Edit: I’m not actually opposed to watching movies with directors cuts. Just realized I love watching ridiculously long video essays about movies, but almost never watch directors commentaries. Not sure why, probably availability.
Also I heightened the phrasing for comedic purposes ;)
Idk what it is, but I love super long YouTube videos. Like 1-2 hours of commentary. But I don’t really like sitting though a movie. I’m not entirely sure why that is. It’s not like I watch YouTubers that scream and are hyperactive the whole time.
For me it’s because you can do something else while watching the video. Like play a game.
Couldn’t you watch a movie while playing a game as well?
A major portion of movies are visuals so watching it while playing a game makes it difficult to catch those parts. Also if I have to tune it out so I can concentrate in-game I will be lost when I tune back in. With a commentary video I don’t have to do so because either I don’t care as much, they’ll repeat important information, or context clues are easier to piece together. I also don’t watch too many movies. I’m mostly talking about just extra long videos not talking about movies.I do watch a lot of gaming retrospectives, though.
If I miss a part on commentary, I lose out on the video explanation. If I miss part of the movie, why the hell are these people trying to kill each other. Different levels of impact where rewinding just a few minutes and not going back to the beginning for exposition and reparsing it all back together.
For me the opposite is true. I can’t stand youtube(rs). I just discard links to videos.
Discarded
No XcQ! I checked for the XcQ!
Good ol’ Markdown
Have watched the commentary tracks of all of the LotR movies multiple times over, and I still pop them in once in a while. Highly recommend.
when I’m not sure if i want to watch a movie I watch those movie summaries to decide. It’s like the whole movie in 5 min
That’s basically trailers now a days. I’ll watch a trailer of a movie to see what it’s about and then after I know too much about the story that I don’t want to sit through it
Trailers are more like clickbait. Summaries actually replace seeing the movie if you don’t want to sit through it. (Titanic: the ship sinks).
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I think for me the difference is that Hbomberguy wrote a script and talked for as long as it took to film it, or whatever, while the commentary on a film lasts as long as the film, plus or minus a bit. I don’t much enjoy just watching someone’s basically reaction video to the film
Praise the Longman.
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I am watching Youtube to have a summary mostly
Wendigoon 9h video
Neither. If your film didn’t convey your message well enough when I watched it then you screwed up as a filmmaker.
Plus I’m not going to spend more than maybe 20 minutes max on a single YouTube video. I’m busy.
