Calvin & Hobbes: The Movie

Birdie · Post by **Birdie** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:17 pm

That theory seems way too overstretched. After reading the book and seeing the movie I don't see how that can be Calvin at all. Wasn't the main character abandoned by his father and the main reason for his psychosis involving an unnatural relationship with his mother?

Yeahduff · Post by **Yeahduff** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:54 pm

You obviously don't smoke enough weed.

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:01 pm

Or too much. One of the two.

Yeahduff · Post by **Yeahduff** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:47 pm

I suppose even entertaining the idea is a sign of a less than unclouded mind, yes.

Birdie · Post by **Birdie** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 3:16 pm

yeahduff wrote:You obviously don't smoke enough weed.

No weed. Just beer

Risky · Post by **Risky** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 3:38 pm

supernerdcore wrote:
yeahduff wrote:You obviously don't smoke enough weed.
No weed. Just beer

I either have not smoked enough beer or just have never seen Fight Club, because I just don't get it.

Tellurider · Post by **Tellurider** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 10:56 pm

One, I didn't see anyone else mention it before I did, and two, I'm just relating that the theory exists, not that it's necessarily a good one.

I'd watch Killbert-Robby's movie though.

KWill · Post by **KWill** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:28 am

Jim mentioned Norton would be the best choice for playing an adult Calvin, which was the first hint.

I'm not particularly pleased with the theory though. Calvin was never reasonable and reserved as "Jack" is and Hobbes didn't have the maniac desire for destruction that Tyler Durden exhibits.

Killbert-Robby · Post by **Killbert-Robby** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 4:04 am

But if Calvin had been FORCED to conform, and Hobbes repressed, Hobbes may get a bit aggressive.

We ARE talking about the kid who built the best snowmen ever

Birdie · Post by **Birdie** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 8:01 am

Killbert-Robby wrote:We ARE talking about the kid who built the best snowmen ever

Bob?

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 8:42 am

KWill wrote:Calvin was never reasonable and reserved as "Jack" is and Hobbes didn't have the maniac desire for destruction that Tyler Durden exhibits.

According to the theory, Calvin only became the whiny neurotic Jack because of the crippling emotional damage done when he lost Hobbes. Hobbes, meanwhile, festered deep inside Calvin's subconscious until he eventually became Tyler. And Hobbes did always have a maniac desire for destruction . . . it was just less honed and focused on different things before. He always tore the shit out of Calvin every day after school in his over-exuberance, he was all about ripping into food whenever he came by it, and c'mon. He was a tiger, what with all the claws and the fangs and whatnot, pouncing on everything that moved. After spending so much time locked away, his priorities just shifted from the relatively harmless to the decidedly sinister forms of destruction.

BEHOLD MY SERIOUS DISCUSSION OF THE RIDICULOUS TOPIC AT HAND

Birdie · Post by **Birdie** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:00 am

But really? Don't you think instead of Fightclub they would have started a calvinball league instead? The first Rule of Calvinball is that you never use the same rules in Calvinball

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:07 am

Anyone actually try to play Calvinball? It can get dangerous.

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 10:10 am

Yah, my brother and I used to play every once in a while. I think the most dangerous part is the arguments that ensue. So it wasn't too much different from the comics.

Laemkral · Post by **Laemkral** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 6:15 pm

theSuburbanLetdown wrote:Anyone actually try to play Calvinball? It can get dangerous.

Rule 142. “Calvin-Ball” is not authorized PT.

Skippy's list is a valuable resource of military knowledge.

Killbert-Robby · Post by **Killbert-Robby** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 12:50 am

I fucking love Skippy's list, I started testing some of those out at school.

KWill · Post by **KWill** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 12:54 am

Not the ones about crucifying mice or making patriotic... movies... or?

Killbert-Robby · Post by **Killbert-Robby** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 1:02 am

No no, more like getting sent to the principal because no I cant chew gum in class if I dont have enough for everyone, and no I cant chew gum even though I *DO* have enough for everyone.
Good times.

Grabmygoblin · Post by **Grabmygoblin** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 12:27 pm

theSuburbanLetdown wrote:Anyone actually try to play Calvinball? It can get dangerous.

when I was a kid, my siblings and I played full on "Calvin and Hobbes" complete with Calvinball.

Nanda · Post by **Nanda** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 1:16 pm

Tellurider wrote:There's a theory out there that "Fight Club" is actually Calvin as an adult, and Tyler Durden is his repressed Hobbes side. If you google for it you could find it, I'm too lazy to.

I am Jack's skeptic disdain.