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[Prospero]

Guardian critics drop any pretense of objectivity and attempt to troll anyone they can.

No more heroes: music

Why did Kurt Cobain whine and grimace like a man with crippling haemorrhoids? Maybe it was because he was a genius who channelled the existential despair of an entire generation through his poetic songwriting. Maybe he did have haemorrhoids. Or maybe it was because he was embarrassed. Embarrassed by the fact that Generation X had mistaken his navel-gazing lyrics and tuneless, guitar-thrashing noises for something more meaningful. Embarrassed by his crappy old jumper and lifeless, can't-do-a-thing-with-it hair. Embarrassed by the knowledge that, yes, he was in the defining band of the early 90s; but that the early 90s was the most rubbish era in pop history.

No more heroes: film

Blade Runner is a steaming puddle of hopelessly muddled, abysmally dull wee-wee that means bugger-all with bells on. So why the praise? Because nobody wants to admit they don't get it, even though ladling meaning onto such hollow tosh is as smart as worshipping a potato.

No more heroes: writers

Pop-lore posits the Beat writer as a cartographer of social discomfort: a radical who refused literary constraints. The Beat writer was, in fact, a layabout who couldn't hold down a cogent idea.

No more heroes: television

The way that Carrie Bradshaw and her cron(i)es have come to be regarded as role models in this country proves just how in the thrall of America British women really are. Four vain, vacuous, materialistic fashion victims, [Sex and the City's] heroines spent most of their 5/6/7 series shopping, having lunch and cooing over men.Their taste in men by the way was, like their taste in clothes, depressingly conservative - very American, very 80s.

 

[olimario]

Blade Runner IS shit. Nothing ruins sci-fi for me like a truckload full of shitty continuity errors.

 

[Guzim]

The Beatles
Thanks to these four, Britain's high watermark of musical creativity is still considered to be pub rock made by white idiots. As if polluting the 1960s with their safe, insipid music wasn't bad enough, they've exerted a stranglehold on culture since, inspiring generations of terrible bands and being feted by Chris Evans and Alan Partridge. Between their toe-curling rhyming couplets, tax-dodging, horseshit "spirituality" and Octopus's Garden, the Beatles embody everything wrong with the 60s in general and hippies in particular.
Justin Quirk

This just in, Justin Quirk is a dumbass.

 

[Star Power]

They hit the mark on a few of their musical choices, namely U2, The Rolling Stones, James Brown, Jim Morrisson and Elvis, but for the most part they're just being iconoclastic for the sake of being iconoclastic.

 

[pestul]

:lol .. what a bunch of haters.

Monty Python? Come on..

 

[Matlock]

Nirvana was heavy metal by the back door, heavy metal without the consolation of Spandex and hairspray. Kurt knew it and he was so embarrassed he blew his own brains out. I didn't blame him.

:lol

 

[Star Power]

So say it loud: he's crap, and he's proud.

:lol :lol

 

[Phoenix]

Blade Runner IS shit. Nothing ruins sci-fi for me like a truckload full of shitty continuity errors.

Agreed. Didn't get the appeal of it then and don't now. Meanwhile much of the sci-fi community give this movie fellatory praise.

 

[Willco]

Blade Runner gets so much praise because it has defined the asthetics of the future for science ficition for twenty-freakin'-years.

 

[way more]

Harrison Ford as a futuristic detective hunting down robots in post-apocalyptic L.A. What the hell is not to love?

 

[Jim Bowie]

Blade Runner gets so much praise because it has defined the asthetics of the future for science ficition for twenty-freakin'-years.

Word up.

I can't believe that Star Power isn't having a conniption fit over the David Bowie "review". I take all of this with a grain of salt, because this is all supposed to be inflammatory. That, and this guy takes everything out of context of the timeline of the movie's release. Example:

The Jazz Singer: A very poor movie with unfunny jokes. The sound quality is buggy at best, and seriously guys, black and white is too student film. The director should be ashamed that he let this come out to theaters. A movie store DVD rental at best.

:/

 

[COCKLES]

Harrison Ford as a futuristic detective hunting down robots in post-apocalyptic L.A. What the hell is not to love?

Indeed. And if there's ever been a more beautiful moment in sci-fi then the death of Roy Batty...then I've never seen it.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

notice nobody mentioned Pearl Jam on that list. Vedder=bulletproof.

 

[Star Power]

I can't believe that Star Power isn't having a conniption fit over the David Bowie "review"

I'm hurting on the inside

 

[Jim Bowie]

If it makes you feel any better, Star Power, your avatar is turning me on like a light.

 

[Star Power]

:lol

 

[Shinobi]

Blade Runner is a steaming puddle of hopelessly muddled, abysmally dull wee-wee that means bugger-all with bells on. So why the praise? Because nobody wants to admit they don't get it, even though ladling meaning onto such hollow tosh is as smart as worshipping a potato.

:lol :lol :lol

 

[Manabanana]

Why did Kurt Cobain whine and grimace like a man with crippling haemorrhoids? Maybe it was because he was a genius who channelled the existential despair of an entire generation through his poetic songwriting. Maybe he did have haemorrhoids. Or maybe it was because he was embarrassed. Embarrassed by the fact that Generation X had mistaken his navel-gazing lyrics and tuneless, guitar-thrashing noises for something more meaningful. Embarrassed by his crappy old jumper and lifeless, can't-do-a-thing-with-it hair. Embarrassed by the knowledge that, yes, he was in the defining band of the early 90s; but that the early 90s was the most rubbish era in pop history.

...I can live with that.

 

[kumanoki]

*Phew* Nothing about gaming on that list.....

 

[explodet]

...I can live with that.

I dunno, late 90's / early 2K's pop (boybands, etc) won't be looked back with much fondness either.

 

[SatelliteOfLove]

One of the biggest problems of the internet is that anyone with a paycheck and some cursory knowledge of HTML can put up crap like this for posterity.

"Wee-wee"? Must be 7, or has odd morality inhibitions. :|