Revision as of 01:19, 8 January 2011

We seem to be really good at finding things we dislike in many different stories and situations so I figured we could compile them into a list so we ourselves don't make the same mistakes... or at least have something we can beat ourselves with afterwords.

Movies

9

Good stuff

• set some ideas up about teamwork
• complete setting
• simple story

Bad stuff

• half constructed metaphors
• schizophrenic themes
• So surreal one couldn't connect
• screaming bad guys
• consistent repetitive omnipresent human failure
• plot holes

Tale of desparouxque

Good stuff

• metaphors seemed to be really awesome and complete

Bad stuff

• seemed to drop metaphors and themes in mid stride

Emporers New Groove

Good stuff

• Good moral
• Got the serious/goofy mix just right for the genere
• Incredibly quotable
• Dynamic archetypical characters
• Clear plot, convoluted into an interesting story

Bad stuff

• Permissive/lying/stupid father figure
• Poorly resolved moral tone?

Batman, Dark Knight

Good stuff

• Believable and powerful villain (Joker)
• Awesomeness

Bad stuff

• No "good" person will kill others
• Contrived choices, fallacy of false alternatives
• Godless grasping for a basis of right action
• Dumb idiot villains (Anyone but The Joker)

Megamind

Good stuff

• Excellent dialog
• "Clean" in action and speech, while still presenting real struggles
• Fantastic yet believable characters

Bad stuff

• Continuing confusion over what "evil" really means
• Power of Eros to create Agape ex-nihilo
• Mocking overtones

Books

Dragon Spear

Good stuff

• uneducated main charcter (makes exposition easy)
• Main character isn't a jerk, but also isn't a manly-woman

Bad stuff

• Friendly dragons.
• Farmer dragons.
• Generally good dragons. Better than most people even... seriously
• elementery style and vocabulary
• Too much repitition

The Ballad of the White Horse

Good stuff

• For our God hath blessed creation,
• Calling it good. I know
• What spirit with whom you blindly band
• Hath blessed destruction with his hand;
• Yet by God's death the stars shall stand
• And the small apples grow.

Bad stuff

• Usually too high-minded to grip the heart
• difficult to follow except with exceptional concentration.