Recent content by Swarles

Was just about to talk about this. Bob just hates movies that the "critics" like. I mean I can understand why he hated Birdman because it was a total takedown of the superhero genre as well as a bit of slap in the face to film critics as well. It's still unwarranted because that film is one of...

It was mostly lambasted when it came out mainly because no one knew what they were getting into. To put it into perspective, Speed Racer is a bit of a strange film, allowing itself to follow a lot of eastern animation styles and input that into live action for a western audience. The trailers...

This video was like a nightmare, I can't have superhero movies perpetuating forever. I mean seriously, if you've seen one film, you've seen them all, and the idea that we'll keep getting the same bland story with okay acting and dialogue is just too much. We need more popular films that don't...

I understand where you're coming from, and I don't really want to argue on word choice so I think I'll just concede, it's not an authoritative list and while I would rather it be "Favourite Films" rather than just "Top 10" there's nothing really inherently wrong with it. For me why they all...

I guess it would have been better if he had said favourite rather than "Top" because that word has a sense of authority of what is the best of the best, I dunno. What I mean by that is none of the movies really have a sense of the directors personality to it. I mean Only Lovers Left Alive...

I'm not really surprised that Bob's list gets less interesting as it gets towards number one, with only Selma being in the number two spot really throwing a wrench in his system, just overall disappointed. While yes, Guardians was a good movie, it's still nothing really more than a studio movie...

Wow, I'm surprised I actually liked this episode as much as I did. I've found myself growing at a distance from Bob but I think this episode was surprisingly good. I agree that while there really is a problem with overanalysing something (I'm reminded of an excerpt from the Criterion booklet for...

I've been using Tumblr for about 3 years I think and I've never really understood the hate. I tend to agree with a lot of the "SJW" people in terms of social justice, but I will conceit that there are some straight white women that really feel it's their place to make authoritative comments on...

I use Tumblr pretty extensively, not really sure why though as all I do is end up reblogging music and movie stuff. I mean it's not really a social thing for me but it's something I enjoy(?) doing. I have a Twitter but I don't use it very much, only really when I'm gushing over a recent movie...

I'm kind of feeling done with Bob acting like he's some paragon of film criticism so if someone doesn't like blockbusters it obviously means they only like one very specific kind of film while dismissing all else (I mean I also think he has some unnatural hatred towards Richard Linklater who I...

For starters this doesn't actually answer my question. I was asking where you got your 0.75 number and you didn't tell me an answer. You just gave a vague reference to something I didn't cite then decided to make a point about whether or not gay people are born that way (which they are because I...

I don't quite understand why a large portion of people in this thread seem to object to the use of simple five letter acronym instead of a four letter one and therefore being able to incorporate the wide variety of identities that don't fall under the original four letters. If I really wanted to...

Of course. To start off there's offshoots like the Queercore scene which is somewhat intertwined with the punk scene but has it's own unique identity with specific zines, art, and experimental film as well as large focus on a more "in your face" brand of activism. Honestly if we have games like...

I'm going to have to agree with people that we would need better writing in order for LGBTQ characters to actually mean anything. We can all agree that the AAA space just does not really have the writing capacity to consistently have deep characters, for every Vaas and GLaDOS, there are a dozen...

To get right down to it without getting into a whole spiel about it, there is a lack of protagonists in video games that fall outside of the heterosexual norm. Now I'm not talking about games like Mass Effect or Dragon Age where main characters can choose whether to be heterosexual or not. I'm...