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Favorite recurring character? (Select 4)

  • Jack / AIDSMobdy

    Votes: 256 23.9%

  • Josh / the Wizard

    Votes: 77 7.2%

  • Colin (Canadian #1)

    Votes: 459 42.8%

  • Jim (Canadian #2)

    Votes: 229 21.4%

  • Tim

    Votes: 385 35.9%

  • Len Kabasinski

    Votes: 208 19.4%

  • Freddie Williams

    Votes: 274 25.6%

  • Patton Oswalt

    Votes: 27 2.5%

  • Macaulay Culkin

    Votes: 541 50.5%

  • Max Landis

    Votes: 64 6.0%
  • Total voters
    1,072
Honka Honka Burning Love said:
Shad's throne room fight video is the thing that made me realize that The Last Jedi was heavily re-worked at some point after filming had started.

There is nothing in the universe that can convince me that the original script had Rey getting stabbed in that moment.
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Never, EVER underestimate Jar Jar Abrams' capacity for writing absolute retardation. He is the guy who wrote Spock going on a high-risk chase to capture someone in a time-critical situation when there were a dozen bodies in cryostasis he could have gotten the virus from to cure Kirk in the first of the Star Trek trilogy he shat out.
 
Samuel Fuller said:
Never, EVER underestimate Jar Jar Abrams' capacity for writing absolute retardation. He is the guy who wrote Spock going on a high-risk chase to capture someone in a time-critical situation when there were a dozen bodies in cryostasis he could have gotten the virus from to cure Kirk in the first of the Star Trek trilogy he shat out.
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Last Jedi was Rian not Abrams, and what is more "Subverts your expectations" more than "The New Luke gets shanked and bleeds out"
 
Honka Honka Burning Love said:
Last Jedi was Rian not Abrams, and what is more "Subverts your expectations" more than "The New Luke gets shanked and bleeds out"
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My bad. Both Johnson and Abrams are retarded, but Johnson is mean-spiritedly retarded with his "subvert your expectations by completely shitting on the property to the point of you wondering why he took the fucking job to begin with if he hates it and the fanbase so much" writing style.

Also, it was the SECOND Trek I was thinking about. Long day of reading Microsoft documentation destroyed my brain today.
 
everything about mike in regards to star wars reveals himself as a contrarian pickme manchild. his nerd rage? justified, da prequels were da worst da fight scenes had to be analyzed frame by frame to show how bad they were. your nerd rage? stop whining, manbaby, you complaining bout the fight scenes means you're a bad person CHUD!
 
A middling Plinkett review, but I'll take what I can get.
Slur Generator said:
Is He really claiming that The acolyte is not that bad?
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No, he's saying The Acolyte is about as bad as the prequels (which are awful but are at least the creations of an auteur), and both were at least trying to do something new instead of retreading the same old Star Wars shit.
 
Mussolini’s Merkin said:

Plinkett is back
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I watched the first 20 minutes and it was them being assblasted that people dare say the Prequels had merits, then I jumped forward and it them comparing the prequels to the Acolyte but saying that the Acolyte was good(?) and raised some good points(?!), even if it was in jest it's still an absolutely retarded comparison to make considering no one even remembers The Acolyte, and how its plot was retarded.

It's not an original thing to say, but they have Prequel Derangement Syndrome, where they got so much clout from bashing it that they legitimately can't fathom that Millenials have nostalgic feelings about it, and that it had a lot of merits that makes people remember it more than the 10+ shows Disney shat out in the last half decade.

The most retarded moment was trying to argue about morality being better in The Acolyte. The prequels had the good people being chained by being limited in how they project force (figuratively), and how they need to decide within their organization a course of action. The Acolyte was the billionth iteration of "WHAT IF THE JEDI NEED TO CHOOSE BETWEEN EVIL AND EVIL"?
 
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Mike concedes that, while the prequels are bad, at least they were made by a human trying to say something and failing in the execution. The sequels, on the other hand, are corporate slop churned out by committee.

Its kind of similar to the LoTR, hobbit, rings of power situation.
The hobbit was bad but we didnt know just how bad things could get.
 
Slur Generator said:
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Mike concedes that, while the prequels are bad, at least they were made by a human trying to say something and failing in the execution. The sequels, on the other hand, are corporate slop churned out by committee.
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I feel like that's been their viewpoint for a good while now, and I happen to agree with them.

The prequels are a mess, don't get me wrong, but you can see a vision in there. There's a solid story structure that was planned from the start and runs throughout them. It had heart. Despite all the failings it feels like it was made by someone with an idea and a vision. Revenge of the Sith is a flawed gem of a movie.

The sequels lack all of them, no charm, no heart, no vision. They couldn't even have a coherent story, they were literally just making it up as they went along.
 
It's a disappointing, because previous Plinkett videos always seemed like works of passion in which Mike had something to say and was finally able to articulate his feeling properly. Even the "Star Trek TNG Mistakes", which might not have been the most insightful video essay in the world ("look at the piece of paper they used to block the lighting equipment with in the corner of this shot"), was still something Mike was clearly passionate about, so it was kind of fun in an autistic nerd way. With this, he's just grasping at straws. Yeah, we know you still hate the prequels, and the Star Wars franchise is a complete mess, what of it? Points for at least admitting that the prequels, flaws and all, have more worth than the soulless Disney slop, but that's not exactly a revelation, is it? In fact, he seemed more interested in making fun of all the other youtubers that have been pointing out that fact for years rather than adding anything new to the table. Not worth bringing out Plinkett out of the retirement in my opinion.
 
Mussolini’s Merkin said:
I feel like that's been their viewpoint for a good while now, and I happen to agree with them.

The prequels are a mess, don't get me wrong, but you can see a vision in there. There's a solid story structure that was planned from the start and runs throughout them. It had heart. Despite all the failings it feels like it was made by someone with an idea and a vision. Revenge of the Sith is a flawed gem of a movie.

The sequels lack all of them, no charm, no heart, no vision. They couldn't even have a coherent story, they were literally just making it up as they went along.
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This has been the point of many people since the last jedi. They still made fun of people that said "well now do the prequels look so bad?"
The prequels are bad but they are much better than the shit released today.
Modern politics are hell. George lucas just put Samuel Jackson in because he wanted to appeal to the urban market. There was no racism,misogyny or faggotry subplot.
 
I agree that trash done earnestly by a retard is better than lots of trash +1 good thing done by a retard corporation, but you don't really yell at the chuds for the failures of Disney. It would be easier to admit the reason the chuds are growing is due to the increasing failures of Disney, and the best way to silence them or make their criticism irrelevant is to make good things again. Or at least go after the actual idiot chuds who say things like "now, I haven't seen it yet, but....."
 
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It's a disappointing, because previous Plinkett videos always seemed like works of passion in which Mike had something to say and was finally able to articulate his feeling properly. Even the "Star Trek TNG Mistakes", which might not have been the most insightful video essay in the world ("look at the piece of paper they used to block the lighting equipment with in the corner of this shot"), was still something Mike was clearly passionate about, so it was kind of fun in an autistic nerd way. With this, he's just grasping at straws. Yeah, we know you still hate the prequels, and the Star Wars franchise is a complete mess, what of it? Points for at least admitting that the prequels, flaws and all, have more worth than the soulless Disney slop, but that's not exactly a revelation, is it? In fact, he seemed more interested in making fun of all the other youtubers that have been pointing out that fact for years rather than adding anything new to the table. Not worth bringing out Plinkett out of the retirement in my opinion.
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Honestly I enjoyed it. He realizes that Star Wars is no longer fun or cool. It's become like the hair metal scene in the 80's over bloated and over saturated. Honestly this quote from Kreia sums it all up "It is such a quiet thing, to fall. But far more terrible is to admit it".
 
What a strange video, feels like it's three years too late, doesn't say anything new, and is just thinly disguised seething that their claim to fame (the prequel reviews) are becoming increasingly irrelevant due to millennial reassessment. It's also ironic that they find themselves defending "the closest thing to the prequels."
 
Slur Generator said:
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Mike concedes that, while the prequels are bad, at least they were made by a human trying to say something and failing in the execution. The sequels, on the other hand, are corporate slop churned out by committee
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You must not have watched the video because he basically says that word for word 19:40.
Edit: Completely misread your post and thought that you were saying that Mike should say that.
 
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