Internet Backdraft/Films: Difference between revisions

* ''[[High School Musical]]''...pretty much for its mere existence.

* The latest ''[[Star Trek (Film)|Star Trek]]'' movie generated these, even before opening. This has led to "Post this and get banned" notices at several bulletin boards.

** Among some groups saying anything positive about the film will get you attacked as a moron or someone who hates what ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' is supposed to stand for.

* ''[[Star Wars]]'' there's lots of fun here. Some highlights:

** Likewise, never, ''never'', '''NEVER''' mention that you find the [[Audience Participation]] in ''Rocky Horror'' to be pointless or a "silly gimmick that's the only thing keeping a mediocre cult film alive". You will be burned by flames.

* The remake of ''[[A Nightmare On Elm Street]]'' and how Robert Englund and only Robert Englund is allowed to play Freddy Krueger. You'd think casting Jackie Earle Haley as everyones' favorite claw-handed killing machine was a crime worse than the Lindbergh kidnapping the way some of the fanboys are carrying on about it.

* Want to start a [[Flame War]] within ''[[The Lion King]]'' fandom? [[Two Words|Four Words]]: [[Kimba the White Lion]].

** Heck, the same could be said if it's vice versa.

** You could probably diffuse both parties by giving them a little push toward the [[Philip K Dick|Philip K. Dick]] section of Amazon.

** And while we're on ''[[Inception]]'', {{spoiler|Whether the top fell at the end or not. It got to the point where people contacted the costumer to see whether the kids at the end were wearing different clothes than the ones they wore throughout the rest of the film [[Word of God|(They were)]], and to where Cracked.com had to moderate its own page on the film after ''[[Serial Escalation|commenters started analyzing the spin of the top just to see if the lean exceeded the amount allowed by gravity]]''.}}

* ''[[The Dark Knight Rises]]'': Given the success and excitement surrounding the previous films, backdraft was pretty much inevitable, with arguments essentially boiling down to [[Jumping the Shark|"Nolan has jumped the shark]]" vs [[Memetic Mutation|"In Nolan We Trust"]]. Some highlights include:

** Whether [[Anne Hathaway]] can pull off Catwoman (Similar arguments surrounded whether [[Tom Hardy]] could pull off Bane, [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|but these have quieted down a great deal since]] [http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llmhpb4wU91qal5uuo1_500.jpg the first still of Bane in costume was released.]

** Steve Kloves (the screenwriter for all the movies except ''[[Order of the Phoenix]]'') gets a lot of hate for the changes he made to the book. Ron/Hermione shippers (and Ron fans in general), despise him in particular for his treatment of Ron (giving many of his best lines to other characters, removing a lot of his intelligence and making him much more goofy and essentially reducing his role in the trio to [[Plucky Comic Relief]]) and Hermione (giving her many of the best lines, including several of Ron's, playing up her intelligence and competence to almost [[Mary Sue]]-ish proportions), and his seeming preference for [[Fan Preferred Couple|Harry/Hermione]]. Not helped by Kloves saying that his favorite character is Hermione and many Harmonians (militant H/Hr shippers) citing the movies as evidence for their 'ship (Despite the fact that the movies aren't, y'know...canon)

** Also don't lament against ''The Prisoner Of Azkaban'' (The Harry Potter equivalent of [[The Empire Strikes Back]]) if you know what's good for you (especially not if it's ''The Chamber of Secrets'', the equivalent of ''[[The Phantom Menace]]'')

* ''[[Sucker Punch]]''. Hoo boy. Either it is an unabashed ode to all things geeky or an incomprehensible mess of [[Author Appeal]] and [[Male Gaze]] with a more than healthy dose of [[Unfortunate Implications]]. Bonus points if you use "video game" to describe it negatively.

* Admit anywhere that you don't think [[Seltzer and Friedberg]] are the worst filmmakers of all time and the sum of everything wrong with modern cinema. There's a reason their page on this wiki is locked.

** Now with the new official pictures of the Lizard, there's been backdraft everywhere.

** And on a related note, there is a third group: the people who not only think the reboot is unnecessary, but that the original films shouldn't have been made in the first place.

* Do NOT say at a ''[[Planet of the Apes]]'' forum that you liked the Tim Burton remake. The results will not be pretty. "Rise" has generated a bit of squabbling over whether it was a decent reboot or had too many flaws and [[Mythology Gag]] stuff, but nowhere near the level of the 2001 remake.

** That said, just try asking if 'Rise' is an intelligent film with flaws or a failed film with too many big plotholes.