well yes. Channel Awesome still gets new subscribers, ChangetheChannel didn't changed it and the TheWall controversy will not harm them in the long run
@@evilemperordude they left way before ChangeTheChannel was ever a subject. #CHangeTheChannel did absolutely nothing other then restrict the constant flow of subscribers. The Hashtag did nothing, ObscurusLupa, TedintheShadows, LindseyAllis, BrowsHeldHigh, UponTheFourthWall, AngryJoe and so on left way before the controversy ever started. The channelawesome youtube claim didn't get effected at all. It fell down to slightliy lower then 1 million subscribers while the controversy was still up. They have now about 1,2 million subscribers and growing.
Soylent Rabbit that actually is extremely wrong, you can actually find tweets by many of the creators saying they’re leaving due to the changethechannel controversy including Linkara, Joe, Tony Goldmark, etc, also it’s Atoptheforthwall, LindseyEllis, and Todintheshadows
@@IronNinja yes, they left when the controversity were an intern affair at channel awesome. But that was way before those documents have been leaked to the internet.
Sorry asshole but need i remind you that the other person is "Jamie" or known as "Jim" that isnt just IHE talking to himself its his FREAKIN' bro. And they DO NOT sound alike....
True story. Back in the day when Angry Video Game Nerd broke through I found Doug shortly after. I got steaming with my mate and when we got home with our fish 'n' chips I slammed on Nostalgia Critic 'cos I thought my pal would dig it as he liked James Rolfe. Instead he got bored and said: "This guy's cringey as fuck," before he fell asleep. And that was in like 2008 before anyone said "cringey". So the answer, according to my drunk mate in 2008, is categorically "aye". Personally I dinny hate Doug but I feel like he's trapped in his schtick and he's gonna be doing the Nostalgia Critic forever in some sort of Edgar Allan Poe-esque ironic nightmare.
I liked the old Nostalgia Critic reviews. Before he went overboard with the sketches and reenactments. Nowadays I only occasionally watch their First Viewings because those are genuine reactions and unscripted jokes.
It's *very* rare but he does occasionally make new videos without the obnoxious sketches. The movie 43 review felt kinda like the old nostalgia critic.
Its creative, kinda dumb but I like it too. Never watched him back in the day and originally found him annoying and content confusing. Watched some reviews a short time ago, early this year I think and enjoyed it a lot more, not sure why. Perhaps because he has loads of content, maybe I appreciated his creative and honestly refreshing way of presenting reviews more idk, but I enjoy him sometimes, good to stick on in the background when there's 'nothing on youtube'. Not a hilarious guy but I do get a little chuckle from time to time.
Unfortunately, after fully understanding how he actually treats his workers, I unsubscribed. I enjoyed his content but I simply couldn't support his channel after that. At least James Rolfe is still a freaking awesome dude with plenty of old-time TH-cam content.
Boomers: Doug sits at a table and pokes light fun at cheap movies. Zoomers: Coked out Doug stands naked in front of a greenscreen and yells "I AM JEEEEESUS".
So true. Why can't he simply stick to his old formula of simply reviewing a film instead of inflating it with boring, unfunny, overlong acting skits no one asked for? AVGN shows how to do it right.
@@torstenscholz6243 to give a short answer, copyright enforcement before 2014-ish, no one used to bat an eye when Doug put film footage into his reviews, especially when he reviewed 80's schlock. Thanks to that, he didn't need the skits. Fast forward a few years, he starts reviewing newer movies, rightholders start claiming anything that has half a second of film footage. Since he really seems to depend on the scene-by-scene movie walkthrough structure of his early career, he needs the scene reenactments now. The skit cancer, courtesy of Demo Reel, grew to fill in the free space. And that's why now everyone who watches him is stuck with that gonzo shit.
There was huge drama surrounding nostalgia critic and channel awesome as a whole. There were a lot of criticisms thrown at Doug and channel awesome for how they treated their employees, projects and platform. There were also many harrassment complaints and other things. It was a long time ago, but Sarah Z has a good enough summary and analysis. Also Doug Walker (nostalgia critic) made a cringe-worthy response.
Also regarding your question "Who does he do these skits for if everyone hates it" I guess he does them mostly for himself out of ego. Doug Walker tried to "retire" the Nostalgia Critic in 2011/2012 because he felt the character had run its course. After that he made a sketch show called "Demo Reel" which failed horribly. So he brought back the Nostalgia Critic by demand, but still incorporated the Demo Reel esque sketches.
"Ego" is a strong word, but at the same time it does get at the core of every artist/creative person. If you want to be cynical about it, art is all about ego and self-fulfillment. When you put it out there, some people might get something out of it (maybe lots of people), some people might not (again, maybe many). And then the public shapes their perception of it, and that's a curse of its own should you heed it. Good luck to everyone out there making any media. Hopefully your audience gets the same thing out of it that you do.
@@officialgoogleyoutube idk, I get what you're saying, but even as someone that has watched most of his more recent videos, it is very hard for me not to get the sense of ego from him. He always writes that girl in his sketches to ALWAYS fall in love with his character, to the point where it actually makes me uncomfortable whenever it's written it. And just the apparent loss of self-awareness in his work. His first deadpool skits were surrounding mocking those who tried to imitate deadpool, then he literally does exactly that in deadpool 2. And his infamous "the wall" review recently, the dude had ZERO understanding of what the songs stood for, yet went ahead with days/weeks of shooting and recording to shit on the entire album, then trying to call the parody album "a love letter". I dont think it's a venomous ego problem, but the guy has delusions of self-grandeur imo, for sure.
@@markbergin8821 I haven't watched a whole lot of Nostalgia Critic recently, but I did watch the Deadpool review and my interpretation of that joke was that he was commenting on what he saw as people not getting what he thought made Deadpool funny; just saying "chimichangas" and "vagina" as if it was funny. I don't really find Deadpool very funny to begin with, but I do think the point was more complex than just making fun of people who imitate Deadpool (as stupid as that sounds). Then again, maybe that's a fairly meaningless and vague line to draw. I dunno. With your other points, I'll have to take your word for it. I don't know if I could sit through the Wall review.
@@officialgoogleyoutube sorry, yeah, he wasnt being that vague, he was mocking people who, in his opinion, did a poor impression of deadpool. But still, a LOT of people thought HE did a poor impression of deadpool when he ended up trying himself. Idk, just the hubris to mock others for "getting it wrong" while simultaneously thinking you've nailed it, got on my nerves, and only because he showed the "mock" deadpool in his deadpool 2 review, reminding me that he had made fun of this exact thing before. The Wall is awful, I skipped through bits, it's basically 40 minutes of ignorance, shitty singing, and NC completely wasting their guest, Corey Taylor. Oh, not even mentioning that it's not a review hahaha. He gives his actual thoughts on it for like 5 seconds at the end, what joke.
Nostalgia Critic before he “retired” the character was actually pretty good if you ask me. Rough around the edges, but it was pretty fun and entertaining
Exactly. Now it's all unfunny skits and unfunny actors being shoehorned in, when Doug and occasionally his brother were all the on screen presence it needed. I don't care if these people had been involved for a while already, every time Malcolm attempts to act funny on screen, I want to do the joker pencil trick on myself.
Bobby Bradbury I agree. I liked just simple talk through a bad movie and make jokes about it. It was entertaining and he didn’t try as hard to be funny which actually made it more funny.
I’d recommend welcome to the basement if you liked critics old stuff. They have that same rough around the edges without skits and very knowledgeable about movie history. While their watch alongs are alright their insight and review I find fascinating.
@Mai Nyigguh ; oh no! someone thinks alex is attractive! what a horribly superficial person! whatever it is you're angry about, I would suggest finding a healthy coping mechanism for it.
I stopped watching Channel Awesome after the whole Changethechannel drama broke and honestly haven't missed it. There's something just off-putting about the Walkers... like there's this cynical and condescending undertone to all their videos that I can't quite put into words. Which is strange because I was an avid fan for literally years...
SonicGirl4Ever same, I think what gets me as that there’s always a moment when they do the “turn-to-the-camera” and try to teach you a Thing™️ and it feels so condescending. Especially now when we know there was some shitty stuff going on in the background.
After the change the channel controversy, the hypocrisy in the Walkers just became way too apparent for me to keep watching. It even tainted the videos I used to watch and enjoy
Around that time I was growing out of them anyways then the whole controversy happened and I decided to just stay away bc I didnt understand what exactly was happening but I just didnt want to support it anymore. Now I look back and I cant believe I used to watch and enjoy NC, hes loud and obnoxious and yeah, they also come off as that teacher whose trying not to overtly call you an idiot but you can hear it in their tone of voice and see it in their face.
@SonicGirl4Ever It's interesting that you mention that, because the one criticism I have not heard people make about Doug and Rob, that seems kinda obvious if you pay attention... is that they seem to loathe their fans as much as their haters. In all of their Sibling Rivalry videos, they both-- although Doug does it more often than Rob, whine about their fans being nitpicky, not being happy with anything Doug does, whining, and just acting dumb and immature over petty shit like the movie not being perfect, or the brothers loving a movie they hate or hating a movie they love. You know, the same culture Doug had a hand in creating. Hell, just watch Doug's NC "review" of The Wall, where he has the untalented actors playing Critic's loyal fans when he parodies the dream rally sequence from the movie (where Pink, the singer, is addressing a large audience). They all behave like mindless simpletons that just go along with groupthink, and that seems to be Doug's way of criticizing them for not thinking for themselves... but he also seems to rely on that for his videos, because how else will he be able to try to pass off his opinion as being not only the right one, but being the only one worth any value? I don't know if I'm explaining this properly, but it seems to me that Doug has absolutely no respect for his audience, as he constantly treats them like they're all a bunch of idiots, but he also seems to enjoy it because it makes him the only intelligent one by default (in his head), and he can do as he pleases, since no one will call him out on it.
The "golden age" is when I stopped watching. One skit every now and again is tolerable but it got to be too much. I also think he's a bit too harsh on anything that's new.
In his beginnings he did reviews with some skits thrown in here and there. Nowadays he does skits with some slight traces of a review thrown in here and there.
she’s a great lady and her videos post-ca have been amazing. if anyone that might read this thread hasn’t seen her video titled ‘look pretty and do as little as possible’ go check it out. it really showcases all the things that make her work awesome at once.
I liked her a lot until I noticed she’s not super knowledgeable, in spite of the facade. She gets a lot of small things wrong (and a few big ones) that tell me she’s forming a view then looking for evidence, not the other way around.
You know ... it's even hard to rewatch old stuff. We "all" grew out of it and got more educated or whatever but the NOSTALGIA CRITIC is full on stuck in 2008 and it seems like he developed ZERO as a creator, a creative or just as a human.
Nostalgia Critic was funny from 2008-2014. The problem? The skits really just started to become way too much of a reoccurring thing. Also the entire situation with Channel Awesome and not just admitting to what they did? Really makes me not want to watch him again.
@@minkstar9021 Are you literally comparing apples to genocide? Ha! You Channel Awesome fanboys are pathetic. I choose not to support them because they protected a sexual predator and were okay with sexually harassing employees. And not to mention, fired someone after surgery. That and I personally have not found a Critic video funny in years.
@@limberlad And in Germany this shit happened about 75 years ago and we (I'm German) did learn our lesson and paid high prices for our mistakes that led to this shit happening. #ChangetheChannel is only about two years ago and didn't stop the Walkers and Michaud from going on and remaining the egomaniac douches they've always been and will always be.
Yeah, he kinda is, a lot of people know him and hes one of the big ones on TH-cam, doesnt make him a good iconic figure tho, and since change the channel he has fallen from grace
Say what you will but he is in a way iconic. He's one of the first movie reviewers on the platform and was a big part of what the movie commentary community is today. He does have a massive ego tho
I haven't seen Hocus Pocus either, and had the same experience. It was a fucking trip. He's self referential but he isn't self-aware. He actually thinks the suit is good and the writing is funny.
used to watch him as a teen, thought he was HILAAAARIOUS..went back recently and watched some new videos and thought "omg, this is terrible, what has happened to NC?" so i went back and watched the ones i remember loving when i was younger and theyre pretty awful too, they just have less skits so theyre not AS shit but it seems his particular style for the NC character probably just appeals to an immature audience...which is probably why he "reviews" stuff like frozen now...the man was 32 when that movie came out, hes not nostalgic for it, the entire premise is a lie now
I was lead to believe that the Nostalgia Critic and his goons have to reinact parts of the movies because they were constantly getting copyright struck by the studios that made the movies they reviewed. But it was actually just a bunch of horn-tooting and dumb shit? That’s sad and it’s sad to lie to your audience.
It's crazy in hindsight, but I actually learned a lot about '80s/'90s pop culture and some basics about movie cliches and tropes from the 2008-2012 era of Nostalgia Critic. The videos clearly haven't aged very well (compare them to AVGN videos from that same era) but I think there's still an amateur charm to them. It was fun seeing this cartoonish, dorky character riff and critique movies and shows from his childhood with mostly just himself, a camera, and movie clips. Once Doug Walker got too much into the skits/reenactments and inserted himself more and more into the character of the NC, the charm was lost.
No one ever talks about NC’s Nostalgic Commercials Series, I enjoyed watching those as a kid. He’s legitimately funny sometimes and seems a lot more laid back while watching them so it’s not annoying. Only good Nostalgia Critic content
I used to like his commercials series, but I felt something was not quite right about those, like they could be better. Then I found some retro commercials compilations on TH-cam and I've been watching those ever since.
He's just a relic of a time when everything was Epic on the internet. And a product of that time. God only knows how any of this will age. Lets hope good
Content doesn't age, it literally stays frozen as it is; essentially immortal. It's the culture and society surrounding the content that ages and adapts to new standards and/or taste.
Now, I find more ironic when he mocked Adam Sandler (on his Pixels review) for refusing to adapt and being trapped on his old style of humor, using the same jokes.
I think Doug's #1 issue is his failure to grow as a person. He's just a more egotistic version of how he acted a decade ago. He's not aged to become more calmer and collected, but still funny like the AVGN. The AVGN is a _father,_ yet the way Doug acts it feels like it shouldn't be legal for him to have sex.
Nostalgia critic used to be good. But then he sold his soul to Michael Michaud and now just repeats the exact same cringey style of video without any charm, creativity, or irony.
This video looks like you did that cringey reviewer split screen effect so they can meet an alternate version of themselves and have a debate or fight or something
I really don't like his unscripted stuff and even some of his scripted stuff, mainly due to him coming across very condescending, self gratifying and cringey... Though this is mainly from his more recent videos
@@talonsandwings17 I still re-watch the NC's review of 'The Cell' sometimes because it's one of my all-time faves of all time. And I still like the AVGN and the NC equally. But I also like Brandon Tenold, The Cinemasochist, Decker Shado, and Shitcase Cinema. So I watch all of the "usual" suspects and some of the "unusual" ones too also. Oh! Oh! Oh! And let's not forget Andy the Maniacal Cinephile!
My favourite part of this video about how every point they make is completely out of nowhere and tangential but their commitment to playing it completely straight just meant going along with the barely coherent structure
NC is a great example of the example of losing sight of what made him good in the first place and falling to his own hubris. Campy, but in an endearing kind of way. Then all that drama happened (Lindsay Ellis for example) and that's when I started seeing how much he's changed and it's honestly really sad.
"You have 2 years to make your movies, we have 2 weeks!" Soooooo we're just gonna ignore that CorridorDigital has a very similar time frame and still pumps out some quality shit?
Corridor Digital are actual professional creatives, willing to take feedback, bounce off each other for ideas and grow as creators . Doug cannot do any of those.
"He's a REOCCURRING character, yeah." I used to ignore all of the malapropisms in Doug and Rob's writing (and improvisations), but after I reached my late 20s it got to be too much.
I cannot differentiate between these two faces. Or voices. I don't get why Alex was so protective of his face for so many years. British white men is the same.
My ex-girlfriend and I used to have a ritual, where we'd celebrate a new AVGN and Nostalgia Critic review by smoking a joint while watching. I realize now why I used to laugh at Doug's work, and that's why I stick to Jenkem now.
@@matthewpunk2012 Look up "Nostalgia Critic cringe" on TH-cam it's a video by Drop-N-Go. You can also watch the compilation of Oney making fun of him too. Should come up also as one of the first results
Nostalgia Critic seems to be going through Family Guy syndrome. Started off great and everyone loved it, but then the series arguably ended before it's time (albeit for different reasons but that's not the point), he was brought back by popular demand and was still doing really great for quite a while, but then almost out of nowhere fell into absolute crap, and is determined to keep the series alive as long as possible.
I believe you guys should review the man/well renowned film critic/film star/futa on male pornstar/director Ralph The Movie Maker at www.youtube/RalphTheMovieMaker
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27:16 The Bum character was basically an obsessed fanboy who thought every film he saw was the best film he'd ever seen. And as for the Fuck Ups videos it's obvious now that the "Douchey McNitpick" character he played in them was him childishly making fun of people who pointed out things he said and did wrong in his videos by portraying them as basement dwelling nerds.
I love how just saying "Nostalgia Critic" is a punchline.
Every oneyplays video that mentions him or linkhara make me funnee screem
Jimbre My favorite recurring bit from OneyPlays
"BUILD DAT WAAAALL! REEEEEEEE!" Douglass Walkster: the nostalgic critic guy with the glasses, 2017
@@JimberWumby Mocking Linkara?
I saw that comment in one of oney´s nostalgia critic compilations
Watching this knowing that it came out shortly before the Wall Review is like seeing footage of people pre-9/11
The Wall review came out on 9/11 lol
@@JaredPresleyExperience Never forget.
@@JaredPresleyExperience i'm becoming violently ill having learned this
This Comment thread in general sounds so wrong but feels so right
@@JaredPresleyExperience which makes the terrorist attacks the second worse thing to happen on that date
This video is such a love letter to the Nostalgia Critic.
"Channel Awesome is lots of people."
Well, not really anymore.
well yes. Channel Awesome still gets new subscribers, ChangetheChannel didn't changed it and the TheWall controversy will not harm them in the long run
@@LuriTV Referring to the exodus of producers due to ChangeTheChannel.
@@evilemperordude they left way before ChangeTheChannel was ever a subject. #CHangeTheChannel did absolutely nothing other then restrict the constant flow of subscribers.
The Hashtag did nothing, ObscurusLupa, TedintheShadows, LindseyAllis, BrowsHeldHigh, UponTheFourthWall, AngryJoe and so on left way before the controversy ever started.
The channelawesome youtube claim didn't get effected at all. It fell down to slightliy lower then 1 million subscribers while the controversy was still up. They have now about 1,2 million subscribers and growing.
Soylent Rabbit that actually is extremely wrong, you can actually find tweets by many of the creators saying they’re leaving due to the changethechannel controversy including Linkara, Joe, Tony Goldmark, etc, also it’s Atoptheforthwall, LindseyEllis, and Todintheshadows
@@IronNinja yes, they left when the controversity were an intern affair at channel awesome. But that was way before those documents have been leaked to the internet.
My favorite creepypsta is when I put my Nintendo on and the nostalgia critic and peter griffin bled at me
beeneylord CHRIISS THAT DIDNT HAPPEN
A man of culture
I love you
Sounds sexy.
Fake haha not real lol
*Puts video on for background audio*
Why is IHE talking to himself?
im so confused because now i think IHE is more than one person
It's uncanny.
I think my brain is draining 0_o
Sorry asshole but need i remind you that the other person is "Jamie" or known as "Jim" that isnt just IHE talking to himself its his FREAKIN' bro. And they DO NOT sound alike....
@@vapingfury4460 wow... chill out bud, the guy was just making an observation lol.
What if you woke up from a coma and the doctor said: "the review must go on."
If you had a tiny Hitler, would you torture it?
@@pizzatime1978 what if Linkara and Plankton teamed up?
Deoxy360 Welcome to atop the fourth wall, where bad comics burn! Linkara’s gonna teach you all a lesson you won’t learn!
@@amandapanda7416 step into my fedora submarine.
What's the deal with linkara?
Correction:
Channel Awesome 𝔀𝓪𝓼 a lot of people
that font made the comment
Correction channel awesome is a ԅ( ͒ ͒ )ᕤ
I see Xs
Now it's only about four people.
What?!
True story. Back in the day when Angry Video Game Nerd broke through I found Doug shortly after. I got steaming with my mate and when we got home with our fish 'n' chips I slammed on Nostalgia Critic 'cos I thought my pal would dig it as he liked James Rolfe. Instead he got bored and said: "This guy's cringey as fuck," before he fell asleep. And that was in like 2008 before anyone said "cringey". So the answer, according to my drunk mate in 2008, is categorically "aye". Personally I dinny hate Doug but I feel like he's trapped in his schtick and he's gonna be doing the Nostalgia Critic forever in some sort of Edgar Allan Poe-esque ironic nightmare.
That's the most Scottish comment I've ever read.
Your shortbread is showing love it
@@og4407 That made me chuckle. I think I wrote it more Scottish 'cos I remembered how pished we were.
@@arlosteiner8382 I'm going to steal that phrase.
Kyle Titterton feel free mate
Says “Nostalgia Critic” and nothing else
*Immediately starts laughing*
I liked the old Nostalgia Critic reviews. Before he went overboard with the sketches and reenactments.
Nowadays I only occasionally watch their First Viewings because those are genuine reactions and unscripted jokes.
It's *very* rare but he does occasionally make new videos without the obnoxious sketches. The movie 43 review felt kinda like the old nostalgia critic.
Check out cinema snob. It isn't always gold, but he stuck to the older review format.
RickRaptor105 some of his newer reviews are okay, they don’t have sketches.
I agree with what you said. He was so good. Now he looks like a cartoon.
@@oscardighton8580 Well I'm obviously not going to support the channel now, for obvious reasons.
He's been downhill ever since he stopped doing actual reviews and started doing skits and parodies disguised as "reviews"
Let's not forget the game show
@@lukashepp5157 I think it's best forgotten
Lukas Hepp Demo Reel is a beautiful spectacular of failure
F00L is C00L tbh man he was never funny the reason why you used to like him is because you were probably kid or a teen
@@kndvideo734 I don't know I still find him pretty funny
honestly nostalgia critic reminds me so much of "old youtube" when everything was less serious. I like it.
Hackmi HaKMI Very well put!
the older episodes at least. for me the last ones are so annoying, but i really liked them years ago
David Alonso I kinda agree, I think it’s best when it’s just him and the camera. But it’s clear he is very talented.
Its creative, kinda dumb but I like it too. Never watched him back in the day and originally found him annoying and content confusing. Watched some reviews a short time ago, early this year I think and enjoyed it a lot more, not sure why.
Perhaps because he has loads of content, maybe I appreciated his creative and honestly refreshing way of presenting reviews more idk, but I enjoy him sometimes, good to stick on in the background when there's 'nothing on youtube'. Not a hilarious guy but I do get a little chuckle from time to time.
Unfortunately, after fully understanding how he actually treats his workers, I unsubscribed. I enjoyed his content but I simply couldn't support his channel after that. At least James Rolfe is still a freaking awesome dude with plenty of old-time TH-cam content.
Boomers: Doug sits at a table and pokes light fun at cheap movies.
Zoomers: Coked out Doug stands naked in front of a greenscreen and yells "I AM JEEEEESUS".
Lol
So true. Why can't he simply stick to his old formula of simply reviewing a film instead of inflating it with boring, unfunny, overlong acting skits no one asked for? AVGN shows how to do it right.
@@torstenscholz6243
to give a short answer, copyright enforcement
before 2014-ish, no one used to bat an eye when Doug put film footage into his reviews, especially when he reviewed 80's schlock. Thanks to that, he didn't need the skits.
Fast forward a few years, he starts reviewing newer movies, rightholders start claiming anything that has half a second of film footage. Since he really seems to depend on the scene-by-scene movie walkthrough structure of his early career, he needs the scene reenactments now. The skit cancer, courtesy of Demo Reel, grew to fill in the free space.
And that's why now everyone who watches him is stuck with that gonzo shit.
LMAO
Fun fact: that's how i became an athiest.
It’s so hard to describe the nostalgia critic and why i love him but how much i despise him and cringe
Same
@@doof.got.internet.access fucking same
Am i a weirdo because i can't see him as cringy
@@NigerianPrince0 yes
Do you still like him after the wall review
“BLACK GUY, WOMAN, GET IN HERE! GET IN COSTUME!”
“I’VE SEEN AN IRREGULARITY!”
Which review is that from?
@@jollycrocodile6211 it’s a line from OneyPlays
Nostalgia Critic is the embarrassing baby blanket I keep around for when I need comfort.
Jackson Putnam Went from the baby blanket to the cum blanket
CheeseInTheOven what’s the difference
Jackson Putnam One’s tolerable and for a baby and the other is for people more older and is not tolerated
Surprisingly accurate summary of his content
I upgraded mine to Phelous.
"Channel Awesome is lots of people"
Well, after the whole controversy not any more.
Please fill me in?
Fill us in
There was huge drama surrounding nostalgia critic and channel awesome as a whole. There were a lot of criticisms thrown at Doug and channel awesome for how they treated their employees, projects and platform. There were also many harrassment complaints and other things. It was a long time ago, but Sarah Z has a good enough summary and analysis.
Also Doug Walker (nostalgia critic) made a cringe-worthy response.
Boboddy B Did he? I don't remember a single reponse?
@@soygato2722 it was on the site
Also regarding your question "Who does he do these skits for if everyone hates it" I guess he does them mostly for himself out of ego.
Doug Walker tried to "retire" the Nostalgia Critic in 2011/2012 because he felt the character had run its course. After that he made a sketch show called "Demo Reel" which failed horribly. So he brought back the Nostalgia Critic by demand, but still incorporated the Demo Reel esque sketches.
"Ego" is a strong word, but at the same time it does get at the core of every artist/creative person. If you want to be cynical about it, art is all about ego and self-fulfillment. When you put it out there, some people might get something out of it (maybe lots of people), some people might not (again, maybe many). And then the public shapes their perception of it, and that's a curse of its own should you heed it. Good luck to everyone out there making any media. Hopefully your audience gets the same thing out of it that you do.
@@officialgoogleyoutube idk, I get what you're saying, but even as someone that has watched most of his more recent videos, it is very hard for me not to get the sense of ego from him.
He always writes that girl in his sketches to ALWAYS fall in love with his character, to the point where it actually makes me uncomfortable whenever it's written it.
And just the apparent loss of self-awareness in his work. His first deadpool skits were surrounding mocking those who tried to imitate deadpool, then he literally does exactly that in deadpool 2.
And his infamous "the wall" review recently, the dude had ZERO understanding of what the songs stood for, yet went ahead with days/weeks of shooting and recording to shit on the entire album, then trying to call the parody album "a love letter". I dont think it's a venomous ego problem, but the guy has delusions of self-grandeur imo, for sure.
@@markbergin8821 I haven't watched a whole lot of Nostalgia Critic recently, but I did watch the Deadpool review and my interpretation of that joke was that he was commenting on what he saw as people not getting what he thought made Deadpool funny; just saying "chimichangas" and "vagina" as if it was funny. I don't really find Deadpool very funny to begin with, but I do think the point was more complex than just making fun of people who imitate Deadpool (as stupid as that sounds). Then again, maybe that's a fairly meaningless and vague line to draw. I dunno.
With your other points, I'll have to take your word for it. I don't know if I could sit through the Wall review.
@@officialgoogleyoutube sorry, yeah, he wasnt being that vague, he was mocking people who, in his opinion, did a poor impression of deadpool. But still, a LOT of people thought HE did a poor impression of deadpool when he ended up trying himself. Idk, just the hubris to mock others for "getting it wrong" while simultaneously thinking you've nailed it, got on my nerves, and only because he showed the "mock" deadpool in his deadpool 2 review, reminding me that he had made fun of this exact thing before.
The Wall is awful, I skipped through bits, it's basically 40 minutes of ignorance, shitty singing, and NC completely wasting their guest, Corey Taylor. Oh, not even mentioning that it's not a review hahaha. He gives his actual thoughts on it for like 5 seconds at the end, what joke.
@@markbergin8821 Right. I can visualize what you're saying.
Nostalgia Critic before he “retired” the character was actually pretty good if you ask me. Rough around the edges, but it was pretty fun and entertaining
Exactly. Now it's all unfunny skits and unfunny actors being shoehorned in, when Doug and occasionally his brother were all the on screen presence it needed. I don't care if these people had been involved for a while already, every time Malcolm attempts to act funny on screen, I want to do the joker pencil trick on myself.
Bobby Bradbury I agree. I liked just simple talk through a bad movie and make jokes about it. It was entertaining and he didn’t try as hard to be funny which actually made it more funny.
@@nobody2021 I think Malcolm is one of the funniest ones in the crew
I’d recommend welcome to the basement if you liked critics old stuff. They have that same rough around the edges without skits and very knowledgeable about movie history. While their watch alongs are alright their insight and review I find fascinating.
Did he retire the character? I'm surprised... whats he doing now?
This is the first time ive seen IHE IRL and holy shit he's a handsome boy
Yep he is :D
@Mai Nyigguh ; oh no! someone thinks alex is attractive! what a horribly superficial person!
whatever it is you're angry about, I would suggest finding a healthy coping mechanism for it.
I love "handsome boy", like he's your nephew or a neighbour's dog. And yes he absolutely is
I stopped watching Channel Awesome after the whole Changethechannel drama broke and honestly haven't missed it. There's something just off-putting about the Walkers... like there's this cynical and condescending undertone to all their videos that I can't quite put into words.
Which is strange because I was an avid fan for literally years...
SonicGirl4Ever same, I think what gets me as that there’s always a moment when they do the “turn-to-the-camera” and try to teach you a Thing™️ and it feels so condescending. Especially now when we know there was some shitty stuff going on in the background.
After the change the channel controversy, the hypocrisy in the Walkers just became way too apparent for me to keep watching. It even tainted the videos I used to watch and enjoy
Around that time I was growing out of them anyways then the whole controversy happened and I decided to just stay away bc I didnt understand what exactly was happening but I just didnt want to support it anymore. Now I look back and I cant believe I used to watch and enjoy NC, hes loud and obnoxious and yeah, they also come off as that teacher whose trying not to overtly call you an idiot but you can hear it in their tone of voice and see it in their face.
@SonicGirl4Ever It's interesting that you mention that, because the one criticism I have not heard people make about Doug and Rob, that seems kinda obvious if you pay attention... is that they seem to loathe their fans as much as their haters. In all of their Sibling Rivalry videos, they both-- although Doug does it more often than Rob, whine about their fans being nitpicky, not being happy with anything Doug does, whining, and just acting dumb and immature over petty shit like the movie not being perfect, or the brothers loving a movie they hate or hating a movie they love. You know, the same culture Doug had a hand in creating. Hell, just watch Doug's NC "review" of The Wall, where he has the untalented actors playing Critic's loyal fans when he parodies the dream rally sequence from the movie (where Pink, the singer, is addressing a large audience). They all behave like mindless simpletons that just go along with groupthink, and that seems to be Doug's way of criticizing them for not thinking for themselves... but he also seems to rely on that for his videos, because how else will he be able to try to pass off his opinion as being not only the right one, but being the only one worth any value?
I don't know if I'm explaining this properly, but it seems to me that Doug has absolutely no respect for his audience, as he constantly treats them like they're all a bunch of idiots, but he also seems to enjoy it because it makes him the only intelligent one by default (in his head), and he can do as he pleases, since no one will call him out on it.
He is incredibly condecending and obnoxious, he seems trapped in the 90s
The "golden age" is when I stopped watching. One skit every now and again is tolerable but it got to be too much. I also think he's a bit too harsh on anything that's new.
same, the simple man infront of a camera reviewing a movie was nice to me. The skits added a little to it but it wasnt enough to annoy me.
In his beginnings he did reviews with some skits thrown in here and there.
Nowadays he does skits with some slight traces of a review thrown in here and there.
He's not even a 'reviewer' he just recaps the plot and makes shit jokes.
Yeah I think angry joe has ok balance with skits are the review
lindsy ellis deserves more recognition
1000 × Yes 🖒👍🖒👍🖒
she’s a great lady and her videos post-ca have been amazing. if anyone that might read this thread hasn’t seen her video titled ‘look pretty and do as little as possible’ go check it out. it really showcases all the things that make her work awesome at once.
@Dorian Harris ...Alison Pregler is a feminist as well lmao
Dorian Harris if you think thoughtful analysis is cringe than that’s really cringe
I liked her a lot until I noticed she’s not super knowledgeable, in spite of the facade. She gets a lot of small things wrong (and a few big ones) that tell me she’s forming a view then looking for evidence, not the other way around.
You make this video, and then nostalgia critic makes the "the wall" "review" 😂🤣😭
Point reinforced
Yeah I hope they talk about it on the next podcast
Shut up
JAR Media: NC can hardly get any worse.
NC: Hold my The Wall CD.
You know ... it's even hard to rewatch old stuff.
We "all" grew out of it and got more educated or whatever but the NOSTALGIA CRITIC is full on stuck in 2008 and it seems like he developed ZERO as a creator, a creative or just as a human.
Nostalgia Critic was funny from 2008-2014. The problem? The skits really just started to become way too much of a reoccurring thing. Also the entire situation with Channel Awesome and not just admitting to what they did? Really makes me not want to watch him again.
If you get hung up on past controversy I suggest you don't visit Germany any time soon, they got up to a lot of stuff years back. MOVE FORWARD.
@@minkstar9021 Are you literally comparing apples to genocide? Ha! You Channel Awesome fanboys are pathetic. I choose not to support them because they protected a sexual predator and were okay with sexually harassing employees. And not to mention, fired someone after surgery. That and I personally have not found a Critic video funny in years.
@@minkstar9021 Germany made reparations and owned up to their atrocities of the past. What a blanket example of a false equivalency
@@limberlad And in Germany this shit happened about 75 years ago and we (I'm German) did learn our lesson and paid high prices for our mistakes that led to this shit happening. #ChangetheChannel is only about two years ago and didn't stop the Walkers and Michaud from going on and remaining the egomaniac douches they've always been and will always be.
@@limberlad yeah.
Pretty sure that Doug is under the impression that he's an iconic figure.
I mean.. He is, like it or not.
@@Zangelin Doug----how low can you stoop to comment such things under a fake account?
Yeah, he kinda is, a lot of people know him and hes one of the big ones on TH-cam, doesnt make him a good iconic figure tho, and since change the channel he has fallen from grace
Say what you will but he is in a way iconic. He's one of the first movie reviewers on the platform and was a big part of what the movie commentary community is today. He does have a massive ego tho
Now isn't it ironic how everyone's iconic?
Being this close with a sibling is the bomb I feel sorry for people that hate their siblings and can’t scream laugh with them
Ert þú sannur Íslendingur eða hvað?
I'm bummed Alex shows his face now, I was convinced that he was my twenty-something British cinematography professor.
He's been showing it since 2017 dawg
Keep in mind I haven't see a JAR video in eons
I didn't know Alex revealed his face
seeing him laughing is cute
Alex is cute. Not hot per say, but cute.
Alex is a Chad
He did a face reveal on twitter like 2 years back with Colossal Is Crazy.
I’ve never seen Jar Media I’m royally confused
I came down to the comments to see if I was tripping
Both of them sound like the I hate everything guy.....
MazingerDestro you don’t say
Am I going to get r/whoosh-ed? Because the right one IS the IHE guy.
Jamie is his brother. :)
Is YMS as CRINGE as they say?
He better gets a 6/10
He's a furry so yeah.
Still love his channel though. And I'm rating it a six out of ten.
BigBossMan538 nah he’s a fucking 8
BigBossMan538 is ralphthemoviemaker as CRINGE as they say
@@raoulprivatebusiness6240 He's a solid 9
I haven't seen Hocus Pocus either, and had the same experience. It was a fucking trip.
He's self referential but he isn't self-aware. He actually thinks the suit is good and the writing is funny.
A review starring a popular Internet personality and his way more epic, less popular, brother. a familiar format but a good format nonetheless
This video has such a relaxed vibe. The elevator music, the pup making cameos here and there. Very chill big fan
Is JAR Media as CRINGE as they say?
Different
Yes
:o
Worse
Absolutely
Can we please get a 1hr video of *just the corgi?*
This is the kind of content we have all been waiting for
used to watch him as a teen, thought he was HILAAAARIOUS..went back recently and watched some new videos and thought "omg, this is terrible, what has happened to NC?" so i went back and watched the ones i remember loving when i was younger and theyre pretty awful too, they just have less skits so theyre not AS shit but it seems his particular style for the NC character probably just appeals to an immature audience...which is probably why he "reviews" stuff like frozen now...the man was 32 when that movie came out, hes not nostalgic for it, the entire premise is a lie now
If its not Angry Joe next then beans aren't truly epic
it better be angry joe
69 likes.
7 dollars
4 hours
Angry joe is not that bad. I still find genuine entertainment in watching him
I was lead to believe that the Nostalgia Critic and his goons have to reinact parts of the movies because they were constantly getting copyright struck by the studios that made the movies they reviewed. But it was actually just a bunch of horn-tooting and dumb shit? That’s sad and it’s sad to lie to your audience.
my impression is doug wanted to make demo reel and the fans told him no. Instead he retaliated by making the nostalgia critic into demo reel.
I'm going to guess it was all of the above, but mostly Doug just really wanted to do Demo Reel.
It's crazy in hindsight, but I actually learned a lot about '80s/'90s pop culture and some basics about movie cliches and tropes from the 2008-2012 era of Nostalgia Critic. The videos clearly haven't aged very well (compare them to AVGN videos from that same era) but I think there's still an amateur charm to them. It was fun seeing this cartoonish, dorky character riff and critique movies and shows from his childhood with mostly just himself, a camera, and movie clips. Once Doug Walker got too much into the skits/reenactments and inserted himself more and more into the character of the NC, the charm was lost.
Last week, Nostalgia Critic watched this video and was like, "hold my beer".
unaware that Alex has done a full on face reveal
nearly got a heart attack
damn he hot
That cartoon face of his is very misleading. Put a black and white filter on him and he could be an Abercrombie and Fitch model.
@Pazuzu4All precisely
Which Alex? There are two of him.
No one ever talks about NC’s Nostalgic Commercials Series, I enjoyed watching those as a kid. He’s legitimately funny sometimes and seems a lot more laid back while watching them so it’s not annoying. Only good Nostalgia Critic content
That was one of the best series he did! I feel the same way, I really enjoyed watching his older content when I was a kid
I used to like his commercials series, but I felt something was not quite right about those, like they could be better. Then I found some retro commercials compilations on TH-cam and I've been watching those ever since.
You know you've become a joke when just the mention of your name is enough to envoke tears of laughter.
*giggle* let's talk *giggle* about *hehehe* nostal- *hahahah* gia critic *giggle*
cute
if you love Nostalgia Critic, Please watch his funny epic video "Melvin Melvin brother of the joker" it is REALLY FUNNY and HILLARIOUSIFYING
supermega is better
stahp
Hoodied nope
I watched that video because of you. I loved how epicly funni it was.
Just put this on during a panic attack cause I knew itd make me laugh and chill me out for a bit, thanks bois x
"I know of the bum but I've never seen the bum"
- Jim 2019
Luke S.
Silly sausage, it was big man Jimbo who said that.
He's just a relic of a time when everything was Epic on the internet. And a product of that time. God only knows how any of this will age. Lets hope good
Content doesn't age, it literally stays frozen as it is; essentially immortal. It's the culture and society surrounding the content that ages and adapts to new standards and/or taste.
@@HOTD108_ Watch out Hegel, David Wolfish tryna steal your place in history
@@carsoneastman5709 wut
Now, I find more ironic when he mocked Adam Sandler (on his Pixels review) for refusing to adapt and being trapped on his old style of humor, using the same jokes.
I think Doug's #1 issue is his failure to grow as a person.
He's just a more egotistic version of how he acted a decade ago.
He's not aged to become more calmer and collected, but still funny like the AVGN.
The AVGN is a _father,_ yet the way Doug acts it feels like it shouldn't be legal for him to have sex.
The final sentence of your comment made me lol
It’s hilarious how many people are shocked to see Alex’s face even though this channel has been up for years lmao
He used to hide it on jar media
tbf I never heard this channel being promoted in IHE
@@swivelkeyring3512 it was a few years ago
i discovred this recently
Nostalgia Critic is proof that passion and experience isn't enough, you really need talent too.
You two laugh harder at The Nostalgia Critic than any of his viewers ever have for the intended reasons.
doug's sanity has been steadily decreasing since he started
how about a little less pot before the video
w7100 pls no this is great
w7100 No. More.
w7100 here, here
w7100 yes!
How about you head back where you came from?
Nostalgia critic used to be good. But then he sold his soul to Michael Michaud and now just repeats the exact same cringey style of video without any charm, creativity, or irony.
Are Mars Bars as hated as they say?
Such an underrated comment
I don't mind them personally
They aren't as hated as they should be.
They’re not as good as snickers
I feel like nostalgia critic is just trapped in an earlier time
This video looks like you did that cringey reviewer split screen effect so they can meet an alternate version of themselves and have a debate or fight or something
"Oh no it's my evil counterpart, EVILEX!"
Yeah I've never seen Alex before and it literally took me 10 minutes to be semi-sure which one was him
for someone named i hate everything
alex is so fucking adorable omg
Geroge rockal schmit is very underrated
This.
I really don't like his unscripted stuff and even some of his scripted stuff, mainly due to him coming across very condescending, self gratifying and cringey... Though this is mainly from his more recent videos
For other TH-camrs:
-AngryJoe (you HAVE to, since you've done Doug now)
-Tobuscus
-Mike Matei (Dunno if I spelled that right, it's AVGN's friend)
Is Game Theory as CRINGE as they say?
Definitely
@@soygato2722 no buts, just yes
Mute Shun bu-
OOF - Yes! lmao [granted his audience is KIDS and I'm an adult lol]
no.
Every time they show a clip of Nostalgia Critic I cringe son hard it’s painful.
When is there gonna be a Nostalgia Critic of Nostalgia Critic, where a guy reviews and remembers the Nostalgia Critic so we don't have to, lol!
*"Be disturbed."* (Only old-school NC fans will get that reference.)
@7.62x39 sucks What do you think of the Vz.58?
@7.62x39 sucks I thought fudds were against "assault rifle" calibers in general.
@7.62x39 sucks Maybe my definition of a "fudd" is more specific.
Oh god I feel called out 😬
@@talonsandwings17 I still re-watch the NC's review of 'The Cell' sometimes because it's one of my all-time faves of all time. And I still like the AVGN and the NC equally. But I also like Brandon Tenold, The Cinemasochist, Decker Shado, and Shitcase Cinema. So I watch all of the "usual" suspects and some of the "unusual" ones too also. Oh! Oh! Oh! And let's not forget Andy the Maniacal Cinephile!
Having not watched this video yet all i can say is that he 100% is actual cringe
Manny Rivera 69 likes
Manny Rivera I guess if a TH-cam doesn’t do the tired “burp with camera zooming in for no reason” meme he’s automatically trash
l Z I oh no don't get me wrong it's not bad it's just fucking cringe nothing wrong with that
Yeah it is. But that won't stop me
My favourite part of this video about how every point they make is completely out of nowhere and tangential but their commitment to playing it completely straight just meant going along with the barely coherent structure
You're just describing the average NC video
NC is a great example of the example of losing sight of what made him good in the first place and falling to his own hubris. Campy, but in an endearing kind of way. Then all that drama happened (Lindsay Ellis for example) and that's when I started seeing how much he's changed and it's honestly really sad.
"You have 2 years to make your movies, we have 2 weeks!"
Soooooo we're just gonna ignore that CorridorDigital has a very similar time frame and still pumps out some quality shit?
Corridor Digital are actual professional creatives, willing to take feedback, bounce off each other for ideas and grow as creators .
Doug cannot do any of those.
Fully agree with you, Alex. The editorials that he does are way better than any of his actual reviews
"He's a REOCCURRING character, yeah."
I used to ignore all of the malapropisms in Doug and Rob's writing (and improvisations), but after I reached my late 20s it got to be too much.
I love how argy appears out of nowhere and plops right next down to jamie awww
Almost a year ago I made a movie review based on the nostalgia critic and I regret it everyday
C h a z i n g t o n
Christ why did I ever think this guy was funny?
I think because he was funny, but he tainted the IP with bad content so much that nobody can view him as not cringey anymore.
Because he was.
He was funny. But his work just feels tainted by all the unethical shit channel awesome did
@@dislike_button33 Yeah, “Melvin Melvin Brother of the Joker” was a masterpiece all right
Because commenting on media shit we grew up with was still an untapped market in early TH-cam days.
Nostalgia Critic is pretty cringe, but Linkara? Now that's epic.
biaza linkara’s comic “The Lightbringer”
I cannot differentiate between these two faces. Or voices. I don't get why Alex was so protective of his face for so many years. British white men is the same.
What's the point of this segment? Pretzels is the same...
I like how the only thing keeping the Nostalgia Critic relevant is nostalgia for the Nostalgia Critic
thats it
Im off the cast
>Watched the first five seconds
>Instantly liked the video
Instant five stars.
Nostalgia Critics ego ate him then shit him out
My ex-girlfriend and I used to have a ritual, where we'd celebrate a new AVGN and Nostalgia Critic review by smoking a joint while watching.
I realize now why I used to laugh at Doug's work, and that's why I stick to Jenkem now.
I've been subbed to Nostolgia Critic since the early days of TH-cam, but have always thought his edits and pauses can be cringey. Glad I'm not alone
Is Doug going to be doing this when hes 50? When hes 60?
I hope so
Yes and that's a sad image.
How old is he as of 2021
Freaking uncanny, I was just now watching a nostalgia critic cringe compilation. I was a fan of his a long time ago
Werent we all.
@@campfortson4387 Everybody just outgrew him both in humor and criticism
@@egg2520 Link?
@@matthewpunk2012 Look up "Nostalgia Critic cringe" on TH-cam it's a video by Drop-N-Go. You can also watch the compilation of Oney making fun of him too. Should come up also as one of the first results
@@egg2520 I've already watched half of the one that lasts over 50 minutes, damn lol
Thanks man.
man the dog going crazy on his knee if the cutest thing ive ever seen, probably
Nostalgia Critic seems to be going through Family Guy syndrome.
Started off great and everyone loved it, but then the series arguably ended before it's time (albeit for different reasons but that's not the point), he was brought back by popular demand and was still doing really great for quite a while, but then almost out of nowhere fell into absolute crap, and is determined to keep the series alive as long as possible.
And yet, try to tell that to him.
this was absolutely hilarious. did not expect to sit through the whole thing lmao
*_This is a Big Lipped Alligator Moment._*
This is a bruh lipped alligator moment.
I still remember when Critic was fighting AVGN. Boy, internet was a different place back then
*Three months later*
The Critic just insulted Pink Floyd's The Wall! 😠
They used to be so fucking nuts lol
I believe you guys should review the man/well renowned film critic/film star/futa on male pornstar/director Ralph The Movie Maker at www.youtube/RalphTheMovieMaker
/fat/gay
Omg I love that guy. His movie reviews are hilarious. My favorite is the Charles Styles video.
@@woomydayz Charles Styles, Mystery Diners.
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You forgot furry
27:16 The Bum character was basically an obsessed fanboy who thought every film he saw was the best film he'd ever seen. And as for the Fuck Ups videos it's obvious now that the "Douchey McNitpick" character he played in them was him childishly making fun of people who pointed out things he said and did wrong in his videos by portraying them as basement dwelling nerds.
you should review screen junkies because gawd
hell*LLOOOooo* i'm the nostalgia critic. i remember it so *YOU* don't have to.