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I think we're due for a positive review like the Star Trek one. It wasn't entirely positive, but it's interesting to hear Plinkett talk about a movie, regardless of whether it's good or bad.

I wouldn't be surprised if he did Prometheus eventually, even if they covered with HitB, it would also give him the chance to cover maybe the whole Alien series.

Robocop would be cool. There's a lot he could do.
 
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Izick

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Ether_Snake said:
I think we're due for a positive review like the Star Trek one. It wasn't entirely positive, but it's interesting to hear Plinkett talk about a movie, regardless of whether it's good or bad.

I wouldn't be surprised if he did Prometheus eventually, even if they covered with HitB, it would also give him the chance to cover maybe the whole Alien series.

Robocop would be cool. There's a lot he could do.
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Half in the bad kind of covers that need though, plus we get to hear BOTH Mike and Jay's opinions on the movie(s). I like Plinkett deconstructing movies and explaining why they were so awful. I think he only did that Star Trek review and Avatar review because they didn't have something like HitB in place yet.
 
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Izick said:
Great review of Prometheus. Basically encapsulated all my thoughts on the movie. Basically a beautiful movie, absolutely stunning, but lacking in some of the funamentals. The one thing I would disagree with were the characters, I thought almost all the characters were fairly one dimensional, and just not there. Kind of surprised for the guys that created the SW prequel reviews, they didn't pick this movie apart.
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Because Prometheus is not a character-motivated piece, so the focus is elsewhere.
krameriffic said:
I'd like to know his rationale behind not doing more Plinkett reviews when it's the schtick that put him on the map in the first place. It's quite perplexing for him to tantalize people with it rather than just do them. I suspect he'd give an answer along the lines of "artistic integrity" and needing the right motivation and types of movies to do it, but I think that's bullshit considering he reviewed fucking Cop Dog and Baby's Day Out in the Plinkett format.
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The idea is that they take a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time to make, and the format is not as easily exploitable as the Half in the Bag banter.
 
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Izick

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Regulus Tera said:
Because Prometheus is not a character-motivated piece, so the focus is elsewhere.

The idea is that they take a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time to make, and the format is not as easily exploitable as the Half in the Bag banter.
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I don't think I agree with what your idea of "character-motivated" means. Could you explain further?
 
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krameriffic said:
He mentioned all the shit he could review at the end of the Crystal Skull review.

I'd like to know his rationale behind not doing more Plinkett reviews when it's the schtick that put him on the map in the first place. It's quite perplexing for him to tantalize people with it rather than just do them. I suspect he'd give an answer along the lines of "artistic integrity" and needing the right motivation and types of movies to do it, but I think that's bullshit considering he reviewed fucking Cop Dog and Baby's Day Out in the Plinkett format.
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His joke reviews are some of my favorites. It's a crying shame that they don't use the character more often; outside of rare instances of brilliance in the half in the bag reviews it's really the only thing I bother with their site for. Gamestation 2.0 can be entertaining, but nothing comes close to comparing to Plinkett.
 
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Awesome teaser :D I wonder though, should we assume that the movie reviewed will be one of those DVDs? Matrix Reloaded could be interesting.
 
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DrForester said:
Watch is review of Star Trek 2009. Not all of Plinket's reviews are negative (well, that's actually his only positive review...)
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I really hated that review. It's kind of why Half In The Bag is only entertaining when it's about bad movies. I like the guy, but he's only good for making fun of stuff. The side skits and positive reviews are boring.
 
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Izick

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Dragonzord said:
I really hated that review. It's kind of why Half In The Bag is only entertaining when it's about bad movies. I like the guy, but he's only good for making fun of stuff. The side skits and positive reviews are boring.
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Nope.

*pig-squeal*

I like the guy because he actually knows a hell of a lot more about movies than 90% of the other critics or people out there. Even when he is making fun of stuff, he deconstructs a movie to the fundamentals and explains why it isn't good. I could listen to any review he has, negative or positive, because the guy just knows what he's talking about and really loves movies.
 
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Cheerilee

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Izick said:
Half in the bad kind of covers that need though, plus we get to hear BOTH Mike and Jay's opinions on the movie(s). I like Plinkett deconstructing movies and explaining why they were so awful. I think he only did that Star Trek review and Avatar review because they didn't have something like HitB in place yet.
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Izick said:
I like the guy because he actually knows a hell of a lot more about movies than 90% of the other critics or people out there. Even when he is making fun of stuff, he deconstructs a movie to the fundamentals and explains why it isn't good. I could listen to any review he has, negative or positive, because the guy just knows what he's talking about and really loves movies.
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Just to mention, Plinkett reviews aren't Mike's singular opinion. Mike taps the opinions and insight of his entire group of friends to help form Mr Plinkett. Although Mike is the core of Mr Plinkett. (Referring to the Plinkett from the Plinkett Reviews, not the Plinkett from Half in the Bag.)
 
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Fuck yes he's back.
Izick said:
I don't think I agree with what your idea of "character-motivated" means. Could you explain further?
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People do not watch Prometheus because they are enthralled by whatsherface's lifestyle and/or motivations in the same way people care about Luke Skywalker's quest to become a jedi.
 
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Izick

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ruby_onix said:
Just to mention, Plinkett reviews aren't Mike's singular opinion. Mike taps the opinions and insight of his entire group of friends to help form Mr Plinkett. Although Mike is the core of Mr Plinkett. (Referring to the Plinkett from the Plinkett Reviews, not the Plinkett from Half in the Bag.)
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Are you sure? I always thought Mike and Jay were basically Plinkett and that's it.

Regulus Tera said:
Fuck yes he's back.

People do not watch Prometheus because they are enthralled by whatsherface's lifestyle and/or motivations in the same way people care about Luke Skywalker's quest to become a jedi.
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I don't buy that. People didn't come into SW (when it just came out) for Luke, they came for space shit. I guess a similar thing can be said for Prometheus.

The reason SW is great and Prometheus just ended up being mediocre were solely due to the former having great, memorable characters, and the latter having one dimensional caricatures. You cared when Luke lost his hand to Vader, maybe even gasped aloud, while you couldn't give less of a shit when people started dying in Prometheus. Saying it's not a character-driven movie is just a cop out. It just had shitty characters.
 
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I just hope it is a real movie and not something like Ghost Dog. When a movie is bad and without any redeeming values, I don't think there's really anything funny or insightful to be gleamed by making fun of it for a while. Something like The Phantom Menace has cultural value because of its hype, the money it generated, and such. Star Trek 2009 was interesting because it showed how a dumb movie can be well made and fun.

Since they mentioned the Matrix movies in both this teaser and the Indiana Jones movie, I hope they do them (all three; even if they like the first one, it could be done like Star Trek 2009).
 
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Izick

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brianmcdoogle said:
I just hope it is a real movie and not something like Ghost Dog. When a movie is bad and without any redeeming values, I don't think there's really anything funny or insightful to be gleamed by making fun of it for a while. Something like The Phantom Menace has cultural value because of its hype, the money it generated, and such. Star Trek 2009 was interesting because it showed how a dumb movie can be well made and fun.

Since they mentioned the Matrix movies in both this teaser and the Indiana Jones movie, I hope they do them (all three; even if they like the first one, it could be done like Star Trek 2009).
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Matrix would be glorious. They basically can build up the original Matrix and explain exactly why it was so amazing and game-changing for the time. Show what it did right, and maybe even some things it did wrong, but basically serve it up as a prologue as to the cluster-fuck that was the next two movies in the series.
 
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Nappuccino said:
You have a strange attraction to pre-teens chewing gum, don't you?
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Grinchy

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I didn't know a thread for this existed. A month or so ago, someone posted the Jack and Jill review in a thread. I watched it and loved it. I watched all the other Half in the Bag episodes and liked them all. Then I watched all the Plinkett reviews and loved them even more. I am dense enough that I didn't realize Mike was the one doing Plinkett's voice in the Plinkett reviews while Rich Evans was playing Plinkett in the episodes.

I have watched every single video on their site now. The Space Cop trailer had me dying and I even liked Rich Evan's video game reviews. Also his laugh is amazing. These guys are all just really great.
 
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brianmcdoogle

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Bah, it is called Cop Dog, not Ghost Dog. The whole joke is that the dog isn't a cop but is a ghost but they call the movie Cop Dog.
I confused it. Anyway, my point still stands.
 
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Ether_Snake

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Dragonzord said:
I really hated that review. It's kind of why Half In The Bag is only entertaining when it's about bad movies. I like the guy, but he's only good for making fun of stuff. The side skits and positive reviews are boring.
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No way, he's great because unlike to many other "reviewers" he actually manages to drive his point home clearly. Loved the Star Trek 2009 review.

I don't think the next one will be any of the movies show in the teaser, since he is escaping.

ruby_onix said:
Just to mention, Plinkett reviews aren't Mike's singular opinion. Mike taps the opinions and insight of his entire group of friends to help form Mr Plinkett. Although Mike is the core of Mr Plinkett. (Referring to the Plinkett from the Plinkett Reviews, not the Plinkett from Half in the Bag.)
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Where did you get that from? Pretty sure it is precisely his opinion, just said with the character of Plinkett. His friends might agree, but I never saw anything that indicated what you say.
 
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Cheerilee

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Izick said:
Are you sure? I always thought Mike and Jay were basically Plinkett and that's it.
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Ether_Snake said:
Where did you get that from? Pretty sure it is precisely his opinion, just said with the character of Plinkett. His friends might agree, but I never saw anything that indicated what you say.
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Just a sense I got from little "behind the scenes" snippets like this. I could be wrong.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/221025964407

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This is (1 of 3) pages of notes for Mr. Plinkett's Star Wars Episode 2 review. These notes were hand written by Rich Evans. Rich and Mike would watch the movie and Rich was responsible for writing down the little things that were noticed during the viewing. Mike would take the notes and expand upon them later in the script writing phase to jog his memory and keep track of things.
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Rich isn't just there to take notes, because a small tape recorder would probably do a better job. He's there to help Mike find material. And a lot of the bigger issues with well-known films would be things that Mike has had various discussions with his friends about years ago. He'd also be wise to let his friends read his finished scripts and get their input, and then consider tweaks and revisions before going ahead with them.

I'm not saying that Mike isn't the man behind Plinkett, but Plinkett is more of a collaborative and agreed-upon work than simply Mike from Half in the Bag, which is more of a raw take on Mike's opinions.
 
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Eidan

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brianmcdoogle said:
Bah, it is called Cop Dog, not Ghost Dog. The whole joke is that the dog isn't a cop but is a ghost but they call the movie Cop Dog.
I confused it. Anyway, my point still stands.
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I would actually love another Cop Dog-like review. The Red Letter Media team are at their best when they're picking apart terrible, obscure movies.
 
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I'd prefer a Star Trek 2009-like review, it was really interesting. Could do that with Matrix and then negative with the sequels I guess, if he liked the first one. But I think reviewing those movies would inherently make the reviews boring.

Plinket comes back to life, Mike and Jay die?
 
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Skiptastic

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Pretty awesome Half in the Bag. I'm still wondering where the hell they are going with this whole "back to the VHS repair shop" storyline. But I guess it doesn't really matter as long as they are talking about movies!
 
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brianmcdoogle

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Skiptastic said:
Pretty awesome Half in the Bag. I'm still wondering where the hell they are going with this whole "back to the VHS repair shop" storyline. But I guess it doesn't really matter as long as they are talking about movies!
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I think someone said somewhere that they were having to remodel/move the studio, and that's why they aren't reviewing in the normal space. I dunno
 
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Cheerilee

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brianmcdoogle said:
I think someone said somewhere that they were having to remodel/move the studio, and that's why they aren't reviewing in the normal space. I dunno
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Looking at the timing, I'd say that they knew in advance they were going to be losing their studio space, and they didn't have a new space yet, so they wrote material for off-set shooting. Then they found a new space, and decided to go ahead with the off-set shooting storyline anyways.


The "Plinkett figures them out" storyline ran through April, so they might have been considering getting rid of the entire Plinkett set around that time.

The first off-set episode (the Avengers review) was posted on May 8, and their set teardown/rebuild time lapse video shows they worked on that for three days, from May 9-11.

That means that they still had the original set while they made the first off-set episode, and then they were busy for three days, and then they had their set rebuilt.

Skiptastic said:
Pretty awesome Half in the Bag. I'm still wondering where the hell they are going with this whole "back to the VHS repair shop" storyline. But I guess it doesn't really matter as long as they are talking about movies!
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Did you notice how their old space was only just big enough for the Plinkett set, and their new space is much bigger? It's easily big enough to hold a second set. And about halfway through the rebuild, they moved the camera to give us a tighter view. Did they do that because they wanted us to see some things, or because they wanted us to not see some things?

I'm guessing that they're currently building the new set (presumably the VCR repair shop, whatever that ends up being), and they'll "arrive" when it's ready. I think they intend/intended for the new set to be their new default set, and it was a happy bonus that they were able to find a way to keep the Plinkett set.
 
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