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.
Contents
Movies
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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