Poll: Movie Bob and The Expendables. Has everyone taken it too far?

[Aedrial]

With Movie Bob's recent review of 'The Expendables' and his comment about the people who liked it being stupid or whatever people have been up in arms against him constantly slamming him or his taste in movies.

Has the backlash been taken too far?

I'm not saying that he's in the right, but I also can't imagine he's the first critic to slam an audience for liking something.
Either way I'm sure you could just not watch if you disagree with his opinion.

Are there any other people who agree and think that people just need to get over things?

 

[Aedrial]

I would say yes, had he not continued it in the next unrelated review.

He stated an opinion. Fine. People disagreed. Fine. Move on to the next review, continue being angry about different things. Life continues on the internet.

But if he mentions it in the NEXT review then he's just straight up trolling.

After watching the Centurion/Piranhas review, I was kinda wondering if he would've dropped it if there wasn't such a reaction to it... his attempts to slam it further were a little half-assed.

 

[Timotei]

Yes. He's just a movie reviewer on a website. His opinion should hold no major significance.

Unfortunately, so many people on this site either seem to praise him like an idol or immediately demand his head for having an opinion they don't agree with.

 

[the trooper]

no he responding to the negative comments being said plus it was still related to the movies he reviewed. or was no one paying attention. i dont hold anything against him in the slightest, though i havent seen the expendables so i cant say if he was right, but heck ive watched movies before and after hes reviewed and find him to very gd at his job

 

[imnot]

Yes they did. people have different opinion's.

 

[AvsJoe]

I enjoy his videos and respect his opinion. Sometimes I share it (Drag Me to Hell, Toy Story 3), sometimes I do not (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, The Expendables). I don't get why people get all up in arms over his comments; it's just one man's opinion, nothing more.

 

[joshuaayt]

Sure. Yahtzee does it all the time, and is everything-ist at the same time, and most everyone here loves him.

 

[Jonny49]

Then again. Dude liked Drag Me To Hell. What the smeg does he know.

Good taste if you ask me.

 

[Infernostrider]

yes people should get over things, but so should critics slamming audiences. there's no accounting for taste, and if somebody tries to make you feel like a rednecked **** because you don't share his/her taste, that person surely is exactly what he's claiming you to be and many times worse.

 

[ProtoChimp]

Okay he wasn't slamming people who liked it, he was slamming the target audience. It's like gears of war, it's targeted to douce bag overly macho wankers but that doesn't mean other people can't enjoy it too.

 

[Rednog]

Honestly I've begun to stop caring, this first started with his review of Scott Pilgrim and him championing it as a god send of movies. Then box office results come out and he nerd rages and uses the expendables review to berate people for letting scott pilgrim do bad and supporting the expendables instead. And then the next weekend's box office hits, guess what pilgrim tanked an obscene 50+% dropping to 10th. This weekend it will probably tank even further. And he uses his 3rd review just to continuously bash people? Time to get over it.
People have differing opinions, you might think that people are idiots for it and you're free to have that opinion, but there is a point where you have to stop jumping up and down and raging about it. There is a reason subcultures exist, people have various interests and unfortunately Scott Pilgrim played to very small sub cultures. Hell I'm a fan of comics, manga, and videogames and I'm pretty luke warm to Scott Pilgrim. Is it something new and interesting? Sure. But a lot of the plot points just made me scratch my head and go...wait a minute.
If you think the people are taking it too far, you might want to consider the fact that maybe the source of what is causing the people to get riled up is taking it to far. Honestly if the bs about whining about Scott Pilgrim/ The Expendables continues into next week's show I just won't tune in for a couple months or so. When I click on a review of a movie I want to hear about that movie and not spend half the time listening to a rant about something else.

 

[Steel Ronin]

Well he has a very...um "different" taste in movies I mean he actualy recomended The Last Airbender...where should I begin.Let's just say that the bald kid can't act for shit and he knows tae kwon do something completely different than Chinese martial arts (72 styles of kung fu),and Dev Patel as Zuko is the crapiest casting in the world.That is just some things a good reviewer would say.

 

[Outright Villainy]

Well This [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/6.226622-Escape-to-the-Movies-The-Expendables?page=25#7821104] is what I said in that thread, and I'm pretty much sticking to it word for word. Bob was being a dick, but way too many people on the other side were being just as dickish and insulting people who liked scott pilgrim. It was all very childish.

 

[Arcanite Ripper]

I know you have, if you're making a thread about it...

...oops.

OT: As I said before, he was definitely more overcritical on the movie then I thought he would be; as The Expendables is (or at least is trying) selling a nostalgic callback to the 80's ridiculous action movies some of us have well recieved and cherished in order to squeeze in some shameless cash, though his universal (and actually rather minor) attack on the movie-going public was uncalled for, though does describe his disapproval on how "a junk movie" has beaten the thought-provoking videogame themed film in the box office. It's only a movie after all; a person's intelligence is not completly defined by his/her entertainment prefrences.

Oh well. He racked up eleven-hundred comments on his video, another week has past, let's live and move on.