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

NC is playing the waiting game. He knows people get bored of drama. I think, if he waits it out long enough, people will stop bothering him. Sure, he'll never quite "bounce back," but the worst of it will blow over, and he won't have to come to terms with what happened. I don't think Doug is a bad person at all, but I do think he's a bit of a shy/scared person, and all of this coming out probably has him terrified. Michaud himself probably has NC on a tight leash right now, doing everything in his power to scare Doug into staying, probably holding him owning the NC IP over Doug like a reminded that if he leaves, he won't be able to have that IP. Heck, I wouldn't put it past Michaud to be telling him "remember how demo reel went? you can't do anything without this IP, so don't think about leaving," etc, etc.
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Jacob's Ladder

"We start off in a war zone taking place during *inserts GOOD MORNING VIETNAM! clip* where we see Jacob and his fellow solders getting attacked. Jacob sees his freinds getting killed and does the only thing a good solder does, run away like a coward *insert loony tunes sounds* He runs in to the jungle to hide, gets stabbed in the gun and then....

wakes up on a subway? YOUR MOVIE OPENS WITH IT WAS ALL A DREAM!! It's all a dream is the cheapest easiest cop out a movie can pull! So Jacob lives in Brooklyn with his girlfriend but still misses his wife and family that got killed before he went to war. He start seeing weird shaky ghost *Daffy Duck sounds and Doug trying to mimic it* This causes him to pass out at a party.

Jacob runs into his old solder friends that say they have had the same experiences and have a lawyer to sue the government because they think its all part of a conspiracy. But then they all back out for some reason and Jacob gets hit by a car and taken to the strangest hospital I have ever seen. Really it's like something out of Silent Hill.

He is then saved by a new friend that I've never seen before who starts talking to Jacob about heaven and hell. *Shrug* OK! Then he runs in to the man that saved him in Nam. The Dr. says there was a government experiment. A drug called the Ladder. OH I GET IT JACOBS LADDER LIKE THE BIBLE! Now the talk of heaven and hell make sense! No they don't. He's told that the drug did work, but it make them kill each other. Jacob goes home to find some kid at the stairs that he follows up the stairs in to a bright light, to reveal...

That Jacob is really dieing in Nam and it was all a dream. *Violent shaking* WHAT A SHITTY WAY TO END A MOVIE!! YOU CAN START AND END YOUR MOVIE ON IT WAS JUST A DREAM!! THAT JUST LAZY!! WHY IS THIS A CULT CLASSIC ANYWAY!!"
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End of Evangelion
So like... the main character, Shinji is totally unlikable, masturbating over an unconscious person and starting the apocalypse. But that's not even the worst part. What is with all the crosses? All this symbolism is unnecessary, and why try to get science involved? They should just say it's magic, that'd be way easier. What does LCL stand for? That's never explained. Also, the music for Asuka's fight was way too gentle. It wasn't fitting at all. Why does Rei suddenly become so large? Why does she transform into Kaworu? Why is Shinji okay with letting everyone else die and become part of the great plan? Actually, what even are they doing? It just looks like they're becoming orange soda. It's really stupid and cheesy. Also, the persons Rei takes the shape in before transforming other characters into orange soda are never explained either! Maybe it has some significance, but it's never explained! Then there's this random live action bit that totally interrupts everything and breaks any suspension of disbelief you might have had. And it ends so ambiguously, with Shinji, choking and crying. Why not just state what happens to them? This is a terrible movie, I have no idea why everyone loves it.
 
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Puddleduck said:
As the effective owner of the Nostalgia Critic IP, could Michaud demand that all videos featuring the character are deleted?
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As the guy that controls access and has the admin passwords for everywhere they are legitimately posted he can simply delete them. Which is probably why if the Walkers are talking to a Lawyer they are doing so quietly. Better to play friendly and get an injunction to prevent the deletion, then to go nuclear and have to sue, then reconstruct it all from backups.
 
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NC is playing the waiting game. He knows people get bored of drama. I think, if he waits it out long enough, people will stop bothering him. Sure, he'll never quite "bounce back," but the worst of it will blow over, and he won't have to come to terms with what happened. I don't think Doug is a bad person at all, but I do think he's a bit of a shy/scared person, and all of this coming out probably has him terrified. Michaud himself probably has NC on a tight leash right now, doing everything in his power to scare Doug into staying, probably holding him owning the NC IP over Doug like a reminded that if he leaves, he won't be able to have that IP. Heck, I wouldn't put it past Michaud to be telling him "remember how demo reel went? you can't do anything without this IP, so don't think about leaving," etc, etc.

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End of Evangelion
So like... the main character, Shinji is totally unlikable, masturbating over an unconscious person and starting the apocalypse. But that's not even the worst part. What is with all the crosses? All this symbolism is unnecessary, and why try to get science involved? They should just say it's magic, that'd be way easier. What does LCL stand for? That's never explained. Also, the music for Asuka's fight was way too gentle. It wasn't fitting at all. Why does Rei suddenly become so large? Why does she transform into Kaworu? Why is Shinji okay with letting everyone else die and become part of the great plan? Actually, what even are they doing? It just looks like they're becoming orange soda. It's really stupid and cheesy. Also, the persons Rei takes the shape in before transforming other characters into orange soda are never explained either! Maybe it has some significance, but it's never explained! Then there's this random live action bit that totally interrupts everything and breaks any suspension of disbelief you might have had. And it ends so ambiguously, with Shinji, choking and crying. Why not just state what happens to them? This is a terrible movie, I have no idea why everyone loves it.
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You forgot a 4-minute rant on how Japan is pedophilic and such assorted horrified screeches for the masturbating over a comatose girl thing...
 
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This Guru Larry thing is the worst aspect of this whole thread. Not gonna unsubscribe and hate the guy because I'm not petty and he still makes good videos but it's still sad to see that he has indeed been poisoned by the likes of Jim Sterling and Hbomber.

Something Awful truly does corrupt all that is good.

Erich Raeder said:
While I consider GamerGate to be a strategical failure and pretty much forgot about it by now, it's funny how when I do get reminded again it's from people like Lindsay who are, after all these years, STILL pissed at GG. Like, this shit must still haunt them in their dreams every day. It seems to have traumatized SJWs in unprecedented way, topped only by the election of Trump. Maybe that is a big achievement after all.
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It's job was to piss off and discredit sjws so I'd say it succeeded.

melon said:
IIRC Doug's favourite (if not, one of his favourite) movie is Brazil.

The talk of Doug's bias with the Spiderman movies reminded me of this video too
Doug defends the original Willy Wonka as a gem while Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has no redeeming qualities other than the melted chocolate looking a bit better. I can understand why the majority prefer the first one, I don't need to elaborate on why. But this whole review is so biased. I found it odd that he states the music in the remake is forgettable directly after praising it for trying to be unique by having each song be representative of a different decade. If you go in anticipating to hate the film, of course the music isn't going to be memorable for you.

Personally, I think the songs work fine. It's Danny Elfman working off of Ronald Dahl's original lyrics. The songs don't drag on, and ngl I still hear kids around me singing 'Augustus Gloop' in 2018. I'll stop the tangent there.

It feels like sandwich feedback that teachers give, except flipped around to have it negative-positive-negative. He really does wear his Nostalgia title proud, I guess. I remember when this came out, comments weren't too happy. Now on both channels, the criticisms I remember seem to be swamped.

What's the point of branding yourself a critic if your schtick is wearing nostalgia goggles? That defeats the purpose of analyse.
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Can't say I even see much of a problem. This was one of his better reviews as he actually made arguments and looked at the movies from different angles in an appropriate and fair way. Critiquing is always going to be subjective and there isn't really anything wrong with that.
 
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https://twitter.com/AwesomeAiyanna

I've never heard of this person but IMDB says she's some actress Doug's hired for a few NCs and some video with Tamara.

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That RT is laughably passive-aggressive. They're desperate for anyone to stick up for them.
 
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korya said:
That's less a Doug thing and more a Lindsay thing. (the rant I mean)
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I don't know, the Sailor Moon thing someone pointed in the thread before was a sight to behold. (specially when the thing that caused the rant was more of a "in the eye of the beholder" kind of thing). He has a number of "acceptable targets" for ranting.
 
Gurren Laggan

So the main character Kamina leads these people who live underground to fight so animal people for some reason. And helps this little kid who sounds like Ben 10. A few episodes later Lamina dies and we are stuck with Ben 10 kid and a girl who sounds like princess bubblegum. Also for whatever reason they get a robot with a face but that's not important cause a timeline happens and some intergalactic biglipped alligator moment aliens come out of nowhere and when they die PB disappears on her wedding day. Totally crazy guys,thats why I don't review anime.

Edit: I should have quoted the post about Doug being bad at reviewing things trend but meh.
Doug can't describe things without referencing other things, but my joke post failed.
 
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RJ MacReady said:
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https://twitter.com/AwesomeAiyanna

I've never heard of this person but IMDB says she's some actress Doug's hired for a few NCs and some video with Tamara.

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That RT is laughably passive-aggressive. They're desperate for anyone to stick up for them.
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No idea who this person is, and I’ve seen a few of those episodes... and why does she seem to be wearing Grandma’s Lampshades as a dress?
 
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