i do watch his videos and don't HATE him, but i do think that he feels that he is always right, plus we do disagree on some movies, but i don't mind having a different opinion
I really like Movie Bob
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Isn't it his job and the idea behind his vids to explain why it is bad or why we shouldn't see it? Explaining the movies good points would be a step in the wrong direction if he wanted to put across how bad it is.
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I always enjoy MovieBob's stuff, all of the backlash on these forums against him seems to be people getting butthurt about him giving negative reviews to films they like and turning it into the tiresome "not everything has to be art!" strawman bollocks.
That said, if I have a problem with him it's that when he does react to criticism his responses are usually just return volleys that don't actually get to the heart of why people's complaints are invalid.
That said, if I have a problem with him it's that when he does react to criticism his responses are usually just return volleys that don't actually get to the heart of why people's complaints are invalid.
He's my go-to source to find out if a movie is worth watching or not, partly because his reviews strike me as being really fair and honest, and partly because everyone I know is a massive retard when it comes to movie quality (The next persons who tells me that transformers 3 was awesome is going to get brained with a car battery). But his reviews aren't so much on the entertainment side. He's not like Yahtzee, whose reviews I can watch just for the entertainment value even if I don't give a toss about the game. His reviews are definitely worth watching, and Intermission usually makes for a interesting read (still overshadowed by XP, however), but I can see how he isn't everyone's favourite guy.
I enjoy his work, both movies and big picture, and i do as well pay attention to game overthinker i enjoy most of it, i don't agree with all of it. But most of the arguments are quite well informed and knowledgeable so i can't agree saying it is mindless and enjoy seeing a different opinion.
I like Movie Bob (extra homo) and I want his babies.
Jokes aside; I'm doing my master's on literature and history (Russian, Roman, Greek) which means that I've been taught to conduct a relatively objective literary analysis.
(Emphasis on relatively. I'm gonna shit my pants if someone replies: "Baw, you can never be 100% objective!" Of course you can't you obvious idiot, go sit in the corner.)
I don't know what Bob's academic credentials are but I've found little fault with his analyses; there's a difference between analyses and your own opinion though and he sometimes irritates me because of diverging perspectives on aesthetics; oh and that intentionally abrasive and misleading angle he took with "PC Gaming is Dead" though his opinions there were justified.
What people need to realize is that building a story in a movie/game/book or almost anything else is 90% procedural and 10% creative. Do you know where 90% of the reader/viewer/gamer's enjoyment comes from? From correctly applied convention and what makes a "product" special is the innovation that's been applied to the procedural. Sometimes a "creator" breaks massively from convention but even then it's an 80% to 20% split.
Here's an example; I like Book of Eli very much but there is no way in hell I'm even going to try and convince someone that it was a masterpiece of cinema on any level; the justifications don't make sense, only Gary Oldman's character has ANY kind of originality and so forth blah blah blah. I liked it but it was an average movie.
People need to stop confusing good movies with movies that they like. If you're serious about your media, then you owe it to yourself and that media to make these distinctions; otherwise you're just spouting ignorant hate at Bob.
tl;dr Bob's doing a great job as a critic. Ignorance is not an opinion, nor should it be a perspective.
Jokes aside; I'm doing my master's on literature and history (Russian, Roman, Greek) which means that I've been taught to conduct a relatively objective literary analysis.
(Emphasis on relatively. I'm gonna shit my pants if someone replies: "Baw, you can never be 100% objective!" Of course you can't you obvious idiot, go sit in the corner.)
I don't know what Bob's academic credentials are but I've found little fault with his analyses; there's a difference between analyses and your own opinion though and he sometimes irritates me because of diverging perspectives on aesthetics; oh and that intentionally abrasive and misleading angle he took with "PC Gaming is Dead" though his opinions there were justified.
What people need to realize is that building a story in a movie/game/book or almost anything else is 90% procedural and 10% creative. Do you know where 90% of the reader/viewer/gamer's enjoyment comes from? From correctly applied convention and what makes a "product" special is the innovation that's been applied to the procedural. Sometimes a "creator" breaks massively from convention but even then it's an 80% to 20% split.
Here's an example; I like Book of Eli very much but there is no way in hell I'm even going to try and convince someone that it was a masterpiece of cinema on any level; the justifications don't make sense, only Gary Oldman's character has ANY kind of originality and so forth blah blah blah. I liked it but it was an average movie.
People need to stop confusing good movies with movies that they like. If you're serious about your media, then you owe it to yourself and that media to make these distinctions; otherwise you're just spouting ignorant hate at Bob.
tl;dr Bob's doing a great job as a critic. Ignorance is not an opinion, nor should it be a perspective.
I like him too. I can see how people think he's arrogant, but I don't think he really is, he just comes off that way. I don't always agree with him, and very rarely he spouts utter bullshit (his game overthinker Metroid: Other M episode), but most of his episodes are interesting.
I enjoy most of what Moviebobber does. I may not always agree with his opinion, but I'm generally impressed with how he expresses himself and the supporting data provided for the majority of his arguments. He's very well spoken, and a big Nerd, and usually provides me with a few giggles or some new insight to geekdom or pop-culture nuances.
I like him as moviebob. Like him less in the big picture, far too nerdy (well the wrong kind of nerdy, if it was a science news/blog show i would love it) and rarely involves anything I would actually call "the big picture". Kinda dislike him in the game over thinker, probably because I'm a pc gamer and couldn't care less about the "good old console days" (though I own a wii, ds and have acces to a gamecube, have played with the nes, snes and n64 at a friends place).
He needs a new microphone, a new artist, and a new editor. Other than that, most of his stuff is informative and occasionally entertaining.
I love Bob, love both his shows, he is witty and informative. LOL
Sometimes he can be abit over the top, but it show the passion he has for the things he enjoys.
Though I thought he almost cried at the end of reviewing Green Lantern.
Sometimes he can be abit over the top, but it show the passion he has for the things he enjoys.
Though I thought he almost cried at the end of reviewing Green Lantern.
I don't always agree with him and I thought The Game Overthinker really went off the rails recently but damn, overall I think Bob does excellent work. I love American Bob, The Game Overthinker (before the recent antics), The Big Picture, Escape to the Movies and all his other stuff.
I like MovieBob. I think that he makes a lot of valid points, and I agree with a lot of them. We might not see eye to eye on everything, but I can at least respect the fact that he does have at least some basis for the arguments that he's making.
That being said, I watch all of his reviews, and often base whether I see a movie based on his review because we share a lot of the same tastes in movies. Every movie he's said was good that I've seen, I really enjoyed, and every movie he said was meh or flat out bad that I saw, I agreed with, although it was with less fanboy rage.
I like MovieBob, but sometimes he lets his fanboyism get the better of him. I can understand that though, it's annoying when someone messes up something that you have a passion for.
That being said, I watch all of his reviews, and often base whether I see a movie based on his review because we share a lot of the same tastes in movies. Every movie he's said was good that I've seen, I really enjoyed, and every movie he said was meh or flat out bad that I saw, I agreed with, although it was with less fanboy rage.
I like MovieBob, but sometimes he lets his fanboyism get the better of him. I can understand that though, it's annoying when someone messes up something that you have a passion for.
What always interests me is that he seems to be capable of conducting proper analysis. I don't know what his credentials are but having an internet critic who can when the occasion calls for it stand back and become more objective. What I like most is probably the text column (the name has just escaped me) because it often shows a much more reasoned side to the debates.