Nostalgia Critic

> "Hello I'm the Nostalgia Critic, I remember it so you don't have to!"
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**The Nostalgia Critic**, real name **Doug Walker**, sometimes called the **NC** or the **Critic** for short, also known as **That Guy With The Glasses**, is an online movie reviewer who originally focused on older media to see how well it held up, but has since expanded his focus to recent releases as well

## History

### PreFAP

The Nostalgia Critic was one of the earliest movie review tubers online, making comedic videos of himself looking back at old pieces of media to see if they still hold up. He began uploading his reviews on YouTube, but issues with copyright strikes led to him moving his reviews to his own site **ThatGuyWithTheGlasses**, hosted on Blip. ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, later renamed **Channel Awesome**, grew to encompass a whole cast of reviewers with their own gimmicks and personas, and their style of review became almost synonymous with video reviews in general.

Channel Awesome received a major blow when a 60-page Google Doc was released compiling various complaints and accusations by members former and current, alleging everything from executive mismanagement to sexual harassment. Doug himself was not implicated too severely (though it was suggested that he was more involved in some of the bad business decisions than he let on), with most of the blame falling on others involved with running Channel Awesome, and Doug coming off as more incompetent than malicious. Almost every single reviewer on Channel Awesome left after the release of this document, with only Doug and his team, Brad Jones, and inexplicably Guru Larry remaining

### vs *Pink Floyd – The Wall*

The Critic made some waves with his review of *Pink Floyd – The Wall*, which was itself a musical parody of *The Wall*. His review was universally deemed to be cringe, and while MauLer and Rags agreed that it was cringe, they were disappointed by people's lack of ability to describe *why* it was cringe. In EFAP 54, MauLer, Rags, Jay, and Aydin talked to Fennah, who did the animated segment of NC's review. Fennah gave some insight into the work he did for the review, and his inputs into the lyrics for that segment. He was fine with people considering the review cringe but also agreed that the criticisms could have been more substantive, and felt that the review was poorly packaged as it was a combination of review, parody, and homage, and labeling it a "review" led people to go into it with different expectations than what it was

### vs V*an Helsing*

For the 2020 Halloween special in EFAP 109, MauLer, Rags, Metal, DasBoSchitt, and Moriarty recorded an EFAP Movies on the 2004 film *Van Helsing* (which would be uploaded for Halloween 2021), then the aforementioned sans DasBo were joined by MarkAfterDark and JohnCJG to discuss the movie and take a look at Nostalgia Critic's video on it. The gang were in the interesting position of thinking the movie wasn't good but loving it anyway, and arguing against someone who disliked it for entirely different reasons

### On the Gayness of *The Lord of the Rings*

Having previously covered Cinematic Venom's video decrying *The Lord of the Rings* in EFAP 93, which itself seemed to be influenced heavily by Nostalgia Critic's reviews, MauLer and Rags gathered Weekend, Fringy, Metal, and Count Dankula to take a look at the Critic's video counting down what he called the top 11 dumbest moments in the trilogy in EFAP 113

### vs *The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen*

The Halloween tradition of watching a not-good-but-fun action horror movie then watching Nostalgia Critic call it bad for all the wrong reasons continued into 2021 in EFAP 160, where MauLer, Rags, Fringy, Metal, Drinker, JLongbone, Az, and The Meme Repository tackled *The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,* and the Critic's review thereof

### on the Necessity of Selling Drugs to Children

In Part 2 of EFAP 250, MauLer, Rags, Fringy, Metal, Meme, Weekend, E;R, and Moriarty took a look at the last few minutes of Nostalgia Critic's *The Lion King* (2019) review, which had been suggested in a superchat prior. Nostalgia Critic came in swinging, rebuffing the idea that the Disney live-action remakes were just harmless kids movies by comparing it to selling drugs to children, which similarly makes a lot of money but is still wrong, though the former kills creativity rather than kill brain cells. His conclusion statement tearing into the soulless cashgrab remakes was followed up by him stating his desire to give director Jon Favreau a piece of his mind, then calling a fictionalized portrayal of Favreau himself, who explained to him that movies like the *Lion King* remake are indeed bad, but the money made from them helps fund the things he really cares about like *The Mandalorian*, which could not exist without them. The cast was baffled by the logic that bad movies that were allegedly comparable to selling drugs to children were being called a necessary evil in exchange for, of all things, *The Mandalorian*