Moviebob's Non-TGO stuff.

Necrobumpery!

Bob made a long vlog about some stuff that happened in his early days.

^TL;DR While a couple of years out of college and working at a Blockbuster, Bob was part of an amateur movie review show on local access cable, basically YouTube before the existence of YouTube, the experience of which led him to later start his own show on the Internet. The host of the show dropped him when he refused to give a dishonestly positive description of The Passion of the Christ; allegedly, the host later threatened Bob's life. Bob, freaked out, went to see Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed, which was good enough to take his mind off matters. Years later, when he got to interview James Gunn for The Escapist, he mentioned how that movie got him through a tough time, and Gunn seemed genuinely thankful that he had touched someone so well.

Oh, and he also likes The Happytime Murders

He's also apparently working for The Escapist again. So... I dunno man, I have no idea what's going on.

Another big one this one about the James Gunn situation and Disney actually being evil all along

That's a bit of an exaggeration. It's more that Disney is just as corporate as every other corporation, but they have a good public image. They fired James Gunn to save face and its devolved into a bunch of bad PR.

Largely because a lot of people who don't spend all their time running Disney are aware that the source of the information is himself a rape apologist and the like. On the one hand, I don't blame the guys who made the decision for not being aware of who small time MR As on youtube are, but on the other if they're going to base hiring and firing decisions on such things I think it behooves them to actually look into the accusations AND the source of such accusations.

I managed to miss the official resurrection of The Big Picture.

Polarity Contest; or, why a new Oscar category for Best Popular Movie is a bad idea.

MCU-tants; or, don't worry too much about the logistics of bringing mutants into the MCU.

Also, fuck the Escapist player for defaulting to mute.

Not exactly what you would call Bob's number 1 fan but I agree with him about the Best Popular Picture category

It brings to mind an idea that sometimes gets floated on the Cracked podcast that the Oscars should be on a five-year delay; so, for example, the 2019 Oscars would give awards to the best films of 2014. That way, any controversy can die down and the Academy has some perspective, seeing what movies lasted and what was forgotten.

On the other hand, it means that the forgettable oscarbait of the last 5 years gets to compete with itself, which might result in an even greater divide.

But it would fundamentally alter the entire scheme of oscar-bait. Usually it's heavily marketed in December and January, but if the awards dont happen every year, that would change. If anything, it might mean there's less oscar-bait competing for the awards since it would be so spread out

The problem with the Oscars is that they are too focused on the here and now. They choose films that appeal to them in the moment with little regard to how they'll age

and

Sorry, I was unclear. Cracked's suggestion isn't that the Oscars would cover a five-year period; it's that each award show would still cover one year of movies, but instead of the year just gone, it's movies that came out five years previously (but not four or six years).

Yeah, there would probably still be Oscar bait, but Oscar bait would need to be enduring, or at least the distributors would have to play a long game.

Searching review.

Bob's favourite movie so far this year.

Bob makes a trailer.

Not gonna lie... I'd watch that if it was an actual movie.

Talking about the Escapist's panel at PAX West 2018

And apparently we are incorrect about the time Rick turned himself into a pickle.

Edited by VampireBuddha on Sep 5th 2018 at 3:31:46 PM

Review of The Nun:

I also went to Catholic school, and I'm only six years younger than Bob. Are the kind of school my parents went to still a thing in America?

Review of Peppermint:

Bob is not a fan.

The Big Picture: Plotholes.

Also Bob's doing a Q&A video in a fornight.

This video right there is why I have trouble stomaching Moviebob. Like, he's right about the show and the episode. And those are excellent point. But voicing that isn't enough for Moviebob. He has to over-generalize, throwing an entire fandom under the bus while making his entire video sound self-masturbatory about about how he gets it. And he needs to explain it to you. The entire title basically is a declaration about how Bob is so much better than his viewers. After all He thinks "You", person watching the video, are wrong.

Moviebob could be so interesting if he could tone down the smug and condescension.

and? do YOU think that way that he would call you wrong?

I myself have a hard time falling for parasocial 'celeb' dynamics, be they "Your Friend" or "Im Smarter", so i guess thats why i dont know whats the issue.

Keep in mind that in his book he compared SMB 3 to Watergate, the JFK assasination and 9/11 and the console wars to Vietnam. I know things like that (SMB 3 and the console wars) seem like big things when you're a kid but not on that level.

You're right. When you're a kid, those videogame-related events appear much bigger than some dude with a name you might have heard sometime getting shot.

Anyhow, New Big Picture, in which Bob discusses the army of Youtube "critics" that seem to be mostly concerned with plotholes over themes. Not sure about the way he inserted internet misogyny in there, but I do know that those are kind of obnoxious.

ok look plotholes are an inevitability. Even the tightest script has at least some minor leaps in logic or contradiction. The issue is how noticeable they are. If you notice any major plot holes (or a gajillion minor ones that add up) During your first viewing it is the fault of the movie. Films are an illusion: people go in knowing they're fake but they want to be amazed. However, suspension of disbelief only goes to far

Internet misogynists are often the type to make an angry list of (real or perceived) plotholes and act as if it's insightful criticism, though Bob is exaggerating for comedic effect there.

It reminds me of a point David Wong brought up on a Cracked podcast about people like Pewdiepie. They're entertaining, engaging, and charismatic, and make things that our kids enjoy. So when they're talking about cool stuff you can do in Minecraft and go off on a tangent about how come there's no White History Month, kids come away thinking this is a reasonable position to have.

Edited by VampireBuddha on Sep 13th 2018 at 5:20:01 PM