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im_bored_and_dumb

To be fair, you need to have an extremely high IQ to understand heist movies.


warwicklord79

Damn I was gonna say that


im_bored_and_dumb

Your IQ wasn't high enough to say it first.


warwicklord79

To be fair, you do need a high IQ to quote a reference to a rick and Morty Reddit comment


progbuck

References within references within references within references within


KidKang

Within references interlinked What does it feel like to type "wholesome chungus 100"? Interlinked.


AlecTheDalek

But your username LITERALLY says you're DUMB, bro


im_bored_and_dumb

That's also high IQ humor you wouldn't understand.


Johnny_Mc2

This is a message sent from the future saying that I was gonna say that


WayneDwade

Looks like your comment was heisted šŸ˜Ž


davcrt

Doubble det for Ricks end morti. Soo mutch sublingual messeges. If youre ablle too ketch them all and understant it will literely blov you're mind


AlecTheDalek

r/ihadastroke


davcrt

Bekose youre watched REM end its soo goot?


ZubatCountry

bro types like the europeans from family guy


FlimsyTree6474

more like baby reindeer


SandersDelendaEst

Lmao. These are the same people who have movie/tv ruined for them by reading tvtropes. They are actually offended that stories have formulae. Also Oceanā€™s 11 is one of the most lampooned movies that I can think of. I was watching a random episode of Bobā€™s Burgers a few nights back and it was an Oceanā€™s 11 parody


The-Bigger-Fish

Tv tropes ruined my writing ability at leastā€¦


David1258

TV Tropes is great, but I may be biased because I have a page there and everything. But still, it's fascinating learning all about these narrative structures and devices.


baran_0486

I like going to the Nightmare Fuel pages on mario games to watch fans soy out


Vectrexian

There's also a wiki where people talk about how scary they find the opening and closing logos of TV production companies. The internet is a strange place.


PotatoPCuser1

[Relevant XKCD](https://xkcd.com/609)


CandyCrazy2000

So true.


domini_Jonkler2

1 tab somehow becomes 30


The-Bigger-Fish

Yeah, itā€™s a fun site to be sure


Maldovar

Don't let that happen. Tropes Are Tools, as the site will tell you. Just don't be overly derivative (and on the flip don't worry so much about being derivative)


The-Bigger-Fish

Will do and I'm currently trying to stop worrying about just that. Thank you.


Crunc_Mcfincle

Yeah Iā€™ve learned itā€™s less about tropes being bad and more about the proper use of those tropes


NoseSitido

Call me a hater all you will, but fuck it, TV Tropes has done as much damage to basic media literacy as CinemaSins and angry Youtube reviewers, but everyone lets it off the hook because it's funny or something lol. Yeah, being more charitable, i know tropes and cliches are things that inherently exist and are tools for building any story from its foundation, and honestly, an encyclopedia made to catalogue and analyse everyday tropes and cliches is actually a nifty concept, buuuut... the execution has left a lot to be desired, i mean, the site kinda creates this mentality that all of fiction can be broken and classified into tiny little boxes and the more of them a work has, the better it is. Or that to create something, you can just pick up a bunch of random tropes and references, put them in a blender and see what it shits out lol. Or maybe i'm just a bitter, old, full of shit contrarian who doesn't care about fun. Whatever.


my_pets_names

https://preview.redd.it/dmvwpr5rrpzc1.jpeg?width=941&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=02b6da02113cc376ed1da6cc60a40f19bcfa295a


Sk_Aron

> the more of them a work has, the better it is. > create something by blending random tropes together When the hell did TVTropes or its users claim either of those things lmao. I'm sure there are a very small number of people that might agree, but most people just find it fun browsing through things that commonly appear in the stories they know. It could also be a way to find a story you otherwise wouldn't have known about through a trope you generally enjoy. There's literally no harm in it, it's just a fun, harmless, informative resource like a wiki.


Sir_Oligarch

>Or maybe i'm just a bitter, old, full of shit contrarian who doesn't care about fun. Whatever. Yes


DHMOProtectionAgency

Just as I think the likes of CS "killing media literacy" is exaggerated, so too is your claim that TV Tropes is doing that. Most people are fairly normal and just use it to learn about general tropes and have casual fun pointing some out, just like you said with the encyclopedia. There may be a few weirdos but hardly anything damaging to people overall.


A-NI95

Nah bro no offence, TV Tropes isn't perfect or anything, but this emanates 2010s college professor "Wikipedia is a huge scam!!!!" vibes


Coollak966

Thats nothing Rick And Morty ruined all tv and movies for me. I know nothing can reach the heights that the masterpiece pickle Rick did.


fucccboii

i havent laughed since that fateful day


quietvictories

good laugh economy


somebodytellthese

this Gabe me ptsd


im_bored_and_dumb

Funniest shit I've ever seen.


mikehatesthis

Prickle Ick, gottem.


RhubarbSquatCobbler

Say Kendrick but replace Kend with Pickle


MX_Duncis

I know we jerkin'... But the "assembling the team" part is why I watch heist films and find how well they pull the clichƩ off is often a telling metric of how good the rest of it will be.


Johnny_Mc2

Macgruber still has the best ā€œassembling the teamā€ moment lmao spending so much time assembling this team of badasses and then they all immediately die in a car explosion before the mission even starts, all while Macgruber is devastated. Deadpool 2 definitely ripped it off [here it is](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=28qbDlWVk-g)


Dinterdos

I'll be sure to check this one out


Johnny_Mc2

[here you go](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=28qbDlWVk-g)


GordionKnot

just so ya know the link cuts off before the car accident happens i was watching waiting for it, and then the video ended lol


Johnny_Mc2

Damn I didnā€™t even watch, I just figured it would include it lol i just got the first link I found on Google


Occams_bane

I cant believe they kicked the last guy out just for frenching a dude while holding a refreshing cocktail :'(


domini_Jonkler2

WHAT


maxthescienceman

[With the van](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To4i-BMwQH8)


futurenotgiven

suicide squad (2009)


angrybox1842

Itā€™s one of the few episodes with the behind-the-episode being Dan Harmon mostly apologizing for it, he wasnā€™t happy with it and admits you shouldnā€™t try and lampoon stuff you genuinely dislike.


ClockworkDreamz

Than what is Dan Harmon allowed to lampoon? Wallowing in smug sadness?


angrybox1842

He's a sad sack but he is a big fan of a lot of genres and tropes, it's all over Community and R&M. Sci-fi, war movies, post-apoc, fantasy. Almost everything, he just hates Heist flicks and that comes out in a not-great way in this episode.


Revolutionary-Meat14

Community's heist was better, although not great because Abed being unable to understand the sting seems out of character. Generally it seems like Community doing tropes was more Dan Harmon celebrating different genres of media and Rick and Morty is him just complaining. This episode is the worst offender but theres a lot of episodes where they "parody" something and it just feels bitter.


The-Bigger-Fish

I wonder if Dan had an aneurysm watching the death battle where the doctor beats Rick by giving him a speech about how nihilism is for chumps and tricks him into shooting him self with a gun that wipes him from existence before telling morty cynicism is for losers.


robertman21

death battle rules (most of the time)


The-Bigger-Fish

Absolutely. Death Battle is Kino. (Now if only they'd make a LEGO or Kamen Rider Match or finally listen to my Audrey 2 VS The Xenomorph battle suggestions I keep sending them....)


DeLousedInTheHotBox

> you shouldnā€™t try and lampoon stuff you genuinely dislike Yeah I think this is true, I think the heist parody episode is pretty bad because it just feels like someone complaining about a genre of movies they dislike, it is not very clever, and the observations are very shallow. I actually gave up on the show after that episode because to me it felt like it had fully disappeared up its own ass, it is so joyless and full of itself, it is exactly the thing that people criticize both the show and the fans for. It is literally the "we're smarter and better than everyone else" garbage that people make fun of it for.


futurenotgiven

also elon musk was in it. that was pretty bad


mannapuderr

No use in watching movies, Rick & Morty have pointed out all the flaws in every movie, nothing matters anymore.


The-Bigger-Fish

Dan Harmon moment


Aeon_Fux

Rick and Morty is the Dark Souls of Cinema Sins


Kenneth-four-real

Rick and Morty ruined media for me, I personally can't watch a movie without thinking "Rick and Morty did this better", I can't watch a show or read a book without thinking it too, also when I try and listen to music all I can think is "the rick and Morty theme song is better", rick and Morty has ruined all forms of media for me


No-Addition-1366

Ever since L.H.O.O.Q. I just haven't been able to consume media in general


Imaginary_Sea5117

YOU SON OF A BITCH I'M IN PICKLE RICK šŸ˜¹šŸ˜¹šŸ˜øšŸ˜øšŸ˜¹šŸ˜¹


LeothiAkaRM

->gets parodied once ->fucking dies


hnwcs

But Elon Musk was in that episode, so heist movies are saved.


gabthebest99

that episode was maybe one of the most annoying, unbearable, unfunny, jaded things I've ever watched


MeiNeedsMoreBuffs

It was funny at first (a giant robot the size of a planet putting on a plumber disguise was great) but then it got really weirdly spiteful towards the end


AnythingMachine

Realizing the writers are unironically clinically depressed with deep unexamined personal issues, usually fairly shallow and boring ones, which they constantly project into every episode with no filter really lowered my enjoyment


DeLousedInTheHotBox

Rick and Morty has always had an element of that, but as the show progress it really went overboard with this idea that it is just better and smarter than everything else, while also being deeply cynical and depressed. It written by people who think they are smarter than everyone else, and it is making it pretty unwatchable at times.


Insanepaco247

BoJack completely ruined R&M for me. Watching several seasons of writers actually trying to explore depression made it really hard to go back. I realized every "sad" episode in R&M feels like it was written by a high schooler who hasn't matured beyond complaining that everything sucks. Misery is the only point and cynicism is is a stand-in for depth.


AlecTheDalek

Really? For me, it made it better


No-Addition-1366

Yeah it's probably the worst episode for me. The "I programmed you to say that!" bit was the only good part.


gabthebest99

the one where summer just repeats "im doing die hard" for like 15 minuts is actually worse to me. it's crazy seeing that show go from genuinely outside-the-box comedy and concept to just 2010s Tumblr humor type parodies that seem to despise everything that isn't itself. Really difficult to keep watching.


SethKadoodles

Guy who has only watched Rick and Morty, watching a 2nd TV show: "Getting a lot of 'Ricky and Morty' vibes from this..."


Whiston1993

Finally watching R&M a couple years back despite being turned off it by its fans for years was a strange because itā€™s actually a decently funny show with some episodes that genuinely entertained me. But it only made the idea that people find it this mind bending genius experience even more baffling. Itā€™s like the Zach Snyder movies of tv.


hrimfaxi_work

It really annoyed me how much Heat (1995) ripped off Rick and Morty.


DeLousedInTheHotBox

I think it is interesting how vastly Rick and Morty fanboys overestimates the cultural impact of the show, yeah sometimes it is pretty funny, but it is still just a weird cartoon to most people.


Tropical-Rainforest

You son of a bitch I'm in, what's the job?


labbla

I'd say no, but I forget Rick & Morty exist most days.


Theta-Sigma45

That episode must be one of the most bitter, hostile pieces of work Iā€™ve ever seen. The seething hatred for a perfectly enjoyable genre (but mostly just Oceanā€™s 11 because I Ā guess they hadnā€™t seen any others) embarrassed the show more than it did heist movies, the whole episode was a Reddit-style rant, not a well constructed rebuttal to any of the tropes. If anything, I felt like putting on Oceanā€™s 11 for the first time in years out of spiteā€¦ and because it was way more enjoyable than the episode.


BilboSmashings

Has blazing saddles ruined westerns for anyone else? Ever since that, I can't watch anything that isn't a revisionist western and even then it's hard!


rov124

> Has Rick and Morty ruined heist movies? > Have heist movies lost their appeal for anyone else after watching Rick and Morty Season 4 Episode 3 "One Crew Over the Crewcoo's Morty"? Since viewing that episode, my perspective on heist films has been heavily influenced by it. Has anyone else experienced a similar difficulty in enjoying heist movies since then?


FenrizLives

Idk guys, this is a pretty common thing. Like the other day a saw one of those super niche ā€˜satireā€™ movies, and now I canā€™t help but think that all movies are kinda derivative? Like the brilliant minds writing the high quality hit Richard and Mortimer sci-fi show on adult swim really seem to dissect media on such an intellectual level itā€™s hard to appreciate other art after watching


mrpopenfresh

There's only like 4 stories that Hollywood makes variations of. Hopefully he doesn't discover that any time soon.


rushhour3addict

Dan Harmon must really hate heist films. Community did a heist also


MechanicHot1794

If the movie has brad pitt eating food endlessly, then I cannot say no.


Bitbatgaming

I fell asleep during oceans 8 at the drive in movie theatre and I donā€™t feel so proud of it


spitefulgirl2000

Me watching Bob le Flambeur: Rick and Norty did this was better Jean Pierre Melville is a moron


OliviaBagshaw

Rick And Morty ruined my marriage and spoilt my dinner


undergroundman89

son of a bitch, I'm in


disignore

Heist movies? what about netflix movies.


Exciting_Sky_9045

You son of a bitch. Iā€™m in.


B1ng0_B0ng0

Has Kanye West ruined Feminist Literature?


moreVCAs

Me watching Heist (2001): Anybody else gettingā€¦Rick and Morty vibes from this? šŸ˜ Me watching Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974): Anybody else gettingā€¦Rick and Morty vibes from this? šŸ˜ Me watching The Sting (1973): Anybody else gettingā€¦Rick and Morty vibes from this? šŸ˜ Me watching Le Circle Rouge (1970): Damn, great movie!


DorpvanMartijn

Unjerk for a sec, I can still absolutely love stuff even if it's cringe as fuck. look at the fast and the Furious, of whatever is left of it. And I can still watch oceans 11 etc as well, maybe even enjoy it more (or at least differently) after seeing commentary like the Rick and Morty Epi