I just watched the Episode II review and I really liked it. I enjoyed the big things he talked about. Before he talked more about the plotholes, but with Attack of the Clones he talked about target marketing and why the parallels just dudn’t work.
If you don’t have time to watch all 9 parts, watch part 6 and part 9, especially Part 9.
It’s here. IT’S HEREEEEEE!!! WooT!
I just finished Part 1.
Plinkett. Nail. Head. Again.
“Star Wars: Episode III is the most disappointing thing since Star Wars: Episode II” giggle
“I think we all went to see this movie just to get it over with.”
“At this point we felt like a battered housewife who kept returning to an abusive husband.”
The laugh track during the “lovey talk” between Anakin and Padme makes the scene better. That says a bunch.
“Where would you rape the Millennium Falcon? Right there. I’ve done it.”
ROFLMsbO
“Is this the way it should have been done? NOOOOOOOOOO!!!”
“I am so confused. But wait, there’s more.”
Hehe. That whole sequence was magic.
The whole Citizen Vader skit RAWKED!!!
“Is this fair? Nooooo.”
I’m confused that he didn’t wrap up the Nadine arc, though. I’m wondering where he’s going to go with that.
I took it as a “future” project, referencing the Celebration thingy. Perhaps his popularity is so that a web-series is on the horizon. shrug I don’t know. It just felt like, you like this?..I’m doing this now.
Yeah, that worries me.
Part of it is that the whole ‘girl in the basement’ thing turned a lot of people off to these critiques (I don’t know what they watch otherwise. Not Dexter, I’m guessing.) Once it became clear that Nadine had an arc (after the second/second-and-a-half installment) I was hoping that would shut them up.
So, the question becomes where is he going with this? Is he going to do the original trilogy? The Home Alone movies? What the frak, Plinkett?
Thanks for the heads up! I’ve been SO waiting for this! I’ve watched all his reviews and really find them incredibly interesting And entertaining.
Really enjoyed this! Brought up some really great points
I love these reviews. I agree with almost everything he said, especially the part about how episode one had no clear main character for us to identify with and also the part about what The focus of the prequels should have been. I agree that it either should have been a more general story and that Anakin should have been not the focus. Or it shold have been a character study, but with us seeing anakin when he was good so we actually see the difference. I never really understood why Obi-Wan spoke about Anakin with such reverance in episode IV when he was such a jerk in the prequels.
I think of all three, this one went into some really fundamental writing flaws of the prequels. It is so well said about why it didn’t work, and how it might have worked, it really was pretty brilliant.
I’ve always thought for Anakin’s fall to mean something, first we should be able to love Anakin. Loving him as a child isn’t enough (and since the acting of lil’Anakin was not the best, people didn’t even love him then) . If the best of Anakin came during the clone wars, then clone wars is what the second movie should have been. Make the current plot of episode ii in to the first 15 minutes of episode ii. and have the rest be about the actual clone war, and how Anakin was a hero and respected general, and without him the war might have been lost.
That way when he falls in Episode III i’d actually give a crap.
Agreed. Has anyone written their own prequel versions? Read any decent ones?
I knew a friend (back in the day, before the Timothy Zahn trilogy) who wrote Ep. VII, VIII, IX. They were pretty good…for a 14-year-old. He took the “an Empire doesn’t fall in a day” approach. Luke became a Merlin-like character, since there were no more Jedi. He was a reminder of the past, instead of a key to the future.
I struggle with these. He has brilliant insights into the material, but the cutaways are so disturbing it takes away from the whole experience.
For example
[spoiler]he rapes a cat. and shows us. Oh yeah, then he eats it[/spoiler]
I’m all for dark humor, but that was fraked up right there. I can’t get that image out of my head.
Yeah, he got a lot of crap for the ‘women in the basement’ stuff. I think it keeps the reviews interesting. Without them it’s just a film nerd rant.
My biggest complaint was that he didn’t wrap up Nadine’s arc.
I’ve always thought for Anakin’s fall to mean something, first we should be able to love Anakin. Loving him as a child isn’t enough (and since the acting of lil’Anakin was not the best, people didn’t even love him then) . If the best of Anakin came during the clone wars, then clone wars is what the second movie should have been. Make the current plot of episode ii in to the first 15 minutes of episode ii. and have the rest be about the actual clone war, and how Anakin was a hero and respected general, and without him the war might have been lost.
I agree with this, but I think the problem is even worse.
Why did Anikin betray the Jedi and turn to the Dark Side?
No, really, I’m asking. Why? There is not really a good answer to the question. And that is what the entire Prequel Trilogy is supposed to be about. Give me a solid answer and, as the President on the West Wing said, “I’ll drop out of the race right now!”
The reasons in ep. 3 seem to be:
He disliked the Jedi Order and Obiwan for holding him back and not letting him reach his full powers as a Jedi.
Except:
-He seems mildly irritated at this, not angry enough to hunt down and destroy the entire order.
-He works with and reports what is going on to Mace, Obiwan and others, if he felt he was so strong then he wouldn’t need the others.
He served Palpitine so that he could learn more about the Sith lord who could stop people from dying, so he could save Padme.
Except:
-While this is motivation to help Palpitine, but this is contridictory to the first reason for turning. The actions he takes post “turn” don’t really seem to mesh with this being the only reason. Once Palitine names him Vader, he stops caring about Padme, for no reason.
He did not like the leadership role the Jedi Council was taking in the republic.
Except: This might have actually been a good motivator, but it was never really addressed in the movie by Anikin.
All that being said, I still do kinda like Episode 2 and 3, but noat as much as a love the Plinket’s reviews of them.
I had to pause it at that point. I fell off my chair laughing.
I’m sick. I know.
Yeah, me too. I think I rewound that a couple times, actually.
Yes, yes you are.
Rewound? You watched it again? :eek:
No, I get it. I need to lighten up about it. He clearly is going for shock value. Raping cats and eating them is hi-larious!
Well, I do tend to look at the process behind things like that. He’s really just wiggling the cat, who is somewhat annoyed by the attention.