Escape to the Movies: Centurion

[VondeVon]

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I came out in August...

 

[Axolotl]

Because who cares? It's not a direct insult anyway, he just made a sweeping statement. It's not like it's caused anyone mental scarring.

What are people supposed to put in the comments thread if not their reaction and feedback to the video?

I dare you to quote me the line where Bob insulted you though.

"Well you're probably just the worst sort of person."

 

[Badassassin]

"Hey guyz! Bob said something that made me upset! Let's all talk about how he said something that made me upset, and nothing else!"
(everyone else "OK!"

 

[Woodsey]

Because who cares? It's not a direct insult anyway, he just made a sweeping statement. It's not like it's caused anyone mental scarring.

What are people supposed to put in the comments thread if not their reaction and feedback to the video?

I dare you to quote me the line where Bob insulted you though.

"Well you're probably just the worst sort of person."

In the video that concerns it (if it really does both you that much), not in the video a week later. People are just demanding an apology for the sake of it, not because they even really want one.

 

[Badassassin]

Because who cares? It's not a direct insult anyway, he just made a sweeping statement. It's not like it's caused anyone mental scarring.

What are people supposed to put in the comments thread if not their reaction and feedback to the video?

I dare you to quote me the line where Bob insulted you though.

"Well you're probably just the worst sort of person."

In the video that concerns it (if it really does both you that much), not in the video a week later. People are just demanding an apology for the sake of it, not because they even really want one.

I'm sorry, this is completely off topic, but I noticed your avatar and I wanted to ask if you actually liked Mafia 2. Because I was really excited about it then all the reviews said it was bad.


But really people, just give it a rest. No one wants to listen to it anymore, it's all already been said.

 

[Axolotl]

In the video that concerns it (if it really does both you that much), not in the video a week later. People are just demanding an apology for the sake of it, not because they even really want one.

He brought it up again in this video. In fact my post was addressing the point he brought up.

 

[Woodsey]

Because who cares? It's not a direct insult anyway, he just made a sweeping statement. It's not like it's caused anyone mental scarring.

What are people supposed to put in the comments thread if not their reaction and feedback to the video?

I dare you to quote me the line where Bob insulted you though.

"Well you're probably just the worst sort of person."

In the video that concerns it (if it really does both you that much), not in the video a week later. People are just demanding an apology for the sake of it, not because they even really want one.

I'm sorry, this is completely off topic, but I noticed your avatar and I wanted to ask if you actually liked Mafia 2. Because I was really excited about it then all the reviews said it was bad.


But really people, just give it a rest. No one wants to listen to it anymore, it's all already been said.

The reviews said it was bad because it's a shit sandbox game. I can confirm that it is a shit sandbox game. I hereby challenge all of those reviewers to find me one interview with the developers where they said they wanted to make a huge sandbox game where you can do what you want.

Anyway, the game's fantastic. If you've played the first you should know exactly what it's like. It's linear and there aren't side-missions, but it's got a wonderful story and characters (superb writing and VO work too) and great pacing.

The cars feel weighty and as they should (I play in simulation mode), guns feel punchy and hand-to-hand combat is wonderfully (for want of a less generic word) visceral.

Oh, and the music and sound design are exquisite. It helps that the game's gorgeous too. Definitely get it on the PC if you can.

If you go to X-Play then take a look at Adam Sessler's review (spoiler-free) and watch his Soapbox on it (also spoiler-free), and you'll get a strong sense of what the game wants to achieve.

 

[Badassassin]

Because who cares? It's not a direct insult anyway, he just made a sweeping statement. It's not like it's caused anyone mental scarring.

What are people supposed to put in the comments thread if not their reaction and feedback to the video?

I dare you to quote me the line where Bob insulted you though.

"Well you're probably just the worst sort of person."

In the video that concerns it (if it really does both you that much), not in the video a week later. People are just demanding an apology for the sake of it, not because they even really want one.

I'm sorry, this is completely off topic, but I noticed your avatar and I wanted to ask if you actually liked Mafia 2. Because I was really excited about it then all the reviews said it was bad.


But really people, just give it a rest. No one wants to listen to it anymore, it's all already been said.

The reviews said it was bad because it's a shit sandbox game. I can confirm that it is a shit sandbox game. I hereby challenge all of those reviewers to find me one interview with the developers where they said they wanted to make a huge sandbox game where you can do what you want.

Anyway, the game's fantastic. If you've played the first you should know exactly what it's like. It's linear and there aren't side-missions, but it's got a wonderful story and characters (superb writing and VO work too) and great pacing.

The cars feel weighty and as they should (I play in simulation mode), guns feel punchy and hand-to-hand combat is wonderfully (for want of a less generic word) visceral.

Oh, and the music and sound design are exquisite. It helps that the game's gorgeous too. Definitely get it on the PC if you can.

If you go to X-Play then take a look at Adam Sessler's review (spoiler-free) and watch his Soapbox on it (also spoiler-free), and you'll get a strong sense of what the game wants to achieve.

Ok thanks!

 

[dietpeachsnapple]

My problem is, EVERY time he mentions this movie, I want to see it again.

The ways that his describes its unadulterated suckery drives me towards it as a movie.

Haha, classic

Me too come to think of it. I've been watching this comments section grow with morbid fascination since friday and its beginning to fuck with sense of good taste.

As though someone could quantify "worth as art," then divide that number by zero?

Sounds about right.

 

[Babitz]

So, boobs in movies is what sells a movie to Movie Blob. I guess he's butthurt that The Expendables didn't have enough to his liking (i.e. every second of the movie). I never really understood why does a crappy movie have to have boobs to be good. Oh, well, that's just me. Wish i knew more about that piranha movie except that it includes boobs. Great review.

Althought MovieBlob is funny, and appropriate, I think he has earned Movie Boob as a nickname,after this video.

Touche.

 

[PeterDawson]

So really while there is some cross-over don't lump Transformers 2 fans in with Expendables fans, there's a difference. There's no irony or hipocrisy, except perhaps from people being shocked that we're not letting it go after Bob himself failed to let it go.

Regardless of which one was better (I know, Transformers 2 was an abomination), my comment still stands. There's an obvious double standard here that all these people are obviously falling prey to.

Okay, what? A double standard is when something is acceptable in one form (bashing Transformers 2) but considered taboo in another (bashing Expendables) with no clear difference between either thing (that is, Transformers 2 and Expendables). Since the two movies have little in common its a pretty weak conclusion. To use an extreme example, it seems like you're criticizing people for liking Space Balls but not liking Epic Movie since they're both parodies.

 

[duchaked]

Centurion? really haven't heard much about it...but hmmm looks like I could wanna watch it
tho it does remind me how I watched Robin Hood...ugh

I watched it last night after watching hte review.

It is epic.

If you like blood and gore and roman sildiers and that kind of thing, it's your type of movie.

haha nice, sounds good to me

oh and btw I love your username lol

 

[Spink]

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Oh I thought we were making witty nick-names. My bad. Also it wasn't out a sense of loyalty to Bob that I posted but rather the fact every post you make annoys me. You are an annoying person who has trouble reading. I suggested you go find other movie critics to attack since you seem to get off on it.

Your opinion is your opinion you just express it in a manner that just screams for attention. Someone hurt your feelings we get it.

 

[Starke]

I know it was error on my part, is why someone else help me with re-post. Thank you for the polite conversation. I find much harder to read and asses the tone, than to hear. Back home referring to child and adult name is big no, so that was how I thinks. Even simile, had to look that one up. Thank you for explaining, more of the difficult language to me. You explain better than my ESL teacher. I didn't got anyone to correct me, so you can look at how bad I am, hope you understand me. Thank you, for a time to explain.

Again your English isn't bad, it's actually a fair bit more proficient than my German, that said, I'm not going to pretend it isn't a horrifically complex language.

Hey there AngryMonkey,

Just wanted to let you know that passive aggressiveness is not necessarily a psychiatric disorder but a personality trait - usually denied - made up of resistance or opposition masked by passive or polite behavior and it is precisely how Starke was acting.

Passive Agressive is a psychiatric disorder, subclassified as a personality disorder by the DSM4. Now, like "psychotic" or "psychopath" the term is abused constantly. If you want to shuffle the terms around and be an ass, by all means, do so, but don't try to inflict that on someone whose grasp on the language is tenuous enough.

And on the off chance you have no idea what you're talking about, which seems to be the case, Here's (part of) the DSM4 entry on Passive Aggressive.

Spoiler: Partial DSM4 Entry

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: DSM-IV (American Psychiatric Association, 1994, pp. 634-635), for research purposes, describes Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder as a pervasive pattern of negativistic attitudes and passive resistance to demands for adequate performance, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by four (or more) of the following:

* passively resists fulfilling routine social and occupational tasks;

* complains of being misunderstood and unappreciated by others;

* is sullen and argumentative;

* unreasonably criticizes and scorns authority;

* expresses envy and resentment toward those apparently more fortunate;

* voices exaggerated and persistent complaints of personal misfortune;

* alternates between hostile defiance and contrition.

The disorder does not occur exclusively during Major Depressive Episodes and is not better accounted for by Dysthymic Disorder.

So yes, exactly the content of my previous posts... except you know, for any of the criteria. Nice try, get a degree or stop trying to diagnose people.

Second - and as someone who speaks a couple of languages this really burns my ass - never apologize to some patronizing person who decides to turn the tables on your argument by correcting your English in a condescending attempt at diversion.

Which, ironically was not the intent in the post you flipped the fuck out at. Maybe your own comprehension is at fault?

If they can't understand what you're trying to say let them ask for clarification. If he completely understood but decided to give you a lecture on English grammer as a means to feel superior then tell him he can suck your balls.

Such urbanity, such refinement, such a tribute to... childishness.

<Angry Monkey, if you're still digging through this train wreck, here's an example of a proper use of calling someone "childish" without really being childish yourself. Stiff has used a phrase that is both crude and vulgar, and really is quite childish. Again, I get where the insult is more extreme for you culturally, but, again, this is an assessment of his written behavior, and the relative age it implies for the writer.

On the off chance you're not familiar with the idiom he used, it's a crude reference to oral sex, and regardless of the age of the speaker makes them come across as (at best) a 12-15 year old.>

Finally, even though it is a grammatical error to begin a sentence with the conjunction 'and', the reason it is frequently used thus is more a question of style than grammer. Basically English hates long sentences. As a fluent French speaker I am a little too comfortable letting my sentences ramble on but generally speaking that doesn't work well in English.

As a native English speaker who's a fair bit more proficient than you with the language, it is grammatically incorrect, even if it gets used frequently, and all your appeals to your native language and preferred speaking style won't help you in that regard. It is still grammatically incorrect, and not an "issue of style".

'And' after a full stop often implies the use of a more familiar, conversational mode of speech which you will see even professional writers use, quite intentionally. So feel free to go nuts!

I can't stand grammar-nazis.

I can't stand regular Nazis, or grammar Nazis, or Nazi space lizards. Now, what I can do is help someone who is having trouble with the language, which is, as you may understand, not the same thing. But, if you want to stick your nose in... I guess we could make nose soup.

Your English is no worse than any number of corn-fed, mouth breathing, genetic throwback hillbillies for whom it is supposedly their first language and unlike them, yours will only improve with time.

'Cause them's good eatin'

So go hard and don't apologize for your ability to communicate in more than one language.

We'll learn ya but good!

 

[sunburst]

Okay, what? A double standard is when something is acceptable in one form (bashing Transformers 2) but considered taboo in another (bashing Expendables) with no clear difference between either thing (that is, Transformers 2 and Expendables). Since the two movies have little in common its a pretty weak conclusion. To use an extreme example, it seems like you're criticizing people for liking Space Balls but not liking Epic Movie since they're both parodies.

Are you saying you think it's not a double standard because Transformers 2 was horrible while The Expendables wasn't that bad? Is that the gist of it? That's what I got out of your statements, and if I'm right then that is the very definition of a double standard. You deemed one movie better than the other based on your subjective tastes and decided this made it immune to the same criticisms the other received. An arbitrary judgment has placed different standards on one thing than another; that's a double standard. I apologize if I've misinterpreted you though.

 

[Lord Krunk]

So really while there is some cross-over don't lump Transformers 2 fans in with Expendables fans, there's a difference. There's no irony or hipocrisy, except perhaps from people being shocked that we're not letting it go after Bob himself failed to let it go.

Regardless of which one was better (I know, Transformers 2 was an abomination), my comment still stands. There's an obvious double standard here that all these people are obviously falling prey to.

Okay, what? A double standard is when something is acceptable in one form (bashing Transformers 2) but considered taboo in another (bashing Expendables) with no clear difference between either thing (that is, Transformers 2 and Expendables). Since the two movies have little in common its a pretty weak conclusion. To use an extreme example, it seems like you're criticizing people for liking Space Balls but not liking Epic Movie since they're both parodies.

Point = Missed

I sggest you read back over what I've written because you have no clue what you're talking about.

 

[Starke]

Man, I am so angry that Bob called me an idiot sheep last week for going to see Eat Pray Love! RAGE! Wait, what movie is everyone up in arms about, again?

The one question I have for everyone so butthurt over Bob ripping on 'them' (i.e., they happened to be part of the general population that went to see The Expendables for a change, so now it's personal) is this: how many times on this very site have you either started, or participated in a thread decrying some popular piece of entertainment you thought sucked, and how many times have you insulted whole groups of people who liked said piece? This includes phrases like "emo fags" or "screaming tween girls" (for Twilight). No one seems to have a problem with flinging out the insults to whole groups of people just because of what entertains them, but the minute it's dished back out, they start bawling like they were beaten up and had their lunch money stolen.

And even if you go "but Bob is a critic!", guess what? Critics do this all the time! Whether they're Roger Ebert, A.O. Scott, or Armond White, they'll hurl out insults to those they deem fit quite regularly (and while sometimes it crosses the line, I don't think anything Bob said was even close to that case). I happened to like Star Trek last year, yet didn't mind that he got all in a tizzy about it (mostly because I agreed that the script was aneurysm-inducingly stupid, and had to have the actors and director salvage it). And that was when there wasn't a movie that he was passionate about coming out the same week and getting overlooked.

Which reminds me: Damn it, I'm a huge Neill Marshall fan, but won't get to see Centurion because my town blows, and won't show anything in the theater unless it's had 800 million commercials!

P.S.: Bob, while the boob-mentioning for Piranha 3-D is a lot more appropriate this week, is it possible to give it a rest for awhile?

i think real reason ppl r pissed (well at least me when i first saw the expendables vid)is that as a critic BOB seemed the most "human" if im making any sense. as a critic he would praise originality and artistic vision, but wasn't afraid to show his "normal" side and say HEY ITS GOT TITS (for lack of a better term). case and point this review about priranas 3d thats pretty much what he said.

now with this in mind he is A LOT more relatable as a critic and therefore his opinions hold a little bit more with people watching his reviews. (at least to me) . so when he simply insults everyone who watched the movie it seems like a betrayal of sorts.

now this review ticked me off too, mainly because he said pirhanas 3d was "good" simply because it had gore and boobs, and really giving no other reason as to why its "better" than expendables.

now dont get me wrong i didnt like the expendables and i though scot pilgrim was WAY WAY better, but i think it was quite petty to insult everyone for seeing it.

No you don't get it. It isn't just about the tits that made Piranha good (for a B rated horror flick). I don't know when it happened but it isn't hard to guess why but these types of movies hitting the theatres have been watered down. They get slapped with a 14A rating and everything gets nerfed. To compensate they try to throw in a "good story" which ends up being just as terrible as any other of these types of movies. Piranha goes back to the roots. Forget things like story or character development. It is all about the gore and the boobs. Just like Friday the 13th (old ones) and a slew of movies like it back then. We want to see Jason sticking people with a sword. We don't want to know about how her father dressed up as Santa and died in the chimney cuz we don't care. Jason (or in this case the piranha) are the stars. And most movies of this genre forget that and focus on the heroes.

well bob seemd to berate expendables for simply being an action romp, isnt somewhat hipocritical to praise a movie that simply does the the same thing. i mean expendables had explosions and gun, while pirahanas had over the top gore (or so im told). they both simply put what everyone wanted to see a ramped it up to 11. i still didnt like expendables though

He didn't bash it just because it was an action flick. One of his biggest complaints was the lack of blood. That was after the insult though so I am not sure how many people got that far. Another was the cameos to make the trailers look good. Piranha did have over the top gore. That is what it needed to be a good movie.

Because as we all know The Doom Generation and John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars were the finest movies of our time, while Hellboy was without merit. Wait, what? Are you even thinking this through for yourself? Blood never makes a movie.

It's absence can undermine one, such as Die Hard 4, where the continual deterioration of the main character was a theme in the previous films. But in and of itself it does not make a film good, and rarely improves it.

Off hand The Fifth Element is an example of a film that uses blood carefully. You cannot simply improve a film with more blood. So, yeah, more gore >< better movie.