Sunday, January 25, 2009

Nostalgia Critic

Once upon a time, not so long ago, you had to be a well known and good looking personality to have your own show, or segment of a show that showed your own critique of something. Those days are over, thanks to inexpensive video camera, some editing software, and a domain space with a lot of bandwidth. But you still need one thing: talent. And while criticism of recent publications, productions etc. still goes strong, how about critique of old movies and shows from the days of kiddom? Welcome to, http://www.thatguywiththeglasses.com, one popular segment of his website, especially if the culture of the '90s is a fond memory for you, is his section, The Nostalgia Critic, where some guy called Doug offers his critique on older movies, TV-shows and even commercials.
Using methods of criticism no professional critic could ever use such as dropping the smart weapon version of f-bombs and yelling incessantly about this or that.
Offering no loyalty to any particular network or enterprise, he trashes, or commends them all at some point. Disney, Nickelodeon, Warner Bros. Works for me! I had mercifully forgotten how bad some of these shows really were, after I stopped watching most of them 10-years ago or so.

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