👓 TGWTG "Nostalgia Critic" / Doug Walker, Rob Walker, Mike Michaud, Mike Ellis, Holly Christine Brown, et al - The Incompetent Predator-Protecting Upper Management of Channel Awesome, Doug Still Not That Funny

Clearly this multi-billion dollar franchise of over 20 years is nothing compared to some middle age, balding man with no acting range.

Why the hell does he review things from franchises he either didn't grow up with or isn't a fan and then spend the entire review bitching about how this isn't his thing? He did the exact same thing with the Power Rangers movies.

If you don't like reviewing things you aren't a fan of Doug, then just stick to things you grew up with and like.
 
Why the hell does he review things from franchises he either didn't grow up with or isn't a fan and then spend the entire review bitching about how this isn't his thing? He did the exact same thing with the Power Rangers movies.

If you don't like reviewing things you aren't a fan of Doug, then just stick to things you grew up with and like.
You know the reason why:
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Really? Do I need to go through the fucking motions again? I already explained in the face of this autism that Doug shouldn't be a disrespectful shithead when he's such a whore for 80s cartoons, which I like too but can say that they too were also meant to sell toys. At least Pokemon was part of a new cross cultural exchange that told everyone off that animation can be more than shoving it down a cubby hole of one note drama superheroes and slapstick.

Already the screaming autist with the voice that sounds like he had his balls chopped off already fucked up and got him back on my radar for schadenfrude.
 
Why do old internet personalities always do things out of spite? They always seem to have it out for their audience.
In my experiences:

1. They tend to believe that there is an objective taste in entertainment that everyone somehow conforms to or, most prominently, must conform to, ironically, in a country where freedom of expression and choice is prominent, and that it is to be blindly followed and adhered to; I don't even know how it goes in Europe but I know that artsy fartsy film traditionalists out here are a major source of this, and especially Roger Ebert and MST3K,
2. They have extremely shitty acting chops and PR separating an on camera persona from their actual person in real life,
3. There is a conceited and narcissistic want to create a cult of personality around themselves regardless of the consistency of their character to bear influence onto the world and also, make a shitton of money doing this, essentially trying to be charismatic influencers who do nothing but speak their minds and expect to be rewarded for their "wisdom" and the world to be somehow profoundly changed by someone mindlessly ranting about how they don't like a series or kind of entertainment for TL;DR length. This ranges from shallow pandering entertainment personas like Doug to Spoony levels of raving about video games and choking people at E3.

TL;DR it's simple greed and vanity but given the internet for more people to expose themselves with.
 
I bit the bullet and decided to check it out, and the review literally opens with Doug making fun of everyone who hates how much he makes fun of Pokemon. I don't know why I was expecting anything else.
Yeah, but like five seconds later, its shown he’s just imagining people getting mad at him and the truth is no one really cares that he doesn’t like Pokémon and admits he’s gone overboard with it before.
 
Yeah, but like five seconds later, its shown he’s just imagining people getting mad at him and the truth is no one really cares that he doesn’t like Pokémon and admits he’s gone overboard with it before.
Yeah and then at the end he later admitted that he liked Detective Pikachu, so it really isn't that much of a negative review
 
I remember way back when Mara Wilson was mad at him (before she started appearing in his videos), Doug offered a bunch of insults on his Facebook page for her to use against him, such as his irritating, high-pitched voice. He deleted the post shortly after (probably to make her cameo a surprise), but that always stood out to me because he's at least self-aware about some of his annoying traits.
There was one christmas nostalgia critic episode where Doug did a skit involving the current him meeting his past self. Here current-doug gets annoyed with past-doug using annoying, unfunny memes like "big lipped alligator moment", "of course", etc. He's definitely self-aware and has been for a while, I remember him making quick jabs at being screechy in a few other nostalgia critic episodes too. I just wish his brother Rob would be half as self-aware as Doug, because I find him extremely annoying in the sibling rivalry series and anything else he shows up in.

Yeah and then at the end he later admitted that he liked Detective Pikachu, so it really isn't that much of a negative review
He almost always does this though, he takes the middle road so he doesn't piss off his audience too much.
 
Why the hell does he review things from franchises he either didn't grow up with or isn't a fan and then spend the entire review bitching about how this isn't his thing? He did the exact same thing with the Power Rangers movies.

If you don't like reviewing things you aren't a fan of Doug, then just stick to things you grew up with and like.
I agree with you, but Doug's autistic fanbase constantly demands that he review millennial shit.
 
Maybe people wouldn’t be so annoyed with Doug zigzagging and going back on his word if he was actually open to his audience about making changes to the format and acknowledging it.
 
Here's a fun question for you all. What is Doug's worst review/moment/etc in your opinion?

For me it's still Bart's Nightmare. He knows nothing about movies, but to see him do his schitck with a medium he knows even LESS about? Oof.
The times he gets me is when he thinks he's more influential than he really us. For example during the "Simon Says" review where our heroes are saved from an explosion by a coke machine he coins the phrase "Frying the Coke" for something that is stupidly awesome and it will overtake "Jumping the Shark" as a thing.

To my knowledge, nobody in the history of ever has used that term because it's stupid.
 
Here's a fun question for you all. What is Doug's worst review/moment/etc in your opinion?

For me it's still Bart's Nightmare. He knows nothing about movies, but to see him do his schitck with a medium he knows even LESS about? Oof.

Easily the Wall. It's a cringe series of unfunny skits, unfunny song parodies, and he obviously doesn't understand the movie.
 
Why do old internet personalities always do things out of spite? They always seem to have it out for their audience.

Lets be honest. Atleast he didn't start it out with the Cliche "OH god man, I REALLLY DON'T WANNA DO IT, Man oh man! But man oh man I just GOTTTAAAAA bite the bullet!!!" kinda shit.

Here's a fun question for you all. What is Doug's worst review/moment/etc in your opinion?

For me it's still Bart's Nightmare. He knows nothing about movies, but to see him do his schitck with a medium he knows even LESS about? Oof.
The Wall Review hands down, because its mostly just Doug shitting on the Wall movie without even understanding it, then at the very end he does a "BUT I ACTUALLY KINDA LIKE IT THO!!" shit to negate the entire review. Also they got the lead singer of Slipknot and do fucking NOTHING with him!
 
Here's a fun question for you all. What is Doug's worst review/moment/etc in your opinion?

For me it's still Bart's Nightmare. He knows nothing about movies, but to see him do his schitck with a medium he knows even LESS about? Oof.
Worst Review: The Wall, what everyone says about it applies but it's the songs that get to me as all of them are extremely cringeworthy and horrible song parodies. It got worse when he got that gore-loving furry to animate for him with their OCs. It then gets worse with how Doug lacks any understanding of the wall.

Worst Moment: His incredibly preachy rants in some of his reviews where he pretends he is sticking it to the man which come across as pretentious and gives the impression he thinks of himself as a savior of film (of course he likely doesn't but the preachiness gives that impression).
 
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