Musician Reacts to Nostalgia Critic's The Wall
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2019
- JT Curtis of History of Rock fame reacts to The Nostalgia Critic's "Review" of The Wall.
Watch the original video here:
• The Wall - Nostalgia C...
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Stick around 'til 24:53 to hear me do my parody version of "Run Like Hell" (curiously not in the original video?!)
@JTCurtisMusic
JT:"I do have some problems with the film version of The Wall, which I'll no doubt share some of Doug's opinions..."
Me:"I sincerely doubt his issues will line up with yours... Just a hunch... :p"
EDIT: Also around the 4 minute mark you played the organ part of the opening track on your keyboard... That's my bad for assuming you only did reviews... This is my first time viewing a video from your channel. :p
Also you felt him recreating the lyrics would piss off a lot of people? Well sir, as someone who's never heard the Wall beyond "Another Brick in The Wall," I was left confused at the rest of the songs and what their faults were because his criticisms were so surface level and he didn't name what the songs were. Hell, if it weren't for criticisms of Doug's review I wouldn't know what he was bellyaching about in these parody tracks... I don't feel it's good that someone needs to do research on a subject just to understand a review's critiques of said subject.
I was going to say your parody is better than the whole Nostalgia critics review, but then I realised that's not much of a compliment, so I'll just say I loved your parody!
(And I too prefer The Division Bell to The Wall)
Can we get a full version of that song? I think that would be funny
JTCurtisMusic I’ve got to ask: is your parody available for streaming, and if not, are you planning on releasing it?
Stumbled onto your video and man you're ridiculously talented man will sub...
As much as I appreciate the positivity, there is one thing about this "review" that I feel instantly makes it irredeemable: Doug Walker took an album about how a man's experiences growing up in WWII era England eventually shaped him into this empty husk of a man and turned it into a chance to slam his former employees who slammed him on Twitter for mismanagement. He writes a whole song about putting other people's problems into perspective, but fails to do so himself.
Yeah but there isn’t any proof thats why he did it in fact the wall had a similar seen
Very deep underrated comment.
Only more proof of what a hypocritical douche he is.
@@youyo2205 pretty sure the movie didnt have any mention of social media, and his song did. so yeah pretty sure thats why he did it
@@youyo2205 Maybe not hard evidence, but there is a lot of reasonable suspicion. Doug Walker has been very vocal about insulting people who criticize him. He's had many videos of "Nostalgia Critic Top 11 Fuckups" Where he impersonates the people on the internet with his annoying voice and even calls the character "Douchey McNitpick". These videos aren't him admitting that he was wrong, for the most part it is "Who the hell cares about that little detail?" or "I'm still right and I'm gonna defend it like this".Fast forward years later, once information leaks out about all his mistreatments with his employees, ignoring allegations of sexual assault, making them work in indoor places with no AC or water, to name a few examples. He responds with a written apology saying "we are sorry that you *felt that way* "
He got a massive backlash, on Twitter #changethechannel
I'm sure it's not a coincidence from the same guy who made his videos as "Douchey McNitpick"
why is a more handsome todd howard reviewing nostalgia critic
I clicked on this video for this exact thought
He doesn’t even use micro transactions
Nice, lmao. It's Todd's evil twin brother who actually isn't scum, lol!
Todd Coward
au where Todd is in band instead of chess club
i like you can progressively see his soul being drained away while watching this
And yet he's still trying to be polite in his reaction. Poor man.
Lol
I started laughing when I accidentally read you comment
I’m the 420th like
A brick in his wall
Music is subjective
Nostalgia Critic’s The Wall is just bad
I love how the entire internet just came together to hate this review
truly amazing
@@EthanJ1005 It's always touching when the internet bands together against one particular wank stain. Like this idiot or when PETA attacked Steve Irwin.
Lol.
“For all two of you who don’t know about Syd Barret...”
So Doug then.
And his brother since they script Nastalgia Critic together.
he's probably unknowingly quoted "shine on you crazy diamond" too...
"Wouldn't it be so funny if Corey Taylor just played Spongebob??"
"No."
What I take from that is people now think Corey Taylor wrote that song.
He did actually play it
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I have no idea why they thought that was funny.
@@HG-ow9jn Irony, maybe? It might've been funny if they did it for 5 seconds, then he actually did a song from The Wall (like Young Lust).
The worst part is that he did it at a concert, and it's a relatively well-known UA-cam clip. It's not even Doug's original idea.
Can you believe that Doug said he made this music he said it’s a love letter? Can you believe that
This is what he calls a love letter?
This is more like an abusive relationship if you ask me.
It is lol
Brainhorn except he doesn’t criticize it, he tries making fun of it. But he’s not funny, either. It’s just a mess.
@@Brainhorn Whereas you can't handle someone criticizing the Nostalgia Critic, lol. That was such a tepid criticism of NC and you're freaking out over here.
@@Brainhorn
Ironic that you are talking about Erik acting like a child when you yourself are acting like a child. Grow up lol
I mean Corey Taylor has covered multiple Pink Floyd songs so having him there and not sing any of them is a huge wasted opportunity.
Diego Ramos24 he probably read the script and said nope I’m not ending my career today
@@Peter-Luior I doubt that. Everything seems set up for a joke where Corey doesn't sing until the very end.
@Diego Ramos24
Corey Taylor has covered Pink Floyd songs....
Amazing how learning this now still angers me at how he was wasted in this "review."
"Why is he talking like Bela Lugosi?"
Who knows what was going on in his head
I feel like what Doug was doing was making an unsuccessful in-joke regarding bad schools and horror movies. It makes no sense.
I think it was an attempt to make fun of the aggressively Scottish accent in the original, but it's way worse and not funny, which sucks because it's drawn out. Kind of like the rest of the review.
dude isn´t exactly a voice wizard. wish he at least sounded like bela lugosi.
Because like a Vampire, He sucks.
I think it’s because in the film and the music the depiction of school is a horror setting. Think Doug is parodying not knowing that post world war 2 schools were brutal. I don’t really care for pink Floyd however people have said the wall has helped them get over depression and helped when they have been abused either sexually or physically so I think it’s an important album
34:18 "It's a REVIEW! That's literally the opposite of what that is!" Wow, that really sums this thing up, doesn't it
To echo a line from NC himself "do you need me, movie? You seem to be doing fine on your own."
@@StygianSkunk movie: no we don't need you doug, you've lost your charm"
@Jared Jams We get it, you have Reddit.
Ceci n'est pas une review.
it's technically a review, albeit one with valid points made in a very unconvincing manner (Roger Waters self-flagellates too much in his attempt at linking all traumatic memories together BUT ignores parts of the necessary "why" regarding why "Happiest Days/Another Brick Pt. 2" is so harsh on the '50s British schooling system or why "Goodbye Blue Sky" is so weird; the side two ballads lengthen the run time to where it's longer than necessary even by double album standards BUT Doug Walker largely borrows imagery from and reviews the movie adaptation; Roger does get really vague at times about what Pink has devolved into on side three BUT knowing that Pink's disc two character is largely coded to be a neo-Nazi and that Doug and Brad have been whining about hashtag activism ever since Change the Channel went active, all that section comes across as trying to call Allison Pregler, Lindsay Ellis, and Jacob Chapman "the real Nazis"; Gerald Scarfe's character designs look so good for rather shallow characters BUT there wasn't much of an audience crossover between Channel Awesome and Satellite City thereby making a lot of the Satellite City regulars seem really out of place and nonsensical)
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I can believe him when he says it was supposed to be a love letter - I'm not too hard on the album like Crash Thompson, Anthony Fantano, or most of the reviewers making hot takes on Doug's review - but Doug's review as a whole just wasn't solid enough as a review and kept contradicting itself in the smallest of ways. It felt mean-spirited with context, nitpicky without, and singlehandedly destroyed negative criticism of the album now that everybody's defending its honor.
I just LOVE the "disappointed teacher" look that he gives the camera every time the Critic accuses the movie of being lazy or shallow. It's priceless. XD
11:55 The precious moment on your face when you realise this is not a an earnest homage to Roger Water's vision, but only a perverse distortion.
Ok, your Run Like Hell parody is better than anything Doug and Rob came up with for thieir review. Nicely done, sir.
Sean Sheppard Agreed! It’s excellent - therefore, something Douche could never have thought of, on account of always being so far up his own ass.
@@sashizakura9124 Not to mention he knew about the sexual harassment happening within Channel Awesome and did nothing about it.
Unlike the critics review, i laughed at this parody.
"Review" lol.
@@mileidyclass who has been accused of sexual harassment? The goofy looking guy in glasses? The younger guy that is a parody of the Bob Geldof character? . The guy reviewing this parody? There's so many people involved that it's confusing
If you look closely you can actually pinpoint the exact moment his heart breaks in two 11:47.
Id say 34:50 better fits that description.
that was the moment when I suddenly wished Roger Waters would do a reaction video, oh god
Simpsons did it!
I'd the same for me too!
I think the hammer scene was a middle finger to the ChangetheChannel movement dressed with quasi black mirror "but what if too much phone" fluff
Honestly, I feel like that whole bit was just Doug going full Boomer.
I mean say what you like about Black Mirror, they at least have a little more to their commentary than "PHONE BAD"
@@swordhunter12 how Doug managed to seem like an old man talking about a movie older than him, kinda amazes me
@@swordhunter12 wow, that must make it pretty bad. Because the one episode of Black Mirror I've seen, Nosedive, is the least subtle work of fiction I've ever seen. It's basically "a future run by social media would be bad/social media encourages fakeness," which is fine, except the episode is 1 hour long, and I got the point in five minutes.
So if this NC review is worse than THAT...
What if you had to plug in and charge your dog
Sidney Fattiey what if your best mate was a tv?
Your version of run like hell is hysterical 😂😂😂
@tim keegan
So I'm not the only one who thinks that, and I haven't heard of that song until today.
@@DemonicRemption I had to watch that three times repeatedly, The "Nice come back dick" really got me 😂🤣
@@DemonicRemption I recommend checking out the live version from IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE. It kicks serious ass:
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Like all Floyd albums, THE WALL really should be listened to as a full album uninterrupted, but there are definitely standout songs that work well on their own: ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL 2, YOUNG LUST, HEY YOU, COMFORTABLY NUMB, and of course RUN LIKE HELL.
Yeah, that was genuinely pretty good.
better than anything on nostalgia critic's album.
12:15 I thought the video had frozen until he blinked
The "Oscar Bait" line really is the point where you realize the review is complete ass if you didn't already.
ZorotheGallade Exactly. It’s all projection. Who’s the creep always out for accolades?...Yeah.
The Another Brick in the Wall PT. 2 parody is where I, someone who had never listened to the album before or seen the film, said "You don't get it".
"oscar bait" really was infuriating because not only is it obnoxiously dismissive of one of the best sequences of the film, it proves that Doug either doesn't know A) That songs have to be original for the film to get an Oscar nomination, B) That Goodbye Blue Sky is from the original album, or C) Both, which is my guess.
@@notsusan Yeah, true. The song was already three years old when the film was made, so it certainly was not an Oscar-bait song at all, so this line is just a totally ridiculous straw man argument. Also great creative work rhyming "Oscar-bait song" with "smoke a bong". The remaining die-hard NC fans seem to be under 15yr old morons, because who else would find incredibly lazy shit like that funny?
It disappeared up it's own rectum, and isn't returning.
I gotta hand it to you, you really went into this video with a positive attitude and tried really hard to maintain that positivity throughout. Lots of us don’t have that level of forgiveness so that’s why it’s so universally hated.
To each their own. For me I had to give up when they did Another Brick in the Wall with that terrible Dracula voice, ugh.
It is hated cuz Doug has.no fucking clue what the wall is about.
@@MrParkerman6 I think he just saw some reviews on the wall and decided that was was good enough. "We need to make this big special we only have 4 weeks! Oh what's that? Imdb reviews? Great we will use those! I understand your concerns but we need to make this we need moolah omg my views are stagning!!!!!"
I never use this word, but your whole "aura" reminds me of that cool substitute teacher one gets for only one class and has a hard time forgetting
34:57
He's done being nice. I take your positive criticisms because you're not a film buff and that's fine. But it's this moment where *even you* have had enough
And the worst part of that is Doug's clowning at the back.
Funny enough, the Satellite City lore mentions how Lucy, the creature with the red spots singing the judge’s part, was actually a judge herself before she was disgraced. So, I guess that’s the connection that the animator Fennah was trying to make. Also, the original intent seemed to be surreal characters commentating on The Wall’s surreal characters. The reason I don’t think this works is because most people would have no idea who these characters are, which can cause some frustration for those watching.
@Phantom Fan
I'll say... This review is how I learned about Fennah's work, but as a result with no knowledge of the Trial or Satellite City, I had no idea what these creatures were or what they had to do with The Trial or Doug's psychosis if that's what they were supposed to be that...
So to learn that they're cameo's echoing his criticisms about the monsters, I was a tad disappointed... Oh well at least I have a new animation UA-cam to watch.
I don't think Doug realized the creatures in the wall were representations of people who had caused pink his problems, and if he did he didn't show it very well in his review, That was the whole point of the trial in the film
That's completely irrelevant though. The monstrous humanoid creatures in the original had great relevance to the plot of the album and the main causes of Pink's torture and grief. Fennah's awful looking C.G re-imaginings of his 12 year old emo sisters Deviantart O.C's have absolutely nothing to do with Pink Floyd or the nostalgia critic himself.
Doug has made up his own characters and personas in his earlier reviews, why not use them? Not to say it'll make his train wreck of a "review" any better but it would make some more damn sense rather than make fill us all up even more of cringe and confusion.
tim keegan He wouldn’t realize it, would he? Narcissists have no empathy. He doesn’t actually have the capacity to understand it, so there’s no way in hell he could express any understanding of it.
You talking about the deviantart-furry- ps2 monsters?
reviewer: He's gonna play his newest song...
rock star guest: *starts playing the theme song to Sponge Bob
reviewer: *slowing looks at the camera... with a look that says "REALLY!? This is max cring"
busted out laughing so hard at that.
Oh he pissed off everybody even most of his fans
I think Doug was obnoxious in his review, but that all smacked of frustration. At times he just sounded like he was hating on his own self-pity by projecting it on the Floyd fan base.
@@IggyTthunders which is ironic, since the album originated as a concept to express Roger Waters' frustrations in dealing with their sudden fame, among other things.
@@Thobeian I think he was also being flagrantly incendiary because he knew Floyd fan's were going to burn his ass no matter what he said. It's not a good strategy for dealing with thin-skinned aficionados, but it was at least comprehensible. Ineffective, counter productive, puerile at times (most of the time), but comprehensible nevertheless.
@@IggyTthunders that tends to happen when you parody something that is considered crappy vs parodying something that is highly acclaimed. One is actually funny while the other makes you look desperate and pretentious
@@IggyTthunders Doug is desperate at this point. Channel Awesome clearly isn't bringing in the money like it did and now he's resorting to this crap. I kinda feel sorry for him at this point. I don't think he expected to be playing The Nostalgia Critic in his late 30's and he probably resents that, particularly seeing that it was revealed that he doesn't own the character anymore and this is his only meal ticket, as his other atempts at videos fizzled pretty quickly. You could almost sense a bit of self-awareness/loathing in his voice at the end, when he said "Buy the album, guys". He knows this is crap... he's not an idiot... but it's his only option at this stage.
Haven't watched Doug in almost six years. I'm assuming I haven't missed much.
Just watch his first viewings. It's his honest thoughts with his brother doing jokes. Kangaroo Jack is very Carthartic if you've a problem with Doug, because they get PLASTERED.
@@ZoanBlade90 Plastered? What do you mean?
@@gamestation2690 Drunk!
i still like his Lorax movie review. It has the whole shitty skits, but it's an actual review. Even the skits serve to point out Doug's criticisms, it's really good and powerful. It even made me watch the orignal Lorax, pretty gret stuff.
@@everythingiseconomics9742 He compared the Once-Ler to Zach Braff's character in Scrubs. How are they anything alike?
Not just in Britain. All over Europe the War left broken people. My dad (German) was 5 at the end of WWII and he lost both his parents to it. Never even met his father. The Kingdom, Poland, France, the Soviet Union and many more suffered immensely.
Yes, Americans died too, or came back traumatized, but at least the American civilians back home were pretty much safe. From the beginning the war in Europe used civilian casualties as a weapon as well. Look at pictures of bombarded cities and just imagine that was your place and there's friends and family under the rubble. Even those who never cared about politics or were way too young to even have a *chance* to understand what's going on.
And the second part of Pink's story - his school years - come back to the war as well. Because of course many teachers died in the war or came back broken. So many of the teachers in post war Britain were either unqualified fillins or men fighting their own demons - insert here the documentary about Patrick Stewart's father who, when he returned from the front, had become an violently abusive father, something that sadly was quite common.
Anyways - I have the feeling that a LOT of the Wall totally went over the NCs head. This isn't about "School sucks!" and "Rockstars are whiny and self centered". Which is a pity, because usually I have quite the respect for his work. This time - nnnnot so much. ;)
Very well said. This is by far my favorite album and holds a special place in my heart. I am 51 and grew up listening to this album from its release. I used to put the cassette recorder under my pillow and fall asleep to it. I watched everything about this album and Pink Floyd.
Corey Taylor sang the Spongebob theme a couple times live actually. In fact, he sometimes does these silly covers every now and again (Scooby Doo, Baby by Bieber, etc.)
Oh, so that's probably why they had him sing the theme in the review. It doesn't make sense in the context of the review, still."
@@KhayJayArt Plus, unless his audience is familiar with Cory Taylor, they won't get the reference.
because his 14 year old fan base loves that shit. *holds up spork* its so random!
Your "Run Like Hell" parody is perfection. It was like watching David and Roger communicate.
Especially now...
I've never seen The Wall, so I'm no insulted in any way, but I couldn't get through Doug's review because I got bored. I got to the end of the second song before clicking off. Then I returned for Fennah's stuff. It's all I wanted to see.
Though that doesn't change the fact that I don't think Fennah's characters had much reason to be there. It just seemed out of place to me.
Ditto.
Just some guy
I think the thought process of bringing Fennah on was, " ok, The Wall had weird animated characters, and the Fennah guy makes weird animated characters so let's get him to animate something with his weird characters!"
@@KhayJayArt Yeah, Doug has never been great at understanding subtext in movies, so it wouldn't surprise me if he genuinely thought the trial scene was basically just a wacky animated 'Big Lipped Alligator moment' that had nothing to do with the rest of the movie's plot.
@@belletho6098 ) that's weird how doesn't, any more examples?
I need a full version of your parody of run like hell
I second that! That was amazing
The Blitz killed tens of thousands of civilians and leveled entire neighborhoods and some of these songs are about growing up without a father because he died in a war.
Even if one doesn't like the song maybe, I dunno, DON'T make light of that? Seems incredibly tasteless, to say the least.
Also it's unsurprising that The Wall went over his head when his big criticism of the Matrix was something the Matrix dedicated an entire scene to.
BTW your Run Like Hell bit was pretty legit I'mma check your channel out next!
@@AllyGatorAnimator he has an awful track record when it comes to following his own advice
Doug seems to be under the impression that The Wall was created by an American rock band in 2019. It's very strange.
@@videogamenostalgia I was thinking the same thing, especially regarding the parody of "another brick in the wall," he jokes about the song being a whiny parody of how school sucks and how the WW2 references (which he still got wrong if I remember correctly, didn't he think the evacuee segment was about the holocaust?) was over the top; ignoring the context of why school was actually pretty hellish during the time the film is set.
Yeah it's pretty fucked that all happened and is still in living memory in England, my Gran can remember walking to school and having German planes shoot at her and that was in a rural area, it was even worse in the cities. And school life in war and post-war Britain is incomparable to a US high school in the 90s (when I assume Doug attended). It was grim. My parents went to school in the 70s and they have horror stories, and that was 30 years after the war. Imagine going through all that just to have Baldy McGee here telling you to get over it because he's an idiot who can't read things in any context other than modern American. It'd be like me, a British person in my 20s who only barely remembers 9/11, watching a movie like United 93 and unironically being like "LOL yeah flying sucks, get over it." Like it's not my place
@@j-skullz My Grandmother also grew up without a father after he was taken away by the local fascist militia in Croatia during WW2. My mother also grew up without a father, as did I, as did some of the Bosnian kids I knew. And whilst my mother and I didn't lose them to a war, we all lived through war (Yugoslav Wars
specifically). Hearing bombs dropped and being fatherless isn't a joke, I'm glad Doug grew up with a full family and not at war (well at least not on his soil), so maybe that's why all of this escapes him and he can't relate to it, but it's still no excuse for being this inconsiderate.
The cognitive dissonance of taking the line, "Are there any queers in the theatre tonight" and then immediately talking about... people on twitter looking to be oppressed?? You are giving this man waaay too much credit lmao.
Tbh, I believe absolutely everything said about him being a terrible boss and a nightmare to work with. Nobody who looks at PF and comes off with these "criticisms" is a person who is capable of anything but navel gasing. I am unsurprised that his career also died and he never managed to produce anything better than one-liner reviews which were the same 10 jokes over and over again. In the end, Doug turned himself into a parody of himself. Which is oddly fitting.
@@eneyavorodecky
during The Wall review, we'd really saw "what was behind these cold eyes" and it was disgusting.
I always love watching people's reactions because it's so freaking funny to see them go from "Oh this isn't half bad..." to "What...the fuck...?"
"Its gonna be the latest song from his new album"
Not gonna lie JTs expressions as he realizes what he's hearing and looking at give me a special kind of happiness
i just noticed that in Run Like Hell you sing Dave’s part with his raspy, angry tone and Roger’s part with his soft but harsh voice. love the attention to detail lol
Glad someone caught that! :)
@@JTCurtisMusic it took my 17th listen to catch it but i got it :P
Huh. To me, personally, The Trial is the best part about the original film. It's such a perfect culmination of everything that came before it. Of course the song itself is amazing as a composition, but making the lyrics into a "trial" is so fitting and brilliant.
Ironically, the Doug's "Trial" is the worst part of his review.
At what part is his Trial?
@@marisastoletheprecioussara118 ... when he does the trial?
@@Assimandeli nvm I found it
I absolutely agree. The Trial is legitimately my favorite part in the movie - while I do see Curtis' criticism on it, though.
LMAO at when you grabbed the shame pillow when they only used corey taylor for a spongebob gag at the end, I cringed too buddy.
Professor Cunt
I live for the transition between “I bet this is a new song” to the slow realization of what it was. You could see the light go out
God the sad part about Fennah's scene is that his characters are saying different perspectives on the visuals having deeper meanings because of all the thought put into them, but wasn't given enough time to actually design characters with hardly any thought put into them
I appreciate that he focused on polish as much as possible, but this was NOT the kind of work you give one person with a 2 week deadline
one of the main issues with his parody is he misses the original points of the songs? It is almost like he watched the wall once, thought oh it is just meh and then done this parody with out any thought.
Which would be good commentary on the critics who reviewed the movie when it came out. Hint hint, critic mentioned something about this before he started singing.
Exactly, he doesn't understand the lyrics alone whatsoever.
I continue to watch this video 2 years out just for 34:40. the slow turn from contentness to absolute confusion to suffocation is golden
I like to think performing SpongeBob SquarePants was Taylor's one condition for taking part.
Hey Todd Howard, when are we going to get Elder Scrolls VI?
No, but seriously, great reaction video ;)
I like how he goes from looking really polite to looking REALLY pissed off 🤣🤣
I've had my ups and downs with Doug for the past few years, but I was genuinely looking forward to this review. And as a fan of PF, with The Wall being one of my fav albums and movies, I don't think I've been so pissed of at a UA-cam video in quite some time.
I didn't mind that it was a musical review but it all went wrong when I realised it was a full parody reenactment, much like his Hocus Pocus review (because that went down so well the last time), and when I realised he'd just be singing all of his lame fratboy criticisms (and yes I know The Wall is sung through but so was Les Mis and they still added in more detailed critiques and examinations of that movie.
By around the time of the Another Brick in The Wall parody Ibfound myself skipping big chunks of the video, because I found so many of the criticisms being repeated over and over (most prominently being "it's whiny") and getting fed up as it became more and more clear that Doug clearly didn't get the film and didn't do much research. (The bit where he claimed Another Brick was saying there are no good teachers really pissed me off).
The only thing I enjoyed were the animations by FENNAH (whose work I reccomend. It's nothing award winning but there's some decent characters, lore and it's pretty impressive when you consider it's done by one man and a handful oglf amateur VAs) but even then the characters dont fit at all, and I wished FENNAH had made some original characters, more similar to Scarfe's work.
Your parody of Run Like Hell using Internet comments was perfect. I've encountered a lot of nasty comments online that could potentially serve as lyrics for parodies of Run Like Hell or Waiting for the Worms. Even various reactionary You Tube commentators would be perfect for a parody of In The Flesh. Back on the main video, I think your analysis of The Wall and the review are pretty spot on.
I also think The Trial parody was a missed opportunity. They should've gotten a artist who could parody Gerald Scarfe's artwork, or made their points on The Trial more coherent. I concur that not having a giant talking ass appear as the judge was also a missed opportunity.
The whole video was put together by a giant talking ass.
WAITING, to cut down the bad takes
WAITING, to clean up the comments
WAITING, to follow the ratios!
I love that you totally schooled him at his own game! A quick parody of Run Like Hell with the same intentions as Doug and it's better written with a much better performance.
The guy who did the Animation was the guy he talked to on the phone. He is a UA-camr named FENNAH, he was there as a camio with his creature's and normaly he put his creature in the real life kinda like how Lucy and the Squirl on the table showed up in real life.
Who knew the Critic, a guy that inspired so many content creators on UA-cam would have such a shit opinion. Then he would go on to make this monstrosity, bashing one of the greatest rock albums of all time.
@TheAwesomeGuy Did E;R make a parody of the movie while completely missing the point of everything?
I just found the review and parody retarded. And that's coming from someone who actually likes most of critics video's. For the longest time, I wanted him to review it. but when I clicked on it, I felt like a big middle finger, that asked me to purchase the ost for that middle finger.
@@Brainhorn just because he liked it didn't mean his opinion was based on accurate information. He completely missed the point and context behind the film and songs.
It is nowhere near the greatest rock album of all time. fucking king crimson was better. Also you cant say his opinion is shit. that is not up to you.
@@mrmanakin9684 "one of the"
I have to say, after so many "derp derp nostalgia critic sucks derrrrp" takes, it's nice to see someone who's calm, rational, giving credit where it's due, and actually coming at this from a place of knowledge of the source material. Definitely dug this take. :)
The reason people default to "this sucks" is because we've been exposed to new, wide-eyed fans, for over a decade. There's no need to repeat the basics.
We've all had these conversations, and now they've passed. Derp derp, it's 2009, and Nostalgia Critic sucks.
@Shaman X Of course we get mad at him, he's shit lol. Yet you still worship him, idiot.
@@stomachstroll748 no, dude. We just dont waste as much time bashing someone we hate. I hate logan paul, and I dont watch any of his videos, talk about him, or even watch videos bashing him... because I watch things I like.
And as someone who loves Pink Floyd (one of the greatest Rick bands to ever exist), and used to watch Nostalgia Critic (back when I was a dumb, impressionable kid), this was a great take.
because you can't take it that your hero is being rightfully bashed by everyone.
I honestly thought JT was taking the context out of it and trying to enjoy the video on its own.
The thing that bothers me about Doug's review is that he has the nerve to call this film pretentious. Doug...Walker...calls The Wall pretentious. The man that cannot comprehend what the album is about thinks that he's qualified to comment on its meaning or lack thereof. There are clearly things he does not understand and did not bother to look into, such as the fact that England was bombed on the regular during WWII and Roger waters would have been 2 years old when Germany surrendered, meaning that as a child, seeing a plane fly overhead on a clear blue day might just be a herald of looming war. I guess Doug didn't hear the falling bombs. "Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter when the promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath a clear blue sky?"
I'd almost argue that the review itself is him making jokes at his own expense, but I fear that'd be attributing self-awareness to what is clearly ignorance.
your cometary made watching the actual NC video much more bearable
"Division Bell. I'll probably get a lot of hate for that." I honestly love _The Division Bell_ to pieces, and "High Hopes" has got to be one of my favorite Floyd songs period.
Finally a level headed critique!!! I personally didn’t like the review but I admit that I’ve never seen the original film :/
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It’s weird shit and a reflection of the time. I’ve never been able to get into it (aside from when I watched it when I was like 8 and children jumping into the meat grinder scarred me) and I think the movie is probably hard to get into for the younger generation. We don’t know what it’s like to live in the post ww2 uk so those problems aren’t relevant
Breanna Hempel I mostly just watched the animated segments on UA-cam cuz I admire Gerald Scarfe XD
@Breanna Hempel "We don’t know what it’s like to live in the post ww2 uk so those problems aren’t relevant"
What problems are you referring to? There is very little in the movie that necessitates the context of having lived through that time period. The Wall's core themes are very universal and applicable to anyone in any time. The horrors of war, overbearing parenthood, the loss of a parent, shitty educational providers, emotional distance and depression, physical and mental isolation, personal responsibility, becoming what you hate, and so on.
Like, some say that the "Another Brick in the Wall Part II" scene is about the educational system during that time period. Maybe so, but the whole visual aspect of abusive teachers treating kids like faceless drones and churning out a bland product that limits creativity is directly translatable to any and all educational systems because it's a darkly exaggerated depiction of what not to do in education. You just have to not be as stupid as Doug Walker and completely miss that entire point. The issues he brings up with American schools aren't even incorrect. It's everything else that he got wrong.
Even the fascist imagery with the hammers, while directly referencing stuff going on at the time, is A) VERY much relevant right now, and B) is more of a crazed fantasy in the mind of the main character, so it's not even like you need that real world context either. Young people will always be taught about the Nazis and World War II, so that imagery will have an impact regardless of the time period.
@@frieza65 I agree with you, people don't pay attention to it often, but schools, American mostly, teach everyone an industrialist way of doing things. We don't learn what's important (which is pointed out in the review) and we're taught that imagination and creativity means nothing, the schools teach us that we need to stick to a pattern. The Cal Arts debate is a good frame of reference for this mind set.
I only disagree with your statement on the critic. I think he does understand the whole reasoning. I think he was just portraying the criticisms the film got when it came out, understandable by his opening remarks about The Wall itself before he starts singing.
Watch it.For me it's one of my strongest movie experiences ever. Very flawed, I'll grant that, it fits pretty much no criteria of a conventionally great, or even just good movie. But it's really something one has to see at least once, because it has stuff you won't find anywhere else.
JT:"Again where's that organ solo? Stop nitpicking!"
Me:"No, no. Nitpick... Nitpick 'til your heart's content! LET THE HATE FLOW THROUGH YOU!!!! >:D
JT:"Awe man, you didn't do Run Like Hell?"
Me:"Excuse me...? They skipped one..? Must be a song Doug liked... But I would not have known that if not for videos like this one... Man, his review was crumbier than I thought."
*Hears JT's UA-cam comment section parody of Run Like Hell* Okay that's just sad... Not only did you display humor in the dumpster fire of UA-cam Comment sections, but you gave me an idea of what the original song is like and as a result I wanna listen to it. Dude, you should've done the parody lyrics for Doug's album, because that's what he should've done...
He clearly doesn't understand The Wall either. Pathetic. It's not hard.
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It was hard for Doug, because he came from a well off environment and in said environment are whiny kids with first-world problems. And since such kids listen to Pink Floyd, that's pretty much the only perspective he can parody this from.
Hence why we got this tone deaf "review." It's like an out of touch adult not getting why kids like a certain popular thing.
Folding Ideas has a really good video about Doug's weird "review". He really points out well how this is clearly him venting his own issues that has noting to do with The Wall. It's also weird because so much care has been put into this while trying to look like they don't REALLY care.
I tried watching this by itself, but I maybe got 5 minutes in max. Miraculously, this is one of the few times out of any video reaction I've experienced where having the addition of another person with me is absolutely required for the digesting of the content. Thank you for torturing yourself with me, I guess we're all just a bunch of masochists here.
I disagree, I think the "In the Flesh" parody was one of the worst parts of Doug's review. It suddenly goes from Doug ranting and raving about how pretentious "The Wall" is to another rant about Cancel Culture.
The fact that he swaps out the groups being targeted by dictator pink is inhabiting to people who "want to be oppressed" is kind of telling. It's not surprising that Doug would have reactionary beliefs though
I always liked Gerald Scarfe's illustrations on the Goodbye Blue Sky bit too.
Barbara Kirk Gerald Scarfe likes goodbye blue sky the best too.
That parody of "Run Like Hell" was sublime. Do more!
Critique sounds very fair, pointing out both positives and negatives in a calm way
You should react to Vinyl Rewind's three-part review of The Wall. It's split talking about the album, the tour, and then the movie, all of which tie in to how The Wall should be presented. It actually made me respect the album much more than I did and it was already one of my Top 3 Floyd albums. It also clears up any misconceptions and questions that people have with all of them.
I have seen Vinyl Rewind's videos and they are very good. I don't think I'd have much to add reacting to them though. I do recommend them highly.
I like the visual of the albums on the couch together, like they're part of family movie night lol.
The Moulin rouge review is the same as the wall review. Doug's theme song is called The Show Must Go On and it was in Moulin Rouge. He didn't make his own songs. Doug has always been a copycat. Every joke he has ever made is taken from other media and repurposed in his reviews.
This is nothing new.
The reason why Doug's newer reviews aren't using clips from the actual movies is not because of copyright. That's just a bullshit excuse he came up with. For a while Doug retired the nostalgia critic and made a show called demo reel which was literally just him and his staff poorly recreating movies. No one liked it so he brought NC back and slowly started turning the nostalgia critic into demo reel in the hopes that no one would notice. He might've at some point genuinely been doing it in order to about copyright claims but I don't believe that for a second. Especially not when he then goes out and makes a parody soundtrack that people can purchase of the wall.
I'm 99% sure he just wants to poorly remake movies.
I stopped following him after he retired the NC but came back for a short while when he revived him until I realized it was just gonna be him trying to force his shitty acting down my throat from now on and it truly was no longer about the review but purely the Doug walker show. And I'm sorry but he's never been likable enough for me to stick around for him alone.
silja lin “The Show Must Go On” is a Queen song, originally. Moulin Rouge actually made good use of it. Douche should be sued for ripping it off to sell his sad shadow of what was once a pretty funny review show (in its time, that is).
Dude it’s so obvious he is pissy about Demo Reel still
Look at the Christmas with the Kranks review
He poorly acts like his old style was shitty and no one liked it
And everyone likes the new stuff
When that’s not the case
And he honestly grossly misrepresented how his old reviews went
Which is even crazier sense he made then
@@thedarknight307 actually that review was to show that you can't win no matter what you do. People will still complain about what ever he does new or old.
He literally can't show full clips in reviews thanks to youtube's copy right laws and flagging system. If you recall, when the Sonic the Hedgehog trailer came out, anyone who did a reaction to it tended to get flagged and muted/ removed because of the song Gangsters Paradise in the background. It's real. Some things you just can't show or put on UA-cam, especially new things or songs that are extremely popular.
@@lootcat1230 Sure, but the fact that he has bascially turned NC into Demo Reel is not because of copyright. That's just the excuse. I still see majority of reviewers use clips from movies and/or finding ways to use the source material. No one recreates the movies the way Doug does, because that's retarded and a waste of time and money. Doug recreates movies because he wants to do Demo Reel. 100% do not believe that he does it out of necessity.
I do have to give the trial scene some credit. It was made by a very talented artist, FENNAH. It did take him some time to work on it.
but it made no sense for those characters to be there. if there was any way to get some of the ex- Channel Awesome people to come back that would have been PERFECT but those bridges have been burned...
notsusan that would have been nice
Fun Fact: The animated Trial sequence was done by one guy (Fennah) in 17 DAYS, his girlfriend did the hand-drawn animated moments in the montage near the end, and his father did all of the instrumentals for the music cover. They produced it all completely separate from the rest of Doug's crew, hence why it feels so disconnected in quality.
That alone is an INSANE amount of work for anyone!!!! O_ O
Doug pushes people way too far. This is how people got coffee addictions! 🤣
Got onto a review of the review kick and heard your parody... It was short but amazing, and I LOVE your voice, dude. Best thing to have come out of this NC The Wall review so far.
JT’s face during “Soooo loooong Oscar bait song” was literally everyone else’s watching the whole review (it wasn’t even an Oscar bait song as it was released years before the album was adapted into a film)
Your reaction to the spongebob part was hilarious, just your slow turn to the camera, then you grab the pillow, press it to your face and just convulse in rage... That's a mood right there.
I just don't get these events/movies where they bring in musical talent and don't let them sing. It actually reminds me of a Spongebob movie where they had David Bowie and didn't give him a song to sing, despite it being a MUSICAL episode.
If I ever get to a point where I can hire a musician for something that involves music... I'm gonna be damn sure to give them a song.
I feel like Doug wanted to show off his voice to the point where he squandered the talent he had. He does have an issue with ego. And he isn't the strongest singer. He can carry a tune decently but he should not be the focal point here, when there is literal musical talent in this review...
The animation that wasn't Doug's was dope btw, I couldn't understand the character's lyrics sometimes, but watching the animation is just a treat.
I even went over and watched Fennah's animation and while he's said in one review's comments (can't remember which) that he couldn't give it the polish he had wanted, it's pretty damn good. I wanna see these animals do musical reviews now. Screw the NC, they should team up with Diva from Musical Hell!
Edit: Went and checked, it was in the comments of the "SpiritManStudios" review and this dude only had 17 DAYS.
A lot of record companies that an artist are signed to wont allow them to perform because of contractual or likeness copyright issues
Which is exactly why Bowie couldn’t sing on SpongeBob
I'm sure someone already said this, but Hey You wasn't included because of pacing issues since 80% of the footage was included in other parts of the film. It sucks because it's my favorite song off the album.
So been on a binge of vids related to this all morning. Love your take and also the original parody was awesome! Came back to just watch that part again as brain bleach after I just watched the whole NC 'review' for myself.
So wait a minute! At the beginning of the review, Doug starts by doing a conventional review, yet put us through around 40 minutes of not that? Why didn't he just start of with his thoughts and the slowly transcend into the first song?
25:39 holy fucking shit this is just absolute perfection.
Ok I totally dig your version of run like hell.
I demand a full version!
I still come back to this just for the Run Like Hell snippet but always end up watching the whole thing
Never seen your content before, but this was incredibly fun to watch and much more interesting/thoughtful than 99% of the other review reviews.
I live for every glance aside to the camera when something idiotic happens in the review/parody.
Also re: green screening and other productions.... Channel Awesome is shockingly well off. Their annual income is somewhere in the millions of dollars. The bad green screening is a bad combination of incompetence and laziness. They are both in heaps. They rent out studio/warehouse space, but can't use all that spacious area because they can't be bothered soundproofing it, so they shoot most everything in the office areas. Which is basically why their greenscreen bits always involve a lot of bad, awkward "walking in place". They can't walk film in their actual "studio" space.
Creators with much smaller budgets manage better green-screening.
Loved your musical displays during your review, by the way.
You are SO underrated, dude! :)
That one little parody of "Run Like Hell" was better than the whole of Doug's damn review! xD
SUBBED! :)
nice to hear a genuine musician's take on this review, it was really interesting to hear your thoughts and to even learn some interesting things about the actual background behind the album/movie. will definitely be checking out more of your stuff in the future. also, major props for giving the review a fair shake and being thoughtful in your critique; i honestly think your review of it was far more charitable than it maybe warranted, but still, well done there.
The animation at the end was done fennah who is a huge pink floyd fan to clarify lucy the red and white character was a judge in her tale
Meddle is my favourite Pink Floyd album. My dad recorded the vinyl onto his computer and I have that recording that I listen to, I love the crackle and pop sounds from the vinyl being played with the music.
Edit: I knew something was missing in these songs and as song as you mentioned the organ I was like oh yeah that's it
Good analysis. I play bass and guitar and have covered Floyd too, so it's weird to hear Doug call his video a tribute to Pink Floyd before he proceeds to heap the most cliche insults on Roger Waters (does he really think he's the first person to call Roger hypocritical and pretentious?). I had the good fortune to see Roger do The Wall live twice and he puts an incredible amount of effort and emotion into it, so I also don't see where Doug gets off calling it lazy and whiny (and besides, isn't he supposed to be criticizing the movie and not the album?). I would have been fine with a few parody songs, but to parody all of them and release it as an album seems a bit lazy and pretentious on his part.
I was sitting there, simply enjoying your video, but then 25:40 happens and I ended up crying of laughter on the floor X) Thanks man, that was precious)
Your reactions (starting) at 34:55 absolutely sent me, I was laughing so goddamn hard
This video was brilliant, thank you
Ok the run like hell part is fucking funny😂
I just love how when they start singing SpongeBob SquarePants, you can see the last fragment of his soul just die.
To be fair, my soul died a long time ago.
sorry to disagree with you, but I think the movie portion of Comfortably Numb is highly impactful and highly meaningful: throughout the whole movie, they cut to young Pink running in that field with the rugby gate and, during this song, you find out why, when he saves a rat and takes it home to take care of it, only to find it dead the next day; I believe this is the first time Pink experiences death first hand; yes, his dad died in the war, but he was born and grew up with that notion; here, it impacts him directly as a friend that was previously living is no longer doing so, and you can see why this moment remains with Pink all throughout his life, as a metaphorical death of his childhood innocence, sort of like this movie's version of Rosebud; at least, that's what I got out of it...
That is a great analysis of the scene and I definitely see where you're coming from. I guess I just always had a different visual image of COMFORTABLY NUMB before seeing the film, although I love Bob Hoskins in that scene.
@@JTCurtisMusic Totally, he was amazing, the way he was trying to wake Pink up while at the same time arguing with the hotel manager about the mess in the room made for an all around awesome scene
You know you made a dumb song when a musician literally looks at the camera and says "really" when you sing it.
That Run Like Hell Parody was amazing. I’d love a full version
A very fair look at the review. A part of me does feel a little bad because a lot of work was obviously put into this, but it completely missed the mark overall. It’s nice that you acknowledged that while still pointing out the obvious problems with the video.
And it didn't even miss by a little bit! It went in a totally different direction, stopped at McDonald's, and the burrowed itself in Nostalgia Critic's ego.
Not gonna lie I was subscribed to your old LordofTheJimmy channel and loved your old Super Mario Guy Let's Play and seeing this recommended to me reminded me that you are still making your music content.
Glad to know so I can subscribe, and glad to see you are still committed to making UA-cam content.
I think your face told the story pretty well.
Yeeep. Around the 12 minute mark, the reaction goes from “I willing to give benefit of the doubt” to “f*ck this nonsense with a spork.”
I am so happy you're making more videos again. Also, do The History of Rock in the 90s! Hope for sick Creed jokes. Lol! Also, Love Pink Floyd, The Beatles, ABBA, The Residents, XTC, Gorillaz, and others.
Teddy Furstman he’s still in the editing phase
Can’t agree on abba but aside from that: neat taste.
I think it’s just a shame somebody as talented as FENNAH ended up associated with this garbage. He doesn’t deserve this ;-;
Wait it's a he
Yeah
Yeah your face during the Goodbye Blue Sky part was exactly what I was waiting for. Like, how someone can miss the point SO hard is just wild to me
I've seen this video 94385 times and it always get better, also your voice is amazing
Thank you!
A funnier person than me said, of this review: This is what happens when someone makes a career out of low hanging fruit, and thinks that makes them a gardener"
For the Creatures segment, it was done by Fennah, who’s known for his animation of creatures with interesting designs. The sad thing is Doug only gave him 17 days to complete the animations for his segment. It sucks really. The segment has no build up and did indeed feel disconnected. I wish Fennah got more credit but everyone tears it down because of how nonsensical it was compared to the rest of the review.
and because it kinda looks like absolute shit
I think the thing I can appreciate about Doug’s “review” is that it reminds me of how good the album is. Not for the intended reason, but it does
Well actually, in the lore of Satelite City (Fennahs Show) she is known as a Paradigm Judge.
Fennahs stuff is the only good looking stuff going on in this review
@@gnosticgalass4696 funny thing is that when i First saw the trial the wall Fennah video popped up and i didn't see the review of the wall of NC. and i did enjoy the song from that part of the song. and i sub to Fennah after that.
That’s irrelevant
@@gnosticgalass4696and even then there's almost too much movement. It's like there's not any Mass to the creatures, they're constantly flowing about like ribbons underwater
This is the first reaction/review that is really good.
The Review is Bad, but not many people give good points on it.
PS: You got a new Fan ^^