I haven't watched cinema sins in ages, but I love other people's points of view
can I ask what people aren't understanding about it? /gen
well the post was mostly a joke, but i do have an actual opinion on it.
i tend to see two primary attitudes about cinema sins: one being "omg they're being so mean this is the best movie ever why can't they leave it alone"
and two being "anybody else feel like cinema sins has kinda stopped making valid critiques? i feel like they're saying the same kind of thing over and over"
essentially: people who think that they're making serious commentary, and that it's bad commentary/unfair/undeserved/whatever, and people who think they're making serious commentary, and that it's (mostly) good commentary/fair/deserved/etc.
which is laughable to me because i think it's always been quite obvious--like EXTREMELY obvious--that they're doing neither? i think that it originally started as a gimmick to point out, almost exclusively, continuity errors, and if you go back and watch their very earliest videos, that's mostly what they are. newspaper clippings with incorrect headlines. mugs that are blue in one scene and green in the next. the sun being higher in the sky than it should be. that kind of thing. and amongst that, they've scattered in little jokes, mostly of the "anna kendrick isn't my girlfriend in this scene" variety.
i think as they evolved, they branched out from that, and the commentary sometimes became serious critique, sure--everything wrong with a series of unfortunate events for example is a movie you can tell they legitimately, heavily disliked--but mostly? it's jokes. the sins are not cliches, they're tropes. cinema sins has been parodying the kind of dudebro who gets mad at a movie for having normal story beats for years. sinning narration, sinning protagonists fight before the third act, sinning "x expects me to believe this" in a heavily suspension of disbelief reliant children's movie...all of it is just poking fun at the kind of people who can't sit down and enjoy a thing without ripping it to bits for existing to save their lives. and the reason i know it's poking fun at that and not serious is because they've said it so many goddamn times.
everything wrong with the shining is chock full of jokes about how only the most evil of people would dare to sin such a movie--they don't use the sin counter, they use hal 9000, and jeremy says several times that it's "messing with his head" to sin it so much. jeremy will often sin something for being one way then sin it for being the opposite way and then point out his own hypocrisy. hell, he will sin a movie for not explaining itself, and then when the explanation comes, he will sin the movie for proving him wrong.
the channel trailer is a parody of their own style making fun of themselves, and among their sins is the fact that they've sinned several of their favorite movies of all time, and that none of them have ever made a movie. on top of that, you can really tell when they love a movie, because on top of sin removal, even the sins themselves will be chock full of commentary on how brilliant a scene or an acting choice is, and then jeremy will tag on the teensiest fault to justify it as a sin.
anyway. tl;dr, cinema sins has been parodying whiny perfectionist movie criticism for years and everyone thinks they're serious and i have no idea how.
