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George Lucas Salad Unboxing Video
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More_Badass
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He liked Titanic and Star Trek too. He doesn't have to hate a movie to do a Plinkett review. The review will probably partially focus on what TFA did right (yay, more prequel bashing?) and how it used elements from all three movies of the original Trilogy
Coin Return
Loose Slot
Hey guys remember how hilarious Space Cop was?
brandonh83
Banned
Yeah that's true.
Attack of the Clones was one of the shittiest sci-fi / fantasy genre films of the last 30 years, on its own merits and nothing else.
You could not pay me money to rewatch that film all the way through. TPM wasnt all bad and is the easy target but goddamn AOTC was horrible.
ROTS was a bloated schlock fest and could have done with half an hour shaving off.
brandonh83
Banned
Huh? It was the shortest SW film and IMO had by far the best pacing of the three. I didn't feel there was any bloat whatsoever. If anything most people say it moves too fast and certain things happen too quickly lol
Inferno313
Banned
A few critics I like, off the top of my head. Kermode & Mayo, Michael Phillips, AO Scott, Devin Faraci, Jen Yamato, David Ehrlich, The Filmspotting Podcast.
Lmao @ everyone who thinks I give a rat's ass about the prequels because I think these guys are poor critics.
Lucky Seven
Banned
Is this a reference in disguise as bait?
Really? I felt it was quite muddled and felt the bits where Kenobi was going after Grievous coupled with the final lightsabre duel were quite meandering.
I imagine a lot of people's exposure to Mr. Plinkett is the Prequel reviews, where he eviscerated them, and they are expecting more of the same. Unfortunately for them, we have a Star Trek 2009 situation on our hands, so they will probably be thoroughly disappointed.
Personally, I'm hoping for RLM either to never do a Plinkett review again (but keep doing the teasers), or have the next review not be The Force Awakens.
brandonh83
Banned
That stuff moved at a nice clip though. Kenobi going for Grievous was literally him landing, asking a dude where he was, and then he drops down and gets into the action. As for the last saber duels, it was the climax of the entire trilogy and a showdown people had waited on for forever. I thought it was just the right length. Unless of course you don't like it, which would obviously mean that you... don't like it, were bored with it, etc.
Basically my thoughts on the video. I don't hate them like some people but I'm not quite sure sometimes what RLM is trying to get by with their videos. Its all rather disjointed and I wonder if they are actually trying to be funny or going for some weird Tim and Eric style nonsense but failing at it.
Peter Ian Staker
Member
I think the Mustafar fight should have been much shorter and the Sidious vs Yoda fight, the Kashyyk and Grievious subplots should have been omitted.
Dedicate all that time on explaining Anakin turning to the Dark side. That is the climax of you trilogy not the final fight with Obi Wan. That fight could have lasted half as much and still have the same if not more impact.
I still like both very much, especially RLM.
The sudden hate from certain parts of GAF is laughable.
I like this a lot more than the "I don't like thing" comic
brandonh83
Banned
I thought it did explain it, but it wasn't enough for some. Oh well. But nah, the climax is Anakin and Obi-Wan's fight, and what happens to Anakin there. The Grievous/Kashyyk subplots were pretty short and didn't take much time away from the movie IMO. Like any movie there's going to be subplots and there's more going on than just Anakin.
I'd agree with the other poster, the climax is when anakin turns. it's the....ahem....turning point of the movie. the fight is a result of that.
brandonh83
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The fight is the climax of the film though. The climax of a story isn't 2/3 of the way into the thing and isn't necessarily a "turning point." The fight leading to Anakin's wounds and being put in the suit is the climax.
disagree. can't see how anakin turning to the dark side isn't a turning point. regardless of the physical wounds the damage was already done. hence why they were fighting in the first place.
brandonh83
Banned
It's absolutely a turning point, but that doesn't make it the climax of the story. The climax begins when Kenobi and Padme go to Mustafar in a last-ditch effort to bring Anakin back.
Already Torn
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Why does the fight need to be 10 minutes long to accomplish that though? All the actual character stuff happens in the first and last thirty seconds. Hopping on Super Mario lava bridges doesn't influence Darth Vadar as a character.
yeah the fight sucks. I got more out of the saber fight at the end of a new hope.
brandonh83
Banned
It's a long fight because it's the final battle of the trilogy. It makes sense that Lucas felt it should have been the longest fight. It makes sense for anything of that ilk, really. I'm not saying it was handled perfectly especially the last stretch of it, but there's nothing wrong with trying to make it feel epic. Whether or not you think it was is up to you. I looked forward to that fight for as long as I can remember and if it were a lot shorter I'd have been disappointed, even if it was prolonged by a bit of nonsense. I'll take it over something short and fleeting and I thought 90% of it was pretty fucking good.
There was a saber fight at the end of A New Hope? Ah, yeah. Sorry, I'm just mis-remembering, there's a saber fight at the end of The Force Awakens and since that's a retread of ANH, that means ANH has a saber fight at the end, too.
Thanks for this. I dig Kermode/Mayo and I'll have to check out the others. I actually like RLM quite a bit as well, but mostly for the entertainment value of them riffing on bad movies and not so much for film criticism of any substance.
both are a kenobi vs. a dark skywalker too!
brandonh83
Banned
Oh shit son, not any of that now
Permanently A
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I like RLM's plinkett stuff and half in the bag and this wasn't funny in the slightest
styl3s
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Whenever i enter a thread with overwhelmingly hate towards something i always think to myself "This must be amazing because GAF hates it"
fastford58
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God damn it, people. The video was not meant to be funny. The whole point of the video is like the last 10 seconds of it.
Spieler Eins
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Because the reviews are one of the few truly funny things on YT and they usually dig up interesting behind the scenes material and highlight facts that aren't that well known.
I feel like everything has been said about TFA already
I hope no one else on the internet does videos for movies that are older than one month to waste anyone's time.
Fudgepuppy
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RLM's dry humor isn't for everyone. It's the type of humor that usually has to grow a while for you to get the timing.
Not saying that RLM do it perfectly or that everyone who likes dry humor will like them, but I've seen a correlation amongst my peers with dry humor and fondness of RLM.
I showed my ex a couple of Best of the Worst, and she just found their humor to be a bit too mean.
Not saying that RLM do it perfectly or that everyone who likes dry humor will like them, but I've seen a correlation amongst my peers with dry humor and fondness of RLM.
I showed my ex a couple of Best of the Worst, and she just found their humor to be a bit too mean.
Peter Ian Staker
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No matter what you think the climax is that fight should have been shorter and had more dialogue interspersed with the fighting. It isn't about the fight itself but the relationship between the characters. You didn't need to have them tour an entire molten steel factory to show that.
Anakin's turn to the dark side was built up for three movies. It really deserved more time.
They are mostly pointless. Grievious is mainly there to get Obi Wan of Coruscant away from Anakin/Palpatine. You could just have him be away on a battle when Order 66 happens or hell have him witness the massacre in the Jedi Temple first hand to give him a better reason to want to go after Anakin.
Kashyyk was just sameless fan service. I would have been neat if you had a Kashyyk sequence as a greater part of the plot with more characters(like the initial plans for EP6) but ultimately what we got was just shoehorned in.
brandonh83
Banned
Alright.
DoctorFling
Member
Video made me hungry
Hungry for Plinkett
Hungry for Plinkett
Escape Goat
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heliosRAzi
Banned
Man, their Ghostbusters review really rustled some jimmies
Spieler Eins
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Gabriel_Logan
Member
I know the Plinkett stuff brings in a lot of views, but I honestly like all their other stuff better and they should just retire it before it gets too stale
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Romanes Eunt Domus
give it to me already
heliosRAzi
Banned
To this day, I still don't know what they're problem with AVGN is.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
I was really hoping for George Lucas to unbox salad.
Saying Im disappointed doesnt even begin to describe it.
Saying Im disappointed doesnt even begin to describe it.
Peter Ian Staker
Member
They haven't done a Plinkett review in a while.
They probably just reserve them for special occasions because they know it will get stale otherwise.
Neoriceisgood
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I feel like there was more substance to this than that weird review they did of Dan Aykroyd's vodka brand recently.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
When's even the last time we had a Plinkett review? Indiana Jones 4? That was over two years ago.
Wasn't it literally like, five years ago?
It's a good quality vodka
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