He's discussing it to try to clarify why he didn't like it. A lot of people kept asking him to explain his point further, so he did.Angron said:
Machete vs. The Expendables
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if this had been the review for expendables, i could have easily respected your opinion on it, no matter how much i disagree with it, your bias is seen a little bit, but decently hidden so this was a decent article to read and compare to
hell i might give machete a look, i thought it looked like a bad B movie, but who knows i might enjoy it.
hell i might give machete a look, i thought it looked like a bad B movie, but who knows i might enjoy it.
So you have to wait until you see the movie to read it. Boo hoo. Get over yourself.EgonCom said:
If a person is to have a serious discussion comparing the elements of two things that appear similar on the surface, they have to get specific at times for their analysis to have any credibility. An argument is worthless without doing so. I'm under the assumption that you have the benefit of also not being retarded, and should be able to understand this.
Bob, maybe you cannot convince other people to think like you and you should stop trying? If you had not come out and attacked the fans of the Expendables instead of just saying you did not like the movie, maybe the whole mess never would have gotten so out of hand. Maybe you might not have to keep discussing the movie if you stopped trying to get the last word. Someone is always going to answer any point you try to make about it, so you will never get the last word. I think there IS some truth to the accusation you attacked the Expendables because of Scott Pilgrim. The fact is Scott Pilgrim failed because of Scott Pilgrim, not because another movie killed it. Let the people like what they like and do not try to tell them they are wrong Like what YOU like and tell us WHY. When you try to make it a battle, you will lose because there will always be more people that are not you than there are people that are you. Like they say, when it's you against the world, bet on the world.
Very Demotivational [http://verydemotivational.com/2010/03/19/demotivational-posters-and-the-world/]
Very Demotivational [http://verydemotivational.com/2010/03/19/demotivational-posters-and-the-world/]
Honestly, now that I've seen the Expendables, I got to agree. It was a total crap-fest and a complete waste of everyone's (And by that, I mean the Actors, the Crew and the Consumer's time).
....It'd be very difficult to compare those moments unless he did that, besides, this is an article, not a review. Just don't read it if you really wanna watch Machete that badly.EgonCom said:
I don't agree that people are a-holes that voiced their opinion and outrage over being called idiots. And to be honest that's not all he said to get people upset, it was an abusive thing to say and was unnecessary for a movie review. I want you to stop a moment and look at any other movie critic/reviewer articles to see if they attacked the audience of the movie. The audience does not deserve his ire.Zeeky_Santos said:
A proper critic does not factor in their personal feelings in a review. However, Moviebob did a point-by-point analysis here, and for that he's done great work rebuilding his reputation. For his comments in Escape to the movies, he deserves no praise or support.
As excited as I was about Expendables(and trust me I was bouncin off the walls in excitement) and I have yet to see it(and I was just as excited about the A-Team movie) I think I'll likewise give this one a pass infavor of Rob Rod's B movie bloodbath
That, pretty much.JourneyThroughHell said:
Bob, you say some good stuff, but please, for the love of god shut up about The Expendables. You'll be better of in the long run and we can forget the whole mess ever happened.
This sums up WHY I could give a fuck less about Stallone's eg- I mean, The Expendables. In two weeks I would have forgotten about the damn thing, if that (I had Metroid: Other M anyway) due to Machet's INSANE beats. It's quite clear that Stallone's talent as an action director is severely limited at best; trying the shaky-cam thing in a movie like this doesn't work unless you know what the hell you're doing. Plus Stallone's writing peaked at First Blood and his considerable talents just continued to atrophy (which is mostly his own damn fault, the fool). Now that Bob (and hopefully EVERYONE ELSE) has gotten this out of their system we can move on to more constructive things...like plowing through various types of aliens.
I agree, this is basically Stallone vs Rodriguez, one was trying to figure out how a camera should be held (and didn't manage to) while the other has been doing quality stuff for over a decade.ultimateownage said:
But yeah, if The Expendables was terrible, and had probably the worst use ever for some of the cast, specially Jet Li, and the fact that 80% of the budget was spent on the cast and 15% on explosives was very easily noticeable.
Most of the people that enjoyed The Expendables mostly quote the mindless fun, but I have a hard time figuring out how someone could enjoy the movie. The action scenes were hindered by outrageously bad camera work, the fight scenes are uninteresting, which is a shame when you have Jet Li on the cast and make him a wimp, there were no funny moments, the only laugh I had the whole movie was when
they said Arnie wanted to become president
lolz, thanks for doing this for me. My heart sank when I saw his posts and realized I'd have to go on a big rant to defeat him. Cause you know, I MUST WIN ON TEH INTERNETS!! Ignorance can be a pain, luckily we can just label him as troll and pretend we won the argument =)Shale_Dirk said:
Oh well, Expendables = Bad, gonna go see Machete tonight. Thanks Movie Bob, keep it up.
Bob, I'm starting to think you don't know how to let go. For as much as you seem to HATE The Expendables, you sure do talk a lot about it.
Ever heard the phrase "beating a dead horse"? Everyone else has moved on to other movies, maybe you should too.
Ever heard the phrase "beating a dead horse"? Everyone else has moved on to other movies, maybe you should too.
You know what, if MovieBob had put all this into his review, these valid points, and not just bagged on the Expendables, calling it stupid and crying about Scott Pilgrim, I wouldn't have minded him slapping the movie with an F and neither would alot of people.
It really is a shame that it's taken him this long to make some valid points about a movie he reviewed a few weeks ago. And by the way, stuff doesn't need to have a deeper meaning to be good.
It really is a shame that it's taken him this long to make some valid points about a movie he reviewed a few weeks ago. And by the way, stuff doesn't need to have a deeper meaning to be good.
