I’m reminded of this line from a Folding Ideas critique of the truly awful Nostalgia Critic satire of The Wall:
Doug wants to be a filmmaker, he wants to make art, but he can’t, because he’s a fundamentally incurious person who isn’t much interested in what other people think or feel and all his ideas boil down to ‘what if Batman met Mario?’
I’m reminded of this line from a Folding Ideas critique of the truly awful Nostalgia Critic satire of The Wall:
The Elon Musk of film
Also Ben Shapiro’s origin story. Tried to be a screenwriter, failed because he is devoid of empathy, went alt-right commentator instead.
“It’s really not that vague Doug. Not vague at all.”
That part broke me, and not in a laugh-out-loud way. His misunderstanding of the work is so bad and wrong that it is genuinely, literally offensive