Poll: Do you like Moviebob's material?

[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.

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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.

 

[Agayek]

Maybe I'm not paying enough attention but I don't see any difference between what he did in the past and what he is currently doing. He's always had...strong opinions and has never really been afraid to speak said opinions. A lot of times I agree with him and other times I don't; either way I find it entertaining.

Could you be a bit more specific with what you're talking about?

I'm gonna have to echo this. I don't see anything different now from when he started. If there is such a hubbub about stuff, it seems more likely they're just butthurt that he called them boring.

 

[Something Amyss]

If you agree with him, you like him. If you don't, you don't.

I don't really like him, though I sometimes agree with him.

Just saying.

 

[Chives on top of me]

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?

Not sure what you really mean here. If I take this at face value you seem to be asking if people like the format of his shows or the writing style of his column. The editing, the way Bob talks, the pacing, the font...this would be the "style" thing you mentioned. Unless I, and everyone else, have missed something there seems to be no real change in how Bob presents his material. So I need to ask just what change are we, or you, talking about...?

Or is this just bitching because you don't like his opinion and are seeking validation?

 

[Dethenger]

Whatever direction Moviebob is taking still feels quite ordinary to me as far as film reviews go. He seems to like what people like and not like what people don't like. Not that that is a bad thing or anything. But I bet Yahtzee could make better film reviews.

More entertaining ones, sure, but I wouldn't say better. I think Yahtzee, in a sort of forced reply to Roger Ebert's claim that "video games can never be art," said he wouldn't review movies because he doesn't know fuck-all about them (my words) and he doesn't expect Roger Ebert to know fuck-all about video games.
I'm then led to conclude that him reviewing a movie would probably be a five minute long thing of him pointing out things that bug him and ranting about them, the difference between that and his usual approach being that they'd probably be insignificant things such as the colour of a certain object onscreen as opposed to something about a game that he considered broken.

 

[Mithcha]

Used to watch Movie Bob fairly frequently, then he started to irritate me. Escapist expo I finally realised what it was: his voice. I much, much prefer and oddly enough can better understand his native Boston accent. If he used that, I'd watch more. As it is I only watch his vids rarely, 'cause his fake voice grinds me. Read most of his stuff though.

I don't watch often enough to of noticed some sweeping change in direction, though, so yes to the poll

 

[Fuzzed]

More entertaining ones, sure, but I wouldn't say better. I think Yahtzee, in a sort of forced reply to Roger Ebert's claim that "video games can never be art," said he wouldn't review movies because he doesn't know fuck-all about them (my words) and he doesn't expect Roger Ebert to know fuck-all about video games.
I'm then led to conclude that him reviewing a movie would probably be a five minute long thing of him pointing out things that bug him and ranting about them, the difference between that and his usual approach being that they'd probably be insignificant things such as the colour of a certain object onscreen as opposed to something about a game that he considered broken.

It's possible. And maybe I completely wrong here so correct me if I am, but I get the sense that neither of these guys have degrees in film and video games (Not that that makes me think any less of their work, don't get me wrong). Plus, film isn't that esoteric like many reviewers make it out to be. So i'm just saying, regardless of that Ebert comment, Yahtzee could probably make more interesting movie reviews.

 

[Erttheking]

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?

Not sure what you really mean here. If I take this at face value you seem to be asking if people like the format of his shows or the writing style of his column. The editing, the way Bob talks, the pacing, the font...this would be the "style" thing you mentioned. Unless I, and everyone else, have missed something there seems to be no real change in how Bob presents his material. So I need to ask just what change are we, or you, talking about...?

Or is this just bitching because you don't like his opinion and are seeking validation?

Did I say anything about how I feel about him? No. Then how am I "bitching"

 

[Calibanbutcher]

I like his stuff for entertainment but I don't base my moviegoing decisions on his opinion anymore, since I simply disagree with him way too often.
I hated Scott Pilgrim, he loved it.
I enjoyed the new Spiderman movie, he clearly did not.