Napalm_Frank
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I just want my Sibling Rivalry on Hobbit 2.
The Worst Christmas Special Ever (AKA he reviews)The Christmas Tree
What is The Christmas Tree?
Also he's unusually early.
Oh man that review was great. Especially liked the return to form.
I always enjoy when he lets the sketches take a break once in awhile.
Aside from that I need to get a hold of this christmas special, so bad it's good from everything he has shown.
I gotta admit, his work ethic is great.
Full movie reviews with the videos edited & all.
I remember the behind the scenes videos of the Nintendo Nerd & how hard & long it takes to write, film & edit a video.
Doug's biggest issue is that his production quality has barely improved over five years.
His skits aren't well written and the editing is something most high schoolers could pull off. His sound quality is all over the place and it's evident nobody knows how to white balance a camera yet in his crew.
I guess what I'm saying is, NC videos don't look that hard to crank out.
Doug's biggest issue is that his production quality has barely improved over five years.
His skits aren't well written and the editing is something most high schoolers could pull off. His sound quality is all over the place and it's evident nobody knows how to white balance a camera yet in his crew.
I guess what I'm saying is, NC videos don't look that hard to crank out.
was the last NC review you watched Street Fighter/Mortal Kombat?
What is this self-congratulating nonsense you're talking about?
the importance of the nostalgia critic and the notion that it's a 'character' and not just doug in a simple costume is what was really grating. then doug puts himself in there as a god character to interact with his self-insert mary-sue.
And why are people taking that seriously? It's a sketch for crying out loud.
because doug takes it seriously. it's not supposed to be satire on people too invested in themselves. doug is that invested in himself.
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where did you get that
the part in 'the review must go on' where the nostalgia critic is talking to doug about how important the nostalgia critic is. and well the whole thing about doug talking to various people about whether or not he should bring the nostalgia critic back.
instead of like, not doing that, just saying hey yeah i fucked up and canceling demo reel and restarting nostalgia critic. i mean come on, in to boldly flee, he literally made nostalgia critic the center of the universe.
I do have to disagree with his "Prince Caspian" review. I hated the fact that they made the battle, too much of a copy of other stories/movies. The battle, of course did take place in the books, but seemed much smaller than what I saw in the movie.
Ehh, couldn't have been worse than the silly cloud monster from "Dawn Treader" movie (I HATED that one...) Rather glad they didn't do 'Silver Chair'.. as I much preferred both the book version, and that campy BBC two parter
You're thinking way too much of a joke and a sketch.
it wasn't a joke and the 'sketch' was a 30 minute video.
the part in 'the review must go on' where the nostalgia critic is talking to doug about how important the nostalgia critic is. and well the whole thing about doug talking to various people about whether or not he should bring the nostalgia critic back.
instead of like, not doing that, just saying hey yeah i fucked up and canceling demo reel and restarting nostalgia critic. i mean come on, in to boldly flee, he literally made nostalgia critic the center of the universe.
He quit and then came back when no one would watch his new show.
He quit and then came back when no one would watch his new show.
In a nutshell.
In everyone's defense, it was a really bad show. Try and laugh at the first skit here.
Thread title is confusing. Did the Nostalgia Cricket quit and come back?
In a nutshell.
In everyone's defense, it was a really bad show. Try and laugh at the first skit here.
I really want to believe he can do better because he seems so dedicated. He just hasn't proven it, yet.
Yeah, honestly. After that ending and the self congratulating return... how can you not scoff a bit? He really built his ego up with that multi-hour, half-year production, and that first opening skit on Demo Reel was so painfully poor... it said a great deal about his talents as an editor and creative writer if that's what he tried to hang his hat on, so to speak.
He's not the worst or anything, but some decisions of his warrant criticism. Doug clearly takes his work very seriously and the notion that people who are negative are just "over thinking it" is defensive drivel. If Doug makes these 30-40 minute pieces every other week and puts in aimless skits with weak production, then that's what he's made. You can't argue that they're not important to the review and absolve them from negative subjectivity: that's the material he's making and putting out there as part of his reviews.
He's run out of material and his craft is lacking. If you're happy with watching him review "nostalgic" films like Man of Steel wherein he does that tired Zod impression and screams for 45 minutes, then more power to you.
You asked this and got an answer like three months ago. :lol (Not trying to be an ass here, just wondering if you forgot about it, haha)
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=80293913&postcount=673
As always you seem to focus more on his obviously bad reviews when he has produced better ones since the "return". Stuff like The Last Airbender and The Christmas Tree to name a few. You make it sound like the skits take up too much time or a bulk of review when at most they are a few seconds long.
Yes Demo Reel is bad. Everyone knows that. Why are people pointing it out as though he still does it? It's as bad as people reminding him of his terrible Let's Play. Yes it happened, yes it was bad, yes he admits it. So he moved on.
Why are people making a big deal on the To Boldly Flee ending as though it's a reflection on how a person thinks? It's just a story. Or are you people thinking that Nerd is the "savior of all video games because he stopped a ROB invasion"?
i don't know what rolfe did with the rob invasion thing, but more than have the critic 'character' as the center of the universe, there's a prolonged segment in which the critic is interacting with doug walker, making doug some sort of god character. it continues in the review must go on for a total of what, 30-35 minutes on this sort of thing? at that point it's not a sketch. it's longer than a standard episode of television.
the importance of the nostalgia critic and the notion that it's a 'character' and not just doug in a simple costume is what was really grating. then doug puts himself in there as a god character to interact with his self-insert mary-sue.
Except for the part where it's really not what happened. I think everyone knows that Demo Reel failed and Doug had to eat crow and bring NC back from the dead if he wanted the money to keep on flowing, but Doug wrote some fiction about how Demo Reel was really NC in disguise all along, and how he's just an outlet for Doug's messed-up psyche. As art imitating life, I thought it was neat, but if you can't accept that it's fiction and assume that Doug is trying to rewrite history, then I can get why you'd be annoyed.Precisely. Heck, To Boldly Flee was three hours.
It's an intimate exploration of his material and his relationship with it. I doubt he'd argue against that, as the goal of those scenes was to convey to his audience why he wanted to end (and then resurrect) the Nostalgia Critic.
I'm kind of new to Nostalgia Critic, but NC is a character. It was originally based on Doug, but the over-the-top rants are fake, and he even mentioned in one episode that his "top ten" lists are total fiction. They're influenced by Doug's personal opinion, but they're more based on his idea of "what would NC do in this situation?" (an idea which has grown in the years he's been doing the character) and some degree of blatant pandering to the audience. I'm sure that's true of some of his complaints and even things he neglects to comment on in his NC reviews. They're not the complaints that Doug himself wants to make, they're the ones that NC would make. Nostalgia Critic clearly reads from a script. That's one of the things that I noticed, that I think I prefer Doug's raw and real opinions.
Even his character of "Doug Walker, the creator of NC", is a character in and of itself by this point ("Doug" became a freaking platypus-bunny in NC's Airbender review), even though "Doug" was based even more heavily on himself. Maybe it's pretentious, but it's true.
Doug seems to have admitted (from what I've seen) that he's a borderline workaholic and that he can be difficult to get along with sometimes, but in some of the stuff I've seen (mostly Nostalgia Chick, I think), he's portrayed as a self-important power-mad dictator, and he himself plays along with that portrayal. It's basically just art imitating life. I think it works. But I think Doug's biggest problem is that his work is too bloated in general. He's got the Peter Jackson disease. It amplifies problems.
Except for the part where it's really not what happened. I think everyone knows that Demo Reel failed and Doug had to eat crow and bring NC back from the dead if he wanted the money to keep on flowing, but Doug wrote some fiction about how Demo Reel was really NC in disguise all along, and how he's just an outlet for Doug's messed-up psyche. As art imitating life, I thought it was neat, but if you can't accept that it's fiction and assume that Doug is trying to rewrite history, then I can get why you'd be annoyed.
They announced Silver Chair a few months ago and announced the scriptwriter (Life of Pi) just a few weeks back
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=112091
It's not being made by Walden Media though, thank God!
Well the Prince Caspian book wasn't that good, and if they had done a direct adaptation, the movie would have been 45 minutes long.
Dawn Treader was a travesty though. They took an absolutely fantastic high seas adventure book, tacked on a villain that wasn't in the book and the only thing they got right was Eustace as a Dragon.
I can't tell if you're defending all of this or getting sick of it. Surely it can't be both?