Channel Larry (EDIT: Channel Awesome renamed to just Nostalgia Critic)

[Avaitor]

Another day, another Todd video.

[Silverstar]

Another day, another Todd video.

Wow. I've never really any One Direction songs before this review, I just knew they were another squeaky clean boy band that folks love to hate and Todd as to be expected wasn't a fan of theirs. But after hearing this single and Todd's breakdown of it, I guess I have an opinion of them now. Those guys really aren't a very good band, are they?

[Avaitor]

I never saw this one, but this seems like it'll be a good NC review.

[Avaitor]

I like this one because Doug put a couple of pics of Demi in it.

[Peanutbutter]

Am I the only one that's loved every editorial he's done so far? Every time, he's been able to take something big in pop culture,  analyze it and put it into perspective. Not to mention how absolutely unpredictable what his topic will be for these.

[Avaitor]

Yeah, I've really been enjoying them too. They don't seem to interest a whole lot of people, though.

[talonmalon333]

I might actually like them more than his normal videos.

[Avaitor]

Todd just pulled out a One-Hit Wonderland.

It's a good video, but do you think that he knows that Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen both have songs about closing time themselves, both of which came out before Semisonic's?

[Nel_Annette]

I had a "Closing Time" mini-obsession about two weeks back, strangely enough.

Now it's on Vertical Horizon's hits. 

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

And here is the NC's farewell video to Roger Ebert. Even though I disagreed with a lot of Ebert's opinions on movies, I do agree that he had such a huge passion for films that I could still always respect whatever he had to say about any given movie.

[Avaitor]

On another board I go to, one member posted that Ebert could have said in one minute that Doug took eleven to address. I'm inclined to agree, but this was a nice farewell.

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

I think the point was that Doug just really admires Ebert and his work as a critic, and just wanted to talk about him as much as possible. I can certainly understand that. Its like how I could say what I want to about something I really like in just a few sentences, but typically I'll go and an on about it because I'm just that passionate about it. That's the vibe I got from Doug, here. He seemed to have a lot of passion for admiring Ebert's passion in film....if that makes any sense.

[Avaitor]

It isn't the fact that he has a lot to say, it's more that Doug's vocabulary seems rather limited, which is why it takes so long to say as much as he does. Your replies do expand beyond usual conventions, but you do have a lot to say more often than not. That's not always the case with Doug.

[Nel_Annette]

Plus, people would be pissed if the episode was any shorter. 

[No-Personality]

I think it's interesting to see Doug knows what direction the future of review videos is going in. Unfortunately, he just doesn't do Lindsay's format as well as she does. Meanwhile, she's off with that bound-to-be thankless 50 Shades of Grey rip-off project which is seriously mining just about the least interesting cultural trend going on right now. This will date poorly. Anyway, it really bothers me to see people pat Doug on the back for the same thing she took so much heat for for so long. Oh, no- my bad: he does positive reviews of pop culture stuff. Yet I find his perspective is much more broad than Lindsay's is. As in: he floats more than a little. She aims like a razor-tipped dart and usually hits the bullseye. The most interesting thing about this new project is just how Day he ends up being to her Night. Or how angelic he is to her devil. But even in her 50 Shades of Green (most irrelevant in total because I see she's copying Red Letter Media's format right down to the camerawork), I do see her nailing some really significant points about what is greenlit in Hollywood and what is thrown away. I think what Doug is doing is a good idea but the format needs to be reigned in. If he could stop floating around and tighten up his delivery, he might really have The Subjective View of what we get from Hollywood and so forth is worth- he'd really have something here.

As for his formal reviews, I sat through his first 2 new ones and never felt the urge to come back again. Timothy Green had likely the worst introduction to any of Doug's videos I've ever seen (animal killing and appealing to homophobic viewers with a cheap stab at us through NAMBLA- who only sickos treat with anything but disdain, I'm odd but I'm no sicko and neither are most gay people). Pearl Harbor was a big step-up but... I see he couldn't avoid the impotent, annoying, OTT, and entirely unfunny rage breakdown. In the end, what worked about that review might have been what would work for anyone. PH is a very easy target.

Meanwhile, let's shift the focus to other Tig-wa-Tig'rs... Just wanted to say somewhere (it's pointless making any comments on their Blip video pages).

Finally Phelous reviewed Jason Goes to Hell. The review I've waited years to see and... it was pretty blah. I'm glad to see that he made sure to point out almost all the worst aspects of the movie (he sure stretched the review out long enough, making it 2 parts and all) but I was really hoping Jason being reborn through incest with his sister's corpse (Daniel Farrands clearly was a fan of this film) would get the "A ZOMBIE FISHERMAN!!!" treatment. This is easily one of the worst horror movies I've ever seen and I keep waiting to see Phelous as sharply inspired (in his prime) as he was on Quarantine and A Serbian Film. If neither this or Halloween: Curse of Michael Myers (another one I hate with a passion, which he reviewed in October) doesn't do it for him... what will? He's curiously been moving away from reviewing newer horror films for the most part.

I've been thinking of going back to Mike J. After Basic Instinct 2 and Hills Have Eyes Part Whatever, I decided the torture was in watching him rather than him having to watch these movies. Those videos were terrible and his heart was definitely not in reviewing. I'm definitely curious as to what this new Infomercialism series is about. And... damn it, I really want to see his videos on American Psycho 2 and Teen Wolf Too.

This is months-old news now but I caught Cinema Snob's review of Moment by Moment. Again, he's actually really good with non-horror films (I actually then went back and watched his video on Too Smart for Strangers twice in a row). And sitting through Return to Sleepaway Camp (which I also recently did) reveals why I never watch his horror reviews.

Sadly... I'm really starting to fall out-of-love with Diamanda Hagan. Her last 3 major reviews were crossovers and... Boy, I don't care for crossovers (and I was so dang happy to see Lindsay and Rantasmo hook up... only to watch them try to turn "GURRRRRRLLL!!" into a catchphrase- sadly, the most significant thing about their Disney Needs More Gay video). Although, Lupa and Linkara was okay. And Linkara and Lindsay. And Linkara and Marzgurl. Actually, Linkara and anyone usually works out very well. Diamanda already started losing me with her weird series on that guy who played a rapist priest in his own movies. The third one was amusing, since it had an all-doll cast. But right after that, it's Crossover City. Diamanda possesses Rap Critic and makes him review a movie. Diamanda and JewWario watch something wretched. Diamanda and Spoony watch something (easily the best of her crossovers, thanks to how much more entertaining the film - some Sting the wrestler Turns Religious movie, which looks like a blast - is than the cutaways to her and her co-reviewer). Diamanda and her new wife (also a Blip reviewer) review something wretched. Diamanda and Lupa watch something wretched. Then Diamanda does a gangbang review with Oancitizen, Rap Critic, and JewWario and... they watch something wretched. Thank hell for her vlogs with Arnikarian, where I keep hoping she'll review one of the movies she talks about there instead of painful to even watch people review stuff like Zombeak, God of Vampires, The Taint, and the filmography of Bill Zebub... let's hope you never learn who that is. You will kiss Uwe Boll's feet. I was already adequately convinced the apocalypse was coming when I learned of Shatter Dead's existence. And that movie is 20 years old.