The Critical Drinker's Book is a Boring Dumpster Fire
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- Опубліковано 22 чер 2024
- Between this guy and Gordon Brown, Scotland has a lot to answer for.
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0:00 - Intro
4:55 - Who is Will Jordan?
20:44 - Redemption
1:42:36 - Movie Interlude
1:45:58 - Closing Thoughts - Розваги
I think the book is a hell of a lot funnier if you imagine the character Drake being the rapper.
Drake the typa guy to bring his cell phone on the mission
It would make it even more funnier to imagine Drake being Drake Mallard aka Darkwing Duck. Would explain all this cartoon logic.
that Drake is into older women tho
Unfortuantely Drake's half black so that'd be too woke for him
@@grimreads nah, he be strikin cords now
"You agree with the message, therefore it's good" is how I believe Christian films are green lit.
What in the tarnation is your pfp
Nah it's worse than that. That is just cynical billionaires funding theocratic propaganda either due to their own personal belief in mythology, or as a way to destabilize society so that they can exploit the situation for profit.
@@blep226 reverse catgirl
@@-._lunamidnight_.- oh 😀
that's actually so accurate
Googled "can a british national work for the CIA" and got the answer that the CIA requires all employees to be US citizens, although you can work for them if you have dual citizenship.
Yeah ok, just like Bush Sr. ""retired"" from the CIA. Let's take their word for it
Spooks in the cia have many foreign people working for or with them I don’t think you understand the reach of a globe spanning intelligence agency. Doesn’t take away from the books issues but you don’t sound correct. Yes I am being a nitpick but details matter especially when making a claim.
You can be a "collaborator" which is basically the same thing but if you get caught you aren't their problem... We know this because we caught a few in Brazil
That's to work IN the CIA, to work FOR the CIA you could be anyone as long as you're seen as a valuable asset. The CIA hires agents (assets) from all walks of life, from Russian gangsters to people in the Mafia. The CIA has and does use agents from the British armed forces regularly.
@@sandequation2653why would they lie about that??
"Nothing against English people obviously - it's not their fault"
So James, if you ever need EU citizenship, this is a great strategy, keep going.
The English aren't part of the EU.
The Brits have betrayed us. Now we can make as much fun of them as we want.
@@kyrylosovailo1690 you didn't have to wait for that, you know. They're British. You can make fun of them all you want.
@@nicholaswalsh4462 Yeah, we were making fun of them long before Brexit lol
I'd like to hijack this to say that a Scottish person saying they're British is not them saying they want to be English. I'm Welsh and I describe myself as British fairly often because British people do share a lot of traits that transcend our individual nationalities. Often these read as 'English' to an outsider, but they're not limited to the English.
Think you're fundamentally misunderstanding that Drake isn't referenced as drinking to establish that he has some kind of issue that could compromise his health or decision making. He's drinking because drinking whiskey is what cool tough men do, and Drake is nothing if not the coolest toughest man by way of every Tom Clancy protagonist
actually i'm pretty sure it's a clever reference to the fact that the writer is also heavily associated with drinking
Tom Clancy protagonists are professional and level headed.
@@fulcrum6760 and so is this one
you can tell because they book says he is
I’m a simple man. I see TCD bashing and I click.
Same. It's the least a man with such an overinflated ego such as himself deserves.
Yeah you're simple alright
@@zarbon9119 the drunk credit is a white nationalist, also calling your enemies emotional does not mean you win the argument, being emotional, doesn’t mean you’re wrong. Ronald Reagan was wrong when he said “if you’re explaining you’re losing”
why do you even find it funny when people cry? Do you have zero empathy? do you not understand the specifics of why they are crying? these are all questions that don’t matter, because we’re all gonna die, so why worry about it?
@@zarbon9119 He has got me emotional Ill admit. Because the man said straight up, without blinking. Without an iota of understanding how stupid it is.
"And then you'll have to go back and spend months rewriting it."
TCD. Honey. Thats called _editing_
And the swear words I want to use here will make youtube delete the comment
@@zarbon9119 wait, how can you make all of those assumptions by someone hating someone else? If I hate blueberry muffins, but you love them, And then I made a comment, expressing my hatred, You wouldn’t go and assume that I am a spineless coward, who is a soy boy, and there is a Jewish reptile from planet nine, and will replace the white race with marvel characters.
Also, you’re not defending TCD’s honor, when I accused him of being a white nationalist, I have every single reason to believe that he hates people of color, every time there’s a non-white person on screen he goes “this is the woke agenda gone mad” even though it doesn’t matter what the skin color of the character is, unless it pertains to the plot.
Which means I can accuse him of any racist thing, and you will not try to tell me I’m wrong.
the drunk critic is a super Hitler from a parallel universe, who is coming to remove the wokeness from marvel, because that will somehow further his political agenda.
What would be even funnier would be to critique this book from a an even further right wing perspective. Complain about women being stronger than men in the Anya scenes, and cast her as a woke character overshadowing Drake.
"WOKE GIRLBOSS SELF INSERT MARY SUE!!!!!"
If Synthetic man gets his hands on this book, he would definitely do something like that.
@@neerajcherukuri4052 oh that clown, that would be hilarious
There is a feminist Taliban in the sequel...
@@grimreads a WHAT
Hey James, I’m no spy or anything but I work in US government. One of the guys I worked with was a former SPEC OP guy for the Netherlands, appropriately referred to as “Dutch.” For him to work with sensitive US material he had to renounce his Netherlands citizenship amongst another battery of requirements and vetting. So all his accolade and accomplishments as a Netherlands soldier couldn’t be recognized. With the CIA idk what the parameters are but that’s the one situation I bore witness to.
Unrelated, but it fills me with joy to see that someone who works for the US government uses a sailor moon profile pick. I guess it just humanises a bit what can sometimes be seen as a big, scary and complex machine.
that's exactly what a spy would say.
@@antonypastrikos7036 well they're not gonna have a profile pic of a shady g-man in a big black trenchcoat. or maybe a profile pic of a g-man from that psychonauts level. you know, the one with the milkman?
"i am the milkman. my milk is delicious."
Damm how did Dutch feel about this ?
Also what can you tell us about the books
@@manboy4720 had a terrible day but loved your reply, thank you very much!
dude couldnt name Godzilla, probably one of the most famous Japanese films ever lol
The guy couldn't even name Pokemon to save face.
Famously anti-woke modern Godzilla, like the one where the two female characters are an autistic genius and the future President of the United States
He would call it woke when he finds out that it’s a parody of the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima
i mean you could attribute it to a spur of the moment thing, but still
@@coreyander286 What a very fun understanding of the United States that a mixed-race girl aspires to be president by the time she's 40.
US don't work like that
Hey now, I'm a lazy, bitter person and I still think the critical drinker has all the appeal of a mouldy cucumber.
😂
i'll drink critically to that.
I seriously don't understand how anybody actually enjoys his content. He seems arrogant, is very much unlikable, unbearable to listen to and every video is just super generic and boring. The only reason I personally see why people like him, is because he says the things they agree with. But just because someone agrees with you doesn't mean, that they create something of actual entertainment value.
@@Lr.Laecro.Lirus3445 what's arrogant about him ? is it because he negative ? you've never actually listened to him outside of his videos he seems nice to hang with
I really enjoyed how brutal this guy was in this review
The way Drinker describes his heroine is just ripe for that "Men Writing Women" subreddit.
Oh for sure. It's not breasting boobily down to the CIAs boobsment- I mean basement, but it's close enough.
It's also ironically very similar to the type of characters he criticizes.
@@danielbroome5690it’s a Mary sue unless I’m writing it, obviously
@ahobbyist9520 that's the most hilarious part to me. Take their words and use them against them, and all of a sudden is just "bad faith" lmao. They'll say something is "bad writing" and then include it in their works without reflection.
Anya ended up being more of Mary Sue than any female characters he had ever shat on.
Of all the conservative grifter’s bad takes, the whole ‘Asian medias are just unpolitical funsies unlike the Woke West’ annoy me the most as an Asian.
Also, as someone who has some Scottish friends, maybe I am over generalizing a bit, but a Scottish who tries hard to claim their britishness just screams hella sus as a person to me.
Hell, especially in Korea, some of the most successful movies are literally about political/historical events, such as "A Taxi Driver" and "12.12:The Day."
@@dRoy8364 The recent major Korean hits like Parasite and Squid Game, while not referencing a political event directly, are EXTREMELY political to the point that failing to the politic of those stories can only come from willful ignorant.
I guess that willful ignorant, if not intentional for the purpose of grifting, might stem from the inherited racism of not viewing Asians quite on equal footing as people with our own perspectives and motivations to express our own political beliefs. Actually, I had been told directly to my face a few times that "You are sooo American" when I discussed my political belief with Westerners. I guess it could also be for my frankness or something? But also, like, seriously? Frickin choice of words.
To reassure you, they don't watch any movies either from America or Asia. They are just pointing at the idea of media in Asia, not the real work.
Britain is made up of England, Scotland and Wales.
So Scots are British dumbass.
also, it makes me realise something
when they say 'the west' they don't mean 'the west', they just mean 'everything that isn't asia'
is australia not the west? is indonesia the west or not? i don't know, and i don't know if they know either
there isn't even a west, BECAUSE THE EARTH IS A SPHERE!
The funny thing about his criticism of modern westerns being too woke in favor of Japanese and Korean films is that a lot of older Asian films (Onibaba, Lust, Caution, The Handmaiden) had more nuanced, complicated portrayals of women while Hollywood was still churning out popular narratives with women as little more than different flavors of arm candy.
He’s probably call Onibaba woke because two impoverished women take down a bunch of armed soldiers lol
Someone asked him in a podcast to name a Japanese movie he liked when he generally talked about how Japan and other asian countries had better stories than the west, and he couldn't. Best he could bring up was Oldboy. Not even Kurosawa.
@@MHF013 him calling crouching tiger Japanese is mad funny. It’s also funny seeing him complete miss the point of midsommar and fight club
Imagine his reaction to Okja or Beastars
@@MHF013 All he had to do was just say "berserk", don't even need to know good anime to know berserk because everyone was talking about it with elden ring for example
The issue with critics like TCD creating their own stories isn’t that they're bad - writing and storytelling, like any skill, is one that requires practice and iteration. That requires failure. There's plenty of people known for their works who likely didn't start out making amazing stuff.
The issue is that these people don't even follow their own advice on how to "not write badly".
In general, when people like TCD or their followers say something is "bad writing", its often so nebulous and a nothingburger of a statement because they all have their own ideas of what "bad writing" is, and rather than just nailing down a definition, they spew out the good ol' pair of words like it's a silver bullet.
They also tend to confuse "I didn't like this" for bad. Some people struggle with the idea they can like bad things and hate good things. Your personal taste is not an objective measure of quality.
@@shadenox8164 Its something I know imminently
The Nostalgia Critic is pretty similar to this, but with less politics.
@@shadenox8164 since when has he ever done this
But just looking at their behavior for a while, its pretty clear what they consider "bad writing". (Literally anything that doesn't jerk off straight white men)
Drinker’s book is like if a 14 year old who played way too much Call of Duty and watched Spike TV on the regular, made a Steven Segal movie
Edit: I didn’t catch the Segal reference until afterwards lol 💀
Jesus Christ, Spike TV. Even as a kid I thought it was garbage.
@didncozosksma4466 Out of curiosity, what was wrong with Spike TV? Mind you, I only watched MXC (a Japanese obstacle course show).
im unsurprised that the guy who thinks the reason modern marvel sucks is because of "the woke agenda" sucks at writing lol
Well, it does. It doesn't change the fact his writing sucks. He's a funny guy, but being funny doesn't make you a good writer.
@@TheEldritchGod Well, it does what? What does?
@@elvingearmasterirma7241 - THEY call it the M-She-U. They state they want to get rid of cannon characters and replace them because they are problimatic. The owners of the IP are the ones with a political agenda, and it sucks because of it.
What's wrong with Captain America being... oh... a man, and pro-America? Why does he have be replaced with a woman, or a black man, or be a secret Nazi plant?
It's BORING. I miss heroes that are just... you know... heroes.
@@elvingearmasterirma7241that marvel sucks because it panders to Woke
@@Jaanikins
cringe
the "name a recent japanese movie" bit made me cringe out of my seat. naming 'crouching tiger hidden dragon' (a taiwanese film) and oldboy (a south korean film) what a loser lmao
Couldn't even say Godzilla lmao
also, if he thought they're so great, why not make it a manga or one of those fancy animated things like they do over there?
Bro’s gonna act like he watches and enjoy’s Japanese films and couldn’t even name Kurosawa, like it was so easy!!
He called them both Chinese too
@@thejuiceking2219They make novels over there as well? No Longer Human, The Blind Giant, 1Q84, Qucksand.
Why did he even write this? It's clear he didn't do an ounce of research, his main female character is the kind he hates and his writing is terrible. There's no passion behind this, and from what I hear his own fans don't even like his books, so there's no money in it either. All I can think is that "having wrote books" gives him an ego boost.
I think you got all the points. Writing the book took him no great effort since he didn't research or put much thought into it, so whatever money he did make would basically be all profit. It gives him an ego boost, and even if his fans don't like it, they'll use the fact he wrote a book to boost his Ethos when they talk about him. "You think TCD is a moron? He wrote a book! How many books have you written loser?"
(little do they know I also wrote and published a terrible book. They hold no power over me. Now I just need to start filing a bunch of patents for the Terrence Howard stans)
I haven’t even seen Barbie but Greta Gerwig talked about her choice in making Barbie the central focus. It’s because little girls are more interested in Barbie, they don’t really care about Ken. So Greta Gerwig makes fun of this and makes a society where Barbies are the ones doing all of the work and the Kens are just around.
Secondly it’s just weird to get mad about this. In promotion Ryan Gosling has been getting more attention and Ken’s bet on it moment is what people talk about most. Barbie is low key not even the focus of the marketing post release.
Sometimes I wonder if these grifters were expecting to see the origins of G.I. Joe or something. Like the Barbie movie is focused on Barbie? There's a bit of vanilla feminism in a movie about plastic toys for girls? Well, colour me surprised.
The Drinker accused the marketing team of tricking parents into taking their six year old daughters to see "the message." Because like any good critic he completely missed the movie rating. Or the tone of the trailers.
A movie about a girl's doll has feminist themes and messaging about gender equality? Whooda thunk it?
Ken wins Oscar and Barbie and the director get snubbed.
@@matthewdeancole i memeber seeing that and thinking, this is exactly what Barbie movie would criticise. a Movie for girls and Ken gets an Oscar (no hate to Gosling, he was fun to watch)
Literally the I’m just Ken song was the best part of the movie lol
Critical Drinker: "Nah, it'll be fine."
James Tullos: Suffering with every page.
Something feels very telling about the fact that in both Shadiversity and Critical Drinker's books, the main female character is an SA victim.
Its less that and more how its written and handled
It feels fetishy
@@elvingearmasterirma7241As someone who's written fetishy stuff for a living before: Yeah, I totally see it.
Hold up I didnt know shadiversity to be... of critical drinkers mind so to speak
@@stitchedfreedomdont look at the Knights Watch if you want to keep this perception alive.
@@stitchedfreedom dude has an entire second channel which is just whinging about the lord of the rings having black people in it now or whatever.
You're telling me a "critic" with no substantive criticisms of media; unironically uses the word "woke" as a nebulous, all-encompassing term for "anything I don't like"; and thinks bitching about how seeing a woman beating up a man in a *MOVIE* qualifies as legitimate criticism is actually a terrible artist?
You don't say.
He does have SOME substantive criticisms of media. There are other rightwing commentators like Shapiro who have literally no idea what critical analysis is and can't even identify a theme if it slapped him in the face. Don't get me wrong, critical drinker has a LOT of those idiotic non-substantive criticisms, but he does understand it to an extent when it doesn't touch on his politics. His perception of something as pro-or-anti his politics completely blinds any criticisms he has, but when it's (to him) divorced from both, he actually can do at very least a competent job at it.
Wanna know what would happen if a 170lbs 5'2 woman tried to fight a 250lbs 6'3 man twice her size or more?
You don’t have to gatekeep being a “critic”, anybody can be one.
Woke stuff is noticeable to center and right leaning people. When political dialogue, or plot decisions that would seem to have been made from someone with a different ideology than your own. Hollywood is just much more lefty than half of America. Is what it is, and Hollywood makes a lot of Western art.
I’ve seen plenty of movies these days where men who have a hundred pounds over their female opponent get destroyed. Anyone who knows anything about fighting will roll their eyes at that, but if you happen to be a righty it will probably feel connected to “woke” writing incentives. Girlboss Mary sue characters are common in big things these days.
Drinker uses the woke as a criticism too often, but I don’t think he is a terrible critic. Definetly more of a casual viewer with a different ideology than mine.
His first book is allowed to suck balls without him losing all credibility.
I too taste ihis taste in alcohol :P he probably is not a critical drinker .
@@Based_Gigachad_001 According to this very book she would win.
“I literally fell asleep watching it.”
So a spy sleeper rather than a spy thriller…
So anti-woke it puts you to sleep.
@@Hawkatana thats a really good one
Nice 😎
Brings a whole new meaning to "sleeper cell"
@Hawkatana This book isn't even anti woke, lol. His one female character is literally a marry sue.
*this is engagement for the algorithm, i do not have any comments*
edit: nvm, i would like to thank james for mentioning the s-tier show derry girls
Thank you for thanking me for mentioning the s-tier show Derry Girls.
It is so fucking funny to me that out of all people, The Critical Drinker wrote a female character who is ridicilously overpowered in combat situations.
Its almost like he doesn't believe his own b u l l s h i t.
Its easy to critisize and hard to create. We find this out every time a critic creates.
Nostalgia Critic's movies, anyone?
I think calling what TCD does criticism is being far too generous. Good criticism takes effort. What he does is more like… uh, lying.
@@Shades14 yep, but to be fair, Doug seems like a more genuine person.
i dont dislike tcd, but he dosent really seem like the kinda guy i would like or have a beer with.
@@PosiWritesStoriesExactly. Good analysis takes time, effort, and intellectual honesty; that’s one of the big takeaways from hbomb’s famous plagiarism video.
@@Walterdecarvalh0100 I used to think that, but after recent controversies and an absolute pile of mess that was The Wall review video, I can't find Doug as a genuine, good-faith creator either....
Haven't finished the whole video, however a big miss with your talk about talking about that weird child trafficking movie the Right Wing was obsessed with, Sound of Freedom. It was actually denounced by actual experts in the Human Trafficking Field as it portrays a false narrative of what the vast majority of human trafficking is which ends up harming actual victims of it as their stories are less likely to believed and obfuscates victims' perceptions from understanding they are actually be trafficked.
Boosting this
Oh it’s even worse than that. The real life guy has this thing that to infiltrate trafficking groups he should show up with his wife. Yes. Indeed. So his real wife wouldn’t do it, to hear him saying it, and he had to recruit hot young things to pretend to be his wife. And to make the ruse believable they would have to pretend to be married from the moment they started the mission.
Guess what. There are now a large number of these women who say that they haven’t seen any trace of the “mission” they participated in being successful, but they had been groped, bullying into showering naked, and so on, by Tim Ballard. It would be funny if it wasn’t so awful.
Dead Domain did a terrific video on it.
also Operation Underground Railroad claims to have bought people out of trafficking, which literally just fuels more trafficking.
Also their founder was a big fan of the "stay in mexico" policy that has *absolutely* caused more child trafficking.
They were not right wing. Experts and right wing dont fit
Saw his movie trailer.
For someone who constantly tells Hollywood is out of ideas, his movie certainly doesn't have any ideas.
the trailer is so generic, it even starts beating the drum right away, like a generic holywood trailer...
I am surprised that he slags off female character but then ends up writing a Super Mary Sue main female character. How can he not see the hypocrisy? And why make her whole background being a lifetime of assaults? That’s one of the worse backstories especially if you’re not going to add the time and nuance and context to that conversation and instead are simply using it for shock factor.
Because with guys like these, they don’t usually have an issue of a woman being a good fighter, but they have an issue with any female-driven narrative that focuses on a woman’s problems or character development. Anything that forces them to care about a woman’s emotional turmoil feels like an insult, so it’s easier to write her as an idealized Uber badass with no emotional depth.
A lot of sexist writers also tend to confuse “a stone cold badass woman with no character beyond being badass and hot” as writing an empowered woman. The truth is that it’s basically an idealized version of a woman without having to give much thought to her actual personality. These types of guys mistake wanting a woman to step on them as the same thing as respecting women as complex human beings.
And having her be a victim of assault by a single guard despite being able to mow down tons of them is part of that idealization. She’s an idealized woman in that she’s badass enough to be self driven, but not so badass that it’s impossible for men to overpower her completely.
Not just that but his character is a total Black Widow ripoff. Russian spy with a tragic backstory defecting to America?
@@suburbantimewaster9620 it's quite funny to think that critical drinker would probably say that 'black widow is a bunch of woke feminazi propaganda'. he really is a one trick pony, huh?
for me it signifies something else
what he's saying is bs, and to an extent he's aware of it. he's not interested in telling you what he thinks but about what he thinks you think, it's about reaffirming people's beliefs and framing it as critique, critique so vapid and meaningless that even he can't abide by or follow it himself
@@thejuiceking2219 So basically his whole gimmick is justifying screwed up behavior.
"The action scenes are described with the intensity and passion of Uncle Colm from Derry Girls." Oh, this is the kind of savagery I live for. 🤣
DC native here. Yeah I don’t think TCD even understands the concept of the district.
Bro couldn't even think of a Ghibli movie
He doesn’t have enough childish whimsy in his soul to appreciate a good Ghibli film
or any makoto shinkai movie
my favorite part of james tullos uploads is immediately sending the video to my best friend and we text back and forth every thirty seconds as we watch the video together
That’s very sweet
One of Critical Drinkers favorite female characters is Stormfront from The Boys and when he saw her get a beat down by the other female Supes, he called it forced.
Stormfront, the actual Nazi? That's his favorite female character? And he was mad about her getting her ass kicked several episodes after it's revealed that she is a literal old school Hitler-loving Nazi? I shouldn't be surprised by that, but wow.
@@Dachusblot and kind of scary since he has a lot of followers.
@@Dachusblotnot even like modern neo nazi. Straight up she met Hitler kind of Nazi
@@skybite They always out themselves and pretend offense at being called out for it.
The irony of this guy writing a book in which the main character is what he would describe as a Mary Sue is hilarious. And yes, Anya is the main character.
Yeah, doesn't Ryan die in one of the early books? But they still go on to be called Ryan Drake for brand recognition?
I wish more people would be wise to the drinker's schemes. that man is NOT a movie critic. every time someone addresses him as one, without irony, Roger Ebert turns over in his grave.
Eh, his non culture war reviews are alright I’d say. Not really worth watching imo, but when the man isn’t pandering hard to culture warriors, he can actually make some decently argued points.
Anyone who watches movies is a movie critic.
He doesn't claim to be a "movie critic".
@@rkkk21019 Then what does he claim to be?
@@tasha7726 Just a guy on the internet broadcasting his opinions about film media. He's said it himself. The vast majority of the people in this comments section who are only here to say CD = bad derp obviously don't watch his content.
TCD couldnt do even basic research on how the CIA works and hires people. the cornerstone of his book!
And meanwhile I nearly bit through a pencil trying to research when corrective glasses were first invented in Europe and who had access to them. For one main character.
I totally get that. I now know more about the French Revolutionary Army than any reasonable person should just from researching for my book.
@@Hawkatana writing!
5 percent writing and editing
15 percent planning and trying to work out how to get the vibes into a scene
80 percent research on things that you never thought youd have to research until that one page or even sentence!
Like. I had to research when tin cans were first invented. And learnt that they were tin or wrought iron at first and opened via stabbing or chiseling because the first can opener wouldnt be invented until 30 ish years later. And it was rather interesting how its a French invention, starting with glass bottles. But was expanded on with tins and patented by an Englishman
And its for like. One scene where the characters are on the road.
@@elvingearmasterirma7241 This is my pain. I'm writing a psuedo-alternate history novel and even though none of the countries are one-to-one with actual history, I still have like 25 pages of notes concerning WWI
And this is why I write contemporary. And still ended spending just an inordinate amount of time looking up apple varieties and what they’re best used for. 😂
As someone who writes mainly sci-fi/space opera style stories, I feel this so much. Even with the excuse of "it's a futuristic setting", there's only so much leeway that I can get from it - plus, trying to actually see how real science would affect things is very hard as someone who isn't a scientist by trade.
Good news is that I can just use Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur as a general reference lmao
Ah gotta love "all the women are perfect eyecandy for the men just for exisitng" and "I have been SA'd for many years but I am ok when its a stranger I met two seconds ago" tropes /s. Lazy writing at it's finest.
Wow, the way Critical Drinker handles his female lead sounds terrible. Seems like 90% of her character just revolves around sexual assault. Which is just...yikes. Kinda sickening, honestly. Glad I'm never going to read this horrid book.
The funniest part is that all of his fans hate his books. They tell him to stick to reviewing and not writing.
Oh, is this actually true? lol
@@Stark_Fox Yep, someone said it themselves: They’re not complete ass kissers.
Where did you get that? I've read some of his books and they're alright. Not perfect but not awful either. Who is saying he should stop writing?
@@minion3806 I remember his Ryan Drake movie thing is being flamed on by his fans and his books too.
@fulcrum6760 never heard that myself but alright. Maybe I'm out of the loop
What were you expecting from the guy who’s whole idea of critique is awkwardly trying to put culture war nonsense into videos about blockbuster movies
Ironic considering Hollywood made the culture war the centerpiece of their writing rooms.
Yes, how dare anybody make fun of “blockbusters” like The Marvels or She Hulk !
Because modern Hollywood never awkwardly jams their politics into the shows….🙄🙄🙄🤮
@@brianmurphy250 no it’s because he exclusively does shallow criticism on lowest common Denominator movies
The only way to win the culture war is not to play
@@brianmurphy250touch grass
You're actually the 2nd small youtuber I'm subbed to who's done a video critiquing TCD within (almost) the same year. Shoutouts to Zelcher Productions!
Oh yeah zelcher's vid was so good
I hate how body language reading is depicted most of the time. It's a complete pseudo science. Especially when it comes to trying to figure out deception.
A study actually shows that training people in body language can increase their ability to detect deseption. However, their rate of deception detection is lower than people who try to detect deception entirely vocally.
What’s the source? Not trying to disprove your comment just curious.
Source?
Regarding the name of the prison in Russia.
I am russian. And I am pretty sure this is not a real name.
Sounds like something a person that did zero research on the topic but just made up a word that "sounds Russian" would have. And even then failing at it. Because while all the syllables used in this name are used in Russian, having them in this corner and specifically ones used at the ending make is sound Kazakh rather than Russian.
And sure this is a minor detail in the grand scheme, but googling up a name of an actual infamous Russian prison is not too hard.
Or better yet - not give it a name at all. Have CIA refer it as a blacksite in region of Siberia, and the guards (and inmates since it would rub on them) call it something like "Kazemat". (this word originally refers to underground storage areas of a fortress, that were sometimes used to hold prisoners in leu of dedicated prison. And since those were not intended to be fit for long term habitation, the word gradually drifted towards meaning "terrible prison you don't want to end up in".
Like so little effort would have been required to avoid this stupid naming faceplant, the fact it is there is insulting.
Hold on! Kazemat, underground? It's similar to the portuguese word casamata!
"No one should wish they were English". As a mixed race woman w/ some Scottish heritage, these are the hot takes I come here for. Love you James.
As an English person: he's absolutely correct. It's hell.
a bit unrelated question but are you american?
@@nokedili by accident of birth not by choice.
@@marijkestoll816
surrender citizenship
as an english person, i get it
This whole book sounds like a string of loosely connected plot points from decades-old movies and video games but without a basic understanding of why those plot points were effectively used in those stories.
It should be said that, if we're to take to TCD at his word and a film is good simply because of its intentions and subject matter, then TCD should also love Cuties.
considering his politics, I will bet money he does
Can't believe I'm liking a comment referring to that- that- thing.
@@Blackgriffonphoenixg Considering how right wing nutjobs have absolutely no problem with child beauty pageants and child marriages (hol up, I'm gonna throw up a bit just typing that)...probably yeah....
He definitely loves cuties, he just can't be honest because his grift realm is committed to hating it. Nubile young girls being sexualised? I bet it's one of the most popular streams right across the right-wing community.
@@Shades14it’s not a thing…it’s a crime before god.
The thing with Drinker is he doesn’t want art forms to evolve, he wants art forms to go back to the way they were. His Rogue Elements trailer feels like a generic 90s action movie because that’s what he wants, something comfortable he already likes. And his book reads similarly. Instead of taking risks, or potentially challenging his pre-conceived notions, everything has to fit around those Terminator 2s, those Aliens, those Old Boys, those Top Guns.
Consider art is iterative (even if it can be derivative) and innovative, if that's truly what he thinks of art as a medium, it's hilarious.
What he's asking for isn't art. He's just asking for products. Y'know, the same slop that modern cinema puts out? The stuff he apparently hates? Guess it's not wrong when it's something that panders to him.
Funny to see how that group of people just want to be exclusively pandered to, and have all media exist for the sole purpose of their entertainment. It's like the people who watch a children's show and then complain it's not mature enough for their tastes. These people can't imagine anything not being for them, which is so utterly fascinating.
@@BoisegangGaming If it doesn't apply directly to them, or breaks their fragile "escapism" in anyway, they complain about it. Its not the fact they don't want companies to pander to anyone, or inter-grate their politics better, they just want companies to pander directly to them instead. They've cultivated a community of "we're just honest, we tell it as it is, we're common-sense" because they're slightly louder than everyone else and their content is stripped back and generalised
@@edwardreed67What the anti woke doesn’t realize is that the studios have huge fanbases and games, movies, and stories created by minorities with characters who happen to be minorities have a huge market.
entertainment was better back then
@@eko9554
you dont really get what the actual criticism of the anti woke are if you typed that.
race is irrelevant find me one anti woke that didnt like blade because he was black.
Despite being on the opposite side of the political spectrum. He and Jenna Moreci have one thing in common they are better youtubers then authors. I red the first one and thought it was meh.
Who bets Drinker will make a response and just insult our boy like an idiot
He probably won’t do it in a separate video, but he will definitely address some criticism in his cringe podcast. Y’know, the one where he and a bunch of other like-minded guys sit around and pretend they’re not misogynistic.
Hmmm. Tempting bet...
Not really a chat was said hes book suck and he just said hes sorry because the chat dont liked it@@notsteve5927
He’s probably going to insult James’s appearance, and call him a woke neckbeard.
"ThE mEsSaGe" in an obnoxious voice and objectively garbage British accent.
as someone from washington DC, there's literally a specific infrastructure reason for DC to have insane traffic. DC is a planned city that has a limited amount of space, and it can't expand because it's an independent district - any additional land DC took would have to be claimed from the existing states of maryland or virginia. but they didn't plan for DC to gain as much population as it did because it was planned centuries ago, when cities were way smaller. at the same time, building codes in DC don't allow for extremely tall buildings because 1) it would mess up views and sightlines for the monuments, and 2) they want the skies as clear as possible to spot any suspicious aircraft. they can't expand outward OR upward, and everything is jammed into a small space. DC traffic is so incredibly bad that locals almost never drive in the city itself at all.
mr. critical drinker clearly didn't even read the wikipedia page for the location he wanted his main character to live in. LMAO
isn't this guy one of those youtubers who just constantly whines about women and poc being in movies?
He's basically the modern face of that genre of "content creator".
No, he whines about shite content
@@cmk921 Nice fanfic.
@@cmk921 aren't you kind of embarrassed to like him
@@wilthomas I’d be way more embarrassed to like modern Disney
You already know that hoody is the most comfortable purchase James had made
A non-American British man working for the CIA is the funniest thing I've ever heard.
he is JUST. THAT. GOOD.
Can I just point out that, for all of Critical Drinker’s criticizing of Captain Marvel, she actually did have to seek out others for help while Anya is a flawless killing machine? Can anyone say hypocrite?
Well, if you refuse to be woke. Then obviously you’re blind to everything. And these idiots think it’s a good thing.
I love media criticism and analysis so I been living in utter suffering since in recent times it has been co-opted by TCD and douches of his sort. That just seat before a microphone and babble for 20 to 40 minutes about how Disney us evil and woke, occasionally making a decent point and then immediately ruining by dragging that point right back into culture war stuff.
“Woke woke woke woke woke woke woke (valid criticism) and that’s because of woke wokeists with their woke religion that is so woke”
Yeah, but there's definitely strategy behind this! You hear a handful of reasonable points, maybe some things you've already thought before yourself, and some that you maybe hadn't noticed yet, and are sitting there nodding your head, when suddenly *woke* comes up. And if you're not wise to their tricks, or maybe already inclined that way, you might think, "huh, is that why? I'd never thought of it that way, but he had a few good points before, so he might be right..."
I still remember when people got mad at Disney for having lgbt characters in Baymax and strange world 2 years back. Ironically before that, people got mad at Disney for not having lgbt rep. Imagine being an animator and you do listen to feedback for what the public wants only to be criticized for it. It proves you can’t satisfy the public no matter how hard you try.
I get tired oe hearing about kathleen kennedy ad nauseum. I just unsubscribed to the lot of them because they cant seem to move on from her. The misrepresent her as the sole reason that star wars feel apart. There is more to it then that. "SHe ruined lucas's vision." Well, he got 2 billion, he can make his own universe.
@@yurikendal4868 i thought he got 4 billion?
36:00 Wait, she is so tough she regularly fights off multiple guards, leaving them injured and broken on the floor. But this one guard is able to assault her on what sounds like a regular basis???
He's The Mountain
Claim to fame raping and killing a sickly woman at age 17.
....oh wait, Anya leaves guards with gashes and broken bones and senseless on the floor. But this guy. He's built different
Credit to the prologue: I was engaged the whole video waiting to see if it was going to blatantly copy the ending of Metal Gear Solid 5.
Ground Zero or Phantom Pain?
@@Hawkatana I was thinking of how Quiet's story ends in Phantom Pain, unfortunately this book was much more boring.
Turns out the main character is actually TCD with plastic surgery and hypnosis to become the main character, so the main character can secretly work in the background to achieve his dream of an soldier nation without borders.
I love people that all they do is complain about hollywood slop, but when they have the chance to create their own art, they create stuff that simulates slop.
This probably isn't related to the book but as someone who consumes a lot of japanese media, (Yeah I'm a weeb. What of it?) I've lost count as to how many of them either have an all female cast or have some of the strongest characters in the show/film/game be female.
That doesn't really strike me as something that critical drinker would really agree to so his statement on how japanese media got popular because they're not woke is very questionable to me considering his takes on certain films.
Lots of anime are hella woke
because you have to pick your targets, you can't just lash out at anything with a gay person in, you have to establish that the thing is shit beforehand
You have to understand that "makes me horny" = not woke.
Anya is my favorite character in fiction purely for the sole reason that drinker would 100% go absolute apeshit over her if it was written by someone else in the mainstream. 😂 And will make sure to never let it be forgotten, like he does with Captain Marvel, She hulk, Abby etc.
Difference is, Captain Marvel (Comics and MCU0, She Hulk (MCU), and Abby sucks! Awfully written characters
@@Shockkings0714 What difference? Anya is even worse then what he fearmongers about "modern female characters".
@@yungmuney5903 Have you actually read her? Or have you just read a synopsis?
Have you actually read her? Or have you just read a synopsis?
@@Shockkings0714
Cope harder.
The Critical Drinker should be called the Hypocritical Drinker. 🤣
Or the critical faker.
Once you realise that the Critical Drinker forces every last word in a sentence out it's impossible to ignore
Saving this for when I'm done with work. Can't wait. Drinker is un-fucking-bearable.
So he writes like he's still 14, playing Modern Warfare and nothing has changed in the world or how mature you are. Surprisingly, not the first time a terrible writer just referenced something he must have thought the epitome of coolness in their teenage years - Fallout NV's mod the Frontier was, at least in the NCR plotline, basically Fallout: Modern Warfare. And for someone who thinks that Marvel Movies are stupid, Drinker sure seems to like writing a Black Widow stand-in.
Clearly the woke agenda forced him to write his female characters that way. He clearly would have done something else if he had just been given creative control/insert-excuse-here.
/s
Missing the nuance of Modern Warfare to be exact.
more like biege widow
@@fulcrum6760 that too. The cool moments are there, the big set pieces, but those had a reason to be there in the grander narrative and were not just slow motion shots of army guys for no reason.
That's why the frontier NCR plotline simply didn't feel like Fallout at all. Because it wasn't. (Also there was that one scene ripped straight from Wolfenstein. The entire NCR plotline stinks of stolen ideas and references)
Why is it always military fanfiction when it comes to these culture critics
Because they worship it. Which is funny because one of the Ten Commandments is "Thou shalt not have any other gods before Me."
My only issue is that you didn't need to stoop to insulting his looks, that's their level.
Yeah well my only issue is he didn't point out that he looks like a malnourished clone of Sargon of Akkad.
They could have been forgiven if they'd stopped in 2015. Still doing anti-SJW stuff in 2024? No prisoners.
That man is PALE AF!! No hate to pale people, we don't choose our looks, but I assumed he looked like a model straight out of a magazine given how critical he is of "diverse" bodies. Complete shocker when I saw his....homely looks.
Than you for accurately representing the way he talks like he is constantly gnashing his teeth and growling
On Jose’s video I noticed he stresses the last word of every sentence like he’s straining to shit.
By the way, have you heard of the Shiver trilogy? It's one of those twilight clones, the twist being that the werewolves turn into actual wolves (including their brains) during the winter, are human during the summer, the shift is involuntary, and the author might have written beastiality by accident. It's one of my favorite YA trilogies, but I recognize that there's a LOT of insane shit going on as well. I've yet to see any funny bad book review channel cover it, too.
This feels like he wrote James Bond/Black Widow crossover fanfic because he shipped it, and then filed the serial numbers off to make a quick buck.
I have to give him a pass on the cover, though. Traditional publishing is pretty notorious for a) choosing an image based on vibes rather than being an actual scene in the plot and b) not giving the author much (or frequently any) input over the cover.
The hoodie may be too big but it looks comfy to wear! i need to get an oversized hoodie again-
Every day I gain confidence in my own writing. Because if the Critical Drinker, someone who couldnt name basic writing steps if he was gently prodded towards them, could write a book? Then I can too.
And so can you!
Anybody can write a book but it's getting people to read them that's the issue.
Much like Podcasts it's easier to get people to tune in if you're already a minor celebrity of some kind.
Drinker could have written basically anything and his fans would have bought it.
I despise The Hypocritical Drinker so this is amazing
It seems like the only thing TCD can think of for development of female characters is them being SA'd. This does not bode well for the women in his life.
Also the classic of women are defined by the men they interact with
@@ethanstyant9704 That as well.
I find it tremendously funny that he chose "Redemption" as the title of his first book in a series, thats a title for like the 4th or 5th book
And named the MC Ryan Drake. He should leave naming to someone more adept at it.
As someone who used to watch TDC my god looking back I don't see how I ever liked him he essentially just screams "T H E M E S S A G E" while zooming in on the woman closest to being the main character
I stumbled upon him when I was like 12 and even I got tired of watching him. Like he would just ree about whamen for 20 minutes and be obsessed with Batgirl.
It's ironic how critical drinker of all people wrote a story where the female character, despite not being well written either, still outshines the male lead.
The irony of him criticizing films and tv shows for shitty visuals and drab colours is also funny since that's exactly what his project will look to be.
I love how you don't try to sugar coat what you think of Will. He is awful, he doesn't pull any punches against the people he hates, and neither should you.
Also, the irony of TCD writing the kind of story he would absolutely hate. Like...damn.
Props for courage, James. Get ready to be raided by rabid fanboys.
EDIT: Wow, congrats on the 100k subs!
Even his fans hate his books, I'm not kidding. They tell him stick to reviewing and not writing. Someone said it themselves-they're not complete ass kissers.
@@fulcrum6760 Ooof.
His movie trailer looked like a straight to Walmart bin movie. He should be embarrassed to release that trash, hopefully he comes to his senses and doesn't release it until he hires half-decent actors and gets an editor to fix the dogsh*t dialogue. He should also go to a filmmaking class, b/c not even the basics are covered
The Star Trek Picard thing was hilarious to me, and I hate Star Trek Picard. It demonstrated that Critical Drinker knows nothing about Star Trek, because Picard was dressed down as a captain in his prime in Star Trek The Next Generation BY WOMEN multiple times.
The character of Admiral Nechayev earned a reputation among fans for being an antagonist to Picard because she was always either busting him for something he did that she didn't like or giving him dry orders. No doubt if those scenes were made today, CD would use them as examples of the emasculation of male characters. But of course because they're in the GOOD OLD DAYS, they're never commented on by the usual crowd.
I couldn’t get thru light Picard. The whole idea that the Romulan Star Empire ( which controls thousands of systems in their quadrant suddenly has to come to earth instead of just moving their people to other systems of their wide empire is just idiotic. Also an advance race that could make gigantic stations like DS-9 suddenly can ONlY go to earth is just a head scratcher. You can’t take the Romulan and turn them into Syrian boat people given the decades of established canon.
@@brianmurphy250 Okay, good criticism. Much more in-depth than anything Drinker would've said.
A Japanese book that Will could have complained about is Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei
Is it because Nakajima is canonically a femboy?
Good critics would not base their entire personality on crapping\mocking other people's work, it is the same reason why most youtubers who monetize mockery of other people's work can't deliver anything of quality on their own.
He makes positive reviews as well. Also just because you can't make good art it doesn't make your critiques less valid, they are two different talents.
@@R0CKDRIG0 Doesn't matter, he sells himself on shitting on other people's work.
It is one thing to say this movie has these attributes and mention a list of objective aspects of the movie to inform the public, what the customer should properly expect from a piece of creative endeavor, it is another to basically mock almost everyone else's work and push political warfare onto the public.
Man that EFAP callout was music to my ears…I used to watch those idiots all the time…then I grew a brain.
Story of my life
real.
Same
The funniest part is when they use "it's only that long because they keep going off on meaningless tangents!!" as if it helps at all, as well as trying to hold them to the standards of "objective, unbiased, serious critique"
But yeah, sure, it's the length of the videos everyone hates...
Yup had to drop Rags & them because I could see where that train was heading
Oh no... I just realized, "True Allegiance" by Ben Shapiro has a better opening.
Wasn't it the same opening but with a general instead of a CIA guy?
@Alresu nah it began with a bridge collapsing, I remember finding it hilarious that he likened the supports snapping to fly fishing. The book is total garbage, but almost so bad it's good
@@herodotasgamer2942 Oh, yeah, you are right. I think, the thing I meant was just the intro for one of the characters.
honestly, these sorts of books to me just scream 'i wanted to make a movie but i don't have the money'
@thejuiceking2219 I would pay so much for a True Alliegence movie from the boys at the Daily Wire, it may actually be unfilmable
Idk why criticism of art by people who are famous as critics of that medium is such a satisfying genre ... i don't even like or dislike critical drinker but its like poetic ... i hope one day you write a novel that someone else can make a 2 hour video on and let the cycle repeat 😇
Back when I was a centrist, I used to like some of Will’s videos, but a lot of his comments left a bad taste in my mouth. I went back to watch some of his videos a few weeks ago, and now I can’t believe I ever had respect for TCD. I’m not surprised that this book is mediocre at best, and sh*t at worst.
I used to eat his videos up as an edgy teenager, now that I'm more mature when I see his videos and comment section it just makes me laugh like they're genuinely malding man children who cry and nitpick
I sometimes go back to UA-camrs I used to watch, particularly the ones that became ultra far-right, and I just end up feeling deeply embarrassed of my past self.
It's not always bad though, as it shows how much you've grown as a person.
@@SleepyMatt-zzz That’s very true.
No same, I used to watch a lot of those types as a "centrist," before leaving that youtube bubble and realizing just how anti-centrist a lot actually was.
@@Gvjrapiro 100%.There’s nothing centrist about the far right.
1:22:37 So literally the exact same scene from 24. Season two, I believe? Why do people keep using that same scene without any variation???
It's a spy novel, why didn't Anya wear a fake mustache while driving to avoid suspicion 😂
Cause that would be woke trans propaganda
I don't like critical drinker. He is cringe
It's insane the extents to which Critical Drinker fans will assert that Critical Drinker is not political.
Man, if I had a nickel for every time a person with the word "Critic" in their name tried to make a work of genuine creative expression and absolutely bricked it because they simply don't understand what art or stories actually are, I'd have at least two nickels... Which isn't a lot, but it's depressing that it's happened at least twice now.
The Wall with the Nostalgia Critic? I watch him for entertainment, but don't consider his words having any weight anymore.
@@howdoyoudo5949 The Wall, Demo Reel, To Boldly Flee, take your pick. Doug Walker has a plethora of artistic oopies to rival Will Jordan's
I love book talks with Ariana.
17:10 To any Americans who might not know this. In the UK the cost of living is much lower then the US. So, on a wage of £40k you can live fairly comfortably. The usual rule of thumb is to take a British wage and double it to get its approx US equivalent accounting for cost of living.
£650,000 therefore, in cost of living terms (not just in currently conversion terms cus that really doesn't paint the full picture), is the equivalent of an American earning $1300k. Its an utterly obsurd amount of money for the UK. To give context, the PM has a wage of £167k. This guy earns 650k he's really properly in the top 1% of the country
In Saudi Arabia an Islamic theocracy, a woman both driving and with no hijab (I'm assuming since it wasn't mentioned and Trullo stated her hair colour) should have been instantly flagged and put them in jail
Foreigners can do those things
The EFAP call out. You said everything I was thinking when I saw this video pop in my sub page. Was worried cause I know how this people can’t handle criticism spent like 8hrs in a 20min vid sending their fans to cry for them.
I’ve seen all of Mauler’s videos a couple times and he makes great content, I hate how all of them get grouped together like this. He is not at all a grifter he makes incredibly well thought out and hilarious content.
@@mitchellhouser1572 perhaps if mauler didn’t want to get lumped in with efap he shouldn’t make content with efap
@@kiarawilliams2720 Plus he actively agrees with and restates the other guests' opinions all the time. Separating Mauler from EFAP isn't possible
Reminds me of EFAP making an 11 hour video in response to Jenny Nicholson’s 30 minutes video about the Joker
I'm honestly curious about this whole take. EFAP, the show hosted by Mauler, Fringy, and Rags generally doesn't do the whole anti SJW gimmick that The Critical Drinker seems to over indulge in. For example, their analysis on movies like the new Star Wars trilogy had nothing to do with any wokeness or cultural issues. Granted some of their guests like TCD have more questionable views, but my impression is that they get lumped in with all the anti-SJW types just because they have them on as guests. I also don't understand why length is so often used a a pejorative lol. Isn't exhaustive and detailed critique generally a good thing? I get the impression if they did 30 second criticisms people would whine they weren't looking deep enough, and if they hit some magical "reasonable" number of hours to critique people would just say their opinions were wrong. It's a shame that no one ever wants to engage on the substance of any content and just slap on some labels for things they don't agree with.
1:26:45 “that yeeted me right back to lightlark man” TOP TEN THINGS ANYONE HAS EVER SAID
yeah I also broke out laughing when that was said. Mostly because the description of the scene was extremely uncomfortable.
The worst trashy 70s Men's novels have more soul than TCD's movie script shoved forcefully into novel format.
As someone who is both a fan of the Critical Drinker and yourself, I hope you enjoy the thought that, in my opinion, your opinion influences me much more than his. I was very excited to click on this video, and I can confidently say that had the roles been reversed, I would be much more likely to scoff at his.
19:06 woah
ive never seen drinker without the sunglasses either and like
disney called
they want their original king magnifico render back