Saying that the internet can be a negative place sometimes is a bit of an understatement. And in that vein, if you look at the landscape of some of the biggest movie-related YouTube channels — Red Letter Media, Honest Trailers, Cinema Sins, How It Should Have Ended, Your Movie Sucks — a certain pattern begins to emerge.

It seems that we, as an audience, seem to delight in a confirmation that the movies we watch are bad. And while there’s nothing wrong with criticism — some movies are just not very good — there is another way to approach discussing film. And that’s where Movies with Mikey, one of my favorite YouTube shows on the internet, comes in.

Instead of taking the approach that films are inherently nothing more than a collection…

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