A Year In Review, 2010!
Dec. 30th, 2010 08:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingLike always, I'm doing "the post of each month with the most comments", not the first or last or some such.
January:
The Winner: "The Book Of Eli: A review in five words."
The reason it got so many comments: On Jan 15th I called this the worst movie of 2010, and I stand by that. I also called it the worst movie of 201X, which "In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale 2: Dungeon Harder" is potentially competing for, but I think The Book Of Eli will still win out. In the end, this movie was internally inconsistent, had as it's *core plot point* something that required the Book to be literally fifteen meters thick to do, and if you accepted it's idiotic illiterate premise, it immediately became BORING. Only by rejecting the premise could the movie be interesting, and once you reject the premise, it's stupid.
February:
The Winner: Religious Bigot Flight School erects giant cross in the middle of Religious Bigot Flight School's designated non-Religious-Bigot worship area.
The reason it got so many comments:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pope_guilty defends at length the erection of a hate group's threat in the middle of a minority group's "safe space" as "littering". Seriously, dude, you were like half the comments there. And, as I predicted, the people responsible for the "non-christians must DIE" message? Not punished.
March:
The Winner: "They're not rapists, they're enthusiasts!"
The reason it got so many comments: Apparentlytheferrett quotes are popular? But, leaving him aside, this is the BNP poster child, arguing that women who report rape really deserve it. And the comments involve a whole lot more, beyond that douchebag.
For bonus points: In the world of Apple, they hope to one day soon maybe reach *2003*.
April:
The Winner: "Catholic Church, even now, covers up evidence, reassigns child rapist, and shields him from authorities while exposing him to a new crop of unwitting children."
The reason it got so many comments:icedrake and ironphoenix mistakenly think that modern Catholicism is defensible, attempt to defend it on grounds that a little child rape is okay because of all the other things the church does.
May:
The Winner: "Top ten creepiest video game moments of all time:"
The reason it got so many comments: I honestly have no idea.
June:
The Winner: "The Faculty Of TV University" and Britain In A Venn Diagram'
The reason it got so many comments: If you can't look at those and see a reason for argument, I can't help you.
July:
The Winner: 14-year-old boy, or 31-year-old woman masquerading as 14-year-old boy to fool her 16-year-old girlfriend?
The reason it got so many comments: The writer of the news article called it "a real life 'Boys Don't Cry'", meaning that she was apparently aware enough of Brandon Teena to make the reference, but had failed to realise that the stories really don't have much in common.
August:
The Winner: the combination of You! Name this cat! and Meet Angus
The reason it got so many comments: Kitty! awww, it's a kitty! Who's a kitty? YOU'RE a kitty.
September:
The Winner: "What behaviour, common and generally socially acceptable now, will be taboo in one hundred years? What thing that we do today will be viewed as barbaric, savage, backwards, and unthinkable in a century?"
The reason it got so many comments: Oh come on, how can that NOT provoke arguments?
October:
The Winner: Teabaggers: Still all racist, still all stupid.
The reason it got so many comments: It yanked in a teabagger who stuck around to argue, disengenuously and illiterately, until he realised that nobody was going to let him keep making antifactual assertions without backing them up.
Runner-up: Audience Participation Day, wherein everyone posted links to random pictures. No descriptions, no content indications, just a link to a picture (and a note if it was NSFW or not)
November:
The Winner: Dear inhabitants of lesser, inferior, other North American nation-states:
The reason it got so many comments: A loving correction about the true date of Thanksgiving is always received well.
December:
The Winner: "Am I a bad person for cracking my neighbours' wireless and resetting their SSIDs to "I wish I were an Oscar Meyer weiner?"" and "giving to The Salvation Army is stupid."
The reason it got so many comments: The first is funny. The second is sad.
January:
The Winner: "The Book Of Eli: A review in five words."
The reason it got so many comments: On Jan 15th I called this the worst movie of 2010, and I stand by that. I also called it the worst movie of 201X, which "In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale 2: Dungeon Harder" is potentially competing for, but I think The Book Of Eli will still win out. In the end, this movie was internally inconsistent, had as it's *core plot point* something that required the Book to be literally fifteen meters thick to do, and if you accepted it's idiotic illiterate premise, it immediately became BORING. Only by rejecting the premise could the movie be interesting, and once you reject the premise, it's stupid.
February:
The Winner: Religious Bigot Flight School erects giant cross in the middle of Religious Bigot Flight School's designated non-Religious-Bigot worship area.
The reason it got so many comments:
pope_guilty defends at length the erection of a hate group's threat in the middle of a minority group's "safe space" as "littering". Seriously, dude, you were like half the comments there. And, as I predicted, the people responsible for the "non-christians must DIE" message? Not punished.March:
The Winner: "They're not rapists, they're enthusiasts!"
The reason it got so many comments: Apparently
theferrett quotes are popular? But, leaving him aside, this is the BNP poster child, arguing that women who report rape really deserve it. And the comments involve a whole lot more, beyond that douchebag.For bonus points: In the world of Apple, they hope to one day soon maybe reach *2003*.
April:
The Winner: "Catholic Church, even now, covers up evidence, reassigns child rapist, and shields him from authorities while exposing him to a new crop of unwitting children."
The reason it got so many comments:
icedrake and ironphoenix mistakenly think that modern Catholicism is defensible, attempt to defend it on grounds that a little child rape is okay because of all the other things the church does.May:
The Winner: "Top ten creepiest video game moments of all time:"
The reason it got so many comments: I honestly have no idea.
June:
The Winner: "The Faculty Of TV University" and Britain In A Venn Diagram'
The reason it got so many comments: If you can't look at those and see a reason for argument, I can't help you.
July:
The Winner: 14-year-old boy, or 31-year-old woman masquerading as 14-year-old boy to fool her 16-year-old girlfriend?
The reason it got so many comments: The writer of the news article called it "a real life 'Boys Don't Cry'", meaning that she was apparently aware enough of Brandon Teena to make the reference, but had failed to realise that the stories really don't have much in common.
August:
The Winner: the combination of You! Name this cat! and Meet Angus
The reason it got so many comments: Kitty! awww, it's a kitty! Who's a kitty? YOU'RE a kitty.
September:
The Winner: "What behaviour, common and generally socially acceptable now, will be taboo in one hundred years? What thing that we do today will be viewed as barbaric, savage, backwards, and unthinkable in a century?"
The reason it got so many comments: Oh come on, how can that NOT provoke arguments?
October:
The Winner: Teabaggers: Still all racist, still all stupid.
The reason it got so many comments: It yanked in a teabagger who stuck around to argue, disengenuously and illiterately, until he realised that nobody was going to let him keep making antifactual assertions without backing them up.
Runner-up: Audience Participation Day, wherein everyone posted links to random pictures. No descriptions, no content indications, just a link to a picture (and a note if it was NSFW or not)
November:
The Winner: Dear inhabitants of lesser, inferior, other North American nation-states:
The reason it got so many comments: A loving correction about the true date of Thanksgiving is always received well.
December:
The Winner: "Am I a bad person for cracking my neighbours' wireless and resetting their SSIDs to "I wish I were an Oscar Meyer weiner?"" and "giving to The Salvation Army is stupid."
The reason it got so many comments: The first is funny. The second is sad.
I still wonder
Date: 2010-12-30 04:48 pm (UTC)(Also I could have sworn I commented in that thread but I can't recall what I said)
Re: I still wonder
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Date: 2010-12-30 09:09 pm (UTC)Worst film...
Date: 2010-12-30 07:17 pm (UTC)Admittedly I haven't seen boo of Eli, but I'm putting it out there that I think Skyline is possibly worse regardless.
Re: Worst film...
Date: 2010-12-30 07:33 pm (UTC)Re: Worst film...
Date: 2010-12-30 11:37 pm (UTC)Re: Worst film...
Date: 2010-12-30 11:43 pm (UTC)Re: Worst film...
Date: 2010-12-31 01:20 am (UTC)Re: Worst film...
Date: 2010-12-31 01:24 am (UTC)Which is to say: If Battlefield Earth is your standard of comparison, you are not in the same league. The Book Of Eli is bad on a scale of kilo-Battlefield-Earths.
Re: Worst film...
Date: 2010-12-31 01:45 pm (UTC)Strictly speaking the battlefield earth scale is logarithmic and begins with battlefield earth as "1", book of eli may be a BFE 3, but lastairbender is in the 3.2-3.6 range – simply because the most basic and neccesary of cinematography and story telling techniques occur in the BoE, yet are absent from tLAB, and the plot doesn't revolve around Asif Mandvi dressed as a samurai stabbing a bag with a fish in it to kill the moon in BoE.
The Room is a straight BFE 4 though. And HOW, fuck.
Re: Worst film...
Date: 2010-12-31 12:07 am (UTC)