For the GameOverthinker, his Youtube days were much better. He's always been a bit of a fanboy, but back then I found it easy to ignore and not worry about it, but after he got the gig at ScrewAttack I find that I found it harder to ignore his shit, which eventually accumulated into utter dismissal with his Metroid: Other M review.
The entire video is filled with hypocrisy. He uses a straw man argument that claims that those who hate Other M do so because they are Japanophobes and racist, while using a literal straw man to mock the supposed straw men set up by those that hate Other M! That Is One Of The Stupidest Things I Have Ever Heard, how did he get away with bullshit like that? Actually, perhaps he didn't because after Other M I noticed that he seemed to have many more people hate against him.
'The Worst Person' completely solidified my frustrations with him, it seems almost like a parody of completely retarded fanboy arguments, but I fear that he's gone too far for that to possibly be the case.
The Big Picture is a joke. The first episode showed a complete lack of research, so little in fact that it appears a simple Wikipedia search wasn't even conducted and I lost faith straight away. If you're going to call yourself 'The Big Picture' than you've got to live up to that, rather than going in the opposite direction and having a very narrow, biased and pre-defined view of what you're talking about. The episode about the closing of the space program started to draw me back into it, but Bob saying that he'd rather refuel the space program and make a large impact outside our planet (colonise Mars etc) rather than bring about World peace has to be one of the most selfish, narrow and plain idiotic thing I have ever heard.
The faces are poorly done as well. The expressions don't lend themselves well to the high contrast, think lined style and the over all appearance is a creepy one. I think more detailed faces, or perhaps none at all would make it look a lot nicer.
Escape to the Movies is something that I watch every week, but I rarely follow through with his advice. I think the only time I've seen a movie on his recommendation is Shutter Island, and that was because a certain director was name dropped. His advice is generally good though, I just tend to judge a movie's worth watch from the trailers and past history of the director/writters/producer/actors etc and decide to see it from that. I really hate how he always has to make a deal about an attractive female cast, which nearly dominates some reviews. It all comes across as shallow at best or sexist at worst, and coupled with 'Heavens to Metroid' makes it look like he has some issues.
Intermission is alright, but I stay away. It's bland and not all that interesting most of the time, but to his credit he is working on 3 video series while having to write his weekly column. I think that all 3 might improve if he killed off The Big Picture, but I can't be completely sure about that.
Phew, that is my opinion on MovieBob. Over all I recommend checking out his early Game Overthinker on Youtube and Escape to the Movies, but that's about it.
