Adam isn't a good critic, like at all. He tries to pretend he's not super smug about his movie tastes but constantly demonstrates how he thinks the only people who like Marvel movies either never watch any arthouse movies, are loser fanboys or literal children. A lot of the points he makes in most review are either obvious nitpicks (which I've found in several cases to be dumb or explained by the movie) or really level-one analysis about the movie's themes. And his fans eat this shit up like candy because they can't wait to feel superior to people who liked a Disney or Marvel movie. It reminds me of that Hitchcock quote about why characters just don't go to the police, "they don't go to the police because its dull." Stop trying to outsmart every fucking movie you watch and find every flaw that shows it doesn't correlate with the real world, instead actually focus on what the movie is trying to say and fucking enjoy yourself.
Btw his criticism of Black Panther being made by a mega-corporate conglomerate making money for rich old dudes has been addressed by most critics, but as moviebob breaks down here maybe we should stop being buzzkills about people enjoying pop entertainment, especially when the subject matter in question (afro-futurism) hasn't been represented for most Americans.
I listened to his episode of the needledrop podcast and he's a complete tool, like he genuinely doesn't know anything about film and he's insanely anal about his "rating system", I remember Anthony asked him about what makes a movie a 10 and Adam just started sounding like a robot how a 10 has to be technically flawless and not have any goofs and errors. Like he doesn't have an emotional connection to film. In my opinion a movie can be technically scrappy but I can still say it's a 10/10 if the movie absolutely nails the emotion. he sounds like he's talking about video games when he's talking about movies, like technical errors are the same as bugs are in games.
Yes this is exactly the problem with YMS. He acts like movies exist in an emotionless vacuum or something. He never seems like he understands what a movie is about, what it's trying to say and how it tries to say it, or how it makes him feel. He obsesses over filmmakers like Haneke or Iñárritu or McQueen because they come off as perfectionists to him, but he never seems to discuss what those filmmakers try to say and how their style influences the content of their films. It feels like he has this impossibility to reconcile flaws or imperfections in films, nitpicking things that shouldn't be an issue if a film immerses you or emotionally affects you in a certain way. I'd swear he's an actual robot or something.
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Adam isn't a good critic, like at all. He tries to pretend he's not super smug about his movie tastes but constantly demonstrates how he thinks the only people who like Marvel movies either never watch any arthouse movies, are loser fanboys or literal children. A lot of the points he makes in most review are either obvious nitpicks (which I've found in several cases to be dumb or explained by the movie) or really level-one analysis about the movie's themes. And his fans eat this shit up like candy because they can't wait to feel superior to people who liked a Disney or Marvel movie. It reminds me of that Hitchcock quote about why characters just don't go to the police, "they don't go to the police because its dull." Stop trying to outsmart every fucking movie you watch and find every flaw that shows it doesn't correlate with the real world, instead actually focus on what the movie is trying to say and fucking enjoy yourself.
Btw his criticism of Black Panther being made by a mega-corporate conglomerate making money for rich old dudes has been addressed by most critics, but as moviebob breaks down here maybe we should stop being buzzkills about people enjoying pop entertainment, especially when the subject matter in question (afro-futurism) hasn't been represented for most Americans.