What Grinds Your Gears?

CinemaSins, YourMovieSucks, and similar comedy-driven critiques of blockbuster movies had their cynical style of humor unintentionally influence their audience's willingness to have a good-faith attempt at a film. It can be funny and I'm not saying they can't make comedy criticisms of "bad" movies but unless you have already enjoyed the piece on your own beforehand, it's a slippery slope to biasing you into this mindset to look for flaws more. Negativity has permeated the internet so strongly over the years (Youtube and the Commentary Channel genre has caused a lot of damage in how it shaped the content on the site over the 2010s) that it's just par for the course to see cinema channels post a vid on a new movie with a title suggesting that they will tear it to shreds. People LOVE to watch things get torn apart, I am extremely guilty of this (I just have transitioned to watching these types of movies after I've been able to look at it from an unbiased viewpoint. I prefer to be completely blind when I view movies so I don't even watch trailers if possible)

And oftentimes, you will see these channels take the most poor-faith interpretation you can make just because they could, to highlight their perceived absurdity of a scenario. It's one thing to articulate a charitably put-together critique of a movie but these types of channels will not critique the flaws in films they like with anywhere near the amount of harshness and nitpicking. I guess it would hurt their brand of being the cynical movie guy-- so much so that a stranger created CinemaWins because the inconsistent sinning system got old after a few years. These roasting-movies-channels get big and implicitly develop a sense of authority thanks to parasocial relationships with their audience as that is the nature of social media-- people won't give two shits what a critic on RottenTomatoes has to say or someone that writes film criticisms for New York Times about the quality of the movie, they do want to know what their favorite youtuber's opinion is in hopes it will make for a funny cynical review or agree with them.

At least the critics that write a well-thought out analysis in their articles are regarded positively like film analysis channels who seem to actually enjoy movies enough to talk about the cool stuff in the things they watch. You can just kinda tell who loves to watch movies and analyse them vs someone that just likes to brand things as "this sucks and you should think it sucks too"
 
Some of the things that grind my gears:

1. Those F***ing YouTube Video Ads! They are intrusive, annoying, and have NOTHING to do with the content I WANT to watch on there. YouTube, stop trying to coax me into paying for a service that has been and always should be FOR FREE. I will NOT turn off my adblocker so you can shove your YouTube Premium right up in the place where the sun doesn't shine!

2. Hearing cars taking off with screeching tyres. This is NOT Le Mans or the Indy 500; you're in a public street and your car is not that special! Get over yourself!

3. High-speed cyclists, especially when I see them on paths where I'm taking a peaceful stroll or ride on my own bicycle. Those big tours like the Tour de France are held further south; stop believing you're like Lance Armstrong, Jonas Vingegaard and just ride your bike at a normal pace! You might see something of the nature around you too.

4. Any spam mail with obvious suspicious links or gibberish e-mail addresses or any private messages/chats/DMs on sites like DA or apps like Discord. I won't fall for any of your scams, give it up already and do something more productive with your time, bot or not.

5. Any site I happen to visit that tells me to disable my adblocker to continue. Let me just enjoy an ad-free experience without having to subscribe or whatever, will you?! Not everything NEEDS to be subscription-based, ever thought of that?
 
CinemaSins, YourMovieSucks, and similar comedy-driven critiques of blockbuster movies had their cynical style of humor unintentionally influence their audience's willingness to have a good-faith attempt at a film. It can be funny and I'm not saying they can't make comedy criticisms of "bad" movies but unless you have already enjoyed the piece on your own beforehand, it's a slippery slope to biasing you into this mindset to look for flaws more. Negativity has permeated the internet so strongly over the years (Youtube and the Commentary Channel genre has caused a lot of damage in how it shaped the content on the site over the 2010s) that it's just par for the course to see cinema channels post a vid on a new movie with a title suggesting that they will tear it to shreds. People LOVE to watch things get torn apart, I am extremely guilty of this (I just have transitioned to watching these types of movies after I've been able to look at it from an unbiased viewpoint. I prefer to be completely blind when I view movies so I don't even watch trailers if possible)

And oftentimes, you will see these channels take the most poor-faith interpretation you can make just because they could, to highlight their perceived absurdity of a scenario. It's one thing to articulate a charitably put-together critique of a movie but these types of channels will not critique the flaws in films they like with anywhere near the amount of harshness and nitpicking. I guess it would hurt their brand of being the cynical movie guy-- so much so that a stranger created CinemaWins because the inconsistent sinning system got old after a few years. These roasting-movies-channels get big and implicitly develop a sense of authority thanks to parasocial relationships with their audience as that is the nature of social media-- people won't give two shits what a critic on RottenTomatoes has to say or someone that writes film criticisms for New York Times about the quality of the movie, they do want to know what their favorite youtuber's opinion is in hopes it will make for a funny cynical review or agree with them.

At least the critics that write a well-thought out analysis in their articles are regarded positively like film analysis channels who seem to actually enjoy movies enough to talk about the cool stuff in the things they watch. You can just kinda tell who loves to watch movies and analyse them vs someone that just likes to brand things as "this sucks and you should think it sucks too"

You are absolutely right. Honestly, I'm on the mindset that these style of comedy or satire fails, because underneath all that poor jokes is their actual opinion of the movie they're reviewing. It's easy pickings to critique a "bad" film. But when it is a film that everyone had seen or have a more mainstream appeal, you'll absolutely notice the sludge of bad-faith points masquerading as "comedy" or "satire".

It sucks because film discussions falls into such a one-note mindset of "this film sucks because xyz" in an authorial manner. It's why I always emphasized that even the worst works I've come across (personally), I still let other people decided on their own merits to see if they enjoy it. Who knows, maybe they have a perspective that I haven't considered?
 
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