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* Many viewers were angry about his review of ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'', especially the end where he declares that anyone who likes it is wrong. While the last part was meant to be a joke about how his character was a jerk, many still didn't find it funny and were still miffed.

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* Many viewers were angry about his review of ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'', especially the end where he declares that anyone who likes it is wrong. While the last part was meant to be a joke about how his character was a jerk, many still didn't find it funny and were still miffed. Not helping matters is how even after the review, he's taken several more opportunities to slam on the movie, even doing an "Everything Wrong With" video with WebVideo/CinemaSins about it, to the point that it's practically become the equivalent of beating a dead horse for him.

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* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' fans don't like him, but in their defense, he has a very condescending attitude towards the franchise in general, especially in "Conquest of the Commercials" when he proudly declared his hatred for the franchise, rooted for a bus driver to kill all of them, and got annoyed when they survived. It should be noted that the Canada rape statistic RunningGag happened again later on, and people were ''still'' more offended at his dislike of the franchise. Also, this reaction was mocked by Critic in his review of ''Film/SpyKids3DGameOver'', where he gets booed by ''Pokemon'' fans for one bashing comment about the franchise and gets off on it. The review of ''Film/PokemonDetectivePikachu'' shows him joking about the ''Pokemon'' fanbase's reaction to his anti-''Pokemon'' comments got old, and he ultimately gives the movie a positive review.

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* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' fans don't like him, but in their defense, he has a very condescending attitude towards the franchise in general, especially in "Conquest of the Commercials" when he proudly declared his hatred for the franchise, rooted for a bus driver to kill all of them, and got annoyed when they survived. It should be noted that the Canada rape statistic RunningGag happened again later on, and people were ''still'' more offended at his dislike of the franchise. Also, this reaction was mocked by Critic in his review of ''Film/SpyKids3DGameOver'', where he gets booed by ''Pokemon'' fans for one bashing comment about the franchise and gets off on it. The
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review of ''Film/PokemonDetectivePikachu'' shows him joking about the ''Pokemon'' fanbase's reaction to ''Film/PokemonDetectivePikachu'', where he acknowledged just how old and lowbrow his constant anti-''Pokemon'' comments got old, jokes got. He went on to admit [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch he was never really that familiar with the franchise]], and that his jokes [[ItsPopularNowItsucks were inspired by how popular and exposed it was]]. In the end, though, he ultimately gives gave the movie a positive review.
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* One complaint has people getting upset that Critic doesn't like Creator/JoelSchumacher, when [[Film/BatmanAndRobin that should have been obvious]]. In their defense, it's more due to Critic saying in his review of ''Film/TheWiz'' "that everything [Joel] touches turns into dick" which can be meant as "Joel Schumacher only makes bad movies" even though movies like ''Film/TheLostBoys'', ''Film/FallingDown'', ''Film/PhoneBooth'', and ''Film/TheClient'' are critically acclaimed.

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* One complaint has people getting upset that Critic doesn't like Creator/JoelSchumacher, when [[Film/BatmanAndRobin that should have been obvious]]. In their defense, it's more due to Critic saying in his review of ''Film/TheWiz'' "that everything [Joel] touches turns into dick" which can be meant as "Joel Schumacher only makes bad movies" even though movies like ''Film/TheLostBoys'', ''Film/FallingDown'', ''Film/PhoneBooth'', and ''Film/TheClient'' are critically acclaimed.acclaimed and that the issues about Batman and Robin are more due to ExecutiveMeddling rather than bad directing.
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* Their, specifically Rob's, V-log review of the Grand Finale of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' revealing [[spoiler:Korrasami being canon]] didn't exactly win them any fans as it comes off as a Straw Critic incarnate of the ignorant part of the fandom with all the CulturalPosturing that Japan's been doing the same thing for years,[[note]]Japan's view of bisexuality and homosexuality isn't progressive, since such relationships are ones that people are expected "grow out of" when they reach adulthood.[[/note]] and every [[InNameOnly "point"]] he made was already and eloquently refuted by WordOfGod three days after it aired.

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* Their, specifically Rob's, V-log review of the Grand Finale of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' revealing [[spoiler:Korrasami being canon]] didn't exactly win them any fans as it comes off as a Straw Critic incarnate of the ignorant part of the fandom with all the CulturalPosturing that Japan's been doing the same thing for years,[[note]]Japan's view of bisexuality and homosexuality isn't progressive, since such relationships are ones that people are expected to "grow out of" when they reach adulthood.[[/note]] and every [[InNameOnly "point"]] he made was already and eloquently refuted by WordOfGod three days after it aired.
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** In an inversion, his liking of ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome'' got him a ton of "you're trolling/it doesn't count as a ''Film/MadMax'' movie" people, even when he explained and tried to point out that he just finds the characters interesting.
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* In an inversion, their Sibling Rivalry complaining but also saying positive things about the 2016 ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|2016}}'' has a lot of comments bashing them for being "too SJW". The WebVideo/AwesomeComics review Doug did with Beth, Aiyanna and Heather (that went into more detail about the positives), [[https://twitter.com/BethElderkin/status/755394426139185153 got even more abuse]]. Even the Critic review, where he said you should be allowed to think what you want (but don't be sexist and let little girls enjoy it), got accusations of Doug being "whipped" and responding to the Evilina scene with "kids are naïve".
* Discussed in "The Ice King's Glasses Issue", where Doug pleads for people to not like him for all the actual reasons to not like a person, not because he has different opinions on a movie or TV show.
* With the hate he had for them in the Disneycember review, the SequelHook at the end of ''Film/SmallSoldiers'', and the total joy about bashing them in [[https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=730601630339634&id=127127037353766 posts]] and the "Long Live The Earth Queen" vlog, girls with fond memories of ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries'' movies and a worry about his track record with female nostalgia (not to mention [[StrawCharacter Hyper Fangirl]]) got extremely nervous before the episode even came out.
* Their, specifically Rob's, V-log review of the Grand Finale of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' revealing [[spoiler:Korrasami being canon]] didn't exactly win them any fans as it comes off as a Straw Critic incarnate of the ignorant part of the fandom with all the CulturalPosturing that Japan's been doing the same thing for years,[[note]]Japan's view of bisexuality and homosexuality isn't progressive, since such relationships are ones that people are expected "grow out of" when they reach adulthood.[[/note]] and every [[InNameOnly "point"]] he made was already and eloquently refuted by WordOfGod three days after it aired.
** Rob gets the same frustrated feelings from the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' fandom, as while Doug mostly gets the importance of rep and keeps quiet, Rob can go on long rants about casual episodes like "Mystery Girl" aren't worth fussing over, ignoring that the fuss is people ''happy'' with it.
* The backlash to his ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'' vlog was so big (where he called it token and SoOkayItsAverage) he referenced it in the first five minutes of the ''Film/TheMatrix'' review.
** The Disneycember and Dreamworks-uary reviews in general had a lot of these. In particular, Doug also got flack for disliking ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', and ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'', the first ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'', ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}''. And while he didn't pan it, some felt that his criticisms of ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' (claiming that it was too "modern") were unfair. This is actually inverted as well, as many were shocked by his liking ''WesternAnimation/TheWild'' and ''WesternAnimation/BeeMovie''.
*** His review of ''Hercules'' is one of the most disliked reviews of Disneycember, with a lot of viewers stating that his thoughts on the movie made no sense. He was especially given a lot of flak for his confusion on why the look and tone of the movie were based on Las Vegas, which made many viewers point out that Las Vegas looks like Greece and it was meant to be as a reference.[[note]] He also ignored that Thebes, the main setting of the movie, is more of an analog for New York than Vegas[[/note]] WebVideo/OneyPlays [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILjhBdxTtw0 even made made fun of him for that]].
* After Doug's giant rant on ''Film/JurassicWorld'', he says he feels like Profion “[[https://www.facebook.com/127127037353766/photos/a.465719730161160.105344.127127037353766/892656570800805/?type=1 feed me your rage]]” and Rob tells him he'll be on an FBI Most Wanted List before mocking most of his criticisms, which makes this an example essentially in-universe, too
* In ''Real Thoughts On Garfield'', Doug insults ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' fans (including telling people who like Creator/GerardButler's singing that they need therapy), ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'' fans, ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' fans and ''Film/{{Garfield}}'' fans, and Rob says generally to stop asking him on his Website/{{Facebook}} why Doug doesn't like whatever thing.
* While not in the slightest panning (and they had built sets like the movie because they loved it so much, plus Walkers had {{squee}}ed in the Sibling Rivalry of it, along with Doug praising the representation and mocking [=MRAs=] like he'd do in the review), there's a lot of comments out there that assume he bashed ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad''. At 'worst', he had some HypeBacklash and didn't think it was the best one, before Curiosa refutes his arguments and makes him change his mind.
** In an inversion, his liking of ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome'' got him a ton of "you're trolling/it doesn't count as a ''Film/MadMax'' movie" people, even when he explained and tried to point out that he just finds the characters interesting.
* In the video "Top 10 Films I Hate But Everyone Else Loves", he put ''Film/{{Matilda}}'' at number three and said that he originally was going to do a Nostalgia Critic review of it, but there was such a huge backlash that he decided not to. In the video "Career Dive: Danny [=DeVito=]", he said that he has come to love Matilda.
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* His bashing of [[Creator/RankinBassProductions Rankin-Bass's]] [[ChristmasSpecial Christmas Specials]] in his review of "WesternAnimation/TheKingAndI" ticked off fans of those specials, as many consider them Christmas Classics. He claimed people only enjoyed their StopMotionAnimation for SoBadItsGood and/or NarmCharm reasons, which may only be part of the appeal for some viewers.
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* Fans of Creator/BlueSkyStudios also don't like him due to his harsh [[TakeThat Take Thats]] towards them (E.g calling ''WesternAnimation/{{Rio}}'' a movie no one remembers in his ''Film/FaceOff'' review), not giving any reasons for why he dislikes them and hating all of their films aside from ''WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie''. It certainly didn't help that he eventually admitted in the Disneycember review of the [[WesternAnimation/IceAge first Ice Age movie]] to [ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch not have seen any of the films in the franchise]].

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* Fans of Creator/BlueSkyStudios also don't like him due to his harsh [[TakeThat Take Thats]] towards them (E.g calling ''WesternAnimation/{{Rio}}'' a movie no one remembers in his ''Film/FaceOff'' review), not giving any reasons for why he dislikes them and hating all of their films aside from ''WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie''. It certainly didn't help that he eventually admitted in the Disneycember review of the [[WesternAnimation/IceAge first Ice Age movie]] to [ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch not have seen any of the films in the franchise]].
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* Fans of Creator/BlueSkyStudios also don't like him due to his harsh [[TakeThat Take Thats]] towards them (E.g calling ''WesternAnimation/{{Rio}}'' a movie no one remembers in his ''Film/FaceOff'' review), not giving any reasons for why he dislikes them and hating all of their films aside from ''WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie''.

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* Fans of Creator/BlueSkyStudios also don't like him due to his harsh [[TakeThat Take Thats]] towards them (E.g calling ''WesternAnimation/{{Rio}}'' a movie no one remembers in his ''Film/FaceOff'' review), not giving any reasons for why he dislikes them and hating all of their films aside from ''WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie''. It certainly didn't help that he eventually admitted in the Disneycember review of the [[WesternAnimation/IceAge first Ice Age movie]] to [ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch not have seen any of the films in the franchise]].
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* Discussed in "The Ice King's Glasses Issue", where Doug pleads for people to not like him for all the actual reasons to not like a person, not because he has different opinions on a movie or TV show.
* With the hate he had for them in the Disneycember review, the SequelHook at the end of ''Film/SmallSoldiers'', and the total joy about bashing them in [[https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=730601630339634&id=127127037353766 posts]] and the "Long Live The Earth Queen" vlog, girls with fond memories of ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries'' movies and a worry about his track record with female nostalgia (not to mention [[StrawCharacter Hyper Fangirl]]) got extremely nervous before the episode even came out.
* Their, specifically Rob's, V-log review of the Grand Finale of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' revealing [[spoiler:Korrasami being canon]] didn't exactly win them any fans as it comes off as a Straw Critic incarnate of the ignorant part of the fandom with all the CulturalPosturing that Japan's been doing the same thing for years,[[note]]Japan's view of bisexuality and homosexuality isn't progressive, since such relationships are ones that people are expected "grow out of" when they reach adulthood.[[/note]] and every [[InNameOnly "point"]] he made was already and eloquently refuted by WordOfGod three days after it aired.
** Rob gets the same frustrated feelings from the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' fandom, as while Doug mostly gets the importance of rep and keeps quiet, Rob can go on long rants about casual episodes like "Mystery Girl" aren't worth fussing over, ignoring that the fuss is people ''happy'' with it.
* The backlash to his ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'' vlog was so big (where he called it token and SoOkayItsAverage) he referenced it in the first five minutes of the ''Film/TheMatrix'' review.
** The Disneycember and Dreamworks-uary reviews in general had a lot of these. In particular, Doug also got flack for disliking ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', and ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'', the first ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'', ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}''. And while he didn't pan it, some felt that his criticisms of ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' (claiming that it was too "modern") were unfair. This is actually inverted as well, as many were shocked by his liking ''WesternAnimation/TheWild'' and ''WesternAnimation/BeeMovie''.
*** His review of ''Hercules'' is one of the most disliked reviews of Disneycember, with a lot of viewers stating that his thoughts on the movie made no sense. He was especially given a lot of flak for his confusion on why the look and tone of the movie were based on Las Vegas, which made many viewers point out that Las Vegas looks like Greece and it was meant to be as a reference.[[note]] He also ignored that Thebes, the main setting of the movie, is more of an analog for New York than Vegas[[/note]] WebVideo/OneyPlays [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILjhBdxTtw0 even made made fun of him for that]].
* After Doug's giant rant on ''Film/JurassicWorld'', he says he feels like Profion “[[https://www.facebook.com/127127037353766/photos/a.465719730161160.105344.127127037353766/892656570800805/?type=1 feed me your rage]]” and Rob tells him he'll be on an FBI Most Wanted List before mocking most of his criticisms, which makes this an example essentially in-universe, too.



* In ''Real Thoughts On Garfield'', Doug insults ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' fans (including telling people who like Creator/GerardButler's singing that they need therapy), ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'' fans, ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' fans and ''Film/{{Garfield}}'' fans, and Rob says generally to stop asking him on his Website/{{Facebook}} why Doug doesn't like whatever thing.



* While not in the slightest panning (and they had built sets like the movie because they loved it so much, plus Walkers had {{squee}}ed in the Sibling Rivalry of it, along with Doug praising the representation and mocking [=MRAs=] like he'd do in the review), there's a lot of comments out there that assume he bashed ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad''. At 'worst', he had some HypeBacklash and didn't think it was the best one, before Curiosa refutes his arguments and makes him change his mind.
** In an inversion, his liking of ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome'' got him a ton of "you're trolling/it doesn't count as a ''Film/MadMax'' movie" people, even when he explained and tried to point out that he just finds the characters interesting.



* In an inversion, their Sibling Rivalry complaining but also saying positive things about the 2016 ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|2016}}'' has a lot of comments bashing them for being "too SJW". The WebVideo/AwesomeComics review Doug did with Beth, Aiyanna and Heather (that went into more detail about the positives), [[https://twitter.com/BethElderkin/status/755394426139185153 got even more abuse]]. Even the Critic review, where he said you should be allowed to think what you want (but don't be sexist and let little girls enjoy it), got accusations of Doug being "whipped" and responding to the Evilina scene with "kids are naïve".



* In the video "Top 10 Films I Hate But Everyone Else Loves", he put ''Film/{{Matilda}}'' at number three and said that he originally was going to do a Nostalgia Critic review of it, but there was such a huge backlash that he decided not to. In the video "Career Dive: Danny [=DeVito=]", he said that he has come to love Matilda.

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* Oddly ([[NiceGuysFinishLast or maybe not]]), ever since Creator/DougWalker started dropping the anvil in 2011 that an opinion of a movie doesn't make you a good or bad person, Critic, Bum Reviews and his own [=vlogs=] have been getting more of this venomous sort of reaction. One complaint has been people getting upset that Critic doesn't like Creator/JoelSchumacher, when [[Film/BatmanAndRobin that should have been obvious]]. In their defense, it's more due to Critic saying in his review of ''Film/TheWiz'' "that everything [Joel] touches turns into dick" which can be meant as "Joel Schumacher only makes bad movies" even though movies like ''Film/TheLostBoys'', ''Film/FallingDown'', ''Film/PhoneBooth'', and ''Film/TheClient'' are critically acclaimed.

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* Oddly ([[NiceGuysFinishLast or maybe not]]), ever since Creator/DougWalker started dropping the anvil in 2011 that an opinion of a movie doesn't make you a good or bad person, Critic, Bum Reviews and his own [=vlogs=] have been getting more of this venomous sort of reaction. One complaint has been people getting upset that Critic doesn't like Creator/JoelSchumacher, when [[Film/BatmanAndRobin that should have been obvious]]. In their defense, it's more due to Critic saying in his review of ''Film/TheWiz'' "that everything [Joel] touches turns into dick" which can be meant as "Joel Schumacher only makes bad movies" even though movies like ''Film/TheLostBoys'', ''Film/FallingDown'', ''Film/PhoneBooth'', and ''Film/TheClient'' are critically acclaimed.



* An inversion with the review of ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'', which got some criticism for the Critic focusing too much on its SoBadItsGood status while ignoring its failures as an adaptation of the original novel/film (Doug's commentary implies that he hasn't seen it), and that it deserved the kind of analysis ''Film/TheHaunting1999'' got.
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* In particular, his reviews of ''[[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers Transformers]]'', ''Film/TheMatrix'' and ''[[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom Temple of Doom]]'' have drawn considerable flak from their respective fanbases.

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* In particular, his reviews {{review}}s of ''[[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers Transformers]]'', ''Film/TheMatrix'' and ''[[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom Temple of Doom]]'' have drawn considerable flak from their respective fanbases.
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** The Disneycember and Dreamworks-uary reviews in general had a lot of these. In particular, Doug also got flack for disliking ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', and ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'', the first ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}''. And while he didn't pan it, some felt that his criticisms of ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' (claiming that it was too "modern") were unfair. This is actually inverted as well, as many were shocked by his liking ''WesternAnimation/TheWild'' and ''WesternAnimation/BeeMovie''.

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** The Disneycember and Dreamworks-uary reviews in general had a lot of these. In particular, Doug also got flack for disliking ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', and ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'', the first ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'', ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}''. And while he didn't pan it, some felt that his criticisms of ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' (claiming that it was too "modern") were unfair. This is actually inverted as well, as many were shocked by his liking ''WesternAnimation/TheWild'' and ''WesternAnimation/BeeMovie''.
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* In the video "Top 10 Films I Hate But Everyone Else Loves", he put ''Matilda'' at number three and said that he originally was going to do a Nostalgia Critic review of it, but there was such a huge backlash that he decided not to. In the video "Career Dive: Danny [=DeVito=]", he said that he has come to love Matilda.

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* In the video "Top 10 Films I Hate But Everyone Else Loves", he put ''Matilda'' ''Film/{{Matilda}}'' at number three and said that he originally was going to do a Nostalgia Critic review of it, but there was such a huge backlash that he decided not to. In the video "Career Dive: Danny [=DeVito=]", he said that he has come to love Matilda.
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* While he probably expected it, his video panning the ''Film/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'' movie was disliked by many fans of those films. Despite the fact that the Critic's opinion isn't too far off most [[CriticalDissonance movie critics' opinions on those films either]].

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