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Alrighty, before I get rolling too far into this new drama, I should note a couple of things and provide some tiny context. First, I saw “Kong: Skull Island“ twice in theaters, which should be an indication of how much I enjoyed Jordan Vogt-Roberts‘ monster movie. Secondly, I am aware we post Honest Trailers on occasion, which does their own nitpicky take down of movies. However, they’re clever, but admittedly the videos play much better when film in question is truly terrible, versus just kind of middling. This is all to lead into CinemaSins which occupies its own territory in the takedown landscape.

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The YouTube channel travels down a similar path as Honest Trailers, but to far less amusing effect, and they let the “joke” play out far too long. Where Honest Trailers gets in and out in 4 to 7 minutes maximum, CinemaSins routinely spends 15 to 20 minutes pointing out every little “flaw” in the movie under their microscope. I’m not sure how anyone can enjoy making these, but one person who doesn’t enjoy watching them is Vogt-Roberts.

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The filmmaker took to Twitter today after the nearly twenty-minute (seriously, guys) episode on “Kong: Skull Island” landed. Vogt-Roberts doesn’t have anything against someone not liking his film, but the glib and often purely misinformed tone of the video really rubbed him the wrong way. Watching the video, it’s hard not to disagree as CinemaSins seems eager to throw as many shots as possible at ‘Kong’ without actually thinking about what they’re saying.

Here’s Vogt-Roberts’ Twitter thread followed by the video so you can see it for yourself. Just trying making it more than four minutes….

Mystery Science Theatre built something artful, endearing and comedic on top of the foundation other people's work. It had merit to itself. — Jordan Vogt-Roberts (@VogtRoberts) August 15, 2017

Things like this drive me crazy. This is meant to be absurd. Cinema Sins would ding pulp fiction for Jules and Vincent not getting shot… pic.twitter.com/Zzer9HpRM4 — Jordan Vogt-Roberts (@VogtRoberts) August 15, 2017

Are you paying attention? That's not Shea Wigham's character. Try actually watching the movie. pic.twitter.com/VgN9Nfhft4 — Jordan Vogt-Roberts (@VogtRoberts) August 15, 2017

It's called a match cut or graphic rhyming. So yes. I could have shown it. This is a choice that has nothing to do with a graphic shot later pic.twitter.com/aFv0k5WYoG — Jordan Vogt-Roberts (@VogtRoberts) August 15, 2017

Because it's inaccessible by boat and thus only discovered when we launched satellites in the 70's with cameras looking down at the earth. pic.twitter.com/VY54NIeO7F — Jordan Vogt-Roberts (@VogtRoberts) August 15, 2017

Anyhow. I just wanted to point out why these videos are infuriating. They're often just wrong or think they're smarter than you. — Jordan Vogt-Roberts (@VogtRoberts) August 15, 2017

To anyone who thinks this video makes me mad or hurts me. It doesn't. I just wanted to point out a few obvious examples that are just wrong. — Jordan Vogt-Roberts (@VogtRoberts) August 15, 2017

It's like when trump lies on camera just because he can. It's infuriating and there are people out there who listen to him & cinema sins. — Jordan Vogt-Roberts (@VogtRoberts) August 15, 2017

Maybe I'll return to this and watch their entire video if it doesn't make me hammer a nail through my dick and point out more errors. — Jordan Vogt-Roberts (@VogtRoberts) August 15, 2017