They're usually wrong, unless they're right. In which case they still shouldn't just assume they're right just in case they're wrong. Wait, what was the question again?
The one I remember the most was: WTF Heath Ledger is playing the Joker in The Dark Knight? Oh my God Warner Bros. just ruined the franchise forever!
There's no way I'm going to read the 5 volume final IAEA report on the Fukushima disaster (plus annexes!).
If I'm going to have to come into work on a night off, I better be stocking merchandise for the Force Friday event tomorrow.
From the article: Unearthed copies containing what's hailed as the worst video game of all time To which I say.....REALLY? Sure E.T. was bad and is held up as one of the shining examples of what caused the 1980s video games crash. But to call it one THE worst video game of all time? No. Not even close. See....the Atari 2600 debacle that gave us E.T. and the horrid, HORRID bootleg version of Pac-Man, but there is a silver lining in that those failures gave us higher standards for video games, including the rise of the confidence-booster that was the Nintendo Seal of Quality. Ultimately, the Atari 2600 E.T. and Pac-Man games, terrible though they were, actually inspired a bit of innovation and spurred a change in the industry. The same cannot be said for the ACTUAL worst game of all time: Ride to Hell Retribution. Bad game mechanics, worse racing mechanics, piss-poor sound design, gratuitous sex scenes that only a kid in the throes of puberty would find sexy, all tied together with an asinine storyline and a title that is clearly, CLEARLY meant to confuse buyers by sounding similar to the critically-acclaimed Red Dead Redemption.....THIS is THE absolute WORST video game of all time. And THAT is my knee jerk reaction!
I assure you I've seen far worse than Ride to Hell: Retribution (In fact I'd go so far as to claim RtH is simply a "modern" E.T.: reasonably well-known garbage that overshadows more obscure nadirs); worst video game is not really that different from worst movie in that owing to ultra-low budget shlock there's no real bottom, just a swirling sea of ****.
All knee-jerk reactions are bad, but they are also good. They can also be other things. Other options, too, possibly.
Today I was looking through the TV listings on my cable and found that Logo (the LGBT-themed network) is showing The Facts of Life, and my kneejerk reaction was, "It's because of Jo, isn't it?".