Jordan Vogt-Roberts‏ Calls Out CinemaSins

Alrighty, before I get rolling too far into this new drama, I should note a couple of things and provide some tiny context. First, I saw “Kong: Skull Island twice in theaters, which should be an indication of how much I enjoyed Jordan Vogt-Roberts‘ monster movie. Secondly, I am aware we post Honest Trailers on occasion, which does their own nitpicky take down of movies. However, they’re clever, but admittedly the videos play much better when film in question is truly terrible, versus just kind of middling. This is all to lead into CinemaSins which occupies its own territory in the takedown landscape.

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The YouTube channel travels down a similar path as Honest Trailers, but to far less amusing effect, and they let the “joke” play out far too long. Where Honest Trailers gets in and out in 4 to 7 minutes maximum, CinemaSins routinely spends 15 to 20 minutes pointing out every little “flaw” in the movie under their microscope. I’m not sure how anyone can enjoy making these, but one person who doesn’t enjoy watching them is Vogt-Roberts.

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The filmmaker took to Twitter today after the nearly twenty-minute (seriously, guys) episode on “Kong: Skull Island” landed. Vogt-Roberts doesn’t have anything against someone not liking his film, but the glib and often purely misinformed tone of the video really rubbed him the wrong way. Watching the video, it’s hard not to disagree as CinemaSins seems eager to throw as many shots as possible at ‘Kong’ without actually thinking about what they’re saying.

Here’s Vogt-Roberts’ Twitter thread followed by the video so you can see it for yourself. Just trying making it more than four minutes….

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