The Critical Drinker

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The fact that people within Disney and other media outlets feel the need to respond to YouTubers is a pretty sad state of affairs.

I'm trying to picture George Lucas tracking down everyone that bashed Phantom Menace and I just can't see it...though it would have been hilarious.
 
My biggest problem with Critical Drinker nowadays is I feel like his growing popularity has affected the way he conducts reviews. They all feel like safe attacks on low-hanging fruit designed to generate the most views, rather than unpopular but honest takes on movies he may like more than the audience. He spent all this time ragging on things like The Marvels and such well before they came out, but the videos he makes for them are just moot and played safe.
 
That Chris Guy said:
My biggest problem with Critical Drinker nowadays is I feel like his growing popularity has affected the way he conducts reviews. They all feel like safe attacks on low-hanging fruit designed to generate the most views, rather than unpopular but honest takes on movies he may like more than the audience. He spent all this time ragging on things like The Marvels and such well before they came out, but the videos he makes for them are just moot and played safe.
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Yeah, you can tell the shift by how "drunk" the Drinker character is.

Personally, my interest in him has dropped based on how many times clips from his "hangout" streams show up in my feed. Do they ever invite someone with a controversial opinion to join? I get why they don't, but I'm not about to watch a circlejerk stream.
 
Not A Bunny said:
Personally, my interest in him has dropped based on how many times clips from his "hangout" streams show up in my feed. Do they ever invite someone with a controversial opinion to join? I get why they don't, but I'm not about to watch a circlejerk stream.
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Well, you answered your own question. They never gonna invite a guy who says "Ya know, I don't think -insert show/game/movie- was that bad. An here's why", because outside of their grifting circlejerking each other, these guys never strike me as the types who can do actual debates with an opposing party. Drinker specially, just look how fast he folded when Mauler went on his "This is why you should hate the Fallout TV series!"
 
I feel like he's a target because he's the most articulate and presentable of the bunch. Its easy to hand wave away screeching dorks like Mauler or Nerdrotic seriously. But Drinker despite his gimmick, is very well spoken and fair in his criticisms.
 
Halloween23 said:
I feel like he's a target because he's the most articulate and presentable of the bunch. Its easy to hand wave away screeching dorks like Mauler or Nerdrotic seriously. But Drinker despite his gimmick, is very well spoken and fair in his criticisms.
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Drinkers only issue, is that he easily gives into peer pressure, specially from dorks like Mauler and Nerdrotic, like I dunno what he sees in those guys, but I highly doubt its their "loyalty"
 
Bit off-topic.

Any DeArrow(extension that replaces clickbait titles with user titles that get to the point) users here?

It's no longer the case but I could have sworn that earlier in the day someone was poking fun at Drinker with the DeArrow'd title for his recent The Boys video. It was something like
"The Boys Season 4 - How to Destroy Your Audience(He didn't watch it and viewership was up by <some percentage>) "

I think that's a first and quite frankly I'm hoping I just imagined that. I don't really care for drinker but if the extension's going to be weaponized by faggots butthurt about a youtuber then quality's going to go down harder than Tatiana etc etc(does he still use that joke?).
 
I was wondering how long before Drinker watches another Star Wars show, despite implying that he's done with the franchise in general? But you gotta get that sweet money by trashing a despised franchise while giving it more attention in the first place.
 
I will concede that now I do see merit in calling the critical drinker a grifter. His last review of the boys did it for me. It was an obvious cash grab, which not even I, as someone that likes his content, can defend.

I mean, yes, The Boys Season 4 is garbage. I don't disagree, but that's not the issue. The issue is that he outright admitted to not watching it, and he still gave it a review for some reason? He is just regurgitating the popular opinion here. He is not wrong, but he is obviously pandering. The video outright tells you he just peeked at reviews for rotten tomatoes, saw where the wind was blowing, and called it a day.

How can he give an honest opinion of something he didn't even bother to watch?
 
The tired cat said:
Why bother? He just needs to blow the right pipe and he'll get some clapping, same with him deciding to shove his nose into video games or when the 40k debacle happened.
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Yeah, I agree. His gaming channel is cringe, it's clear that he isn't passionate about the medium and just saw an opportunity to get clicks by exploiting the culture war.
 
I didn't see anyone mention Critical Drinker's video on Falling Down yet. I don't watch a lot of this guy but was curious on his take.


I didn't watch this movie went it came out, and I think I was well into my 20s when I did. The trailers make it seem like a regular guy pushed over the edge, but the movie itself is about a disturbed man who wanted perfection, never learned how to control his emotions and is pretty developmentally challenged.

CD's review feels like people who praise the Killdozer psycho because he didn't kill anyone (he would have, the town had reverse emergency phone calls that got all the kids out of a library he ran through with his armored bulldozer). There were a lot of interesting details he brought up that I didn't pick up on, but he's praising a character that is ultimately not praiseworthy. He ends with a downtrodden "go away now" and appeals to the generation of kids who constantly scream about the system keeping them down.

For someone who goes on about the culture war and woke progressivism in movies, this review feels like it's appealing too much to the stupid zoomer audience.
 
HootersMcBoobies said:
I didn't see anyone mention Critical Drinker's video on Falling Down yet. I don't watch a lot of this guy but was curious on his take.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=YgNWg-a2EgE
I didn't watch this movie went it came out, and I think I was well into my 20s when I did. The trailers make it seem like a regular guy pushed over the edge, but the movie itself is about a disturbed man who wanted perfection, never learned how to control his emotions and is pretty developmentally challenged.

CD's review feels like people who praise the Killdozer psycho because he didn't kill anyone (he would have, the town had reverse emergency phone calls that got all the kids out of a library he ran through with his armored bulldozer). There were a lot of interesting details he brought up that I didn't pick up on, but he's praising a character that is ultimately not praiseworthy. He ends with a downtrodden "go away now" and appeals to the generation of kids who constantly scream about the system keeping them down.

For someone who goes on about the culture war and woke progressivism in movies, this review feels like it's appealing too much to the stupid zoomer audience.
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I think that's part of Schumacher and the screenwriter's intention to make D-Fens a character that is (on paper) the bad guy but you end up rooting for him as he becomes an audience surrogate dealing with the annoyances of every day life and the eroding American dream. It's a morally gray film and it's a great film but a lot of the audience now seems to forget that the character is stalking his wife.
 
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