A piece of work as deeply half-assed as it is mean-spirited because Doug Walker has spent his whole life constructing a persona that is detached from his own emotions. So in the end, "Nostalgia Critic's The Wall" is the only thing it ever could have been. Beyond the technical and creative skills involved in creating genuine art though, the distance he has created between himself and his emotions form a core part of the Nostalgia Critic brand so anything performed from a place of genuine emotionality and effort is sure to feel foreign and disquieting to the audience and creators involved.
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The second problem is that the only thing he knows anymore is how to produce cheap, half-assed, spoofy skits without little to no technical knowledge.
So any artistic project he undergoes to exorcise his emotions is going to be fundamentally a project of anger and betrayal. He feels that his career as a "film critic" and his film degree should grant him the ability to understand and dissect the film but his inability to emotionally connect with Waters in any way makes that impossible and he feels stupid and slighted because of that. One is that, as said, he doesn't understand "The Wall" and this is deeply stimulating to his greatest insecurities.
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I think this did come from a place of sincere motivation to work out the emotions that were stirred by "The Wall" and how much it meant for him that this movie was capable of affecting him so much. He wanted to work out those emotions through art as so many of us do. I think he was driven to feel emotions and connections somewhere within his withered soul and for the first time in so long he wanted to connect those emotions to something. Unlike Dan, I actually find myself believing Doug when he calls his project a "loveletter" to "The Wall" because I think "The Wall" made him feel things. When Doug says "What do I know, I only have a highschool education!" you can hear that deep within him is this searing hot mass of inadequacy, a rage that his film degree has left him incapable of understanding this movie in particular and incapable of creating anything approaching art. So when he devotes time and effort towards anything, even when it is a deeply half-assed effort, you can very easily tell what his insecurities are because they are the ONLY things that reveal themself through the process. Doug Walker is a man pathologically afraid of any form of intimacy, vulnerability or honesty, and so he couches literally everything he does in irony, low effort, detachment and sarcasm as a means to protect himself. I love this video so much for how Dan dissects what is, to my mind, the absolute most fascinating thing about Nostalgia Critic's The Wall and that is how revealing it is.
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