The Failure of Channel Awesome's Demo Reel

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  @steamboatwill3.367 · 5 years ago · pinned

  If you want something like Demo Reel but actually good:<br><br>Show People. ( 1928 )<br><br>Movie Crazy. ( 1932 )<br><br>The Bad and The Beautiful. ( 1952 )<br><br>8 1/2. ( 1963 )<br><br>Contempt. ( 1964 )<br><br>Day for Night. ( 1973 )<br><br>F for Fake. ( 1973 )<br><br>Any Mel Brooks movie.<br><br>The other side of the wind. <br><br>Real Life. ( 1979 )<br><br>Camera Buff. ( 1979 )<br><br>Stardust Memories. ( 1980 )<br><br>The Stunt Man. ( 1980 )<br><br>Cinema Paradiso. ( 1988 )<br><br>UHF. ( 1989 )<br><br>The Quinch Tree Sun. ( 1992 )<br><br>Visions of light. ( 1992 )<br><br>The Player. ( 1992 )<br><br>Ed Wood. ( 1994 )<br><br>Living in Oblivion. ( 1995 )<br><br>Deconstructing Harry. ( 1997 )<br><br>Bowfinger. ( 1999 )<br><br>Being John Malcovich. ( 1999 )<br><br>American Movie. ( 1999 )<br><br>Mulholland Drive. ( 2001<br><br>Millenium Actress. ( 2001 )<br><br>Adaptation. ( 2002 )<br><br>Synecdoche New York. ( 2008 )<br><br>Be kind rewind ( obviously ). ( 2008 )<br><br>The Disaster Artist. ( 2017 )

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  @couchalmark675 · 5 years ago

  The best way I can put it is that Doug&apos;s story isn&apos;t sad because he deserved better, it&apos;s sad because he could have been better.

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  @billyweed835 · 5 years ago (edited)

  Can we all acknowledge the irony that, as you go over at first, the Nostalgia Critic, a show whose entire premise is that things you liked as a kid often turn out to be not that good when you re-watch them as an adult, is now, for you and lots of other people, something they liked as kids but found to be kinda bad when watched in adulthood? That&apos;s some Shakespearean tragedy shit, right there. He could save others, but not himself.

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  @BeatRiceOnYT · 5 years ago (edited)

  Doug Walker&apos;s content was usually about criticizing movies that you liked as a kid but disliked as you got older, and now people are criticizing Doug Walker&apos;s content, even though they liked it when they were younger. It&apos;s incredibly poetic, honestly

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  @TheStereotypeA · 4 years ago

  &quot;...Doug&apos;s attempts to handle the topics of sexism and racism.&quot;<br><br>At this moment, I actually said &quot;oh god&quot; out loud.

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  @visitor5451 · 5 years ago

  you either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself doing the supervillain shuffle.

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  @JustASammy12345 · 4 years ago

  Fun fact: this video has more views than any actual Demo Reel upload.

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  @orrinmenkins2916 · 4 years ago (edited)

  I love how the major plot twist of the series (that would&apos;ve undoubtedly taken far longer to pay off had things gone to plan) was that Doug&apos;s character was a horrifically bullied child actor. That it was supposed to be an apology for the disgusting treatment of Jake Lloyd over the years that led to his mental issues, and on a greater scale, an apology to all child actors that dealt with trauma from being exploited at such a young age.<br><br>And the <b>very first scene</b> in the series is mocking the then 9-year-old Haley Joel Osment&apos;s line delivery in The Sixth Sense.

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  @AngelFace1991 · 3 years ago

  Considering Doug got (justifiably) angry at the movie Patch Adams for the way it misrepresented a real man&apos;s life and distorted the tragic death of his male friend in order to repurpose it for the death of a female love interest who didn&apos;t exist its EXTREMELY hypocritical what he ends up doing with Jake and Elizabeth&apos;s real struggles here. Does he think because Demo Real isn&apos;t an attempt at a biopic it means he can pull the same crap he was previously condemning?

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  @JadedJada · 5 years ago (edited)

  So bizarre to think that there was a time when Doug Walker was popular enough, and Arin Hansen obscure enough, that an episode of Demo Reel could have a cameo from Egoraptor.<br><br>2012 was a WEIRD year.

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  @yserareborn · 5 years ago

  You know, when Dan Olson said Doug’s humor was “what if Batman met Mario”, I thought that was hyperbole. I forgot that there actually was a scene where Bruce Wayne references Mario Mario.

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  @lastlife0726 · 5 years ago

  &quot;They decided to feed Rebecca Sugar&quot;<br>Fuck I&apos;m glad someone did, they&apos;re not going to write cartoons on an empty stomach.

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