Mr. Plinkett's The Star Wars Awakens Review
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2016
- I squeeze gats till my clips is empty. A review of The Force Awakens and much much more...
www.redlettermedia.com
Special thanks to/clips and references:
Tim Higgins as JJ Abrams
Rich Evans and Jay Bauman
George Lucas
JJ Abrams
Mike Klimo
www.starwarsringtheory.com
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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
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
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
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.
"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
“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.
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
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
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.
“A black guy that DOESN’T want to shoot his gun. This really must be science fiction” 😭😂😭😭
“Shut up shut up you know you laughed damnit” 😂😅
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
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.
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
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.
"I'm a millennial psychologist" LMFAO
im a urologist.
I'm a Male Apologist.
I'm a gynecologist for millennials.
r0bw00d Bruh you and Orionide fucked it up, man. I tried to keep it going but you went and ruined it there's no way we can bounce back from this.
Shane Benjamson
So we ruined it because we're smarter than you? OK.
“Jazz sucks”
*plays Jazz throughout the review*
Well played.
5th Avenue Stroll, Buddy
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
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."
"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.
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.
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 🙄
I miss Plinkett so very much.
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
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.
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
Me 4
Let's be friends dog
@@zackzack5313 Me 5. Falling asleep to this right know
This nostalgia for the prequels is exactly why there's a term "toxic positivity". Sorry, things can just suck, regardless of the 2 good things you notice.
Yep, but now we’re in for years of dudes in their 20’s and 30’s acting like they actually like sitting down and watching the prequels.
I wouldn't be surprised if there are people who pretend to like things for political reasons. They're usually convinced that critics of a work are motivated by some form of bigotry, like saying people don't like the sequel trilogy because they're misogynists who are scared of powerful women. They're just as bad as people who actually do dislike something because it features women, member of the LGBT community, non-white people or what have you.
The original 3 Star Wars movies are the only genuinely good ones, and I think that’s scary for people who are massive fans of the franchise. So, the way it comes off to me, is they act like the prequels were actually good to compensate, instead of just calling them guilty pleasures. It’s ok to like the prequels, but people acting like they’re suddenly good because the new movies are also bad is ridiculous.
nooo the prequels are great u just need cartoons and novelizations written 20 years after the trilogy to enjoy them
It's not toxic positivity, people can like things that "suck". Like movies so bad they are good. In my opinion, the Prequels have a charm to them. I accept they aren't exactly works of art and will never hold a candle to the originals, but, when I watch the Prequels through and through v. the Sequels through and through. The Prequels are in a league of their own, if anything just for the fact that they do not break the world of Star Wars the way the Sequels, did.
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.
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
"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.
@@TESVSkyrimMods MY LIFE FOR AIUR
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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.
"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.
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*
@@LizardOfOz69 Execute Order 99. You know what to do.
@@UltimateCheetah-zs2iw Yes, you glorious floating pizza roll.
@@LizardOfOz69 Good, my apprentice. Soon the galaxy will be ours again!
Despite "the last plinkett review", I do hope we get "the rise of plinkett".
Time for my yearly plinkett binge
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
"Oh my god... it looks like the Vietnam War Memorial"
Holy hell lol
It's been over a year after episode 9 was released, and I can't help but hearing Plinkett's " .... Oh........" in my head quite a lot of the time while watching this video. :,I
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.
"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.
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.
RLM: "I'm sure they'll fuck it up real bad."
Rise of Skywalker: "Hold my beer."
Yeah... That's not how that meme works.
39:50 "And this one is also real" The disbelief in Mike's voice just had me laughing out loud in public like a madman.
"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.
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.
geez in hindsight george spoke the absolute truth about disney. just look at it now
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.
"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?
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.
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
The 1950s diner joke made me do one of those explosive "HA!" laughs in this quiet restaurant and now the staff probably thinks im crazy.
rich evans' george lucas is on the level of mike's palpatine
Who's Rich Evans?
It’s like a Tums festival!
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.
Looking back at this review and hearing how Mike, uhhh I mean Mr. Plinkett, talks about how RLM would've written the story, I can feel the passion and the love for these movies and hindsight, none of that can be found in the prequels or sequels. It's also come to my attention that Mike, Jay and Rich should've written all 3 sequels together. It's really sad to see what could've been and what wasn't... 🙁
Thank you RLM.
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.
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.
"If you do anything that's not a sequel, they won't do it." -- George Lucas.
George is absolutely right.
Solo, Rogue one
@@theworldofcritics2656 both Solo and Rogue one can be seen as sequels of episode 3, if you will.
@@Rihcterwilker Have you seen Solo? It happens before Ep 1.
@@30noir yes, i've watched it. Now, explain how Solo, a movie that shows events from six or seven years after the fall of the jedi, happen before the phantom menace. I'm a little confused by what you're saying.
Also, they won't do it if its not an adaptation of an already popular work or series from another form of artistic medium!
I've discovered a new aspect of the sequels that pisses me off. After Empire, the Rebellion realized that having a base at a fixed location was a terrible idea. So they went mobile. The Resistance, however, is desperate to maintain permanent bases that can only be defended by incredibly improbable suicide missions. So they spend three films abandoning bases and launching suicide missions, and they even race to some other base that had already been abandoned, only to abandon it almost immediately.
“Is snoke darth plagueis?”
Why does that offhand comment sound way more interesting than what we got in Rise of the Skywalker?
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.
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
The thing I like most about this video is that no matter how times I rewatch it, I STILL don't fucking understand the ring theory bullshit.
The last joke is the type of sophisticated humor I've come to love from RLM. A force to be reckoned with for sure.
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.
@@Quasarbanda 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.
@@Quasarbanda to be honest, the prequels and sequels are just rehearsings of the OT, with another coat of paint but even worse...
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.
How the fuck do you go from the ultimate cinematic villain to dancing like Michael Jackson? There are people who defend this shit, too!
"Ultimate cinematic villain"??? He doesn't do jack shit, numbnuts🗿
This is the best thing I’ve ever seen. This guy is hilarious, inspired and accurate.
Should watch his prequels reviews. The episode 1 review is amazing
@@noone3216 thanks. I’m a fan now and catching up with years of backlog
I'm excited for you....nothing else quite like falling down the RLM rabbit hole. Even tho they're hack frauds I really recommend EVERYTHING they have made about Star Wars, Star Trek and their takes on the DCEU as a start. After that, just enjoy all their content....they post about once a week so you have a lot of catching up to do. Also, Hollywood celebrity Rich Evans (Space Cop, The Ellen Show) is a regular in a lot of their content.
@@zacharymacnamara5363 Thanks for the guidance. I find the trio of men-child quite witty in their analysis and review and genuinely funny in the voice parts. It’s the small intro scenes that are often cringy. But overall it’s real treat.
@@stevencord292 Hahaha a lot of the bits are inside jokes and satire, so if you watch them in order they have a lot of references.
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
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
The prequel section of this video has aged so well it's insane
In what sense
explosive liquid shitting all over Lucas and Abrams, absolute gold, had me in tears laughing. :-D
“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...
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
As each year passes these Plinket reviews become more and more relevant.
When he came after those other movie review channels like that JESUS CHRIST there’s a reason you’re the best
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!
"It's like picking the positives of cancer ... " OMFG I laughed so hard. "You get to stay home from work"
Man, I know George is smart enough to know these reviews all come from love. I hope he comes onto RLM one day. it would literally be bigger than the avengers.
No, he isn't.
@@davidbowles7281 hahahahaah
George Lucas's ego would never allow it.
Thanks UA-cam, for suggesting to translate the comment that reads "hahahahaah" to English.
Spoiler: The translation is "hahahahaah"
@@TheAntiChrysler yeah right WTF is that? Btw what wrong with Chryslers?
I love how their reviews are almost as long as the actual movie. 😂
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.
"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.
Lucas is right that they've lost creativity. In the prequels he was trying to do some things new. Yes he should have thought things through better, cut down on the toilet humor etc, but he always had a creative drive that Abrams etc completely lack
Like
Prequels were horrible
But Lucas had an idea
An awful idea
But he had a story to tell and decided to tell it via movies
There is no story in the sequels! 7th movie is a bad copy of a new hope, 8th is Rian Johnson being ordered by Disney to make something shocking and 9th is JJ trying to revert everything Rian did
It's honestly crazy
I hope these are required viewing for film school.
"Like a midget in a grocery store, they're all reaching." LOL.
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.
God as someone who was watching star war since I was basically born this is so depressing to see it die and turn even more into a corporate shell. It felt like something died a little bit inside me when the sequel trilogy finished and I was like “this is it, this is how it ends?!?!”
“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
I've seen these reviews 10x more than the movies themselves. That says a lot about how disappointing the sequels are and how entertaining RLM is.
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!
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!
25:50 "Circles within circles?"
That reminds me the term astronomers have for flaws in theories called "epicycles." It is based on attempts by ancient geocentrist sky watchers notice that the plants don't orbit as predicted and at one point proposed that plants follow the literal "circles within circles" type orbits having them to spin weirdly for some reason. This idea understandably was ejected with the astronomers realized that
"Epicycles" today means that the theory have so many holes that it is better off discarded, making the Ring Theorist's use of "Circles within Circles" an unintentional self-own.
I can't believe Mr Plinkett made them give Star Wars to JJ Abrams.
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.
It's a damn shame that all of Mr Plinkett's optimistic predictions about Episode 8 were wrong.
... or better than he ever speculated, along with fulfilling most of his requests
It's because Rian Johnson subverted his expectations.
@@knucklesechidna2124 Oh no . . . . Oh nooooo!!! (I think you might be literally correct . . . Didn't he say he feared RLM or something in a tweet?)
I remember when Snoke was revealed in the theatre and everyone was like "Darth Plagueis" and I was like "Who the fuck is this guy?"
Snoke. You know...Snoke.
S- Sith
N- No
O- One
K- Knows
E- Exists
"This review was the most disappointing thing since my son!" - Peter Murphy, member of the Maryland House of Delegates from the 28th district
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
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!!!
Pairing the deleted scene where Han sends away the girl when Obi Wan comes over with Clarence Boddiker saying "Bitches Leave!" in Robocop was awesome!
It would be interesting to hear the rest of Plinkett's story and how developed the story for Episodes 8 and 9. He definitely would've given Luke, Han, and Leia a satisfying conclusion for their characters arcs in this trilogy.
1:15:11 How about this? Everyone in the New Republic is sitting pretty. Maybe a nice role reversal. The New Republic builds the superweapon as the ultimate defense against any attack by the fledgling First Order, which are kind of a joke to the galaxy after they got bested by Ewoks. Their weapons system would kind of be like Ronald Regan's Star Wars program. No pun intended. Seriously!
But then Leia says, "This weapon makes me nervous. And it's against our values and morals. Let's dismantle it.'"
But then! A rebel group from the First Order steals the weapon. And maybe blows up the Republic's home planet. Or does some kind of major damage. This forces Han Solo out of his private life as a smuggler. Y'know, 'cause he wants to see if Leia's okay. And then Leia has to flee from her cushy position of power and is forced back into the Rebel underground movement, for which she is unprepared. The act of seeing this big attack by the First Order is what causes Finn to go AWOL.
This event causes a major shift in the Force. _Waves of the Dark Side are awoken._
This wakes up the Gollum or whatever his name was. Which messes up Luke's training and brings out the Dark Side in Kylo and his new followers. There's now an imbalance of the Force. We discover that Ren was just really looking for power and now he sees that it's more attainable via Snoke and the First Order.
Maybe then we could've seen Han and Luke on screen together before Luke ran away into hiding.
Maybe Han could've said, 'You can't run away from your problems, Luke.'
Then Luke would say, "Isn't that what you did, Han?"
Han would half smile and say, "Take care of yourself, Kid."
And Luke would say, "You too."
You know, like a nice little call back to the scene in Empire? We then later in the film find out this was the last time they see each other.
Combine that with Mark Hamill's idea for Luke's epic entrance (and y'know actually gets to do something instead of just turning around).
A. He's the one who catches the lightsaber in the snow not Rey.
B. Right when it looks like Leia's about to be taken prisoner by a couple of Stormtroopers one of them shoots the other, takes off his helmet revealing that yes, Luke did receive her message! And she quips, "Aren't you a little short for a Stormtrooper?"
Then they race to where Han's confronting Kylo only to see Han murdered before their eyes.
But forget it - "Han's dead now and Luke was just pissing off a cliff. Who cares?"