History YMMV / YourmoviesucksDOTorg

*** Adam's approach toward film criticism has become rather divisive. While none will dispute his ability to comment on the technical aspects of filmmaking, many feel that he is far too harsh, nit-picky orientated, and bursting to the brim with bias Steamroller to fairly evaluate the stories of said movies he dislikes. Adam and his fans are aware of this broken base and frequently remind distractors that his reviews solely reflect his opinions and should not be taken as gospel.

* HePannedItNowHeSucks: His highly critical attitude towards film really doesn't tend to mix well when he has a negative opinion of generally well-received movies, including ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' ''Film/AQuietPlace'', ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}'', ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'', ''Film/DoctorSleep'', and ''Series/TheHauntingOfHillHouse2018''. Although...

* FandomRivalry: Adam fans ''do not'' get along with Creator/DavidLynch fans, especially when Adam made it clear he ''hates'' Lynch's work all because ''his copy of Film/{{Eraserhead}}'' ''[[DisproportionateRetribution does not have a menu screen]]''. This got worse when he slammed Lynch's considered classic ''Film/MulhollandDrive'' and borderline infuriated fans more when during a ''Sardonicast'' episode discussing the aforementioned ''Eraserhead'' with WebVideo/{{Ralphthemoviemaker}} and WebVideo/IHateEverything, Adam constantly interrupted the two and was borderline caustic about the film.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: ''Cool Cat Saves The Kids''. The cheesy filtered shot of Cool Cat running to uptempo synth music and the [[Film/ReservoirDogs Tarantino-esque]] TeamPowerWalk in the gun sequence seem like they might be jokey inserts created by Adam, but ''they're actually in the film''! And they [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Make Just As Much Sense In Context]].

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: His own band An Unkindness shows impressive promise and showcases Adam's vocals surprisingly well.
** Made more awesome that ''Music/{{Blondie}}'' covered their song "Fragments" for the album ''Pollinator''!

* HePannedItNowHeSucks: His highly critical attitude towards film really doesn't tend to mix well when he has a negative opinion of generally well-received movies, including ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' ''Film/AQuietPlace'', ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}'', ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'', ''Film/DoctorSleep'', and ''Series/TheHauntingOfHillHouse''. Although...

* HePannedItNowHeSucks: His highly critical attitude towards film really doesn't tend to mix well when he has a negative opinion of generally well-received movies, including ''Film/AQuietPlace'', ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}'', ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'', ''Film/DoctorSleep'', and ''Series/TheHauntingOfHillHouse''. Although...

** "Get me outta here! I didn't do anything! Just get me out!" [[labelnote:Explanation]]Adumplaze's playthrough of the [[VideoGame/{{Saw}} first Saw video game]] features this panicked rant from a man being held captive in one of Jigsaw's torture rooms, from the title screen. The ''hysterically'' [[DullSurprise bad delivery of the actor]] and its repetitiveness made it a certified classic among Adum and fans, to the point where it's regularly quoted on a daily basis.[[/labelnote]]

** "Get me outta here! I didn't do anything! Just get me out!" [[labelnote:Explanation]]Adumplaze's playthrough of the [[VideoGame/Saw first Saw video game]] features this panicked rant from a man being held captive in one of Jigsaw's torture rooms, from the title screen. The ''hysterically'' [[DullSurprise bad delivery of the actor]] and its repetitiveness made it a certified classic among Adum and fans, to the point where it's regularly quoted on a daily basis.[[/labelnote]]

** Despite his bashing of ''Cool Cat Saves the Kids'', he did admire Derek Savage's love and dedication for trying to create something for kids that would help them with issues like bullying and gun safety. Even though Savage himself responded to Adam's video and approved of it, he later started harassing other {{Video Review Show}}s because they gave Cool Cat negative reviews (namely WebVideo/IHateEverything and WebVideo/Bobsheaux) and cut ties with Adam after his ''Cool Cat Learns Fair Use'' video called him out. Later on, due to Derek Savage launching multiple Kickstarters for new projects that didn't deliver on their promises (even in cases of successful funding) - even unblocking Adam on Twitter to get him to promote one of those films - Adam highly discourages anyone giving money to Savage's unfinished projects and has called him out on his manipulative behavior.

* HarsherInHindsight: Adam getting flak towards fans of the band Car Seat Headrest for being insensitive towards vocalist Will Toledo became this when Toledo became subject to criticisms after he shafted and talked poorly of ''WesternAnimation/IsleOfDogs'', accusing the film of "cultural appropriation", something Adam proceeded to make fun of.

** Despite his bashing of ''Cool Cat Saves the Kids'', he does admire Derek Savage's love/dedication for trying to create something things kids will love and tells fans to support Savage in his dedication.
*** Makes it better that Savage himself responded to Adam's video and approved of it, actually doing a recut of the film.
*** Becomes HarsherInHindsight when Savage started harassing other {{Video Review Show}}s because they gave Cool Cat negative reviews, especially with WebVideo/IHateEverything.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: ''Cool Cat Saves The Kids''. The cheesy filtered shot of Cool Cat running to uptempo synth music and the [[Film/ReservoirDogs Tarantino-esque]] PowerWalk in the gun sequence seem like they might be jokey inserts created by Adam, but ''they're actually in the film''! And they [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Make Just As Much Sense In Context]].

** He received some pretty severe backlash on Twitter for his loathing for ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie,'' which he called a "lazy" and "babyish" movie that was basically only a commercial. As a result of this, he spent the first six minutes of his proper review complaining about fans harassing critics of the movie, the entire time lacking his usual DullSurprise inflection and sounding completely ''enraged.''

** In a situation rivaled only by the likes of his ''Film/AQuietPlace'' review, Adam faced plenty of controversy for his review of ''Film/PromisingYoungWoman'' during a video going over the 2020 nominees for the Academy Award for Best Picture. This time, it was not because of the rating, which was a 4/10, but rather that he gave the film such a rating only after watching the first half-hour. This is actually not a new practice for Adam, as he has given films such as ''WesternAnimation/{{Paranorman}}'' and ''Film/{{Vice}}'' ratings without finishing them, but the prominence of this decision, combined with how polarizing of a film it was, allowed it to snowball into a firestorm of backlash. He soon watched the movie in full as a response, with the rating unchanged.

** During the extremely protracted editing process for his review of ''Film/TheLionKing2019'', Adam ended up getting tendonitis in BOTH arms due to the excessive amount of clicking and scrolling he did with his computer mouse on his dominant hand and then switching to his non-dominant hand to keep the work going. After being essentially stripped of his ability to do any editing at all with both arms out of commission, he then decided to use his time in recovery to catch up on movies he had been putting off watching. The end result of sitting on the couch watching hours of movies for extended periods of time? Fucking SCIATICA.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselHoff: According to a [[https://www.reddit.com/r/YMS/comments/ea2t8s/adam_youre_famous_in_china/ Reddit post]], Adum is very popular in China. His reviews pull in millions of views on Wechat, especially his review of ''Film/CrazyRichAsians'', where he tears the movie into shreds.

* HarsherInHindsight: Adam getting flak towards fans of the band Car Seat Headrest for being insensitive towards vocalist Will Toledo became this when Toledo became subject to criticisms after he shafted and talked poorly of ''WesternAnimation/IsleOfDogs'' and accused the film of "cultural appropriation", something Adam proceeded to make fun of.

** He repeated ''the same event'' again in 2019 when he poorly reviewed and slammed ''Film/PokemonDetectivePikachu'', with many detractors feeling he was being way too overly picky and unfair to the movie, with some feeling his ranting about the special effects/CGI "sucking" already warranted animosity when he scored the film as a ''2/10''. Suffice to say, nobody was amused and detractors argued with fans who pulled the NoTrueScotsman or invoking BiasSteamroller in regards to YMS.
** Oddly enough, for something he ''didn't'' pan: some fans were borderline annoyed, if not furious, at Adam's 7/10 score for ''Series/{{Chernobyl}}'', feeling the show deserved more praise and felt some of his criticisms were weak (in particular his criticism on cinematography, which some felt made no sense considering one of the series' highest-acclaimed elements was its cinematography). Not helping the review after it was Adam's usual shtick of [[BiasSteamroller artsy imagery films]].

** In a situation rivaled only by the likes of his ''Film/AQuietPlace'' review, Adam faced plenty of controversy for his review of ''Film/PromisingYoungWoman'' during a video going over the 2020 nominees for the Academy Award for Best Picture. This time, it was not because of the rating, which was a 4/10, but rather that he gave the film such a rating only after watching the first half hour. This is actually not a new practice for Adam, as he has given films such as ''WesternAnimation/{{Paranorman}}'' and ''Film/{{Vice}}'' ratings without finishing them, but the prominence of this decision, combined with how polarizing of a film it was, allowed it to snowball into a firestorm a backlash. He soon watched the movie in full as a response, with the rating unchanged.

** During the extremely protracted editing process for The Lion King review, Adam ended up getting tendonitis in BOTH arms due to the excessive amount of clicking and scrolling he did with his computer mouse on his dominant hand and then switching to his non-dominant hand to keep the work going. After being essentially stripped of his ability to do any editing at all with both arms out of commission, he then decided to use his time in recovery to catch up on movies he had been putting off watching. The end result of sitting on the couch watching hours of movies for overly extended periods of time? Fucking SIATICA.

** "I didn't pick them because they're really good -- I picked them because they're really famous."[[labelnote:Explanation]]An edited version of a quote from a Music/HansZimmer interview from Adam's review of ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2''. The original quote was about Zimmer justifying his inclusion of Johnny Marr and notably Music/PharrellWilliams in the process of making music for the film (which Adam found to be a nonsensical decision) on the grounds that they were ''really good'', not just ''famous''. Adam then shuffled Zimmer's words around to jokingly suggest an ulterior motive.[[/labelnote]]

*** "Scar himself looks like foreign, weak and with very female moves."[[labelnote:Explanation]]A barely-coherent line from a very amateurish 2008 Website/YouTube video claiming ''The Lion King'' ripped off ''Kimba''...which, bizarrely, was cited by a law professor in a book that brought up the controversy[[/labelnote]]
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xqENKZVSGY&ab_channel=YMSHighlights yEs]][[labelnote:Explanation]]Creator/JamesEarlJones as Mufasa responding to Simba in the remake's take on the famous "everything the light touches is our kingdom" scene. However, Jones' delivery of the line is [[{{Narm}} so awkward and almost uncomfortable-sounding]] that Adam and his fans took it to task with great enthusiasm, with many joking that the line revealed a glimpse of how miserable Jones was while working on the remake.[[/labelnote]]
*** "So, how was it like working with Music/{{Beyonce}}?"[[labelnote:Explanation]]From a number of interviews shown by Adam in streams while working on the review, the through line of them being interviewers' bizarre fascination with asking remake cast members about fellow member Beyonce due to her near-royal celebrity status, even if their roles had next to no relation (and, in fact, her lines were recorded separately). Later extended to Adam and his fan-run highlight channel, with fans jokingly asking him what it's like to edit a video with Beyonce in it.[[/labelnote]]

* AcceptableTargets: While he has his exceptions, Adam isn't at all a fan of child actors and usually goes out of his way to express his contempt when a film includes them.

* AcceptableTargets: While he has his exceptions, Adam isn't at all a fan of child actors and usually goes out of his way to express his contempt for them when a film includes them.

* AcceptableTargets: While he has his exceptions, isn't at all a fan of child actors and usually goes out of his way to express his contempt for them when a film includes them.

* {{Anvilicious}}: His ''Manga/KimbaTheWhiteLion'' video on addressing the infamous "''[[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing Lion King]]'' vs. ''Kimba''" plagiarism emphasizes multiple important points when it comes to media.

*** "Hmm, suspicious."[[labelnote:Explanation]]The video in question is one of the many featuring wild leaps in logic to claim ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing'' ripped off ''Kimba the White Lion''. The quote in question expresses intense suspicion about the ''main characters' names rhyming''.[[/labelnote]]

** Oddly enough, for something he ''didn't'' pan: some fans were borderline annoyed, if not furious, at Adam's [[EightPointEight 7/10]] score for ''Series/{{Chernobyl}}'', feeling the show deserved more praise and felt some of his criticisms were weak (in particular his criticism on cinematography, which some felt made no sense considering one of the series' highest-acclaimed elements was its cinematography). Not helping the review after it was Adam's usual shtick of [[BiasSteamroller artsy imagery films]].

* EightPointEight: The examples are too numerous to list here, but know that he's earned more than one's fair share of flak for giving below-expected scores to films, namely rivaling [[WebVideo/TheNeedleDrop one reviewer]] in notoriety for handing out 6/10 ratings. Overlaps considerably with HePannedItNowHeSucks (see below).

** 1) Do research before making any assumptions and opinions, and do not be too quick to judge especially [[CriticalResearchFailure if you never consume those media yourself, and instead buy into weak journalism that contains misinformation and inaccurate details]].

* FandomRivalry: Adam fans ''do not'' get along with Creator/DavidLynch fans, especially when Adam made it clear he ''hates'' Lynch's work all because ''his copy of Film/{{Eraserhead}}'' ''[[DisproportionateRetribution does not have a menu screen]]''. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Yes, really]]. This got worse when he slammed Lynch's considered classic ''Film/MulhollandDrive'' and borderline infuriated fans more when during a ''Sardonicast'' episode discussing the aforementioned ''Eraserhead'' with WebVideo/{{Ralphthemoviemaker}} and WebVideo/IHateEverything, Adam constantly interrupted the two and was borderline caustic about the film.

* MisaimedFandom: Adum's video on the ''Kimba'' plagiarism controversy said, among other things, that one should do their own research rather than making assumptions based on incomplete and possibly incorrect information. Some of his fans seem to have missed this theme, review-bombing ''From Goods to a Good Life'' -- a book by Madhavi Sunder that briefly tackled the issue -- on Amazon.com solely due to Adum's video. While her claims were definitely worthy of criticism -- not least because she [[CriticalResearchFailure got multiple basic facts wrong]] and used sources that were questionable at best -- judging her book based on one small section showcased in a Website/YouTube video is completely missing Adum's point.