History DethroningMoment / TheNostalgiaCritic

* cartoonfanman: I pretty much gave up watching Nostalgia Critic after he uploaded a [[OverlyLongGag one hour]] [[Recap/TheNostalgiaCriticS10E21 review]] of ''Film/ManOfSteel'', but somebody showed me a scene at the beginning of his ''Film/It2017'' [[Recap/TheNostalgiaCriticS10E22 review]] that made me legit rage. It starts with [[BaseBreakingCharacter Hyper Fangirl]] introducing the review, and when the audience starts to boo her, she pulls out a huge machine gun and shoots the audience. Not only is it yet another unfunny and tasteless joke, but the fact that this was uploaded 1 week exactly after the Las Vegas shooting made this scene way more uncomfortable to watch. I'm usually apathetic when it comes to Nostalgia Critic but this moment alone [[StealthPun killed]] any shred of respect or optimism I had for the Critic in the first place.

* cartoonfanman: I pretty much gave up watching Nostalgia Critic after he uploaded a [[OverlyLongGag one hour]] [[Recap/TheNostalgiaCriticS10E22 review]] of ''Film/ManOfSteel'', but somebody showed me a scene at the beginning of his ''Film/It2017'' review that made me legit rage. It starts with [[BaseBreakingCharacter Hyper Fangirl]] introducing the review, and when the audience starts to boo her, she pulls out a huge machine gun and shoots the audience. Not only is it yet another unfunny and tasteless joke, but the fact that this was uploaded 1 week exactly after the Las Vegas shooting made this scene way more uncomfortable to watch. I'm usually apathetic when it comes to Nostalgia Critic but this moment alone [[StealthPun killed]] any shred of respect or optimism I had for the Critic in the first place.

* jaredthedecimator: [[Recap/TheNostalgiaCriticS9E14 His review]] ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' was the final straw for me. While most of the video is just bland, the reason it’s on here is because of the ending. In one of the cringiest things I have ever seen, Doug and two other guys who aren’t important take on these fans of the CGI chipmunks by singing an unfunny parody of a song from ''WesternAnimation/TheChipmunkAdventure''. The scene where they are performing the song is probably the lowest point of the entire series. And you wanna know something funny? When Doug reviewed ''The Chipmunk Adventure'' with WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick a long time ago, he hated it. But in this video, he acts as if it’s a masterpiece of cinema. Make up your mind, Doug! If you want us to agree with your opinions, the least you can do is keep them consistent.

* jaredthedecimator: [[Recap/TheNostalgiaCriticS9E14 His review]] ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' was the final straw for me. While most of the video is just bland, the reason it’s on here is because of the ending. In one of the cringiest things I have ever seen, Doug and two other guys who aren’t important take on these fans of the CGI chipmunks by singing an unfunny parody of a song from ''WesternAnimation/TheChipmunkAdventure''. The scene where they are performing the song is probably the lowest point of the entire series. And you wanna know something funny? When Doug reviewed The Chipmunk Movie with WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick a long time ago, he hated it. But in this video, he acts as if it’s a masterpiece of cinema. Make up your mind, Doug! If you want us to agree with your opinions, the least you can do is keep them consistent.

* jaredthedecimator: [[Recap/TheNostalgiaCriticS9E14 His review]] ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' was the final straw for me. While most of the video is just bland, the reason it’s on here is because of the ending. In one of the cringiest things I have ever seen, Doug and two other guys who aren’t important take on these fans of the CGI chipmunks by singing an unfunny parody of a song from ''WesternAnimation/TheChipmunkMovie''. The scene where they are performing the song is probably the lowest point of the entire series. And you wanna know something funny? When Doug reviewed The Chipmunk Movie with WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick a long time ago, he hated it. But in this video, he acts as if it’s a masterpiece of cinema. Make up your mind, Doug! If you want us to agree with your opinions, the least you can do is keep them consistent.

* Tropers/{{prettycoolguy}}: As someone who used to obsess over [=TGWTG=]/Channel Awesome during their "peak", for the lack of a better word, I will make the argument that, even up to today[[note]]Though, granted, I have not seen any Doug Walker videos since [=#ChangeTheChannel=] happened[[/note]], the worst moment in any Nostalgia Critic review is a joke in [[Recap/TheNostalgiaCriticS2E52 his review]] of ''Film/ErnestSavesChristmas''. And no, it isn't the one you think. [[note]]He caught flack for a bit during a moment where the future Santa is putting on a rather crummy puppet show for kids. Doug then says "Yes, I think he entertains the autistic children". This rightfully got instant and fierce backlash, and he reuploaded the episode shortly afterwards without the line. As someone on the spectrum, that "joke" was ignorant, barely logical and of horrendous taste, and a potential [=DMoS=] on its own, but it's still better than this one.[[/note]] It is when he reacts to a scene where Santa Claus gets thrown into a jail cell. In it, he turns around to see all the inmates walking around and giving him looks, and Santa makes a forlorn face because he is scared about the fate of Christmas. Doug, in his infinite wisdom, dubs over the scene to make it as if Santa says to the inmates "Wazzap, my n[=***=][=**=]?". And yes, Doug actually says the word. For him as a White person to use that word is one thing, but the content of this joke, when you dissect it, is confused at best and racist at worst. First of all, if the intent is to show that Santa is uncomfortable with his surroundings and he is trying to relate with them, which is what I can best assume Doug was going for, that doesn't line up because Santa doesn't look uncomfortable in the slightest. The inmates don't do anything remotely threatening. Sure, they stare, but that's to be expected when someone is thrown into a prison cell. Second, there is the whole African-American/street gang/criminal connection. What makes this sting is that, in that prison cell shot, there are more people in the room who are White than Black! There are four White men and three Black men in the shot, and one of the Black men laying down is hardly visible. The joke probably only sprang from Doug's head because one of the Black men is directly in frame for one shot and staring at the camera. In the context of this scene, it is made clear that these are just people in a cell and there is nothing social or political or even any kind of joke to take from the scene's execution, especially in an Ernest movie. So the only way I can see that joke materializing is assumptions in Doug's mind. Was the mere thought of a Black person in a prison staring someone enough to connect with gangs and saying the n-word despite, again, there being absolutely nothing to read about the scene? Even in the generous interpretation that this is supposed to be a misguided "fish out of water" situation for Santa in-universe, even though, again, more people in the cell are White, it sure wouldn't make sense for Santa Claus to say this, considering he delivers presents to every corner of the globe. I know he grew up in the Chicagoland suburbs, which I know from experience are pretty White, but there is still no excuse to make this tone-deaf comment that reads of ignorance above all else. The fact that he apologized for the autism joke in the same video and not this makes me feel he only is considerate for other viewpoints when he is in trouble, which screams disingenuous. That phony, inertial, antagonizing feeling is something I think is universal in all the Critic's worst moments, but I feel it reared its ugliest head here.

* Tropers/{{prettycoolguy}}: As someone who used to obsess over [=TGWTG=]/Channel Awesome during their "peak", for the lack of a better word, I will make the argument that, even up to today[[note]]Though, granted, I have not seen any Doug Walker videos since [=#ChangeTheChannel=] happened[[/note]], the worst moment in any Nostalgia Critic review is a joke in [[Recap/TheNostalgiaCriticS2E52 his review]] of ''Film/ErnestSavesChristmas''. And no, it isn't the one you think. [[note]]He caught flack for a bit during a moment where the future Santa is putting on a rather crummy puppet show for kids. Doug then says "Yes, I think he entertains the autistic children". This rightfully got instant and fierce backlash, and he reuploaded the episode shortly afterwards without the line. As someone on the spectrum, that "joke" was ignorant, barely logical and of horrendous taste, and a potential [=DMoS=] on its own, but it's still better than this one.[[/note]] It is when he reacts to a scene where Santa Claus gets thrown into a jail cell. In it, he turns around to see all the inmates walking around and giving him looks, and Santa makes a forlorn face because he is scared about the fate of Christmas. Doug, in his infinite wisdom, dubs over the scene to make it as if Santa says to the inmates "Wazzap, my n[=***=][=**=]?". And yes, Doug actually says the word. For him as a White person to use that word is one thing, but the content of this joke, when you dissect it, is confused at best and racist at worst. First of all, if the intent is to show that Santa is uncomfortable with his surroundings and he is trying to relate with them, which is what I can best assume Doug was going for, that doesn't line up because Santa doesn't look uncomfortable in the slightest. The inmates don't do anything remotely threatening. Sure, they stare, but that's to be expected when someone is thrown into a prison cell. Second, there is the whole African-American/street gang/criminal connection. What makes this sting is that, in that prison cell shot, there are more people in the room that are White than Black! There are four White men and three Black men in the shot, and one of the Black men laying down is hardly visible. The joke probably only sprang from Doug's head because one of the Black men is directly in frame for one shot and staring at the camera. In the context of this scene, it is made clear that these are just people in a cell and there is nothing social or political or even any kind of joke to take from the scene's execution, especially in an Ernest movie. So the only way I can see that joke materializing is assumptions in Doug's mind. Was the mere thought of a Black person in a prison staring someone enough to connect with gangs and saying the n-word despite, again, there being absolutely nothing to read about the scene? Even in the generous interpretation that this is supposed to be a misguided "fish out of water" situation for Santa in-universe, even though, again, more people in the cell are White, it sure wouldn't make sense for Santa Claus to say this, considering he delivers presents to every corner of the globe. I know he grew up in the Chicagoland suburbs, which I know from experience are pretty White, but there is still no excuse to make this tone-deaf comment that reads of ignorance above all else. The fact that he apologized for the autism joke in the same video and not this makes me feel he only is considerate for other viewpoints when he is in trouble, which screams disingenuous. That phony, inertial, antagonizing feeling is something I think is universal in all the Critic's worst moments, but I feel it reared its ugliest head here.

* jaredthedecimator: [[Recap/TheNostalgiaCriticS9E14 His review]] ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' was the final straw for me. While most of the video is just bland, the reason it’s on here is because of the ending. In one of the cringiest things I have ever seen, Doug and two other guys that aren’t important take on these fans of the CGI chipmunks by singing an unfunny parody of a song from ''WesternAnimation/TheChipmunkMovie''. The scene where they are performing the song is probably the lowest point of the entire series. And you wanna know something funny? When Doug reviewed The Chipmunk Movie with WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick a long time ago, he hated it. But in this video, he acts as if it’s a masterpiece of cinema. Make up your mind, Doug! If you want us to agree with your opinions, the least you can do is keep them consistent.

** Tropers/vexer: For me, it was this review. Now I'm perfectly fine with people disliking that film, even though IMO, it's FAR from one of the worst holiday movies. The review wasn't too bad until the Critic had his sidekicks appear as Happy Madison fans that laugh at anything he considers low-brow and uses them to attack people who actually like Sandler's films (and then blows them up with a grenade, [[SarcasmMode which was sooo clever]]). If it was just one scene, it wouldn't been so bad, but he just kept shoehorning them in, which ironically I found more irritating and unfunny than anything in the actual film itself (including Sandler's voice for Whitey, speaking of which, that gag where NC is on the phone with Sandler went for way too long). His extended TakeThat towards Sandler's fans was just mean-spirited and extremely hypocritical given how the Critic in the past has previously emphasized that people should "like what they like" for movies, guess people just aren't allowed to actually like Happy Madison films according to the Critic's InsaneTrollLogic.

** Tropers/vexer: For me, it was this review. Now I'm perfectly fine with people disliking that film, even though IMO, it's FAR from one of the worst holiday movies. The review wasn't too bad until the Critic had his sidekicks appear as Happy Madison fans that laugh at anything he considers low-brow and uses them to attack people that actually like Sandler's films (and then blows them up with a grenade, [[SarcasmMode which was sooo clever]]). If it was just one scene, it wouldn't been so bad, but he just kept shoehorning them in, which ironically I found more irritating and unfunny than anything in the actual film itself (including Sandler's voice for Whitey, speaking of which, that gag where NC is on the phone with Sandler went for way too long). His extended TakeThat towards Sandler's fans was just mean-spirited and extremely hypocritical given how the Critic in the past has previously emphasized that people should "like what they like" for movies, guess people just aren't allowed to actually like Happy Madison films according to the Critic's InsaneTrollLogic.

** Tropers/Owlorange1995: In the review, [[Franchise/TheEvilDead Ash]] decapitating Pikachu with a chainsaw because Ash Ketchum holds him up as a shield. The Critic then interrupts the review just so he can tell the crying Ash to "suck it up". I can take the jabs and the taunts shown in earlier episodes but...look, even if you don't like Pokemon, it would still be disgusting to make a joke about cutting up a pet while his owner sobs! It's even worse to make the joke by having a child hold up his beloved and close companion as a meat shield!
** Tropers/LDragon2: Agreed. That whole scene just came across as yet another [[FanHater mean-spirited dig at the Pokemon fanbase]], this time by literally murdering one of the most beloved characters from the series. The comment that [[Franchise/TheEvilDead Ash]] makes also doesn't help, not does the crying from Ash Ketchum and the death cries from Pikachu. It's like Doug's trying to tick off the audience by using a character from a series he likes to butcher another from a series he dislikes.

** Tropers/DrZulu2010: While I prefer the pre-reboot Critic over the post-reboot one, he has some of the same problems. In fact, one thing I ended up hating from this classic review is his reaction on Alfred dying of a rare disease by saying, and I paraphrase: "Now we have to care about the butler dying?" I'm sorry, but as a ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' fan myself who has watched the movie, one of its silver linings is the relationship between Bruce and Alfred with their father/son dynamic as the latter was lethally ill. In fact, a huge aspect of Batman mythos is about how Alfred is the closest thing Bruce has as a father. This would be like ignoring how Uncle Ben's and ComicBook/GwenStacy's deaths helped forming Franchise/SpiderMan's philosophy of "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility". Hell, my favourite scenes in ''Series/{{Gotham}}'' are about the dynamics between Bruce and Alfred and how Bruce comes to realize he almost took him for granted. So, having the Critic saying "I don't care if the butler is dying" felt like a slap to the face of a character who helped define who Batman really is.

* @/Dvaderstarlord5: I used to be a fan of the Critic but an issue that I had with him back when I was a fan that has gotten stronger is his [[Recap/TheNostalgiaCriticS7E10 Old vs. New]] on the ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' movies. Now this isn't that he said that the Creator/AndrewGarfield movies are better than Creator/TobeyMaguire's, though I disagree on that front, I mean of the 3 live-action Spider-Men, I think Creator/TomHolland is the best so this is isn't a bitter fanboy. But the issue that I have is when he declares that Garfield is better as Spider-Man by connecting the times in both movie series where they hang up the cowl in ''Film/SpiderMan2'' and ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'' respectively where he says that Garfield has the edge because he has a more sympathetic reason for the hangup as Gwen died and he was grieving whereas with Maguire, it was the just the stress of the job and that it got hard for him. That stuck with me. The first half of ''Spider-Man 2'' is entirely dedicated to showing just how much Peter's life sucks so that it feels earned and believable when Peter temporarily gives up being Spider-Man. In the first half of the movie, Peter gets fired, is late for his classes at college, is constantly insulted and demeaned at the job that he does have, is living in poverty, with a jerk landlord, watches as a new friend of his becomes a supervillain, his relationship with his best friend is slowly falling apart, the woman he loves moves on and gets engaged to someone else and he can't do anything about it because he believes its the right thing to stay away from her for her safety, his aunt is also in poverty, and to top it off, his powers are failing for no reason that he can discern and as such it is now an even bigger risk to his life to fight crime. That is a far thing from simply life getting hard. So yeah, I really didn't like how that got ignored so that he could say that the Andrew Garfield stuff was better. I mean if that's your opinion, fine but give some actual fact.

* Troper/{{libertydude}}: My Dethroning Moment comes from [[Recap/TheNostalgiaCriticS8E19 his review]] of ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', simply because of how it showed the absolute worst aspects of modern NC: [[AuthorFilibuster Shoehorned political and social messages]], the frequent use of [[{{Strawman}} Strawmen]], and [[OverlyLongGag an overreliance on skits]] instead of criticism. The first two complaints are the worst parts, as the Critic dividing the film's [[StrawFeminist supporters]] and [[StrawMisogynist detractors]] into two [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] groups just makes him seem lazy. Here he is, in the unique position of finding a [[BrokenBase base-breaking]] film SoOkayItsAverage, which could allow him to really delve into specific aspects of the movie that do and don't work. [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot Instead, he focuses more on the reactions of viewers]], and he doesn't even do it very fairly. While the supporters of the film are portrayed as liking the film [[EstrogenBrigade for shallow reasons]], the detractors are portrayed far worse, being [[NerdsAreVirgins sexless nerds]] angry that there was a badass ActionGirl in the movie. Aside from the fact that there are plenty of other reasons to criticize the film ([[SpotlightStealingSquad the lack of focus on Max himself]], [[ExcusePlot the spectacle overcoming the story]] etc.), this really ignores the fact that there have been plenty of female action heroes that men enjoy (i.e. [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]], Franchise/WonderWoman, [[Franchise/GhostInTheShell Motoko Kusanagi]], just to name a few). It just felt like Doug was really trying to invalidate negative criticism of the film by portraying the criticizers as worse as possible. It doesn't help that most of his attempted "criticisms" against the film feel really loose and shallow, just so Tamara can easily knock them down and validate approval of the film. It's this dismissive and misleading attitude that really makes this episode the worst for me personally.

* CodaFett: I'll admit, I've not been a fan of NC for a long time but even when I was [[Recap/TheNostalgiaCriticS2E17 his review]] of '''WesternAnimation/{{TMNT}}''' just rubbed me wrong. To be as brief as possible, the biggest problem is definitely the fact that it's not really a review, even in the loose sense that was popularized by this very show. It's 10 minutes of Critic being frustrated and confused because this incarnation of the turtles is different than what he grew up with and was used too. That is ''not'' a fault of the movie and it's very clearly meant to be an indirect sequel to the much more recent 2003 series than the 1980s original or the live action versions. It's particularly noticeable with scenes of the character [[DarkActionGirl Karai]] and the faceoff with Raph and Leonardo where he stops his commentary to rant. That's not even getting into that incredibly tasteless and kinda racist rib on the voice of beloved actor Mako, which he later apologized for. I think it's mostly a bit on his part, but it stops being funny rather quickly because it makes it seem like Critic legitimately doesn't have anything bad to say about the movie and has to pad out the video.

** mine4ever: While my interest in Nostalgia Critic was already decreasing, where it really took a dive was in this review . Specifically, when the character Heather Jasper Howe appears and Doug immediately says "She did it". Of course, you may be wondering how could he possibly know that a character we met literally 3 seconds ago was the villain without any foreshadowing or clues. Well, here's his reasoning: the actress playing Heather, Alicia Silverstone, was a big name in Hollywood at the time this film was released. Doug figured that they wouldn't cast an A-list celebrity in such a minor role, unless she had a bigger part to play, so she had to be the villain. OK, first off, celebrities have had minor roles in media literally since the dawn of time. Take ''Film/{{Scream|1996}}'', for example: Creator/DrewBarrymore was a big name at the time as well, which is why it was such a shock to so many people [[spoiler:when she died within the first 5 minutes]]. Secondly, what he doesn't realize is that this movie is targeted to kids. What child watching this film would know, or even care, who Alicia Silverstone was? I was five when this film came out and I sure didn't. Hell, most of the kids watching weren't even alive when Alicia Silverstone was popular, and even if they were, I highly doubt they where old enough to see the movies she was in. At the end, he criticizes the movie for not giving kids a good mystery because it was too obvious who the villain was, but it doesn't work since it wouldn't be obvious to the target audience.

* Princesstwilight23: I stopped watching NC because I noticed his pattern. He's overly critical: "Oh, yeah, this was okay, but why didn't they do this?" And he does that all the time, especially with passable remakes. Like [[Recap/TheNostalgiaCriticS12E18 his review]] of ''Film/MaryPoppins'' . I didn't like the sequel by any means, but my God, I hated how he had one of those power actors he hired to play: what I'm assuming is some Pennywise, Stephen King-styled version of Mary Poppins. It was amazingly unfunny and somewhat insulting. We get it, Critic, you love suffering as humor, but here's the thing: it was not funny! At all. You just did this to praise the original! "Oh, well, back in my day she was this way!"

** Alienhunter: I removed my earlier post about his Fox Kids review with the Toonami review. Starting off with an almost 10-minute skit of Critic being old and grumpy because he never really watched Toonami. Then the actual review starts off with Walter, Tamara, Heather, and Malcolm talking about each show for like two minutes. Now, this could still be cool to see with focusing on the history and the specials with Tom, but nope, instead, it focuses on random programs that don't really have much to do with Creator/{{Toonami}}. They would occasionally bring up anime like Anime/SailorMoon, Manga/OnePiece, and Anime/YuYuHakusho, but most of the review was based around on shows that were more played on Creator/CartoonNetwork, like WesternAnimation/TheBatman, WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague, WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls, WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce and... WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars... What. Not helping with the Critic (y'know, the reason most people watch the show) randomly sprouting one-liners about whatever show they were talking about and mostly getting screamed at by Walter in the most unfunny way. And don't get me started on the stupid "joke" they did multiple times about them all laughing obnoxiously loudly for like a minute straight, it's not funny, it's loud and, well, obnoxious. Although, I do have to admit that the costume for live-action!Tom was amazing and the voice used for him was spot-on. But that's about it for the nice things that I have for this "review".

* Tropers/{{WillieManga}}: To make two things clear, I hate ''Film/BioDome'' and for the most part, I like Critic's [[Recap/TheNostalgiaCriticS3E13 review of it]]. But one thing that annoyed me is that he continually misnamed Bud, calling him Squirrel. I understand Squirrel is a nickname, but the characters call him Bud more often. With that, you'd think he would call him Bud and make things less confusing. Come on, dude!

* Dark4ngel: Let me say this, yes, I do like ''Film/{{Maleficent}}'', but I do acknowledge it is very flawed and I know that everyone will have their reasons for not liking it. However, just watching a few clips of [[[[Recap/TheNostalgiaCriticS11E8 Doug's review]] made me wonder if he's either stupid or intentionally ignoring some things to try to make the movie look worse. Like, he says Stefan helps the king destroy the fairies, which is completely untrue. Stefan only hurt Maleficent and never did anything to the Moors afterwards. Then, during the scene where Stefan cuts off Maleficent's wings, he says "Good thing she's such a heavy sleeper" when the movie blatantly points out that he drugged her. Did he have to clean his glasses while watching that scene and he's just blind without them? Then he makes a joke during the scene that even haters of the movie agree is a very emotional scene (when she's crying over her wings): "I didn't even get to find out how they tasted." What. That's where I clicked off.

* BabyRodent: For the most part, I thought the ''Film/HocusPocus'' video was enjoyable if flawed. Then came the moment near the end where, after Kiki from ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService'' makes an appearance to beat up the Sanderson Sisters, Critic makes a very mean-spirited jab at Billy Butcherson by stating that he was a “useless” character who contributed nothing to the plot of the film, which is my least favorite moment of the video. First off, Billy did serve a purpose in the film and not just “walk[ed] around in silence” and “shout obscenities” (Critic's words, not mine) when his stitches were removed—he was summoned by Winifred to go after the main characters because the witches could not step on hallowed ground. He also had a very particular grudge against Winifred for not only killing him and stitching his mouth shut, but also forcing him out of his own grave as a zombie. He wanted to get back at his former lover and is willing to help the kids break the curse so he can rest again, so I don’t see him as useless. Second off, Billy is by far one of Creator/DougJones’ more memorable roles and at least deserves some credit where credit is due in this review. But as is, it's just too mean-spirited to even warrant a chuckle out of me.