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I find that I rather enjoy film/literary analysis on YouTube precisely because I'm not very good at it.

I mean, sure. When the Laughing Man logo in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex became a mere logo for fashion statements, this was an obvious reference to Baudrillard's decay of meaning, but I never actually read Baudrillard, so I don't really know what that means. Essays and video essays help me with that.

So share your interesting ones.


Analysis by Nerdwriter on the use of space in Ghost in the Shell, what this says about the character, about cities, and humanity.


General broad overview of the most basic themes in Ghost in the Shell about identity, humanity, sentience, etc, with a bit more discussion about the meaning behind reflection imagery in the movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRXI__Wixas&list=PLJGOq3JclTH8J73o2Z4VMaSYZDNG3xeZ7

Playlist rather than a video. She (Lindsay Ellis) is not done, but 7 videos so far with more planned about[ent]hellip[/ent] the Transformer movies? Uhm, yeah, the movies suck, and she doesn't disagree there, but she uses the movies as a way to explain a lot of basic concepts about film analysis that I never understood before.


Half hour discussion of Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 2, and the video that got me hooked on Lindsay Ellis.


Nerdwriter uses Logan to talk about what happens to genres as they get old. Basically, comic book movies will ultimately become a series of themes that get referenced by future movies.

Anyway, share the ones you like.
 
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Lindsay Ellis is becoming one of my favorites. Here she talks about humor that covers offensive topics.

Trigger warning: much of the discussion involves criticism of Nazis, which could trigger more delicate conservative and libertarian viewers. Discretion is advised. And no, criticizing Nazis does not make someone worse than Nazis, I don't care what they told you to think on FOX News.
 
For anyone who likes MovieBob's Really That Good series of film analysis, he's decided to do one episode talking about why a movie is bad. This is a "preview" in which he lays out his justification for violating the basic premise of the series:

 
The Art of Flashbacks, as especially exhibited in Machester By The Sea

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Not quite analysis, but I didn't know where else to put this video.



The second Aliens movie was actually about Vietnam.
 
Part 1 of Moviebob's analysis of Batman v. Superman is out:



Just a reminder. The Really That Good series exists because Bob Chipman got depressed about the fact that movie criticism focuses so much on negative comments, so he wanted to do a series that involved mostly positive discussion about past movies so that his reviews of modern movies didn't bother him so much.

As spelled out in the above preview, he was so upset about Batman v Superman that he decided to violate the premise of his series and discuss why a past movie is bad. I just finished watching this, and there was some really good observations in here. What is so frustrating is that it is not relentlessly bad. A lot of very talented people worked on this movie and used iconic source material There was just no reason for it to be as bad as it was, yet it was. It did have parts that were good, and that made the bad that much more bothersome.

PS -- there's a brief shoutout to Lindsay Ellis in here.
 

As has been discussed and bemoaned elsewhere, the orange and teal color scheme has come to dominate blockbuster movies, including Marvel movies. A guest host for Nerdsync discusses how Spider-Man Homecoming violates the standard color scheme to make things stand out.
 
Warning: spoilers about the movie Thor: Ragnarok



Short but interesting analysis of the themes behind Thor: Ragnarok. It's about confronting your own past and the lies cultures tell themselves about the past. Appropriate for Veterans' Day.
 


If you've never seen Thug Notes, you owe it to yourself to check it out. This is far and away my favorite and funniest series on literary analysis, even if the videos are a bit short and the analysis a bit shallow.
 
This is a good, but long ass kicking of the CinemaSins youtube channel:



good stuff.
 
Part 2/3 of the one and only episode of Really That Bad is out.



I have to say that I agree with Bob's overall analysis here: there are a large number of small changes that could have made this movie good or even great, and it's those qualities that make this movie feel especially bad. Movies that are bad in every possible way are just funny, but movies like this that could have been good are annoying and frustrating.
 
On the subject of analyses that explain at length why something is bad, here is one about the new Sherlock:

 
"At length" is right. I'm not sure how I feel about these critiques that are longer than the source material.
 
This is technically music analysis, but I figure there are probably enough Fleetwood Mac fans around to appreciate it.

 
I started reading the gulag archipelago at Jordan Peterson's recommendation because it perhaps gives one some insight into how he views things.("You need to read it if you want to understand what's happening." Roughly his words) I'm not even 100 pages in and I'm already sick with exhaustion. That said I have noted some interesting points:

-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn attributes a large amount of the arrests in the soviet republics to the system of government quotas for arrests. It's actually one of the first things he points out.

-The USSR immediately began the business of destroying their political opposition in the aftermath of the revolution. There wasn't much of a "Step by step..." things definitely got worse as time went on but it parallels Hitler perfectly in that they didn't wait for their opposition to consolidate power and do much organizing.

-The USSR made a point to destroy its prisoners slowly and as secretively as possible, such that the entire scope of their crimes could never be brought to light, contrasting with the holocaust which Eisenhower meticulously documented but could only do so as a result of prevailing in armed conflict with the third reich.

-Part of the way the USSR maintained control was to pit the cities against the country and visa versa and to feed their outrage against so-called parasites. In this regard they're not much different from modern conservatives!

-Another way was by creating an atmosphere of paranoia. "Who can we trust? Who's an informant?" It speaks to the efficacy of the USSR's ability to paralyze the creation of new political opposition (Though small movements seem to have persisted regardless)

-The soviet union did not care for socialists because they threatened the power of the totalitarian state and made efforts to hunt them down, also not much different from hitler funnily enough.

I'll maybe go further in depth if/when I finish the book but I am finding it a good read so far.
 
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