Ruined FOREVER (Darth Wiki)/Film

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.



  • The very concept of "nuking the fridge". This was coined barely a week after Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull came out. The thing was the coiners actually claimed they had found a "new" kind of jumping the shark, just for movies instead of TV (and even spammed YKTTW with it). Not only is "jumping the shark" not media-specific, but that term was coined years after the episode aired, not days.
  • Daniel Craig as James Bond. He's blonde! He can't drive stick! He wore a freaking life-jacket on a boat to the press conference announcing he was Bond!. Oh, wait, Casino Royale was the best Bond movie in years. My bad. Can't wait for Quantum of Solace. Wait, Craig cut off part of his fingertips? Oh, dear god...
    • Epitomized by the website Daniel Craig Is Not Bond, which garnered some media coverage when even the press jumped on that bandwagon. Even when the press and most of the fans declared him a fine Bond and Casino Royale was profitable and well-received, the site never once gave him an inch. To the point where Daniel himself commented on it and said he wished they'd all just hurry up and decide if they liked him or not and quit their bitching.
    • Quantum of Solace is eerily similar to Licence to Kill in this respect. What these people do not realize, is that Craig's Bond is by far the one closest to the source material in Ian Fleming's literature. The same was true for the earlier films starring Timothy Dalton as Bond.
    • For the record, a significant portion of the people who don't like Craig as Bond feel that while Casino Royale was a fantastic movie, Craig's still a terrible Bond. Great action star, sure, but a bad James Bond.
  • Every single Star Wars film, novel, game, or any product ever. While this sounds like an extreme exaggeration, if one could kindly direct oneself to any large Star Wars message board at the time of the release of a new installment, one would witness hordes of supposed fans screaming that Star Wars is ruined and that nothing can ever save it, generally leading to someone threatening to kill George Lucas- regardless of how much he was involved in the project. These same fans usually shut up after a while, if they don't leave the fandom entirely.
    • Four words: Star. Wars. Holiday. Special.
    • Knights of the Old Republic managed to avoid this, except for the canonical gender of the Exile.
    • The Old Republic, though, suffers from this with too many examples to keep track off. Graphics, animation, combat, dialog, lore, all are being listed as ruining the game FOREVER. The true irony in this? People were saying this before the game was even released. Imagine that.
    • The Incredible Cross-Sections books are often accused of bringing in excessive Techno Babble and heavily lambasted by some fans for that reason.
    • Wookieepedia copied Transformers Wiki's Ruined FOREVER page and applied it to Star Wars.
    • Star Wars: The Clone Wars has probably gotten more than its fair share if only because it was a television production upgraded into a feature film, an entirely different medium. The series itself has gotten a lot more supporters because it is being looked at as a television show, not a film.
      • It still gets a lot of hate for contradicting previous canon (and occasionally fanon) when it would be very easily avoidable.
    • Three words: HAN! SHOT! FIRST! Which, incidentally, is inaccurate, as this implies that Greedo got a shot off afterward, which he didn't. It should be "Greedo didn't shoot".
    • Pacifistic Mandalorians. LET THE CARNAGE BEGIN!!!
    • And now we have these clips from the Blu-ray re-releases. Lucas might as well go into hiding right now.
    • To say that Star Wars Kinect is a complete bastardization of everything good about Star Wars and the absolute worst part of the Star Wars Franchise to date just because of the dance-off mode alone is a HUGE understatement!
  • New Buffy movie reboot... WITHOUT JOSS WHEDON?! BLASPHEMY!!!! (Admittedly, in this case; it's not so much that it's not Joss Whedon, it's that it is Fran and Kaz Kuzui, who own and "ruined" the first movie and had no actual creative input on anything past that.)
  • The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie reboot has Michael Bay as executive producer... OH NOES!! The franchise will never be taken seriously again!
  • The film version of Sex and the City is probably the only film ever to be accused of this in a newspaper review. By a critic who knows what "Jumped the Shark" means, no less.
  • The next Spider-Man film won't be directed by Sam Raimi and will feature a new cast, with a story taking place earlier than in 3, with an English actor as Peter Parker?! A reboot only years after the first film!? KILL! KILL! KILL!!!
    • This seems to be starting to turn around somewhat thanks to the very strong fanbase built around Andrew Garfield because of The Social Network and a general love for Emma Stone...but we shall see.
    • The fact that most hardcore fans despised Spider-Man 3 has definitely helped them come to terms with the reboot.
  • To say that fans' reaction to the fact that Zack Synder's Superman project will not have John Williams' compositions is disappointment is an understatement.
  • While the majortiy of reaction has been positive, to say the least there are at least a few fans (even Frank Oz held some degree of the sentiment) of The Muppets who are crying this after Fozzie Bear introduced "fart shoes." Even if the joke was making fun of lame humor.
  • Remakes, Any kind, will always have this response. Double points if the remake is a PG-13 movie based on an R Rated movie. TRIPLE POINTS if the R rated film in question was a horror film.
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