TIL: There are some very vocal voices in the film industry that truly hate the YouTube channel CinemaSins. For those who don't know, CinemaSins basically points out all the tired, overused tropes in both good and bad movies. The motto of the channel is "No movie is without sin" and they have done videos on classics like The Wizard of Oz (which really pissed a lot of people off). They make it clear though that they are only doing it for comedic purposes and their videos are not intended to be a serious critique of the films they "sin".
However that doesn't stop some in the film industry from labelling their channel as "harmful" to the film industry since their large following "shames" filmmakers into avoiding certain tropes or commonly used techniques in storytelling, special effects, etc. this stifling the creativity of filmmakers. If I remember right, JJ Abrams is not a fan and was one of the people that said they are too nitpicky about what they "sin".
Anyway, I just thought it was kinda weird that some in the film industry get so bent out of shape over a little comedy series on YouTube. Are they really that insecure about their chosen art?
I've seen some of those, and for the most part the "sins" are genuine "WTH" moments because they're either contradictory or they just don't make any sense at all.
Abrams has been raked over the coals ever since the first nuTrek movie (as far as the new Star Trek movies are concerned). There are so many things wrong with them that let's just say that it would take me many posts to list them, and that's just my opinions and not getting into what other people hate that I didn't notice because I don't pay attention to ships' specs. I first saw the nuTrek movie on TV and so I didn't notice the lens flare as much as people would who saw it in the theatre. But after reading about it, the next time I watched the movie, I saw what they meant. It's godawful annoying.
I can see producers and directors getting pissed because to them they were making art - very expensive art costing tens or hundreds of millions, and here's somebody on YouTube tearing it down.
But in my view, the criticism is deserved for the most part. There's someone on the Star Trek forum I belong to who's made a bunch of similar nitpicky videos about the various TV series, and even though Voyager is my favorite series after TOS, I still enjoy the nitpicks. After all, in the early episodes, "we have only ____ photon torpedoes, so don't waste them" or "we have only ____ shuttles" but no matter how many of them Chakotay keeps crashing or they give away to people (at least 2 or 3 I can recall), they always seem to have enough. So either the industrial replicators are working overtime on that ship, or they just didn't mention the times when they stopped off at an alien shipyard and got some more built.
If I had the know-how to do videos, I might be tempted to make one about The Handmaid's Tale to refute all the idiotic nonsense perpetuated by some of the fans who just. don't. pay. attention. to what they see (they don't believe me that there was no stoning in the first-season Particicution scene even when I provide the exact clip to prove my statement), or they have ridiculous ideas about Canada (like when Emily escapes to Canada with June's baby, there were American fans wailing all over YouTube, "What's the baby gonna eat, do they even have baby formula in Canada, she's gonna STAAAARRVE!"
). And just this morning one of them got mad at me for mentioning a plot point in the original novel, because it was a "spoiler."
The book is 35 years old, and there have already been 3 seasons of the show. That's ample time to have read the book. It's not like I posted a spoiler for the sequel, which just came out last year in hardcover and it's reasonable to assume that a lot of fans haven't read it yet.
Seriously, WTH is wrong with these people?
