With the DC Extended Universe (aka "The DCEU," aka "The SnyderVerse") about to be put out of its misery by the continuum-reboot shennanigans of "THE FLASH;" I begin my look back through (almost!) every review, video essay, etc I published on the subject in chronological order from the release of "MAN OF STEEL" in 2013 to the total collapse of Warner Bros as a studio in the ongoing present. It's The story of Hollywood and the art of mainstream moviemaking at an inflection point: Sprawling, hard to believe but for the fact that we all watched it happen saga - at once comical yet infuriating and deeply sad - of how hubris, greed, mismanagement, misunderstanding, chasing trends while failing to grasp them and the demonic influence of the Sunk Cost Fallacy turned a “sure thing” into a decade-long garbage fire that eventually burned down one of the last great Movie Studios.
With the DC Extended Universe (aka "The DCEU," aka "The SnyderVerse") about to be put out of its misery by the continuum-reboot shennanigans of "THE FLASH;" I begin my look back through (almost!) every review, video essay, etc I published on the subject in chronological order from the release of "MAN OF STEEL" in 2013 to the total collapse of Warner Bros as a studio in the ongoing present. It's The story of Hollywood and the art of mainstream moviemaking at an inflection point: Sprawling, hard to believe but for the fact that we all watched it happen saga - at once comical yet infuriating and deeply sad - of how hubris, greed, mismanagement, misunderstanding, chasing trends while failing to grasp them and the demonic influence of the Sunk Cost Fallacy turned a “sure thing” into a decade-long garbage fire that eventually burned down one of the last great Movie Studios.
#TheFlash #TheFlashMovie #DCEU #TheBatman #WonderWomanReview - INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY (quick take)moviebob2023-07-07 | Quick take review for "INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY" #indianajones #indianajonesandthedialofdestiny #indianajones5MARTHABOX: The Pointless Life And Meaningless Death of The DCEU - PART 4 (Re-Upload)moviebob2023-06-29 | PART 4 of 4 - "KING DUMB COME" (RE-UPLOAD for Copyright Purposes) WATCH PART 3 HERE: youtube.com/watch?v=YJNliAhr3mY PART 1: youtube.com/watch?v=QQeoXYCsLPY
With the DC Extended Universe (aka "The DCEU," aka "The SnyderVerse") about to be put out of its misery by the continuum-reboot shennanigans of "THE FLASH;" I begin my look back through (almost!) every review, video essay, etc I published on the subject in chronological order from the release of "MAN OF STEEL" in 2013 to the total collapse of Warner Bros as a studio in the ongoing present. It's The story of Hollywood and the art of mainstream moviemaking at an inflection point: Sprawling, hard to believe but for the fact that we all watched it happen saga - at once comical yet infuriating and deeply sad - of how hubris, greed, mismanagement, misunderstanding, chasing trends while failing to grasp them and the demonic influence of the Sunk Cost Fallacy turned a “sure thing” into a decade-long garbage fire that eventually burned down one of the last great Movie Studios.
Special episode adapted from the concluding monologue of "Marthabox: The Pointless Life & Meaningless Death of The DC Extended Universe" (now with new video, music-free read, clips and refreshed edits for "BIG PICTURE" format); produced ahead of a post-"FLASH" wrap-up. Covering the end of the a failed "cinematic universe," potential the collapse of a studio legacy and finding meaning (or not?) in a decade of meaningless moviemaking. Big things afoot here on the channel and elsewhere, but first... the housekeeping 🤷♂️
Review of the first two episodes from Marvel's anticipated new Disney-Plus scifi series "SECRET INVASION;" a paranoid-scifi thriller loosely inspired by the comic of the same title featuring Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury investigating the possibility that a scheme to destabilize the world is being fomented by shape-shifting alien invaders within the Marvel Universe.
After a decade-plus of development hell, dozens of directors, writers, scripts, retoolings, a global Pandemic and a lead-actor's INTERNATIONAL CRIME SPREE; the most interesting thing that can maybe be said about "THE FLASH" is that - after all that - it somehow manages to wriggle out from under its hefty but compelling extra baggage to stand up on its own as… actually just a completely average, unremarkable superhero movie.
#TheFlash #TheFlashMovie #Flash #DCEU9 (2009) - Retro Reviewmoviebob2023-06-12 | Retro review of "9," an animated movie you don't remember and that the content-sorting algorithm will bury because of the way they insisted on titling it. But if you find this video anyway there's some new commentary about that, so... welcome, I guess?BOONDOCK SAINTS II: ALL SAINTS DAY (2009) - Retro Reviewmoviebob2023-06-11 | Retro review (remastered) from 2009 of "BOONDOCK SAINTS II;" plus commentary from present tense on the film/franchise and legacy looking back from modern perspective.
And Shepherds we will be. For thee, my Lord, for thee. Power hath descended forth from Thy hand. That our feet may swiftly carry out Thy command. So we shall flow a river forth to Thee. And Teeming with souls shall it ever be. In Nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti
#boondocksaintsReview - TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS (2023)moviebob2023-06-10 | And now, an exhausted but enthusiastic critic offers his take on the latest "TRANSFORMERS" feature; which in some respects aims to do for toy robots what "SPIDERVERSE" did for Marvel superheroes but mostly delivers on a retro-cool blitz of 90s nostalgia and deliberately preposterous sci-fi spectacle that (also mostly) get's the job done.
#Transformers #RiseOfTheBeasts #transformersriseofthebeasts #hasbroSURROGATES (2009) - Retro Reviewmoviebob2023-06-09 | Retro review of the mostly-forgotten 2009 scifi/action thriller "SURROGATES" with Bruce Willis, remastered and updated with present-tense commentary looking back on context of the original recording.
#surrogates #brucewillisWHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE (2009) - Retro Reviewmoviebob2023-06-08 | Retro review from 2009, updated with present-day commentary, of the live-action adaptation of "WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE."ZOMBIELAND + ZOMBIELAND: DOUBLE TAP - Retro Reviewsmoviebob2023-06-07 | Retro Reviews (remastered!) of "ZOMBIELAND" and "ZOMBIELAND: DOUBLE TAP," both restored from their original posting with new commentary looking back and initial reaction on a game-changing horror comedy that put new life into the undead genre and a long-delayed sequel that felt very much past its own sell-by date.
#zombieland #zombieland2PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 1 & 2 - Retro Reviewmoviebob2023-06-06 | Retro (remastered) reviews of the original "PARANORMAL ACTIVITY" and it's sequel; plus new commentary looking back on changed opinions from over a decade later on a franchise that changed the trajectory of the horror genre in the 21st Century.
#paranormalactivityGAMER (2009) - Retro Reviewmoviebob2023-06-05 | Original remastered/retro review from 2009 of "GAMER;" largely forgotten dystopian scifi featuring Gerard Butler with the goofy premise of a future where video games replace digital avatars with remote-controlled convicted felons.
Miles Morales - aka Spider-Man - once again encounters a multiversal threat that brings him into contact with an even wider array of fellow Spider-Person incarnations from across infinite realities... but this time there's a bigger mystery at hand and not everyone may be on his side as the sequel to the game-changing "INTO THE SPIDERVERSE" blasts its whole concept wide open for a much bigger, much more challenging story that sets up even more new adventures to come. Thrilling stuff that wows the senses while delivering a real story that hits different and nearly-equals its modern classic predecessor.
#acrossthespiderverse #spidermanmilesmorales #spiderverse #spiderman #marvelMARTHABOX: The Pointless Life & Meaningless Death of The DCEU - PART 1moviebob2023-05-24 | PART 1 - "MEN OF STALL" Watch PART 2 HERE NOW: youtube.com/watch?v=7BrUwmb8ixo
With the DC Extended Universe (aka "The DCEU," aka "The SnyderVerse") about to be put out of its misery by the continuum-reboot shennanigans of "THE FLASH;" I begin my look back through (almost!) every review, video essay, etc I published on the subject in chronological order from the release of "MAN OF STEEL" in 2013 to the total collapse of Warner Bros as a studio in the ongoing present. It's The story of Hollywood and the art of mainstream moviemaking at an inflection point: Sprawling, hard to believe but for the fact that we all watched it happen saga - at once comical yet infuriating and deeply sad - of how hubris, greed, mismanagement, misunderstanding, chasing trends while failing to grasp them and the demonic influence of the Sunk Cost Fallacy turned a “sure thing” into a decade-long garbage fire that eventually burned down one of the last great Movie Studios.
#TheFlash #TheFlashMovie #DCEU #jamesgunn #zacksnyderMARTHABOX: The Pointless Life And Meaningless Death of The DCEU - PART 2moviebob2023-05-24 | PART 2 of 4 - "CRISIS OF INFINITE JERKS" WATCH PART 3 NOW: youtube.com/watch?v=YJNliAhr3mY WATCH PART 1 HERE: youtube.com/watch?v=QQeoXYCsLPY
[RE-UPLOAD For Copyright Purposes] With the DC Extended Universe (aka "The DCEU," aka "The SnyderVerse") about to be put out of its misery by the continuum-reboot shennanigans of "THE FLASH;" I begin my look back through (almost!) every review, video essay, etc I published on the subject in chronological order from the release of "MAN OF STEEL" in 2013 to the total collapse of Warner Bros as a studio in the ongoing present. It's The story of Hollywood and the art of mainstream moviemaking at an inflection point: Sprawling, hard to believe but for the fact that we all watched it happen saga - at once comical yet infuriating and deeply sad - of how hubris, greed, mismanagement, misunderstanding, chasing trends while failing to grasp them and the demonic influence of the Sunk Cost Fallacy turned a “sure thing” into a decade-long garbage fire that eventually burned down one of the last great Movie Studios.
#TheFlash #TheFlashMovie #DCEU #TheBatman #JokerHALLOWEEN II (2009) - Retro Reviewmoviebob2023-05-08 | Original review from 2009 of the sequel to the remake of "Halloween" by Rob Zombie.
#Halloween #RobZombie #halloweenendsINGLORIOUS BASTERDS (2009) - Retro Reviewmoviebob2023-05-07 | Review of Quentin Tarantino's INGLORIOUS BASTERDS originally from 2009, remastered and with new commentary.
#Tarantino #IngloriousBasterdsDISTRICT 9 (2009) - Retro Reviewmoviebob2023-05-06 | Review of "DISTRICT 9" from 2009, remastered with new commentary.Review - GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL 3 (2023)moviebob2023-05-03 | This is the one you’ve been waiting for. The best of the what's now clearly Marvel's best franchise/trilogy and very possibly the new top-tier movie of the MCU ...and featuring the most despicably evil movie villain to haunt the screen in ages. An emotionally resonant blockbuster that re-establishes James Gunn as one of the absolute top-class creators working in modern Hollywood filmmaking.
#guardiansofthegalaxy #guardiansofthegalaxyvol3 #marvel #jamesgunnGUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 1 (2014) - Retro Reviewmoviebob2023-05-03 | Original review of "GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY - VOL. 1" from 2014, remastered with new commentary on the release of VOL. 3 for 2023.
#guardiansofthegalaxy #guardiansofthegalaxyvol3 #marvelG.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA (2009) + G.I. JOE RETALIATION (2013) - Retro Reviewsmoviebob2023-05-01 | Remastered original reviews of the two live-action G.I. features from 2009 and 2013, with new commentary.PUBLIC ENEMIES (2009) Retro Reviewmoviebob2023-04-30 | Remastered original 2009 review (with NEW commentary) of "Public Enemies" directed by Michael Mann.TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN (2009) - Retro Reviewmoviebob2023-04-29 | Remastered re-upload of my original review (with present-day commentary) from 2009 of what's often considered both the worst of the Michael Bay "TRANSFORMERS" movies if not also the worst "TRANSFORMERS" movie ever made - period. I'm very much in the camp that saw rebooting the franchise in "BUMBLEBEE" as the right call - will "RISE OF THE BEASTS" continue things in the right direction?
#Transformers #RiseOfTheBeasts #bumblebee #transformersriseofthebeastsSuper Mario Bros Movie - WOKE BROKE OR JOKE (New Big Picture)moviebob2023-04-26 | http://www.patreon.com/moviebob1 redbubble.com/people/moviebob/works/42529276-big-picture-with-moviebob-logo In which your host struggle perhaps in vain as The Internet - and the Loud Men of YouTube in particular - do their best (worst?) to ruin "THE SUPER MARIO BROS MOVIE" for him and for everyone else with idiotic Culture War vomit spew. War never changes, but I wish their diapers would.
#supermariobrosmovie #mario #nintendoDRAG ME TO HELL (2009) - Retro Reviewmoviebob2023-04-24 | Retro-review re-upload of original video from 2009 reviewing the cult-horror feature "DRAG ME TO HELL" from Sam Raimi, director of "SPIDER-MAN" and "EVIL DEAD"
#EvilDeadUP (2009) - Retro Reviewmoviebob2023-04-20 | The first "official series" professional review on video I produced, for Pixar's "UP" in 2009.
#Up #Pixar #DisneySPLICE (2010) - Retro Reviewmoviebob2023-04-18 | Restored and remastered original video review from 2010 (plus new present-day commentary!) of Bob Chipman's original review of the scifi/horror cult classic "SPLICE", currently being discovered by a brand new audience via Netflix
#SuperMarioMovie #mariomovie #SuperMarioBrosMovieReview - AIR (2023)moviebob2023-03-30 | Ben Affleck directs and co-stars along with Matt Damon, Viola Davis, Chris Tucker and Jason Bateman in an improbably compelling business-biopic of the Nike wheeler-dealers scrambling to land then-NBA newcomer Michael Jordan for the endorsement deal that would become the now-legendary Air Jordan sneaker line.
#AirMovie #AirJordan #AirReview - JOHN WICK CHAPTER 4moviebob2023-03-29 | John Wick has nunchucks in this one 👍
#johnwick #johnwick4 #johnwickchapter4Review - SCREAM VI (2023)moviebob2023-03-21 | Ghostface goes to the big city in search of new victims - or, rather, the same victims as before but doing sort-of new references and meta-commentary about the series that brought self-aware meta-humor to the slasher genre enduring (or not?) in a world where now that's everything else in the genre.
#scream6 #scream #screamviReview - DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES (2023)moviebob2023-03-20 | A thief, barbarian, sorceror and druid assemble for a daring quest to pull off "GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY but Medieval" before the studio that actually makes "GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY" does it first. And it kinda works!
#dungeonsanddragons #honoramongthieves #dndmovieReview - SHAZAM: FURY OF THE GODS (2023)moviebob2023-03-19 | The DCEU's most underappreciated actual-good franchise get's a belated actual-good sequel that doesn't deserve to be suffer for the sins of its studio, its genre or the delays of the real world (but probably will anyway) as it still delivers a solidly entertaining family adventure that does a lot with it's unique twist on the genre.
#shazam #shazam2 #shazamfuryofthegodsWE LIVED IN A SOCIETY - The Bigger Picturemoviebob2023-03-14 | "Pointless Memories of A Stupid Moment When We All Cared WAY Too Much About 'JOKER'"
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As part of a longer term project to compile a "retrospective documentary" of my decade in covering the failure of the DC Extended Universe movies, the financial collapse of Warner Bros and the entire cultural history surrounding the same; it became clear that there was A LOT of "JOKER" coverage in there in particular during the 2019-2020 period between the actual review and when "THE BIG PICTURE" was running twice weekly - so much so that it could sustain a compilation all on it's own and be interesting in its own right.
So here, together, a (mostly) full compilation tracking the announcement, release, awards season buildup, media hype and fallout from a very VERY stupid moment in time 🤦♂️
#Joker #JokerMovie #dceuReview - WILLOW (2022 Series)moviebob2023-03-06 | Warwick Davis revives his iconic role as an unlikely sorcerer in what may be the unlikeliest nostalgia-revival in the post-Disney-acquisition Lucasfilm canon; playing wizened mentor to a thoroughly Gen-Z questing party on a mission in a fantasy realm that swings cheerfully between earnest youthful freshness with unapologetic old-fashioned High Fantasy template-respect to unexpectedly charming results.
#willow #Disney #disneyplusReview - THE WHALE (2022)moviebob2023-03-05 | Brendan Fraser gives an excellent performance in an otherwise dour wallow in self-serious misery-porn that's unworthy of the depth he brings to it.
#TheWhale #whale #A24Review - CREED IIImoviebob2023-03-05 | Michael B Jordan directs and returns as Adonis Creed and returns for a third outing in the successor trilogy to "Rocky;" facing off against a childhood friend (Johnathan Majors) who emerges from a lengthy prison sentence on a vegeance-driven mission of destruction that threatens to destroy the legacy he's worked to build.
#creed #creed3 #rockyReview - COCAINE BEAR (2023)moviebob2023-02-24 | Director Elizabeth Banks and a cast of reliable character pros head into the woods to deliver a rock-solid horror romp that boldly asks: "What if you had a fun idea for a movie... then made a fun movie out of it?" #cocainebear #cocainebearmovie #universalBIGGEST LINE EVER WTF - Takeshi Miike Dead or Alivemoviebob2023-02-20 | Not even CLOSE to the most INSANE thing that happens in the first 5 minutes of the 1999 Japanese crime movie "DEAD OR ALIVE" from Takeshi Miike 🙃 Watch FULL EPISODE Here: youtube.com/watch?v=nZYCySU4B_E
#miike #bigpicture #fightReview - ANT-MAN & THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA (SPOILER-FREE)moviebob2023-02-15 | Paul Rudd returns in a Marvel threequel that delivers (however disjointedly) on "B-lister in over his head" cosmic adventure romp despite obvious post-Pandemic schedule-retooling into a big franchise place-setter; buoyed by a scene-stealing heavy turn from Johnathan Majors and a welcome decision to let veterans Douglas and Pfeiffer riff through their CGI surroundings like hecklers on holiday.
#shorts #youtubeshorts #vandammeConservative WEIRDOS Freaking Out About DUMB Stuff #shortsmoviebob2023-02-08 | Watch the FULL EPISODE here: youtube.com/watch?v=b7xSbtyl0HU
#shorts #forspoken #mariomovieSO THAT HAPPENED - New Big Picturemoviebob2023-02-07 | http://www.patreon.com/moviebob1 redbubble.com/people/moviebob/works/42529276-big-picture-with-moviebob-logo Everything The Internet thinks it knows about the origins and intent of "cringe dialogue," "Marvel humor" or whatever new name it has by the time this video goes up is wrong - but that doesn't mean there isn't something to be learned from WHERE bad media-criticism comes from. Not just to get better at it, but to understand how sometimes "bad analysis" is BAD on purpose - and what shows up later as sloppy ill-informed critique starts out as deliberate and insidious dumbing down ...and no, it still doesn't mean you have to "like" (or dislike!) the talking bracelet game 🤷♂️
The Snyderverse is dead - long live... literally ANYTHING that has to be better than The Snyderverse 😉
In all seriousness, James Gunn announced the new DCStudios first-wave slate and it's... really cool and interesting, actually? With lots of surprises, unique pulls, weird stuff people weren't expecting and also maybe nifty clues to what may or may not be coming? This is my initial reaction, shot pretty soon after the first reveal and edited-together between some other projects and trying to get Warner-Discovery from constantly taking down the "REALLY THAT BAD" video (again!) More traditional episodes incoming shortly, as ever please keep sharing the links folks 👍
#dcstudios #dceu #jamesgunnWonder Woman 1984 WTF Happened!? #shortsmoviebob2023-01-30 | FULL episode available HERE: youtube.com/watch?v=H4aJY9MvQP0 #shorts #youtubeshorts #wonderwoman #wonderwoman1984 #wonderwoman84 #dc #dceuLex Luthor in BATMAN V SUPERMAN Makes No Sense #shortsmoviebob2023-01-28 | Full Episode HERE: youtube.com/watch?v=bVVIqU_STao