Notes:
Sure, I’ll watch a 5min, minimal spoiler YT recap on double speed to gage whether I want to watch a 2 hour movie. Or use a recap video to get a sense of a popular movie that I don’t really want to watch so I’m not completely out of the pop culture loop.
I don’t watch recap or reaction or review videos of movies I want to watch.
I’m a fan of Pitch Meeting. I feel like Honest Trailers is too mean.
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.
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
CinemaWins has the same shtick, but reversed into positivity, which I find much more agreeable.
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
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”
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
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.
