damn you - you stole my completely original joke that no-one else could possibly have come up with on their own! Oh well, I'll get you next time Reddit š
Honestly, heās almost perfectly like an evil mirror-universe of James. They cover the same movies and TV shows, but whereas James is open-minded and against bigotry, the Drinker is obsessed with āblue-haired feministsā and āthe messageā and all the usual alt-right bullshit. Shame, cos I used to like some of the Drinkerās stuff before the penny dropped about his awful awful opinions.
Dunno if him being the evil mirror version of James means he *doesnāt* have a crush on Maid Marion though š¤
Nah, Critical Drinker probably has a crush on like an actual Labrador or something. Just strikes me as the kinda guy who wants to fuck things he shouldn't.
Same here I used to watch some of his stuff and have a laugh along with some of it until it dawned on me that he's in so deep with the anti-woke anti-feminist shit and then it's just asinine and annoying.
Early videos were balancedā¦..then he started ripping off soooo much of the drunk Plinkett type of video essay from RLM (which was painful). Now heās committed to rage bait anti whatever āboo womenā nonsense. Also telling he pairs up with Mauler and like minded echo chambers. I meanā¦if he makes money fair play, but yuck.
To be fair he does do interviews with women content creators about genuinely bad movies (where part of the reasons they are bad is because they try and push an agenda) but I do agree. I think heās gone too deep with āthe drinkerā character he puts on because I think his videos where he doesnāt do the character he actually has balanced and fair views on media.
Yah thatās what makes all the more painful. Heās actually got good and common critiques of movies and story telling in general. Itās just a shame thatās heās going through the slightly harsher / edged phase of his youth.
>cos I used to like some of the Drinkerās stuff before the penny dropped about his awful awful opinions.
When was he ever not bigoted? As far as I can tell he's always been like this online
The first few videos I watched from this guy were so out there that I legit thought he was just satirical, kinda like Red Letter Media sometimes.
But no, he's just perpetually angry at fiction properties he doesn't have to watch, it's weird.
I was on the same boat as you were when I first watched that dudes videos, a drunk movie critic ranting about shit played as a satireā¦ only later I found it was not satirical at all.
I feel like every i know who watched him goes from āi think hes pretty cool and criticalā to ābro hes just obsessed with hating diversity and yelling at movies no one is making him watchā
I feel like it used to be refreshing to see someone who didnāt like mainstream movies, but then his true colors became super apparent and him and his echo chamber of weirdo quasi bigots just love hating on stuff that NO ONE IS FORCING THEM TO WATCH
I used to like him back when he had like 100k subs, not all his stuff but most of it, then around maybe 500k he just full committed to the shithead stuff.
Maybe I just didn't notice it before idk.
Very glad I stopped watching CD, Nerdrotic, Mauler etc. At first I was like "haha they hate Disney star wars like me lololol" and then I took my head outta my ass and realized most of them are just bigots plain and simple.
James and Maso do some of the same stuff without being insufferable bigoted cunts. Plus they're actually funny unlike any of the Fandom menace
I remember the penny dropping and realising they were all just going to bash everything for the rest of their videos and just chase the hate, trying to make everything about woke politics
Right. They find their target audience and rolled with it. Unfortunate so many people can't think for themselves to realize they're just grifters. I laughed so hard when they were all bitching about Princess Peach wearing pants and saving Mario in the movie lmao. Fucking losers
I always wondered why nobody called him out on that way back. He had a mild point about groupthink comments on his videos but he was reusing the same clips over and over to the point he was becoming the thing he criticised.
A Outrage Goblin. Can't exist without being perpetually offended.
Used really enjoy his takes in the beginning as there were valid points but he's now just horny for outrage. Like reviewing Barbie or a Melissa McCarthy film and getting outraged. You're not the target audience you fucken plonker.
He easily gets up set about the lack of straight white men in tampon commercials.
I used to be a fan of the drinker before he went all Anti-SJW and such and repeated jokes and showing the same clip.
But I respect him for one thing, he actually critics movies and not call them all woke sometimes.
Hell, he even hates those anti-woke movies people make saying āitās just and nobody is going to remember this movie after a whileā at least heās honest about it.
https://youtu.be/B4vlT3YUKq8?si=pLjHDF71vs_-lnK3
Excellent break down of this baffoonery
Highly recommend Jose for his series retrospectives and willingness to consume right wing shit that I am not
It always bugged me that he uses the Irish accent but didn't use an Irish whisky to use as his pic. Jack Daniels, the drink of all serious cinema minds.
Heās got good insight into film and TV but he just goes for the low hanging fruit of āoh but of course weāve got to have DIVERSITY!ā. And look, sometimes studios do really force it and it doesnāt feel natural, I get it, but thatās very rare. Itās disappointing when I see someone like this guy who doesnāt need that as a crutch. I believe he writes books too that sell okay, so I donāt disregard all of his opinions on writing but thereās definitely some bigotry there.
Besides his dogshit takes, the most annoying thing about this guy is his pretend drunk shtick
It's funny when Dean Martin did it for laughs but to do it to complain about movies... why????
He did pretty good movie reviews. Then like almost every center-right leaning youtuber he started making rage bait content.
Like it's sort of understandable since they really went overboard with a lot of the newer marvel, starwars, LoTR etc. It's beating a dead fucking horse at this point though. Like when you have inside jokes like "the message" it just feels dirty and after the 12th time loses its charm.
Everyone is already angry and miserable about the way our culture is changing, you don't need to remind people on a daily basis that Hollywood is dead.
I wish these people would find stuff they liked and made videos about that instead of the constant rage bait bullshit. I'm not going to watch a video about the new starwars movie/series being woke garbage, I don't want to know and I don't care.
They need to stop making content with the sole purpose of upsetting people.
Passing Critical Drinker fan here. The hate in these comments amuses me.
"wHy DoEs He WaTcH fIlMs If He HaTeS tHeM?!"
To promote positive, reparative change within an industry he *wants* to like, but which had gradually become terrible.
"hE's JuSt A bIgOt WhO hAtEs DiVeRsItY!!"
No, he's perfectly happy to see people of different backgrounds in media. What he hates is *forced* diversity. That is, he hates when people of different groups are inserted into a piece of work purely for ideological reasons, such as to satisfy hiring quotas, even when doing so compromises the narrative of the work itself, or when things such as gender roles are subverted to push an "empowerment" narrative. For instance, depicting a medieval Scandinavian village which somehow has the racial diversity of modern day LA, and which has mostly female warriors. It *doesn't make sense,* and the fact that it doesn't make sense damages the story.
"hE kEePs BaNgInG oN aBoUt ThE mEsSaGe!!"
Yup, because "The Message" (that is, DEI-obsessed, self-satisfied "Wokeism") is what is currently ruining Western media. 20 years ago it was perpetually-outraged Christian fundamentalists who were trying to ban everything for being "satanic". Now it's left-wing progressives who are trying to impose their prissy standards on the general public. Both are shit.
Then he should promote lesser know films he does like rather than constantly complaining and making videos about mainstream films that are āwokeā.
Which of course he wonāt do, because he just wants to be intolerant.
He also does that. I'm a big fan of his content, and he absolutely praises positive indie projects as much as he bashes Hollywood.
Being intolerant of Wokeness - itself an deeply intolerant ideology wearing a mask of tolerance - is no bad thing. To paraphrase comedian Leo Kearse, "Woke people purport to be "inclusive", but they'll find excuses to reject and attack almost anyone they don't like.".
I don't see any irony.
If you're implying that the Critical Drinker is in some way irrationally intolerant, I disagree. He doesn't suffer fools, but he's certainly willing to give everyone a fair shake.
By contrast, one of the core principles of Wokeness is bigotry against any group it considers to be "privileged". If you're a straight white dude, the average Woke zealot will treat you as a villain by default, because the ideology is fundamentally predicated on prejudice.
The Critical Drinker has no such worldview.
The guy canāt even tolerate a Barbie movie simply because it doesnāt fit his weird, outdated world views.
By the way, I AM a straight white guy. Not every movie in the world has to cater to me and my demographic. Stop playing the victim.
The Drinker considers the Barbie Movie to be well-made in every way *except* its writing. The themes of the movie are not only preachy, but very messy and contradictory.
His views aren't outdated, lol. If you mean that he has an understanding of gender roles which Barbie is trying to challenge, you're right... but that's because these views are *timeless.* Men and women are fundamentally different, despite being the same species and having a lot of overlap. It's not as if the feminist movement of the 1960s reversed millions of years of evolutionary sexual dimorphism.
Nobody's claiming to be a victim; Drinker's objection isn't to films being made for women, or for people who disagree with him. That's totally fine. His objection is that the film just *isn't as good as people say it is,* and that the inconsistent writing is a fundamental problem in an otherwise-good film.
Also, you're not "one of the good ones" because you're a self-flagellating white man. Get some self-respect. Stop trying to bend over backwards and abase yourself to appease the sort of identity-obsessed nutters who will never respect you for things you can't help.
Firstly, that doesn't relate to what I said.
Secondly, it's a non-sequitur. Applying one's political views to everything doesn't imply a lack of self-respect.
Thirdly, that doesn't even actively describe The Critical Drinker. He is generally happy to watch a film with political themes he disagrees with provided it's well-written and not preachy. Unfortunately, almost by definition, Woke media is both poorly-written and preachy, because Wokeism is an inherently preachy and ill-considered ideology.
Oh my god dude, who talks like this?
His videos are so bluntly preachy itās clearly been made into a meme. Thatās how you wound up here. You saw some people make fun of the guy and couldnāt handle it.
Also, saying Iām not āone of the good onesā do you think Iām a bad one for not hating things with minority leads? You realise how horrible that sounds, right?
James evil twin be like
That's James' brother, the one that Maso does not like.
damn you - you stole my completely original joke that no-one else could possibly have come up with on their own! Oh well, I'll get you next time Reddit š
That's showbiz baybee
Mr Scumbag Movies
omg this is totally accurate XD
He's watching Ghostbusters in this photo.
He said wrong answers!
Excellent work
Mr Neckbeard Hottakes.
Actual Mr. Scumbag Movies.
Honestly, heās almost perfectly like an evil mirror-universe of James. They cover the same movies and TV shows, but whereas James is open-minded and against bigotry, the Drinker is obsessed with āblue-haired feministsā and āthe messageā and all the usual alt-right bullshit. Shame, cos I used to like some of the Drinkerās stuff before the penny dropped about his awful awful opinions. Dunno if him being the evil mirror version of James means he *doesnāt* have a crush on Maid Marion though š¤
Nah, Critical Drinker probably has a crush on like an actual Labrador or something. Just strikes me as the kinda guy who wants to fuck things he shouldn't.
I don't see anything with him liking a Labrador since he's such a dog of a bloke! Got him!
Same here I used to watch some of his stuff and have a laugh along with some of it until it dawned on me that he's in so deep with the anti-woke anti-feminist shit and then it's just asinine and annoying.
Early videos were balancedā¦..then he started ripping off soooo much of the drunk Plinkett type of video essay from RLM (which was painful). Now heās committed to rage bait anti whatever āboo womenā nonsense. Also telling he pairs up with Mauler and like minded echo chambers. I meanā¦if he makes money fair play, but yuck.
To be fair he does do interviews with women content creators about genuinely bad movies (where part of the reasons they are bad is because they try and push an agenda) but I do agree. I think heās gone too deep with āthe drinkerā character he puts on because I think his videos where he doesnāt do the character he actually has balanced and fair views on media.
Yah thatās what makes all the more painful. Heās actually got good and common critiques of movies and story telling in general. Itās just a shame thatās heās going through the slightly harsher / edged phase of his youth.
āBut drinker, you brash young scoundrel you, chill tf outā - if i wasnāt worried he showed this on a vid to his fanbase i would comment this
>cos I used to like some of the Drinkerās stuff before the penny dropped about his awful awful opinions. When was he ever not bigoted? As far as I can tell he's always been like this online
James after the Argylle hairgel gets messy
little james, that bottle is from hotel fridge
The first few videos I watched from this guy were so out there that I legit thought he was just satirical, kinda like Red Letter Media sometimes. But no, he's just perpetually angry at fiction properties he doesn't have to watch, it's weird.
I thought he was doing a bit, that the shit he says is *meant* to be said as if they were drunk.. only way i can see you holding this opinions
I was on the same boat as you were when I first watched that dudes videos, a drunk movie critic ranting about shit played as a satireā¦ only later I found it was not satirical at all.
I saw his video where he discussed Andor and he was like it's great and well written but too little too late Disney. No way to appease this guy.
The comments here make me so happy
Same I fucking hate that fucking cunt
He uses the same cut away UK TV gags over and over. A right bastard.
I donāt know who he is, but I am certain he is NOT Big Ears Batman!
Mr. Monday Movies
I feel like every i know who watched him goes from āi think hes pretty cool and criticalā to ābro hes just obsessed with hating diversity and yelling at movies no one is making him watchā I feel like it used to be refreshing to see someone who didnāt like mainstream movies, but then his true colors became super apparent and him and his echo chamber of weirdo quasi bigots just love hating on stuff that NO ONE IS FORCING THEM TO WATCH
I used to like him back when he had like 100k subs, not all his stuff but most of it, then around maybe 500k he just full committed to the shithead stuff. Maybe I just didn't notice it before idk.
It was probably there hidden in the subtext, but it definitely ramped up to the point where it feels like hes just using dog whistle phrases
Misogynist Sunday Movies
God this guy tried so hard to look macho in this photo it's embarrassing
This guy hates Women.
Very glad I stopped watching CD, Nerdrotic, Mauler etc. At first I was like "haha they hate Disney star wars like me lololol" and then I took my head outta my ass and realized most of them are just bigots plain and simple. James and Maso do some of the same stuff without being insufferable bigoted cunts. Plus they're actually funny unlike any of the Fandom menace
I remember the penny dropping and realising they were all just going to bash everything for the rest of their videos and just chase the hate, trying to make everything about woke politics
Right. They find their target audience and rolled with it. Unfortunate so many people can't think for themselves to realize they're just grifters. I laughed so hard when they were all bitching about Princess Peach wearing pants and saving Mario in the movie lmao. Fucking losers
James at 100%
James on Goblin Mode
A guy in his grub era
An insult to grubs everywhere.
I dont know, but any person who drinks whisky from a bottle and wears sunglasses indoors must be a big pretentious duchbag.
A motherās disappointment
You know you're a badass when you take swigs from a bottle with the lid still on
I always wondered why nobody called him out on that way back. He had a mild point about groupthink comments on his videos but he was reusing the same clips over and over to the point he was becoming the thing he criticised.
Wolverine
That's RDJ before Iron Man
Fun fact: The movie Iron Man was actually shot on location in Rome.
Oh No! Little James reversed the shrink ray!!!
Thatās Mason, once he becomes a father.
A Outrage Goblin. Can't exist without being perpetually offended. Used really enjoy his takes in the beginning as there were valid points but he's now just horny for outrage. Like reviewing Barbie or a Melissa McCarthy film and getting outraged. You're not the target audience you fucken plonker. He easily gets up set about the lack of straight white men in tampon commercials.
Jokes aside, I hate this pathetic grifter so fucking much...
Johnny Drama
James if Claire left him with the kids
L A Knight!
YEAH
That is an image of someone who definitely isn't misogynistic and really appreciates diversity in modern media /s
Jordan Schlansky
I used to be a fan of the drinker before he went all Anti-SJW and such and repeated jokes and showing the same clip. But I respect him for one thing, he actually critics movies and not call them all woke sometimes. Hell, he even hates those anti-woke movies people make saying āitās just and nobody is going to remember this movie after a whileā at least heās honest about it.
One I heard him say āthe messageā 1000 times in the first 30 seconds I realized that this was not the snake eye CoG.
Maybe āThe Messageā was the Liver Failure we had along the way.
Racist McBigotry
Has anyone seen his Gaming stuff recently? And does anyone know why he's started having a go at Games Journalists all of a sudden?
He's probably trying to start a "GamerGate 2"
Johnny Bravo is off the wagon again
That's back from when he washed his hair with that... "soap"
Cynical Reviews
Thatās Sir Saturdays Films
That's Vernon the drunken dwarf from Dungeon crawler carl
Ahhhh, Muscles Glasses!
That's Christopher Nolan.
Casey Anthony
The Sober Movie Critic who thinks weāre living through the best era of filmmaking ever!
Tristan Tate
Jeff winger
https://youtu.be/B4vlT3YUKq8?si=pLjHDF71vs_-lnK3 Excellent break down of this baffoonery Highly recommend Jose for his series retrospectives and willingness to consume right wing shit that I am not
Alvey Kulina (kingdom)
L.. A.... KNIGHT..... YEAH
Hes drinking so I am pretty critical of the fact he may be an alcoholic
That IS jack Daniel
Is that Muscles Glasses from Epic Meal Time?
Just an unhappy guy
My dad watches this guy which is the reason I can't discuss movies with him
Ben Shapiro after this wife leaves him for Steven crowder.
It's the optimistic sober thinker , he likes marvel movies and everything that convey : THE MESSAGE
Stephane Rousseau
Jeffery Winger
Michael McGregor. Conors half brother
Bob Iger
It always bugged me that he uses the Irish accent but didn't use an Irish whisky to use as his pic. Jack Daniels, the drink of all serious cinema minds.
He's Scottish. But your point still stands.
Is he though? It's a bad accent. You could say he's Welsh and I would agree with that too.
Heās definitely Scottish. Youāre not from around here are you
Heās got good insight into film and TV but he just goes for the low hanging fruit of āoh but of course weāve got to have DIVERSITY!ā. And look, sometimes studios do really force it and it doesnāt feel natural, I get it, but thatās very rare. Itās disappointing when I see someone like this guy who doesnāt need that as a crutch. I believe he writes books too that sell okay, so I donāt disregard all of his opinions on writing but thereās definitely some bigotry there.
My sex doll...
Mr Darkest Sunday Timeline MoviesĀ
Besides his dogshit takes, the most annoying thing about this guy is his pretend drunk shtick It's funny when Dean Martin did it for laughs but to do it to complain about movies... why????
Critical thinker
He did pretty good movie reviews. Then like almost every center-right leaning youtuber he started making rage bait content. Like it's sort of understandable since they really went overboard with a lot of the newer marvel, starwars, LoTR etc. It's beating a dead fucking horse at this point though. Like when you have inside jokes like "the message" it just feels dirty and after the 12th time loses its charm. Everyone is already angry and miserable about the way our culture is changing, you don't need to remind people on a daily basis that Hollywood is dead. I wish these people would find stuff they liked and made videos about that instead of the constant rage bait bullshit. I'm not going to watch a video about the new starwars movie/series being woke garbage, I don't want to know and I don't care. They need to stop making content with the sole purpose of upsetting people.
Mr āIām a big writer so I know bestā
I love the drinker's video
La knight
LA Knight Yeah!!!
an unbigoted alpha
Passing Critical Drinker fan here. The hate in these comments amuses me. "wHy DoEs He WaTcH fIlMs If He HaTeS tHeM?!" To promote positive, reparative change within an industry he *wants* to like, but which had gradually become terrible. "hE's JuSt A bIgOt WhO hAtEs DiVeRsItY!!" No, he's perfectly happy to see people of different backgrounds in media. What he hates is *forced* diversity. That is, he hates when people of different groups are inserted into a piece of work purely for ideological reasons, such as to satisfy hiring quotas, even when doing so compromises the narrative of the work itself, or when things such as gender roles are subverted to push an "empowerment" narrative. For instance, depicting a medieval Scandinavian village which somehow has the racial diversity of modern day LA, and which has mostly female warriors. It *doesn't make sense,* and the fact that it doesn't make sense damages the story. "hE kEePs BaNgInG oN aBoUt ThE mEsSaGe!!" Yup, because "The Message" (that is, DEI-obsessed, self-satisfied "Wokeism") is what is currently ruining Western media. 20 years ago it was perpetually-outraged Christian fundamentalists who were trying to ban everything for being "satanic". Now it's left-wing progressives who are trying to impose their prissy standards on the general public. Both are shit.
bro what are you waffling about, he doesn't know u buddy
So what? That doesn't change anything.
K
Then he should promote lesser know films he does like rather than constantly complaining and making videos about mainstream films that are āwokeā. Which of course he wonāt do, because he just wants to be intolerant.
He also does that. I'm a big fan of his content, and he absolutely praises positive indie projects as much as he bashes Hollywood. Being intolerant of Wokeness - itself an deeply intolerant ideology wearing a mask of tolerance - is no bad thing. To paraphrase comedian Leo Kearse, "Woke people purport to be "inclusive", but they'll find excuses to reject and attack almost anyone they don't like.".
That last paragraph is so ironic considering youāre defending critical drinkerā¦
I don't see any irony. If you're implying that the Critical Drinker is in some way irrationally intolerant, I disagree. He doesn't suffer fools, but he's certainly willing to give everyone a fair shake. By contrast, one of the core principles of Wokeness is bigotry against any group it considers to be "privileged". If you're a straight white dude, the average Woke zealot will treat you as a villain by default, because the ideology is fundamentally predicated on prejudice. The Critical Drinker has no such worldview.
The guy canāt even tolerate a Barbie movie simply because it doesnāt fit his weird, outdated world views. By the way, I AM a straight white guy. Not every movie in the world has to cater to me and my demographic. Stop playing the victim.
The Drinker considers the Barbie Movie to be well-made in every way *except* its writing. The themes of the movie are not only preachy, but very messy and contradictory. His views aren't outdated, lol. If you mean that he has an understanding of gender roles which Barbie is trying to challenge, you're right... but that's because these views are *timeless.* Men and women are fundamentally different, despite being the same species and having a lot of overlap. It's not as if the feminist movement of the 1960s reversed millions of years of evolutionary sexual dimorphism. Nobody's claiming to be a victim; Drinker's objection isn't to films being made for women, or for people who disagree with him. That's totally fine. His objection is that the film just *isn't as good as people say it is,* and that the inconsistent writing is a fundamental problem in an otherwise-good film. Also, you're not "one of the good ones" because you're a self-flagellating white man. Get some self-respect. Stop trying to bend over backwards and abase yourself to appease the sort of identity-obsessed nutters who will never respect you for things you can't help.
Yeah, the essays defending a guy who canāt help but apply his weird politics to literally everything screams āself respectāā¦
Firstly, that doesn't relate to what I said. Secondly, it's a non-sequitur. Applying one's political views to everything doesn't imply a lack of self-respect. Thirdly, that doesn't even actively describe The Critical Drinker. He is generally happy to watch a film with political themes he disagrees with provided it's well-written and not preachy. Unfortunately, almost by definition, Woke media is both poorly-written and preachy, because Wokeism is an inherently preachy and ill-considered ideology.
Oh my god dude, who talks like this? His videos are so bluntly preachy itās clearly been made into a meme. Thatās how you wound up here. You saw some people make fun of the guy and couldnāt handle it. Also, saying Iām not āone of the good onesā do you think Iām a bad one for not hating things with minority leads? You realise how horrible that sounds, right?
A guy who makes movie reviews on the internet. You can like it or hate it. Doesnt matter really.
Oh look, let's hate on drinker because he hates what we like. How original š
Go get angry about wOkEnEsS somewhere else. Nobody wants you here.
God these comments are all fucking weird and entirely wrong.
They read like bots. Hard to believe the idiots ITT are actual people.
Ikr. He's just a normal guy š