Oh my god that's much better.

Can we just delete this thread and pretend it never happened? You're simultaneously reminding me that Transformers 2, Everything Wrong With..., and Honest Trailers are all things that exist and are popular, and I just want to close my eyes and go back to sleep.

I don't see what's so repulsive about Honest Trailers and CinemaSins. Yes, a lot of the points they make are cheap or invalid, but they can be fun to watch if you don't take them as serious critique. I tend to just brush off the lame stuff and have fun with the rest of it.

It's purely entertainment, not a Tomatometer.

Ya, frankly I think this stuff is insidious garbage polluting pop-culture. I hate their philosophy, I hate this approach to poking at movies, I hate that they're extremely popular to the point that people take them seriously (and they do, I've met many people who point to these videos as some kind of legitimate criticism).

Even beyond that, it's blatant click-bait bullshit, taking the most popular thing of the moment and making a dumb youtube video about it that contributes nothing of value, except that it generates millions of clicks and thousands in ad revenue. It's beyond cynical.

For what it's worth, I find Honest Trailers far less annoying than CinemaSins; they tend to focus more on actual issues than stupid stuff like continuity errors and pseudo-plot holes.