Mr. Plinkett's The Star Wars Awakens Review
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- Опубліковано 24 гру 2024
- I squeeze gats till my clips is empty. A review of The Force Awakens and much much more...
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"Three elderly people who are near death"
*shows picture of Carrie Fisher*
Oh.
Han Solo I know that, it's just a bit ironic
You made me feel guilty about his comment.
cocaine's a hell of a drug
Jack George Too soon...
Star Gamer 3120 so soon in fact, it hadn't happened yet!
I love how Plinkett can't get over Dexter Jettster and his '50s diner.
Blythe Guvenen dexter is the key to all this
it's like poetry
It will all be explained in jettster: a star wars story.
@@nahtesalinas1917 27:43 *and 32:40 **and 39:01
Plinkett is the only reason I know that name
That character interview thing about Captain Phasma at 1:37:33 is so absolutely bullshit. Captain Phasma did absolutely jack shit except walk around and tote a rifle everywhere. She was so still and posing the entire time it just felt fake and shoed-in. You could even say that she looked like an action figur- oh.
Oooooooooooooooooooooooh.....
haha I feel bad for Christie, honestly. It's the equivalent of interviewing the dude who played Boba Fett in empire. And i'd argue he was more relevant, if not still massively overtly revered by fandom, mostly on account of cool armor.
But yeah, trying to give credence to a character that just exists is just the worst.
Dain Laguna True
Yeah. Gwendoline Christie is great, but Phasma was not.
Yes, at first I thought she was literally a robot.
so you figured it out
I can never get over the fact that the Force Awakens Review part of this video starts 55 minutes in
Fancy seeing you here Act Man! 😁
I knew RLM were your inspiration 😁
Lol
*You and other channels really ought to come together and make a big tribute to RLM. We know they'll do great work on their own but all the same if it weren't for a smaller channel leading me to this channel I never would have realized how great and diverse of thought they are when it comes to movies.*
It takes time to understand their jokes and bits and to enjoy their sarcasm but it makes for great "long" form viewing when compared to any single Critic on UA-cam on their own or one that only makes reviews of movies for minutes each
Of all the people I thought I'd see... I love it
7:06 - The difference between the Vietnam War Memorial and the crew of a Hollywood blockbuster?
The memorial makes you feel something.
Deep.
No it doesn't.
Rising fuel prices?
pierreo33 It actually worked pretty well for South Korea. And it was the Cold War - the "killing innocent civilians" thing was already going on before the U.S. got involved.
The Americans in Vietnam during the war committed less heinous crimes than the crew that made the prequels.
I need to get the "Ring Theory" guy to do my college assignments for me, he can clearly bullshit his way through absolutely anything.
The most real talk
Anonymous I'm sorry most of the other comments lower by iq. Can you please further elaborate. Like do you mean he's good or just a guy that make his bullshit decent
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He means that he's so good at elaborating shit that doesn't have any real support that he could get a decent mark at any college assigment with no effort
If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.
“Jazz sucks”
*plays Jazz throughout the review*
Well played.
5th Avenue Stroll, Buddy
What a treat to watch this so many years later. We could not have predicted how much worse it could get.
Andor is awesome tho
@@InaneBlatherPodcast It is! But it's the only good Star Wars movie/show since the original trilogy.
@@Owl90 I would argue that The Mandalorian also started on a rather good path, even though it did become worse somewhere during Season 2
@@Zajin13 The Mandalorian is a lot like the Force Awakens. The fact that it took so few risks seemed acceptable as long as you could imagine that changing somewhere down the road.
Yes we could, the signs this was nothing more than a MacProduct were self-evident and in-your-face, however those who pointed that out were derided as killjoys. And Red Letter Media -- who had a dog in this fight, due to their reviews trashing the prequels plus their praise of Jar Jar Abrams -- just had to *force* the idea that this was a good movie. When the 1st one is probably the worst of an terrible and sterile trilogy, both story-wise, and cinematically wise.
I sent Plinkett all my crucial information to receive pizza rolls years ago....still waiting. On the negative side, my credit rating has drastically plummeted and apparently I owe money to places I've never heard of.
But did you send him a copy of your lease? Specifically with the option for someone to sign on to it? Or the access information to your retirement savings? These may be crucial pieces of information too!
Don't worry about it
If you can't fix it, you can always complain about it. ON THE INTERNET!!!
And exorbitant vet bills to sex change a mail cat so it could lactate.
🤦♂️😂 Why ?
I think George Lucas' small personal films are gonna be a bunch of UA-cam video reviews of all of Redlettermedia's past work.
Reviews of Queen Amidala and Mace Windu action figurines
i agree
i have an odd feeling George is aware of the RLM Phantom Menace review
Some time ago he said that he was finished with filmmaking as a whole.
I do because I think it would be funny as shit.
This has aged so well.
Extremely actually
bannisher Exactly. What he said about it being a new home is scary accurate
Well, not ALL of it has aged gracefully. The grand cinematic universe idea of 1 or 2 new SW movies every year until we die crumbled with a year and a half of this video being produced. Plinkett's prediction of an unstoppable Disney train of over saturation was just wrong (I don't hold this against him, I'm sure most of us were thinking the same thing at the time). But instead, Disney almost instantly drove it into the dirt with lackluster product that the long time fans rejected. Box office numbers have not been terrible overall, but what drives SW as a money machine has always been the merch sales... and Disney SW has been a massive failure on that front. Kids in 2019 don't give a shit about Kenner toys, they got vidya and memes... so you better keep the fortysomethings happy... and well... we've seen how they've done with that.
@@control_the_pet_population it's called hyperbole, you're going to tell me that a franchise that took 30 years + to make 6 films - then made an entire trilogy in the span of less than 10 years, with a sub story ( that failed ) and not see the truth behind assembly line? They just keep cranking them out, not literally 1 or 2 a year; that's unrealistic even for Disney.
Unlike Plinkett
“This is the guy who killed the emperor, what a hoax” really takes on a whole new meaning now
Star Wars is a hoax. Thanks Disney.
Turns out it was The Emperor controlling everything from the secret island. Too funny how close that prediction was.
It's interesting to watch this now and discover that the answers to all the questions and predictions in this review are far, far worse than anyone could had known...
You know what that means... *PALPATINE'S BEHIND IT ALL*
@UltimateCheetah3000 Yes, you glorious floating pizza roll.
Captain Phasma I think is a phenomenal character because she stands with a kink in her hip.
Phenomenal.
@@Rehash84 Literally the only Storm Trooper you could tell from the others(were it not for her pimped out chrome rims)
Let's assume Ring Theory is true; why would it make the films any better?
No.
LatajaceStadoKotow I hate Nolan's pretentiousness, I don't think he's any better than any other director(s), although Inception and The Prestige are among my favourite films
Jared Dowty The worst offender of that kind of thing is Room 237.
Ultimately it's down to opinion what you enjoy with art (books, movies, TV shows etc), if people like/dislike him/others in my mind that's fine :) I just personally don't like him as a director, although Inception and The Prestige are some of my favourite films
It's just nerdy pattern recognition from the guys who believe in the Illuminati/New World Order shit.
This is a prime example of a company desperately trying to recapture the wondrous magic and creative intelligence of the original trilogy, but in the end creating something that feels hollow and only seems to rehash what we've already seen.
But enough about Red Letter Media....
My, that's clever.
Zing!
I see what you did there.
Ah, the old switcharoo
shots fired
Imagine how embarrassing it must be to be the guy yelling "ITS THE MILLENIUM FALCON!"
I KNOW WHAT THAT IS!
All the people who do those reaction videos should be embarassed really, essentially it's all "OMG I 'MEMBER THAT!!".
STAR DESTROYERS! I'M GONNA COOOOOOOOOOME
Rich Evans is chronically embarrassed
I SAW THE MILLENNIUM FALCON AND I CLAPPED
"Oh my God, it's looks like the Vietnam War memorial." Lost it.
Rad Hominem that really, REALLY got me good
Sombre Voice "But different...very very different.."
dude your not wrong I almost cried. That was fucking great
Yeah that one fucking killed me
The only RedLetterMedia joke ever that I didn’t like.
The fun thing about The Force Awakens is that is gets worse if you rewatch it now that the trilogy is done, because none of the mysteries and actually intesting plot points get resolved. And if they do, it's kinda like the end of this video.
TFA was so promising when it initially came out in spite of some flaws. Now in retrospect it's just sad to see what happened.
Sad, very sad. I don't know why I still continue saying that I like Star Wars if I only like three movies of 9.
@@isaacdavidnz cause those three movies are in the end of the day the real star wars. Everything else is just filler.
No it wasn't lmao. They'd already wrote themselves into a corner.
@@isaacdavidnz to be honest, the prequels and sequels are just rehearsings of the OT, with another coat of paint but even worse...
My problem with this film is that Finn had no problem killing Stormtroopers when he used to be one. He feels neither sympathy nor conflict over what he does to people who were in exactly the same circumstances that he was before he took that helmet off. The closest we ever get to that is the memetic Stormtrooper with the cattle prod who dies less than five minutes after being introduced, and Finn is totally unaffected by being called what he is. A traitor.
how is he a traitor?
@@targard.quantumfrack6854 he betrayed the empire errr first order
Well... it is not as if he made the conscious decision to be in the first order. The point about those new Stormtroopers was that when they were ... "aquired" they were too young to legally sign anything :D
So the question is: is a slave that rebels against his slavery a traitor?
@@Taliesin2 you realize this is the first order/empire right. They dont care. From their point of view hes a traitor.
Well you'd think that a slave rebelling against slavers would feel a bit bad about really only killing slaves
If ring theory is true, I guess Michael Bay is the best director in the fricking universe, the transformers movies rhyme so well I can’t tell them apart
The are like stanzas
Watch Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi, and then Transformer: Revenge of The Fallen.
Please explain why those two movies remind me of each other.
well there was one with dinosaurs in china or something other than that who knows
Still don't understand why "The Resistance" isn't the Grand Army of the New Republic
Our society is based on "ressentiment," which means anything strong and powerful is automatically "evil," which leads to Orwellian concepts like a "resistance" movement funded and supported by the central galactic government. (Nietzsche used the loaded terms "slave morality" and "master morality" to illustrate this particular dialectic, but I find that terminology distracts people from the main point.)
An equally interesting question is why the "First Order," was never referred to as a terrorist outfit, since that's what they were, fascist aesthetics aside.
Basically the New Republic is sticking to their region and turning a blind eye to the First Order.
The Resistance is supported by elements of the New Republic but is operating in a different region directly against the First Order.
Because Disney wants to make a profit by forcing so you to buy their artificial expanded universe books just to get the most basic info and plot details that should have been in movie.
serrocXIII
Wasn't that the old EU.
They're essentially supposed to be freelance-ish, I guess. Not with the state, but still a helping hand (sorta like superheroes: why is all of Hollywood superhero-based now?). The First Order isn't in power, necessarily, more like a radical terrorist group like ISIS trying to impose their will on the state and reclaim a position. Or at least that's my take.
Seeing that actress try to make Captain Phasma seem important always makes me laugh. Especially after what happens to her in the last Jedi
I am the Walrus yep what a joke. Beat by the janitor
That attack from Finn sent her back to the kitchen
Did she have more than four lines?! Not exactly important.
@@Shenaldrac She's a role model like Ilsa She Wolf Of The SS is a role model. Agreed.
I knew selling SW to Disney would not turn out well.
"Ring Theory" is a fancy way of saying "These stories are suspiciously similar."
Ring Theory = copying the plot, story beats and some script from other films
It’s like poetry. It rhymes.
Stuff, stuff, stuff and then they blow up a Deathstar - Welp, That's 3 movies done :P
At least the prequels didn't just copy scenes like the hoth battle or trench run straight up like the sequels did. New biomes, new set-pieces.
@@R3GARnator at least the sequels were competently executed with good cinematography. Just because Lucas spammed fucking CGI on every Pixel of his fucking movie, doesn't mean it is good or creative. Something "new" does not mean it is better. Corona Virus is new. No one calls it better-flu.
I can't believe Mr. Plinkett, actually predicted Palpatine's return.
Props to him for doing it, it seems like so many people called that as well
Somehow, he did it!
He probably inspired it
It was a horrible idea already written about in the legends comics so it wasn't exactly farfetched
@@TheTGOACno many didn't
"What's with all the violence against women?!"
Plinkett, 2016.
Oh the irony
Even Pinklett got a soft reboot and is now politically correct.
Hahahaha
He's improving? Nah he just fucked up.
The man hates competition.
Wow, George Lucas made a cohesive argument against the direction that the movie industry has taken. Bravo, you crazy diamond. Bravo.
Is Darth Vader bringing balance to the force? It's like real life is mirroring fiction, it's like poetry; it rhymes...
Lucas is brilliant with what he says. It's his hypocritical actions that are head scratching.
I know that was shocking to watch. He was actually right for once! You gotta give it to the man, he might have forgotten how to write dialogue or compose a character motive but he sure understands the business side of movie making.
I don't see it as hypocrisy, but more like cognitive dissonance.
George seems to have some accidental moments of genious. Like the whole "A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing." His brain just stumbles around and sometimes lands on something right. Maybe that's how Star Wars came about.
This review is some kind of epic-level "poetry". It's literally a soft-reboot of the older Plinkett reviews, and does the whole "rhyming" thing Lucas spoke of. I wonder if there is a way it fits into Ring Theory?
in Lucas' AOTC Review, he said that The prequels Borrow Ideas from the OT.
Hopefully it'll work
It didn't work.
It's like poetry, you see, it rhymes.
Every scene is so dense with so many things going on.
That hypothetical Luke and Han scene was perfect and it makes me irrationally frustrated that it didn’t happen
That was a terrible oversight by the writers: Han in one film, Luke in the others, and Han is killed before they’re brought back together. Not even one small scene of the Boys side by side.
every scene is so dense, there is just so much going on
Jar Jar is the key to all of this
arachnophobe Is this replacing Half in the Bag?
Is this replacing the prequels?
You know, your profile picture really makes that comment.
Its like poetry
Most of this isnt a critique of the film, its a critique of society. A well deserved one too.
Gabriel Bruskoff I’ve been listening to this for 47 minutes and he hasn’t even mentioned TFA
I am an hour in and the review hasn't started yet. 10/10
Exactly
Yup
I just realized it was over an hour long.....
Was there a review? I just came for the self-deprecating humor.
Yeah he has to bash the prequels first. Got to make sure people hate those movies. Before people realize what a hack he is.
I remember when this review came out that it seemed weird how it focused mainly on the creepy ways that Disney was manipulating the fandom and spent almost no time on the movie itself. Five years later, this makes perfect sense. They say nothing about The Force Awakens because there's nothing to say, it's a creative and artistic black hole.
Plinkett really is the Chosen One to have gotten this vision of the future.
.. It took you five, Whole years for something obvious as the disney-dump versions of star wars to make sense that it sucked? Good god man, The things they put into peoples water and food to deluge people with harm this way..
what no its because it was reasonably good. they were exactly fine with it at the time. watch the half in the bag, they were optimistic. most of us were cause no one had any idea what was happening. the only unimpressed one was rich, who's in hindsight been right more often than the non-insane people lol.
@@lejluminati4832 Yeah no - They released crappy trailers of this garbage-movie which was proof enough of what was happening, You dont know everyones financial-status, It was a horrible ripoff series by disney-dump.
@@onojioboardwalk9748 dude did you have a stroke
I can't wait to see Plinketts review of the last jedi
Andy Appleton it’s gonna be a bloodbath
i can't wait to see his review of the even worse TLJ xD
I know. And just like Plinketts reviews of the prequels, it'll be more fun and watchable than the movie.
OMG FUCKING YES !
The story suggestions made in this video are amazing fairplay!
Cant wait for Last Jedi Plinkett review.
Plinkett want them to take chances. Ok. Challenge accepted.
Same here
I can picture it being like his Titanic review. Half about what's good about it, half about what sucks.
The parts that suck can be divided into two categories: glaring issues (plot holes, character motivation, leia) and things that fall flat (finn and rose plot line *mostly finn*, jokes, and leia)
It will be Glorious.
Anybody else find themselves revisiting these sequel reviews every couple months? They’re just so dense, every single image has so much going on.
I sure do.
They're like poetry.... They rhyme.
@@gregsmith1641 Haaaahahaha.
shut up rick mcallum
SHUT UP!
One of my bigger complaints about The Force Awakens is that the First Order's industry just magically exists out of nothing. In the earlier movies you can believe the Sith have the economic might for lots of ships and a Death Star because they *are* the government of the Galaxy. They rose to power from within and the Republic simply became the Empire. But The First Order's backstory, thin as it is, isn't like that. This time The First Order are the rebels outside the galactic government. They're a rebel group out on the periphery that somehow has more industrial might than the New Republic, and sillier still, more might than they had back when they were the whole Empire. What the hell??
On a more minor note, it really bugged me that in the scene when they return, land the Falcon and are having everyone mourn Han Solo's death, Chewbacca just stands there. The big hairy dude's been Han's best bud longer than *anyone else* in that whole scene has known Han - even longer than Han's wife Leia who only met Han well after Han was already Chewie's best buddy going waay back. If they really want to show character, Chewie should have absolutely lost it at that news. Give him a big wookie howl of anguish and do something in a rage like only a wookie can, smashing a few bits of equipment before the others calm him down, understanding exactly why he's acting like that. Have Leia go hug Chewie, not Rey, as they both should be feeling immense loss there and Rey only just met Han. Have the camera pan up and end the scene on that moment, then move on to a long time later after they've presumably had a long time and are now ready to resume the story of the movie.
You are right. Chewbacca was more upset when they froze Han or even when Lando betrayed the team.
The galaxy has nozzles in ceilings that spit out capture invincibility forcefields, and it seemed as normal as a dome light in a car. This means that all everything in the movies is not needed. Weapons aren't needed. Houses aren't needed. Armor not needed. They have force foeld technology so what are they even doing all day?
Great post. What you have pointed out and similar other annoyances just spin the movie into an unrecoverable dive.
Wait this is confusing. What do you mean "at the news" he was literally there when Han died. He watched it happen and then let out a howl of anguish and went on a rampage killing people. ???
I agree Leia should've hugged Chewie instead of Rey of course.
Honestly, the First Order should have sprung from within the Republic itself. You could easily explain it by having large chunks of the Republic's military secretly holding Imperial sympathies. Presumably, the Republic would have to have taken over much of the Empire's structures in order to function and maintain order, much the same as the Empire was a continuation of the Old Republic. You couldn't simply kill every single member of the Imperial Military. No more so than all the officers in the Wehrmacht or Soviet Army were removed after the collapse of their respective regimes.
Finn was one of the biggest disappointments for me. He was hyped up as this turncoat Stormtrooper and I was SO hoping he'd have a deep character arc.
I thought he'd have blood on his hands and would be actively seeking redemption or purpose, and he'd be used as a window into the First Order's military and the lifestyle of a Stormtrooper. Maybe he'd be torn between helping innocent people he once hated and having to kill the people he grew up with to do so.
But Disney be like: "Fuck that, look how diverse we are, we cast a fucking useless token comedy black guy you see in every movie..."
"Let go of my hand, you misogynistic male!"
I went in thinking that they were both going to become Jedi (Could still happen) and that Rey would be the more force sensitive one with some technical knowledge thrown in while Fin would have the advantage of actual previous military training to be able to get gud with a lightsaber fast and or use a blaster to good effect.
Instead Rey is the one who is good with the force, Rey is the one who is good with technical things, Rey is the one who is good with a blaster, and Rey is the one who is good with the lightsaber, while Fin gets to be the bumbling oaf with good intentions. Great, just wonderful.
Well...how is Disney supposed to be responsible for your personal specific expectations about the character? You created an idea of Fin in your head out of nowhere and now you're angry that nobody read your mind and made your day-dream a reality.
Finn was mis-casted. They should've got Kevin Hart.
I thought maybe he should quest to liberate the other stormtroopers because he knows they were probably stolen from their families while young and conscripted to serve just like him. There'd be this major moment when First Orders forces stop, turn around, and begin flying the heroes flag because they rejected their overlords thanks to Finn and his preachings.
rich evans' george lucas is on the level of mike's palpatine
It’s like a Tums festival!
Over 10 minutes just for the ad revenue, typical.
Ever seen the other Mr pinklet reviews?
Chicken Man here doesn't get the joke.
He's obviously joking
Very droll. Tip of the cap to you, sir.
Mehhhh if it was 10 mins and 20 seconds I'd agree but this is almost 2 hours
Why does the Star Killer base have to shoot anything at all? Isn't the ability to erase a FREAKING SUN dangerous enough?
We live in a world where very successful people living infinitely better than me once said in a high priced meeting "its even bigger, and then they drive it to the sun and then they suck up the sun and then they have a very very very very big laser because the sun is now in it now."
A very good point
The pizza phone sex was borderline experimental
Borderline?
Nice reference to the resident evil half in the bag episode
Someone should tell Mr. Plinkett that fellatio isn't a type of pepperoni. :/
Avant Garde is the word you're looking for. Get it right.
Sincerely, A poor film major who minored in philosophy
they're not all that different
I can’t wait for the Plinkett review for Rise of Skywalker.
^
I can hear it now....”Star Wars Episode IX the rise of Skywalker is the biggest disappointment since Star Wars Episode VIII the last Jedi”
John Chris - As I was watching TROS, I kept thinking of “at this point my expectations are so low they’re right next to fucking dinosaurs”
I think Mike is sick of it. The last Plinkett review was literally named "the Last Plinkett review". So I wouldn't bet on one being made.
The entire time I was watching The Rise of Skywalker I was thinking of how Plinkett could critique it.
Remember all the shit that Luke, Leia and Han did in the OT? Yeah, none of that matters since we're right back where we started in ANH. The baddies have a massive super weapon, the Republic is in ruins and we once again have a small band of Rebels (sorry, "Resistance") fighting to destroy it, the Jedi are once again a legend living through a wise old man, who must rely on a new hope from a barren desert planet to defeat the main baddy (who was trained by said wise old man before falling to the dark side). This is the first Star Wars movie that feels like it doesn't even belong in the universe. It's completely forgettable and a wasted opportunity. But hey, nostalgia right??
grrr new character introductions, i'm going to judge a whole story that's still incomplete, and will be for another 6 years at least, grrrrrr
You should totally download Blabbr on your phone.
BINARYGOD it depends on your preferred style of storytelling, if your attention span is too short to be able to understand an entire story rather than an hour and a half of it, sure, go watch bee movie or something
your logic says i should be able to watch the second LOTR and understand everything lol
BINARYGOD I wasnt dissatisfied with it at all, I liked it
we just have different opinions
hope you enjoyed winning an online argument
Exactly!
I personally think this is the best video on UA-cam.
Possibly. Very good.
No, his review of Episode1 Fantom Menace is best video on UA-cam!💯🌟
It's so dense. Every single frame has so many things going on
@@bilbobaggins9451 that’s true this is one of my least favourite plinket review
I think his review of Attack of the Clones is one of the greatest criticisms of film ever written. He takes a careful look at the movie and not only tells us what's wrong with it but what has gone wrong with movies in general. He puts in his review what we suspect about the movies but aren't able to put into words. I watched it 3 times and show it to friends whenever I can.
The best part about Star Wars continuing is we get to look forward to more Plinkett reviews and all the other Star Wars RLM content.
There ya go. I can just watch them trash bad movies, like MST3K did.
Still no damn tros review
What about that Kit Fisto spinoff. "They don't call him Kit Fisto because he's into chicks."
And that scream when palpatine killed kit fisto? Yeah. That wasn't the first time kit fisto screamed like that
That's a really good point, and speaks to the kind of rationalizing that happens up and down these films.
I am talking specifically about the breakdown Plinkett does regarding the bullshit articles. Things like "world building," "look at all the Jedi," "better fight choreography," "new planet locations," etc. are all things that would have happened *in any prequel saga regardless of the quality.*
These aspects are not positive elements, they are merely descriptions.
Best review ever
ayyyy it's mr. rapezion
i love you
fuck me
Hey two of my fave UA-camrs on the same page
Shit your channel got huge! I remember watching some of your videos when your subcount was in the 50 thousands
REPZION!!!
Fuck off.
Time for my yearly plinkett binge
Amen
I agree that the major issue is that it feels like The Empire never left. Everything is the same as in the original trilogy, down to the Death Star. It's like the years between Jedi and Awakens never happened
If you read the Expanded Universe books (which Disney said aren't canon anymore because they don't want competition) the Empire is still there, but its a shadow of its former self. It lost most of its territory, its generals are struggling to maintain order in the systems that sill possess, and it is more realistic. It makes more sense in the Expanded Universe.
That was my biggest issue with the movie. They really didn't explain very well how the state of things were or how the Empire was still so powerful.
Strideo1 because talking about politics worked so well in the last trilogy
So why are the good guys called "the Resistance" then? Should'nt they just be named "the Republican Forces" or the "Galactic Army" or something like that ? Also, I get the feeling that the good side has little ressources and staff to work with in TFA. I guess the New Republic would realistically provide them with more material than a few X-Wings on an improvised airfield.
The Empire is fractured into warring clans vying for control against the New Republic.
Thanks for the review, Mike (and whomever else), quality work as usual.
Honestly, TFA's biggest problem is that it's almost completely devoid of consequence. It hints at a much more interesting film that they probably decided to skip over because it would have deviated too much from the Star Wars "formula". I can safely bet there's an unused Episode 7 script somewhere that's entirely about the collapse of Luke's Jedi academy... and then the script went through an endless series of committees, focus groups and market research to optimize it for ultimate mass consumption.
Specifically, Rey has no arc: she goes from 'self-sufficient, reluctant tagalong' to 'self-sufficient tagalong with force powers.
We don't know what the First Order really wants, why anyone gives a crap about finding Luke "McGuffin" Skywalker (can't believe you didn't mention that at all), or why we should care about the galactic conflict, as it currently stands. There are simply no tangible stakes because everything and everyone in this film is vaguely defined. It's like they didn't know which of the mysterious backstories/implications to flesh out so they just decided gloss over all of them and hope that their mention alone would provide enough emotional weight to the narrative. The result is a very "empty" feeling movie. It's like watching a computer play checkers with itself.
That's a good criticism. I also hated how the movie was pretty standard in the overall plot, with Luke as the Mcguffin lost through rather contrived circumstances with equally contrived ways of finding him. This could have been reskinned as a Pirates of the Caribbean movie.
How is the majority of the Republic being wiped out and Han Solo sacrificing himself for his child considered "devoid of consequence"? Kylo lost all of his chances of regaining his humanity, Rey and Luke have to face their Destiny, Finn has to embrace his decision to join the Resistance and continue to find his courage, Chewie and Leia are forever without their companion. It doesn't require much thought, imagination or "mysterious backstories" to connect with the characters in the film. If you find there to be no connection to the emotions of the characters then you are the computer playing chess, not the movie. It's a great adventure film that unfortunately sits in the "Soft Reboot" category. Remember that Episode IV without the sequels was as cookie cutter as you get towards stereotypical adventure stories. Most of the character development didn't really flush out until The Empire Strikes Back.
Only two definitions I could find for the word consequence:
a result or effect of an action or condition.
or
importance or relevance.
Han avoided his responsibilities the entire movie, it is well established at the beginning of the film that he is only concerned about his interests, not others. At the end, instead of choosing to avoid his responsibilities, he faces them knowing very well it may be his end (sacrifice) resulting in the consequence of his actions as a bad parent leading to not only his death but the change for Kylo Ren to fully embrace the Dark Side.
What more consequence of character actions do you expect in an adventure film? How does Han's actions not make him grow as a character? How does Finn going from running all the time from the First Order to having his spine sliced open defending Rey when he knew for sure he stood no chance show absolutely no consequence or character emotions?
The only major character under developed is Poe. He's the same person at the start of the movie as he is at the end of the movie. Chewie got a bit robbed as well but hopefully they address his situation without Han now in Episode VIII.
If you hate the movie then go on and keep hating it, but don't ignore plain, simple and present evidence that renders your justification for hating the movie because it didn't meet your ridiculous high expectations moot.
+Kevin Button
"the majority of the Republic being wiped out"
They blew up a planet that is never mentioned before or since, which not even the characters have emotional ties to. If they had blown up Coruscant that'd be different, but no, they had to change the capital of galactic civilisation to another planet for no fucking reason.
"Kylo lost all of his chances of regaining his humanity"
That's right, no-one has ever done unspeakable things and then redeemed themselves. Especially not in Star Wars. Not ever. Especially not KYLO'S ACTUAL ROLE MODEL.
"Rey and Luke have to face their Destiny"
What do you even mean? And how is that a consequence?
This sounds like some Ring Theory-tier bullshit to me.
"Finn has to embrace his decision to join the Resistance and continue to find his courage"
Oh no. What a terrible consequence./s
"Chewie and Leia are forever without their companion"
Chewie seems to get over Han pretty quickly though.
I have to personally disagree with the "Rey doesn't have an arc" complaint. To me, Rey's arc was one of the best. She starts off as a lonely scavenger, no family. She is waiting for her family to come back, something that she knows deep down will never happen. She constantly wants to go back to Jakku, and once she realises she is force sensitive, she runs from this truth, just like she did the truth about her parents never coming back.
At the end, against her fight against KYLO, she finally accepts her destiny, and decides to stop running all her life, and she finally takes up the lightsaber and starts on her first steps to becoming a Jedi, to be further explored when she trains with Luke...
I think her arc was very strong, and she still has a lot to go!!!
I miss Plinkett so very much.
A crime we never got a Plinklett review of episode 9
Or like
Transformers
There is a legitimate chance that Mike Stoklasa is why Lucas sold Star Wars to Disney.
Might not have been directly responsible but he certainly contributed a lot.
Pretty sure Mike wasn’t the first or the last but the deconstruction was so brutal I’m sure it broke George’s back
@Zeke Spears Sarcasm is lost on you, huh?
I'd like to think so.
@@bilbobaggins9451 I hope so. Your tears are delicious.
When I heard there was a new Star Wars movie, I was more excited for the Plinkett review than I was for the movie itself :D
Lmao same here
zymn Atreides It was well worth it. This was hilarious.
Because Plinkett reviews are fucking hilarious not to mention extremely informative about basic film making (specially when related to this space opera type movies)
Thomas Johnson i found it mediocre and average
Plinkett reviews on the other hand are always a laugh riot for me
it was a great movie, so much btter than 9 out of last 10 films you watched i bet. the wailing and wilderpeople were great this yr.
Mr Plinketts pitch for an alternate way of doing this film was actually fantastic
It actually made me sad because I realized it's not the real plot.
It's always sad when the implied backstory sounds like a much greater story than the one you actually get.
Yora Basically the DCEU right now
I never realized how much I wanted this to be the plot until he started pitching it. Now TFA feels even more like wasted potential.
1:15:11
As each year passes these Plinket reviews become more and more relevant.
Came back and rewatched after Last Jedi and it just makes me bust a gut laughing at Gwen's "I think Captain Phasma is a phenomenal character!" Poor woman, she's not a character... She's a prop. Literally just a prop in these films.
true
I kind of felt bad too...
She's not literally a prop.
Well if you think about it, her character does rhyme with other prop characters from the previous trilogies.
OT: Boba Fett
PT: Darth Maul
As George Lucas himself once said: ''Again it's like poetry it rhymes''.
Lasoogneypubes Yes literally
When the critic is way more interesting than the actual movie(s)...
An insane amount of work went into this video!
Fuzzy Puppet It's so dense. Every in depth analysis of modern cinema and Hollywood business practices has so much going on.
IT TOOK 12 YEARS TO MAKE
"Its so dense"
Why the fuck is a kids channel on here?
It's like poetry, it rhymes
26 minutes in and I need to remind myself this is a Force Awakens review
It's not though. Read the title a little more carefully.
@@Roflcopter4b A lot of people don't.
@@Roflcopter4b or the description 🙄
"It's like picking the positives of cancer ... " OMFG I laughed so hard. "You get to stay home from work"
"Like a midget in a grocery store, they're all reaching." LOL.
When Ptolemy tried to use perfect circles to describe the motion of the planets, every time observations didn't match his model he's add more circles. Circles on circles, forever. Every time it failed to explain the natural world he'd claim that we just haven't found the right combination of circles on circles to explain it yet. Circles on circles is more of an excuse than an argument.
Occam's razor
We're just a few more circles away from the truth.
IDebateBBALL yes but it’s so convoluted that the heliocentric model works pretty much seamlessly.
IDebateBBALL both. They are so overly complicated. Circles within circles to explain planetary motions around the earth were so complicated that there is no way it would occur in nature. Not because the math is complex but because the motions involved are unnatural in the sense of inanimate non living things doing them.
@IDebateBBALL ptolemy's theory 'works' because he spent a long time beating his theory with a hammer until it fit the observations. anybody can back into any conclusion he wants, saying your theory is consistent with observations means nothing on its own, especially when the theory came after the observation
thats like shooting the side of a barn, then painting a target and saying you got a bullseye
There are people alive that say these guys have made no films, when even this review is a film unto itself and better than most actual films.
didn't think this would actually ever come out
I thought it would, just that I would die before it did.
You mean like it would have been released after Half Life 3?
"A black guy who doesn't shoot his gun? This is definitely science fiction"
I'm ded
Cian Farlow i couldn’t tell if he was joking or not
Well see, this is why you direct awful movies. Because you're dumb.
@@r2dezki That's Rian, not Ryan.
@@mgk2020 he even misspelled his own name?!
THAT'S subverting expectations.
I completely forgot I was watching a Force Awakens review until the 52 minute mark
This video is amazing
Mr. Charmander totally agree with you
It's a review on the current context of Star Wars, thus the title "The Star Wars Awakens"
Not "The Force Awakens"
Try reviewing g the movie fat ass instead of sex race and abusing monen
Jesus...so annoying
@@adrianlujan4279 Who are you speaking to?
T urtle Speaking directly to Harry, I think....?!
These new movies made me realize that I'll be better of without watching any more Star Wars media ever again. Not because I feel so strongly, but more like I just stopped caring. Even with the prequels it felt exciting to see how it will conclude. Now it doesn't matter what story they write next, there are other better things to do than watch Star Wars
Really? We already knew most of the stuff that happened in revenge of the sith.
I feel like that with all the reboots today, and Hollywood movies in general. It's just a rehashing or adaptation of older/already existing stories. I'd prefer the original than being force-fed whatever lazy slop they came up with.
Ive realized that with the 43 new shows coming out. I love star wars , but its biggest impact besides some of them genuinely being perfect movies, is the nostalgia of my childhood. The old lego sets, action figures, watching them with my grandma, playing lego star wars with my dad, lightsaber fighting with my mom, etc. Now its clear purpose is just milking the content, star wars has no reason to exist , just to make $$$. Not defending 789 but at least they had a reason to be made, were super fun experiencing with friends and family, and brought star wars "back" if only for a little bit.
The magic is gone, the dream is dead. Cherish the past, and move onward.
That han solo movie was pretty good. I honestly forgot I watched the last jedi, I couldn't believe it. I don't remember much of the movie either. There was a giant head somewhere, right?
When people abandon Disney they will just reboot it from the beginning starting with episode one, to piss off everyone that left the fandom and to make billions off a new generation.
"I guess I'll just have to 'make it up as I go along', right?"
"Hi, I'm from JJ's Fan Service, here to fix your fan."
Brilliant xD
Millenium Falcon, more like the *MILLENNIAL FALCON*
Vallytine ...that's my nickname. All the old people at the bars call me that
Somebody's been reading the ctrl-alt-del webcomics.
Very cool.
@Jakk Frost nah I actually just thought of it on the spot
They stole her idea.
I loved the review. I really wish there was just a quick line about how few fucks everybody gave about the Hosnian system though. That barely anybody cared about the largest loss of life in history still takes TFA down a lot of points.
it WOULD have been MORE Tragic if The 1st Order Blow up Coruscant instead.
There were cut scenes establishing that system, but it would have invited comparison to the prequels.
R3GARnator All the scene needed was Han Solo collapsing in shock like Obi-wan did over Alderan. You don't need to establish these planets more if you just have people react with appropriate magnitude.
Well people did have concern as they originally thought it was courscant that blew up
I just wanted Chewie to hug Leia after Han died. The carpet just walked right by. WTF
Rewatching this in 2024 after Star Wars has mostly imploded feels amazing.
The movie equivalent of a greatest hits album performed by a tribute band.
Absolutely nailed it, sir.
I loved The Force Awakens, but that still made me laugh.
Yep, its the exact same material just watered down, performed by cheap imitators, and stripped of all the bells, whistles and nuances of the original performers!
“sold them to the white slavers...” “WHOOPS!”
Riley Smith lol classic
@@regularperson9801 Lucas isn't Jewish...
There is a lot of truth in jest.
@@mishynaofficial Jews aren't European, though...
Yes. I've been waiting for this! Thank you Mr. Plinkett!
Oh boy, Vinny's here to sprinkle some fruity juice on these pizza rolls.
It's about time my friend.
It's unlisted because it's a pepperoni secret.
Rebirth of the Plinkett impressions? XD
Oh hi mar-... Vin.
I love the way he reviews and critiques. Using satire and sarcasm to get his point across while sprinkling truth in here and there. Absolutely brilliant
Everyone talks about Rey being a Mary Sue but they're looking at the wrong character. Rey has at least some reasons why she can do the things she does. Poe Dameron is the Mary Sue of the film. Ace pilot, no flaws, always being a cool guy, never really intimidated by the villain, pulls insane stunt moves to destroy Starkiller base, never struggles with anything, emerges unscathed from everything, Finn stops fighting and has to scream about how awesome Poe Dameron is.
Its Gary Stu.
Didn't he have to get saved at the beginning of the movie by Finn? And he was tortured by Kylo too right? Dude got scathed for sure.
Poe Dameron is an established veteran of the resistance. He's been doing this stuff for years, so its completely realistic for him to be an ace pilot because his backstory justifies it. It's the main characters who are possible mary sues because we know their backstory and some people don't think that it justifys the skills that they have. To be a mary sue there needs to be a dissonance between how good the plot says they are, and how good the plot has convinced the audience that they should be. Otherwise every skilled or heroic character would be a mary sue.
Also, we don't see Poe Dameron much in the movie. He was more of a tertiary character. That said, he still got at least one fail - the interrogation mind torture, which is enough considering his screen time.
Nice try but no. There's no reason to Rey being so gifted beyond the repairing part. Poe gets captured and tortured. Han Solo didn't stop being a suave rogue after his torture session with Vader in Empire, so that's fine. Rey however not once needs another character to save her since she always got herself out of danger. Literally everyone else gets in trouble and has to be saved by someone else.
Captain Phasma is the only female imperial authority in the movies
And she's a total coward.
Her armor is the character.
Oda Swifteye At least Darth Maul had a double lightsaber
Oda Swifteye Although to be fair people like Boba Fett despite him being just as boring as Phasma...
how is she a coward? at most you can say is that she was easily caught off guard.
Maybe in the Starwars universe women aren't as inherently evil is an hours.
As spotty as Lucas can be on certain subjects, he’s spot on on calling out Disney for making this movie as a soulless cash grab
Right but what did he expect was gonna happen?
Lucas pimped out star wars harder than a 2$ whore, the man has no ground to stand on.
He held out on selling it to them for decades in order to milk it for what it was worth himself and then sell them what’s effectively a lemon of a franchise.
The “white slaver” comment has aged like fine wine. Who would have predicted
@@frankmerker630 The time has come!
Despite "the last plinkett review", I do hope we get "the rise of plinkett".
You know it's funny, I've come back to enjoy rewatching this a few times instead of the actual movie.
It's 2021 and now I only at most mildly appreciate 3 of the 9 films. Love these reviews though!
Same with Rise of Skywalker review. It's one of those films you love to hate.
I seen this "review" maybe ten times already and it still makes me laugh. I only seen Force Awakens once and I don't plan on watching it ever again. So yea, you are on point.
I've watched these reviews more than the movies easily. It's funny how clearly they get deconstructed.
@@Xiphactinus At least the prequels had a decent cartoon spin off and a few good games. I say to the guy from 2 years ago.
I got so confused watching The Force Awakens. From a writing standpoint sooooooo many things don't make sense. The first example was the opening scene and Finn's character. They show him either lamenting the death of a fellow storm trooper and/or seeing his own fate played out before him. It was an incredible well done opener but it had no consequences or relevance as the plot moved forward. What do I mean? Finn has this emotional reaction to another storm trooper dying and then a few minutes later he's blowing them up with cannons all so that they can eventually get shot down anyway. Maybe instead write him so that he DOESN'T want to shoot at the other storm troopers and Po is yelling at him to fire so they can get away. Then ultimately Finn fails to protect the ship because of said establishment of his emotional state and as a result they get shot down. This has all the same elements of the movie but in an infinitely more cohesive way that adds to the emotional depth of the character. You could say the same for Han Solo. Why was he just some guy they bumped into? And why did Rey react so strongly to his death? Because of one shoehorned scene where Han offers her a job for no reason? Just make Han a junk dealer on Jakku and Rey is a local teenager that he begrudgingly cares for because he's a grumpy old guy. The First order shows up and Han, Rey, and friends escape aboard Han's favorite ship. Use all the same elements but just reorder them so they make more sense.
This movie was a cluster fuck and was frankly as terribly written as the prequels. Things happen, not because they make sense in a normal flowing story, but because they want to show said things to the audience.
The prequel revisionism is insane. You've absolutely nailed it.
Y'all are taking Star Wars too seriously, some people here sound like they're ready to literally burn people who like the prequels at the stake
Prequels are better than this Disney shit
I actually dont dislike the new trilogy because I'm always reminded about "at least they are not worst than the prequels".
yeah i dont know how anyone can even compare this disney shit to the tantalizing sand dialogue of the prequels
Alexander Cruz nah
I think I have watched this between 10 and 20 times. I put plinket reviews on and fall asleep to them. I don’t have a lot going for me.
Welcome to my world, lol. I pretty much watched every Plinket video at some point more times than I can count.
I basically have "X is the worst thing since my son" burned into my brain".
I used to have a tradition where when a new Plinket video came out I would get a pizza and a bottle of gin.
Me 3
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Let's be friends dog
@@zackzack5313 Me 5. Falling asleep to this right know
For me Force Awakens felt more like an attraction based on established intellectual property than a standalone self-contained movie. More "oh i know this thing" than "oh that's interesting".
I disagree, because most of what I remember and enjoy about the film is new material.
I agree, I wish it was that "oh that's interesting" movie, but than they would've had to take more risks, and they couldn't afford to do that in a soft reboot, I think that was my biggest problem with Ep. 7 it was more of a "hey remember the old star wars" then a "new" episode, it wasn't really the episode 7 I expected, but it did what it needed to do
***** I completely agree with that, I didn't LOVE TFA because I expected an actual episode 7 kind of like the old "Heir to the Empire" book not just A new hope remake, but I understood why they played it safe. That being said if episode 8 does the same thing, I will be insanely pissed at lucasfilm, so I'm cautiously excited for 8
That's not too far off from my impression. It was like a focus group brainstormed a list of scenes they'd want to see in the movie, and Disney/Abrams/whoever decided they needed to include every scene. So they fit it all in, regardless of whether any scene was really connected to any of the others. You could practically see the checkboxes being ticked off.
***** if 8 has more originality than 7 I will like it better, even if it is not as good as a film , I will just enjoy the refreshing creativity, same with rogue one and that takes place right before a new hope and still is more original than 7 ironically
"Captain Phasma is an amazing character."
Gonna be honest here, Captain Phasma is probably the least memorable character in all of Star Wars. She was less memorable than Darth Maul, Rosie the Robot, Dexter Jetster, Jabba the Hutt's tail rat, that fat dancer lady from Jabba's Palace, the guy with the dick wrapped around his head, and the chick with the slinky wrapped around her neck. Literally, after the movie I forgot she was even in the movie.
Good post but you should have kept going. I can think of a few more:
1. Ponda
2. Greedo
3. The pilot Darth Vader chokes on the Tantive IV
4. The bartender in the cantina
5. The guard who asks Luke and Han where they are taking this "thing"
6. Every X-wing and Y-wing pilot from the Battle of Yavin
7. The guy who announces how far away the Death Star is
8. The guy who tells Vader the fighters are "evading our turbolasers!"
And that's just from ANH...
You mean Captain Antilles?
MrZeopediaR6 well, id argue she's memorable for how useless she was. that def stood out
It was her introduction. She will have more to do in future films. If she was killed off, then yeah she would always be remembered as the most wasted and pointless character in Star Wars movies.
Let's not forget the Cantina Bar Tender. The "Move Along" Stormtrooper. All of the Imperial admirals. And the guy who cried when the Rancor died.
I think the fact that over half the video has nothing to do with the Force Awakens itself is more indicative of how boring and unimpactful the movie ended up being than anything said about the movie.
or maybe is because they liked the movie and still adressed the main problems of the movie and mocked the nit picking arguments against the movie xD
Well, no. There just isn't as much to criticize with TFA.
It's like poetry; it rhymes.
+Demagogue ...or to praise. It's bland.
@@MypetdalekFr
Mr plinkett's reviews are the best thing to happen to star wars since the original trilogy :')
and while the original trilogy got butchered with special edition re-releases, the fortunate reality is that the Plinkett reviews will be around…forever. they will never go away…
@@transformers_quotes5738 lol, nice.
And the Auralnauts... and Charlie Hopkinson. They keep the dream alive.
And the Auralnauts... and Charlie Hopkinson. They keep the dream alive.
And the Auralnauts... and Charlie Hopkinson. They keep the dream alive.
This was made in a more innocent time. It's a time capsule of fandom before the Last Jedi.
you mean when the fandom wasnt a horrible mass of disgusting manchild?
@@Waltersop doesn't mean they're wrong in their critique of this trilogy.
Oh how I cherished the times before the Rise of Skywalker, It made TLJ seem mildly okay and didn't ruin the cannon
@@Waltersop lets not leave our super creepy female, psycho Reylo fans who are racking up an impressive number of criminal charges for real crimes!
@@katt842 Yeah man i mean Star Wars used to be so good back in the prequels days, i mean i just cant believe we,re having this debate on a freaking Mister Plinkett video.
This review was far too kind to Disney Star Wars, I'm kind of surprised actually. Hated TFA and will be skipping any future Star Wars films but I'll definately tune into any Mr. Plinkett or Redlettermedia reviews. I think it's sad to say this but movie reviews like this are more entertaining than the actual movies these days.
Zer0Dog - Except Tin Man didn't say the future movies would be bad. He simply said he'd skip them. Which isn't an unreasonable conclusion to come to. If I play a video game, read a book, or watch a movie but don't find it enjoyable...why the fuck would I buy the sequels to those things? Chances are, I won't like the sequels anymore than I would the first. It doesn't mean the things in question are BAD. It just means *I* don't happen to like them.
Seen your comments on a lot of people's posts here to try your best to troll anyone who doesn't think the same way you do about a movie that is simply average at best (because it's literally the same movie all over again). Suck that Disney cock harder, plz.
I predict that the next episode will play it just as safe as tfa. But it will still make all its money back and then a whole bunch more.
Don't worry though. There's still some great other movies coming out
Which is the reason why you don't make reviews. Plinkett is fair to it cause it has good stuff in it. If people like you reviewed it you would just bash every single thing in it and act like it's the worst thing since Highlander II. Also awwwwwwwwww, you hate that he liked the movie but he didn't and feel his opinion is horseshit. Do you want a cookie? A McDonalds? An Amazon gift card. It's called different opinions. Children in schools were taught this. Deal with it.
The reason why I don't make movie reviews, is because I don't make movie reviews. Bashing movies is fun and its getting easier and easier as Hollywood circles the drain..
You know thats the other thing I've noticed about this movie: some people are taking it personally and getting offended if you don't praise it as a master piece of cinema. The only other movie where I've noticed this trend was Ghostbusters 2016.
Oh wow. A black guy who doesn't want to shoot his gun? Now this really is science fiction. Gold. Pure 27 karate.
+1
+Jack Taylor Further proof that both, the internet is indeed a shit show for the neglected to be outrageous in an last ditch effort to gain attention. And that you may need to get out of that basement more often.
*karat
@@delanoheath18 You seem asshurt
@@delanoheath18 Agreed Delano. Most shooting deaths, and most shooting deaths involving a man killing his wife, is done by white men.
"Ring Theory" is how overinvested fans spell the word "cope".
Honestly their best bet, and anybody's, is to read some of the novelizations that went along with the movies, and maybe the Visual Dictionaries. It's been forgotten, but the Prequels was meant to be a multimedia experience. Will that somehow make the films themselves better? No, I'm afraid not.
Cockring theory
It's that high quality, premium, copium.
the part about kids not caring about diversity is especially spot on. i remember back when i was a kid we had a TV series about a foster family, two of the little girls were black and Asian respectively. mind you, back then we had little to no ethnic minorities in my country (hell, we hardly have any nowadays). so when i watched this show as a kid i didn't even fucking *notice* those two were different races. similarly, i don't remember paying any attention to Lando being black until i was about 13 or so. kids really don't give a fuck about these things and it's not gonna make them any more or less racist in the future
(sorry i didn't put that in the SuperKnalxz Grey thread but i honestly don't feel like getting YT notification every five minutes for the rest of my life)
Yes, Family Matters was also a pretty good show too.
It's probably the reason why SpongeBob is so popular with kids, because they really don't give a fuck who's talking.
Congratulations on being white.
I think the idea is that, while it may not matter to a kid on a movie by movie basis, if they spend their entire childhood watching movies with certain racial groups / genders filling the same sorts of roles every time, over time that will effect how they see the world, even if only subconsciously.
Also I think it's more about providing girls and minorities with role models that look like them than it is about making white kids less racist.
Yeah well when they're older, they'll care because this society makes it look like race is the most important thing in life.
you sure wrote a lot for someone completely misunderstanding all points.
Part One
1:38 - 1. Star Wars Has Become a Living Nightmare That You Can Never Wake Up From Until You're Dead and Even Then I Can't Guarantee It
10:53 - 2. The Star Wars Ring Theory
Part Two
31:58 - 3. Idiotic Millennials “Re-Think” the Star Wars Prequels
Part Three
51:52 - 4. Waking a Sleeping Giant
57:04 - 5. The Soft Reboot
59:33 - 6. These Reboots Were Made for Walkin’
1:06:19 - 7. The Force Awakened, But It Slept Through Some Things…
1:10:18 - 8. Things That Suck About The Force Awakens!!!
1:21:16 - 9. Fan Service and Comedy
1:25:58 - 10. The Diversity Awakens
1:40:29 - 11. Next Year In a Galaxy Right, Right Here...
You the real MVP
1:20:16 - Butthole eyes
This should be pinned!
"JJ's Fan Service". Jeez that's fucking brilliant lol
Jar Jar Abraham’s
+Scooters Videos Did you know that this review took 12 years to make?
The prequel section of this video has aged so well it's insane
In what sense
He sold it for one solitary reason, Disney offered an obnoxious amount of money and he didn't think twice.
The truth is we don't really know the details of the deal. 2 billions sound very little, when Minecraft was sold for 10. Perhaps Lucas has some royalty deals tacked to the contract.
+Fera Flauna There was actually no bidding involved. If Lucas would have offered it to the highest bidder he would have gotten a lot more money. Fox, who distributed all of the Star Wars films and still owns the rights to the original Star Wars, have said they wish they would have had an opportunity to buy it.
I think Lucas realized that Disney was the only company that could maximize profit from merch and their theme parks also offer a very good stream of revenue. Lucas still receives royalty money.
***** I'm not sure what a Fox owned Star Wars film would be like. They would probably still allow Lucas some hands on consulting for better or worse. I also look at how Fox has mishandled Xmen through the years and that gives me less confidence.
Fox though wouldn't be afraid to aim the franchise more towards adults. Disney has been pretty terrible with saying no more smoking in Marvel and Star Wars movies and less sexual content. I'm not saying I blatantly want those things but censorship does compromise visions from time to time.
Force Awakens was OK for me. I enjoyed it enough and may have given it's faults a pass. The true test will come with the next two films, Rogue One and Episode 8. These will prove to me if Disney is really capable of making Star Wars films.
I should read up on Rick Berman. I don't know much about him.
Litshttam You could say that about a number of people involved in the making of Star Wars. What if Lucas had his wish and Carrie Fisher wasn't Leia? What about the direction Irvin Kushner on Empire that solidified the look and mythos of the lore. What about the effects team that had to create effects that were often cheesy in the sci fi films of the day?
There were many times the original could have went wrong and there many times the sequels could have went wrong but many people worked together to make something great.
I think you're splitting hairs. Have you read what that initial script was? It's terrible. It would have easily been the worst scifi movie of the 70s which is saying something.
To downplay the contributions of conceptual artist Ralph McQuarrie, set designers John Barry and Roger Christian and the many editors of the film is wrong. These people are as much responsible for what the final product looked like as Lucas.
Lucas' main contribution is his ability to find creative people and allow them a venue to use their talents. He is at his best when in a management position.
Most people have forgotten what the time was like between Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back. The fluidity of the storyline. They think Lucas came down from a mountain with the whole story on stone tablets.
Empire and Jedi are what proved that Star Wars was more than just a flash in the pan. They proved that these movies were unlike any other movie franchise up until that time.
If Rey had kissed Finn on the lips while he was in a coma would she be prosecuted for sexual assault?
I think that could have been an interesting court case and could easily have comprised the majority of Episode VIII.
Do you really want another prequel?
St. Franku The Papa Go watch The End of Evangelion and get back to me on that
I can't understand this comment.
If the Republic has sexual assualt laws, yeah. Who knows, maybe that's how Republic marriage happens.
John Jamele
Ren having a mask at least makes sense when you consider his motives. He wants to look like a badass villain in the style of Vader, because he wants to be like Vader.
The Jedi having desert-scum robes makes less sense, though.
Can't wait for Star Wars Episode VIII: The First Order hits back
Or episode IX: the reappearance of the Jedi
Episode X: The Ghostly Danger
I thought it was going to be Episode VIII: Finn realizes he's Friend Zoned.
Your 'Hits Back' is a little too obvious. How about ' Star Wars Episode VIII: The First Order Pushes against'. Or 'The First Order Nudges forward'. Yeah, that's 'Distinctive' enough and shows it'd be a completely different film...
Have you noticed how the title is somewhat similar to Episode V? Genius!
Anyone else come back to Plinkett reviews every year or two?
Absolutely every summer
I liked TFA. It was safe but it hit the feels and felt like star wars. Looking forward to more.
People whine that the remakes weren't enough like the original trilogy. A great director carefully makes a sequel that pays homage to the original, looks the same, feels the same, shoots with practical effects, and people still aren't satisfied. You can never replicate 30+ years of nostalgia. Just enjoy it for what it is and know that they are making good story driven star wars films again.
I enjoyed the arc, it's time for new characters. Plus we haven't even seen what Luke will bring to the saga. Let's give it time. Is it as good as the original trilogy? No, but it is leaps and bounds better than 1-3 and I'm giving them a chance.
+bpansky
How were Luke, Han, and Leia's arcs trashed? Would it have made more sense if Han became a perfect father figure? If Leia wasn't as much of a leader? Luke's whole arc in IV-VI is attempting to become a Jedi but making lots of mistakes. Should his Jedi Academy been all hunky-dory?
The Star Wars galaxy is always in some sort of crisis. Leia's gonna be in the thick of it. Han's character would seem to be the one to end his fight when the war's over.
Luke chose to run away from his training on Dagobah in Ep. V.
If you think that was Luke running AWAY from something, you're not qualified to critique the story arcs at all.