Caustic Critic: Difference between revisions

* [[Discussed Trope|Discussed]] in [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Time Enough for Love]]''. See the [[Caustic Critic/Quotes|quotes page]] for details.

 

 

* [[Mark Kermode]] of [[The BBC]] has a (deserved) reputation for this, especially regarding [[Pirates of the Caribbean]] including some suggestions that everyone involved with a movie hang their heads in shame, that a film be buried in an underground bunker filled with toxic waste, and that a film was akin to the experience of smashing one's head into a glass door elongated to ninety minutes.

** See also his rants, er, opinion of all Transformers films, Sex and the City 2, Angels and Demons, etc.

* [[Statler and Waldorf|Hecklers]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpYEJx7PkWE&feature=related Statler and Waldorf] added a grumpy (and extremely popular) streak of critical humour to the ''[[The Muppet Show]]''.

* ''[[Top Gear]]'' does this, particularly the modern incarnation and to older cars. Jeremy Clarkson has related a story about car manufacturers getting angry and retaliating by threatening to "take all our advertising off [[The BBC]]". [[Critical Research Failure|The BBC doesn't have any advertising]].

* Adam Sessler of ''[[X-Play]]''

** "I'd rather french kiss my grandma than play this game."

 

== Music ==

* Robert Christgau '''defines''' this trope.

** [[Sonic Youth]] wrote a song about him entitle, "I Killed Christgau With My Big Fucking Dick" after he labelled their music "pigfucker music". Also [[Lou Reed]] ranted about him on a live album.

 

== Professional Wrestling ==

* [[Noah Antwiler]] on [[The Spoony Experiment]] spin-off Wrestle Wrestle.

* [[Jim Cornette]]. The emotion of "vague or minor but tolerable dislike" does not seem to exist for this man.

 

== Theatre ==

* In 1964, Israeli critic Khayim Gamzu wrote a review about a play named ''Sammy Will Die At Six O’Clock''. The play was praised and glorified by pretty much every critic, except Gamzu, whose entire review was, ‘As far as I’m concerned, he could have died at five o’clock.’ This review was a huge surprise to many, and [[Efraim Kishon]] coined the word ''ligmoz'',<ref>לִגְמֹז</ref> meaning ‘to criticise brutally’.

 

== Web Original ==

* [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]]

* Maddox of [[The Best Page in The Universe]].

* Being a collection of caustic critics is the stated mission of [[Pajiba]]. Their tagline is "Scathing Reviews. Bitchy People."

* Professor Otaku of the [[Desu Des Brigade]], with anime.

** Sometimes. At times, he's obviously not very serious, and gives the movies some slack (i.e.: THIS PART OF THE MOVIE BLOWS FUCKING DUCKS. WHO THOUGHT OF IT? DID I MENTION IT'S A MISPLACED PROP?) In addition, he lists actual flaws and appears to ''like'' bits of the movie.

* [http://necrocritic.webs.com/ The Necro Critic]. He reviews both bad movies AND bad videogames.

** And as of recently, is even reviewing anime.

*** It's worth noting that he seemed to exhibit a very thorough knowledge of FFX, and obviously spent quite a bit of time with optional quests. He probably doesn't really hate the game as a whole, but [[Rule of Funny]] very much applies when ripping on [[The Scrappy|certain characters]] and [[Narm|moments]].

**** Spoony refuses to follow the obvious path and review ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'', despite intense fan demand.<ref>including one fan who harassed him about it during the TGWTG charity drive</ref> His stated reason is that he's been told the game is pretty good, and he reviews ''bad'' games and movies. In the ''FFVIII'' review he does hate on the ''FFIX'' character designs, but in the audio commentary he admits that he just can't get past the art style despite it being "massively unfair", and says he probably couldn't give the game an objective review because of his own hang-ups.

* [http://sturgeonawards.blogspot.com/ The Sturgeon Awards]. The blogger will review anything he hates. However, he has written a positive review of [[Genetos]].

* [http://www.facebook.com/pages/FireBlog/154468544591691 The FireBlog] gives text reviews of overrated TV shows, and is currently working on [[The Middle]]. It will also make fun of idiots on [[IMDb]]. Apparently, nobody is safe from the [[Fire Blogger]].

** Parodied in [[The Flash Tub]]'s [http://www.somethingawful.com/d/flash-tub/furious-famicom-faggot.php Furious Famicom Faggot].

* There are quite a few websites dedicated to bad movies; here are a just a select few:

** [http://www.ruthlessreviews.com Ruthless Reviews]

** [http://www.stomptokyo.com/badmoviereport The Bad Movie Report]

** [http://www.badmovies.org Badmovies.org]

* Parodied in [http://xninjared.deviantart.com/art/Happy-Valentine-from-XNinjaRed-153934205 this comic] where the Ninja is being a harsh critic over a Valentine card saying there's no plot, feeling or charm and says he can do better, only to basically make a threat card rather than a Valentines card.

* ''[[RedLetterMedia]]'''s Mister Plinkett. He's also a [[Deconstruction]] and a satire of the stereotypical wannabe- critic youtuber's usual online persona: what kind of person would be as devoted, nerdy and angry to actually write a 60 minutes long review of [[Star Wars]] Episode 1, carefully deconstructing all of its flaws? Answer: [[Serial Killer|Not a nice one]].

* [[Reddit]], Hacker News, and Slashdot are full of programmers who love to rip their least favorite programming languages, coding paradigms, etc.

* Despite his own opinion (he says he's mixed almost equally on negative and positive reviews) Youtube user Razorfist AKA "The Rageaholic" is an easy fit. [[Berserk Button|Do NOT compare him to Yahtzee.]]

 

 

== In-Universe Examples ==

 

 

* From the descriptions of his typical reviews, Mortimer Brewster of ''[[Arsenic and Old Lace]]'' seems to be one of these.

 

* ''[[Hannah Montana]]'' has music critic Barney Bittman, played by the legendary [[Gilbert Gottfried]].

 

* ''[[Cyrano De Bergerac]]'': Cyrano critics your artistic work without any pity, and given the play is a [[Period Piece]], [[Foregone Conclusion|Cyrano is always right]] [[Historical Fiction|in his critics]]: [[Giftedly Bad|Montfleury]] was a ''"An actor villainous!"'' (and then Cyrano kicks him out the theater), [[Fan Dumb|les Précieuses]] could ''"Inspire our verse, but—criticise it not!"'', [[Sturgeon's Law|playwright Baró’s]] ''"verses are not worth a doit! I'm glad to interrupt"'' (Baró’s play). [[Magnificent Bastard|Cardenal]] [[Small Name, Big Ego|Richelieu]] ([[Man Behind the Man|famous politician]], [[Renaissance Man|wrote plays as a hobby]]) ''"is an author. 'Twill not fail to please him that I should mar a brother-author's play"''. Cyrano also is fair, of his own talent he thinks: ''"Not to mount high"'' and about Molière, Cyrano thinks he’s a ''"genius"''.

 

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=== [[Western Animation]] ===

 

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