Caustic Critic: Difference between revisions

* [[Charlie Brooker]], of ''[[TV Go Home]]'', ''Charlie Brooker's [[Screenwipe]]'' and "guy who inspired [[Zero Punctuation]]" fame.

* Dorothy Parker made her living as a literary and theatre critic, as well as writing several books of poetry and short stories. Famous for her acerbic wit, she's one of the most quoted writers in US literature. She's also known as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table, the most prominent New York literary circle prior to [[World War II]].

(on [[Katharine Hepburn]]) "She ran the gamut of emotions from A to B" }}

** Probably the definitive quote on caustic humor:

* One classic literary examples is [[Mark Twain]]'s 'Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses.'

* Even [[Roger Ebert]] has been in on the act; he has said that in many cases it's more fun to write a review of a bad movie than it is to write a review of a good one (a sentiment voiced by several other critics). Many of his most negative reviews have been collected in his books, ''I Hated, Hated, Hated, Hated, '''Hated''' This Movie'' and ''Your Movie Sucks''.

* When not writing himself, [[Edgar Allan Poe]] was a well-known literary critic that ''tore apart'' everything, to the extent that he was known as "The Executioner".

* Many of the reviews on [[Rotten Tomatoes]] for ''[[Seltzer and Friedberg|Epic Movie]]'', ''[[Seltzer and Friedberg|Meet the Spartans]]'', and ''[[Seltzer and Friedberg|Disaster Movie]]'' ended up like this.

* ''Screw These Comics'' was a site that did this for sprite comics, and had a group of characters review a given in dialogue. Eventually, the creator quit after realizing his own reviews had degenerated into the same kind of things that he criticized bad sprite comics for overusing. Where once the team would look at a comic's points legitimately while making fun of it, toward the end many reviews consisted solely of variations of the exchange:

'''EvilNes''': SHUT THE FUCK UP NES YOU STUPID FAG THIS COMIC SUCKS! }}

* [[Retsupurae]] is this for [[Let's Play]].