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The Critical Drinker (Web Video)

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The Critical Drinker (Web Video)	comment	The Critical Drinker (real name: Will Jordan, born April 30, 1983) is a conservative Scottish YouTube critic who reviews movies and TV shows both classic and old under the persona of a drunkard with a dry, snarky, misanthropic sense of humor.Since he started publishing videos in 2012, he made a second channel in 2013, Critical Drinker After Hours, dedicated to late-night movie reviews and livestreams, segments of which are clipped into smaller videos called Drinker's Chasers.Aside from his usual content, the Drinker does four segments that diverge from his traditional style and presentation: The Drinker Recommends - A series where the Drinker gives his thumbs up to films and TV shows he deems to be good. Happy Hour - A podcast where the Drinker goes over various movies or shows that he does or doesn't like, sometimes with a guest from another channel. Highlights from this podcast get posted on his After Hours channel. Production Hell - A documentary series about movies that underwent significant invoked Troubled Production. The Drinker Fixes - A Fix Fic show about the Drinker coming up with alternate scenarios for specific characters that he saw were not done justice in a film or TV show. Drinker's Extra Shots - A show similar to The Drinker Recommends where he reviews his favorite movies and TV series only on the After Hours channel instead of the main one.Additionally, Will Jordan — the man behind the Drinker persona — is an author best known for the Ryan Drake series of spy thriller novels, a genre he got into by drawing from his experiences in the military boot camp and weapons training that he did for his jobs as an extra in several action/war films while he studied at university.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_13646b1b	type	My Friends... and Zoidberg
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_13646b1b	comment	My Friends... and Zoidberg: Used when talking about Christopher Nolan:
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: The main problem that he has with the Daniel Craig continuity of the James Bond franchise, particularly after Casino Royale (2006). He feels like Craig's films were so focused on being a Genre Deconstruction of 20th-century Spy Thrillers that they end up lacking the charm of the previous Bond films that still struck a balance between seriousness and fun.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_17975d1b	type	Unstable Equilibrium
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_17975d1b	comment	Unstable Equilibrium: He cautions new YouTubers against releasing too many weak videos in his "How To Succeed On YouTube" video, as this will cause a kind of slow death spiral for the channel. If your videos underperform, the algorithm will recommend them less, which means less people will see your subsequent videos, and thus they will underperform as well — lather, rinse, repeat until the channel is dead. Conversely, releasing strong videos means they'll get recommended more by the algorithm, which means more people will see subsequent videos, and thus they will perform better as well.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_19ebe383	comment	He outright hates modern reboots that promise fans what they want only for it to be a bait-and-switch (e.g. killing off a popular character in an undignified way or hiding significant twists that result in a Broken Base if not outright hate).
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Considers that such characters can be much more interesting than more emotional and talkative ones, especially in a professional or military context. Using the example of Star Trek he considers the small crack in Kirk's voice during Spock's funeral in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan to be very effective because "you know how hard he's trying to hide it". And Kirk's "let them die!" outburst in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country when Spock tells him the Klingon empire may die is all the more shocking for how it suddenly reveals his true feelings.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_1dea3034	type	Cool Shades
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_1dea3034	comment	Cool Shades: The Drinker likes to wear shades. Jordan also wears them in some of his livestreams.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_203b5242	type	Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_203b5242	comment	Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: In "Indiana Jones - Destined To Flop", the Drinker goes over how the box office system works and that just because a film makes more than its budget doesn't mean it was a success, as this doesn't take into account other factors that go into releasing a movie. People need to know your film exists, which requires paying for advertisements and marketing, which usually costs half of the film's budget. These films are played in movie theatres, which need profits made from the film to function as a business, so they're going to take a cut of the profits for themselves. A general rule of thumb is that the distributor gets a fifty percent cut of the profits. If loans were taken in order to finance the film, then there's also the factor of paying interest on those loans. These things add up, making the break-even point of a film that much harder to obtain, especially the more expensive it was to make.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_20a18a93	type	I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_20a18a93	comment	I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham: Upon watching the first trailer for Prey (2022), he was ready to hate on the movie, thinking it would be riddled with many of the problems he normally has with many of the other movies he has reviewed. To his surprise, despite being able to predict some of the issues he would have with it, it was much more to his liking than he had expected it to be and he considered it to not only be a far superior experience to the last entry of the Predator franchise, but also to be one of the better entries in the entire franchise. Though he found the main character lackluster in terms of development and personality, he denied the claims of her being a Mary Sue due to the struggles she faced and the flaws she had, and was more than willing to even recommend seeing the movie. Drinker had spent many streams dismissing any chance of House of the Dragon ever being good or successful and how nobody would care about it. Upon watching the entire first season, he was happy to admit that he was wrong about his pessimistic predictions, as he found the show to be very much to his liking, especially after how bad of a taste The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power left in his mouth. He did not have high hopes for Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. Not only because of the uncertain marketing for the movie, but also because of the reputation that the hobby has garnered over later years along with the divisive "Male Emasculation" interview. Thankfully, he was happy to have his expectations subverted as he enjoyed the movie, even if some of the special effects were not up to par for a 150 million dollar product.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_21586e8c	type	Padding
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_21586e8c	comment	Padding: invoked One of his three biggest complaints about The Little Mermaid (2023) is how padded out it feels. Despite otherwise being a shot-for-shot remake with absolutely no new content, it clocks in at almost an hour longer than the original, which makes the remake feel clunky and bloated with how they effectively tried to pad out the run time as much as humanly possible.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: His stock-in-trade.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_22f5d1b9	type	Some of My Best Friends Are X
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_22f5d1b9	comment	Some of My Best Friends Are X: Often brings up Ripley from the Alien franchise, Sarah Connor from the Terminator franchise, and Disney's original Mulan as a rebuttal to people calling him sexist and misogynistic, the point being that he believes he cannot be sexist if he likes well-written female characters. A variant, overlapping with aa Dear Negative Reader. In his review of Arcane, he tells off people that have accused him of sexism, misogyny, and hating non-white casting and non-straight representation, pointing out that he likes the series despite it having everything he supposedly hates:
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_247228a9	type	Subverted Catch-Phrase
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_247228a9	comment	The Subverted Catchphrase "Nah, it won't be fine!" has also cropped up occasionally.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_26d1f65f	comment	He has a habit of opening his videos with "You know..."
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_2804d516	type	Master of None
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_2804d516	comment	Master of None: He cautions against becoming one of these in his "How To Succeed On YouTube" video and instead advises you to pick a topic and stick with it. He explains how a common failing of YouTubers once they get big is their attempt to diversify into a multitude of targets, but explains how it's very rare that all your viewers will be interested in all of this — the more you spread out, the thinner you spread your viewerbase, and you risk frustrating fans of any one type of content by bloating your channel with other types. If you absolutely have to diversify, then consider using multiple channels to help categorize it.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_2a015a74	type	Beauty Equals Goodness
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_2a015a74	comment	Beauty Equals Goodness: Discussed heavily when discussing Avatar, which he criticizes for how the movie uses this trope to ensure the viewers sympathize with the Na'vi, to the point that it feels manipulative and superficial, before comparing it to District 9 which he felt used superior writing to make the viewers sympathize with the Prawns despite them looking hideous and even acting like savages.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_2a090d00	comment	Starting his videos with anecdotes that just barely connect to the main review in some weird, convoluted way, often with the Drinker acknowledging the ridiculousness of it. One example is him discussing how peeing at a urinal always ends with a final dribble of piss coming out as you try to tidy up, with him comparing The New Mutants to that final dribble.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_2cac8d77	type	Rooting for the Empire
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_2cac8d77	comment	Rooting for the Empire: invoked The Drinker explains a reason for this in "What Happened to Our Villains?". When it comes to writing heroes, the writer has restrictions because the hero has to be likable and relatable. The villain, on the other hand, has no such restrictions, so the writer has more freedom of creativity when writing them, leading to instances where they're more memorable and popular than the heroes. When reviewing Jurassic World he gets so fed up with how the protagonists keep making things worse by constantly making nothing but terrible decisions that he actually begins rooting for the dinosaurs. In The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power he finds himself so put off by Galadriel that he finds himself rooting for Sauron:
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_2e13acd1	type	Occam's Razor
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_2e13acd1	comment	Occam's Razor: invoked Referenced and parodied in his video about Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny when he, being worried they might actually be resorting to time travel in the film, he introduces "Drinker's Razor". If there are multiple possible explanations for what might be about to happen in a work, or what might have been the motivation behind a creative choice, just remember:
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_2f62653b	type	Borrowed Catchphrase
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_2f62653b	comment	Borrowed Catchphrase: He borrows Ayo's words regarding his decision to refer to Namor as Ocean Man.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_33f067ea	type	So Okay, It's Average
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_33f067ea	comment	So Okay, It's Average: invoked Occasionally, the Drinker will neither like or hate a certain work and find it passable, such as Tomb Raider (2018), The Haunting of Bly Manor or Black Adam (2022).
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_33f1c576	type	Not Helping Your Case
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_33f1c576	comment	Not Helping Your Case: Drinker is absolutely stunned at the bitter response video Daniella Pineda uploaded to call out fans angry at the changes between Cowboy Bebop and the Netflix adaptation she was starring in. He points out how, even though she actually does have a point (as it's not like she can change her physical build, and Faye's outfit is too impractical for real life), all she managed to accomplish was to turn everyone unanimously and irrevocably against their new adaptation. During his "The Truth About 'Toxic Fandoms'" video, he questions the logic of scathing articles about "toxic fans" that make heavy accusations of sexism and racism against fanbases as a whole whenever a work that stars a diverse cast, or one of the castmates themselves, is criticized. He points out that while it's a short-term victory that gives a satisfying easy counter to such criticisms, is it really worth the cost of turning their fanbase on the whole against their work? He calls out the writing team of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves for stating they "intentionally emasculated the leading men in the film and put the women on the front lines", pointing out that it's definitely something that you shouldn't say about your product in an era of "woke" culture and counter-culture when your core demographic audience is men.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_38b05ae7	type	Poorly Disguised Pilot
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_38b05ae7	comment	Poorly-Disguised Pilot: He criticizes Moon Knight for this, arguing that the titular character is barely on-screen in his Moon Knight form while Scarlet Scarab is the cooler, tougher, and more in-focus character who drives much of the plot:
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_3cede7af	type	Opening a Can of Clones
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_3cede7af	comment	Opening a Can of Clones: The Drinker cites this in his Avengers: Endgame review as the main reason why he often has difficulty enjoying Time Travel stories (aside from the obvious ones, of course).
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_40652d02	type	The One Thing I Don't Hate About You
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_40652d02	comment	The One Thing I Don't Hate About You: In spite of his Caustic Critic tendencies and how utterly merciless he is in tearing apart movies, he is at least willing to admit when he likes aspects of them. To wit: While he is most certainly not a fan of Masters of the Universe: Revelation, he admits that the show looks utterly gorgeous with it's classic cel-shaded animation style. He considers F9 to be the outright Franchise Killer in a series that has simply worn out its welcome, finding it to be a bog-standard flick where all its stars are either clearly burned out from the franchise (Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez) or have given up and moved on (Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham). However, he praises it for having absolutely no political agenda or attempting any sociopolitical pandering or soapboxing, and instead at least trying to deliver a straightforward and fun movie. He admits that, while he found Star Trek: Picard to be yet another Anvilicious Author Filibuster about modern-day sociopolitical issues, he does at least think it has the foundations of a good series. He admits that, unlike Star Trek: Discovery, it at least intrigued him enough to want to tune in next time to see where it goes (at least until he decided to give up on it on April of 2022). While he's not a fan of The Last of Us Part II and feels they killed Joel in the cheapest and least satisfying way and for all the wrong reasons, he does admire how they had the bravery to kill the main character off. While he ultimately thinks they did it in a way that made the series suffer greatly, he gives them a lot of credit for being willing to take risks in a time where most large franchises play things as safely and marketably as possible to maximize sales. He even goes so far as to chastise fans for immediately deciding the series was ruined when said spoiler was leaked rather than actually giving it the chance and judging it after they played it, as he feels this behavior is a big part of why writers are terrified of taking risks. While he still ultimately didn't like Captain Marvel (2019), he admits some of the jokes about 1990s technology land and that Jude Law's performance as Yon-Rogg is pretty entertaining. He also admits that the film's feminist angle doesn't live up to the heavy overtones it was hyped as having, and praises it for "not being mean-spirited" like films such as The Last Jedi. While he's utterly merciless about Terminator: Dark Fate, he actually really likes how Grace's powers work. He finds that her high offensive abilities being balanced by her tiring quickly and being dependent on a drug for survival makes for a potentially compelling character with a well-balanced power set. He really likes the relationship between Shang-Chi and his father in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, believing that if the story hadn't been bogged down by everything else in the film he would have really enjoyed it. He also has nothing but positive words for most of the fight scenes, especially praising Simu Liu for his amazing martial arts skills in the film despite the man having next to no training beforehand. For The New Mutants, he likes how the film is a small, intimate character-driven story with horror elements rather than the "bombastic over-the-top CGI-fest" the rest of the X-Men movies are, and actually finds himself wishing the movie had been good with complex characters as he feels he really would have liked it. If for nothing else, he likes Emma Stone in Cruella for how much charisma she has, for how she commands every scene she's in, and for how much actual chemistry she has with Emma Thompson, but ironically finds this makes the film even worse as it's sad watching a good actor in a bad movie: For Enola Holmes, he at least likes how they didn't make Enola a superhuman who was effortlessly able to take down larger more experienced opponents and instead gave her realistic physical abilities for a woman of her build and background. He praises how they had her barely able to hold her own against opponents in physical altercations and instead win conflicts by using her wits and resourcefulness. He also likes how they positively portrayed Sherlock Holmes and made him cool and confident, unlike films like The Last Jedi that he believes disrespected the original characters to prop up new ones by comparison. For Avatar, he considers it to be the "the most successful failure ever made," and that all it really is is a bunch of ideas pilfered from much better films cobbled together into a bog-standard preachy film with a cast of one-dimensional characters who don't say or do anything interesting or thought-provoking. However, he admits it looks utterly gorgeous and has a great soundtrack. For Dark Phoenix, he likes how Hugh Jackman wasn't inserted into the movie for a cheap cameo after Logan, appreciating how the creators of the movie had the good graces to not bring back Wolverine after giving such a good send-off to the character. He also kind of likes the special effects, but only in a "meh" way at absolute best. For Us, which he otherwise feels is a movie that rides entirely on its themes and allegories and fails to have a coherent, grounded story as a result, he admits the actors are doing a really good job: he finds all of them to be interesting, down-to-Earth characters, was genuinely concerned for their well-being and wanted to see them succeed, and admired how they acted like how real people in such situations would act. In spite of all his complaints about it, he gives the film The 355 credit for actually creating a new IP rather than just gender-swapping an existing male one in order to make, as Jessica Chastain described, "a Mission: Impossible and James Bond but with women". He even points out how the idea of such a franchise, in the vein of a serious Charlies Angels, is promising, but that they need to pick actresses who can actually perform convincing action scenes rather than the ones who starred in The 355. He actually does like a few minor things about The Rise of Skywalker, such as how they dialed back the "woke culture" pandering of The Last Jedi by adding more nuance to the characters (with males not being depicted as useless and females being given some depth and weakness), he likes how Rose Tico was reduced to a cameo at best, and most of all how the film was "a gigantic 'fuck you' to The Last Jedi" with all of J. J. Abrams' earnest efforts to undo as much of what the previous movie did as humanly possible to address fan complaints. He also praises how the film treated the death of Carrie Fisher and feels they handled it as respectfully as possible by giving the character the best send-off they possibly could using leftover footage and by restructuring dialogue around unused voice clips. He at least likes the main cast in Annihilation, finding that they are written quite well and generally make logical decisions and act in a rational manner (at least until The Shimmer starts screwing with their heads), and greatly appreciates the nuance in how the cast are presented: rather than making a big deal out of its all-female cast and pushing a heavy feminist agenda, he likes how the movie simply presents them as four people who were chosen because they are experts in their fields. For Tenet, while he's impressed by the sheer amount of work, creativity, and intelligence that went into the film and found himself quite liking Robert Pattinson's character, he found the rest of the movie and its characters to be so uninteresting that he just couldn't get invested in it. He considers Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness to be a convoluted, inconsistent mess of a story but praises both Sam Raimi’s visual style and auteurish direction for the movie as well as most of the main cast’s performances, with Elizabeth Olsen in particular being a standout. As much as he didn't like Thor: Love and Thunder, finding it to be an "assault on the senses that feels like it was written by a 7-year-old", he has a ton of praise for Christian Bale's performance as Gorr the God Butcher: Though he considers Black Panther: Wakanda Forever to be worse than the first movie in nearly every single way, he did admit that he liked how respectfully it handled the death of T'Challa (as well as Chadwick Boseman), while also having a decent ending, even if it didn't make up for the rest of the flaws the movie had. The one thing he actually liked about The Little Mermaid (2023), something he has in common with most of the film's critics, is Melissa McCarthy as Ursula. He feels that she perfectly captured the deviousness, maliciousness, and gleeful card carrying evil that the original had but, naturally, he still counts this as a strike against the film. While he didn't like her overall performance as Ariel, the Drinker praises Halle Bailey's singing talents, saying she nailed every musical number. While he loathed Indiana Jones And The Dialysis of Disentry (as he calls it), he admits to quite liking the World War II Cold Open action scene. He finds it to be fun, action packed, has quite a bit of praise for the CGI effects used to de-age Harrison Ford to look like his younger self, and feels it's the only part of the film that "actually feels like an Indy movie", rather than the rest of the film that he charitably describes as a incomprehensible calamity of a protracted Fetch Quest calculated to make Indy look as bad as possible so Helena can leech off his popularity by one-upping him at every opportunity.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_4160410d	comment	This is also heavily discussed in his discussion of the "Strong Female Character" archetype, where draws serious parallels to the Mary Sue and comes to the conclusion that many people reject the archetype for the same reasons. He feels it is a kneejerk overcompensation to the screaming Damsels In Distress or sex objects from previous movie eras, which he finds gives them a "superficial facade of toughness" rather than making them interesting, developed, and likable characters. He stresses how there is a distinct difference between a Strong Female Character and a female character that is strong, and lists off the common traits of the former that are distinctly similar to his 5 traits of a Mary Sue: They favor self-actualization rather than growth. Rather than having flaws that they overcome, or becoming strong through learning, training, or hard work, they tend to just be born strong and capable and only have to realize it for themselves. Often the only hurdle they actually have to overcome is an imposed or artificial limitation like Captain Marvels Power Limiter or Mulan hiding her true strength that has existed all along. They favor feats of strength over all other forms of strength. Rather than allowing the character to be strong via braveness like standing up to a superior threat or refusing to back down, or via cunning by finding ways to circumvent the power difference between themselves and a foe, or through their love for others, they are just far stronger, far more capable, and far more intelligent than their foes so they can depict "strength" via an easy win. They favor the writer's ideology rather than a well-written story. The character is meant to make a statement and be marketed as a Strong Female Protagonist over being a character in a story, and thus they are written with as few character flaws as possible. They will always be morally superior, always right, always win fights, and always win arguments, and any accidental flaws will be ignored, downplayed, or spun as positive traits. They downplay identifiable and sympathetic human personality traits like altruism, compassion, protectiveness, vulnerability, and quirkiness in favor of unlikable traits like stoicism, being emotionally closed off or domineering, bluntness, dismissiveness, prickliness, and aggressiveness (which he points out are toxic traits in real life, and when applied to men in fiction). Because these traits are seen as weakness, they rarely if ever are allowed to actually have them in favor of making the character as "tough" as humanly possible.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_453871ec	type	What Could Have Been
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_453871ec	comment	What Could Have Been:invoked During his Production Hell series, he feels this way about both Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and the unreleased Superman movie starring Nicolas Cage. He finds himself wishing he could have seen the former in its intended form as William Shatner intended it to be, being intrigued by the high-concept lofty ideas Shatner originally wanted to have, and the latter because he feels the idea of "Tim Burton directing Nic Cage in a robotic Superman costume as he fights a giant spider sent by Christopher Walken" [sic] was guaranteed to be awesome be it for all the right or all the wrong reasons.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_45bdaa0e	type	Just Ignore It
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_45bdaa0e	comment	Just Ignore It: This is his advice for dealing with criticism in his How To Succeed On YouTube video. He points out how there will be people who hate and criticize you no matter what, and how the internet and especially YouTube are very harsh and unforgiving places, and so he advises anyone looking to become a YouTuber to grit their teeth and just not react to it. He even explains how people want attention, and responding will just encourage more of it — as he said, there are countless videos ripping him a new one for his more controversial views on films like Black Panther (2018) and Midsommar, on his rather fierce opposition to what he feels is political correctness taken to extremes or done at the expense of good storytelling, and even his accent, but if he responded or reacted, that would encourage them either to make more or to accuse him of trying to use his clout as a larger channel to silence their criticisms.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_485011b	comment	Mad Libs Catch Phrase: "Fuck off, [X]!" "'But, Drinker, you [X],' I hear you say." - Used as a hypothetical strawman to lead into another point.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_49b3ebe5	type	Special Effect Failure
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_49b3ebe5	comment	Special Effect Failure: invoked He gives Wonder Woman 1984 a new one for how bad its special effects look, especially compared to its predecessor. One of his three biggest complaints about The Little Mermaid (2023) is the visuals. The more photo-realistic animals fell hard into the Uncanny Valley.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_4da6ac	type	Rated M for Manly
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_4da6ac	comment	Rated M for Manly: The Drinker persona is that of a stereotypical hard-drinking Scotsman, and a fair number of the movies he recommends are "guy movies" like Under Siege, Predator, and The Northman, some of which Drinker himself describes as just dumb fun. He also consistently bemoans the supposed erosion of masculinity in modern media, including dedicated videos with titles like "The Death Of The Heroic Man" or "Why Modern Movies Suck - They Hate Men".
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_4ec9e137	type	Critical Dissonance
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_4ec9e137	comment	"Modern audiences", which he believes don't exist, owing to the invoked drastically low audience scores, viewer counts, and even box office returns some works that market themselves to these hypothetical audiences have received.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The Drinker's early videos were much more slow-paced and serious as opposed to the more fast-talking and snarky videos he would create over the years. He also spoke with a calmer, more natural voice before developing his louder, slurring "Drinker" persona.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_4f4602da	type	They Changed It, Now It Sucks!
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_4f4602da	comment	They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: invoked The video Why Canon Matters is about how changing a beloved aspect of a franchise can drive away a fanbase, especially if it's done poorly.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_4f7c3890	type	Shoddy Knockoff Product
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_4f7c3890	comment	Shoddy Knockoff Product: This is how he describes Legacy Characters and Race Lifted versions of characters, feeling they are never as good as the originals and are just an attempt to ride the popularity of the original and keep the character going to milk as much money as possible out of them. He particularly feels this way about Anthony Mackie, whom he thinks is an amazing actor who played Falcon perfectly: he's explained in a few videos now that he finds it heartbreaking that we had to trade in such a cool character who Mackie fit like a glove for a "poor second-rate cheap imitation" of Captain America.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_567e2f0	type	No True Scotsman
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_567e2f0	comment	On the whole, this is how he feels about "woke" culture in media — that the recurring "fans don't like [show/film/game] because they are sexist/racist/homophobic/etc." rhetoric is nothing more than a useful shield to protect works against criticism, since it's easy to use this to claim there are no legitimate criticisms coming from the people complaining about the series in a "only the good reviews count" kind of way. He has pointed out in countless videos that it's far too convenient that there's always a cavalcade of clickbait-style articles ready to go that always ignore legitimate criticism coming from the people they accuse of such bigotry, nor do they ever discuss how genuinely good works with heavy so-called "woke" elements like The Mandalorian and Arcane are beloved by critics and "fans who can't handle diversity" alike.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_59b9f4df	type	You Are Fat
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_59b9f4df	comment	You Are Fat: The Drinker is very fond of mocking overweight individuals. A regular, general insult he uses is "blue-haired land whale." He suggests that the reason Claire remains fully clothed throughout Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is because Bryce Dallas Howard gained weight since the previous movie, and positions her remaining fully clothed as a negative. He opens his review of Boiling Point with this. In his review of Queen Cleopatra, he states that the show is "about as popular as the salad bar at Lizzo's birthday party." On his second channel, he goes after Dove's "Let's Change Beauty" ad campaign, which is about body positivity, in a video entitled "The War on Attractive Women". The thumbnail for the video alone is directly from one of the ads discussed and shows a fat woman and her 3D avatar, thus framing her (and therefore all fat women) as unattractive.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_5a4f75a8	type	Esoteric Happy Ending
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_5a4f75a8	comment	Esoteric Happy Ending:invoked The final mockery of Moonfall when Drinker is done describing its plot is pointing out just how badly the seemingly triumphant ending really is when you consider the aftermath of it all:
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_5abe161f	type	Flawless Token
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_5abe161f	comment	Flawless Token: invoked On the whole, his largest complaint with the "Strong Female Character" archetype and Race Lifted versions of legacy characters that have become popular in recent years, is that he feels that they are always designed to have zero flaws, be insanely powerful, have skills the character shouldn't reasonably have, and always portrayed as in the right, as he believes flawed characters are far more interesting. His best comparison is Old Mulan vs New Mulan, with him pointing out how old Mulan started weak and inexperienced, had to push herself much harder than her companions just to keep up, had to rely on her wits and cleverness to overcome her weaknesses, and ultimately had to become stronger physically and mentally to succeed, while new Mulan was merely "born with high levels of Chi", which meant she was just automatically stronger, more skilled, and more powerful than everyone else right out of the gate, with the only thing holding her back being "sexism" — he finds old Mulan to be an inspiring tale about an underdog with a strong moral about working hard, while he finds new Mulan to be a boring story with a bad moral which comes off as "just be born strong".
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_6531fa39	type	Professional Voice Dissonance
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_6531fa39	comment	Professional Voice Dissonance: The Drinker has a loud, distinctively intoxicated voice paired with an exaggerated Scottish accent. Outside his main channel and during livestreams, Will Jordan has a more sober diction, talks at a quieter volume, and his Scottish accent is a lot more subdued than his Drinker persona.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_65dd1e76	type	Unintentionally Unsympathetic
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_65dd1e76	comment	Unintentionally Unsympathetic: invoked He feels that Wonder Woman 1984 completely ruined the character for him for the Unfortunate Implications behind her relationship with the "resurrected" Steve. As the movie has no meaningful reactions to what is essentially sexual assault of the person whose body Steve is using who can't consent, and for how Wonder Woman is perfectly okay with keeping Steve around even though it in effect means killing the innocent man who's body he took, he's unable to like or sympathize with her any longer: He has a similar reaction to WandaVision, where he considers Wanda to effectively be the villain of the story. He compares the things she does to the town she's taken control of to a horror movie and is repulsed that the series frames all of it as okay because she ultimately decides to give up Vision: For Netflix's Resident Evil (2022), he found it completely impossible to sympathize with either of the two protagonists for how unlikable they are, reserving particular scorn for Jade who acts more like a villain than anything resembling a "protagonist": He feels that Jen from She-Hulk: Attorney at Law is an incredibly unsympathetic protagonist who acts as if she struggles in life and constantly has to deal with being held back, and yet faces next to no adversity in her life, is constantly praised for how good she is, and readily excels at everything she attempts. He's particularly taken aback by her "great with controlling anger" speech, finding it to be completely out-of-place as he feels she's been written as a Feminist Fantasy character rather than someone who actually deals with scenarios which would make any reasonable person angry. This affects him so much so that rather than indulging his usual Caustic Critic routine, he actually spends the entire video calmly discussing different ways they could have had her face adversity to make such a speech warranted.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_667ca19c	type	Lying Creator
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_667ca19c	comment	Lying Creator: invoked He spends much of Masters of the Universe: Revelation - Absolute Disaster calling out Kevin Smith for claiming on Twitter that the series was "all about He-Man", when in reality Teela is the main character with He-Man being a Decoy Protagonist who spends almost the entire series on the sidelines. He points out how, between their carefully-cut trailer that made a point of showing nothing but He-Man and Smith himself being dishonest about the series when directly asked about it, that it's no small wonder fans felt as betrayed and upset as they did.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_6c3d1777	type	Magic A Is Magic A
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_6c3d1777	comment	Magic A Is Magic A: Stresses this as an important component in a story involving supernatural powers of any sort. Failing to clearly establish the boundaries and capabilities of such powers from the get-go makes it harder for the audience to get invested in the story (because setting no limitations on your hero's power means it's difficult to tell when the stakes are genuinely high) and it encourages laziness in writing (having a hero with no limitations means the stakes can't be high because nothing provides a real challenge to them). It also tends to create Plot Holes of a "Wait, if they can do [x], then why didn't they just [y]?" nature whenever a writer makes up new capabilities that a character wasn't already established to possess.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: On "Critical Thinker."
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_6de63fe4	type	I Am Not Leonard Nimoy
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_6de63fe4	comment	I Am Not Leonard Nimoy: When he reviews Red Notice, the Drinker doesn't bother remembering the names of the characters in the movie, and just refers to them by the names of the actors playing them, as they're playing the same roles they usually play.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_722171e7	type	Straw Character
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_722171e7	comment	In "What Happened to Our Villains?", the Drinker makes a case that this is an issue in modern films with female protagonists and male villains. There are unwritten rules that writers follow in order to avoid backlash from internet mobs. One of these rules is that a woman must always beat a man, whether it's in an argument, a battle of wits, or a fight. If they don't do this, then internet mobs will claim the writers are sexist. The result is that film writers pander to these mobs to avoid backlash, and a common way to do so is to make the male villain a Straw Character who makes the heroine look cool by comparison. However, the Drinker argues that doing this makes the heroine look weak, because a hero is only as strong as the villain they overcome. If the villain is weak and incompetent, then it doesn't really say much about the heroine that defeats him, as she doesn't really have to overcome anything and is just handed easy victories.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_72856b70	type	Godzilla Threshold
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_72856b70	comment	Godzilla Threshold: From a writing standpoint, he describes Time Travel as this. As time travel is a narrative nightmare with rules that are incredibly difficult to pin down, often raises questions that simply can't be answered, and even when done well creates Plot Holes that basically have to be ignored for the story to work, he feels it's an option you simply do not use unless it is quite literally the only possible way to make the story work.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_7286e96d	comment	"Because the script needs [the rest of] the plot to happen." - Used when dumb decision-making or a Contrived Coincidence is used to keep a plot moving when there's no natural way to.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_74e2ca0a	type	Ban on Politics
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_74e2ca0a	comment	Ban on Politics: He heavily advises people in his "How To Succeed On YouTube" video to avoid politics like the plague, warning that because it's such a tumultuous topic it's guaranteed to cost you tons of fans no matter what you say:
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_7775d0a5	type	Too Bleak, Stopped Caring
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_7775d0a5	comment	Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: invoked He often brings this up when discussing remakes and reboots of older works that are too overly preachy and drowning in modern-day sociopolitical issues, describing them as so bleak and nihilistic with heavy-handed political agendas that it's hard to get invested in them and care what happens the same way he'd get invested in the originals, which tended to be designed to be much more optimistic and pleasant to watch even when they had political overtones or got dark. As he compared older Star Trek to the new stuff:
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_782da079	type	Sweetness Aversion
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_782da079	comment	Sweetness Aversion: invoked In his video "What is Woke?", he feels this way about most gay relationships he sees in modern media. Saying that it is too oversaturated with happy-go-lucky, sugary sweet couples and very rarely explores more complex and nuanced relationships, such as abusive, toxic, or morally complicated ones. He thinks that doing this is essentially pigeonholing gay couples into yet another stereotype, something he finds just as bad as creators discriminating against LGBTQ+ couples.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_78d0ebcf	type	Crying Wolf
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_78d0ebcf	comment	Crying Wolf: In the video “What is Woke?”, he refers to YouTubers who call every piece of media that includes diversity and representation “woke”, as this. Stating that they should critique films using logic and its flaws rather than going on mindless “anti-woke” witchhunts as he thinks that if you do this constantly, nobody will take you seriously when you do have legitimate criticism.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_7cc8d769	type	Sore Loser
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_7cc8d769	comment	Sore Loser: Played for Laughs during his review of The Rise of Skywalker, when Kylo Ren is gaining the upper hand against Rey in a duel, but sensing the death of Princess Leia distracts him enough that he drops his weapon and stops fighting... giving Rey the opportunity to stab him.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_7daa1dfc	type	They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_7daa1dfc	comment	They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: invoked He feels this way about Admiral Holdo in The Last Jedi, as the central conflict between her and Poe reminds him of the one between Hunter and Ramsey in Crimson Tide. He feels that if they'd written the two with more nuance in a way where neither was meant to objectively be right or wrong, rather than just having Holdo constantly act spiteful and lash out at Poe in order to "deconstruct his character" and then presented as 100% in the right to do so, that she could have gone on to be a fondly remembered character with a fascinating arc who in turn gave Poe some much-needed Character Development rather than (to quote directly) "just a purple-haired space Karen".
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: The Critical Drinker is depicted as a drunk Scotsman (as shown on his YouTube thumbnail above), with many of the jokes being comparing aspects of media, mostly bad ones, to his drunken escapades. Subverted with Jordan himself, who is mostly sober.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: At one point in his video "Was Anakin REALLY a Mary Sue?", the Drinker lists off the various crimes Anakin Skywalker committed as he spiraled down in to The Dark Side, with the last crime being that he delivered his infamous "I don't like sand" line.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_816a4e80	type	Star Wars (Franchise)
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_816a4e80	comment	He similarly describes Rey of the Disney Star Wars trilogy as being such a thing for Kathleen Kennedy.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_83743fe3	type	Mary Sue
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_83743fe3	comment	Mary Sue: invoked Heavily discussed in his video Was Anakin REALLY a Mary Sue where he compares the titular character to Rey from the new trilogy. As there's no set-in-stone definition for what a Mary Sue is he draws upon other people's definitions of it as well as his own experience as a writer and sets five criteria that make a Mary Sue, ultimately coming to the conclusion that, if anything, Anakin is a deliberate subversion of a Mary Sue: 1. Mary Sues usually possess skills and abilities that are not consistent with their situation and personal history. They can do stuff they shouldn't realistically be able to do and they can do it better than anyone else. This is the one area that Drinker concedes you could make the argument that Anakin is a Mary Sue, considering his Child Prodigy nature as an expert mechanic and pod-racer, and his latent Force potential that sees him catapulting through Jedi training. 2. They possess flawless idealized personalities that no real person could measure up to. They never give in to negative emotions like anger, greed, jealousy, selfishness, or arrogance. Anakin is far from flawless or idealized, with a temper, sense of entitlement and arrogance, as shown when he gives into rage and slaughters the Tusken Raider tribe and his various rants about how he feels he's being slighted. 3. They are universally loved, respected and embraced by every good character they encounter even when there's no logical reason for this to happen. Anakin is far from this, as many in the Jedi Council don't trust him and view him with wariness due to sensing how close he is to The Dark Side, which feeds into his insecurities mentioned above. 4. They never get seriously challenged, fail at anything or get beaten by anyone. Success and victory comes easy to them. Drinker need only point out Anakin's various failures such as his win-loss record as well as failing to save his mother or wife. 5. They always make good decisions and strive to do what's right in any situation. Drinker again need only points out how all of Anakin's flaws eventually lead him to destroying everything he cares about in his increasingly desperate attempts to safeguard them. This is also heavily discussed in his discussion of the "Strong Female Character" archetype, where draws serious parallels to the Mary Sue and comes to the conclusion that many people reject the archetype for the same reasons. He feels it is a kneejerk overcompensation to the screaming Damsels In Distress or sex objects from previous movie eras, which he finds gives them a "superficial facade of toughness" rather than making them interesting, developed, and likable characters. He stresses how there is a distinct difference between a Strong Female Character and a female character that is strong, and lists off the common traits of the former that are distinctly similar to his 5 traits of a Mary Sue: They favor self-actualization rather than growth. Rather than having flaws that they overcome, or becoming strong through learning, training, or hard work, they tend to just be born strong and capable and only have to realize it for themselves. Often the only hurdle they actually have to overcome is an imposed or artificial limitation like Captain Marvels Power Limiter or Mulan hiding her true strength that has existed all along. They favor feats of strength over all other forms of strength. Rather than allowing the character to be strong via braveness like standing up to a superior threat or refusing to back down, or via cunning by finding ways to circumvent the power difference between themselves and a foe, or through their love for others, they are just far stronger, far more capable, and far more intelligent than their foes so they can depict "strength" via an easy win. They favor the writer's ideology rather than a well-written story. The character is meant to make a statement and be marketed as a Strong Female Protagonist over being a character in a story, and thus they are written with as few character flaws as possible. They will always be morally superior, always right, always win fights, and always win arguments, and any accidental flaws will be ignored, downplayed, or spun as positive traits. They downplay identifiable and sympathetic human personality traits like altruism, compassion, protectiveness, vulnerability, and quirkiness in favor of unlikable traits like stoicism, being emotionally closed off or domineering, bluntness, dismissiveness, prickliness, and aggressiveness (which he points out are toxic traits in real life, and when applied to men in fiction). Because these traits are seen as weakness, they rarely if ever are allowed to actually have them in favor of making the character as "tough" as humanly possible.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: In "Prey - How To Spoil A Good Idea", he referred to the dog, Sarii, as being "suspiciously domesticated". Sarii was played by a Coco, a Carolina Dog, which is possibly one of the oldest dog breeds in existence, with a history going back as much as 9,000 years. Though located unusually (but not impossibly) far west in the film from its typical region of the southeastern United States, Carolina Dogs were indeed kept as pets and hunting dogs by Native Americans.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_86f4f393	type	Stating the Simple Solution
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_86f4f393	comment	Stating the Simple Solution: This is one of his oft-mentioned criticisms of movies that have villains trying to weaponize things for the hell of it, like the Russians in Stranger Things using The Upside Down, or the Umbrella Corporation in Resident Evil using the T-Virus, or Hoskins and Dr. Wu from Jurassic Park wanting to use the dinosaurs. He points out how these things are massively expensive, difficult to control, unpredictable, resource-hungry, and potentially world-ending, yet aren't any more effective at doing their jobs than things we already have like mundane explosives and heavy ordinance. Why unleash a bunch of raptors on an enemy when you could just shoot them, or drop an ass-load of bombs on them? In his review of Red Notice, the Drinker takes issue with The Reveal that The Rock and Gal Gadot's characters were secretly working together to manipulate Ryan Reynolds into revealing the location of an artifact that only he knew about. It doesn't work when you go back and examine the events of the film, as the plan becomes incredibly contrived and fails if a single thing changes. He lists plenty of examples of things that could go wrong in the video. One example is if The Rock and Ryan Reynolds got sent to different prisons, since the two couldn't have teamed up and they would've lost access to Ryan and the artifact's location. If Ryan died during the prison escape, then the location is lost forever. He also lists off several other possibilities of things that could go wrong. The Drinker thinks the two of them could've just bribed or tortured Ryan Reynolds and got the same result, without the risk of their plan going up in flames due to a contrived Gambit Roulette. For Independence Day: Resurgence, he points out how the aliens could steal the molten core from any of the billions of uninhabited planets out there so they'd never have to bother with fighting native species in the first place.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_8712e4c9	type	Story-Breaker Power
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_8712e4c9	comment	Story-Breaker Power: He feels the Force has become this in the new trilogy of Star Wars films since, between it being much more powerful than it ever used to be and characters making full use of New Powers as the Plot Demands, it's gotten to the point where it's difficult to get invested in the story:
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_87b73405	type	Signing-Off Catchphrase
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_87b73405	comment	Signing-Off Catchphrase: "Anyway, that's all I've got for today... go away now!" Fans have pointed out that his "go away now" can sound happier or sadder depending on his mood in the video.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: He often calls out heroes and villains for doing things that sound like good ideas on paper, but only until you sit down and realize just how dumb their actions really were: For Jurassic World, he points out just how bad an idea it really was to go into the Indominus Rex's pen to investigate its escape: For Black Panther (2018), he points out how Killmonger's plan to arm people with Vibranium to rise up and "bring down their oppressors" is doomed to fail, as he grossly overestimates how effective this would actually be: In his review for Spider-Man: Far From Home, he calls out Mysterio for his plan to create a fake world-ending threat so he can become "the greatest Avenger ever" by asking what, exactly, Mysterio really hopes to gain from it. If his plan succeeds, it's only a matter of time before he has to face a real threat; the only place he has to go from there is either death or being exposed — or both.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_8e11040f	type	Designated Hero
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_8e11040f	comment	Designated Hero: invoked He describes Galadriel as such in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, feeling that she's been written much more like a villain than a hero:
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_8e20ae0d	type	Child Prodigy
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_8e20ae0d	comment	1. Mary Sues usually possess skills and abilities that are not consistent with their situation and personal history. They can do stuff they shouldn't realistically be able to do and they can do it better than anyone else. This is the one area that Drinker concedes you could make the argument that Anakin is a Mary Sue, considering his Child Prodigy nature as an expert mechanic and pod-racer, and his latent Force potential that sees him catapulting through Jedi training.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_8f7f2c6a	type	National Stereotypes
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_8f7f2c6a	comment	National Stereotypes: The Drinker has a kick out of how one of the characters in The New Mutants is named "Illyana Rasputin".
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_8fd7af48	type	Sir Swears-a-Lot
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_8fd7af48	comment	Sir Swears-a-Lot: Has the mouth of a sailor.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_9230c618	type	Hypocrisy Nod
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_9230c618	comment	Hypocrisy Nod: The Drinker plays this trope for laughs in Ghostbusters 2016 - It's As Bad As I Remember when he acknowledges his own tendency to use fart jokes after criticizing the movie for its use of them: Another instance of this can be seen in his video on Ms. Marvel when he criticizes the titular hero's motivation to become a hero as selfish and vapid, comparing her to the vacuous and untalented people on TikTok, "or even worse; YouTube!", after which the video cuts to the Drinker's profile pic with Weir's scream playing. In his review of the third season premiere of Star Trek: Picard, he acknowledges the video he made not even a year prior where he vowed that he was done with the show after season 2.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_9629d473	type	Vulgar Humor
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_9629d473	comment	Vulgar Humor: The Drinker character is very prone to colorful metaphors when tearing a film apart or describing Mr. Plinkett-esque escapades, with a running gag being a disastrous relationship with a woman named Tatiana.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_96c26bf3	type	Armed with Canon
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_96c26bf3	comment	Armed with Canon: Openly speculates if this is the case behind the scenes with writers and producers at long running franchises such as Doctor Who and Star Wars, especially if one segment of a franchise becomes much more popular than another.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_98804a6e	type	Polish the Turd
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_98804a6e	comment	They favor the writer's ideology rather than a well-written story. The character is meant to make a statement and be marketed as a Strong Female Protagonist over being a character in a story, and thus they are written with as few character flaws as possible. They will always be morally superior, always right, always win fights, and always win arguments, and any accidental flaws will be ignored, downplayed, or spun as positive traits.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_98a19d7f	type	Money, Dear Boy
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_98a19d7f	comment	Money, Dear Boy: invoked In "Why Modern Movies Suck - They're Written By Children", the Drinker points out how movies with a lot of special effects are expensive to make, so said movies are written to appeal to as wide an audience as possible, often resulting in a bland product that doesn't really stick out. In "Why Modern Movies Suck - The Myth of the Modern Audience", the Drinker sees this as a reason so many reboots are rewritten to pander to modern sensibilities. As the Drinker points out, if the people remaking a film are so offended by the original story, then they shouldn't bother remaking it in the first place. Instead, they could write a new original story that aligns with their beliefs, but they go ahead with the remake to cash in on the original source material's legacy and popularity.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_9d945c49	type	Stopping the Blame Game
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_9d945c49	comment	Stopping the Blame Game: This is his response to producers, writers, directors, and actors who try to claim their movie went bad owing to factors outside of their control or that fans are simply being unreasonable. Drinker retorts that nowadays there is no excuse for making a bad movie, and if you make one it was 100% avoidable and 100% your fault. Years ago we were limited by technology and experience in movie-making and thus were often forced to make do with what we had or throw things at a wall to see what sticks, but nowadays we have 100 years of filmmaking experience to draw from and the technology to quite literally put anything on-screen: he believes nowadays the only thing you can blame for a bad movie is Executive Meddling, poor writing, or bad acting, all of which are directly the fault of the people making the film.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_9de2bf95	type	Filler
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_9de2bf95	comment	Filler: The Drinker has three criteria for what makes a scene relevant to a story, and that a scene counts as filler if it doesn't meet at least one of these requirements. It should advance the plot, develop at least one of the characters, or provide world building for the setting.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_9e0c3153	comment	"What. The. FUCK!" - Used after compiling a list of nonsensical plot details, explaining a poorly thought-out twist, or just seeing something bizarre in general that leaves the Drinker dumbfounded. It also features an echo for effect.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_9f80e1da	type	Sarcasm Mode
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_9f80e1da	comment	Sarcasm Mode: His "Social Justice Is Great For Video Games" video spends the majority of its time repeating criticisms levied against the video game industry about its lack of diversity and representation... while showing clips of games going back as far as the '80s that prove them wrong, before talking about how great it is that video game critics and journalists can lie about the industry to receive clout or push their own agendas. The entirety of his review of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier consists of him sarcastically praising many of the show's flaws. Much later, he would heap the same kind of sarcastic praise on Peter Pan & Wendy, especially as he compares it to the theme of Peter Pan and its Disney adaptation.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_a1fa3957	type	Informed Wrongness
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_a1fa3957	comment	Informed Wrongness: invoked He takes issue with criticisms of works as "just being blatant fanservice", as he sees nothing inherently wrong with fanservice. While he clarifies that it isn't enough to make a work good by itself (solid writing and acting are still paramount), he also hates the idea that detractors count this as a strike against a work as if to imply giving fans what they want is somehow wrong. He similarly feels this way about "fan entitlement", as explained in his video Hollywood Vs. Fans: Everybody Loses. He explains how people being protective and passionate about franchises and works they enjoyed as children is normal and perfectly understandable human emotion, and how fans having negative reactions to remakes or reboots that are poorly done or have been greatly changed or reworked is a perfectly valid reaction. He also points out how more often than not, like with Masters of the Universe: Revelation which he uses as an example, the creators of these new works actually appeal to these groups of fans and promise them a faithful and respectful adaptation that is done for them only to not deliver what was promised and then blame and insult their fans for complaining online or giving it poor reviews. Rather than blaming fans for their reactions the way creators and the media tend to accuse them of being "entitled manbabies who need to leave their parent's basements" for not liking these new works, he blames the creators for taking advantage of these fans to generate hype for their remakes or reboots without actually caring about said fans or bothering to put real effort into their new work.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_a6c69bd	comment	Drinker himself gets a lot of mileage out of nicknaming people or things, like calling MacGuffins "magical bullshit devices", naming characters as "Strong Female #[X]" or referring to them as their actor or a role from a better film, and his liberal usage of calling COVID-19 "THE UNSPECIFIED VIRUS OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN" to dance around YouTube's demonetization policy.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_a6fa41b	type	Recycled Premise
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_a6fa41b	comment	Recycled Premise: One of the Drinker's chief criticism on Avatar is that the story heavily borrows elements from multiple movies and recycle them to the point that the story itself ultimately feels unoriginal.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_a70f9aba	type	Accentuate the Negative
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_a70f9aba	comment	Accentuate the Negative: Most of the time, the Drinker will harshly criticize a film or TV show he considers to be awful or significantly flawed. That said, he will give praise to a work he considers to have some merits and positive qualities such as WandaVision and Annihilation.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_a861560f	type	The Friend Nobody Likes
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_a861560f	comment	3. They are universally loved, respected and embraced by every good character they encounter even when there's no logical reason for this to happen. Anakin is far from this, as many in the Jedi Council don't trust him and view him with wariness due to sensing how close he is to The Dark Side, which feeds into his insecurities mentioned above.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_adfd3165	comment	This is one of his oft-mentioned criticisms of movies that have villains trying to weaponize things for the hell of it, like the Russians in Stranger Things using The Upside Down, or the Umbrella Corporation in Resident Evil using the T-Virus, or Hoskins and Dr. Wu from Jurassic Park wanting to use the dinosaurs. He points out how these things are massively expensive, difficult to control, unpredictable, resource-hungry, and potentially world-ending, yet aren't any more effective at doing their jobs than things we already have like mundane explosives and heavy ordinance. Why unleash a bunch of raptors on an enemy when you could just shoot them, or drop an ass-load of bombs on them?
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: His video reviews often contain biting remarks or sarcastic comments about a movie or TV show he doesn't like. Sometimes, he'll post videos with Sarcastic Titles such as The Genius of The Last Jedi or Female Thor - At last, Marvel gives fans what they always wanted. By contrast, Jordan is far more subdued in his critiques of movies and TV shows than his Critical Drinker persona.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_ae4b1ce1	type	Caustic Critic
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_ae4b1ce1	comment	Caustic Critic: He's usually pretty upset or confused if he doesn't like a particular work, though he is willing to actually say things to the credit of works he doesn't like when he feels it's due, like admitting Masters of the Universe: Revelation has gorgeous animation, and that The Last of Us Part II was ambitious and took a lot of risks in an era when most writers are terrified to step outside the box.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_b2226c2f	type	Sheathe Your Sword
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_b2226c2f	comment	Sheathe Your Sword: For creators dealing with backlash, he feels this is basically the only way to overcome it. Referencing the disastrous results Daniella Pineda's Dear Negative Reader invoked video had with fans of Cowboy Bebop, he explains how one of the best ways to deal with controversy is to just keep quiet and wait for it to blow over rather than trying to "fight" it.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_b2280b66	comment	The Retcon comes in for heavy attack if used badly. For example The Timeless Children episode of Doctor Who was blasted for being disrespectful to the late William Hartnell, seemingly removing his status as the definitive first incarnation of the character. For making the character less relatable by being The Chosen One instead of The Unchosen One. And for essentially being pointless backstory since the Doctor's Mysterious Past has never needed to be fully explored.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_b5049d76	type	Added Alliterative Appeal
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_b5049d76	comment	Added Alliterative Appeal: Some of the fill-ins for his "'But, Drinker, you [X],' I hear you say" Mad Libs Catch Phrase have included "asymmetrical Adonis of alliterative analysis" and "magnanimous maestro of media mastication".
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_b5b4b077	type	The Ace
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_b5b4b077	comment	The Ace: The biggest issue he has with Creed is that, in sharp contrast to Rocky's lack of education and dim career prospects as a loan shark, Adonis Creed is portrayed from the get-go as an intelligent and very successful man with a highly lucrative job who's already a proficient amateur boxer, making it extremely difficult to buy Adonis as a struggling underdog, or relate to his dissatisfaction with the kind of lifestyle that many viewers wish they had.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_b6cebad3	type	Double Standard
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_b6cebad3	comment	They downplay identifiable and sympathetic human personality traits like altruism, compassion, protectiveness, vulnerability, and quirkiness in favor of unlikable traits like stoicism, being emotionally closed off or domineering, bluntness, dismissiveness, prickliness, and aggressiveness (which he points out are toxic traits in real life, and when applied to men in fiction). Because these traits are seen as weakness, they rarely if ever are allowed to actually have them in favor of making the character as "tough" as humanly possible.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_b7e74b77	type	Five-Token Band
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_b7e74b77	comment	Five-Token Band: He criticizes The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power for its diverse casting, feeling that it breaks Suspension of Disbelief since each individual group has no real identity or culture of their own:
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_ba236071	type	It Makes Sense in Context
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_ba236071	comment	Characters farting while covered in shit in Not Another Teen Movie
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_ba72eebb	type	Waif-Fu
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_ba72eebb	comment	Waif-Fu: The Critical Drinker despises small-statured women being presented as action stars, criticizing it as unrealistic for women to beat up Mooks twice their size (who are invariably described as "overly accommodating stuntmen").
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_ba99f924	type	We Care
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_ba99f924	comment	We Care: In general, he's not a fan of social justice politics because he sees it as shallow political pandering from corporations that don't really care: In a highlight video from Tampa Bay Comic Con, the Drinker suspects that the Harvey Weinstein scandal played a part in movies doubling down on political messages and becoming more preachy. His crimes exposed the dirty side of Hollywood, as a lot of people were either complicit in covering up his crimes or willfully ignored them. To distance themselves from Weinstein's damaged legacy, many big Hollywood releases championed social issues that were/are topical (such as women's rights) even though some of the people/studios involved in their productions had shown signs of conduct to the contrary. In his video reflecting on the year 2022, he points out how Warner Brothers axed a lot of projects related to DC because they were more interested in profits than pushing some political agenda. Also mocks this in "Why Modern Movies Suck - The Strong Female Characters", saying that the strong female character archetype is just as hollow and meaningless as corporations that use social movements to sell products that were probably made in a sweatshop.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: He outright hates modern reboots that promise fans what they want only for it to be a bait-and-switch (e.g. killing off a popular character in an undignified way or hiding significant twists that result in a Broken Base if not outright hate). Likewise, the Drinker is not a fan of political messaging in escapist entertainment, considering it to be out of place and distracting for the audience. This, however, doesn't stop him from liking works like Squid Game, outright denying it has political connotations despite its heavy anti-capitalist messaging, as well as The Terminal List which also had very clear political messaging. He does believe that historical works such as Schindler's List and 12 Years a Slave have an important role in entertainment, under the belief that different works have different purposes. He generally doesn't like modern-day sequels to classic franchises that he believes don't hold a candle to the originals (Cobra Kai and Top Gun: Maverick being among the few exceptions). Same goes for remakes, if his reaction to the announcement of Highlander being remade is anything to go by. The Drinker doesn't like invokedMary Sue characters especially those that are better than the pre-established, beloved characters. And for that matter, making drastic changes to characters that are not in line with their personality, skills or backstory. The Retcon comes in for heavy attack if used badly. For example The Timeless Children episode of Doctor Who was blasted for being disrespectful to the late William Hartnell, seemingly removing his status as the definitive first incarnation of the character. For making the character less relatable by being The Chosen One instead of The Unchosen One. And for essentially being pointless backstory since the Doctor's Mysterious Past has never needed to be fully explored. The Drinker really hates when a piece of media prioritizes "identity politics" and modern progressive ideals, believing that so detracts from the work's narrative integrity. He also very much hates when a work belittles traditional values. He often calls this "The Message." If the work has a conspicuously non-white character, especially as a result of a Race Lift, the Drinker will describe them as "diverse" with dripping scorn. If a show has what he believes to be a pandering female-empowerment message, you can bet the Drinker will be devoting screen time to castigate it.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_be987a84	type	Review Ironic Echo
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_be987a84	comment	Review Ironic Echo: He's used Admiral Clancy's line "Sheer fucking hubris" from Star Trek: Picard to deride the series and by extension all of the Star Trek installments written by Alex Kurtzman as well as other unrelated works. He used Benoit Blanc's "It's just dumb!" line to sum up his opinion of Glass Onion.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_bf58b6f5	type	Stock Audio Clip
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_bf58b6f5	comment	Stock Audio Clip / Stock Footage: The Drinker uses a library of audio and/or video clips from different media to help illustrate his reactions. Displeasure/disgust: Characters farting while covered in shit in Not Another Teen Movie Tyrion Lannister vomiting The Woman Who Can Smell Shite Red Miller wailing in the bathroom from Mandy (2018) Horror: Weir's screaming from Event Horizon John Trent's screaming from In the Mouth of Madness Amusement/mockery: A slowed-down clip of Leeloo laughing J. Jonah Jameson laughing and/or saying "You serious?" Bill and Ted remarking "No way!", used sarcastically after any Captain Obvious Reveal. Tony Stark saying "Not a great plan" is used to highlight the stupidity of someone's plan or thinking, either of a fictional character or a real-world creator/company.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_c02f148d	type	Both Sides Have a Point
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_c02f148d	comment	Both Sides Have a Point: When talking about The Last of Us Part II, he actually does believe both the game's fandom and hatedom aren't entirely right or wrong. On one hand, he more or less agrees with every single criticism levied against the game and openly admits he feels they are entirely justified in being upset with the game and the direction the story went. On the other hand, he also agrees with the criticisms levied against the game's hatedom for refusing to even try the game once they learned about what happened in the story and that they grossly exaggerate how bad the game is and make it out to be one of the worst games of all time when, controversial story and character elements aside, it's a very competently made game on a gameplay and technological level. When discussing the fan vitriol toward the now-cancelled Cowboy Bebop (2021) on Netflix, he agrees that not only do fans have a point at how Fae Valentine's outfit and actress don't resemble her anime counterpart, but also that the creators have a point that Fae's outfit was far too impractical for real-life and that finding a 6'4" woman with double-D breasts and an hourglass figure would have been impossible. He explains in his video on the Netflix series that had the creators been civil and explained as much to their fans rather than simply insulting them via YouTube, fans likely would have given the show a chance in spite of their complaints rather than pulling the en-masse exodus that gave it such immensely low ratings. While he is often very critical of movies that employ race lifted characters or try to discuss sociopolitics, he is also very critical of fans who criticize movies solely because they have diverse casting or employ "woke" elements. As he explained in his "What Is Woke" video, he feels it is paramount to use actual logic to criticize a film's actual flaws rather than having an "anti-woke" rhetoric and crying "ruined forever" at the mere hint of so-called "woke" elements. While he agrees it's fine to criticize "woke" movies when such elements come at the expense of good storytelling, he also agrees that creators and fans of these works are right to call out critics who's only reason for hating a movie is "it's woke!"
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_c39a5ef0	type	Willing Suspension of Disbelief
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_c39a5ef0	comment	Willing Suspension of Disbelief: Discussed in his critique of Alien: Covenant:
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_c3fec62b	type	Critic-Proof
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_c3fec62b	comment	Critic-Proof: invoked He feels The Fast and the Furious is this, describing it as one of the few franchises left that hasn't been polluted by sociopolitics, hasn't been "reimagined" or rebooted or retooled in any way, and hasn't changed at all beyond getting Denser and Wackier since it's first installation in 2001. He attributes this to how the series simply doesn't care what critics think, be they professional or critical fans, and devotes itself entirely to just serving up more and more of what its fans want.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Referring to new "content" from oversaturated franchises as "NEXT PRODUCT", borrowed from RedLetterMedia's now-infamous quote from Jay Bauman on an episode of The Nerd Crew:
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_c83cd6b8	type	The Nicknamer
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_c83cd6b8	comment	The Nicknamer: Drinker himself gets a lot of mileage out of nicknaming people or things, like calling MacGuffins "magical bullshit devices", naming characters as "Strong Female #[X]" or referring to them as their actor or a role from a better film, and his liberal usage of calling COVID-19 "THE UNSPECIFIED VIRUS OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN" to dance around YouTube's demonetization policy. He refers to actress Erin Kellyman as "ginger plank of wood".
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_cc427069	type	Hard Work Hardly Works
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_cc427069	comment	Hard Work Hardly Works: One of his issues with modern female protagonists is that they tend to be born awesome and powerful from the start, and don't have to work to earn their power or face any challenges. He notes this as a huge difference between Mulan and its live-action remake when reviewing the latter. The remake has Mulan holding back her true power to avoid standing out because it would shock everyone. This differs from the original where at first, she struggled to keep up with the army's training, but managed to get stronger and win everyone's respect through hard work and determination, and managed to overcome some of her weaknesses by using her cleverness and intelligence instead of just getting stronger, like using her weights as a climbing belt rather than just brute-forcing the pole climb like everyone else attempted.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_cde5f9c8	type	Uncertain Audience
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_cde5f9c8	comment	Uncertain Audience: invoked For Charlie's Angels (2019), he wonders who the target audience was, as nobody really seemed to want a new Charlie's Angels film in the first place (the earlier films were modest successes at best) and the marketing was so overly politicized and aggressive, he felt it stood a good chance of alienating both men and women with its aggressively over-the-top feminism. For Birds of Prey (2020), he can't figure out who the movie was actually made for, as he feels men will be turned off by the heavy-handed feminist tones, families won't watch it because of the R rating, and women will find it condescending in how it panders to feminist sensibilities with an otherwise mediocre film. For Resident Evil (2022) on Netflix, he finds that the show's Zombie Apocalypse content and high-school drama content clash so much that they compete rather than complimenting themselves, creating a story that has no audience whatsoever: For Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, after discussing all of the many behind-the-scenes problems during his Production Hell series that caused so many rewrites, compromised, and bad special effects, he ultimately notes that this trope was the biggest reason nobody seems to like this movie:
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_ce6487aa	type	Misery Builds Character
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_ce6487aa	comment	Misery Builds Character: In "Why Modern Movies Suck - They're Written By Children" the Drinker asserts that since modern filmmakers didn't live through the hardships of past generations, they lack their ancestors' resilience, resulting in them writing characters who are emotional crybabies.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_cf57aca1	type	Orwellian Retcon
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_cf57aca1	comment	Orwellian Retcon: In June 2022, there was a Drinker's Chasers video called "Why Nobody Cares About House of the Dragon". After the pilot episode of that show debuted to nearly 10 million viewers and became the single largest premiere in the history of HBO, the video was retitled "House of the Dragon Trailer Breakdown," though the video description still states that "nobody cares about Game of Thrones on TV anymore."
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_d7a92919	type	Indecisive Parody
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_d7a92919	comment	Indecisive Parody: invoked He describes Velma as such, pointing out that it devotes much of its time to deconstructing and criticizing the cliches and tropes of such series in as mean-spirited of a way as humanly possible, while simultaneously playing as many of those same cliches and tropes as straight as possible.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_d7c3ba61	comment	While he is often very critical of movies that employ race lifted characters or try to discuss sociopolitics, he is also very critical of fans who criticize movies solely because they have diverse casting or employ "woke" elements. As he explained in his "What Is Woke" video, he feels it is paramount to use actual logic to criticize a film's actual flaws rather than having an "anti-woke" rhetoric and crying "ruined forever" at the mere hint of so-called "woke" elements. While he agrees it's fine to criticize "woke" movies when such elements come at the expense of good storytelling, he also agrees that creators and fans of these works are right to call out critics who's only reason for hating a movie is "it's woke!"
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_d839c530	type	The Unfettered
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_d839c530	comment	The Unfettered: He cites this as the reason villains are typically cooler and more memorable than heroes. Writers don't have to worry about making villains likable or relatable, so they can just go wild with them and write them however they want to make the most vile or over-the-top characters imaginable.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In "Star Trek: Picard - No More Reviews, I'm Out" the Drinker officially refuses to review anything more from the show because he's grown too apathetic to care about anything it does. After hearing good things about season three of Picard, he was willing to give it a shot, and ultimately ended up praising the season, saying that its tone is more in line with how Star Trek used to be, rather than the bleak cynicism that led to his initial Too Bleak, Stopped Caring view of the franchise. That being said, he does admit that one good season of a show doesn't automatically erase a decade of lackluster entries for the franchise and creators antagonizing the fanbase, and that it makes sense that some people won't give it a shot after being burned so many times. For Velma, he can't even bring himself to finish the first season. He goes off on a rather cruel tangent about just how bad and mean-spirited he found it, how he found himself hating every single character, and how it does pretty much everything he dislikes about storytelling, while offering absolutely nothing he found likable or endearing. He makes it pretty clear by the end of "Velma is Complete And Utter Trash" that he's not even willing to finish the season for the sake of making another review.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_db54633f	comment	Can't Take Criticism: On the whole, this is how he feels about "woke" culture in media — that the recurring "fans don't like [show/film/game] because they are sexist/racist/homophobic/etc." rhetoric is nothing more than a useful shield to protect works against criticism, since it's easy to use this to claim there are no legitimate criticisms coming from the people complaining about the series in a "only the good reviews count" kind of way. He has pointed out in countless videos that it's far too convenient that there's always a cavalcade of clickbait-style articles ready to go that always ignore legitimate criticism coming from the people they accuse of such bigotry, nor do they ever discuss how genuinely good works with heavy so-called "woke" elements like The Mandalorian and Arcane are beloved by critics and "fans who can't handle diversity" alike. He devotes an entire video to discussing this with "Star Wars - How to Alienate a Fanbase". He claims that the Star Wars franchise uses its corporate accounts on social media to silence critics and assert they're just a bunch of bigots. The Drinker points out that he himself is a relatively big account, but if he used his fame and status to silence his critics, especially those with less followers, it would not paint a good image of him and would just look like him punching down and bullying smaller channels. Even worse, in the case of Star Wars, whoever is in charge of their social media is representing the franchise as a whole, so it's inappropriate for them to get into fights with smaller accounts (which can lead to those critics being doxxed or harassed by others), as it reflects poorly on the franchise as a whole. The Drinker even makes parallels to this behavior to the Empire in Star Wars, pointing out that it's not a good sign if the only reason people don't criticize you is for fear of backlash.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_dc8ba6d5	comment	The Scapegoat: Despite his disgust with both the Disney Star Wars trilogy and the character she plays, he admits he actually feels bad for Daisy Ridley. He feels that she is a nice person who doesn't deserve the blame she gets for the character, instead pinning all the blame on the character on Kathleen Kennedy.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: If the Drinker dislikes a particular character or Plot Device enough, he usually gives them a more or less demeaning nickname and sticks with it religiously for the rest of the video. A standout example is his review of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, where just about every plot device gets a "magical bullshit" put in front of it (like the magical bullshit forest that protects the magical bullshit village), and the film's female cast is exclusively referred to as Strong Female Character #1 (Shang's mother), Strong Female Character #2 (his sister), Strong Female Character #3 (his aunt), and Not-Funny Katy (Katy).
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_e6b5d22f	comment	Catchphrase: Apart from those listed in Mad Libs Catch Phrase and Signing-Off Catchphrase below... He has a habit of opening his videos with "You know..." "Nah, it'll be fine!" - One of his most popular catchphrases; used as a sarcastic rationale whenever idiotic decisions are made in-universe. The Subverted Catchphrase "Nah, it won't be fine!" has also cropped up occasionally. "Believe that!" "Why? Don't know!" - Whenever a clear answer isn't given for what's happening. "What. The. FUCK!" - Used after compiling a list of nonsensical plot details, explaining a poorly thought-out twist, or just seeing something bizarre in general that leaves the Drinker dumbfounded. It also features an echo for effect. "What does THIS remind me of?" or "Is that a reference to something?" - Usually featuring an image of what the movie is trying to reference. Occasionally, the Drinker acts as though he can't make out what it's trying to reference. "Because the script needs [the rest of] the plot to happen." - Used when dumb decision-making or a Contrived Coincidence is used to keep a plot moving when there's no natural way to.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_e88e8a8f	comment	Writer on Board: He often accuses movies of being a "personal therapy session" for writers: One such example is when he simply compares the appearance of the misunderstood outcast teen daughter protagonist in I Am Not Starfire to her writer, and bursts out laughing at the similarities between them. He harshly criticizes Velma for this, accusing it as being nothing more than a Revenge Fic of sorts for the creators who he believes used the main characters as self-inserts: He similarly describes Rey of the Disney Star Wars trilogy as being such a thing for Kathleen Kennedy. He accuses Kathleen Kennedy of this again for with Helena from Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny describing the character as "yet another addition to the growing lineup of brunette, British, flawless, idealized Kathleen Kennedy self-inserts that are better than their aging male counterparts in every possible way".
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_e8f853a	comment	Archive Panic: invokedOne of his issues with Marvel is how focused they are on releasing content for the sake of having new content for people to watch, without thinking about the quality of those works, or the fact that people just don't have time to watch all their content. This highlight from one of his streams has him visibly exhausted and annoyed with the amount of Star Wars and Marvel works that are planned to be released. Star Wars had twelve different projects planned to be released within an 18 month period, while Marvel had over thirty projects planned within a two-year period.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_eb7c34cf	comment	Crossover: The Drinker has appeared in live streams with other YouTube personalities such as MauLer or Jeremy Griggs of Geeks & Gamers.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Not being one of these (his Critical Drinker persona withstanding) — or as he puts it, "DON'T BE A DICK" — is his single biggest piece of advice for anyone looking to become a YouTuber in his "How To Succeed At YouTube" video. He warns that there are a lot of eyes on you when you get successful at YouTube, and the internet will eat you alive if you are an asshole in front of your large audience:
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_ec212e4d	type	Ensemble Cast
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_ec212e4d	comment	Ensemble Cast: He admits one of his few critiques of otherwise excellent All of Us Are Dead is that the cast (as talented as they are and even with the help of Cast Herd and Rotating Protagonist) is so huge it can be hard to keep track of who is who and their relationships with one another, and exacerbated with the high-school cast since most of them wear the same school uniform so the visual cues are harder to make them stand out. Of course, he notes this is a minor nitpick only really applicable to the first few episodes since the series quickly fixes that.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_edeafb2e	type	Malicious Misnaming
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_edeafb2e	comment	Malicious Misnaming: He loves to refer to Natalie Portman as "Natalie Portperson", a form of mocking the use of politically correct language. Throughout his review of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, he deliberately replaces America Chavez's first name with Latin American countries. Resulting names include Puerto Rico Chavez, Guatemala Chavez, and Venezuela Chavez.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_eea09b27	type	Political Correctness Is Evil
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_eea09b27	comment	Political Correctness Is Evil: Or as the Drinker refers to it: The Message! A recurring theme throughout the channel is him criticizing individuals and media companies for presenting progressive messages he believes to be pandering or works that push back against traditional values. In the video "Why the Past Matters", he condemns the censorship of art from different perspectives and ideologies. In "What Happened to Our Villains?", the Drinker makes a case that this is an issue in modern films with female protagonists and male villains. There are unwritten rules that writers follow in order to avoid backlash from internet mobs. One of these rules is that a woman must always beat a man, whether it's in an argument, a battle of wits, or a fight. If they don't do this, then internet mobs will claim the writers are sexist. The result is that film writers pander to these mobs to avoid backlash, and a common way to do so is to make the male villain a Straw Character who makes the heroine look cool by comparison. However, the Drinker argues that doing this makes the heroine look weak, because a hero is only as strong as the villain they overcome. If the villain is weak and incompetent, then it doesn't really say much about the heroine that defeats him, as she doesn't really have to overcome anything and is just handed easy victories.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Using this stock photo of a man thinking◊ whenever he wonders about where the direction of a story is headed. Starting his videos with anecdotes that just barely connect to the main review in some weird, convoluted way, often with the Drinker acknowledging the ridiculousness of it. One example is him discussing how peeing at a urinal always ends with a final dribble of piss coming out as you try to tidy up, with him comparing The New Mutants to that final dribble. Randomly mentioning a fictional prostitute named Tatiana, who the Drinker is said to live out many of his most perverted desires with. Obliquely suggesting the answer to a particular personal matter, then cutting to a shot of a bottle of Jack Daniel's while a snippet of Handel's "Hallelujah" chorus plays. The Drinker often has a couple of sarcastic buzzwords he loves to coat in echoing reverb to mock them. These include: "The Message", when discussing films that he believes try to force-feed the audience preachy political commentary. "Modern audiences", which he believes don't exist, owing to the invoked drastically low audience scores, viewer counts, and even box office returns some works that market themselves to these hypothetical audiences have received. Referring to COVID-19 as the "unspecified virus of unknown origin" due to YouTube's demonetization policy, accompanied by a picture of a Chinese flag and Winnie the Pooh with a Censor Box over his eyes.
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The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_fc43b10f	type	Dear Negative Reader
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_fc43b10f	comment	A variant, overlapping with aa Dear Negative Reader. In his review of Arcane, he tells off people that have accused him of sexism, misogyny, and hating non-white casting and non-straight representation, pointing out that he likes the series despite it having everything he supposedly hates:
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