I'm sort of curious as to where he's going, so I'll keep watching. It doesn't offend me, at least not on a level that would stop me watching, but it's kind of....absurd.LobsterFeng said:I agree with that as well and I stopped watching TBP because of the Kevin Smith thing. Not sure how long it will last but I'm going to be ignoring it for a while.Zachary Amaranth said:
But I'd also say that this isn't particularly new ground for Bob. He's frequently ranted against movies and even audiences in a basically "stop liking what I don't like" fashion. And continued to do so well after the shelf life. I suspect ASM 2 references will only truly taper off when ASM 3 gets a trailer, but there was also The Dark Knight Rises, The Lone Ranger and The Expendables to a lesser extent, and Twilight, though with less laser-like focus than Not-Raimi. And those are just off the top of my head. Bob tends to do this a lot.
Hopefully, this doesn't come off as a knock on Bob. Bob has made no pretenses that he is fair and balanced; these are his opinions in highly opinionated pieces. What it is, to me, is this curious notion that there's some difference between when he does it one time, and when he does it another.
And I think the difference is whether or not people agree with him. I wonder if the Kevin Smith thing is specifically because he's still Nerd Jesus to so many, because MovieBob is....well, he's being MovieBob. It looks like what happens with Zero Punctuation. People love watching games get ripped into, then get offended when he rips into "their" game. Suddenly, Ben Croshaw is "teh bias" or a "hater" or he sucks. It's not so much what he's doing, but who he's doing it to that sets people off.