Plinkett's relationship with that lady that he kidnap is actually more interesting and with more tension about how will turn out to be than Anakin and Padmé's lovestory...
One thing I will give George Lucas credit for is teaching us all the lesson that you can't CGI your way into a good movie, and that good movies aren't all CGI. Its a tool that must be used appropriately.
+BollocksUtwat I remember watching this when I was a kid. Even when most of the other crap in the movies flew over my head at the time (Y'know, because I was a stupid kid) even I called bullshit on the retarded Yoda fight scene. I guess I didn't mind the one in RotS because it was a goofy evil old guy fighting an even older green midget, and it was unintentionally funny.
+BollocksUtwat I remember watching this when I was a kid. Even when most of the other crap in the movies flew over my head at the time (Y'know, because I was a stupid kid) even I called bullshit on the retarded Yoda fight scene. I guess I didn't mind the one in RotS because it was a goofy evil old guy fighting an even older green midget, and it was unintentionally funny.
+Sir Quaffler It always amazes me whenever I hear people laud the Yoda fight as one of the best moments of the prequal trilogy, because I distinctly recall the entire theater erupting in a symphony of laughter when I first saw the film as a child.
+Wood TV like @gronndar said! N i think its obvious that lucas got too much credit for the original trilogy and for creating star wars. the original star wars script was credited to him, but if you listen and read gary kurtz interviews, lucas was helped out by the Huyck's and his wife at the time marcia with some of the snappier more humorous dialogue. And the film was a mess after it was made and was saved in editing less than a year before it's release by Richard Chew, Marcia Lucas and Paul hirsch.
+Zach Bonnell Its really the greatest moment in the review. In many respects I think this review is his best. That epilogue really ties the review together.
That editing job at the end of the video with Yoda from the prequels, talking and reacting in contrast with the sequels and George commentaries it's so well done, that it makes me feel so sad how bad this movies turned out to be, GL metaphoracly speaking, killed Yoda the force and everything that comes with it.
Plinkett and Luke destroy the Death Star, Lucas, the production team and the prequels at the end of the Revenge of the Sith review. Obi Wan tells Luke(as) to use the force and let go, turn his computer off. Thankfully, in real life, for me, The Force Awakens made me completely forget about the prequels, and allowed us all to let go and move on.
@@pacershark452 1. Consider your words marked 2. If your saying Attack of the Clones is better than The Last Jedi, quit crying and go read the Thrawn Trilogy again if you love that shit so much.
Rewatching the reviews for the millionth time now, I think I've figured something out that's always bothered me: In all of his clips in the behind the scenes segments, Lucas NEVER seems to use the correct terminology for things in his own universe. Like he call Geonosians "flying termites," lightsabers "lazer swords," he doesn't differentiate between Jedi and Sith when speaking (referring to both as Jedi), and he just overall doesn't seem to comprehend any of the things that he himself created. For comparison, if he were still alive you'd probably never see JRR Tolkien refer to elves as "pointy eared guys" or anything like that. Lucas just comes off as not knowing/caring about anything in any of his movies, and it really shows when he doesn't have anyone willing to challenge him.
What really sets me off about that is that TWO words, droid and lightsaber, are literally copyrighted terms. LITERALLY NO ONE ELSE COULD USE THOSE WORDS WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION and you say laser swords and robots???
19:05 - That Blade Runner footage really makes the Star Wars footage look like total fucking garbage, even though the latter is 20 years newer and probably cost ten times more to make. The cinematography is so sterile and lifeless.
I remember thinking about that a couple of times as a kid... like, wait they're still not gonna be able to fight, oh welp, they can, like wait, they brought extras? Oh, I guess it makes sense cause they knew they were there... the whole thing just wasn't thought out that much, like at all, it seems. And I say this while having a special place in my heart for these movies because I grew up on them, though I realize they are pretty damn bad, especially AOTC. I could say a LOT more.
Honestly I always thought two other jedi brought them along and Mace Windu said "sorry, Obi Wan and Anakin need these more, go back to the ship and wait", right before taking their weapons away. This kind of reduces the lightsaber from being this really rare, cool and powerful weapon to being like something you'd find on the counter next to the cash register at a 7/11.
Remember how in the original trilogy, Obi-wan would use the force in creative ways to avoid violence whenever he could? He pulls out the lightsaber to fight two times in the whole movie, when conflict was unavoidable. By contrast, the jedi of the prequels only seem to know how to solve problems by swinging lightsabers at them. Whatever happened to “There are alternatives to fighting”?
And he was fast. Not in the second time with Vader but the first time, fast and effective and he switched off the sword. Luke did the same with the not that good 3. episode when he fought in the forrest. The lightsaber is obviously there to solve a problem. I think of it like the triger on the gun, you touch it when you want to use it, you used it and stop touching it.
That's a really good point - lightsabers used to be treated a lot more like a samurai sword where it's ultimately just one tool in their toolset, and most effective when used efficiently. Kurosawa films would show often show people using swords like the prequels do as a way to characterize someone as being brash and reckless. Sometimes that was a virtue, but people who swung their weapons around like toys were shown to not be very experienced with them.
That isn't true. In the first hour of episode 2, obi wan only uses his lightsaber twice- the first when he disarms the assassin, in self defence. The second when he confronts Jango Fett on the landing platform and, to be fair, he quickly loses his lightsaber during that fight.
Contrast the cartoony asteroid scene with the one in the originals. We see the characters get nervous, hear the bad guys have to be ordered to pursue them, and even experience some rocks hitting the millennium falcon with real effect on the ship. It's so much more engaging compared to everyone and his mother being able to maneuver anything flawlessly (including a pampered queen flawlessly escaping death on an insane production line). Good points as always, Mr. Plinkett.
Y'know Halo ripped off a scene from Chicken Run. LyleMcDouchebag goes into it on one of his streams. So, I guess it's just a normal thing for big budget sci fi franchises to steal content from Chicken Run.
It's so messed up realizing how bad the prequels really were, after thinking they were good as a little kid. Like, I thought I didn't understand them back then because I was a kid... Truth is they were just poorly written. Also, here's Lucas talking with Lawrence Kasdan sometime after 1983, and before 1999(this is a real conversation): Lucas: "It's like yoga (the Force). If you want to take the time to do it, you can do it; but the one who are really good at it are the ones who are really into that kind of thing. Also like karate. Another misconception is that Yoda teaches Jedi, but he's actually more like a guru; he doesn't go out and fight anybody." Kasdan: "But a Jedi master is still a Jedi (Knight), right?" Lucas: "He is a teacher. Not a real Jedi. Understand?" Basically, Lucas used to be smart. He understood Star Wars. But then time passed... Money and fame changed him... He's more machine now, than man. Twisted and evil.
They weren't bad though. They weren't poorly written. well...at that point in time he didn't fight since that would be after the prequel events and how yoda changed and became more chill. maybe he forgot that part with yoda not fighting...or maybe not and decided that he would be different in the prequels which would make sense really. Also I'm glad that Yoda is more so a "real jedi" as if we are to consider him one of the strongest and one of the best jedi, he needs to be a real jedi. Lucas was always smart and is still smart. He still understands Star Wars. Money and fame didn't change him much though. He's not at all machine. He wasn't twisted or evil. Saying that is well...twisting things up.
Bloody hell the CGI in this movie looks terrible now. The comparison between scenes from the original trilogy and Attack of the Clones speaks volumes. This movie is just 20 years old and it looks like gameplay footage from a PS2 game. Meanwhile the original trilogy still looks fantastic nearly 50 years later.
Does anyone remember the part in “A New Hope” where Obi-Wan says to Luke “your father would’ve wanted you to have this when you were old enough” it just completely points out how dumb it is for the young kids to have lightsabers.
Not to mention that Anakin didn't even spoke to anyone else about Padme's pregnancy, with Obi-Wan having deduced it only AFTER Anakin became Darth Vader and having massacred a day care's worth full of them. This means Obi-Wan had no friggin clue what Anakin's view was on having children of his own, much less what he would've wanted for them. Heck, the only thing he knew for certain was that Anakin wasn't above killing children! Obi-Wan is a master bullshitter.
So true, this really makes no sense. In medieval times IRL, they trained kids with training swords that weren’t sharp. It doesn’t make sense to allow the next generation of fighters to maim themselves as children. But seeing kids practice with fake lightsabers just wouldn’t be cool enough I guess!
"It's almost like Lucas think there needs to be kids IN the movie in order for kids to want to buy things from the movie". This way of thinking has been extremely common among producers of childrens media for the past 18 or 15 years or so. Back in the 20th century, most of the most popular childrens fiction actually starred adult characters, but nowadays the thinking seems to be that kids wont watch something unless it features kids/teens as protagonists.
rattis That may have more to do with the idea that older cartoons/kids media is "too violent",and by putting kids in it, the lobbyists(so-called parents groups) won't complain to much. This isn't new. It goes at least back to the 50s with comic books.
I think audiences have just gotten stupider and more immature. if you look at older movies from the 80's-mid 90's you see more serious, logical, adult things. then from around the late 90's you see goofy jokes everywhere, i guess reality doesn't seem so grim that way to some
People who are complaining about how bad Disney's SW films are and letting up on Lucas' prequels would benefit from watching these reviews. When I look back at each trilogy set, it seems clear what happened. In the original three that were made, Lucas had to lean more on other people and creativity to get it done, which meant a much better product. That success and marketing money enabled him to go crazy with effects and gain complete control, likely an inflated ego as well, and move forward with a prequel that showed what he is truly capable of when he has the resources and control in his hands. He continued working with marketing and tried his best to make the films appeal to as many as possible for maximum profit, but upon thinking about what the future had in store for this universe, he realized that the only way he was going to make the best money with the least effort was to sell out to Disney. So, in the end, we can truly say that Lucas has always been a mediocre filmmaker at best and values profit to a much greater degree than he actually does knowing how to tell a good story. The progession is natural and is easy to see from the first Star Wars film ever made to the most recent ones.
Unrelated: anyone ever stop and think about how, after Ep. 1 and all the talk about how Anakin has more midichlorians than Yoda and how he's some supernatural prophesied Force Jesus born of a virgin mother, he never really does anything that makes him look more able or powerful than any other Jedi we've seen before? Where's all the evidence of his dormant potential, just waiting to burst forth and show what a powerful Jedi he may become some day? Shouldn't he have had some sort of Gohan/Harry Potter/Kung Fu Panda/Buffy/Peter Quill/Bill Murray in Space Jam moment if we're to think he's actually anything special at all? What the fuck?
LukeMM95 I saw akira, I barely understood a thing about it (though that'll happen when you condense a 2000 something page manga into a 2 hour movie) Would you care to elaborate on your point?
LukeMM95 Sounds like it really would have worked in the case of anakin, especially since they said in ep. 1 that his "midicholrian count" *shudder* was the highest they've ever seen, higher than even yoda's.
+LukeMM95 That would be pretty badass, if not for one (now stupid) expository scene where Ben Kenobi reminisces about the past in Episode 4. He seemed to remember Anakin as a relatively stable, compassionate Jedi that was maybe a touch reckless but always used his varied skills to help people. Lucas certainly set the stage for an emotionally unstable and insecure powerhouse drifting to the dark side, but really I think that's more just Lucas being a fat incompetent dumbass.
Gleep Wurp I think the point mace was trying to make was that the Jedi order were not an army to be used to wage all out war. On geonosis they rallied together to do what they could, but consistent with what mace said they were overwhelmed and required the aid of the clone troopers.
@@bb8328 That's clearly what Mace was supposed to be conveying, but the Jedi weren't overwhelmed, as Yoda arrives with clone troops clearly showing that it was a planned offensive. They bizarrely just decided to send Jedi in ahead of time. Well not all that bizarrely, as I believe I remember Lucas mentioning that this is the first time that we will see Jedi fighting en masse. He clearly thought it was something which would excite the fans. The inconsistency is further compounded in the next film when the Jedi are shown strategising and directing war like generals.
The annoying thing about Yoda in the prequels compared to Yoda in the originals is the ridiculous amount of backwards speak. In the originals Yoda only speaks backwards some of the time. When he has to say something complicated he speaks normally, saving backwards speak for only a few iconic lines. In the prequels he never talks normally and is sometimes comically hard to understand. He’s a parody of himself, it’s really annoying.
And yet they managed to fuck up Yoda the most in the sequel trilogy where he speaks to Luke like he did when they first met and he was disguising himself and the fact he was a jedi master...
Wait... why would Yoda call the war the 'Clone Wars' from the very beginning? That would be like people calling the first world war 'WW1' in 1914. I know it's a minor detail but I just feel like 'Clone Wars' is the sort of name that would only appear and be used later on, years after the war had ended.
Because George wanted to constantly remind fans of the Original Trilogy by giving endless callbacks to famous lines whether it made sense for the character bringing it up and knowing it's famous out of universe name or not. He let the outside World seep into the story, when it really shouldn't have. It could have been called the droid wars and it still would have made sense. In fact, there were millions more battle droids involved in the war than clones. George knew the audience would go "Oh yeah! That's the big war Obi-Wan was talking about!" I'll conclude that Lucas thought he had to keep the fan service sloshing throughout the movie by having the characters name the war something more consistent with the events they are involved in like The Great War or The Galactic Siege or something would have been too boring and forgettable and wouldn't be exciting enougb for the old fans watching. You can show events mentioned in the OT but it doesn't need to be constantly shoved in everyone's faces. It works much better for the originality of the movie part of an already established universe you are making in you keep things subtle and not painfully obvious.
It happens again in the last film when Obi Wan says "send me to fight the emperor"....he had only announced the empire 10 minutes ago, why call him an emperor when you think he will be dead within the hour?
And calling it the Clone War implies the clones were the villains, the ones the Republic were fighting. It could have been called the Droid War or the Separatist War. At least from the Republic perspective.
@@MaximumWarp2099 That's what one of the writers of the EU actually thought, he thought the clones were the VILLAINS rather than the heroes I don't remember which author it was...maybe it was Timothy Zahn
“I’m not even sure he even understands Star Wars or anything that happened in the Empire Strikes Back.” ...I mean,George did have the least amount of involvement in Empire...which turned out to be the best one...Things that make you say hmmm...
@@vanderful2397 I think that has more to do with the fact that Star Wars is just, to quote Rich Evans: "Creatively bankrupt". The studio just can't come up with good ideas and only pushes out what's marketable - IE: flashy light saber fights and incomprehensible space battles with lasers shooting all over the place to give little kids and fanboys something shiny to look at.
@@TheDeadAlewives "Creatively bankrupt" That is one good quote. When was the last time SW had something new & good? Even the original trilogy had 2 Deathstars. Anyway I think you may be right here.
@@mckenzie.latham91 In a way yes, but... My favorite quote of all time is a wrestling quote, " I used to think you're a dumbfuck, but so many worse dumbfucks have come across that you've risen the ladder without having to do anything." After the OG trilogy, nobody has been able to do a good Star Wars story. Disney has half a dozen experienced teams who have tried & they have all failed (imo. worse than Lucas). If there isn't a successful new SW movie, then criticizing him for not being able to do good SW, is like criticizing him for not being able to live without eating. At the moment it looks that the OG trilogy was just a fluke
In the 2003 Clone Wars cartoon, Yoda is seen riding an ostrich-like mount (not sure what it's called) into combat when fighting with his lightsaber, which would make sense as it allows him to overcome his physical limitations. However when he dismounts, Yoda immediately focuses on using his Force powers to overwhelm his opponents, rather than confronting them physically. I always thought that this was the best interpretation of how Yoda would fight on the battlefield.
@@aztektheultimatewoman It's pretty funny to think Tartakovski understood Star Wars a lot better than Lucas did in a lot of ways and how to execute the characters in both action and dialogue scenes. With relatively minimal use of dialogue in many of the Clone Wars episodes the character exploration scenes within captivate and elevate many of the rather bland characters we had been given in the prequel series and it's so much better for it.
@@LeoMidori Yea, it is funny how everybody BUT Lucas handles Star Wars better than Lucas ever did. Even the "Expanded Universe" novels give Lucas lots of lip-service (e.g., in ascribing the 'story' of the universe to him, in introductions to the books, etc.) but all the greatest stories were written by skilled writers like Timothy Zahn and James Luceno-guys who were able to make something good out of an otherwise shallow world. Heck, Luceno's best novel, "Darth Plagueis" (which I've not read) is apparently good precisely because (reportedly) it solves a lot of the embarrassing problems the prequels caused.
The most ridiculous thing is that I'm feeling much more for the characters (or victims?) in Mr Plinkett's life than I ever did for anyone in the prequels. Seems like his review is a better trilogy
I have to express my love and gratitude for the final segment of this review starting at 22:22 I am perfectly serious affirming it to be my favorite thing I've seen on TH-cam. The juxtaposition of the real Yoda reacting to prequel horrors is brilliant, beautiful and powerful. I was moved to the brink of tears the first time I saw it. This level of artistry in revealing the truth goes beyond commentary, it is poetry. Thank you so very much
I'm almost certain the whole "midichlorian count" came from Dragon Ball Z power levels. DBZ's first run in the U.S. happened on the Cartoon Network in the late 90s. George probably came across it and then put it in the first movie.
I’ve been watching Mr. Plinkett’s videos for years. I’ve emailed dozens of times and even wrote a snail mail and have yet to receive a even a single pizza roll.
Just to throw another flaming coal into Hell... Yoda says, "Begun, The Clone War, has." He names it, "The Clone War," as if it was something that was already known about, and/or prophesized. Why call it, "The Clone War" instead of, "The Robot and Clone War," or, "The Civil War," or, "The Sith War," or even most likely, "The Separatist War?" Because this is what the army was called in the movie, they were called "The Separatists," and now that you have a war with them, you call it, "The Clone War?"
+Dialectical Monist The Clone Wars would have made sense, if The Jedi fights Evil Cloned Importers just like how Dark Empire & Thrawn Trilogy predicted.
The force told him to call it the Clone Wars so that Anakin could become Darth Vader, enter a robot suit and eventually kill the Emperor. Read the script, Yoda did. Lying in the sand, next to Natalie's port, man, it was.
in the german version of the film he says something like "begun the attack of the clone-warriors has" (roll credits). I don't recall anyone ever calling it "the clone war"
In the original trilogy he was not writing or doing it all alone, there were several other people coming up with this stuff, so something tells me that perhaps it was another person who came up with the name light-saber.
Pete Wade Yeah it's kind of a kick in the kidney stones when the original creator has such lack of interest in or respect for their work that they can't even address the stuff with the proper names.
@@stephenzaborski8656 the whole clone army is jango clones, including his son. although i cant remember why he had a son? I think it was in case Jango died they had bobba, the closest clone to jango? an all the others were just mass produced? or something?
@@eungeran07 I was always under the impression that Boba, was Jango's son. Which to me, is different than a clone of Jango. Any offspring that has a father, it would stand to reason there would need to be a mother's genes mixed in also. I believe jango clones are just Django. If boba was djangles' true son he would be part Django and part boba's mother.
@@eungeran07 he just wanted a regular clone, basically adopted a kid. a bit strange considering his life is dangerous and the kid could easily slow him down/get him tracked, but if he wanted to be like a dad makes sense
Even as a kid I preferred the older films to the prequels. I didn't like the way people talked in them and I didn't really understand what the story was about. I thought I might have been too young for them but now I know why I thought they were so boring. Monotone ass dialogue and boring political billshit.
As a kid (and I mean really young, like 5-6 years old) I liked the prequels a lot. Not because I actually understood anything that was going on (because I didn't) but just because I liked the lightsaber fights and the spaceship battles. As a kid, you don't really care if a story is good, or how well it's written. I just wanted to see stuff that looked cool, and it did. As an adult, I just wish my parents had never shown me the prequels at all
@Brandon Smith I remember I watched the Original trilogy for the first time (I was 7 or 8 and I had an interest after seeing the first 5 minutes of episode 1 at a birthday party) my mom gave me her trilogy box set of vhs tapes (last time the original versions were releasted) and I watched all of them from start to finish with a few breaks to get drinks, snacks or whatever. I remember watching and liking the prequels more but I mainly payed attention to the action scenes and just played with my toys or played games while the rest of the movie played. I cared about all the cool and flashy stuff but not the story. The originals were perfect from start to finish. I felt like an idiot defending them on the Internet when I was in my teens. It wasn't until I rewatched them on blu ray that I got what everyone was saying....
I still don't even quite understand wtf is going on in the prequels and I am 26 have been a star wars fan since a little kid, saw the prequels when they came out (and the originals before that obv). I really don't get it
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Or they could have a force battle. levitating themselves, shooting force lighting back and forth and throwing shit at each other, they did a bit of that but the lightsaber fight shouldnt have been there, are you prequel fanboys so uncreative that you think all a Jedi can do to entertain the audience is twirl lightsabers around? Yoda and Sideous could be shown to be above lightsabers because they are so powerful with the force that all they need is their minds for combat if necessary. But no, dumb George Lucas wanted an animated yoda prancing around like a retarded fairy with a lightsaber.
Michael Burke Agreed they were characters that never needed them, although the clone wars portrays palpatine using sabers in an interesting way in the one actual fight he does that.
"Every stanza kinda rhymes with the last one. Hopefully it'll work" - those last three words and the flinching facial expression he makes after he says them just sums up everything that's abhorrently and catastrophically wrong with the prequels.
Because he actually has wisdom in the Originals. He uses stupidity to agitate & test the patience of Skywalker. Because Yoda realises that a man lead by his emotions lacks coherent thought - & cannot be trained. Your brain also picks up on the fact that Yoda is "In-Cam" meaning a Physical effect. CGI looks lifeless, sterile, & pasted on in post. It's all wrong.
It's funny how a short scene of Yoda training a few kids how to lift rocks like in Empire would've been more impactful, consistent with the character and would've made a great reference to the original trilogy in its own right than the kindergarten of lightsaber toys that completely ruins any credibility from Yoda, Lucas and the Star Wars mythos. The only reason it was included in the first place was because Lucas realized he created a huge plot hole with Episode I regarding Qui-Gon but was half-assed for nostalgia points that wouldn't even work after Phantom Menace It's just something I thought about and made me realize that scene is now my most hated moment since it's the most blatant about how poorly conceived everything is from a story perspective. It exists solely as haphazard attempt at a self-insert for children
For me the biggest insult to the franchise is mediklorians. One thing i loved about the force from the original trilogy was the idea that this is a force that exists everywhere and inside everyone. Anyone can use the force or at least be strong in the force hence why so many non Jedi characters use the phrase "may the fore be with you," The Jedi always seemed to me to be the ones trained to actually utilize the force, but it wasn't that they alone could be apart of it or use it, they were just better trained to do it. This allows us all to feel like we all have the force in us and that is something that always was so powerful to me. To then have it said that micro organisms in your body dictates your ability to use the force like dragon-ball z power levels was a massive insult to the creativity, mysticism, and power of the whole concept. But in clones the thing that actually ruins everything is the whole idea of Yoda actually fighting... The whole concept of Yoda from Empire was that he was above physical fighting and that the power of the force was so great, that he wouldn't need to ever actually fight. Even Darth Vader in A New Hope says the power to destroy a planet is nothing compared to the power of the force. It's why i loved both Yoda and the Emperor becasue both represent the power of the force be it light or dark, Yoda is a powerful master of the force despite his small size, while the Emperor was this frail old man, who is then revealed to have this massive power which Luke underestimated, due to his apearence. the point being that the force is beyond physical and is not dictated by appearence but by skill. Cue to the prequels where everything is a sterilized light-saber fight show, becasue gotta sell those toys and have to make the brain dead audience not really think.
You can also blame the OT for that though, since it contradicted itself. It stated that everyone apparently can use the Force, but yet the Skywalker family seemed to be the only one still being Force sensitive which made it to a genetic concept and diminished the purpose. If anyone could use it, Obi Wan could have just trained anybody. No need for Luke and Leia being the only hope the Universe still has, right?
it's funny how he cares the least about the prequels (i'm pretty sure i remember him talking shit in the episode 3 extras section) but he did the best acting imo
With Disney doing the character spin-off films, I wouldn't mind seeing an Obi-Wan movie with Ewan. He is a great choice for Obi-Wan, but didn't get to shine due to the terrible writing. I just think he deserves another chance.
+tyspyranger Same. I think it was more than just the writing that put him off, though; if you see him in interviews he seems like quite a bright and passionate person. I can only imagine what a torture it was for someone like that to have to work with George Lucas and try and deliver wooden, nonsensical dialogue in front of a green screen, day after day. Just the worst job.
+kevjtnbtmglr So did Natalie Portman and Jake Lloyd. In fact, the actor that played the chancellor before Palpatine also went on record saying Lucas was a terrible guy to work with
I hope he is a giant. It would make things a bit more original and interesting. How do you fight a guy that big? You certanly won't go into another boring lightsaber fight with that thing...
A common complaint about the prequels is that you are not sure who the main character is supposed to be. I was watching American Graffiti recently. While it was good, I did keep wondering if any of the three characters we were following were supposed to be the main protagonist. And then at the very end, it turned out Richard Dreyfuss was the main character. I guess it doesn’t really matter in a film like that, but that should have been a warning.
When Yoda was doing his speech, and you kept cutting to the new stuff, when George says "With the new digital technology, pretty much whatever I can imagine I can do" I was anticipating Yoda to say 'That....is why you fail".
i love how at 14:50 that the 2 jedi leave the damsel in distress alone (possibly dead) in the middle of the desert to go and kill some guy instead of signaling a second gunship. Its not like the whole mission was not to save her / prevent her assassination. Kenobi didnt know that the clone could signal a gunship. It would of been really awkward that if kenobi in episode 4 said to luke "i was friends with your father and we both left your mother for dead that one time "
PuddleBucket Well, I guess how I thought Nostalgia Critic was when I was younger, but going back, yeah, he was just a low budget unfunny bad reviewer back then..
"It's almost like Lucas thought he needed to have kids IN the movie for kids to want to buy things FROM the movie". Not only is that observation accurate, and Lucas's opinions incorrect (as any 80s kid can attest to who grew up worshipping adult heroes like GI Joe, the Lone Ranger, Superman, and uh... Star Wars) , but it gets even weirder/creepier if you've ever seen any behind the scenes footage from Willow. George seems to display a bizarre fascination with little people that goes beyond their cinematic pertinence. There's a scene where he's practically salivating watching the village of little people and can be heard murmuring to himself "The kids are gonna LOVE this!" It's like he thinks little people and children are exactly the same thing in his mind, and kids will only want to watch movies with people as tall as they are in them, so he's somehow discovered a cheat code by casting them in his film.
The way I picture the padawan scene in a way that gets the nostalgia, but is also cool to watch, would see Obi-Wan enter a meditation session where Yoda is teaching them how to lift and stack rocks with the Force. Throughout their conversation, the students stack rocks while listening and meditating simultaneously. I think that would've been cool. One student could've spoken up about the archives, with a perfectly balanced stack of rocks in front of her, earning that comment from Yoda about how wonderful young minds can be.
Luke: strapping on his weapon belt in Empire. Yoda: You won't need your weapons. Luke: What's in there? Yoda: Only what you bring with you. I guess all of the philosophy, along with the internalization of what that scene meant, actually meant nothing. . .
And in empire, yoda effortlessly lifts Luke's ship from the swamp, but during his fight with doku, it always looks like he's struggling against the weight of some rocks. Same with the Senate pod against the emperor. I guess you could say that there was some resistance from his opponent but idk he still felt nerfed
Stan Darsh supposedly we're told that the jedi are losing their powers. I say supposedly because I've never forced myself to watch this garbage............
I think it goes beyond that, because Yoda himself actually explains why size doesn't even matter. Lifting a pebble is essentially the same as lifting a mountain, because they're both just "crude matter" and bow to the will of the force. Limitations and roadblocks exist only in the mind. And yet, in the prequels, Yoda has no problem flinging tubes and tanks around, but clearly struggles with a giant rock Dooku flings at him. That right there entirely contradicts everything that SAME character explains in Empire.
While I'm not defending the prequels, Yoda was most likely exhausted and drained from the fight. So for a moment he struggled having to focus all of his energy on the rock. Dooku was also exhausted and did that as an attempt to flee because he knew Yoda would defeat him. In TESB, Yoda most likely hasn't used the Force in any large capacity for years, so he is able to move Luke's ship without any noticeable exertion. Although, I like to think doing this drained him of lots of his energy and began his decline to death. (Once he sets the ship down, he breathes out a large sigh and seems hurt). Much like Luke in TLJ, using massive amounts of Force in a small window seems to drain the user of their physical life. Again, just me theorizing and not a defense of the prequels or bad screenwriting.
"Well.. at least the prequels were all thought out..." Yeah, and that's about all they have going for them. Planning when you intend to take a dump is still taking a massive dump.
When I was a kid, I felt like the lightsaber was something only bestowed upon the highest ranking Jedi, a perk which only the extremely dedicated and strong ever got to see. It made it special, and it worked with Lukes story, how this kid was thrown into something much greater than he could imagine. The lightsaber was a rarity. It made sense Darth Vader had one, he flew too close to the sun with his mastery but kept the lightsaber because he was once one of the best Jedi knights. It made both Luke and Darth Vader special. Their lightsabers was a symbolic thing which interconnected them, and it made Luke more impressive since he had the same power as Vader but didn't fall to the dark force. Then the prequels came out and lightsabers were just disposable laser swords. Not a rare weapon only wielded by the most mythical, rare Jedi. Seeing these plinkett reviews was cathartic, I was turned off by Star Wars for decades, and now I understand why the prequels ruined the magic for me.
The "I wish I could wish..." line that poor kid has to force out of his mouth is actually only the second worst in the prequels. The worst comes from Yoda at the end of Phantom Menace when George gives the game away that he's writing these movies like they are Video Role Playing Games. He doesn't bestow upon Obi Wan the "Honour" or "Title" or even the "Rank" of Jedi Knight... He bestows upon him the "level" of Jedi Knight. Obi Wan LITERALLY "Levels Up" at the end.
@@DistractedGlobeGuy Honestly? I think Star Wars had already become that in the eyes of the "Fans". They want stuff to be categorically specific so that they can learn all that pointless shit and use it to measure their metaphoric dick sizes. "Oh? You didn't know that originally there was only ONE Kyber crystal and it was spelled Kaiburr? You're not a True Fan..." George let that shit get out of control, which is why there is so much fucking "Fan Service" in the sequels. It's why the second series of Mandalorian wasn't as good as the first... shoving all that cartoon series stuff in for the guys who jizz their shorts if something THEY know gets mentioned and other people are saying "What does that mean?" I suppose it's to make it "Double Canon" or whatever they call that crap.
@@andrewtomlinson5237 I agree with that statement, but I don't really see what that has to do with a webcomic that reframes the _Star Wars_ films as a tabletop RPG campaign being played by a group of D&D fans.
@@DistractedGlobeGuy Sorry dude, I thought you were referring to the general attitude fans took towards Star Wars, in how everything (particularly Jedi powers) had to neatly fit into a readily identifiable structure rather than letting it just be "Space Magic". Didn't realise it was a specific thing you were talking about.
Everything about how the lightsabers were ruined, and the jedi training, and pretty much everything about Yoda is just so perfect. I wonder if George Lucas ever watched these videos and thought 'shit, better let Disney handle this'
If I could have improved only one facet of this movie, which would have had the potential to make it better, it would have been the death of Anakin's mother, Shmi. Hear me out. Okay, so I agree with Plinkett that it should have been Padme doing the flirting and desire for a relationship, while Anakin is a more responsible, if sometimes brash and cocky Jedi who likes the idea, but is torn by his own duties and attraction. So, what _should_ have happened was this- Anakin and Padme go to Tattooine to look for Shmi, find out what has happened to her. Anakin figures out what happened, tracks down Shmi, and then managed to infiltrate the camp. He finds her abused, bloody and close to death, but they share a heartfelt moment together made all the more tragic when her body gives out and she passes away in his arms. Now Anakin is distraught, clinging to his mother's body and mourning her passing, trying to recite the Jedi Code to calm himself down, which starts to work... ... only for two Tusken Raiders to enter the tent and see Anakin, alerting the entire camp to his presence as they attack. Forced to defend himself, Anakin fights back- but still in the midst of his grieving, he sees one of the Sandpeople trying to take Shmi's body away and Anakin loses it, abandoning all control and pressing the attack out of fury and anger. Fast forward to the garage scene, where Anakin is lamenting his inability to save his mother, and his admission that he lost control and slaughtered the entire camp out of grief. The entire ordeal, if done the way I just outlined, would paint Anakin as a more sympathetic character who was seduced by the dark side of the Force and compelled to give in to his darker urges because of his grief- we'd at least be able to better understand why he did what he did, and it might make Padme more sympathetic to his internal struggle, giving her a reason to be more compassionate instead of forceful, leading to the two sharing a closer and more intimate moment when Anakin is at his most emotionally vulnerable, able to admit his feelings for Padme. George: ".... Nope. Let's just have Anakin murder everyone- I'm sure Padme will understand."
@@OBSDCC7 it's their culture. They are technically savages and the kids are just raised in that lifestyle so he killed innocent as well..... but that's not the Jedi way according to George
It's a soulless, emotionless travesty, born from greed. Terrible. Great review, by the way. In depth, and to the point(I know, it's kinda long, but it was pretty damn to the point despite that).
+fourcrippledhorses There's a good reason Blade Runner is a much better film than any of the Star Wars prequels. The synthetics in Blade Runner had very human traits. They personified emotions that we feel but their origins were implanted and the realization of their false identities made them question their existences as we all question are place in our own little worlds Blade Runner made inhuman characters more human than any character in the prequels. The writing and character development in Blade Runner completely outclasses everything there in Episode 1-3
One thing that bothers me about ep 2 is that a decent chunk of it is about cutting between Anakin and obi wan, who're on different planets. But they're both sand planets, so if you forgot to pay attention or something you might not even realize they're on different planets
This is good. I always thought the areana planet should have been a green colored foggy jungle/swamp planet with semi-posionous athmosphere. Inside the Arena they could keep the yellow color palette so when we see the areana from above the green/yellow combination would look cool specially with the poisonous fog surrounding the outside area.
0:03 9. George Lucas ruins the lightsaber and the force all in one scene. 5:50 10. More dumb kids 10:37 10. The dissolution of tension: BIGGER is not always betterer 13:36 11.BIG dumb ending 18:35 12. Oh George
I saw these films when they first came out when I was 7 and it's amazing how much I enjoyed them at the time. All that stuff people say about the movies being for kids is so true. I had no idea that everyone over 16 thought the movies totally sucked. But watching the movies now is like rewatching space jam. It just never ceases to disappoint you. At least Bill Murray shows up in space jam.
Plinkett I don't know if you realized what you said: Does Lucas understand Star Wars? Man, this epitomizes everything. He just doesn't. Or, to be fair, he doesn't understand how Star Wars was received by audiences.
Exactly. Lucas doesn't understand what it was about the original SW films that the FANS loved. He really doesn't. And considering how much the OT was a compromise of his original vision, i've always had the sneaking suspicion that he slightly resented how popular the collaborative version for SW was with audiences. I never could understand his smugness when watching him give interviews about SW during the 80's and 90's. Now it makes sense. Its also probably the reason he kept altering the originals.....and eventually sold to Disney. The prequels were more in line with what HE wanted SW to be...and the fandom largely shat on them for years.
Did Lucas say "lazersword"? I know that´s how he called them in early Star Wars scripts. I´m just surprised how butthurt he was because so many of his original ideas were ditched to make Star Wars as we know it, that he kept bringing those ideas even in the editing room. The Star Wars writers were scrapped those ideas for a good reason. They sucked and couldn´t be used in a good movie. The are the proof.
Dude, you actually made me think so much about Yoda and what he originally stood for. It's made me think about how even with Rian Johnson attempting to bring back the substance-filled and philosophic Yoda, he failed in his execution. Yoda would not have called some force lightning from the heavens to destroy the jedi tree on Luke's island. He would have spoken with Luke about his experiences on Dagobah, and specifically in the cave. He would have made him reflect on rash and unstable decisions he made then, and the lessons he learned from them. Luke's greatest fear was becoming the thing he swore to destroy and succumbing to evil, yet from the very start of The Last Jedi, Luke has shown that he apparently has forgotten everything he learned and took to heart in the original trilogy. I very much look forward to your review on The Last Jedi, because I think it's a completely misguided film riddled with plot holes, contradictions, and an over-reliance on subversions.
Yoda burned the place down because you didn't expect him to. Despite what some people say about TLJ being a bold, subversive deconstruction of Star Wars that's as deep as it ever goes IMO.
And George thought that the technology of that time had reached the highest point, or something like that... So much that he didn't do anything and just sat down to drink coffee.
Great point about the arena scene, when I saw this at the theater I remember it being a very lifeless experience and then that sequence was actually tense and I think fairly well directed and edited. If Lucas had actually mixed stuff up more like that we could have had something, he repeated himself with the lightsaber crap over and over until it was Goddamn boring to see one.
Bertolt Brecht would have loved the new Star Wars movies. "Epic theatre (German: episches Theater) was primarily proposed by Bertolt Brecht who suggested that a play should not cause the spectator to identify emotionally with the characters or action before him or her, but should instead provoke rational self-reflection and a critical view of the action on the stage."
Coming back to these reviews and seeing how the usage of lightsabers in the prequels was considered over the top feels quaint, especially now that we have fucking umbrella lightsabers and helicopter lightsabers
something that always was unconvincing to me is Padme being able to fight in a huge arena without getting shot when millions of blasters are firing like crazy. I dont even think any untrained human being could have a shot at surviving that arena battle, i mean come on. she's a senator , not a warrior so how t'f did she not get hit? i guess anakin protected her but still hard to believe.
Plinkett's relationship with that lady that he kidnap is actually more interesting and with more tension about how will turn out to be than Anakin and Padmé's lovestory...
+Yug Inavoviristêncio AGREED!!!
is that his wife irl?
+Yug Inavoviristêncio yea I too think that was the point, I mean ffs she had an arc and character development.
I agree.
+Yug Inavoviristêncio She later tries to kill him at a live event, can't remember what video it's in but it's pretty fun if you dig it up.
"EVERY SINGLE FRAME- every single shot has a digital effect."
-Rick McCallum, crying for help
One thing I will give George Lucas credit for is teaching us all the lesson that you can't CGI your way into a good movie, and that good movies aren't all CGI. Its a tool that must be used appropriately.
I really respect Ewan candidly going "It's a nightmare!" lol
There are two kinds of people. Those that liked the Yoda fight, and those that aren't in a fridge right now.
+BollocksUtwat I remember watching this when I was a kid. Even when most of the other crap in the movies flew over my head at the time (Y'know, because I was a stupid kid) even I called bullshit on the retarded Yoda fight scene.
I guess I didn't mind the one in RotS because it was a goofy evil old guy fighting an even older green midget, and it was unintentionally funny.
+BollocksUtwat I remember watching this when I was a kid. Even when most of the other crap in the movies flew over my head at the time (Y'know, because I was a stupid kid) even I called bullshit on the retarded Yoda fight scene.
I guess I didn't mind the one in RotS because it was a goofy evil old guy fighting an even older green midget, and it was unintentionally funny.
+Sir Quaffler
It always amazes me whenever I hear people laud the Yoda fight as one of the best moments of the prequal trilogy, because I distinctly recall the entire theater erupting in a symphony of laughter when I first saw the film as a child.
Undkor Revisionist history is insidious.
+Wood TV like @gronndar said!
N i think its obvious that lucas got too much credit for the original trilogy and for creating star wars. the original star wars script was credited to him, but if you listen and read gary kurtz interviews, lucas was helped out by the Huyck's and his wife at the time marcia with some of the snappier more humorous dialogue. And the film was a mess after it was made and was saved in editing less than a year before it's release by Richard Chew, Marcia Lucas and Paul hirsch.
"We're keepers of the peace, not soldiers" *battle scene*
ScumbagSteve they became soldiers because the force told them to.
Over and over again....
That first five minutes talking about how Yoda's character was ruined is so perfect.
+BJMcB92 nah. yoda is a jedi master. sometimes the reviewer just arrogantly goes on pointless rants to sound smart.
+thetoughguy jr. Wow, the amount of star wars fanboys butthurt by how this review exposes the prequels is astounding.
ECiriachi you're the fan and you're the butthurt one.
+thetoughguy jr. I guess you are like... how old? 15? 16?
thetoughguy jr. Fan of what?
Yoda's musing of the force against Lucas' spew about colourful cgi war scenes is great.
+Zach Bonnell Its really the greatest moment in the review. In many respects I think this review is his best.
That epilogue really ties the review together.
+Zach Bonnell
"Luminous beings are we, not this dark matter..."
"I need a midichlorian count. The Reading is off the charts!"
MrCorrectify Pretty much.
+MrCorrectify when I hear midiclorian counts I think of.. ITS OVER 9000!!!!
+Zach Bonnell It's heart-breaking is what it is. If old Master Yoda could see what the Prequels were...
That editing job at the end of the video with Yoda from the prequels, talking and reacting in contrast with the sequels and George commentaries it's so well done, that it makes me feel so sad how bad this movies turned out to be, GL metaphoracly speaking, killed Yoda the force and everything that comes with it.
Plinkett and Luke destroy the Death Star, Lucas, the production team and the prequels at the end of the Revenge of the Sith review.
Obi Wan tells Luke(as) to use the force and let go, turn his computer off.
Thankfully, in real life, for me, The Force Awakens made me completely forget about the prequels, and allowed us all to let go and move on.
lol such a dumb fanboy
Yep, it exposes how clinical the prequels were. No heart...
Yep Yoda would be rolling over in his grave 😂
@@pacershark452 1. Consider your words marked
2. If your saying Attack of the Clones is better than The Last Jedi, quit crying and go read the Thrawn Trilogy again if you love that shit so much.
Rewatching the reviews for the millionth time now, I think I've figured something out that's always bothered me: In all of his clips in the behind the scenes segments, Lucas NEVER seems to use the correct terminology for things in his own universe. Like he call Geonosians "flying termites," lightsabers "lazer swords," he doesn't differentiate between Jedi and Sith when speaking (referring to both as Jedi), and he just overall doesn't seem to comprehend any of the things that he himself created. For comparison, if he were still alive you'd probably never see JRR Tolkien refer to elves as "pointy eared guys" or anything like that. Lucas just comes off as not knowing/caring about anything in any of his movies, and it really shows when he doesn't have anyone willing to challenge him.
goongas
He just don’t care.
@@tomburkill6875 George Lucas
Droids < robots
He's a moron
What really sets me off about that is that TWO words, droid and lightsaber, are literally copyrighted terms. LITERALLY NO ONE ELSE COULD USE THOSE WORDS WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION and you say laser swords and robots???
There's some really good action in this movie, people getting wiped out, man, there's some wipe outs in this movie.
+Commodore Schmidlapp Yeah, Samuel, that's true, but the only wiping here involves Lucas' ass and the film reel.
I don't even know what that means.
+Commodore Schmidlapp It's like poetry, it ryhmes
+Commodore Schmidlapp Every single scene, every single shot in the movie has a digital effect.
+Dallas Van Winkle it's George's way of making the best film he can
+Commodore Schmidlapp Sam Jackson trying really hard not to say fuck.
19:05 - That Blade Runner footage really makes the Star Wars footage look like total fucking garbage, even though the latter is 20 years newer and probably cost ten times more to make. The cinematography is so sterile and lifeless.
"What, they bring extra ones?"
Lmao I never noticed how ridiculous that is
I remember thinking about that a couple of times as a kid... like, wait they're still not gonna be able to fight, oh welp, they can, like wait, they brought extras? Oh, I guess it makes sense cause they knew they were there... the whole thing just wasn't thought out that much, like at all, it seems. And I say this while having a special place in my heart for these movies because I grew up on them, though I realize they are pretty damn bad, especially AOTC. I could say a LOT more.
Honestly I always thought two other jedi brought them along and Mace Windu said "sorry, Obi Wan and Anakin need these more, go back to the ship and wait", right before taking their weapons away. This kind of reduces the lightsaber from being this really rare, cool and powerful weapon to being like something you'd find on the counter next to the cash register at a 7/11.
Remember how in the original trilogy, Obi-wan would use the force in creative ways to avoid violence whenever he could? He pulls out the lightsaber to fight two times in the whole movie, when conflict was unavoidable. By contrast, the jedi of the prequels only seem to know how to solve problems by swinging lightsabers at them. Whatever happened to “There are alternatives to fighting”?
And he was fast. Not in the second time with Vader but the first time, fast and effective and he switched off the sword.
Luke did the same with the not that good 3. episode when he fought in the forrest. The lightsaber is obviously there to solve a problem. I think of it like the triger on the gun, you touch it when you want to use it, you used it and stop touching it.
That's a really good point - lightsabers used to be treated a lot more like a samurai sword where it's ultimately just one tool in their toolset, and most effective when used efficiently. Kurosawa films would show often show people using swords like the prequels do as a way to characterize someone as being brash and reckless. Sometimes that was a virtue, but people who swung their weapons around like toys were shown to not be very experienced with them.
That isn't true.
In the first hour of episode 2, obi wan only uses his lightsaber twice- the first when he disarms the assassin, in self defence.
The second when he confronts Jango Fett on the landing platform and, to be fair, he quickly loses his lightsaber during that fight.
Contrast the cartoony asteroid scene with the one in the originals. We see the characters get nervous, hear the bad guys have to be ordered to pursue them, and even experience some rocks hitting the millennium falcon with real effect on the ship. It's so much more engaging compared to everyone and his mother being able to maneuver anything flawlessly (including a pampered queen flawlessly escaping death on an insane production line). Good points as always, Mr. Plinkett.
The deadly conveyor belt scene ripped off Chicken Run.
Star Wars ripped off Chicken Run. Bet you never thought you'd hear THAT in your lifetime.
The Conveyor Belt-O-Doom is a pretty old trope. TVTropes traces it as far back as 1914 (in The Perils of Pauline).
Y'know Halo ripped off a scene from Chicken Run. LyleMcDouchebag goes into it on one of his streams. So, I guess it's just a normal thing for big budget sci fi franchises to steal content from Chicken Run.
Tbh, all big Hollywood companies want to rip off chicken run ... There's no shame in that, chicken run is a masterpiece
Come on guys, it's called a 'homage'
It's like poetry...
@@LawkzBro it-it rhymes
My dad walked us both out of this film when I was a kid. I was pissed, but now I understand.
David Smithson I was like 11 YO and I felt asleep while watching this
David Smithson Your dad is awesome
@Channel ICUP - All of them
Andrés Barrios I fell asleep watching Revenge of the Sith when I was 10 and I woke up at the end battle
Your dad had pride in star wars
It's so messed up realizing how bad the prequels really were, after thinking they were good as a little kid. Like, I thought I didn't understand them back then because I was a kid... Truth is they were just poorly written. Also, here's Lucas talking with Lawrence Kasdan sometime after 1983, and before 1999(this is a real conversation):
Lucas: "It's like yoga (the Force). If you want to take the time to do it, you can do it; but the one who are really good at it are the ones who are really into that kind of thing. Also like karate. Another misconception is that Yoda teaches Jedi, but he's actually more like a guru; he doesn't go out and fight anybody."
Kasdan: "But a Jedi master is still a Jedi (Knight), right?"
Lucas: "He is a teacher. Not a real Jedi. Understand?"
Basically, Lucas used to be smart. He understood Star Wars. But then time passed... Money and fame changed him... He's more machine now, than man. Twisted and evil.
We get to see him pull out that little laser sword of his and go to town. People have been waiting to see that
They weren't bad though. They weren't poorly written.
well...at that point in time he didn't fight since that would be after the prequel events and how yoda changed and became more chill. maybe he forgot that part with yoda not fighting...or maybe not and decided that he would be different in the prequels which would make sense really. Also I'm glad that Yoda is more so a "real jedi" as if we are to consider him one of the strongest and one of the best jedi, he needs to be a real jedi.
Lucas was always smart and is still smart. He still understands Star Wars. Money and fame didn't change him much though. He's not at all machine. He wasn't twisted or evil. Saying that is well...twisting things up.
Like the comparison of GL with DV. Who knew that the Star Wars movies were autobiographical.
@@jaydenc367 bad take
@@briansebor Not really.
*TIME TO GO IN THE REFRIGERATOR*
Bloody hell the CGI in this movie looks terrible now. The comparison between scenes from the original trilogy and Attack of the Clones speaks volumes. This movie is just 20 years old and it looks like gameplay footage from a PS2 game. Meanwhile the original trilogy still looks fantastic nearly 50 years later.
I remember watching in the theater and thinking it looked like garbage, especially compared to Two Towers later that year.
Does anyone remember the part in “A New Hope” where Obi-Wan says to Luke “your father would’ve wanted you to have this when you were old enough” it just completely points out how dumb it is for the young kids to have lightsabers.
Anakin disagreed with the Jedi council on a lot of things, not unreasonable to think he might have disagreed with yoda’s way of teaching too
@@rebelfriend1818 I'd say it is unreasonable to suggest that Anakin was an outspoken advocate for child safety.
Not to mention that Anakin didn't even spoke to anyone else about Padme's pregnancy, with Obi-Wan having deduced it only AFTER Anakin became Darth Vader and having massacred a day care's worth full of them. This means Obi-Wan had no friggin clue what Anakin's view was on having children of his own, much less what he would've wanted for them. Heck, the only thing he knew for certain was that Anakin wasn't above killing children!
Obi-Wan is a master bullshitter.
@@rebelfriend1818 but it wasn't Anakin, it was Kenobi's view, which likely reflected the usual Jedi MO
So true, this really makes no sense. In medieval times IRL, they trained kids with training swords that weren’t sharp. It doesn’t make sense to allow the next generation of fighters to maim themselves as children. But seeing kids practice with fake lightsabers just wouldn’t be cool enough I guess!
"It's almost like Lucas think there needs to be kids IN the movie in order for kids to want to buy things from the movie". This way of thinking has been extremely common among producers of childrens media for the past 18 or 15 years or so. Back in the 20th century, most of the most popular childrens fiction actually starred adult characters, but nowadays the thinking seems to be that kids wont watch something unless it features kids/teens as protagonists.
rattis That may have more to do with the idea that older cartoons/kids media is "too violent",and by putting kids in it, the lobbyists(so-called parents groups) won't complain to much. This isn't new. It goes at least back to the 50s with comic books.
I think audiences have just gotten stupider and more immature. if you look at older movies from the 80's-mid 90's you see more serious, logical, adult things. then from around the late 90's you see goofy jokes everywhere, i guess reality doesn't seem so grim that way to some
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I don't think "still a better love story than Twilight" applies here...
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Me stepping in dog poo is a better love story
People who are complaining about how bad Disney's SW films are and letting up on Lucas' prequels would benefit from watching these reviews. When I look back at each trilogy set, it seems clear what happened. In the original three that were made, Lucas had to lean more on other people and creativity to get it done, which meant a much better product. That success and marketing money enabled him to go crazy with effects and gain complete control, likely an inflated ego as well, and move forward with a prequel that showed what he is truly capable of when he has the resources and control in his hands. He continued working with marketing and tried his best to make the films appeal to as many as possible for maximum profit, but upon thinking about what the future had in store for this universe, he realized that the only way he was going to make the best money with the least effort was to sell out to Disney. So, in the end, we can truly say that Lucas has always been a mediocre filmmaker at best and values profit to a much greater degree than he actually does knowing how to tell a good story. The progession is natural and is easy to see from the first Star Wars film ever made to the most recent ones.
Unrelated: anyone ever stop and think about how, after Ep. 1 and all the talk about how Anakin has more midichlorians than Yoda and how he's some supernatural prophesied Force Jesus born of a virgin mother, he never really does anything that makes him look more able or powerful than any other Jedi we've seen before? Where's all the evidence of his dormant potential, just waiting to burst forth and show what a powerful Jedi he may become some day? Shouldn't he have had some sort of Gohan/Harry Potter/Kung Fu Panda/Buffy/Peter Quill/Bill Murray in Space Jam moment if we're to think he's actually anything special at all? What the fuck?
+Christian Eggers shit, I forgot to mention "every single main character in young adult dystopian fiction."
+Christian Eggers Because he is teh chosen one! Teh praafecee said so. TEH PRAFECEEEEEEE!
LukeMM95 I saw akira, I barely understood a thing about it (though that'll happen when you condense a 2000 something page manga into a 2 hour movie) Would you care to elaborate on your point?
LukeMM95 Sounds like it really would have worked in the case of anakin, especially since they said in ep. 1 that his "midicholrian count" *shudder* was the highest they've ever seen, higher than even yoda's.
+LukeMM95 That would be pretty badass, if not for one (now stupid) expository scene where Ben Kenobi reminisces about the past in Episode 4. He seemed to remember Anakin as a relatively stable, compassionate Jedi that was maybe a touch reckless but always used his varied skills to help people. Lucas certainly set the stage for an emotionally unstable and insecure powerhouse drifting to the dark side, but really I think that's more just Lucas being a fat incompetent dumbass.
"We're keepers of the peace, not soldiers."
Then cuts to a shot of Mace Windu leading a a battalion of clones into battle.
Gleep Wurp I think the point mace was trying to make was that the Jedi order were not an army to be used to wage all out war. On geonosis they rallied together to do what they could, but consistent with what mace said they were overwhelmed and required the aid of the clone troopers.
@@bb8328 That's clearly what Mace was supposed to be conveying, but the Jedi weren't overwhelmed, as Yoda arrives with clone troops clearly showing that it was a planned offensive. They bizarrely just decided to send Jedi in ahead of time. Well not all that bizarrely, as I believe I remember Lucas mentioning that this is the first time that we will see Jedi fighting en masse. He clearly thought it was something which would excite the fans. The inconsistency is further compounded in the next film when the Jedi are shown strategising and directing war like generals.
The annoying thing about Yoda in the prequels compared to Yoda in the originals is the ridiculous amount of backwards speak.
In the originals Yoda only speaks backwards some of the time. When he has to say something complicated he speaks normally, saving backwards speak for only a few iconic lines. In the prequels he never talks normally and is sometimes comically hard to understand. He’s a parody of himself, it’s really annoying.
I'd like to hear more of your critiques about the whole thing!
Not really....he usually spoke backwards. He's not really a parody of himself.
@@jaydenc367 Go and watch Empire Strikes Back, you'll be surprised how normal Yodas speech is.
@@s4098429 Eh....he still sounds the same as he does in the prequels though.
And yet they managed to fuck up Yoda the most in the sequel trilogy where he speaks to Luke like he did when they first met and he was disguising himself and the fact he was a jedi master...
Wait... why would Yoda call the war the 'Clone Wars' from the very beginning? That would be like people calling the first world war 'WW1' in 1914. I know it's a minor detail but I just feel like 'Clone Wars' is the sort of name that would only appear and be used later on, years after the war had ended.
Also it was one war so why he says wars?
Because George wanted to constantly remind fans of the Original Trilogy by giving endless callbacks to famous lines whether it made sense for the character bringing it up and knowing it's famous out of universe name or not. He let the outside World seep into the story, when it really shouldn't have. It could have been called the droid wars and it still would have made sense. In fact, there were millions more battle droids involved in the war than clones. George knew the audience would go "Oh yeah! That's the big war Obi-Wan was talking about!"
I'll conclude that Lucas thought he had to keep the fan service sloshing throughout the movie by having the characters name the war something more consistent with the events they are involved in like The Great War or The Galactic Siege or something would have been too boring and forgettable and wouldn't be exciting enougb for the old fans watching. You can show events mentioned in the OT but it doesn't need to be constantly shoved in everyone's faces. It works much better for the originality of the movie part of an already established universe you are making in you keep things subtle and not painfully obvious.
It happens again in the last film when Obi Wan says "send me to fight the emperor"....he had only announced the empire 10 minutes ago, why call him an emperor when you think he will be dead within the hour?
And calling it the Clone War implies the clones were the villains, the ones the Republic were fighting. It could have been called the Droid War or the Separatist War. At least from the Republic perspective.
@@MaximumWarp2099 That's what one of the writers of the EU actually thought, he thought the clones were the VILLAINS rather than the heroes
I don't remember which author it was...maybe it was Timothy Zahn
“I’m not even sure he even understands Star Wars or anything that happened in the Empire Strikes Back.”
...I mean,George did have the least amount of involvement in Empire...which turned out to be the best one...Things that make you say hmmm...
True, but then again, he had nothing to do with episodes VII-IX & they were horrible.
@@vanderful2397 I think that has more to do with the fact that Star Wars is just, to quote Rich Evans: "Creatively bankrupt". The studio just can't come up with good ideas and only pushes out what's marketable - IE: flashy light saber fights and incomprehensible space battles with lasers shooting all over the place to give little kids and fanboys something shiny to look at.
@@TheDeadAlewives "Creatively bankrupt" That is one good quote. When was the last time SW had something new & good?
Even the original trilogy had 2 Deathstars.
Anyway I think you may be right here.
@@vanderful2397 That really doesn’t invalidate anything about how Lucas didn’t understand Star wars with the prequels
@@mckenzie.latham91 In a way yes, but...
My favorite quote of all time is a wrestling quote, " I used to think you're a dumbfuck, but so many worse dumbfucks have come across that you've risen the ladder without having to do anything."
After the OG trilogy, nobody has been able to do a good Star Wars story. Disney has half a dozen experienced teams who have tried & they have all failed (imo. worse than Lucas). If there isn't a successful new SW movie, then criticizing him for not being able to do good SW, is like criticizing him for not being able to live without eating.
At the moment it looks that the OG trilogy was just a fluke
People gettin JACKED in this movie
+Icecream2448 There's a lot of WIPE OUTS! People getting wiped out!
@@yulbrynner8293 Well I know the urban market likes movies because they stole my TV
In the 2003 Clone Wars cartoon, Yoda is seen riding an ostrich-like mount (not sure what it's called) into combat when fighting with his lightsaber, which would make sense as it allows him to overcome his physical limitations. However when he dismounts, Yoda immediately focuses on using his Force powers to overwhelm his opponents, rather than confronting them physically. I always thought that this was the best interpretation of how Yoda would fight on the battlefield.
To be fair, that 2003 Clone Wars show is just sort of the best interpretation of EVERYTHING from the Prequels. So.
@@aztektheultimatewoman yeah, they also fix Windu by having him be this actually badass warrior monk
@@aztektheultimatewoman It's pretty funny to think Tartakovski understood Star Wars a lot better than Lucas did in a lot of ways and how to execute the characters in both action and dialogue scenes. With relatively minimal use of dialogue in many of the Clone Wars episodes the character exploration scenes within captivate and elevate many of the rather bland characters we had been given in the prequel series and it's so much better for it.
Honestly yoda could just use the force to crush all the robots but whatever
@@LeoMidori Yea, it is funny how everybody BUT Lucas handles Star Wars better than Lucas ever did. Even the "Expanded Universe" novels give Lucas lots of lip-service (e.g., in ascribing the 'story' of the universe to him, in introductions to the books, etc.) but all the greatest stories were written by skilled writers like Timothy Zahn and James Luceno-guys who were able to make something good out of an otherwise shallow world. Heck, Luceno's best novel, "Darth Plagueis" (which I've not read) is apparently good precisely because (reportedly) it solves a lot of the embarrassing problems the prequels caused.
The most ridiculous thing is that I'm feeling much more for the characters (or victims?) in Mr Plinkett's life than I ever did for anyone in the prequels. Seems like his review is a better trilogy
That's kind of the entire point. xD you care more about the psychopathic movie reviewer than the...protah...protoahgonist
I have to express my love and gratitude for the final segment of this review starting at 22:22
I am perfectly serious affirming it to be my favorite thing I've seen on TH-cam.
The juxtaposition of the real Yoda reacting to prequel horrors is brilliant, beautiful and powerful.
I was moved to the brink of tears the first time I saw it.
This level of artistry in revealing the truth goes beyond commentary, it is poetry.
Thank you so very much
"This level of artistry in revealing the truth goes beyond commentary, it is poetry"
What do you mean, it doesn't even rhyme?
"Size matters not..."
"Oh I'm sorry, Yoda; It does. It does if you use a lightsaber"
STILL ROLLING ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING AT THAT TINY QUIP!!
I'm almost certain the whole "midichlorian count" came from Dragon Ball Z power levels. DBZ's first run in the U.S. happened on the Cartoon Network in the late 90s. George probably came across it and then put it in the first movie.
"seizure inducing battle" That battle actually did give me the only seizure I've ever had. Trufact
Was the movie any better when you were having a seizure?
old Yoda face when George is talking ... just perfect
I’ve been watching Mr. Plinkett’s videos for years. I’ve emailed dozens of times and even wrote a snail mail and have yet to receive a even a single pizza roll.
You got pizza roll
You might have not noticed it
But your brain did
Just buy your own, they're like $7 from the gas station.
Just to throw another flaming coal into Hell...
Yoda says, "Begun, The Clone War, has."
He names it, "The Clone War," as if it was something that was already known about, and/or prophesized. Why call it, "The Clone War" instead of, "The Robot and Clone War," or, "The Civil War," or, "The Sith War," or even most likely, "The Separatist War?" Because this is what the army was called in the movie, they were called "The Separatists," and now that you have a war with them, you call it, "The Clone War?"
+Dialectical Monist The Clone Wars would have made sense, if The Jedi fights Evil Cloned Importers just like how Dark Empire & Thrawn Trilogy predicted.
The force told him to call it the Clone Wars so that Anakin could become Darth Vader, enter a robot suit and eventually kill the Emperor.
Read the script, Yoda did. Lying in the sand, next to Natalie's port, man, it was.
SolarDragon007 Evil Jedi Clones would have been badass, instead of Fighting General Lung Cancer & Space Dracula for the Billionth Time.
in the german version of the film he says something like "begun the attack of the clone-warriors has" (roll credits). I don't recall anyone ever calling it "the clone war"
It's because you have to be told things in these movies.
@5:32
He called it a fucking LAZER SWORD. That's how "I don't care" level he was at that point
In the original trilogy he was not writing or doing it all alone, there were several other people coming up with this stuff, so something tells me that perhaps it was another person who came up with the name light-saber.
So I've read. But it was just funny to hear
Pete Wade
Yeah it's kind of a kick in the kidney stones when the original creator has such lack of interest in or respect for their work that they can't even address the stuff with the proper names.
Gungas
Every self-righteous Prequel defender on the internet NEEDS to see the last 5 minutes of this video.
everytime he calls Jango Fett "Bobba Fett" I'm like haha very funny but then I realized, they're both the same person cause Bobba's a clone
I didnt know Boba was a clone, I thought boba was jango's son.
@@stephenzaborski8656 the whole clone army is jango clones, including his son. although i cant remember why he had a son? I think it was in case Jango died they had bobba, the closest clone to jango? an all the others were just mass produced? or something?
@@eungeran07 I was always under the impression that Boba, was Jango's son.
Which to me, is different than a clone of Jango.
Any offspring that has a father, it would stand to reason there would need to be a mother's genes mixed in also.
I believe jango clones are just Django.
If boba was djangles' true son he would be part Django and part boba's mother.
@@stephenzaborski8656 Boba is an unmodified clone of Jango.
@@eungeran07 he just wanted a regular clone, basically adopted a kid. a bit strange considering his life is dangerous and the kid could easily slow him down/get him tracked, but if he wanted to be like a dad makes sense
Even as a kid I preferred the older films to the prequels. I didn't like the way people talked in them and I didn't really understand what the story was about. I thought I might have been too young for them but now I know why I thought they were so boring. Monotone ass dialogue and boring political billshit.
>billshit XD
Damnit, Bill and his shit again
As a kid (and I mean really young, like 5-6 years old) I liked the prequels a lot. Not because I actually understood anything that was going on (because I didn't) but just because I liked the lightsaber fights and the spaceship battles. As a kid, you don't really care if a story is good, or how well it's written. I just wanted to see stuff that looked cool, and it did. As an adult, I just wish my parents had never shown me the prequels at all
@Brandon Smith I remember I watched the Original trilogy for the first time (I was 7 or 8 and I had an interest after seeing the first 5 minutes of episode 1 at a birthday party)
my mom gave me her trilogy box set of vhs tapes (last time the original versions were releasted) and I watched all of them from start to finish with a few breaks to get drinks, snacks or whatever.
I remember watching and liking the prequels more but I mainly payed attention to the action scenes and just played with my toys or played games while the rest of the movie played. I cared about all the cool and flashy stuff but not the story. The originals were perfect from start to finish.
I felt like an idiot defending them on the Internet when I was in my teens. It wasn't until I rewatched them on blu ray that I got what everyone was saying....
I still don't even quite understand wtf is going on in the prequels and I am 26 have been a star wars fan since a little kid, saw the prequels when they came out (and the originals before that obv). I really don't get it
Giving Yoda and Palpatine lightsabers was pretty stupid.
Eddie 'JaggSauce' Gluskin Ok Internet tough guy, relax, because you're the stupid one who's trying to start something with a complete stranger for no reason.
Eddie 'JaggSauce' Gluskin what kind of reply was that?
Or they could have a force battle. levitating themselves, shooting force lighting back and forth and throwing shit at each other, they did a bit of that but the lightsaber fight shouldnt have been there, are you prequel fanboys so uncreative that you think all a Jedi can do to entertain the audience is twirl lightsabers around? Yoda and Sideous could be shown to be above lightsabers because they are so powerful with the force that all they need is their minds for combat if necessary. But no, dumb George Lucas wanted an animated yoda prancing around like a retarded fairy with a lightsaber.
Michael Burke Agreed they were characters that never needed them, although the clone wars portrays palpatine using sabers in an interesting way in the one actual fight he does that.
Palpatine hated using lightsaber. He only used it to mock the jedi
"Every stanza kinda rhymes with the last one. Hopefully it'll work" - those last three words and the flinching facial expression he makes after he says them just sums up everything that's abhorrently and catastrophically wrong with the prequels.
Puppet Yoda makes me tear up, CGI Yoda leaves me indifferent. There's a serious gap here.
Because he actually has wisdom in the Originals. He uses stupidity to agitate & test the patience of Skywalker. Because Yoda realises that a man lead by his emotions lacks coherent thought - & cannot be trained.
Your brain also picks up on the fact that Yoda is "In-Cam" meaning a Physical effect. CGI looks lifeless, sterile, & pasted on in post.
It's all wrong.
He's so right about the Prequels ruining all of Yoda's wise sayings from Empire.
I'm sorry, Yoda. I'm so sorry.
Disappointed Yoda at the end is the best thing ever.
Yeah, how did Kit Fisto not slice off his own head tentacles when he had the blade behind his head pointing at a downward angle?
They look more like dreadlocks than tentacles
Rhymfre My question still stands. How did he not slice any of them off when they flop around so easily?
+pytko3 Well the force guides a jedi's blade
KENNETHLIONFIST T No it doesn't and even Count Dooku said so.
pytko3 When
It's funny how a short scene of Yoda training a few kids how to lift rocks like in Empire would've been more impactful, consistent with the character and would've made a great reference to the original trilogy in its own right than the kindergarten of lightsaber toys that completely ruins any credibility from Yoda, Lucas and the Star Wars mythos. The only reason it was included in the first place was because Lucas realized he created a huge plot hole with Episode I regarding Qui-Gon but was half-assed for nostalgia points that wouldn't even work after Phantom Menace
It's just something I thought about and made me realize that scene is now my most hated moment since it's the most blatant about how poorly conceived everything is from a story perspective. It exists solely as haphazard attempt at a self-insert for children
For me the biggest insult to the franchise is mediklorians.
One thing i loved about the force from the original trilogy was the idea that this is a force that exists everywhere and inside everyone.
Anyone can use the force or at least be strong in the force hence why so many non Jedi characters use the phrase "may the fore be with you,"
The Jedi always seemed to me to be the ones trained to actually utilize the force, but it wasn't that they alone could be apart of it or use it, they were just better trained to do it.
This allows us all to feel like we all have the force in us and that is something that always was so powerful to me.
To then have it said that micro organisms in your body dictates your ability to use the force like dragon-ball z power levels was a massive insult to the creativity, mysticism, and power of the whole concept.
But in clones the thing that actually ruins everything is the whole idea of Yoda actually fighting... The whole concept of Yoda from Empire was that he was above physical fighting and that the power of the force was so great, that he wouldn't need to ever actually fight.
Even Darth Vader in A New Hope says the power to destroy a planet is nothing compared to the power of the force.
It's why i loved both Yoda and the Emperor becasue both represent the power of the force be it light or dark, Yoda is a powerful master of the force despite his small size, while the Emperor was this frail old man, who is then revealed to have this massive power which Luke underestimated, due to his apearence.
the point being that the force is beyond physical and is not dictated by appearence but by skill.
Cue to the prequels where everything is a sterilized light-saber fight show, becasue gotta sell those toys and have to make the brain dead audience not really think.
I don't know, I, like everyone else, was really looking forward to Yoda whipping out his little laser sword and going to town. *Skeptical nod.*
You can also blame the OT for that though, since it contradicted itself. It stated that everyone apparently can use the Force, but yet the Skywalker family seemed to be the only one still being Force sensitive which made it to a genetic concept and diminished the purpose. If anyone could use it, Obi Wan could have just trained anybody. No need for Luke and Leia being the only hope the Universe still has, right?
Mr Peaches Latour So what changed with the PT then? Only a few people can use it, so the status quo still remained.
Prequel Trilogy
A perfect blend of sick comedy, intellect, comprehensive film analysis, and human psychology. Blended perfectly.
I'm convinced that at some point George Lucas was abducted by aliens and replaced by a robot.
ThatOneShyguy it's gonna be great
Andrew Brinkley it's gonna be great
or he was cloned
Star Girl Nice
+Star Girl
My god ...
It all makes sense!
25:31 Ewan admits the prequels suck
it's funny how he cares the least about the prequels (i'm pretty sure i remember him talking shit in the episode 3 extras section) but he did the best acting imo
With Disney doing the character spin-off films, I wouldn't mind seeing an Obi-Wan movie with Ewan. He is a great choice for Obi-Wan, but didn't get to shine due to the terrible writing. I just think he deserves another chance.
+tyspyranger Same. I think it was more than just the writing that put him off, though; if you see him in interviews he seems like quite a bright and passionate person. I can only imagine what a torture it was for someone like that to have to work with George Lucas and try and deliver wooden, nonsensical dialogue in front of a green screen, day after day. Just the worst job.
+kevjtnbtmglr So did Natalie Portman and Jake Lloyd. In fact, the actor that played the chancellor before Palpatine also went on record saying Lucas was a terrible guy to work with
+Reckless Rhino They did a fine job with what they were given. Marlon Brando couldn't read those lines.
I bet Snoke will actually be 30 feet tall with a gargantuan lightsaber just to piss plinkett off :D
He was the rancor in episode 6 that's why his face is all messed up and fears Luke so much
That was actually a hologram, unfortunately. I actually thought he was a giant too.
That was actually a hologram, unfortunately. I actually thought he was a giant too.
I hope he is a giant. It would make things a bit more original and interesting. How do you fight a guy that big? You certanly won't go into another boring lightsaber fight with that thing...
Palpatine was behind it all.
A common complaint about the prequels is that you are not sure who the main character is supposed to be.
I was watching American Graffiti recently. While it was good, I did keep wondering if any of the three characters we were following were supposed to be the main protagonist. And then at the very end, it turned out Richard Dreyfuss was the main character.
I guess it doesn’t really matter in a film like that, but that should have been a warning.
Those Yoda segments towards the end made my day.
"Well.... it just sucks."
Well said.
Years later and this review is STILL light years better and more interesting than the very movie it reviews!
The prequels are basically a six hour video game cut scene.
The brochure "So you want your child to become a Jedi" has pictures of dead and dying Jedi. Hahaha!
When Yoda was doing his speech, and you kept cutting to the new stuff, when George says "With the new digital technology, pretty much whatever I can imagine I can do" I was anticipating Yoda to say 'That....is why you fail".
i love how at 14:50 that the 2 jedi leave the damsel in distress alone (possibly dead) in the middle of the desert to go and kill some guy instead of signaling a second gunship. Its not like the whole mission was not to save her / prevent her assassination. Kenobi didnt know that the clone could signal a gunship. It would of been really awkward that if kenobi in episode 4 said to luke "i was friends with your father and we both left your mother for dead that one time "
"Yes, I know they tried to do more advanced things first, like throw rocks at each other"
Holy shit, you actually balance comedy and good reviews.
Like what Nostalgia Critic used to do...
that implies that nostalgia critic was ever funny.
or gave good reviews.
PuddleBucket Well, I guess how I thought Nostalgia Critic was when I was younger, but going back, yeah, he was just a low budget unfunny bad reviewer back then..
This Plinkett review is a very good review. Very accurate.
Das Arschloch no
We're all waiting for you to enlighten us with your perspective. Tell us where this "Plinkett" failed.
"It's almost like Lucas thought he needed to have kids IN the movie for kids to want to buy things FROM the movie".
Not only is that observation accurate, and Lucas's opinions incorrect (as any 80s kid can attest to who grew up worshipping adult heroes like GI Joe, the Lone Ranger, Superman, and uh... Star Wars) , but it gets even weirder/creepier if you've ever seen any behind the scenes footage from Willow. George seems to display a bizarre fascination with little people that goes beyond their cinematic pertinence. There's a scene where he's practically salivating watching the village of little people and can be heard murmuring to himself "The kids are gonna LOVE this!" It's like he thinks little people and children are exactly the same thing in his mind, and kids will only want to watch movies with people as tall as they are in them, so he's somehow discovered a cheat code by casting them in his film.
The way I picture the padawan scene in a way that gets the nostalgia, but is also cool to watch, would see Obi-Wan enter a meditation session where Yoda is teaching them how to lift and stack rocks with the Force. Throughout their conversation, the students stack rocks while listening and meditating simultaneously. I think that would've been cool. One student could've spoken up about the archives, with a perfectly balanced stack of rocks in front of her, earning that comment from Yoda about how wonderful young minds can be.
3:12
Mr. Plinkett kind of predicted Pong Krell.
Luke: strapping on his weapon belt in Empire.
Yoda: You won't need your weapons.
Luke: What's in there?
Yoda: Only what you bring with you.
I guess all of the philosophy, along with the internalization of what that scene meant, actually meant nothing. . .
23:40
This part was so on point that I almost teared up.
And in empire, yoda effortlessly lifts Luke's ship from the swamp, but during his fight with doku, it always looks like he's struggling against the weight of some rocks. Same with the Senate pod against the emperor. I guess you could say that there was some resistance from his opponent but idk he still felt nerfed
Stan Darsh supposedly we're told that the jedi are losing their powers. I say supposedly because I've never forced myself to watch this garbage............
I think it goes beyond that, because Yoda himself actually explains why size doesn't even matter. Lifting a pebble is essentially the same as lifting a mountain, because they're both just "crude matter" and bow to the will of the force. Limitations and roadblocks exist only in the mind. And yet, in the prequels, Yoda has no problem flinging tubes and tanks around, but clearly struggles with a giant rock Dooku flings at him. That right there entirely contradicts everything that SAME character explains in Empire.
While I'm not defending the prequels, Yoda was most likely exhausted and drained from the fight. So for a moment he struggled having to focus all of his energy on the rock. Dooku was also exhausted and did that as an attempt to flee because he knew Yoda would defeat him.
In TESB, Yoda most likely hasn't used the Force in any large capacity for years, so he is able to move Luke's ship without any noticeable exertion. Although, I like to think doing this drained him of lots of his energy and began his decline to death. (Once he sets the ship down, he breathes out a large sigh and seems hurt). Much like Luke in TLJ, using massive amounts of Force in a small window seems to drain the user of their physical life.
Again, just me theorizing and not a defense of the prequels or bad screenwriting.
@@RMBII91 idk about that, too exhausted to throw a rock with ease with the force but not exhausted enough to jump around constantly right afterwards?
"TIME TO GO IN THE REFRIGERATOR!!!!!!!!"
"Well.. at least the prequels were all thought out..."
Yeah, and that's about all they have going for them.
Planning when you intend to take a dump is still taking a massive dump.
When I was a kid, I felt like the lightsaber was something only bestowed upon the highest ranking Jedi, a perk which only the extremely dedicated and strong ever got to see. It made it special, and it worked with Lukes story, how this kid was thrown into something much greater than he could imagine.
The lightsaber was a rarity.
It made sense Darth Vader had one, he flew too close to the sun with his mastery but kept the lightsaber because he was once one of the best Jedi knights.
It made both Luke and Darth Vader special. Their lightsabers was a symbolic thing which interconnected them, and it made Luke more impressive since he had the same power as Vader but didn't fall to the dark force.
Then the prequels came out and lightsabers were just disposable laser swords. Not a rare weapon only wielded by the most mythical, rare Jedi.
Seeing these plinkett reviews was cathartic, I was turned off by Star Wars for decades, and now I understand why the prequels ruined the magic for me.
Plinkett's reviews are seriously the FUNNIEST things I have ever watched or seen
The "I wish I could wish..." line that poor kid has to force out of his mouth is actually only the second worst in the prequels.
The worst comes from Yoda at the end of Phantom Menace when George gives the game away that he's writing these movies like they are Video Role Playing Games.
He doesn't bestow upon Obi Wan the "Honour" or "Title" or even the "Rank" of Jedi Knight...
He bestows upon him the "level" of Jedi Knight.
Obi Wan LITERALLY "Levels Up" at the end.
Wait, was that the moment that set off the whole _Darths & Droids_ saga?
@@DistractedGlobeGuy Honestly? I think Star Wars had already become that in the eyes of the "Fans". They want stuff to be categorically specific so that they can learn all that pointless shit and use it to measure their metaphoric dick sizes.
"Oh? You didn't know that originally there was only ONE Kyber crystal and it was spelled Kaiburr? You're not a True Fan..." George let that shit get out of control, which is why there is so much fucking "Fan Service" in the sequels. It's why the second series of Mandalorian wasn't as good as the first... shoving all that cartoon series stuff in for the guys who jizz their shorts if something THEY know gets mentioned and other people are saying "What does that mean?" I suppose it's to make it "Double Canon" or whatever they call that crap.
@@andrewtomlinson5237 I agree with that statement, but I don't really see what that has to do with a webcomic that reframes the _Star Wars_ films as a tabletop RPG campaign being played by a group of D&D fans.
@@DistractedGlobeGuy Sorry dude, I thought you were referring to the general attitude fans took towards Star Wars, in how everything (particularly Jedi powers) had to neatly fit into a readily identifiable structure rather than letting it just be "Space Magic". Didn't realise it was a specific thing you were talking about.
I finally understand it! George Lucas is a genius! The blue-screen represents the force! It surrounds us, binds us together!
Everything about how the lightsabers were ruined, and the jedi training, and pretty much everything about Yoda is just so perfect. I wonder if George Lucas ever watched these videos and thought 'shit, better let Disney handle this'
Fuck you put a ton of work into these videos. Amazing. So funny but also insightful. Fantastic job.
this is legitimately one of the best informal essays ever written
I'd say this is a formal essay.
The chick in the basement has incredible knockers.
If I could have improved only one facet of this movie, which would have had the potential to make it better, it would have been the death of Anakin's mother, Shmi. Hear me out.
Okay, so I agree with Plinkett that it should have been Padme doing the flirting and desire for a relationship, while Anakin is a more responsible, if sometimes brash and cocky Jedi who likes the idea, but is torn by his own duties and attraction. So, what _should_ have happened was this-
Anakin and Padme go to Tattooine to look for Shmi, find out what has happened to her. Anakin figures out what happened, tracks down Shmi, and then managed to infiltrate the camp. He finds her abused, bloody and close to death, but they share a heartfelt moment together made all the more tragic when her body gives out and she passes away in his arms. Now Anakin is distraught, clinging to his mother's body and mourning her passing, trying to recite the Jedi Code to calm himself down, which starts to work...
... only for two Tusken Raiders to enter the tent and see Anakin, alerting the entire camp to his presence as they attack. Forced to defend himself, Anakin fights back- but still in the midst of his grieving, he sees one of the Sandpeople trying to take Shmi's body away and Anakin loses it, abandoning all control and pressing the attack out of fury and anger.
Fast forward to the garage scene, where Anakin is lamenting his inability to save his mother, and his admission that he lost control and slaughtered the entire camp out of grief. The entire ordeal, if done the way I just outlined, would paint Anakin as a more sympathetic character who was seduced by the dark side of the Force and compelled to give in to his darker urges because of his grief- we'd at least be able to better understand why he did what he did, and it might make Padme more sympathetic to his internal struggle, giving her a reason to be more compassionate instead of forceful, leading to the two sharing a closer and more intimate moment when Anakin is at his most emotionally vulnerable, able to admit his feelings for Padme.
George: ".... Nope. Let's just have Anakin murder everyone- I'm sure Padme will understand."
Kajex Surnahm and everything else is complete garbage
@@OBSDCC7 it's their culture. They are technically savages and the kids are just raised in that lifestyle so he killed innocent as well..... but that's not the Jedi way according to George
It's a soulless, emotionless travesty, born from greed. Terrible. Great review, by the way. In depth, and to the point(I know, it's kinda long, but it was pretty damn to the point despite that).
Can I have a pizza roll please
Your YT channel is creepy as hell
Wtf you're a kids Channel
What the fuck
Did you e mail him? Or post a comment on his web zone? Then you won't get a pizza roll.
Blade runner had a much better city than fucking Star Wars.
+fourcrippledhorses There's a good reason Blade Runner is a much better film than any of the Star Wars prequels. The synthetics in Blade Runner had very human traits. They personified emotions that we feel but their origins were implanted and the realization of their false identities made them question their existences as we all question are place in our own little worlds
Blade Runner made inhuman characters more human than any character in the prequels. The writing and character development in Blade Runner completely outclasses everything there in Episode 1-3
+Bronnt That's because you're shallow. This is the internet so I feel qualified to sum you up based on a single comment.
+fourcrippledhorses Even Pris was more human than all humans on SW prequels...
And blade runner also had Harrison Ford like star wars. OMFG it's like poetry and it rhymes!
That would depend in what city you're fucking Star Wars.
*That T'wirp*
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“That’s how we are going to win. Not fighting what we hate, saving what we love... Oh!! and by using a billion soulless clones as canon fodder.”
"i must now change my pantaloons, it appears i have shat myself"
One thing that bothers me about ep 2 is that a decent chunk of it is about cutting between Anakin and obi wan, who're on different planets. But they're both sand planets, so if you forgot to pay attention or something you might not even realize they're on different planets
This is good. I always thought the areana planet should have been a green colored foggy jungle/swamp planet with semi-posionous athmosphere.
Inside the Arena they could keep the yellow color palette so when we see the areana from above the green/yellow combination would look cool specially with the poisonous fog surrounding the outside area.
0:03 9. George Lucas ruins the lightsaber and the force all in one scene.
5:50 10. More dumb kids
10:37 10. The dissolution of tension:
BIGGER is not always betterer
13:36 11.BIG dumb ending
18:35 12. Oh George
I saw these films when they first came out when I was 7 and it's amazing how much I enjoyed them at the time. All that stuff people say about the movies being for kids is so true. I had no idea that everyone over 16 thought the movies totally sucked. But watching the movies now is like rewatching space jam. It just never ceases to disappoint you. At least Bill Murray shows up in space jam.
"Who is FBI? And what is they always worning me about?"
Become someone erased it from the archive memory.
His cat reminds me of the milk cow from Last Jedi. What a prophecy.
The instrumental version of "My Way" that plays when explaining how Lucas' ideas ruin the movie is a nice touch.
Plinkett I don't know if you realized what you said: Does Lucas understand Star Wars? Man, this epitomizes everything. He just doesn't. Or, to be fair, he doesn't understand how Star Wars was received by audiences.
Exactly. Lucas doesn't understand what it was about the original SW films that the FANS loved. He really doesn't. And considering how much the OT was a compromise of his original vision, i've always had the sneaking suspicion that he slightly resented how popular the collaborative version for SW was with audiences. I never could understand his smugness when watching him give interviews about SW during the 80's and 90's. Now it makes sense. Its also probably the reason he kept altering the originals.....and eventually sold to Disney. The prequels were more in line with what HE wanted SW to be...and the fandom largely shat on them for years.
Did Lucas say "lazersword"? I know that´s how he called them in early Star Wars scripts. I´m just surprised how butthurt he was because so many of his original ideas were ditched to make Star Wars as we know it, that he kept bringing those ideas even in the editing room. The Star Wars writers were scrapped those ideas for a good reason. They sucked and couldn´t be used in a good movie. The are the proof.
Holy shit, never saw the Blade Runner/Coruscant city comparison until now, so much for Lucas and his CGI.
Dude, you actually made me think so much about Yoda and what he originally stood for. It's made me think about how even with Rian Johnson attempting to bring back the substance-filled and philosophic Yoda, he failed in his execution. Yoda would not have called some force lightning from the heavens to destroy the jedi tree on Luke's island. He would have spoken with Luke about his experiences on Dagobah, and specifically in the cave. He would have made him reflect on rash and unstable decisions he made then, and the lessons he learned from them. Luke's greatest fear was becoming the thing he swore to destroy and succumbing to evil, yet from the very start of The Last Jedi, Luke has shown that he apparently has forgotten everything he learned and took to heart in the original trilogy. I very much look forward to your review on The Last Jedi, because I think it's a completely misguided film riddled with plot holes, contradictions, and an over-reliance on subversions.
Irvin Kershner and Lawrence Kasdan are probably the only people who truly understand Yoda. At least TLJ Yoda was better than Prequel Yoda.
Yoda burned the place down because you didn't expect him to. Despite what some people say about TLJ being a bold, subversive deconstruction of Star Wars that's as deep as it ever goes IMO.
The funny thing is the prequels aged like trash. Look like something you see on scifi channel at 3 am lmao.
That's the problem with the film industry's over reliance and over exploitation of CGI.
And George thought that the technology of that time had reached the highest point, or something like that... So much that he didn't do anything and just sat down to drink coffee.
Great point about the arena scene, when I saw this at the theater I remember it being a very lifeless experience and then that sequence was actually tense and I think fairly well directed and edited.
If Lucas had actually mixed stuff up more like that we could have had something, he repeated himself with the lightsaber crap over and over until it was Goddamn boring to see one.
Bertolt Brecht would have loved the new Star Wars movies.
"Epic theatre (German: episches Theater) was primarily proposed by Bertolt Brecht who suggested that a play should not cause the spectator to identify emotionally with the characters or action before him or her, but should instead provoke rational self-reflection and a critical view of the action on the stage."
Coming back to these reviews and seeing how the usage of lightsabers in the prequels was considered over the top feels quaint, especially now that we have fucking umbrella lightsabers and helicopter lightsabers
Umbrella lightsabers aren't even canon calm down
@@bryanmanuelbaes7871 What are you smoking? They are canon. That's why people have a problem with them.
@@albedo5455 really? What canon material did you get it from? Genuinely curious.
something that always was unconvincing to me is Padme being able to fight in a huge arena without getting shot when millions of blasters are firing like crazy. I dont even think any untrained human being could have a shot at surviving that arena battle, i mean come on. she's a senator , not a warrior so how t'f did she not get hit? i guess anakin protected her but still hard to believe.
+Darth Maul54sith She went through many decoys that day...