Doug Walker (TGWTG, Nostalgia Critic, Bum Reviews, and other projects)

Some of the critic's stuff really feels "They Changed It, So It Sucks" in particular his complaint about the opening being changed from Bagherra finding Mowgli. Like, Critic, the "Abandonned child is found and adopted" opening is borderline cliche at this point. And the new opening honestly does a better job setting up what the movie's actual plot is.

edited 21st Mar '18 6:23:58 AM by Ghilz

Indeed i have NEVER heard anyone say it's the grown-up Jungle Book. So try hearing that from a video many many times over, that you can't do anything about.

Were you hog tied to the chair? Coz I'm pretty sure turning off the video is a thing you can do.

I was at one of these con panels. It was about movies others disagree with you on. So The Jungle Book was talked about quite a few times in that panel. And if Rob thinks it;s just okay, I even wonder if Rob wrote anything in this review.

You said you were hearing that from a video :-P

I heard it from both.

I need to correct a statement: Rob likes the King Louie sequence ironically. Like usual, he enjoys Christopher Walken in a So Bad, It's Good way. But he still admits that the movie took a weird tonal whiplash at that point.

Otherwise, he says "Doug's on his own with this one".

edited 21st Mar '18 8:10:37 AM by Isaac_Heller

Anyone looking forward to the Andy Serkis version coming out this year? It's supposed have Motion Capture and be Truer to the Text. I don't mind the other Live Action versions, but this could be something special.

The Honest Trailers guy isn't.

I'm mostly fine with it except for it apparently doing a blatant rip-off of the 2016 Disney version by giving Kaa a Gender Flip. It wasn't necessary when Disney did it, it's not necessary now.

edited 21st Mar '18 8:12:27 AM by Isaac_Heller

Because that worked so well for Mars Needs Moms.

I am.

What do these two have to do with each other ?

Motion Capture.

Now I'm worried how they are going to butcher The Lion King. Maybe they'll have Simba forgive Scar and spare him? Or Simba decides he prefers Hakuna Matata after all and crowns Nala Queen of the Jungle?

I gotta agree with Rob on the King Louie bit.

If you watch it as King Louie suddenly breaking into song out of nowhere, it doesn't work at all, but if you watch it as Christopher Walken in a sound studio trying to sing a song as a giant orangutan, it's fucking hilarious.

And yeah, obviously the movie isn't perfect, but it's not like the '67 version is an incredible masterpiece. It's considered a classic because of the two catchy songs and the fact that it's the last Disney movie Walt Disney ever worked on.

they should have kept this song om,it's a pity really

I like that song, but tbh they already forced in one song that didn't fit, and I'm glad that was all.

@ Bacon Maniac 5000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantopithecus

In the 2016 version, he's a Gigantopithecus.

Honestly I dont like the new opening either

Too much time spent on a black panther fakeout when we all know the Black Panther is not trying to eat anyone

kyun and DS9guy: Bit of an odd comparison:

1. Andy Serkis's motion capture work on recent Planet of The Apes reboot has been (to my knowledge) universally praised for being really life-like without straying to Uncanny Valley territory.
2. Mars Needs Moms isn't a live-action/animated hybrid.
3. Motion Capture, much like Flash, is a tool that's not guaranteed for automatic failure just because it's used. What matters is the competence of the studio and people involved using it.

edited 22nd Mar '18 7:54:06 AM by XMenMutant22

That and I think motion capture has gone a long ways since when that dumpster fire came out.

... so apparently, ANOTHER bad bit of PR news happened in the past week resulting in a #changetheChannel movement on Twitter against CA! :O What???

People like to tweet Doug stuff at Obscurus Lupa coz they seem under the impression she doesn't hate his guts for his role in all the Channel Awesome stuff. Her replying to one such message snowballed to several past creators sharing their own stories of how awful Channel Awesome is.

Yeah, with the revelations of some of Doug's decisions behind the scenes of To Boldly Flee, I'm seeing people outright compare him to Tommy Wiseau.

Well it makes sense how much he talks about Tommy Wisseu so much but I thought the drama behind To Boldly Flee was well known for years by this point, and no one did anything about it??

It has. That's part of the frustration, I think. I know Marzgurl said something about "this has been known for years and people haven't been listening" (paraphrasing here).