Bob Chipman / Robert Lewis Chipman / MovieBob / Game OverThinker - "Coastal Elite Thinker" who wants conservatives, Christians and manual workers eradicated. Universally ignorant; cannot tell reality from sci-fi. Sore loser with short fuse. Odious Disney shill. Tranny chaser and general creep. Fat and diabetic.

[Godzilla@1989]

He has basically said as much. I don't have the tweet on hand, but years ago I remember him tweeting some gibberish about how the MCU was what greek epics were supposed to be or something along those lines.

He really thinks that MCU has been the climax of all of artistic achievement. All of creative effort in the thousands of years of human history has been building specifically up to this very thing.

You have to eat a lot of crayons to think the MCU is on par with the likes of Homer’s Odyssey.

Don’t get me wrong, the MCU are decent popcorn entertainment to waste time with, but it is not the artistic achievement Bob is thinking.

 

[Mola Ram]

You have to eat a lot of crayons to think the MCU is on par with the likes of Homer’s Odyssey.

Don’t get me wrong, the MCU are decent popcorn entertainment to waste time with, but it is not the artistic achievement Bob is thinking.

He's also made absurd comparisons to the Sistine Chapel and once spoke of the various history plays of Shakespeare as a "shared universe."

I feel like Bob used to say crazier things than he does now, or at least things that were crazy in a more entertaining fashion.

 

[TowinKarz]

Don’t get me wrong, the MCU are decent popcorn entertainment to waste time with, but it is not the artistic achievement Bob is thinking.

The need to elevate pop culture above the "classics" is a mysterious one.... they aren't even in the same logical zip code.

It's apples and oranges.

It's like comparing a Ford Escort and a Ford GT-40, they aren't built to the same standards for the same things, each is "good" at purpose (economy car/race car) the fact you own the former doesn't mean you have to find a reason to tear down the reputation of the latter, yet some people just can't help themselves.

It must be deep-seated insecurity.

 

[Sexy Peach Emoji]

Moviebob doesn't need credit for calling the MAGA crowd unevolved subhumanoids; doing so would (correctly) label Moviebob as a literal Nazi:

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Holy shit that's a foul take. I guess when they say "Keep Austin/Portland/hellhole weird" they really mean keep it full of subhuman unevolved human garbage.

 

[Ralph Barnhardt]

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.

He has basically said as much. I don't have the tweet on hand, but years ago I remember him tweeting some gibberish about how the MCU was what greek epics were supposed to be or something along those lines.

He really thinks that MCU has been the climax of all of artistic achievement. All of creative effort in the thousands of years of human history has been building specifically up to this very thing.

There's this one.

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/robert-chipman-bob-moviebob-movieblob.5873/post-7851675

 

[Mola Ram]

There's this one.

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/robert-chipman-bob-moviebob-movieblob.5873/post-7851675

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Incredibly appropriate to recall on page 666.

 

[King Dead]

The need to elevate pop culture above the "classics" is a mysterious one.... they aren't even in the same logical zip code.

It's apples and oranges.

It's like comparing a Ford Escort and a Ford GT-40, they aren't built to the same standards for the same things, each is "good" at purpose (economy car/race car) the fact you own the former doesn't mean you have to find a reason to tear down the reputation of the latter, yet some people just can't help themselves.

It must be deep-seated insecurity.

It's 100% insecurity. The last thing Bob wants is for this to happen:

He never wants to finally have the realization that he has wasted years and years of his life terribly reviewing pop culture pablum and surrounding himself with consoomerist crap, something that will become all the more likely as he continues to get older. The only way to stave that off is to live in denial, and so he has to elevate what he likes over the classics in order for it to actually mean something and not have been a waste of time.

But I find it particularly interesting that he plastered his Superior Future worldview over the MCU, which I believe gives more detail as to why he praises it unquestioningly all the time and never seems to give any damning criticism whatsoever. The clue was in his choice of words for describing the whole post-Endgame MCU: "post-national/globalist." As long-time Bob watchers know, Bob wants a one-world government because he thinks that such things as national borders are obsolete relics of the inferior past (and also because that's how it is in Star Trek). I'm sure there are plenty of people out there that would rather prefer to keep their national sovereignty, especially considering how poorly the only global governmental body is run, but they're just obsolete chuds! Yet despite the fact that the Earth of the MCU is still very much a world with many countries, in Bob's mind it's a vision of the globalist future.

This is why Bob continues to carry water for Marvel even when a lot of people have been getting kind of tired of the deluge of content and don't really see the point in showing up unless they're sure the movie will have something they want (like Deadpool & Wolverine). If the MCU fails, that means that Bob was wrong about the Superior Future, and he simply can't have that. So he'll put on a happy face and shill like there's no tomorrow, all so that the megacorp that doesn't give a shit about him can keep making money he'll never see a bit of. Hell, he'll pay them for the privilege.

 

[Positron]

I remember him tweeting some gibberish about how the MCU was what greek epics were supposed to be or something along those lines.

Sophocles to be exact. He also claims MCU is the Globe Theatre "but for the whole Globe"

 

[Ralph Barnhardt]

Sophocles to be exact. He also claims MCU is the Globe Theatre "but for the whole Globe"

LMAO I forgot about that one

https://archive.ph/mRiZz

 

[LordofCringe7206 Vol. 2]

He's also made absurd comparisons to the Sistine Chapel and once spoke of the various history plays of Shakespeare as a "shared universe."

I feel like Bob used to say crazier things than he does now, or at least things that were crazy in a more entertaining fashion.

I feel like his physical decline has probably taken a toll on his ability to spergout over things. Even looking at his Twitter feed now and days, a lot of it is now just retweets or small replies to people compared to several years where he would have these multi-thread rambles about different topics.

He has gotten so lazy and low-energy that he can't even muster a quality autistic tweet anymore.

 

[Godzilla@1989]

To go on to what @King Dead say earlier, I also think that Bob legitimately believes that the pre-Endgame MCU was also representing what his Superior Future would look like. Flying ships, government agencies that are more globalist than nationalist, and advanced technology like Iron Man’s suit. Bob legit thinks if it can happen in the movies, it must happen in the real world. He doesn’t understand that we lack the technology to make it happen. And he sure as shit doesn’t understand that the Democrats don’t have the power nor interest to make it happen. I mean, look at what NASA was doing during the Obama era: Jack shit.

I know I may miss the point, but I’m kinda curious to what Bob thinks of Total Recall (1990). I know it deviates from the original source material, but Bob might have something in common with Vilos Cohagen as both are mega assholes with a disdain for the obsolete, though whereas Vilos hated mutants, Bob hates anyone that isn’t a registered democrat.

 

[Alex Jones' Fancy Cat]

Everyday, it gets more baffling. Bobert watched his income and reach drop for years. He did nothing. Based on what he's said, he has a negative net worth. I remember him bragging about finally paying off one of his credit cards. He claims that he's real working class, because he's broke. He has type 2 beetus, and he refuses to lose weight or stop drinking.

Now, in his 40s, he had to move back in with mommy. Normally, when that happens, it's because of something big. Maybe someone went all in on opening a business. Maybe it's a nasty divorce, or addiction. It isn't usually an easily foreseeable thing. His shit credit rating is probably as much of a problem as his income, when it comes to renting. He's stuck.

What does our boy Bobby do? He doubled down on nothing. He's one of the cows that I don't believe could hold any normal job, for more than a few days. He retreated into his own, self constructed, Skinner box for more than a decade. Everything that sucked about him is far worse. Can you imagine minimum wage Bob dealing with anyone he considers a subhuman?

Pat yourselves on your backs fellow farmers. It could be much worse.

 

[King Dead]

LMAO I forgot about that one

https://archive.ph/mRiZz

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Can't believe I missed this at the time, I guess because the "my favorite consumerist crap is more important than the complete works of Shakespeare" take was so glaringly obviously stupid that it covered up anything else. But he's definitely been harboring these thoughts for years now, it's basically his thesis statement for what the MCU is.

"Nominally" American? What the fuck does that mean, Bob? They're not "nominally" American, they are American because they're from the USA, a country that still exists in the MCU. I get what he's trying to say, that because they hop around the globe and fight supervillains instead of foreign nations, they're effectively the superheroic example of the rootless cosmopolitan, a "child of the world" as he'd probably say. But just because Captain America isn't chanting "USA! USA! USA!" as he pummels Thanos in the face, doesn't mean he doesn't consider himself American.

Seriously, that's the lynchpin of his argument: if the characters don't explicitly state their country of origin and how much they're proud of it, then they must be a supporter of the Superior Future! Never mind that there's more important things in that moment like, oh, I dunno, the continued survival of the human race, nope, because Cap didn't say America, he supports globalism!

And it's hilariously easy to poke one gigantic hole in his argument: Wa-fucking-kanda. Clearly they're more than happy to continue having their super high-tech walled-off society (where the right to the throne is decided through bloodsport, very advanced). They showed no inclination towards giving up their sovereignty, nor do they ever stop being proud of their country and their ability to do whatever they want without anyone else telling them otherwise. Yeah, he'd probably point to the end of BP1 where BP was going to start a bunch of inner city programs 'n sheeit, but a country can do foreign aid without giving up their sovereignty.

The reason why all the heroes are American is, quite simply, because these are based on comics written by Americans, for Americans. Of course they were going to set everything of importance in America, especially New York City, it's where their readers would expect things to happen! I don't think Stan Lee or Jack Kirby or anyone else working at Marvel back in the day was explicitly aiming to portray a harmonious world under one government, partly because that removes an area of potential storytelling conflict, but mostly because it's fucking stupid. Humans still care about national pride, despite decades of propaganda telling you that nationalism is bad.

I swear, this gets funnier and more baffling the more I think about it, and it's put my understanding of Bob's Marvel love in a whole new light.

 

[Gorillion others]

Everyday, it gets more baffling. Bobert watched his income and reach drop for years. He did nothing. Based on what he's said, he has a negative net worth. I remember him bragging about finally paying off one of his credit cards. He claims that he's real working class, because he's broke. He has type 2 beetus, and he refuses to lose weight or stop drinking.

Now, in his 40s, he had to move back in with mommy. Normally, when that happens, it's because of something big. Maybe someone went all in on opening a business. Maybe it's a nasty divorce, or addiction. It isn't usually an easily foreseeable thing. His shit credit rating is probably as much of a problem as his income, when it comes to renting. He's stuck.

What does our boy Bobby do? He doubled down on nothing. He's one of the cows that I don't believe could hold any normal job, for more than a few days. He retreated into his own, self constructed, Skinner box for more than a decade. Everything that sucked about him is far worse. Can you imagine minimum wage Bob dealing with anyone he considers a subhuman?

Pat yourselves on your backs fellow farmers. It could be much worse.

He got fired from his "job" twice. He's way below a loser.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

Everyday, it gets more baffling. Bobert watched his income and reach drop for years. He did nothing. Based on what he's said, he has a negative net worth. I remember him bragging about finally paying off one of his credit cards. He claims that he's real working class, because he's broke. He has type 2 beetus, and he refuses to lose weight or stop drinking.

Now, in his 40s, he had to move back in with mommy. Normally, when that happens, it's because of something big. Maybe someone went all in on opening a business. Maybe it's a nasty divorce, or addiction. It isn't usually an easily foreseeable thing. His shit credit rating is probably as much of a problem as his income, when it comes to renting. He's stuck.

What does our boy Bobby do? He doubled down on nothing. He's one of the cows that I don't believe could hold any normal job, for more than a few days. He retreated into his own, self constructed, Skinner box for more than a decade. Everything that sucked about him is far worse. Can you imagine minimum wage Bob dealing with anyone he considers a subhuman?

Pat yourselves on your backs fellow farmers. It could be much worse.

It's sadder when you realize the only reason he ever moved out of his parents' home in the first place, at 31 of all fucking ages, was because he was lucky enough to be born at the right time to be around for the early days of youtube and be a movie reviewer right when a bunch of sites were hiring anyone so they had content for people to come back for.

Before, he went to Salem State to get an art degree. He wanted to be a film critic and a director, but rather than going for an English degree to help him write his reviews, or a film degree to help him make pro level movies, he got an art degree and never bothered to do anything with it. He then stayed in retail, living on minimum wage, with an eye for being a manager at a video store, but apparently that never happened. I assume he got fired at a few points for being, well, Bob. He's made it sound like he's worked multiple places before making the internet his full time career.

And even though he wanted to be a movie maker, he never did it. Besides those Game Overthinker skits he did a decade ago, he's never made any moves to Hollywood besides tweeting at people. Maybe he has submitted screenplays and manuscripts, but from what he's said he seems to be under the delusion that success comes to people, who get discovered, rather than people working hard and chasing after opportunities being rewarded with success.

I think he could work at a real job for a while, but it'd be like Dobson where after a month or two he'd get fired for his bullshit. His entire plan at this point is probably keeping his fingers crossed something will solve his problems for him and that's it.

 

[Meriasek]

Nah, I don't think he could work at a real job. Like, yeah, he could physically work as a cashier or something, but he couldn't stand it. He always proclaims to be proud "real working class" (like baristas and sandwich makers, not those disgusting plumbers and welders), but deep down he thinks such jobs beneath him. He'll point to that he totally worked retail decades ago, but now he could never accept doing that to make a living.
Blob believes he's a thinker. He believes he's destined for greater things, to be a great auteur director like that handsome devil James Gunn. But that's not happening, of course. Can't be his own fault like him not doing anything to get there, no, it must be the subhuman scum that don't vote for the right party.
But he isn't unhappy about his situation. He has nearly 130k subscribers on Youtube and sometimes gets 20k or even 30k views on his videos. Not great numbers for someone as long in the content business as him, and certainly not for someone who is known well enough that videos about him gather 100k+ views on the regular. But that doesn't bother him. He gets views, and to him, the only reason he's not actually big and famous is because the chuds are not in the gas chambers. See, the 100k+ viewers of videos mocking him are the bad people, while the 20k that was his are the good people. If those 100k were to, uh, disappear, the people that matter would remain and all the Youtube money would come rolling in.

 

[Flexo]

Deep Space 9 was less action driven than a lot of trek, but it made up for it with story and characters. Meming it is possible but easy to fuck up.

Actually... DS9 was the action driver. I was there for the premiere of Way of the Warrior and the ship battles blew my mind at the time when the best we had ever gotten was Best of Both Worlds. It paved the way for what you could do with Trek.

HOWEVER, the important key is that while tech had developed to allow fleet battles to be done on a TV budget DS9 never lost sight that story and characters were key. Compare it to later Voyager which in later seasons very much became action driven and they started trying to do ship fights as a substitution for intelligence.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Actually... DS9 was the action driver. I was there for the premiere of Way of the Warrior and the ship battles blew my mind at the time when the best we had ever gotten was Best of Both Worlds. It paved the way for what you could do with Trek.

HOWEVER, the important key is that while tech had developed to allow fleet battles to be done on a TV budget DS9 never lost sight that story and characters were key. Compare it to later Voyager which in later seasons very much became action driven and they started trying to do ship fights as a substitution for intelligence.

Well let me correct myself. It saved up for the action. Recently having rewatched it, there was a lot less phaser slinging and random deaths than say TNG. Some episodes didn't have death at all. But when a Way of the Warrior DID happen, the stakes ramped up, you knew crazy shit was about to happen.

 

[Mr Processor]

"Nominally" American? What the fuck does that mean, Bob? They're not "nominally" American, they are American because they're from the USA, a country that still exists in the MCU. I get what he's trying to say, that because they hop around the globe and fight supervillains instead of foreign nations, they're effectively the superheroic example of the rootless cosmopolitan, a "child of the world" as he'd probably say. But just because Captain America isn't chanting "USA! USA! USA!" as he pummels Thanos in the face, doesn't mean he doesn't consider himself American.

Bob hates Southpark, but that's also basically the theme of Team America: World Police. (}Which I'm sure he hates because it isn't sufficiently reverent towards the idea.) Bob's version of globalism is basically every country in the world run by Hollywood weirdos. (Who then somehow build starships and cyborg upgrades for aging bodies.)

 

[The Taco Santo!]

I just don't know where he ever got the idea that he would ever be in line or considered for a starship or a robot body. I don't think that 'diabetic loser basement dweller' will be the demographic to receive free ultra-luxury products.