Careercow Robert Chipman / Bob / Moviebob / "Movieblob" - Middle-Aged Consoomer, CWC with a Thesaurus, Ardent Male Feminist and Superior Futurist, the Twice-Fired, the Mario-Worshipper, publicly dismantled by Hot Dog Girl, now a diabetic

[RockVolnutt]

Avengers-how many of these fucking things are we going to have to see before the industry finally collapses under the weight of it's own mediocrity?

Not Catchy I'll admit.

Reminds me of how Bob once supported the old "The MCU will replace the comic industry" meme that comes up time to time. Blockbuster movies are already at the point where they need foreign markets to get a chance at being profitable, there's no way Hollywood could support that indefinitely. Not even talking about audience interest, I just mean the ever expanding profits you need to hit for a success. Comics can go on forever just because they're so cheap to produce that it might as well be toilet paper.

Spoiler: Which did happen before.

There hasn't been anything that places the story out of continuity if anyone cares.

 

[Godzilla@1989]

Reminds me of how Bob once supported the old "The MCU will replace the comic industry" meme that comes up time to time. Blockbuster movies are already at the point where they need foreign markets to get a chance at being profitable, there's no way Hollywood could support that indefinitely. Not even talking about audience interest, I just mean the ever expanding profits you need to hit for a success. Comics can go on forever just because they're so cheap to produce that it might as well be toilet paper.

Spoiler: Which did happen before.

There hasn't been anything that places the story out of continuity if anyone cares.

Isn't Hollywood about to have a industry crash or some kind of recession soon?

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

Isn't Hollywood about to have a industry crash or some kind of recession soon?

I really hope so. Hollywood's been creatively bankrupt for so long that I have to look at indie films, older films, shitty, obscure, foreign, and even lost films to get my film kick.

Reminds me of how Bob once supported the old "The MCU will replace the comic industry" meme that comes up time to time. Blockbuster movies are already at the point where they need foreign markets to get a chance at being profitable, there's no way Hollywood could support that indefinitely. Not even talking about audience interest, I just mean the ever expanding profits you need to hit for a success. Comics can go on forever just because they're so cheap to produce that it might as well be toilet paper.

Spoiler: Which did happen before.

There hasn't been anything that places the story out of continuity if anyone cares.

Bob only cares about capeshit, so he'll never understand the horror comic market.

 

[Godzilla@1989]

I really hope so. Hollywood's been creatively bankrupt for so long that I have to look at indie films, older films, shitty, obscure, foreign, and even lost films to get my film kick.

Not trying to bash Disney to spite Bob but I have a feeling that with the Fox merger, they could cause a crash in the industry. I mean, taking 40% of the box office is an unfair position for other major studios in my opinion.

 

[Pokemonquistador]

Thanos/Stark: The Persecution and Assassination of the Titan Thanos as Performed by the Inmates of the Kyln under the Direction of Tony Stark.

Let's try to elevate these things a little.

Incidentally, the longest story/comic ever written was "The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion," a 15,145-page fantasy manuscript written by a man named Henry Darger, who spent roughly fifty years of his life holed up in a room working on his magnum opus every free moment while he wasn't working. And yet this Darger fellow STILL had more of a social life than MovieBob.

As far as movie titles go, how about The Avengers: Revengeancing of Avengance?

 

[LaughingJoke]

I really hope so. Hollywood's been creatively bankrupt for so long that I have to look at indie films, older films, shitty, obscure, foreign, and even lost films to get my film kick.

Bob only cares about capeshit, so he'll never understand the horror comic market.

Hollywood's been franchise nuts for about 40 yeas since the late 70's/Early 80's franchises were so rare before that Charleston Heston only made a glorified cameo in Beneath the Planet of the Apes because he thought the idea of a sequel hokey like old film serials.

 

[Mola Ram]

Hollywood's been franchise nuts for about 40 yeas since the late 70's/Early 80's franchises were so rare before that Charleston Heston only made a glorified cameo in Beneath the Planet of the Apes because he thought the idea of a sequel hokey like old film serials.

It goes back way further than that. Just look at The Thin Man, Charlie Chan, Tarzan, Francis the Talking Mule, Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes, and copious stacks of serials from the days when going to a movie meant seeing two full length pictures and a bunch of shorts. The difference is for the most part those movies were simply seen as blue chip product, not serious works of art or anything that was going to financially make or break a studio -- daily bread, so to speak. Now movies are so expensive it's more about ensuring that there'll be an audience, even if the product is garbage.

Incidentally, the longest story/comic ever written was "The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion," a 15,145-page fantasy manuscript written by a man named Henry Darger, who spent roughly fifty years of his life holed up in a room working on his magnum opus every free moment while he wasn't working. And yet this Darger fellow STILL had more of a social life than MovieBob.

I'm passingly familiar with Henry Darger. The notion that for all his pretensions to sophistication, Bob barely even rises to the level of outsider art is hilarious.

 

[Godzilla@1989]

“Geek culture is the most important in society! I tells ya!”

Here’s him defending that furry cuck idiot at the Video Game awards.

“Trump hurts my feelings so that’s why I’m calling to impeach him.”

 

[LaughingJoke]

It goes back way further than that. Just look at The Thin Man, Charlie Chan, Tarzan, Francis the Talking Mule, Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes, and copious stacks of serials from the days when going to a movie meant seeing two full length pictures and a bunch of shorts. The difference is for the most part those movies were simply seen as blue chip product, not serious works of art or anything that was going to financially make or break a studio -- daily bread, so to speak. Now movies are so expensive it's more about ensuring that there'll be an audience, even if the product is garbage.



I'm passingly familiar with Henry Darger. The notion that for all his pretensions to sophistication, Bob barely even rises to the level of outsider art is hilarious.

I should had said a rarity for the A List Films to be Franchised/have a Sequel that I can think of before the late 70's were the Bond Films, Universal Monsters, Godfather, and Ape films even most of the comedy acts usually did unconnected films just the same actors and even characters but with very few if any story connections. Sequels and Franchises were usually considered B Films or Serials they were cheap quick buck stuff not things you bankrolled your studio on like its been since the 80's.

 

[BubbleButt]

Incidentally, the longest story/comic ever written was "The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion," a 15,145-page fantasy manuscript written by a man named Henry Darger, who spent roughly fifty years of his life holed up in a room working on his magnum opus every free moment while he wasn't working. And yet this Darger fellow STILL had more of a social life than MovieBob.

Man, Hank Darger is a deep fucking pull, respect. Your last point is especially funny if you read up on Darger because it's pretty well established that he was ridiculously and legitimately full-blown autistic, whereas Bob is an angry fat man with no self-control.

 

[Mola Ram]

I should had said a rarity for the A List Films to be Franchised/have a Sequel that I can think of before the late 70's were the Bond Films, Universal Monsters, Godfather, and Ape films even most of the comedy acts usually did unconnected films just the same actors and even characters but with very few if any story connections. Sequels and Franchises were usually considered B Films or Serials they were cheap quick buck stuff not things you bankrolled your studio on like its been since the 80's.

I think you can really date the modern obsession with franchises to the one-two punch of Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, which were both serious risks at the time (remember when Ralph Bakshi ran out of money for the LOTR cartoon in the 70s, the crippled final product still turned a profit, but the studio nixed any sequels anyway, despite "Volume 1" stopping in the middle of an action scene?) yet still turned into licenses to print money. It's been 17 years since Sorcerer's Stone and we're still seeing Harry Potter ripoffs premiering monthly. But there are so many more failures than successes. Sure, the MCU is still going strong, but there must be a dozen nascent franchises that crashed and burned on the first installment. (My favorite is the "Dark Universe," because Tom Cruise's Mummy is one of the most terrible films I've ever seen.)

 

[LaughingJoke]

“Geek culture is the most important in society! I tells ya!”
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Here’s him defending that furry cuck idiot at the Video Game awards.
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“Trump hurts my feelings so that’s why I’m calling to impeach him.”

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Nerd/Geek Culture needs to get the fuck over itself Jesus I almost root for the Alpha Betas now in Revenge of the Nerds when watching until I realize today Nerds/SJWs see those Nerds as Rapists and Creeps and think ok classic Nerds well played I still like you.

Also I have to imagine the father of the guy who came out as a Gay Furry at the Video Game Awards must had been like this

 

[Mola Ram]

Also I have to imagine the father of the guy who came out as a Gay Furry at the Video Game Awards must had been like this

A black gay furry whose father is still around?

 

[Godzilla@1989]

Also I have to imagine the father of the guy who came out as a Gay Furry at the Video Game Awards must had been like this

That’s what I think Peter felt about the way Bob turned out to be as well.

 

[techno-confederate]

Those fools have doomed us all.....if only they had listened to Mario thought and accepted their place as obsolete mayonnaise ghouls. Now the Superior Future is finished

 

[Godzilla@1989]

Those fools have doomed us all.....if only they had listened to Mario thought and accepted their place as obsolete mayonnaise ghouls. Now the Superior Future is finished

Classic Bob Chipman demonstrating his complete ignorance and arrogance about politics. Macron is a shit president from what I'm seeing and I applaud the French for standing up to his neoliberal policies that fucks them over in the name of "fighting climate change" and what not.

I just love watching the MSM trying to kiss his ass as he sees his approval rating plummet. No seriously, this guy is super unpopular in France. He has a 20% approval rating, which is lower than Trump's approval and Bush's when he was super unpopular in the last two years of his presidency.

Bob and all the other MSM, SJW, neoliberal shills are fools for defending a weak leader simply because he bashes Trump and is a liberal.

 

[A Big Bumbling Black Man]

All of Bob's smug preening about how his intelligence makes him a superior human dissolves when he says he thinks the planet is going to die in ten years if we don't all buy a Prius. That's a level of hysterical fearmongering that would make a doom-saying creationist blush.

 

[Red Hood]

I think you can really date the modern obsession with franchises to the one-two punch of Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, which were both serious risks at the time (remember when Ralph Bakshi ran out of money for the LOTR cartoon in the 70s, the crippled final product still turned a profit, but the studio nixed any sequels anyway, despite "Volume 1" stopping in the middle of an action scene?) yet still turned into licenses to print money. It's been 17 years since Sorcerer's Stone and we're still seeing Harry Potter ripoffs premiering monthly. But there are so many more failures than successes. Sure, the MCU is still going strong, but there must be a dozen nascent franchises that crashed and burned on the first installment. (My favorite is the "Dark Universe," because Tom Cruise's Mummy is one of the most terrible films I've ever seen.)

The lust for franchises goes way back, but it's been building steadily for years. After Star Wars you had Trek, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, Superman, Batman. That's not even considering horror franchises that churned out cheap sequels to theaters or home video. It's only been in the past 20 years that Hollywood has really mastered the merchandising and tertiary product coordination for maximum profit.

There's also the fact that now Hollywood biys the rights to franchises with a lot of superficially different characters and stories to work with, so they can make them until we're all dead.

Everyone wants to have their own cinematic universe now, but as much as Marvel movies are bland and samey- but they're competently made and know the dumb shit their audiences want.

 

[Judge Dredd]

“Geek culture is the most important in society! I tells ya!”

Didn't Bob do a video years ago about why his whole "Geek culture is mainstream now" rant is wrong?

In short, "geek culture" is "mainstream" not because Joe Sixpack and Jane Winebox figured out that Metroid and Portal were good, but because black rimmed glasses and super heroes became the fashion accessory dejour. The Wii wasn't a success because "the normies" saw it's potential as a games platform, but because it was the tickle-me-elmo of that year. There's a reason some people refer to Big Bang Theory as nerd blackface. I'm fairly sure that Bob made most of those arguments at some point.

Nerds are not oppressed and I don't recall anyone seriously claiming they were. Fake "nerds" ie. late 30s troons with her alphabet soup sexuality and self-diagnosed metal problems are not oppressed either. Bob is not a blue collar worker clocking in for a grueling 9-5. It's all pretend. There's a reason people call groups like Antifa LARPers.

However, just because nerds aren't oppressed doesn't mean there aren't people trying to keep them down. Snobby critics still think they are above "low-brow" nerd entertainment. There's no shortage of examples, but look at any "high brow" walking simulator and shitty propaganda games critics jerk themselves over, and compare it to popular games that people actually like. Look at how movies like Black Panther and Ghostbusters 2016 are praised by critics despite being largely hated by the general public.

 

[Pokemonquistador]

Man, Hank Darger is a deep fucking pull, respect. Your last point is especially funny if you read up on Darger because it's pretty well established that he was ridiculously and legitimately full-blown autistic, whereas Bob is an angry fat man with no self-control.

There's also the fact that Darger's works regularly command $750,000 a pop, whereas Bob's Brick by Brick probably wouldn't fetch 15 cents at a flea market.

As far as sequels go, it's pretty surreal living in a world where franchises that were long in the tooth back when I was in the single digits are still being remade for contemporary audiences. We've always had works of fiction and franchises that stood the test of time (Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes, Batman, etc.,) but I don't recall there being a time where franchises were being continuously recycled and reimagined every 5-10 years or so. We'll probably have yet another original TOS Star Trek reboot in a couple of years, and the young people it'll be aimed at will have been so far removed from the original version, they'll probably not know it even existed (or they'll track it down, watch it, find it "highly problematic" and consign it to the memoryhole.)