Best Movies For Reaction Videos

A "first time watching" movie reaction video is a video in which a person or multiple people react to their first time seeing a movie or a television series episode. Videos showing emotional reactions or criticism and commentary are numerous on video hosting services such as YouTube and live-streaming services such as Twitch. Typically the depicted persons are aware that they are being recorded and the camera and microphone are acknowledged by the subjects.

Typically a condensed version of the movie itself is shown as a picture-in-picture or in a split screen, allowing the reaction video's viewers to see what is being reacted to. It generally works better when they avoid irritating gimmicks like going in and out of focus in an effort to dodge copyright issues. Don't expect those making these to wow you with their technical knowledge or to exhibit much in the way of profound philosophical insights.

Not unexpectedly the degree to which this sort of stuff is an entertaining watch is very dependent on the film that is being viewed. And although it would seem fairly easy to predict what will work and what will bomb, the makers of these are often completely clueless. And most try to up viewership by selecting mega-popular high dollar garbage like "Saving Private Ryan" and "Titanic". So in the interest of "saving" people from being bored to death this list includes the movies most suitable for this treatment, with the caveat that the people producing these are an uneven mix of talent so just choosing the right movie does not guarantee that a specific reaction video will be worth watching.

Most of those making these videos represent that they are watching the film for the first time. Some are faking that claim, but often tip their hands by correctly guessing plot developments. Apparently these dim bulbs think this makes them look intelligent and don't realize what they are doing is so obvious. Also obvious is that someone is selling a pre-edited condensed (30 to 45 minute) version of most films (It's A Wonderful Life" the most obvious) to many "first time viewing" reactors. These are probably pared down to material that has already been passed through U-Tube's copyright guardians, insuring that a submission will receive almost automatic approval. The reactors may or may not watch the actual film, but they use these selected sequences to simplify their editing. They only have to superimpose their own image onto this footage and then upload the result to U-Tube. Sort of bursts the bubble that these are authentic first time viewings, they are only reactions to a glorified trailer. A huge misrepresentation.

This would account for the huge number of people reacting to the same films, typically the least challenging ones.

Finally I don't recommend watching a reaction video without first seeing the film on your own.