30Jul#06
Said the guy whose lifetime achievement was being a shelf-stocker in Blockbuster.
Since Bob hasn't worked a single corporate job ever, he's completely oblivious to the fact that those HR meetings that he'd smugly pretend to pay attention to are the landmines that he'd inadvertently step on and end up in hot water. Having to navigate the treacherous waters of vindictive cat ladies is a pain in the ass for people that actually have to work for a living, something that Bob will never know.
30Jul#08
Bobby is still masturbating to
Black Panther and the actor who plays the protagonist.
If a project is so crucially dependent on one single person ("People will crucify the manager if that person gets replaced"), I will not invest in it.
Oh man, I think we have another puzzle piece as to why Bob stans for Marvel so hard: he honestly believes they were creating his Superior Future. Strap in, this is a long one.
Seriously, look at how he's describing the glorious vision for a post-Endgame MCU: "diverse cast", "post-national/globalist action-fantasy," "rapid-elevated 'promising' young filmmakers into studio-franchise powerhouses," "pre/post-production team and the greenscreen army handles the tech," "Feige polish[es] the final product" (dunno why he included Kathleen Kennedy in there, probably just brainrot). He believed that Marvel was going to deliver his utopian vision of a world unified under the singular desire to consoom product and get excited for next product, no borders to get in the way of the next thing to seal clap over, where all races would live in peace and harmony as they soyface over the latest slop. And conveniently, it would
also be a place where a certain "young" filmmaker from the Boston area would finally be elevated into the position he deserved, directing a billion-dollar franchise movie and being showered with praise, adoration, money, and women.
Except none of that actually happened, or was ever Marvel's plan. Diversity was only ever paid lip service so that tards like Bob would praise them for it and give them easy press, and they were all too happy to edit out things that didn't fly so well in foreign markets, like gay shit in the Middle East or covering up any instance of black people in the posters. Nations clearly still exist in the MCU, and I don't think the we wuz crowd would be happy with Wakanda ending up subservient to a higher power. Those "promising" filmmakers would only ever be beaten down by the studio heads, and anything unique they would contribute would ultimately be lost in the sea of bland dreck that corporate would demand. The overworked VFX departments would only see their workloads go higher as producers would demand changes again and again with no clue how much they were asking for, leading to modern Marvel movies looking considerably worse than earlier ones (and some of the worst in modern CGI). The overuse of greenscreens even for mundane scenes would be mocked by people as making the movies look cheap and fake, and they definitely won't stand the test of time.
And finally, Feige is clearly not as good a producer as Bob implies if he was putting all his eggs in the Boseman basket. Obviously he couldn't have known that he'd pass away suddenly, but the man had only been in three of the movies up to that point (I'm not counting Endgame because he was only there for a couple minutes), and I don't know if he could have legitimately held up as the protagonist of the series going forward. He was a fine actor, but I have always felt his deification by people like Bob to be creepy and weird, like they legitimately thought he was an actual king or something.
As for Black Panther itself, sure, it had a billion-dollar box office gross (mostly driven by the we wuz crowd), but it's obvious to anyone paying attention that its Best Picture nomination was a face-saving measure from the Academy after their attempt to give it a freebie through the "Best Popular Film" award backfired. It was a "cultural event" in the sense that it made nearly every single black person entirely insufferable with referring to Wakanda over and over again like it was an actual place and not just some laughably racist thing some Jews came up with in the 60's. It was a by-the-numbers capeshit movie that pandered especially hard to black people, and that's all it ever was. To imply that this was the template going forward is flat-out stupid, especially considering how their other diversity hires have flopped over and over again.
I've said it before, I'll say it again: the MCU should have died years ago, and any attempt to keep things running at this point is just stupid. If they just did movies focusing on single heroes or groups with none of this crossover shit, that would be much more tolerable, especially if it meant Bob would seethe about no more MCU movies to pointlessly speculate about.
