Recent content by DemBones

I remember Bob once saying that the movies he feels are best are ones that will improve the medium the most. In that light his choices are mostly very good. I thought that Cloud Atlas, despite its scope and goals had far too many flaws that were inherent in adapting the material. They were...

I saw the film a year ago so I don't remember exact details about the film. I do remember the main reasons why I didn't like the film (though I wouldn't call it the worst film I've ever seen): 1. Contrary to what most people said positively about the film, I found the action scenes boring...

Over analyzing pop culture is a great thing, but many people who do it tend to ask the wrong questions. Any piece of pop culture can have as many interpretations as the number of people who experience it and I don't mean that most of those interpretations are wrong, but many times people will...

My point was that executives will use Scott Pilgrim as a reason to not listen to fans because it was a failure. Scott Pilgrim had massive Comic-Con marketing and was made in a way that geared almost exclusively to fans and comics/gamer geeks. The filmmakers listened to the fans, and the film...

The best way to avoid it is to be aware of it and try to avoid it. You shouldn't react negatively to a film because it didn't play out exactly as you pictured it based on your anticipation (within reason). It seemed to me that a lot of the criticisms for TDKR came from critics who had an...

My favorite aspect of the new film was that it wasn't directed by Paul Greengrass, which means that I'll be able to see what's happening. I'm surprised Bob didn't explicitly mention shaky-cam, but I guess it was implied. I've overall kinda liked the Bourne movies, they're basically decent...

I don't think Avengers will have as many net positives as Bob claims. What set Avengers apart from most other summer blockbusters was its writing and characters people already knew and rooted for. That isn't something that can be copied, even if it should be obvious that every film should have...

If Bob wasn't a competent, well informed critic he wouldn't have his own show and column and we wouldn't be talking about him. That being said, there has always been one aspect of Bob's critiquing style that has bugged me. Bob tends to preframe his experience going into a movie too much...

A lot of people seem to needlessly be getting angry at Bob for his opinion. I'll state what I agree with before I go into counter-arguments: the film is poorly paced in the beginning and the faults in characterizations are there. It does seem like Nolan may have turned his back on his previous...

I haven't watched the review yet, I'll save it for tomorrow after I've seen the movie. But speaking of that, shouldn't this review have been posted tomorrow?

I wouldn't say Schumacher's gay sensibilities had anything to do with the film being terrible. Schumacher is not a very good director, period. His general sensibilities are what ruined the movie. Schumacher has only made one good-to-great film (Falling Down) and as Bob has pointed out there are...

This person should discover what types of games he/she enjoys as they are introduced, so it's not necessarily best to introduce your favorites. It's important to think in baby steps so that this person is not overwhelmed. It also depends on the type of person; a young child will have not issue...

Wreck-It-Ralph: I hope this film will be good, but I'm still tempering my expectations based on the rest of the trailer, particular the eye-roll inducing zombie. This is movie from Disney Animations, which would relegate the film to the "not Pixar" category. Also according to the Street Fighter...

You hit the nail on the head already: if the Academy was going to honor a genre film it will likely be toward The Dark Knight Rises or The Hobbit. Many of the Academy members will not appreciate how genre-defining The Avengers was the same way comic fans do, regarding the scope of characters and...

I can't remember who said this first or where I heard it, but many older games from the NES, SNES and N64 had to use bright and contrasting colours to account for memory issues. The developers had to create a contrast so that the player could see what the sprite was doing or what the sprite even...