It was nothing more than passable even before the video came out.
Good acting and premise aaaaand...that's it.
Fuck Cinemasins but this movie is way overrated. It's a clever idea stretched twice as long as it can sustain and it's full of plot holes and you can see the ending coming from miles away. 6/10 at best.
I only made it to "sin" 5 of this video before I had to stop watching. He complains that the movie has a shot to establish a character's hearing disability? Really? That's a sin??
The movie isn't great because the ending is surprising or the plot is air tight, it's great because the acting, direction, and design.
Didn't really like A Quite Place. The whole waterfall thing made me say "why the hell don't you live near that, then???"
Honest Trailers isn't what it was before, but they at least make some good jokes and you generaly feel their love for movies. If a movie is good, they won't shy away of saying it. Cinema Sins is just nitpicking for nitpicking's sake (often not even justified), and fits in a culture where people over-analyse movies to the point they are barely able to suspend their disbelief anymore. It's the kind of 'but bombs don't fall in space' argument that might seem like solid critisism, but doesn't say a thing about the actual quality of a movie (which, if done good, sets out it's own rules)
I've been less than charitable to Honest Trailers then. I kinda lumped them both together as "nitpicky criticism disguised as satire", but I guess I should read up more on what actual filmmakers think of HT's content. I know that the main thing that made me aware of how disingenuous Cinema Sins' videos can be was the pushback from Jordan Vogt-Roberts about their Kong Skull Island video.I'm personally not the biggest fan of A Quiet Place, but using CinemaSins to create an opinion on something is not advised, OP.
You're allowed to think that Honest Trailers is trash, but there's a very big difference between them and CinemaSins.
Honest Trailers is obviously satire, if you watch other ScreenJunkies stuff or listen to the Q&A's with the writers of Honest Trailers they sometimes do, you clearly see that they love movies and purely see the Honest Trailers as jokes. A lot of the directors they joke about like them as well and some have even collaborated with them on Honest Trailers, or watch the Honest Trailers with the writers and comment on them.
Meanwhile, CinemaSins is some guy genuinely thinking he's criticizing a movie for its flaws while in reality offering nothing but shallow criticism that often completely misunderstands the movie he's "criticizing" and just contributes to the awful nitpicky amateur "critics" culture that's big on social media.
Didn't really like A Quite Place. The whole waterfall thing made me say "why the hell don't you live near that, then???"
But I don't like Cinema Sins more. They thrash movies just to thrash them. After a while they just seem kinda spiteful.
Yeah, I don't think the 'why don't you just live under the waterfall'-argument is very compelling. However, I do think the movie has some issues with being consistent with its own rules, mainly what sounds do and what sounds don't trigger the aliens. At certain points in the movie the aliens are triggered from a pretty far distance by the smallest sounds, yet at other moments they make sounds that are much louder than the sounds that did trigger the aliens moments earlier.In, what, a tent? Maybe they could have scavenged some silent construction equipment.
Some people love to claim Cinema Sins is a comedy channel but they can never seem to explain why or how it's funny.
Cinema SIns appeals to the aggressive stupidity of people who instead of actually wanting to engage with a work on a critical or even basic level would prefer to discuss things with hot takes or worse yet, would rather not watch the film at all but it's highly rated so they need some sort of personal validation that everyone else is wrong.
Fun thing about Jordan Vogt-Roberts, he's actually one of the directors I was referencing to when I said 'Some directors have collaborated with Honest Trailers', as he actually narrated and wrote a big part of the Kong: Skull Island Honest Trailer.I've been less than charitable to Honest Trailers then. I kinda lumped them both together as "nitpicky criticism disguised as satire", but I guess I should read up more on what actual filmmakers think of HT's content. I know that the main thing that made me aware of how disingenuous Cinema Sins' videos can be was the pushback from Jordan Vogt-Roberts about their Kong Skull Island video.
Sorry for talking out of my ass.
Funny thing about that, they have actual critique videos, and include the same brain dead criticisms as they do in their "satire." Cinema sins is worthless and a huge joke in the film industry.I don't believe this to be true at all. I've been watching this series since its debut and I don't even remotely take the videos and their critiques seriously.
I agree with this take. I had my own problems with the movie, but CS is just way over the top , and evidently can't enjoy anything.
Interesting point about the waterfall- I never considered that. For me, its the fact that the monsters can pinpoint a small noise from miles away, but can't hear you breathing when they're in the same room as you.
Also, John K. acting like this is a brilliant piece of auteur cinema, when it's really just a fun horror movie.
Cinema Sins misses the point. If they ever made a movie, it'd be a terrible, boring, soulless fucking mess.
And yet still more compelling than the real thing.Nothing better than "CinemaSins is trash, watch this terrible version of guys trying to make fun of CinemaSins to get views" video posts.
but complain about Cinemasins and suddenly it's just "satire"
Except when they are.I won't say CinemaSins is trash, but they're clearly not meant to be taken seriously.
First post nails it.
Yep film was shite. As if you'd have to shush your kids and tell them to keep quiet after living in near total silence for 5+ years. Probably best to pitch up a tent by a waterfall than live in a creaky old ass house as well. Oh yeah, and that whiteboard. Made worse by Krasinski's posturing like he's above the horror genre.
When? I assumed it was just jokes when they regularly docked "points" for movies having studio logos before them.
Yeah... no.
CinemaSins is trash because their disingenuous dreck is influencing a lot of people to watch films in the most tiresome, competitive way. And that's when their points are actually valid. They often are just wrong about what they say is a mistake because they clearly write their script as the movie is going along, and anything that makes them think at all is treated as a "mistake". They don't address it like "whoops, our bad, that actually does make sense. Take off a sin *dong*" later in the video. But all the people who only watch their video, and not the actual film in question, use their nonsense arguments against movies they've never seen when "discussing" (read: shitting on) movies online. Calling their work parasitic is too kind; they are a virus.Nothing better than "CinemaSins is trash, watch this terrible version of guys trying to make fun of CinemaSins to get views" video posts.
CinemaSins is trash because their disingenuous dreck is influencing a lot of people to watch films in the most tiresome, competitive way. And that's when their points are actually valid. They often are just wrong about what they say is a mistake because they clearly write their script as the movie is going along, and anything that makes them think at all is treated as a "mistake". They don't address it like "whoops, our bad, that actually does make sense. Take off a sin *dong*" later in the video. But all the people who only watch their video, and not the actual film in question, use their nonsense arguments against movies they've never seen when "discussing" (read: shitting on) movies online. Calling their work parasitic is too kind; they are a virus.
Someone else making a video to mock them isn't on the same level as their widespread, insincere money-grab disinformation campaign. "Aha! You claim to dislike CinemaSins, yet you linked a video using the same format as them. Gotcha!" as an argument is fucking insipid.
There's a lot of critic about CinemaSins in the wild.When? I assumed it was just jokes when they regularly docked "points" for movies having studio logos before them.
I went more into it in my edit, but CinemaSins just comes across as a longer, dryer version of Honest Trailers and, more recently, Pitch Meeting.