Poll: Do you like Moviebob's material?

[Daveman]

In fairness, 50 most boring opinions is hardly going to be a thrilling read considering the material.

 

[Lovely Mixture]

Bob stopped being a critic long ago, he now just flaunts his opinion without regard for discussion or opposing viewpoints. This sounds like more of the same.

It doesn't always need to be "I don't like it, here's why." It can also be "this is how it is, let me describe the issues I have with it."

 

[teebeeohh]

the 50 opinions thing was a clear misfire, especially since it included things as short-lived as the ME3 ending.
i like most of the things he says about movies(and while i agree that dark knight rises was kinda dull, bane was a really good villain, bob just didn't like bane to benign with) but i tend to disagree with almost everything he says about games, especially since he jumped on the "PC gaming is dying" bandwagon long after the band disbanded

 

[BartyMae]

I occasionally watch one of his movie reviews if the movie in question interests me. I have no idea why I do, because I hardly ever agree with him, and I hate those "faces" he uses as part of the imagery in the video. But that's just me.

 

[Lovely Mixture]

I remember in one of the Jimquisition videos, he once saw a poll in the threads that he paid attention to in order to get feedback on how he was doing, and considering the recent uproar around Moviebob's "The Most 50 Boring Opinions in Geek Culture" list, I thought that now would be a good time to take stock on Moviebob and the material he puts out.

It's a rather simple question really, do you like the current direction that he is going in? Yes or no? And by that I mean do you really like the style that he has while making his material. Really do you enjoy his material in general?

I find his videos fairly entertaining. If you don't like them, don't watch them? Why is this a debate?

Did you read the post you quoted? It's merely a question, not anything provocative (or at least not as provocative as the stuff Bob puts out).

And "don't like, don't watch" does not allow things to escape criticism.

 

[Garyn Dakari]

I like his video series and intermissions. I disagree with him a LOT, but it's usually interesting and/or funny. Only "Problems" I have with his videos and such would be that sometimes it seems like he makes his mind up about a movie long before he actually reviews it. Maybe he just has great foresight, but he "Reviewed the trailers" for TDKR and The Amazing Spiderman, then his actual reviews were just about identical. As soon as the trailers for SM came out, he said it looked horrible, and continued to say it, up until it was released, where he said it again in the review. TDKR was the same way, just off the trailers he was going "Yeah, it looks okay I guess, but it's not going to be as good as the others", then his review says the exact same thing.

Same could be said about The Avengers I guess, but EVERYONE loved that one, right?

But anyway, I still like the videos.

 

[dontlooknow]

In contrast with Jim and Yahtzee's often self-deprecating "fuck you, these are my opinions" style of argument, Bob seems to favour a slightly less self conscious, more direct and therefore more quaint, or old fashioned presentation of his opinions. Say what you will about his actual position on matters, I think the reason people who don't agree with him tend to do so more vocally is that he doesn't try to mitigate himself with a post-modern meta-critic glass shield.

I will say, however that the 50 Geek Opinions... article was a fucking stupid idea. Seriously Bob, what were you thinking?

 

[Casual Shinji]

There's no new direction, Bob has always been on that soapbox. He's a major fanboy and he lets it shine through his videos and articles ever so clearly. Nothing wrong with that, he's allowed to express himself however he sees fit. But then he shouldn't be surprised when people call him out on his nonsense. Though somehow I have a feeling he thrives on that.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

To be honest I haven't noticed much of a change in direction. I still enjoy his stuff, although I do tend to disagree with him a lot about subjects to do with gaming. The only change I've noticed is that in the past he occasionally said something along the lines of 'this is awful/sexist/racist/whatever and if you like it you are too', which he's thankfully stopped doing.

Oh, and on his list of boring opinions, I agree with him totally. Whether or not they're right is irrelevant, but they've been heard enough.

 

[infinity_turtles]

This isn't criticism, this is commentary, not the same thing. Saying 'oh I don't like this new direction Bob's taking, I'd prefer he do it this way...' that just stupid. Bob will take whatever direction Bob wants, and if you don't like it, you're not being forced to watch.

And really, describing any kind of reaction to a video by someone like Moviebob as an 'uproar'... jesus christ, get over yourselves. He's just some guy who makes nerdy videos, stop taking everything so damn seriously.

Forum
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A meeting or medium where ideas and views on a particular issue can be exchanged.

This happens to be a forum dedicated to the site where some of Moviebob's stuff gets posted. People exchanging ideas and views on content hosted here is to be expected. More-so, given that this is Bob's job don't you think it'd be good that if most people don't like the direction he's taking, that he knows about it so he can examine what he's doing and see if he thinks he could or should change something? There's also probably an argument to made here about this being people voicing their opinions on the work of someone who mainly does opinion pieces which makes it pretty hypocritical to complain about just because you like one set of opinions and not the other.

 

[mitchell271]

If you think there's been some sort of huge shift in his stuff on the Escapist (which I haven't really noticed), you should see the stuff he's been doing in his other show, The Game Overthinker. When it started, it was smart and rational (mostly). Now there's a lot of story bollocks that no one really cares about and it's gotten so much in the way that he spawned a spin-off called Overbytes on Blip.

Spoiler: Here is an example

 

[n00beffect]

See, this poll would only be relevant if Moviebob had suddenly had an unexpected shift of perspective or had made a rather sudden change in his style, and really... The guy's been doing the same thing for years now, and me likey. It would've been a lot more accurate if this thread had been named 'Should Moviebob keep doing what he's doing, or not, maybe I dunno *falls asleep*' Or... you know... something like that.

 

[Ljs1121]

I don't really care either way about MovieBob. I only watch on occasion, and that's if he's covering a movie I'm interested in.

I don't really see any problem with him from what I've watched, though.

 

[Nimzabaat]

No. He used to be a lot more critical of movies. Now everything is awesome and I can't trust his opinion anymore. He's losing his credibility and there's so few "critics" that have any credibility already.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I don't know what "direction" you're talking about as he's seemed to remain fairly consistent for as long as I've been following his work. So yeah, I guess I do. He certainly seems to know more about the various topics then I do.

EDIT: Although I do question his taste in movies sometimes.