History WebVideo / YourMovieSucksDotOrg

* {{Corpsing}}: In his Quickie review of ''Monster Seafood Wars'', the famously monotone Adam is unable to say the name of one of the director's other movies (''The World Sinks Except Japan'') without giving the slightest chuckle.

->''[[TheStinger ...and I'm giving this TV Tropes page a]] [[NeverLiveItDown six]] [[MemeticMutation out of tennnnn,]] [[RunningGag it's closer to a 5 than a 7.]] [[EveryEpisodeEnding Ba-bye!]]''

** Part 1 of his ''Film/TheLionKing2019'' review ends with the camera zooming into Mufasa's eye as homage to a similar scene near the end of ''{{Film/Martyrs}}''.

* ShoddyShindig: Adam has [[https://youtu.be/D1GzZwlTWzs a video]] covering his experience at ''Hot Tub Cinema Club''[='s=] disastrous Vancouver event, which was marred at every turn by poor planning and clueless staff. While promotional images showed off pictures of a spacious rooftop location, the actual event took place in a cramped indoor venue, the location of which wasn't revealed to attendees until mere days beforehand. The hot tubs, advertised as comfortably fitting up to five people, could barely hold four, were packed together so tightly that servers couldn't get through to bring guests their drinks, and hadn't been heated up beforehand so the water was lukewarm at best. The movie they were showing was a ''pirated copy'' of ''Film/AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy'' (according to the organisers, they couldn't find a legal copy of one of the most popular comedies of the [=2000s=] in time for the event, despite having months to prepare). For the first 20 minutes of the film there was no sound, and even after they managed to get it working it was still too quiet to be heard over the drunken crowd, yet no subtitles were provided until a frustrated Adam volunteered to download and install them himself. And that's not even getting into [[FromBadToWorse the heavy leaks and water damage]] caused to the building, as no effort was put into waterproofing the room.

Adam's further creative ventures include the LetsPlay channel [=AdumPlaze=] and its side channel [=AdumPlazethroughs=] which contains unedited gameplay from livestreams, as well as his work as a co-host of the film podcast [[https://www.youtube.com/c/Sardonicast Sardonicast]] alongside WebVideo/{{Ralphthemoviemaker}} and WebVideo/IHateEverything.

Adam Johnston (born April 14, 1991) is a film critic, [=YouTube=] creator and musician from Vancouver. He most notably runs ''[=YourMovieSucks=]'', a movie review show with a [[https://www.youtube.com/c/YourMovieSucksDOTorg YouTube channel]] that derives its handle directly from [[https://www.yourmoviesucks.org a coexisting website]]. Through the show, he's known for his nasal monotone voice, [[DeadpanSnarker dry, snarky]] sense of humor, inquisitive demeanor of explanations, eclectic choices of background music, {{surreal|Humor}} editing style, and lack of taped material or a narrative/character of any kind.

Outside the long-review ''YMS'' series, he does straightforward film reviews not attached to a preexisting series, more informal reviews referred to as ''Thoughts On'', and movie reviews/vlogs known as ''Quickies'' ([[NonindicativeName which sometimes aren't that quick]] but compared to the length of his YMS videos they still qualify), as well as even recommending a good film every so often.

Adam himself can be found on [[https://twitter.com/2gay2lift Twitter]] and supported via [[https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/YourMovieSucks PayPal]]. YMS can be found on [[https://www.patreon.com/YMS Patreon]], [[https://www.facebook.com/YourMoviesSuck/ Facebook]] and [[https://www.imdb.com/user/ur9028759/ IMDb]], and has a [[https://reddit.com/r/YMS/ subreddit]]. [=AdumPlaze=] can be found on [[https://www.patreon.com/AdumPlaze Patreon]], [[https://twitter.com/AdumPlaze Twitter]] and [[https://www.facebook.com/adumplaze/ Facebook]]. There is additionally a [[https://www.twitch.tv/AdumPlaze Twitch account]] attributed to this channel, although it's more prominently used as a general streaming site for Adam, from which some content is uploaded to the fan-run [[ApprovalOfGod (and officially co-signed)]] [[https://www.youtube.com/c/YMSHighlights YMS Highlights]] channel.

* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: He points out several of these in ''Film/TheLionKing2019'', as part of a general thesis that the creators, despite creating a ''very'' close remake, didn't actually absorb a lot of what was going on.

* VideoReviewShow

-->'''Adam''': "Yes Scar, it is true that you are upset that you will not be king, and you would be king if Simba wasn't about to be king, but Simba ''is'' about to be king, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment and he is your nephew and you are his uncle and you are also my brother and I am Simba's father]]."

Outside the long-review ''YMS'' series, he does straightforward film reviews not attached to a preexisting series, more informal reviews referred to as ''Thoughts On'', and movie reviews/vlogs known as ''Quickies'' ([[NonindicativeName which sometimes aren't that quick]]), as well as even recommending a good film every so often.

* AccentuateTheNegative: Invoked with some of his reviews (see ''Jupiter Ascending''), but subverted with his ratings as they're meant to be an objective measure of the movie's quality.

** At one point in the ''Film/CoolCatSavesTheKids'' review, he puts footage of Music/DeathGrips and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RtphGqbY8s Uncle Ricky]] over Cool Cat. He even gets dubbed by M.C. Ride.

* AllPartOfTheShow: PlayedForLaughs. Adam purchased an opening-day ticket for ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'', but was unable to watch it in theaters due to Vancouver's faulty public transportation system. Refusing to buy another ticket and give Disney more money, he opted to pirate it, and the first two minutes of his Quickie review of the film treats the poor-quality cam-rip 100% seriously, and he almost gives it a 10/10.

** He remarks that the OpeningScroll is in an "alien language"[[note]]It's in Spanish[[/note]] with Creator/JJAbrams providing ([[TranslationTrainWreck quite poor]]) English subtitles.

* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: [[invoked]] He has made a video criticizing the "Kimba crowd" that bashes ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' for supposedly copying elements from ''Manga/KimbaTheWhiteLion''. It argues that the comparisons between the two works are misleading (and in several cases poorly researched) -- the "plagiarized" elements are just superficial similarities and common tropes that both of the works happen to use, such as [[KingOfBeasts lions being good and noble]], [[DeceasedParentsAreTheBest the protagonist having a dead father]], or an evil character with [[GoodScarsEvilScars facial scars]] and [[DarkIsEvil dark colors]]. It is also argued that the accusations of plagiarism are not just an insult to the talented people who worked on ''TLK'', but also a disservice to ''Kimba'' -- they give the impression that ''Kimba'' is so much like ''TLK'' that it's not worth checking out if you've already watched ''TLK''.

* AprilFoolsDay: Put out a review for Ricky Berwick, one of the worst films he'd ever seen (giving it a [[EightPointEight 6/10]]). Once the joke seems to be done though, he then reveals a cover of "Fragments", a song from his band, only played poorly on a recorder with the singer being a man who sounds vaguely African.

** Case and point, he criticized Creator/LarsVonTrier's logic of constantly throwing stuff in his films with little to no reason for it and getting immensely frustrated that his fanbase are able to justify everything he does as art. He even threw a rant about [[SeriousBusiness how Lars made the aspect ratio]] in a scene of ''Nymphomaniac'' [[SeriousBusiness completely small despite it appearing normal]], even saying that [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer he did in fact look through various versions of the movie to explain this point]].

Adam Johnston (born April 14, 1991) is a film critic, [=YouTube=] creator and musician from Vancouver. He most notably runs ''[=YourMovieSucks=]'', a movie review show with a [[https://www.youtube.com/c/YourMovieSucksDOTorg YouTube channel]] that derives its handle directly from [[https://www.yourmoviesucks.org a coexisting website]]. Through the show, he's known for his nasal and snarky delivery, inquisitive demeanor of explanations, eclectic choices of background music, bizarre editing style, and lack of taped material or a narrative/character of any kind.

Outside the long-review ''YMS'' series, he does straightforward film reviews not attached to a preexisting series, more informal reviews referred to as ''Thoughts On'', movie reviews/vlogs known as ''Quickies'' ([[NonindicativeName which sometimes aren't that quick]]), and might even recommend a good film every so often.

One major draw to Adam's content is his care for film as an art form, rather than any particular genre or style, as well as his pointed and strong opinions towards almost everything he reviews, which has made him a routine recipient of the HePannedItNowHeSucks treatment over the years. He has also been doing videos since 2009 recounting his top ten films of the year, which include indie or foreign films that were made in the year but did not get a wide release at the time. Said videos never end up being released in time with their years, as this gives Adam time to watch all the films of a certain year he was interested in seeing.

As for that musician part, Adam also runs an indie/{{alternative|Rock}} rock band known as An Unkindness, in which he has played up to '''14''' separate instruments[[note]]piano, drums, cello, clarinet, acoustic guitar, saxophone, ukelele, accordion, synthesizer, organ, bass, electric guitar, violin, trumpet[[/note]]. The band has currently put out 4 projects: 2 [=EPs=] (''4 Songs'', ''The Present''), a compilation (''Low-Budget Randoms''), and a full-length album (''10 Years''), the lattermost being released after a healthy amount of [[ScheduleSlip postponing and rescheduling]]. They have had a few songs of theirs featured on ''VideoGame/RockBand'' and one of their songs ("Fragments") covered by Music/{{Blondie}}. Their full discography is accessible on [[https://anunkindness.com/ Bandcamp]], and several works are also available on streaming.