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

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Movie's long since been over and Bob's long since been back on twitter talking about racism, Elon Musk, retweeting Bimbo's cry for more patrons for his mindfuck discord, Biden's refusal to forgive student loans, troons, Lynda Carter, Frank Coniff, and feminism but nothing about the movie. The embargo's been lifted since this morning I think. I can already look up other people's reviews of it. So why is Bob silent? Trouble in paradise maybe?
 
Turns out the Brits are more democratic than the Yanks.
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The covid vaccine is hardly "basic health precaution". And med staff do accept the methods of science -- and their analysis have reached the conclusion that the supposed protective effect of the vaccines is lacking (Aside: I know of a retired nurse who did not take the jab till October, and he relented because his daughter will be graduating and he might have to travel to the UK for the occasion). But this will never register in Bobby: as Tracey said, partisanship is brain poison.
Moviebob also doesn't believe in actual science. He only retracted his original statement regarding being vaccinated against COVID-19 when Trump was voted out of office. Y'know... because, despite the vaccines being developed during Trump's tenure, Orange Man Bad™.



A Trump supporter shouts like a baboon. MOS thinks all Trump supporters wants him dead.
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The "conservative project" wasted 50 years to make someone roided up, inked up, and shout in the street? What a waste of time! At least they should learn from the Dems and teach people to rob stores, commit arson, and groom children!
Or learn from Moviebob, in which they should actively practice eugenics because they shouldn't reproduce.



Again, when using his own logic, Moviebob is a thoroughly rotten person who deserves to experience things he doesn't like.



Parasite commenting on "parasites":
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I want to compare Moviebob to brain cancer, but at least brain cancer is potentially curable; Moveibobism isn't.



A Black academic parasite makes noise, and Bobby and Arkle rush to feed on her Black bottom:
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Remember: The continuation of slavery post-Civil War was staunchly supported by Bob's political team.



But picking on a pee o'sea's pronunciation is perfectly okay:
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'Tis better to shill for an ass that to shill for a Moviebob.



Glenn Greenwald presumes to take over Bobby's "job". Bobby offers him an overview of Oliver Stone's career.
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Once again, Moviebob may have had a valid counter-argument. Once again, Moviebob also forfeits the debate deflecting to the MAGA crowd and every decent person who refuses to comply to Bob's desires.



Look here: Moviebob wants to hunt down people for sport (image "de-censored"):
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Bob, this what the legal system calls assault, not self-defense.
 
For a reason I can neither remember nor comprehend, I spent the last forty minutes reading Bob's godawful Captain Planet pitch. It was twice as long as the Megaman one, and twice as empty and soulless. The best way to describe it is: Bob tried to apply the MCU formula to Captain Planet, and ended up making something akin to Batman V Superman.

I wanna try to get through this review as quickly as possible, because Bob wastes so much goddamn time on fucking nothing in his pitches. I'll separate my critiques down to simple bullet points. If this drags on a bit, forgive me. There's just so much garbage and I think part of my brain broke while reading this.

TLDR at the end, more mercy for you than fatty gave me.

Let's go.

1) The characters all suck
First thing you'd wanna do when rebooting Captain Planet is improve the flat characterization, right? Bob makes you think he's going to do that by listing them all individually and telling you how they're different... but nobody is any different. Wheeler is a stoner with dreads and he's supposed to be less of a dick, the Asian girl is explicitly Chinese (Bob thought she was just vaguely Asian, but she was Korean) and in the most drastic change of all, Linka is now a Muslim girl with a different name. In his words, it's because have a character from the former Soviet Union is no longer "novel." Which is kind of a shitty and disgusting way to talk about the ethnicity of your characters and shows what he really thinks of diversity. It's a novelty gimmick.

In the original show, the Planeteers were meant to represent every continent. They even state this simple fact in the intro. By race-swapping Linka, he's fucked up that dynamic completely. The villain of the movie is ZARM. In the show, Zarm was the former spirit of the earth who became corrupted by the greed and hatred of mankind and turned evil. In this version, he's a big scary alien Lovecraft monster. Somehow, Bob's vision of the series has less depth than the original. How do you fuck up that bad? Of course, Bob actually manages to do something vaguely interesting with the blob monster, but I'll get back to that later.

Dr. Blight, instead of being a pollution-fetishist, is now an Eco-scientist tech sis who believes the earth is literally a sentient being and is driven mad trying to speak to it's spirit, Gaia. Of course, none of this really matters. You could cut out her entire subplot and lose nothing. She's just there to set up the villain for the hypothetical sequel. It's a slightly interesting twist and a character arc but I think I'm just being overly-generous to try to find something redeeming in this waste of time.

Interesting, unlike the Megaman pitch, there's actually some attempt at character development and arcs here. It feels like an afterthought, or just a Marvel team-movie trope, but it's something this one improves over the last one. Ma-Ti is kind of the center of the story and he's there to teaches the team how to be more empathetic and helps them all bond. But, of course, it isn't that substantial and takes a back seat to...

2) Boring, overly-long, budget-bloating action scenes
You guys ever see that RedLetterMedia bit where Mike tries to explain what Hollywood thinks is a "strong female character" and it's just a stock action-hero backstory and a description of a bunch of action scenes and car chases? That's Bob's pitches in a fucking nutshell. A huge amount of time is spent describing how the heroes do cool things with their powers, the explosions and special effects, all of the crap we can't actually see and just have to imagine. None of it actually advances the plot, none of it helps us understand the concept better and could easily be described in a single sentence instead. But to Bob, this is what a movie is. A montage of cool action scenes with filler between. It's so goddamn soulless I don't wanna spend anymore time talking about it. Now that it's out of the way, we can move forward.

3) Attempts to be self-aware and modern, ends up being just as corny and clueless as the original show
You can tell Bob was thinking "that 90s cartoon is so cheesy! I'm going to fix that!" There's little cheeky, "self-aware" moments where it turns out the Planeteers and Captain Planet were named by a marketing team, and jokes about how "superheroes are big right now" and stuff that feels like limp-wristed attempts at satire. But at the same time, nothing is significantly different from the original cartoon and nothing is smarter, and Bob's pitch relies heavily on modern trends, tropes and cliches itself, right down to copying the Marvel formula beat-for-beat. In attempting to make the source material feel modern and self-aware, it comes off just as clueless and dated as the original.

There's also some hamfisted satire of Fox News and Duke Nukem (not that one, the Captain Planet one) is basically Bill O'Reily. Extremely trope-y, done before and tried. But I'm sure Bob thought it was cutting edge at the time. But thankfully, now I get to talk about the actually redeeming part:

4) The Ma-Ti Subplot is surprisingly good (graded on a curve)
Bob surprised me with this, though my standards for him are rock-bottom. At the start of the pitch, we see the "ancient" planeteer Shamans fighting the big monster, except for the original "Heart" shaman, who they beat up and kicked out of their club. It turns out, his heart power allowed him to empathize with the monster, and he was able to realize the monster was actually just an alien that was lashing out because it was scared and confused, stuck on a planet it didn't recognize. When he tried to help it, the other Shamans kicked his ass and labeled him as a traitor, and recorded him as such in their ancient manuscripts.

Later, his ghost haunts Ma-Ti throughout the movie, and eventually it catches up with him and drags him back to his secret cave to poz his little brown neghole show him the truth. Once Ma-Ti realizes this, the shaman is able to repair his magic ring and give it to Ma-Ti, finally becoming Heart. In the final battle, he rejoins the Planeteers and they're finally able to restabilize Captain Planet and make him his "pure" form, finally saving the day.

Foreshadowing, a subplot that ties into the main plot, set ups, pay offs and a subversion of expectations? This is all Screenplay 101 shit I'd expect from anyone, but the fact that Bob is actually capable of this is surprising to me. It was the only redeeming part of this trashfire for me. The perfect metaphor for the absolute state of this piece of shit is how the revelation Ma-Ti was having kept getting interrupted by cutting back to mindless action scenes and villain cameos, while I was impatiently waiting to see where it was going. It really shows everything wrong with MovieBob's philosophy on film. Pseudo-Style over substance.

I probably would've liked this pitch better if were shorted and cut the fucking fat. It's 90 fucking paragraphs long and I'm sure at least half of those are dedicated to describing how cool their powers look in CGI and how they do a totally cool thing that stops a bad guy, like a sugar-high eight year old describing a dream he had.

5) Point of a Pitch vs what Bob did
This is something that hit me about 45 paragraphs in and stuck with me the whole time: what's the point of a pitch? You're "pitching" a concept to someone who could theoretically make it happen, or at least pretending to. You're supposed to make the idea appealing and interesting so that someone will want to actually produce your idea and make it a reality.

I imagined myself as a movie executive, having Bob recite this idea to me in an office room through a power-point presentation. And it was an agonizing mental image because I could just imagine sitting there, bored out of my skull, totally disinterested and not listening, trying to figure out a way to get him out of my office once it's over but not hurt his feelings or let him know I'm rejecting it until my secretary calls him tomorrow.

This runs totally contrary to what a "pitch" is actually supposed to be. It doesn't explain what makes this "new" version of Captain Planet interesting, unique or worth your time, it doesn't bother try to sell an idea or make itself interesting, it's just a dry, beat-for-beat IMDB-style synopsis of an imaginary movie that already assumes it has your attention. I would definitely reject it, and so would you.

6) Final Verdict (TLDR)
There's nothing special or unique about Bob's take on Captain Planet. He didn't reinvent the show or universe, he didn't even change anything. It's all the same. Bob just took the original Captain Planet, applied the bare-bones MCU formula to it, added some modern movie tropes/trends and called it a fucking day. It's an imitation Marvel movie without anything that makes the good MCU movies watchable. I probably put more thought into this review than Bob did while writing it.

Don't be like me, don't waste your life reading Bob's shitty fanfiction. Go outside, touch grass and be fucking productive. Pity me, my friends, for the folly of my ways.
 
Remember, Magneto was right.
One of the things which proves how the "Social Justice" of today is really nothing like was promoted by the original comics creators is that always expanding "cult" which supports super-villains. Magneto was the first one to show that as, those pretentious virtue signalers ignored his attempts at genocide in favor of being the "cant do wrong" leader of "opressed minority". Now, that way of thinking is all over the place. "Killmonger was right" to me is the most egregious example. His means on how to improve the state of African countries can be summed up in "giving them weapons" (???) This is idiotic in so many levels, the first of which, if there is one thing first world countries even today in this world are happy doing with third world countries, IT IS SELLING THEM WEAPONS! Every country with weapons industry does this. They lack food, infrastructure and medicines, not tanks you morons!

And I didnt mention the "all the rage" character in that regard. MCU Wanda Maximoff has only two phases. Either she is completely useless or she is a mad supervillain. But because she is from the engdagered species of "being a woman", none of it matters. They parade her like strong women icon even though all her feats involve hurting, turturing and causing deaths of innocents. Just do the gender-switch on WandaVision and what do you get? Modern day Weird Science Film , where the geeks start turturing real people to keep their fetish creation alive. Is this in any way shape or form something that will pass these days? Of course not. But "Wanda Is Right"(tm) .

Beating a dead horse for 18 minutes.
A bit ironic to see this video from Roberto because critics didnt like his pretentious horrendous boring capeshit, when almost any other video on the subject are done by the imbeciles of the other side, like The Quartering or Geeks and Gamers for years now.
 
Tagging @Therealhomor because quoting is borked on that post:

Man, does anybody here on this website know professionally what a pitch is actually supposed to look like? Like, for True and Honest? But more importantly, does Bob know? Or, is his concept of a "pitch" as dismal, lacking, and flawed as Andrew Dobson's concept of a Storyboard? I get the feeling Bob either doesn't actually know how a pitch is supposed to go, but gleaned bits and pieces here and there and then just filled in the blanks with his turbo autism. This much is painfully evident from all three of those ridiculous pitches. Maybe he thinks pitches are like what Daffy Duck does in that one Looney Tunes classic short "The Scarlet Pumpernickel"?
 
Tagging @Therealhomor because quoting is borked on that post:

Man, does anybody here on this website know professionally what a pitch is actually supposed to look like? Like, for True and Honest? But more importantly, does Bob know? Or, is his concept of a "pitch" as dismal, lacking, and flawed as Andrew Dobson's concept of a Storyboard? I get the feeling Bob either doesn't actually know how a pitch is supposed to go, but gleaned bits and pieces here and there and then just filled in the blanks with his turbo autism. This much is painfully evident from all three of those ridiculous pitches. Maybe he thinks pitches are like what Daffy Duck does in that one Looney Tunes classic short "The Scarlet Pumpernickel"?
Only for books, not movies.

What I can say from experience with pitching is that every audience is different, but the one thing that's in common is that nobody is in the business of losing money.

Each aspect of the pitch needs to be written through the lens of how the story sells and to who.

So ask yourself who exactly Bob thinks the market is for these ideas. Fans of the original? New audiences? Young adults? Women? Can't tell you. I won't critique the story, that's another page, but there is fucking nothing in this I could sell to anybody.

As far as I can tell, it's a target audience of one person that jerks off to the sound of his own voice. And unless that one person buys 300,000 tickets, it's a waste of everyone's time.
 
Tagging @Therealhomor because quoting is borked on that post:

Man, does anybody here on this website know professionally what a pitch is actually supposed to look like? Like, for True and Honest? But more importantly, does Bob know? Or, is his concept of a "pitch" as dismal, lacking, and flawed as Andrew Dobson's concept of a Storyboard? I get the feeling Bob either doesn't actually know how a pitch is supposed to go, but gleaned bits and pieces here and there and then just filled in the blanks with his turbo autism. This much is painfully evident from all three of those ridiculous pitches. Maybe he thinks pitches are like what Daffy Duck does in that one Looney Tunes classic short "The Scarlet Pumpernickel"?
I don't know much, but I do know that they're supposed to be short. When talking about his Superman pitch, Kevin Smith admitted he fucked up by making it seventy pages long when they're supposed to only be 4-5 pages. But Bob is not really pitching this idea to anyone but himself. These 'pitches' are just him writing down his thoughts that he assumes everyone will love because he thinks they're amazing ideas.

Even if his course had told him how to pitch an idea to an executive, he'd do the Dobson thing of ignoring what he was taught and just going with what he thinks is right.
 
Only for books, not movies.

What I can say from experience with pitching is that every audience is different, but the one thing that's in common is that nobody is in the business of losing money.

Each aspect of the pitch needs to be written through the lens of how the story sells and to who.

So ask yourself who exactly Bob thinks the market is for these ideas. Fans of the original? New audiences? Young adults? Women? Can't tell you. I won't critique the story, that's another page, but there is fucking nothing in this I could sell to anybody.

As far as I can tell, it's a target audience of one person that jerks off to the sound of his own voice. And unless that one person buys 300,000 tickets, it's a waste of everyone's time.
I mean, I get that Bob sorta understands "to make X appealing, relate it to Y and Z that are already successful!" in order to get the execs to "bite" (for example, Battlestar Galactica was pitched as "Wagon Train (a Western) To The Stars!" because westerns were popular for years and years, so then it became "Westerns, but IN SPACE!" as Bob would put it. That's why you'll see Bob in his twitterings refer to any given movie as "X meets Y and maybe also a dash of Z" in order to convey to his audience what a thing is like. This of course only works if people know the X, Y, and Z that he's talking about.

I think what he ends up doing is trying to make a thing relatable by making it relatable TO HIM, and assuming others will relate in like manner. Although, not even his fellow filmtwatterspergs can relate in exactly the way he relates it. I also get the feeling he's never pitched anything to an outside entity (ie not himself or his blog). Certainly not to a film/TV exec.

I don't know much, but I do know that they're supposed to be short. When talking about his Superman pitch, Kevin Smith admitted he fucked up by making it seventy pages long when they're supposed to only be 4-5 pages. But Bob is not really pitching this idea to anyone but himself. These 'pitches' are just him writing down his thoughts that he assumes everyone will love because he thinks they're amazing ideas.

Even if his course had told him how to pitch an idea to an executive, he'd do the Dobson thing of ignoring what he was taught and just going with what he thinks is right.
Yeah, that's another reason I don't think Bob actually knows how to pitch, or does know but ignores those rules because he's smrt and wants to do things his way.
 
Only for books, not movies.

What I can say from experience with pitching is that every audience is different, but the one thing that's in common is that nobody is in the business of losing money.

Each aspect of the pitch needs to be written through the lens of how the story sells and to who.

So ask yourself who exactly Bob thinks the market is for these ideas. Fans of the original? New audiences? Young adults? Women? Can't tell you. I won't critique the story, that's another page, but there is fucking nothing in this I could sell to anybody.

As far as I can tell, it's a target audience of one person that jerks off to the sound of his own voice. And unless that one person buys 300,000 tickets, it's a waste of everyone's time.
Another thing to note is that while the importance of elevator pitches is really overstated, it is still important to be able to summarise your pitch and why it would sell in a few sentences. That goes for a lot more industries than just film too, a lot of the time you'll get a short chance to explain to someone why your idea will work and make/save money. A morbidly curious part of me would love to hear Bob try and sell this pitch in reality, bet he'd spend 30 minutes rambling about how cool the characters and cgi fights would look.
 
I mean, I get that Bob sorta understands "to make X appealing, relate it to Y and Z that are already successful!" in order to get the execs to "bite" (for example, Battlestar Galactica was pitched as "Wagon Train (a Western) To The Stars!" because westerns were popular for years and years, so then it became "Westerns, but IN SPACE!" as Bob would put it. That's why you'll see Bob in his twitterings refer to any given movie as "X meets Y and maybe also a dash of Z" in order to convey to his audience what a thing is like. This of course only works if people know the X, Y, and Z that he's talking about.

I think what he ends up doing is trying to make a thing relatable by making it relatable TO HIM, and assuming others will relate in like manner. Although, not even his fellow filmtwatterspergs can relate in exactly the way he relates it. I also get the feeling he's never pitched anything to an outside entity (ie not himself or his blog). Certainly not to a film/TV exec.
Yeah, he does that, but he drops those names without ever understanding why people liked those properties in the first place. As usual, he's spouting things without understanding why.

So if you're going to spend the money to get the Care Bears license, you have to ask what was appealing about it. Then you have to ask why a Paradise Lost interpretation is going to satisy that audience. If the audiences are that different, why spend the money for the property and baked in audience? You wouldn't, and the idea doesn't stand on its own without it.

Bob is like a Dollar Tree Tim Burton. Let's do Rainbow Brite, but gothic and evil! That's junior year creative writing class tier shit. It's a lazy, tired concept that had a place in the late 80s to early 90s, but hasn't worked since.
 
1st off Therealhomor you are the real MVP for looking and reviewing Bobo's "movie pitches" I salute you.

Though I do wonder why there hasn't been a remake/reboot of Captain Planet since Climate Change is still the rage these days.
Thanks for that, man. It means a lot to hear the absurd amount of time I invested to this was appreciated by someone. Still, I don't think I'll be reading his fucking Care Bears fanfic. I'm sure it's cringey, insipid and full of things to make fun of... but it's also going to be exactly like the last two meandering, bloated messes he made around the same time, just with a dumber premise. Still, I said the same thing about the Captain Planet fic yesterday, and then I read it. So who knows? But I'm kind of hoping I'll have better judgement next time.

As for Captain Planet, he had a brief appearance on a single episode of OK KO. It was pretty funny. Otherwise, in terms of a "serious" reboot, I can see why nobody's really tried it. The series and premise is so damn silly and ridiculous it's hard to make an audience take it seriously. You could try, but of course, a Captain Planet movie would only a stepping stone to the true endgame goal: A Hanna Barbara Superhero Cinematic Universe!

Only for books, not movies.

What I can say from experience with pitching is that every audience is different, but the one thing that's in common is that nobody is in the business of losing money.

Each aspect of the pitch needs to be written through the lens of how the story sells and to who.

So ask yourself who exactly Bob thinks the market is for these ideas. Fans of the original? New audiences? Young adults? Women? Can't tell you. I won't critique the story, that's another page, but there is fucking nothing in this I could sell to anybody.

As far as I can tell, it's a target audience of one person that jerks off to the sound of his own voice. And unless that one person buys 300,000 tickets, it's a waste of everyone's time.
Call me crazy, but I think these pitches are MovieBob trying to appeal to executives. That's why they all stick to the Marvel formula, why they're so focused on setting up for sequels and "cool" action scenes to put in the trailer, and it's why the incredibly marketable Servobots were shoved into his Megaman pitch despite it not making sense. He's trying to make them as Hollywoodish as possible, the kind of thing a studio exec would think prints money.

and what's terrifying is, he might not be too far off. His Captain Planet pitch is oddly similar to The Eternals.
 
Thanks for that, man. It means a lot to hear the absurd amount of time I invested to this was appreciated by someone. Still, I don't think I'll be reading his fucking Care Bears fanfic. I'm sure it's cringey, insipid and full of things to make fun of... but it's also going to be exactly like the last two meandering, bloated messes he made around the same time, just with a dumber premise. Still, I said the same thing about the Captain Planet fic yesterday, and then I read it. So who knows? But I'm kind of hoping I'll have better judgement next time.

As for Captain Planet, he had a brief appearance on a single episode of OK KO. It was pretty funny. Otherwise, in terms of a "serious" reboot, I can see why nobody's really tried it. The series and premise is so damn silly and ridiculous it's hard to make an audience take it seriously. You could try, but of course, a Captain Planet movie would only a stepping stone to the true endgame goal: A Hanna Barbara Superhero Cinematic Universe!


Call me crazy, but I think these pitches are MovieBob trying to appeal to executives. That's why they all stick to the Marvel formula, why they're so focused on setting up for sequels and "cool" action scenes to put in the trailer, and it's why the incredibly marketable Servobots were shoved into his Megaman pitch despite it not making sense. He's trying to make them as Hollywoodish as possible, the kind of thing a studio exec would think prints money.

and what's terrifying is, he might not be too far off. His Captain Planet pitch is oddly similar to The Eternals.
I seriously have to wonder what would happen (oh to be a fly on the wall) if Bob actually made it into some studio exec's office and made a true and honest pitch for Care Bears/Mega Man/Captain Planet (Ted Turner would probably veto this shit lol) fanfic reeeeeeboots. Also have to wonder if Bob ever actually did see the inside of an exec's office, let alone to make a serious pitch of any kind.

Right now it only appears that Bob's trying the Tumblr method of appealing to random TV/Movie execs: Do it on a blog on wordpress/tumblr/wherever and let them come to you. But so far, it ain't working. He's just reeeeeeeeeeeeeing into the aether.
 
Right now it only appears that Bob's trying the Tumblr method of appealing to random TV/Movie execs: Do it on a blog on wordpress/tumblr/wherever and let them come to you. But so far, it ain't working. He's just reeeeeeeeeeeeeing into the aether.
Those pitches were from around 2015 or so. I don't think he's made a new pitch in years; he's only reeeeeeepeated those same ideas on Twitter, hoping his blue checkmark will get an executive to take him seriously.
 
Call me crazy, but I think these pitches are MovieBob trying to appeal to executives. That's why they all stick to the Marvel formula, why they're so focused on setting up for sequels and "cool" action scenes to put in the trailer, and it's why the incredibly marketable Servobots were shoved into his Megaman pitch despite it not making sense. He's trying to make them as Hollywoodish as possible, the kind of thing a studio exec would think prints money.

and what's terrifying is, he might not be too far off. His Captain Planet pitch is oddly similar to The Eternals.
Fair enough. I didn't see The Eternals so I can't say.

What I can say is that Bob has no business pitching blockbusters. There are maybe 100 people in Hollywood doing that because they have a history of getting returns with their ideas, which is coincidentally why so many feel very samey.

Start with a small crowd. Why is this group underserviced? Why do they want this and how are you going to give it to them? If you can make that work with a less risky budget, then you move up. You've proven you can reach a small audience, let's shoot for a little more.

Bob, as per his narcissistic tendencies, thinks you go from basic Youtube commentary and single cam shorts of you in the fucking woods near your house to top dog because-- I don't know. When your Megaman magnum opus flops, everyone loses their jobs. The bosses ask why you followed through on a pitch from this internet shithead. Good luck justifying those 480 million dollars that disappeared because somebody somebody followed through on the pitch from, "Like Kurosawa, I make mad" on Twitter.
 
Fair enough. I didn't see The Eternals so I can't say.

What I can say is that Bob has no business pitching blockbusters. There are maybe 100 people in Hollywood doing that because they have a history of getting returns with their ideas, which is coincidentally why so many feel very samey.

Start with a small crowd. Why is this group underserviced? Why do they want this and how are you going to give it to them? If you can make that work with a less risky budget, then you move up. You've proven you can reach a small audience, let's shoot for a little more.

Bob, as per his narcissistic tendencies, thinks you go from basic Youtube commentary and single cam shorts of you in the fucking woods near your house to top dog because-- I don't know. When your Megaman magnum opus flops, everyone loses their jobs. The bosses ask why you followed through on a pitch from this internet shithead. Good luck justifying those 480 million dollars that disappeared because somebody somebody followed through on the pitch from, "Like Kurosawa, I make mad" on Twitter.
I feel like these are less "pitches" per se, and more like just outlines of ideas he thinks would be cool, and he only calls them "pitches" because there's nothing else to call them. I don't think he seriously believes any executive is going to be thinking "how do we turn this franchise into a major blockbuster? I'd better check the internet!" maybe he entertains the fantasy and leaves them floating around "just in case", but he's not trying to get these up to an actual, professional industry standard.

As far as "imagining what a blockbuster cinematic take on your favorite franchise would be", you know who did it much better? Brendaniel. Instead of just imagining one movie and blandly recounting imaginary action scenes, he envisioned an entire cinematic universe and set up the rules for it, the mythos and universe, the long-term plans, the pacing and escalation of stakes, etc. It was way more interesting than anything Bob proposed.

 
I feel like these are less "pitches" per se, and more like just outlines of ideas he thinks would be cool, and he only calls them "pitches" because there's nothing else to call them. I don't think he seriously believes any executive is going to be thinking "how do we turn this franchise into a major blockbuster? I'd better check the internet!" maybe he entertains the fantasy and leaves them floating around "just in case", but he's not trying to get these up to an actual, professional industry standard.

As far as "imagining what a blockbuster cinematic take on your favorite franchise would be", you know who did it much better? Brendaniel. Instead of just imagining one movie and blandly recounting imaginary action scenes, he envisioned an entire cinematic universe and set up the rules for it, the mythos and universe, the long-term plans, the pacing and escalation of stakes, etc. It was way more interesting than anything Bob proposed.

Certainly. Bob knows that if you actually commit to something, you lose the excuse that your idea wasn't finished or you were doing it just for fun. You take praise if somebody says it sounds neat, but you have a baked-in escape hatch when people point out the flaws.

The man's more afraid of failure than anything else on the planet. That's how you can tell he'd never make a serious movie pitch-- you have to learn to LOVE failure to make it work. You've got to get your ideas stomped, thank people for their brutal feedback, and then do it again five minutes later, and then ten minutes after that. Then, later on, you actually have to implement that feedback because you acknowledge that people *gasp* actually know something that you don't. As has been noted countless times in this thread, Bob is the biggest bitch when it comes to feedback, honest or otherwise.

And that video does one thing I appreciate, which is setting and adhering to rules. That said, shooting for cinematic universes in general is rough sledding anyway. It's worked *one* time, unless you count sequels and spinoffs as a cinematic universe. And frankly, this one's running out of steam.
 
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