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.
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.