Poll: Do you enjoy Moviebob's content?
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I periodically enjoy The Big Picture, and watch the occasional film review, but I don't particularly like his taste in movies, which grossly limits the content that interests me. Also, when he speaks to facts, he's often just wrong. I'm not sure if he doesn't do research, does do research but not well, or just doesn't care, but it's off-putting.
Otherwise? He's okay.
Otherwise? He's okay.
Well, someone else did. I don't know who, just that you're no longer out on that ledge alone.Queen Michael said:
I watch/read/enjoy his stuff. Don't always agree with him. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. But agreeing isn't necessarily a prerequisite for enjoyment.
I think I like him because of his expertise and occasionally scathing style. But I think that's also why I find him that much more loathsome when he's being a dick.
To put it lightly, no; I cannot stand the guy. And I'm a big fan of harsh critics, like Brooker, Yahtzee, and Sterling. But Bob always seems to be arrogant in his commentary, using his bias as a crux as opposed to a reference point. That and I studied film, so I can't stomach his movie reviews given that most of them make little to no sense in my mind. The Road = a film in which nothing happens vs 2012 = best apocalypse film of 2012? No.
To be perfectly honest, now that Jim has gone I'm seriously thinking about taking my leave from this site given the sheer volume of Bob stuff posted here.
To be perfectly honest, now that Jim has gone I'm seriously thinking about taking my leave from this site given the sheer volume of Bob stuff posted here.
He's a smart guy and I agree with many of his views but whenever it comes to gender and representation... OH DEAR GOD STOP.
He's not an idiot but his interactions on social media are appalling. He lacks the self-awareness of Jim and Yahtzee, my favourite contributors and his ramblings on sexism completely miss the point. (Remember how he thought Link being female would be revolutionary? *shudder*)
I wish he wasn't as facetious when discussing serious issues. I used to respect him but now he's a liberal equivalent of that one lunatic right-winger that has a good grasp on certain issues and an absolutely flimsy grasp on others.
He's not an idiot but his interactions on social media are appalling. He lacks the self-awareness of Jim and Yahtzee, my favourite contributors and his ramblings on sexism completely miss the point. (Remember how he thought Link being female would be revolutionary? *shudder*)
I wish he wasn't as facetious when discussing serious issues. I used to respect him but now he's a liberal equivalent of that one lunatic right-winger that has a good grasp on certain issues and an absolutely flimsy grasp on others.
I don't always agree with him, but I think the man is fairly good at what he does, and certainly has a knack for breaking down things like movies in his reviews.
That said, his tendency to keep swinging long after the horse is dead has frequently left me tired of watching his videos or reading his articles. When he's able to go five minutes without reminding us of how much he hated The Amazing Spider-Man he's pretty good though.
That said, his tendency to keep swinging long after the horse is dead has frequently left me tired of watching his videos or reading his articles. When he's able to go five minutes without reminding us of how much he hated The Amazing Spider-Man he's pretty good though.
Zero Punctuation made me come over and start lurking on The Escapist. Escape to the Movies is what made me say, "screw it" and sign up. I really like Big Picture too and whenever he posted Overthinker on youtube I'd be sure to check that out too. I haven't seen many new Overthinkers but I think those moved to a different site...oh well.
Our tastes and hobbies generally run along the samw lines. Better than Yahtzee and never watched Jim.
I often enjoy his content, more so when he is info dumping his geek knowledge than any other time. Politically? I feel that his posts on twitter and other outlets paint him as the sort of extremist that I tend to ignore as irrelevant to intelligent discussion. I don't hate him for it, but I can't take him seriously because of it.
I'm not a fan, mainly because our tastes are quite different.
And I don't care for some of his style choices on some of his videos, mainly how it seems like he speeds up the the dialog and his switching of accents (ok the last isn't something he choose to do, but it does pull me away when watching).
And because of that, I tend not to watch his videos, sometimes I do if the topic interests me, but it's not a regular thing.
All that being said it's just a taste thing, nothing is wrong with his videos, and I hope he continues to make them.
And I don't care for some of his style choices on some of his videos, mainly how it seems like he speeds up the the dialog and his switching of accents (ok the last isn't something he choose to do, but it does pull me away when watching).
And because of that, I tend not to watch his videos, sometimes I do if the topic interests me, but it's not a regular thing.
All that being said it's just a taste thing, nothing is wrong with his videos, and I hope he continues to make them.
That was Faraci, and his sentiment was that at least ISIS were honest about what they were doing rather than trying to paint a hate crusade as being about 'real issues'.Dark Knifer said:
On topic, really enjoy bobs work. Brought some weird and wonderful stuff to light.
I used to like the guy when he talked more about comics and movies. Now he's shifted into more political topics and he's much more bitter about everything. He still talks about movies and comics obviously, but I don't watch his content nowadays because there's a 50/50 chance it'll be some petty rant.
Over the years I've watched most of his film reviews because we tend to share an overall opinion, if not completely the same idea. I use his reviews as a barometer (among other review sources) to determine if something's worth my time. His Big Picture videos are often interesting and well explained trivia, but rarely anything more than that.
But I find him as a person to be quite hypocritical at times, which is something I absolutely hate. His aggressive attitude really rubs me the wrong way too. Especially his defensive comment rebuttals.
Overall, quite like the content. Probably wouldn't be friends with the guy if I knew him, but that's fine. To each his own right?
But I find him as a person to be quite hypocritical at times, which is something I absolutely hate. His aggressive attitude really rubs me the wrong way too. Especially his defensive comment rebuttals.
Overall, quite like the content. Probably wouldn't be friends with the guy if I knew him, but that's fine. To each his own right?
I do really enjoy his content in regards to the Big Picture, while I see his Escape to the Movies as more mixed, but still generally positive.
His news pieces are a bit too baity for me to like them or even want to check the "discussion" for them, even if he doesn't specifically hold a position in many of them. I'd prefer if he just used social media to spread those kinds of stories and kept them off the site/left someone else write about it.
I respectfully disagree with many of his assessments, as he does many from others from what I can tell from what I've seen from many episodes he has done on his series the GameOverThinker on other bloggers/journalists, but nothing he has ever said had made me think he was anything more than ignorant on some aspects of what he was trying to say.
His news pieces are a bit too baity for me to like them or even want to check the "discussion" for them, even if he doesn't specifically hold a position in many of them. I'd prefer if he just used social media to spread those kinds of stories and kept them off the site/left someone else write about it.
I respectfully disagree with many of his assessments, as he does many from others from what I can tell from what I've seen from many episodes he has done on his series the GameOverThinker on other bloggers/journalists, but nothing he has ever said had made me think he was anything more than ignorant on some aspects of what he was trying to say.
He's the main reason I got into this site and still my favorite contributor. I like his style, even if I don't understand every pop culture reference he makes in his videos. More importantly, I find myself agreeing with his take on a particular movie about 9 times out of 10, so I can usually get a good idea of whether or not a movie is worth my time and money by checking out his review, and a few times he's brought to my attention some gems that I hadn't heard of or had wrongly dismissed.
I do get a chuckle, though, when his accent kicks in; it's not an annoying accent IMO, but it's just funny when most of a video is done in his broadcast voice but then a random sentence or two is in his Boston accent. "Let's all congrajalate STAH TREK INTO DAHKNESS on no longeh bein' da dumbest movie o' da summer."
I do get a chuckle, though, when his accent kicks in; it's not an annoying accent IMO, but it's just funny when most of a video is done in his broadcast voice but then a random sentence or two is in his Boston accent. "Let's all congrajalate STAH TREK INTO DAHKNESS on no longeh bein' da dumbest movie o' da summer."
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I find the content covered in the Big Picture is usually interesting, I don't watch Escape to the Movies regularly however as I'm not interested enough about the average movie to bother and his news articles are eh at best, so it's a mix from me.