Escape to the Movies: Scre4m
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I have to agree; Yahtzee isn't so much irritating any more so much as he is boring me. Even if he WAS producing a comedy show (which he isn't, let's be honest) his humor has gotten stale and tired. He just seems to be falling back on the same jokes over and over again that, dare I say, come off as bigoted, hypocritical, and self-righteous at times. Like his Other M review where he has the GALL to act like he's being fair to women...AND THEN MAKES A MENSTRUATION JOKE. The only people Bob mocks are the assholes, the bigots, the hypocrites, and the holier-than-thou. Which, oddly enough, all seem to comprise MY GENERATION. God my generation SUCKSomegawyrm said:
I created an account just so I could say that Bob lost a fan with this review.
It was petty, empty, childish, and completely unprofessional. I don't need to repeat all of the criticisms already posted in these comments, but they are all accurate. Grow up and get over yourself, Bob.
It was petty, empty, childish, and completely unprofessional. I don't need to repeat all of the criticisms already posted in these comments, but they are all accurate. Grow up and get over yourself, Bob.
I'm a bit tired of Bob's personal pet peeves creeping into all his reviews. He could do a hell of a lot better if he just kept it to the pros and cons of the film instead of ranting about how his "talent" became useless after Scream (Newsflash, Bob: it was useless before too). I only watch his reviews on occasion when the film either looks interesting or I foolishly decide to see what he thinks about something I'm familiar with. Sure, I never really liked Scream or its sequels in any way, but I don't get all bent out of shape about it.gibboss28 said:
Quick preface: I made this account just to leave this comment. Note that I am not a Scream fan. I've watched the first one a long time ago, and the film barely left an impression. I do love Horror, but I can think of a handful of much better horror comedies that I would rather watch than the Scream series. I am not really even a Craven fanboi either. I enjoy his work with NoES and The Hills Have Eyes, but I really have no interest in his filmography beyond that.
Hey there Bob. I've been a fan of yours for a while.
This "review" is a disgrace. It's outright offensive to even call this a review. It's nothing more than a vitriolic rant. If I wanted to hear some random spew hate into a microphone for 5 minutes, then I'd go to youtube. I do not expect your show to be nothing more than a series of baseless and childish attacks with absolutely no substance. You should be ashamed to call this a review.
I watch your show because you are usually very insightful. You have a very unique paradigm towards reviewing. I cannot really describe it, but I nonetheless find it appealing. But this review totally dismissed your established viewpoint, and you just sat around and bashed the film for no good reason. There was no criticism in this rant... nothing close to it. It was an excuse for you to masquerade a clearly and deep personal attack as a critique. The review is absolutely and totally unprofessional, and is a disgrace on your body of works, which is pretty solid and full of genuinely good opinions and critiques. Like I said, you should be ASHAMED for posting this in its current state.
I am not going to stop watching you, or stop listening to what you say. But you've destroyed your professional and journalistic integrity with this video. Everything you say I will now take with a grain of salt. I can't trust you anymore, since I know you aren't afraid to use your show as a vehicle to spew hate and disdain. As a fan of yours, I cannot be more disappointed. This is a massive nadir for you, Bob. I'll never be able to take your opinion anywhere near as seriously as I did.
I hope you realize that this was a huge mistake, and own up to it. It takes a lifetime to build up a reputation, but only one gaffe to ruin it all.
Hey there Bob. I've been a fan of yours for a while.
This "review" is a disgrace. It's outright offensive to even call this a review. It's nothing more than a vitriolic rant. If I wanted to hear some random spew hate into a microphone for 5 minutes, then I'd go to youtube. I do not expect your show to be nothing more than a series of baseless and childish attacks with absolutely no substance. You should be ashamed to call this a review.
I watch your show because you are usually very insightful. You have a very unique paradigm towards reviewing. I cannot really describe it, but I nonetheless find it appealing. But this review totally dismissed your established viewpoint, and you just sat around and bashed the film for no good reason. There was no criticism in this rant... nothing close to it. It was an excuse for you to masquerade a clearly and deep personal attack as a critique. The review is absolutely and totally unprofessional, and is a disgrace on your body of works, which is pretty solid and full of genuinely good opinions and critiques. Like I said, you should be ASHAMED for posting this in its current state.
I am not going to stop watching you, or stop listening to what you say. But you've destroyed your professional and journalistic integrity with this video. Everything you say I will now take with a grain of salt. I can't trust you anymore, since I know you aren't afraid to use your show as a vehicle to spew hate and disdain. As a fan of yours, I cannot be more disappointed. This is a massive nadir for you, Bob. I'll never be able to take your opinion anywhere near as seriously as I did.
I hope you realize that this was a huge mistake, and own up to it. It takes a lifetime to build up a reputation, but only one gaffe to ruin it all.
aww. I wanted this movie to be really good. I wanted this to be a total 100% analytical deconstruction of the horror genre, the nature of horror movies, and the nature of horror and movies in general. I didn't know anything about Wes Craven or the script writer so thats why i thought it would be that.
This is basically what I've been saying but better worded, if there was a 'like' button on this forum I would use it.Stall said:
I really hope Bob reads this post and takes it on board, because he's a far better reviewer than the Scre4m video would suggest.
I don't get it. If you stopped using your "special power" because people were comparing you to a character in a stunningly mediocre slasher flick, I don't see how that's anyone's fault but yours for not going, "Whatever, I am what I am and I love what I love" instead of letting it embitter you. It came across a bit too much like the people who complain about their favourite bands/movies/hobbies going mainstream... oh my gosh, something I enjoyed and thought was fun/intelligent/creative is now being recognised as being so by everyone else! I guess that means it lost all its merit and been ruined for me! I mean, seriously, what the hell? Yeah Scream was a boring, silly series, but wasn't that your chance to use the interested it generated and point people towards the real gems of the genre and maybe enlighten a few potential budding movie buffs?
I think you're smart, and enormously talented and funny, but if you let a movie franchise ruin what you feel made you special and unique just because it shone the spotlight on the things you loved and were passionate about, well... it's just kind of distressing that someone would do that to themselves.
I think you're smart, and enormously talented and funny, but if you let a movie franchise ruin what you feel made you special and unique just because it shone the spotlight on the things you loved and were passionate about, well... it's just kind of distressing that someone would do that to themselves.
I'm glad he took a stab at it. I can gladly say I've never payed seen any of these. I saw the fist one and it sucked.HankMan said:
Although think he mispronounced the title. Shouldn't it be Screfourm? He made it sound like Screforum. It bugged me a little.
While I think the 90's was a pretty good decade, I can think of various reasons why is was bad.
Music: Good - It was the decade of Grunge, which was the final death nail to Glam metal and West Coast Gangster rap became more mainstream. Bad - Grunge was short lived due to Kurt Cobain's suicide, the West Coast & East Coast rap war became too serious and it took the lives of Tupac and Biggie. Bubblegum pop soared thanks to Brintey Spears and boy bands like N'sync and Backstreet boys. Also, Vanilla Ice, Rico Suave, and MC Hammer stayed for too long. Woodstock 99 was terrible.
TV: Good - Sort of MTV's golden era. Thanks to Beavis and Butthead, TRL, Headbangers Ball, and Yo MTV Raps. Kids cartoons were great thanks to Nicktoons, Fox Kids cartoons, and Kids WB. That, and the last few years of the decade brought the Anime boom from Cartoon Network. Saturday Night Live was fantastic. Was also the decade we saw the rise of South Park, The Critic, and King of the Hill. Tales from the Crypt. The "Stone Cold era" of WWF. Xena and Hercules were there. We also had Friends, Fresh Prince of Bell Air, and Senfield. Bad - 90210, Power Rangers went on for too long until Pokemon killed it's fame, MTV started their way into reality tv dumbness with Real World, Daria, Fox Kids got rid of many of their best cartoons too soon, Headbangers Ball and Yo MTV Raps got cancelled too soon. Cop Rock. Fox News started. Jerry Springer. Barney and Teletubbies.
Films: Good - Goodfellas, Jurassic Park, Free Willy, Edward Scissorhands, Boyz in the Hood, New Jack City, Dazed and Confused, Silence of the Lambs, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Lawnmower Man, Wayne's World, Reservior Dogs, Reality Bites, Pulp Fiction, Terminator 2, Forest Gump, Toy Story, Braveheart, Fight Club, Titanic, Independence Day, Species, Austin Powers, Armageddon, Total Recall, The Big Lebowski, Blade, There's Something About Mary, Varity Blues, Starship Troopers, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the Matrix, Office Space, Se7en. Bad - Everything else. Especially Godzilla and Phantom Menance if you believe it ruined the franchise.
Politics: Good - Bill Clinton got into office after 12 years of Republican presidency and the Cold War was over. Bad - Newt Gingrich and the Republican controlled House, Monica Lewinski scandal, the rise of Right wing radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh, and the debate over political correctness.
Video games - Playstation, FFVII and FFVIII, N64 and Mario 64, Dreamcast, and Mortal Kombat. NES and Sega Genesis were ok but had their problems. Bad - Arcades became almost non-used, Sega couldn't get their act together, Dreamcast died, the Mortal Kombat controversies and anger over them thanks to Joe Libermann and Jack Thompson.
And of course, that's just a sample. Still, unlike Bob, I quite liked the 90's. Still, there was quite a few things that sucked about it, but then again, almost every decade has something that sucked about it.
Music: Good - It was the decade of Grunge, which was the final death nail to Glam metal and West Coast Gangster rap became more mainstream. Bad - Grunge was short lived due to Kurt Cobain's suicide, the West Coast & East Coast rap war became too serious and it took the lives of Tupac and Biggie. Bubblegum pop soared thanks to Brintey Spears and boy bands like N'sync and Backstreet boys. Also, Vanilla Ice, Rico Suave, and MC Hammer stayed for too long. Woodstock 99 was terrible.
TV: Good - Sort of MTV's golden era. Thanks to Beavis and Butthead, TRL, Headbangers Ball, and Yo MTV Raps. Kids cartoons were great thanks to Nicktoons, Fox Kids cartoons, and Kids WB. That, and the last few years of the decade brought the Anime boom from Cartoon Network. Saturday Night Live was fantastic. Was also the decade we saw the rise of South Park, The Critic, and King of the Hill. Tales from the Crypt. The "Stone Cold era" of WWF. Xena and Hercules were there. We also had Friends, Fresh Prince of Bell Air, and Senfield. Bad - 90210, Power Rangers went on for too long until Pokemon killed it's fame, MTV started their way into reality tv dumbness with Real World, Daria, Fox Kids got rid of many of their best cartoons too soon, Headbangers Ball and Yo MTV Raps got cancelled too soon. Cop Rock. Fox News started. Jerry Springer. Barney and Teletubbies.
Films: Good - Goodfellas, Jurassic Park, Free Willy, Edward Scissorhands, Boyz in the Hood, New Jack City, Dazed and Confused, Silence of the Lambs, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Lawnmower Man, Wayne's World, Reservior Dogs, Reality Bites, Pulp Fiction, Terminator 2, Forest Gump, Toy Story, Braveheart, Fight Club, Titanic, Independence Day, Species, Austin Powers, Armageddon, Total Recall, The Big Lebowski, Blade, There's Something About Mary, Varity Blues, Starship Troopers, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the Matrix, Office Space, Se7en. Bad - Everything else. Especially Godzilla and Phantom Menance if you believe it ruined the franchise.
Politics: Good - Bill Clinton got into office after 12 years of Republican presidency and the Cold War was over. Bad - Newt Gingrich and the Republican controlled House, Monica Lewinski scandal, the rise of Right wing radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh, and the debate over political correctness.
Video games - Playstation, FFVII and FFVIII, N64 and Mario 64, Dreamcast, and Mortal Kombat. NES and Sega Genesis were ok but had their problems. Bad - Arcades became almost non-used, Sega couldn't get their act together, Dreamcast died, the Mortal Kombat controversies and anger over them thanks to Joe Libermann and Jack Thompson.
And of course, that's just a sample. Still, unlike Bob, I quite liked the 90's. Still, there was quite a few things that sucked about it, but then again, almost every decade has something that sucked about it.
For once can you leave my era alone D:< I was born in 1990 so I'm a 90's kid and it really bothers and annoys me how you stab at my era all the time because it wasn't your precious little 80's.
I can deal with people who liked the 80's, I've liked things from it, but when you keep dissing my era saying nothing good came out of it, then you just piss me off.
Because things DID. we may have had sucky comics, but we still did good in a a lot of other things.
I can deal with people who liked the 80's, I've liked things from it, but when you keep dissing my era saying nothing good came out of it, then you just piss me off.
Because things DID. we may have had sucky comics, but we still did good in a a lot of other things.
uh, no you're not. I was born in 1986, but that doesn't make me an 80s kid. When people refer to the "kids" of a generation they mean teenagers to college-age. If anything Bob is the 90s kid here because his high school career was in the 90s. I turned 13 at the ass-end of 99, so you and me would be 00's kids.lokiduck said:
Somebody is bitter, I may be equally biased having grown up watching the scream movies, but having gone into it expecting the worst I was actually pleasantly surprised, and hey I would take scream over another saw sequel or the hills have eyes.
I'll take the 90s over the 00s any day of the week.
Man...Horror movies have really taken a fall. I remember seeing some good stuff in 1999, 2002, & 2004, but unless they also double as a comedy, they're all lather-rinse-repeat with a cast so annoying you just want them all to die.
When I saw the trailer for Scream 4, I thought it was actually an April Fools joke where they were just playing the trailer to Scary Movie.
Man...Horror movies have really taken a fall. I remember seeing some good stuff in 1999, 2002, & 2004, but unless they also double as a comedy, they're all lather-rinse-repeat with a cast so annoying you just want them all to die.
When I saw the trailer for Scream 4, I thought it was actually an April Fools joke where they were just playing the trailer to Scary Movie.