History Creator / BobChipman

** He believes that some of the worst movies ever made aren't made by poor or mediocre directors, but by genuinely great directors who couldn't deliver on their vision for a movie. Examples include Creator/JohnBoorman's ''Film/{{Zardoz}}'', Creator/MartinScorsese's ''Film/GangsOfNewYork'', Creator/RidleyScott's ''Film/{{Promentheus}}'', and Creator/SpikeLee's ''Film/SheHateMe''.

** He believes that some of the worst movies ever made aren't made by poor or mediocre directors, but by genuinely great directors who couldn't deliver on their vision for a movie.

** He accused Creator/TimotheeChalamet of this in his review of ''Film/{{Wonka}}'', mocking his statement about how he refused to play {{superhero}}es only to go on to do a [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka]] origin story, "which is of course completely different for some reason."

* {{Hypocrite}}: He came down hard on Creator/FrancisFordCoppola for this in the ''Big Picture'' episode [[https://www.escapistmagazine.com/v2/martin-scorsese-versus-the-marvel-cinematic-universe-the-big-picture/ "Old Man Yells At Crowd".]] He felt that Coppola's statements dismissing the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse[[note]]Unlike those of Creator/MartinScorsese (whom Coppola was defending), which were more focused on the filmmaking process and which Bob felt were rooted more in Scorsese's background as a "traditional" filmmaker who distrusted the ModularFranchise model that the MCU popularized, even if he [[https://www.escapistmagazine.com/v2/real-cinema-martin-scorsese-marvel-the-big-picture/ also felt]] that Scorsese was being rather snobbish about it[[/note]] were deeply lacking in self-awareness, given that, in many ways, his position and that of many of his contemporaries in the UsefulNotes/NewHollywood era -- a bunch of film nerds taking disreputable genres like crime, horror, and sci-fi and elevating them with their artistry, and Coppola specifically adapting a pulpy AirportNovel into [[Film/TheGodfather a classic of American cinema]] -- wasn't so different from that of Marvel's filmmakers taking pulpy comic books and seeking to elevate them into blockbuster action movies.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: [[invoked]] Discussed in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr4m7l2vNKY his review]] of ''WesternAnimation/{{Velma}}''. He believes that the big reason why the show fell so flat is because its basic premise, an AnimatedShockComedy take on ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'', has already been the subject of jokes for years going back to ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', the only difference being that now they're actually doing so with the ''Scooby-Doo'' license. In particular, Velma being a lesbian is not only a joke that was run into the ground long ago, but the canonical 2022 ''Scooby-Doo'' movie ''WesternAnimation/TrickOrTreatScoobyDoo'' had already made Velma a lesbian with little fanfare, so this show trying to do the same as an "edgy" joke caused it to simply feel stuck in the past.

* ChivalrousPervert: He agrees with feminism, and is one of the few ''vocal'' members of the gaming and general media community who believe women are still given the short end of the stick when it comes to society and representation. And while he hates the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' series for a whole host of reasons, he considers the constant male harping on it and works like over all the beefcake and FemaleGaze to be unfair, because women deserve to have cheesy, lowbrow fanservice directed towards them as well. That being said, if fanservice is done tastefully, he will revel in it.

* SugarWiki/FictionIdentityPostulate:[[invoked]] Discussed. Bob believes you can make a good movie out of anything, "but [[{{Literature/Twilight}} sometimes]] you have to [[AdaptationDecay rip out its guts]] [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools to do it]]."

Bob "Moviebob" Chipman, also known as "The Game Overthinker", is a self-proclaimed "Z-list internet celebrity" who maintains a Website/{{YouTube}} channel and a [[https://moviebobcentral.com/ website]] and formerly contributed to [[http://www.geek.com/author/bchipman/ Geek.com]], Creator/ScreenRant, Website/ScrewAttack and ''Website/TheEscapist''. He rips apart bad movies, but his particular shtick is giving analyses of gaming culture and the industry, in a style closely reminiscent of college-lit-class style "close reading", overlaid with appropriate (and sometimes humorous) images. Bob's analyses are very much like you would see from a troper. Indeed, [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/moviebob/7190-Trope-a-Dope he's written an article]] that refers to "a genuinely wonderful website called TV Tropes". [[FlipFlopOfGod He has since described the website as]] [[https://twitter.com/the_moviebob/status/1718399987065766178 "an evil Guttenberg Press"]].

Bob "Moviebob" Chipman, also known as "The Game Overthinker", is a self-proclaimed "Z-list internet celebrity" who maintains a Website/{{YouTube}} channel and a [[https://moviebobcentral.com/ website]] and formerly contributed to [[http://www.geek.com/author/bchipman/ Geek.com]], Creator/ScreenRant, Website/ScrewAttack and ''Website/TheEscapist''. He rips apart bad movies, but his particular shtick is giving analyses of gaming culture and the industry, in a style closely reminiscent of college-lit-class style "close reading", overlaid with appropriate (and sometimes humorous) images. Bob's analyses are very much like you would see from a troper. Indeed, [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/moviebob/7190-Trope-a-Dope he's written an article]] that refers to "a genuinely wonderful website called TV Tropes" [[FlipFlopOfGod He has since described the website as]] [[https://twitter.com/the_moviebob/status/1718399987065766178 "an evil Guttenberg Press"]].

Bob "Moviebob" Chipman, also known as "The Game Overthinker", is a self-proclaimed "Z-list internet celebrity" who maintains a Website/{{YouTube}} channel and a [[https://moviebobcentral.com/ website]] and formerly contributed to [[http://www.geek.com/author/bchipman/ Geek.com]], Creator/ScreenRant, Website/ScrewAttack and ''Website/TheEscapist''. He rips apart bad movies, but his particular shtick is giving analyses of gaming culture and the industry, in a style closely reminiscent of college-lit-class style "close reading", overlaid with appropriate (and sometimes humorous) images. Bob's analyses are very much like you would see from a troper. Indeed, [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/moviebob/7190-Trope-a-Dope he's written an article]] that refers to "a genuinely wonderful website called TV Tropes".

* PropagandaPiece: [[invoked]] Did a two-part ''Big Picture'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoVzd8TeH_w episode,]] "Pop! Goes the 'Ganda", on the history of propaganda in film. He notes that the term was originally neutral, and that most cinematic propaganda before TheFifties was pretty open about it, serving much the same function as parades and rallies in terms of [[PanderingToTheBase firing up the base]]. It was only during the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, when Western audiences got more cynical about propaganda, that it developed its modern, negative connotations, specifically in association with [[DirtyCommunists communist countries]] where the state-sanctioned SocialistRealism style meant that most media still took the form of old-fashioned agitprop. Problem was, this kind of propaganda was effective in the developing world, and the fact that the West was no longer making much of it (save for a few private sponsors who genuinely believed in the message they were selling) gave the Soviets a ton of soft power in the early years of the Cold War. As such, the UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} started sponsoring the arts in order to demonstrate the vibrancy of American culture versus the Soviet CulturePolice, effectively using American culture itself for propaganda purposes. He notes that the very idea of ShowDontTell as a maxim for good writing, as well as the rise of [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible abstract modern art]], came in no small part from these efforts, as the CIA saw it as a way to rebut explicitly communist propaganda that [[{{Anvilicious}} beat people over the head with the message]]. He also makes note of a soft example of this trope in modern fiction, that of how works that are BackedByThePentagon will never portray the US military in a bad light nor directly criticize its foreign policy, citing the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse as one of the defining examples of this today.

** Discussed in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQbhjieIc30 three-part]] ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFdakgZIAMU Big Picture]]'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMldvdc_H4E episode]] "The Internet is Stupid". He argued that much of geekdom and internet culture in general, and by extension an extremely online entertainment media, had come to suffer from this trope by 2022, with its fixations increasingly diverging from the tastes of audiences as a whole. He pointed to how few entertainment journalists saw the blockbuster success of ''Film/TopGunMaverick'' in film or ''Series/{{Yellowstone}}'' and ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'' on TV coming, as their target audiences lay well outside the usual geek media demographics or, in the case of ''House of the Dragon'', were more willing to forgive the divisive ending of ''Series/GameOfThrones'' and give the franchise a second chance than the geek press was.[[note]]It was for this reason that he also predicted, correctly in hindsight, that ''Film/AvatarTheWayOfWater'' would be a far bigger box-office hit than the geek press thought it would be.[[/note]] Conversely, they also talked up niche movies and shows like ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'', ''Series/{{Euphoria}}'', ''Series/{{Billions}}'', and ''Series/{{Succession}}'' and made them seem far more omnipresent in pop culture than they were, while dismissing ''Series/MsMarvel'' as a flop despite similar ratings that were, more importantly, concentrated in a young demographic that Disney's Marvel shows had trouble reaching before.

(cut to a poster of ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_My_Sister Sister My Sister]]'') \\

* PoliticalOvercorrectness:
** He also takes this view [[http://gameoverthinker.blogspot.com/2008/05/episode-eight-mississippi-pwning.html in both of his]] [[http://gameoverthinker.blogspot.com/2009/05/episode-twenty-three-mississippi-pwning.html "Mississippi Pwning"]] videos.

** Discussed in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQbhjieIc30 three-part]] ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFdakgZIAMU Big Picture]]'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMldvdc_H4E episode]] "The Internet is Stupid". He argued that much of geekdom and internet culture in general, and by extension an extremely online entertainment media, had come to suffer from this trope by 2022, with its fixations increasingly diverging from the tastes of audiences as a whole. He pointed to how few entertainment journalists saw the blockbuster success of ''Film/TopGunMaverick'' in film or ''Series/{{Yellowstone}}'' and ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'' on TV coming,[[note]]He also predicted, correctly in hindsight, that ''Film/AvatarTheWayOfWater'' would be a far bigger box-office hit than the geek press thought it would be.[[/note]] as their target audiences lay well outside the usual geek media demographics (or, in the case of ''House of the Dragon'', were more willing to forgive the divisive ending of ''Series/GameOfThrones'' and give the franchise a second chance than the geek press was), and conversely, how they talked up niche movies and shows like ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'', ''Series/{{Euphoria}}'', ''Series/{{Billions}}'', and ''Series/{{Succession}}'' and made them seem far more omnipresent in pop culture than they were while dismissing ''Series/MsMarvel'' as a flop despite similar ratings that were, more importantly, concentrated in a young demographic that Disney's Marvel shows had trouble reaching before.

* PropagandaPiece: [[invoked]] Did a two-part ''[[https://www.escapistmagazine.com/v2/2019/09/24/history-propaganda-pop-culture-weird-the-big-picture/ Big Picture]]'' [[https://www.escapistmagazine.com/v2/2019/09/26/propaganda-in-pop-culture-still-exists-in-your-favorite-movies/ episode]], "Pop! Goes the 'Ganda", on the history of propaganda in film. He notes that the term was originally neutral, and that most cinematic propaganda before TheFifties was pretty open about it, serving much the same function as parades and rallies in terms of [[PanderingToTheBase firing up the base]]. It was only during the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, when Western audiences got more cynical about propaganda, that it developed its modern, negative connotations, specifically in association with [[DirtyCommunists communist countries]] where the state-sanctioned SocialistRealism style meant that most media still took the form of old-fashioned agitprop. Problem was, this kind of propaganda was effective in the developing world, and the fact that the West was no longer making much of it (save for a few private sponsors who genuinely believed in the message they were selling) gave the Soviets a ton of soft power in the early years of the Cold War. As such, the UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} started sponsoring the arts in order to demonstrate the vibrancy of American culture versus the Soviet CulturePolice, effectively using American culture itself for propaganda purposes. He notes that the very idea of ShowDontTell as a maxim for good writing, as well as the rise of [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible abstract modern art]], came in no small part from these efforts, as the CIA saw it as a way to rebut explicitly communist propaganda that [[{{Anvilicious}} beat people over the head with the message]]. He also makes note of a soft example of this trope in modern fiction, that of how works that are BackedByThePentagon will never portray the US military in a bad light nor directly criticize its foreign policy, citing the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse as one of the defining examples of this today.

* TooCleverByHalf: He believes that some of the worst movies ever made aren't made by poor or mediocre directors, but by genuinely great directors who couldn't deliver on their vision for a movie.

* UnconventionalLearningExperience: His general opinion of video games in Episode 16.

** His biggest problem with ''Series/TheBoys2019'' is that he didn't think it did enough to update [[ComicBook/TheBoys the source material]] for TheNewTens, and that it wound up reflecting the TurnOfTheMillennium preoccupations of such instead of how much the superhero genre had changed since then. For instance, its CaptainErsatz of ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} being portrayed as the ButtMonkey of the team squares well with the character's reputation in the 2000s, but not so much his reputation in 2019 as [[Film/Aquaman2018 one of the leading lights]] of the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse, where he's portrayed as a badass sailor-bro and extremely popular for it. The female superhero Starlight's more {{stripperiffic}} "new" costume likewise reflects how overly sexy female costumes had become a source of controversy and snark in comics during the 2000s, whereas the 2010s saw a full-blown backlash against the trend in comics art. But the biggest one, and one that goes beyond its handling of trends in the comics, came with Homelander, the ComicBook/{{Superman}}[=/=]ComicBook/CaptainAmerica expy who's written as a satire of [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush Bush-era]] militarism and evangelical Christianity, a reference point that pinned the story down, more than anything, as fundamentally rooted in a 2000s worldview.

* ValuesResonance: [[invoked]] Discussed in his ''Really That Good'' episode on the films of Creator/AdamSandler, where Bob argues that Sandler's early films owe much of their continuing popularity to this: whatever their shortcomings as ''films'' may have been, they were surprisingly ahead of their time in their implicit condemnation of toxic masculinity (a term that wasn't even in common parlance in the early 1990s), and in their general willingness to portray emotional vulnerability and earnest wholesomeness as praiseworthy virtues--which wasn't nearly as common in American pop culture in the 1990s as it would become in the late 2010s and early 2020s.

** He loathes Michael Bay's directorial style but in his review of ''Age of Extinction'' he rallies against "critics" who hate Bay himself. His review of ''Pain and Gain'' even praises Bay because his insane, overly-dramatic music-video-rythmn stylization helps augment the cartoonish absurdism of the so-crazy-the-NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer-appears-repeatedly plot instead of hindering it.

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: [[invoked]]{{Discussed|Trope}} in the ''Big Picture'' episode [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture/5685-Wrongs-Rights "Rights & Wrongs"]] as it pertains to why Franchise/SpiderMan and the ComicBook/XMen won't be showing up in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse anytime soon, and why Sony and Fox are churning out new entries in those properties (and others).

* EveryoneHasStandards: He loathes Michael Bay's directorial style but in his review of ''Age of Extinction'' he rallies against "critics" who hate Bay himself. His review of ''Pain and Gain'' even praises Bay because his insane, overly-dramatic music-video-rythmn stylization helps augment the cartoonish absurdism of the so-crazy-the-NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer-appears-repeatedly plot instead of hindering it.

* SpiritualAntithesis: To WebVideo/MauLer, practically the polar opposite of Bob in just about every way. Chipman is a very verbose fast-talker with a [[HollywoodNewEngland Boston accent]] that rates movies in a more traditional subjective way, and his videos almost always fall within a length of five to ten minutes. [=MauLer=], meanwhile, is a steadily-talking, very in-depth reviewer with a [[IAmVeryBritish British accent]], rates movies on ostensibly objective standards, and his critiques often exceed several hours in length. While [=MauLer=] has made several videos criticizing Bob and his work, Bob has never mentioned [=MauLer=] by name in his videos, but has made several jabs at him on Twitter, and it could be argued that the entirely of his ''Plothole Surfers'' video was directed at [=MauLer=].

* TheDevilIsALoser: Discussed in his review of (appropriately enough) ''Film/Devil2010'', where he talks about this trope' roots in how Literature/TheBible itself portrays Satan as an ineffectual villain, one who only plays a major role at the beginning and end and otherwise comes across as "a snarky minion who got demoted to VP of discipline management and acts out by making mischief on Earth like a glib, middle-management Loki." He thinks it makes more sense for Satan to be portrayed this way in stories based on the Christian religion given how God is supposed to be all-powerful, and thus has trouble taking ReligiousHorror seriously when it portrays Satan as a powerful and dangerous supervillain in his own right.

* StoryArc: Episode 43 had Game Overthinker's EvilCounterpart, the Anti-Thinker, come in and [[HostileShowTakeover take over the show]], by teleporting Game Overthinker to Wario's Woods. Many have noticed the FollowTheLeader to the plotline based elements in Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses's shows. Bob is revealed to have superpowers to a degree and kills the Anti-Thinker, who returns several times after.

* AcceptableTargets: [[invoked]] In his review of ''Film/TheOldGuard'', he listed out a number of "geopolitically-inoffensive movie bad guys" who make for easy go-to villains in modern films because they won't get the film boycotted or banned in important markets: [[NoBloodForPhlebotinum Big Oil]], [[NewMediaAreEvil Silicon Valley]], a [[{{Qurac}} fictional Middle Eastern country]], [[EatTheRich the rich]], [[StrawmanNewsMedia the media]], [[CorruptChurch religion]] (but [[CrystalDragonJesus not one of the real ones]]), [[ConsumerConspiracy Big]] [[EvilutionaryBiologist Pharma]], and a [[YellowPeril fictional Asian country]]. (The villains in ''The Old Guard'' ultimately turn out to be Big Pharma.)

Bob "Moviebob" Chipman, also known as "The Game Overthinker", is a self-proclaimed "Z-list internet celebrity" who maintains a Website/{{YouTube}} channel and a [[https://moviebobcentral.com/ website]] and formerly contributed to [[http://www.geek.com/author/bchipman/ Geek.com]], Creator/ScreenRant, [[http://screwattack.com/ Screw Attack]] and ''Website/TheEscapist''. He rips apart bad movies, but his particular shtick is giving analyses of gaming culture and the industry, in a style closely reminiscent of college-lit-class style "close reading", overlaid with appropriate (and sometimes humorous) images. Bob's analyses are very much like you would see from a troper. Indeed, [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/moviebob/7190-Trope-a-Dope he's written an article]] that refers to "a genuinely wonderful website called TV Tropes".

* ''The Big Screen'': His film review show, originally called ''Escape to the Movies''; updates a few times a week. He also created video reviews of films in a very similar style to ''Escape to the Movies'' on [[http://www.geek.com/author/bchipman Geek.com.]]

** "Hardcore" gamers; in Bob's definition, such people are a VocalMinority of StopHavingFunGuys types.[[invoked]]
--> "You heard me, you half-cocked message board fuckheads, the UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} ''is'' part of ''this'' console generation… so can we ''please'' stop it with this tired shit about [[UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube GameCubes]] and duct tape!"
** Creator/SamRaimi's departure from the ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' films and the "Amazing" series really irks Bob. He hated the second film in particular, so much so that he considered quitting his job because he despised the film that much.

** Bob loves the 00s ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' and slam ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'' any chance he gets, over emphasizing the qualities of the former and dismissing the positives of the latter. For ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming,'' many were annoyed that he ignored the character story within and just dismissed the whole thing as disposable junk.

* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: He listed ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}} 2'' as the best movie about a talking tow-truck you'll see this year.