putting Willems in the same bucket as fucking CinemaSins is a travesty, this guy's problem is just that he's stupid

You are supposed to notice the plot, characters, dialogue, and editing. What the fuck are you talking about. Literally anyone can tell Noah Baumbach from Wes Anderson from Paul Thomas Anderson from Scorsese even if they can't articulate exactly what the difference is. That should deepen your appreciation of the art, not stamp it out!

watches film reviews

doesnt watch films

why watch reviews?

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This has nothing to do with analysis and everything to do with being a dipshit comes from endlessly consuming empty, self-aggrandizing slop of the 'I Am Very Smart' variety.

Filmmakers, film critics, and film writers more generally are nearly always by far and away the absolute, most film obsessed viewers and most of them could tell you exactly how every shot is constructed, what lens it's shot on, picture the script layout in their head etc. It doesn't ruin their ability to enjoy film at all.

So I'd suggest actually going deeper into understanding and analysing film, from people who aren't fucking lazy edgelord YouTubers trying to seem clever, to unlearn some of the shit habits they've conditioned themselves with.

Additionally, human empathy will get you a long way with being absorbed by characters. Try going outside, talking to people, not self-consciously trying to be the smartest person in the room, and then apply that same mindset to fictional characters. You'll never enjoy a film if you've decided you're already above it and the characters are just puppets you want to dance in particular way instead of the representations of real people.

The Redditor, in a completely roundabout way and for entirely wrong reasons, is realizing that consuming slop is completely meaningless. The next step is to stop consuming slop and find better hobbies. There's more to this world than watching Marvel trash.

Miles Davis was questioning the increasing length of John Coltrane solos and Trane answered "I don't know how to stop." Davis replied with "Try taking the fucking horn out of your mouth."

I'm sure that never happened but it's still a cool quote.

I don't know much about that Patrick channel but the rest are pretty much generic youtube trash. Cinema sins or honest trailers are stale and pedantic. Critical drinker from what I know is just a gross channel. Same with filmento from the looks of it.

None of them analyse shit. Its such a low bar that critical drinker passes for analysis. Whatever that "analysis" is. I'm sorry that you couldn't watch a movie without analyzing whether the movie was pushing the woke agenda. Too bad.

hyper-analyse

idk if that's what you're doing if your brain goes "ding" every time you see a continuity error or a set expedience. Not everyone wants to watch a movie that is 20 minutes longer because the characters were snacking or going to the bathroom.

Cinemasins/Honest Trailers is fun for a couple weeks, but gets old kinda fast. Don't know how you'd watch to the point that everything is ruined for you.

Also, watching the Critical Drinker

guys I peered behind the veil of ignorance that protects our minds from the unfeeling cosmos and its enormity, and I feel kinda bummed?

cinemasins, hoonest trailers, the critical drinker

Don't know much about the other channels, but these three will do it for ya. The average level of media literacy among youtube reviewers is the absolute pits, and if you teach yourself to think about movies on that level, then you're playing yourself. I'm not like, Mr Cinema Buff certified expert or anything, but I've curated my subscriptions to reviewers with interesting things to say and points of view that I don't have, so that it feels like more of a complement to watching film and TV to me than something that drags the whole experience down.

This is silly, but you all can't say this isn't true for some people here as well. Just with like, actual analysis of politics in media instead of plotholes

sounds like he OD’d on the shit he likes and now it doesn’t make his little prick hard any more.

content I mainly watch being film and TV review and critical analysis content.

tell me you’re a debatelord without telling me you’re an online debatelord.

I can recognize faults in movies without it completely ruining my enjoyment of them, because I'm cool and normal. some people get weirdly mad any time a movie does something they don't like and I would suggest chilling tf out about it. making a movie is a complex process that involves many people making lots of decisions under specific constraints and it's pretty unreasonable to demand perfection

some of my favorite movies have definite flaws and that's okay, all art is flawed because humans are flawed. hell, sometimes it's the flaws that make a movie interesting

CinemaSins must pay for its crimes.

Welcome to the world of having studied film and other narrative-driven art forms....only, without having the media literacy and technical knowledge to make the tradeoff worthwhile. At best, it sounds like false knowledge based on elements, such as surface trope patterns. On the one hand, I kinda feel for them because it's a legit industry hazard....on the other, they brought it on themselves.

Obligatory link to Dan Olsen's "Decoding Metaphor" video. Had flashbacks to the start of it when reading this dweeb's "sources"

Try reading a book you fuck, feminism ruined tv for me 💅

Sounds like a really shallow and always-online version of something that legitimately drives a lot of creative people nuts. I drove myself into the ground with music, always hearing the changes in my head as I walked through Walmart with their shopping playlist playing and feeling how I would mimic a melody or something on my guitar. Like it made me extremely good at playing by ear which people appreciated, but I couldn’t turn it off.

His critical analysis: Why is there a stable black American family in this, looks like Hollywood is at it again spreading "The Message!"

I watch all the big movie YouTubers: Filmhole, Plotfollower, Tradgaze, the MovieDrunks, ManVsFilm (especially after he split from his wife)

Cinema Sins implies the existence of Cinema Indulgences.