• aebletrae [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    What I know mostly comes from the Folding Ideas video about him.

    Most replayed part

    Nostalgia Critic: I have become comfortably dumb.

    Dan Olson: And, you know what, I’m not going to disagree. You said it, man. I don’t know if it works as self-deprecating humour because I don’t think it’s comedically true, I think it’s just true.

    — “The Nostalgia Critic and The Wall”, 34:28

    • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      “Doug wants to be a filmmaker, he wants to make art, but he can’t, because he’s a fundamentally incurious person who isn’t much interested in what other people think or feel and all his ideas boil down to “What if Batman met Mario?”.”

      “Like The Room, it’s a deeply cynical product made by a fundamentally untalented man, bored by the idea of personal growth, building so many layers of self-protective irony that it becomes unintentionally revealing.”

      Brutal.

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        1 year ago

        I remember having to pause the video after that second bit. The piled-on criticisms, so matter-of-factly delivered, needed some recovery time. Your assessment is spot on.