I agree with you and Im a big believer on seeing what looks good to you and don't base it off of what other people say. You could be missing out on your favorite movie because someone said something negative about it. Great video man!

Well said - I’ve noticed a lot of communities on KZfaq, Fitness, Film reviews, etc… have a tendency to turn on each other over time. Your approach is much better. Great video.

Steven, you’re even nice with your rants 😁. I also don’t let reviews sway me from watching a movie. I enjoy hearing the opinions of people I like, but as someone who has also made a movie, I try to be more forgiving knowing what it took to make it. I try and make my out of the theater reactions, which are only 1 minute and spoiler free, more about what to expect than an actual lengthy review, with maybe an opinion or two tossed in for good measure.

I 💯 agree. I hate people who just try to put people down. When we do our show for Indie Film Cafe we are honest but we never tell people they aren’t allowed to enjoy what they enjoy. There’s a channel won’t say who just does blatant attacks on people. I hate it.

It used to be fun listening to reviews when I first got into KZfaq, but now that shit’s kinda weak. All of these big movie critics have nothing interesting to say anyway, and their subscribers basically just parrot whatever they say until it turns into some kind of a damn echo chamber. Great video, man. 🤘🏻

Great video. As far as KZfaq reviews affecting box office, I would say it’s like how people watched Siskel and Ebert back in the day. If I want to see something theatrically I will regardless of what the reviews are.👍

Great video, Steve! Also, you're a baller with the AMC and Regal memberships 🤣

I don’t let any singular individual dictate what I see in theaters, generally speaking I have an idea of whether or not a movie is gonna interest me or not. If the general consensus around a movie is that it’s bad, however, that will definitely be a factor for me regarding whether I see a movie.

I used to love watching Siskel & Ebert - I used to love going to the movies - but it seems like they don’t really make movies for people our age anymore. There used to be an interesting movie coming out every week or every other week - a courtroom drama or a psychological thriller type of movie. I’ve only seen three movies in the theater this year. By trying to appeal to everyone they end up appealing to no one.

Yeah it's hard to do a review without spoiling something about the movie. Like you I wouldn't watch a review before I have seen the movie myself. Great video!

Great video, Steve. I totally agree. Also, I must say I love the beautiful criterion collection behind you. I know that's one of your favorites. It's looking good behind you.

Interesting video. I agree 100 with you. KZfaqrs, or any movie reviewers for that matter, do not influence my decisions to see movies. No one can tell me if a movie is good, or bad. I pay my own money to see a movie so only I can decide if the movie is good or bad. That is the same with every individual person. I loved Siskel & Ebert but never took their reviews as “be all end all”. No reviewer has that kind of power.

Wouldn't skip a movie that I had interest in seeing because of a video, but have seen some because of recommendations from from youtubers that I enjoy. Good luck on your channel.

Steve, awesome video and message! Building a channel by tearing down others and being overly negative is no good. Couldn’t agree more. Keep up the good work, man and have a great Memorial Day weekend ahead!

I dont watch reviews unless ive seen it or have no interest of seeing it. Its impossible to review a movie, spoiler free unless youre just saying thumbs up or thumbs down. I used to dissuade friends from seeing stuff i thought was crap, but now i dont because like you said some stuff is not for me.

Yo Steve, didn't know you'd done this rant. I very rarely log onto my KZfaq and no notifications. These "hateful" KZfaq movie reviewers view it as a "career", for whatever reason they failed in the general work populace so try playing the online numbers game. They don't give a crap about the movies or genre they're reviewing, what they care about foremost is clicks. Now if all you care about is drawing attention to your channel you're never going to be sincere about a movie, because your mindset is tainted by getting more eyeballs onto your uploads hence subscribers. I've seen several KZfaqrs follow this path. They start with positive or neutral reviews, an already overcrowded marketplace, and get nowhere. Then do one hateful upload and all of a sudden they have 1000 new subscribers. Which in turn leads to them doing it again and again. The problem with this approach is, as you know, the subsequent accompanying negative discourse leads to polarisation and that is toxic, you're not going to get reasoned or fun debate from polarisation, look at how around the world currently right and left wing political groups, whom to their own country's detriment, refuse to agree on anything! Many refuse to engage with politics as they view it as toxic. Now Art, although it can be politicised, is not real life politics, as you say it's escapism. Hence the toxic discourse does put audiences off going to the theatre, and that is harmful for the film industry all along the supply chain. For example, see the current Rotten Tomatoes audience score for The Acolyte. The hatemongers were told it's not for them, they've gone on to review bomb it anyway, so everyone's talking about the negativity rather than the show itself. The hatemongers do not care if a local community theatre closes down. Oh they may pretend too, but they do not. Cinema's closing down just gives them another hateful clickbait title to shove on their channel: "They should''ve done what I said, nothing to do with me, it's all their own fault, don't blame me blame the algorithm", etc.. This is a self-destructive process. Fewer cinema's, fewer movies that anyone cares about to review, less clicks. Take Stuckmann, he's always wanted to make movies, but he made his name as a movie reviewer including hateful reviews. He lacked foresight when he did this and created a juxtaposition. Stuckmann needs cinemas to show his "movie" and non-hateful audiences who aren't going to review bomb it. If memory serves the covert bigoted hatemongering KZfaq stuff started with Doomcock around the time of Ghostbusters (2016) then along came Critical Drinker and self-proclaimed MAGA Nerdrotic who refined the style. And now you have people like Cody Leach attempting to insert themselves into that hate fuelled arena/pick up some of that traffic by telling followers to not go and see movies. Nerdrotic and his "followers" went for Star Trek: Discovery in 2017. According to him Star Trek: Discovery was going to be cancelled after the first season, he lies to his audience and they just follow along like a brainwashed lynch mob, a la Alex Jones's herd. Also, I'm 6ft and all the men in my family are taller than me going up to about 6ft10. You'd fit right in, lol.

I have that problem with Critical Drinker and his band of dipshits, like Nerdrotic etc. - even though I actually tend to actually AGREE with a lot of what they say, however that whole clickbaity, nothing but negativity schtick is infuriating and their personalities are so grating, like nails on a chalkboard. Stuckmann has always been my favourite because he's not obnoxious or inflammatory like them, even back when he was a bit more critical.

I agree this is so hard to talk about a movie not give too much away. Thanks for the video man.

like you i dont watch movie reviews until after ive seen the movie and it is mostly to see if what someone else thought. like i think of a film like zone of interest which i still have trouble wrapping my head around. watching other people’s opinion interests me trying to make sense of it. deep focus lens if youre not familiar with her might be the best doing it out there. i guess im not that up on movie youtube people cause im not familiar with who youre talking about or that there are youtube people making videos about other youtube people…. thats funny (in a pathetic way.) lotta idiots out there.

Thanks I give you 👍about criticism about anything so yes I definitely agree my mom dose have A list on her iPhone smartphone

I turn my phone off as well in theaters it’s been while since we been to AMC 24

You have fantastic collection behind you awesome

Other movies for kids should be with parents.

I go any kind type of a movie animation I’m trying to see older movies horror action thriller is more me

Nice 👍 like the video

I do thumbnail also in my channel I have letter boxd and I do see movies is releasing