History Awesome / BobChipman

* In his three-parter, "How to fix ''ComicBook/TheFantasticFour'' In the [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse MCU]]," Bob creates a fresh, creative and thrilling proposal of how to do the original superhero family of Marvel on film that could really work!

* During Part 1 of his ''Really That Bad'' analysis of ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', Bob makes a comparison between the narrative structures of ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' and ''Batman V. Superman'' stripped of all but their most basic elements that underlines one of the main reasons the former succeeded where the latter failed: ''Avengers'' is straightforward, easy to understand and can be enjoyed without prior knowledge of the source comics or the preceding films because it doesn't lean on them to work as a narrative with its single SequelHook a post-credits shot of the GreaterScopeVillain, while [=BvS=] is a disjointed, convoluted mess that doesn't follow an understandable through-line narrative, paradoxically wants to differentiate itself from the source comics yet relies heavily on them for most of its emotional weight to carry and desperately tries to set up future films through gratuitous in-universe viewings of preview trailers. And he does all of this while [[TheNicknamer giving every person or object with enough plot relevance a funny nickname]], with plenty of {{Actor Allusion}}s and character comparisons to go around.
** The entirety of his "Batman V. Superman" ''Really That Bad'' analysis. Chipman delivers his critique in a mature respectful tone, without insulting the filmmakers personally, and goes into detail acknowledging and addressing common arguments in defense of the film.
** Two of the best things he does is to effectively and succinctly fix the movie's greatest problems.
*** The first being the 'Diana/Wonder Woman watching the teaser trailer for the Justice League scene', wherein Bob proposes letting ''Batman'', the normal human who is discovering a lot of this new information for the first time, and whose perspective the audience has been following the entire movie, be the one to discover the existence of more metahumans. This not only gives the scene greater suspense and dramatic weight and a greater impetus for Batman to fight a perceived threat like Superman, it also gives a fantastic reason why Diana never showed up for a hundred years and was breaking into Lex Luthor's drives: [[FridgeBrilliance She was helping cover up the existence of metahumans (and her secretive race) from people like Luthor.]]
*** The second is the entire 'conflict' of the movie being forced and contrived and way too repetitive by the time the two people in the 'V' actually get down to versus-ing each other. Bob fixes the movie without any drastic overhaul or extensive retooling with two simple words: [[WhamLine No Batman]]. The plot remains the same, with all the conspiratorial machinations and the populace distrusting Superman kept intact, but transfer all of Batman's actions and motivations to ''Luthor'', thereby making Luthor a sympathetic, justified, heroic counterpoint to the detached, reluctant, destructive Superman, which would have greater thematic resonance and streamline the plot. For an added bonus, Bob suggests keeping Creator/BenAffleck, with all his likability and charisma and on-the-ground heroism, as Luthor, which would provide even greater metanarrative implications and make the plot more compelling.
** To make what can only be described as a near definitive 3-part, four hour critique about Dawn of Justice, all the while maintaining his normal work responsibilities, is a feat of dedication that can only really be described as impressive.

* "[[https://youtu.be/b7xSbtyl0HU SO THAT HAPPENED]]" is a Big Picture episode about the writing in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, and how the rise of the DeadpanSnarker is treated as some form of criticism whenever any piece of media uses it. Bob tears into this line of thinking, saying that such dialogue has been around for ages -- Bob notes that buddy cop movies as early as UsefulNotes/TheEighties used it all the time -- and that such "sloppy misapplied critical shorthands" are making everyone dumber by using really bad criticism or bad faith takes. He even points out that the titular phrase "so that happened" is often cited as the catch-all phrase for this kind of writing. Bob argues that this is CriticalResearchFailure, since the origin of the line wasn't from the MCU, a Creator/JossWhedon script, or a so-called mainstream pop culture source. It was from ''Film/StateAndMain'', a Creator/DavidMamet film that came out in 2000. In the end, Bob argues that criticizing witty or snappy dialogue isn't a real criticism, calling out everyone who uses it as a criticism as a bad faith actor by asking what in the world is supposed to be wrong with witty dialogue.

-->'''Bob:''' So I say again: watch more things. Any other things. Gain media literacy. Or at the very least, when you hear smug people dismissing this or that thing with tired, supposedly self-evident, empty cliche analysis like "Oh that's Marvel writing" or "that's Zoomer humor", ask if they can elaborate what they mean by that. Or better yet, what's supposed to be wrong with that in the first place. Because nothing exposes the empty head of a fraud like a follow-up question.

* As a counterpoint of the above, he eventually made a "Really That Good" video on the work of Creator/AdamSandler that used the ''Pixels'' video as a preface and then explained that Sandler's work, for all that it is an easy target as "lowest common denominator" cinema, still is done with everybody having fun on the set and bringing work to the town and [[ProductionPosse friends]] of Sandler, who occasionally are on the down low in the [[HorribleHollywood cut-throat market that is Hollywood]], and he was not afraid to say that when Sandler can act, he can ''[[Film/ReignOverMe act]]''.

* In "''[[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture/9994-Je-Suis-Charlie-Comics?utm_source=latest&utm_medium=index_carousel&utm_campaign=all Je Suis Charlie]]''", Bob took the extremely difficult task of encapsulating the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks on Charlie Hedbo, which had quickly been taken up by the media as a case of studying the rights and limits of free speech. Bob deftly explains that, [[CaptainObvious while he clearly didn't approve of people responding to satire by way of gunning down the cartoonists]], he also cautioned how the backlash against the attackers could potentially lead to the equally dangerous proposition of the attacks being used as justification to shut down discussions or criticisms of the content of the satire, similar to how the post 9/11 PatrioticFervor led to UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror that, [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement to put it lightly]], [[WasItReallyWorthIt resulted in great losses with relatively little gain]], and that it was probably made worse when critics of the war strategies were branded as being "[[NoTrueScotsman un-patriotic]]". He ultimately concludes that many of the issues raised by the attacks, from discussions about the differences between free speech and hate speech, satire and mockery, etc., etc., [[GreyAndGreyMorality are all very, very complex issues with no easy solutions...]] [[DebateAndSwitch before swinging back around to say]] [[BlackAndWhiteMorality SOME things are relatively simple]], and [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech delivers one final "screw you!" to the terrorist attackers]]:

* In [[https://www.escapistmagazine.com/v2/im-not-dying-for-christopher-nolan-tenet-the-big-picture/ his Big Picture on]] Creator/ChristopherNolan and his push to have ''Film/{{Tenet}}'' only available to view in theatres even for critics, while Bob is sympathetic to theatre owners who were probably desperate for attendance and renewed income, he also exorciates Nolan for his [[ItsAllAboutMe tin-eared, egocentric insistence]] on getting his way without regard for the consequences to moviegoers and critics who had to choose between risking their health to see his movie or staying home, and deconstructs his fans' [[CreatorWorship insistence on deifying him]] by saying, in so many words, that he's ultimately Creator/MichaelBay but for smart people.

* [[https://youtu.be/hFdakgZIAMU "NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING" (The Internet Is Stupid: Part 2)]] sees Bob taking people who make {{Internet Counterattack}}s to task once again while discussing the FanMyopia behind the mindset. Bob calls out such commenters as being a VocalMinority that the average executive would do well to not listen to, since their opinions rarely pan out with what the SilentMajority of the audience thinks. For instance, Bob cites that everyone thought that ''Series/GameOfThrones'' killed any interest in Westeros based on the online reactions to its ending, but ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'' came out to critical and commercial acclaim. Then, Bob notes that despite all of the clamoring for the DarkerAndEdgier cut of ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'', it was the lowest-streamed DC movie upon release, and only about a third of people bothered to even finish watching it. Finally, Bob cites how ''Series/{{Yellowstone}}'' is pulling in gangbuster numbers like ''Game of Thrones'' used to have in its middle seasons, the show is getting [[Series/EighteenEightyThree a prequel series]] and a ton of good press, and yet most people online have never heard of it because it doesn't appeal to them. In summation, Bob takes rabid internet commenters to task for not only being addicted to their outrage, but for not being nearly as all-encompassing in sharing the majority opinion as they think they are.

* [[https://youtu.be/hFdakgZIAMU "NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING" (The Internet Is Stupid: Part 2)]] sees Bob taking people who make {{Internet Counterattack}}s to task once again while discussing the FanMyopia behind the mindset. Bob calls out such commenters as being a VocalMinority that the average executive would do well to not listen to, since their opinions rarely pan out with what the SilentMajority of the audience thinks. For instance, Bob cites that everyone thought that ''Series/GameOfThrones'' killed any interest in Westeros based on the online reactions to its ending, but ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'' came out to critical and commercial acclaim. Then, bob notes that despite all of the clamoring for the DarkerAndEdgier cut of ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'', it was the lowest-streamed DC movie upon release, and only about a third of people bothered to even finish watching it. Finally, Bob cites how ''Series/{{Yellowstone}}'' is pulling in gangbuster numbers like ''Game of Thrones'' used to have in its middle seasons, the show is getting [[Series/EighteenEightyThree a prequel series]] and a ton of good press, and yet most people online have never heard of it because it doesn't appeal to them. In summation, Bob takes rabid internet commenters to task for not only being addicted to their outrage, but for not being nearly as all-encompassing in sharing the majority opinion as they think they are.

* [[https://youtu.be/hFdakgZIAMU "NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING" (The Internet Is Stupid: Part 2)]] sees Bob taking people who make {{Internet Counterattack}}s to task once again while discussing the FanMyopia behind the mindset. Bob calls out such commenters as being a VocalMinority that the average executive would do well to not listen to, since their opinions rarely pan out with what the SilentMajority of the audience thinks. For instance, Bob cites that everyone thought that ''Series/GameOfThrones'' killed any interest in Westeros based on the online reactions to its ending, but ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'' came out to critical and commercial acclaim. Finally, Bob cites how ''Series/{{Yellowstone}}'' is pulling in gangbuster numbers like ''Game of Thrones'' used to have in its middle seasons, the show is getting [[Series/EighteenEightyThree a prequel series]] and a ton of good press, and yet most people online have never heard of it because it doesn't appeal to them. In summation, Bob takes rabid internet commenters to task for not only being addicted to their outrage, but for not being nearly as all-encompassing in sharing the majority opinion as they think they are.

* [[https://youtu.be/hFdakgZIAMU "NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING" (The Internet Is Stupid: Part 2)]] sees Bob taking people who make {{Internet Counterattack}}s to task once again while discussing the FanMyopia behind the mindset. Bob calls out such commenters as being a VocalMinority that the average executive would do well to not listen to, since their opinions rarely pan out with what the SilentMajority of the audience thinks. For instance, Bob cites that everyone thought that ''Series/GameOfThrones'' killed any interest in Westeros based on the online reactions to its ending, but ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'' came out to critical and commercial acclaim. By contrast, the clamoring online for ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'' was met largely with indifference; only one-third of anyone who queued up to watch the movie managing to finish it, and it was the lowest-streamed superhero movie of 2021. Finally, Bob cites how ''Series/{{Yellowstone}}'' is pulling in gangbuster numbers like ''Game of Thrones'' used to have in its middle seasons, the show is getting [[Series/EighteenEightyThree a prequel series]] and a ton of good press, and yet most people online have never heard of it because it doesn't appeal to them. In summation, Bob takes rabid internet commenters to task for not only being addicted to their outrage, but for not being nearly as all-encompassing in sharing the majority opinion as they think they are.