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Red Letter Media - The Star Wars Awakens Review
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They talking shit about 3PO and apologise Jar Jar?
itwasTuesday
He wasn't alone.
I mean, okay.
tomorrow
tomorrow
And it's gonna be GREAT
PinkCrayon
Member
I like how he keeps calling the ring theory guy Kamino.
They talking shit about 3PO and apologise Jar Jar?
No, they're talking about other people doing that.
Almost an hour in, and it seems like a rant on Star Wars prequels again.
Aside from those problems on diet racist comments, I enjoyed the short segment on clickbait writing and videos. So much cynicism and mocking hate in that short segme topped off with a Comic Sans bullet points although that's when the rant begins to drag.
edit: Uh, get really comfortable.
Aside from those problems on diet racist comments, I enjoyed the short segment on clickbait writing and videos. So much cynicism and mocking hate in that short segme topped off with a Comic Sans bullet points although that's when the rant begins to drag.
edit: Uh, get really comfortable.
Sorry. I didn't know. 😞
Gentleman Jack
Member
A jedi mind trick caused me to misread the title.
My expectations are recalibrated but this is still fucking boring.
EmCeeGramr
Member
45 minutes in and he's just reading stupid pro-prequel articles in a facetious voice.
edit: now he's mentioning the connection between prequel politics and the Iraq War era which maybe should have come before
edit: now he's mentioning the connection between prequel politics and the Iraq War era which maybe should have come before
Yeah, was really liking at first, but it's getting dragged at this point.
I'm tempted to skip forward.
Can't wait to get there
Ether_Snake
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"How do I make a review of TFA? Oh I can redo a review of the prequels. It's like poetry, it rhymes."
CassidyIzABeast
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Is this just going to end with him saying and now onto Episode 7....I thought it was good?
40 minutes in and its all prequel talk
40 minutes in and its all prequel talk
Honestly, it feels obvious that because they already reviewed it in HitB, they already blew through most of their comments on the movie and are just having to resort to filler to pad out the Plinkett review.
Ether_Snake
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The point is he's setting up how Lucas himself reused so much from the original movies when he made the prequels, and it still sucked. TFA reused a bunch and it was good. That's the point of this review.
Gentleman Jack
Member
At least I'm not the only one who completely misunderstood the tile and suckered by the opening line. 
Looking forward to the TFA material, then.
Think it will be interesting even if he likes it.
Robot Pants
Member
Vince_Russo
Banned
Watched the first 25 mins. Pretty decent. Definitely can't do this in one watch though
Chezzymann
Member
Wait, it takes him 55 minutes to actually start reviewing the movie? That's ridiculous lol
EmCeeGramr
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55 minutes in he actually starts, and his main complaint so far is that TFA is a soft reboot and that the one good thing about the prequels were at least original even if they were terrible.
Feel like they could've split this into two videos, one on the praising of the prequels and another on TFA.
I still don't get the idea of people trying to look at the prequels in a new light. Like, even if they were ambitious, that doesn't make up for the fact that they're just boring poorly written movies. It's like praising Too Human because it was so ambitious and ignoring the fact that the final product was a piece of shit.
On TFA, I'll agree that it could've benefited from not playing by the ANH playbook so closely, but it was still enjoyable when it could've easily been a dumpster fire.
I still don't get the idea of people trying to look at the prequels in a new light. Like, even if they were ambitious, that doesn't make up for the fact that they're just boring poorly written movies. It's like praising Too Human because it was so ambitious and ignoring the fact that the final product was a piece of shit.
On TFA, I'll agree that it could've benefited from not playing by the ANH playbook so closely, but it was still enjoyable when it could've easily been a dumpster fire.
Chezzymann
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I think it can sort of make sense if you look at it in the context of how much the movies contribute to the star wars universe. Prequels gave a lot of material for good shows like the clone wars, while so far the sequel trilogy is just renaming existing stuff.
It's obvious though that if they did a video that was just TFA it'd be comically short for a Plinkett film.
As it stands, even the parts that do talk about TFA falls back on a lot of filler to try and pad out time.
20 minutes in, is the joke gonna be that he completely ignored The Force Awakens and this was just a review on annoying Star Wars fans and their theories? I guess I'll take that and not a review where he pretends to dislike the movie since we already know he loves it.
Robot Pants
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Episode DCLXXL ENDLESS LIGHTSABERS
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The Right Deal
Banned
The list-making clickbait part is too real.
EmCeeGramr
Member
Okay the part where he's making fun of the Internet's new definition of "plot hole" (ie anything that isn't unflinchingly realistic or explicitly shown in detail) that got really annoying with TFA is actually pretty damn funny.
stump sock
Member
yup. pretty good.
scarybore
Member
Every time I watch these Plinkett reviews, I am reminded of how bad the prequels CG has aged, nothing looks cohesive. I typed Star Wars prequels into google to check their release dates to see how old the CG actually was, and 90% of the first page results are trying to defend the films, so he ain't wrong in that regard.
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