I feel kinda sorry for Doug Walker. It's obvious Demo Reel was his "passion project", and it was getting better, albeit slowly, but it looks like it failed too hard right off the bat to ever pick up steam again.
Here's the thing:Production on TGWTG shows are shit. But when it's just a man in a chair slamming a movie it can work, mostly because half of the video is the movie being reviewed with a voice over. All the time I was watching Demo Reel and the new video I couldn't get over how cheap it was. It just irked me. And everything was so fucking looooooong. Jesus Christ dude, you're not fucking Christopher Nolan. You don't need to come up with some complex,roundabout way of saying you fucked up. You fucked up, come back, don't make a fucking storyline about it. No one gives a shit. We come to watch movie reviews, not watch you indulge your ego.
OK wow. Overreaction much?
Here's the thing: you are watching web series done mostly by amateurs on the internet with only slightly higher production values than most. Complaining about "cheapness" is kinda like complaining that a hersheys king-size bar doesn't taste as good as godiva, therefore you should only get the regular size hersheys.
I actually really liked his return video. If Demo Reel had consistently been that good, I may have enjoyed it. He clearly wanted to try his hand at drama/comedy, and he was already foot-deep in the ongoing storylines he's been writing, so given the budget afforded, this turned out as good as it could possibly have been, plus allows for more character development for the critic himself.
I have no idea why you explicitly chose to compare him to Nolan, as if only pros should ever attempt to come up with something complex, or have an ego. If you want to talk about ego, Chris Nolan's is probably through the roof, as films like Inception and DKR are both very self-indulgent works. And saying no one gives a shit boarders a bit on the "stop having fun guys!" side of annoying. Fuck it, it clearly makes him happy, makes the more intelligent parts of his fanbase happy, and is actually rather competent for a guy whose primary talent is yelling at a camera for 20 minutes.
He's always at his best when he fuses satirical comedy with lighthearted drama and occasional character development, I see no reason for him to stop.
). But if they continued that trend in the next couple videos, I didn't see it. And he may have issued statements through Facebook, and I have no desire to become a facebook zombie so I didn't see any of that either. But as for their forum, probably not. Doug never enters the forum, but Rob Walker is a site admin. It impressed the hell out of everyone when he weighed in early on, because of how rare it is for him to post. I doubt it happened twice (but those threads were giant repetitive clusterfucks, so I stopped wasting precious brainpower reading them). Mostly it seems that Linkara was put in charge of moderating the DR forum, and man did it need it.
