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

[Mola Ram]

If I'm not wrong that quote comes from a letter to Lester Del Rey regarding a fantasy anthology Del Rey sent Tolkien in the early 60s. IIRC Howard was the only author in the collection Tolkien was complimentary toward.

Some have blown up the significance of the quotation to the point where you'd assume Tolkien feverishly scoured bookstores and hounded the Howard estate for more Conan tales.

Yeah, I've never had the impression he was a devotee of the pulps -- let's not forget he was verging into middle age by 1930, so he wouldn't have had that boyish nostalgia about them. Which is why Bob's notion is cracked -- what exactly was he trying to subvert? Groundbreaking doesn't always mean subversive.

 

[Judge Dredd]

EDIT: SW/lotr sperging. I'd like to know how lotr is a revisionst/subversion of the shit he cites

>Doesn't have the time/too busy
>Writes a lengthy tirade anyway

Even if we assume he's right about everything he said, none of that refutes the guys claim that Bob only knows MOTU from the 80s cartoon.

 

[Rathkor]

>Doesn't have the time/too busy
>Writes a lengthy tirade anyway

Even if we assume he's right about everything he said, none of that refutes the guys claim that Bob only knows MOTU from the 80s cartoon.

Shows what you know, friendo. Bobby is an EXPERT in ALL things MOTU. He spent 10 minutes reading about it on Wikipedia!

 

[Kyria the Great]

Yeah, I've never had the impression he was a devotee of the pulps -- let's not forget he was verging into middle age by 1930, so he wouldn't have had that boyish nostalgia about them. Which is why Bob's notion is cracked -- what exactly was he trying to subvert? Groundbreaking doesn't always mean subversive.

I guess he is under the failed notion that in order for something to be good, it has to be subversive, aka the Ryan Johnson school of thought. Subversion isn't great and too many writers believe the way you rebuild the house is to tear up its foundations, rather than simply needing to fix a few creaky boards on the second floor.

 

[Godzilla@1989]

I may be mixing up Lovecraft with Howard. In fact, I'm sure I am. Those two things being references are probably a bit of fandom wish fulfillment, but JRRT is on record as having enjoyed Howard's Conan stories.

I would not watch Lord of the Rings with Bob, either.

Just wait until he’ll do a RTG on it.

 

[Emperor Julian]

I'm not sure why Bob presumes Star Wars is subversion, it's pretty much follows step-by-step the heroes journey and campy serials. Only the last jedi attempts to be subversive and it fails misrably.

 

[A Random]

Gays only make up 3 percent of the general population, so I don't see why cartoon makers should be so obsessed with portraying them.

Getting a guaranteed 3 percent to watch it clearly gets them a million dollars, as opposed to a trillion dollars from an unguaranteed 97 percent audience. And gays are gay, so they like gay shit.

 

[The Gay Basher]

Getting a guaranteed 3 percent to watch it clearly gets them a million dollars, as opposed to a trillion dollars from an unguaranteed 97 percent audience. And gays are gay, so they like gay shit.

There will never be a mainstream gay series, because gay is very disapproved of in the more "diverse" corners of the world. China bans importing anything gay-themed, and the entire middle east takes a more terminal solution. No company is going to cut out 3 billion people to appeal to a very niche audience of 1st-world, progressive, identity politics obsessed cartoon watching adults. Just look at Paranorman. They had a joke at the end that the jock the cheerleader had been trying to flirt with is gay, and that had to be edited out for half the world.

You're way more likely to have gays be the new idpol smokescreen to cover for an inferior unoriginal cashgrab, like misogyny from Ghostbusters 2016. Bob is such a good corporate bootlicker that he'll talk about how bold a 30-second implicitation and two minor almost unnoticeable background scenes are, and the only reason you don't want to watch He-man lecture his dad about the importance of taking in refugees is because you're a homophobe.

 

[Mola Ram]

China bans importing anything gay-themed, and the entire middle east takes a more terminal solution.

Well at least they won't have to learn Mandarin.

 

[Godzilla@1989]

Mortal Kombat sperging.

 

[Chan the Wizard]

How is a man who does nothing but immerse himself in fantasy so bad at writing it?

 

[Godzilla@1989]

How is a man who does nothing but immerse himself in fantasy so bad at writing it?

If Brick by Brick tells us anything, is that Bob is bad at writing, but insane as a person.

 

[Brother Wind]

Since when is Scorpion a good guy?

 

[Mola Ram]

Since when is Scorpion a good guy?

Since when does a man who's pushing forty bluesky terrible script ideas for 1990s era video game franchises and actually expect some Hollywood exec is going to take it seriously?

 

[Brother Wind]

Since when does a man who's pushing forty bluesky terrible script ideas for 1990s era video game franchises and actually expect some Hollywood exec is going to take it seriously?

Since when does someone who literally does nothing, but immerse themselves in pop culture, constantly, incessantly get details about Pop Culture wrong?

 

[Godzilla@1989]

Since when does a man who's pushing forty bluesky terrible script ideas for 1990s era video game franchises and actually expect some Hollywood exec is going to take it seriously?

Off-topic: I don’t know much about Mortal Kombat, but aren’t a majority of its characters villains?

On-topic: Only Bob is delusional enough to think he’ll work for a major studio like Disney one day.

 

[Foxxo]

Since when does someone who literally does nothing, but immerse themselves in pop culture, constantly, incessantly get details about Pop Culture wrong?

Bob and relevancy are like oil and water.

 

[Brother Wind]

Off-topic: I don’t know much about Mortal Kombat, but aren’t a majority of its characters villains?

On-topic: Only Bob is delusional enough to think he’ll work for a major studio like Disney one day.

I dont know about a majority, but there are quite a few good guys.

 

[Pokemonquistador]

Bob and relevancy are like oil and water.

I don't understand why he doesn't just team up with an animator and make short Youtube vids based on his movie script ideas . (Wait, yes, I do understand why - it's because he'd see for himself just how bad his ideas are once they're brought to fruition and as long as they exist only in his head and twitter feed, they can remain as epic and clever as he thinks they are.)

I look forward to reading Bob's cool and relevant script revision of "Big Trouble in Little China" where it turns out that David Lo Pan is actually a white, ex-Nazi war criminal who's trying to take over Hollywood's movie industry so he can sell it to China and turn it into a right-wing propaganda machine, and the film climaxes with Lo Pan using Chinese Ninja Magic to brainwash America into voting for a blustery, orange haired, Republican Demagogue. The film then ends with an epic melee battle between Lo Pan, Jack Burton, and the cast of the 90's era Mortal Kombat movie. Jack eats an Ancient Chinese magic mushroom, stomps on Lo Pan's head and says his renowned and beloved, post-battle catchphrase:

"It's a Brooklyn Thing!" ™

 

[Godzilla@1989]

Not to be pissy, but Black Panther won the SAG for Best Ensamble.