Edit: I’m not actually opposed to watching movies with directors cuts. Just realized I love watching ridiculously long video essays about movies, but almost never watch directors commentaries. Not sure why, probably availability.
Also I heightened the phrasing for comedic purposes ;)
Idk what it is, but I love super long YouTube videos. Like 1-2 hours of commentary. But I don’t really like sitting though a movie. I’m not entirely sure why that is. It’s not like I watch YouTubers that scream and are hyperactive the whole time.
For me it’s because you can do something else while watching the video. Like play a game.
Couldn’t you watch a movie while playing a game as well?
A major portion of movies are visuals so watching it while playing a game makes it difficult to catch those parts. Also if I have to tune it out so I can concentrate in-game I will be lost when I tune back in. With a commentary video I don’t have to do so because either I don’t care as much, they’ll repeat important information, or context clues are easier to piece together. I also don’t watch too many movies. I’m mostly talking about just extra long videos not talking about movies.I do watch a lot of gaming retrospectives, though.
For me personally, that never really worked. Whenever I was watching a movie at home, I was always multitasking with a game or something else: doing just one thing felt somehow wasteful when I could be doing two things.
But unfortunately I also felt like I wasn’t really enjoying movies like that. So, I got an unlimited movie pass for my local movie theater. I now see three, four movies per week and actually enjoy them FAR more than when I was doing the multitasking.
I also now see pretty much every movie the week it releases, which also effectively makes me bulletproof in terms of spoilers.
That sounds awesome, I love going to the theater, even though I have my own plex server with tons of content if there’s a new movie that looks promising I try and watch it in theater
It really is. I’m going to gush for a minute if you don’t mind :D
I like movies, but buying tickets is expensive here in the Netherlands. Up until last year, I’d usually see about three, four movies per year in the theater. Things that I’d really want to see and that I knew I’d love. We had one movie theater, located just outside our city. It’s expensive and did not offer any sort of monthly pass.
In december 2022, we got a SECOND movie theater from a different chain. I’ve got the most perfect situation possible: the theater is about a five minute bike ride away from my house. Much more convenient than the other theater. They’ve got nine screens, all filled with luxury recliners. And they offer a monthly pass. Which I got shortly after the theater opened.
The pass costs 20,50 euros per month, so about 20 USD. It allows you to see an unlimited amount of movies with basically no restrictions. I can see as many movies as I want, when I want. Want to see five movies in a day? You can. Want to see Ghostbusters six times in a row? Go nuts. They even program classic movies for us movie buffs, they do marathons, exclusive screenings, foreign movies… if you like movies, you’d love this theater.
Since individual movie tickets at that theater cost between 10 and 14 euros depending on the day and time, you really only need to see two movies per month to make it worth it. But I’m not seeing two a month - I’m seeing at least three per week. I see Every. Single. Movie. that I could want.
Movie streaming / piracy can be convenient, sure. But there’s really no replacement for a state-of-the-art movie theater with bangin’ Dolby Atmos system. Not to mention those recliners are so comfy you can sleep in them if the movie’s a bit too boring.
I’m reaaaaaallllly loving my movie pass as you can probably tell.
If I miss a part on commentary, I lose out on the video explanation. If I miss part of the movie, why the hell are these people trying to kill each other. Different levels of impact where rewinding just a few minutes and not going back to the beginning for exposition and reparsing it all back together.
For me the opposite is true. I can’t stand youtube(rs). I just discard links to videos.
Discarded
No XcQ! I checked for the XcQ!
Good ol’ Markdown
Have watched the commentary tracks of all of the LotR movies multiple times over, and I still pop them in once in a while. Highly recommend.
Why would anybody listen to a random youtuber over the actual director when it comes to a film?
In the case of movies like the Star Wars sequels, because the directors and producers sniff their own farts and don’t realize their movies are terrible.
Same, I do not feel this post at all. If you as a YouTuber can’t do some good research and write a longform essay (like Lindsay Ellis), I will pick director and crew over any random youtuber.
I did heighten the phrasing for comedic purposes. I mean essayists like Lindsay Ellis ;)
when I’m not sure if i want to watch a movie I watch those movie summaries to decide. It’s like the whole movie in 5 min
That’s basically trailers now a days. I’ll watch a trailer of a movie to see what it’s about and then after I know too much about the story that I don’t want to sit through it
Trailers are more like clickbait. Summaries actually replace seeing the movie if you don’t want to sit through it. (Titanic: the ship sinks).
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I think for me the difference is that Hbomberguy wrote a script and talked for as long as it took to film it, or whatever, while the commentary on a film lasts as long as the film, plus or minus a bit. I don’t much enjoy just watching someone’s basically reaction video to the film
I am watching Youtube to have a summary mostly
Praise the Longman.
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Neither. If your film didn’t convey your message well enough when I watched it then you screwed up as a filmmaker.
Plus I’m not going to spend more than maybe 20 minutes max on a single YouTube video. I’m busy.
