CinemaSins

CinemaSins is a YouTube channel about movie criticism and comedy. It was created by Jeremy Scott and Chris Atkinson. It has over nine million subscribers. 

History
CinemaSins began in 2012 when Scott and Atkinson made a video called “Everything wrong with The Amazing Spider-Man in 2 minutes or less” criticizing the movie The Amazing Spider-Man starring Andrew Garfield. CinemaSins has also worked with other YouTube shows like Screen Junkies for their videos on “Everything wrong with Iron Man 3” and “Everything Wrong With The Amazing Spider-Man 2”. CinemaSins also worked with The Nostalgia Critic for Everything Wrong With How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson also narrated some CinemaSins videos about science fiction movies.

Criticism of CinemaSins
In 2013, Rian Johnson criticized CinemaSins’ video about the movie Looper saying it was “oddly nasty”. In 2015, Damon Lindelof criticized CinemaSins for making fun of movies for having problems instead of making better movies themselves. In 2017, Jordan Vogt-Roberts criticized CinemaSins saying “things like CinemaSins simply suck the life-blood out of other people and are often just wrong about intent or how cinema works. It’s terrible” and compared it to Mystery Science Theater 3000 saying that unlike CinemaSins it “had merit to itself”. C. Robert Cargill said he agreed with Vogt-Roberts. In 2019, David F. Sandberg made a YouTube video criticizing CinemaSins for its video on the movie Shazam!

Pastiche Channels
There a lot of YouTube channels that like to do things similar to what CinemaSins does and are influenced by CinemaSins. For example, in 2015 a man named Lee Boucher created a channel called CinemaWins where he goes out of his way to find good parts of different movies (especially ones that got bad reviews) and praise them for having those. 

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