• Nostalgia Critic- Jack and Jill [Final?]
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I may be jumping the gun given the situation at Channel Awesome, but from the looks of things from late uploads, the mass exodus, and Rob Walker quitting Facebook with The Last Jedi being his last photo it feels like this is the end for The Nostalgia Critic. At least it feels like it, but it could not be so let's see what happens after the disaster of a movie by Adam Sandler. Which sucks because Doug Walker has been a comedic online inspiration since his Mortal Kombat video years ago. No Youtube upload since it's late and/or not happening. https://vimeo.com/264109469
Sad but I feel like I've outgrown his type of humor. It's just kind of embarrassing to watch lately, haven't seen too much of his latest material but yeah.
I feel like I should watch this video as a final send off to the Nostalgia Critic. I was a fan of his for a time when I was younger and I watched his whole back log of videos. But then I don't think he deserves a final send off or the views he gets on this.
The thing about his humor is that it reminds me a bit of Robin Williams' stand up: A loud obnoxious self-depreciating manchild with a love for nerd culture. The only thing he needed to do was up the humor by being more vulgar, do creative insults because by this point he got a quarter through the thesaurus, or put in some better production because his skits in 201X's were/are ASS. But it feels like it only went up by one notch per 2 years not account the shitstorm occurring in the background.
he always cuts away from his on-camera jokes with just enough slowness that they completely stop being funny
But he hasn't done anything from what I've read. Correct me if I am wrong, but I'm pretty sure it was the higher ups of Channel Awesome, not Nostalgia Critic. All he has done is just been a bit of an Egotistical person, nothing insanely bad compared to what the higher ups do.
He's definitely no Mike Michaud but at best Doug comes out of the Not So Awesome document as a complacent dense egotist.
That opening skit has some weird context in retrospective.
To me this is the end of the nostalgia critic, i've watched for years and even tolerated some of the really cringy episodes with goofy skits that really lose the whole appeal of the critic in the first place. This just seems desperate. The Nostalgia Critic stopped being about Nostalgia a long time ago. My favorite episodes were by far the commercial episodes, stuff like 3 Ninjas, Double Dare or the Captain Planet episode. They were formatted fine and now the new episodes come across as corny or at worst unwatchable and i have to skip a skit. NC now feels like any generic movie critic except i can literally go to Ralphthemoviemaker, IHE or YMS then i don't have to put up with any of the crappy skits and i can watch a personality or character i enjoy watching.
Dude, it's just depressing that my introduction to online video is going out with such a sad whimper.
I will give him a pass on this one because I had no idea this movie existed.. How did so many legitimate actors agree to get anywhere near this toxic garbage? And i don't mean Sandlers' usual rodeo clown posse.
from what I've heard, Adam Sandler productions are an absolute blast. Sandler himself is apparently the nicest guy ever, and he frequently throws money around and takes people on exotic vacations
watch the Red Letter Media review on it. Adam Sandler's movies are basically a money laundering scheme
He is one of those "higher ups". He was incompetent and complacement in the actions of Mike Michaud.
https://youtu.be/sXNsT7-Lwsk
If Doug eventually decide making Nostalgia Critic either permanent Hiatus or ending show early in end of month because of this scandal. Well than this is ended for Channel Awesome and maybe Nostalgia Critic itself. Plus I think this is fitting thread's theme song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qHci4aFSRI
Say hello to my chocolate blend
Did you have to remind me of that trash?
Demo Reel. The prime example of "I need to try movie classes at least thrice."
The way Lindsay Ellis described her relation to Doug's own work was pretty telling, ie everyone with an ounce of modesty approaches film-making knowing full well there's a significant learning curve, but Doug and Rob just kind of showed up pretending they knew it all already, and as a result were hostile to any form of improvement.
They don’t think the 180 degree rule is a thing. They apparently know less about film making than day 1 of Film 101
Guess I spoke too soon. YT version is here for those who couldn't get Vimeo to work. I think some of my favorite parts of the video really is just Doug losing it at the beginning, the coke comment, and the Tyler Perry jab. Yeah at second glance some of these jokes are really reflecting the situation at Channel Awesome.
Is there a link?
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WZFkR__B3Mk9EYQglvislMUx9HWvWhOaBP820UBa4dA/preview
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