The Next Plinkett Review

This is going to be amazing!

I remember that the Rifftrax people said the one kind of movie they won’t riff is a comedy because there is no comedic value in an unfunny movie trying to be funny.
Really what needs to be said about the reboot Ghostbusters – they had a first draft script that needed a lot of rewriting. The thing needed so much work that they had the actors ad lib whole scenes just to pad out the run time.

I’m so excited I can’t come up with a reference that involves misogyny and pizza rolls!

When’s the next Plinkett rev-

Oh… Ohhhh…… Oh?

Those lady ghostbusters better get their asses back in the kitchen and make me some pizza rolls!

Woah there Sloth lets not say things we cant take back. Words hurt…. even if it is true.

Tuesday.

I do hope this turns more into a “what’s wrong with Sony” than with the entire movie, because there isn’t much to say about it.

As a female fan of Ghostbusters since I was a kindergartener, I found the whole notion behind this movie to be insulting and demeaning, that girls need “heroines” like the despicable pieces of shit in the 2016 remake. It’s annoying that people seem to think many women are this gullible (though some are, unfortunately) that we will flock to something just because of blatant “GIRL POWER” marketing.

> Though I hope for more nuance position than what Mike said on Episode 7 saying kids don’t care about representation

In addition to being female, I am also hispanic, and growing up I never felt that I needed characters to ‘look like me’ in order to enjoy them. I can’t recall my friends from back then as feeling this way either as far as I remember. As nice as it was to see a hispanic character show up at times, it didn’t suddenly make me feel better about myself or necessarily make him/her my favorite. It just seems like a shallow assumption that kids automatically need the protagonists to be the exact same race or gender as them. I loved Leia Organa, for example, because of her strength of character and wit…not because she ‘wuz a grrl liek me’. Ray has always been my favorite GB, and I imagine I’d still prefer him over Erin or any of the 2016 GB if I was growing up in this era.

“It just seems like a shallow assumption that kids automatically need the protagonists to be the exact same race or gender as them.”

Yes, this. Not to mention, the irony here, is that this assumption itself is actually quite prejudiced. “What do you mean the kids like Lando Calrissian? You mean the little ghetto black kids do? Surely you don’t mean the white kids like him…” But now we live in a world where, despite the seemingly endless SJW crusades, people still think “Dey should stick wit deyz own kindz.”

I remember a post on Reddit from around 2015 where a parent was upset his/her daughter prefered Han over Rey in TFA. It seems people are legit trying to push a ‘stick to your own kind’ narrative in regards to personal tastes. Hell, just yesterday, I went to the movie theater to re-watch Spider-Man Homecoming, and the girl behind the ticket counter kind of shamed me for buying a ticket to that instead of Wonder Woman. It was kind of embarrassing and uncomfortable, I don’t get why people think that sort of behavior is okay.

Alt Right use similar tactics of SJW, as a Libertarian I’m for more progressive movies for pragmatic economic reasons

I mean Disney doing fine with more diversity, and Fast & The Furious make billions

More insular pop culture will slowly die and be replaced, kinda like inbreeding

Well there’s more material to snark at, but there’s that hurdle of social commentary that I don’t think Mike is all that well equipped to discuss, though his analysis on Youtube commenters give me some home, while him dimissing kids don’t appreciate some representation

I rather wait for Lindsay Ellis to make a big review, though she told me that even she just tired of that shitshow

Yes.

*drinking (bleach) intensifies*

TFA review was great. It doesn’t just have to be about the fiilm. Context is important too.

Sony executive algorithms calculated you’d still tweet about it

expecting Mike to again touch his briefs on this, even though he already did with diversity in the star wars films. #imagination

Identity politics is all bullshit and self-induced. It only serves to make people more tribal, rather than more inclusive..

this is politics in general or or even broader, group behavior

The TFA review was boring as hell. Responding to other reviews generally is. Some people think the prequels are good or at least underrated. They happen to be wrong, but who cares? Then there’s the interminable dissection of the “ring theory” blog post. Anyone with a brain can immediately tell how silly it is, we don’t need Plinkett to go on about it for 30 minutes. Most of the attention it got online was in the nature of “get a load of this bullshit,” not, “wow, this is a brilliant analysis.”

What makes the Plinkett prequel reviews great, aside from the humor (Plinkett’s analysis of Anakin’s attempts to get with Padme kills me every time), is the detailed dissection of the non-obvious aspects of why they suck. There’s actually very little commentary about, say, how annoying Jar Jar is, because everybody knows that. But unless you know something about film theory, the problems with shot composition, editing, pacing, etc. are not as obvious. I.e. the stuff that “you didn’t notice, but your brain did.”

Part of the problem was that TFA itself was basically fun and likable, but not great. From a technical standpoint it was very well made, and what flaws it had were pretty obvious. There just wasn’t that much for Plinkett to talk about.

When every single person whose ppinion I respect says something is bad, I’m pretty confident in assuming it is in fact bad. Also the trailer looked fucking dire, and while you can often dress up a shit movie with a snappy trailer, it’s extremely rare to see a bad trailer for a good movie these days.

I’m getting tired of some of the reviewers I follow who constantly address negative/comments in new videos regarding a previous videos.

If more diversity means John Boyega gets to be a movie star rather than yet another bland white dude, I’m all for it, because that guy is cool as hell.

Then again, I would never have thought you could spend 5 hours entertainingly explaining why the SW prequels are bad, but Mike managed it.

“Take a look at a lot of older actors/actresses who started on TV. They all upped their game when they were cast in theatrical films.”

You mean like Bill Murray and Dan Ackroyd?

A gender-swap of the original wouldn’t have worked, since a lot of the jokes landing depended on the specific actors who delivered them. Ghostbusters is a weird movie because as funny as it is, it actually creates a sense of real peril as well – you buy into its absurd story just enough that the villain seems genuinely threatening.

A movie that just had the same basic premise and had the same cast as GB 2016 could have been good, they just needed to make it, you know, funny.

Oof, think of the producers who had to decide between respecting the director’s vision and commercial viability. It’s a real Sophie’s Choice situation.

The Next Plinkett Review? I already purchased it……………………………………..

I’ve purchased all RLM merch/crap like a good boy. Even Skits Skops 2016.

It’s safe to watch. It’s so bland and unfunny you’ll forget it within hours.

But WHICH Tuesday?

That would explain what he’s been doing with his time so much lately. Nothing.

My favorite character as a kid was Mrs. Brisby, and she was a widowed mouse.

I’m not going to relate to being a widow for at least another 30 years!

This better not be a fucking troll!!

Fool me once RLM shame on you fool me twice I WILL FUCKING KILL YOU!!!! LOL

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts votes aye.

You still owe me a pizza roll, you fat fuck!

To be fair, Plinkett could probably pass more legislation than President Trump … at least after he’s done fucking his cat.

The only opinions I trust are Russian political spambots. Twitter has more bots than the BSG Extended Universe.

Bland White Dudes should just congregate in or around Branson, MO, their natural habitat.

The Rich Evans Diabeetus Act. Co-sponsored by Susan.

We go there to see Shoji.

2:00 AM for me. Will I stay up for this? Do I risk being unfocused tomorrow morning when I work my hack-job as a neuro-surgeon? What’s wrong with my brain?

Christ, does that mean i need to actually watch the movie first so i can get all the jokes?!?

This is a problem I just realized I was facing. This is something I did for things like Man of Steel and Batman v Superman (and many others they have reviewed, but those two in particular were painful) just because I was so perplexed by how awful they sounded that I almost didn’t believe them. In this case though I am hesitant to watch what may have just been an awful, awful comedy. That’s a lot harder than a desensitizing seizure of destruction and collateral damage.

I am a tiny bit tempted to try and watch it with my RLM-viewing buddy to see if we can siphon some bad-movie laughs out of it… but like I’m imagining myself watching a miserable comedy and I think the only way to react sarcastically to it is to fake laugh at it the whole way through. HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!

Three, almost four hours ago it was 1am on the west coast in america, what are you on about?

Oh I thought you meant literally right now or when you wrote the post. Nevermind. My bad.

Don’t worry.

There are no jokes in Ghostbusters.

“A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.” – Tommy Lee Jones, Men in Black.

Still think they need to get Len Kabasinski, Matt Hannon, and Max Landis together and have them review RLM movies.

Bland White Dudes sounds like the name of a one hit wonder 1990s pop-rock band.

Same with Schindler’s List. Not even a chuckle.

Ugh, why? You already did, like, 6 videos on this movie. It’s a comedy, you didn’t find it funny, therefore you didn’t like it. What the fuck else is there to say?

Always pay extra for pizza roll insurance, lest your stomach be spared the indignity of a pizza roll…I mean, or you’re out a fucking pizza roll. Jeez brain.

I’m going to watch this drunk and stoned on Adderalls after being up a little over two days. Should be great.

I hope Scientist Man makes a special guest appearance.

deconstruction on why it doesn’t work, how one could muck up such a well established franchise, more plinkett lore, quotes, and updates on his love life

I’ve got a bad feeling about this.

Dang, my phone doesn’t have a setting for Milwaukee Time. How will I know when this drops?

Will this be better than Bear Attacks? We shall see.

Oh Christ. You mean I have to watch that fucking thing.
Fine. But I’m not paying for it. I’ll find the rifftrax version on the dark web.

I find your lack of faith disturbing.

I just wasted 2 hours of my life to watch this peice of shit just for you hack frauds. Now I’d likely have to spend 2 hours to watch the review to tell me why I did not enjoy it.

It’s funny because Rich complains in the Rogue One review that Star Wars is actually just this tiny little universe, when they’ve given us several seasons of good stories about characters who don’t appear in any of the movies, in the form of the Clone Wars and Rebels TV shows.

What’s this wack, cracka-ass Plinkett gots to say that ain’t been said already?

Nah Wiseau is too weird. And it would be less personal. You know Kabasinski, Hannon, and Landis would love to tear these hack frauds a new one. I mean Kabasinski might not initially since he’s almost psychotically positive and happy, but the other two could drag him down to their level.

YouTube notifications.

English?

I can’t help it, I was born this way, you anti-literal!

I’m going to play Diabeetus advocate here and point out Rebels is just the second act of a New Hope stretched out over three seasons of television. And that Clone Wars was dumb.

I got extra butter popkern so the lube won’t be necessary.

Hahaha!

Nah I rather just destroy that movie with a snarky review

Oh, you get to eat popcorn? Fuck you and your perfect dentition. My mouth is a wreck so I have to go with popcorn-flavored lube.

Rolls off the tongue.

Isn’t Miller Time also Milwaukee Time?

Are you about do eye surgery or fly a jumbo jet?

“Leave me out of this.” — Christ

“Unlike the failing New York Times, we will build a wall around carbs and sugar and make Nestle pay for it.” — Crazy person in Oval Office.

I use Karkov bleach-flavored vodka for my craft cocktails.

Well, I’m out!
**slams money on table**

I just watched the review, damn that’s a lot of product placement

I haven’t watched the review yet, but this teaser is hilarious.