Escape to the Movies: Centurion

[SamStar42]

And you make fun of a movie that you didn't even see, where at least MB went that far. Hey buddy, guess what Scott Pilgrim was about? Video Games!!! Are you really that stupid to say that a movie dedicated to video games is not as good as a typical, piece of shit action movie and that the Expendables is more deserving of the Escapist's praise? Go jump off a bridge with Masterchief and the Marcus Phenix behind you, the world will be a much better place. You are a typical douchebag.

And you my friend are exactly the sort of indie-brat that pretends that everything's bad once it's popular. Go and play Limbo some more and then complain about how every FIFA game is the same like other people like you.

I've seen Scott Pilgrim. It's good. It's trying to be something different. It's barely fucking lucid to put together a good plot.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

P.S.
Movie Bob this is the Escapist site and they mostly do stuff about videogames and videogames news and one of the biggest franchises in this current generation has a guy taking a chainsaw to the enemies face, another with a main character whose biceps are bigger than his head, and "Boom Headshot" means something cool. Get off the high horse when this audience likes to see stupid action films over an obscure comic book based film.

Okay, stop right there, I think you need to give this forum a better look.

-The majority reveres developers with the likes of Bioware, Valve and Bethesda. Two of which are well known for their RPGs and the other is known for it's storytelling in it's FPS games, even without dialog. You be surprised what you can pick up from looking in Left 4 Dead or listening to the characters in TF2 and Portal.

-There have been more MW2 and Halo hate threads then any other gaming hate on this site.

-Gears of War is hardly ever mentioned, and when it is, its met with "meh." or small praise.

We are not the generic Gamer. We play those games, sure, but we prefer the Story Telling in most cases.

As for movies? Guess what? I preferred Inception over Watchman and Avatar. Story Telling and Characters will always win my appeal over gore and special effects.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Stop with the jock voice Bob, it's getting a little....childish.

 

[Chebs]

Stopped watching when he brought up the two female leads.

For fucks sake either invest in bromide or get a girlfriend.

No one cared about your review of the expendables, they cared about being badly insulted for liking it.

This. Whenever he brings up women, the review suddenly turns into an adolescent ZOMGBEWBSfest instead an actual review. It's a little disgusting and overplayed by now. We get it, you like the girls, Bob. I had been hoping for a review of Takers. I guess Zoe Saldana didn't get naked enough.

 

[Pipotchi]

In this thread: People continue their discussion of the expendables from last week because no one knows how to let anything go.

Was expecting more of a review this week. I understand that nothing good came out, but still...

Well seeing as how he spent half of this review taking a shot at those people it wouldnt be the internet if they just let it lie

For my part, Expendables was average at best granted, but as others have pointed out don't insult your readers purely for their taste. Espicially when you hold up Piranha 3D as the counterpoint, and I love tits in a movie as much as the next guy.

Also I saw Centurian over a week ago and there is some great action in there but the chracterisation leaves a lot to be desired, although Dominic West channels Jimmy Mcnulty very well, "dont fuck with the ninth" indeed.

It would be a stretch to even call this video a review for Centurian as all you say is the directors previous films are good and it has Michael Fassbender in it, Hardly Exhaustive

 

[Canadian Briton]

Damn it Bob! Stop thinking that hot female nudity makes a movie better! (it dosen't it just arouses the people who don't look at porn) you don't need to keep reinforcing that you like hot women! you're going to start offending your female viewers by making yourself look like a guy who thinks that women in movies are just there to stand around and look sexy!
Anyway I might go see Centurion then.

 

[HBaskerville]

Short answer - Bob needs an editor.

Like last week, this would have been a good review if the initial nonsense had been removed. Bob needed someone to edit the angst about Pilgrim tanking, and this week he needed an editor to snip the bitterness at the people that complained about his tears over Pilgrim tanking.

Hopefully next week it will all be out of his system and we can get back to reviews that aren't based on bitterness over what OTHER movies did or didn't do.

The actual review bits about Pirahana and Centurian were good.

 

[ShadowKatt]

Who said nothing good comes out in August? Well, me for one. I haven't seen a movie in about a month that I really felt I really wanted to go see, much less one that I NEEDED to see. So far Inception was the highlight of my summer, and I haven't even gone to see it yet, and this stuff...ugh, piranahs? Really? This is what we have from the box office? Piranahs?

You know, I heard a rumor about a movie coming from youtube, something about "Fred"? I don't know what it is, and it's almost assuredly bad, but with movies like this it's easy to see why we're sliding down the film scale so quickly.

 

[lacktheknack]

So....... essentially a good film is just tonnes of blood and a pair of tits?

No no no, the owner of the pair of tits has to be making out with ANOTHER owner of a pair of tits. While covered in blood, presumably.

I'm getting a bit disillusioned with MovieBob.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

Who said nothing good comes out in August? Well, me for one. I haven't seen a movie in about a month that I really felt I really wanted to go see, much less one that I NEEDED to see. So far Inception was the highlight of my summer, and I haven't even gone to see it yet, and this stuff...ugh, piranahs? Really? This is what we have from the box office? Piranahs?

You know, I heard a rumor about a movie coming from youtube, something about "Fred"? I don't know what it is, and it's almost assuredly bad, but with movies like this it's easy to see why we're sliding down the film scale so quickly.

Look on the bright side, the horror movie about being stuck in an elevator comes out in 2 weeks.

 

[JourneyThroughHell]

I love how Gxas not only predicted it, but he predicted it 2 minutes before someone brought it up. Well done.

Do you mean six minutes AFTER someone brought it up?
Just saying.
Also, the review has The Expendables in the tags, it would be weird if someone didn't bring up The Expendables.

 

[Armored Prayer]

OK, now I'm confused with Moviebob and good/bad movies. But hey, I'm going to obsess about it.

Centurion looks pretty decent actually. I never heard about it but thanks to the review I'm now interested in seeing it.

 

[BlueInkAlchemist]

I love Fassbender. Loved him since 300. I might have to seek out Centurion now.

Looking forward to the review of Machete next week.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

I love how Gxas not only predicted it, but he predicted it 2 minutes before someone brought it up. Well done.

Do you mean six minutes AFTER someone brought it up?
Just saying.
Also, the review has The Expendables in the tags, it would be weird if someone didn't bring up The Expendables.

Actually...no...it was two. He posted at 12:10 Pm EST. You posted at 12:12 PM when you brought up the Expendables. You proved his point, although to be fair, you all were provoked by Bob himself.

 

[Hosker]

Wow, a lot of whining here

 

[Spink]

And I did not say that the Scott Pilgrim movie is about videogames. I never said that the movie was good or bad. I said it was about an obscure comic book and that this website is geared more to videogame players who enjoy mindless shooty games.

The goddamn movie is supposed to be set in alternate version of Toronto where videogame rules apply with kung-fu fights and the like. That argument makes no sense, if anything it should appeal more to readers of this site.

Anyways the review was fine as always, I had seen Piranha already and it was a lot of fun. Just ridiculously over the top.

 

[Mangue Surfer]

So....... essentially a good film is just tonnes of blood and a pair of tits?

Evidently his favorite film of all time is Caligula.

What?!
Now the internetz are sugesting that is Caligula bad?!?!?!