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He's just fighting a strawman, really. How many people actually want to shut down all immigration from everywhere forever?
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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Maybe not. If he wants no borders anywhere and America/Europe flooded with foreigners then that means everyone wants less immigration than he does. I'm not sure if that's still a strawman in the typical sense.
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Probably a stupid question, but since when has he had Ian blocked on Twitter? I thought Bob said he doesn't block people but instead prefers to "humiliate" them. Or has that changed and he's been taking taking inspiration from the Steve Shives school of thought?
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Oh god please. Because you know it's just gonna be lulsorandom. Missing what the Jim Carrey movie tried to do. Which was they tried to be a Tex Avery cartoon in live action and for 2 hours. And the movie, regardless of how you feel about the movie, I think nails that idea.
And, this all ties in to how I hate Bob and his ilk's love of pointless pop culture ephemera. On how movies today don't have a good reference base anymore. Like why episode 7 sucks compared to the old Trilogy. I.e. their influences are vastly different. But I'll sperg about that all later.
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Kate McKinnon? NOPE. As Girlbusters demonstrated, mugging for the camera is not her strong suit. She works better on SNL doing impersonations and subtler characters (like the Totino's lady).
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Was The Mask movie even popular? It seems like an random old thing to bring up unless he was looking at wikipedia lists of comic IPs.
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The Mask was quite a large hit. It may be hard to believe now, but Jim Carrey was enormous in the '90s, akin to Eddie Murphy in the '80s. It's not really talked about much now, I suppose, and despite its origins and whatever half-baked idiocy is stewing in Bob's rotten pudding of a brain, it was considered much more of a Carrey vehicle than part of the wave of comic movies.
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I had no idea The Mask was a comic book movie until about 10 minutes ago.
There's also no reason to remake The Mask, it's one of those films like Ace Ventura that I think can only really be done with Jim Carrey in the lead role - anyone else would just be a pale imitation.
There's also no reason to remake The Mask, it's one of those films like Ace Ventura that I think can only really be done with Jim Carrey in the lead role - anyone else would just be a pale imitation.
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I don't think Bill Watterson intended for Calvin to be 100% likable. Calvin is a lazy, smug brat sometimes because it's funny. It's a comic strip.
Come to think...does Bob think anything is funny? His autism could affect his sense of humor. I watched his "Really That Good" for "Ghostbusters" last year and I don't recall him mentioning anything about it being funny. (correct me if I'm wrong) He was just sperging about it being about science defeating superstitions and shit lol.
Come to think...does Bob think anything is funny? His autism could affect his sense of humor. I watched his "Really That Good" for "Ghostbusters" last year and I don't recall him mentioning anything about it being funny. (correct me if I'm wrong) He was just sperging about it being about science defeating superstitions and shit lol.
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I'm amazed we still haven't gotten a Mario chimpout yet since he's not considered a plumber by Nintendo anymore.
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See, Bob isn't exactly wrong about Calvin being a shithead. Calvin could be a shithead, quite often, and yes, generally speaking when things went wrong for him it was because of his own flaws. Some would go so far as to call this particular character trait a cliche that goes back to Greek drama, but let's avoid the heartache of imagining Bob assaying the merits of The Oresteia. The reason I say he fundamentally misunderstands the comic is because Calvin was so much more than just a shithead. There was rampant physical comedy, the inability to fit in faced by a lot of solitary and imaginary kids, incredible surreal landscapes, intense themes of friendship (at least when it came to Hobbes), and all the multifaceted appeal you'd expect from a comic strip that managed to impress a whole generation of kids.
Bob, of course, can't focus on the beauty or the subtlety or the elements of wonder native to childhood (that almost never managed to be treacly), and you wonder how much of the comic he actually read. Was Calvin a shithead when he mourned the dead bird he found in his front yard? When he broke down in tears when his dad overreacted to him accidentally breaking his binoculars? There are dozens of stories and hundreds of strips where "Calvin's a shithead" is not even within shouting distance of the theme of the comic.
Bob's analysis, as usual, is paper-thin and totally sophomoric. And, insultingly, nothing one couldn't glean from reading Bill Watterson's own commentary in the 10th anniversary retrospective book. But hey -- comically missing the point of the most beloved newspaper strip of modern times while portraying himself as some sort of critical genius? That's our Blobby!
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So Bob probably thinks the reason Son of the Mask was terrible because it did not have a well-known comedian as a protagonist?
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You could probably make a decent straight adaptation of The Mask, where the Big Head character is likened to The Joker with superpowers.
The cartoon actually made a semi-reference to the source material by having a character who knew previous incarnations of The Mask be surprised that The Mask wasn't a mass-murdering psychopath.
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Gotta post this because it spoils Bob's "superior future."
I wonder if Bob believes that...
*eye twitch* RAGE POWERS ACTIVATE!
First: once upon a time, I had every C&H strip memorized because I loved that comic so much and had all of the collections. So hunker down for some :powerlevel: shit right here.
Second: BBJ (and @Mola Ram) is right above, except everyone forgets the key aspect - CALVIN IS 6 YEARS OLD! Kids are generally little shitheads. That's why they're so cute and adorable, so adults don't murder them.
But Bob?
We may as well shut down the thread and slap that above quote on it. The big difference is, Bob is now in his 30s. Calvin at least has the excuse of being 6.
NO THERE FUCKING ISN'T, BOB! Goddammit can you get anything fucking right? The closest was a storyline where Calvin had to argue both sides of an issue and came up with an issue about dinosaurs (look up "thinking cap" if you want to find it). At least it gave us Bob in comic form (see below). The other was a SINGLE strip.
Has he ever been right about anything? Given that he brags about being a lapsed Catholic, I'm half curious what his description of Christianity would be. Given his track record he would probably tell some story about Moses and Muhammod going on a buddy road trip to Rome.
Gotta post this because it spoils Bob's "superior future."
I wonder if Bob believes that...
*eye twitch* RAGE POWERS ACTIVATE!
First: once upon a time, I had every C&H strip memorized because I loved that comic so much and had all of the collections. So hunker down for some :powerlevel: shit right here.
Second: BBJ (and @Mola Ram) is right above, except everyone forgets the key aspect - CALVIN IS 6 YEARS OLD! Kids are generally little shitheads. That's why they're so cute and adorable, so adults don't murder them.
But Bob?
Bob said:
We may as well shut down the thread and slap that above quote on it. The big difference is, Bob is now in his 30s. Calvin at least has the excuse of being 6.
Bob continues said:
NO THERE FUCKING ISN'T, BOB! Goddammit can you get anything fucking right? The closest was a storyline where Calvin had to argue both sides of an issue and came up with an issue about dinosaurs (look up "thinking cap" if you want to find it). At least it gave us Bob in comic form (see below). The other was a SINGLE strip.
Has he ever been right about anything? Given that he brags about being a lapsed Catholic, I'm half curious what his description of Christianity would be. Given his track record he would probably tell some story about Moses and Muhammod going on a buddy road trip to Rome.
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That's the arc I thought he meant, but now I'm starting to wonder if he's misremembered the whole damn thing and is actually thinking of Calvin's presentation on bats. ("BATS AREN'T BUGS!!!") Goddamn, I think he is wrong about everything.
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Yeah, that storyline is probably the closest he might be thinking of, and I really remember that one because I made jokes about "grade-A professional clear plastic binder" through many of my school years (no, I wasn't very popular). The biggest part? Bob's STILL wrong because in that comic, calvin still didn't learn his lesson:
http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1989/11/04
He's like an error fractal. The more you look into it, the more wrong it gets somehow.
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I remember a Sunday strip where Calvin becomes really interested in a snake, and wants to read up about it. He then protests to himself about learning anything in his free time, but Hobbes points out (paraphrasing) "If no one makes you do it, it counts as fun." The strip ends with them reading.
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I see he's already added the least worthwhile
oh wait, that's just his twitter handle
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