Alright, I watched the whole thing so I'll give my thoughts.
This video was cut up into 2 parts, the 1st was him explaining what a Lore movie was, moralizing over that Channel Awesome controversy and giving his thoughts on Doug Walker and the movies he's made, all with the usual Quinton smugness that I've grown numb to after watching him for so long.
Quinton talked before in his Contrapoints video about how his opinions changed after recognising what he perceived to be his own tribalism and then having his eyes opened by Contra but I think the shit that happened with Channel Awesome kind of softened him up and made him question himself to the point of being so open and uncritical of progressive bullshit. The way he talks about it really explains why he underwent such a huge change of beliefs and character, he thought very highly of Channel Awesome and strived to be somewhat like them but then he found out that his heroes were trash and slowly started to become disillusioned with them, wanting to rebel and go in what seemed to be the opposite direction to him. I'm no psychologist but that's the way that I read it and I think he was actually trying to explain why he changed so much as a creator within this section so I'm not really seeing shit that isn't there here.
His critiques of Doug Walker and his shit movies were dead-on but this isn't some high-achievement because anyone can see their dogshit quality, I will give him points for articulating it well and not filling his criticisms with wokescolding though.
Now the 2nd part of his video is actually a kind of movie of it's own, obviously parodying internet critic movies and to be honest, I thought it was pretty funny. It's really devoid of woke shit and just feels like a super long skit from Quinton's older and edgier videos. I think that if you were once a fan of Quinton like I was, you'll probably enjoy part 2 of this video. One thing that surprised me is that he didn't even disavow his older reviews for not being PC enough while referencing them, he actually kind of embraces it in one scene where a character says "faggot", now he did censor the word but it's extremely obvious what he said if you watched his older videos and nobody berated the character for using it or anything. I don't really have any serious criticisms about it, he wears a trans-rights shirt and the main villain is Donald Trump but no commentary on either thing is made, they're just there and the Donald Trump thing could just be seen as a silly "the president is the villain" trope. Early in the movie, he took a jab at TheQuartering and makes a joke about how the look kind of similar but who really gives a fuck if he shits on QuarterPounder? All in all, not a bad Quinton video, probably the best one he's done in a long time which makes it all the sadder since you know that he could do so much better if he hadn't drank the Koolaid.
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