Too stupid to understand the Star Wars prequels

10 minutes in he hasnt made a point yet

accuses someone else of having a nasaly voice

poorly mixed

i shan't.

the bad guy in the children's film outright states his plan to capture Luke beforehand, then when he wins the duel he doesn't kill him and explains (again) how he wants Luke to join him.

go get the RLM commentary from Bandcamp. Jay doubles down on the whole "Vader is trying to KILL Luke!" thing so confidently, it's strange. surprised the others didn't have a word with him afterwards and edit it or something.

(i feel like at some point their videos were organic. when they do the "that's staying in" edits when one of them repeats a joke, it's like the veneer disappears. i even think a lot of the "non-scripted" segments are scripted. they've certainly set up "improvised" jokes in advance.)

No need for condescension. Seems like you're taking a single off the cuff comment too seriously. Vader straight up tried to freeze him in carbonite, so it's not really outrageous to say he was trying to kill him. I've always felt like he legit wanted to kill him, but threw out the offer to join him once he saw the kid wasn't totally useless. Anakin being retarded is surprisingly consistent character trait

But he's not attacking Luke in the duel with the intent of killing him with his laser sword, lopping his head off or something, which Jay insists on (go listen to the commentary).

Thinks the "Fandom Menace" was about the Prequels and not the Sequels.

One minute in an he's already wrong. And this is supposed to be the Plinkett killer?

The Plinkett killer is just watching the films.

Reminder these guys are meant to be 'content creators' and they can't even get their own images, make their own sound effects, etc. It's embarrassing, frankly.

they were right about movie theaters dying

Gen-Xers ruin everything.

they can't even get their own images, make their own sound effects, etc.

But they do.

So by your logic Vader just doesn't specifically want to light saber him to death? And is fine with other means of termination? Luke is able to chip at Vader's arm at one point and before that Darth resorts to throwing random debris at him. Not saying Vader went in with blood lust in his eyes, but he doesn't give Luke an offer until after he's made it clear he is trying to kill him. It's the typical villain thing where they want the good guy to turn, but don't want to waste time with some scrub they can kill too easy

seething about plinkett over a decade later

lol

Imagine putting a film into cinemas and just using other people's photographs, without even asking, let alone paying them. Like it's a stock photograph you have the rights to use.

I generally agree that you can do what you want on the internet, but this is their job: they earn money from these videos (one of their three? four? forms of monetization).

Go upload an RLM video to YouTube, right now. It gets a copyright strike from RedLetterMedia LLC. Fair use for me, not for thee.

Mike seems to have come around and changed his mind, at least.

very embarrassing to make something so awful in what, his 30s? but at least he's owned it instead of burying it or something.

RLM films their own shit retard.

I mean the incidental photos they do jokes 'over', plus other people's video clips.

Fair use should be if you're talking about the photograph of 'your ex-wife'. Nope, that's a photo pulled from Google Images. Doesn't even say in the credits who the photographer is. Mike just thinks you can take stuff and make money off it.

They're Gen X Star Trek fans, of course they just don't like Star Wars

Their schtick ran out during COVID. Only their retard paypigs on Reddit keep it going now.

Mike filmed actual scenes of him fucking his cat for the Plinkett review while you're complaining about him using a stock photo in order to defend the "Plinkett killer" who has NO original footage in his review.

i like the prequels because i grew up with them and i like a lot of the worldbuilding but they're objectively bad movies

Mike went to L.A recently.. do you think that he was pitching a movie to some execs?

he was probably voice acting or some shit

they just don't like Star Wars

is that why they mention star wars in every single one of their 400 videos?

thinks the fandom menace was the backlash in the prequels

thinks Plinkett invented prequel criticism, despite this claims that no one who was neutral on the Prequels was swayed by the video, and it only appealed to people who already didn't like the films.

claims that Mike can't capture an audience's attention yet I'm already bored 5 minutes in.

claims Mike is "spiritually" wrong

thinks the main appeal of the Plinkett review was that fact that it is long

claims that all RLM fans are incels that are emboldened to harass people because the review has a side plot about torturing a "sex worker"

says Mike and his fanbase have a "spiritual deficiency"

takes 8 minutes to start addressing anything said in the actual video

agrees with Mike that there's no main character, says that's fine and needing a main character is just Mike's taste (even though he admits not wanting a main character appeals to his personal taste), then says that Qui-Gon actually *is* the main character

gay awkward laugh @ 11:28

rips off someone else's review (by editing it in) while complaining how Mike only sought opinions from his friends

calls Watto "a greedy merchant" (based?)

Criticizes Mike for needing an explanation of the trade dispute and then explains the details of the trade dispute from extra-film sources as if this doesn't prove Mike right.

accuses Mike of nitpicking, but cries about him skipping entire scenes - uses Chris Stuckmann saying the Plinkett review is "complete" to justify this as a fair criticism

claims Mike is a hypocrite because Mike thinks Qui-Gon is a morally inconsistent character but questions why Qui-Gon didn't just force Watto to give them the hyperdrive

says that Anakin's fall to the Dark Side was because of his attachments (to his mother, to Padme, etc.) but then claims Vader saving Luke at the end of RotJ is him "letting go of his attachments". Says it's an unconditional love even though it's clearly familial love.

too stupid to understand the Star Wars prequels

What is it exactly that they didn't understand about the prequels, OP? Nobody help him.

chicken jockey

If they were born 20 years later they would love the prequels and call the OT dated.

meds

Joke's on them, Star Trek got raped and mutilated way more than Star Wars

Not exactly high effort though, is it?

They also 'used an actress', wow! Equivalent of those Channel Awesome skits.

If you want a good example of a YouTuber who's been around for a while and has always put high effort into their own production while commenting on someone else's content: Captain Disillusion. The humour isn't to my taste, but the guy makes his own music, has a costume with makeup, does all these visualizations in Blender/whatever.

Imagine how quickly you'd dismiss the Plinkett criticisms as nonsense if they were a written essay. It'd just be like some weirdo on a forum who gets dismissed because his arguments aren't even differing opinions: they're flat-out wrong. Throw in some (other people's) images and do it as a voiceover 'as a character' (convenient) and suddenly it has some authority to it? Fuck that. There are real analyses of The Phantom Menace that are worth reading.

Not exactly high effort though, is it?

Why should it be? You lap up much lower effort reviews than that just because they agree with what you already believe.

Those reviews were very entertaining. Except the part where they fail to describe the characters. That part is just retarded.

They didn’t understand episode 3 at all

13 years later they are still seething

I hate prequel faggots so much bros.

I read reviews from critics who have thoughtful things to say. I've even learned new, interesting things because someone had some specific interest in, say, mythology or language.

Guy's a filmmaker and in these 'short comedy films' (if that's how we're viewing YouTube now) he's not even good at that. He doesn't even have anything insightful to say about, I don't know, story structure or the lighting, or anything. It's all the most basic shit we all got tired of 10 years earlier. I'm certain his research was just watching those behind-the-scenes videos. Comes off like a kid: he learned the word 'stanzas' from the clip he cuts short, then he plays the full clip the next episode.

i always loved the opening sequence in Episode 3, the CGI is amazing and it's really fun

We hate you too

Make 3 quick, jokey Star Wars reviews with a funny voice in about 5 minutes over a decade ago

People still seething about it

They straight up get plot info wrong, admit they don’t know what’s going on, say that they don’t know anything about the characters and get basic info wrong

prequeltards watched the movies as children and because of nostalgia they have to defend it. Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones are just bad movies, Revenge of the Sith at least has enough decent moments sprinkled throughout to make it not seem as bad

W-we h-hate you too

OK zoomer. Try to watch some real movies instead of Starshit.

Factually wrong, TPM is the best of the three.
What does RotS do better than TPM?

They watched Parasite and half of minecraft

TPM could have been salvageable with some slight changes. Anakin shouldn't have destroyed the drone ship for example, it was just ridiculous.

I can understand not liking the prequels but I’ve always been shocked at how many criticisms come down too “I couldn’t understand the OVERLY COMPLICATED POLITICS!!”, like nigger I understood them as a child it’s really not a complicated plot at all

"Star Wars isn't for you chud!" - then quotes Lucas saying Star Wars is for everyone - then says Star Wars is only for people who were children when the Prequels released, but then says it's for everyone of every age.

Quotes Mike saying "The Force is microscopic organisms" to criticize Mike for not understanding what midi-chlorians are but edits out Mike saying "There are microscopic organisms in our cells that tell us about the Force" IMMEDIATELY AFTER proving that Mike does know what midi-chlorians are.

Brings up the Whills, admits they aren't mentioned in the films so it's entirely irrelevant

Claims that the midi-chlorians are a part of a secret cosmic horror theme Lucas was trying to get across

thinks Mace Windu walking slowly after being told the Chancellor is a "quiet contemplative moment" on par with Obi-Wan's sacrifice on the Death Star or Luke being told by Vader that he is his son.

thinks Prometheus is bad

uses the underwear scene to criticize Abrams Trek (even though it's the only good scene in the film)

thinks George Lucas invented the concept of "there's always a bigger fish"

uses scenes from Into Darkness claiming it's from Star Trek (09) and claiming it's what Mike loved when he hated Into Darkness.

admits that Plinkett is right that there is no reason for Anakin to be taken into a warzone, and uses a Lucas quote to prove it (kek!)

thinks the Trade Federation removed the blockade ships for the return to Naboo because they have taken over the planet (but wouldn't they still be blockading trade which would be easier to do from space?). Offers no explanation as to why the blockade ships are back for the final fight.

At 50 minutes stops critiquing the Plinkett review and starts responding to some random tranny's review for 5 minutes. (I'm going to just assume he is right at this point of the review because he's disagreeing with trannies)

can hear him swallowing his saliva at one point

couple of better space battles.

well now you are giving them credibility. Nobody should watch gay foreign films, what are you, some kind of faggot?

e.g. Jay thinks Darth Vader is trying to kill Luke in the Empire Strikes Back duel (this is not a joke).

Obviously Vader was just playing with him, but at the same time, Vader totally would've killed Luke if Luke had let him. He wouldn't want a weak son who can't even hold his own against him in a simple sparring match. So at the same time it was still a test where Luke's life was on the line

Vader's a bit of a dick: he had a massive headstart on Luke, age-wise. Give the guy a couple of years to train his magic skills, geez.

The fat greasy one who looks like an Armenian Janitor is so disgusting and sweaty.

After going of on how Lucas made Star Wars on his own with zero help from anyone has an extended rant on how much Lucas took in the input from others

criticizes other reviewers for not knowing how to use a video camera but doesn't know how to use a mic

The last 20 minutes have nothing to do with the Plinkett reviews so I spaced out

ends by calling the Sequels "children's adventure films" without noting the irony

I read reviews from critics who have thoughtful things to say.

Did they invent any new words for those reviews? If not they're worthless.

You couldn't understand them as a child. You just ignored them as a child and recognized them merely as a vehicle for the plot to take.