YMMV / Cinema Wins

• Adorkable: Being a Fanboy gushing about geeky movies, Lee inevitably acts like this. More so when he tells stories about his wife or newborn son, which are often adorable.
• Broken Base:
  • Splitting an EGA episode into two. Better way to go further into details, or redundantly irritating to make two videos out of one movie? It doesn't help that they made one entire video for the 3 hour ultimate edition of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice but split a movie like Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, a movie that is much shorter, into two. Doesn't seem to apply to Avengers: Infinity War, though. In fact, for Avengers: Endgame, Lee claims that his viewers insisted that the movie be covered in multiple parts due to the understandably longer running time compared to other movies.
  • Lee unlisting the Harry Potter videos. Was he justified in doing so to take a stand towards the alleged transphobic comments of J. K. Rowling or is it disrespectful towards Harry Potter fans that loved his videos covering the franchise and take issue that he's pulling a Bury Your Art rather than trying to separate the artist from the art? Not helping matters especially since he did as a matter of fact separate the artist from the art for similar if not more controversial people out there.
• Catharsis Factor: If you're fed up to the back teeth of snarky film review channels, Lee's channel is a major breath of fresh air, particularly if you're a fan of very divisive films such as the latest Star Wars films or the DC Extended Universe. Hearing genuine praise lavished on them is immensely satisfying. Or even if you're not a fan and are just sick of negativity, watching a movie you thought was bad and getting a perspective that isn't filled with bile is just a nice change of pace.
• Fandom Rivalry:
  • A relatively small one with CinemaSins, fans of Sins will sometimes leave comments on videos saying Lee "ripped off" Sins even though it's an Affectionate Parody of them. Lee even acknowledges this on his channel page. On the flip side fans of Wins will say Wins is better because he puts time and effort into videos fully analyzing films, while Sins just tends to nitpick and have many jokey Sins. Then there are the fans who love them both for what they do.
  • A more severe one has formed with Every Frame a Pause thanks to the latter group making multiple live streams criticizing Lee's content with them calling Lee's video defending The Rise of Skywalker "one of the worst videos [they've] ever seen". Fans of Cinema Wins find EFAP to be engaging in poor tact attacking Cinema Wins for praising movies they don't like. Fans of EFAP however, find Lee's endless optimism and defenses (although it's well established that Lee is perfectly able to admit when he doesn't like something in a film or even a film as a whole) to be just as harmful to film criticism discourse as relentless nitpicking, if not more so.
  • Another one with fans of Madvocate. In Madvocate's Wonder Woman 1984 video, he showed a brief clip of Lee saying "pretend for a watch through that it's what you wanted, and see how you feel!", then cut to a shot of Tyrion vomiting to show his disgust. Needless to say, fans of CinemaWins didn't appreciate it. In general, Madvocate's extremely critical and unforgiving review style clashes strongly with CinemaWins' positive style, with Madvocate all but outright saying that Lee's outlook is naive and uncritical.
• Growing the Beard: The earlier videos were fine but focused a bit too much on jokes while later videos focus a lot more on explaining exactly why the movie is so good or defending it. He also started doing movies he wants to do regardless of whether they're praised enough or not, alongside the unpopular movies he wants to stick up for.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight:
  • In his Captain America: The First Avenger video, Lee makes a joke about Cable using Time Travel so Steve can be with Peggy. Come Avengers: Endgame, Steve actually uses time travel to be with Peggy, again!
  • In his Avengers: Infinity War Video, Lee calls for Disney to rehire James Gunn. Four months after the video, Disney did!
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • In the review of Gods of Egypt, Lee calls the scene where Bek is caught stealing jewels "live-action Aladdin". Three years later, an actual live-action Aladdin came out.
  • In the review of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Lee mentions the then-upcoming Doctor Strange and says that no matter how much the fans want it, Strange still won't do any magic. The movie would go on to thoroughly avert the MCU's tendency of Doing In the Wizard and make it clear that what is used in it really is magic.
  • His review of Avengers: Age of Ultron has him end up making three predictions about future MCU installments that all come true. With two of these instances, he did callbacks to these retroactive moments of foreshadowing.
    • When Steve gets Mjolnir to budge ever so slightly, Lee theorizes that "Cap could lift the hammer and will eventually, but once he realized he could, he decided not to for Thor's sake."
    • When Vision swoops in and rescues Wanda at the end, Lee says, "Ooh, they're gonna fall in love! Also, saving your new friend."
    • In the last shot of Hulk, as he flies away in a Quinjet, Lee pleads "Please be going to Sakaar, please be going to Sakaar. Oh no? Maybe Asgard? Alright. That's fine."
  • In the Attack of the Clones review, as he apologizes for not realizing that Darth Maul survived The Phantom Menace in canon material (having believed Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels to be non-canon), he states that he hopes Maul will be in The Last Jedi, stating that Ray Park needs the work. While Maul didn't show up in that film, he appeared at the end of Solo, physically portrayed by Ray Park.
  • In the Return of the Jedi review, Lee predicts that Luke is responsible for Ben Solo's fall which The Last Jedi confirmed to be the truth.^note While the video was released two days after The Last Jedi hits theaters, it was clearly written and recorded beforehand.
  • Lee says that Thor: Ragnarok might be as smart as the Hulk gets. Then Professor Hulk happens.
  • In his Megamind review, during the scene where Megamind and Roxanne are escaping the sliding building, he lambasts the "Prometheus School of Running Away From Things" Running Gag from CinemaSins, arguing that you don't always think clearly during life-threatening situations and that the destruction the sliding building is causing would most likely make going to the sides useless. When Sins did their video, they made the joke without a hint of acknowledging the Wins video.
  • In John Wick: Chapter 2, when John Wick arrives at the Italian Continental hotel, Lee makes an Assassin's Creed II joke ("Ha, Italian Continental. Likely to Ezio's home away from home?"). John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum would end up having enough thematic and more direct references to the franchise, complete with John getting a ring finger cut off to prove his loyalty.
• Memetic Mutation: The amount of praise Lee has for Tom Cruise's dedication to his art (from taking matters into his own hands by being a producer, doing his own stunts, taking pay cuts, etc.) has gotten to the point of people affectionately mocking this in the comments section by claiming Tom Cruise did other more ridiculous things to ensure quality in his films. For instance, did you know that Tom Cruise actually killed himself in a nuclear explosion just to make the opening scene in Mission: Impossible – Fallout more realistic? Such dedication to his craft.
• Sweet Dreams Fuel: Your favorite movies are being defended and praised, what else do you need to sleep well at night?

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