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You can't truly criticize a movie without an extended lore behind your critic's persona.
you need the lore so that when you say something racist you can prove that "it's just a character"
I can speak from experience: adding lore to your persona is more fun for the creator than it is for the viewer.
Honestly, I kinda liked those kind of stupid bits in critic videos. They can be fun when done well, though more often than not they’re just very cringe
@@avataraarow Cal Chuchesta here
*Fursona
Remember when movie critics use to have a signature weapon
I use a magical sword and a Fictional Dimensional Transporter created by a former mad scientist. 🤣
You don’t understand, the Blockbuster Buster can’t appear onscreen without his signature hammer he got on clearance at Home Depot.
@@APinchofBazel i dont even know if this is a real thing or not and it makes it much funnier xD
This comes from AVGN because he would have fight scenes and use the Nintendo gear and it was actually good 'cause James went to film school and the format nicely contextualized the weapons he had, but then every movie critic who wanted to be James copied this without any of the skills or creativity necessary to pull it off.
And a signature hat or other head accessory.
You’re missing an ending where the critic receives a copy of a bad movie he doesn’t want to review (lore-wise) and he starts freaking out.
So like Blockbuster buster
@@shermanbrown419 pretty much every one of these critics, even for games.
Yep, just as he's settling down after the terrible ordeal of the movie/skit he just went through, he opens a mysterious package and it means he FINALLY has to review Inuyasha or Look Who's Talking Now in the next episode.
@@lightsideendings5815 Because as we all know, movie reviewers don't have free will and have to review every movie they see.
So basically AVGN with ET for the Atari.
Back in 2010, people weren't even thinking about leaving those "Review starts at 15:07 btw" comments. We all just accepted this is how it was and always will be on UA-cam.
Well we needed to see just exactly what Satan was up to this time. Always causing problems making the Critic watch bad movies. FUCKING HILARIOUS!
Remember that Channel Awesome at its peak didn't host its videos on UA-cam (meaning the central website had an actual purpose).
People who complained about the skits always annoyed me. They had their charm.
@@Seth9809You must realize that some people come for regular reviews and not skits, if you like them that's fine, but don't hate on other people's opinions just because you personally disagree.
@TreIsADumbass I think there's just a cultural difference, if that's the right word. Between people who started in the more recent waves of reviewing and those who were there for the older ones. Because to me, being against the segments and wanting them to just do the review just makes me think " Are...are you aware what the show is ?" because in the end they are just as much a part of the core idea of the show than the review itself. Because the Nostalgia critic is a character.
The only thing he's missing is a fake gun and a stock explosion effect
And “a-Chuck Noriiiiiiiiiis!”
@@PrinceofArfon Fuck I hate that I remember the exact delivery of that
And the opening riff of *”THE REVIEW MUST GO OOOONNNN!”*
@@rosesongoku6980 I mean...that's just The Show Must Go On with the copyright edges filed off
@@StudioInkblot Right, funny that it became his intro song even though he ripped that movie apart
This is horrifically accurate but I do get nostalgic for 2010-ish youtuber crossovers where they would have a whole scripted bit like
'Blorbo? what are you doing on my channel?'
'I don't know! Must be a youtube glitch... so what movie are you reviewing?'
"Jungo's Day at the Beach. Pretty mediocre"
*record scratch* "STOP THE PRESSES! JUNGO'S DAY AT THE BEACH IS A MASTERPIECE OF CINEMA"
Oh shit I remember those
Blorbo 😂💀
@Calicomb Oh yeah, the classic counterpoint crossover.
@@cincymutt I know it's intense but don't worry. They'll come to a compromise at the end
2020s film criticism be like:
"here's why disney's movie "Winnie the pooh" is a perfect critique of capitalism"
2030s film criticism: "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, a cinemiac abortion" (18 Hours, 30 Minutes)
A Critique of Star Wars The Last Jedi
Video:16 hours long
Video essay with calm Shakespeare dialogue with fancy long words.
There has to be a happy medium somewhere
@@Marylandbrony Hmmmm maybe I’ll make that one. Im living in 2030 rn anyways.
Also doomed to age poorly
0:11 The jumpcut for the bad take is such a subtle joke! Love it.
I don’t think it’s intentional
@@itsathing3369he could’ve done another take if he wanted to. It was 100% intentional.
@@ZacV47 Not necessarily. When you're alone filming yourself, it's not always easy to assess how good a take was. You might think you had a couple of good ones then realize in editing you mispronounced a word or hesitated just a little too long in between words. I really don't think this particular jump cut was intentional.
@@misterwhyteyou’re free to see it however you want to, but I think the biggest indicator that it was intentional is how he kind of pauses before the cut. Like it’s clear that he was intending to combine another take in. What you said about filming alone and not knowing if you had the right take applies more to what he’s parodying, the late 2000’s early 2010’s youtube style.
@@ZacV47 You're reading WAY too much into this.
The fact that you managed to distill Nostalgia Critic’s entire ethos into a 37 second long video is equally as impressive as it is terrifying
I mean shit, it took Doug Walker himself a three and a half hour movie to do that
I mean, Linkara's worse. NC mostly just has a few recurring characters, but Linkara has a whole storyline that goes from review to review, making them confusing to watch out of sequence
@Sonic Hedgehog Yeah, that's the joke.
It isn't just Doug that does this lol
AVGN does this too, it's just that he does it much better
the intonation in the evil clone is uncannily uncomfortably familiar and we all know why
?
i literally have no idea what you're talking about
Not a clue here either
You could say it's nostalgic.
@@uvbe The tie isn't giving it away? Were you around in 2010?
Don't forget the part when whatever you're reviewing comes to life, and you have to battle it with VERY crappy CGI effects.
Hey don't do my boy AVGN dirty like that!
AVGN's fights were sick mate
@@wildbubI mean, they WERE pretty much objectively crappy effects. It's just that the crapiness was hakf the charm.
Or the only thing they have against the movie is the CGI, regardless of its quality
Scott the Woz - The Dark Age of Nintendo
You Left out the part where after the review is done they say "Well, I'm glad THAT'S over" but the a DVD copy of whatever they're reviewing next somehow shows up, and they scream in horror upon seeing it.
even scott the woz did *that* one, though he managed to earn it.
Man carrying knife that stabs me right in the "oh god, I used to like nostalgia critic"
I was just a teenager I didn’t know any better 💀
@@TheMasterQuests May I steal that defense for myself, lmao?
I tolerated his style for the longest time because it was nice to have an internet celebrity that lived in my hometown.
And then the accusations of employee abuse and sexual harassment came out. Now I wish he'd move far, far away. The Kerguelen Islands would be nice.
@@aidangordon2713 Go ahead lmao its free net xD.
The guy who defended Ghostbusters 2016?
Every Nostalgia Critic episode ever.
Every *goddamn* one.
There used to be a time when it was just the movie and some more or less funny one liners thrown at the plot.
That's when I started binging.
@@Kurostyle21 Yeah, the skits got progressively longer and much more worse with time
In some of his videos that don’t use the Nostalgia Critic character, Doug proves that he’s capable of giving a detailed analysis of a piece of media, so the fact that he feels the need to use the worst skits I’ve seen ever is beyond me.
Damn, he still exists?
I always consider him defeated by James Rolfe(AVGN) back in the days
@@toganium4175 I've come across his videos at times, but i always turn it off when it reaches those segments because it just feels so infantile.
Imagine if Morbius was released in 2010. The critics back in the day would be all over it with future meme material lines
It would stand along the podium of the batcredit card or the catwoman basketball scene
It’s so bizarre and interesting how these meta-narratives were such a staple of the genre at the time. TBH it felt less egregious with the NC since it at least felt like he was using it as a vehicle for more cinematic parody and it usually remained thematically tied to the movie he was reviewing. Whereas when someone like PeanutButterGamer tried the same schtick, it just felt so perfunctory and like their heart wasn’t in it. Needless to say, it’s nice that people have realized you can do the clip-summary-joke format of comedy review casually and as yourself. Now the alter-ego skits are reserved for the sponsorship segments LOL
Yeah, I couldn't get into PBG either. I think NC basically took AVGN's schtick and brought it to film reviews, whereas some like PBG and Caddicarus went with an even more random and zany Jontron style, but just weren't as good at it.
Nothing was more cringe than Blockbuster Buster back in the day.
_The Good Ending_
@@Rhewin Funny enough I forgot his face and I actually thought for a second that this guy on the video was the actual Blockbuster Buster.
PeanutButterGamer, to his credit, got much better with time. He barely does skits now, but when he does, they're short af
"I'm the evil version of you ho actually respect woman"
What a twisted evil man.
Didn't catch that he's the *evil* version of him who respects women. Re-watched it with that in mind in the hopes that now it would make _any type of sense to me_ . It didn't. I still don't get it. 10/10 video regardless.
B-But he punched a baby
If you don’t get it...I’m jealous of you. See, there’s this guy....
@@deshrektives Yes, yes, yes. Nostalgia Critic. Some of whose old videos I may even have seen. But it doesn't ring a bell. Maybe they were just utterly forgettable to me? Maybe I am mistaking him for another creator? For some reason, I still haven't taken a(nother) glance at his content from that time. If I ever do so, I may report back to you. But your mention of jealousy has been noted. I did hear the warning between the lines. I simply might not heed it. Because my curiosity _you're fanning flames here, my friend_ got the best of me.
This but unironically. There isn't a single woman i respect
You forgot some things.
1. The screaming
2. “What were they THINKING??”
3. The constant vulgarity
4. Summarizing the movie instead of criticizing it
5. When criticizing, don’t elaborate. Perform skit or get really mad and swear instead
ah yes I too used to watch the Spoony Experiment
I’m screenshotting this
Heyy that's unfair, these types of reviews usually only reviwed movies with already horrible reputations, so it was not a seriosu critique to begin with. NC started to blur the line and that's when he started to suck.
Also add:
6. barely paying attention to the film and when called out on errors, just say 'that's the joke'
7. Personally attacking actors and creatives yet being unable to take criticism themselves...
A BAT CREDIT CARD????
Don’t forget when they have to fight sentient box copies of Sonic ‘06 and Problem Solverz
That ironic moment when old Nostalga Critic videos become nostalgic.
He's been doing them since 2007. That was like 16+ years ago.
@@seigeengineSo? You can be nostalgic for anything that is over a decade old.
The older I grow, the more I look back at the days in middle school showing my friends the Nostalgia Critic’s videos. They were good friends for pretending to enjoy them.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Shame Channel Awesome turned out to be, well, not so awesome.
nostalgia critic rules, i have no idea what you people are talking about
@@lightsideendings5815 that video was tame, expected more after your comment. Didnt even poke fun at christians or christianity really. Also protestants tend to be the most open minded and the ones who care less about "blasphemy".
Same. Especially the Anniversary videos that I would be so hype for and watch them as if they were exclusive, avenger-like events in cinema history.
Any modern film critics would draw themselves having a smug expression with their arms crossed over this.
Or an animal with an utterly exasperated expression.
And the mid-late 2010’s would have ‘man in suit’ with a variety of faces.
Needs a terrible cartoon avatar
I mean, I know a lot of films critics who don't do that, even me.
@@ScofieldStudios Then you or the people you know are not modern film critics obviously. 🙄
that's way more of a game reviewer thing
I prefer this to "why Disney's Aladdin is problematic" *3 hour video essay*
Inaccurate. No 2010 UA-cam film criticism was this well shot.
*gets two minutes into review when suddenly a portal opens up*
Critic: “What are you doing here?”
Other UA-camr that makes the exact same videos: “I figured you could use some help, The Land Before Time 8 isn’t the kind of movie one can tackle on their alone. Also an evil cyborg version of myself may attack us at some point in this video.”
Holy fucking shit this so much
I cant fault them for this. The first "thatguywiththeglasses" anniversary video had Doug Walker's "That Guy with the Glasses" character point out how much the audience loved the idea of a crossover review. When they first started to do that, it was incredibly awesome.
@@simpsonwizekid So awesome they made an entire channel out of it, in fact.
Bruh...you jest, but a LAND BEFORE TIME sequel collab was most definitely a thing back in the day.
I know cuz I was there...sadly, you are 100% spot-on. 😅
Damn
I miss this type of collabs....
Don't forget the thumbnail where you shoot the movie poster with a gun
TRUUUE! and hi sarah, i love your videos, it’s a nice surprise seeing you in this comment section! :))
Or have the movie poster with there head superimposed on top because...because!
Or the critics angry face photoshopped on top of the main character
Today's kids will never understand
I don’t. I have no idea who they’re talking about.
@@fodkfkdkfkfkfjfjfjhow have you never seen a grown man threatening to murder a director over a continuity error? unbelievable....
@@fodkfkdkfkfkfjfjfjI feel so old
@@fodkfkdkfkfkfjfjfjgo watch an older nostalgia critic video
"Today's video criticism is like, 'Here is why Spongebob is a perfect satirical metaphor for the greediness of capitalism, but first here is a word from my multimillion-dollar sponser..."
Got to pay the bills
How can you be an Anticapitalist yet you participate in Capitalism every time you get stuff from Walmart or watch Netflix? Checkmate commies
Are you implying that repeating "A BAT CREDIT CARD?!" a thousand times isn't the peak of all comedy? If only we were working on a fan-film together and I could deny you water
A BAT CREDIT CAAAAARD?!?!?! 🔫 🔫 🔫
I forgot about the denying water thing.
I remember when being a part of Channel Awesome was my dream
made me spit my water out so technically I was denied water by your actions
@@luizpdrnogueira no you didn't
Denied water?
You could say that you remember 2010s youtube film criticism so we don't have to.
subtle,touche it makes me wonder what were they thinking?
Every video review guy back then was on Blip and not youtube because there they could make some money.
oh my god lol
This reminds me of how pointless that catchphrase was. I still remembered these movies regardless of whether or not he did.
It's so crazy. I'm hungarian, and even we had a version of this type of movie review in 2010-ish haha
Do you happen to know what their channel(s) was called? That actually sounds really interesting!!
@@bryceescallier7946 it's called Hollywood Hírügynökség, he still makes movie critics but it's a bit different now. But back in the days I think it's started with "Evil Clone" who later becomed a recurring character on the channel, and later it becomed a whole lore with a bunch of other different clones. They poped up here and there, but not in every video, but if I remember correctly his Pirates of the Carabbean video did have a pirate clone in it coincidentally haha
@@bryceescallier7946 If you interested but can't understung hungarian, he has one video in english (according to the lore made by "English Clone") called Mindfuck Island
“yes but when are you going to get to the critique?”
“The what?”
the best part of classic 2010s movie reviews is when they actually DO review the movie and just take a literal-minded lense to everything. like the "why didn't the eagles fly them to mordor" shit but for every single movie.
WHY IS IT VEGAS?
Jesus, watching Nostalgia Critic is so bad nowadays. Like, all of his criticisms will be focused on the literal aspects and not one thing related to shots, cinematography, etc.
@@DarkScherzo94 i find linkara way worse in this regard. critic is clearly just playing it up for comedy purposes, i get the impression linkara genuinely believes in his criticisms.
@@DarkScherzo94 I stopped watching when it stopped being about movies. If they want to do sketches then they should rebrand to that, rather than pretending it's a movie review.
@@visitor5451 Linkara is mostly just reading the comic and making some tenuously related joking aside. It's not really a review so much as awkward comics related stand up comedy
Also today´s criticism: "This mildly succesful franchise is garbage and here´s why" *a two hour videoessay*.
It's all Mr. Plinkett Star Wars reviews fault, they're still trying to copy them to this day but forget to be funny
@@GhPadua but at least RedLetterMedia is competent and don’t repeat the same point over and over and don’t have filler. I don’t always agree with their criticism as they aren’t on the same wavelength as me (they find a lot of boring movies to be “so bad it’s good” for example) but they at least give understandable reasons why they don’t like something. Honestly half in the bag is one of the better review shows because it’s more of a discussion and it can help you to decide if you should watch the movie or not, which is the purpose of reviews. I do think they have garbage takes on Star Wars for example, but other stuff I completely get where they are coming from.
@@thomasffrench3639 Honestly though. RLM actually remembered these very simple concepts:
-Actually have something useful to say
-If you’re going to have random cutaway gags about your persona’s backstory keep it minimal and don’t focus too much on it.
-Don’t just be a prick without at least being an ironic humorous prick.
-Make your videos actually worth the runtime.
Exceedingly rare as far as film/TV critique channels go.
@Joshua Munn That's nothing, I once found a twenty minute video where a guy talked about how bad the alien cow scene was from that film. Yes really, he taken it down by this point but it was real.
I also found a one hour twenty two minute video where a guy with cat face paint anaylized a character from a shitty nickelodeon sitcom. So its safe to assume that most of these people need some kind of medication.
That's more due to the change in the algorithm, they used to reward based on clicks now it's based on watch time so the longer your video is and the longer you can keep people watching them the better it is for you.
Nowadays, UA-cam critics act like 7th graders in English class acting like they know better
I gotta be honest. We're so bombarded with pretentious long-form video essays that I kind of miss the cheaply produced, poorly acted living room productions that didn't take themselves too seriously and rarely lasted longer than 15 minutes.
True. Now every 20 something with audio equipment has to "unpack" a five minute scene in 39 minutes.
@@howmanynamesaretaken This speaks to me more than you know. I've seen many video game reviews that are over 3 hours long, some over 5 hours. It's always some 22 year old would be critic sitting in his bedroom in his mom's house. Having your cricique be longer than feature documentaries is just a sign that you have bad expression skills, and you are incapable of condensing information and leaving out unnescessary bits.
@@howmanynamesaretaken They be like:
"I hated the new Star Wars Films. I could just make one video on them all or maybe one video for each film... Or I could make 10 videos on each film and every video is longer than the actual movie itself. I'll just repeat myself and maybe bring in one new point that I copied from some dude on Reddit who has no idea about anything, and then I'll call it a day. And don't forget the thumbnail with Kathleen Kennedy, Rian Johnson, J J Abrams or Mickey Mouse and they need to have red eyes, so they seem evil. Brilliant"
@@paistinlasta1805 How dare they alone take several HOURS to thoroughly critique something that took hundreds of people years to create? It’s almost like they actually gave some thought and engaged with the film or game.
@@KasumiRINA
"I watched (mostly listened to while doing chores)"
You critizise that I lack attention span while you admit that you concider "reviews" more or less background noise
"If you expect an 120-hour RPG to be fully explained in 15 minutes"
Since when has a review meant "Fully explaining" something?
"that's a problem with Gen Z attention span"
Like those damn zoomers Roger Ebert (Born 1942) and Gene Siskel (Born 1946) who reviewed MULTIPLE feature films in only 30 minutes. That's hardly enough time to fully explain a single film let alone multiple.
Oh man, oh god. This truly says a lot about the current state of society. It is just, so deep.
Mmm noo? Is just comedy man
This is so true.
We live in a society
thanks The Batman by Matt Reeves
"Oh man...oh god, oh man, oh god, oh man, oh god, oh man, oh god..."
This is so true. I remember, too, when a review would have a skit and characters, it would usually reference things that happened in previous videos, so unless you watched that particular critic religiously, you wouldn't know what they were talking about. Awesome video!
Imagine if you reviewed wrestling that way
I'd say Scott the Woz is one big enough content creator who still does reviews like this.
@@NickJerrison but his actually work because the videos can stand on their own, having context just makes a few jokes funnier
Red Letter Media used to do these terrible skits at the start of their reviews. Like they had an entire story spanning several years.
Luckily they stopped doing that shit. Now they do skits about recent events.
@@blyzer7373
Imagine not understanding that the Half in the Bag skits are good BECAUSE they’re bad
It should be noted that the "2010s" youtube criticism really started as 2005-2015 criticism which was 90% influenced by AVGN which was also an extension of sorts of Mystery Science Theatre 3000. MST3K, while fantastic for what it did, has incredibly cringey and largely unfunny cut-away segments used to pad runtime.
Angry Joe and a few other critics of that era have mentioned that they knew their side plots and gags were awkward or not the best but they did them anyways because they thought it was fun to make them. Even the legendary "Red Letter Media" crew started off largely in the same vein as what AVGN and Nostalgia Critic did with their Plinkett reviews that focused on entertainment along with nitpicky movie criticism.
I would say 2015 was the turning point where Every Frame A Painting and really revolutionized the idea of making a more in depth analysis on film technique which lead to hundreds of "video essay" channels with lo-fi hip hop music in the background to give a false sense of intellect and authority, when really a large number of them were very poorly researched.
Basically, 2005-2015 was criticism as entertainment where the actual critics opinion was highly exaggerated (for example, doug reviews tends to vary greatly from Nostalgia Critic reviews) and then 2015 was the "we all grew up and wear big boy pants now. I only listen to REAL critics who have lo-fi hip hop".
It's an interesting history and I think it's neat to have watched internet movie criticism since the beginning and see it evolve naturally within a community. The vast majority of big youtube movie critics are somehow attached to ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com and cool to see how everyone took off with their work in a different direction.
Some people would argue with you about MST3K's host segments--there are some memorable ones that people are fond of--but the important point is that the host segments were supposed to come off like cheap filler. It was all very dry and tongue-in-cheek.
@@bonchbonch right, I know they were supposed to be dry but I honestly think most episodes are better without them unless they can get some really good gags or ideas out of them.
Can't wait for 2025 where the next UA-cam criticism evolution began with critics turning their reviews into an awful 2 hours musical
That type of UA-cam media criticism was very prevalent back in 2005-2015.
I still think a "movie critic" is a cringe thing to be. Like it started with some guy shitting on Kubrick and praising Adam Sandler and rest went like "oh I can also pretend to be quirky and interesting if I just say the opposite of what people think", and it went on into the essays in the style of "why people who find Chungking Express romantic are WRONG and here's why they shoudnb't like it", "Dead Poets Society is bad because a kid sent to military school against his will is great", or "Aladdin is a thief and meanie, Jasmine would be better off with Jaffar (so what he's 100 years old, kidnapped her farther, and plans to kill her after wedding night)".
I legitimately can't tell whether people are trolling or serious about movies when they write about them, but I suspect they mostly aren't joking. I honestly mostly see angry contrarians who didn't get what the story is about (I noticed people who don't get the punchline of a joke are often enraged for some reason), and just post some confidently incorrect stuff about topics they don't understand as a take that to the people who did.
If you are the nostalgia critic, 2010 never ended.
I know it's satire and not the real thing because I actually laughed at this, and the "reviewer" didn't destroy my eardrums with an over the top loud screech. Also, the pause to read the script at 0:17 is just the perfect touch.
The awkward jump cut mid-sentence at 0:11 is also a brilliant touch.
Ah yes, I too remember when reviews weren’t actually about film criticism.
I remember trying to explain to my parents how reviewers would adopt a character who doesn't necessarily share the opinions of the person playing said character, and why that's somehow entertaining.
Ah yes, back in the days where the them bashing bad movies was funny and they use to have distince intros. Back when they use to be the kings of UA-cam.
@@ScofieldStudios im so glad those times are behind us now
@@TheMiels I'm not. For me those were the good old days. Back when NC was funny.
@AT Productions Or when they make boomer-videos titled 'Why movies nowadays suck', as if bad movies only started popping up over the last five years
Back when UA-cam criticism and reviews ware about entertainment and fun personalities like Nostalgia Critic,Atop the 4th Wall, Anime Abounded, Angry Video Game Nerd, Brows Held High, DiamandaHagan, Angry joe, sometimes the reviews might have been cringe but at least they tried to be entertaining. Now everything since gamergate has basically become arguing over culture war bullshit like Ghostbusters 2016, Velma, she hulk, rings of power, saints row reboot, last of us 2
Because it's an easy and lazy grift for nerds with no other talent.
It sounds like you just don't watch the stuff?
There’s this guy named BigJackFilms who STILL makes these kinds of videos today. It’s actually impressive how committed he is to staying in the past.
Omg, yes!
I really effing hate snobs.
Grow the hell up.
As someone who used to watch Nostalgia Critic on a daily basis, I would usually just skip through more than half the video to get to the actual review.
I couldn’t stop wincing at the dramatizations as they got even more excessive and everything was in this weird mini canon I didn’t understand.
His Battleship review didn't have any skits in it.
Skit tubers are the most annoying creatures
You too?
I was so glad when I was actually able to start sitting through entire Linkara reviews
Remember when Nostalgia Critic took over an actual Micronation as part of his movie review plots? It was so weird finding out that was real....
Wait what
Real Life script really is written by a thousand monkeys randomly tapping keyboards, uh?
@@serbianweatherman2385 NC took over Molossia a micronation in Nevada, USA, and turned into Kickassia. It did actually happened lmao
Kickassia was a legitimately great little internet film. Call it self-indulgent (and it is) but those guys were working hard and having fun. After that point things got a little over the top though.
@@play_history I kinda agree. Suburban Knights was just people walking around the woods for over 2 hours, and it just feels so uncomfortable to watch. Although James Rolfe does have a decent scene in it. And To Boldly Flee was even more embarrassing. At least Kickassia felt like it was just a fun light hearted one off video with a neat little premise.
I always felt that Jon Tron managed to pull off the skits and such with his reviews.
My favourite was when he teased the 'sucked into the videogame' trope, but he just left.
@@Dalekzilla54 Which was that again?
@seigeengine I think it was his Joe and Mac video.
@@Dalekzilla54 (t rex boss enters frame) oh, ya just left, too?
I honestly kind of loved this era of UA-cam. When it began to go away, I really started to miss it. Still do.😢
We can tell they're evil because they wear glasses (probably with the intention to use their eyes to be able to read)!
Stop reading, start binging Netflix
@@headcanon6408 excuse me, but “novel and chill” is a long-standing tradition in the bookworm community.
Don't forget having an entire self funded film on the context of said event, where instead of focusing on the plot.
You disregard it 85% of the time, then proceed to fill the runtime with dead memes and references nobody remembers.
Like Linkara?
All the while, making everything about yourself and how awesome you are.
@@lukedavis1436 Exactly
@@haferbreivernichter274 more the Nostalgia Critic
@@haferbreivernichter274 Like or dislike Linkara's storylines (I'd much rather watch completely separate videos than have reviews interrupted, myself), he actually freaking writes them and sees them through.
Film reviews in the 2020's: "(blank) is OBJECTIVELY a bad film, let me spend 3 hours and possibly multiple parts nitpicking this movie so hard that Cinemasins would blush."
The irony that Cinemasins deliberately make shit up for a "Sin" for a joke... Know its a joke... Even know its wrong fundamentally as a critique... Yet when called out on it, protects it as gospel...
Remember when Red Letter Media broke the internet when the Mr. Plinkett review for Phantom Menace was a whole 70 MINUTES LONG. Nowadays every other twat does an 8 hour review (read as "ramble") about how Skyrim is not perfect.
They don't nitpick, films today just have so much shite that needs mentioning. That's why I like Mauler and EFaP
@@samhilton4173 That's just nostalgia talking.
You can’t criticize film without making an even worse film disguised as a review
This had better be the first in a seven part (minimum) series that culminates in an EPIC crossover between between Man Carrying Thing, his evil alternative Man Respecting Woman, Woman Carrying Man and HER evil version Woman Rejects Man, Daniel Greene and HIS evil version Ishamael Green, and of course Brandon Fraser.
DISCLAIMER: No water shall be provided on set during principal production.
Is he the evil version of Brendan Fraser?
Is it wrong that I hate Daniel Greene and this guy?
I remember Lindsay Ellis's Dark Nella saga.
Only if Daniel Greene gives a small somewhat self-deprecating jab at himself for allowing his fans to basically mock a queer person out of his Discord server for being against queerbaiting.
Avatar 2's release will be the beginning of nostalgia for 2012 movie reviewers making Nostalgia Critic the most subscribed UA-cam channel in the world and he will play his Pink Floyd parody album live in every arena in the world leading to extinction via musical europhia related death
these words should not exist in a sentence
The horror
None of these words are in the Bible
Oh no...
@@aimeperez469 but they should be.
This is so general yet so amazingly specific at the same time! It's perfect
The jarring and unnecessary splicing of two shots together at 0:11 is truly masterful.
"I want to make short movies but I have no interest on learning about filmmaking, so instead I'll just keep shitting in other's people films and introduce 'arcs' and 'plot' to my videos so when someone says 'wow, what a shitty video' I'll deflect all criticism by saying that is just a movie review"
This is such a perfect description
This is exactly it. Even back when I was a fan I saw it, but I had sympathy for it and just suffered through to enjoy the reviews. That stopped the day I realized it wasn't real criticism in the first place and really is just filler so they can live out their directorial dreams. I learned a valuable lesson but yikes.
I just had a horrible thought: what if Cinemasins had lore segments like this?
@@matthewjanzen4837 They could do that once they run out of ideas.
exactly
We jumped from 10 minute skits to 3 hour "PLEASE TAKE ME SERIOUSLY" essays
if anything, we as a society lost.
You are no RLM. Also RLM knows how to EDIT THEMSELVES
Honestly I'd take nostalgia critic over gay people making video essays about gender in transformers any day of the week
@@stproducciones9140 no one's asking you to watch it
You should have a look around, there's some really decent stuff. I'd take someone making connections between concepts and media over a shouty guy in a bedroom any day of the week
Dont forget the intro that goes way to hard for some reason
This is stupidly accurate. People back then criticising films like Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is what's led to such cynical movie fans and pointless arguements.
"Well, guess we gotta spend ten minutes on whatever the hell this is"
the ACCURACY
Not enough Twilight jokes or hate towards Justin Bieber.
I knew something was missing.
What about chuck Norris praise
Learning from the Not So Awesome that all the Channel Awesome reviewers were encouraged to act like Doug explains a lot about why this style video has become less common.
I miss it. Not the actual plotlines because rarely ever were they made in an interesting manner. I miss making a show of the reviews, making it more like a character driven comedy. There's some innovation and innocence in that. I don't see that done often anymore, despite the commentary movie review format still thriving.
Don't forget how every lets player had an evil horror themed version of themselves that everyone shipped themselves with
darkiplier
"Had"? Oh, no, we're not past that yet.
To be fair, I do like how reviewers used to (and still sometimes do) a kind of marathon of reviews for Halloween or Christmas
Damn realizing I related hard to this makes me feel old lol
Movie reviews just don't feel right without the reviewer fighting the villain of the movie (played by them) at the end with an airsoft gun
Critique of the critics will always be part of the process of art.
Kudos.
This is too accurate. I've had to come to terms with how awkward and unfunny so much of that content was, no matter how "better" things were back then (I'm 37, btw). But damn it all, this also made me realize how much I miss Spoony. Before his total self-destruction, I used to eat his videos up back in that late aughts-early tens era. I wanted to be an "angry reviewer" so bad.
Comedy is subjective brother. You may not find it funny and rather think it's "terrible" but someone will find it funny. That's real.
@@Z3RO5286 amen
How are we supposed to believe that's the evil version of you? He never once said he was going to punch a baby.
he said he respects women
I know this has nothing to do with this Nostalgia critic parody but I would give anything to return to 2012
I can't believe it was already 10 years ago
Nostalgia critic Walked so the dime a dozen film analysis UA-camrs could run
@@awsomeman350 Doug never walked. He just pissed on the floor while claiming to be an artist
I'd like to go back 30 years and never be born instead. Much better that way.
@@llave8662 Pissing is art i guess
You forgot the part where they use the “totally legit and not at all a painted toy gun” and shoot someone or themself because gun is funni
I thought he was going to do to something
like “The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise is a cinematic failure, here’s an 11 hour video on the series.
no that's modern youtube film criticism videos
Don’t forget the awful theme song that they made themselves which describes their battles against bad movies.
I feel like AVGN had the only good vocal theme, while JonTron had a banger instrumental tune.
And overly extended jokes with pause for laugh...
*cough* Linkara *cough*
Low key the Nostalgia Critic theme is pretty good, the fact that it's instrumental probably saves it.
Everyone wanted to be AVGN back then.
As a former avid That Guy With The Glasses watcher, this fills me with regret and shame.
I used to watch the entire Saga of Angry video game nerd vs Nostalgia critic on repeat. That shit was fucking hype. Lol
This is literally the Nostalgia Critic's review of The Room.
movie “reviewers” now a days literally go over the whole plot scene by scene. that’s what they consider a review now.
Nostalgia Critic kinda started that. His reviews felt like a replacement for watching the movie
@@mrjameshendry i know, most people just watch these types of reviews and act like they’ve seen the movies themselves. it’s ridiculous.
Shout out to RLM and their 10 year sort of on-going VHS repair man story line and taking 10 years to get to 1 million subscribers and hardly ever shilling their Patreon and Bandcamp. Endless trash!
the only storyline that matters
Ah Half in the Bag, the only internet movie review series whose lore I DON'T want to skip.
@@protatochip i know, so funny, and their own backhanded comments at their own lore
RLM are just as cringe as Nostalgia critic. What they could have been is EFAP.
I clapped! I clapped when I saw it!
At first I thought this was parodying Jeremy Jahns but the second the main critic started a banter with the side character I knew it was about The Nostalgia Critic
I gotta respect Jeremy. He really hasn't changed his format up in over a decade. Dude still sits in front of a cheapo red background and says his mostly honest opinions about movies. I never really felt like he was a character
@@Luke101 he's like a better version of angry Joe. Short 10 minutes reviews or stuff he finds interesting
@@rsdillbot3646 Yeah he's just a dude who talks about movies lol. Weird how effective keeping it simple can be.
And the part where they don’t review the movie they only summarise the movie while making bad jokes, followed by a really long clip of the movie
many of those bad jokes just involve pretending the an actor in the movie is playing a different character that they played in another movie.
A lot of people are saying Nostalgia Critic but honestly this was nearly all Channel Awesome reviewers back in the day.
Not all of them mind you but many did this stuff (Linkara, NC, Angry Joe, etc.)
"2010 criticisms" sure, man carrying thing. You can say it, we all know who this is.
Can you help me? I don't get it! I've seen Nostalgia Critic and Red Letter Media mentioned in the comments. The latter I might just barely know enough about, but not the former.
@@camelopardalis84 That's good, you should keep it that way, for your own peace of mind.
@@imveryangryitsnotbutter I think I have read too many comments here not to know what this is about. But I will take care that I don't personally experience too much of it.
Ah yes, the dark ages of legend, where smarmy nerds with weird facial hair and assorted hats ruled the internet with an iron fist. We remember it so the next generation doesn't have to...
Like it's any better now. I'd take them over the shitty drama channels, "kids" channels and most of the fad chasing lets players we have now.
@@Superluigi881Especially the first, holy mother of god do they suck. Here's 4 hours of why person you never heard of is the worst person in the world. Make sure to put black bars around their eyes to really oversell the drama with something like "narcissist", "groomer" and the like. So bloody irritating.
Doug really latched onto the first thing that made him popular and never let go.
Don’t forget how they sometimes would segway back to just describing what happens in the movie for several scenes before making sarcastic jokes and then saying it’s bad with 0 elaboration on why
Don’t forget that every few years you have to create 5 hour long movie shot on a Sony handycam with all of your critic buddies.
I thought it was every year.
@@markborishnikoff5485 I think you are right. I also don’t know if they were actually 5 hours long but they sure felt that way, lol.
I wonder if anyone has actually seen To Boldly Flee in its entirety.
@@DavidTheJohnson Yeah, albeit I was REALLY sick when I did and kept kinda phasing in and out so I don't know what really happened and what was a fever dream.
This is the thing though. Back then it was common for even fairly huge creators to produce content that felt like "I could do this too."
Even the ones that involved a lot of actual skill and work.
These days any creator of size typically feels like they have a god damn production team.
YMS was revolutionary because he just talked about the movies without doing a bunch of stupid skits.
He was, even though he based a lot of his initial reviews on RedLetterMedia. He the developed his own style
I don't know how, but you've established a MAIN LINE to the late 2000s-early to mid 2010s. I had no jdea how iconic thst period was, nor that I needed this in my life.
Thank you. For every second of this you choose to share.
Its kinda funny how this video is meant to be from 2007 but its scripted identically to a video that Nostalgia Critic could have made yesterday
“Anyway, back to the review…”
“But wait, reviewer! It is I, a third string Internet personality from the same website making a cameo!”
“What? How did you get here?”
You'd have to make a two hour short to depict 2020 film critics. They'll go on for days.
I agree. They make reviews that are longer than the movies. Hell, the mauler review of Last Jedi could have been the length of 2-3 movies easily. And i don't think most of these reviewers will ever have the same brand recognition NC or AVGN ever had.
I'm of two minds on the matter. Criticism and counter-criticism can be so heated...that simply saying "I liked it here are a few reasons" and "I disliked it here are several reasons" isn't good enough...because somehow, it becomes a competition of who can out wordsmith and out-explain the other. You can't like a movie if a logic flaw is pointed out, and you can't dislike a movie if your criticism of it isn't completely bulletproof...or they can use the perpetual "stop nitpicking" card to which the easy reply is "well I'm sorry if I use my brain too much when watching movies, I'm sorry if I like to think about what I'm watching" type of condescension.
The more you can defend a quality or flaw with some kind of literary, screenwriting, or filmmaking logic and support, the more "legitimate" your criticism is.
If you say one good thing, people who disagree can easily "debunk" it with a "counter video" but if you spend an hour and a half lavishing praise on something, or tearing it apart, then to "Counter" it would take an equal amount of time or more.
Someone drops a 5 hour criticism of a film, and those who dislike the film will be along for the ride and feel VERY validated by it, and those who love the film won't be bothered to watch such a long video.
It's a bit tedious....but it is equally tedious to say "that's a bad review because its longer than the film lol"....well, some movies are terrible and you CAN go on and on and on about why they are so terrible, it isn't illegitimate. It might be excessive but that doesn't make it any less correct.
@@creategreatness8823 Agreed! Although a film may be two and half hours, it doesn't mean the production time was that long as well, so it is just justified to break down every part a film and think about it (because it's obvious the filmmakers didn't sometimes).
Although my original comment was a bit of sarcasm, I do quite enjoy those long reviews, because as a wanna-be writer/creator I want to see why projects failed, what went wrong, how to avoid having people go on for hours tearing apart my work.
@@creategreatness8823you conflated liking a movie and that movie being good at the beginning of your comment
@@scottwhitman9868 There is plenty of debate to be had about how objective and subjective things like "Good" are when talking about movies. Some would say there is no objective 'good' because that is a matter of opinion.
You can have objective flaws like a logical fallacy in the script or a visual effect that looks bad...but even bad effects weirdly have defenders who say "it looks fine"
So in some circles it is very hard to even take a stance that "This movie is objectively good" or "this movie is objectively bad"
Basically nostalgia critic
I can't even decide what's worse. The cartoonish over the top critics from the 2010s where the actual review of the movie takes a backseat, or the current overly long essays with calm wannabe smartass narrators who feel like they are blasting our minds with their anscended insight.
I love long video formats but it feels like people forgot how it's like to just casually talk about movies and enjoy themselves lol
This crossover trope used to be everywhere, and it turned every video into an ICarly episode.
Ah, Nostalgia Critic’s “The Room” review, what a classic.
That’s what I was thinking. This is literally the opening of that review.
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Of all the things I regretted from the old movie-reviewing scene, Mystery Science Theatre sketches wasn’t one of them.
These days were better than the movie review scene now which is nothing but grifters complaining about how every movie that comes out is woke with the same thumbnail of a crying Rey Skywalker on every single video.
Someone better invite long running character Hat Dan. The Dan with a Hat.
Hat Dan needs to make more Kung Tai Ted.
The only critic who actually could pull it off and not be completely insulting to your intelligence was AVGN.
He was also the reason why the movie "reviewers" where doing the same, they were just jumping in the bandwagon even if it didn't make sense for a movie review channel to have the same approach.
@@RockoEstalon But AVGN never did this in his movie reviews, he was a video game reviewer. His movie reviews were on his website Cinemassacre since about 2006 and they had no skits and hold up well to this day.
@@beashnpull I never mentioned his movie reviews, just that movie revievers copied the AVGN videogame style which made no sense.
That's a pretty ironic statement.
His entire schtick was cursing a game to oblivion with diarrhea jokes and Z-Movie special effects.
Don't get me wrong, I love both Doug and James, but the latter ain't more "intricate" than the rest of them with his humour.
Facts!
Bring these guys back i need my 15 minute skit cut up into 2 minute clips throughout the whole video it deadass helped me pay attention
Honestly I hate how accurate this is and how much it makes me miss this era of the internet.