Critiques

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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