I've been trying to stay out of this, but I'll be blunt:
I can accept that MovieBob is a critic, however I think it steps over the line when he starts seriously insulting his audience, especially seeing as he's a professional. I say "seriously" because Yahtzee has done some similar stuff, but with his style I've never felt it was actually a real attack on anyone, but part of his routine and what makes him entertaining. With Moviebob it's something else entirely.
Truthfully, I think The Escapist needs to put a tighter rein on some of the people doing their articles. We had the anti-white racist stuff in some of the game reviews (like with Just Cause 2), we have this now... seriously, it's one thing coming from a humourist or comedy sketch, something else coming from more serious articles.
That bit said I will also say that I saw "Pirahna 3-D" as can definatly enjoy low brow entertainment. Boobies, blood, and absolute ridiculousness entertain me, and this movie delivered on those accounts. It was a very good movie, that did what it was trying to do well. The biggest disappointment for me was that I don't think Christopher Lloyd nailed his role very well... and umm, while it was a smaller bit I think the guy riding the Jet Ski while shooting Pirahna with a shotgun was more amusing than Ving Rhames. I actually did a "WTF did I just see" for a second but then figured "Ahh well, it fits the movie... carry on".
Oh and the Lesbian swimming scene was quite well done, remember we're not talking a highbrow movie here.
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One final bit I will mention that I want to get off my chest is yes, predictably about "The Expendables". To be honest, I saw the movie and didn't think it was bad, not great, but not horrible. Looking back on it, the only real complaint is that it was a very "by the numbers" action movie, and simply was not as exceptional as it could be considering all the star power involved... but then again a lot of those stars are not exactly in their prime.
Despite the comments on their acting credits I kind of got the impression MovieBob actually didn't like the source material given his comments about musclemen. He also seemed to deliberatly go out of context with comparisons like talking about how it would have been a mistake to cast Van Damme in "The Matrix" for the reasons he stated. The reason why Keanu Reeves worked was not because it's better to teach an actor how to fight in a universal sense, but because of the kind of role it was. Van Damme looks like a musclebound tough guy, but the character Neo is not supposed to, he only fights because he basically "cheats" by altering computer reality to give himself those abillities. He's not supposed to look like a guy who can do the kinds of things he does, unlike Van Damme. Van Damme is good for other kinds of roles where you are using a straightforward tough guy, who is supposed to look like he can do the kinds of things you see in the movie.
I'll also be honest that I found it jarring that after he talked about only morons having a problem with skinny martial arts guys (which I'm not sure where he gets that impression from) he decided to rant about how Jet Li could take the cast of this movie apart. Sure Jet Li has some skills but he's not a young man, and is a lot smaller than a lot of these guys. If he's supposed to be talking about realism here or whatever, to be honest I think most of the guys in this movie would clean his clock, probably one of the reasons why he had no problems doing the movie given some of the more arrogant things I've heard about him. I mean Dolph is a 3rd degree black belt IRL, Randy is a multiple-time MMA champion, I don't know Jason Statham's training level but he's credited as being pretty good and is 10 years younger than Jet Li along with being a bit bigger, and so on. The point isn't some kind of massive pissing contest, but the point being that a lot of people in this movie are real world tough guys, not just walking slabs of meat, who have put a lot of work into their craft. Syfy magazine (I think it was) made a point about the Dolph, Jet-Li fight and the fact that they wanted Dolph to fight using more martial arts than he normally does (since he's cast as a brawler usually), people forget he used to do Kung-Fu movies alongside guys like Brandon Lee.
The point being I guess is that not only was he insulting to the viewers, but I think that despite the acknowlegements of some of their achievements, he was also fairly insulting towards the actors as well, pretty much implying that these guys were giant sacks of meat who slammed into each other and didn't worry about things like choreography, etc...