I'm going to back off a wee bit on my general criticism of #YouTube "reaction videos", at least as far as Hitchcock's masterpiece "North by Northwest" (1959) is concerned.
The film blows away every reaction individual, pair, or group that I've come across watching it. In most cases, they've simply never seen a film like this before, and are staggered by it in pretty much every respect (including the fact that, of course, there's no CGI). But really everything about it impresses them, as it should. And they all are amazed at a complex plot and what is indeed a most remarkable transition at the very end, from hanging on a cliff to a berth on a train. Probably the only transition that beats it is the flying bone in "2001: A Space Odyssey."
And you also can see some of them noting with disdain that so much of what they've seen during their lives was obviously just copying of themes that originated in films like North by Northwest, and now excited to see other films from back then.
Which if nothing else, tells us how the film industry of recent decades has failed young people (yeah, and everyone else too) so dismally.
