Chris uploaded Episode 5 of GeekTime the other day. Only took three weeks. ... Yay?
On it, they talked about Joker, or rather Tim talked about Joker because Chris didn't see it. That's not how you're supposed to do that! At least both of you should go see the movie. This podcast is a mess. Anyway, only Tim saw Joker, and he didn't like it. Complaining it was "wasn't enough like the comic book" and it "deviates from the canon too much" Uhh... no shit. It's an adaptation. If anything, it's more like an Elseworlds story (for those unaware, Elseworlds was a label DC used to tell stories that weren't canon). You're supposed to see it as its own thing. WB has said there's no plans for a sequel or to incorporate Arthur into a "universe". There's also points in the review where it sounds like Tim wasn't paying attention. Where have I heard that before?
They also talked about something rather different. The Nostalgia Critic's review of Pink Floyd's The Wall. For those that haven't been around, Doug Walker has somehow survived the online backlash of covering up a predator and staying silent while people he once called friends were hurt by a greedy asshole, and still makes videos with plenty of views. He has even gotten more subscribers now than before the Change the Channel incident.
Anyway, last month he posted a "review" of the movie adaptation of Pink Floyd's album The Wall, and I say review in quotes because it is not that. Instead, Doug channeled Demo Reel and did a "parody" musical of The Wall. He even got Slipknot's Corey Taylor to show up. The video was... abysmal. An absolute trainwreck. The parody songs weren't funny ("Heey, what if we took Comfortably Numb and made it... Comfortably Dumb! Oh man I should write for Weird Al"), Doug missed the point of Another Brick in the Wall Part 2, mocking it with "You say you hate high school but it wasn't that bad", even though it was based on Roger Waters' real experiences in a British boarding school which were awful institutions that used corporal punishment (basically Doug was acting like they were talking about US schools), referred to one song as "Oscar Bait" (even though the album came out three years before the movie), tried to apply modern concerns to his musical (worst one is turning the marching hammers into marching phones... dear god) and probably the worst part, ending the video with Taylor calling him out for not even reviewing it, and saying in one sentence "It was okay". The whole thing is 40 minutes long!
It was a pretentious garbage pile of a video, and clear evidence that Doug never grew past wanting to do Demo Reel, if anything this was way worse then that shit. He completely wasted Corey Taylor, who sat there just watching TV while Doug sang, only singing at the very end... singing the Spongebob Squarepants theme. I don't get it! They even released an album of the parody songs. It's currently the worst rated album on RateYourMusic.com. It even got attention from people that normally don't care for the Nostalgia Critic. Including Chris & Tim
Yes, they brought up the video on the latest GeekTime. But like Joker, Chris didn't watch it, instead it's Tim complaining about things everyone else already has, like comparing UK schools to US schools and the Oscar Bait comment. Also Chris does some dumb song. Something real surreal about one failed reviewer calling out another failed reviewer. Chris was so proud of this part, he uploaded it to YouTube before uploading the full episode (he's doing that now). The title is clickbait as fuuuuuck "Irate Gamer's Response to Nostalgia Critic's Pink Floyd Wall Review". Except he's not Irate Gamer, he's himself, and he doesn't say anything about it because he didn't watch it. Even some of the comments called this out. The thumbnail is terrible too, he just took NC's thumbnail, slapped his face over Corey Taylor's picture (which he copied & pasted from his video talking about Terminator: Dark Fate) and drew cartoony eyes and a tongue on Rob Scallon. Your lack of talent and effort continues to astound me.
But really, the lamest part is that this was posted a month after everyone else was done talking about it. This is a big problem for GeekTime, they're never up to date.
And it's only going to get worse. Chris posted on Twitter that his goal is to hopefully get one episode of GeekTime out a month. Seriously? Nobody is going to want to listen to that. You two already lack charisma, nobody is going to listen to a pair of assholes talk about stuff they already heard about three weeks ago. From YouTube ratings and comments, nobody likes this. You have a few fans sure, but most of the response is "this sucks". I have to wonder if it was Chris that even wanted to do the podcast, the last episode was mostly Tim talking.
But that's not all I wanted to bring up. Chris has been losing his mind over the ghost hunting shows. Before he was shitting himself over Grant Wilson "stealing" from him in the Ghost Hunters revival, and now he's really REALLY shitting himself over Jason Hawes "stealing" from him in his new show "Ghost Nation". Don't believe me? Here's his long Facebook post about it.
So you're accusing Hawes of stealing from you because he used the term "Confused Spirits". You didn't invent that term Chris, it's likely been around for a long time. Lots of fictional stories even used the plot device of a ghost that didn't realize they were dead. It's nothing new.
Another one of Chris' patented lies in that ramble too. "He was oddly silent for the first 10 minutes", this is an obvious tell of his to make it seem like they were more interested in him than they really were.
Here's a thought Chris, maybe your "ideas" aren't actually that new. I don't know or care what the ghost community does, but I'm sure they've all discussed the shit you've "discovered" for a while now. You haven't done anything new or revolutionary. You're just some cultish asshole that thinks they know more than they really do.
I hope Chris tries to sue, it would go about as well as that hilariously disastrous Vic Mignogna trial.
One person commented with this.
But I guess Chris said too much because he deleted the reply. Hmmmmm.
That's all for now. Will Chris finally realize he'll never make big with his ghost crap? Probably not...
I think he needs to calm down and stop doing these things.
ReplyDeleteThis is off topic, but to the users who read Dan's posts, I don't like the Irate Gamer. I'm not a "fanboy" for disliking AVGN, I don't support Chris. I personally don't like the AVGN, so please stop calling me a fanboy just because I don't like him. It's really annoying.
Hey, it's ThatOneFanboy! Just kidding, put the pitchfork away!
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DeleteWhen I said that I think he needs to calm down and stop doing these things, I meant Chris Bores.
DeleteFirst Chris claimed higher ups in the paranormal community were suppressing his findings. Now he thinks they are stealing his concepts.
ReplyDeleteThis is actually more entertaining than Geek Time!
All critics and Doug Walker are dumbass hypocrits who can't be trusted.
ReplyDeleteAVGN movie sucks ass and it is very well rated on IMDB. Thus proving my point that IMDB is full of mindless sheep.
You're an idiot. For a start, IMDB ratings are made by the public, not professional critics. Professional critics tend not to cover movies from Youtubers. Also, please explain why they're hypocrites...what's hypocritical about what a critic does? I recommend looking up what the word 'hypocrite' actually means before replying, because you're not using it right.
DeleteLastly, critics liking what you don't and not liking what you do like doesn't mean they "can't be trusted", it means they've got different opinions on what makes a good movie. Your post is extremely childish and simplistic in that regard, as all posts that whine about critics tend to be. Doug Walker is, indeed, a dumbass, but that's about all you got right.
This help will prove how shite the AVGN movie truly is:
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For the record the song Chris sang during the Wall rant was the H.M.S. Pinafore referenced by Sideshow Bob on the Simpsons, in fact you can even hear the original Simpsons audio at some points in the background
ReplyDeleteSomeone posted a Puppet Steve GIF on Boredom One's Facebook post. Saved a screenshot, knowing him still denial and gonna delete that GIF.
ReplyDeletehttps://i.imgur.com/82P9sRL.jpg
Can barely see what it says. What's it about?
DeleteBoring Man liked your Pubba Steve GIF comment. I guess he's realized there's no point in denying that he's Pubba Steve anymore.
DeleteWowza. Really spittin' fire this time, Dan! Not that you're wrong...
ReplyDeleteAs for the "monthly" release schedule of Geek Time...that's slow as balls. What a waste of a perfectly good name like Geek Time.
I'm pretty sure Chris didn't see Joker because there's no Batman. Chris doesn't like change as it was proven in his Mario 2 review.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what sort of things Lard DOES like...
ReplyDeleteI still watch Nostalgia Critic videos every now and then, though mainly the older videos. I still love most of them (A BAT CREDIT CARD?!?!)
ReplyDeleteBut...what the hell happened? It really seems like Doug Walker has completely shifted from being an online inspiration to a controversial figure. Is it JUST because of the Change the Channel incident? Or are there other things that have been going on?
Just wondering, I haven't been watching that many of his recent videos and I stopped keeping up with Channel Awesome drama a long time ago.
Well, the Change the Channel document is one thing (Like how Doug is the deciding factor of an employee getting fired despite dedicating herself to the website since the beginning and encourages him to finished working on the anniversary 'films'), but also over the years, noticed that Doug now focuses less on actually reviewing the movie and more on his skits (Which honestly,most of them aren't funny). It's why he briefly retires the Nostalgia Critic so that he can create Demo Reel. And then, he goes back to his old show again when that didn't work out, but now incorporates the skits element from Demo Reel into the Nostalgia Critic. The results were mixed and it clearly gotten worse within time, to the point that The Wall is a 40-minute episode of Demo Reel rather than an actual review.
DeleteYou can watch this video for more info:
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To be fair, I did really like a lot of his revival reviews. Though mainly from the 2013-2014 era (when Rachel Tietz was still in the cast). I especially loved his Cat In the Hat and Last Airbender review. Honestly, I feel like the quality of his content began to drop sometime around 2015-2016. I've seen a few newer videos and I'm usually disappointed with them. Even when he's not doing skits, he does seem to focus on jokes instead of critical comments. In the past, even in the 2013-2014 era, he would balance the jokes and critical comments out perfectly. In his newer videos, he seems to spend most of the video either doing skits or making MST3K-style remarks, not giving his critical thoughts until the very end. Sometime I can't even really tell what he likes or dislikes about a movie just because of how much focus he put on the jokes in the review. I remember being especially disappointed in his Labyrinth review.
DeleteBut yeah, I'll still continue to watch his older stuff. Even after the Channel Changing incident, I typically separate the art from the artist.
So people allowed to do I ask with others seem to disagree
Delete"It's not the same! I talked to James about it! This is different!"
ReplyDeleteWow. Poor Chris Bores. He still couldn't let go of the past, can't he?
This is off topic but I was at Wal Mart the other day and saw unicorn marshmallows and thought "I wonder what IG thinks of this?"
ReplyDeleteMan this makes me feel better about my own web series
ReplyDeleteAnd we do all our shows from our cars
Chris posted again today and says he received messages that even more of his concepts are being taken. This really comes across as stealth marketing for his book.
ReplyDelete=== So ever since my last post, I've been getting some interesting PM's that Jason from Ghost Hunters/Ghost Nation has been slowly dolling out my other concepts laid out in my book in his most recent show episodes. Is this true?! Anybody watching this show? If this is true, I'm not happy at all. I spent 5 LONG years working very hard at laying out a foundation I work up from in the paranormal field that makes sense and connect everything together. This has not been the first time these old dogs have been stealing someones new tricks becuase they've tapped their own wells dry. This is exactly why you haven't seen ANY new and fresh faces in the paranormal field in the last decade and I'm sick of it. I definitely need to look into this further since I stopped watching after his first show. ===
DeleteIt seems like internet personalities are the new Hollywood celebrities in that they rise to fame only to fall into obscurity. I'm a little late in finding out all the shit that went down with Maddox (the creator of The Best Page In The Universe) and how he just completely lost it in a somewhat similar fashion.
ReplyDeleteOh no, Chris... Did Jason Hawes accidentally use some of your well known made up words?
ReplyDeleteI listened to the latest geek time, it has add for toys in it. I wonder if these are actual ads that were paid for by the companies or did Bores just put them in there to make the podcast look more professional
ReplyDeleteI personally enjoyed Chris's ghost videos. I find them entertaining. Whether ghosts are real or not, doesn't matter to me. Those type of videos he made are well edited and made with passion. Something most IG videos lacked. Loved his ghost videos and his Irate the 80s videos. His book had editing and grammar issues, but still somewhat enjoyable. It could be boring at times. Overall, I wish Chris all the best and I hope he learns from his mistakes.
ReplyDeleteHey, what does other video a does this remind you of?
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/r06mZxv4VVw
Face it... breakfast is spooky.
DeleteIn case any of you are interested, I'm working on a review/walkthrough video of Metroid because Boring Man never got around to it. If I started to review games would any of you watch any of them or give me constructive feedback?
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