Recent content by Dunesen

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    MovieBob leaving The Escapist

    I went through more pages of this thread than can be healthy, and while I don't have much of an opinion about Bob's departure and whether or not it was deserved I am baffled by how so many people are taking the time to tell others that they're glad to see him gone because (they disagreed with...
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    Marathon This TV Show

    Don't think anyone else mentioned this, so I'll throw it in: a major problem for a Doctor Who marathon is that the shows made in the classic series (1963-89) were designed as multi-episode serials, so an attempt to bulk watch even just a fraction would be a series of highs and lows as, more...
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    Marathon This TV Show

    'List does not include [a]nime [because Bob does not watch anime and as is well-established his entire understanding of popular culture begins with his experiences and tastes as the baseline of 'normal' or 'default,' hence his devoting an entire month to the career of Kevin Smith and the alleged...
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    Movie Defense Force: World War Z - Despite The Title, A Great Zombie Flick

    Nope. Ignoring the lack of fidelity to the source material, WWZ does not work as a zombie movie because it undermines the very principle of all zombie movies from Night of the Living Dead on: that it is a complete and total apocalypse, a breakdown of society and social convention, and that a...
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    Escape to the Movies: Anchorman 2

    Kind of yes, kind of no. Veronica being offered the promotion is the first scene, and it's more to set up act two's "Ron and the team invent facile, spectacle-driven cable news" and act three's "Ron falls and has to redeem himself." His relationship with Veronica is given attention off and on...
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    Escape to the Movies: Anchorman 2

    I think you're overthinking the plot of the movie Bob, specifically in asserting that there are several different plots when really everything works as part of the larger story of Ron's fall and rise and fall (and yeah, it is cribbed from the first Anchorman and yeah, the injury storyline is...
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    Fifth Estate, Third Rail

    I think the failure of White House Down was less any perceived political message and more that Roland Emmerich has burned up all his good will with the public through pieces of crap like 2012 and The Day After Tomorrow.
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    Fifth Estate, Third Rail

    I think the apparent rise of discussion of politics in media is a result of the recent rise of hyper-partisanship and the transformation of everything into a political football. While partisanship has always been a thing, there used to be far more topics and subjects that weren't treated as a...
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    South Park As A Gated Community

    I haven't seen the episode, so maybe they phrased the view differently than you just did now, but I can tell you the fallacy of it: people choosing to share their personal information is different than the government deciding it can read your emails, listen in on your phone calls, etc. without...
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    Kingdom Hearts III and Final Fantasy XV Will Have to Wait

    Longer it takes for KH3 to come out, the longer before I need to buy a PS4.
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    The Big Picture: The Big Letdown

    Because a) his other videos are supposed to be about different things, but he keeps bringing up this or The Dark Knight Rises or other things only tangentially related because he personally has problems with them and, I don't know, maybe he thinks he can bring everyone around to his point of...
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    The Big Picture: It Seems Today ...

    THANK YOU! This has been bugging me for so long, Bob trying to dismiss South Park because, as far as I can tell, it doesn't buy into the "Democrats vs. Republicans" narrative the media tries to put forth. South Park has always been about undermining both established sides of an argument...
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    The Big Picture: Summer's End

    I wouldn't mind Bob doing an entire episode devoted to his thoughts/problems with Man of Steel if there was any indication he would then drop the matter afterward. But he probably won't. He did a Big Picture griping about South Park a while back and that hasn't stopped him from taking shots at...
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    The Big Picture: Batfleck

    Yeah, the look of Man of Steel was a HUGE problem with the movie, bringing down the entire tone.
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    The Big Picture: Batfleck

    Has it been two weeks? Time for Bob to complain about The Dark Knight Rises again. Seriously, Bob, did this movie kill your father or something? Yes, the movie had flaws, but god damn, you never turn down an opportunity to complain about it or its presentation of Batman. We get it. You didn't...