Love HT, fun, the tone is spot-on, you know it's jokes and puns and riffs and the "announcer voice" is always great to hear. Cinema Sins has one joke (one note) and drills it into the ground.
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Kong: Skull Island Director Takes on Cinema Sins
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Love HT, fun, the tone is spot-on, you know it's jokes and puns and riffs and the "announcer voice" is always great to hear. Cinema Sins has one joke (one note) and drills it into the ground.
BluePigGanon
Member
Yeah I am with anyone who's critical of CS, it's a shitty, unfunny channel that has a negative effect on film conversation.
jack_package_200
Banned
Is there a pateron account?
I was gonna sort of tear into this a bit but then the post edit made me laugh and now I'm endorsing it.
Seriously though, it's just a youtube channel. I watch it because it gives me a sensible chuckle now and again, but it's so easy to ignore.
Nerdkiller
Membeur
They're really not.
All Cinema Sins does is nitpick to an absurd level for the sake of being funny, all the while failing miserably at, you guessed it, being funny.
Every single one of their videos ends up being empty, mean-spirited and sterile. And too long. These videos are way, way too long.
HomerSimpson-Man
Member
People actually take cinema sins seriously? Cause it really a lot of arbitrary nitpicky towards absurd levels seems like nonsense fun or trying to be funny because anymore than that it really toxic if people are influenced by such nonsense.
Dash_Riprock
Member
On the one hand, cinema sins is pure shit.
But on the other hand, so was Kong: Skull Island.
Don't know who to root for here...
But on the other hand, so was Kong: Skull Island.
Don't know who to root for here...
I saw some of their videos a couple of years ago and yeah, I don't like their style. It's not smart, and it's not funny. It's just pointing out things in movies just because they can in order to troll viewers and filmmakers alike. Not to say that there aren't some legitimate "sins". But when you have them grasping at straws like with that sandwich eating scene, it's just stupid.
crisdecuba
Member
CinemaSins is no worse than a mixed bag for me nowadays. They take off sins for really cool stuff, and they still catch lots of legitimate flaws. On the negative side they do throw things in purely for jokes that fall flat, or sometimes they just don't understand what's going on. So it's a mixed bag.
BlackGoku03
Member
Youtube always tries to recommend their vids to me. But I never watch... it'll make you focus on dumb shit you can't unsee the next time you want to enjoy the film. They aren't even that funny.
Honest Trailers has a much better hook and the vids are shorter.
Honest Trailers has a much better hook and the vids are shorter.
What? Is this a common belief? I enjoy Cinema Sins and I've never gotten the impression it was anything other than tongue-in-cheek fun. Do people really think the guy thinks good movies are made bad by the stuff he points out for comedy purposes?
RedAssedApe
Banned
This movie is 99 cents on Psn. So are y'all telling me to rent or not rent it?
I've seen enough CinemaSins videos to not buy into the narrative that the entire thing is just a joke that shouldn't be taken seriously. These guys definitely have a bunch of moments where you get to peak behind the curtain and realize they are actually being snobby dickwads who believe what they are saying.
Subpar Spatula
Banned
CinemaSins turns good people angry for no reason.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
There should be
(I will need it to pay Bronx Man for my joke theft)
Root for Roberts. Skull Island is a shit movie but he's still better at what he's trying to do than Cinema Sins is at what they're failing at.
(Plus he's directed some really good TV)
I've come to find that CinemaSin is on point with movies they either super super hate or really really love. Their video for Godzilla (the 2015 one) is really good because they genuinely enjoy that movie. But if they're blaize on a film, the effort they put into the video reflects it, as made obvious by the many many MANNNNNY jump scare horror videos they've reviewed.
I've actual been in conversations with people who merely echo what they saw in a CinemaSins video.
And almost every time, this is how those conversations eventually end.
Yes but the money will be used to buy pogs, and old issues of Newtype USA
Inferno313
Banned
You literally have to be a contrarian about everything, don't you?
SomedayTheFire
Member
Cinema Sins is awful and not funny in the slightest. Kong: Skull Island is also awful, however.
TwoDurans
"Never said I wasn't a hypocrite."
I used to like Cinema Sins when the videos were about 5 minutes long. Now they seem to be trying to pad the sin count with some of the dumbest thing, including asking questions that are answered in the movie if they'd actually watched them. I'm not going to sit through a 20 minute nitpick.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Seductivpancakes
Member
The worst thing about Cinema Sins is people will repeat what they say instead of actually learning about films themselves.
I thought the link was going to be a guy saying "Bro, just watch the video." That's how a lot of the people I get into it with end the conversation.
Same thing, in a way, I suppose. No opinions of their own, just shitty regurgitated "dings" of a bell.
Something I've been seeing more and more as time marches on is mroe and more people parroting the opinions of movie fanblogs, to the point where I wonder if they actually watched the movie themselves. This happens a lot with Marvel movies and people who admittedly don't have any interest in reading comics but are suddenly very concerned about where the Kree or the Skrulls will be because they learned about them in some fandom blog. It's weird.
So these people would have had a deep and nuanced opinion on these movies otherwise?
Subpar Spatula
Banned
What's contrarian about pointing out that CinemaSins makes people angry? Like, it's just a series that points out stupid sins and they're mostly wrong about a lot of the stuff. You have parody videos and videos doing sins on their sin videos and a large amount of online chat about how bad they are. It's a really strange phenomenon because they're not actively shaping the movie industry or giving off a horrible message. My idea is that they're popular and some folks cannot stand folks being popular for stupid reasons.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
It's bad comedy. People are saying as such.
What are you arguing against? You can't say "it's not meant to be taken seriously" as a response if you're going to also allow for people to criticize it as comedy. In order to criticize something, you kinda sorta have to, yunno, take it a little bit seriously as you think on it.
Shitty comedians making shitty jokes don't get a free pass to stay and be shitty just because they're comedians. I don't get why people insist on arguing this point.
Why are the reasons "stupid"
Why are you reducing valid complaints against their comedy to "you're just jealous" as a dismissal?
What's the purpose of pursuing this line? What are you getting out of it
I once watched Cinema Sins a long time ago and then they started just put false stuff in their videos just for the "lulz." It is almost like clickbait jokes now. Made of people to just devour, laugh at without even thinking about.
Wasn't it originally for entertainment but to point out plot holes in a movie and errors in continuity? I mean, how is not showing someone dying in one scene vs another really a "cinema sin?"
What is Cinema Sin anymore?
Wasn't it originally for entertainment but to point out plot holes in a movie and errors in continuity? I mean, how is not showing someone dying in one scene vs another really a "cinema sin?"
What is Cinema Sin anymore?
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
A lot of people in here hating Cinema Sins. A bit surprised. I always took their videos as fun, obviously not serious videos that are meant to be seen after you see the movie to laugh at some of the ridiculous movie and plot tricks you ignore while watching.
I never took CS as actual movie reviewers and critics. I think they fully know they are nitpicking the shit out of movies, that's the point.
I never took CS as actual movie reviewers and critics. I think they fully know they are nitpicking the shit out of movies, that's the point.
itwasTuesday
He wasn't alone.
Who cares about cinema sins
Only time I see them is when my dad comes over and wants to show me the funny video he found, and I think even he has moved on. Been years.
I think the list are made by robots now.
Cinema sins just always comes off as super lazy while asking the audience to do mental gymnastics to make their criticisms work
Only time I see them is when my dad comes over and wants to show me the funny video he found, and I think even he has moved on. Been years.
I think the list are made by robots now.
Cinema sins just always comes off as super lazy while asking the audience to do mental gymnastics to make their criticisms work
Every single popular YouTube channel influences people.
ItWasMeantToBe19
Banned
Cinema Sins catches 100 out of the 20 critical flaws a movie.
But they're good for pointing out specific scenes for criticism which other reviews usually don't.
But they're good for pointing out specific scenes for criticism which other reviews usually don't.
Inferno313
Banned
Even if I agreed that "is the point", why on earth would anyone want to sit down for 20 minutes to watch that?
subpar spatula is my new slate soda because i actually saw slate soda agree with something this year, so clearly i had it all wrong
so i say unto you subpar spatula, never stop, i need to have things in my life i can count on
Man Called Aerodynamics
Member
He's right. CS is not intelligent or insightful, which would be okay if it was funny, which it also is not.
SomedayTheFire
Member
There's plenty of genuinely funny and poignant film reviewers and critics on YouTube rather than the film equivalent of jamming a fork down your throat repeatedly and calling it food.
Dirtyshubb
Member
I honestly went off cinema sins a while back, for a couple reasons.
1) most of the points are for simple humour and aren't actually representative of the films quality which feels odd to count as a sin
2) I didn't agree with a lot of the actual points most of the time
For me cinema wins is the far superior channel, it's fun and I find it a much more thorough look at a films qualities and drawing out the positive aspects of it.
There are millions of negative personalities out there and yet wins tends to have a great amount of insight into the purpose of scenes and the meaning that should be drawn out in comparison. That's a much better quality to have for me then just shitting on everything for the sake of it.
Let's celebrate the good aspects of things and not always dwell on the bad (and often misinterpreted) stuff.
1) most of the points are for simple humour and aren't actually representative of the films quality which feels odd to count as a sin
2) I didn't agree with a lot of the actual points most of the time
For me cinema wins is the far superior channel, it's fun and I find it a much more thorough look at a films qualities and drawing out the positive aspects of it.
There are millions of negative personalities out there and yet wins tends to have a great amount of insight into the purpose of scenes and the meaning that should be drawn out in comparison. That's a much better quality to have for me then just shitting on everything for the sake of it.
Let's celebrate the good aspects of things and not always dwell on the bad (and often misinterpreted) stuff.
The Greek Freak
Member
Yup they have even admitted to doing some of their favorite movies, and x amou t if sins doesn't mean a movie sucks. Most are pointed out for laughs.
LizardSnob
Neo Member
^^^This right here. I don't and never have taken their videos seriously. I always assumed their nitpicking of random things is kind of just their shtick.
Wait, Cinemasins is actually serious about the whole sins thing?
I always thought that it was supposed to be a joke (ex.: "scene does not contain a lapdance")
On the other hand, it has been a damn long while since I last watched one of their videos, so I don't know what their content is like now.
I always thought that it was supposed to be a joke (ex.: "scene does not contain a lapdance")
On the other hand, it has been a damn long while since I last watched one of their videos, so I don't know what their content is like now.