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The odd review of Nostalgia Critic’s The Wall
I never thought I would go back. I wanted more than anything to be done with Doug Walker and what he has become.
Then I heard about the review.
The Twitter reactions, that there’s a album, from the review. That people can pay to listen. The lead singer from Slipknot, another Youtube onto of Rob Scallion.
That there was a considerable amount of effort and in effect,and that it didn’t translate well on screen.
Doug Walker, known almost entirely at this point as the Nostalgia Critic, has done this “review” of Pink Floyd’s The Wall. Review is up in quotations as there wasn’t really an effort to critique this movie well. Tell me, when someone has a studio, several paying actors and actresses, some of who were pulled away from their own shows on the channel, and apparently had months to work out the script, why would you go about the way he had?
“The Wall”, in my interpretation, seemed to be a personal piece about one man’s life and how several challenges in his life (his time in the school system, world war 2) had eventually driven him looney. Now, this is coming from someone who has not seen the movie, who had only heard some of the songs, coming from this weird experimentation of a video.
There were at least two of the songs that I really took issue with; one of them being titled “We need more Victimization” which riffed off of ‘We don’t need more Education’, a lyric from “Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)” Aside from trivializing Roger Water’s childhood and how he suffered at school, considering it as pandering, there’s also the odd choice of having the song, or perhaps the film itself, referred to as a “long winded rant”.
The other startling thing that came to mind for me; taking the time, in the middle of this ‘review’ to try to make some commentary about social media that made it feel more personal than it should have come across.
From the lyrics to “Waiting for the Point,” which loosely corresponds to “Waiting for the Worms”; ‘Love me or hate me just look at me more, whatever side you choose, just…
