History WebVideo / TheBlockbusterBuster

** Averted in the Honest Reviews, where he talks about subjects he liked or about movies he disagrees with most of the people; in those cases he pointed the flaws but still explained his opinions. To make his points clearer with a divisive movie, he uses "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" format to separate the good points, the bad parts and the aspects that could have been done better, applied for the reviews of the ''Film/GreenLantern'' movie, ''Film/IronMan2'', ''Film/{{Thor}}'', ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'' and [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy the Nolan Dark Knight movies]].

* FanonDiscontinuity: InUniverse example. In the ''Top 10 WTF Moments I Missed'' review, Nerdlinger is asked to give his opinion on the fact that Creator/TomBaker (famously known as the [[Series/DoctorWho 4th Doctor]]) playing an old elf in the Film/DungeonsAndDragons movie. His answer is "How could I know about something that didn't happen?", which also doubles as a SuspiciouslySpecificDenial (see BerserkButton)

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: In his review of Film/GIJoeRetaliation, E-Rod constantly refers to Roadblock's dialog as being "catchphrases". The word he probably meant to use was "one-liners".
** He also consistently keeps referring to previous films in the series as 'prequels', even though prequel specifically means a sequel that just takes place before the previous entries.
** He also has a tendency to refer to Motion Capture as "Capture Motion," as seen in his reviews for ''Tarzan'' and ''WesternAnimation/MarsNeedsMoms''.

* DesignatedLoveInterest[=/=]RomanticPlotTumor: Combined in-universe to form the FRI (Forced Romantic Interest).

* BerserkButton: On his review of Film/{{Catwoman}}, at the end he starts a rampage through all the other movies he had reviewed at that time.

** In Film/{{Catwoman}}, she apparently is "S&M Woman".

-->'''[=ERod=]''': ...and it is excellent. [The Catwoman animated short] makes the live-action ''Film/{{Catwoman}}'' move like kitty litter. Well, actually, cheap puppet theater makes the ''Film/{{Catwoman}}'' movie look like kitty litter.

* AffectionateParody / BitingTheHandHumor / TakeThat: His reviews of ''Film/{{Eragon}}'' and ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' walk the thin line between these in how he makes fun of several personalities on Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses. The second one was especially ballsy, given that he had just joined the site when he posted it.

** The ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' review does this again. This was [[WordOfGod allowed by Rob Walker]], according to the [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/blockbuster-buster/blockbuster-buster/32481-atlantis video comments]].

* {{Squee}}: ScoobyDoo movie had Creator/SarahMichelleGellar, and [=ERod=] got into fangirl mode.

** Averted in the Honest Reviews, where he talks about subjects he liked or about movies he disagrees with most of the people; in those cases he pointed the flaws but still explained his opinions. To make his points clearer with a divisive movie, he uses "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" format to separate the good points, the bad parts and the aspects that could have been done better, applied for the reviews of the ''Film/GreenLantern'' movie, ''Film/IronMan2'', ''Film/{{Thor}}'', ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'' and [[Film/TheDarkKnightSaga the Nolan Dark Knight movies]].

* PowerTrio: [=ERod=]'s action figures make The Trinity of Awesomeness (Film/{{Hellboy}}, [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]] and [[Franchise/EvilDead Ash]]).

** The ''Doctor Who'' joke from the beginning of ''TheThing2011'' is considered good in any language.

* CounterpartComparison: InUniverse He sees a strong comparison between Arcee in WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime and Zoe Washburn in {{Series/FIREFLY}} and found it highly amusing when Creator/GinaTorres was brought in to voice Airachnid, Arcee's EvilCounterpart

* FiveBadBand
** BigBad: [[spoiler: Darth Lucas]]
** TheDragon: Evil-E
** EvilGenius: Dr. Nemesis
** TheBrute / DarkChick: Danapholi

* EvenNerdsHaveStandards: Invoked for the ''Film/GhostRider'' review, when explaining [[OneOfUs why]] Creator/NicolasCage got the role.

* PeripheryHatedom[[invoked]]: He says that he hates kids movies, but he still reviews them. At least the Nostalgia Critic has the excuse that they're nostalgic films, when you have literally thousands of other targets to go after to fit his MO instead than these easy targets. [=ERod=] has since clarified his stance, stating that he doesn't hate movies aimed at children in general (he has praised several Pixar and Disney films), but he dislikes "movies aimed for kids that are stupid because [the creators] don't care", and also because the kid's movies that he reviews ''are'' adaptations, they fall in his criteria.

** He skips his usual AddedAlliterativeAppeal conclusion to his videos in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Robots}}'' review. It's [[SoBadItsHorrible THAT bad]].

Eric "[=ERod=]" Rodriguez hosts a VideoReviewShow which involves him as a renegade film critic "busting" bad big budget Hollywood films, including disappointing entries into popular film franchises, remakes of classic movies, and film adaptations. He has his own site [[http://blockbusterbuster.angelfire.com/ here]], [[http://www.youtube.com/user/ERod2010 a YouTube channel]]. He used to contribute to Website/SpaceMonkeyMafiaStudios and was featured on [[http://channelawesome.com/category/videos/producers/bb/ Channel Awesome]] from 2011 to 2018.

Eric "[=ERod=]" Rodriguez hosts a VideoReviewShow which involves him as a renegade film critic "busting" bad big budget Hollywood films, including disappointing entries into popular film franchises, remakes of classic movies, and film adaptations. He has his own site [[http://blockbusterbuster.angelfire.com/ here]], [[http://www.youtube.com/user/ERod2010 a YouTube channel]]. He used to contribute to Website/SpaceMonkeyMafiaStudios, but is currently featured on [[http://channelawesome.com/category/videos/producers/bb/ Channel Awesome]].

A list of videos made by him can be found [[TheBlockbusterBusterList here]].

* DamnedByFaintPraise: He starts his Honest Review of ''Series/JessicaJones2015'' Season Two by saying that "At least it wasn't as bad as ''Series/IronFist2017''.

** Lampshaded in Transformers 2:

** In the [=ERod=] vs. [[StarWarsThePhantomMenace Episode One]], Vol. 3 review, we have [[spoiler: Lil’ Miss Gamer]] as a [[SpiritAdvisor force ghost]].

--> '''[=ERod=]''': So after shooting a music video, Miley tries to relax, when suddenly a creepy fat guy sneaks into her dressing room. And no, it's not {{Michael Moore}}... but close!

* TheCameo: Top 10 Hispanic Heroes brings us [[spoiler: his first actual cameos by TheFilmRenegado and [[WebVideo/TheAngryJoeShow Angry Joe]]]]

** [[spoiler: ThatSciFiGuy appears in the Jason X review to say a reviewer on the site can't review a movie reviewed by another producer, only for [=ERod=] to reply he did the same for ''Film/WildWildWest.'' Scifi then laughs maniacally when [=ERod=] doesn't know how BAD Jason X is]].
** [[spoiler: Welshy appears in TGWTG Casting Couch to troll [=ERod=], also hinting a possible ''Freddy is Dead'' crossover. ThatSciFiGuy appears again]].

** Shyamalan: What a twist!

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: [=ERod=] has admitted several jokes in the films he's reviewed are pretty funny. In ''Film/TheShaggyDog'', it was when David knocks the grandmother into the tree, in ''TheCountryBears'', it was the "am I adopted?" joke and in ''Film/JosieAndThePussycats'', it was the "[=CD=] cover" gag.