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

[thegooddoctor]

Definitely seems weird to be reviewing a movie that's only 3 years old, even if it's based on an older property.

IHes been doing this for quite a while now, he reviewed Norm of The North when it was only over a year old, and reviewed The Emoji Movie In only 8 months after it came out In a NC Review. He did the same for Boss baby only a year after it came out and he’ll, he even reviewed Deadpoop 2 Immediately A Week after it came out. I guess since Doug is so Stuck for Content he doesn’t really care whether his films are ‘nostalgiac’ any longer, he only cares for that sweet, sweet Youtube Money like all those other CA Hacks that dare to call themselves Comedians.

 

[All songs should be happy]

And Doug is familiar with Akira. He's actually a huge fan of Cowboy Bebop and Wolf's Rain.

Ghibli movies too. Doesn't stop him from mindless hateful shitting on Pokemon, Sailor Moon and other not so "artistic" and "deep" cartoons though.

 

[Someone in a Tree]

In his stupid Demo Reel finale in which he brought the Nostalgia Critic back (which is easily the most self-indulgent video Doug has ever made), he said that he would no longer have any restrictions regarding a film’s release date and it’s eligibility to be featured on his show. That was seven years ago, so I’m surprised that people still act shocked when Doug does this. I’m not even going to begrudge the pandering click baiting since that’s how he make money, and YouTube’s algorithms have been forcing a ton of creators to make shallow content to stay afloat. If Channel Awesome had a Patreon account, perhaps they could be a little more adventurous in choosing what they cover, but I doubt it would result in funnier content.

 

[The Fresh Maker]

It’s the ego and myopia of never having had to go through any editorial critique with his videos. He was his own boss, and he thinks he’s making gold, so there is no room for improvement in his mind. It’s like Tommy Wiseau. He paid his own way, and was certain he had it right, and the result was The Room.

It’s common among artists that came up on their own. The histories of independent film and comics Are chock full of trash that 90% of people look at and say “Wow, how the hell did they think THAT was good enough to put out?"

At least Tommy Wiseau is capable of putting out unironically funny material, and it had it's own uniqueness to it. Doug's approach to comedy is so lazy and such a blatant rip off of much better comedians that it just comes across as boring and cringe inducing.

 

[Sir Wesley Tailpipe]

At least Tommy Wiseau is capable of putting out unironically funny material, and it had it's own uniqueness to it. Doug's approach to comedy is so lazy and such a blatant rip off of much better comedians that it just comes across as boring and cringe inducing.

Unintentional humour is always better than bad intentional humour.

 

[Random Internet Person]

Unintentional humour is always better than bad intentional humour.

Eh, at the very least, the former is better at getting laughs.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Spider-Man 3 was originally written as the start of a trilogy, with the black suit being introduced and Sandman as the villain. The 4th movie was to be the black suit corrupting Spider-Man as he deals with Harry becoming the Green Goblin, with Peter getting rid of the symbiote at the end, and the final movie was to be Spider-Man vs Venom. Sony not wanting to renegotiate with any of the cast to keep them past the third film resulted in Raimi being forced to cram all three storylines into one movie that failed to meet fan and box-office expectations completely.

The rush to use Venom was because Sony wasn’t sure if just having Spider-Man pick up the symbiotic suit was enough to keep their rights to Venom and the characters related to him. They had 10-year “use it or lose it” licensing that they secured in 1999, and the timeline would have seen the first actual appearance of Venom hitting theatres in 2010-2011 at the earliest.

It's a shame Sony fucked it up so bad, it really seems like it was going places with Spider-Man 2.

 

[Sir Wesley Tailpipe]

It's a shame Sony fucked it up so bad, it really seems like it was going places with Spider-Man 2.

Had they been willing to keep the core cast together and allow Sam Raimi the same freedom going forward that they did for the first two films, it could probably have gone on for another five or six movies. Hollywood suits fuck everything up.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Had they been willing to keep the core cast together and allow Sam Raimi the same freedom going forward that they did for the first two films, it could probably have gone on for another five or six movies. Hollywood suits fuck everything up.

If there's any silver lining at least it ultimately led to Spider-Man being included in the MCU, which is nice, I always thought the idea of a Marvel Universe without Spider-Man was weird, it's like a DC universe without Batman.

But I wish I could hop into an alternate dimension where the Raimi series ran for longer and was more consistent in quality, just to see what that would have been like.

 

[Sir Wesley Tailpipe]

If there's any silver lining at least it ultimately led to Spider-Man being included in the MCU, which is nice, I always thought the idea of a Marvel Universe without Spider-Man was weird, it's like a DC universe without Batman.

But I wish I could hop into an alternate dimension where the Raimi series ran for longer and was more consistent in quality, just to see what that would have been like.

I knew someone who had a copy of the second draft of Spider-Man 3 and an outline for future sequels, autographed by Sam Raimi. I only got to see the outline, and one of the really cool things was that the “Venom Trilogy”, according to the outline, could have been spread out over more than the three films, much like the comics introduced the black suit in 1984 but the symbiote wasn’t discovered to be a problem for years, and Spidey kept wearing a cloth version of the black suit after ditching the symbiote until Venom came along in 1989, with little breadcrumbs here and there over the years that raised questions in the reader’s mind. Raimi being a huge Spidey fan was a massive asset that Sony pissed away without a thought for the future.

 

[Someone in a Tree]

Had they been willing to keep the core cast together and allow Sam Raimi the same freedom going forward that they did for the first two films, it could probably have gone on for another five or six movies. Hollywood suits fuck everything up.

Given that this was pre-MCU, I wonder if the studio just assumed audiences would lose interest after three films.

 

[Gingervitis]

Had they been willing to keep the core cast together and allow Sam Raimi the same freedom going forward that they did for the first two films, it could probably have gone on for another five or six movies. Hollywood suits fuck everything up.

Suits have fucked everything up since film was born. Just look at the Ivan the Terrible trilogy.

 

[Sekirodiealot]

Well, he does say he voices the rage of fanboys everywhere. And like I said, he’s stuck in 2008.

His fashion sense is stuck in the early 2000s

 

[Sir Wesley Tailpipe]

Given that this was pre-MCU, I wonder if the studio just assumed audiences would lose interest after three films.

It was mostly about dropping the core cast salaries, and the guy they hired to replace Raimi after he quit the series wanted to start fresh and reboot the Spidey movies. Sony didn’t care much about continuity one way or the other, as their license for the characters costs them nothing, as long as they make a movie with each character they have the rights to within certain timeframes, they keep those rights. They had a 20-year license on Morbius, and guess which shitty, disconnected-from-anything-else movie is coming soon!

 

[AlmightyMagichan]

Doug is a living time capsule of 2007 youtube.

 

[Intelligent Calcium]

Oney and friends created Nostalgia Critic, Linkara and Spoony as a family in The Sims 1.

 

[Random Internet Person]

Oney and friends created Nostalgia Critic, Linkara and Spoony as a family in The Sims 1.

Man, people must have really loved when those three got together to bash Uwe Boll.

 

[The Fresh Maker]

Dolittle - Nostalgia Critic

The classic storybook character comes to the big screen again, we think, we're not sure what this is. It's crazy, we definitely know that, and impossible to ...

www.youtube.com

Alright, on some level I can take Doug reviewing a movie that's a couple years old (his previous Trolls review), but picking a movie that almost just immediately came out on blu ray and dvd? And was also in theaters just 3 months ago? Is he really this desperate?

 

[Sir Wesley Tailpipe]

Dolittle - Nostalgia Critic

The classic storybook character comes to the big screen again, we think, we're not sure what this is. It's crazy, we definitely know that, and impossible to ...

www.youtube.com

Alright, on some level I can take Doug reviewing a movie that's a couple years old (his previous Trolls review), but picking a movie that almost just immediately came out on blu ray and dvd? And was also in theaters just 3 months ago? Is he really this desperate?

Do you really need to ask?

 

[Dom Cruise]

To be fair, is January 2020 not already nostalgic?