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That guy with the Glasses
this...well, series, channel, whatever it is, annoys me. for one thing, their humor is derived from screaming and swearing constantly. I won't say I find all the gags unfunny, but relying on such a...samey and repetitive schtick just gets old.
But that's not my real problem. My real problem is that this people are somehow thought as the be-all, end-all of reviewing, just because they are funny guys. I remember people crying and screaming and ranting at the Critic because he didn't like It as if his criteria was special and changing his opinion would somehow...I dunno. make their lifes better? I don't understand nerd thinking...>_>
But this cuts deeper than that, as people start to think that what the Critic and their crew do is proffesional level reviewing. Which is not. Hardly. Few of the reviews of the Critic note on the positive aspects of the movie he watches. No matter how tiny they are, this should always be aknowledged. The Critic doesn't.
Last but not least, apart from Todd on the Shadows, I don't think any of them has even raised valid arguments against what they review.
...
OK, there's some hyperbole there, but at least Todd makes points about his dislikes and why. All the Critic does is bitch and moan.
Inb4 Humor is subjective
inb4 Deal with it.
Comments
Off-topic, but I liked the Nostalgia Chick better when she was a Critic clone. I get that she wants to have her own identity, but she doesn't have that razor-sharp focus in her reviews anymore.
But yeah, the people that takes these things seriously are morons, or rather if they can't tell which are the for the funnies and which are actual reviewers... they're idiots.
And I'm pretty sure the entire point of the Critic is to "Bitch and Moan" he's a daffy duck expy that hates everything, it's just meant to be fun.
And the fools that think they're the be all end all of reviewing need to get their heads examined, simple as that.
I
know the Critic is not going for that, and I think that complaining
about the Critic not doing that would be dumb, but I do think that the
Critic's style of reviewing shouldn't be as influential as it is. This
days reviews are trying to be funny instead of informative and that
really bugs me, as many of them are just the Nostalgia Critic by another
name...
I Agree that this is an issue. He's funny and fun and all but quite a number of those he's influenced to do something similar are sort of missing the point. The ones that think they're doing a real review don't realize that they aren't, they're just doing some summarizing with bad jokes and a lot of cursing and somehow pass it off as reviews.
JesuOtaku is a coolkid though
I'm sure he's a perfectly decent gentleman in real life. Though I'm not holding my breath, I just don't like him.
Basically, I hate the entire site and everything on it. Everyone on that entire site is some kind of greasy manchild or another who yells and screams because that's what their mistress Doug Walker does, and not a single one of them has a shred of originality. All of their humour is either failed attempts at being "edgy" via bashing, ridiculous and annoying hyperbole (best exemplified by the time TheAmazingAtheist declared Jersey Girl to "be worse than when my father dying of cancer"), and yelling "catchphrases" that don't even count as jokes - Yelling "Zool, motherfucker!" a bunch isn't a joke, you just put two words together. And the worst part is that never before have I seen something kowtow to fans so much, and I mean that in the bad way. You think Nostalgia Critic gave a shit about Mako before his fans told him he should care? Here's the thing, that joke that all the fans thew a bitch fit about? (If you didn't know, Mako died of throat cancer, and NC commented that he sounds like he smoked 50 cigarettes)... That's actually kinda funny, in a dark comedy way, even if he made the joke accidentally. Fans suddenly got super pissed and sent him mass hatemail, and the next episode, instead of saying "Fuck you, it was funny", he gets down on his knees and apologizes profusely, and now a fucking HALO of golden light with organ music appears when Mako shows up in something, because he loves Mako just that much. Come the fuck on.
I'm not even gonna say anything about Spoony because I could write fucking essays on what a pretentious greasy manchild cockbag he is.
Now, onto their fans: Oh, I don't doubt that there's people who just watch a video, and go on their way. This isn't about you, it's about the people who if Doug Walker asked them to suck his cock, they'd ask how many inches. The people who use their catchphrases in real life, the people who somehow figure that watching their reviews is the same as watching the media in question, letting them be qualified to talk about it and critique it, particularly when the "reviewer" makes shit up and takes things out of context (I call it "The Let's Play Effect", personally), and who can sit there and listen to GreasySpoony's daily four hour vlogs about shit nobody honestly cares about. I know someone like this: The amount I hear "You know, Spoony/Yahtzee/etc. had a really good point when *recites point verbatim about something I haven't played/watched".
And finally, to the outro: The way TVTropes finds a way to cram TGWTG shit into every god damn page imaginable, no matter how little it fits or how much it's actually about the review and not the media in question. The same goes for Trope names as well; At this point, they TRY to come up with catchphrases for Trope titles. And all that is ignoring the fact just how FUCKING GIANT the actual pages to their crew is. Here, lemme throw some nearly a year old numbers at you:
That Guy With The Glasses Main Article + sub articles: 101,359 words
Atop The Forth Wall on it's own: 42,839 words
All TGWTG articles + only front pages of DBZ Abridged and Spoony: 303,649 words
Length of:
J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye - 73,404 words
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 - 46,118 words
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five - 49,459 words
Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities - 135,420 words
John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath - 169,481 words
Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huck Finn - 109,571 words
This is what it looks like when culture dies. (Please stop commenting on this line, I realize it's ignorant and juvenile, as I've said I literally copied this verbatim from a year old "preaching to the choir" post with only half-realizing it was even there)
Oh, and by the way, the word count for the article on Taxi Driver, widely considered to be one of the greatest films of all time? 745 words.
So, ladies and gentleman, in closing, I offer you the following:
i mad
And with regards to Spoony's comments about Final Fantasy players... I totally agree. They lap up the worst garbage ever written for video games like it's goddamn tiramisu, write terrible fanfiction about it, post awful fanart on the internet, and make worse porn of it. All because the aesthetic that talentless hack Nomura shits out is "purdy" and "sparkly KAWAII."
Yeah, Spoony is a greasy, stuck-up nerd. But take a look in a mirror. We're all hambeast geek critics who bash shit we don't like.
The note doesn't make sense without the title, tho.
I don't know, which one was he? Mocking FFX is great in my book, provided the reviewer doesn't try to turn it into a spontaneous so-random-XD LARP-thing like the other videos I've seen.
Though they'd probably post it on the internet and call it "original karacter do not steel."
Spoony's actual LP was better, but only by a little bit.
Subjectivity...it is a thing. More to the point, if Spoony pointed out the flaws in the games then I might care, but half of his ranting is against the fans. This is a guy who has people write porn about him. There are fics about Spoony as well. There is fanart of him as well. And why is that? Because he's an agressive nerd whose only reason for success is insulting things that nobody else insults, therefore making their respective hatedoms happy.
It's like half the reviewers are copies of Walker and copies of copies of Walker, and they've copied the superficial parts of his persona without realizing why he's funny.
I have to give props to the Critic in the early years for raising awareness of Fox's Peter Pan and the Pirates, but nowadays... yeah, his reviews have gotten pretty boring. Aside from the problems already mentioned (being a meme machine, claiming things don't make sense when they actually do, inventing flaws so he'll have something to talk about) he sometimes ignores a lot of actual flaws (his Troll in Central Park review could've gotten a LOT more mileage out of the pedophilia angle) or at times talks about a movie that isn't really that bad and, in some cases, resorts to doing a lame pseudo-MST3K shtick that just isn't funny (the running "99 bottles of beer" joke in Judge Dredd for example).
Let's be honest, all the Nostalgia Critic is, is a lame Angry Video Game Nerd wannabe. The difference is that the nerd is actually informative, and sometimes he's pretty funny. The Critic is neither.
The Chick hit the ground running with her hilarious Pocahontas review, but almost immediately hit a wall. To be honest, the problem with the chick is that she seems obsessed with her own womanhood, like what really matters to her is that she's a girl doing the guy's thing (and this isn't just my guyness saying this--I know a woman who has the exact same sentiment). She's just... not cool.