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I just can't take this guy anymore.


It breaks my heart to stop watching this guy, really it does. Back in 2009 and 2010 he was one of my own personal heroes. He made me laugh harder than I had in years. Hell even after 2010 he was still really funny, the other animated Titanic review made me fall out of my seat I laughed so hard.

But not anymore.

Now all he is is a pompous, self-righteous, pretentious, snobby, hypocritical, preachy, condescending jerk.

What happened to Doug Walker?

It seems the negative reactions to the Let's Play of Bart's Nightmare changed something in him. He became more hit and miss than anything else. Sure he had good episodes afterwords like Doug's 1st Movie, Signs, Felix the cat the movie, Blair Witch 2, Son of the Mask, Star Trek TMP, the Last Airbender, Bridge to Terabithia, The worst Christmas special, Wicker Man, and Bloodrayne; those are the ones since late 2011 that have re-watch value to me.

But it's been mostly abominations like James and the Giant Peach, Transformers G1, Small Soldiers, Jurassic Park 1 and 3, The Lorax, AI, Cat in the Hat, Pearl Harbor, Man of Steel, Temple of Doom, Scooby Doo, Patch Addams, Moulin Rouge, Star Trek 3, Thomas and the Magic Railroad, The Purge, Princess Diaries 2, Alice in Wonderland, The Shining, The Haunting, Top 11 Movie Themes, and dare I forget Sailor Moon?

Those episodes are unwatchable for me.

The thing is, I think sometime during 2011 and 2012 something happened to Doug Walker. Something bad. He isn't the guy who tried to be nice and accepting and was against mean spiritedness anymore. Back then he didn't want to make people angry.

Now he doesn't care who he offends, who he pisses off, or how dark and disturbing he gets. He insults anyone who likes certain things (I don't like Adam Sandler either but I don't think his fans deserve to die,) and tried to use the excuse of "Critic said it, not me"

And I know you're probably saying "Doug and the Critic are separate. One's a character and one's a real person." I know that, but does Doug know it?

Listen to those Avatar/Adventure Time V-Logs. He treats anyone who complains or points out a mistake he made like they're a whiny idiot. He even does the Douchey McNitpick voice to mock them with.

There used to be a line between Doug and the Critic. Now that line is getting thinner and thinner.

Someone once said the more you know about a person the more crappy they are.

Doug Walker proved that statement.

He has made me reconsider how I view comedy, made me reconsider what I think is funny. I even went back and watched a ton of his old episodes and yes they're still funny. They still make me laugh.

It's not me who has changed. It's Doug.

I know Doug Walker doesn't care. He's famous and I'm not and I accept that. I'm just some guy on a computer who doesn't think too highly of himself. I know I'll never go on to meet famous people, make movies, create memes, or sign autographs at conventions. And I'm okay with that.

I don't need to be famous or important to matter.

If Doug reads this he'll brush it off, maybe even mock me on facebook, or a video. But I don't care if he does.

I stopped caring because Doug stopped caring.

Doug doesn't want to make people laugh anymore. He wants to educate them to his ways and anyone who disagrees with him he'll be happy to make fun of (Man of Steel fans, Adam Sandler fans, Transformers fans, Sailor Moon fans etc...(I know he never directly says some of them are stupid but you can clearly tell by the look on his face, the tone of voice, and the lack of caring that he does) and that's good because it proves just what and who he has become.

He and his brother need to take a look in the mirror, wipe that smug look off their faces, and say "What are we doing? What have we become?"

But I know they won't. I don't matter and they know that.

It's just my opinion.

I'll remember the good of Doug, and I Don't have to remember the bad.


(NOTE: Okay I was really depressed and angry while writing this and just really needed to get some anger off my chest. This is pretty accurate to my feelings about Doug as of late. To paraphrase Quentin Tarantino, who said this about David Lynch, "Doug Walker's his head had disappeared so far up his own ass that I have no desire to see anything else of his until I hear something different. And I loved him."

Yeah, pretty bad. I loved Doug and now I just find him and his brother pretty loathsome. I seriously can't tell if they're trying too hard or not trying at all anymore.

I have nothing against Malcolm and Tamara, in fact I find them pretty good, they just have bad material to work with. I'd hate to lose them, so keep them but cut the skits down to under a minute, don't have any intros or outtros, keep the theme but get rid of the obnoxious screams and booms, and most importantly: get off the soapbox and stop preaching.

I'm sorry if I offended anyone or made anyone mad. I just wanted to voice my opinion of Doug's current state. I've been going through a rough time lately, people close to me who have been there my entire life have been dying and the loss of some of my favorite comedians and actors like Robin Williams and the like are making it worse, I may have gotten over excessive with this rant, but I needed to get this off my chest.) Thanks for reading.


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I understand where you're coming from. I only watch his reviews now if it's a movie I've seen, as opposed to just watching it once out of curiosity. While some of the choices you listed as bad are ones I thought were decent, I totally see your overall point. He's just not laugh out loud funny anymore. I've said before that I think he's upset that Demo Reel didn't pan out, and so he's taking his anger out on the NC by turing it into Demo Reel.

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Hey man I get you. I think after "Demo Reel" he felt bad that Rachel and Malcolm were out of jobs so he kept them around. When Rachel left, I hoped that he would focus less on the skits but he hasn't. I think Doug has the wrong idea about what made his reviews funny, it's not his material, it's the film's material. Like with "Small Soliders" there really wasn't a lot of funny material to elaborate on. But some of the older reviews had hilarious material. I love the "Langoliers" review because that series had some seriously funny stuff in it ("SCARING THE LITTLE GIRL!") He needs to pick movies with material that you can build on because Doug and his group aren't funny writers. Really, most of his jokes should end with a "wah, wah, wahhhhhh." So yeah?that's my 2 cents.

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What's wrong with his reviews of James and the Giant Peach, Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park 3, A.I., Pearl Harbor, Man of Steel, Patch Adams, The Haunting and Sailor Moon? Seriously, could you explain what was so bad about those?

Also, "preachy"? Yes, heaven forbid that someone voices their opinion in THEIR OWN VIDEO. Doug is not your dancing monkey, he can say whatever he wants.

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James and the Giant Peach barley focused on the movie itself and more on Randy Newman's mere involvement with the project and the general weirdness of the thing (which being a movie based on a Rhold Dahl book it should be expected). He ignored moments in the movie and ignored plot points to make it seem worse than it actually was

Jurassic Park was just an attempt to drive views up, no real reason to review it other than to make people check it out out of curiosity. Also the nonsensical hatred of Jeff Goldblum is annoying as all hell and the 'Mother F'ing T-Rex song is just awful. The T-Rex is badass incarnate, it doesn't need some generic rock song to emphasize that.

Jurassic Park 3 was also a poor attempt at getting views up. He had no real interest in reviewing it, people just wanted him to review it so he did, in a very lazy and generic way. Seriously, the only thing that separated this review from a random review of the movie on YouTube is the skits.

A.I. make Doug out to be such a huge Kubrick fanboy I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out he goes to Kubrick's grave once a year and leaves flowers on his grave like that Edgar Allen Poe thing. There's really mean spiritied hatred of TMZ fans (I have no idea what TMZ is at all, some kind of tabloid news show, but its fans do not deserve the mockery here) Plus the stupid mockery of Spielberg's directing style. One must wonder if somebody mocked Kubrick's style would Doug stand for it?

Pearl Harbor was just a hate video on Michael Bay. NO rhyme, no reason to it, just stupid, blind hatred for a man Doug Walker hates for no true given reason other than 'his movies ruin our brains' bull crap. Critical research failure on part of Doug, who later excused his rant quite flimsily.

Man of Steel is bad because its just an impasse. Doug Hates the movie and isn't willing to listen to other's opinions of it (watch some of the Avatar and Adventure Time V-Logs, he brings Man of Steel up for absolutely no reason at all sometimes but his brother more so). It's just ranting about how much Christopher Nolan is pretentious, the product placement, and the fact that a city gets leveled. It's just boring all around, not helped by the stupid music video in the front of it.

Patch Addams is just pretentious whining about how much Robin Williams sucks (quite ironic how he doesn't think that now that Williams is gone from us huh?) and just whining about how unfaithful it is to real life. The movie isn't good at all, but this video was just annoying.

The Haunting was just plain childish. It was nothing but 'They Changed it so it sucks' rants. And that stupid, stupid, stupid tantrum he threw towards the end of the video was god awful, embarrassing, and just plain dumb. Also I found it ironic he never ranted about how the Wicker Man changed from its source material, despite the fact it is much more popular and beloved than the Haunting ever was.

Sailor Moon... really? I have to explain why the Sailor Moon video was bad? Really? Okay. Let's start with the sexism. He says that little girls wouldn't be interested in a Star Wars-esque epic. *facepalm* (What makes it worse is that only a few years ago there was a huge uproar over a little girl being beaten up because she loved Star Wars, not to mention how insulting it is to the legions of female Star Wars fans), he got multiple facts wrong: Jedite was killed off fairly early on, the animation in the intro is from the show, Tuxedo Mask and Sailor Moon do learn each other's identities in the first season, and too many for me to list. I'm not even a fan of Sailor Moon, I just barley remember it from my childhood and even I know he got a lot of stuff wrong. There's a stupid tangent on Japanese consent laws (which he got wrong, the consent is only for someone in the teenage age group and its still illegal for an adult to have sexual relations with someone under eighteen. Hell America has a bigger problem with underage sex than Japan does.) He criticized the censoring of the two sailor scouts who were lesbians despite the fact that cartoons today can't have gay characters in them (the only one I'm aware of that does have gay characters is Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated and even then they still couldn't say that they were lesbians) and note that this is in a 2013 cartoon while Sailor Moon is from the early nineties, do you expect them to air something generally frowned upon back then without being taken off the air? Plus the living dick joke is just... just no. No. No. He shouldn't have done Sailor Moon if he was gonna half ass it so badly (not even half ass it, quarter ass it I guess). He should've done something else, or have a Sailor Moon fan like Linkara join him if he was gonna do it. What's worse is that he ignored all the backlash he got over it. He just laughed it off with 'I love me some hate!' like a friggin' moron. Let's take something like Blade Runner for example, I really don't like that movie, but a lot of people do so I'm not going to tear into it because I know it'll start fights and protests and pointing out things I got wrong so I don't review it. Doug Walker has not learned that if something is beloved as it is, stay the hell away from it. And to make matters worse the video was incredibly insulting to Sailor Moon and anime fans everywhere.

I don't mind if Doug Walker voices his opinions, but his opinions aren't informed ones. He can voice his opinions, but he needs to be more subtle about it and not shove it down people's throats.

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There's really mean spiritied hatred of TMZ fans (I have no idea what TMZ is at all, some kind of tabloid news show, but its fans do not deserve the mockery here)


Yes, they most certainly do.

The Haunting was just plain childish. It was nothing but 'They Changed it so it sucks' rants. And that stupid, stupid, stupid tantrum he threw towards the end of the video was god awful, embarrassing, and just plain dumb. Also I found it ironic he never ranted about how the Wicker Man changed from its source material, despite the fact it is much more popular and beloved than the Haunting ever was.


He clearly explains why it sucked because they changed it! Seriously, did you not listen to his reasons for how the remake completely desecrated the original? Oh, and maybe he doesn't love the original The Wicker Man as much as he loves the original The Haunting, and that's why he wasn't as angry? Did you ever think about that?

I don't mind if Doug Walker voices his opinions, but his opinions aren't informed ones. He can voice his opinions, but he needs to be more subtle about it and not shove it down people's throats.


Are you talking about his political opinions? Because they seem pretty informed to me. Which opinions in particular are you referring to?

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He clearly explains why it sucked because they changed it! Seriously, did you not listen to his reasons for how the remake completely desecrated the original? Oh, and maybe he doesn't love the original The Wicker Man as much as he loves the original The Haunting, and that's why he wasn't as angry? Did you ever think about that?


I don't even recall him ever bringing up the original Wicker Man, maybe he mentioned it like once, but that's all. You'd think he'd think to bring up one of the biggest cult films of all time that's so big a lot of people don't really consider it to be a horror film, while The Haunting was some dull ghost story that had nothing happening in it until the last thirty minutes. I think he even said in the audio commentary he hasn't seen the original Wicker Man. Plus you've gotta admit that tantrum was stupid, I mean that was just embarrassing.


Are you talking about his political opinions? Because they seem pretty informed to me. Which opinions in particular are you referring to?


Who the hell is bringing politics into this? I meant movies.




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Who the hell is bringing politics into this? I meant movies.


I just assumed since you said he was "preachy" that you meant the political opinions he sometimes voices in his videos. Which ones of his opinions on movies are preachy and uninformed, then?

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The ones I mentioned as abominations in the beginning post. They're all 'Hollywood is evil, we independent critics on internet is good' garbage.

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Seeing as you hate reviews that have unnecessary slams in them, I'm kind of surprised you liked the Son of the Mask review. I've found it to be one of the worst of the revival, all because the hypocritical asshat that is Chad Rocco making an unnecessary appearance to slam something that has nothing to do with the review whatsoever.

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It's the one part of that episode I do hate. I skip it every single time I watch it, along with the dumbass Kim Kardashian skit at the beginning. I can't stand Chad Rocco either.

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Who's Chad Rocco?

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Chad Rocco, or CR as he's better known, is most infamous for his controversy surrounding My Little Pony Friendship is Magic, and the reason a lot of its fans really find him a hot issue is it's a show that he actually used to promote, and even after now suddenly hating everything about and vowing to pretend it never existed he gets overly pissy and goes out of his way take shots and it and its fans roughly taking every few weeks, again even though he's said he just wants to leave everything alone.

However, that's not the sole target of his insults, as he's made all sorts of other pointless slams for no reason like taking shots against the upcoming Sonic cartoon and even the new Gotham show coming out. He has overly ridiculous standards if any shows commits any of the following "sins" such as primarily being created to promote a toy franchise or uses "gimmicks" then it's automatically terrible and openly trashes anyone who tries to defend them. What makes him completely full of *beep* however is the fact that he sings the high praises of the new Ninja Turtles cartoon, a show that follows those tropes to a tee - apparently it's absolutely okay if he likes one of those shows even if he'll chew someone out for liking another one that does the same thing. He's a complete *beep* and a total hypocrite.

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Well said.

"I absolutely adore movies. Even bad ones......A good bad movie is a great movie" - Roddy McDowall

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Patch Addams is just pretentious whining about how much Robin Williams sucks (quite ironic how he doesn't think that now that Williams is gone from us huh?) and just whining about how unfaithful it is to real life. The movie isn't good at all, but this video was just annoying.


I don't recall that it was Robin Williams bashing so much as it was pointing out that the movie portrayed Patch Adams as an obnoxious jack-ass who just wanted to goof off, not taking medical school seriously, and who then started to practice medicine WITHOUT A LICENSE AND STOLE FROM HOSPITALS, which then got a made-up girlfriend (based on a real life MALE friend of Adams) killed.

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This sums up my feelings completely these days. I was on board with the Critic ending. I was on board with Demo Reel. And then I was somewhat reluctantly on board with the Critic coming back. The Critic's return started out okay, but then the jokes just got meaner, and meaner, and meaner, and the cheap shots at various performers and artists just got more continual and unnecessary. The Jeff Goldblum hate was one of the last straws for me. The Sailor Moon review was the second-to-last. If Doug ever gets a clue, I'll start watching him more regularly again. In the meantime, it's just reruns of the good old days for me.



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For me, the episode "Dawn of the Commercials" was one of the last straws. Well, maybe I won't go that far, but it was definitely when I started to lose faith. I mean, the reviews before that (I mean the reviews after the 2013 comeback) were disappointing. Although they weren't horrible, I did feel that there was something missing from them. Then, when I saw that Doug was doing another commercials episode, I was excited because I thought this would be his comeback. It wasn't; the episode was a letdown.

However, I would say that for me, the episode that was almost the last straw was Eight Crazy Nights. After that episode, I lost a lot of faith in him. It was just awful to watch.

So now, I don't know why I keep hoping. I'm still waiting for that one good review that will make me say, "Nostalgia Critic is back". But I've almost stopped caring about Doug, which is sad, because I used to really like Nostalgia Critic. Granted, I still watch the old episodes (pre-2013 comeback), and his editorials and Top 11 lists are still good (and no, I didn't bother watching the "Top 11 Dumbest Lord of the Rings Moments" video because it just seemed like a stupid idea to begin with, so I'm not counting that one), but I tend to skip the reviews now, because I feel like I've given Doug almost enough chances to come back, and he hasn't done it.

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Yeah, the episode Thomas and the Magic Railroad is one old episode that I didn't like that much. I grew up with the show Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends, and I enjoyed it a lot, so to hear Doug say things like, "It's Thomas the *beep* Tank Engine. You don't have to try to act well" (that might not be the exact quote) was quite horrible for me to hear. He also neglected to mention that the show was based on a children's series of short stories, so the show and characters does deserve some respect. I really don't understand why Doug trashes the show so much (he did it again in the review for Son of the Mask), especially if he hasn't even seen it.

I do have one question for you though. Doug reviewed Pokémon: The First Movie without seeing the show first. What did you think of that episode? I think the episode worked because Doug was not so mean-spirited towards the show that it was based on. That's why I don't get so upset that he didn't watch the show first. I don't know; what do you think?

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Well, he didn't explicitly trash it in the review, but there's a part at the beginning with Kim Kardashian where she mentions that Evilina is watching Thomas the Tank Engine, and the Devil gets mad. I don't know; since Doug and Rob wrote the episode, I sensed that he still was channeling his hatred towards the show in that line, because the show was listed along with other shows that I find to be annoying. I just didn't like how Thomas the Tank Engine was put with those other shows.

Maybe I'm reading too deep into it and I took it too harshly. It's just how I felt.

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Yes, I agree with you fully. I mean, I know he didn't see the show Pokemon (but he still reviewed the movie), but he didn't insult the show the way he insulted Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends. I agree with you that that behavior was pathetic. And I don't care if it was the Critic who said it and not Doug. I still am not happy with Doug for doing that.

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I hear you, man. Though, weirdly enough, my biggest issue with the new episodes is how Malcolm and Tamara are utilized. Whenever I see them, I'm just seeing actors who clearly just need their paychecks. When I see Doug interacting with people like Linkara, Spoony, Brad Jones, etc., I see very unique people with unique perspectives on art and humor. Not so much with Malcolm, or Tamara, or especially Rachel.

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I agree with you clarkm29. I prefer to see Doug interacting with the other reviewers (eg. his review of Superman IV: The Quest for Peace with Linkara is one of my favourites. I just love the way they play off each other. And the jokes were hilarious). I wish to add as well that I thought that the Old vs. New Spiderman episode could have been better if Doug had done it with Lewis Lovhaug (Linkara) rather than with Tamara. I think that Linkara could have added more input, since he is the comic book reviewer. I mean, the episode wasn't awful; I just think it could have been better.

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I agree. The Spiderman Old vs New was so weird. Its pretty clear that Tamara's "opinions" were completely scripted by Doug just for the sake of making her look bad and not genuine. Maybe they are, but it never came off that way.

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What didn't you like about Cat in the Hat, Moulin Rouge, The Lorax, The Purge, The Shining, or Alice in Wonderland? I thought those were good ones.

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Cat in the Hat was OK, but it dragged with the sketches.

Moulin Rogue was basically Walker complaining about how fast paced the editing was and how over the top it is, really just him trying to make sense of something that he doesn't get the appeal of.

The Shinning review was him showing how much of a Stanley Kubrick fan he is, quite like in his A.I. review. He just took apart the mini-series and the novel and painted Stephen King as some kind of bitter and ignorant man who didn't know how to tell a better story than Kubrick. He even brought up that King liked Death Race and 2012 when really why should that information have mattered in the first place? To make it seem like King has no taste or something? King has written some of the greatest American novels of all-time and has read more books, seen more films, and watched more TV than most people probably would in their lifetime. That he liked two movies, which he never described either as being great, proves nothing but that Walker was just trying to find ways to pick at the man. King did not favor Kubrick's version of his story, if he has a problem with someone and their adaptation of his work he has every right to dislike it. Review could've been okay if it was structured differently.

The Purge...Why bother? It was only a year old. Hardly nostalgic.

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The Cat in the Hat review is the only one of those I watched solely to get an idea of how horrendous people have said that movie was. Though I enjoyed that review the sketch, particularly the part where NC's just staring at the sunset did drag on a bit.

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I definitely feel for you; I've almost stopped watching Nostalgia Critic as well. I do feel a bit sad. It's a real pity because it used to be so enjoyable; I loved watching Doug Walker. Now, it seems like all that enjoyment is gone. For me though, the decline really started post-2013 comeback. I mean, the show was not perfect before (I can't say I loved every single episode), but overall, I enjoyed the show. When the jokes worked, they really, really worked. (My favourite joke would have to be the Mara Wilson appearance at the end of the review for A Simple Wish. That one was gold.)

I have two main problems with the show now. The first problem is that the jokes are not funny; most of them come across as mean-spirited (eg. the review for Eight Crazy Nights was just horrible to watch). I also miss the running gags (e.g.The big lipped alligator moment joke). These running gags were creative and memorable, and they seemed like things that movie buffs would do. Now, those running gags are barely used, and I really miss them. The second problem is the skits. I know that many people have complained about the skits already, but I would like to share my input. Before, the skits felt like they complemented the review; they helped to make a point in the analysis of the film. I know you don't like the Moulin Rouge! review, but I enjoyed it a lot. I thought that the songs were creatively incorporated into the review, and I enjoyed hearing Doug sing. Also, throughout the review, the skits were tied together to tell a "story", which was to answer why people like the film even though it's cliché, sentimental, and predictable. For me, the skits complemented the review, because they answered a central question that the Nostalgia Critic struggled with. I think most of us ask why films that are overly cliché and sentimental still do well and why people still watch them (I know I have done that). Now, it feels like the skits are thrown in only to give the other actors something to do. I just feel like the skits add little to nothing to the review, so really, they're just wasting time. A good example of this was the episode "Dawn of the Commercials". The skits were really unnecessary, and it just ruined the review (although I have to admit that seeing Greg Sestero at the end did slightly redeem it. I did actually get a bit of a chuckle). Overall, that episode did not need the extra filler. And, I will admit that after that episode, my faith in the Nostalgia Critic did start to dwindle, because in the past, the episodes about the commercials were among my favourites. Therefore, when I saw that he was doing a fourth one, I got excited because I thought this would be Doug's chance to come back. But, he didn't.

So anyway, that's my input on it. I keep waiting for that moment, that one great review, where our old Nostalgia Critic will come back. But I've almost stopped waiting now.

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One thing I did not like about the newer episodes is that, at least for me, it seems that Doug complains more about how movies should be made. Movies shouldn't do this, movies should be like that ect.
In the older episodes he watches some trashy movies and leaves some sarcastic remark which was much more entertaining than the lessons from newer episodes.

But I have to say, both Ghost Rider Reviews and Blood Rayne where pretty good episodes. And I like the "What you never knew" Episodes.

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I didn't quite get that sense from the newer reviews, but then again, I haven't been watching the new reviews lately. I confess that I've almost given up on the show to the point where I don't even care to watch the new reviews, so I didn't see the reviews for the Ghost Rider films and for Bloodrayne. As for the lessons in the reviews, I can kind of see where you're coming from. I don't mind if the show evolves to include more critical analysis, but it should still be enjoyable to watch, and I'm just not getting that with the reviews now. When the lessons are put in, they feel preachy, and people don't want to be told what to think. They just want to hear a well-researched opinion and point of view.

I have watched the "What you never knew" episodes, and I like them. I also like the editorials, and I'll still watch the Top 11 lists. Those lists are still good (and I'm not counting the list of "Top 11 Dumbest Lord of the Rings Moments" because I didn't watch it. It just seemed like a stupid premise). But like I said before, I've pretty much given up on the reviews.

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I pretty much agree with you.
I too like the What you never knew and top 11 episodes.
But i skip most of the regular reviews since the awful Catwoman one.
i watched GR 2 because i liked the review of the first one and i watched Blood Rayne because he made it togehther with Linkara and Spoony, like the alone in the Dark review.
And i watch it if its about a trashy movie with a lot of trashy scenes but i dont care much about something like princess diaries 2.

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