YMMV / The Blockbuster Buster

• Bizarro Episode: His Casting Couch of That Guy With The Glasses, though it was done as an April Fools' Day joke.
• Broken Base:
  • Even when going back to the reactions to his first video on Channel Awesome, some find him very entertaining while others find him unfunny and accuse him of ripping off other reviewers (mostly he's Linkara's The Irate Gamer).
  • The reviews where he's wearing a straitjacket and spouting non-sequiturs are either his funniest reviews or his dumbest reviews, depending on who you ask.
  • Many of his videos in general are treated like this. While he's generally well informed about subject matter that he likes and knows how to explain his issues with movies clearly and articulately, when he has to talk about things he knows little of, he comes off as very ignorant and biased (his comments about Into the Woods "sucking" just because it's a musical, or that Beauty and the Beast should never be remade again...).
• Cargo Ship: In his Jason X review, ERod tries to deny being "Robo-sexual", only for him to grab his toaster and get defensive.
  ERod: STOP JUDGING ME!! (kisses the toaster)
• Crack Pairing: Quite a popular pairing in the TGWTG fandom involves shipping ERod with Mechakara.
• Designated Hero: E-Rod himself. As much as he tries playing himself off as a superhero, he acts a lot more like a bully to the movies he's reviewing. The reviews for The Little Vampire and Robots come to mind, but honestly just watch the Robots one to see his running gag just for celebrity cameo-voices.
  • Even more hilarious when you realize that the supposed "Evil" version of him actually did less than he implies he does. What exactly did he do when he's first introduced? He admits he likes Spider-Man 3 most of all out of the Spider-Man Trilogy. Apparently just doing that is punishable by being trapped in the Phantom Zone. The rest of his actions could easily be described as a revenge trip.
  • This is especially bad in the Retool, where he goes into the movies he's reviewing to assault or even kill the characters, regardless of whether or not they deserve it.
  • He also berates and insults the characters when they do things he doesn't like. It's suppose to be played off for laughs, but it seems unsettling to have some random stranger yell at you when things don't happen the way he wants.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Nerdlinger is considered the best of all the side characters.
• Fandom Rivalry:
  • With fellow Puerto Rican Angry Joe, due to their polar opposite views of the DCEU.
  • Much more severely, with Cinematic Venom.
• Genius Bonus: While most people can tell that ERod is Latino just by his name (Eric Rodriguez), savvy viewers can tell he's specifically Puerto Rican from various hints in his videos.
  • In one video, he's wearing a shirt for El Conquistador, one of Puerto Rico's most luxurious hotels.
  • El Lover. His English is very Puerto Rican-accented (his talking speed and pronunciation of certain words are giveaways), his Spanish is completely Puerto Rican in accent and vocabulary, and he's shown from time to time reading Turey El Taino, a popular 90s Puerto Rican comic book.
  • The card that the Guardian Lorelei, Patron Saint of Fandom holds up is a version of the three of wands from the Waite-Rider deck. It symbolizes progress and dream being made real. It also symbolizes that the querent is feeling proud and/or powerful and is a warning that they should wait until victory is certain before celebrating or boasting.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • At the end of his Honest Review of X-Men: Days of Future Past video, he comments on how X-Men: Apocalypse will be really good because "(Bryan Singer) hasn't let us down yet". With Apocalypse being considered a serious downgrade from Days of Future Past and Bryan Singer being called out as a creeper, this hasn't aged well.
  • During his Honest Review for Iron Man, he praises JARVIS for snarking at Tony's expense and wishes that he could "bust his boss's balls like that." After the Change The Channel movement, he didn't hesitate to call his former boss, Doug Walker, out for his ineptitude and jerkassery.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight:
  • In the Elektra review, he needs to get a woman's perspective and becomes SHE-Rod before we find out that SHE-Rod is actually a Distaff Counterpart. The first thing SHE-Rod notes is "I'm gorgeous!" and it seems like an Attractive Bent-Gender joke. Then you find out that SHE-Rod's actress and E-Rod are married in Real Life.
  • Not only Doug Jones doing a cameo for ERod's review of Rocky and Bullwinkle is awesome and adorable when Doug recognized ERod's appreciation for his filmography, ERod also highlighted Jones' participation in Rock Jocks, which was directed by Paul (Panda Bear/Dr. Nemesis), his best friend.
• He Panned It, Now He Sucks!: Given that he's a critic, the comments section has this on regular basis.
  • The Honest Review video for Iron Man 2. Dear God...
  • There was also his saying he didn't like Scooby-Doo.
  • He'd gotten this this in droves after his downright venomous review of Robots.
  • He also got a bit of flak for Busting Hotel Transylvania.
  • In his DC Animated Movies Of 2014 Honest Review, one of his rules he gave out at the beginning was not doing the animated LEGO DC Films, which he called "bullshit" and "an overly long toy commercial". You can imagine how fans of LEGO reacted...
  • While he technically didn't bust that many in this category, he has a bad habit to categorize all movies depicting vampires in a more sympathetic light as Twilight-like movies, with the implication he believes they should be Always Chaotic Evil in every media they appear in, Angel being apparently the sole exception to the rule (most notably, he accused Interview with the Vampire of having turned them into "pussies", and his Vampire Academy referred to the good-aligned Moroi as "Lame-pires" while the evil Strigoi were called "Real vampires"). Those who actually enjoy stories about good (or at least morally grey) vampires weren't necessarily pleased.
  • His review of The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes was very positive in itself, but the fact he panned Ant-Man for being useless to the team didn't go well with Ant-Man's fans. His Ant-Man movie review both improved and made things worse, as while he admitted to loving the movie despite his dislike of the comic book character, he also delivered the usual argument of Hank Pym being a wife beater, which is a Fandom-Enraging Misconception.
  • Not many people approved of his Into the Woods review, finding his complaints shallow and nonsensical.
  • His pessimistic opinion on the then-upcoming DC Extended Universe when the movies haven't even come out yet grated the gears of many DC fans. Especially since he has developed a bad habit to repeatedly bash them (Man of Steel in particular) by constantly comparing them defavorably to the MCU in his Honest Reviews, and the fact he refused to lift his boycott on the DCEU even after the movies actually started to be considered good.
  • Mixing with his hatred of the DC films is his bashing of Robert Pattinson, vowing to never watch The Batman after he was cast in the title role, simply because he previously starred in the Twilight movies. When others brought up other films Pattinson starred in such as Good Time or The Lost City of Z, where he gave some critically lauded performances, he responded by mocking the films and refusing to ever watch them either, which didn't net him any favors as people saw it as him coming off as closed-minded.
  • Likewise he didn't win over many gamers with his review of the Ratchet & Clank movie, as many found his claims of being a fan of the series hypocritical since he didn't seem to realize most of his complaints against the film (such as the guns and supposed personality changes) were true to the game.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • During his Teen Titans Casting Couch, he cast Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Robin.
    • ERod does address this, stating in his Honest Review of The Dark Knight Rises that it wasn't ironic at all because Joseph wasn't playing Robin at all, his character just had the name "Robin".
  • In his "Top 10 Crossovers We Want To See" video, he gives M. Bison vs. Shao Khan as one of the examples for a Street Fighter/Mortal Kombat crossover. About one and a half years later...
  • In his review on The Smurfs 2, he wishes that would make a movie set in the fantasy setting the Smurfs are known for rather than the New York setting. In 2017, a computer animated Smurfs movie that's closer to the source material was released.
  • In his Spider-Man Villains Casting Couch, he suggested Woody Harrelson as Venom. 7 years later, Harrelson appeared in Venom (2018)... as Carnage.
• Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales: According to the comments sections in both Youtube and TGWTG, El L0ver seems to be this among the viewers. There's a portion who don't like him, while most Hispanic-Latin viewers from the USA or from Latin America adore him. Having one of Eddie Guerrero's themes might help.
• Strawman Has a Point: In his review of Batman: The Movie, the commentary states that ERod was supposed to be in the wrong for his views of the film. However, he was correct when he criticized its Esoteric Happy Ending.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Many dislike the reboot due to removing the original format and has now become a series of skit reviews much like some of the new Nostalgia Critic reviews (which also gets a fair share of dislikes).
• Tear Jerker: His review of Man of Steel. He refuses to go by ERod or give it a score, just addressing with a sad and down voice the major failures of the movie and how every time he watched it, he liked it even less. By the end, he even states that he fears that the next DC film he reviews, he may be busting it.

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