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A sardonic critic reviews movies and TV shows from his childhood and adulthood.A sardonic critic reviews movies and TV shows from his childhood and adulthood.A sardonic critic reviews movies and TV shows from his childhood and adulthood.
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- TriviaThe Critic's feud with The Angry Video Game Nerd (2004) started as a joke when the Critic complained about the Nerd's fans comparing them. Doug Walker didn't expect James Rolfe to acknowledge him, but when he stated on his site that he was a fan, Walker contacted him about keeping a feud going. This became one of the show's best-loved running gags, culminating in no fewer than three in-person confrontations between the Critic and the Nerd, and leading to a real-life friendship between Walker and Rolfe.
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[repeated line]
Nostalgia Critic: I'm the Nostalgia Critic. I remember it so *you* don't have to.
- Crazy creditsStarting with the Battlefield Earth review, the worst line from the movie/movies reviewed is repeated over the Channel Awesome logo.
- SoundtracksThe Review Must Go On
(Theme music: 2013-present)
Written by Doug Walker
Orchestrated by Michael Schiciano (as Michael 'Skitch' Schiciano)
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The tragedy of Doug Walker
To be honest, The Nostalgia Critic as he currently stands deserves one star-- the additional three in my rating are for the entertainment value the series had back in the day, which, unfortunately, the passage of time and the addition of unpleasant hindsight have considerably eroded.
I watched the NC religiously as a teenager in the late 2000s. His reviews were unpretentious and packed with a joke a second. Humiliating as it might be to admit, I still recall his reviews of A TROLL IN CENTRAL PARK and THE TOM AND JERRY MOVIE fondly. These reviews were hardly profound or even that well-made, and many come off as quite dated today, but for the time, the NC was a lot of fun and an internet superstar. His angry critic schtick was copied by just about everybody between 2007 and 2010.
Understandably, Walker wanted to move on to different projects. He was tired of screaming in front of a white wall, even with the addition of skits and special effects to shake things up in later episodes. However, Doug was taken down by his own ego and bad writing. His follow-up series DEMO REEL was a spectacular failure (I saw the pilot the day it was posted and that was enough for me), forcing him back into the NC role. Unfortunately, the new NC was little more than DEMO REEL 2.0-- at that point, the internet review show had outgrown the simpler style that made Walker famous and he himself was only treading water. The horrifying revelations of the Change the Channel documentation only further sealed Walker's fate as a disgraced has-been.
To watch current NC videos is like seeing SUNSET BLVD's Norma Desmond descending the stairs to perform her antiquated Salome before an audience of embarrassed cops and journalists. No one is there because they are entertained: they're watching a train wreck. While reviving the NC might have been a wise move from an economic standpoint, artistically, it's trapped Walker in an eternal adolescence.
I watched the NC religiously as a teenager in the late 2000s. His reviews were unpretentious and packed with a joke a second. Humiliating as it might be to admit, I still recall his reviews of A TROLL IN CENTRAL PARK and THE TOM AND JERRY MOVIE fondly. These reviews were hardly profound or even that well-made, and many come off as quite dated today, but for the time, the NC was a lot of fun and an internet superstar. His angry critic schtick was copied by just about everybody between 2007 and 2010.
Understandably, Walker wanted to move on to different projects. He was tired of screaming in front of a white wall, even with the addition of skits and special effects to shake things up in later episodes. However, Doug was taken down by his own ego and bad writing. His follow-up series DEMO REEL was a spectacular failure (I saw the pilot the day it was posted and that was enough for me), forcing him back into the NC role. Unfortunately, the new NC was little more than DEMO REEL 2.0-- at that point, the internet review show had outgrown the simpler style that made Walker famous and he himself was only treading water. The horrifying revelations of the Change the Channel documentation only further sealed Walker's fate as a disgraced has-been.
To watch current NC videos is like seeing SUNSET BLVD's Norma Desmond descending the stairs to perform her antiquated Salome before an audience of embarrassed cops and journalists. No one is there because they are entertained: they're watching a train wreck. While reviving the NC might have been a wise move from an economic standpoint, artistically, it's trapped Walker in an eternal adolescence.
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