The Nostalgia Critic |OT| He Remembers It So You Don't Have To

BatDan said:
What the fuck? Are these PSAs all done by the same agency?
"Happy baby shower good times for HAVE THIS RAPE WHISTLE BECAUSE GIRLS GET RAPED!"
"I'm going to be a head chef and about to get married THIRD DEGREE BURNS BECAUSE NOBODY CLEANED A SPILL!"

I thought Canada was a positive nation.
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It's commercials like these that taught the canadian kids not to fuck around.
 
Holy crap, that chef one was probably even more disturbing. I mean, that baby shower one was uncomfortable, but the chef....sheeeeesh.

& oh man, I had to see that Denny's ad so many times before a Blip video. Rather weird to see it featured.

Also, that ending of the video. Hilarious.
 
About 30 minutes of the video is taken up by a promo for another online show at the end, the actual review is standard length for a recent NC :P

Great episode, loved the song at the beginning. Pretty much agree with Doug's very negative stance on the movie :(
 
obin_gam said:
This is great! I cant wait til he does Bedknobs and broomsticks, the best live action Disney of them all! Those knights man...
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The chick from Murder She Wrote fighting of Nazi's with Magic and Ghost Suits of Armour, has there ever been something more epic :P

Can't wait to see all of these, loved the last 2, hoping he does Swiss Family Robinson.
 
One possibility is Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer. Which somehow still plays every year even though it's terrible.
 
BatDan said:
One possibility is Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer. Which somehow still plays every year even though it's terrible.
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UUUUGGGGHHHHH. My little sister would watch that a lot, even months after Xmas was over via DVR. I wouldn't get my hopes up, but I'd really like to see that get reviewed to get all the bashing it deserves.
 
I have recently started watching Mike J's stuff. The Informercialisim bits are hilarious and Shameful Sequels are pretty good too.
 
Oh yeah, at first I was taken aback at Obscurus Lupa's 8 parter for Charmed Season 7, but they're only 15~ mins long each which is essentially a split her usual 4 parter.

It's kinda weird how you notice Charmed's weirdness and offhanded sexism nowadays.
 
OL's Charmed reviews have been hilarious. It makes me sad we only have one more season to go but they obviously have been taking up a good chunk of her time for cheesy movie reviews.

PMS Werewolves!
 
So what's going on with the Nostalgia Chick? Is she feeling better and got a new camera yet? Her last video was before Halloween.
 
G0523 said:
So what's going on with the Nostalgia Chick? Is she feeling better and got a new camera yet? Her last video was before Halloween.
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She's working on the Pokemon anime.
At least, going by her Twitter that's what she's doing. Likely a writing position since she's not an actress.
 
G0523 said:
So what's going on with the Nostalgia Chick? Is she feeling better and got a new camera yet? Her last video was before Halloween.
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That's actually not pretty bad.

At the very least, Suede confirmed he'll be uploading Pokemon Movie 4 soon.
 
Huh, didn't know it was based from a live action movie. The one I am familiar with is the cartoon.
 
Zonic505 said:
Disneycember: Babes in Toyland

The direct Blip.tv link says it's private, so you'll have to go to his site to see it for the time being. & no, this is NOT the one he reviewed last year with Keanu Reeves, that was a different one.
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I had this on VHS growing up, for whatever reason, the movie always weirded me out. That said, I always did enjoy that moment where the old gypsy woman is revealed to be Tom as a kid.
 
So I've tried to get into Nostalgia Critic a few times, but I've never really been able to. It just seemed overproduced and unfunny, with really thin "actual" review content. But then I recently bumped into the Avatar VLogs, and I thought these were really, really good. Doug Walker is actually really smart and insightful, and his enthusiasm is infectious, and I really liked watching what he thought of the show on an episode-by-episode basis, with him not knowing what was to come. It really felt like watching a great show for the first time all over again.

But then we got to Tales of Ba Sing Se, and his brother popped in. My first thought was "cool, another perspective, this should be fun", but the first thing out of his mouth is borderline spoilers, and he's trying to define the show to Doug, trying to turn him in advance towards an age-old argument about the ending. This guy is providing none of what this series was doing so well, and he seems to be actively trying to ruin it. Also, Doug has apparently been having trouble remembering names, which is fine, but his brother seems to be getting them wrong with total confidence, and he's messing with Doug's thin grip on them.

He comes back some episodes later, and he's butthurt because people in the comments told him to STFU. I don't care what anyone told him, I just want him to stop crapping up a good thing, but no, he won't. He actively brings the subject of butthurt back up every time he shows up.

For the last episode, I was expecting some payoff, to see what Doug thought of the series now that the whole picture was complete, but his stupid brother came in to soapbox again. I was able to make out that Doug didn't have a problem with the ending, although he thought it was a little deus ex machina, which isn't how I felt about the last episode, but that's okay, because he's clearly so smart and insightful that I can't fault his opinion. If anything, I expected there to be a chance he might change my mind on the subject. But his brother goes on about how the ending is perfect, and he defines half the Avatar fanbase as "wanting to see Aang murder Ozai".

For the record, my complaint is that the show dropped the "kill Ozai" responsibility on Aang as if it had always been there, and Aang/the audience were just ignoring it. And this was a show that dealt with surprisingly heavy stuff. At the 11th hour, they painted a picture of "Aang has to stop being a kid, he has to stop running and man up". Because Ozai refuses to allow any other solution. Aang has to solve the problem that was there when the story started, the problem of him running away from responsibilities that are way too big for him. And I don't think Aang was running from killing because of his monk philosophy, I think he was running because he was a kid. He ran away to the island and asked the past Avatars what to do. The firebender told him to man up and kill Ozai. He asked the woman Avatar, and she told him to grow a set of balls and kill Ozai. He asked the airbending Avatar, and he told Aang that he's not a monk anymore, he's the Avatar, and he needs to man up and kill Ozai. And Aang keeps going, rejecting advice after advice, because none of them are saying what he wants to hear. At this point, I'm really at a loss to figure out how Aang is going to get out of this powerful no-win scenario, and I want to see what happens next.

Oh, the turtle gave him an unexplained plot device that removes no-win scenarios. Because magic. What a colossal letdown.

And then in the Korra review, Doug's brother says that, duh, he was only trolling us retards with his bad pronunciations (the M Night movie, I get it now).


So yeah, my first good exposure to Doug Walker, and I think I hate his brother enough to significantly diminish my appreciation of it. Still very positive though.

(BTW: I figured I should read the entire thread before posting, and in the meantime I've seen a number of Nostalgia Chick videos, and she seems a lot more to my tastes than Nostalgia Critic.)
 
lindsay (nostalgia chick) is pretty damn good. i enjoy watching her shows, infrequent as they are, because she offers actual insight while also reviewing something. todd has well thought-out segments too, but he advocates murdering or really hurting people he doesn't like, and does it kind of a lot. it's really unfortunate. doug just puts on a lengthy synopsis of whatever he's watching and gives a laundry-list summary to describe what he saw. i think phelan does a better job of that. he can be a little dull at times, but he'll do some wacky or abstract stuff that i find funny at least.

the disneycember stuff is better because it's shorter and mostly his opinion on things. i think the adventure time vlogs are a lot more entertaining because he brought in a guy he knows, who is a fan of the show and unlike rob, is really excited about it. rob just comes across as a wet blanket even if he does like something.

one thing i can't stand about the walkers is their constant bashing of the people who watch their shows and leave comments. that's your fanbase dudes- grow some thicker skin.
 
Eh that's part of their humor. The fanbase knows about it too anyway. Personally the fanbase is cuckoo so they need to be ridiculed ever so often.
 
In his Disneycember promo, it looks like he'll do Return to Oz. I though that was on his unreviewable list. But I guess that's NC and this is Doug...
 
Isn't Rob really more of an off-camera guy? I also like him less vs. Doug in Sibling Rivalry.
 
Does anyone know when Lindsay will be going back to do more Nostalgia Chick stuff, and why she gradually seemed to be moving away from it in the last year? She's damn good and I always enjoy her stuff.
 
Okay, I'll be the first to say this, but can we just change the name of the thread title already? I mean, his show ended, came back and now we're posting videos focusing on what Doug is saying about whatever movies in particular. I'll get the ball rolling.

The Nostalgia Critic |OT| Remembers it so you don't have to.
 
Herne said:
Does anyone know when Lindsay will be going back to do more Nostalgia Chick stuff, and why she gradually seemed to be moving away from it in the last year? She's damn good and I always enjoy her stuff.
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College work and she was sick before.
 
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