Nostalgia Critic's videos were perhaps some of the most addictive videos I ever got into watching. Together with Adam Buckley's excellently funny and cleverly constructed rants on his channel A Dose Of Buckley, Doug Walker's angry reviews of really poor movies were constantly hilarious, to the point of me watching them over and over again. And just like with Buckley, I never found his deadpan, negative style annoying because it was executed so well and always came off as humorously exaggerated. But sadly, he decided to change his style - and it's made me lose all interest in him.
The thing that I find most irritating about Doug Walker's newer material is how annoyingly eclectic and inconsistent it is. In a vast majority of his early work, he would only review and ridicule the absolute worst of the worst in film. His reviews were straightforward and very rarely went on for too long. Now though, he seems to review or talk about almost anything he can get his hands on. This has made him go from being a grumpy critic obsessed with exposing the flaws of terrible motion pictures, to a far nerdier, creepier and more predictable critic with way too much time on his hands and an overly diverse pool of video styles featuring an excessive amount of padding and skits. I don't find it funny at all - it's lowbrow, uninteresting and condescending, with loads of recycled, dated jokes included.
Another thing that irritates me about newer NC is how overly seriously he now takes movies and entertainment in general. It's natural to have a love and passion for a certain medium, but what made the Critic funny was how he actually used to mock snarky critics; in other words, he was self-deprecating and made fun of bad movies because that's what critics do. Now, though, he seems to have become his stereotype. For example, in his review for a movie called "A Cat In The Hat" he includes a cheesy speech about what's good for kids and what's bad for kids. This sort of thing comes off as awfully pompous and elitist. It's this sort of needless, over-serious melodrama that plagues too many of his reviews nowadays.
Though I'm largely sick of him, I can probably still enjoy some of his better older reviews. But very, very little of his new content is watchable for me. His character is tired, no longer convincing, and just doesn't make me laugh anymore.
He just isn't funny anymore
Nostalgia Critic's videos were perhaps some of the most addictive videos I ever got into watching. Together with Adam Buckley's excellently funny and cleverly constructed rants on his channel A Dose Of Buckley, Doug Walker's angry reviews of really poor movies were constantly hilarious, to the point of me watching them over and over again. And just like with Buckley, I never found his deadpan, negative style annoying because it was executed so well and always came off as humorously exaggerated. But sadly, he decided to change his style - and it's made me lose all interest in him.
The thing that I find most irritating about Doug Walker's newer material is how annoyingly eclectic and inconsistent it is. In a vast majority of his early work, he would only review and ridicule the absolute worst of the worst in film. His reviews were straightforward and very rarely went on for too long. Now though, he seems to review or talk about almost anything he can get his hands on. This has made him go from being a grumpy critic obsessed with exposing the flaws of terrible motion pictures, to a far nerdier, creepier and more predictable critic with way too much time on his hands and an overly diverse pool of video styles featuring an excessive amount of padding and skits. I don't find it funny at all - it's lowbrow, uninteresting and condescending, with loads of recycled, dated jokes included.
Another thing that irritates me about newer NC is how overly seriously he now takes movies and entertainment in general. It's natural to have a love and passion for a certain medium, but what made the Critic funny was how he actually used to mock snarky critics; in other words, he was self-deprecating and made fun of bad movies because that's what critics do. Now, though, he seems to have become his stereotype. For example, in his review for a movie called "A Cat In The Hat" he includes a cheesy speech about what's good for kids and what's bad for kids. This sort of thing comes off as awfully pompous and elitist. It's this sort of needless, over-serious melodrama that plagues too many of his reviews nowadays.
Though I'm largely sick of him, I can probably still enjoy some of his better older reviews. But very, very little of his new content is watchable for me. His character is tired, no longer convincing, and just doesn't make me laugh anymore.