Edit: I’m not actually opposed to watching movies with directors cuts. Just realized I love watching ridiculously long video essays about movies, but almost never watch directors commentaries. Not sure why, probably availability.
Also I heightened the phrasing for comedic purposes ;)
Idk what it is, but I love super long YouTube videos. Like 1-2 hours of commentary. But I don’t really like sitting though a movie. I’m not entirely sure why that is. It’s not like I watch YouTubers that scream and are hyperactive the whole time.
For me it’s because you can do something else while watching the video. Like play a game.
If I miss a part on commentary, I lose out on the video explanation. If I miss part of the movie, why the hell are these people trying to kill each other. Different levels of impact where rewinding just a few minutes and not going back to the beginning for exposition and reparsing it all back together.
An extremely brief 12 hour analysis of The Phantom Menace