I've been a big fan of Emma for awhile. I even support her on Patreon where she'll post bonus videos. If you want to follow her letterboxd she's Emma Wolfe, if you haven't already.

I stumbled across this Star Wars poster restoration, which was a fascinating process:

Looks like she made history by doing the first reaction to The Doors recently. I assumed no other reactor bothered with that movie due to copyright hell. But with Val's passing, I wonder if we're gonna see more now. Prior to that, I LOVED her reaction to The Elephant Man. I'm definitely a fan of hers now, but it is frustrating how her reactions are spread across different channels.

Double Toasted is a fun channel but I avoid their political videos. Check out their bad movie roasts of Stone Cold & Miami Connection.

I've been watching a lot of Horror short films. I'd always thought Youtube movies were just crappy amateur fan films. But there's tons of great professional films with good acting and decent budgets available for free. Here's some channels & playlists I follow.

https://www.youtube.com/WatchALTER

https://www.youtube.com/screamfestla

https://www.youtube.com/watchdust

https://www.youtube.com/KingsofHorror

https://www.youtube.com/WatchMoviesNow

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...PS_Bbck31aEeKZ

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...q1Qu0GC4zxeH_F

There's some youtube-reactor discussion going on over at the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood thread and I found it more fitting to include it here (It is YouTube-related, after all) Bringing some of those quotes over:

As I

The Wife on the "You, Me, & The Movies"-channel likely qualifies for the former

One of the, literally, few videos that I downloaded and kept. On that note, whenever I see someone doing a reaction to The Exorcist, I always hope it's the 2000 version because the two-added Pazuzu jump-scares (As well as the spider-walk) DO always create a genuine reaction.
Another one I thought I had kept was one of those giant Mash-up reactions for The Godfather. I swear I did DL it, but I just cannot find it anywhere. Speaking of that, given that the uploader is clearly using the Uncut Patreon videos for those mash-ups, how did they get a hold of all those? Did they either pay or hack all those Patreon accounts?

I've mentioned elsewhere that another reason why I love non-U.S.A .reactions is because of the different perspective. For instance, regarding Bloodsport, I'm sure I would have never known about Hong Kong's Walled City if it weren't for George (CineBinge) and even Mary Cherry pointed out a sound that only Australians would immediately recognize on her reaction to Mad Max. It's also interesting to hear how accurate or poorly foreign-spoken lines are to multilingual speakers (Bissflix)

I'm sure I know who you're talking about. Loved her 2001 reaction, if that's who I'm thinking of.

I remember she, as well as a few other reactor-gals, let it be known how they felt about Brandon Lee's looks in their viewings of The Crow. But now I'm curious to check that one out. thanx!

In that case, you absolutely must watch the reaction to Full Metal Jacket by the "Asian Angels". They're Vietnamese, so it's really odd to see someone rooting FOR the sniper in the finale. You also get their opinion on the war, they were clearly born decades after it ended. They seem to view it as Vietnam vs. the United States, which was definitely not the case.

Some other highlights:

When Sgt Hartman sings "Ho Chi Minh is a son of a bitch" they all indignantly shout "Hey!"

And when the marine picks up the IED in the child's toy one of the girls remarks "That's us Vietnamese, we're sneaky"

Definitely a different perspective.

I've been getting hooked on reaction videos of young people discovering classic movies for the first time. I found a bunch of good Sergio Leone ones. I love how enthusiastic they are in their responses, pretty much like audiences were back when these films first came out. THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY has tons of reaction videos and I've watched a bunch of them already. All loving it.

Here are a couple of good ones on GBU:


My question to you guys is about Patreon. The versions I'm watching on YouTube are condensed to about 45-50 min. and in each case the presenter tells us we can find the full versions on Patreon. I googled Patreon and went to the main web page and I'm pretty confused. How does one find and watch the videos that are posted there?

Thanks.

My understanding of Patreon is limited but I believe you have to pay the membership fee for the person/content maker you want to follow. Then you will have access to all the content they post but ONLY their content. And done may even have different tier levels I think.

You have to have a different paid membership for each account you want to follow and they all charge different prices.

Yeah, I went to the account for one YouTube couple I follow and the videos were "locked." I mean what they charged was pretty low, but I'm not sure I want to go down that rabbit hole yet. These things are addictive.

Aren't they? It's come to the point that I'm always clicking on reactions to see which side of the coin the reactors choose for certain moments in films. Examples:

Rocky Balboa-Little Marie's kiss for Rocky before the big fight. Do they find it creepy? (Regarding the age difference) or do they even find it disrespectful to Adrian?
Top Gun-Maverick's handling of Goose's dog-tags for the last time. Oh man! The debates for Maverick's decision are legendary!!!
Stand By Me-To see if they remember what the newspaper-headline says at the beginning.
Tombstone-To see how many of them don't catch (Or forget) that Doc has TB.

And I don't mean to bring up The Exorcist again, but man, it drives me nuts when they can't figure out






Regarding the Patreon side of things, I'm not signed up or subscribed to anyone who does these, but from what I've gathered from most reactions is that things do not often go smoothly:
-You have to try to synch up your own copy with theirs (Sometimes they'll provide a timestamp)
-The reactor may have to pause the stream for technical difficulties and you might never get back on track
-Unbeknownst to the reactor, they may accidentally watch a shortened or extended version of the movie with their patrons scrambling going "wtf"!

The Mash-Up videos (Which do contain their uncut reactions) are the ones I've been on the lookout for lately, but it has to be no more than 6 channels participating. I don't know what they're thinking when the uploader adds over 15 channels. How chaotic do you want to be?!?!

Two of my favs:

Sean Clark - Dude's house is something that will shame every collector here - he has actual screen used props everywhere. He also does film location visits as well. He also does a podcast "The Thing with Two Heads" with makeup artist Christopher Nelson (who also acted in some movies - he was Tommy in Kill Bill 2). Here he is showing off his recent Texas Chainsaw Massacre original screen used items - quick note, one of the items he unboxes is the hitchhiker's original worn in the film. the guy who played the hitchhiker was in Vietnam as well and those were his boots from the war - I'm surprised he gave those up :


Talks from the crypt - just random, cool interviews with horror celebrities.

StudioBinder has some great behind-the-scenes videos on the craft of film making and the film industry itself - highly recommended!

(3141) StudioBinder - YouTube

Two channels I love which haven't been mentioned are Patrick Willems and Dan Olson / Folding Ideas

Patrick Willems still regularly puts out video essays on film topics. Dan Olson has veered into more diverse topics recently and rarely puts out videos but his back catalog is worth a view. Also his non movie related videos are great if any of the topics interest anyone.

I guess I need to get on board watching these reaction videos. They've never really been my favorite genre of youtube but a lot of y'all really like them.

Movies with Mia has become my favorite YT channel for classic movie reaction videos. Unlike most other reactors I've seen, Mia comes prepared and has actually researched the films and their backstories before going into her first-time viewings. Just this morning I watched her reactions to:
THE BIG SLEEP (1946)
THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)
WHITE HEAT (1949)
KING KONG (1933)

Experiencing favorites that I've seen over 20 times each through the fresh perspective of a curious young first-time viewer is quite gratifying.

Here's the link to her YT page: https://www.youtube.com/@MoviesWithMia

Do they ever get hit with copyright claims because they show so much of the movie?

Yes..some reaction videos get pulled down because of it.

You can see the ones who slightly alter the movie,.like showing it mirrored, or sped up. But it seems the biggest obstacle they face is the music, often they have to silence the soundtrack completely

Copyright is a weird thing. And a lot of times overreaching. Oddly enough mostly in terms of music. A lot of youtubers have to silence audio just because something is playing in the background. That's just absurd IMO. This I can kind of understand more though. If they show the whole movie.