was leafing through a copy of the rough guide to cult films i picked up in a charity shop earlier today, its like one of those dime a dozen books written by some snarky opinionated film buff reccomending films he likes amd trashing ones he thinks suck with a vague pretence at objectivity amd ngl i think this is how all film discussion should be handled,online film discourse has gotten way too letterboxdified and now the prince charles inema basically only does reruns of the first quarter of the letterboxd top 250 narrative films list.
everyones got way too far up their own asses about this shit, we need to retvrn to the video store spiritually and get a beer, go on tubi and watch some dumb italian bullshit where a load of guys get shot and lose a bathtub of blood each and the title sounds like the name of the average 14 year olds first doom wad
I feel like that style of video started as a tongue in cheek joke that was designed to educate and inform while being entertaining. But some people probably just thought it was like “Breadtube game theory” or something and started making content like that without any self-awareness.
as in they thought that style of video is the “correct formula for success” ?
Yeah, they saw a formula to imitate without understanding, where you talk at length about nothing at all and then connect nonexistent dots about nothing, but take it all extremely seriously and act like it is “media analysis.”
If you do this but make it sufficiently funny, it’s actually good, as proven by Brian David Gilbert in his Unraveled series