Asklemmy

I don't always watch them, but when I do, they are AI generated and have really obscure titles like "He is the last man on earth"

I'm a fan of Pitch Meeting. I feel like Honest Trailers is too mean.

Sometimes I don't want to watch a movie but either due to popularity or some other reputation of the film I get curious. It's not very often but movie recaps sufficiently scratch to that itch

So braindead that I've considered writing a Chrome plugin to obliterate them from my feed. I've marked dozens as "never show me this channel again" but they keep multiplying.

Worthless

Depends on the movie. I like to watch them for movies I know I will never see and have no desire to see, and more focus on non-mainstream or foreign films. I prefer other mediums to movies so I probably watch fewer than 20 movies a year.

For example, I watched one about a Japanese movie where cockroach humanoids now inhabit Mars and they have to send humans with the ability to transform into other bugs to retrieve some data. An absolutely outrageous movie that I would otherwise never know existed and would never see willingly. So instead I watched a twenty minute summary of the movie while doing something else

I have yet to find one that's worth a damn.

I like to watch a movie recap of a film I've seen, that way I can avoid Gell-Mann Amnesia early on.

I'm not expecting them to inject analysis or critique, so—given that it should just be a statement of facts about what was said/done on screen—it shouldn't be hard to find. Unfortunately, for the few that don't inject their own interpretation outright, they still fall prey to the same shortcoming as all the rest: what they choose to ignore/include demonstrates a bias of their pet interpretation (oftentimes the most basic one).

Also, movies can't be summarized and retain their meaning. To quote Edward Hopper with a sentiment I've seen echoed throughout all artistic media and time:

If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.