You're right about the 'playing an asian' thing. He has a line where he points it out and says his name isn't really Kwan (during the beaming scene).

Great find, Teague.

And a pet theory of mine: Watch the movie again. Tony Shalhoub is playing a dumb guy/developmentally challenged/whatever, dumb guy. Backstage, he's not doing a crossword, he's doing a picture matching game in an activity book. He brings a bag lunch in an over-sized grocery bag to a gig. He's not phased by the gel bullet travel because he doesn't understand anything so it's nothing new. He parrots what the engineering team told him just like he repeats his dialogue for the show ('you never missed a line'). There are lots of little jokes to find with my interpretation (if you didn't already think so).

I mentioned there is often a correlation. This means there is not in every case. I also specifically mentioned that it suits my tastes overall. "The Matrix got 85 and Batman and Robin got 122" YEAH. For me, Batman and Robin is a piece of crap I never want to see again. The Matrix is flawed, but a gem by comparison.

There's also a lot of mentions of inflating scores. They do it to everything. Thus, there is honesty in the aggregate. You could think of it as 90% fluff and divide the totals by 10 to get a score. But, I wouldn't. Because as I said, CinemaSins counts 'sins'.

'Does not contain a lapdance' may mean the movie is being unnecessarily sexually provocative. 'Wickus isn't growing a prawn arm in this scene' is probably just mentioning that the same actor was in another, better film. And, 'Reading' I think clearly refers to the American public's traditional dislike of reading exposition paragraphs and the fact that a good screenwriter shows you instead of having a character tell you and making you read intro text, to me, is even worse than 'as you know' dialogue.

These 'sins' are not all the same. You may not care about any of them. If so, disregard CinemaSins. If you don't like the delivery, don't watch it. But, if you haven't seen more than one or two or haven't even finished a single video, take a look at the newest Fantastic Four 2 video. It is the newest and I think they are getting better all the time.

Please bear with me.

In the 80's, I watched Star Wars many times on TV. I did not see films in a theater until I was in my late teens/early 20's. Do you recall Luke saying he saw a sandperson? What was he talking about? There is no sandperson on screen. The TV version cut that side of the film. It bugged me for over a decade until I finally saw a letterbox version of the film.

In Wild Wild West, the Fresh Prince is in a water tower with a lady early in the movie. It's unhygienic. It's highly unlikely anyone would do that. When the tower falls and he is unscathed, it is improbable. But, these things establish the style and tone of the movie. The fact that the naked sexy lady vanishes is...problematic. I am slightly invested in the character after seeing her all nakedy. A falling water tower could crush and kill someone. Did she die? Did she land just as safely, grab a blanket and run off? I don't know and I am left confused.

CinemaSins is just what they claim to be. They count the things in movies that they choose to call "sins". These are not an indicator of how amusing the movie will be, etc. But, there is often a correlation between high or low counts and good or bad movies (in my opinion of movie enjoyment). It's just like the audience % on RottenTomatoes. It suggests there may or may not be something you won't like. As an example, lots of things bugged me in HP and the Order of the Phoenix (the book also). Everything that took me out of the movie or annoyed me or broke my suspension of disbelief was mentioned by CinemaSins. I do not look for these things. The term 'fridge logic' confounded me for over a year as it occurred to me immediately that a fridge is not protection from an atomic blast; That simply being hurled a distance in a fridge would pulp poor Indy. As another example, the end of Edge of Tomorrow is deeply flawed and confusing. I may watch it again but I cannot call it a great movie, as a result. I see these things and it is my curse that I cannot stop seeing them. 

TREY:
I have loved your insights and value your experience.
If the following quotes refer only about people who broadcast about film mistakes, you are name-calling and insulting and it's pretty harsh.
However, if you are talking about everyone who notices these things, I'd like an apology. You are entitled to your opinion of nit-picking, but these are not things you say to a person unless you are trying to hurt them. You certainly hurt my feelings (and that is hard to admit).

"I'm going to hear from those jack-offs and who cares. That's just life. But, Fuck those people. Being one of those people I think is it's own punishment because what kind of human does that? I mean, if you're going to be one of those people that's fine."

"I would never have noticed that because I am a normal human being who, you know, has touched girls"

I'd like to think there is at least some tiny part of you that will read this and think "that's not what I meant" and that you'll say so. I think you know you can say very mean things and this time some of it was directed at people you didn't mean to hurt.

And, let's not gang up on me here, OK? I'm not a hippy, feely guy trying to get attention.

Thanks for another great show.

I was installing my sink when I heard Trey say Zack Snyder was the god of all storytelling. I washed my hands and rewound the podcast...OK, I HEARD THAT WRONG.   

This is still a shocker. I'm not a Paul Rudd fan but I like Edgar Wright. I wish the article gave some details.

As it is, all we know is Disney made the decision on Wednesday and waited to tell him Friday afternoon, so that Wright wouldn't make a scene in the office.