I get the feeling RLM is the cool kids table of online reviewing.
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And in their first BTS video for Half in the Bag Jay slyly references Doug by saying that they want their show to be professional and not have a guy sitting down in front of a white wall with bad sound.
It’s called google, Sam. I know you‘be used it.
It also makes sense because Peter is supposed to be a dork, that has always been the character. It’s a lack of stuff like that that makes Garfield and Holland significantly worse Peter Parkers
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And in their first BTS video for Half in the Bag Jay slyly references Doug by saying that they want their show to be professional and not have a guy sitting down in front of a white wall with bad sound.
I think Bob still has Doug beat thanks to his Mario obsession.
A few pages ago a conversation was going on about how Doug seems to only like gritty and serious things like most iterations of Batman. And my thinking is he’s been so fine tuned by shit like Batman: The Animated Series that every character, moment, and line of dialogue must be really serious and layered and character driven lest another Batman & Robin happen again. Spider-Man just doesn’t seem to be his kind of hero.
Doug is a lowkey edgelord. The comment earlier about Cobain and the 90s was spot on; stuff like The Crow could very well have been formative in terms of how he thinks about comic book adaptations.
While that Joker bit seems in character for him, I’d say it’s more of Doug thinks Batman has to be a certain way. Superman has to be a certain way. Certain characters must be a certain way, no exception. Also, if you wanna talk “celebration of all things Batman”, I got something for that.
You know, if Doug wants seriousness, then maybe not watch comic book movies? Or for that matter, make his movies feel like crappy comic book movies?
That’s always been Doug’s thing. I noticed it as far back has his True Grit reviews, where every old vs new argument was essentially “it’s darker”
Doug feels like he played way too many PS2 games in the mid 2000s.
Eh thats not always necessarily true for Doug, I get how he consistently idolises Darker Themes In super hero movies because Of the DC Dark universe movies we've been getting constantly In recent years, and the colossal size Of the astonishingly successful MCU even taking A darker tone with the Infinity War Saga, but he sometimes does respect campier tones In super hero shows that were designed to be comedies though. We all know He has a fucking huge boner For Warner Bros Cartoons Especially Animaniacs (Christ he never STFUps about it) and I remember him really praising the shit out of Freakazoid! another cartoon made by Steven Spielberg that was a satirical take on the goofier sides of superhero cliches similar to The Tick but pretty much just exclusively Comedy and very little action. He loved the goofy over the top nature as well as the genuinely clever writing and self referential adult humour that mocked itself and other comic book cliches at the time, showing that he does at least appreciate Campier tones as long as they're comedies of course.
I'd be willing to give Doug a pass on this stuff if he was a true patrician kinophile who watched stuff like Come and See that's just 90+ minutes of unceasing war crimes in Belarus, or who supported and encouraged people to watch serious message films that talked about hard topics without shying away. Doug's kind of "darkness" is poisonously awful because it happens in a vacuum - nothing is real, none of it matters, and at end of the day the film will pull all its punches to get that PG or PG-13. He hasn't gotten over the mentality that kids' entertainment being edgy is transgressive (it really isn't), and he isn't intellectually developed enough to get much out of emotionally complex films aimed at adults, rather than simplistic entertainment made by hacks and aimed at people with a low level of intellectual development. The older he gets, the more pathetic his childishness becomes. I put him around 11-14 in terms of emotional development.
