Plinkett (Mike) went to film school & knows what he’s talking about. Yeah, his reviews are entertaining, but they’re also full of solid points &, yeah, a little nitpicking, which he always points out.
NosalgiaCritic & CinemaSins on the other hand… garbage.
I agree with Broom Kid. Film making itself is an attempt to trick you. Sometimes it works, some times it don’t.
Operative phrasing being he went to film school. People should have let Plinkett’s schtick be his schtick. He created a character/voice for the reviews - a unique (at the time) vessel for his own opinions and analyses.
But that’s not how you analyze film. That part of it was comedy.
YouTube film criticism has become mostly insufferable because a lot of people thought looking for the joke or scathing take a.l.a Plinkett was film criticism or analysis. It’s not like the kid in the video isn’t discussing something interesting to point out, it’s not like a lot of YouTubers don’t have a point sometimes - but their smug emulation of that style is unnecessary and has fostered a terrible mainstream moviegoing culture.