The best part of him and nerdrotic is... they overly criticize every possible thing about every Disney product, but then they praised Matt Walshs movie with 0 complaints
The guy who made the documentary Am I Racist? Yeah, clearly no message there. Apolitical compared to Disney which (checks notes) had two women kissing in one scene. Seriously, that documentary is something else. Imagine making a documentary called Am I Gay? trying to convince people you're not gay. If you made a whole documentary about it, then you probably are that thing.
I totally agree, but if it’s something from HBO or Paramount, their tune changes. recently they pushed a TV show called the penguin that was exactly like the TV show Loki. They’re very simple and classic baiting switch, but they praised the penguin.
My favourite Drinker moment was when he was naming his favourite *recent* *Japanese* movies: Oldboy (2003, Korean) and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, Chinese).
Old Boy is at least based on a Japanese manga and exists in the shared cultural space of Japan & Korea, as the two countries do have a lot of the same problems that show up in their media. Before I started learning Japanese and really paying attention to Japanese media, I thought it was Japanese... and it still feels very Japanese in a lot of ways, such as the big reveal that makes things creepy is something that pops up in more of the Japanese media I've read/seen, while I've yet to encounter it in any other Korean media (I've only recently started indulging) Absolutely zero excuse for Crouching Tiger. While China was very influential in the region and aspects of their culture show up in Japan, the two cultures are so distinct I don't think I've ever confused the two, not eve when I was a kid in the 70s.
Always love when people treat China and Japan like a mass and ignore the fact that they've been at each other's throats for literal centuries. And Critical Drinker isn't even a product of America's dogshit educations, so he should actually know better.
He said he refuses to watch season 4 of The Boys because it's "too woke", but he had no problem making a video on every single episode of The Acolyte. Weird.
I made the mistake of watching a singular critical drinker video once on a movie called "Annihilation" a film which I genuinely like. He literally spent almost the entire time complaining that it starred a woman and that's it. The rest was him complaining that stuff didn't make sense that was explained in the movie. Thoroughly convinced me to never watch him again.
Annihilation was a great movie. That bit where she is in the lighthouse with life form that is becoming her is intense. I It made me really uncomfortable and was proper disturbing. It really got under my skin for some reason. A great piece of art.
My man saw a movie where a rich straight white male is a hero and a symbol of hope to his community and thought "maybe this movie is anti-white" 100 grift
The thing that’s crazy about his Peter B Parker’s complaints is that across the spider verse is one of the only pieces of media where Peter Parker actually has a good life, gets MJ, has and child and finally settles down but that’s apparently a bad thing. Also Peter B Parker’s Spider-Man was the only one out of hundreds of spider people to easily catch miles and slow him down when everyone failed
I was ashamed of myself that I had an instinctive desire to skip over this video as I rather enjoy Drinker's videos. This was really interesting to watch and has opened my eyes to what I had either not noticed or ignored
I used to hate-watch him but I quit entirely after his *The Boys* S4 “review.” This man literally admitted he hadn’t watched a single episode and went on a preachy rant after reading off Rotten Tomatoes reviews
@@Thelorecookie EVERY film he names is NOT Japanese. LMAO Total fukking fraud. WISH that podcast would get HUGE numbers so people can SEE what a twat he is.
I miss just being able to say “I didn’t really get into this movie” or “The messaging was really on the nose, so it didn’t click for me.” Not drawn out vids about how miserable apparently every movie coming out these days is. It’s just endless griping, looking for every tiny nitpick to somehow stick it to the other side of the culture war. Sometimes he doesn’t even watch the stuff he’s complaining about, like The Boys. I don’t personally enjoy The Boys, but I’m not going to go on a full video rant about how it apparently sucks now without even watching the damn show. I miss when film criticism was fun. Arguing about whether a movie sucked or not used to be fun. Now it’s just mind numbing. And for what? People vote with their wallets, naturally. So unless people just up and stop watching movies that clearly advertise themselves with Drinker’s dreaded “The Message”, it shows that there’s still an audience for the films he and his compatriots loathe so much.
3:43... yes, seeing the man who was depressed because he fears losing his loved ones to the point where he sacrifices his happiness, to then gather up the courage to live with those choices, to turn out to be a very happy an affectionate dad, which he didn't think he would be able to be, is belittling Peter Parker and making fun of him... maybe to someone with no media literacy or a grift to sell
Woke is when a man is living his happy life being a loving father and husband. But at the same time these grifters always preach about 'family values', what do they really want???
I was the one who found out about him changing the HOTD title after the premiere broke viewers records. Still got the tweet from when I called him out on it too lol. Good to see it's being spread throughout the internet as an example of criticals grifting behavior.
Godzilla vs Kong. It. Is. A. Brainless. Monster Brawl MOvie. Its just an awesome cash grab monster brawl movie. Hell, most of us watch it just for The Godzilla or The Kong. There's no complicated politic behind it. Goshdarnit.
I'm actually a casual viewer of both you and The Critical Drinker, but I've been feeling skeptical of the Drinker for a while. I used to like him quite a bit, but I've noticed a lot of his repetitive and surface-level commentary recently, and it just left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth. To lay my cards on the table: I feel that Hollywood often creates poorly-written stories with poorly-defined diverse characters because it sells. I feel that is equally as racist as not having diverse characters in the first place, because if you're not writing a quality story around that diverse character, then you're essentially just using their skin color or gender as a prop. Which is also awful, demeaning, and objectifying for the actors themselves. I got kind of sucked into the pipeline of people like the drinker for that reason, thinking he was reflecting my views and frustrations. I really only began to recently notice that he's not actually criticizing the aspects that concern me, and that's let the truth about his rhetoric sink in, little by little. Quite frankly, if anything, I'm embarrassed that I didn't notice it earlier. But yeah, thank you for making this video. I hadn't realized exactly how sleazy he is with his lying and/or CinemaSins levels of not actually paying attention to the movie.
i had no idea about all this tbh, i blocked critical drinker from my youtube suggestions a long time ago simply for being a negativity baiting bore who just feeds of "everything new sucks" toxic energy. turns out he was far worse than i realised.
I swear to god, when this dude presented the trailer of the movie he's working on, I thought for sure his career was over. But apparently his fans are blind and deaf.
I stopped watching him by 2022. I liked his critiques of modern film trends because he explained his gripes and offered sensible suggestions. But I started noticing that his reviews of new movies felt forced and formulaic. His insight and wit regarding storytelling and character conventions were replaced with reaching, nitpicking, rage bait, playing dumb and just straight-up lying. Like he was afraid that if he actually admitted to liking something and didn't hit this specific list of buzzwords and complaints, his audience would turn on him. He used to do actual critical analysis before he sacrificed his integrity in favor of playing a caricature for money. Dude turned into a worse version of Cinema Sins.
I agree. I used to watch him too, but then he started calling everything woke and got really angry at The Little Mermaid for some reason. Like dude, it's a kid's movie, you aren't the target audience. At that point I pressed the 'Don't Recommend Channel' button.
I began to notice this too, he would point out things that were easily passed over in the movie and turn them into a central pillar of his video "critique". or try to insinuate that the casting was weighted/did poorly when you could tell they were doing a great job in their roles. I cant remember seeing any videos that *praised* a movie either, though I may have skipped them
Driniker complains about Batman villains being white men, imagine his complaints if Joker or Riddler had been race or gender swapped. Grifters just always find a way to make it about race/gender no matter how faithful it is to the source material.
I feel like its pretty fucking obvious after watching just a few of his shit videos. Dude will hate like crazy on a movie if its not about a white male protagonist
I won't lie, when I first found the Critical Drinker, he was reviewing media and critiquing things that I myself did not enjoy and I agreed with a couple of his sentiments. Then I went on to look at all the content he released and I realized this was not a place for me and I unfollowed. It was too late, the RUclips Almighty Algorithm to this day tries to send me his videos even when I've asked it to stop
I've noticed this a lot with grifter youtubers. Is that when they start their channels, they make some genuinely fun and entertaining videos. Then they gain shit tons of fame and turn their channels into echo chambers and their content suffers for it.
I’m so glad I stepped away from all this culture war nonsense, and just went back to my tried and true method of does this interest me. I’ve been much happier since, and now I just focus on what I enjoy.
Whenever he does a review on a film he likes, he literally just recounts what happens in the film from start to finish which is a hilarious excuse for an "in-depth analysis/review".
I'm so embarrassed I ever watched EFAP or believed Mauler to be a good critic. All those guys are bullies at best and grifters at worst, and it somehow took me like 3 years to see it...
The Critical Drinker: "Woke, woke, racism, woke, the message, woke, virus of unknown origin, woke, the message, racism, the message woke, anyway go away now."
If Aliens came out today they'd ca ot woke. Ripley goes from a frightened women, no more capable than anyone else. To Aliens where she kicks ass, better than Marines.
He started off targeting usually obviously disliked movies, and had a funny spin, so I used to like watching him tear down stuff years ago, but I think at some point he started to go for the message in everything and alienated me to write angry comments to his videos. I am thankful people review him finally.
Something I should probably mention, is that there was a video that Drinker posted in which he praised the films of the Disney Renaissance. However, I believe the only reason he liked them is because of the sense of nostalgia. I have a strong feeling that if any of those films were released today, he would absolutely hate them. He would probably say that they're "woke", or for "MODERN AUDIENCEEEES", or they're pushing "the message." He'd also probably refer to some of the great female leads from those films (such as Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, and especially Mulan) as being "girl bosses" or "Mary Sues."
A coworker was trying to troll me with this, being an animal lover, and pointed out a bunch of stuff about PETA. I noted I don't like them either, but corrected him on a few things. He dug down to the point where I said "stop making me defend PETA". Then I said that every time he tried to argue about nonsense. Sometimes you have to troll the trolls.
Here's the funny thing. Imagine a world where in GvK during the boat scene Kong was NOT in chains. CD's take would then be: "Oh...so you have this gigantic monster and your characters are too stupid to protect themselves by taking precautions. You know in original versions of King Kong he was ALWAYS carried over in chains...as it was an allegory for the slave trade. But God forbid today's WOKE Hollywood would risk including that kind of imagery since it would offend all the snowflakes...even though it would be entirely practical and serve the story."
That's the thing. The points he makes... he could make them both ways. If he doesn't like a villain, he can call them either "diverse," "strong female character," or "evil white man." Those 3 definitions pretty much fit all human antagonists, and he uses them interchangeably
The Kong and slavery thing baffles me. One of the main parts of King Kongs story since the original way back in the 30s when woke only meant the past tense for waking was that he was captured, chained up and transported to America.
His take on Peter B Parker is infuriating start to finish, but the part that annoys me the most in when he says he 'only redeems himself in the end' because, like, that's how character arcs work. It would be a pretty stupid movie if he showed up flawless and only got better from there. Also, he says that Peter B Parker is the only straight white male, which is also not true. The original Spiderman was all of those things, and he's exclusively portrayed in a positive light. Miles even looks up to him as a personal hero. Almost like race, gender and sexuality have nothing to do with these characters because the writers are solely interested in telling a good story.
The more videos I've seen discussing Drinker, the more I've started noticing he wants female characters to have arcs to show them getting more powerful, but seems to want male characters to just be perfect from the start, since he frequently talks about a male main character before they go through their arc and talks about their flaws as if it's the character being belittled by the narrative for the entire movie. He really seems to have a double standard with character writing, with male heroes being perfect from the start while female heroes have to work for their greatness (although even then he seems to flip flop on that, since when talking about She-Hulk, he basically criticizes Jen for having flaws, saying the narrative has failed to make her a likeable character even though he's only talking about the first episode of a TV show, where from what I've heard she does grow into a more likeable person as the show progresses, AKA: goes through a character arc).
He went off on boys season 4 without watching a single episode and his punchline at the end of the video was he was not gonna watch it when boys s4 was only on ep4. And yeah he said blade runner 2049 was a bad sequel that was the final nail in the coffin.
I am so glad you made this. I stumbled across his channel a while back and listened to one or two old vids of his and thought "oh this guy is very ironic and very funny" then I watched two more and realised "this guy is very serious and very unfunny". I genuinely thought it was supposed to be kinda satirical!
I accidentally watched one of his videos. It was about Wicked. He had a point about the actress coming across a little egotistical, but threw the r slur around and all his examples of similar people, who came across as egoistical and stuff were women. I took one look at my recommendations and it was all 'woke' this and 'woke' that and realized I accidentally stepped into the bad part of youtube, filled with the kind of misogynistic incels who comment the most atrocious shit on reddit videos and somehow always find a way to blame the woman for anything that happens in those stories. I accidentally walked into their den.
I don’t think that Continuity Bias is the only bias playing into the Grift. I think both Authority Bias and Recency Bias is getting involved as well. With Authority, simple. People unfortunately like to judge people by their subscriber count instead of their factuality and logic. Because high subscribers = smart according to a lot of dumb people. That’s stupid because with that logic, Cocomelon is a genius. And Recency Bias. The cult of Go Woke Go Broke I have noticed is at its strongest when a lot of “woke” games fail within a short period of time. Take the Triple Hit of Dustborn, Concord and Outlaws for example.
21:40 If there's one thing I'll defend the Drinker here is shitting one PETA, there have been countless incidents of euthanizing animals who did not need to be put down. Their protests are some next level gruesome, even going as far as to make a detailed comic book called "My Mommy Kills Animals" and give these to children coming out of the mall if their mothers were wearing fur, real or not. That isn't their worst protest in my opinion, but it's a pretty damn good one to show what they will do to even attempt to get people on their side.
Former coworker was going on about them, and I noted I don't like them either, but then he started saying stuff that was blatantly false. I knew, because I'd just read some factchecking about them. Kept having to correct him, and he just dug in. Sometimes these guys just like to troll, to make others as miserable as they are I guess. I said, "I don't know where you get your info, but don't", which only made it worse. I finally said, "stop making me defend PETA!", and then kept saying it whenever he started, with anything. Sometimes you have to troll the trolls.
He talks shit about Loki S1 all because of some main women character popping up on screen, but quickly shuts up when Loki S2 is released, probably because the show is just too good that he knows people won't jump onto the hate wagon with him.
watching this after the whole Luigi situation has opened my eyes to this business model that all these right wing channels/news agencies use which is built on making people mad at one another
at some point, why is drinker watching movies he knows wasn't written for him as an audience. it's like If i hated soup, ordered soup at a restaurant and then said how terrible it was because the waitress was Asian
His review of Alex Garland's Annihilation tells you everything you need to know. Anything that isn't mainstream and 100% on the nose and doesn't hold your hand the entire time is too much for him to handle as "film critic".
I do not agree on his heavy emphasis on modern audiences / colored casts / diverse characters, but he is a very good writer (check out his books) unlike most of Hollywood. His reviews reflects a large portion of the audience, especially his recommended series is good. That is where he gets stuff right
@@lucios_7266 I mean, him being a "good writer", I'll take your word for it, doesn't negate his obvious dislike for minorities and women. Every time he "endorses" a movie, it's because it's as apolitical as possible and most likely, involves a white male lead.
More people need to see this. Good video. I use to watch him until I suddenly realised he isn't a film critic at all. He's just an overrated "Man yells at thing because it's there"
I used to like critical drinker because he made fun of things I already didn't like, but got bored of him because he became repetitive, and started to notice he was just flat out making things up, or intentionally misrepresenting things. Also backtracking on positions when he found the majority actually likes whatever he's complaining about
The Critical Drinker was one of the grifters that got me into the far-right pipeline. I was bitter, hateful and ignorant for a long time. His channel and channels like his, are hurtful to society as a whole.
It feels so relaxing to hear a voice of reason man. I used to listen almost every film critic that I could find, to hear opinions about the films that I am interested. But the kinds of people who are like Critical Drinker are either really unhappy with their lifes or audience captured very bad. I don't think they believe half the sh*t they say but they nonetheless say it because It is the new "woke" trend a.k.a "anti-woke".
Well done on speaking out about drinker. Like many others, I started following him when I agreed with a few reviews, and then abandoned ship when every black actor was referred to as "token" or "woke". Hes a horror show
Came across critical drinker's content a few years ago. After watching a few videos, he came across as a bad faith critic. I wasn't even aware of America's culture wars back then. Stopped watching his videos
I use to watch critical drinker and these videos on RUclips. Thanks for getting me to see these videos are such shit. You are good at pointing this stuff out.
You should check out his recent "The Six Triple Eight" video, where the plausible deniability is rife. "Why didn't Netflix make a film about instead of this film about a regiment of black women?". It was clear he hadn't even watched the film so knew nothing about the actual execution, just some vagaries about the plot (and most importantly to him and his sheep, the sex and race of most of the cast). The comments didn't disappoint either.
I don't think the grift problem necessarily has to do with right leaning people, or even politics in general (though people like the critical drinker can certainly be annoying agenda driven people), but it has to do with people who act like they're knowledgeable on films or cinematography, but in reality they have no clue what they're talking about and just exclusively watch and complain about Hollywood films, because that gets people riled up. I hear so many of these people always talking about how film is something they're SO passionate about, but they just talk about the same slop over and over again that everyone in their mother have talked about, but they never really mention anything a bit more obscure but actually really good. Whenever they talk about something good, it's ALWAYS the same movies like Godzilla Minus One, Parasite, or the Lighthouse. Say what you will about YMS, but that dude actually talks about films that he's actually passionate about that are actually obscure, and when he talks about blockbuster slop he treats it like it is "yeah it's not great but eh whatever what were you expecting", or if it's actually good he goes into detail about it as a film. That dude has an actual passion, most of these people don't. I don't have an issue with people dunking on movies that aren't good like thor love and thunder or rise of skywalker and praising films like minus one, but it's the sheer obviously fakeness that gets to me.
8:05 it's funny that he's mad about the Kong thing. A lot of more recent adaptations of the story have been more sympathetic towards Kong and used as lenses to look at things like colonialism and the triangle trade. He's mad that it's there but like does he not want subtext in films does he not want genre films to discuss and explore real world issues? As somebody who enjoys genre films it gets kinda frustrating when people say they want it taken seriously out of one side of their mouth but deny any attempt to analyze or communicate deeper themes out the other. That said we kinda know why in this case. He nor his audience want to acknowledge the things being discussed subtextually
I think we need to start calling this woke derangement syndrome. My buddy who I love had a freak out over The War of the Rohirrim being woke. I went to see the movie thinking it would suck because I trust this friends opinions and I’m also a huge Tolkien fan. The movie was fantastic and very respectful of Tolkien. I guess having a female lead character is woke now. My friend literally deleted every “woke” game on his Xbox and now is refusing to watch any movies or play any games saying that woke has destroyed everything he loves. I just don’t get it lol it’s like woke has lost its meaning completely and these people see it literally in anything they don’t like. I feel bad for him but he won’t listen to me
This isn't advice so don't really do this, but ask a few of them individually what woke means and I guarantee you won't get a consistent answer. The real answer is "something that upsets me and reminds me of the culture war" but that sounds too personally invested, big no-no
@@aetheriox463 It's impossible to be apolitical while having opinions. Opinions on society and social commentary are always going to be political and roughly fit in a specific camp. TheBirdman has agressively called out the disguised prejudice, racism and sexism of the "anti-woke" crowd, i would say that puts him in an anti-reactionary camp. his Anti-Reactionary commentary lends towards his social and cultural views being significantly progressive. it doesn't mean he's always progressive or informed in everything else of political relevance.
You know, I really appreciate you, man. Especially for videos that show why people like this ruin film analysis (and media analysis in general.) So really, thank you. Keep doing you.
Fun Idea: start calling Gratuitous Alcoholism "Woke" for pushing his ridiculous non-American Scottish caricature in EVERY video It'll work because his fans.
And about the spiderverse.... It's a spiderverse! Of course it has a diverse cast! It's a freaking multiverse!! You will see so many different spidermans, a plushie, a car, and a lego. How is he complaining that peter B is a only straight white man?! (And as th3birdman said there are other men same as peter B)
On the topic of grifters People like G+G and TheQuartering threw away any glimpse of integrity they had left the MOMENT they chose to defend Dr Disrespect, even after he admitted to having inappropriate texts with a minor
I am glad criticism of this guy become more common and more accepted; there used to be a time where you couldn't criticize him without having his army of synphocants to dislike bomb your video.
yep, plus birdmans criticisms are very solid and compelling with excellent examples, making it very difficult for drinkers army of sycophants to argue against him in any reasonable way. The 17.3K likes to 6.7K dislikes is an overwhelming victory against the brigading.
That guy even made nonsense on letting The Winter Soldier-a traumatized, abused bitter assassin taking the place of Captain America instead of a well-prepared soldier who is willing to carry greater responsibility and sees it as a "woke" move for no reason.
THANK YOU!!! I used to watch the Drinker because I LOVE seeing the mindless big budget films produced by the major studios ripped apart. He's very good at that. But I became _increasingly_ irritated by his insistence on throwing in his anti-feminist nonsense every video. I'm a man AND I'm a feminist. I think such a stance would be extremely hard for the Drinker to understand.
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If I had $5 for every time I heard the word "woke," I'd had a private jet on 24 hour standby
And then you'd be in hot water when they catch you riding it to Little Saint James island with Bill Clinton.
Nice Sopranos reference lol
Anyone who watches that right wing reactionary rodent should literally off themselves.
The best part of him and nerdrotic is... they overly criticize every possible thing about every Disney product, but then they praised Matt Walshs movie with 0 complaints
Also they cried about the "message" but praised Walshs message and politics
The guy who made the documentary Am I Racist? Yeah, clearly no message there. Apolitical compared to Disney which (checks notes) had two women kissing in one scene.
Seriously, that documentary is something else. Imagine making a documentary called Am I Gay? trying to convince people you're not gay. If you made a whole documentary about it, then you probably are that thing.
I totally agree, but if it’s something from HBO or Paramount, their tune changes. recently they pushed a TV show called the penguin that was exactly like the TV show Loki. They’re very simple and classic baiting switch, but they praised the penguin.
My favourite Drinker moment was when he was naming his favourite *recent* *Japanese* movies: Oldboy (2003, Korean) and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, Chinese).
That is some next level stupidity
@@ScaleroftheSentry On par for a next level moron.
Old Boy is at least based on a Japanese manga and exists in the shared cultural space of Japan & Korea, as the two countries do have a lot of the same problems that show up in their media. Before I started learning Japanese and really paying attention to Japanese media, I thought it was Japanese... and it still feels very Japanese in a lot of ways, such as the big reveal that makes things creepy is something that pops up in more of the Japanese media I've read/seen, while I've yet to encounter it in any other Korean media (I've only recently started indulging)
Absolutely zero excuse for Crouching Tiger. While China was very influential in the region and aspects of their culture show up in Japan, the two cultures are so distinct I don't think I've ever confused the two, not eve when I was a kid in the 70s.
A real movie buff huh?
Always love when people treat China and Japan like a mass and ignore the fact that they've been at each other's throats for literal centuries.
And Critical Drinker isn't even a product of America's dogshit educations, so he should actually know better.
If I never hear the word "Woke" ever again, my life will be 1000× happier.
its over lil bro. Go woke go broke
That makes all of us. But, this is the internet.
But I just Woke up man!
I agree show me people don’t even know what it means and it’s just so stupid anyway
@@juanur4722 Go woke make billions in profit because 99% of the public don't even know there's a culture war going on between internet people
He said he refuses to watch season 4 of The Boys because it's "too woke", but he had no problem making a video on every single episode of The Acolyte. Weird.
Grifter's gotta grift.
His 180 turn on Gina Carano is so quick, I got motion sickness.
I made the mistake of watching a singular critical drinker video once on a movie called "Annihilation" a film which I genuinely like. He literally spent almost the entire time complaining that it starred a woman and that's it. The rest was him complaining that stuff didn't make sense that was explained in the movie. Thoroughly convinced me to never watch him again.
Annihilation was a great movie. That bit where she is in the lighthouse with life form that is becoming her is intense. I
It made me really uncomfortable and was proper disturbing. It really got under my skin for some reason. A great piece of art.
Same experience but of a different movie review where he complained that it was too woke because the female character did more that the male
My man saw a movie where a rich straight white male is a hero and a symbol of hope to his community and thought "maybe this movie is anti-white"
100 grift
The thing that’s crazy about his Peter B Parker’s complaints is that across the spider verse is one of the only pieces of media where Peter Parker actually has a good life, gets MJ, has and child and finally settles down but that’s apparently a bad thing. Also Peter B Parker’s Spider-Man was the only one out of hundreds of spider people to easily catch miles and slow him down when everyone failed
but he didn't rag-dolled miles...and that hurts certain sensibilities
This guy literally made an entire video about how the boys was bad and doesnt even watch it
I was ashamed of myself that I had an instinctive desire to skip over this video as I rather enjoy Drinker's videos. This was really interesting to watch and has opened my eyes to what I had either not noticed or ignored
Scot living in UK obsessing over US politics is too funny
I used to hate-watch him but I quit entirely after his *The Boys* S4 “review.” This man literally admitted he hadn’t watched a single episode and went on a preachy rant after reading off Rotten Tomatoes reviews
Isn't there a video where he's talking about Japanese media and he picks a Korean film??
Yeah someone asks him to name his favourite Japanese film he watched recently and he answers with Oldboy 💀
@@ThelorecookieAnd Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. A Hong Kong movie.
That was it! Thanks
@@Thelorecookie EVERY film he names is NOT Japanese. LMAO Total fukking fraud. WISH that podcast would get HUGE numbers so people can SEE what a twat he is.
I miss just being able to say “I didn’t really get into this movie” or “The messaging was really on the nose, so it didn’t click for me.”
Not drawn out vids about how miserable apparently every movie coming out these days is. It’s just endless griping, looking for every tiny nitpick to somehow stick it to the other side of the culture war.
Sometimes he doesn’t even watch the stuff he’s complaining about, like The Boys. I don’t personally enjoy The Boys, but I’m not going to go on a full video rant about how it apparently sucks now without even watching the damn show.
I miss when film criticism was fun. Arguing about whether a movie sucked or not used to be fun. Now it’s just mind numbing. And for what? People vote with their wallets, naturally. So unless people just up and stop watching movies that clearly advertise themselves with Drinker’s dreaded “The Message”, it shows that there’s still an audience for the films he and his compatriots loathe so much.
3:43... yes, seeing the man who was depressed because he fears losing his loved ones to the point where he sacrifices his happiness, to then gather up the courage to live with those choices, to turn out to be a very happy an affectionate dad, which he didn't think he would be able to be, is belittling Peter Parker and making fun of him... maybe to someone with no media literacy or a grift to sell
This and the Peter Parker of Mile's homeworld was portrayed as the biggest giga chad among the Spider people
To add it that, imagine thinking being a fun and loving dad going on adventures with your child isn't a fucking goal for lots of guys in life
I can only imagine he saw the movie and thought "wait ... he's ... lovingly caring for his child. THAT'S A WOMAN THING!"
Woke is when a man is living his happy life being a loving father and husband. But at the same time these grifters always preach about 'family values', what do they really want???
I was the one who found out about him changing the HOTD title after the premiere broke viewers records. Still got the tweet from when I called him out on it too lol. Good to see it's being spread throughout the internet as an example of criticals grifting behavior.
Thank you for your service, kind sir.
Godzilla vs Kong. It. Is. A. Brainless. Monster Brawl MOvie.
Its just an awesome cash grab monster brawl movie. Hell, most of us watch it just for The Godzilla or The Kong. There's no complicated politic behind it. Goshdarnit.
RIP James Earl Jones.
Rest in peace. He lived a very long, successful life and I can only hope his family is doing okay at the loss. Fly high
Yeeh
Indeed. He carried some of the best and most iconic roles in cinema history. Mufasa, Darth Vader, Thulsa Doom etc. RIP man
The Drinker is like a drug dealer, that deals in outrage. And there are so many outrage addicts out there.
I'm actually a casual viewer of both you and The Critical Drinker, but I've been feeling skeptical of the Drinker for a while. I used to like him quite a bit, but I've noticed a lot of his repetitive and surface-level commentary recently, and it just left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth.
To lay my cards on the table: I feel that Hollywood often creates poorly-written stories with poorly-defined diverse characters because it sells. I feel that is equally as racist as not having diverse characters in the first place, because if you're not writing a quality story around that diverse character, then you're essentially just using their skin color or gender as a prop. Which is also awful, demeaning, and objectifying for the actors themselves.
I got kind of sucked into the pipeline of people like the drinker for that reason, thinking he was reflecting my views and frustrations. I really only began to recently notice that he's not actually criticizing the aspects that concern me, and that's let the truth about his rhetoric sink in, little by little. Quite frankly, if anything, I'm embarrassed that I didn't notice it earlier.
But yeah, thank you for making this video. I hadn't realized exactly how sleazy he is with his lying and/or CinemaSins levels of not actually paying attention to the movie.
i had no idea about all this tbh, i blocked critical drinker from my youtube suggestions a long time ago simply for being a negativity baiting bore who just feeds of "everything new sucks" toxic energy. turns out he was far worse than i realised.
I swear to god, when this dude presented the trailer of the movie he's working on, I thought for sure his career was over. But apparently his fans are blind and deaf.
"Has the integrity of a sandcastle" is a great line
It's Monday and this guy chose violence and I love it.
I stopped watching him by 2022. I liked his critiques of modern film trends because he explained his gripes and offered sensible suggestions. But I started noticing that his reviews of new movies felt forced and formulaic. His insight and wit regarding storytelling and character conventions were replaced with reaching, nitpicking, rage bait, playing dumb and just straight-up lying. Like he was afraid that if he actually admitted to liking something and didn't hit this specific list of buzzwords and complaints, his audience would turn on him.
He used to do actual critical analysis before he sacrificed his integrity in favor of playing a caricature for money. Dude turned into a worse version of Cinema Sins.
I agree. I used to watch him too, but then he started calling everything woke and got really angry at The Little Mermaid for some reason. Like dude, it's a kid's movie, you aren't the target audience. At that point I pressed the 'Don't Recommend Channel' button.
I began to notice this too, he would point out things that were easily passed over in the movie and turn them into a central pillar of his video "critique". or try to insinuate that the casting was weighted/did poorly when you could tell they were doing a great job in their roles.
I cant remember seeing any videos that *praised* a movie either, though I may have skipped them
Driniker complains about Batman villains being white men, imagine his complaints if Joker or Riddler had been race or gender swapped. Grifters just always find a way to make it about race/gender no matter how faithful it is to the source material.
And now you make me wanna see a black Joker. Idris Elba as the Joker when?
@@nont18411 Dude... He's a great actor would love to see how he works with it.
Can't win either way. Like playing a game with a kid who makes up new rules halfway through.
@@nont18411 I mean the Joker from The Batman 2004 was voiced by a black man. The character was white in the end but still XD
@@MoeNuke-zr8hu He legit as the mindset of manchild, pretty the equivalent of "The Pot calling the Kettle black"
In conclusion: CriticalDrinker is not a film reviewer. He’s a political RUclipsr disguised as a film RUclipsr and should stop being a lying butthead.
Or dickhead.
You just summed it up perfectly.
That's basically what The Fandom Menace is in a nutshell.
I feel like its pretty fucking obvious after watching just a few of his shit videos. Dude will hate like crazy on a movie if its not about a white male protagonist
I won't lie, when I first found the Critical Drinker, he was reviewing media and critiquing things that I myself did not enjoy and I agreed with a couple of his sentiments. Then I went on to look at all the content he released and I realized this was not a place for me and I unfollowed. It was too late, the RUclips Almighty Algorithm to this day tries to send me his videos even when I've asked it to stop
I've noticed this a lot with grifter youtubers. Is that when they start their channels, they make some genuinely fun and entertaining videos. Then they gain shit tons of fame and turn their channels into echo chambers and their content suffers for it.
I’m so glad I stepped away from all this culture war nonsense, and just went back to my tried and true method of does this interest me.
I’ve been much happier since, and now I just focus on what I enjoy.
Whenever he does a review on a film he likes, he literally just recounts what happens in the film from start to finish which is a hilarious excuse for an "in-depth analysis/review".
The sight of critical drinker, nerdotic, mauler, and TLP on the same screen at once is enough to cause a worldwide vaginal drought event
I'm so embarrassed I ever watched EFAP or believed Mauler to be a good critic. All those guys are bullies at best and grifters at worst, and it somehow took me like 3 years to see it...
If x-men were to be released today it would have been called woke… oh wait.
The Critical Drinker's voice makes it sound like talking is painful.
I agree with everything. But man The Last Jedi is indeed a crime against humanity.
There's been a pretty noticeable uptick of grift exposes over the past few weeks, and I'm 100% here for it.
The Critical Drinker: "Woke, woke, racism, woke, the message, woke, virus of unknown origin, woke, the message, racism, the message woke, anyway go away now."
Yeah The Boys review where he never even watched it was where I stopped watching anything from his channel.
If Aliens came out today they'd ca ot woke. Ripley goes from a frightened women, no more capable than anyone else. To Aliens where she kicks ass, better than Marines.
He started off targeting usually obviously disliked movies, and had a funny spin, so I used to like watching him tear down stuff years ago, but I think at some point he started to go for the message in everything and alienated me to write angry comments to his videos. I am thankful people review him finally.
Something I should probably mention, is that there was a video that Drinker posted in which he praised the films of the Disney Renaissance. However, I believe the only reason he liked them is because of the sense of nostalgia. I have a strong feeling that if any of those films were released today, he would absolutely hate them. He would probably say that they're "woke", or for "MODERN AUDIENCEEEES", or they're pushing "the message." He'd also probably refer to some of the great female leads from those films (such as Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, and especially Mulan) as being "girl bosses" or "Mary Sues."
21:35 of all the legitimate reasons to hate PETA he picked the one that doesn't even make sense. Incredible
A coworker was trying to troll me with this, being an animal lover, and pointed out a bunch of stuff about PETA. I noted I don't like them either, but corrected him on a few things. He dug down to the point where I said "stop making me defend PETA". Then I said that every time he tried to argue about nonsense. Sometimes you have to troll the trolls.
Oh man when you were talking about KDrama I was hoping you'd include the clip of him saying his favorite current Korean media was Crouching Tiger
One comment says he claimed it was Japanese. Yours claims he said it was Korean. Which did he say it was?
wth is up with drinker's extneding the last word with a growl? what is he trying to project?
Here's the funny thing. Imagine a world where in GvK during the boat scene Kong was NOT in chains. CD's take would then be:
"Oh...so you have this gigantic monster and your characters are too stupid to protect themselves by taking precautions. You know in original versions of King Kong he was ALWAYS carried over in chains...as it was an allegory for the slave trade. But God forbid today's WOKE Hollywood would risk including that kind of imagery since it would offend all the snowflakes...even though it would be entirely practical and serve the story."
That was uncannely accurate
You didn't even mention Tatiana once 0/10
Yeah he's been shown to be absolutely two faced before.
I totally read that in the Drinker's voice.
That's the thing. The points he makes... he could make them both ways. If he doesn't like a villain, he can call them either "diverse," "strong female character," or "evil white man." Those 3 definitions pretty much fit all human antagonists, and he uses them interchangeably
The Kong and slavery thing baffles me.
One of the main parts of King Kongs story since the original way back in the 30s when woke only meant the past tense for waking was that he was captured, chained up and transported to America.
His take on Peter B Parker is infuriating start to finish, but the part that annoys me the most in when he says he 'only redeems himself in the end' because, like, that's how character arcs work. It would be a pretty stupid movie if he showed up flawless and only got better from there.
Also, he says that Peter B Parker is the only straight white male, which is also not true. The original Spiderman was all of those things, and he's exclusively portrayed in a positive light. Miles even looks up to him as a personal hero. Almost like race, gender and sexuality have nothing to do with these characters because the writers are solely interested in telling a good story.
The more videos I've seen discussing Drinker, the more I've started noticing he wants female characters to have arcs to show them getting more powerful, but seems to want male characters to just be perfect from the start, since he frequently talks about a male main character before they go through their arc and talks about their flaws as if it's the character being belittled by the narrative for the entire movie. He really seems to have a double standard with character writing, with male heroes being perfect from the start while female heroes have to work for their greatness (although even then he seems to flip flop on that, since when talking about She-Hulk, he basically criticizes Jen for having flaws, saying the narrative has failed to make her a likeable character even though he's only talking about the first episode of a TV show, where from what I've heard she does grow into a more likeable person as the show progresses, AKA: goes through a character arc).
He went off on boys season 4 without watching a single episode and his punchline at the end of the video was he was not gonna watch it when boys s4 was only on ep4. And yeah he said blade runner 2049 was a bad sequel that was the final nail in the coffin.
We really just jumped from the warmup to the magnum opus… I like it
The flip flop joke had me rolling lol
Because he's th3 fucking birdman!
@transyuri4534 yes he is
I am so glad you made this. I stumbled across his channel a while back and listened to one or two old vids of his and thought "oh this guy is very ironic and very funny" then I watched two more and realised "this guy is very serious and very unfunny".
I genuinely thought it was supposed to be kinda satirical!
I accidentally watched one of his videos. It was about Wicked. He had a point about the actress coming across a little egotistical, but threw the r slur around and all his examples of similar people, who came across as egoistical and stuff were women. I took one look at my recommendations and it was all 'woke' this and 'woke' that and realized I accidentally stepped into the bad part of youtube, filled with the kind of misogynistic incels who comment the most atrocious shit on reddit videos and somehow always find a way to blame the woman for anything that happens in those stories. I accidentally walked into their den.
That's the insidiousness behind these people: their ability to pose as a normal channel
What is the "r" slur? There are so many these days I can't keep up.
“Accidentally racist” sure…
The hardest part about watching this video was stomaching the critical drinker clips.
I don’t think that Continuity Bias is the only bias playing into the Grift.
I think both Authority Bias and Recency Bias is getting involved as well.
With Authority, simple. People unfortunately like to judge people by their subscriber count instead of their factuality and logic. Because high subscribers = smart according to a lot of dumb people. That’s stupid because with that logic, Cocomelon is a genius.
And Recency Bias. The cult of Go Woke Go Broke I have noticed is at its strongest when a lot of “woke” games fail within a short period of time. Take the Triple Hit of Dustborn, Concord and Outlaws for example.
21:40 If there's one thing I'll defend the Drinker here is shitting one PETA, there have been countless incidents of euthanizing animals who did not need to be put down. Their protests are some next level gruesome, even going as far as to make a detailed comic book called "My Mommy Kills Animals" and give these to children coming out of the mall if their mothers were wearing fur, real or not. That isn't their worst protest in my opinion, but it's a pretty damn good one to show what they will do to even attempt to get people on their side.
Yeah I know. I included it as a joke, because I thought him responding to them was just funny.
Former coworker was going on about them, and I noted I don't like them either, but then he started saying stuff that was blatantly false. I knew, because I'd just read some factchecking about them. Kept having to correct him, and he just dug in. Sometimes these guys just like to troll, to make others as miserable as they are I guess. I said, "I don't know where you get your info, but don't", which only made it worse. I finally said, "stop making me defend PETA!", and then kept saying it whenever he started, with anything. Sometimes you have to troll the trolls.
Critical drinker making a 20 minute video about why a movie is woke and bad, because it has a black character be like:
I fuck with this dudes nuance takes you get a subscriber birdman W.
Wait, the cap to the Jack Daniels bottle is still on in that picture of the Critical Drinker!
He talks shit about Loki S1 all because of some main women character popping up on screen, but quickly shuts up when Loki S2 is released, probably because the show is just too good that he knows people won't jump onto the hate wagon with him.
watching this after the whole Luigi situation has opened my eyes to this business model that all these right wing channels/news agencies use which is built on making people mad at one another
at some point, why is drinker watching movies he knows wasn't written for him as an audience. it's like If i hated soup, ordered soup at a restaurant and then said how terrible it was because the waitress was Asian
This is why I never take someone seriously if they unironically use the word "woke" in recent years.
been saying this for years now. the word has lost all meaning and has simply become a culture war buzzword.
Great video. It’s about time someone called that grifter out.
4:00 Did he just call Peter Parker's daughter "it"?.
Of course, he didn't want to misgender her.
Critical Drinker is using woke pronouns?????
Can't believe Critical Drinker went woke...
Yes.
😭😭
I was subscribed to will but dropped him after he stopped being a movie critic and started being a political activist.
Gave a thumbs up for the opening quote and attribution alone. Great video.
16:37 Mauler touted himself as Mr objective criticism and here he is agreeing with a conspiracy theory.
This should have more views. The Critical Drinker is a disgrace to film criticism.
His review of Alex Garland's Annihilation tells you everything you need to know. Anything that isn't mainstream and 100% on the nose and doesn't hold your hand the entire time is too much for him to handle as "film critic".
This whole woke vs anti woke stuff is so nauseatingly annoying. This is by far the worst timeline.
At a certain point, buddy needs to realise if he complains people of color being cast all the time, it's a him problem
I do not agree on his heavy emphasis on modern audiences / colored casts / diverse characters, but he is a very good writer (check out his books) unlike most of Hollywood. His reviews reflects a large portion of the audience, especially his recommended series is good. That is where he gets stuff right
@@lucios_7266 I mean, him being a "good writer", I'll take your word for it, doesn't negate his obvious dislike for minorities and women.
Every time he "endorses" a movie, it's because it's as apolitical as possible and most likely, involves a white male lead.
More people need to see this. Good video. I use to watch him until I suddenly realised he isn't a film critic at all. He's just an overrated "Man yells at thing because it's there"
I used to like critical drinker because he made fun of things I already didn't like, but got bored of him because he became repetitive, and started to notice he was just flat out making things up, or intentionally misrepresenting things. Also backtracking on positions when he found the majority actually likes whatever he's complaining about
The Critical Drinker was one of the grifters that got me into the far-right pipeline. I was bitter, hateful and ignorant for a long time. His channel and channels like his, are hurtful to society as a whole.
You got into being a racist POS? Very big of you
Out of interest, what got you out of the far-right pipeline?
Never stop what you do! Glad you are exposing these weirdos
It feels so relaxing to hear a voice of reason man. I used to listen almost every film critic that I could find, to hear opinions about the films that I am interested. But the kinds of people who are like Critical Drinker are either really unhappy with their lifes or audience captured very bad. I don't think they believe half the sh*t they say but they nonetheless say it because It is the new "woke" trend a.k.a "anti-woke".
Well done on speaking out about drinker. Like many others, I started following him when I agreed with a few reviews, and then abandoned ship when every black actor was referred to as "token" or "woke". Hes a horror show
Came across critical drinker's content a few years ago. After watching a few videos, he came across as a bad faith critic. I wasn't even aware of America's culture wars back then. Stopped watching his videos
There is more truth in this 25 minute video than 'the drinker's' entire back catalogue. He should probably lay off the drink, it's going to his head.
I use to watch critical drinker and these videos on RUclips. Thanks for getting me to see these videos are such shit. You are good at pointing this stuff out.
You should check out his recent "The Six Triple Eight" video, where the plausible deniability is rife. "Why didn't Netflix make a film about instead of this film about a regiment of black women?". It was clear he hadn't even watched the film so knew nothing about the actual execution, just some vagaries about the plot (and most importantly to him and his sheep, the sex and race of most of the cast). The comments didn't disappoint either.
I unsubscribed from Critical Drinker 3 years ago after 2 month watching his mind rot.
Same
its funny they hate boys season 4 becase it exposes the same right grifter that they are
I don't think the grift problem necessarily has to do with right leaning people, or even politics in general (though people like the critical drinker can certainly be annoying agenda driven people), but it has to do with people who act like they're knowledgeable on films or cinematography, but in reality they have no clue what they're talking about and just exclusively watch and complain about Hollywood films, because that gets people riled up. I hear so many of these people always talking about how film is something they're SO passionate about, but they just talk about the same slop over and over again that everyone in their mother have talked about, but they never really mention anything a bit more obscure but actually really good. Whenever they talk about something good, it's ALWAYS the same movies like Godzilla Minus One, Parasite, or the Lighthouse. Say what you will about YMS, but that dude actually talks about films that he's actually passionate about that are actually obscure, and when he talks about blockbuster slop he treats it like it is "yeah it's not great but eh whatever what were you expecting", or if it's actually good he goes into detail about it as a film. That dude has an actual passion, most of these people don't. I don't have an issue with people dunking on movies that aren't good like thor love and thunder or rise of skywalker and praising films like minus one, but it's the sheer obviously fakeness that gets to me.
Came for the cinema sins criticism, stayed for the great commentary. Great content.
It's been damn near forever since I heard of the drinker and I'm going to be real. I haven't really wanted to watch him for a long time.
Same. The most boring content on RUclips.
He's got a cool voice but it's a lot of the same water downed content
It's been damn near forever since I considered giving myself brain damage and I'm going to be real. I haven't really wanted to for a long time.
Finally a channel that calls out these grifters
8:05 it's funny that he's mad about the Kong thing. A lot of more recent adaptations of the story have been more sympathetic towards Kong and used as lenses to look at things like colonialism and the triangle trade. He's mad that it's there but like does he not want subtext in films does he not want genre films to discuss and explore real world issues? As somebody who enjoys genre films it gets kinda frustrating when people say they want it taken seriously out of one side of their mouth but deny any attempt to analyze or communicate deeper themes out the other.
That said we kinda know why in this case. He nor his audience want to acknowledge the things being discussed subtextually
I think we need to start calling this woke derangement syndrome. My buddy who I love had a freak out over The War of the Rohirrim being woke. I went to see the movie thinking it would suck because I trust this friends opinions and I’m also a huge Tolkien fan. The movie was fantastic and very respectful of Tolkien. I guess having a female lead character is woke now. My friend literally deleted every “woke” game on his Xbox and now is refusing to watch any movies or play any games saying that woke has destroyed everything he loves. I just don’t get it lol it’s like woke has lost its meaning completely and these people see it literally in anything they don’t like. I feel bad for him but he won’t listen to me
This isn't advice so don't really do this, but ask a few of them individually what woke means and I guarantee you won't get a consistent answer.
The real answer is "something that upsets me and reminds me of the culture war" but that sounds too personally invested, big no-no
He sounds more like The Critical Incel
I’m so tired of hearing about politics on the internet, especially American coin flip politics.
Agree ...The USA Centre of the universe XD
this is why we like Th3Birdman. no political views, only (actual) facts and logic.
@@aetheriox463 It's impossible to be apolitical while having opinions. Opinions on society and social commentary are always going to be political and roughly fit in a specific camp. TheBirdman has agressively called out the disguised prejudice, racism and sexism of the "anti-woke" crowd, i would say that puts him in an anti-reactionary camp. his Anti-Reactionary commentary lends towards his social and cultural views being significantly progressive. it doesn't mean he's always progressive or informed in everything else of political relevance.
@@aetheriox463He’s certainly Left-Wing just not Far-Left and that’s OK. He’s not as Left-Wing as me though.
You know, I really appreciate you, man. Especially for videos that show why people like this ruin film analysis (and media analysis in general.)
So really, thank you. Keep doing you.
Fun Idea: start calling Gratuitous Alcoholism "Woke" for pushing his ridiculous non-American Scottish caricature in EVERY video
It'll work because his fans.
Am from Scotland. It isn't even a good Scottish accent, sounds like garbage
And about the spiderverse.... It's a spiderverse! Of course it has a diverse cast! It's a freaking multiverse!! You will see so many different spidermans, a plushie, a car, and a lego. How is he complaining that peter B is a only straight white man?! (And as th3birdman said there are other men same as peter B)
I think what I hate most about him, is that I can't point out that the Acolyte WAS boring and unwatchable without being associated with this guy.
On the topic of grifters
People like G+G and TheQuartering threw away any glimpse of integrity they had left the MOMENT they chose to defend Dr Disrespect, even after he admitted to having inappropriate texts with a minor
I am glad criticism of this guy become more common and more accepted; there used to be a time where you couldn't criticize him without having his army of synphocants to dislike bomb your video.
yep, plus birdmans criticisms are very solid and compelling with excellent examples, making it very difficult for drinkers army of sycophants to argue against him in any reasonable way. The 17.3K likes to 6.7K dislikes is an overwhelming victory against the brigading.
Bro gave a negative review about the new Captain America movie that isn't out and is being reshot.
That guy even made nonsense on letting The Winter Soldier-a traumatized, abused bitter assassin taking the place of Captain America instead of a well-prepared soldier who is willing to carry greater responsibility and sees it as a "woke" move for no reason.
Well yeah. How could it be good? A black guy is the main character.
Using their logic
THANK YOU!!! I used to watch the Drinker because I LOVE seeing the mindless big budget films produced by the major studios ripped apart. He's very good at that. But I became _increasingly_ irritated by his insistence on throwing in his anti-feminist nonsense every video. I'm a man AND I'm a feminist. I think such a stance would be extremely hard for the Drinker to understand.