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

[Smithfield Ham]

I read all of MovieBob's Mega Man pitch, and I have to say: it wasn't hilariously bad, but it was so uneventful, boring and safe that I feel like my time was wasted more than anything. It didn't make me angry, but there was really nothing to it. I've seen artists like The Protomen do cool things with the relationship between Dr. Light and Dr. Wily, and I've seen stuff like Megaman: Powered Up make the characters' personalities interesting. This was just a first act full of worldbuilding that doesn't pay off or matter, and then a montage of action scenes and cameos/references that are supposed to make you claaaaaaaap.

The only thing I found even slightly interesting was Bob clearly projected his own fucked up psychological issues on Wily. Wily doesn't care about ruining lives or taking away human jobs because they're 'obsolete" and he had a shitty, miserable childhood where everyone picked on him. He calls Dr. White "priviledged" (yes, misspelled like that twice) because he doesn't know poor people actually suck and are awful. I was like "Holy shit, Bob wrote himself into this script as the bad guy that the heroes defeat." After that, it runs out of steam. Characters from other Megaman series (girls. Gee, I wonder why?) are part of the plot but don't really do anything important. They're just there. Also, Protoman acts more like the character from the Ruby Spears' series than the games for some reason.

Tron Bonne and her Servobots are there, in what seems like a cynical cashgrab to turn the Servobots into the new Minions. Megaman X is the ultimate final boss, because tropes. If I'm making this sound hilariously insipid or ridiculous, it isn't. It's just really bland and inoffensive. If they actually made this movie I wouldn't hate it, but I also wouldn't care. He didn't even bother to give it a Marvel-style post-credits scene, or a sequel hook beyond "Wily escaped and Protoman is trying find him!" It just sorta stops.

The only reason I'm posting this review is to justify the hour or so I wasted reading that nothing burger. Don't waste your time reading it too. I guess he just wanted to play it safe for his first blog pitch. Or maybe he just has so much genuine respect for the source material that he couldn't bring himself to take any chances. Either way, it reads like a first draft, presented as a proof of concept for a movie rather than an actual script they'd use.

Boy, I wish I didn't read it ):

 

[AirdropShitposts]

Elon Musk is just a weirdo born rich:
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This shows how incredibly dumb Robert is. Elon Musk's dad (and only his dad, not "generations" like Robert claims) had a small stake in an emerald mine once, mostly during the 1970s. For Robert this is forever the source of Elon Musk's multiple billions of dollars from his multiple companies like it just automatically geometrically increased. "All this weird goon does is PAY FOR IT and brag" as if that isn't on the level of doing YouTube videos about popular movies.

I'm not a Musk fan, though he's funny on Twitter, but the dude got two degrees, got into a PhD program for science, temped in Silicon Valley, found his way into a startup that got sold to Compaq for millions that he had 7% share in. That's where his money comes from, not some kind of emerald wealth. Yeah, it was pure fucking luck since he did it just out of college! But he's shown since then he can return on investment multiple times over. That's not nothing! Tons of the dotcom boomers went bust. Musk hasn't. His share in PayPal when it got sold to eBay was only 12% but it was worth $100 million in 2002! He did the dotcom boom twice! And we're still not even to his first billion! HURR DURR EMERALD MINE WEALTH FOR GENERATIONS

Assange:
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So Robert actually believes that Wikileaks releasing DNC emails was one of the main things that "installed" Donald Trump? And for that Jim Acosta actually is right that Julian Assange being prosecuted by Donald Trump for journalism is the correct thing? Does Robert even know what he's arguing about? (No.)

This is Acosta's book he wrote about the week he was temporarily kicked out of the White House pool and insulted by Donald Trump on Twitter btw:

 

[EnemyStand]

This shows how incredibly dumb Robert is. Elon Musk's dad (and only his dad, not "generations" like Robert claims) had a small stake in an emerald mine once, mostly during the 1970s. For Robert this is forever the source of Elon Musk's multiple billions of dollars from his multiple companies like it just automatically geometrically increased. "All this weird goon does is PAY FOR IT and brag" as if that isn't on the level of doing YouTube videos about popular movies.

I'm not a Musk fan, though he's funny on Twitter, but the dude got two degrees, got into a PhD program for science, temped in Silicon Valley, found his way into a startup that got sold to Compaq for millions that he had 7% share in. That's where his money comes from, not some kind of emerald wealth. Yeah, it was pure fucking luck since he did it just out of college! But he's shown since then he can return on investment multiple times over. That's not nothing! Tons of the dotcom boomers went bust. Musk hasn't. His share in PayPal when it got sold to eBay was only 12% but it was worth $100 million in 2002! He did the dotcom boom twice! And we're still not even to his first billion! HURR DURR EMERALD MINE WEALTH FOR GENERATIONS

So Robert actually believes that Wikileaks releasing DNC emails was one of the main things that "installed" Donald Trump? And for that Jim Acosta actually is right that Julian Assange being prosecuted by Donald Trump for journalism is the correct thing? Does Robert even know what he's arguing about? (No.)

This is Acosta's book he wrote about the week he was temporarily kicked out of the White House pool and insulted by Donald Trump on Twitter btw:
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Yeah, I know I thought Trump was going to get assassinated after he told the truth about the media the way everyone chimped out.

 

[King Dead]

As that one reply pointed out, theaters were already on the decline before the coof happened. The glut of options for entertainment outside the multiplexes was slowly but surely causing box office receipts to go down, not to mention the double whammy of most theatrical releases being dumbed down to appeal to either woke or international audiences (or both, edited differently for different markets). For many people, their TVs at home were good enough to experience what they wanted to see, and at a fraction of the time and money it would take to go out to the movies. A single streaming service would pay for itself after watching one movie.

I say this as someone who really does love going to the movies (just went to see The Green Knight again the other day since there was another showing for some reason): the theater industry is unlikely to return to even its slow decline pre-coof. Multiplexes will be too expensive to keep running, and many are likely to shut down. Smaller theaters might stand a better chance, and there will always be at least some market for movies on the big screen, but I could easily see a future where that's only special limited engagements that are few and far between, while most new media is just released to streaming. Though I could easily see a dark future where the studios try to pull the Disney+ model where they charge you $30 to stream the latest movie on top of your subscription, thereby eliminating the cost benefit for solo or duo watchers and making theaters actually look like not a bad idea.

As it stands, the movie theater as we know it is quickly becoming obsolete. And doesn't Bob want the obsolete to die?

 

[The Valeyard]

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Bob is talking about Maya Lopez (Echo) who was introduced to the MCU in Hawkeye.


However, the MCU isn’t going to touch on the Phoenix Force while the box office flop that was X-Men: Dark Phoenix is still in recent memory so this is another wild guess from Bob based on comic continuity that the MCU doesn’t adhere to.

 

[Gaear Grimsrud]

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Here's the link to his horrid Care Bears Script. This one is easily his shittiest.
Here's the link to his smoothbrained take on Captain Planet. Libera te tutumet ex inferis.
I must share your pain. Here is his horrid Mega Man script.

Now you see. You understand.

Moviebob making Grumpy Bear the main focus of his Care Bears pitch is so on point.

Of course that character would be the only thing in Care Bears he could relate to.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

As it stands, the movie theater as we know it is quickly becoming obsolete. And doesn't Bob want the obsolete to die?

No, cause seeing movies in the theatre is SUPERIOR and therefore part of the SUPERIOR FUTURE. If there were no theatres it would simply be FUTURE rather than SUPERIOR FUTURE.

Not surprised a BELIEVER wouldn't understand this. You have to be a THINKER to navigate the nuances of the SUPERIOR FUTURE.

 

[Woe-B-Gon (TM)]

This was just a first act full of worldbuilding that doesn't pay off or matter,

Yeah, well, that's all he knows how to do. He's the "idea guy". It's bad form to quote yourself but I find it amusing how much our sentiments overlap:

That's all they think there is to being an idea man: Dumping a few paragraphs of stream-of-consciousness worldbuilding without any concern for actual characters, internal logic, practicality, entertainment value, or whether you're ripping off something you heard of a few years ago and forgot about. All those things are the bland maintenance work we farm out to our less inspired subordinates. (Well, except that one about ripping off, that simply doesn't happen. We never rip off, we're inspired.)

TL;DR Every would-be "idea guy" thinks ideas are rare and wonderful, and that implementation is easy and requires no work or talent. In reality ideas are common and 90% shit, and implementation is hard and requires a TON of work and talent. They lack both the ability to do the hard work and actually implement their ideas, and the self-awareness to realize it. Also, their first idea was that bad ideas are a thing other people have.

TL;DR the TL;DR: Idea guys can only ever create ideas. Nothing else.

("Idea" doesn't look like a word anymore. Dammit.)

 

[make_it_so]

No, cause seeing movies in the theatre is SUPERIOR and therefore part of the SUPERIOR FUTURE. If there were no theatres it would simply be FUTURE rather than SUPERIOR FUTURE.

Not surprised a BELIEVER wouldn't understand this. You have to be a THINKER to navigate the nuances of the SUPERIOR FUTURE.

To be fair to Bob (and he rarely deserves this), I would argue that a theater experience is generally superior to watching at home in most cases. This was definitely reinforced when I went to see Dune in theaters.
Because I'm an idiot that forgot to watch it for free on HBO Max while it was still available.

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

To be fair to Bob (and he rarely deserves this), I would argue that a theater experience is generally superior to watching at home in most cases. This was definitely reinforced when I went to see Dune in theaters.
Because I'm an idiot that forgot to watch it for free on HBO Max while it was still available.

Didn't Bob hate Dune?

 

[Pokemonquistador2]

As that one reply pointed out, theaters were already on the decline before the coof happened. The glut of options for entertainment outside the multiplexes was slowly but surely causing box office receipts to go down, not to mention the double whammy of most theatrical releases being dumbed down to appeal to either woke or international audiences (or both, edited differently for different markets). For many people, their TVs at home were good enough to experience what they wanted to see, and at a fraction of the time and money it would take to go out to the movies. A single streaming service would pay for itself after watching one movie.

I say this as someone who really does love going to the movies (just went to see The Green Knight again the other day since there was another showing for some reason): the theater industry is unlikely to return to even its slow decline pre-coof. Multiplexes will be too expensive to keep running, and many are likely to shut down. Smaller theaters might stand a better chance, and there will always be at least some market for movies on the big screen, but I could easily see a future where that's only special limited engagements that are few and far between, while most new media is just released to streaming. Though I could easily see a dark future where the studios try to pull the Disney+ model where they charge you $30 to stream the latest movie on top of your subscription, thereby eliminating the cost benefit for solo or duo watchers and making theaters actually look like not a bad idea.

As it stands, the movie theater as we know it is quickly becoming obsolete. And doesn't Bob want the obsolete to die?

No, because going to the movie theater and shoving candy bars that his Dad smuggled in down his gullet was an integral part of MovieBob's childhood, and he's going to make sure his autistic niblings have the same opportunity to do so, even though they'd much rather stay at home and watch something they'd enjoy. I also highly suspect that Bob likes the movie theater because many of them are selling booze and restaurant food, and there's nothing our little ConsOOmer loves more than taking pictures of himself hoisting an overpriced IPA into the air while gnawing on an equally overpriced pizza.

 

[A Very Big Fish]

As that one reply pointed out, theaters were already on the decline before the coof happened. The glut of options for entertainment outside the multiplexes was slowly but surely causing box office receipts to go down, not to mention the double whammy of most theatrical releases being dumbed down to appeal to either woke or international audiences (or both, edited differently for different markets). For many people, their TVs at home were good enough to experience what they wanted to see, and at a fraction of the time and money it would take to go out to the movies. A single streaming service would pay for itself after watching one movie.

I say this as someone who really does love going to the movies (just went to see The Green Knight again the other day since there was another showing for some reason): the theater industry is unlikely to return to even its slow decline pre-coof. Multiplexes will be too expensive to keep running, and many are likely to shut down. Smaller theaters might stand a better chance, and there will always be at least some market for movies on the big screen, but I could easily see a future where that's only special limited engagements that are few and far between, while most new media is just released to streaming. Though I could easily see a dark future where the studios try to pull the Disney+ model where they charge you $30 to stream the latest movie on top of your subscription, thereby eliminating the cost benefit for solo or duo watchers and making theaters actually look like not a bad idea.

As it stands, the movie theater as we know it is quickly becoming obsolete. And doesn't Bob want the obsolete to die?

Was the Green Knight good? I saw it pretty cheap when I was out grabbing groceries but I don't feel like I ever heard much about it.

 

[make_it_so]

Didn't Bob hate Dune?

He certainly seemed to have a hate-boner for it, because it was liked by the "wrong" kind of people - just like he hated Joker.

And probably because he's a smooth brain that is only able to comprehend and enjoy quip-filled capeshit.

 

[Positron]

Didn't Bob hate Dune?

Not overtly. Much as he loves to badmouth "Film Twitter", he is afraid of offending people who might lend him legitimacy. He claims it is "not bad, not great".

BTW Lesser Brother loves Dune.

 

[Red Hood]

Was the Green Knight good? I saw it pretty cheap when I was out grabbing groceries but I don't feel like I ever heard much about it.

It's an A23 movie so my immediate guess is that it's a pretentious wankfest but probably a good film in spite of my prejudices.

Not overtly. Much as he loves to badmouth "Film Twitter", he is afraid of offending people who might lend him legitimacy. He claims it is "not bad, not great".

BTW Lesser Brother loves Dune.

Dune's one of those things I presume he'd be salty at just because the antagonist is a fat megalomaniac (not that the protagonist is really supposed to be a "good" guy).

 

[King Dead]

Was the Green Knight good? I saw it pretty cheap when I was out grabbing groceries but I don't feel like I ever heard much about it.

I saw it with a friend who hadn't seen it before, and this was my first rewatch. I enjoyed it the first time, and it held up on a rewatch; my friend also liked it. It's a very slow movie, predominantly a character study on Gawain, along with an overall theme of "what is more important to be a knight, comporting yourself with honor or acting for glory?" It holds fairly close to the original story from what I can tell (not having read it, the best I can do is a Wikipedia summary; Bob would be proud), barring a few changes that add to the theme without wholesale changing the story. Cast was good, Dev Patel in particular as Gawain did great. Good cinematography, loved the score, and the visual effects and sound design for the Green Knight were a highlight for me.

General audiences would probably be bored and confused, but if you're fine with a slow-paced yet engaging movie, give it a try.

 

[A Very Big Fish]

I saw it with a friend who hadn't seen it before, and this was my first rewatch. I enjoyed it the first time, and it held up on a rewatch; my friend also liked it. It's a very slow movie, predominantly a character study on Gawain, along with an overall theme of "what is more important to be a knight, comporting yourself with honor or acting for glory?" It holds fairly close to the original story from what I can tell (not having read it, the best I can do is a Wikipedia summary; Bob would be proud), barring a few changes that add to the theme without wholesale changing the story. Cast was good, Dev Patel in particular as Gawain did great. Good cinematography, loved the score, and the visual effects and sound design for the Green Knight were a highlight for me.

General audiences would probably be bored and confused, but if you're fine with a slow-paced yet engaging movie, give it a try.

I liked the original story, and I'm fine with slow-paced. I'll probably grab it next I'm out. Thanks.

 

[Brother Wind]

I read all of MovieBob's Mega Man pitch, and I have to say: it wasn't hilariously bad, but it was so uneventful, boring and safe that I feel like my time was wasted more than anything. It didn't make me angry, but there was really nothing to it. I've seen artists like The Protomen do cool things with the relationship between Dr. Light and Dr. Wily, and I've seen stuff like Megaman: Powered Up make the characters' personalities interesting. This was just a first act full of worldbuilding that doesn't pay off or matter, and then a montage of action scenes and cameos/references that are supposed to make you claaaaaaaap.

The only thing I found even slightly interesting was Bob clearly projected his own fucked up psychological issues on Wily. Wily doesn't care about ruining lives or taking away human jobs because they're 'obsolete" and he had a shitty, miserable childhood where everyone picked on him. He calls Dr. White "priviledged" (yes, misspelled like that twice) because he doesn't know poor people actually suck and are awful. I was like "Holy shit, Bob wrote himself into this script as the bad guy that the heroes defeat." After that, it runs out of steam. Characters from other Megaman series (girls. Gee, I wonder why?) are part of the plot but don't really do anything important. They're just there. Also, Protoman acts more like the character from the Ruby Spears' series than the games for some reason.

Tron Bonne and her Servobots are there, in what seems like a cynical cashgrab to turn the Servobots into the new Minions. Megaman X is the ultimate final boss, because tropes. If I'm making this sound hilariously insipid or ridiculous, it isn't. It's just really bland and inoffensive. If they actually made this movie I wouldn't hate it, but I also wouldn't care. He didn't even bother to give it a Marvel-style post-credits scene, or a sequel hook beyond "Wily escaped and Protoman is trying find him!" It just sorta stops.

The only reason I'm posting this review is to justify the hour or so I wasted reading that nothing burger. Don't waste your time reading it too. I guess he just wanted to play it safe for his first blog pitch. Or maybe he just has so much genuine respect for the source material that he couldn't bring himself to take any chances. Either way, it reads like a first draft, presented as a proof of concept for a movie rather than an actual script they'd use.

Boy, I wish I didn't read it ):

So, I somehow missed this one. And what I really like is that this is almost unfilmable. I'm not an expert in films, but you're talking like what 8 big fights? Not to mention a really long prologue. Two separate main characters? And not even like, simultaneous ones. Just all of a sudden the two characters we start the movie with disappear.

Actually, you know, I am a big ol fan of The Protomen. And I think there is a very important thing there. In that both albums really focus in one thing each. Sure, there are a lot of actions, but the first one really stresses that whole failure of Protoman thing, and the second the relationship between Wily and Light. And all the stuff that happens goes back to those. Like the middle of Act I is all about how Rock is following the same path, to show the difference. And the latter half of Act II is showing the relationship by showing the guilt of Light about Wily and how his actions get uhh Joe? hurt.

Like this isn't even high art. This is the shitty ideas Bob has, but done by people who have a few more brain cells, and a better understanding of how art works. And, once again, Bob is a goddamn critic. Hell I'm shit at understanding how film or TV or music or anything besides game design works, but I'm willing to bet that I have more of an understanding in why his movie is unfilmable, than he does.

EDIT:

You know what, getting thinking about it. I am reminded of this video. And as deeply autistic as it is, it's better idea and better grasp of Mega Man as a movie. In 4 minutes. Like, I shouldn't be. But I'm just impressed how incapable Bob is at understanding his actual job. Because what's more. Is he has nothing new. Like, it's dumb and hokey, but "Hope Rides Alone" is a pretty cool hook to the whole idea. And it's something. It's an interpretation of Mega Man. They made it into their own thing. Well, they made a thing using this base. And all Bob has is just "Oh I'm gonna name drop things that people recognize". Which is just so telling really, of what he enjoys. Like the Protomen were edgy kids the way they shout dumb hackney anime lines. But lines they made up. And Bob couldn't make up one thing.

 

[JayHarrison]

Elon Musk is just a weirdo born rich:
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Jealous, Bob?

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Bobby projects his lust after Jen Psaki onto Peter Doocy:
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For the record Psaki's answer was essentially "Call the police. Next".

Psaki is pstupid. Moviebob is a moron. Water is wet. What else is new?

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Bobby, who never had a job apart from stocking Blockbuster's shelves, understands the situation of a high-stress, high-responsibility occupation such as a police officer -- not to mention public finance and administration.
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I'm curious what Bobby's "new concept of The Police" is, and I'm surprised he didn't mention Boston Dynamics.

Moviebob's statement summarized:

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Bobby educates a Canuck as to the intricacy of American racial policy. He thinks white Boomers saw Obama as the Black Jesus who absolved their racial sins, but we all know, as they didn't, that racial sins can never, ever be absolved. The two articles cited by the OP (1, 2; the first article refused to connect)
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Good for knowing your place Bobby. You're a very good boy.

If Moviebob ends up hired as America's (_insert_political_topic_) Ambassador... the U.S. is screwed.

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Assange:
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Moviebob's still pissed at Assange for actually holding Führer Hillary up to the same standard at which the American media held Donald Trump.

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Mask mandate really is a class problem:
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Isn't "everything is political"?

Stay assy, Bob.

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Man goes on an profanity-laden tirade because the Make A Wish Foundation rejected a 4-year-old child because he was not vaccinated:
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Indeed this looks like either a case of confusion with air-travel restrictions, or a downright hoax:
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Why should Moviebob care? Bob's openly expressed that he wants those who do not comply with Fuckwit in Chief Joe Biden's vaccine mandates to suffer as long and as painfully as possible.

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Peter Coffin on ideologies and vaccines:
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Unless you're a Moviebob. Then misinformation and disinformation are your raisons d'être.

The convo goes south immediately after Bobby joined, and he resorts to spaming gif of the Fonz.
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The "'not stupid' deserve a better tomorrow". Once again, Moviebob immediately disqualifies himself from a better tomorrow.

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The anti-vaxxers and the non-vaxxed aren't doing you any direct harm, Bob. If you had a functioning brain, you'd've known that this past string.

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Let's see... yep. "Advocating for Eugenics" is on my Moviebob Bingo card!

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Almost 360000+ children went missing in a year is not a problem. An unfortunate coinage is:
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Nice! I get to circle "Misgynistic Comment", too!

Bobby had enough. You obsolete "humans" ruined cinemas and got rid of precious jerbs! We must "work together", whatever that means.
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Moviebob always tries to play "nice", but playing "nice" just isn't in his DNA.

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See how people always blame other people for their fun being no more? Aggressive Negotiations lists a host of valid reasons that hold with or without covid, but these children only focus on "those assholes who are not like us!!!!!!"

Oh, Moviebob blames others for his own ignorance. Bob's still blaming Trump for "stealing" all the fun holidays.

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The people who lock us down have more power over us than the virus, Bob.

They could snap their fingers and the pandemic would end.

Bob put down the spike proteins, and realize this is the future you deserve.

Yep, and Moviebob's too stupid to realize he's little more than a complicit, complacent pawn who is easily sacrificed without consequence.

 

[Smithfield Ham]

So, I somehow missed this one. And what I really like is that this is almost unfilmable. I'm not an expert in films, but you're talking like what 8 big fights? Not to mention a really long prologue. Two separate main characters? And not even like, simultaneous ones. Just all of a sudden the two characters we start the movie with disappear.

Actually, you know, I am a big ol fan of The Protomen. And I think there is a very important thing there. In that both albums really focus in one thing each. Sure, there are a lot of actions, but the first one really stresses that whole failure of Protoman thing, and the second the relationship between Wily and Light. And all the stuff that happens goes back to those. Like the middle of Act I is all about how Rock is following the same path, to show the difference. And the latter half of Act II is showing the relationship by showing the guilt of Light about Wily and how his actions get uhh Joe? hurt.

Like this isn't even high art. This is the shitty ideas Bob has, but done by people who have a few more brain cells, and a better understanding of how art works. And, once again, Bob is a goddamn critic. Hell I'm shit at understanding how film or TV or music or anything besides game design works, but I'm willing to bet that I have more of an understanding in why his movie is unfilmable, than he does.

I'm gonna be generous and just assume this is sort of a "first draft." Because it seems a lot like one. Just a general idea of the flow of the story, the little world and the characters in it, made in a way that you could hack off as many pieces as you want or add new stuff along the way without too much of a hassle for the original "vision." I mean, we're talking about Bob here, so he'd probably get irate if you tried to alter his masterpiece, but I still have to assume that because there's like nothing there.

The thing that I found fascinating is how little time in this pitch is spent on character development or an actual story. The only person is to get any real development, pathos or a character arc is the villain, who Bob pretty clearly projected himself onto. Rock & Roll might as well be props because the only thing we learn about them is "they're more human than other robots." The relationship between Rock and Protoman is non-existent, and they're not even siblings in this version. Amazingly, he managed to take a series that barely had any character development and dumb it down.

A great example of this is how Megaman X shows up, but he has no brain or personality at all and is just a spooky boss for Megaman to fight. All the things that made him compelling as a character? Not important here. It's implied they'll be there later, but for now he's just Robot Bizarro. Like, it isn't particularly bad or cringey, but it's just so dull. There's like nothing to sink your teeth into. The opening scene with the big robot conference is the most interesting part because actual character development is happening.