Awesome / CinemaSins

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• At the beginning of their review of Gravity, it says that they got Neil deGrasse Tyson as a guest-narrator, and guess what? He narrates!
  • On the same movie, even if they do give it a pair of sins (in that the debris is applying the Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy effect and that "there goes HBO again"), the sequence where the debris field destroys the International Space Station is given praise and then mentioned to be awesome in 3D (and they hate 3D Movies).
• Their Dragonball Evolution review was so requested that they decided to break their usual rules and add a bonus round for all the times it completely deviated from the source material since that was a source of a lot of anger from Dragon Ball fans. Just this once.
• One of the Frozen stingers: Elsa singing "Let it Go" perfectly segueing into Katy Perry's "Firework".
• Roger Corman challenged them to sin one of his movies. They chose Death Race 2000.
• At the beginning of the video for How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, The Nostalgia Critic comes to narrate some of the sins, after convincing Jeremy to (as a nod to his own review of that film) do the whole thing in rhyme.
• Having the brass ones to not only make a sin video of themselves, but to give themselves an infinite sin count, essentially saying "We're more screwed up than anything we rate" and making a big joke out of it.
  • And then they made a second one!
• One follower made a Tumblr post remarking that s/he wants to see "Everything Wrong With Big Hero 6", wishing the Cinema Sins team luck with making it. This was their response. And Jeremy proved to be a man of his word.
• In the video for Fifty Shades of Grey, the narrator outright calls the relationship between Ana and Christian emotional and physical abuse, while also calling out anyone who likes it.
• Similarly to the above, he shows no kindness for the implied sexism in Pixels.
• Jeremy going out of his way in the Terminator Salvation video to show that the tape John is listening to in 2018 is different from the recording Sarah made for him back in 1984, even going so far as to play both scenes at the same time. He also points out the photo is slightly zoomed in and the fact John had it in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
• Snarking in at the scene in Ghost Rider (2007) for when Roxanne, who got stood up by Johnny Blaze, drunkenly and desperately asks a waiter if he thinks she's pretty.
• Jeremy calling out Michael Bay for the moment in Transformers: Age of Extinction where the theater owner calls out "the movies nowadays" for being filled with "sequels and remakes—bunch of crap":
  "F(BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP)K YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!! You don't get to make this joke after building an entire career out of the s(beep)t this theater owner is bemoaning! That's like having your cake, eating it, and then saying 'F(beep)k cake! I'm above it!'"
• Neil Degrasse Tyson helping a second time with the video for Interstellar. Jeremy points out on the epilogue of the video that he is just a "jackass comedian" and that he feels honored to have worked with him.
• Calling out the Designated Hero in San Andreas who only bothers rescuing his family despite being a search and rescue pilot.
  • He also calls out a guy who thinks holding The Rock at gunpoint was a good idea.
• In his sins video for the Jason Bourne trailer, he docks all sins after Bourne's proper introduction (four total), does it again when Matt Damon is credited (five more), and after two more the sin counter breaks when Bourne one-shots a dude in a fist fight, finishing the count with -143. Tommy Lee Jones joining the cast is sinned, but Jeremy still reacts positively to it.
• In his The Force Awakens trailer sins video, he sins a scene of a Stormtrooper sent flying from an explosion, solely because he predicts that the film itself will use a Wilhelm scream for exactly that moment. He was off by about five seconds, but he ended up being correct, so points for effort on the prediction.
• In Cars when Mater exclaims "GIT R DONE!" during the climactic race... well, let's have Jeremy say it:

  Jeremy: I'm shaking my head. I want you to know my disappointment in this line goes beyond the verbal into the physical. This is truly a contractual sin against America, and I'm giving it three sins at once! (ding ding ding!)

• Any film that either gets a disclaimer that one of the two loves it or is under 10 minutes counts, considering most videos after the style change are 10 plus minutes.
• Jeremy spends a great deal of his video of Batman: The Killing Joke calling out the movie on its mistreatment of Batgirl and the entire and complete disjointedness of the prologue of the film.
• Jeremy's latest Dear Hollywood video (on the death of originality in the industry). All it is is two minutes of wine-influenced, incredibly creative insults followed by a whispered "FUUUUCK YOU!" at the end. Also overlaps with the Funny page.
• In X-Men: Apocalypse, Jeremy has to pre-emptively take three sins off of for the slow motion Quicksilver sequence (already a rarity in videos) to soften the blow of the rant that followed, which he admits that, while he really likes the scene, he doesn't buy just how fast Quicksilver is.

  Jeremy: AND I AIN'T BUYING IT! I'm loving it, but I ain't buying it.

• Jeremy calls out bad plots all the time. And yet there's something to be said for when X-Men: Apocalypse comes along and he gets so frustrated when talking about the incoherent mess that is Apocalypse's plan that he's angry enough to raise his voice, an extreme rarity for the channel, and for all the nitpicking he does to films, it shows how much he values coherent stories.
  Jeremy: ...you know what? I'm done right here. This sh*ts out of control. In the name of a few pre-planned effects shots, you assholes have allowed this film's plot to veer into the territory of the insane! Should we or should we NOT follow the advice of the GALACTICALLY STUPID?!?!
• Jeremy doubling the sins count of The Nut Job for the inclusion of animated Psy.
• As much as Jeremy claims not to rely on All There in the Manual, he goes out of his way to explain why Ghost in the Shell (2017) is inferior to the original, citing specific recreated scenes that lose all meaning and relevance due to the altered story.
• This is more on the movie in question than on Jeremy's part but it bears mentioning. The Fate of the Furious managed to do what was once thought impossible: it broke the sin counter into a glitchy gibbering mess.
  • And it apparently stayed broken, since the sins videos after have a new sin counter in its place^note Which is aptly named MOVIE SIN COUNTER 2.0.
• It's only one joke, but Jeremy's roasting of Kevin Spacey for his real-life improprieties during the Baby Driver episode was on point.
• Jeremy ripping into The Emoji Movie is bloody brilliant and epic, due to how utterly spot on and incredible it is, as it manages to effortlessly deconstruct the entire movie bit by bloody bit, exposing its every single flaw.
  • Ditto for Wonder Woman 1984 as he not only tears apart every nonsensical or plot-convenient moment, but also explains how the sequel inferior to the first film in every way imaginable.
• The Cinemasins team spots 23 separate continuity errors around the titular board game in Jumanji (documented in video form by one of the channel's writers on their own YouTube channel). Jeremy was so furious that not only did he add a sin for every error, but also 15 for the amount of time that he spent catching them and another 25 for how easily avoidable it would have been had the writers not been "lazy, mathematically challenged, slapstick-loving, continuity-shunning holes of asses", for a total of 63 sins.
• This very simple Take That! in the video for Paddington (2014):
  Jeremy: Weinstein. [adds 5 sins]
• Jeremy giving Fifty Shades Darker an extra 1000 sins for introducing and resolving a helicopter crash involving one of the main protagonists, which could've actually impacted the story and been a huge plot point, in a matter of three minutes. Extra sweet is how casually he does it:
  (Movie reveals via news report that everyone in the crash is safe)
  Jeremy: Whew! That was such a horrifying three minutes that they dedicated to this helicopter crash! For a minute there, I thought it was going to be something impactful to the story! God, I'm glad everyone's OK. (ding) Also, here's another thousand sins. (multi-ding)
• The fact that, for Music Video Sins for K-pop videos, Jeremy has clearly done his research - band members are highlighted by name, artists like Seventeen are namedropped in completely irrelevant contexts - but otherwise the videos and songs are treated just like any other major music releases would be (no racist jokes or exoticizing the proceedings).
• Jeremy showing no mercy to The Greatest Showman, pointing out what a dishonest and generally awful person Barnum was in real life, despite the film's framing him as otherwise.
• During the "EWW Unfriended" video, Jeremy commented that the links shown in the movie still work, only having been removed from YouTube due to the subject matter present. Because of this, he praises the movie for this design.
• Taking time out of the Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves video to praise the performance of Alan Rickman as the Sheriff of Nottingham, even noting that his evil plan is rather logical on inspection, and would have been even stronger without the devil-worshiping and witchcraft they tacked onto the character to make him extra evil.
• Near the end of A Star Is Born (2018), Jeremy points out the disgusting way that Jack's suicide is displayed as something noble, praises the website "DoesTheDogDie?" for helping people with trigger warnings, and puts up the National Suicide Hotline for people who need emotional support.
• The second sin for TV Sins video on Game of Thrones' "Mother's Mercy"; Shireen's death, for no other reason than utter disgust.
  Jeremy: I know this show is dark but killing Stannis' daughter is easily the most unforgivable action this show has taken thus far. And while technically we're not covering that episode, we are covering the aftermath and this is my YouTube channel so f*ck you Game Of Thrones, you're getting a sin.
• At the climax of Escape Room (2019), a detective says that they can find no evidence of escape rooms that tried to kill people. Jeremy immediately tears into that revelation as an Ass Pull, points out the massive amount of Fridge Logic behind it, and says that it may as well be magic for how the conspiracy got away with it. Jeremy sins each and every individual room while doing it, pointing out the myriad of ways that each room should have left something behind for the detectives to find. Then, at the very end, he adds twenty more sins for the film even thinking it could get away with that.
• First Blood
  • The film cuts straight to credits without showing any company logos at all, let alone the nearly minute-long barrage of them that is almost customary now. It's so surprising to Jeremy that his head explodes.
  • While the movie's sin count still goes up by one, Jeremy points out one personal sin.
  • Jeremy points out a couple of times in passing that this is a movie he likes a lot.
• To keep with the theme of Tenet, the video says it's 12 minutes for a 24 minute sinning and the sin counter and timer inverts during inverted scenes. By the end of it, you'll be nearly as confused as Jeremy was about the movie itself, a truly impressive feat of sinning.
• When the Thinker in The Suicide Squad makes his remark about how God can't be good if He allows the Thinker's horrendous experiments to exist, Jeremy takes the time to effortlessly dismantle this point of view without a trace of his usual sarcasm:
  Jeremy: Well, no, actually. God's goodness, at least Biblically speaking, from a New Testament perspective, is not something that prevents all human suffering, but rather something that offers grace and redemption to all those who have suffered.
• In the video about West Side Story (2021), there's a sin for subtitlers who use "conversing in foreign language" as a placeholder rather than subtitling the actual words, as it creates a different experience for the hearing impaired and defeats the purpose of having subtitles in the first place.
• The video for The LEGO Movie gets a whopping twenty sins detracted for the movie's heart, with his phrasing implying he would have taken off even more had it not been for the confusing implication that, by showing him move around through sheer willpower while Finn and the Man Upstairs are unaware, Emmett is in fact a sentient independent entity despite most of his adventure having been a product of Finn's imagination.
• Vampire's Kiss gets ten million sins added for a rape scene, with Jeremy admitting that "there are probably not enough sins for what Peter does to Alva". Whether it's because he's under a vampire's spell or a narcissistic psychopath, it still doesn't make the scene okay in Jeremy's eyes.
• Everything Everywhere All at Once is movie number one thousand that they've ever sinned. As their final video of 2022 they naturally go off the rails, working in The Multiverse premise to create a multiverse of CinemaSins. It also ends with Jeremy, Chris, and the various guest sinners gushing about the movie right at the end, leaving it with a total of only one sin.
  • Bonus: the entire video is 42 minutes long. What is the meaning of life according to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and that also gets referenced in the film? 42.
• While the April Fools' Day video for Troll 2 consisted mostly of humorous sin removals, Jeremy gave the film an actual sin for a character making a homophobic comment.
  • Similarly, in the video for The Wolverine, he sounds genuinely irritated when giving a sin for Wolverine making a racist comment.
  • In another similar manner, this comment in the Music Video Sins episode for Eminem's "Fall":
    Jeremy: You can take the rapper out of The '90s, but apparently you can't take the homophobia out of the rapper.
• He gives Scream VI a sin for indulging in the Bury Your Gays stereotype.

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