Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones

Sounds fricking awesome wish you wrote it!

the one in the prequels isnt boba fett its jango ,bobas father, when he is behaded in episode 2 boba takes over and appears in the original trilodgy

More Reviews mr plinkett !!!!!!

I must say that I really enjoyed watching your reviews. Salute.

BTW if you need help making your basement ‘problem’ disappear, let me know.  ; )

What inconsistencies?

I agree with “just some guy”. I love these reviews (they are incredibly insightful), but the “asides” just kind of jolt me out of the review and make me a little uncomfortable. It also makes it a lot harder to recommend this to friends that I’m not really close to.

I know right, those scenes with Natalie Portman were a crime against humanity.

The second point is why even make a character a shapeshifter if they don’t ever shapeshift and then die

A White Knight complaining abour the Plinkett Reviews?

Loosen up man.

“And they broke new ground by having the first homosexual in Star Wars” hahahahaha

Where did Plinkett get the awesome background music?

I am more interesting in the kidnapped hooker sub-plot than I am these terrible movies.

Darth Maul was never a Sith Lord, just an apprentice. Besides, I don’t see what so many people see in Maul. Sure, he looks kind of cool and acts badass, but he has like 3 lines in the movie, shows nearly no personality, and is more or less unimportant to the plot (except killing Qui Gon).

Hes making a comparison, digital vs filmed on location…. filmed on location is way harder to film because you can’t control every aspect of whats happening unlike CGI….. gosh a 12 year old could figure that out you retard.

who the fuck cares, who hard it is? but you know, it’s hard for the animators, not for fucking lazy ass george. he just orders some backgrounds and get them.

Just found this! Really interesting review. I must tell you that you’re wrong on one account though. Samuel L. Jackson actually came to Lucas and begged him to be in it because he’s such a big fan, hence the small part in ep. 1.

That’s not true on all fronts. Yes, it obviously is prevalent here, but CGI has finally started getting to the point where emotions can be conveyed. A good example is Caeser from Rise of the Planet of the Apes. That was a combined effort of a CGI team and Andy Serkis, and it succeeded in showing exactly what the monkey is feeling and thinking in each scene.

I hope Lucas and the team watch this, then they rip their eyes out to try and hide their shame.

Well when shit is all there is, there isn’t really much else to point out; is there?

of course he knows. you idiot!!!

I love that movie.

What about, well, pretty much everything Pixar has brought out in the last 17 years (starting with Toy Story obviously).

Don’t feel sorry for them…I envy them being so easily entertained.

That’s why these reviews are made for entertainment and satire.

Can I have a pizza roll. Seriously will you send me a pizza roll.

I think the issue with these prequels is less Plinkett’s claim that the film has no main character, and more that Anakin’s role as the main character is undermined by the lack of any real foil.

In the originals, Luke was played against Han as the innocent farmboy vs. the cynical scoundrel, against Yoda as the eager hothead against the wizened sage, and ultimately against Vader, because Luke’s journey brings him on a parallel course as his father, up until he realizes what his anger is doing to him.

In the prequels, Anakin has no direct foil; he is a child in the first film, separated from Obi-Wan for the bulk of the second film, and turns into Vader in the third film. I believe I once heard George float the idea that the progression of Sith foreshadowed aspects of Vader’s character – the brutal fighter, the dominant ruler, the robotic creature – but really, all that means is that Anakin’s only foil is himself: Vader.

The progression of Anakin’s character is defined by who he will eventually turn into, but a). that is a downward spiral, not an arc that infuses noble traits like the audience usually sees, and b). the original Vader does not appear until the final montage of establishing shots at the end, so the comparison never takes place on screen, and assumes the viewer has the older movies in mind when viewing. Also, of the three, the only one Anakin faces directly is Dooku; he is too young to fight Maul and only has one glancing encounter with Grievous.

Having said that, if one has to write a thesis on why Anakin is the main character of the series, then clearly the movies failed to establish that for the viewer. My primary enjoyment of these films comes from watching it as though Palpatine were the main character. Seeing him manipulate everything and everybody to achieve political power, military power, and to turn the Jedi’s greatest weapon against them, he has a much clearer progression towards his stated goals. But since he’s a B character and most of his scenes is boring political schlock, it’s hardly a replacement for the mostly-ignored Clone Wars taking place at this time.

fuck yeah. 100% on how this lacks all emotion. thanks, man

does anyone know what the song is at the end?

I noticed that the picture of the scale between Yoda and a 19-foot tall Gorgan, at 4:33, in that pic Yoda is flipping off the Gorgan.

it’s funny that a b league sci-fi movie like the last star fighter seems better then episode 2

I need to go buy some bleach.

“The last starfighter”

what’s that movie he kept showing clips of in the first part?

so true…In “half in the bag” the resident evil movies are called bad movies and one of the (many) reasons should be that there where video-game adaptations. The movies are bad but that is nonsense.

The movie even didn’t try to be an adaptation. Its just scene after scene with senseless action. And Mila Jovovich cow look. In bad quality. It reminds more off the slash and hack zombie D movies from the 70s and early 80s than an adaptation of an high quality product like Resident Evil is…..WAS….the franchise isn’t so good anymore but is still better than Paul W Andersons atempts to become the next George Romero and give his wife something to do.
And so I could go on and go on. Even Silent Hill lacks logic. “We had to make small adjustment so that the audience will understand….” Thats BS!!! Making Allessa the Demon that brings revenge is BS!

I don’t get it. Seems like japanese video games are understandable for kids between 6 and 16…but to high for THE AUDIENCE of a cinema….and movie makers.

59 MINUTES!!!

The prop at 9:00 used in both ST:TNG and the last Starfighter, looks very similar to something in Alien Nation (1988). James Caan and his partner break into some kind of lab with the same device about an hour into the movie. I feel better now.

I want to know what Anakin says in part 2 when it’s censored. I imagine its something like “Oui, oui Padme, can I take you out the the shitter and give you a rim job, then shove a baggete up your cunt, eh?”

6:50 “A large, corrupt, impotent United Nations in space.”

You could have just said “A United Nations in space” and the meaning would be the exact same.

So maybe it’s a good thing he sold it to Disney. At least a fan can be in charge of the creative process instead of a self-absorbed douche.

my problem is this review really, i mean, there are a lot of amazing points that this guy makes, but the whole fucking series of reviews are ruined by all the crappy abduction, torture scenes.. why cant it just be a good review pointing out all the problems??

If you like these review you will really like this YouTube video;
http://youtu.be/oxr1af8qq1o

A plastic tube gets cut in half by a lightsabre.

Mike should fuck nadine

I want a pizza roll.

I like the frame narrative of the kidnapping — it adds another layer of commentary on the movie. As ridiculous as the Plinkett/Nadine relationship is, it actually presents a more interesting and plausible romance than what Lucas was able to come up with.

Hey! These are real people you’re talking about. Wait for the inevitable Mike and Nadine nostalgia action figures… then you can do whatever you want. With $30K setup and $3 per unit molding costs, you’ll have to wait until a couple thousand people want them, cash in hand. What about 3D printing? A 6-inch Shapeways action figure runs about $300 bucks, last I checked. You can go smaller, of course, or add a Shapeways Stoklasa action figure head to an existing GI Joe action figure body. In that event, we might be approaching something like a $30-$50 retail price in the next couple of years. Otherwise, you’ll have to wait for the existing market (around 100 buyers) to grow about 20 times bigger. At present rate of growth, that’s a 5 year minimum. I’m betting the 3D printing option will come down into consumer price ranges MUCH faster, especially if they team up with semi-famous YouTube cos-players like Jessica Nigri and Yaya Han who (might) want their own limited-run action figures to auction off, too. Then it’s worth somebody’s time to make it happen, so your action figure fantasies can all come true. Cheaper alternative… kegger.

uhhh speak for yourself static boy

Mm…I like to fuck my cat

I wouldn’t call the humour elementary. Like most intelligent comedians working with a script, Mike will mix intentionally good jokes with intentionally bad jokes, but will pause and linger on the stupid, bad jokes, because he’s being ironic, while he moves quickly on from the smarter jokes that are being told straight up, so you have to catch them.
That is the best way to play it imho – where the style of each joke matches the content. That’s also why you can keep noticing new things.

I was just about to mention that at the end of Part Two when you see the city scape, a vehicle flies by that’s actually a flying Donate button. It’s barely even there, you may not have even noticed it.

But your brain did @.@

“Begun the Clone Wars has” – Yoda

I keep thinking of more things I hate about the prequels. This always bothered me. Did they nickname the war before it happened? Why didn’t he call it “The Robot Wars?” or just “The Civil War?” or why not just say “We are now at war”? Did Yoda invent the term “The Clone Wars” as the perfect nickname, and just waited for the perfect time to spring it on everybody? To me, it’s once again George Lucas writing dialog TO the audience, based on common knowledge passed down from the first movie, so Lucas writes the dialog almost like an in-joke.

Yeah, they’re way better than the movies!

Not that I wanna sound like some drooling fanboy or anything, but Nadine has a fantastic rack

If Morgan Freeman had been Mace Windu, he might have been a real character instead of a cardboard cut out. More likely it would have been a repeat of the Ewon MacDonald fiasco though.

I, too, must now change my pantaloons.

Well you have to take into consideration the time period. I don’t know why, but this current generation seems to get their time table screwed up and think everything just always existed since, forever. The whole Morgan Freeman meme status came way, way, after 1999, which was the release date for Episode I; with production/filming on the movie starting around ’97. Back then, Freeman was just another actor, and at the time Samuel L. Jackson was the “bigger draw” compared to Freeman. There was no Freeman meme. And although the term “meme” was coined in like the 70’s, in terms of internet pop culture, memes didn’t really take off until around the mid 2000’s. Sure, there were certain “popular” things here and there, but nothing compared to what it is today with things going viral in a matter of hours/days thanks to YouTube and social media sites, and staying popular for months or years. Back in the mid to late 90’s, the internet was arguably still in its infancy. There was no YouTube, no social media, no HBOGo, no Xbox Live, no Twitter, no DVD players, say nothing about Blu-Ray, we all used VCRs and big ass hand-held cameras that weighed about 10 pounds instead of pocket cameras, and although Netflix was founded in ’97 I don’t think a single person heard of the damn thing until the mid/late 2000’s. And a majority of people during these times didn’t have broadband, most people were still on dial-up, unless you lived in major cities that upgraded their infrastructure quickly. I know now, even in our current age of technology and constant live-access and “always connectedness” via WiFi and 3/4G, many places in the USA STILL don’t have broadband, and are stuck using dial up 56k modems and have no cellphone service in their areas.

Terms like MMOs didn’t exist, as “MMO” was coined by UO (Ultima Online) back then online games were just starting to come of age. None of these things we take for granted like we do today existed. Hardly anyone had a cell phone, and it was very rare to see someone with one, and if you did it was an old Nokia “Brick” or a car-phone. (To this day I STILL don’t own a cell, because I hate the stupid things). The internet was still a new thing, the technology boom was still on before the tech bubble burst, and people were still realizing just what the internet really was capable of providing and doing. YouTube and social media is what really started the whole meme fad. YouTube wasn’t founded until 2005, and before MySpace and Facebook were around there was very little “social media” type sites that got viral videos going. I remember one of the first viral videos I saw was the Numa Numa guy, and that was in like ’04, and that video spread mainly through old-school Ebaums.

So saying Morgan Freeman already has “Meme status” in 2013 when talking about a movie that was filmed in 1997, released in 1999, and probably cast around 1996, I refer back to my original point, this generation has a huge problem with taking the factor of time in consideration, and realizing everything we have didn’t just poof out of thin air and just always been around. And honestly, I’d gladly go back to the Mid to Late 90’s with our Pentium II processors, practically no one having these stupid fucking smartphones that I’d love to shove up people’s asses, and back to what I think most people that are over the age of 25 (or a tad older) will agree were better times. But all that’s gone now, and all we’ve got to look forward to now is shit like Jersey Shore, DramaBook, Smartphones glued to people’s heads, reality TV, (and I hate to get political in this last statement, but it’s the truth), the ever constant removal of our everyday freedoms. I remember days when I could walk up to monuments and other places like large dams and things of that sort and take pictures and enjoy the view, now everything’s gated off with armed guards and cameras for fear of “terrorists” or “National Security.” So as I said, I’d do anything to be able to say “Welcome to the 90’s dude” again, pay .99 cents for gas, and living the good life instead of putting up with the shit-world we have to deal with today.

The Naboo system of government makes absolutely no sense. Padme was the “Queen” which makes it a monarchy, right? Well in this POS she says that she had to step down after two terms. So then YOU AREN’T A FUC*ING QUEEN!

This is a pretty fantastic Man of Steel analysis if you’re looking for one: http://badassdigest.com/2013/07/03/film-crit-hulk-man-of-steel/

I did not write that, no. I commented on it, but Film Crit Hulk wrote it. However, if you would like me to post my completely-unrelated-to-Star-Wars writings here for no reason, that could be arranged 😛

Last Starfighter was not B grade. It was an A level movie. At the time, it was an absolute pioneer with cgi as well. Nobody had ever had the number of fully cgi frames as the ship fighting scenes in space. It required a supercomputer to render those shots (I kid you not), and was featured on the cover of Omni as a result. Also; it was a great sic-fan fairy tale and one of my very favorite films as a kid.

“I will even learn to stop people from dying” BZZZZZZZZ.

comedy gold.

cheers man…read a few of hulks pieces…some clever shit 🙂

I think you may have gone too far in a couple of places.

It was stylistically designed to be that way, but maybe I can diminish the effects of it.

Stop me if I’m wrong, but you know the two “that’s what SHE SAID” girls in this review? That is, during that split-screen shot, you know the one on the left; the one with the longer hair and the tongue piercing? Well, I get the feeling that I saw her in a couple of…”independent films” made back in 2009. Can anyone else corroborate this for me? BTW, I use the term “independent film” as a euphemism, in case that wasn’t obvious. 😉

That’s my favorite part of all the star wars reviews. Yoda just sharing the force philosophy with Luke and why its really powerful (not because you can fight with it!) intercut with all the prequel crap.

You think Hollywood would make a remake of that? Cause with today’s technology, it’d be even more blowy-up-ier.

Man, you’re the angry old dude and you’re not even 30. Try being 51 – I remember when $.40 gas was EXPENSIVE, when we got the cheaper $.37 gallon gas (or at least my dad did, by the time I drove it was after the first gas crisis). My wife has given me cell phones, I don’t use them. I love to be alone in my car and nobody can ****ing bother me. Why are people so afraid of being alone in their head? In a generation, we’ll be a hive mind.

There were apparently a few countries where a Queen was selected. It’s odd, but nothing new.

But Abrams is.

Looks like you need to settle down. Stop making assumptions about what I do and don’t like, or begin your attack with name calling.

As long as Lucas stays out of the next SW and with a good writer (not Lindelof) then Abrams will do a fine job like in the first ST.

Jango is essentially a cookie cutter cut-out of Boba Fett thrown in there to try to make the movie cooler…..so yeah it’s more or less correct.

And how every parent be on board with the idea. Unless it’s like the law or something, which makes the Emperor not as bad as he should be for getting rid of the organization of child abductors.

And it’s baffling why Yoda just didn’t use the Starfighter in the other room to crush Dooku. It’s not like he can’t move ships with his mind.

I used to like this movie as a kid…now I find out exactly how terrible it is. It’s almost like finding out Santa isn’t real.

I wasn’t crying, but rather laughing my ass off at how cleverly spliced together everything there was. My god…Mr. Plinkett should’ve directed the prequels, and George Lucas should’ve directed me to the toilet.

Why would you tell me that Santa isn’t real?

Plinkett Porn… now there’s an idea with potential!

Concur. The Plinkett voice goes silent during that section and he just lets Lucas hang himself with his own words.

I love that you put in the star wars kid with the Jedi @13.11

“Are you sure? They’re really GOOD pizza rolls!”

He ruined this too?

It is part of a trademark brand of dark humour. I can see why someone might object to it (regardless of gender), but there is no way anybody will come out thinking violence against women is laughable because of this review. It is not unnecessary, it just happens to be a part of what makes up the Mr. Plinkett character. Also, while the victims are women, there is nothing outwardly sexual that would make the portrayal of the violence actually sexist (which the guys and gals at RLM are as far from as you can get).

Just want to point out how poorly executed the Sand People murder part is. The problem is that the scene requires us to see them as victims, but let’s take into account what we do know about them:

-Attempts to murder Luke for simply being in their territory with no warning.
-Known to attack sandcrawlers, which is why the Stormtroopers thought it was a good idea to make it look like the Jawa were killed in a raid.
-Take potshots at podracers as if they’re playing a game of skeet.
-Wear masks to cover their entire face and body, making it impossible to tell the difference between men and women.
-Captures Shimi and tortures her, resulting in her death.
-Nothing about their culture is revealed and there is no motivation established for why they act so aggressively.
-There is no character to any Sand Person. At all.

But we’re supposed to think that Anakin is the bad guy for murdering an entire village of them? Seems like they’ve had it coming for a long time. How can we feel sympathy for Sand People when this is what we know about them? Or even consider that Anakin was wrong for doing it outside of his own guilty conscience.

You know Lucas is a hack when a random schmoe on the internet rewrites one of his scenes in a single short paragraph and it’s 19,000x better than the Ninja Turtle cartoon scene that actually made it to the screen.

I think that if the Sand People were relate-able on some level (like gang members), we could not have to generalize them. Because they all look, sound, and act exactly the same, they just don’t come across as a people who have a hard life.

I think that if he murdered other slaves (like a slave driver), we could see how he could be conflicted, because slaves, while doing something horrible, are also forced into it. If Anakin could have sympathy for them, then he could be conflicted about it.

Here, he murders a bunch of evil cartoon characters, so how bad could he have been?

I also interpreted it as saying something to the effect of “even someone so fucked in the head can clearly see all the things wrong with these films.”

See thats one of the many things that they “fixed” in the Star Wars EU. Pretty much if the jedi find out that someone has high medichlorians, they pretty much take them, wit no say from the parents. Its one of the many things that they fixed in EU. Thank you EU.

Probably the most shocking thing for me is the open contradiction of so many things from the original films. The sequence in the review showing Yoda’s head-shaking reactions to Lucas’ descriptions of the action in the prequels is hilariously funny. “Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter”…. “Even Master Yoda doesn’t have a Midichlorian count that high”. 100% contradiction. It’s like the person in charge of everything did not have even the flimsiest grasp of what made the original films special and magical, and proceeded to get every single thing wrong.

I wouldn’t mind a slightly less wise Yoda in this movie, one who relies on violence and a lightsaber more. His words in the original trilogy could very well come from someone who was once a fighter, but has grown older and wiser and now knows better. He’s already old by the prequels, but that doesn’t mean he can’t become wiser. Between Attack of the Clones and Empire Strikes Back he’s had a student become evil, lost almost all of his friends and coworkers, and sat alone in a swamp for who knows how many years. Him having learned from that experience and become even more wise makes a lot of sense.

But that would only be satisfying IF they had bothered showing his transformation, or at least the beginning of one. That would be some interesting character development, something the prequels completely failed at. Instead it just makes him seem inconsistent, and hypocritical.

really funny but creepy
🙂

At least we had the wise words of Anakin Skywalker. “I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.”

It’s because it was on the “This detail was mentioned in the New Hope, therefore it has to be in the sequels and it has to be spelled out so that people would get it.” list.

What really baffles me is not that, but that the clones turned out to be the “good” guys. I mean, when Obi Wan said that he fought with Anakin in the clone wars, and there were no apparent clones in the original trilogy, so I always figured they fought -against- the some clone army, defeated them and that’s why there were no clones mentioned anywhere after that point.

I would say what you say about the directors is about half-true. The other half is that CGI affects two very important things directors have to deal with: adversity and control. To elaborate:

First off, CGI and post-production in general removes a lot of the adversity from film-making, and the lack of adversity can easily lead to creative stagnation. Consider this: originally Jaws had a huge mechanical shark throughout the movie, but it malfunctioned, so Spielberg was forced to shoot around the lack of an actual shark in a shark movie. This gave us some of the most iconic moments in the movie. If the same thing happened today, they could have simply added a CGI shark there and be done with it. Same thing with lighting, visuals and even shooting on set. All of these factors provided things that the director often had to work around, and these oftentimes led to unique shots and novel ideas.

As for control, it spans from the simple fact that even though CGI gives a lot of control for the director in depicting his “vision”, it also robs them of a fair amount of control at the same time simply because the final work is not actually done under the supervision of the director. How a CGI scene will ultimately look is decided not by the director, but the hundreds of modelers, animators, special effects guys and other technicians who work on these details, and while the director can heavily influence these people, he cannot just change a shot or micromanage things like on a real set.

Christ, which one of you chucklefucks let Tumblr find out about the Plinkett reviews? You’ve gone and ruined it for everyone now ya jerk.

This is from Wookiepedia, the official Star Wars wikipedia:

“Initial reviews of the film were mixed, with criticism of the more traditional cinematic elements such as character development and dialogue, particularly with respect to the relationship between Padmé and Anakin. The dialogue was noted to be “leaden” and “flat” by critics. The acting was also disparaged by some critics for these same characteristics.”

EVEN THEY KNOW!

Well I wouldn’t object to a violent Yoda, one that transforms into the wise Yoda we know (assuming they show the transformation like you said) but in that case I would’ve liked him to use the force in an offensive way, but he really shouldn’t be using a lightsaber.

Why the hell did boba fett have to be the clone of jango anyway? it just felt random.

Fifteen

Yoda says “seeing you alive brings warm feelings…” he doesn’t say it backwards like he normally does.

Agreed. /Oblg. voice=”ComicBookGuy” Biggest. Disappoint. Ever.
Prometheus was (is?) almost as equally as non-logical. i.e. “Everything Wrong With Prometheus In 4 Minutes Or Less”

That´s how he talks when he gets drunk.

When a more-than-one-hour long video criticism of your movie is more entertaining than your movie, you know you’re in trouble.

Pissing myself laughing. Jason, hats off to you. The clockwork orange reference still has me howling. Well played.

Same reason he made 3PO the creation/son of Vader. Just because he could.

Is this the same chuckle-head that went on about how Qui Gon was a virtuous character and that he is a TV/movie editor? Get lost you humor cripple. No one is going to start kidnapping women because of a joke you Choad.

That last panel is absolutely fucking hilarious.

Yea, but you can’t really kill Watto. Although he is an ugly slave owner he’s meant to be like an ugly slave owner in like a cute comedic relief muppet sort of way. The audience might actually FEEL something from having him die. Better to have him murder nameless and literally FACELESS sand people. This way we can convey that he lost control and took out his rage on women and children, but in a sort of emotionally muted way that the audience (and Padme) can quickly detach from and forgive him for.

*Disclaimer: Typically, someone will miss that I’m being totally facetious. Please be aware what “WHOOSH” means prior to responding.

Schmaltzy implies that the romance was actually felt by the audience for being over the top. It’s not even that.

Now I know, and knowing is half the battle. 🙂

That’s fucking genius actually.

Thanks for the hat tip about the last two, Mr. Plinkett

The Phantom Menace. I’m assuming Maul is supposed to be the phantom menace but he is neither a phantom nor menacing. Lucas you FUCK

I grew up watching the Prequel Trilogy as a kid and still prefer it over the Original Trilogy, though I am a fan of all six films. Even if I watched your reviews of Episodes I-III, my opinion would not change.

Man…now I’m just dreaming of what Mace Windu would’ve been like if he was allowed to go “full Jackson.”

Whew! Makes my heart all a’ flutter! Disney? Get on that!

I for one am looking forward to the upcoming Half in the Bag where Lightning Fast gets besieged by tumblr divas, forcing Jay and Mike to take the drastic action of drinking slightly more beer to block out the picket line chanting.

I think Mike/Plinkett had the best idea: just have the clones be an army of mysterious invading monsters from deep space. Then Palpatine and Anakin could’ve been noble Jedi, fighting off this clone attack. Palpatine would’ve been a very old, wise and respected Jedi, like Yoda, who slowly over many years became corrupted by war and started dabbling with the ways of the Sith to gain an advantage over the invading clones.
This would’ve also had some nice parallels to Revan and Malak’s fall to the dark side, as well as the Yuuzhan Vong war. It would’ve been like poetry, it would’ve rhymed.

…!

Damn. You know what? I mutha’fuckin’ respec’ that!

For the curious, I typed that in the hopes you’d read it as if spoken by a deep voiced black man. It’s how it sounded in my head, at least.

Anyway, for what it’s worth, I like that replied to me and were honest about it. I’m not opposed to people having their opinions and sharing them, so go right ahead and enjoy the prequels. I’m certainly not going to call you bad names for that.

With that out of the way, I’m still curious as to what you enjoyed about the Star Wars prequels, “blind loyalty” aside.

I’ll actually share that I rather enjoyed about half of Attack of the Clones. The half that didn’t have some sort of forced love story, at least (same reason I can’t enjoy titanic).

What saves the movie for me are the arena scene, which is cool for all the reasons Plinkett describes, and the ending battle, since I have an irrational love of big sci-fi wars with robots and lasers in them! It is totally childish but love the war scenes all the same.

Yeah, I can see all that. Some of the quips still make me smile, some of the set pieces impress me even today and, emotionless though they might be, I do appreciate the…spectacle?…yeah, the spectacle of the ‘saber fights.

If I had to rebut those points, though, I’d say that the thing that irks me about the prequels is that there isn’t much to glue them together. Individual scenes are adequate at the least and often even good, but there is nothing but the flimsiest of logic connecting them together, and that’s if the audience is even told what is happening.

Even when I was younger there was always just something wrong about the prequels and as the years went by I’ve come to understand more of what rubbed me the wrong way. Sure, the Plinkett reviews helped us laymen understand filmaking, but even without the Plinkett treatment certain things would make me and my friends scratch our heads and say, “that, that just isn’t right.”

Anyway, that was me playing the opposition. As I said above, you go right ahead and enjoy them, since I certainly won’t hold it against you. At least, not as long as you have a reason beyond irrational product loyalty…

You know, come a decade or so from now, when one of them graduates from film school or something, one of the preteens I know will probably to their own review describing how the Micheal Bay Transformers movies they used to watch suck as films…what a cycle!

Honestly, I’m not sure how you’re supposed to pull off amazing acting chops when you’re given a terrible robotic script and expected to run pretty much every single scene on a greenscreen. People dump on the actors because they’re the actual people doing the stuff, but really there’s only so much you can do with a script, set, and blocking handed to you.

Appreciate the feedback. I remember owning Darth Vader and Boba Fett action figures as a kid and renting the original trilogy from the video store. I became a Star Wars fan before The Phantom Menace was released. So, I actually did see the original trilogy first. I had the pleasure of enjoying all six films through the eyes of a child. Personally, I consider all six Star Wars films to be “good films”. I know the prequels will forever be widely regarded as inferior, but I still like the prequels a little more (Childhood Nostalgia). All six films are a part of my childhood. Like every Star Wars fan, there are parts of each episode I like and there are parts I dislike, but I don’t let that stop me from enjoying the entire saga. I could go on forever explaining how and why I enjoy these movies and I do have many reasons. I’m just proud to be able to enjoy them all!

Meh. This movie is far worse. Prometheus at least had a ‘protagonist’ and acting and decent dialog even though an at times incoherent story. It was similarly basically just a rip off of the original Alien similar to how Clones borrowed so much. Prometheus does a lot of things better than Clones though. The CGI isn’t too in your face and is more just a device. I can understand not liking the movie for its flaws, but I certainly wouldn’t call Prometheus the worst thing since bagpipes.

@Codster9:disqus ….I already don’t like your parents. While they could have showed you the amazing power of using your imagination with the originals, and how people can be really creative by actually making unique sets and props, they instead chose to dumb you down with completely over the top CG spectacle crap that has too much going on in every single scene. NO WONDER ADHD & ADD are so prevalent these days. If I grew up watching these shitty movies, I wouldn’t be able to sit still or focus on anything either, and I’d probably have PTSD too.

It’s okay though kiddo! It’s time to take your Ritalin AND Adderall. You’ll be okay, and someday when you’re a grownup, you’ll come to your senses and realize how much George Lucas raped the beloved original series in every orifice, all to take parents like yours for a proverbial “ride”.

Next you’ll be telling everyone how you like the new Indiana Jones over the original trilogy too, am I right?

Everything you said in that description makes me want to watch that movie.

I think a part which annoys me a lot about the prequels is that Owen and Peru aren’t more central to the story. Owen and Peru in A New Hope seem to act as if they knew Anakin fairly well, which is completely contradictory of them in Attack of the Clones and the whole prequel trilogy in general because they only met Anakin once. When Aunt Peru says “he (Luke) has too much of his father in him” it made me feel as if she had known Anakin fairly well before he turned into Vader, as a person with an eye for adventure, one who is rebellious and not tied down to one place. The rebuttle of Uncle Owen “That’s what I’m afraid of” suggested that he was close to Anakin before he turned to the dark side, and that he had witnessed Anakin’s progression into Darth Vader and felt a sense of regret and guilt because he couldn’t prevent it from happening. Another part was the way Owen referred to Obi-Wan Kenobi as a “Crazy Old Wizard” acted as if he:
1. Thought it was his duty to try and stop Luke going down the Jedi pathway.
2. Felt that the Jedi were a huge contributor to Anakin’s demise,
3. Disliked Obi-Wan because he was Anakin’s mentor and considered him responsible for Anakin’s decent into darkness.

Perhaps I read into this too much but even so I think it would have been good to delve deeper into the relationship between Peru, Owen and Anakin in the prequels.

The prequels are a load of crap anyway.

I agree with your comment. If Disney were to reboot the prequel trilogy then have episode one start off 2 years into the Clone War. I think the movie would be A LOT better if the story focus on the friendship between Anakin, Owen, Obi Wan, and maybe aunt Peru. Have Anakin be the guy who advocates war against the Sepertist and wanted to join the Jedi while Owen plays the role of a pacifist. Maybe have Obi Wan be the guy to convince Anakin to join Jedi and this would give Owen reason to hate Obi Wan.

You do realize it’s a joke, right?

Hi, feminist here. Violence against women is not presented in these reviews in any kind of flippant way that implies it is okay. It is used as part of Plinkett’s characterization as a crazy psychopath, the underlying theme being that you can build distinctive, interesting characters in tiny buffer snippets of a movie review video, so there’s no excuse for the shitty characterizations in the prequels. He sexually assaults a cat too, but the video is not saying that cat rape is okay. And besides, Nadine is hardly some powerless, voiceless, damsel in distress.

LMAO! Oh man I can’t tell you how many times I’ve ended an debate with my nephew when he tires to explain to me about why, in his opinion, the prequels were flawless in leading up to the original films; by citing that Jar Jar nonsense. Jar Jar gave the Emperor his power base, puh-lease. Personally, I think Plinkett has it right, any and everything Jar Jar did after TPM was just a big middle finger from Lucas to the world for saying what a dumb-fuck Jar Jar was and how much we’d all like to see him executed as an enemy to the franchise. The only useful thing JJ can do with Jar Jar is have him bee bop his way into the exhaust of the Falcon and provide Chewie and Han with some roasted hasenpfeffer for dinner.

Said how the mass left wing media has played Bush, and that you fell for it.

give it time There are many shows and movie I loved as a Kid that I cant watch now but know there are shows and movie I hated as a kid that I love . . . The same will happen to you

I always thought that was her name lol, I guess thats my bad for not double checking all this time but it always sounded like they said Peru, and I’ve never once looked up her character. I do know that there is a country named Peru.

Actually, the actors using light sabers in the films have physical sticks on the end of the hilts to assist the CGI department. So, joke or not your response is quite mistaken burt.

IIRC the Children of the Producers did actually turn up in the Original Trilogy. They just had the good sense to cram them in Jawa costumes and not give them any dialogue whatsoever.

In Part 1, can anybody tell me what film(s?) those clips beginning at 8:23 are from? Starting with that brunet guy? (I know the Star Trek ones, but I don’t recognize any of the others.)

Much obliged…

Whenever I fuck up in life, I say, “hey, at least I didn’t create the Star Wars prequels.”

LMAO! Mike V you were funny. This was better.

“People getting jacked in this movie” (yeesh…) Painful

Okay, ladies and gentlemen of the internet, you want a
better plot for an episode two, which has continuity with the originals and
explains the phrase “the Clone Wars” without making all the
stormtroopers clones (or not? By a New Hope, they’re just normal guys, right?),
here you go:

Following an Episode One in which we meet the teenaged Anakin on his father’s
moisture farm, an Obi Wan Kenobi who discovers the potential Jedi and lures him
away from his brother, and a galaxy on the brink of a civil war; we open on
episode two. In the opening act, out of fear of the growing threat posed by
separtist systems, the Republic forces the Jedi to relocate to Coruscant from
their ancient jungle temple (the Rebel base from the original film). The Jedi
are pissed off about being forced to relocate from a serene, pastoral, remote
location to a planet-sized mega-city where nature has been destroyed, and as
such they are weaker and less in tuned with the force (this happened at the end
of my imaginary episode one). The person in charge can still be a Chancellor
Palpatine, who is secretly evil (that role makes sense, it was just executed
beyond badly) and uses his increasing control of the Republic to weaken the
Jedi. He sends them off on dangerous, cinematically interesting missions, to
assassinate opponents, bribe officials, and act as soldiers, knowing that
either they will either accomplish their missions, or get killed in the process
which he also likes, because he is a Sith, and dead Jedi are fine by him. The
Jedi being coerced into serving the Republic in increasingly dubious and
un-hippie ways makes them even angrier, leading to a confrontation (verbal)
between Yoda and Palpatine in which Yoda gives a predicate-lead speech about the
Force, and how the Jedi will no longer carry out immoral tasks in the name of
the Republic and the greater good. Palpatine replies, okay, if you won’t serve
the Republic, the Republic will find others who will. The next day Palpatine
addresses the Senate (the set design looked neat, so we’ll go with the one in
the prequels) that the Republic will create a clone army to fight the rebel
systems. The Jedi (whose religion holds that there is a mystical Force uniting
all life) refuse to have anything to do with the idea of life created only to
be used to kill, call it heretical, and leave Coruscant en masse for their old
temple. The Republic then declares the Jedi outlaws and traitors to be
destroyed on sight. Now with two threats, the Jedi and the separtists,
Palpatine is allowed to conscript soldiers from systems throughout the Republic
(i.e. stormtroopers) to fight them both. Thus start the Clone Wars, wars not
fought by clones, but over clones and the threat of cloning.

In my imaginary version of the prequels, those are the larger events of the
universe, Anakin, Owen, Obi Wan, and Luke and Leia’s mother (she can be called
Padme, whatever) are characters scurrying around during these events, but
they’re not driving the plot. The are parts of a larger story, to quote the
Plinkett. Anakin isn’t destined to anything, there is no prophesy (whatever the
fuck that was, besides never properly explained, and yet the whole driving
force of Lucas’ prequels). At the end of act two of my imaginary episode three,
Anakin gets pissed off at Obi Wan because he thinks that Obi Wan knocked up his
girlfriend (hence why he doesn’t know that Luke and Leia are his kids in the
original film until the Emperor tells him), and goes to the Emperor to tell him
where all the outlaw (in my version) Jedi are, leading to the massacre of the
Jedi, and his fall from grace. You don’t really need a lava planet for Anakin
to burn in. My episode three begins with him doing some heroic space piloting,
saving the Jedi from Republic forces, loosing limbs in the process, then
getting recrimination for something or not getting credit for his bravery from
Yoda. It could be that Yoda believed that there could have been a peaceful
resolution to my action set-piece, and that Anakin was being unnecessarily and
un-Jedi-y violent. Then thirty minutes into the third movie, Anakin is pissed
off, with relatable motivation for being dissatisfied with the Jedi, which
doesn’t just involve him wanting more power. Then thinking that Obi Wan knocked
Padme up would be what caused him to snap. That would also make Yoda’s
character deeper, and for the first time make the audience have second thoughts
about Yoda. My interpretation of the Clone Wars and synopsis of the second film
would also make Uncle Owen’s motivation in A New Hope even stronger. In my
head, episode two would end with Anakin returning home to Tatooine, and seeing
his brother (whom he still loves) for the first time since episode one (my
version), only to have his brother spit in his face calling him a traitor,
gun-for-hire, heretic, because Owen believes what Palpatine has told the
galaxy. The irony being that at the end of (my) episode two, he isn’t those
things, and at the end of (my) episode three, he is.

Sorry that took almost nine-hundred words, but I like the rest of you am still hurting, and that was like therapy.

I just noticed this. That machine you pointed out, the one with the red beams that is in The Last Starfighter and also Star Trek…. it’s also in Airplane II. Bonus points: William Shatner points it out. 🙂

https://www.modernprops.com/Details1b.asp?dept=195&category=290&item=1

I saw that film myself as a little boy. Sydneydude is selling it short. It is an engaging film that highlights everything wrong with modern filmmaking. People suffer and die in it, crisis is depicted in a very real way, and in the end we have to contemplate that the victors have paid a very real price.

It shits on TPM from a great height, but it also shits on pretty much every other saga-film we have borne witness to these past few years. Hungry Games, Harry Potty, you name it.

It also makes no secret of the fact that it is basically a porting of Seven Samurai into outer space. And you can get it on Blu-ray Disc, too. I highly recommend that you do.

Huh, it’s also on Amazon Prime streaming, HD, so it’s (sort of) free. I’ll check it out!

I don’t see it that way at all. I’ll have to rewatch it (yet again) but I believe Plinkett made a point to say Hayden was a fine actor. He made other points regarding Hayden, yes, to include it’s not Hayden’s fault that the direction and script sucked and I have no beef with those points.
My interest is not in blaming Hayden for the failure of the film(s). I’m merely suggesting a refinement of a particular point in an otherwise solid critique. This could be achieved simply by omitting any judgement on Hayden’s acting ability. Or he could just as easily illustrate that like Samuel L. Jackson, he was seriously miscast due to his limitations.
The part of Ben Kenobi is bafflingly bad in the prequels but I don’t ever hear anyone complaining that Ewan’s a bad actor. Same with Qui Gon and Liam. I think that’s because despite the flaws of these movies there’s a sense that these guys if not able to elevate the material are at least attempting to make the most of it. Hayden’s performance is just as shot with incompetence as Jake Lloyd’s. He seems to have no instincts as to how to give his role any shape or humanity.

So he’s defeated and a terrible actor? I could see that.

I have half-read, half-skimmed your prequel treatment and indeed believe it is much preferable to what we got. I would advise that a few more paragraph breaks would have helped the presentation.

For what it is worth, when Boba Fett was written about during the 1980s, his armour was specifically described as being that of the Mandalorians, a group of warriors that were defeated in the Clone Wars. It is too long ago to be sure, but I would venture that if the descriptions I read were not exactly like that, they were not far off. A little while ago I wrote some modifications to TPM in a response above here.

Well, the Mandalorians are the force that I would have invading Tattooine and being defeated by the Jedi. And they would be clones, but not perfect ones, and not all entirely look-alikes. In short, I would avoid what Lucas did regarding cloning. That is, I would not broadcast to an audience full of people who could stand to benefit from cloned cells or related medicine that I have absolutely no idea how cloning really works.

My Mandalorians would have been clones of maybe a dozen or two dozen people, and with variations that show that all is not idyllic for a clone. Deformities, obvious diseases that suggest a loss of genetic diversity, and so on. And the first film, other than Anakin failing to save his mother from them and thus being “adopted” by Obi-Wan, would be about how Jedi defeat the Mandalorian army. Anakin, the Padme I might not have in the story, and Obi-Wan would be just a few characters in a story where others turn up and do interesting things, too.

To a large extent the prequels suffer from the exact same problem that Star Trek always has. Why must every important or exciting event in the canon’s universe involve these particular characters? The additional Jedi, such as Mace Windu or whatever the other council members were called, would serve the purpose of alleviating that. Anakin and Padme are left at a place where they can “fall in love” (also very differently to what we got), and Obi-Wan goes and spends the final 30 or so minutes fighting the decisive battle against the Mandalorians.

This is why when people like Lucas insist on writing or “approving” bad screenplays, writers who need work get annoyed. I am just one of many, many thousands of writers who could have turned out a better Phantom Menace than Lucas.

Okay, having read in text form what Plinkett actually said, I see now why you take issue with it. For what it is worth, I do, too. I admitted earlier that I had not seen Hayden in anything else (that I remember), so I could not point the finger at him and say he is a lousy actor. I will stick to that position. But you are right when you cite poor handling of terrible material.

For example, if I had been in his place and Lucas asked me to deliver the lines that are in Clods, I would be saying to him “Well, George, my career is at stake to a far greater degree than yours, would you at least do me a favour and let me try a few takes with what I think would be coming out of my mouth if I were an awkward boy who wants to know what the inside of this other character feels like?”. Or something very close to that. Very possibly, Hayden did in fact say something like that. But I would have fought a lot harder for it. But in the end, when one is Lucas, if he makes up his mind that Padme is going to fall in love with Anakin in spite of Anakin acting less “fall in love with me” than Steve “I’m wearing you down” Urkel, nobody is going to tell him no. I remember Mr. Cranky asking in his review when the last time someone told Lucas no was.

For what it is worth, writing dialogue that is smooth-flowing and advances the story whilst being organic is not as easy as it sounds. The fictions that I write, I will do just about anything to avoid writing actual dialogue. I prefer to write locations, actions, and descriptions. But I promise you I can still write better dialogue than what turned up in Clods.

I also fantasise that one day my writing might get widely distributed and I will be in a position where I can have films made based on my writing. I would do films based on original material, too. Things like a biopic of Paul Verhoeven (“this is it, this is the film I will be remembered for” whilst at the premiere of RoboCop). Or remakes of the PT. My reply to Pop Rivets below about my story idea for TPM is a good idea of the direction my PT remake would be going in.

I know you hate people saying “this or that is in this book” or whatever, Plinkett. But I want to point something out that can be used to further demonstrate how much Lucas’ writing sucks.

In the novelisation of The Phantom Menace, several sand people attack whatever Mos it is that Anakin and Shmi are slaves in. Anakin discovers a wounded sand person out in the outskirts. He cares for, helps, and waits whilst the other sand people come to claim, this sand person.

I point this out because this scene in TPM would have done two things. One, it would have gone a long way to show the “good” in Anakin that we are told he has. And two, it would have given the sand people murdering scene a great deal more impact.

It really speaks to Lucas’ poverty as a storyteller that people who adapt his work into other forms do the things that he should be doing himself.

No, it’s Boba. As in, yet another element borrowed from Empire and shoehorned in this movie in as awkward a way as possible. There is literally no difference between the two characters and there is no good reason for any Fetts to be involved in the new movies at all, except as another pointless callback to nostalgia. That’s the whole point in repeatedly misnaming him in these reviews.

“I’m just proud to be able to enjoy them all!”

Why is that something to be proud of?

Why the fuck did Obi Wan jump through the window to grab the droid anyways? He could have just force pulled the droid towards him. We see from Empire Strikes Back that Jedi are easily able to use the force to move droids.

I know Plinkett makes this point in the Episode 3 review, but the scene with the little kids with the lightsabers just really bothers me visually. Once again the scene presents to us the limitations of doing EVERYTHING in front of a blue screen. As Plinkett says they should be in a gym, far away from each other as they twirl their lightsabers around. No child would ever stand around like they do in the movie. It’s also frustrating considering how awesome a scene of Jedis-in-training jumping around in an awesome technological gym would have been. But no, instead we just get another scene with lightsabers, while ripping off something else from the original films.

Because that would make sense, which would really stand out in these movies.

Jocelyn is so good in this stuff, it’s a shame we don’t see more of her… I mean see her in more stuff.

But really, she’s great.

But it’s the CHOSEN ONE, Anakin, who’s prophesied to do…something, or other… ;D

DONATE.

Would anyone else totally play the hypothetical jedi game Plinkett parodied?

What if Mr. Plinkett is Robert Durst, and that’s why he’s not been making reviews in a while.

To bring balance to my nuts.

“every movie is good if you’re a true star wars fan”

Wow, never heard such zealous defense of the prequels.

Well I guess all the “true star wars fans” were born after 1990 then…

To the reviewer: You sir, are a fine human being!! I just spent 2 hours watching 2 of your Star Wars reviews…..time well spent!

How did he know the window would break? This is a futuristic alien society with advanced, vastly superior technology, so it wouldn’t be made of glass. It would be completely immune to blunt force trauma that a human could do. Obi Wan would smash into it, and the window wouldn’t budge or be damaged at all.

Yeah, that too. Padme’s apartment was in a skyscraper 90000 feet above the ground, the windows in skyscrapers are extra thick to PREVENT someone from smashing through them.

Compare the opening chase scene in Attack of the Clones with that in The French Connection. In The French Connection it’s basically just a stunt man driving from one end of the street to the other, and another man in a train. Yet it’s 100 times better than all the hijinks that Lucas’ computers could make, and one of the most famous chase scenes in cinema history. That’s because in The French Connection, we are invested in what’s happening because the plot has been building for an hour, because it looks real rather than the loony-toons enviroment in AOTC (in fact parts of it were), and because of what it tells us about the characters.

From my own experience, not as many people have seen it, but those who have generally regard it well.

Why would I want to do that when I could just play Jedi Knight?

Lmao the “Donate” tag in part 2 at 27:33

I think George has talent….just not as a director. He is a great ideas man. Producer. I liked THX quite a lot.

Reading about the details around making American Graffiti and SW ANH shows he had many really bad ideas over turned and that this was significant in making those two movies much better than if he had been given free reign as in the prequels…The prequels are generally panned as bad movie making…direction, dialogue, plot etc. That is George with nothing to tie him down or say no.

I think the people who are complaining about Mike’s use of dark humor are totally missing the point. Or maybe they are slaves of political correctness. In either case, Mike is clearly using dark humor to get his point across; not to insult women.

Take, for example, the clip of the two girls at the beginning of this review (Part 1). In this scene, Mr. Plinkett (a crazed sadist) threatens to kill two women if they don’t assemble five puzzles in one hour. The task is impossible, because Plinkett has thrown all the puzzle pieces on the ground, and they are all mixed together.

Now, apparently a lot of people did not understand that this “dark” scene is purely metaphorical. I would argue that it is brilliantly metaphorical, despite it’s political incorrectness. Allow me to explain….

The scattered puzzle pieces, which are taken from five separate puzzles, represent the scenes in Attack of the Clones. The puzzles themselves represent the Original Trilogy. So, what was Mike trying to say? George basically took a bunch of scenes (the pieces) from the original films (the puzzles) and remade them in the most inept way possible. He then reassembled them in an illogical, childish sequence that made no sense. Lucas behaved like a frightened girl who carelessly constructed something merely to satisfy the crazed desires of a lunatic.

Metaphors can represent multiple things. The two girls also represent the hundreds of talented men and women who worked on the prequel films. These artists tirelessly worked to create hundreds of digital scenes, without any intellectual payoff. They merely did it to satisfy the narcissistic demands of a delusional retard. Yes, Mr. Plinkett is a metaphorical representation of George Lucas.

Finally, the victimized women also represent the thousands of dedicated Star Wars fans who George Lucas abused by creating these terrible films. Mike, in a very tongue-and-cheek way, is trying to convey how abusively disappointing these films were to so many Star Wars fans like himself.

“… something like an alien or a robot would view human love as …”

I’ve always joked that the Prequels are such an inhuman, emotionless clusterfuck because they’re really R2 telling the story to Luke decades later. Nothing makes sense, especially the human motivation, because we’re seeing it through the limited, artificial perceptions of an astromech.

Unfortunately, we’re seeing it through the limited, artificial perceptions of George Lucas. Dude’s a creative genius, but he needed someone to challenge his ideas and make them better, like he had back in the Original Trilogy.

I don’t disagree with you at all, but I’m not limiting my judgement of him to Star Wars. In a way, I view Lucas as more of an idea guy than a storyteller. Also, his drive to improve special effects changed movies forever, and that’s more where his genius lies, IMHO.

So what, he couldn’t have used a metaphor that didn’t poke fun at rape/murder victims? And what the hell is this about George Lucas abusing fans? How is the disappointment of a group of a predominately white people with a movie franchise comparable, to, say, a skinny bitch chained to a radiator and taking it up the arse everyday from a postal worker til she bleeds?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxfDnq9ORIs

This video was made by them exactly for fuck-its like you! I’m not sure you’re smart enough to get their point though.

I mean, Yoda in Empire Strikes Back advises Luke to do the EXACT opposite. Don’t go on a suicide mission to save your friends, yeah they’re probably gonna die, let them go, don’t fall into a trap.

Lucas of course throws that into the dumpster by having Yoda go on a suicide mission to save his friends and falls into a trap.

Well, you’re the one that calls me ‘friend’.

Anything can and should be joked about. No exceptions. Either everything is okay to joke about or nothing is.

Honestly it’s the juxtaposition. How do you make a nerdy bullshit geeky ass review like this lighthearted and funny? Do something that’s completely the opposite. Rape and torture are funny when they’re shown so nonchalantly after a clip of Jar Jar. I don’t find farts funny but they can be in the right context, the same thing applies here. Context.

all day nigga

The humor’s not for you. Go someplace else, then. Why do you care if other people enjoy it?

What’s wrong with your face?

Since the comment section for TPM Review is closed (for no apparent reason), I post this quote from an article about Captain Kirk’s leadership abilities here. What the author of the article had to say, applies to the whole prequel trilogy anyway.

“Weak leaders surround themselves with yes men who are afraid to argue
with them. That fosters an organizational culture that stifles
creativity and innovation, and leaves members of the organization afraid
to speak up. That can leave the organization unable to solve problems
or change course. Historically, this has led to some serious disasters,
such as Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace” from: http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/03/05/five-leadership-lessons-from-james-t-kirk/

The article was posted in march 2012. I wonder if Alex Knapp has seen TPM Review. The term “yes men” and TPM as example leads me to believe he has.

Hi! Excuse me but I would just like to point out that the conceit behind these Star Wars reviews is that only a psychopathic serial killer/kidnapper would stoop so low as to repeatedly watch and then review the prequels. In other words you’d have to be crazy to watch these movies.

Also if you watched the reviews to completion you would have seen the dazzling twist ending.

Actually I take it all back: MIKE, JAY, AND RICH ALL ENJOY VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN. WRITE THIS ON THE BACK OF THE SPACE COP DVD CASE.

George wrote Star Wars dumbass the greatest fight between good and evil we can see where you lie. Totally Sith. Whether he had help or not you cant make a movie without other people of course they get credited. every movie has a director with people ho get credited. you write a $12 billion franchise and than come back to talk to me.

I would like a pizza roll.

Huh? Didn’t know Plinkett worked at the post office.

I really do love these. I’ve watched them far more than the films themselves. They’re just such terrible movies. I’m hoping we won’t have to see the next trilogy on this list, but if it does at least we’ll have more Plinkett!

Mike hunter – relative of Mike Hawk?

i always thought yoda said fighting does not make one great because he’d been in the shit, and came to realize it was meaningless. so in that sense, he probably did fight at one point (maybe when he was like 200 or something), and it would have been interesting to see that for character development… of course the way they did it in the prequel didn’t accomplish that at all.

If you dont want to get your feefees hurt why dont you go off the grid, like seriously. Comedy comes from a place of misery, its why we find slapstick funny. People shouldnt have to censor what they want to say because some prick said “it’s offensive”… And what does the race of the group have to do with the dissapointment of the film, its called hyperbole, maybe you should stop your gender studies crap and get a real job…

What?! Yeah lucas had the inital spark, but all the stuff that we love about the franchise came from lucas’ collaboration with designers, actors, cinematographers, and engineers. Not just lucas. I hate this arguement of “Well, you go make a billion dollar franchise!!!” Well okay, first I need millions of dollars, a company backing me like say… Fox, and friends from the most renowned film school in the world. And the best marketing team on the planet… Gotcha, I can make a 12 billion dollar franchise that produces better films than the star wars prequels. That is no defense, of course I can make a better film than the prequels.

Dexter is the key https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh-5UhwcBW0&t=4m22s
… although he doesn’t have a personality yet.

I agree it would be more enjoyable without it, but it makes more sense as you watch III and the epilogue.

And unfortunately they got their asses whooped when they fought bigger stronger people with comparable training……

I dont get comments like these.I mean,I completely understand when someone says “I cant watch plinkett,the violence in those videos is just too much for me”.I get it,not everyone likes dead baby comedy(nor should they).Perfectly understandable.But then there are people who must specify that its violence against WOMEN that is bothering them,strongly implying that theyd be 100% ok if the violence was directed towards MEN.Thats fucked up.

I love these reviews but even seeing and knowing these movies are bad, I can’t bring myself to dislike them.

*Milwaukee

Meh, he’s from Milwaukee.

You know you’ve fucked up when a review hosted by a crazy person is more entertaining and insightful than the movie being analyzed.