Recently some of my Twitter pals have been going on about Cinema Sins, a video series taking a look at various plotholes and editing errors in popular movies, whether they were good or not. And that’s where the controversy seems to have come from, the same kind that happens when Rifftrax takes on a good movie. There’s the thought that only bad movies deserve to have their flaws pointed out and not the good ones. Says who? No production is perfect and what’s wrong with having fun at their expense? Sometimes we really do take our fiction too seriously, while the studios probably don’t take it seriously enough. There’s a middle ground, people!

That said, the videos I chose for this example do focus on two bad movies, the 90’s Godzilla (which I actually enjoy even if it isn’t Godzilla) and Man Of Steel (which I have less and less respect for every time the creators open their mouths to tell us theirs is the bestest take on Superman ever). I made these choses for aesthetics and if I could have focused on one or the other I would have. You see, Cinema Sins has their main series and a few spinoffs plus some bonus material. I’m not going to focus on the video game and music video pieces, or the Conversations With Myself series that didn’t interest me as much, just the big stuff.

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