaced with crap, especially tweenie-pop/real-life based crap that permeates kid's TV channels nowadays...
...Yes, I'm very bitter, why do you ask?
You used to have a favorite series and then the next Bond movies has a James Bond surfing in the first scene and the main antagonists are a diamond face and a Korean who had plastic surgery to look like a brit. That is how. A james Bond movie can be your favorite series but you no longer have any love for the series.Nimcha said:
I was talking about Die Another Day.
Biffy Clyro's 4th Album
Kings of Leon's 3rd Album
Black Sabbath after Ozzy left
atrocities of the highest order, wouldn't annoy me if before these abominations they hadn't created some of the best albums!
Kings of Leon's 3rd Album
Black Sabbath after Ozzy left
atrocities of the highest order, wouldn't annoy me if before these abominations they hadn't created some of the best albums!
If you've ever felt that you hated the Prequels, you should check out the red letter media, the Plinkett reviews of the prequels. He basically picks them apart in every direction. The reviews are as long as the actual films:GiantRaven said:
http://redlettermedia.com/sith.html
For example:
...slightly NSFW. It's not horrible, but I wouldn't watch it at the office.
No idea what you're talking about but my point remains. Politics RELEVANT TO THE PLOT are appropriate (such as CIA backing of third-world rebels in a game like Just Cause 2) but there should be no random political diatribes where they're not really relevant. I could have done without the Obama posters in Madden.SonicWaffle said:
Cops don't care about gun control...I think discussion of the pros and cons of the War on Drugs would be a lot more appropriate in a crime drama. The Wire did a whole season exploring a precinct major who set up a de facto free zone for dealers and junkies. That was not only appropriate but great TV.
An one worded response isn't an appropriate response. You should've said this instead of writing just "No."EOD Tech said:
Mods don't like one word post.
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In the alien series of films, Alien resurrection. and the AVP movies. (I think the recent AVP game is brilliant though.
The Star Wars movies are too obvious...so lets break out the inner nerd and talk about the books.
The X-Wing Rogue/Wraith Squadron series was pretty damn fun to read...and it all went downhill after that (especially with book 8 basically undoing the entire point and excellently done climax of book 4...WHY???).
Starting around 2002-03, we ended up with the single most directly plot-contrived enemy for Jedi ever: Yuuzan Vong.
They're near force-immune. Lightsabers mysteriously don't work so hot against them.
They are such a perfect anti-Jedi, it defeats the point of Jedi even being there. That's like casting Bruce Lee in a martial arts flick and then tying him to a wheelchair for the entire movie.
It's some of the laziest shit ever, and apart from that spoiler, not one memorable moment passed for me. People assume a lot of these tie-in books and such are just market-driven schlock? Well, in this case, you would be half-correct.
I can see why they wanted to expand the roster of baddies, but the Vong were just handled so badly...or it could be that I liked it better when I knew the remnants of the Empire were playing dirty because they saw the writing on the wall.
Today, we've got Luke "Emo Dad" Skywalker and the children of Han Solo murdering each other. I stopped reading this shit years ago, but farting around my local bookstore and casually looking at the back of the books (just in case the series accidentally became good again), I can tell things have gone as south as the prequels ever did.
The X-Wing Rogue/Wraith Squadron series was pretty damn fun to read...and it all went downhill after that (especially with book 8 basically undoing the entire point and excellently done climax of book 4...WHY???).
Starting around 2002-03, we ended up with the single most directly plot-contrived enemy for Jedi ever: Yuuzan Vong.
They're near force-immune. Lightsabers mysteriously don't work so hot against them.
They kill Chewbacca by throwing a moon at him.
They are such a perfect anti-Jedi, it defeats the point of Jedi even being there. That's like casting Bruce Lee in a martial arts flick and then tying him to a wheelchair for the entire movie.
It's some of the laziest shit ever, and apart from that spoiler, not one memorable moment passed for me. People assume a lot of these tie-in books and such are just market-driven schlock? Well, in this case, you would be half-correct.
I can see why they wanted to expand the roster of baddies, but the Vong were just handled so badly...or it could be that I liked it better when I knew the remnants of the Empire were playing dirty because they saw the writing on the wall.
Today, we've got Luke "Emo Dad" Skywalker and the children of Han Solo murdering each other. I stopped reading this shit years ago, but farting around my local bookstore and casually looking at the back of the books (just in case the series accidentally became good again), I can tell things have gone as south as the prequels ever did.
None of these series are my all-time fave per se, but they are excellent examples for the topic.
The Matrix- LOVED the first film. Liked the second one- it wasn't perfect, but it was pretty good and had one hell of a cliffhanger IMO. Then the third one came along. Every loose end from the second film was resolved in the worst/stupidest way possible, and the ending was the worst possible way the trilogy could have ended. It's like the second film backed them into a corner and they were like 'Okay, there's no way we can come up with a good ending that resolves everything, so let's just throw shit against the wall and hope it sticks'. Not only that, but Path Of Neo (the game) hammered further nails into the coffin. The extra stuff they added to the story/world was boring, unnecessary and downright stupid (kinda like Lucas' revisions to the original Star Wars trilogy ), and the re-edited movie scenes were incomprehensible garbage. Enter The Matrix wasn't a brilliant game, but at least it added some important things to the story (ie. tying it in with the Animatrix, developing the characters of Ghost and Sparks after they only got bit parts in the films). Path Of Neo just ruined those great memories, and the gameplay sucked as well.
Pirates of the Carribean- LOVED the first film. LOVED the second film- wasn't perfect, but it was loads of fun, had great action and had an AWESOME cliffhanger IMO. Then the third one came along. Every loose end from the second film was resolved in the worst/stupidest way possible, and the ending was pretty underwhelming. On top of all that, they spent the entire film adding new story threads that either didn't go anywhere, were completely unnecessary, or were completely stupid. I hope the fourth one goes back to basics and recaptures what made the first two great (not holding my breath though).
X-Men Trilogy- LOVED the first film, LOVED the second film... see a pattern here? The third film had decent action, but was terrible in many ways. Midi-chlorians in Star Wars weren't half as bad as those lame-ass uber-geeky references to mutants having 'levels' on a scale of 1-5. Main characters were killed/cured left, right and centre, which can be a good thing if it positively affects the story, but in this film it seemed like they were only doing it for shock value because they had no other ideas. Some of the deaths were barely even acknowledged, like when one of the characters said 'You killed him!' in an off-hand remark (I won't say who got killed so as not to spoil it) and you're like 'Wait a sec, I never even realised he was dead!' and it's never even mentioned again. And this was for one of the main, MAIN characters! Rogue's and Angel's storylines were used as filler but never developed into anything meaningful and never even got resolved- hell, the only reason Angel is in the movie is for that stupid Deus Ex Machina at the end, and they could have easily done that with any other mutant, so his presence in the film is completely unnecessary! Overall, the script was utter garbage, but at least the special effects were nice.
Blade Trilogy- Admittedly, this one doesn't really have a continuous storyline/canon like the previous examples, but I still thought the third film did irreparable damage to the franchise. First film was cool, second film was absolutely amazing (by action movie standards, of course), but the third one was an absolute joke. I could tolerate that lovely close-up of Ryan Reynolds' pubes, I could tolerate him trying to set a world record for the most needlessly profane scene in the history of films (because it was kinda funny), hell I could even tolerate the idea that his character used to be a vampire but had turned back to being a human (which is stupider than midi-chlorians!). But one thing I could not tolerate was a vampire hunter who magically drew her powers from listening to an iPod at full-bore during every fight. The idea that blocking out all of the surrounding noise makes you a better fighter is completely retarded (surely vampires could just sneak up on her from behind?), and I cringed when one of the scenes in the pre-climactic-fight montage was her tweaking a setlist in iTunes. This was the worst case of product placement I've ever seen in a film, but it wasn't even as bad as the fact that the Nightstalker's compound was destroyed because they left a BLIND person watching the security cameras! And the vampires just walked in and ransacked the place! Who the hell is stupid enough to leave a blind person on guard duty ffs? And Triple H as a vampire? No. Just no. After two fairly intelligent and interesting action/fantasy films, the third one sought to be the dumbest film in the history of cinema, and killed any hope of this otherwise excellent franchise going beyond three films.
The Matrix- LOVED the first film. Liked the second one- it wasn't perfect, but it was pretty good and had one hell of a cliffhanger IMO. Then the third one came along. Every loose end from the second film was resolved in the worst/stupidest way possible, and the ending was the worst possible way the trilogy could have ended. It's like the second film backed them into a corner and they were like 'Okay, there's no way we can come up with a good ending that resolves everything, so let's just throw shit against the wall and hope it sticks'. Not only that, but Path Of Neo (the game) hammered further nails into the coffin. The extra stuff they added to the story/world was boring, unnecessary and downright stupid (kinda like Lucas' revisions to the original Star Wars trilogy
), and the re-edited movie scenes were incomprehensible garbage. Enter The Matrix wasn't a brilliant game, but at least it added some important things to the story (ie. tying it in with the Animatrix, developing the characters of Ghost and Sparks after they only got bit parts in the films). Path Of Neo just ruined those great memories, and the gameplay sucked as well.Pirates of the Carribean- LOVED the first film. LOVED the second film- wasn't perfect, but it was loads of fun, had great action and had an AWESOME cliffhanger IMO. Then the third one came along. Every loose end from the second film was resolved in the worst/stupidest way possible, and the ending was pretty underwhelming. On top of all that, they spent the entire film adding new story threads that either didn't go anywhere, were completely unnecessary, or were completely stupid. I hope the fourth one goes back to basics and recaptures what made the first two great (not holding my breath though).
X-Men Trilogy- LOVED the first film, LOVED the second film... see a pattern here? The third film had decent action, but was terrible in many ways. Midi-chlorians in Star Wars weren't half as bad as those lame-ass uber-geeky references to mutants having 'levels' on a scale of 1-5. Main characters were killed/cured left, right and centre, which can be a good thing if it positively affects the story, but in this film it seemed like they were only doing it for shock value because they had no other ideas. Some of the deaths were barely even acknowledged, like when one of the characters said 'You killed him!' in an off-hand remark (I won't say who got killed so as not to spoil it) and you're like 'Wait a sec, I never even realised he was dead!' and it's never even mentioned again. And this was for one of the main, MAIN characters! Rogue's and Angel's storylines were used as filler but never developed into anything meaningful and never even got resolved- hell, the only reason Angel is in the movie is for that stupid Deus Ex Machina at the end, and they could have easily done that with any other mutant, so his presence in the film is completely unnecessary! Overall, the script was utter garbage, but at least the special effects were nice.
Blade Trilogy- Admittedly, this one doesn't really have a continuous storyline/canon like the previous examples, but I still thought the third film did irreparable damage to the franchise. First film was cool, second film was absolutely amazing (by action movie standards, of course), but the third one was an absolute joke. I could tolerate that lovely close-up of Ryan Reynolds' pubes, I could tolerate him trying to set a world record for the most needlessly profane scene in the history of films (because it was kinda funny), hell I could even tolerate the idea that his character used to be a vampire but had turned back to being a human (which is stupider than midi-chlorians!). But one thing I could not tolerate was a vampire hunter who magically drew her powers from listening to an iPod at full-bore during every fight. The idea that blocking out all of the surrounding noise makes you a better fighter is completely retarded (surely vampires could just sneak up on her from behind?), and I cringed when one of the scenes in the pre-climactic-fight montage was her tweaking a setlist in iTunes. This was the worst case of product placement I've ever seen in a film, but it wasn't even as bad as the fact that the Nightstalker's compound was destroyed because they left a BLIND person watching the security cameras! And the vampires just walked in and ransacked the place! Who the hell is stupid enough to leave a blind person on guard duty ffs? And Triple H as a vampire? No. Just no. After two fairly intelligent and interesting action/fantasy films, the third one sought to be the dumbest film in the history of cinema, and killed any hope of this otherwise excellent franchise going beyond three films.