Half in the Bag Episode 100: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- It's episode 100 of Half in the Bag! Mike, Jay, and their new friend Kris Kringle celebrate this momentous event by participating in a normal episode and see the newest Star Warts movie. Lightsabers!
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Watching this review now has a very pre-9/11 vibe to it.
I know Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker were bad but. You know what, yeah.
Alright back to 9/11.
Lol too true. It's odd hearing all this optimism
Reminds me of that tragedy.
Perfect analogy. Once you said it, I could think of no other way to describe it.
1977: "There are going to be 9 Star Wars films."
2005: "There are only going to be 6 Star War films."
2012: "There will be a Star Wars film every year till the end of time."
2030: "Audiences are sick of Star Wars, Episode 14 being the first SW film to lose money. Disney has sold the rights to the Adam Sandler Foundation."
+Undead Nightorc How long before some of these films get chucked as non-canon like the EU?
+Patrick Johnson 2025
+Patrick Johnson Not soon enough
+Undead Nightorc As long as there's money to be made, it wont be over.
+Undead Nightorc Its sad because that's probably exactly what's going to happen.
I love when Mike says kylo “got bested by a girl”. It’s an exact word-for-word prediction of what Snoke says to Kylo two years later.
mike has predicted more shit than the simpsons
It's because Rian Johnson watches RLM
The RLM to SW pipeline is real
Right? It for real feels like Ryan Johnson watched their show TOO MUCH
And he said, our Snoke theory sucked!
Funny how things don't always go the way you think ;)
"Oh Mike that wasn't Carrie Fisher, that was a CGI character."
It couldn't be more perfect if you tried.
I'm kinda confused by that line. What is meant by that?
They can't be talking about the deepfake CGI playing Leia after Fisher's death in Rise of Skywalker, although it perfectly fits for that.
@@semperludens9241 theyre talking about maz kanata
i want to believe disney timed their acquisition of star wars and production of this film just so episode 100 of half in the bag was for this.
Billy Nunez i know i liked your comment so it would have 100 likes
GG JJ... GG
it's poetry, it rhymes
Unfortunately all their planning budget for the trilogy went into matching this up.
Now that this trilogy is over, I definitely wish the story had been Kylo Ren searching for the pirate's gold
we had Rey chasing the pirate’s gold in episode 9 and she even had a retractable opisometer!
@@adhirg I definitely got Pirates of the Caribbean flashbacks from that
One Piece Star Wars edition
The one piece!!!! The one piece is reallll!!!
@@howler9171One Piece live action recently Destroyed Star Wars Ahsoka and other modern garbage!
what i learned from binge watching every fucking star wars movie before watching this: Every amazing jedi spent their childhood in a desert
I don't know why considering how rough and course sand is. Did I mention it gets everywhere?
I don't like sand. It's coarse and irritating, and it gets everywhere.
+twitch.tv/Lotzz the only okayish explanation i saw was that deserts have less life present on the planet [don't know why we don't see jedi with tundra origins in the movies tho] so when they become acclimated with using their force powers, they have a surge of the force from the life present around them. i mean disregarding space, i guess that's the closest reason.
+twitch.tv/Lotzz Obama is from the desert.
Well all that are related to Anakin are from Sand regions
"I am excited to see these characters again." -Rich Evans 2015
Simpler times, before the Last Jedi.
help me darth vaders mask help me become a complete asshole haha
At this point the phantom pain isn't the most disappointing thing since my son.....
Even though I likes TLJ, RLMs reviews of the sequel trilogy basically represent the publics options in SW. Loved TFA, ready for more, and then no interest in where it goes post TLJ.
Rian may have gone to far in a few places.
Like to a casino planet.
"That's what I kind of forgotten that movies had was a little bit of a sense of humor"
- Mike Stoklasa (2015)
@@DanBharry A lot of people hate TFA
I think Mike saying "I loved it. It was everything I'd hoped it would be" is the perfect culmination of 5 years, 3 prequel reviews and 100 episodes of Half in the Bag. I felt all warm and fuzzy for a moment.
+solidsnake58 And yet people in the comments are calling him an asshole because they don't agree.
"He put out over five hours worth of prequel bashing and he LOVED it?! FUCK HIM!"
+solidsnake58 I agree. You have a "cumulation" in place of "culmination," though, if you care to know.
+Luke Lewis Which characters didn't make sense? Han had been tracking the falcon, and Leia along with the resistance where told where the droid was. It made sense for them to be where they where. And nostalgia instead of creating something new? I feel it was more new with a tingling of nostalgia: A droid to escort, but a different type of droid. A desert planet, but not Tatooine and it has its own architectural style. Kylo had a lightsaber, but in a completely new style.
John-Francis Villines LOL! Whoops. Thanks :D
+Luke Lewis The main point was to show Anakin becoming Darth Vader, not to make some psuedo-philosophical point about some ideology being wrong.
Sad looking back at the hope in their eyes
Don't make me cry.
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@@sorryifoldcomment8596 oh cmon that's unfair. Mass Effect was great to good until the last few moments. And there's a perfectly good mod to change the ending from horrible to decent.
New Star Wars started going downhill pretty much from the first title crawl.
You could say it was a new hope?
Think they knew in 2020 there would be a general consensus that the prequels now aren’t so bad compared to these haha
Now that the trilogy is finished it's interesting to go back to these videos and see what was said and thought at that time.
@zacharymop I disagree. I think TFA allowed plenty of room for very easy justification for all the issues that some people had with it if the sequels had been done properly. Rey being a Mary Sue being the biggest issue. That could have easily been followed up by either the expected route of making Rey a generational inherently powerfully imbued force wielder because she was the offspring of a Skywalker or Kenobi, or more interestingly she could have been a non-familial instrument of the Force itself, adding to the mystical element of the Force. That would explain her vision when she grabbed the lightsaber and her seeming ease in tapping into the Force. Chosen possibly because of her unwavering faith and belief in the face of a harsh reality (that of her family returning for her after being abandoned or sold into slave labor.) If Snoke had been better written and made more of a powerful threat (even more so than Palpatine) and Kylo had been equally better explored, the Force being compelled to find balance to scales so heavily tipped by both, choosing someone to be it's instrument for the light side of the force (in a time when Jedi's no longer exist and their teachings have gone long since forgotten) would've explained everything on Rey's end perfectly and also would've been something new and interesting in the Star Wars universe.
Before the dark times. Before Disney
Bebi Meta they also could have done anything... like literally anything important at all with Finn. Such a good character premise that they just never explored. One thing i find REALLY interesting is how Poe killed Finns friend, and that’s what pushed him to leave the first order, and then to become friends with and save Poe. This idea has SO much potential if Finn found out that his reason to join the Resistance was that his current best friend *killed* his comrade. It would be a huge source of conflict and inner turmoil. Should Finn forgive him? Should he move on? But no. We got one tease about “something I need to tell you”, the pointless casino side plot and an awkward and forced romance with Rose that was also not built upon (thank god; best wishes to the actress though, people who went after her for the character she played are fuckwits) , a hug with Rey and Poe, and a whole lot of “REYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!”. Come on Disney. You had ‘unlimited power’ so to say, but you failed to ‘dew’ anything with the character that is 1) the only main character to be black so far (not counting Landó even though he’s cool because he was introduced at the end of the second movie and he isn’t part of the main trio of the OT; and mace windu is DEFINITELY not a main character) and 2) had the deepest thematic potential and backstory/setup for a character arc out of your whole trilogy.
Not even the review aged well. Yeesh
Its sad
Looking back it's amazing how right Rich was. He was 100% not blinded by nostalgia like everyone else was, including me.
Jay and Mike are just sleep deprived
its amazing how often rich is right
I still think TFA is a really good movie, but not as good as the original movies. Maybe better than Return of the Jedi, idk.
@@GigaDonk99 I agree, it's just so hard to watch knowing none of what they set up matters.
We are all students in the classroom of Rich Evans
In the most recent Indiana Jones movie, Indiana Jones discovers that Shia LaBeouf is his son.
In the most recent Star Wars movie, Han Solo is brutally murdered by his son, Kylo Ren.
I think Han Solo got a happier ending...
+Killermike2178 Ha ha, that's hilarious. I'd want a light saber to my gut too if I found out that narcissistic prick was a relation of mine.
+kev3d
wasn't the Jones movies just dreams that Han Solo had when he was frozen in carbonite?
Palpatine: "Do it."
LaBeouf: "JUST DO IT!"
Guys, I just came up with the best theory...
No chill
+Harry S. Plinkett It is an honor to be acknowledged by you, sir.
Mike tries to be a cynic like Rich, but in his heart he's a true fanboy.
I mean that in a good way.
Audiosane I think Star Wars movies are like fine whines they get better with time.
Unless you're the Prequels in which case your fermented fecal matter later used to dip a knife in to make a deadly prison weapon.
I would know I've been to prison...
"Number 3. The Plot"
Rabbi Avner Echoberg-Shekelstein troll harder plz
The prequels are boring. They fucking suck. The OT special effects hold up more than the prequels do.
No they really don't. They're both outdated in different ways. OT fanboys are so obsessed with thinking they're some superior life form that they can't see that. Don't worry, one you'll grow up 👍🏾
His smile the whole way through the whole video is so adorable
I don’t care if it’s dated, Mike saying “it was everything I thought it would be” is still so heart warming
While I read this, rich said those words almost exactly lol.
Pretty sure that was sarcasm
Thought it would be and hoped it would be aren't always the same thing!
@@television1088 it wasn't
It's fun to look back on these reviews and reflect on all the incredible development Rey went through, like when she
oh and don't forget the part where she
It was really sad when she couldn't
didnt have a character arc
@@bathboy7115no no don’t you remember when she
buried Anakin’s lightsaber in sand
Of all the movies I watched this year, Star Wars: The Force Awakens was definitely one of them. It was certainly a series of still images on frames, played back at speed to create the illusion of movement, with sounds, music and dialog that accompanied the images.
+kev3d I went into the theatre, and am pretty sure ~2.5 hours transpired before I left.
Gotta be honest, when the movie ended I went home. I'm just saying.
You know what? When the movie started, the lights went dark at my theatre.
I heard that the people on screen were "pretending" to be the characters we saw, and that they are reciting words written down in a "script"...
+Tony Midyett CUT!
I think my biggest gripe is Finn being a born and bred child soldier yet he's so jovial and easy going. A little more machine vs. man inner plot would've done him well.
Wasn't he a janitor?
@@purplehermit Yet he did nothing. You say he was bred for war yet there is no evidence in the movies to suggest that. All we know is he was kidnapped and was a janitor. There is a lot of Finn's past we do not know. Why did Phasma have a special interest in him? What was his training like? Why even have storm troopers be janitors when droids are more efficient? Why did he hate Phasma so much?
@@purplehermit They are led by Hux so yeah they are dumb. Also, if the stormtroopers are so great why did Kylo wanted to go back to clones? Even he had no faith in them. If they are bred for war, Finn would not freak out and would have killed those civilians. What makes him so different than the other stormtroopers?
Some PTSD would've helped out, or him simply squeezing out when people actually need him, but no... Star Wars is the same bland shit it's always been. Wagnerian opera where characters have no functional psychology, simply pawns that are driven to annihilate the other color and that's where these sequels offed themselves. It's also why so many people dislike the prequels.
A painfully under developed character, whose arc regressed as the series went forward.
I watched _TFA_ and thought about how much Mr. Plinkett contributed to the reformation of _Star Wars_.
It's hard to imagine _Star Wars_ outside of being "post-Plinkett" _Phantom Menace_ review.
+Charley Deppner I think it's clear the producers of TFA have watched the plinkett reviews and taken what they said to heart.
+supermot34 it's a shame they didn't watch the half in the bag episode of star trek into darkness
+Charley Deppner If I was Mike, I would feel pretty damn good about myself knowing that my work almost certainly contributed in no small way to the creative process of this film.
+supermot34 JAAAAAAAAA, MUTALISKU!!!!!!!!!!
+Charley Deppner I strongly believe that at some point, everyone involved in the movie watched the Plinkett review and a lot of what he said hit home. You can always dismiss fan boys but Plinkett took down the Phantom Menace from a producers view point. And I think it really helped Lucas realize that he didn't have it any more and needed to let someone take over.
18:17 - Mike presciently echoes The Last Jedi’s chief marketing meme, “it’s about family… and that’s what makes it so special.” here, Mike says it with no hint of sarcasm or derision, making the moment absolutely *PRECIOUS.*
maybe thats why he repeats it so much; its like laying awake thinking of cringey stuff you said as a kid
whoa
It just wasn't dense enough...
+PFS Venom But it rhymed. Like pottery! I mean poetry!
I'm sad that every single image *didn't* have so many things going on.
WhatPayne George Lucas will fix it with the Remastered Edition coming out 2020
I'm disappointed that we didn't get the long-awaited scene of Han whipping out that little laser-sword of his and going to town with it.
To be honest, this HitB was surprisingly dull. They had nothing interesting to say.
Never thought I'd look back on the Starkiller Base as "quaint".
They were so much happier back then.
We all were.
How could anyone have known?
Jesus christ move on
That pertains to the world!! Not just Star Wars 🤷♂🤷♂🤣🤣
Seriously
Everyone who had two braincells and saw how many clichés TFA had and how little it anwsered?
It’s kind of heartbreaking to see how much Mike really enjoyed this movie knowing what became of the sequels. It was everything he wanted it to be... and then Disney flushed their likeable new characters down the fucking toilet for no reason. They didn’t plan out anything and it ended up as a huge mess. :(
@@bilbobaggins9451 The prequel movies suck, go watch the OT and get over it.
You would have to sink pretty low to actually defend the prequels lol. You need to watch other movies
Honestly, TFA and TLJ both work pretty well in my opinion. TROS threw it all in the trash.
@@bilbobaggins9451 you're pretty narrow-minded if you think crapping on the Prequels is limited to RLM
@@frankmerker630 The prequels had a plan at least
I went out and saw this movie yesterday for the sole purpose of being able to watch this review. What am I doing with my life?
+xpantherx I'd say that was one of my main motives for watching it as well.
lol me too
+xpantherx
Living it to it's fullest!
I don't even care about seeing it, but I really want to watch this review. So my main motivation is a hack fraud UA-cam video. Well played Disney. Well played.
To be fair that doesn't say much about the film, I have only seen the teaser trailer and I can already predict what will happen. It will follow the same structure as the first Star Wars from 1977, our heroes will be introduced early on but probably after the villain, there will be a big low point where someone dies (most likely Harrison Ford's character, and if that happens I hope they don't have a wookie crying seen because that will create some mixed emotions in the audience - 'coz it will probably be hilarious), at the end they destroy something or retrieve an object that will become relevant in later films and it all ends with a big, happy ceremony where everyone gets medals or something similar.
you're wasting it on consumerism. join the club
Omg guys you know what this means
Episode 101 is gonna be Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip!!!!
THOSE HACK FRAUDS
+WDGcentral0224 Oh. I didn't even know there was a new Alvin and the Chipmunks move. Well its going to suck
Yeah you guys pretty much articulated my exact feelings about it. The story, derivative as it was played as a backdrop to bringing this severely damaged brand back to form. It was really about the characters, the tone, the sense of fun, the excitement. It was all about bringing Star Wars BACK.
+JackFlash85 idiot. That movie was utter shit. a rehashed retelling of a rehashed retelling of a shit story in a galaxy where nothing makes any sence. oh right,,, the force,,,,,, hehehe,,,,,
+JackFlash85 and it failed
ayy I'm 55, watched this trash with my 15 yr old son, his bestie & younger brother. They've watched all the toons,, played all the games,,, & the verdict was unanimous,,, this movie sucked. It veered away from established lore so radically it made no sense.
+Joshua Gibbons It succeeded in ways we'd never expected.
silentwolfSW97 hahahaha!!! it succeeded like Twilight succeeded in making terrifying vampires fucking pussies!
I love how for once RICH who typically loves most things...gets this one right at 4am...and points out all of the correct holes, lack of character arcs and unbelievable coincidences, while Mike and Jay's first impression of this film was filled with love and admiration. Totally different than the other videos. hahahaha.
I think Jay for one is first and foremost a cinema fan. TFA has good shots, good blocking, good camera work, etc. There are more good shots in TFA than in all the prequels combined. Mike was definitely full of hope. Rich was correct.
Did you post that comment during the first lockdown? 😮
Good shots, but (for the most part) not particularly lyrical ones.
Fin should've duelled Phasma instead of that random trooper. She could've called him by his call number and said "I ordered you to report..." blah blah. It was all setup for a confrontation like that. It even would've made sense that she has an anti-saber weapon, since she's always hanging out with Kylo -maybe she even spars with him!
+Blue Division They should fix it for the bluray release. Go put her in that scene, jesus, she belongs there.
That would have been perfect! Now I'm mad that they didn't do that.
Yeah when Finn fought the Stormtrooper using the light saber woulda been better to have him go against phasma....
+Sara E. Mayhew But that trooper got fried by Han. I don't think anybody wants Phasma dead yet. I mean Boba Fett was pretty hyped too and he never did much.
+Sara E. Mayhew The real question is do all important Stormtroopers have chrome armor or is it only the girl ones?
Now I'm imagining her listening to punk rock and spray painting her armor in a kind of "You can't tell me what to do dad" way.
I feel like everyone calling this movie shit are the exact people that Jay describes as "thinking Star Wars is this epic, grand story", when it's just about fun space adventures. He hit the nail right on the head. It's about characters more-so than a sweeping epic story. The adventure in a New Hope is merely a backdrop for characters to play off each other. Here, it's the same thing with totally different people. I like that the linking factor between Rey, Finn, and Kylo Ren, is that they're all afraid of their future. It's really compelling and far more intriguing than anything in the prequels and on par with the character motives from the original.
Honestly, upon second viewing, the New Hope comparisons seemed less applicable. Yes, the Starkiller could've been removed for something new, but it simply wasn't enough to bring it down for me.
+ZyxthePest Totally agree, the characters are far less sure of themselves except for Poe of course.
Rey is the TOTAL inverse of Luke. She's a survivor and fighter who wants a normal life, whereas look was a farm boy who wanted to be a fighter and survivor. It's much less rhyming as a new twist.
Anyone saying she's a Mary Sue is insane.
Thank you! Summed up my views perfectly.
+ZyxthePest 100% agree, this movie paved the way for potential greatness. All the people complaining about it being a remake or whatever, sure, it was similar to A New Hope. Which, if you ask me, is a necessary 'evil', if anything.
+ZyxthePest and just who is this magical group of people who conveniently think Star Wars is an epic grand story? Please. I can't see how anyone not familiar with any of the films at least know that it is a rather simple tale just told quite well. As far as I'm concern the only point of this film is and yes I went there to do what the Phantom Menace did, i.e. start the franchise again. That's it. I mean wtf. Other than Kylo Ren, the worse thing about this movie is that there is nothing to it at all even characters who I felt nothing for even Rey who I hoped I would like. All the movie sums up to is, some group wants to take things over again, they're stopped by the rebels (no surprise), Luke is found, and Rey is likely a jedi (again no surprise), the end. That's Episode 7 in a nutshell.
Not enough about taxation and trade disputes. 2/10 movie.
+Malovus I also hated how most of the expository dialogue happened while something interesting or exciting was happening, not while sat down or walking slowly through corridors.
+Malovus And what about shot/reverse shot scenes of people sitting and talking? It can't be Stah Whoas without moar of that!
+KarlBunker sitting... and talking. Sitting... and talking, walking slowly through a computer generated hallway "we must act quickly (!) if we're to stop the chancellor" and talking and sitting and ta
+legoharry100 He was the key to all of this.
+Malovus That comment with your profile picture, gold. And I just realised Spice and Wolf is exactly what the prequels would have been if George Lucas understood economics (and romance) :D
Watching this review in 2024 has a very pre-Covid 19, pre-9/11, pre WW2 vibe to it.
They werent subtle at all about the bad guys being space nazis.
+OmnipotentO no,, they weren't. & what's with them still using those stupid Tie fighters?? it's 20 yrs later,, stupid 'space nazis' have built a gigantic death planet,,, but they're still using shitty, outdated aircraft ?? oh right,,, just another stupid movie. heroes win,,, again,,,, because,,,,, things.
+shorebreak69
Because Disney can't be arsed to come up with new ship designs. This movie had even less ship variety than the older movies.
+shorebreak69 Because you all would have fucking complained and there would be thousands of comments like "WHERES MY TIE FIGHTER"
+OmnipotentO Nor were they in the original trilogy
g in the originals, Tie Fighters were 'space vehicles', I can't remember them ever flying in atmosphere,,,, at least Lucas tried to keep his vehicles looking like they were capable of flight, even in the prequels.( I'm abit of a science nerd, find it difficult to enjoy sci-fi fantasy if it isn't based on real world physics).
I'm so excited for this review that I had to leave this comment to let everyone know how excited I am for this review. Which is to say that I'm very excited. For this review.
good to see you here Mr Sunday Movies. Friggin love yer channel.
+Mr Sunday Movies How do you appear on every comment section?
+Mr Sunday Movies Hey mr sunday!
+The Clumsy Toaster goat powers
+Mr Sunday Movies Your comment just makes me remember "Yeah, i'm with the resistance. YES I'm with the Resistance. I'm a resistance warrior btw"
After so many years we finally get to watch the video we always wanted
They planned this all along!
+filip ao it's like poetry - it rhymes.
+Rathial It's like pottery
+Jackald This is my favorite comment all day. You understand me.
yes congratulations to Half In the Bag on turning 100. your almost as old as Harry S. Plinket!
Rich Evans, the voice of reason.
Nevermind, I made it to the end of the video. I take it back. I take it all back.
Jar Jar is the key to all of this
It's so dense. Every single image has so many things going on.
It's like poetry. It rhymes.
Mesas Join Darth Jar Jar
"Hes the funniest character weve ever had"
+tokyorider2019 "Did I say you could TAAAAALK?!"
Man I stopped and sighed when Jay asked, " Why is it in the Star Wars universe everyone has to have some sort of relation? They have to be some sort of family member of another character." They didn't know about Rise of Skywalker, yet... but its so stupidly true that Star Wars is basically family problems in the end.
@Tom Ffrench except the part in TPM where they make The Force ™ an inheritable trait that's in your blood LMAO
Well it's about family, and that's what makes it so special
It wasn't Coruscant... It was Hosnian Prime which coincidentally looks exactly like Coruscant and basically has the same function.
+Enjoy the Decline Honestly though, they could have blown up Coruscant, it wouldn't made a difference. The only reason they didn't do it is because it would upset the fans.
+Jeremi Ulanowski upset the fans? fuck coruscant, fuck the prequels lol
+Jeremi Ulanowski they blew up "random city planet nr 2" then.
Funny how there are duplicates of all the classic SW planets in this: there's an Endor copy, a Hoth copy, a Tatooine copy and a Coruskant copy!
+Enjoy the Decline says the guy who's posting comments on a redlettermedia youtube channel.
This movie just didn't want any call backs to the prequels
you really had to be there. its terrible now but at the time we were all excited about the possibilities. if they planned it better it might have all worked. but each movie seemed to be at war with the previous one.
that's the worst part, the absolute lack of any kind of consistency
It’s so true. So very true. If TFA was just the beginning of things getting more and more ambitious and well executed, it would’ve been looked back on fondly, albeit with its flaws. The promises made in TFA were part of the “score” we gave it in our minds at the time. Then Ep. 8 happened... Oh...
That wasn't Chewbacca, its his son lumpy.
+MrLonewolfozz
Don't say that, it's bad enough that we Rey could be Luke's daughter, to lead us into Star Wars: Generations.
Who may or may not have been from a previous marriage.
+MrLonewolfozz
Star Wars rule number 558, thou shall not speak of the Holiday Special.
+MrLonewolfozz I thought Lumpy died from cancer. Did someone use Force Chemo to save him?
So Jar Jar isn't the key to this movie?
+NoobSayBoot It's stylistically designed to be that way
+9_Bucks Meesa show you the ways uva the dark side, just like Ani!
paranoidude Did you read the script too?
+Ridge Patterson This is actually his way of... Making the best movie that he can.
+Joseph Mostarda Not yet...
The comments section. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
+dgph0 I thought craigslist was the worst hive.
Damn right. I loved this movie, fuck all the people spewing senseless hate.
+NotThatGuyYouKnow Because Star Wars is love, Star Wars is life ;)
+dgph0 "Play that song again!" Doot dee doot dee doot dee dooo...!!!!!
+dgph0 No thats Tumblr
Am I the only one who gets teary-eyed when Mike says "Well...I loved it. It was everything I hoped it would be."?
To hear young Mike say in a different video that nothing could save Star Wars (after The Phantom Menace was released), only erasing time could do so, and the Plinkett reviews that are all about the connection lost between the audience and Star Wars, this has an element of closure to it, and a feeling that the connection and love has been rekindled.
I also felt the same about The Force Awakens, and am happy Mike and everyone else can truly move on from the prequels.
Beautifully stated. I totally agree.
A great sentiment, 100% correct.
Wow. I got emotional reading your post. While I was I could hear P. Diddy's "I'm coming home" in the background and a story come full circle and redemption.
I'm listening to John Williams' Superman suite now. :)
Another movie series that has seemingly been obliterated by idiotic producers and poor filmmakers.
Maybe there's still hope for that too...
The same sort of emotion is evoked in the recent Star Trek Beyond review, Mike looks so emotional talking about the series and his hospital analogy struck a bit of a chord with me.
Carrie Fisher's 59
Mark Hamill's 64
Harrison Ford's 73
+EvanSol919 59 is the new 83
+EvanSol919 Is she seriously 59? My parents are 57 and 56 respectively and they look 30 years younger than her. No offense I know she used to be hot as fuck but age has done some bad things to her.
+gronndar Oh yes of course! I mean I'm no prude but those amphetamines (coke, meth) will age a person like a dog. +PatrickJohnson Bwahaha!
+MrZeopediaR6 she's bipolar, which explains a lot of her drug abuse. it's sad, really. she hasn't had it easy, despite being in Star Wars films and being married to a music legend like Paul Simon.
Well I'll be damned, KrisKelvin, so she is. thechive.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/celebrity-mental-illness-awareness-111__880.jpg?quality=94&strip=info&w=880
That touching scene between Han Solo and Leia... when he doesn't even want to kiss her but just puts her head to his chest. That face... he just couldn't take it.
+BronzeBullBalls I think it's possible that's why it was written that Han and Leia had broken up. Ford agreed to be in the movie so long as there was no kissing with Leia, so they wrote the story with that in mind.
“... it was everything I hoped it would be.”
The sheer relief peeking through exhaustion in Mike’s voice is so foreboding and melancholy.
“It’s about family” -Mike Stoklasa
And that's why it's so important.
I thought the movie was pretty OK. It's VERY derivative of ep. 4, it "dances around" thick, emotional themes instead of dealing with them, and has a weaker villain. Oh yea, and about three spots in the film will probably just make you roll your eyes with either A: something unbelievably convenient, or B: Hollywood cheesiness to the max.
Far from a bad movie, but I'm just not seeing the same "OMG IT'S THE BEST MOVIE EVER OMG OMG OMG OMG PKAHFPSHFHAFAHFP" That everyone else is spewing about... 8.5/10 is very fair for such a 'safe' movie, imho.
+John Cummings
I don't think they were "dancing around" emotional moments, they had new characters and the prime goal is to introduce them. I feel like emotional heavy lifting comes later. But I ended up falling in love with these characters.
But I agree it was reminiscent of Episode IV, to the point where the end climax was REALLY similar, but that's fine.
I completely agree. It's a good movie, but in no way a great one. If the movie was not Star Wars related people would simple label this a well done big budget film instead of acting like its one of the best movies they have ever seen.
+John Cummings Everyone says it's like ANH, and while those similarities are obvious, it seems to combine ANH and TESB, with a couple elements of ROTJ mixed in (flying through the Star Destroyer / flying through the Death Star, Poe has to fly inside Star Killer to blow it up, the Rebels had to fly inside the second Death Star to blow it up).
The climax was Rey x Ren, I really didn't care much about the Starkiller stuff, beside Poe.
+No Youmaynot
basically an unoriginal movie
18:21 hearing Mike say “it’s about family” without it being immediately followed by a Jay wheeze just feels wrong
Anyone rewatching in Dec 2019 after their Rise of Skywalker 70 minute special?
me, and this is both funny and sad at the same time.
I used to like "the force awakens" when it came out, but "the last jedi" was so bad it made me retroactively hate it. now I just think the disney trilogy is not canon and only the lucas movies count.
the prequels are masterpieces compared to what disney did.
Yes sir
episodes 1 and 2 are horrible but the disney sequel trilogy is even worse, so in comparison episodes 1 and 2 seem to be better.
I don't agree, I know they even think episode 3 is bad, but episode 3 is good, it feels like that was the story lucas wanted to tell but he was stuck having to do episodes 1 and 2 as "filler" just because he randomly decided to retroactively name the original star wars "episode 4".
Episode 3 was good: massacres jedi toddler school
22:14 _"I really thought the new Death Star, the StarKiller Base was gonna carry over."_
Me too. I think the StarKiller base should have been revealed at the very end of the movie as a cliffhanger. It should have been hidden under the surface of the planet and the big reveal happens when they start up its engines and it blows away the crust of the planet. Instead, they put the damn thing right on the movie poster. And NOW what's the Empire going to do? Build another one? You don't HAVE to follow the original trilogy exactly.
+Catzilla
Clearly they will build a bigger one, because this one wasn't big enough. In Episode IX: Return Of The Reboot the resistance will have to destroy Stardeath Station by exploiting a glaring weakness that allows them to disable the solar-system sized spacestation by attacking a single point with a small group of X-Wing fighters.
+Catzilla ...yeah I know. I also thought that too because I mean what exactly is the conflict going to be here? Getting that pos villain (yes that is what I will call him, so bite me whoever felt otherwise) to be a good guy? Is that what the rest of the films are going to sum up to now other than stopping these new empire wannabes?
+Jason Brown man!! youre in almost every comment... get a life!
They wanted it out of the way asap. It was the weakest part of the movie. A very very strong movie that was killer without Starkiller.
That's what I thought was gonna happen too. Would have been great. Sadly, as is, the Starkiller Base was the weakest part of the movie.
The bit where Rich Evans reads off the page and the camera angles is honestly one of the funniest things I've seen for such a long time. Genius
I honestly wonder how much Lucas hates that someone else made a better movie with only a year's time, and that it will now generate MUCH more money than he ever could have, even shoving as much shit into it as he could.
Also: YOU HACK FRAUDS ARE LATE.
+Swordsman99k
A fraud is never late, Brodo Faggins.
+Swordsman99k Pretty sure Lucas co-wrote the screenplay, so it's not like he has nothing to do with the project.
+Swordsman99k
It will generate more money for him, without him having to raise his ass out of a chair. I doubt he'll be mad at JJ for that.
Uh, no, Lucas didn't co-write the screenplay.....not one word.
Gavin Petrie No on that account, he owns nothing to do with Star Wars now.
Watching this now and seeing what they think about the characters and wondering what they'll do with them and being excited turns me into Matthew McConaughey looking through the bookshelf in interstellar.
My only real issue with the film is that Rey is more Mary Sue than Wesley Crusher. She's a superb pilot (of a ship she's never flown), an experienced practitioner with the Force mere seconds after learning she has any ability at all with it, and was able to fix the Millennium Falcon with more skill than its owner, Han Solo, though her only mechanical experience consists of pulling scrap from wrecked star destroyers. If all that wasn't enough to put her completely into the "wish fulfillment character" zone, it gets worse. After an event which should have led to a very necessary emotional scene between Chewbacca and Leia, does Chewbacca look at Leia, does Leia even look at Chewbacca? Nope, there's no interaction between the two at all, they walk right past each other; instead Leia embraces Rey, though this would be the first point in the film they have even met. This is the most baffling point in the entire movie. I was looking, dumbfounded, at the screen, thinking, "Where are you going Chewbacca? Is there a buffet table offscreen? Don't you have something to tell Leia? Where are you going???"
And the empire Was defeated by ewoks
***** we can all agree that both have better personality than bella and katniss, in my opinion those are real mary sues here
***** and luke in two years of training defeated darth vader even thoung he was trained since he was a child..... and goku learn the kamehameha in 5 seconds.
if its a man is okey, if its a woman everybody loses their mind
***** Luke's "Training" in a nutshell --
Obi-wan hands Luke his father's lightsaber and Luke somehow knows intuitively how to turn it on.
Luke then witnesses the Jedi Mind Trick in Mos Eisley, but is never really taught by Ben how to use it.
On the Falcon, Luke receives about twenty minutes of training with a flying whiffle ball, gets his ass kicked, but is told to put the blast shield down and trust his feelings, and within SECONDS is able to fend off a number of blasts. Ben then literally tells him, "You've taken your FIRST steps into a larger world."
Training Session Ends.
Luke then somehow makes it through the Death Star.
His teacher DIES during that time.
After barely understanding the concept of hyperdrive earlier in the film -- which Han explains to him -- he ends up gunning a piece of hardware different from a T-16 and takes out 2 TIE Fighters.
He returns to Yaavin, and is handed a million dollar piece of equipment to fly on the Rebellion's greatest mission -- despite not getting the concept of something simple like hyperdrive hours earlier.
He manages to OUTMANEUVER his Ace-Pilot dad with decades of experience -- with BOTH WINGMEN GONE -- turn off his targeting computer, and score the Galaxy saving shot that the head of the squadron -- with YEARS more experience than Luke -- couldn't hit. Like Rey in Force Awakens, piloting skills are MENTIONED, but NEVER SHOWN till dramatically convenient.
On Hoth, Luke is able to retrieve his lightsaber with the Force, even though no one taught him how to do that either.
On Dagobah, Yoda doesn't even want to train him! After failing some key tests, Luke leaves DESPITE his training not being complete. Training time? Depending on who you talk to, either a few days, weeks, or months. But certainly not since a "Youngling" like Jedi are supposed to be.
On Bespin, he fends off an attack from a guy who's been sabering since a child, DOES get his ass kicked, but lives to fight another day after calling Leia (a skill never shown in-film before).
In Jedi, he builds his lightsaber SOMEHOW, uses the mind trick (who did Yoda teach him to practice that on? The swamp frogs?), and defeats a Rancor without even using the Force (why pick a rock up when you can Force chuck it?).
He then goes back to Dagobah and Yoda says HIS TRAINING IS SOMEHOW COMPLETE!
He then goes to Endor and convinces a bunch of Killer Teddy Bears to enlist with the help of his droid.
Then he goes to Death Star II and BESTS his dad with decades of experience, including the CLONE WARS -- all based on a few months of Yoda's training which INITIALLY FAILED in Empire, and with NO ADDITIONAL TRAINING since then.
He then pilots out of the exploding space station in JUST the knick of time.
Conclusion?
Luke is obviously a well rounded character who had nothing come easy to him.
Rey is a Mary Sue.
***** get out of your basemen a get leid...for good
The new star wars was awful
Where was Jar-Jar?
+Exinthevatican: Vinesauce Joel cleaning toilets jar jar
+Exinthevatican: Vinesauce Joel She dudn't
+Exinthevatican: Vinesauce Joel delete this
He lives on, in C3PO's arm!
+Exinthevatican: Vinesauce Joel
Joel? Joel!
What did I tell you about watching movie reviews!
I Love it, when Mike sais "Santi Claus" in all his Innocence. 😂
The way that Mike says Santa Claus might be the cutest thing I've ever heard
I can see JJ Abrams watching this video and agreeing in secret
I can't see that or anything at all! I'm horribly blind!
Jar Jar Abrams.
Jeremy Martin What are you doing typing at your computer..... You should drive down to your local eye doctor and get those peepers looked at bud!
i wish i could like your user name too
I’m glad that atleast Rich wasn’t completely sold on this trilogy just yet.
Rich isn't completely sold on anything. :)
You know what's funny? That very line (16:28) was used in The Last Jedi.
Seems there are many RLM fans at Disney.
18:20 it’s about family
agusrum94 and that’s what makes it powerful
"Here we have good characters that you can do fun things with. And I'm excited to see these characters again."
If the poor fool only knew then what he knows now.
I mean, it was A New Hope, told by children, for children with non-stop adhd action and forced quips told by scriptwriters, not characters. Kylo Ren got rekt by a janitor, starkiller base was rekt by a janitor, deux ex machina EVERYWHERE and it felt like jurassic world with lightsabers.
+TheEnigmaStyle hack fraud review by hack frauds. oh right,,, Kylo Ren was a great character,,,,, fuck off.
I kinda thought A New Hope was written for everybody, but shit if you think a child has enough writing chops to write something like that all power to you.
Yeah man fuck criticism I agree
You're right. I'll multiply my opinion and see if I get any further, thanks for the advice mate.
+WoWznaggels I agree with +TheEnigmaStyle
This movie has the same problem as Avengers 2--there's not enough tension. The characters should've been pushed to their limits more. If they tortured them all more (in their own ways) it would've been more interesting. They got their victories too easily.
Other problems:
-Snoke looks dumb. Same with the other CGI monsters. That red knight that Fin was going to leave with was badass though.
-Fin doesn't act like someone taken away from home and brainwashed by a militant dictatorship. At all. And it doesn't matter that he worked in sanitation. We're talking about an organization that kidnaps children and doesn't hesistate to murder billions.
-Kylo Ren helped kill billions. When you're psychotic enough to do that you aren't struggling with the light side.
-Rei gets her powers too fast, and knows how to use them too well. How'd she know how to mind control people right away? Regardless of whether it's fair or not, her becoming overpowered kills what could've been a lot of tense moments.
Problems (cont.):
-The rebels destroy a planet in five minutes with a tiny fleet. In Jedi they had an armada just to fight half a Death Star, and the Super Star Destroyer.
-The remnants of the Empire building a planet sized weapon. Building a base the size of a moon was insane enough. There's no way they had enough time to build a weapon so huge that it's not only clearly seen from space, but takes up most of the planet.
-That railingless walkway Ren kills Han on. What a death trap. The CGI background in that scene is awful too.
-Rei being able to fly the Falcon instantly through ridiculously tight spaces.
-The sanitizing of the violence. While Star Wars has never been overly graphic, they still managed to tone it down. No longer do we see pilots screaming as they're blown to bits. And did they even let any of the female pilots get killed?
-Rei and Fin trust each other too fast. Same with Fin and Poe.
-Rei locating Luke on planet Ireland right away. Good thing that map was up to date
Those are all valid except the railings thing. That was a nitpick.
+Steven Aleksis Well it is only the first movie in a trilogy. New Hope didn't have that much tension. You knew Luke was gonna win.
EvilDoresh Yep.
MINOR SPOILER
Luke actually had more jedi training than that time on Dagobah - he was training with lightsaber on Han's ship (just like the kids in academy), than he was led by Obi-Wan's spirit guides, revealing his bonds with the force.
And Rey? She's perfect technician, perfect pilot, perfect scavanger, perfect fighter and excellent jedi at once. She knows the jedi moves without taking single lesson or tip from anyone. So I must disagree here - her path is unexplained and poor made in terms of character development - we have everything presented without any effort. Only confrontation is not enough to explain anything and far away from what Luke had to accomplish before it.
+Tomily182 I'm also going to toss master of the bo staff onto your list. She's essentially a slave on that planet and she ekes out a meager existence. When, where, and with whom did she learn mastery of the bo staff?
If she had been trained by Luke why wouldn't kylo start screaming and crying like "master liked you better whaaa"
+Tomily182
I find it incredibly hard to believe... that YOU find it hard to believe, that someone who's existences relies solely on scavenging ships for parts, taking those parts apart, and selling them, would have a fairly decent knowledge on how they work. So... it explains he technician abilities, her piloting abilities, and her scavanging abilities pretty easily.
"perfect fighter" based on what? The fact that she barely managed to beat a hurt, emotionally unstable, cocky, pretentious rookie jedi turned sith in saber fight that was 95% her running, ducking, blocking, and trying not to get killed? Yeah... okay.
And perfect Jedi? She did two things. It's not like she was force pushing jets into stormtroopers like carrie or some shit. But It's a valid complaint.
So far, the only valid complaint though.
Helldog6 1 she was stronger than luke after 3 movies
2 kylo was not fucking hurt...watch the way he moves. he over powers fin with pure strength and moves with great agility. he moves as if hurt after rey cuts him
3 "that rookie jedi" he is leader of the knights of ren..trained by luke skywalker himself as well as snoke. in the vision rey has you see him slaughter a jedi learner with dozens of dead others all over the ground. he can freeze lazers in mid air as well as freeze people in place. we have not seen this power yet from anyone
the point is simple if she is good at everything it makes fin look like C3P0...she is the one man A team
jake l0rd
1) I said it was a valid complaint
2) Kylo got hit, directly, with a Bowcaster that's been constantly shown to put grown ass men (and women) on their ass for the 10 count. He was bleeding (they showed the blood on him and in the snow). Being injured and being immobile are not the same thing. A minor injury can easily change the complexion of a fight, an injury like that can greatly change it. However, that doesn't mean they will immediately hinder movement, strength and speed. All Finn getting overpowered means is that a hurt Ren is still stronger than a healthy Finn. If that wasn't enough, he's constantly shown to hit his side multiple times and i thought his abandonment of skill and technique for a more aggressive style, illustrates perfectly his lack of experience and skill, and shows that the injury had effected him.
Let me make a point clear, the level of someones skill is nothing more than a statistic when you get down to it. A high level fighter just means a higher probability of winning. A high leveled fighter can lose to a novice, it happens all the time. The likelihood of that happening is slim, yes, but it's probable. The injuries, the internal conflict, the cockiness, are all factors that increase the probability of the novice being able to win. The higher the probability, the higher chance of getting beaten. That doesn't mean the novice will win every time, however, in this case, they did.
3) Leader of the knights of Ren? And that means what? What have we seen? Nothing. What they are? Who they are? What they do? What they can do? Each of their respective skills? Their abilities? For all we know they are a great team that uses team-work to help amplify ones singular abilities and play off them for greater success? Or maybe they're all better than Ren but Ren was put in charge because of his sensitivity to the force? Or maybe because he's Snokes apprentice? Him being a member of the Knights of Ren says absolutely nothing about his skill level and the only thing we know of them is that he's the leader and that they are in a force flashback at one point. And all him being a leader of them say, possibly, is that he's better than them. And trained by Luke... in what? Force? Which would explain his immense force abilities. However, Luke's Saber ability lacks tremendously from what we know. He trained, really, to beat an old burnt man with limited motion and lacking physical strength. But he didn't spend his whole life being trained in Saber-wielding. Ben didn't teach him, Yoda.. as far as we know... didn't teach him how to fight with a Saber either. How good could Luke possibly be with a Saber? Good enough to give student passable skills? Which Ren clearly has? And what do we know about Snoke's training? We know Ren never completed it. And we've never actually seen a sith training their apprentice in saber fighting, and they seem to focus mainly on Force abilities. But still, you see the point.
"Hoping they do something more interesting" *sweats nervously in 2019*
Boy have I got news for you.
Just getting in mood for your next review: The Ridiculous 6.
Then h8ful 8
And then we can finally all die
You just know that the episode will be about hateful 8 and ridiculous 6. They are too similar, both are directed by the worst hacks.
TheOjkk wait
+TheOjkk Too similar? They are both a group in a western environment. But Hateful 8 is going to be good and not directed by a hack.
Everyone that enjoyed this movie is suffering from a severe case of lowered standards, and immaturity.
+george okeef I guess people cant enjoy fun movies anymore amirite?
I went to buy food but ended up eating my own shit. I set my standards pretty low so I couldn't be disappointed. I guess people can't enjoy eating fun food anymore, am I right?
That's sounds like it's your problem. The movie was actually decent
well I guess decency is relative!
I guess Im a fucking idiot for liking a movie, eh?
Please have Mr. Plinkett review this and point out how fucking awful was...
...This is the exactly what happened when 'The Phantom Menace' came out. People loved it at first , but then after... people realise how fucking awful it was.
+SWSduckXxx // But this wasn't "fucking awful".
If you look at initial reviews from critics about the first one, it was very much a mixed bag, but no one ever LOVED it. They liked it at best.
People LOVE this movie. It has substantially higher reviews, with people being wary of doing exactly what you feel people did with the prequels.
My guess? This movie is going to stay right where it's at.
Most people who have seen it a second (or third, or fourth, or even fifth time) have stated it gets better with every view. It seems to me this movie is destined to be a permanent addition to the original trilogy.
+Helldog6 We'll see in about 5 years. The orginal trilogy got less than rave scores when they came out so whose to say the opinions of this movie won't change. There are a lot of shitty movies people circlejerk, and sometimes it takes a while for people to realize.
SWSduckXxx // Nice comeback.
Go away Troll.
"I've seen it 4 times now"
Why? Anybody that thinks a movie is awful, isn't going to go watch said awful movie another THREE times.
Nah dude.... TPM had mostly bad reviews when it came out. It had zero heart. This movie had heart.
K Bizzy What's that supposed to mean?
cant wait for the movie showing how they got the plans for the starkiller base!
Rogue Two
*Rebel One
Mike hated the phantom menace but he won't say anything bad about this movie? Jesus Christ
+Pastrami Sandwich It seems that he, along with most of the people who watched it objectively, really enjoyed it. He points out that some of the references were excessive and that the whole Starkiller Base sequence was too similar to a new hope, but overall the movie had likable characters and exciting action, something the prequels utterly lacked.
+Justin Webster yes. That's probably the main reason l dislike the prequels. The characters were too flat, and I couldn't stand Anakin.
But l just love the new characters Finn, Rey and Poe, and it was amazing to see Han again.
As Lucas once said "it isn't about the space ships". Star Wars is for me about the characters. Everything else, from the lightsabers to the galaxy, are just tools to make the story more interesting. The only thing l really crave for is a Star Wars movie with interesting and likable characters, and a pretty simple story that's easy to follow (TFA didn't really succeed that great on the simplicity, but l hope the next film will explain better about what's happening. This is just the first movie after all).
+Straight White Christian Male
Or.... It's called enjoying a movie that was well directed and well filmed, without instantly picking apart every plot detail that was left out because it's going to be answered in the sequels that everybody knows is already gonna happen.
Hello shills.
***** Huh?
Was Kylo Ren based on Dark Helmet from Spaceballs? You remove the mask that creates the intimidating voice and there's a weird guy underneath.
That was part of the idea, that he was less intimidating beneath the mask.
He is a fanboy of his grandfather after all, but though he is gifted, and he tries to imitate him, he isn't Vader. Much like how Vader takes his anger out on people, Kylo takes his frustration out on objects.
The mask is the distinction between the man he is and the man he wants to be. Kylo Ren is an image, but the man beneath the mask is conflicted, unsure of himself, with lingering feelings of home and family. However, he is also scary in quite his own way; with the mask on he was Vader 2.0. With it off we saw how unstable he was. Not to mention that when he finally made the move to sever his ties to his family by killing Han he took himself over to the darkness (also he now has a badass scar.).
@@Mayeur000Donz you thought about it waaaay more than anyone who made the movie did
@@georgeptolemy7260
I don't see why people say this to me. The details for the theming are all there.
@@Mayeur000Donz you're right this was even mentioned in tlj
I have watched so much Redlettermedia that I have become Redlettermedia. I have almost the exact same opinion like they do together and I kind of knew ahead how much each of them would like it.
Damn almost everything I agree upon, even the final helicopter shot.
I want Rey to turn dark and kylo to be redeemed. That would be neat
nou
That would be an interesting twist. I imagine the ending to that being something like Rey sees Finn get killed or seriously injured by Kylo or Hux and she just goes ham and tries to murder them. She is then defeated and taken to Snoke where she is tortured mercilessly before Ren's eyes. She is then turned into an Assassin and after witnessing such cruelty and the little tug of the light side, Kylo goes back to the Republic and tries in all his power to get his mother's trust and love back and finish his Jedi training under Luke. Luke is then killed by Rey while his guard is down and Kylo goes to confront Rey and bring her back to the Light. An emotional battle ensues much like in Jedi and they both come to the Light and push Snoke into beyond the outer rim into unknown space, like with the Forgotten Empire.
+jhon doe I've never seen Harry Potter sooo
Han is reckless and unconcerned with laws and morals that keep him from doing what he wants. Leia would have struggled raising him with the loss of everyone she loves and her home planet. Ben was raised in a dysfunctional home with parents who could never work and would always argue. combine that with the zest for power that vader, luke and Leia all show it becomes very reasonable that he would seek a father figure and something to belong to that also helped him reach his goals.
UNCLE UTTERS disney would NEVER do that to the little girl fans... unfortunately
Force Awakens played it safe....any fan or critic knows that. J.J. took a new hope....infused it with elements from episode 5 and 6 and made a movie. The only difference is he made the main character a black guy and a girl so that other people have more cosplaying options (which is good). Just the soundtrack wasn't memorable nor was the need to include so many characters which were left unused
I'd love to hear a full, spoiler-y review from you mate
+RedTeamReview The same here. Overall I loved the movie, I just find John Williams wasn't inspired in this one. No memorable tracks (nor the resistance or the first order if we compare them to any memorable tracks on the other 6 films).
I disagree on John Williams' music. I love his theme for the Resistance.
+TheDragonSuperman
Spacespanic.
+Lord of midgets
Agree, there was definitely an agenda at play. The storm trooper guy and scavenger girl are really cool characters that break stereotypes, whereas the new villain is basically one huge cringey stereotype. It almost looked like they actually designed his costume to give him a hunchback like Richard the Third.
Mesa cumin bak, yousa see
Fuck you Jar Jar!!
No one's ever really gone...
No ones ever gone
you mean cumin the spice?
😂😂😂
Am I the only one who hated the Force Awakens? It didn't feel like Star Wars to me. Am I cry or what?
+Grackene why didn't you like it?
Most people liked it
Get over it
Grackene did you have a stroke typing that holy fucking shit lmao. Quit sperging out like a man child god damn hahaha. Also i don't see where he's saying you can't like it. I think you have selective memory fam. Also, my comment had nothing to do with jay. Also you replyed to me 25 days later so shouldn't you leave me alone? Get some fresh air boy, it will be good for you :).
Yes you are cry
+theman211294 The only thing it had going for it was that it felt like Star Wars,
God damn it. I'd forgotten how much potential this new trilogy had back before Last Jedi
Yeah -- normal person lightsaber fight was great.
It's like this is how gritty, nasty lightsaber fights are when you aren't trained.
I can see gritty untrained lightsaber fights for free down at the ticket line.
*****
They must be awesome then. I liked the choreographed ones as well -- but they're tiring.
+Badge Man They are if they don't have any real training, which obviously Rey didn't have, and Kylo seemed to forget about it with the blaster wound in his side.
If they had been flipping around and shit that wouldn't make any sense
+Yat Nami Rey is the best at whatever the situation demands tho.
Can the much hyped review live up to expectations? YEEEEEEEEE-
+Joshua Roberts but it did
+Joshua Roberts what about it makes you say that
+Joshua Roberts all of it? wow, so edgy
+Joshua Roberts If you expected the new movie to beat the OT, it definitely didn't. If you just expected it to be a legitimate movie that's better than the prequels, it definitely did.
ultimateblaze23
It isn't bad, lol.
it's currently two days till the release of EP 9 in 2019, and I'm here watching this just to see how different RLM were about Star Wars coming back. (queue in Jabba the Hutt laugh)
People do not appreciate Mike's editing enough. He is hilarious putting these together
Jay is editing the episodes
The missing line in this movie? On the bridge: "We named the dog Kylo!"
When Mike hesitates before saying "I loved it" like he's so emotional, it chokes me up every time
2:56 This one moment made me more happy than any of the prequels ever did.
I love how disgusted Mike sounds having to not be snarky and bitter about the film
Binty?
Where are your sequels now?
How do you feel now?
Chewbacca had several years to find the right conditioner.
And now we know how poorly the new trilogy turned out.
How naive we were.
The Extended Universe died so we could have a Skywalker Saga finale that is 7/10 on IMDb and 5/10 on Metacritic. And that is also a bad-fanfic version of one of the Extended Universe storylines.
I loved force awakens and love it even more now knowing how shitty the next 2 were in comparison.
@@CharlesM1992 You love a film MORE because other films are bad? Well that's certainly stupid. Good luck with that.
A lot better than the prequels but tbf that isn't saying much. I enjoyed TFA quite a lot, mixed on TLJ but I love certain parts. TROS was meh.
I knew it from the first second the movie started. Putting selected word in the crawl in CAPITAL letters? No..no.. something is wrong here....
Walked out the film after 20 min once my suspicions of a bland basic movie were confirmed.
Who's going back here to watch all 3 Half in the Bags with the new review out?
abrams isn't a filmmaker. he's a franchise mechanic.
zEropoint68 he literally makes movies. he is by definition a filmmaker
5deep
Autism Stois
*Cough*riseofskywalker*cough*
Franchise demolitions expert more like 😬
Rey is Palpatine's granddaughter. Kylo Ren gets redeemed, then killed by Palpatine. Rey kills Palpatine. Rey takes the name "Rey Skywalker." This is what happens when you create a trilogy with no clear idea of where it's going at the start.
Kylo Ren wasn't killed by Palpatine. Rey sacfices herself to destroy Palpatine. Ben sacrificed himself to save her.
@@kungolaf4499 Who cares. Same difference.
Revisiting this after their Last Jedi video is rather depressing.
I imagine rewatching The Force Awakens would yield that same exact result.
@@NeutralGuyDoubleZero TFA sucked
Star Wars: The Force Awakens was the biggest let down since Half in the Bag Episode 100. When a guy builds his entire career off a Star Wars criticism and then cowers from the fanbase 5 years later you know something's wrong. The irony in a guy who slammed Roger Ebert for giving RotS 3-1/2 stars while himself letting TFA off the hook in total? Kinda like watching young George Lucas eventually become the studio system he hated Plinkett has turned into a shill for studios when it comes to a triple A title rather than the edgy critic who went against popular films and backed it up.
Lee Smith Geez Bane from Batman and Robin? You lost permission to talk to anyone from the human race.
+Thebigredsnake Plinkett is just a character that is not synonymous with Mike.
I don't think he's cowering from anything. He just...you know...likes the film?
batmench10 He should this is partially his fault it's a reboot/remake. No one is a bigger critic of the franchise than him, even well established critics acknowledge him and HelloGreedo, Stuckmann, Belated, etc are essentially just Plinkett clones. He can personally share some of the blame that he got a remake of the original film. It's sad too I did enjoy the new stuff but I can't ignore the overall film is episode IV in the same way "Into the Darkness" was "Wrath of Khan". But that's not even fair because at least they tried to twist the ending with that film. Had they just let the rebels lose this time I probably would have let things slide, because the FO needs a win coming off Jedi. That said this is the guy who complained about not knowing why anyone is doing anything in the PT and he can't see that in this? Why is the New Republic using the Resistance as a black ops unit for example? Just let's it slide on by, I unsub'ed, truth was I only liked him for the Plinkett stuff but that's it for me he's a shill now. Always hipster slamming shitty low budget films big deal did you really expect them to be good?
+Thebigredsnake I'm afraid i have to agree. The movie was sub-par. A 5/10 from me.
The sad truth is that Han's line "That's not how the Force works!" becomes a meta-joke as we could say the same thing of how J.J. Abrams handles the Force in this movie.
How's that?
Basically, yes, especially with Rey learning all those skills so quickly. Did she get her hands on a copy of "Using 'The Force' for Dummies"?
The only skills Rey 'learns' in the force without being taught is the jedi mind trick, and force pull, which living around a space Outpost is easy to assume she had heard about through passing travellers/mercs etc that were around when the 'mythological' Luke Skywalker- the last jedi- toppled the empire and Darth Vader.
She displays high levels of intuition throughout the film indicating strong force ability (being able to steer the Falcon, like Anakin's Podracing, etc) and little to no fighting skills. She doesnt fight Kylo Ren when she gets the Lightsabre, she defends until she remembers Maz's advice about letting the force flow through her. Thats when she uses it in like one or two swings of the sabre to knock him down. That is no different to Luke getting his ass kicked by the training remote on the Falcon until Obi Wan says "stretch out with your feelings" and 4 seconds later he is deflecting the shots.
Also, unlike Luke, Rey doesnt have protective relatives raising her to keep her away from harmful "wizards". She did her own thing raised more or less as an orphan, and im pretty sure again that she could find out about the force if she wanted to. In Luke's time the Jedi were thought to be extinct, and the oppressive regime of the Empire no doubt would have tried to erase as much trace of the order as possible, similar to 1984 or V for Vendetta. In Rey's time, they would be telling stories about how the jedi brought down the evil Empire. Its really not that weird to think Rey knew a little about the Force if you really consider it. Also, ANH needed Luke to be oblivious to give Lucas a shorthand into explaining what it is for new audiences. I dont really need to see someone sitting down to tell Rey exactly what the force is, because we already know. We can assume she does too.
Less than half a human's lifetime has passed since the official fall of the Jedi Order, yet they're apparently myths? They were thought to be extinct since the Empire wiped them out. However, before the film Luke was apparently raising a new Jedi Order, and was even integral in liberating the Galaxy from the clutches of the Empire. However, they're still just a simple myth as is The Force. The only excuse I can give for this is that normal people don't feel The Force as strongly as those who are sensitive to it. Thus their belief in such a thing being a myth is acceptable to an extent. However, if this was made for a new audience why isn't The Force being re-explained to give the new audience a better understanding of what it is.
Also, the skills she displays with the force is the ability to resist a Mind Reading ability that's quite unique to Kylo, reversing said skill against Kylo, Force Pull, Jedi Mind Trick, and Force Valor/Force Enlightenment (Or letting the force flow through you). That's four separate Force skills that she's using throughout the movie, while only just learning about The Force just recently. Knowing that these tricks exist doesn't automatically make you adept at using it. Just like how knowing how to perform certain tricks in real life doesn't allow you to expertly perform them on the spot. In particular, resisting and reversing the Mind Reading trick of a TRAINED Force Sensitive is just poor writing. I would give partial points to her beating Kylo when she had her moment of clarity due to his injury, however she was just Force Pushed into a tree trunk, just a few scenes back, with enough force to knock her out (Unless you want to add Force Healing to the list of tricks - wonder how she figured that one out).
Finally, in both movies Anakin and Luke both had some experience using their respective vehicles while Rey only had simulations to work off of. Oh, and the Millennium Falcon would have its own unique quirks to how she flies, yet Rey somehow flies it like it's an extension of her right hand. Then she able to easily work on the engine of the ship? Yes, she's a scavenger, but scavengers don't put together ships for a living. Not to mention most of the ships are of Imperial design (given the Star Destroyer graveyard), while the Falcon herself is a Corellian model with various modifications. She can have some lee way, some intuition with certain skills if her background permits. However, explaining everything via The Force cheapens what it is further.
I wanted to like this movie, I wanted to watch a youth once again realize their destiny in the stars. However, there are too many contradictions that I can't even give it an adequate recommendation.
No. Abrams had a much clearer understanding of the Force then Lucas did. Remember Midi-Chlorians?
I love when Mikes face lit up and he said "I loved it... it was everything I hoped it would be"
All these comments crying about RedLetterMedia being 'paid by Disney' are hilarious. If someone doesn't share my opinion, they must be paid to not think like me. Most delusional shit I've seen in my life.
+ayy Did you actually watch this video through to the end? They themselves make jokes about how they were paid by Disney to be positive, and they make a big joke of "breaking down" and admitting how disappointing it was at the end.
And people are dumb enough in the comments to take it seriously.
Towards the very end of this video, made me wonder what RLM's political views are with his Trump comment/joke
+ayy What worse is that these being accuse people of being sell-outs without any provided evidence, despite reviewers having evidence to back up their opinions on the film and what they thought was good and bad.
The best part is that how purists of the older movies are trying to make all these terrible points abouts media bias towards George Lucas when in reality if you look properly. There is a very clear, very obvious media bias against Disney, not just in Star Wars but in many other situations in general outside of it.
Darth Bane was voiced by Mark Hamill on the 2008 Clone Wars show. Fun fact.
Wut Darth Bane was in that?
Icup200169
For like, two minutes on the very last episode of the entire series lol
except it was a pretty bad rendition of Bane's character, in his books he's a calculated and logical mastermind and in that Clone Wars episode he was just a scary ghost man, I love the Clone Wars but I was pretty disappointed with that little reference
GregTehGoose
I wouldn't know about all that, most of my knowledge of Star Wars is the films and TOP TEN THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT DARTH VADER'S SUIT
If I had to describe TFA in one word, that word would be "safe". I was completely sucked out of the experience as soon as I realised I was about to watch yet another death star blow up. I distinctly remember paying more attention to my popcorn than the movie during the second half of TFA.
It's like they were so afraid of missing the magic of the original Star Wars, that they just said "Fuck it, let's just remake A New Hope". I just hope they grow some balls, and actually tell a unique story in the movies to come.
This is precisely how I felt. Such thoroughly wasted potential this entire trilogy was...
Well at least you got your wish with The Last Jedi.
watching the trilogy of SW Half in the Bag makes me feel more than the trilogy itself.
Rich is too skinny to be Santa Claus now :(
+the bonesauce they're on the pre-rec recordings together sometimes. because you know, it's a completely different channel that has live streams.
+bigbakaboon and karen is awesome. total book nerd.