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{{creator}}
{{quote|''"Proud to be an American,''
''[[Proud to Be a Geek|Prouder to be an American geek]]"''
|The motto used at the beginning of each segment.}}
Bob '''"Moviebob"''' Chipman, also known as "The Game Overthinker", is a self-proclaimed "Z-list internet celebrity" who maintains a vlog on YouTube and a [http://gameoverthinker.blogspot.com/ Blogspot site],and also contributes to both [https://web.archive.org/web/20130515081133/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/view/MovieBob The Escapist] and [http://screwattack.com/ ScrewAttack]. 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, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130420045124/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". Bob loves what he loves and hates what he hates, and between his (admittedly) abrasive attitude, his [[Nostalgia Filter|unapologetic love of '80s and early '90s gaming]], and his tendency to [[He Panned It, Now He Sucks|belittle franchises with large fanbases]] (and those fans), he can be somewhat [[Love It or Hate It|divisive]]. However, agree or disagree with him, his videos often provide ample food for thought.
The list of the [[Moviebob/Films Discussed By Moviebob|Films Discussed By Moviebob]] got so long, it's been moved to a separate page.
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* [[Actually Pretty Funny]]: He actually found the [[Ascended Meme]] Spartan-1337 in ''[[Halo Legends]]'' pretty clever.
* [[Alternate Reality Game]]: Seemingly parodied briefly (possibly specifically the [[Slender Man Mythos]]) with references to Wario's Woods and cryptic text after making an announcement proclaiming a realization that would change everything. The following video (while still showing brief influences from films like ''[[The Blair Witch Project]]'' and possibly [[Marble Hornets]]) however, confirmed it as an [[Evil Twin]] storyline. Also qualifies on kicking off a [[Story Arc]].
* [[Ambiguous Disorder]]: Given recent tweets expressing a... let's just be generous and say [[Understatement|"disdain"]] for Republican voters in the wake of the 2016 election, have led many to theorize that Bob has some sort of mental/emotional problem.
* [[American Accents]]/[[Hahvahd Yahd in My Cah]]:
** The lack of Oscar nominations for [[Dark Knight Trilogy|The Dark Knight]] apparently made him so angry that he slipped into his native [[Boston (useful notes)|Boston]] accent.
** Again in his ''[[Black Swan]]'' review. After spending around 2 minutes in a very fake English accent as part of a joke, he starts talking about the infamous lesbian scene in the movie with his accent thicker than ever before.
** His "Game Antithinker" character spoke in a highly exaggerated Boston accent, peppered with stereotypical "bro" speak.
** In "The Big Picture", he slips into this during the "[https://web.archive.org/web/20141228160228/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture/4132-Continanity-Rebooted Continanity Rebooted]" episode. It's distracting to say the least.
* [[And Now for Something Completely Different]]: His ''[[Black Swan]]'' review begins in a much more sophisticated tone.
* [[As You Know]]: The definition of this appears on screen while he's talking about ''[[Surrogates]]''.
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** He also '''hates''' the new ''[[Transformers]]'' films, as well as the bulk of [[Michael Bay]]'s output for that matter.
* [[Bias Steamroller]]:
** He has become notorious for the fact that his intense opposition to politically-incorrect, unfriendly, and "macho" members of the "hardcore" gaming and nerd community, noble in and of itself, bleeds into hating anything he thinks they like, hence the list under
** Bob once infamously stated that he preferred ''[[Metroid: Other M]]'', one of the most controversial games in the venerable ''[[Metroid]]'' series and often considered a [[Franchise Killer]], to the beloved and universally-acclaimed ''[[Metroid Prime]]
** Furthermore, his intense antipathy towards the "Retake ''[[Mass Effect]]''" movement, which went on for more than a month of him being unable to make any videos about ''anything'' without spending a bit of time ranting about it, was heavily rooted in his low opinion of the morals and intellectual capacity of the gaming community, and his horror at the idea of what in his mind were a bunch of [[Acceptable Targets]] degrading the Auteur theory as applied to video games. Notably, he maintained throughout the controversy that he didn't see why his complete ignorance of the source material should prevent him from having an opinion about it and regularly dismissed the idea that a "player-driven narrative" could have any artistic value. Another direct quote: "No one ever won a Pulitzer for a f@#$ing 'Choose Your Own Adventure' novel!"
** He's become more and more notable for having a very, very strong leaning towards the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]], while having an even stronger leaning ''against'' any comic book films not made within that franchise post ''[[Iron Man]]''.
** Bob loves the 00s ''Spider-Man'' trilogy and slam ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' any chance he gets, over emphasising the qualities of the former and dismissing the positives of the latter. For ''Spider-Man: Homecoming'', many were annoyed that he ignored the character story within and just dismissed the whole thing as disposable junk.
* [[Breather Episode]]: If you follow all of his shows, the Game Overthinker episode ''Bat-Slap'' comes out with Bob stating he doesn't believe gaming culture as a whole is ready/deserves to be taken as seriously as it so-often claims to want to. Come the following Tuesday, the Big Picture episode ''Science'' has Bob making mostly non-serious statements like "Space guys, if you don't want to pretend you've discovered oil on Mars to trick some funding out of the Government, how about telling Glenn Beck there's gold on the moon and not letting him come back?"
* [[Brick Joke]]: His Do The Mario videos on the Escapist, the first one having a [[The Stinger|stinger]] showing SMB: Peach-Hime Kyushutsu Dai Sakusen and saying it's a story for another time (as in, not the week after the first). Two weeks later, Do the Mario PT. 2 was featured (showcasing said aforementioned Mario anime).
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** Also invoked in Episode 56.
* [[Crap Saccharine World]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73toAMJ7rqY&feature=related This picture is painted for this video to show the mentality of Nintendo's hugest, almost literally, cult supporters.]
* [[Crazy Awesome]]: In-universe, when [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/ The Escapist] made him start doing [https://web.archive.org/web/20131028143649/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture The Big Picture], he used a bit of the first video to officially dub his bosses as such.
* [[Creator Thumbprint]]:
** While he admits their obvious flaws, he has a love of Nintendo games and often uses Nintendo characters in the [[B-Roll Rebus]].
** The word "douchebag" pops up heavily when regarding hardcores or Michael Bay, becoming his mainstay word to describe someone/something he really hates (naturally people call him this).
** Discussed [https://web.archive.org/web/20120512215907/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/moviebob/7367-Stuff-Bob-Likes here]. To be specific: [[Everything's Better with Monkeys|Monkeys]], [[A Boy and His X|Dogs]], Monsters, [[Kaiju|Giant Monsters]], [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs|Dinosaurs]], Lesbians, [[Heavy Metal]], Awesome Fight Choregraphy, [[Insufferable Genius|Insufferable Geniuses]] as protagonists, [[The Fifties]], [[The Eighties]] and strangely enough [[Honor Before Reason]].
* [[Curse Cut Short]]
{{quote|Ah, finally. Just a good old-fashioned straight-up revenge movie. No [[The Book of Eli|post-apocalyptic bible salesman]], no [[Legion|angels with guns]], no connection to anything remotely spiritual, religious, church-related or anything else that gets people's [[Internet Backdraft|panties in a twist]] whenever I mention it. Ah, good. Good. ...Hey, who's in this again? *Shot of [[Mel Gibson]] as he appeared in [[The Passion of the Christ]]* Aw, Mother F- *Theme Plays* }}
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** In his ''[[Heavy Metal (animation)|Heavy Metal]]'' review, he notes that this was the ''only'' reason the movie was worth watching at the time, since boobs were hard to find back in the early 80's, let alone cartoon boobs.
* [[Fast-Forward Gag]]: He sometimes speeds up part of his voice-over in order to make the video fit the standard ~10-minute length while still including all the [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness|BIG WORDS]] he wants to use. It is usually accompanied by a graphic of a chipmunk and a cup of coffee.
* [[Franchise Original Sin]]: [[In-Universe]] example; in the ''Intermission'' editorial [https://web.archive.org/web/20130805153852/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/moviebob/9521-Consequences "Consequences"], he cites four examples of great films that he feels started some of the more annoying and/or problematic trends in various film genres, and in moviemaking as a whole.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: He admitted once that he was bullied in high school, and his comments seem to give away that his resentment from that era is one, if not the main reason behind his criticism to certain things. Like the "douchebag" video game crowd that came with the Play Station generation (especially [[Xbox]] Live FPS users), his hatred towards the 90's (the decade in which he went to high school), and his fondness for [[X-Men|Magneto]]-like villains. He's also specially done a ''Big Picture'' episode about nerd reactions to such actions and the mindset that if one was bullied, they can't in turn be a bully themselves. He admits that he's talking to himself as much as he is to the viewer.
* [[The Great Comics Crash of 1996]]: ''Game Overthinker'' Episode 11, titled "''Can It Happen To Us?''", pointed out similarities between the current game industry and the pre-crash comic book industry.
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* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]: Inverted. He calls himself out on insulting Michael Bay:
{{quote|"I said that the movies of Michael Bay were made by a douchebag for douchebags, and that wasn't fair. I don't know Michael Bay, for all I know he's a perfectly nice person. Oh, his movies are still made for and primarily enjoyed ''by'' douchebags, but there's no reason to stoop to personal attacks.}}
* [[I Want My Jetpack]]: Devoted an entire ''Big Picture'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20120514132546/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture/4936-Science episode] to this subject.
* [[Jittercam]]: One of his [[Pet Peeve Trope|Pet Peeve Tropes]], along with [[Found Footage Films|the "found footage" genre]] that makes heavy use of it, though he sees why they're so popular nowadays. He feels that, for the generation that grew up with [[Cell Phone|camera phones]] and [[YouTube|social]] [[Friending Network|media]] as ubiquitous parts of their lives, this style of filmmaking is associated with realism, i.e. something that looks like it was shot on the street by random passerby rather than by a professional film crew.
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Most of the time, less pointing out the tropes he uses, and more acknowledging them.
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* [[Nostalgia Filter]]: Bob is a decidedly old-school-centric gamer.
** Played straight and averted, respectively, with his treatment of [[The Eighties]] and [[The Nineties]]. Bob is ''not'' a fan of the latter decade, frequently accompanying mentions of it with a stock photo of [[The Wrestler|Randy "The Ram" Robinson]] with the caption "The '90s sucked", and he has little love for most of the pop culture trends of that era ([[Nineties Anti-Hero|Nineties anti heroes]], [[Post Modernism|post-modern]] teen horror, et cetera). On the other hand, he loves the '80s, cheesiness and all. He states that this was because the '90s were his awkward, schlubby teen years that came in between his wondrous childhood in the '80s and his present-day success as an internet personality.
** Averted, and examined, with [https://web.archive.org/web/20120502022544/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture/5140-The-Simpsons-Is-Still-Funny-Pt-1 his treatment] of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''. While going over the older seasons, Bob noticed that most of the episodes he thought were comic gold as a kid didn't age well, while the episodes he thought were boring when they first aired became much better now that he was [[Parental Bonus|old enough to appreciate the humor]]. He concludes that ''The Simpsons'' didn't [[Jumping the Shark|jump the shark]] like its fans thought it did, but rather, its fans grew up and their tastes in humor changed, and ''The Simpsons'' didn't change with them. Plus, there's the fact that the show, a broad satire of the greater pop culture, is a relic of a time stretching from roughly 1950-2000 when pop culture was largely monolithic<ref>As in, most mainstream Americans, apart from those on the cultural fringes, watched the same three or four TV [[Networks]] and the same movies, received the same news, listened to the same music, read the same books, et cetera.</ref> -- the early '00s, the time most commonly cited as when ''The Simpsons'' "stopped being funny", is also the time when the internet and cable television fragmented pop culture into a million little shards and [[Subculture|subcultures]].
* [["Not Making This Up" Disclaimer]]: For ''[[Devil]]'', and emblematic of the whole movie's stupidity:
{{quote|A character who we're supposed to regard as the grounded rational and moral centre of the entire story proves that they're in the presence of the Devil by throwing a piece of toast in the air and seeing if it lands butter-side-down. [Reverb] '''I. AM NOT. MAKING. THAT UP.''' }}
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* [[Overly Narrow Superlative]]: He listed ''[[Cars]] 2'' as the best movie about a talking tow-truck you'll see this year.
* [[Political Correctness Gone Mad]]:
** Inverted. Bob ''hates'' people who use "PC" as a [[The War On Straw|strawman]] to defend themselves from accusations of sexism and bigotry, and has frequently [https://web.archive.org/web/20130310045842/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture/2783-Correctitude called them out on it]. If anything, he feels that it's political ''in''correctness<ref>specifically, assholes using "political incorrectness" as a cover for being assholes</ref> that's gone mad.
** 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.
* [[Popcultural Osmosis]]: Bob peppers his videos quite liberally with geek culture references, and figures we'll get them.
* [[Proud to Be a Geek]]
* [[Qurac]]: Uses the term "[[No Communities Were Harmed|Noniraquistan]]" when describing the plot of the original ''Modern Warfare'' game.
* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130804161932/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture/2734-MovieBob-FAQ He stated that he bakes.]
* [[Reverse Cerebus Syndrome]]: The Game Antithinker [[Story Arc]] is more satirical than [[Moviebob]]'s newer episodes. The change has produced a bit of a [[Broken Base]].
* [[Rule of Cool]]: Reviewing ''Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes'', he admits "I'm probably predisposed to liking ''anything'' that has a scene of a gorilla beating up a helicopter."
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** There are loads of [[Visual Pun|Visual Puns]] (see below), and a number of other running gags.
** '''[[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|COMICS! ARE! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIIIIIRRRD!!]]'''
* [[Screwed by the Lawyers]]: [[Discussed Trope]] in the ''Big Picture'' episode [https://web.archive.org/web/20130805043059/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture/5685-Wrongs-Rights "Rights & Wrongs"] as it pertains to why [[Spider-Man]] and the [[X-Men]] won't be showing up in the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]] anytime soon, and why Sony and Fox are churning out new entries in those properties (and others)
* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: Usually accompanied with the graphic "Big Words".
* [[Shaped Like Itself]]: Describing the performances in ''[[Thor (film)|Thor]]'':
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** Often when posing a question, he uses an image of [[The Question]].
* [[Wild Mass Guessing]]: He's responsible for the [[Super Mario Bros./WMG|Super Mario Bros]] "Rosalina is God" Guess.
* [[Working Class People Are Morons]]: After the election of [[Donald Trump]], Bob increasingly lashed out against rural areas in a way that frequently threw entire states and their populations under the bus, going so far as wanting to deny them the right to vote - this is despite the fact that, as particularly shown during the subsequent 2020 election, many people who would share his views also live in such states.
* [[X Meets Y]]: Subverted when he describes the [[Metroidvania|gameplay]] of ''[[Shadow Complex]]'' as "[[Metroid]] crossed with [[Metroid]] divided by [[Metroid]] with a remainder of [[Metroid]]." He also describes [[Halo]] as "[[Starship Troopers]] crossed with [[Starship Troopers]]."
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* ''[[Grand Theft Auto (series)|Grand Theft Auto]]'': Likes the series overall, with ''[[Grand Theft Auto Vice City|Vice City]]'' being his favorite. However, he hated ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas|San Andreas]]'', viewing that game as having jumped head-first into the sort of ''[[Scarface]]''-esque [[Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!|gangster machismo]] that ''[[Grand Theft Auto Vice City|Vice City]]'' had parodied. He also laments the inherent limitations of the genre.
* ''[[Halo]]'': Exhibit A for every problem that Bob has with modern [[First-Person Shooter|First Person Shooters]], particularly the genre's focus on online multiplayer. He also argues that there are [[Unfortunate Implications]] in the differences between the Covenant and the UNSC.
** ''Halo 4'': In the ''Big Picture'' episode [https://web.archive.org/web/20130317060135/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture/5654-One-Day-in-November "One Day in November"], he discussed the conspiracy theory that the timing of the game's release on November 6, 2012 -- Election Day in the US -- was an attempt to get Mitt Romney elected President by distracting the youth vote (which pulls strongly for Obama) with a major entertainment release, thus reducing turnout by them. His conclusion: the theory has little to no basis in fact (even if the general idea was theoretically possible), though the mere fact that people even considered it just serves to highlight how gamers should be more involved with the world around them and be active participants in its processes.
* ''[[Madden NFL]]'' and other [[Electronic Arts|EA Sports]] titles: Dislikes how EA charges $60 a year for what usually amounts to a roster update and minor gameplay changes, things that, in an age of [[Downloadable Content]], should be done via that route.
* ''[[Kirby]] 64'': Lamented that his homophobic teen years caused him to miss it the first time around, and encourages viewers not to let biases keep them from things they might like.
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