Notes:
I don’t always watch them, but when I do, they are AI generated and have really obscure titles like “He is the last man on earth”
I’m a fan of Pitch Meeting. I feel like Honest Trailers is too mean.
I like Pitch Meeting because he’s excellent at pointing out plot holes, of which there are many, and isn’t quite so nitpicky as Cinema Sins
Not necessarily something like that, but yeah they’re fine, and prbly more often than have personality, compared to newer content
The newer A.I gen-ones where its text-to-speech and its about a full film, yeah, that’s what I watch…
CinemaSins is still the king of “unwarranted bad” recaps.
What about CinemaWins?
I hate CinemaSins. I get that it’s their shtick, but to nitpick literally everything for the sake of nitpicking gets boring eventually.
CinemaWins has the same shtick, but reversed into positivity, which I find much more agreeable.
It was a great channel before they realized how much ad money they can make if every video is 20-40 minutes long. The older ones that ran 8-10 minutes were fantastic because it didn’t feel like they were grasping at straws for every nitpick.
That’s the thing though, CinemaSins’ nitpicks are muddied with things the creators got wrong. The nitpicks are written by people who are either dishonest or lack object permanence.
Of course there’s a classic (6 years old now) video essay about it: https://youtu.be/ELEAsGoP-5I
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/ELEAsGoP-5I
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
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Sometimes I don’t want to watch a movie but either due to popularity or some other reputation of the film I get curious. It’s not very often but movie recaps sufficiently scratch to that itch
So braindead that I’ve considered writing a Chrome plugin to obliterate them from my feed. I’ve marked dozens as “never show me this channel again” but they keep multiplying.
Worthless
As expected 😞
Depends on the movie. I like to watch them for movies I know I will never see and have no desire to see, and more focus on non-mainstream or foreign films. I prefer other mediums to movies so I probably watch fewer than 20 movies a year.
For example, I watched one about a Japanese movie where cockroach humanoids now inhabit Mars and they have to send humans with the ability to transform into other bugs to retrieve some data. An absolutely outrageous movie that I would otherwise never know existed and would never see willingly. So instead I watched a twenty minute summary of the movie while doing something else
Yeah, I agree more with you, compared to others…
I honestly like my slop…
I have yet to find one that’s worth a damn.
I like to watch a movie recap of a film I’ve seen, that way I can avoid Gell-Mann Amnesia early on.
I’m not expecting them to inject analysis or critique, so—given that it should just be a statement of facts about what was said/done on screen—it shouldn’t be hard to find. Unfortunately, for the few that don’t inject their own interpretation outright, they still fall prey to the same shortcoming as all the rest: what they choose to ignore/include demonstrates a bias of their pet interpretation (oftentimes the most basic one).
Also, movies can’t be summarized and retain their meaning. To quote Edward Hopper with a sentiment I’ve seen echoed throughout all artistic media and time:
If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.
