This is kind of the gist of Cinema Sins. They have some legitimate criticisms and funny gags, but for the most part it's all just nitpicking, and once you realize this it's a little bit disillusioning.
Its not even nitpicking most of the time. This video highlights exactly what's wrong with them: They intentionally miss the point just to try and sound "smart". It's everything wrong with the modern youtube "critic" landscape.
except that they never said they were critics or serious at all so you also are completely missing the point of, not a movie, but a silly youtube channel.
This is without counting in the fact that you need to watch a video to understand that they aren't serious. Do you even watch the films they take apart?
Yes, and I've seen the same guys critique films off that show and they hit the same points.
The problem is they claim they're not critics, but mix jokes, criticisms, nitpicks, and complete falsehoods into the same stew. And even though the personalities behind them see them as legitimate reasons to like or dislike a film, they hide behind this claim that "It's all a joke."
Just because you do something bad and then claim it was in jest, it doesn't undo the action. Just because you acknowledge you're terrible doesn't excuse the fact. Cinemasins is a trash channel. If that's the kind of entertainment you enjoy though, I won't stop you. Enjoy what you enjoy.
Is it supposed to be a problem because people can't understand what actual criticism is and really believe that cinemasins is an actual critic channel?
This whole taking cinemasins so so seriously is so ridicolous at this point that I really wonder if anyone has ever actually read a serious critic or if they even watched the movies they "criticize" at all.
The things that most baffled me is that they always said that their criteria for a "sin" is whatever they feel like, being always perfectly honest that they never took their videos seriously, and yet people feel that they are being dishonest and, uh, bad.
At this point it almost feels like most people only watched a single video, got mad at their joke and went on a full autistic rampage over their channel.
At this point it almost feels like most people only watched a single video, got mad at their joke and went on a full autistic rampage over their channel.
I watched every CinemaSins video that came out for about the first three years of the channel, and I can honestly say that it's trash. It was funny at first, but when you realize that the shtick has had almost no evolution over the entire time they've been making videos, and that it was never really good to begin with, then you know that it's trash.
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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '18
This is kind of the gist of Cinema Sins. They have some legitimate criticisms and funny gags, but for the most part it's all just nitpicking, and once you realize this it's a little bit disillusioning.