DeathoftheEndless
Crashing this plane... with no survivors!
What about National Treasure 2?
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Kong: Skull Island Director Takes on Cinema Sins
- Thread starter Cruxist
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What about National Treasure 2?
Prince of Space
Banned
Okay, I haven't seen the movie myself, but this makes no sense at all -- how can a film that's "decent at best" deserve to be ripped apart because it's "not a good film"?
So basically Cinema Sins is guilty of the greatest cinema sin of all.
*ding*
Inferno313
Banned
I mean... Probably in the same boat? I find it really hard to find good, insightful, meaningful film crit on YouTube. CineFix and Nerdwriter1 are the two that come to mind, and they're usually not operating in the traditional review structure.
cr0w
Old Member
Cinemasins isn't meant to be a serious reviewer though, it's comedy. They literally have sins that are on the lines of "scarlett johanson isn't my wife in this scene". RLM is mostly comedy too.
cr0w
Old Member
LinkSlayer64
Member
Which sin would that be? Literally doing what it says in the tin?
Bobby Roberts
Banned
the amount that this actually matters to the point being made is not the amount you think it is
Why is that so? Cinema sins has sinned and nitpicked every movie under the sun and moon basically. Jeremy has sinned some of his all time favorite movies.
its a stupid cinemasins thing they do
Lionel Mandrake
Member
- Ralphie's father, a middle-aged professional doesn't know that word "Fragile"? *DING*
- Scott Farkus is twice Ralphie's size; there's no way he should have gone down that easy. *DING*
[Repeat for a nauseating 30 minutes]
Every Frame A Painting, Folding Ideas, and Lindsay Ellis are three really good ones that I can think of off the top of my head.
Hell, I even like watching Moviebob's stuff, even if I often disagree with him, simply because his criticism/analysis goes beyond "Movie made a mistake!"
CassidyIzABeast
Member
Cinemasins is ass. I'm rolling with the director on this one.
Inferno313
Banned
Will have to check those out! I'm not familiar.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Psychoward
Banned
I've watched a few bits of pieces of cinema sins and while I'm sure skull island isn't a fantastic movie, their criticisms I've seen are mostly completely ignorant, stupid bullshit that would be outclassed by most first year film student critiques.
Because cinemasins isn't a review/serious critic channel. It's at most a satirical show about nitpicking literally every possible detail of a movie just for fun. FOR FUN....is that a hard concept to understand?
Fudgepuppy
Banned
Cinema sins are terrible.
They're part of the whole movement of people thinking they're clever for noticing discrepancies and inconsistencies in fiction, nitpicking everything like it's impressive.
It's not. You're just an obtuse, boring, blank state of an asshole, without a single creative thought in your head.
They're part of the whole movement of people thinking they're clever for noticing discrepancies and inconsistencies in fiction, nitpicking everything like it's impressive.
It's not. You're just an obtuse, boring, blank state of an asshole, without a single creative thought in your head.
Inferno313
Banned
What does that matter, the output is the output.
If I took a dump on a copy of The Force Awakens and left it on Bobby's doorstep, does the fact that I actually really, really love The Force Awakens change that?
No! Bobby still has a shit-covered copy of The Force Awakens on his doorstep.
Which is basically what Cinemasins does to movies.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
How does your non-sequitur response to my post prove that though?
What are you even arguing? Do you know?
what happens when it's not fun
Renegade Cut is another one I'm subbed to, but I haven't checked out any of his videos in a while.
DeathoftheEndless
Crashing this plane... with no survivors!
The Chinese restaurant scene though...
jack_package_200
Banned
Leon is a hard worker. Highly recommend checking it out
LinkSlayer64
Member
How are we supposed to gauge a subjective property that will differ from person to person?
I thought Skull Island was an exceedingly dumbly written, but amusingly directed film. So I'll say Cinema Sins is stupid, and although Roberts' criticism comes off as a little "oh my god you suck", I think he has some valid points.
That being said, who cares about Cinema Sins. It's dumb. Move on.
That being said, who cares about Cinema Sins. It's dumb. Move on.
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
Foundflix is great for horror/scifi. Especially like the ending explained series he does.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
I love CinemaSins.
But anyone who takes it seriously is silly. Its meant to be a fun poke at all the flaws in movie logic. Its not supposed to be a total breakdown of every nuance of the movie. Its literally supposed to just be a guy sitting watching a movie and saying that is so stupid. It makes no sense and would never happen.
If you get uppity at a silly YouTube channel making fun of your movie you have skin as thin as the President.
But anyone who takes it seriously is silly. Its meant to be a fun poke at all the flaws in movie logic. Its not supposed to be a total breakdown of every nuance of the movie. Its literally supposed to just be a guy sitting watching a movie and saying that is so stupid. It makes no sense and would never happen.
If you get uppity at a silly YouTube channel making fun of your movie you have skin as thin as the President.
This is basically the "what have you written?" rebuttal of criticism, though, combined with a side of "it's just a movie, stop thinking so hard about it".
No one is leaving a dump on your doorstep.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
I guess you just watch another YouTube channel? I dunno.
How are you getting that out of what was posted?
what the fuck
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
There are literally examples in this thread showing it literally isnt that.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
over a long period of time they'd lose their audience and go broke.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
would that it were so simple
Seductivpancakes
Member
A majority of the time he says something doesn't make sense, is factually untrue and makes sense if he paid attention or understood the context.
Sometimes, he'll criticize something he doesn't understand, but at the same video, it will show he's quite capable of doing research via google so he can add a "sin",
So it really shows he's doing much more than "that is so stupid it makes no sense and would never happen".
"Should I put the lapdance joke in before or after the part where I misconstrue what a character said?"
SuperStiltzkin
Member
Well in the Twin Peaks S3 OT, we had someone compare Lynch fans to Trump supporters. It's Godwin's law, but with Trump.
yanipheonu
Member
Cinema Sins always struck me a simultaneously too nitpicky and not nitpicky enough.
Misses too many genuinely bad and funny moments. Often marks something not particularly egregious as a "cinema sin".
Overall misses the point of criticism in favour of easily digestible video content.
Misses too many genuinely bad and funny moments. Often marks something not particularly egregious as a "cinema sin".
Overall misses the point of criticism in favour of easily digestible video content.
He's not wrong thoughI will do it.
Vincent Alexander
Member
You mean "fun criticism" !
thehypocrite
Member
No film is flawless. No director claims their films are such. There's an inherent compromise to filmmaking.
Prince of Space
Banned
That would be the "not wanting to engage in actual discussion about a movie if they want to hate it, and they don't look at multiple sources, everybody is just looking for the confirmation to their pre-established opinions" one.
I feel like the REAL Abed would be the loudest CS detractor on the planet.
Inferno313
Banned
The only way this shit even makes sense to me as "comedy" is if the target audience is literal psychopaths.
Ding.