didnt expect that. was thinking of seeing it today but this movie is just too damn long. might give it a try next week anyway due interest reasons. but a shame to hear its not up to the typical nolan film making.
....Johnny Novgorod said:Saw the movie on Monday. Reviewed it yesterday.WarpedLord said:1) Nolan makes a new filmJohnny Novgorod said:1) Bob gets butthurt over something Nolan DIDN'T say about his beloved Marvel movies.
2) He decides to rush his show by two full days so he can badmouth the movie as soon as possible.
3) Whatever.
2) Nolan fanboys decide said film is a masterpiece before even seeing it
3) Critics who have actually seen the film point out that it's a good, but not perfect movie
4) Nolan fans take this as a personal slight and shout "Bias!!!!" and "Personal Vendetta!!!"
5) Cycle repeats every couple of years
Not saying that Bob isn't wrong... just maybe, y'know, you should wait until you've actually seen the movie before being so adamant that his bias is showing??
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/326.864462-Pros-Cons-Interstellar-2014
I don't necessarily think this is true. It hasn't been done, but it CAN be done. After all, what's the point of exploring hard sci fi if not to understand its affects on the human condition? If I just wanted the facts, I'd just watch the science channel (which I do). If I watch a work of drama at the theaters then I want to understand the affect of that sci do on people.Nimcha said:I knew this would happen. Trying to marry hard sci-fi with regular movie family tropes never works out.
Either do one or the other, and for the love of god would someone try to make an actual hard sci-fi movie for once?
No, but we can do this:PunkRex said:Bob doesn't really like Interstellar ---> Interstellar was made by Nolan ---> Nolan made the Batman films ---> Batman is DC ---> DC is Marvel's rival ---> Bob loves the MCU ---> Half-Life 3 confirmed???
Can we not do this today people.
Maybe you're right, or maybe there's a reason his stuff came out early. I'm not gonna make excuses for Bob, I don't know him, but what seems immature to me is deciding someone has some sort of freaking agenda because he happens to not/like something.Johnny Novgorod said:No, but we can do this:PunkRex said:Bob doesn't really like Interstellar ---> Interstellar was made by Nolan ---> Nolan made the Batman films ---> Batman is DC ---> DC is Marvel's rival ---> Bob loves the MCU ---> Half-Life 3 confirmed???
Can we not do this today people.
Bob reads Nolan doesn't dig post-credit stingers > Taking offense for Marvel, he creates a news post built around a misquote > He then rushes his negative critique of the week two days early to try and hurt the movie preemptively > He also rushes "Intermission" 2 days early, going on about how good Marvel's Agents of Shield is (literally - "What went right?") even though he already has a whole separate column dedicated to the show.
Look, I wasn't mind-blown by Interstellar, and I actually agree with some of the stuff Bob goes on about. But the spiteful bias displayed here reaches new levels of immaturity.
I'm glad someone else is noticing this. It's baffling to me the lengths Bob's gone to lambast Nolan over....well, just about anything, really.Johnny Novgorod said:No, but we can do this:
Bob reads Nolan doesn't dig post-credit stingers > Taking offense for Marvel, he creates a news post built around a misquote > He then rushes his negative critique of the week two days early to try and hurt the movie preemptively > He also rushes "Intermission" 2 days early, going on about how good Marvel's Agents of Shield is (literally - "What went right?") even though he already has a whole separate column dedicated to the show.
Look, I wasn't mind-blown by Interstellar, and I actually agree with some of the stuff Bob goes on about. But the spiteful bias displayed here reaches new levels of immaturity.
Where have you been these past few months? Everything that doesn't accord with the entrenched tastes of the STEM master race is part of some overarching agenda or 'narrative' to ruin geek culture on the whole. Bob is certainly a colossal offender, what with all of his non-objective views towards certain movie tropes and directorial styles that the general public loves yet he doesn't personally enjoy. He doesn't realize that the true purpose of geek culture is simply to dominate the entertainment market.wiersmaster said:I find it kinda funny that so many people assume Bob thinks the movie is bad because of Nolan, while I think it is completely reasonable that Bob thinks the movie is bad because it is a bad movie. Ironically, a big part of the reason that it is so bad is that the first part is so f*cking amazingly good.
Well that last third I invite to take their feet out of their mouths now.LarsInCharge said:I think it's more likecanadamus_prime said:I don't know what all you people are talking about. Bob didn't say anything in this review that was a slight against Christopher Nolan, he even said that Nolan is a very capable film maker. What he also said however is that Nolan isn't capable of delivering the kind of emotional dramas that Speilberg is known for. He didn't say this was a terrible movie, he just said it wasn't a great movie. So would all you Nolan fans just chill already?
1/3 of people pissed about his deliberately click-bait news piece
1/3 of people are Nolan or DC fans claiming bias
1/3 of people hate Bob for one of many reasons:
A) Social Justice Warrior (I WANT TO KILL THE PERSON WHO STARTED THIS "SJW" SHIT)
B) His complete and total devotion to Nintendo and hate of everything else (Understandable)
C) Pretentiousness (Understandable)
D) One of the many colossally stupid things he has said or done (Understandable).
You, sir, have hit the proverbial nail on the head (other than I think the % of Nolan/DC Fanboys is a bit higher than 33%...).LarsInCharge said:I think it's more likecanadamus_prime said:I don't know what all you people are talking about. Bob didn't say anything in this review that was a slight against Christopher Nolan, he even said that Nolan is a very capable film maker. What he also said however is that Nolan isn't capable of delivering the kind of emotional dramas that Speilberg is known for. He didn't say this was a terrible movie, he just said it wasn't a great movie. So would all you Nolan fans just chill already?
1/3 of people pissed about his deliberately click-bait news piece
1/3 of people are Nolan or DC fans claiming bias
1/3 of people hate Bob for one of many reasons:
A) Social Justice Warrior (I WANT TO KILL THE PERSON WHO STARTED THIS "SJW" SHIT)
B) His complete and total devotion to Nintendo and hate of everything else (Understandable)
C) Pretentiousness (Understandable)
D) One of the many colossally stupid things he has said or done (Understandable).
I don't know if he did, but I sure as shit laughedMarsAtlas said:You might enjoy this.ThingWhatSqueaks said:I would watch the hell out of that movie.MarsAtlas said:Great, now I can't get the idea of Neil DeGrasse Tyson bursting into the homes of writers with a whiteboard and markers to chastise them for getting things wrong in it.
Yeah, I'd have to agree with this. Bob hasn't shown undue amounts of hate towards Nolan in the past (MoS WAS shit, sorry Nolanites) and anyone who saw his Dark Knight review knows this. Actually I've seen more negative reviews of Interstellar in the press this week than I have positive reviews. I've seen at least 2 print reviews with the phrase "in space no one can hear you yawn."Xenominim said:I'm really not seeing the bias out of MovieBob that so many people are claiming. Or he's a lot better at hiding it than the people who have immediately run into this thread to declare they knew he would hate it and therefore it must be good.
His review points out the movie is flawed. He specifically says it's very good on a workmanlike level and that it has a number of very good elements. He doesn't say it's perfect and it won't be going on his favorites list but he's not angry or regretting it like his Trek or Spiderman reviews. Hell the movie is getting slightly mixed reviews all over, most positive but it's as of now hitting a 74% on Rotten. So Bob's opinion is hardly some clickbait outlier. It's ridiculous how differing opinions bring out such bitterness in people, particularly when it comes to critics. If you consistently don't like a particular critics reviews, find one whose opinions match your own, that's the point, finding someone you trust to point out stuff you might like! It'd be like watching a TV show you don't like week after week purely so you can jump on to complain about it which would be...oh right, people do that all the time also. Well nevermind then.