I haven't seen you pretend to not understand simple arguments and be a condescending dick about it.
I'm sure you are have been wrong or said dumb stuff but I can't think of anything comperable to the Plotholes Don't Matter video
Maybe because he was right about Plot Holes, since plot holes aren't mistakes, they're narrative shortcuts that are necessary because movies can't be too long because they're made under economic constraints
A) A lot of plotholes just aren't intentional
B) it would not mean they don't matter, it just gives a reason why they occur.
C) a lot of plotholes could be fixed with no extra time
D) What kind of bs argument is "they didn't have the time and money, so it doesn't matter"?
A) they are (Read Hitchcock/Truffaut for more information)
B) precisely
C) narrative efficiency is more important (it’s the reason why Disney remakes are bad because they try to fill them)
D) Cinema is an industry and as a result movies are made under economic constraints
Someone needs to explain to people that "willing suspension of disbelief" contains will for a reason.
If you can't suspend disbelief, that's a weak will.
It's always sad to see the "I just want to shut off my brain and Consume Media" crowd air some genuine grievances with the "critic mindset" and then lump in quality media analysis with Cinema Sins-style bad faith nitpicking.
Patrick H Willems also literally made a video about how things like plot holes don't matter. Legitimately weird to see his name pop up in the same context of cinema sins
I don't like him, he can be a condescending prick and has said some stupid stuff (e.g. his entire argument about plotholes not mattering) but he's definitely above the rest in that list.
I'd also argue Honest Trailers exists in a gray middle ground. Their mission statement is purportedly to make "honest" trailers about movies (and shows), so if they think a movie is great the trailer they make celebrates the movie's strengths.
I went to film school in addition to consuming media criticism like a dehydrated man in the desert drinks water, and one of my favorite movies is Crank 2 cause funny guy action go fast. Seems like a skill issue to be.
It's my own form of snobbery to be sure but I always go "Hmmm" when an (even otherwise good) critic cant set it aside long enough to go "that part of the Fast and the Furious movie where the rock took a nuclear sub's unexploded missile and directed it at a bunch of other cars was cool"
The difference between film school and these is film school is inundation of media literacy and learning how sausage gets made in a room full of people who want to make sausage, not make YouTube videos saying “you won’t BELIEVE how they make sausage!”
I would venture to say, at the risk of condescension, that you appreciate crank 2 even deeper than had you not been schooled in film. I had a neighbor quasi sommelier wine pervert who loved a Miller lite every now and then.
Though it wasn’t “film school”, my education was DEEP into filmmaking, the culture of it, all of that…
And I’m also one of the biggest lovers of the worst films ever made because they are SOMEONE’S ART
And I never resist a good chance to drop this trailer with a nudge because it’s WONDERFUL
Bought it twice on VHS and both times gave the tape to someone that NEEDED to see it.
It’s on TUBI. 😉
(The documentarian, Lesley Uggums, is played by the same guy that was Randee of The Redwoods on late 80s MTV)
Also it seems more that Cinema Sins obscured the inevitable process of getting older and watching enough that mediocre & formualic ones aren't enaging. Nothing took that but time, familarity and the unavoidable development of taste.
Watching a decade(!) of YouTube videos all based on the premise that every movie is viewed primarily through its problems (real or imaginary) and then wondering how that's affected your ability engage with film
I paid a guy to punch me in the balls until I fainted twice a day for ten years and now every time someone pretends to swing their fist at my balls I pass out or blubber like a baby. Can anyone tell me where I went wrong
And the answer is probably similarly short, to stop ingesting that kind of stuff all the time and maybe try to return to basics and learn to find things they enjoy again.
I don't know about the rest, but the problem is just cinemasins. No entertainment, bad critiques, quantity over quality which was always nonexistent; just do yourself a favour and stop watching cinemasins.
For me, when reviews show a POV I haven't considered, it often enhances my experience.
