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

[RockVolnutt]

I am not a comic book expert by any means. However, I do have a greater than average understanding of literature, and watching Bob try to turn a cute gag from a superhero movie into the cinematic equivalent of "A handbag?" or "All the clocks were striking 13" or eating the apple in Paradise Lost is by turns jaw-droppingly idiotic and deliciously hilarious. Like, I don't think Bob could possibly be this funny on purpose.

It's Marvel Studios so it has to be the bestest thing to ever be a thing.

 

[Flexo]

I am not a comic book expert by any means. However, I do have a greater than average understanding of literature, and watching Bob try to turn a cute gag from a superhero movie into the cinematic equivalent of "A handbag?" or "All the clocks were striking 13" or eating the apple in Paradise Lost is by turns jaw-droppingly idiotic and deliciously hilarious. Like, I don't think Bob could possibly be this funny on purpose.

Oh for.... what he's talking about is one of the basics of writing 101.

1. Blue doesn't show up against blue. Or in other words: have contrasts!

If you have a crazy context, have grounded, realistic characters. If you have crazy characters have a grounded, realistic setting. I mean it's why so many comedy... ANYTHING has a "straight man" (not related to sexuality) - because the serious dude makes the silliness funnier.

Get out of your own ass Bob and stop trying to sound smarter than your are. Oh and need i remind you that per your own mention, interstellar AND inception also have quiet, simple moments among some of the trippiest shit on film. So that makes them brilliant, eh?

 

[Mola Ram]

Oh for.... what he's talking about is one of the basics of writing 101.

1. Blue doesn't show up against blue. Or in other words: have contrasts!

If you have a crazy context, have grounded, realistic characters. If you have crazy characters have a grounded, realistic setting. I mean it's why so many comedy... ANYTHING has a "straight man" (not related to sexuality) - because the serious dude makes the silliness funnier.

Get out of your own ass Bob and stop trying to sound smarter than your are. Oh and need i remind you that per your own mention, interstellar AND inception also have quiet, simple moments among some of the trippiest shit on film. So that makes them brilliant, eh?

What's amazing about Bob's obsession with marvel is that it seems to stem from the fact that these films have competent screenplays and direction, rather than atrocious, which is what superhero films used to get until they became a huge industry. But since Bob is a simpleton who is totally helpless before his biases and obsessions, mere competency impresses the hell out of him, and for some reason his ability to point out that competency is supposed to impress us in turn.

 

[Kyria the Great]

Oh for.... what he's talking about is one of the basics of writing 101.

1. Blue doesn't show up against blue. Or in other words: have contrasts!

If you have a crazy context, have grounded, realistic characters. If you have crazy characters have a grounded, realistic setting. I mean it's why so many comedy... ANYTHING has a "straight man" (not related to sexuality) - because the serious dude makes the silliness funnier.

Get out of your own ass Bob and stop trying to sound smarter than your are. Oh and need i remind you that per your own mention, interstellar AND inception also have quiet, simple moments among some of the trippiest shit on film. So that makes them brilliant, eh?

The problem is that Bob hates Nolan because for some aberrant reason he equates all the films to dudebros even though it could be as simple as people prefer his amazing and inventive direction to movies. In fact, even with Dunkirk some of the most moving and chilling moments are the quite downtime that allow yourself to be filled with the dread and hopelessness the soldiers feel on those beaches.

(This isn't to rag on about GOTG vol 2 as I really liked the film but Bob for some reason builds it up to be some sci-fi masterpiece unlike the tepid treatment he gave Blade Runner 2049, a much more serious contender for giving a more cerebral life to its genre.)

 

[AngeloTheWizard]

Well of course he's tepid towards a movie that requires you to use your fucking brain, his keeps constantly falling off cause it's held on with Scotch Tape!

 

[The Nothingness]

Regarding to the first tweet, which brings up Thor: Ragnarok, was Bob referring to the introduction of the new character who is like a big rock alien but has a high voice that, dare I say, sounds like stereotypical comedic black character (Kevin Hart for example)? So what is Bob going to do if accusations of racism are applied to this character?

 

[BR55]

What's amazing about Bob's obsession with marvel is that it seems to stem from the fact that these films have competent screenplays and direction, rather than atrocious, which is what superhero films used to get until they became a huge industry. But since Bob is a simpleton who is totally helpless before his biases and obsessions, mere competency impresses the hell out of him, and for some reason his ability to point out that competency is supposed to impress us in turn.

Oh but you see this is Bob Chipman proud citizen of Superior America and high standing member of the Cultural Elite that we are talking about here. Obsolete Americans like Me and You see only Fun popcorn movies when we look at the MCU. A Superior Thinking American like Bob sees the MCU for the Transformative and Genre Bending Masterwork it truly is. Obsolete Troglodytes like us, trapped out in the Meth Desert in our Single Story Shacks as we are, simply can not understand the Genius of The MCU.

 

[Flexo]

What's amazing about Bob's obsession with marvel is that it seems to stem from the fact that these films have competent screenplays and direction, rather than atrocious, which is what superhero films used to get until they became a huge industry. But since Bob is a simpleton who is totally helpless before his biases and obsessions, mere competency impresses the hell out of him, and for some reason his ability to point out that competency is supposed to impress us in turn.

To be SLIGHLY fair - so many films nowadays are failing at basic points of storytelling (*cough nustarwars cough*) even I'm almost to the point of being impressed by basic competence.

 

[Mola Ram]

To be SLIGHLY fair - so many films nowadays are failing at basic points of storytelling (*cough nustarwars cough*) even I'm almost to the point of being impressed by basic competence.

I understand that. And I'm not exactly a Marvel hater; I've found all their films to be at least watchable, with a few standing out as (ahem) truly exceptional, mostly Guardians of the Galaxy and the Captain America films. But he goes on and on about them as if they were staggering achievement in cinema and writing, when they're really just very well made popcorn films.

This nails it:

Bob for some reason builds it up to be some sci-fi masterpiece unlike the tepid treatment he gave Blade Runner 2049, a much more serious contender for giving a more cerebral life to its genre

Blade Runner 2049 was staggering for several reasons. Perhaps not one of the greatest science fiction movies ever made, but it was brimming with ideas, was a visual feast, featured some shockingly good performances, and incredibly was a 30-year late sequel by a different filmmaker. GotG2 is a fun space opera with a lot of heart, but these films are not even remotely in the same league. Even if you consider BR2049 a failure, you have to acknowledge its ambition and what it achieved in terms of trying to stand apart from the garbage piles of sequels, reboots, and remakes we have to sift through these days.

God forbid Bob run into anything that makes him think, though.

 

[Kyria the Great]

To be SLIGHLY fair - so many films nowadays are failing at basic points of storytelling (*cough nustarwars cough*) even I'm almost to the point of being impressed by basic competence.

One of the massive contributors in my mind to this story slump Hollywood has to them can be attributed to chasing the foreign market. In the quest to chase the Chinese dollar, studios must make such neutered plots that we get crap like The Mummy. By the way, has Bob ever brought up the foreign market as part of the reason alot of big budget movies seem to suck these days?

 

[Mola Ram]

One of the massive contributors in my mind to this story slump Hollywood has to them can be attributed to chasing the foreign market. In the quest to chase the Chinese dollar, studios must make such neutered plots that we get crap like The Mummy. By the way, has Bob ever brought up the foreign market as part of the reason alot of big budget movies seem to such these days?

Kinda ironic that his beloved global vision is turning his favorite medium into bland, nearly unwatchable dreck.

 

[Kyria the Great]

Kinda ironic that his beloved global vision is turning his favorite medium into bland, nearly unwatchable dreck.

At this point though I bet Bob would defend dancing dog turds on the screen in German, as long as it had the Marvel logo and seemingly pandered to the shallow as a kiddie pool ideals he holds.

 

[The Valeyard]

One of the massive contributors in my mind to this story slump Hollywood has to them can be attributed to chasing the foreign market. In the quest to chase the Chinese dollar, studios must make such neutered plots that we get crap like The Mummy. By the way, has Bob ever brought up the foreign market as part of the reason alot of big budget movies seem to suck these days?

That would explain why we're getting not one, not two, but FOUR Avatar sequels that will all be following the same basic plot as the first movie.

 

[Absolutego]

The problem is that Bob hates Nolan because for some aberrant reason he equates all the films to dudebros even though it could be as simple as people prefer his amazing and inventive direction to movies. In fact, even with Dunkirk some of the most moving and chilling moments are the quite downtime that allow yourself to be filled with the dread and hopelessness the soldiers feel on those beaches.

(This isn't to rag on about GOTG vol 2 as I really liked the film but Bob for some reason builds it up to be some sci-fi masterpiece unlike the tepid treatment he gave Blade Runner 2049, a much more serious contender for giving a more cerebral life to its genre.)

His hatred for Nolan is largely due to the acclaim the Dark Knight got. He originally liked that movie but when non-geeks and the geeks who regularly bathe and don't live in their brother's basement praised it as the best comic book movie in years he got buttmad and started decrying the movie as ruining Batman. I can't find where he posted it originally (I thought it was his blog but it must've been his twitter), but he also claimed Nolan was "enabling the worst aspects of geekdom" when Baneposting became a thing with the next movie.

 

[Mola Ram]

His hatred for Nolan is largely due to the acclaim the Dark Knight got. He originally liked that movie but when non-geeks and the geeks who regularly bathe and don't live in their brother's basement praised it as the best comic book movie in years he got buttmad and started decrying the movie as ruining Batman. I can't find where he posted it originally (I thought it was his blog but it must've been his twitter), but he also claimed Nolan was "enabling the worst aspects of geekdom" when Baneposting became a thing with the next movie.

Boston always did have a problem with sour-faced Puritans who wanted to piss on everyone else's fun.

 

[Flexo]

What's even funnier about the GotG2 vs BR2 (having just watched the latter) is that both do have a theme of abandonment by fathers.

Which you think would mean a lot to Bob right now but i guess since GotG2 had pacman it's naturally superior.

Kinda ironic that his beloved global vision is turning his favorite medium into bland, nearly unwatchable dreck.

Well that is to his taste in... everything.

 

[techno-confederate]

Kinda ironic that his beloved global vision is turning his favorite medium into bland, nearly unwatchable dreck.

Even better: China actually likes it when white actors star in big movies because they associate America and Hollywood with white people. That is why Matt Damon was hired for that great wall movie. It's not really that surprising given that China is not exactly "politically correct." Apparently the "superior future" is going to be pretty racist.

 

[Malt Liquor]

Blade Runner 2049 was staggering for several reasons. Perhaps not one of the greatest science fiction movies ever made, but it was brimming with ideas, was a visual feast, featured some shockingly good performances, and incredibly was a 30-year late sequel by a different filmmaker. GotG2 is a fun space opera with a lot of heart, but these films are not even remotely in the same league. Even if you consider BR2049 a failure, you have to acknowledge its ambition and what it achieved in terms of trying to stand apart from the garbage piles of sequels, reboots, and remakes we have to sift through these days.

God forbid Bob run into anything that makes him think, though.

Have Bob ever commented about Blade Runner 2049 director's previous two movies btw? Because I think he could have an hateboner against Villeneuve for how Mexico and (some) mexicans are portrait in Sicario (not the PoC paradise SJW like to paint around)

 

[The Valeyard]

Have Bob ever commented about Blade Runner 2049 director's previous two movies btw? Because I think he could have an hateboner against Villeneuve for how Mexico and (some) mexicans are portrait in Sicario (not the PoC paradise SJW like to paint around)

I don't recall Bob saying much about Sicario other than it being part of the Honorable Mentions list of his Top 10 Movies of 2015 video. Arrival was given three stars in his review, although it was absent from his Top 10 Movies of 2016.

 

[Mola Ram]

I don't recall Bob saying much about Sicario other than it being part of the Honorable Mentions list of his Top 10 Movies of 2015 video. Arrival was given three stars in his review, although it was absent from his Top 10 Movies of 2016.

I wonder if Arrival was one of those situations where he could tell it was a good movie, but either didn't understand it or was bored out of his tits, but didn't dare review it that way because it would expose him as a bonehead with anger management issues. Not that he has much hope of concealing it, but you know -- gotta make the effort.