The Nostalgia Critic crew and some special guests give a musical tribute to Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982).The Nostalgia Critic crew and some special guests give a musical tribute to Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982).The Nostalgia Critic crew and some special guests give a musical tribute to Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982).
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Did you know
- Trivia"The Wall" is currently Nostalgia Critic's worst-rated episode by a large margin.
- ConnectionsFeatures Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
- SoundtracksWhen the Wall Broke Free
Performed by Doug Walker
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Not Funny. Didn't Laugh
I hate to admit this, but I used to be a big fan of the Nostalgia Critic. Aside from the later Roger Ebert or Chris Stuckmann, Doug was one of my favorite movie reviewers. Then he ended the series to make Demo Reel, a pile of trash. As the Critic was the one that was providing traffic for Channel Awesome, Doug resurrected the Critic, and his videos...varied in quality. Of note was when he introduced other actors to make skits in his reviews. The skits were okay at best, padding out the video span at worst.
Then there was 2018 when the infamous Not So Awesome document was dropped revealing how Doug and the others poorly managed the anniversary specials by either denying cast members food or water, or firing those who failed to meet up on a Skype chat in their intended time. Worse, they covered for a sex offender whom they also threw memorial videos to when said offender committed suicide back in 2014. Suffice to say, several contributors left the site, and the site had since made poor apologies, or called the people mentioned in the document liars.
But that's all besides the point. Doug's worst review to me is unquestionably his review of the 1982 film Pink Floyd's The Wall based on the album of the same name. The Critic doesn't even bother to research the history behind the album such as by not realizing just how bad schooling was in Great Britain, and instead concludes that Pink was a whiny little rocker and compares the American school system to Great Britain's. The film delves into many of Pink Floyd's personal demons, which anyone would recognize with a minimum amount of research. Something that Doug Walker -- a movie critic -- seemingly forgot to do.
Nothing beneficial happens in the review which was forty hours long (and he had the gall to poke fun at the movie's runtime). Worse, that shows that the Critic didn't even try to make the animation amazing instead opting for MS Paint (like that bird representing "ego"). While he goes out of his way to call his review and album a "love letter," a majority of the lyrics blatantly take jabs at Floyd's songs to the point that it comes off as an insult. I know that he also hired another YouTuber to create CGI beasts. The problem is that the fantastical elements in the original film were there to symbolize events in Floyd's life. These CGI monstrosities have nothing to do with Doug in particular, and it would've made more sense if Doug instead used his own recurring characters.
And after 40 minutes of pointlessness, what does the Critic say to sum up his feelings of the movie? He said that it , while pretentious, was okay. Why did it need to take 40 minutes if you were just going to sum your opinion up as that? And how can we really know that it's what he seriously believed since he took several instances to take jabs at Floyd's music?
Overall, an incredibly bad review that misses the point and was largely unfunny.
Then there was 2018 when the infamous Not So Awesome document was dropped revealing how Doug and the others poorly managed the anniversary specials by either denying cast members food or water, or firing those who failed to meet up on a Skype chat in their intended time. Worse, they covered for a sex offender whom they also threw memorial videos to when said offender committed suicide back in 2014. Suffice to say, several contributors left the site, and the site had since made poor apologies, or called the people mentioned in the document liars.
But that's all besides the point. Doug's worst review to me is unquestionably his review of the 1982 film Pink Floyd's The Wall based on the album of the same name. The Critic doesn't even bother to research the history behind the album such as by not realizing just how bad schooling was in Great Britain, and instead concludes that Pink was a whiny little rocker and compares the American school system to Great Britain's. The film delves into many of Pink Floyd's personal demons, which anyone would recognize with a minimum amount of research. Something that Doug Walker -- a movie critic -- seemingly forgot to do.
Nothing beneficial happens in the review which was forty hours long (and he had the gall to poke fun at the movie's runtime). Worse, that shows that the Critic didn't even try to make the animation amazing instead opting for MS Paint (like that bird representing "ego"). While he goes out of his way to call his review and album a "love letter," a majority of the lyrics blatantly take jabs at Floyd's songs to the point that it comes off as an insult. I know that he also hired another YouTuber to create CGI beasts. The problem is that the fantastical elements in the original film were there to symbolize events in Floyd's life. These CGI monstrosities have nothing to do with Doug in particular, and it would've made more sense if Doug instead used his own recurring characters.
And after 40 minutes of pointlessness, what does the Critic say to sum up his feelings of the movie? He said that it , while pretentious, was okay. Why did it need to take 40 minutes if you were just going to sum your opinion up as that? And how can we really know that it's what he seriously believed since he took several instances to take jabs at Floyd's music?
Overall, an incredibly bad review that misses the point and was largely unfunny.
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