In the original movie, this segment is fully animated by legendary animator Gerald Scarfe and it's mostly an abstract and surreal representation of World War II. Moving onto the next song, "Goodbye Blue Skies" which he labels "So Long, Weird Song." This is a really weird one. And, in a stunning display of ignorance, even includes a phrase about how "school exists to help you get a job." I guess the anti-industrial message of the song went completely over his head. Doug's version of the song includes lyrics such as "L-O-L so school sucks, grow a damn pair of balls." He then goes on to criticize the American education system while simultaneously blasting Pink Floyd for "pandering to angry teenagers" who don't respect their teachers. He turns "Another Brick In The Wall Part II" (which, for those unfamiliar with Pink Floyd, is the "we don't need no education" song) into "We Need More Victimization." ABITW Part II is specifically about the post World War II education system in Britain, and how Rogers grew up being verbally and physically abused by his school teachers. These themes seem to completely go over Doug Walker's head. Some themes of the album are the effect that the war had on Britain's people, the abusive and industry-oriented education system, and the rise of fascism. The album follows a character named Pink, who was based both on Rogers himself and former band leader Syd Barrett (who left the band due to severe mental health issues.) Like Rogers, Pink lost his father due to World War II. Waters spoke to a psychiatrist about the isolation and despair he was feeling, and expressed a desire to build a wall between him and his audience. This became the inspiration for the album. The touring left Waters increasingly frustrated with how the audience engaged with the band at concerts, and ended in an incident where Rogers spat on a fan. Bassist and vocalist Roger Waters wrote The Wall during Pink Floyd's 1977 In The Flesh tour. So, to talk about The Wall we need to talk about why it was made. However, Doug's review of the movie goes on to show that he wasn't able to understand the movie on any fundamental level, and he didn't even bother to do any research on why the movie was made.
This might sound harsh, and honestly people ARE allowed to dislike or even hate The Wall. And it's uh, pretty bad folks.ĭan Olsen's video is a 40 minute essay on how badly Doug misses the entire point of The Wall and how Doug's review of the movie just highlights his own incompetence as an aspiring filmmaker and human being. Doug Walker's review, I decided to watch the original video as well.
I don't follow the Nostalgia Critic anymore so I had no idea he had even reviewed The Wall, but after watching Dan Olsen's review of. Dan Olsen, the creator of the YouTube Channel Folding Ideas, has recently put out a video on Doug Walker's review of Pink Floyd's The Wall.
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