Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith

Ink’s not cheap kids! The man runs a bishhhhness!

I just wanna Fucking watch the MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! D:<'

wait I have a question if you guys have been fixing Plinketts, and he has no clue what a dvd player is then why is he watching the dvd version???

That’s why I call what George did a major scam, probably one of the biggest in entertainment history.

However, it won’t last long. Right now, they’re working on another Star Wars TV show, but I already know just from my own circles that nobody is going to be fooled anymore. Whether or not it’s good, there’s better stuff to occupy our time.

For me, George ruined everything so much that I will never bother with it again. I used to watch the Original Trilogy at least once a year. Now, I don’t. I stopped. I haven’t watched any Star Wars film since 2008. When I watch Hope or Empire, I can’t put the Prequels out of my mind.

General grievous was the only good thing in revenge of the sith.

Not to take away anything from your post, but it would not have been the heat of the lava that killed ObiWan and Darth in the volcano fight, it would have been the poisonous gasses. Just so everyone is clear.

Holy shit, you’re right! It’s like Plinkett only had 1 draft, and he was said “let’s go with it,” without anyone saying that it made no sense.

this is main point he is making, people a generally stupid or ignorant about movies and will go watch movie with nothing but eye candy and dum action cuz you dont need good story and characters for a strong long live movie to make the money just that big box office release and in GL case selling shit, so yes the sad truth is we did this to our self’s

not me though, I just watched the birds and it was pretty awesome, I understand the ending was because hitchcock couldn’t shoot the scene of all the birds on the Golden Gate Bridge, but it was a great film

One thing guys, don’t let this ruin what a fascinating film series the originals were, let original star wars live on!

Here is the kicker though – sure he made plenty of money, but the original trilogy is a cultural landmark that will (would have) outlived all of us – the prequels are just cynical cash grabs. The true mark of a legend is that it makes everything before it obsolete, and everything afterwards bears its mark… You just simply cannot say that about anything in the prequels. Shit, the plinket reviews are the ONLY good thing to come from them.

“You either die a hero, or live long enough to become a villain”

The empire did blow up an innocent planet, that’s pretty evil. Aside from that though… yeah, I got nothing. We were told things, but not much on screen. It could be interpretted that only Grand Moff Tarkin wanted to do things like that.

Well, in addition to blowing up the planet, there’s Vader’s example with throwing people around and stuff that showed us he wasn’t just a policeman for a well-meaning empire, the Empire’s use of torture (remember that evil looking black torture droid with all the needles), their generally fascist attitude towards life, Vader being despotic even with his subordinates, the Empire’s plan to blow up another planet, Princess Leia’s tirade to them about tyranny which they didn’t dispute, they just made it clear to her they had the upper hand, the general police-state like atmosphere wherever they found storm troopers, like when they went into town, the general difference between commanders and atmosphere on the star destroyers vs the rebel commanders and their pilots/crew.

I think the first couple movies did a good job of showing us who the bad guys were without telling us. If it were done along prequel lines, Lucas would have one really overt hamhanded scene in which he tries to convince us those empire guys are bad. Or maybe it would have just been established with a couple guys walking down a hallway and one guy saying how evil the empire was with totally flat delivery and flat response.

I got it

he he he yeah

I don’t think an edit could fix this.

For starters, why did they put #$&ing C3PO in the body of a young Obi Wan?

I mean, what the fuck? I thought Obi Wan would be the idealistic dashing hero who learns wisdom, learns his limitations while staying true to his convictions through the trilogy. If there’s one thing Lucas needed to do, it was to make Obi Wan COOL. The OLD Obi Wan wasn’t some obstreperous coma-inducing bore with a stick up his ass, so why young Obi Wan? I thought he’d be more like Daniel Day Lewis’s character in Last of the Mohicans, maybe D’Artagnan or Aragorn from their respective books.

If only Lucas wrote from the characters instead of “gotta make stuff happen,”

Make Anakin a bit younger than Obi Wan but not a child. Obi Wan could be good, dashing, maybe a bit overeager to do good and getting himself into trouble but not ambitious per se – maybe he’s a really good student but viewed as a little bit too independent and unpredictable. Maybe he bugs the more-established jedi because he doesn’t even rebel per se just does what he thinks is right regardless of what they think. Maybe he doesn’t care too much about pride of place, might not even care if he was kicked out of the Jedi order if it came to that and there was something he thought needed doing… you could have some scene with Yoda in which Yoda, in an approving unconcerned manner, says the Jedi would have kicked you out years ago for your headstrong ways except we can sense your good heart. (maybe implying they’re a little dumb about the whole thing)

…Anakin is discovered by Gin and is found to be off the charts. Gin is overwhelmed by his sheer strength in the force. Maybe you could show Anakin had kind of a hard life, orphaned perhaps. You could start him off as a slave on tatooni, that works. But let him be closer to Obi Wan’s age. Gin gets distracted from teaching Obi Wan due to the unprecedented level of Anakin’s power so there can be tension there as Obi Wan deals with sharing his tutelage with Anakin who is getting a late start in the Jedi arts. But you could have Obi Wan ending up half-teasing him half training him – you could show Obi Wan relenting and being insightful and effective with his help of Anakin. You could show Anakin being half infuriated half eternally grateful – maybe having enough power means a lot to a mistreated former slave who never had enough of it to fend off his tormentors but maybe he’s also motivated by gratitude and the desire to measure up.

That could set the stage for the tension and friendship between the characters. Obi Wan is more of an older brother who often ends up unwittingly in competition and has the gall to not even notice he’s showing up Anakin. Obviously he bests Anankin at everything early on but seems to be the one who can help him most with breakthroughs in his training. As Anakin grows in skill and starts to think he’ll be Obi Wan’s equal, he finds he still isn’t. It’s Anakin’s massive power/brawn against Obi Wan’s skill and subtlety. Obi Wan’s insight into the force is truer and simply more GOOD, more in tune with what Old Obi Wan tells us in ep 4. While Anakin thinks of it as a skill or a tool. Obi Wan tries to communicate to Anakin what he’s missing but it’s the one lesson he can’t seem to grasp. Maybe there’s a few subtle scenes where Obi Wan shows him some elegant Haiku or old Arabian poetry or some zen flower arrangement or asks him to watch a storm come in with him – some beautiful nature kinda thing… something like that and Anakin tries but says he’ll never get good enough if he wastes his time on that instead of training. Sort an opposite moment to that moment where Connery teaches McCloud about The Quickening and he has that experience with the deer in Highlander. You could give them both a sense of humor making Obi Wan flip and witty – or even let him be the more serious character that just fiercely believes beauty is important, love is important and Anakin more sardonic, more gallows humor – which fits his previous life as a slave and the “heaviness” of the Darth Vader character later.

From there the character arc and plot get easier. Anakin pursues his “brawn” approach to the force but isn’t totally satisfied with the results although occasionally blowing his fellow Jedi away with the things he can do. He senses he has more power and can’t figure out how to unlock it. His frustration with not being able to beat/equal Obi Wan at sparring or anything else galls him while there is increased pressure on him to measure up during a totally reimagined clone wars – a lot of people are looking at him as the “go-to” guy which just stresses him out more while Obi Wan says “hey no pressure” which only infuriates him more. Obi Wan saves his ass a few times but he saves Obi Wan’s ass a few times as well, maybe there is some emotional involvement with a secondary character, some other thing that happens where Anakin has the opportunity to be there for Obi Wan, offer him encouragement or sympathy and maybe you get to see him weigh the value of that experience vs his goal of unlocking this additional power he thinks he is having problems accessing…

…at which point something lets him meet the Emperor – or maybe he SEEKS OUT the emperor as someone he’s heard of. And what he learns is that the dark side DOES unlock his brute strength approach. The Emperor teaches him to concentrate on how he felt growing up orphaned and a slave, powerless and wanting more power – or perhaps more subtly, wishing he could exchange roles, put his abuser in the victim role and himself as the abuser. Maybe he manages, with his newfound power, to help out considerably in the Clone Wars and win the day. Instead of those wars leading directly to the fall of the empire, they are an emergency where Anakin, in a sense, ruins himself as a Jedi while saving the day by using the Dark Side in service of Good. Maybe he’s happy to finally see Obi Wan surprised at him and his increased powers that came apparently from nowhere.

You have to explain why does Anakin bow to the Emperor? It makes no sense in the prequels and makes no sense unless you connect it to his character. So maybe the Emperor says something about “Bow to me and you need fear no one else. Bow to me and you will bow to NO other. Bow to me and I will teach you everything. Worlds beyond worlds of power and no one to fear, no one to challenge you, no one to control you ever again.”

If this is done WHILE his increased help is needed by his friends it makes for a compelling SEDUCTION by the dark side. His longing to Be The BIG HERO At Just The Right Moment above all else unlike Obi Wan who just wants to do the right thing tips the scales. Maybe there’s some feeling from earlier like the jedis limited his actions, constrained him, but he doesn’t feel free to do what he wants like Obi Wan – he feels like if he lost his place with the Jedi he’d lose everything yet resents their constraints. Maybe he’s tried hard to be a respectable jedi and has been moving up the ranks, maybe he knows he’s better than them (except Obi Wan who he has never beaten) and as a result feels it is absurd he should have to do what they say sometimes. And you could have some event in which he is beaten, he feels like he’s right back where he started as a slave being dominated by someone stronger… and Obi Wan saves him, leaving Anakin saying to himself that he simply does not have enough power yet. You could have an interesting dynamic in which Anakin is eventually the more “important” jedi because he plays by the rules while Obi Wan is lower in the ranks because he keeps getting demoted for doing his own thing before being promoted again for doing something good or useful, so Obi Wan ends up vacillating around the rankings and is thought of as a loose cannon but not really moving up like Anakin which Anakin is pleased by until he encounters a moment of weakness where he needs saving and realizes Obi Wan is still the better more powerful jedi, that power is what really matters at the end of the day, not the approval of the puritan Jedi.

You could have scenes where people make reference to how things used to be, how things are breaking down or how they are more corrupt than before to give an atmosphere of decadence to the Republic- make that 1,000 years or 1,000 generations count as the Republic getting long in the tooth, not what it used to be. Then you could have Yoda talking about the current Jedi knights – maybe they refer to Yoda as a Jedi Master and send all their guys to train with him, make reference to him in their councils (what would Yoda say?) send people to his planet for advice, which he gives the best answers HE can think of which is zen/stoic wisdom applicable to the situation but which they can’t quite figure out how to apply… while he has never officially joined their order and is bemused by their focus of respect on him. He willingly trains people sent to him and trains every Jedi but uses NO LIGHTSABER. Maybe he could refer to the Jedi as compensating for the Republic’s corruption by becoming to officious, too stultified, formal, even bureaucratic. He could make out that Obi Wan gets it because he simply does what he knows is right – some line about “oh those jedi knights on coruscant have good intentions but they’re too distracted to realize maintaining good intentions is the whole point. A few hundred years ago all the Jedi were like you” Maybe he makes a big deal out of that – that your decisions have to come from a good place and everything follows from that even if in the end you fail – that it isn’t so much about winning per se or the paradox that you can’t win if you focus on winning because you become what you’re fighting against, that kind of thing.

…and then maybe it is Anakin near the very end who saves Luke and Leia with Obi Wan’s help – or saves Obi Wan even, telling him this is the last thing I will do for you, I made a deal with the emperor, next time I see you I’ll do my best to kill you – but that one last time he couldn’t let his friend die and it’s a secret he keeps from the Emperor… that he saved Obi Wan, the existence of Luke and Leia, perhaps even Obi Wan’s location is known to him, explaining how he knows he is Luke’s father… but in any case, some scene in which Anakin does Obi Wan a HUGE solid, perhaps already in the Vader suit, and keeps that one secret from the Emperor, but saying fatalistically he thinks it is the last good thing he can do. Make the fall of the Republic a BACKDROP, the historical events that they’re living through with the occasional thing they can do to contribute.. by the time Vader tells him it is the last good thing he thinks he’ll ever do, the Republic has fallen. Obi Wan simply does not have the power or ability to stop an entire space Empire from forming. Obi Wan’s character arc leads him to a place where, with Yoda’s help, he gains wisdom and knowledge of his limitations, that no matter how heroic, there are some things you cannot do, cannot control, so you get the dual character arc of a character who essentially cannot be tempted because he’s learned his limitations and a character who seeks an end to limitations. And in the end both Obi Wan and Anakin discover that all that’s left that they can control is one relatively small thing, They can save Luke and Leia. Then Obi Wan patiently goes to Tatooni where he will watch and guard Luke from afar while Anakin, finally freed from anyone’s moral restraint as well as Obi Wan’s galling superiority, gets his reward from the Emperor, the unlocking of additional power, a position of power in the empire, etc.

In just designing all the scenes to play this stuff out, I think you could have more than enough cool CGI scenes to play with if you wanted.

This is the best of the prequels, but… that’s not saying much.

Wow, I never knew that when Vader’s helmet lowers onto his head in Empire, he was in his “breathing room”, in a “vulnerable state”. I always assumed he was in his office. The officer was the one in the vulnerable position for bothering Vader. Didn’t think he was lower to the floor either, thought it was just the angle of the camera. Craziness! I also thought the Death Star in Return was the same one from the first movie >.> what can you do. Great review and very entertaining!

Indeed, Grievous was quite the badass in Star Wars: Clone Wars. Nothing at all like the pathetic finger-twiddling excuse of an incarnation Episode III gave us.

God I miss Star Wars: Clone Wars.

But which ones are we going to show our kids? Which ones are going to endure for another generation or two? Be shown in film classes 50 years from now? I do believe that the prequels will fade away, and the originals will always be there (on Blu-Ray, if Disney gets its stuff together and releases the un-screwed-with versions for us now). Screw how much money Lucas made – it’s depressing, yeah, but screw it. We’ve still got the ones that we love. That’s all that matters.

The similarities between George Lucas and Palpatine are disturbing.

Did he look at himself when writing that guy?

When you think about it, we have two characters treating everyone around them with contempt, abusing trust and affection to further their own quest for power and wealth.

George Lucas is so ignorant he has no idea we have worked him out. So ignorant is he, that when asked for his opinion on why we hate the prequels so much, he laughs at us and says we’re wrong.

That’s why he wrote the Palpatine quest for power plot so clumsily. Everyone around that character should have been able to see what was happening, that the dude was manipulating and scheming his way to absolute power. However, inexplicably, they are all oblivious to the reality of the situation and allow the con to continue, unopposed.

George Lucas has been doing the very same things for years within Hollywood. Treating execs and colleagues like pawns to further his power. Treating the audience with contempt and almost mocking our passion for the OT by taking everything that was good about it and shoving it up our asses.

What he doesn’t seem able to accept, is that we know what he’s doing. It’s as if he is blind to this truth and genuinely believes it’s not happening. It’s like he has his eyes shut and his fingers in his ears. The dude’s voluntarily ignorant.

It’s why his characters in Star Wars don’t know what’s going on. Lucas thinks that’s how stupid people really are. He has contempt for everyone and everything, even his own creations.

A few billion in his bank account, for very little in the way of quality creative output, has given him this false notion.

That god the world has been able to grab this once beautiful thing from his dying grip, before he made it even more ugly.

LOL

Is the irony of a Droid commercial before the review amiss on everyone but me?

The extra materials and hell, even the novelisations of the prequel movies are considerably better than the actual movies. Pretend the movies don’t exist, and that the entire prequel exist only through the cartoon, novels and comics, and I think you can appreciate the lore that George Lucas catalysed (but not necessarily shaped himself)

It was the Will of the Force that she dies I think. Theres a pill for that but some book explained that she couldnt afford to buy it because Palpatine cancelled Obamacare

Iv been constantly reading so many bad opinions about the prequels. I personally dont get whats so bad about them. anakin played a freaking good role, the script wasnt all that bad like people say, i mean cmon.

his transformation was dead on and accurate and made complete sense to why he turned.

can you please explain to me what is it thats so bad about the prequels except jar jar binks 🙂

Iv been constantly reading so many bad opinions about the prequels. I personally dont get whats so bad about them. anakin played a freaking good role, the script wasnt all that bad like people say, i mean cmon.

his transformation was dead on and accurate and made complete sense to why he turned.

can you please explain to me what is it thats so bad about the prequels except jar jar binks 🙂

Hi, does anyone know the name of the song playing in the background of Part 3, from about 12:00 to 15:00? I’ve been dying to know what it is.

watch the actual reviews on this very website, idiot

He’s butchering the old ones too!

did you not watch the review?

I think these reviews are brilliant but I don’t understand why some people feel the need to attack George Lucas personally for them, even acting as he was trying to fool them or something. Of course I don’t really know to say, but, he’s just a human being, is it that hard to believe he might have tried to make a great new set of movies and it didn’t work out? For several reasons not all his fault?

You put up great arguments for how CGI is over used. It would have been great if you had commented on how the explosion of the hospital in The Dark Knight was completely real. One shot at doing it and Heath Ledger didn’t look back at all, stayed completely in character and did what he day to do. I mean wow, thats brilliant. If you want to compare film makers compare Lucas to Nolan for how something should be done.

I feel surprised that he never mentioned the colours used in the original and prequel trilogy. At first it was Blue (light) vs Red (evil) yet in the third we see Luke use Green as a sort of intermediary showing how he was being converted to the dark side and was in between. The prequel really ruined this cool metaphor for me by making blue and green sabers standard colours of the Jedi

It’s a movie…it’s supposed to tell the story on it’s own. If a movie requires the viewer to then read book after book of extended universe nonsense in order to get something approaching a halfway decent story…then the movie failed, big time.

Also, while the framework of this review was comedic, there was a level of in-depth analysis here that so-called “real” critics like Ebert never even come close to approaching. You could not be more wrong.

As for the “it has a fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes” defence….a lot of those so-called positive reviews are laced with back-handed compliments such as “the best of a bad bunch”. The film sucks. It’s the most watchable of the three, but that in no way makes it good. Try having your own opinion rather than pointing to other people saying it’s good.

does anyone know what the music is as the credits roll..? Checked every single remix of Biggie’s The What I could see on youtube and I can’t find it anywhere!

I like how “filmmaker” under George Lukas’ name is in quotes. Seems appropreate.

This is a minor point, but why did it take 20 years to build the first Death Star, and the second one was built between Star Wars and Return of the Jedi? I realize the second one wasn’t complete, but it was “fully operational”. Were they building the two at the same time? Add this to stuff that doesn’t make sense, I guess.

Uhh…did you watch the review videos, bro?

Oh, I see. I don’t know that there is, though. I don’t personally hate the guy, but I was never a huge Star Wars fanatic. I can understand where the haters are coming from, though. If someone took something I loved and shat all over it for the sake of money, I think I’d be pretty pissed. I suppose it comes down to whether one believes Lucas understands his limitations as a writer and director. If he does, and didn’t care enough about the movies to turn them over to more competent professionals, then he deserves negative feelings from real fans. If he doesn’t, and truly thought he was making good movies, than he doesn’t deserve the hate, but that would mean he doesn’t know the difference between a good movie and a bad one. Either way, like Mike says, “Lucas didn’t ruin my childhood, he disappointed my adulthood.”

As regards the “pod” scene. Truly, my young apprentice, that is why the reviewer points it out to the audience. We are pointedly aware of the trepidation felt by the officer informing Vader of the current situation re the Falcon. We are shown over and over in the original films that to the Empire individuals matter not. One wrong move as an officer and you are history! There is another officer probably not any more incompetent than you that may assume your post, and perhaps with your failure and subsequent death fresh in his mind he will perform better or more diligently.

We are so aware of and focused upon this aspect, that we don’t even see the weakness and vulnerability we are shown. But this is the first time we see Vader in the flesh, if only briefly, all scarred and disfigured. We understand subliminally–without even realising it–that Vader may remove his suit in this controlled environment. That this is a limitation forced upon him by whatever fate had befallen him in the past (we suspect, from the films only, that it may have been a fight with Obiwan perhaps, but we have no way of knowing this, from the films alone.) In any case, this is why our dear Mr. Plinkett uses his “You may not have noticed it, but your brain did.” meme. There is in fact nothing wrong with your perception, as all of us–unless we have some skill at film./story analysis–are meant to see the obvious, but on some level, infer the subliminal, or more subtly articulated message.

This is why the scene is so brilliant, and why those who worked on the first films, including the young Lucas himself created such a memorable experience for us all. In later years, it is as though Lucas has forgotten the language of cinema. Even in Return of the Jedi, wherein he introduced the “Ewoks” he was able to use the visual to convey emotion, as in the final battle to take over the generating station. Happy at first, when the surprise attack is working and the rebels are winning. Tragic later, when the Imperial forces are beginning to overwhelm the rebels and their primitive allies, whose clever means of combat are losing their effectiveness. There is, once again as it pointed out in these reviews, no dialogue to convey this. It is all done visually.

Somewhere along the line, George Lucas lost his edge. Sometimes success can do that. Perhaps it is because, to some degree, Lucas is no longer a lean tall healthy young man. It takes work and dedication when one is wealthy, to avoid the caviare and pate de foie gras when necessary, and stay in shape well into ones advancing years. Believe me; I know!! (although sadly not about the wealthy part of it!) And it is difficult to run all over a set when one is in the state of health in which Lucas more recently found himself

You have said this same comment a number of times, you trollfucker. If you don’t understand, go interrupt the mailman from fucking your mom and tell her to get off her ass and explain things to her moron child.

Amazing Star Wars reviews!!!!!!!! I am a HUGE star wars fan and these were great. I have a theory as to why Lucas fucked up so much. One like you said to make all the money. Another is due to the fact that sence making the first 3 was a huge pain in the ass for him to make (locations, tech problems, and all of those isssues), so he got spooked (like when you buy your first car and its the biggest hunk of crap, many problems, left you on the road, so you decide to never buy from that brand again) and now for the prequels he wanted to make the easiest movies (on him) possible. Thus, the massive craps were born.

Order 66 was a reference to Executive Order 9066 which put the Japanese Americans into the internment camps. I love the reviews though 🙂

It’s called “I Squeeze Gats”

Am I the the one who find it totally ironic that George Lucas’ backstory would make a better script for a Star Wars Prequel than what he wrote as the backstory for Darth Vader? How great would it have been to see Anikin and Palpatine get corrupted by greed!

These reviews are outstanding. I have re-watched them so many times now I could probably quote them verbatim. Hands down my favourite movie reviews. The combination of legitimate criticisms of technique, script, pacing, tone (and well, everything else) and the quirky offbeat humour is fantastic. Possibly however, the most masterful aspect of these reviews is their ability to make people think about why they felt no connection to events and characters, instead of just complaining that they didn’t like them.

As someone who has very little knowledge and comparatively little interest in film these reviews where a real eye opener. They made me look at film in a new way and appreciate the subtleties and importance of symbolism, camera angles pacing etc on the way in which a film is interpreted and how it affects the viewer.

These reviews connect with the audience in a way that the prequels can only dream of. Please keep it up.

Wait a second… How could the emperor have contacted the general if he was strapped to the chair with the lazer chains. I’m so confused…

Hmm. . . Anakin does not go back to save his mother when he can. Even though she’s a slave. And he wants to save her. Because she’s a slave. Maybe if only Anakin was a slave . . . then suddenly there’s motivation for Shmi to get him out of there, besides it being run by gangsters. And then there’s less reason for Anakin to go back to her, as he’s busy and she’s set up neatly. So he has these visions and he goes back, finding her dead. And he starts doubting the effectiveness of the Jedi order. Oh shit man, you can fix these prequels without even realizing it! Lucas you hack!

Whats wrong with your faaaaacccccceeeee?

LOL I’m so stupid, I just realized he said “starving African children in Cambodia”. He always gets me in the history or geography jokes. Gotta pay attention.

“Which made me laugh out loud and wonder, did Obi Wan use the Force to wipe and flush afterwards too”
Haha, this image makes me laugh out loud too. I guess this scene is meant to foreshadow Anakin’s end: he’ll be Force-flushed by Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan has the ability to flush a toilet with the Force and Anakin is the toilet.

Star Wars Episode 3 is the most disappointing thing since my cock.

Ok so much in the prequels doesn’t make sense, thats true, but pointing this bit out is fairly retarded, as the old star wars are just as stupid in terms of the scientific realism aspects. I mean how is their gravity in the spaceships? Why do speeders float? How can you freeze someone in carbon? If youre at the bottom of the death star, is gravity towards the centre of the death star, or do you look out beneath your feet? I don’t care about any of those things, cause the originals were awesome, but if you also didn’t, then the whole lava comment is just irrelevant

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

Fuck you Rick Berman… wait, you didn’t even work on Star Wars.

the impotence of Darth Vader huh? you sly minx hairy ass plinkett

Did somebody send these to JJ Abrams?

what is it with Ricks

WHICH CLONE WAR CARTOON?
didn’t they make 2 of them?

I only know of the one that was on Cartoon Network. I think it was in 2004 or something?

No

The idea I got from the original trilogy about the clone wars and how Darth Vader became Vader completely different. They should have never made the first 3. Lukas should have just just done a story from 1,000 in the past.

But it wasn’t flying around doing something stupid. It could have been any random Corellian transport.

But there was no rise of Darth Vader. He was just some lower ranked minion in Episode 4. Tarkin was the highest ranked officer on the Death Star, so who knows how many other people outranked him as well. He rose so far in those 20 years, eh?

What ist the song at 12:38?

i really love your videos, but i’d think that someone with such a keen eye for movie tropes and filmmaking techniques would’ve observed that films typically don’t have music playing the ENTIRE time in the background…the viewer can get really bored and distracted by the ever pervasive royalty free music playing in the background of your videos…maybe use it sparingly in the future…

That could be any YT-1300 light freighter, and don’t tell me it’s explained as the falcon in the novelization or some Star Wars book. WHAT MATTERS IS THE MOVIE

I am wondering what it is as well.

funny how much of this movie is plot convenience and plotholes

You may not have noticed….But yer brain did.

VERY good question.

Not even a mention of how Padme’s death before it was even possible for Leah to have seen her clearly, much less developed any memories contradicts what Leah told Luke about her mother.

Well, I took that as a little easter egg for us casual fans. No need to have a stick up your ass about it.

When will people stop the crying over the prequels. Seriously, just take them for what they are…Star Wars. All Episodes (1-6) make up the mythology that we all love and hold dear. Everyone seems to think they can do better than Lucas…well if that is the case, why don’t you go direct a move/write a movie series and see what type of reviews you get.

The whole complaint that the PT is not like the OT is getting old and is entirely ignorant. Of course they are supposed to be different! It is a different time (time of Republic vs time of Rebellion). I am quite sure that if the PT was the same as the OT then we would be hearing just as much or more complaints.

One more thing…Anakin’s fall to the darkside is not meant to make sense. He was “seduced” as Obi Wan states in Episode 4. Another word that could have been used is “deceived” When you are being deceived or seduced, the path to that deception/seduction does not make any logical sense, hence why you are being deceived/seduced in the first place….

Leah is force sensitive and was eventually appointed as a jedi master along with Luke. This being true, it is quite possible for her to have a memory of her birth

Haha the idiot below me in the comments thinks he knows a thing or two about writing or story telling. Just another blinded fool who can’t see he was tricked into liking a bunch of B.S. Saying the prequels needed to be made or told is like saying Kim Kardashian is a well rounded respectable woman who dedicated her life to the prosperity of the world. Grown-Up these movies sucked and stop saying shit in Jorge Lucas’s defense like why don’t you go direct a movie like yourself because I would I just didn’t grow up having everything handed to me where I could just go away to film school all expenses paid (which are huge) and then have connections to develop my own motion picture. For all of you that say he struggled ha, you don’t know shit about a struggle and should look it up in a dictionary because if any other race in his time was to try what he did they would have been slapped in the face. This guy did not have it as hard as he made it out to seem. Sure he sent some drafts into studios and he got rejected but he did not wait ten years to make the movie once he had the whole thing mapped out to the studio. How naive can you be to think he did this for something other than money, what are you 10? In that case go enjoy your pointless action filled light saber duels. Me I prefer the “olden days” where it was about the money but also about connecting to the audience not this B.S. we see everywhere now of fake ass environments, cheap phony dialog, and characters who “try” and relate to as many people as possible. More importantly your theory on why the movies should not make sense is so incomprehensible. The movies should not make sense because he was seduced? What are you a junior Anime writer? The movie should make sense regardless that’s a cheap ass excuse for being lazy ,that like something some lazy kid says in high school to try and make sense of the paper he just wrote in the class before it was due. I am truly glad Plinkett made these reviews so that I can see that there are still intelligent, thinking people left on this planet, but unfortunately I have to see these morons who think these new movies without any depth to them really at all are the new “IT” and that we should all bow down to the factories that create them.

You forgot American Graffiti

The fact that they use lightning and choke everyone all the time is so stupid that I could never see George Lucas as an artist or a visionary. Vader choked a guy to get what he wanted, and choked another guy for making fun of him. It’s not like that’s all he could do. Same with the lightning. Why is that all that the force is now, lightning and choking lightning and choking? We can’t use the mental but the physical is fine. Lightning AND choking.

That’s the most amazing thing I’ve seen so far this week.

I can’t stop watching this reviews!
Send help!

When it comes down to it, a five year old with a magic marker could write better prequels. If George wrote more then one draft and made interesting characters…

For instance, I would have thought that Vader never knew about Luke (which he states). So, maybe on one of his missions during the clone wars, he screwed some local and left, thus allowing his children to be born without his knowledge.

Now I understand the necessity to focus on Anikan, on the assumption that Vader was secretly the main character of the series, but make him a real character, like Luke, just smarter, slightly more experienced, better at flying, a Jedi. Simple stuff like that. You know, stuff that a stupid kid could write and comprehend.

To support the above paragraph, I assumed that when Obi-Wan said, “your uncle was afraid you’d follow old Obi-Wan on some damn fool idealistic crusade, like your father did,” he meant that he was passing through Tatooine and stumbled across a older, mature enough to make the decision to leave his home and follow a strange man across the galaxy man. Then took Anikan with him to Dagobah to train with Yoda. Over the course of the Clone wars, Anikan would see the power lurking in the dark and seek it, seeking power the Jedi never offered him. Thus Seduced by the Dark Side. Obi-Wan would probably have seen this change, a subtle change in his apprentice but dismiss it.

This is not what happened, by the way. Here, Obi-Wan had no notion of a change in Anikan because every single dark act commited by Anikan was out of view of Obi-Wan. This is why George had to cop out and use security recordings, because otherwise, Obi-Wan would be oblivious. Understandably so, as HE DID NOT SEE IT. He seemed pretty quick to be homicidal to Aniken after the fact. Just sayin’.

Wrong.

Yes, because a quality film requires you to make excuses for it.

Shove off, troll.

I wanted to argue with some normal people but everyone else is duking it out over the Man of Steel HitB review. C’mon! Somebody bicker with me!:

Yoda is only cool when he is a CGI algorithm.

But you’re right! Plus, Yoda’s the most overrated “character” in both trilogies. Plinkett shouldn’t have recommended to ditch Jar-Jar, he should have recommended to ditch Yoda and to cut every single Yoda scene from the originals. Hmm, I’m gonna start a petition and send it to Mr.Lucas …

Overall I get the feeling that george lucas tried to make three movies that looked “starwarsy” without understanding what made them work. Something like making a product that looks like a book using another book, without knowing how to read.

… I think I would’ve liked it more if the Jedi were more human and expressed more political influence and desire for power. Furthermore why do the Sith have to be evil all the time? That is such a retarded and primitive morality system of Sith = bad and Jedi = good. Can’t they have a Sith lord who tries to bring peace? I mean if you look at it in a general objective manner ALL PEOPLE WANT PEACE… NOT WAR. Some people view fascist governments as an efficient means of governing… are they evil? No. They simply have a different political perspective from the Jedi. Can’t we have a Jedi that achieves good through extremes??

Why do we have to dumb this down? Why can’t Palpatine be a wizard who is imposing fascism for the greater good of the people… though at what cost? I like the notion of Palpatine being misunderstood rather than being some stupid mindless troll that pisses people off for a living. I think that Palpatine would do better as a young and ideological knight who has fought in some war long ago… aspiring to become the hero that everyone wants…. but then as time erodes his spirit he comes to the conclusion that perhaps democracy is an unstable political philosophy so he decides that the only logical deduction is to construct a fascist movement and weed out the Republican government….. BASICALLY in other-words Palpatine is a much more detailed and intelligent character.

The Jedi? Well I would like some power hungry Jedi who try to take over. The Jedi order should be simply an order of KNIGHTS FOR THE REPUBLIC. Some knights who believe in monarchy, some fascism, others fiscal conservatives, liberals, etc. Why do we get this dumbed down shit that all the Jedi are sexually repressed robots? STUPID.

As for Darth Vader I would totally redesign his character. Essentially he would be radically different….

I hate star wars now and it is only going to get worse with this disney crap.

He fucked my sister, and didn’t pay in exact change!

True. There could have been one long scene in which the Jedi council debates the meaning of the prophecy, what prophecies are in general and how a Jedi should approach prophecies. But that would be more like Star Trek and imho there should be no prophecy at all in the Star Wars movies. Jedis know the Force, how it’s interwoven with the galaxy, how to communicate with it and how to use it. The Force is an energy field, it’s neutral in itself. The user decides what to do with it, the Force is indifferent to the concept of good or evil. I think though the Force can’t be indifferent because it has no consciousness. It just is like water just is.

Or if a writer has to use a prophecy theme then the prophecy should be grounded in the real life of the story. Some prophet could have forecasted a Sith dictatorship and mass executions of the Jedis, the rise of a hero and ultimately the destruction of the dictator and the renewal of the Jedi. But that would be lame given that we already know the first saga.

Oh fuck, not only that but they’re prominently displayed in a position for easy use during script writing.

What a pro.

Have you ever heard of Stockholm Syndrome? It’s the same reason some people continue to defend the prequels.

this. it’s not just about box office. there are dozens of movies that were very influential and are totally remembered by our “collective memory” that are nowhere near being one of the highest grossing films ever.

for example, afaik Back to the Future isn’t even in the Top 100 of the biggest box office hits. but it is a “cultural landmark” with scenes of highest recognizability as well.

I’m confused. Why does this matter?

Something that I have always found frustrating is how much more advanced the ships and vehicles look in the prequels, especially SW episode III. I know, they used miniatures, in the first trilogy, and then they used CGI in these movies, but if you are a digital animator,or George Lucas, when does it occur to you that the ships that you are creating don’t look like they are from a spot in the timeline that happens before the original trilogy? They should have made that stuff look even less interesting than the tie fighters and the x-wings. Right?

I completely disagree with your assertions. The Jedi are the honorable warriors. Think of it like The Karate Kid. The Force is just there. It isn’t good or bad. If used for serenity, knowledge and defense it is done properly. If used for power, destruction and oppression it is done incorrectly and you get evil. Especially when you bring up something like Fascism. It, like the type of Communism practiced by Stalin (which is a far leap from Lenin) were all about control. Taking control of the peons and forcing them to live under your rules. This is what the Emperor did and hence what all Sith desire. If a Jedi begins to lust after power, strength and control he has given in to the dark side of the force. You should watch Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed. It explains it all very well and how Star Wars took the age old themes that have proven effective time and again and added a dash of futuristic technology and mysticism to make them timeless classics.

I don’t think there should have been a prophecy in the first place.

Portraying Anakin as “Space Jesus” is ridiculous.

This has way too many syllables to be a haiku.

Hey Plinkett,

On the backtracking ‘noble’ scene where Anakin wants to veer off and help the clone, i’ve come up with two slightly different takes on it. It’s not that i think you’re wrong, it’s that in my view the scene was meant to serve more than one purpose – to not only remind the audience that a genocidal murderer is actually “noble” but also to lay the foundation for one of the following:

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1) Anakin takes Obiwans disregard for the well being of the clone to heart, and it helps form the basis of his complete disregard for his soldiers in the later movies. Granted Obiwan didn’t mean it that way, but Anakin is already completely torn and “lost” at this point. (My favorite image in the whole entire saga is Anakin holding both the blue and red lightsabers at his side moments after he decapitates Dooku. This shot was so genius they should have made all the promotional posters out of it.)

2) Anakin takes Obiwans disregard for the well being of the clone to heart, and it helps form the basis of his hatred and complete distrust of the Jedi.

Think back to the end of the movie when Anakin ripostes Obiwans Sith bashing with “from my point of view the Jedi are evil!” To me these two scenes are directly linked. Sure, these bits of dialog are feeble attempts at bringing the film full circle – from the opening shots to the closing – by a bad writer who’s clearly out of his depth…. But then that just makes it all the more plausible because who could expect George to come up with anything better?

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Ultimately: as a young impressionable child Anakin was instructed by Qui Gon Jinn: “I’m not allowed to train you, so I want you watch me and be mindful”. Qui Gon Jinn than proceeded to exploit his Jedi powers to cheat and steal his way off of Tatooine with no remorse, introspection, or guilt.

The backtracking scene reminds us that from Anakin’s first exposure to the Jedi all the way til the end, dishonor and disgraceful behavior permeated the Jedi order. At least “from his point of view”.

(As an aside i would also point out that Padme’s carefree acceptance of his genocidal rampage through the Sand People’s camp contributed a great deal to him becoming Darth Vader. When no questions were asked, no disgusted fingers were pointed, no fearful crying and fleeing ensued. Well… let’s just say that in life as in bad art (like bad movies *ahem*), you get more of what you tolerate.)

Course that’s just one geeks opinion.

I admit, when I first heard the news about George Lucas selling to Disney I rejected all feelings about the deal and I was like whatever.

But some days ago I’ve changed my mind a bit and I’ve become a little curious. So I’ll keep my mind open and decide later, if I like the new new Star Wars or not.

It’s potentially a win-win situation. Either the new films are great or they’re not which might bring us some Plinkett reviews.

– I think I should call someone.
– Who you gonna call?
– Plinkett’s demon exterminator service.

The thing about the Star Wars universe is that they seem to use the same designs over hundreds of years. The armour, weapons, ships, and even fashions in The Old Republic are basically the same as the prequels, which are just repainted (and smoother) versions of the original.

Are you saying Shrek is bad you fucking Farquaad?

SULATNS OF SWING. Dire Straits.

Ugh, a Seven Samurai version in Star Wars. The problem is that the Jedi are so overpowered that they can do all of the work without teaching the villagers/civilians how to defend themselves.

fact: jaja was the best thing to happen to star wars
fact: any one who likes han or bobba fet aren’t real star wars fans

It’s Bobby Feet, not bobba fet. You spelt it wrong.

Yoda is extremely important as a character. He represents the small and “weak” having more power than the large and powerful. The Rebel alliance against the Empire. He represents the light side of the force to Palpatine’s dark side. I don’t understand what you mean by “overrated”?
Jar-Jar was a buffoonish harlequin who might get a laugh out of babies in diapers, only because they don’t understand what they are looking at.

Well, I tried to be funny turning the truth about OT and PT upside down, but I’ve obviously failed.

How fucked up is it that after watching all three reviews and going over the critiques, that I actually appreciate The Phantom Menace a lot more than the other two? Don’t get me wrong, it sucked but at least it didn’t rely on shoving in so many things from the OT nor did it heavily rely on CGI, and it had actual sets and models. Out of the three, TPM felt more like an actual movie than the other cartoon-y installments.

Hey, Mike, they’re making some new animated Star Wars series called “Rebels”! Please, for the love of God audition for the part of Palpatine!!!!

The general trend of sequels being worse than the first movie applies even to a movie as bad as The Phantom Menace. It was all downhill from there.

If the second act is the lowest point of a 3-act dramatic structure, and if there is going to be another Star Wars trilogy… then that means… Episodes 1-3 are that second act of the Star Wars movie franchise!! Which means… Episodes 7-9 will be like Return of the Jedi.

Again, it’s like poetry, they rhyme. Every stanza rhymes with the last one.

Looking over modern history, totalitarian regimes destroy advancements in art and technology and pour funds into the military. So theoretically the prequel technology can look pretty good in comparison to the first trilogy. But the prequels missed the opportunity to visually communicate a fall from prosperity, showing a decline in civilisation and design, and ultimately the drab design of Imperial Star Destroyers and TIE Fighters.

Oh my god! You can talk?

General Grievous doesn’t have a grievance some one, it’s just a general grievance.

I hope this was an ingenious parody comment. But if your comment was written in all seriousness, then I also hate to be that guy, etc. You do realise it was intentional, just like Plinkett stated that Cuba was surrounded by a trade blockade during the First World War? It’s a part of his character.

Your “Mein Kampf” sounds so adorable.

They’re referring to the one made before Ep. 3 came ou.t.

Though that this review is very good and detailed i still can’t believe Tshi is an actually word thank you Mr Plinkett

So in short Disney is planning on milking Star Wars just as much as, if not more than, George Lucas did. Awesome.

I’d say that this doesn’t count as the Millennium Falcon being in this film. It’s not even a decent cameo shot, as everyone who saw this film the first time had no way of knowing where it would be spotted. What this is really is a big “fuck you” to the fans.

I don’t think it counts as hypocritical, I think that it shows that he has (and possibly all Jedi have) different ideas of what constitutes civilized combat than you. He apparently believes that lightsabers are civilized while blasters are not. This is probably because lightsabers require specialized training, while blasters can be used by anyone (although training obviously helps). He’s not a hypocrite, just an elitist snob.

Then she sould have mentioned in the original trilogy how she has memories of her mothers torn vagina and being slapped on the ass by the delivery bot or something. I guess George omitted this, being genius and all.

Playback of all your Blip.tv videos is not working. I’ve been trying for a few days now. Seems like Blip is having a serious problem …

Maybe upload the review that aren’t already there to Youtube?

What about Commander Nefarious?

The parallels between Episode III and both Citizen Kane and the original trilogy that was discussed in Part 3 was very interesting.

I hope Disney has asked Plinkett to consult on Episode VII.

I already tried multiple Browsers, including Chrome … (BTW: That shouldn’t make any difference in the first place as long as I use a current browser and not some ancient version)

Seems to have been an issue on Blip.tv’s side since none of their videos were working for a while. Apparently they fixed it by now.

As bad as the new films could be, they could never be as bad as the prequels. Those films might not do the characters justice if they fail, but at least they wouldn’t be ruining a pre-existing story/legacy.

Freakin’ HILARIOUS!!! Thank you Harry Plinkett!!!

Because of video games. No, really; the Dark Forces / Jedi Knight games and the trading card games and comics and the rest of the dumb fucking expanded universe all codified the Force into a collection of discrete powers and battle statistics. Which makes sense for a video game because hey, that’s how they operate. So when George goes to PC gaming for his impossibly shallow well of inspiration for the prequels, we end up with Star Wars running on Pokemon logic.

I’m hyped for the plinkett reviews of that.

The issue with what you said is that Star Wars is one of the most polarized universes I know of (at least the movies are). There really isn’t much moral ambiguity on anyone’s side in the prequels or the originals. Han and Lando are probably the most ambiguous characters in all six and Han reveals himself to be good at the end of IV and Lando basically had no choice, but even he does good at the end of Bespin. Good and Evil don’t exist in the real world, but in star wars they do. Jedi=Good. Sith=Bad. Ps. Also, it would help it some of the Confederation “Heroes” were shown and some of the Republic “Villains” were as well.

In regards to the “Heroes on Both Sides” thing. The issue is that ‘Heroes on Both Sides” refers to the Clone Wars. While this statement is true in general and applicable to real life, we don’t see the application of this theme in the movie. General Grevious, Count Dooku, and Palpatine only act as evil bad guys in the movies. We do not see a morally grey character fighting for the Seperatists (which honestly would have been more interesting than General Grevious). If good and bad being in the eyes of the beholder was a theme that Lucas was going for, then he should have put this in the movie. Throwing it in the opening title crawl and then not establishing or developing this theme in any way is the issue. None of the characters leading the Seperatists are morally grey characters, or even Villains with justifiable positions.Count Dooku is a Sith Lord doing the bidding of Palpatine, Grevious is a Robot pawn, and the Seperatists leaders are going along with them. The only Seperatist Planetary leader with a purpose or motivation is Nute Gunray who wants Padma killed because she stopped him from invading a planet and got him arrested. Plinkett’s point is that the heroes on both sides is not established in the movies, and that books and video games that do does not make up for the movies failings. If you want to say that taking all the source material as a whole, the prequel story is good then thats fine. But the movies are suppose to be the focal point of Star Wars and everything else is suppose to be supplemental, not crucial parts of the puzzle.

I’m saying that good and evil exist. I’m not a friend of the “it’s all a matter of perspective” approach. Palpatine is evil because his only goal is to achieve unlimited power and he’s willing to use force no matter what. War is basically evil, humans are able to communicate and reach their goals in peace and they’re also able to understand at some point when their goals are nothing but egoistic. I’m aware that wars can be justified when they’re fought to protect or liberate. It’s something different with peace. Let’s say if war is either good or bad, then peace is good in both ways. There are alternatives to fighting.

Perhaps I’m wrong here, but I’ve always understood the whole “good/evil” dichotomy as one that exists everywhere, across all time and all reason. To say that one is good or evil is too make a permanent statement that would transcend everything else. Now, Palpatine is evil to everyone whom is not Sith. The Sith wouldn’t object to Palpatine’s methods as “evil”. Terrorist’s don’t consider themselves evil, only their enemies do. Everyone has their justifications. All wars that have ever been fought include either “protecting” or “liberating”. Iraq has long claimed Kuwait as a province. Vietnam has not been historically un-unified. The Croats were liberating themselves from Serbian domination, etc. No one says “I’m a bad guy”. This is biggest issue with Star Wars, LoTR, and anything else that has such a black and white view of things. It’s not reality. It’s what you’re taught as a kid. In jr. high or high school you should move beyond it into the real world. Lastly, War is not evil. War is an abstract idea. There has been at least one war in which no one has died (I assume death via warfare is your major protest against war).

None of those things are absolutely necessary in war. The Anglo-Zanzibarian war had zero deaths. Was it still bad? In that war those nasty, evil British colonialists used their evil imperial might to end slavery in the sultanate of Zanzibar. Damn European Colonialism! None of the things you stated are absolutely necessary for a war to take place. They are extremely likely outcomes, but they are not intrinsically tied to the idea of war. Lastly, for those who disapprove war, I ask you this: Where would we be without war? No Roman Empire, no modern world. I wouldn’t exist. I’d be split between Scotland, Ireland, Germany and Poland. Of course none of those places would exist be war is how nations come to exist and remain in existence.

Eek. I was wrong. I could have sworn it was zero. Anyways, yes wars may be able to generally be avoided, but is that good? Now I don’t know if you or anyone considers the world we live in to be a good one, but it only came about through war. War gets things done. History is politics and war is the continuation of politics by other means. And peace does hurt. Look at Germany at the end of WWI or Hungary. Hungary lost big time. Or Russia. Russia lost a lot when communism won-and the minorities lost a lot more until Stalin died in 1953. War and Peace are not innately good or bad, but why they are fought or not fought and the ultimate consequence is what is of importance.

Lucas realized that the tangible sets & props created a visual dissonance when combined with all the late 90s CGI (even wores-looking than modern CGI!). This contrast just wouldn’t do. When making the next films in the trilogy, something would have to go, and it sure as hell wouldn’t be CGI. After all, he had all this money invested in the technology. It doesn’t matter that the technology made movies look like cheap-ass video games. Because directing isn’t a craft. It’s a fucking cash cow.
I’m totally not cynical. Not at all.

Exactly. If there is a child soldier with gun prepared to shoot me, I’ll do more than slap him or her. I’ll hit woman too if they are threatening me. Ooo. I’m sexist. It’s sexist not to hit a woman because she a woman. Literal definition of sexism. I already stated what war gets done. Regardless of whether or one likes the modern world, it would not exist if not for the Roman empire. The Roman empire achieved a lot of conquest through war. It is literally impossible to remotely assess what the world would look like without the romans. Or the conquests of Islam. And many many others. Neither of what Mandela or Gandhi did would have mattered had the west not decided to do something about it. Without Western pressure, Mandela would have likely died in jail. Without WW2, Britain may well have fought to keep India. War happens. Peace happens. Both can benefit countries. Neither is innately good or bad. It’s all consequential. As a last point, a neverending war need not necessarily lead to the total annihilation of mankind. Especially considering there are unfound peoples and extremely remote peoples, not to mention the fact as long as the birth rate would stay higher than death rate, mankind would continue it’s existence.

I’m still not sure why you think violence is innately bad. To me “innate” means always. If some guy came in my room right now and tried to murder, I think I would be justified in trying to defend myself. If however, I tried to murder you in your room, I think that action would and should be condemned. The question should center around violence for what’s sake. Also, as for my worldview, I am a kind of social contract theorist. I am foreign policy isolationist. I think we should pull out all troops out of foreign countries and I cannot see a good reason the US should invade anyone. I also think that we should decrease our military by probably 75% (at least). With all that being said, I still think it is irresponsible to paint someone as evil or good. It is a caricature. I’m more forgiving when it happens in movies, but even then it’s bothersome because a good or evil character is so one dimensional. No one’s perfectly good or perfectly evil. We all have flaws and we all have positive things about us. Even the Nazis had extremely progressive laws about animal cruelty, but no ones remembers that. It of course does not nullify all the inhumane things they did, but it shows they were not 100% categorically evil. Maybe only 99.5% evil. Evil is a stereotype and extreme oversimplification of people who are in fact very complex and nuanced. It reduces them to images and ideology. I just rewatched the Avatar Plinkett review. Look at what he says about the military boss guy. No nuance, just stereotypes. That’s not productive, that’s counterproductive.

Yes, I’m all for self-defense and defense of others. As for stereotypes, one great thing about the original Star Wars movies is that Darth Vader evolves from some sort of evil faceless machine to some sort of evil faceless machine with a human core which Luke is able to uncover and touch. I also like the irony that Yoda and Ben – the great Jedi masters who stand for peaceful solutions and force as last resort – can’t think of another way to neutralise the threat Vader is posing than to kill him which is why they try to cover up and conceal Vader’s and Luke’s backstory. On the other hand such is life exactly. Nobody has all the answers and nobody is able to look all the way into the future at the endpoint of a story. At least it’s very rare.

Actually, the Millenium Falcon DID feature in Episode 3. It’s flying past in the background when they crash the ship into Coruscant in the first act of the film.

lkjlh

really fun

The art direction here always makes me happy. 🙂

The intro level to Star Wars: The Force Unleashed where you play as Darth Vader is a better Vader movie than the entirety of Episode 3.

So in keeping of the spirit of the episode 3 review, you know who ELSE the prequels establish as being blind AND stupid? Han Solo.

You see, Episode 1 has Anakin identify Qui Gon Booze as a Jedi Knight by his lightsaber (“only jedis use those”). A random slave kid on a backwater planet knows this fact.

So fast forward to Episode 4 and Han Solo sees Obi-wan cut a guy’s arm off in the bar with a lightsaber, and then later is surprised that the Empire is after him and Luke. Really? The Empire at that point has been hunting the remaining Jedis for nearly 20 years. If a well-traveled streetsmart smuggler doesn’t even know his passenger with a blue lightsaber is one of the most wanted men in the Empire then Han Solo has got to be some kind of idiot.

Do the prequels really expect us to believe this pig slop?

Contractors? Who built your house? Definitely not soldiers.

They definitely weren’t robots either

There are three things in this review that taught me the most.

1. The fact that Obi-Wan says that the Jedi protected the galaxy for over 1,000 generations. For anyone who doesn’t know a generation is 20 years. So in short, the Jedi were guardians of peace and Justice for 20,000 years. But in the prequels they claim to have been around for 1,000 years. If anyone thinks that they can possibly explain why this isn’t a mistake I would love to hear their explanation. I’m not gonna believe it but I welcome anyone who wants to try.

2. The Emporer clearly calls the lightsaber a “Jedi Weapon”. This clearly points out that the Sith did not use lightsabers. Yet in all these spinoffs we see Sith everywhere using red lightsabers. The ONLY reason Vader had a lightsaber in the first place was because he was a fallen Jedi. His red lightsaber was a storytelling element. George just knew that people liked the red lightsaber and put it in there. He completely let the outside world seep into the story. Is it possible that people do not always know whats best for them?

3. So Vader really did choose to just trust Palpatine about Padme’s death? I always questioned that as a kid. He never looked into it? Never asked more questions? Never “searched his feelings” which probably would have told him something with the Emporer’s story wasn’t right? He really just gave up.

– Its possible that George is a genius after all. He had a popular product and knew exactly how to sell it. Just give people what they want. Lightning? Lightsabers? Yoda fighting? George didn’t care about logic or art or even Star Wars. He wanted to make money and he smartly knew exactly how to get it. So he gave everyone what they wanted. Then in the end he proves all of this by selling the franchise. He doesn’t care. His passion for Star Wars came and went with the original film. I honestly can’t say I blame the man. In his situation I might have done the same. It just sucks that he had to ruin such a beautiful idea. I think that is the most painful thing about the prequels.

I would add as well that I find the orginal trilogy to actually be very morally mature as a story. We can clearly see many different perspectives on morality and ethics in the story. Han Solo is a scoundrel (one who has no qualms with shooting first ), and really only begins to get involved when he gets close to the people around him. Obi wan is a tired old has been that has lived in the shadows for decades, living out his days like some old vietnam vet trying to take care of a dead comrades family (tied to his duty and honor even years after the war). Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker are constantly being tempted and seduced by the dark side, often giving in to their hate and anger, which produces a constant cycle of violence and aggression( just how many lieutenants has Palpatine sent to their deaths? and didnt he kill his own master?) Palpatine himself seems to deeply enjoy watching a father and son mutilate each other while fighting to the death. ( if you do not believe their are people out in the world like this then I am sorry to inform you of this fact)

Well you see, Boba Fett is better than a random storm trooper because unlike the rest of the clones he had to grow up naturally with….no combat training……oh……

“I’m surprised Yoda didn’t shoot green lightning”

Yeah, about that…

That’s totally a light side force power in the EU. Its actually mentioned more than once.

A passing reference in a recent sourcebook on Jedi training in section on “Forbidden Techniques” and a mention in another sourcebook on both Jedi and Sith. Plus apparently Luke MIGHT have been able to do it after the movies.

It had some weird name, Electric Judgement, and was depicted as a “non-lethal version” that still had the extremely evil sounding effect of SAPPING A MAN’S WILLPOWER AND ENERGY. LUKE KILLED A MAN WITH IT.

You’re describing morality as a concrete in existence. I am saying it is an abstract “ideal” to which many individuals hold themselves. You are saying the good/evil exist and that people go out, grab it and do it. I’m saying people commit actions and then are labeled good/evil. As for your comment about dads/sons fighting each other, I say so what? You come across A man laughing evilly at forcing a father and son to fight each other. You condemn the evilly laughing man as evil. Why? You assume that he’s doing this for no reason. For all you know, this father forced the evil laughing man to suffer the same fate as a child and now he’s getting revenge by doing the same. I would to instantaneously judge, I would try to ascertain facts first, and then judge.

How I envy you. Oh, if only I could go back and change the decisions I’ve made. But my eyes – they cannot unsee!

Goddamn regret!

The Millennium Falcon is in the movie Mr Plinkett! You just aint looking hard enough old bean.

The only real argument was that somewhere in episode 2, the clones are made dumber and with less initiative than Boba Fett so that they’d work together as a team. All except for the Arc Troopers who were….oh….

You’re right, F@ck the prequels!

I’ve never made it through Episode 2 in one sitting or without being in a kind of half-stupor. Was this truly mentioned in the film or is this info from an “expanded universe” source?

I remember we were delivering resupply to the captured Iraqi oil wells in the gulf in early 2003 when I walked into a sister vessel’s galley and they had Episode 2 playing. I had no idea what movie it was and I’d already “seen” it at a friends prior to deploying. Well, if you count being passed out for the entire mid-section of the movie as having seen something. When I was told it was Episode 2, I actually thought well maybe I need to give this movie a second chance. Proved myself wrong shortly after.

Though I hate the prequels with a passion even I fail to grasp completely, I’m absolutely fascinated by how bad they are. I watch most any Star Wars fanedit I can get my hands on and the more I watch the more I’m convinced there really is no salvaging these films. It is a truly heroic but ultimately futile task. The gutted versions, like the severely shortened silent dusty versions work out the best. Probably because I can let my imagination believe the stilted and cartoonish aspects are a product of a bygone age. They feel like a halfway between Metropolis and the late 30’s Flash Gordon serials. (Oddly, the silent dusty versions of the OT don’t work well at all because the footage looks too contemporary and real!)

That’s about 10 minutes into the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead. While I wasn’t a big fan of the rest of the movie, at the time I did think the intro up to and including the opening credits was pretty cool.

Thanks, Alex. Next time I’m torturing myself with Episode 2 I’ll zero in on that scene. I find the large problems with these films, like utter lack of characters, to be so overwhelming that I easily miss finer details. I revisit the Redletter reviews so often because it’s amazing to me that someone was able to maintain focus long enough to point out in detail bafflingly nonsensical plot points when conversely I can’t stay awake during these movies to save my life. Not even my anger or sense of disdain for the arguable destruction of the franchise can keep me from passing out. Phenomenal reviews. And funny of course.

So of course this review is incredible, and it nails pretty much everything wrong with the film, but does anyone ever wonder if Mike and the gang have seen The Clone Wars Animated show? I personally feel it rights so many wrongs and tells the story in a way that it should have been.

Six

I’d seen the first and last ones when they came out, but had missed AOTC; so this Christmas, whilst in a alcohol and food induced fugue on Boxing Day (December 26th) I started watching it at my folks, on TV.

Suffice to say: I didn’t get through it all. These films – and in particular that one I think – are so far beyond boring, that the light from ‘boring’ will probably take several million years to reach them.

As you say though, I am mesmerised by how *insanely* bad they are. Why and/or how do they exist?

I grew more and more enraged as I rewatched this. Take out the
nerve-wracking background music you fvck. It was fine the way it was. It’s like George Lucas made these reviews.

The point he tried to make several times during these reviews is that it’s not okay to rely on outside media to explain things within the films. If they were properly written and directed, you would not neeed reems of comics and cartoons for the movie to make sense.

These are some of the funniest reviews I have ever seen. The only disagreement i had with this one is his bit about reusing stuff from past movies. Some of them weren’t really THAT similar. Other than that, though, I loved this.

God, it’s such a pleasure to watch you destroy these terrible films. Your ability to pick apart these details is genuinely inspiring, your knowledge and understanding of the medium beyond compare. Even as someone who has no interest in films in general beyond “am I entertained?”. I went to see this film when it came out, and after seeing the first 2 crapfests I certainly did feel like this was the best of the lot, but clearly I wasn’t engaging my mind enough. But then hey, what do I know? I still think Generations is the best of the TNG movies. 🙂

Between the prequels and the special edition “improvements” to the originals, it’s become painfully clear that Lucas was not the creator of Star Wars, it was a collaborative effort, with Jorge bringing up the rear, just ahead of the caterers and behind the grips.
Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Richard Chew, Roger Christian, Dianne Crittenden, John Williams, Irvin Kershner, Leigh Brackett, Lawrence Kasdan all understand the Star Wars universe better than Lucas and deserve the lion’s share of the credit for its creation. Lucas just had a general, vague idea of what he wanted–a throw-back space adventure–it was all those other people that made it into Star Wars.

The YT-3000 (or w/e) is a stock Corellian freighter. Thousands were made. The point they are making is that it is not specified as the millennium falcon, chewbacca was specifically named in the movie.

Since Lucas likes to take ideas from other movies, the final showdown between Obi-Wan and Anakin should have been based on either this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv9rhC2q8zs

(but with less blood)

or this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27M5KWI_q50

(but with less blood)

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, the Millenium Falcon is actually in episode 3: http://www.eeggs.com/images/items/3965.full.jpg

I am sorry I am late to this discussion, but I thought I would add my two pennies worth.

War is an outcome of the fixed state of flawed human beings.It is an expression of cultural, technological, demographic, political, economic and geographical differences being utilized for the sake of gaining advantages
or preventing ‘another’ through violent means. War in and of itself is neither ‘good’ nor ‘bad’, and arguably throughout the history of mankind, it seems to be the natural order of things.

It just seems that in the post war years, that war seems
‘unnatural’ to those from the Western liberal democratic tradition. Certainly if we lived in a place like Central Africa, we would have a very different view of conflict, vastly different from the average political science class and the therapeutic
view of the world. It is a calculation made collectively by societies whether a society believes it can reach its objectives through violence or other means.

As the military theorist Clausewitz points out, “War is the continuation of Politik by other means” ‘politik’ meaning
policies, aims and objectives of any given society.

To prevent war, I’d would argue that rather than ‘dialogue’ or
‘understanding’, it’s the realization of the flawed state of human nature and society and those tensions with other societies and groups, which leads to societies organizing for warfare. Killing people is a by product of that process, not the main driver.

It is utterly futile, I would argue, to ‘reason’
with say Al Qaeda, since they see the struggle in almost apocalyptic terms. No amount of discourse regarding Israel and the Palestinians, economic development
in the Middle East, Western foreign policy or whatever we might think is the ‘root cause’, is going to change the mind of many Islamic radicals, because they see
the struggle through metaphysical terms-black and white with no shades of grey, and they will kill as many people they need to reach their objective, in this case the establishment of a global caliphate.

I would also argue. Croats, Bosnians and Serbs didn’t need to ‘understand’ each other, since they had been living side by side since the formation of Yugoslavia, but the reason why they stopped the civil war, was that all parties thought
they could gain advantages over the other without spending blood and treasure.

I would suggest that its institutions that mitigate or magnify
war’s effects. ‘Peace through strength’ and deterrence, international laws and organizations, the media influencing public and political opinion to name a few examples. It is not often realized that the US military actually had all but crippled the Vietcong and NVA (and was admitted as such by the Communists), but because of the political views of the intellectual and media class, who believed the war was ‘unwinnable’, that influenced public and political opinion to such an extent in effect the US defeated itself.

It’s also interesting that you choose Ghandi and Mandela as examples of pacifism, dialogue and moderation. While it is true Ghandi himself did not engage in acts
of violence himself, he certainly encouraged others to do so. He frequently wrote to Hitler, and expressed an opinion that Hitler was a ‘friend’. He urged the British to surrender, and encouraged Indian’s not to fight against Japan.

As George Orwell points out in his essay ‘Pacifism and the War’ “Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense.If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, ‘he that is not with me is against me’.”

Hardly a man of peace?

Mandela was arrested and sent to prison because
he was about to carry out political violence against the Government. Whatever the rights and wrongs of his cause, he certainly wasn’t a ‘pacifist’ by any stretch of the imagination. It was through his contact with his Afrikaans prison wardens, an understanding of Afrikaans history, especially against the British, that he came to realize that the Afrikaner State was not going to be overthrown by military means, that he changed track and sort a political solution.

While arguably he prevented a civil war in South Africa, today it remains a violent society, with all the problems that apartheid South Africa also had poverty, racial discrimination, corruption and inequality. Rather than the National Party holding the whip, it’s the ANC today.

It all comes down to what values an individual
holds, and if they are worth defending. That is the moral dilemma, especially if you believe in everything; you end up believing in nothing.

Star Wars is merely a simple illustration of the consequences of being ‘good’ or ‘bad’, and that is utility in itself, but to think that a bunch of rich old hippies offers any other insights, is highly misleading.

Welcome to the discussion. I can’t find anything about Mandela and Hitler being friends except in a comment to an article of the spectator. Maybe Mandela has written Hitler before he realised that Hitler was a monster?

I also doubt that good can be put on the same level with bad. Mandela worked to end apartheid and to end racism, poverty, inequality and violence. Hitler on the other hand wanted to conquer the world for the Aryan race and kill off those who he deemed to be unworthy to live. Stanislav Grof called the movement of the National-Socialists a “misleaded mystical movement”. Instead of conquering their inner worlds and – I don’t know – fight a war inside their own spirits, they projected this war into the world. Maybe there’s a reason why the Nazis tried to eliminate the Jews. The Jews are a spiritual nation by default and Hitler’s National-Socialists were the aforementioned misleaded mystics.
Here seems to be the only means to end all wars: know yourself, know your inner shadow, your evil spirit and take control over it every second of your life. Hopefully at one point in the future everybody takes this route to deal with the themselves and the world. Or at one point the majority of people just gets really tired of war and false political promises.

Just keep shoving popcorn in your faces!

Yes to all you’ve written except “glib”. We were having a debate on basic principles, wether or not war is good or bad. We had already agreed that war to protect and to free is acceptable. I’d also given arguments why peace is preferable like this one: a society can only thrive sustainably if its people are in peace. The difficulty lies in the sheer amount of relations of billions of humans. You know, everybody has issues of all sorts to solve and it takes time and experience to get to the right way. I for one imagine that a holocaust isn’t possible anymore in Germany since now the people there know that the holocaust is most evil and also molecular biology and population genetics state that the division of humankind into different races is nonsense. All the differences we perceive like skin color are only superficial. In other words I see humanity gradually evolving to the better.

Yes, peace is preferable. Unless of course you see social and economic sense in the destruction of the homes of human beings, of families and their property. You seem to have no empathy for people. Your arguments are purely ideological.

You’re right, I haven’t asked. And please apologize my outburst, I don’t take this topic lightly. I guess, this dialogue doesn’t lead anywhere I need to go, since my mind is made up. But thanks anyway. 🙂

George Lucas speaks:

“Popcorn pictures have always ruled. Why do people go see them? Why is the public so stupid? That’s not my fault.”

(Regarding plot issues in Return of the Jedi) Lucas’s response to these criticisms was typical: “Well, if we have enough action, nobody will notice.”

To be fair I think they were going for realism in Sanjuro. In real life a sword fight rarely last longer than about twelve seconds as almost all blows are mortal and it’s extremely tiering to swing a fifty pound sword around.

That’s not true! THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Hehehe. Hey, guys! You know, that could be any old extremely modified Corellian Freighter of the YT-1300 series!
…
…
…
…yeah, I’m not buying that either. Fuck. Just, fuck.

With all honesty, all that needs to be said is that it was going to be the first three episodes of a Cartoon Network show and, after they were made, the G-man basically said; “Lets sell these as a fuckin’ movie instead! Cha-Ching!”

Deacon’s Hell, it’s even structured like three half-hour episodes, complete with their own story arcs and awkward transitions in-between. I have to say, I don’t know what else you’d need to hear…

I actually daydreamed something similar a while back, except it involved using mass produced Sith holocrons as a weird dark side power source for the clones or maybe a how-to guide for aspiring Sith alchemists.

I’m actually glad they made the Jedi a bit more practical in the EU, it makes things a little more interesting to have some of them walk the line between light and darkside rather than be an organization of homogenous and morally simplistic hippies.

As for Luke’s EU arc, I’d hesitate to call him a Jedi in the prequels’ terms. In Return of the Jedi, he’s introduced as a fully fledged Jedi Knight having learned just about everything he can from Yoda. But instead of the classically heroic “hoods off” reveal shot of Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon in Episode 1 (lifted from Obi’s reveal in A New Hope btw. poetry, stanzas, vomit, etc.) he’s kept in the shadows as he chokes out some guards, mind tricks his way into the court and threatens Jabba with certain death. He’s more Bene Gesserit than prequel Jedi and it’s pretty badass. I seriously doubt Lucas even considered this sequence in crafting how the Jedi looked and operated for the prequels.

In fact, Luke’s arc as a Jedi reminds me (imperfectly) of Hegel’s dialectics:
The Jedi (who value emotional restraint, passivity and harmony) act as the thesis, The Sith (who value emotional expression, active use of the force and domination) serve as a pretty decent antithesis. By Return of the Jedi, both the thesis and antithesis are nearly eliminated, and when Luke and Vader both eliminate the last of the Sith and the last of the Jedi, only Luke remains, having been influenced by both sides and come out stronger for it. The EU takes this even further by having Luke join the resurrected Emperor to further understand the kind of power that tempted his father. He’s certainly not a dark jedi, but it’s difficult to shoehorn him into the kind of light jedi we see in the prequels.

I want to hear a Plinkett review of it. Yes, it’s a long backdoor-pilot, but it is just riddled with problems. I highly doubt they’d make one of it though.

Alright, I’ll grant you that. It’s just that when I first saw that film the friend I was with said after the first half-hour mark transition; “I feel like it’s already over!”

He was completely right too, since it wasn’t a movie but three episodes smushed together. That in and of itself was a middle finger in our faces.

Damn shame too, since it did have some neat set-pieces and plot points in play.

So, Clerks. BUT IN SPAAAAACE! Like it just documents the way a couple alien stoner/slacker types deal with running some podunk refueling station in the middle of nowhere in the midst of a conflict they have no hope of fully understanding or influencing in any way for absurdity yuks.

Oh gosh. :3c

In fact that’d make the ideal premise for a SW reality show. “Behind the Lines,” or how about “Droid Dynasty.” Me thinks you’re on to something here my good man.

The only thing I remember about that movie was that I fell asleep during it, and that Ashoka’s existence completely contradicts the reason why Anakin can’t be a master, because all that’s needed to be considered a master is to have a padawan.

You know what the cure for too many lightsabers is? Twice as many lightsabers.
In fact, everyone should have lightsabers. Each side should just consist of thousands of Jedi, all dual wielding lightsabers, just mowing each other down.
No, seriously though, I really hope J.J. Abrams takes the series back to a place where being a Jedi was something rare and unique.

Let me tell you a joke.

Africans.

Fun EU fact time!

Regarding #2, the Sith are actually the ones responsible for most of the technological leaps in lightsaber technology, including the saberstaff and synthetic crystals. Then the Rule of Two was created, and they realized a big beam of glowy red plasma is KINDA a dead giveaway.

Regarding the ‘Dropped my Lightsaber’ reaction shots – By the time of the Mace WIndu/Palpatine fight, I was so conditioned to expect this shot that I thought something was wrong when it DIDN’T cut to a shot of Palpatine dropping his, like he was gonna bust it out when Samuel wasn’t expecting it or that it was an error.

Ahh, yes, the Episode III review. I remember watching this years ago when it first came out, all 111 minutes of it.

That was the longest I had ever had an erection in my life at the time. Just something about bashing these awful moopies gets me so hot and hor-PART 2.

Sorry Plinkett the Millennium Falcon was ruined in Episode III

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN8HTKLsKkU

To be fair, I think Leia was referring to her adoptive mother from Alderann, as she didn’t know she and Luke were related yet.

I respectfully disagree. I think in context, the original dialogue is meant to be Leia talking about her biological mother (and thus, also Luke’s mother).

I thought the point of Luke asking Leia about her mother was that he was secretly trying to get info about his mother, which is the same person, unbeknownst to Leia.

Here’s an idea for how Anakin’s arc may have been done better: Anakin, a semi-meek, family-oriented Jedi who is insanely talented but afraid of going too far in the use of his Force powers, is torn between his loyalty to his family and order and his obligation as a citizen to join the war effort. Therefore, he creates a persona he calls “Darth Vader” (Darth is not a Sith moniker, and Vader is ultimately only a dark Jedi), who is a mysterious, Heisenberg-esque badass who aids the conscripted Republic forces agains the evil Sith clone armies. Gradually, the line between the kindly, good-natured Anakin and the ruthless, inhuman Lord Vader blurs, estranging his now-pregnant wife and mentor/friend Obi-wan. Palpatine, who has steadily been gaining political power and is deeply versed in the ways of the Dark Side of the Force, secretly corners Vader and recruits him and promises future security and deeper Force education in exchange for acting as an enforcer for the Empire he’s plotting. It’s engaging, allows for exciting, Batman Begins-esque action, and it makes for a tragic character arc.

Yeah, but the important part of that dialog was Luke being very specific about it being Leia’s ‘real’ mother, and the scene as written and filmed clearly implied that the woman Leia talked about was in fact her and Luke’s ‘real’ mother. To assume that it was a convoluted situation where Leia had an adoptive mother she knew about, and then another adoptive mother that she believed to be her ‘real’ mother, sounds like fanboy retconning.

Speaking of the ending confrontation in Jedi, I think it would be worth it just to see Luke become a Sith Lord, even if it makes absolutely no sense at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agcc7w8YmHo&list=FLAH4WnAPq5Ps4pqQoI7hgzw&index=2

Ironically, the clones are more human in the TV show than anyone in the movies.

Qui Gon Jinn vs. Mr. Orange

I don’t remember a single one to be honest.

Damn.

The fanboys may have hated him, but they would still go see all three movies for the lightsaber fights alone. Jar Jar was never for them, he was for the small children who wanted something wacky to keep their attention.

Established in the EU, also, campaign for SWBF2. The Kaminoans bred clones separate from the ones they supplied the Empire with. It ended badly.

Even if Kamino hadn’t rebelled, the Empire was most likely losing more troops than Kamino could replace, between Separatist stragglers, the fledgling Rebels, local resistance, and a lot of the survivors of the Clone Wars succumbing to their accelerated cloning, and aging rapidly.

Plus, if people want to sign up with the Empire’s army, why would they turn them away? Cannon fodder is cannon fodder, and the Empire is no longer beholden to any moral issues that the Republic had.

Lucas already ripped off Kurosawa a lot.
Watch hidden fortress to see what I mean.
In it you’ll find Leia, Han, C3po and R2D2. Though han is a bit obi-wan as well.

Eh, watch Children of Men and Gravity.

The fanboys wanted Boba Fett. And they got him, in spades.
It’s true that the prequels are far too influenced by the outside world. Boba Fett was never that much of a badass. All he did was track the falcon and then got killed by a blind guy.

True, those films both have very impressive “single shot” scenes, though they both used editing to accomplish them and heavily in Gravity’s case. TD’s scene is built to so perfectly throughout the first 4 episodes and is actually one continuous take.

Why? I mean you admit that it would make absolutely no sense so I’m not trying to be a choad about the comment. But how would that have fit in with the entire story arc? Luke tried to kill himself rather than join the dark side. Just seeing him get a title of Darth Just Because would have been prequel level nonsense. Anyway, if you want to “see” Luke as a dark jedi just read/listen to those horrible EU books where he joins the Emperor reborn. Dark Empire I think they were called. You’ll see first hand how lame he is as a “sith.”

Akeuw is just a pathetic moron who thinks differences in skin color, eye shape and geographic upbringing are a source of humor. You’re just an angry and sad little tranny boy girl aren’t you?

LMAO! Okay, the joker voice over is hilarious, but anything Hamill does in the joker voice is gold. Okay now you started it, you have to finish it. you now have to dub over the lines of all three original trilogy films with joker quotes for Luke’s lines. That’d be crazy funny. I retract my earlier statement. Next time I’ll watch the video first. That was aces.

Well, kudos for posting it anyway, it was still a gas.

“He’s more machine now, than man.”

Remember when Obi Wan said this in the original? I always thought that was because Vader had willingly decided to transplant himself with machine, to make himself more powerful, as a natural outcome of his being “twisted and evil.”

Turns out that the reason he’s more machine, was because Obi Wan himself tried to kill him in lava. So, what connection does being machine have with being twisted and evil? None. Just another small way Lucas ruined the legacy.

But the wording is such to where it looks like the progression of becoming more machine than human has happened over time. He’s more machine now…like over time he has converted his body to machine and now he is more machine than man.

I agree with you that the phrase “he’s more machine now than man” can mean that he converted himself gradually into a machine. But I also think that this phrase is too vague so that it can also mean that he was converted into a machine in one step. I tell you why I think that.

He’s more machine now compared to when? Obi-Wan never explains what has happened to Vader or what Vader did. All we get to know from Obi-Wan and Yoda is that he was seduced by the dark side, that he’s chosen the easy path, that the Emperor has something to do with it (I’m not sure if we’re told by either of the two) and all including Vader and except Luke believe that it’s too late for him. We never hear anything about the suit, all we see underneath the helmet is a bald and scarred back of a human head. Every detail about Vader’s story is held in darkness.

I take it informing the viewer about Vader’s past using vague phrases was done intentionally to leave open more options to write Vader’s story. It also leaves more to the imagination of the viewer which might be one reason for the overwhelming success of Star Wars. It’s like the Bible. The events in the Bible stories are rather outlined than described in detail. Only the conclusions “God did this and wants that because of this and that” are clear and determined.

But I definitely agree with you, the whole thing is better left to the imagination.

I always thought of Vader’s choke as a plot device/symbolic thing along with the Emperor’s light show. In “A New Hope,” physically strangling the guy off the floor while interrogating him showed he really didn’t worry about silly things like human rights, choking the dumbass who talks shit to him was obviously to cut him off mid-speech with the very power he doubted which added another group of people to the list of things he didn’t care about, which made his waiting for Obi-Wan seem relevant because he still adhered to a certain code of honor according to the Force. If he really wanted to, he could’ve easily gotten the drop on him and murdered Ben’s old ass. In “Empire” it was more of symbolism to show his ruthless strategy of simply choking the galaxy until the rebels were caught in the grip.

Speaking of Ben Kenobi, I always thought that “Obi-Wan” was a Jedi title or something, further emphasizing the fact that Jedis were “space knights”. Luke didn’t get an actual Jedi name because he really didn’t become an actual Jedi until the end of “Return,” defeating Darth Vader by awakening his father long enough to redeem himself and become a Jedi as well. It’s why I thought “Return of the Jedi” was such a clever name, since the prodigal son had returned, even in death. And aren’t Jedi supposed to physically vanish when they die? That was one of the main ways to tell that Vader had not killed any Skywalker, since Luke burns an empty suit at the end of “Return” for symbolism, both to himself and the audience because we were actually emotionally connected to the scene.

Can cinematic crimes be a legal offense?

Prove me wrong you big fat faggot, oh wait, you can’t because you are a huge fucking retard.

Good points

EU doesn’t count when it comes to the movies. Movies need to be self contained and explain these details in a semi-logical way (hell, doesn’t even really need to be logical, just some sort of explanation), otherwise it’s a plot hole.

One thing he didnt mention is that C3PO and R2D2 seem to have forgot everything about Kenobi and Anakin in the new hope. Is there an explanation out there in the canon? They seem to have forgotten everything about their past, and not looking
like they have been through a vast amount of dramatic adventures with Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker. Were their memory chips erased or what? Why does Kenobi cannot remember either C3PO or R2D2? Ok he said he forgot about it because he is so old now or maybe i didnt forgot and didnt want to tell anything about it. But it just doesnt feel right. i always thought C3PO and R2D2 were and were meant to be two ordinary robots on that rebel ship who were going on this space adventure more or less by accident and coincidence. A story told from the perspective of two ordinary robots.

Who came up with the idea of Vader having build C3PO, i think that was a decision against consisteny and for the cash cow. The whole introduction of C3PO and R2D2 in the prequels was unnecassary, if you ask me. If you want to have a little droid just invent a new one, but i think we all agree that they were just in that movies because of the marketing value and because of what Lucas or his staff thought will be pleasing to the audience, i will not whine about it, but the whole story of the droids was perfect in the first place and then got ruined by the prequels.

This videos were a huge reminder for me of how much i hated Episode II and III. I have never thought that I will be confronted with this feelings again. I didnt hate Episode I so much because i was 9 years old when it came out and maybe Jar Jar wasnt so annoying for me, i clearly didnt identify him as a racial stereotype and he didnt bothered me so much, maybe he is less annoying in german?) but this critical reviews are spot on and sums up pretty much everything of what i hated about the prequels. I would say Episode II is the worst, Episode III is ok and Episode I is the best of the three, but thats another story.

I dont think anyone will read this but i just have to write this down because i had this on my mind for such a long time. The exact moment when Star Wars died for me, i was in the cinema watching Episode II. It was that fucking 50’s cantina scene. That was the point were i couldnt take Star Wars serious anymore, it ruined everything what i loved about the old trilogy (not the special edition) It destroyed the illusion, that wasnt Star Wars anymore… and i couldnt ignore it any longer. The whole setting was such a joke and a punch in the face. Some consider this scene maybe to be trivial or irrelveant and maybe it is, but at that exact moment literally something died inside of me, all hope, all excitement vanished. I just had to let it go. And i did.

Regardless of prequels, it stood to reason that Leia had an adoptive mother as well as an adoptive father. She didn’t just grow to be a 19 year old Senator of Alderaan on her own. We already knew she had one adoptive parent, and there’s nothing to indicate that her “father” wasn’t married.

I just noticed that part 3 doesn’t work. Get to fixing it or you won’t get any pizza rollls.

Despite their flaws, I wouldn’t put any thought into the prequels. Lucas clearly didn’t.

Hi Steve thanks for you compliment, although I disagree because it wasn’t in-depth. I never went into acting, directing, screenplay, editing, costumes, production, special effects, musical score, casting, and so on, because I’m not a film critic. My review was character-driven based on their interpersonal dynamics and their cognitive, affective and behavioral responses. With a hint of how viewers process what they see on screen.

You see, I’m actually a psychotherapist. I treat my clients with CBT (Beck), REBT (Ellis), ACT (Hayes), and Mindfulness (Kabat-Zinn) and after 5-7 sessions they show improvement. I just can’t believe the character of Anakin (after 10 years of training and with a master) acting like that. A point that is hardly ever mentioned. But I won’t go further into that.

I’m a little disappointed in your comment, it kinda sounds as if you think two people using the same data can’t reach the same conclusions. I just can’t imagine science making any kind of progress if that were the case. But I understand where are you coming from, the RedLetterMedia review came before mine and is popular, and I’m not.

I love these reviews but there is one piece of this I disagree with. This is when Mike, or Mr. Plinkette references Obi-Wan and his regard of Anikin as a, “good friend.” Mike, or Mr. Plinkette, reefers to how Obi-Wan and Anikin’s last fight and it’s utter brutality. He makes the conjecture that if that event had take place, then Obi-Wan would be uncomfortable talking about him, ye there is one flaw here. Though we believe Anikin to be a totally separate person from Darth Vader in A New Hope, we learn in Empire Strikes back that Anikina and Vader are one in the same, leaving Luke to ask, “Why didn’t you tell me?.” But he did, “from a certain point of view.” In Return of the Jedi, Obi-Wan’s force ghost returns to tell Luke that Anikin died the moment he became Darth Vader and became someone totally different and even Mike, or Mr. Plinkette said, “…Vader in the suite was just a formality,” and that he became Darth Vader once he killed Mace and pledged himself to the dark side. Thusly, since Obi-Wan sees Darth Vader and Anikin as two separate people, there is a flaw in this logic, not in reference to defending the prequels but in defending the memory of what I love and who we love as the original Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Sorry dude your awesome but this was a flaw I found that couldn’t not be ignored. Hey who knew there was a hole in the Plinkette reviews? This guy that’s who!

“- All the senators with the vote of no confidence on Valorum, when
supporting the rise of an empire, and the jedis as enemies, just like
that, without giving any thought. One could say it was Palpatine force
mind trick or something like that but the movies never show us that.”
I also love how in all the Senate scenes (specifically when Padme proposes a vote of no confidence or when Jar Jar proposes emergency powers), PRESUMABLY (a) anyone (in the Senate) could have proposed those motions; and (b) they passed, so obviously Palpatine had the votes all along. Which begs the question: “why did he have to have the representative from one system, the Naboo system, among seemingly thousands, propose those things when if he had the support to get the votes in the first place he could have just had one of his supporters proposed those changes”? Unless there’s some kind of special (never explained) way in which this Senate’s parliamentary procedure works differently than pretty much every other parliament in the real world, votes of no confidence can be proposed at any time, with no need for specific factual finding or offering of justification (other than, “we don’t like the current leadership, and think we could do a better job, and think we have the votes to force them to stand for election–and obviously the votes to beat them in said election”) by anybody in the legislature–effectively a “let’s take a vote on whether or not to hold a new election” committed to the discretion of the representatives when to exercise. The only real world limits I’m aware of are MAYBE some kind of time limit on how long after a successful or unsuccessful vote of no-confidence another may be taken, and POSSIBLY also some limit on who (i.e. members of the minority party/parties or the like–though there would almost never be a reason, saving internal disagreements, why the ruling party or coalition would ever want to move for a vote of no confidence) can call for the vote within the Senate. But even in the latter case, if that actually exists, there would be at least dozens, possibly hundreds (and probably hundreds in the case of the Galactic Senate) of individual representatives with the power to move for a vote of no confidence. The same could be said for the motion for emergency powers.

LOL-“bitch I’m the Emperor, IS GOTS TWO LIGHTSABERZ!” }:->

NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Someone needs to take away his ability to muck up the original trilogies before it’s too late! Do you remember how he completely butchered the whole Han Solo-Greedo scene with that cute little fast-clip shift (like the Jedi “fast run” scene in the intro of Episode I when Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon are in a position where “the screenwriter doesn’t know how to get them out of a situation because they’re being attacked by two powerful battle droids”) of Han to the left (his left) in order to avoid Greedo’s shot which was ONLY necessary BECAUSE they added that shot in the first place? LEAVE IT ALONE George! Wasn’t fucking up the prequels ENOUGH for you?

LOL

No.

Well they left the Boba clone unaltered so he’s still as smart and has as much initiative as the original Jango, which is why he’s killed by a blind guy bumping into his jetpack…oh, wait…oh…

George Bush v. Clinton is a TERRIBLE analogy–whatever you think about Clinton (he’s one of the best Presidents the Republicans have had in a while), he DIDN’T authorize the torture of people in U.S. custody…you know who DID do that, and then lied about it repeatedly? Oh, yeah….

i don’t understand why you took the time to respond to that guy. he is either a troll or not as attentive as he thinks he is or dumber than anakin skywalker.

Did anyone else notice that Lucas has dozens of Cliff Notes booklets on his desk? Check out the scenes in Part 3 of him sitting at his desk writing his “masterpiece”. Was he taking his GEDs at the time he was writing the script? Or is he too busy re-editing his original trilogy to read full-length books? Are the other books on his desk Reader’s Digest editions? Does he have Shakespeare for Dummies on his bookshelf? “Yep. I read all the plays. My favourite parts are where he uses those little boxes.”

Who gives a shit about Qui-Gon anyway, he may as well just be another Jar Jar at this point

Is no one going to mention how well Mike’s emperor impression is? It’s pretty great, actually.

Mike said, when they reviewed ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ on Half in the Bag, that he hadn’t seen ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ in its entirety. Yet, here’s a clip from that movie in this review. Strange…

I knew what it was gonna be.

The Millenium Falcon actually was in ROTS. It’s in the scene where the shuttle is landing bringing Anakin and Obi-Wan to the senate building after rescuing Palpatine. It is flying into a docking bay at the bottom of the screen.

Why is it there? Damn good question, for which I have no answer.
Here is a link to the scene for anyone who is interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lmoxwq5uvLk

If I remember right, they weren’t sure if he was the one destined to bring balance or not. Maybe it was Luke. Maybe it was no one yet.

Lucas said himself that Anakin was indeed the “one” who brought balance to the force ultimatly by destroying the Emperor and himself. Anakin is the choosen one. But balance can only be obtained if we have the same amount of Siths and Jedis for my understanding…or no Jedis and no Siths. Means if Luke is a Jedi there has to be at least one more Sith… otherwise there would be no “balance”.

You’re about the 100,000th person to point this out, but it’s not shoved in your face – it’s a minor easter egg that most people won’t notice.

Power and the offer/temptation of it is a very tricky thing to write in a story. If you go and read the Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, you can see a society where the people truly in control say that the object of gaining power is to exercise power. It is really circular. Power equals power to them. But as the descriptions in the story go, science, medicine, and even warfare have ground to a halt. People live, breed, and die in conditions that are no better than those afforded to homeless people in our real world.

So it behoves a writer to explain to the audience what condition in the hero’s life, Luke’s life, he would like to be able to change. Do people suffer and starve in the Empire? Are Jedi hunted and tortured in public? Pre-natally screened out of existence? All that the film establishes as a temptation is the wellbeing of his friends, and symbolically, that is pretty second-fiddle to the concept of freedom for the galaxy. Which, as Obi-Wan explained well in spite of vaguely in Empire, is all that his friends have fought and suffered for.

Luke, in spite of having his world thrown wide open during the three films, is still a farm boy at heart who wants to do right by those who care about him. So promising him the power to make an entire galaxy bow down before him just seems like a real miscalculation on the Emperor’s part. Note how Luke’s strings are only pulled when Vader speculates that perhaps he can convert Leia to the dark side of the Force. That is the only time in the whole sequence that any real temptation is dangled in front of Luke.

“The writing established Luke as a knowing emotional hothead”

Except it establishes him as something very different in ROTJ. His actions are all entirely guided by his concern for those he cares about. Yoda’s statement in the previous film, never his mind on where he was, is effectively no longer the case. Vader’s promise to go after Leia is the only thing that truly pulls him back to the manboy that he was. The tossing of his lightsabre and “sod off” to the Emperor is the symbolic “no, I have been there before, and I truly want to leave it behind”.

What the writing failed to do is more firmly establish the stakes in terms of Leia. A little time sitting with her and running her through a few force-related exercises, even just for a minute, would have helped. But in context of how the sequence worked, this is all just a nitpick, honestly.

Whether or not Luke has grown is not really the point. The film always showed that Luke was vulnerable in that area. The question the film sets up is whether he has grown enough and whether he can resist. In fact the film shows him struggling with his anger when he finds out that the emperor has planned the ambush. When the appeals to the concept of power toward Luke, it was always an appeal to use his emotion to kill the emperor, not political power, which Luke did want to do. It was a pretty smart plan by the emperor, even though it ultimately failed.

No, because I’ve played Jedi Knight already and it’s better.

Vader falling into lava after a duel with Obi-Wan was established as the reason for the suit in the original Star Wars novelization in 1977, I believe.

My fucking anus is filled with shit!!!!!!!!

Someone had to reply to that twerp and I sure as hell wasn’t going to.

I don’t know what that means.

The saddest thing to me personally is occasionally one can see a flicker of what might have been if their WERE actual characters in these films. If the war ramped up while anakin was still young perhaps, in his efforts to save people he began to revel in his power all the while building up resentment towards Obi Wan and the jedi order’s more cautious attitude towards the war (perhaps caused by his suspicions that both sides were being manipulated?). The fact that he would be unable to love Padme might’ve been the final impetus that pushed him over the edge.Unfortunately there are no characters and none of these things happen. Anakin’s joining palpatine wouldn’t have been caused by the nonsense dreams and laughable idea that in a world where FTL travel and neurally interfaced prosthetics are routine, childbirth is dangerous, or that a mother who just gave birth would give up on her children. Instead he might come to believe that enforcement and order through strength and passion is preferble to patience and wisdom.

Unfortunately for us, most of the points RLM made towards why the
prequels failed and why the original trilogy succeeded are things JJ
doesn’t know how to do either. So I hope for the best. Problem is the
bar has been set so low that even something crappy, that pails in
comparison to the original trilogy but is better than the prequels,
would be hailed as a success. Only time will tell if Ep 7 would be burnt
in our memories just like Eps 4-6.

When he’s talking about opening sequences and he shows the different openings to different movies, what’re the two after Saving Private Ryan? They look interesting.

The first film Is Jurassic park(1993), the second is the 2004 remake of Dawn of the dead

Abrams is certainly able to convey information in a more visually exciting way. The vibrancy of the clips of Star Trek used in the video is pretty indicative of his directorial style.

There are a limitless number of ways to have fixed these prequels. There are so many in fact, that I’d actually be okay if Disney tried to cash in again by remaking the prequels.

They would need to keep a lot of imagery and character designs so that much of the existing merchandising stays in place, but just… recast and remake those movies. Hell, if I were an exec, I’d even offer vouchers for 10 cents off of a ticket for each copy of a prequel DVD turned in by fans (up to 3 per customer of course),

It’s be a cynical, awful, uncreative cash grab that might piss off the retard fans of the prequels, but ultimately, if the remakes were done better (and how could they NOT be), history would forget the Lucas prequels. The Star Wars marketing machine could plug right along, or even ramp up sales for the remade prequel toys, and the world would have a Star Wars universe that is good more often than it sucks.

Pretty much as The Third Archon says. Anikan and Obi-Wan are supposedly friends; but this is not establshed by how they act as friends, but by them recounting stories of adventures in the past in an elevator scene at the beginning of Attack of the Clones, adventures we never see. They don’t actually spend that much time together in any of the movies (especially Attack of the Clones), and when they do they do not appear to act as friends. Obi-Wan often seems irritated with Anikan and is frankly condescending and patronizing with him. Anikan is rude and abrupt with Obi Wan; and both constantly bitch about each other behind each other’s backs. They usually seem genuinely antagonistic towards each other. It’s not enough to tell us they’re friends; we should be seeing it in their actions. There’s no chemestry at all between the two men; compare this to Han Solo and Luke Skywalker in the Original Trilogy; we can see their friendship grow and develop throughout the trilogy through their actions, even though they at first don’t really like each other, we don’t have to be told about it.

This cuts into a deeper problem of the trilogy. The biggest problem is Anikan Skywalker, the main character. Now, I have always been of the school of thought that a character doesn’t necessarily have to be likable or relatable to be the focal point of an interesting story; but with the Greco-tragedy that Lucas is going for, I think you have to at the very least be able to relate to Anikan, in order for his fall to the dark side to have any sense of tragedy. The tragedy element comes from caring about the character so that his fall has some sense of pathos. I think you have to care about Anikan in order for this story to work; I don’t like Anikan in these movies, even before his fall to the dark side. He seems impulsive, petulant ,arrogant, creepy, and quite frankly, a borderline sociopath. It speaks volumes that when Anakin fell to the Dark Side, I didn’t feel pity, but relief that we finally got past that plot point.

Lord of the Rings, as a story, predates Star Wars by a good thirty years. And Return of the King, the final LotR movie, was released two years before Revenge of the Sith.

what is it with ricks?

BTW sorry for that late reply, an really tight semester so far 🙂

The sad thing is that they ARE going to make a movie about Han Solo as a child. Lucas must have watched Plinkett and when that scene came on a lightbulb flashed brightly over Lucas’ head. Kasdan is supposed to write it. Dear God, why do you hate us humans?

I’m not afraid to admit I like the prequels, and I liked ROTS more than ANH and ESB. My favorite SW movie is ROTJ and ATOC and TPM are in my bottom two.

1. ROTJ
2. ROTS
3. ESB
4. ANH
5. AOTC
6. TPM

The Teaneck Cinema theater mentioned in this one is 2 blocks from my house, now i know why it was renovated. Damn spastic colon. Going to see The Force Awakens there this Thurs.

I think the stuff about palpy addressing the senate was supposed to be like bush and his unfounded wars at the time… it resonated to a degree at the time, i remember. unbelievably there were some parallels… remember powell’s address to the UN?

sadly the dull expository dialogue was basically the same in tfa, but the rest wasn’t as bad

This reviews are pretty much Star Wars canon for myself and many other fans.

Darth Plagiaris?

Not only did he build a robot, he also taught him 6 million forms of communications. I find Anakin in this case more insulting than Jar Jar.

To me, nothing was worse than sticking that talking pile of cow dung, Jabba the Butt, into SW. (Do we have to degrade it by calling it ANH? Does anyone think it would have been popular if it was marketed as A New Hope?). It makes no sense, since Han had already spoken almost the exact same lines to Greedo. Then the next scene Han is in such a rush to ‘get out of there’ – in part because he doesn’t want to run into Jabba – eh, which he just did! The whole sense of urgency is completely lost! It was a stupid idea that added nothing but confusion to the movie.

How much of a genius must one be to know 6 million languages while being in slavery all of his life and probably lacking education besides basic means of expression and his technical abilities. I don’t know if Shmi reads books or is allowed to read or is even able to read.

Furthermore, it would be very practical to use a computer to save 6 million languages and transfer all the information into the robot’s brain. C-3PO doesn’t have a keyboard installed somewhere, so that Anakin could enter the languages manually. How long would that take. Years.

Anakin seems to me like a boy who is intelligent enough to make something out of his status as slave, but he never gives off the impression that he’s a genius. He’s innately smart. That’s all. Neither super genius nor extra force sensitive.

idk, maybe because most of my relatives started losing their hair in their 20s or early 30s.

Lucas has nothing to do with the Han Solo movie

Haha, well apparently I was wrong about that

I thought about doing that, but I figured it would be a waste my time and your time as well

It’s not like these criticisms didn’t exist before the reviews. Plinkett’s review did a good job at summing them up while adding his own insight but the goofyness and lack of development of the characters was noticed by pretty much everyone after it came out.

As plinkett said, let the man get his (film critic)rocks off.

Why’s it crap? It’s a dime-a-dozen protocol droid, and certainly there’s instruction manuals lying around somewhere on how to put all the pieces together and suggestions on what software to install. He works in a junkyard full of useful technology beyond our comprehension and fiddles around with it, seeming to have some tech-knowledge, and knows enough to get a hunk of junk podracer running (and keep it running as it falls apart mid-race). How hard can it really be, with the technology available in the Star Wars universe, to figure out how to piece together one of the most common droid models in the galaxy? Kids in our day have embraced technology like no generation before them, some even crafting amazing things with specific tech expertise. So why’s it hard to believe that in an even more advanced society that a kid running around in a technological wonderland his entire life didn’t pick some things up?

Comments below deal with the 6 million languages issue.

I’m mentally done with this shit but yes. They would have been the 2 most crispy jedis in 4 secs. There is a reason why molten rock is molten. Temperatures that would melt even jedis to the very bone.

WTF. How is this blocked? its a review that is better than the original movie. Instead of blocking they should include these reviews on the Star Wars prequels blu-rays.

It was down for me earlier too. It’s back up now it seems.

still blocked for me 🙁 and no “youtube unblocker app” or soever helps here 🙁

Bury SME under the floorboards, Harry.

It doesn’t seem to work when I put in the url. Good thing I DLed this classic while I had the chance.

Say the word, Stoklasa, and hundreds of thousands of RLM minions will descend upon SME like the demonic hordes of hell.

No it’s not.

Fuck you SME!

If you rearrange the letters in the word SME, you can spell out a different word that just might predict what you’re gonna get… EMS. Which is Emergency Medical Services. And, that’s what you’re gonna need after watching the prequels and going onto this webzone to watch this review and recover. And finding out that you can’t watch this full length review on YouTube because of copyright BS. Which leads to screaming and smashing printers.

Nadine’s real revenge? Forwarding Mr Plinkett’s reviews to Sony. Thats fucking cold Nadine.

I love you guys. Plinkett forever!

You da man. Thanks a lot.

RLM is awesome! They fully explain the ridiculousness of the prequels far better than I could.

But what is up with this message for “RLM Star Wars: Episode III”:

“This video contains content from SME, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.”

Whatever happened to “Fair Use”?? This is America! Those ass clowns should make better products if they don’t want to be mocked!

*SME = Sony Music Entertainment, from what I gather

Yes appears to be a recent thing. Fuckers.

http://daftsex.com/watch/-42037253_171132562
You’re welcome.

thank you

I did not reupload the review. I just found it on Youtube.

Execute Order 420

As someone who works in tv and deals with this kind of rights bs all the time, I feel your pain. But the music change at the end legitimately made me sad.