RE: Worst movie you've seen
September 5, 2014 at 2:15 pm
(This post was last modified: September 5, 2014 at 2:23 pm by DeistPaladin.)
(September 5, 2014 at 11:17 am)Cato Wrote: I thought Battleship was incredibly shitty.
After seeing it, I posted this thread (spoiler alert) having to rant for want of brain bleach.
As an American, I'm always embarrassed to watch movies centered around what I like to call "The Lieutenant Hotdog" trope. The use of this trope was what I really didn't like about the rebooted James T Kirk character in the recent Star Trek movies.
To quickly run down the nature of the Lt. Hotdog trope:
- Lt. Hotdog is a young, washed up nobody who's haunted by some sort of family tragedy.
- Lt. Hotdog joins the military.
- Lt. Hotdog is supremely talented for no particular reason, often despite having been a drunken loser at the start of the movie, but also brash and a loose canon. He does the kind of things that would get someone in the real military dishonerably discharged or, at the very least, on permenant menial duty and kept the HELL away from fighter jets or leadership roles.
- Lt. Hotdog goes too far one day and really gets in trouble with the brass. Bonus trope points if the trouble was a fight with a rival that later turns out to be an important team member, with whom Lt. Hotdog patches things up and works with to get the job done.
- Lt. Hotdog is called into the commander's office and is given the "what am I going to do with you?" speech. "You're very talented yatta yatta but..." It looks bad for Lt. Hotdog. The hammer is about to come down but just before it happens...
- Main crisis of the movie takes place just before the book can be thrown at Lt. Hotdog.
- Lt. Hotdog rises to the occassion and saves the day, he becomes the hero and gets the girl in the end.
As tiresome as it is predictable as it is wildly unrealistic. The trope is also borderline Marty Stu.
Atheist Forums Hall of Shame:
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
