Joe Loves Crappy Movies
Joe Loves Crappy Movies is a webcomic about an avid movie-goer, Joe Dunn, his friends and family, and commentary on movies and the movie industry. The comic also serves as a review of said movie covered in the strip. It can be found on the Digital Pimp website.
It has not been updated since March 2019.
Tropes used in Joe Loves Crappy Movies include:
- The Alcoholic: Irv is on the record as saying he can't live without excessive amounts of alcohol.
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Inverted. Joe complained that there were twelve things he did that day that were better than the ending to Hitman. The top three: going to the bathroom, eating lunch, and getting in a gunfight with Morgan Freeman.
- Art Evolution: Seen as the strip progresses. Actually lampshaded in the Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist strip, where someone said Joe's art was getting too complex. The resulting comic was simpler as a result.
- Author Avatar: Not only of Joe, but of Irv, another Digital Pimp member.
- Awesome McCoolname: Switchblade Motorcross Dunn, the hypothetical child of Joe and Yeo.
- Joe has a number of names picked out that fall under this trope-but he takes back Potato-Eating Mick Dunn.
- Back Stab: When all else fails, stab the Grimace.
- Badass: Ben Kenobi. He was really the one to kill Greedo.
- Uwe Boll. Among other things, he's Cloverfield. And that's why he doesn't care that you hate his movies.
- Captain Obvious: Palpatine will insult you if you invoke this trope.
- Catch Phrase: Parodied where EVERY role Samuel L. Jackson plays ends in motherfucker.
- Cloning Blues: Joe pondered what it would be like if he cloned himself so he could see a lot of movies at once. It didn't work: all of them went to see the same movie.
- Cosplay: Joe and his friends when seeing the second Fantastic Four movie. Except Yeo. She went home.
- Deal with the Devil: What Christopher Nolan did to get the cast of Batman Begins. When asked by Hitler if it was Worth It, Nolan replies that it totally was.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Why Poseidon happened: Fergie was on board and God hates the Black Eyed Peas.
- Drinking Game: Joe, Irv, and Yeo play one when they see The Pink Panther. The rules: take a sip when they lose respect for Steve Martin. 70 seconds later?
- Even the Guys Want Him: Morgan Freeman, apparently.
- Fan Disillusionment: Joe after seeing the first Fantastic Four movie. The Nostalgia Filter won out quickly, though.
- For Want of a Nail: Had Irv not gotten sick, everyone could have gotten tickets to the premiere of Mission: Impossible 3.
- Godwin's Law: Invoked when Irv asks why there aren't minority Terminators.
- Groin Attack: Joerules vs. a stranger.
- Joe vs a football. Twice. Then a guy in a football costume shoots him.
- Hey, It's That Guy!: The Juno comic. Full stop
- Ho Yay: Joe has a crush on John Cusack.
- How Sydney Pollack got to film inside the UN building
- Both Joe and Irv would bang Morgan Freeman.
- They discuss how Val Kilmer can't help invoking this trope.
- And Jason Statham
- Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Their minds were blown when someone suggested hitting their target.
- Jason Statham: And the list of people Joe wants to see him fight.
- Killer Rabbit: Used as an example of what would be scary
- Made of Explodium: The tiger sent by Michael Bay to attack a reporter that misquoted him. Which then transformed into a fire engine.
- May-December Romance: Parodied when Tom Cruise brings out Dakota Fanning instead of Katie Holmes.
- Mister Seahorse: The only two people Joe trusts enough to carry his child (if they need a surrogate) are Irv and Batman.
- Mood Whiplash: the Up in the Air strip
- No Fourth Wall: This is a world where Irv's best friend is Leondias, Captain Picard plays Iron Man on the Marvel vs. Capcom arcade game, and Joe's survived Saw twice!
- One Steve Limit: Parodied in the Snakes on a Plane comic
- Porn Stache: Joe notes that this was part of Burt Reynolds' appeal, and expresses horror when he shaves it. Yeo would still hit that.
- Discussed here
- Prison Rape: Hinted at when Joe goes to prison in The Longest Yard strip, and George in the Let's Go to Prison strip
- The Rashomon: Lampshaded. It's ABOUT Rashomon
- Real Men Wear Pink: Leo's spirit animal is Hello Kitty.
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- Rule of Cool: Why God's willing to overlook the You Fail Physics Forever in Star Trek
- Why Joe wore the eyepatch after beating George
- Running Gag: UH-DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHH!
- NERD! *punches nerd in the stomach*
- Why would you stab the Grimace?
- So Bad It's Good: Joe's raison d'etre is to watch movies that fit this trope.
- Snap Back: People have been beaten up, shot, and even killed - and are perfectly fine next strip.
- Stuff Blowing Up: Michael Bay loves to do it.
- Sure Why Not: When Slow Billy asks if Jesus was a Transformer.
- They Fight Crime: Joe's idea of a more popular political film: have Palin and Obama do this.
- Also Jean-Luc Picard and a chicken in Hengage.
- This Is Sparta: Parodied when Joe and Phil ponder how Leondias would translate into modern life. One of this comic's frames is the trope page picture.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Ice cream sandwiches, to the point where Joe would pick one over Irv.
- Transplant: Palpatine and Leondias. Captain Picard's seen in the background often.
- The Unpronounceable: Invoked here
- Lucky Number Slevin, to the point where someone just called it "Josh Hartnett".
- Viewers are Morons: Joe's reaction when certain movies are reviewed negatively, and he asks how that was worse than The Wicker Man remake.
- George attacked a movie theater that enjoyed Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector because of this trope.
- What Could Have Been: Irv daydreams about Will Smith as Captain America
- You Can Keep Her: Twice. Joe, knowing his hypothetical child would probably turn out an asshole like him, is on record as saying if either the devil or kidnappers took his kid, they can have her.
- Your Head Asplode: Teleporting does this.
- You Suck: Joe calls the public "retarded" when The Fog went number one.