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

[Carlos Thin]

He apparently doesn't like the Arkham games either. He called them edgelord stuff that's not going to age well.

From the man who wrote a Care Bears movie """based""" on Paradise Lost

 

[Adamska]

Here y'all go.

BOFCA Repertory Podcast – September 2018 | Boston Online Film Critics Association

Seriously listen to it as long as you can. It's fascinating...

Also I'm the one who posted Bob's fondest wish. Words of Bob:

See, I’ve got a semi-personal investment in this. I want more Batman movies. Lots more. And more comic/genre movies in tandem. I want to see the whole of the blockbuster moviescape dominated so completely by Geek Culture that it chokes the very life from almost everything else. And if Hollywood looks at this MASSIVE blockbuster and gets the idea (which also happens, conveniently, to be THE TRUTH) that listening to the “geek set” and targeting them can be a good bet… I get that. But if it becomes a “meme” that Dark Knight is breaking bank because the same savages who block-bought “Passion” into a hit are propping it up? (Which happens to be, y’know, demonstrably untrue?) Yeah, opposite effect.​

"If I google and find summaries of comic characters via wikipedia and this happens, maybe THIS TIME I'll be popular since the normals won't have read them!" ~ The real "reasoning" that Bob the crayon eating blue curtain analyzing retard who lies about his knowledge out of fear of being called retarded has

 

[AirdropShitposts]

He apparently doesn't like the Arkham games either. He called them edgelord stuff that's not going to age well.

I don't know what the fuck is supposed to be "edgelord" about those games, other than they take the material somewhat seriously.

He's obviously not played them. If you just look at the artwork I could see someone uninformed saying they're "edgelord/dudebro" and "not going to age well" because there certainly is a certain... UE3 era type design to a lot of it.

But if you actually play them, including Origins, then they're nothing but throwbacks to The Animated Series which is universally beloved and considered far ahead of its time. Next on the list would be the Burton Batman films. (Which obviously influenced TAS's design as well.)

The Nolanverse is arguably far more "edgelord" than the Arkhamverse.

 

[Gaear Grimsrud]

He's obviously not played them. If you just look at the artwork I could see someone uninformed saying they're "edgelord/dudebro" and "not going to age well" because there certainly is a certain... UE3 era type design to a lot of it.

But if you actually play them, including Origins, then they're nothing but throwbacks to The Animated Series which is universally beloved and considered far ahead of its time. Next on the list would be the Burton Batman films. (Which obviously influenced TAS's design as well.)

The Nolanverse is arguably far more "edgelord" than the Arkhamverse.

I wouldn't even say the Nolan movies are edgelord.

I remember that thing back in 2012 when Bob tried to make the case that The Avengers and Dark Knight Rises represented Obama and Romney.

Bob got it into his head that these movies are polar opposites somehow.

They're not! They're about the same shit! They're about how you have to fight to defeat evil and make the world a better place. One just has less comic relief and CGI fight scenes than the other.

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And yeah, the Arkham games are just Batman: The Animated Series if the villains were allowed to kill people.

 

[Flexo]

IIRC, that quote is from a blog Bobbo wrote back when TDK had just come out. Back then he was still all for the Nolan trilogy, and it was only later that he backtracked on his love for those movies when he associated them with the dudebros he's filled with an all-consuming rage over. Since then, I believe his desire for campy Batman content is a hamfisted attempt to distance himself from his earlier opinions.

Even weirder. It's a comment he left on a CONSERVATIVE's movie blog post.

Not just half of humanity, half of the entire fucking universe. It makes me wonder if some of the #ThanosDidNothingWrong crowd is actually serious (barring exceptions like @Flexo who would argue that he didn't go far enough).

Damn straight.

 

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He's obviously not played them. If you just look at the artwork I could see someone uninformed saying they're "edgelord/dudebro" and "not going to age well" because there certainly is a certain... UE3 era type design to a lot of it.

But if you actually play them, including Origins, then they're nothing but throwbacks to The Animated Series which is universally beloved and considered far ahead of its time. Next on the list would be the Burton Batman films. (Which obviously influenced TAS's design as well.)

The Nolanverse is arguably far more "edgelord" than the Arkhamverse.

batman: the games are the best thing in the ip since tas
what the fuck would this mouthbreather know about pc games

 

[Red Hood]

I wouldn't put it past him. It's exactly what's wrong with nerd culture, although there's no cure for it. Anything that becomes both niche and popular will eventually go mainstream

Nerd culture essentially is just a marketing tool.

Bob's opinions on Batman these days really do seem to be peak contrarianism.

He apparently doesn't like the Arkham games either. He called them edgelord stuff that's not going to age well.

I don't know what the fuck is supposed to be "edgelord" about those games, other than they take the material somewhat seriously.

Arkham basically distilled a bunch of disparate interpretations of Batman (most strongly BTAS, but also the comics, Burton and Nolan films) into one cohesive piece, and married it with competent gameplay. It probably featured more members of the Bat-Family than any other mainstream adaptation to that point and highlighted a few villains outside the norm, featuring the likes of Firefly, Mad Hatter, Deacon Blackfire... I'm sorry, Bob, you aren't a Batman fan.

I would actually say the Arkham series is an order of magnitude less edgy than the comics can get.

Even with the problems Knight has the Arkham games are very well regarded by most Batman fans, gamers, and critics in general.

He's obviously not played them. If you just look at the artwork I could see someone uninformed saying they're "edgelord/dudebro" and "not going to age well" because there certainly is a certain... UE3 era type design to a lot of it.

Part of that can be blamed on initial character design work being done by Wildstorm, who maintained a very 90's style far past that style's Use By date.

 

[Grumpy Pickle Rick]

No, her character was ruined the moment they decided to ignore her mental issues or play them up as quirky.

Remember, she's so codependent and obssessive on her romantic fixations she remodeled her own personality and morality in the hopes of being a moll for a guy she barely knew. That's seriously fucked up, and modern depictions hate mentioning that, the abuse rationalization, and attrocities she's done.

It's as retarded as trying to push Poison Ivy, she who literally wants to kill all humans on her worst days, as a heroine.

In both narratives they realized the bitch was popular with horny manchildren who value inane loyalty above all in their fictional women.

Sorry this post is late, I was busy.

I hate that people are romanticizing or de-evilizing villains today. Especially toxic consumers like Bob.

Everytime, these fanboys and fangirls see an attractive guy/girl villain, they try to make them sympathetic and ‘quirky’. Or they try to make them codependent, obsessively loyal sidekicks.

Basically, they try to lower them down to their level. Their low standards.

Why can’t villains just be villains anymore?

I don’t know about you guys, but I miss cool, relatable villains.

 

[Crybaby Xianghua]

Sorry this post is late, I was busy.

I hate that people are romanticizing or de-evilizing villains today. Especially toxic consumers like Bob.

Everytime, these fanboys and fangirls see an attractive guy/girl villain, they try to make them sympathetic and ‘quirky’. Or they try to make them codependent, obsessively loyal sidekicks.

Basically, they try to lower them down to their level. Their low standards.

Why can’t villains just be villains anymore?

I don’t know about you guys, but I miss cool, relatable villains.

Also, is it me, or have stories in this day and age become one big syrupy sweet sugar bowl that makes Barney and Friends look like edgelord content? I mean, how can anyone who isn't a Mormon housewife or an elderly widowed spinster, find saccharine drivel entertaining, let alone enjoyable?

Also, if I see one more Twilight: Breaking Dawn style of a "happy ending", I swear, I am going to cringe big time!

 

[Smithfield Ham]

Nobody gives a fuck about comics canon you retards. Keep making fun of el retardo without kapeshit spergouts

Y'know, your spergy freakout reminds me of how technically there are five Robins, but officially there are only 4. Stephanie Brown is the only character to have carried the mantle of both Robin and Batgirl, though her stint as Robin was very short lived and ended poorly. How about I share some literature with you about the three major continuity shifts in the last decade?

 

[EnemyStand]

Y'know, your spergy freakout reminds me of how technically there are five Robins, but officially there are only 4. Stephanie Brown is the only character to have carried the mantle of both Robin and Batgirl, though her stint as Robin was very short lived and ended poorly. How about I share some literature with you about the three major continuity shifts in the last decade?

The Moviebob Thread: come for the fat retard, stay for the sperging about the shit Bob thinks he knows about.

 

[Marshal Mannerheim]

The Moviebob Thread: come for the fat retard, stay for the sperging about the shit Bob thinks he knows about.

On that note, the one good thing to come out of Pope Francis' determination to destroy traditionalist Catholicism will be that we'll get to see Blob try and spell "Summorum Pontificum" and "Traditionalis Custodes".

 

[Berrakh]

The Moviebob Thread: come for the fat retard, stay for the sperging about the shit Bob thinks he knows about.

"Your honor, I move that the witnesses sperging about their little cartoon books is very relevant to establishing the credibility of the defendant." Then I snap my suspenders.

 

[EnemyStand]

On that note, the one good thing to come out of Pope Francis' determination to destroy traditionalist Catholicism will be that we'll get to see Blob try and spell "Summorum Pontificum" and "Traditionalis Custodes".

I don't agree with you on that one. Bob doesn't know shit about modern Catholicism, why would he attempt to use Latin? He'll call it Latin Mass like most people and leave it at that.

He's gonna misspell "Latin", isn't he...?

 

[Meat Target]

I don't agree with you on that one. Bob doesn't know shit about modern Catholicism, why would he attempt to use Latin? He'll call it Latin Mass like most people and leave it at that.

He's gonna misspell "Latin", isn't he...?

Bob is precisely the kind of tryhard who would think "Latin = smart", and would consider himself an expert on Catholicism because he went to Catholic school.

 

[Marshal Mannerheim]

Bob doesn't know shit about modern Catholicism, why would he attempt to use Latin? He'll call it Latin Mass like most people and leave it at that.

Bob likes throwing around buzzwords to make him seem smart - for instance, he calls anything environmentalist a "Green New Deal" and calls anything he doesn't like "unevolved". I'd bet that he hears a post about this, tries to spell Summorum Pontificum (a document by Benedict XVI allowing priests to use the Latin Mass) or Traditionalis Custodes (a document by Francis revoking that) and fails. He will then blame the whole thing on "autocorrect" and write a 30 tweet long thread about how the Catholic Church is basically old-fashioned capeshit and this is like if Disney banned all movies before Frozen or something as asinine.

 

[EnemyStand]

Bob likes throwing around buzzwords to make him seem smart - for instance, he calls anything environmentalist a "Green New Deal" and calls anything he doesn't like "unevolved". I'd bet that he hears a post about this, tries to spell Summorum Pontificum (a document by Benedict XVI allowing priests to use the Latin Mass) or Traditionalis Custodes (a document by Francis revoking that) and fails. He will then blame the whole thing on "autocorrect" and write a 30 tweet long thread about how the Catholic Church is basically old-fashioned capeshit and this is like if Disney banned all movies before Frozen or something as asinine.

You make a good point, but I'm not entirely convinced those phrases will even cross his tiny little mind. Maybe he'll Google it and get the phrases and confuse a Motu Proprio with the Traditionalis Custodes and at that point I will accede to your superior prediction skills when it comes to observing the Filmrob, but as I said, considering he's a Catholic so lapsed he's a fedora-tipping Atheist I doubt he'd find those words unless he stumbled upon them (which I concede is highly possible).

As a side note, I'm sorry the Pope did that to you Trad folks. I don't always agree with you all, but your practices were still Catholicism, no matter what anyone else says.

 

[TopTierHealer]

I remember that thing back in 2012 when Bob tried to make the case that The Avengers and Dark Knight Rises represented Obama and Romney.

I can feel it in my heart that you're not kidding but that is just cringy as fuck. It reminds me of Seanbaby's comics from the 2007-8 era where he drew Obama as Batman and McCain as the Penguin talking about the CIA's use of torture to extract infromation for the War on Terror (and yes, it's as retarded as I make it sound).

 

[Adamska]

Bob really only brings up religion if one of his declared enemies goes down that route without paying him any attention or if the group he's trying to creep his way into talks about it tbh. It's a tertiary thing for him, especially since his god is Nintendo, and his Road of Damascus was the fucking Visions of the Future ride at EPCOT in the 90s.

He at best brings it up if his insecurities about being a retard leads him to theology, but he much prefers using capeshit or random pages on Wikipedia for that role.

 

[Marshal Mannerheim]

I doubt he'd find those words unless he stumbled upon them (which I concede is highly possible).

Oh, but he will. He'll look up an article in America or Commonweal about it and use it as a stick to bash us trads and, more generally speaking, right-wing Catholics with.

I'm sorry the Pope did that to you Trad folks. I don't always agree with you all, but your practices were still Catholicism, no matter what anyone else says.

It's a shame, and - at the risk of being the stereotypical trad who compares everything to the Crusades - this feels like watching the fall of Acre in real time. We're seeing what we fought for, and what we finally achieved - be it the right to go to a TLM in our own churches, or the Holy Land - be swept away, and there's nothing we can do except pray the Rosary and ask God to guide the Church and the Pope.