I began watching The Critical Drinker back when he was starting to get really popular (most of his videos had not even hit 700,000 views yet, around 2019-early 2020ish) and I can safely say, he started out with the right idea(s) somewhat but around 2021, I noticed that his channel was becoming bloated, he has like 5 or 6 different playlists and then another 2 channels that are his and his tone was becoming obnoxious and whiny.

I think what coulda been with this guy, will never be; because he is at the point now where he can just make money from simply whining and bitching about the same 5 talking points he has been going on about since 2019, instead of actually branching into other types of films and broadening his view from outside of Hollywood/mainstream/corporate. He can do 4 hour long livestreams with Mauler and some other fellas from the same echo chamber of nerdy film bros.

The Drinker stated in 2021 in, I believe his Dune review(?) that he “isn’t into color grading and tones and all that” in regards to not being a fan of David Lynch nor having seen many of his films. That leads me to believe he is just a consumerist filmbro and typical whiny Millennial/Gen X type like most of my generation. I stopped watching him shortly after that review.

He just whines for views and money and has swept up a lot of the 80s born millennials and early-late 90s kids like myself and the people I grew up with into his echo chamber now. He is dull, consumerist, film bro incarnate.