Moviebob's review of The Expendables and the community's reaction.

[RatRace123]

Being a critic, he has to be critical about movies.

I'm sure no one was expecting a game changer, but if you want a mindless bit of action I guess you could go see it. I've never really considered any movies to be truly horrible and not worth the price, for me it's always about the movie going experience rather than the actual movie. See it with your friends, girlfriend/wife, book club, whatever and have a good time.

See it as a critic, solely judging a movie, you're probably going to judge things with a significantly more focused mindset.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Oh look... it's this thread again.

"The Critic said something mean and now I want to kill his cat", these are always entertaining.

Popcorn anyone?

*munch* Mmm, the good old spectator flavored kind! I like your taste my friend!

OT: Moviebob was hired to review movies. If he reviewed nothing but material he liked, there would never be any really angry reviews. I am totally neutral as I've only seen the trailers, nothing more. He is entitled to his opinions people. That is why he is a critic. If he feels very negative towards a film, more power to him. I quite frankly don't care.

 

[Flying-Emu]

He was insulting the people who honestly think that action movies were BETTER in the 80's. You know, back when they didn't have REAL martial artists choreographing the fight scenes: Just ripped dudes doing fake kicks. If you think that, then yeah, you're pretty much the cinema Satan.

Yes because now it is clearly much better with all the running up walls, everyone and their grandma knowing martial arts, being able to take on 20 guys at once with no more than a pack of chewing gum and a match stick in hand and being able to jump 10 feet in the air to deliver 7 kicks, 6 punches and have time to reload their guns all before they land again...
Fuck this new age martial arts bullshit. At least two dudes just whaling on each other till one is too fucked up to move is at least a little more realistic and way more fun.

No.

Just no.

 

[SilverHammerMan]

I'm finding that I disagree with MovieBob on a lot of movies, I guess his job just makes his standards as to what makes a good movie differ from mine. That being said, I really didn't enjoy watching this review, it seemed really stuck-up and elitist, scoffing at the very concept of popcorn cinema. And anytime a reviewer uses the world "sheeple" or a similar phrase it automatically makes me deem the entire review the angry spew of an elitist snob who has completely lost touch with regular people. I guess it just wasn't indie enough for him, too dumb, too un-ironic, not like Scott Pilgrim Vs the World, which was apparently the best thing ever.

Seriously, his latest article about how Scott Pilgrim had revolutionized the movie industry and storytelling in general? I couldn't get further than the end of the first page, it was just so incredibly pretentious. Maybe he was being sarcastic or something, I certainly hope so.

Either way, I've yet to see Scott Pilgrim or the Expendables yet as I've been on vacation, so maybe MovieBob is right, either way I'll continue to watch his reviews and, for the most part, enjoy them.

 

[Pipotchi]

Movie Critics are not real people like you and me, if it isnt game changing/Subtitled/watched by no-one then they are not happy.

If you want to go watch it then do, watch his videos and enjoy but dont look to them for actual direction. If the situation was reversed and everyone went and watched Scott Pilgrim and ignored The Expendables he still wouldnt be happy, and he would say that the Sheep have been won over by the marketing campaign for Scott Pilgrim and in their folly have ignored the old school delights of Stallone and his dirty half Dozen

Besides he liked Equilibrium so he clearly gets it wrong sometimes

what are you talking about
he has loved movies that made billions (avatar)
and hated movies that bombed (the losers)
and every other combination there is
the reason he compared the two movie's standing in the box office is because one is good and the other isnt and the bad one made more money

My original Point was that The Expendables was always going to beat Scott Pilgrim at the Box office but thats no reason to lament the movie going public because they wanted to see a brainless action Star vehicle

 

[Dapper Ninja]

I thought (based on the trailer) that The Expendables looked like a mediocre, uninspired action movie trying badly to hide its flaws behind its cast in order to make enough money before word got around that it was crap. Am I alone?

Also I think people kinda suck for dismissing Scott Pilgrim because "Michael Cera teen drama hipster douchebag bullshit derpy derpy doo" without knowing anything about the movie, then going to see some generic action movie based solely on the cast (because "actor" means the person who actually creates, writes, directs, and films the movie and ensures its quality, right?).

So I guess I'm gonna have to agree with MovieBob on this one.

 

[Nailz]

Actually I did watch the Review of Scott Pilgrim, I have also watched Scott Pilgrim and I have watched the expendables. I never said the Expendables was a good film or that it is better than Scott Pilgrim. I actually prefer SP over E.

What I do take objection to is the notion that Moviebob and apparently you as well feel the need to cast all the viewers of The Expendables as advertising led sheep. People like 'bad' films because they are easily watched, it doesnt make them stupid or anything else they are free to watch whatever Twilight/Mamma Mia/Sex and the City based twaddle they like.

Do I like these films? No they are all rubbish but the fact remains that people like them and people should have films they like to watch without self described movie lovers decrying them as the death of cinema.

You said in your earlier post "if it had gone the other way he would've come down on scott pilgrim" this is obviously untrue as he had previously reviewed scott pilgrim very positively. Under no situation would this have been reversed. That implication made me feel as if you were just trolling instead of ignorantly implying that a movie critic is being an elitist because he has an opinion; I guess I like to give people the benefit of the doubt when I see something ridiculously idiotic and assume they are trolling, even if I'm mistaken.

 

[Pipotchi]

Actually I did watch the Review of Scott Pilgrim, I have also watched Scott Pilgrim and I have watched the expendables. I never said the Expendables was a good film or that it is better than Scott Pilgrim. I actually prefer SP over E.

What I do take objection to is the notion that Moviebob and apparently you as well feel the need to cast all the viewers of The Expendables as advertising led sheep. People like 'bad' films because they are easily watched, it doesnt make them stupid or anything else they are free to watch whatever Twilight/Mamma Mia/Sex and the City based twaddle they like.

Do I like these films? No they are all rubbish but the fact remains that people like them and people should have films they like to watch without self described movie lovers decrying them as the death of cinema.

You said in your earlier post "if it had gone the other way he would've come down on scott pilgrim" this is obviously untrue as he had previously reviewed scott pilgrim very positively. Under no situation would this have been reversed. That implication made me feel as if you were just trolling instead of ignorantly implying that a movie critic is being an elitist because he has an opinion; I guess I like to give people the benefit of the doubt when I see something ridiculously idiotic and assume they are trolling, even if I'm mistaken.

That Implication was a saractic opinion (of mine) that MovieBob is increasingly lamenting brainless Popcorn flicks as unworthy whle becoming offended when said popcorn flicks make more money than (in his opinion) more valuable films.

Of course I didnt mean that literally he would have reversed his earlier review more, that taking the opposite view to the mainstream movie going public is the kind of thing that MovieBob seems to be doing more and more as time goes on, along with many other movie 'critics'

 

[Arawn.Chernobog]

To reinforce my previous post on this thread:

We all know where this thread was going, and now that's arrived there it's most amusing.

 

[mrpenguinismyhomeboy]

Besides, I'm not going to listen to a guy's opinion when he calls The Expendables an artless piece of shit, then praises Piranha 3D just because it has an underwater lesbian scene.

OH please, he didn't praise it, he mentioned it once in a tiny two second slide of text. When he does a review of it next week praising it as something akin to 2001: A Space Odyssey in terms of symbolic/metaphorical content, then you can say he's praising it.

See this [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/6.226622-Escape-to-the-Movies-The-Expendables?page=17#7792630] post and this [http://moviebob.blogspot.com/2010/08/go-see-piranha-3d.html] blog. Note how both times he makes a big deal because there's an underwater lesbian scene. I'm really getting sick of Bob going crazy whenever there's boobs on screen.

Hmm. Maybe you're right. He does like breasts.