Moviebob's Text Review of Batman v Superman and oh boy he is ANGRY!!!
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Eh. Bob's always angry. That's the problem with overstating everything. Even if something comes along that genuinely deserves it (no idea if this movie does but I doubt it) it doesn't stick out from the rest of his statements.
Pretty much this. Bob's entire thing is he's a salty stereotypical internet nerd who hits as many of the stereotype check boxes as possible (including the "nerd who hates other nerds" one). He wasn't always like this, the better part of a decade ago when I first found his work he was so far removed I'd dare saw he was the exact opposite of who he is now, so I'm left to genuinely wonder if he's actually like this in real life or if he is amazingly consistent at keeping up an act on all his social media accounts and articles/videos he makes.PainInTheAssInternet said:
I'd honestly like to know because it would mean the difference between wanting to commend him for his acting abilities or pity him for the hole he's fallen into.
To be fair Bob's entire shtick is he's an impossible to please, nostalgia blinded and bitter Gen X-er who simultaneously thinks the world left him behind and yet never lived up to his own expectations of it, trapped forever in his own imagined past where somehow pop-culture was not geared towards selling toys to kids and the only real test of a man's character was how many quarters he saved each week to spend blindly on arcade machines in a desperate attempt to get onto that much loved and romanticized Top Score page.
So does is shock me he doesn't like something not geared 100% to his taste and made exclusively for him? No, not really.
So does is shock me he doesn't like something not geared 100% to his taste and made exclusively for him? No, not really.
Oh how dare he not like a movie that takes a dump all over Superman and Batman's legacy and is an altogether slog of a movie to sit through? How dare he! That man is the devil for pointing out glaring faults in the movie's story and conveying it in whatever way he deems fit!
He does lean more on the melodramatic and seems to exaggerate slightly but if any of what he is saying is true it really does sound like a train wreck. I mean I could see it was going to be somewhat of a train wreck and had several issues and problems with it that were conveniently unanswered and ignored so I was prepared for it being one. I think i will skip this one and maybe bootleg it or something. I will save my money for other stuff like Civil War and maybe X-men Apocalypse IF it is any good and go see 10 Cloverfield Lane or something. I mean I don't know why any one is surprised .The very fact that Zack Synder was directing it, the lack of any real explain of the story and the fact they distanced themselves so far away from the other big hero movies should have been an indication.
The histrionic man-child is right!
Forget my annoyance that the same people decrying Hollywood's lack of originality is cultivating the tsunami of nostalgia (mixed metaphors ahoy!) that is the current blockbuster market because they want to be convinced their decades long obsession with childhood artifacts is totes healthy and not at all emotionally-stunting. There's room in the ball-pit for us adults, too, goddamnit! And why aren't none of these balls black and grey? The ball-pit is mature, dog.
Building a Superman movie without a belief that some people genuinely are self-sacrificing (and not only in a pretentiously grandiose Jesus-on-the-Cross sense) and fulfilled by performing their duties and responsibilities rather than cripplingly burdened by them (or hell, even just be a kind person without it being boring) is building a monument atop quicksand.
Forget my annoyance that the same people decrying Hollywood's lack of originality is cultivating the tsunami of nostalgia (mixed metaphors ahoy!) that is the current blockbuster market because they want to be convinced their decades long obsession with childhood artifacts is totes healthy and not at all emotionally-stunting. There's room in the ball-pit for us adults, too, goddamnit! And why aren't none of these balls black and grey? The ball-pit is mature, dog.
Building a Superman movie without a belief that some people genuinely are self-sacrificing (and not only in a pretentiously grandiose Jesus-on-the-Cross sense) and fulfilled by performing their duties and responsibilities rather than cripplingly burdened by them (or hell, even just be a kind person without it being boring) is building a monument atop quicksand.
Yeah, pretty much.tippy2k2 said:
It's his jam, an annoying jam, but it's how he reviews movies. It's mainly the reason why I stopped giving a shit about what he thinks about movies since he goes overboard with shitting on a movie. I know I fully expected him to rant about how bad the movie is given how the reviews on it are thus far.
Even if the reviews were saying it was a competent film and a must see, he didn't like Man of Steel, so I at least expected back-handed compliments.
I've pretty much always found Bob kind of creepy, and kinda sad too.inu-kun said:
His rage in so many of his reviews really made me think he simply had nothing else going on except for his attachment to comics/video games and his pop-culture laden childhood, which is why he didn't just seem to take it as "oh well that stinks, this movie I had high hopes for was bad", he took it as an almost personal insult.
A lot his reviews reeked of actually being about something much deeper. For example, his review of "Fast 5" felt creepily like "the actors in this movie, and the people who like this movie, remind me of people who used to pick on me in high school, therefore if you like this movie I hate you".
I never read it, but apparently his "Super Mario Bros 3" book had parts where he talked about his childhood, and how he would fantasize about living in the Mushroom Kingdom, and would hide in his car playing Gameboy so he didn't have to interact with his family.
And so many of his attempts to fight against supposed racism or misogyny or whatever social justice cause he was on at the moment just felt like he needed an excuse to be mad at someone or something, and him making internet videos gave him a sense of power and allowed him to lash out at people who had more stuff in their life than "Samurai Pizza Cats" or collecting Power Ranger DVDs.
Ah good old MovieBob, still fuming like an angry fanboy? I only got as far as the second paragraph because I want to leave what few spoilers are left unspoiled but, here's one line that drew my attention.
"BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE ? a malignant, puss-bleeding cancer on the ass of its own genre."
Damn, that is cruel. I mean I've not seen the film, I will see it but I had my worries about it long before the reviews came out, but for god's sake Bob, it's just a movie. It's not like it killed someone you loved and you have a bazillion different options in the genre if you hate this one. To a 'normal' nerd like me it just seems petty to rage on camera about a simple movie. I get it, it's Batman and Superman, you expect better especially after the Christopher Nolan trilogy but it sounds like you're personally offended. Then again guys, we are talking about an irrational SJW here. I'm not defending the movie, I'm not excited for it, nor am I uninterested in it, but I feel as if he needed to handle this better.
And one more thing, saying it's as bad as the first Transformers film? I'm sorry but that doesn't mean shit to me seen as I actually liked the first Transformers film. It was dumb sure but I thought it was a pretty good attempt at adapting the franchise to live action film. Better than the others at least. =P
"BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE ? a malignant, puss-bleeding cancer on the ass of its own genre."
Damn, that is cruel. I mean I've not seen the film, I will see it but I had my worries about it long before the reviews came out, but for god's sake Bob, it's just a movie. It's not like it killed someone you loved and you have a bazillion different options in the genre if you hate this one. To a 'normal' nerd like me it just seems petty to rage on camera about a simple movie. I get it, it's Batman and Superman, you expect better especially after the Christopher Nolan trilogy but it sounds like you're personally offended. Then again guys, we are talking about an irrational SJW here. I'm not defending the movie, I'm not excited for it, nor am I uninterested in it, but I feel as if he needed to handle this better.
And one more thing, saying it's as bad as the first Transformers film? I'm sorry but that doesn't mean shit to me seen as I actually liked the first Transformers film. It was dumb sure but I thought it was a pretty good attempt at adapting the franchise to live action film. Better than the others at least. =P
My problem with the "don't listen to reviews, make up your own mind" argument is that you might waste your own time and money on the same petulent garbage the reviewers tried to warn you about.
I haven't read any reviews to make a decision yet, but I tend to agree with the average. If enough reviewers say something is bad, I'd rather not put down my own money to find out whether or not I agree.
I haven't read any reviews to make a decision yet, but I tend to agree with the average. If enough reviewers say something is bad, I'd rather not put down my own money to find out whether or not I agree.
I'm hesitant to watch or read his review until after I see the movie itself. I still remember what he thought of Man of Steel, because he reminded us in almost every review video he made AFTER his MoS review. Jaysus, we get it! You don't like it because it didn't measure up to your expectations! It's not like they threatened your family or something!
Worst case scenario: he's taking bribes to crap on every entry from the DC Cinematic Universe.
Worst case scenario: he's taking bribes to crap on every entry from the DC Cinematic Universe.
I'm really not sure what people want here. Mr. Chipman is saying nothing every other review I've read isn't saying, except for the word "fuck" every now and again.Samtemdo8 said:
He frequently is not angry. He releases plenty of reviews of movies that don't make him angry, and has an entire series devoted to celebrating good movies. His anger is largely a Flanderized construct being kept alive by people who dislike him, and keeping that narrative alive requires us to ignore a significant portion of his output.Parasondox said:
I find a certain irony in this complaint, given that it seems predicated upon going on for months and years about his reviews of movies like the Amazing Spider-Man.Parasondox said:
You took a very different read of his review of that movie than I did, if you interpret that as primarily anger rather than primarily depression.inu-kun said:
You are taking a third party's assertion as fact that every reason Mr. Chipman has given over an extended period of time as to why he dislike a movie is a lie, and that changing his avatar is proof of his true motivation. I feel as if the jury is a bit rigged, here.inu-kun said:
(Regarding the last post)JimB said:
Not only he he changed his Avatar, he also made post about it.
I can't find the exact twitter post (if anyone is willing to find it do so)
But basically he just wrote a description of him basically laughing in maniacle glee and happiness that Spiderman is now part of the MCU.
I've seen exactly one of his videos (Pixels) and this seemed abundantly obvious to me. I could see people being annoyed because it was patronizing, but people don't actually take this stuff at face value, do they?Elfgore said: