Third'd. I'm not a fan of the guy, and it has nothing to do with his opinions, with which I too mostly agree.
Really, he's just an amateur actor and his character isn't believable. His most memorable line is poorly delivered every time (Bat Credit Card?! Bat Credit Card?! etc). I don't buy that he's actually that mad all the time or that's "just the way he is". It's obviously an act and therefor something I could do, and therefor not that impressive. There's a lot of down time between his main points where he's thinking of what he's going to say next, but that should have been planned ahead of time. That time doesn't seem detrimental from the perspective of the actor, but to the audience it's like a reset button, back down to 0 on the laugh meter. There's a reason stand up comics have joke routines they deliver in specific ways with audience-tested timing during and between the jokes. It's because it's all a big buildup to the final big laugh. Nostalgia Critic has no real routine or formula for comedy but for some reason still feels simultaneously pre-scripted and unrehearsed.
I prefer Harry Plinkett, though I concede that the two are different in most ways, the goal is the same: to complain about things in a funny way. That character is believable, the actor doesn't stutter (unless he's doing it in-character), there's no down time (sometimes not enough time to even finish sentences before moving on which leads to some hilarious results). His most memorable line (OOOH my GAWWWD) cracks me up every time because of how genuine it sounds.
I'm kinda picky though with comedy. Not intentionally. It's just that that kind of act (making fun of nerds while trying to make fun with them) really has to seem legitimate to make me actually laugh.
All that said, I do agree with the Nostalgia Critic most of the time and this case is no different. As soon as I saw Michael Bay I thought "Baysplosions" and stopped listening. I'll look at it when we see screenshots. I'm sure a trailer will come out relatively soon and look badass, April O Neill will be OMZGSUPERHOTT and just like transformers 2 and 3, we'll all be duped into thinking maybe it will be Kiiiiinda cool. Come opening day, I expect a shallow, action-packed mess. I really enjoyed transformers 1 due to it not having a "love story". Yes there's a guy and a girl, but they don't even kiss the whole time, and they're just kind of stuck in that situation together with giant robots, and it's almost poignant. T2 came along and ruined it all with the relationship crap. I don't mind relationships in movies when they're done with a little tact, but Bay can't do it. Pearl Harbor was a good world war 2 movie with a horrible love story thrown in, for example. What I'm saying is that if they keep the love story idea out (which is hopeful since it is Turtles and not Ninja People) it might at least be an entertaining action flick. We won't know until Bay expands on his "everybody chill" comment what direction he actually takes it.
