I enjoy reading Bob because he's a metric for where all of the intersecting points of the arrogant egotistical audiences meet.
From his perspective, he is
- Filmmaker.(Who has never made anything noteworthy, or good)
- Critic (Who does not have the respect of his peers or the people he's talking about.)
- Historian (of things that people do not care about unless they are rebooted for cash)
- A True Nerd (that is fine with things changing to meet his current political and ideological stances, and does not have any kind of advanced technical acumen, or relevant degree like most nerds do.)
So for him, when he's "right" about what is happening in film or politics, it vindicates and validates him. When he guesses that a studio will make something that is both woke and repetative. When he imagines something that would have been universally panned 20-40 years ago, and it seems to happen he gets validation. He gets to say "i was right" and acts like the eternals is great, while we pan it, and the mainstream audience forgets about it.
The comparison to the Sistine Chapel is really emblematic of who he is as a person.
Because he doesn't believe in religion, he can't see that a random person picked out of a group who watches the MCU won't consider Iron-Man to be a vision or representation of God, like Jesus. Perhaps one could make a thematic comparison to Iron-Man being the Christ figure of the Marvel universe. The sacrifice that saved everyone.
But, because Bob is block headed about the entire thing hes doing, he makes a blatant 1:1 comparison between movies about comic book characters, and a religion people believe in with the fear and wonder of god, and all of his creation.
He tips his fedora at the concept of Christianity just being fictional canon, just like Marvel movies.
Then, he compares the craftsmanship of one of the greatest artist and "thinkers" of all time to the labor of a select group of modern day hollywood filmmakers. He directly implies that the church leaders are like a corporation and the "Kevin Feige" of the era commissioned the Sistine chapel as the penultimate expression of "The Christian Extended Universe".
Bob is euphoric because he feels like he's living in a golden age, directly comparing the past to where we are now. And/or inversely, the same things that were bad then are the same things that are bad now.
His perspective is "correct" as an axiom that exists in all directions.
And what's incredible about all of this, is that the average person who wonders about history, the present, and the future will find his statements to be insulting.
Any person who looks at something that summons the spiritual and compares it to Marvel Movies has none. Its just spite. That's all Bob really is. Its why he acts like its 1990, Marvel is Nintendo, and DC is Sega.