The YouTube thread - Movie edition
 

I love YouTube as a source of information and entertainment and especially when it comes to movies. There are all types of genres from comedy sketches to rants to video essays.

Some of my favorites channels:

Essays:

The Nerd Writer
His short video essays are really incredible. He takes minute obscure details and blows them up and explains how they were executed and why it's important. He doesn't just do movies but art, music, and even politics.



Cinema Wins
They're long but totally worth it to watch. He takes a movie good or bad and analyzes it and points out all the great things about it. Really little details that really make you appreciate the movie and movie making experience more. I like how he tries to be positive about the movie which is pretty rare. But he doesn't sugar coat issues either and addresses them in his videos.




Comedy:

Pitch Meeting


Honest Trailers
I'm sure you guys have heard of this one.


Cinema Sins
These are long but a hilarious and oftentimes deep dive on specific movies. It's all tongue in cheek especially when he roasts a classic like The Shawshank Redemption


Misc.







Post 'em if you got 'em!

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If you enjoy actual discussion about movies. I watch The John Campea Show and sometimes Robservations.

Campea used to work for AMC Theatres and was the head of video production at Collider. He has a lot of great insight into the industry and covers various topics daily. His show is long though. Ranges anywhere from 90 minutes to 3 hours.

Robservations is hosted by Robert Meyer Burnett. He's a noted B movie director and producer. He directed Free Enterprise starring William Shatner and also produced the Star Trek The Next Generation BD extras. He also produced the BD extras for X-Men, Lord of the Rings and Superman Returns. He has great insight. His show is also quite long ranging from 2 to 2 1/2 hours 4-5 days per week. He tries to keep his show topical to the latest news of the day.


If any of you are familiar with Scott Mantz, he's a noted film critic and historian based here in Los Angeles. He used to be the film critic for Access Hollywood. He just launched his own YouTube channel where he does a lot of fun rankings for films in a movie series.

Here's his for the Jurassic Park/World series.

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I love YouTube. Favorite channels are:

RedLetterMedia- aside from the Mr. Plinkett reviews which put them on the map they do a lot of great content. Half in the Bag which is a review show with some comedic content. re: View is probably their most straight forward review show with just two of the guys sitting down to talk about a movie or sometimes shot a show. Best of the Worst is generally watching three not so great movies and they decide which is the best.

Dan Murrell- previously of Screen Junkies, but has branched off on his own.

Cinemassacre- known for The Angry Video Game Nerd, but also does quite a bit of movie review content. There was a regular series called Rental Reviews, which just ended recently. Monster Madness happens in October for horror movies. Also there are just random movies spotlighted on occasion.

Chris Stuckmann- I like him in spurts. Sometimes I’ll binge a lot of his content, but then there are times I’ll go months without watching a review from him.

Mr. Sunday Movies- spotlights certain movies and a bit of news content. I’ve only recently started to watch the channel a bit more.

Coolduder- he’s more of a DVD/Blu-ray/4K collector. He does a lot of reviews for the various formats. Also does Vlogs and acts in a lot of indie horror stuff. Lately he’s done more live streams.

The Flick Pick- reviews physical media and does movie reviews on occasion. Also does live streams. He’s got a podcast too, but it’s on Patreon and I don’t support him there.

I’ve mostly gotten away from the bigger entertainment news channels.

Don’t care for Screen Junkies since Fandom bought them and am not subscribed anymore.

Never got too into Collider but would watch certain segments.

Schmoedown Entertainment Network is okay, but I don’t usually watch it because it’s too long form. I’d probably watch them a bit more if they split their videos into segments.

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Good thread! The "Real Fake Cameras of Toy Story 4" video is one I came across recently and loved. We'll have to agree to disagree about Cinema Sins, though... they're vapid trash. :)

Lindsay Ellis (formerly known as Nostalgia Chick, I believe). Usually focused on plot/story/context kind of stuff:


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KyleKallgrenBHH.


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HBomberguy. Usually does videogame stuff, but his videos on film are interesting to me.


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What's So Great About That?


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Folding Ideas. Mostly focused on editing and storytelling. Does fascinating deep dives into bad films, but makes the topic worth watching. He does a great job showing not just that something is bad, but how it's bad.


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The Russo Brothers Pizza Film School was really interesting as they break down story, script and pacing. It's one thing to read Syd Field's book on screenwriting, but it's another to apply it to certain films.

The first film was a 3 part on Empire Strikes Backs.

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Yeah but they know it. It's tongue in cheek. It's comedy and entertainment itself it's not meant to take seriously.

But if you hate them you should check out Cinema Wins. It's like the anti-Cinema Sins. Instead of pointing out insipid inconsequential mistakes he points out all the minute details that the filmakers worked really hard to think about and include. It's very refreshing in that it's unlike most of the cinema talk on YouTube. It's actually positive.

Definitely check out more from nerdwriter his prose is incredibly descriptive and takes a subject that you might not know anything about and makes you care as deeply for it as he does. Definitely the best writing in video essay format that I've found.

The videos you posted by Lindsey Ellis are pretty good. I'll definitely have to check more of her stuff out.

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I got tired of Cinema Sins in a hurry. It's a perfect example of "Those who can, do. Those who can't, become critics." They list about ten nitpicks to one interesting observation. I do like the Pitch Meetings a lot better. He'll make five or ten points and that's it.

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I'm a big fan of Dan Murrell, love his weekly deep dive into the charts. He was my favorite part of the screen junkies, have barely watched them since Dan spun off.

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:up: Just watched his Spotlight video and it's fantastic. I've subscribed!
This is the kind of stuff I dig; way better than the typical "guy in front of his shelves of stuff talks about the plot and SFX of latest movie" genre of YouTube film critique. That kind of thing has its place... it's just not really for me.

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Yes those are more my speed as well. I don't need some random person to tell me what to think of a movie so I don't really watch any reviews. Never really cared anything about movie reviews in general actually since I think your opinion of a movie is a very personal subjective thing. But absolutely love these video essays that actually teach you something and are visually pleasing at the same time.

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I also like Dan. At least he tries to provide intelligent analysis on his videos on the movie industry and box office.

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I thought this was an interesting video on where that weird accent came from in old movies.

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Dorina ("Bad Bruja" on youtube) formerly from Collider, has been grabbing my attention lately with her movie commentaries/watchalongs. She did a pretty fun one for Midsommar with Mark Reily (Although the first 20 minutes appeared to have been deleted since Mark's volume was too high) and I'm looking forward to her recent Jennifer's Body with Sabrina Ramirez, an Ana De Armas lookalike...Which Sabrina strongly denies :lol:

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I admit. I wasn't a big fan at first, but I've started watching Grace Randolph's videos more often and for the most part she provides good information about the movies and movie business.

I like her weekly segment Movie Math. That segment talks about box office, the theatrical business and what's the top streaming movies and rentals.

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Bumping this thread because I just watched this hour long video about Rogue One and it's fantastic. Absolutely worth a watch if you're one of the folks who has come around to liking that film.


Makes me want to do one for Alien: Covenant. ;)

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Just when I thought there could be no further ways to parse Stanley Kubrick’s films someone found something brilliant and new.

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Double Toasted

Didn't think I'd like this channel at first, but ended up enjoying their amusing movie reviews and discussions.



Breakfast All Day

Matt Atchity (Rotten Tomatoes), Christy Lemire and Alonzo review and talk movies.

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I appreciate a lot of the YouTube channels, but there are so many "hosts" who insist that the camera focus on their face and/or body instead of providing clips or other visuals. Audiophile Steve Guttenberg dominates his channel with long, loving close-ups of his face instead of showing us the stereo products he is talking about...and in my very humble opinion, he ain't that photogenic.

Yeah, I know it's superficial, and I'm not saying everyone has to look like this girl, who at least gives us shots of what she's talking about: but for crying out loud guys, let's have a little more modesty here.

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Notice the age difference. It's a lot easier to set a camera on a tripod, hit record and upload that one file to youtube then it is to edit a bunch of clips from different sources together. In general at least for the channels I subscribe to when it comes to video essays it seems like as their skills progress they spend less time in front of the camera and more time with clips.

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Only marginally related to movies but damn if these Ambient Worlds videos aren't killer to relax/sleep to.

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^There's been some great Wicked ambient vids that I've loved recently too.

Reviewers I've been watching more lately:

Austin Burke-I've been finding myself agreeing with many of his reviews lately. He's really risen up big time.
Dan Murrell-Can't believe I've slept on him for so long (Or he just didn't have that much freedom with Screen Junkies?) Regardless, I'm always looking forward to every one of his videos now.
Spookyastronauts-She's a big Horror lover and (Being in Australia) she gets to see a lot of movies before Americans do. She also does (Albeit, brief) really good reviews for lesser known dramas & thrillers...Oh, and don't be fooled by the teen looks. She's well over 30!
Deepfocuslens-I'm surprised she doesn't have a bigger following (Probably because she doesn't care at all to "Spice up" the thumbnails) but such a great taste in film.

Reactors:

Angel Groves-Not very active (She works in the biz as an extra/double) but it's very refreshing to have a reactor who often includes the end-credits as part of their reaction.
CineBinge-I love seeing film through George's perspective (Even more when he invites his father for War films) Simone doesn't add a whole lot, but I never get tired of seeing her eyeballs bulge.
The Normies-They seem to do more TV shows than movies lately, but their journey through the Rocky/Creed franchises has been one of my most favorite highlights of recent youtube history.
Reel Rejects-MOSTLY for Coy Jandreau's appearances. Big man-crush on that intelligent guy.

Old Timey Stuff:

The Sprocket Vault-I'm planning on starting serials this year and this is the place for them. This site also introduced me to Charley Chase and Thelma Todd.
Film Masters TV-Another big fault of film,serials,TV,shorts and toons
AtomicAgePictures-Yet another site for serials and old films. But if you're a fan of recent Pin-up/Cheesecake modeling, check out the recent shorts :drool:

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I mostly watch reactors myself, :Popcorn in Bed is a fun one, Shanelle Riccio, Mary Cherry also.

Agree on CineBinge, it's always fun watching Simone get grossed out.

I wish I could find the one of this young woman who was watching the Star Wars movies for the first time and since she knew "the big twist" she decided to watch them starting with Episode One. Meaning she got to see adorable little Anakin, then silly, angsty teen Anakin and then longhaired hottie Anakin, all the while not realizing where it was going so when he dropped to his knees to receive his new name, her brain absolutely vapor locked. There's a cut where she apparently stopped the filming to process what she had just seen.

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^I seem to prefer Popcorn/Bed most whenever Carly shows up. But kudos to them for doing An Officer and A Gentleman last night. I haven't seen that movie in a real long time (Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if that was the first channel to react to that movie) and I ended up getting far more involved with that film just because of their reactions.

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I've been watching a pundit/reactor from Texas named Sean Chandler. Won't post any of his videos, because I know no one will watch it. :lol: He's a little hyper, but I take that as he loves what he does.

But, his videos are fun and he provides some good insight in his reviews. Some of his videos are long, but if the topic really interests me, I'll make the time. He does add some production value to his content with graphics and stills.

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I like Criminal Content because Coby is such a babe. She's a model and actress, so she knows what's up. Her reactions are quite entertaining, too:





Films by Color is cool but they mainly do physical media reviews and whatnot.
AVA Pop Culture is cool
Jeremy Jahns is fun