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YMMV: Moviebob
  • Author's Saving Throw: In his review of True Grit, he takes back calling Michael Bay a douchebag. He still thinks Bay's a bad director, but that kind of crossed the line.
  • Base Breaker:
  • Broken Base:
    • "The Emperor Has No Clothes" & "Heavens to Metroid" have produced this.
    • Not even to mention the Anti Thinker arc, and what that now has lead to.
    • Bob's views on "Retake Mass Effect". Some feel that this was a welcome rebuttal to the more vocal elements of the gamer community, while others feel that he is Completely Missing the Point as to why people didn't like the ending to Mass Effect 3.
  • Completely Missing the Point: Bob has taken a lot of flak for comparing himself to Sherlock Holmes in his review of the movie with the same name, most people seemingly overlooking the fact that what Bob was lampshading his own antisocial tendencies and his occasionally oversized ego. In other words, it was more of a Take That directed at himself than it was any kind of exultation or claim to superior intelligence.
  • Crowning Moment of Awesome "There is one grave yet to be filled" - Cue Movie Bob having Mario saying "Not yet." to the Grim Reaper.
    • His epic reprimand of most people on Xbox Live.
      "So I've got a message out there for every fucking troll with a headset and a copy of Modern Warfare: NOTHING excuses this kind of bullshit behaviour, ESPECIALLY being good at a goddamn FPS doesn't excuse this kind of behaviour. You are not a badass because you own a copy of Call of Duty, you are not "The Man" because you can swing around and pretend to virtual gun on a kill streak! You think you're so damn hardcore, go join the actual army, if you're such a badass gun slinging mother fucker! I bet you're in for a rude awakening if you did, kiddo!"
  • Crowning Moment of Funny:
    "The subwoofer was never meant to be weaponized."
  • Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory (It's called "The Game Overthinker", after all.)
  • Hatedom: Quite a large one on The Escapist.
  • He Who Fights Monsters: Many of his rants comes very close to what "hardcore frat boys" talk and act like (or at least what he think they do).
  • Hype Backlash: Eventually received this, probably after his move to Screw Attack and him going to The Escapist.
  • Jump the Shark: The Game Antithinker "Arc"
  • The Problem with Licensed Games: Discussed in ep 16, as advice to non-gamer gift-giver.
  • Seasonal Rot: The Channel Hop to Screw Attack has resulted in some weaker videos in some people's eyes. The Game Antithinker is considered being a Jump the Shark moment for some.
  • Strawman Has a Point: Discussed in "Building A Better Gamer." To paraphrase, gamers may not be the violent psychopaths waiting to happen that politicians tend to portray them as but they're also not helping matters by being grody, disturbingly rude sociophobes.

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