@@LatajaceStadoKotow The film itself made a shitload of money, where they lost out is in merchandise. Toy sales are at an all time low for the series, as are most other licensed products.
The Prequels (and Return of the Jedi) played through it perfectly: Release the film in late spring for the summer blockbuster rush, then release the home video in early autumn so that kids and families get to watch it again (or several times) right before the late autumn holiday shopping rush really kicks in.This timeline worked PERFECTLY for moving merchandise- kids would demand certain action figures, lego vehicles, etc. of things that they had just seen over and over again in the movie, and it would give retailers a lot of time to move through Star Wars stock, whether toys, books, clothing, video games, whatever. Disney chose a film release schedule that does NOT work for merchandising at all, despite merchandise being Star Wars' biggest money maker- instead of the summer blockbuster window, which they probably wanted to keep exclusively for Marvel, they decided to release their Star Wars films in early December, immediately AFTER the shopping rush had mostly finished. As a result, most retailers in the fall shopping season are left clueless as to what to market to people, or how, because the actual movie that their new stock of merchandise is based on hasn't even released yet. And that's not even going into Disney's insistence on one (or more) SW movies each and every calendar year, which is another awful concept altogether. Star Wars merchandising was a methodically tuned, well-timed machine that worked over and over, generating hundreds of millions of revenue even in years with no new movie releases, and Disney went out of their way to break it down completely. I'd be shocked, but this IS the company that somehow managed to destroy the Muppets, so I can't say I'm too surprised.
@@spookbuster4862 I think the damage this movie did was evident in the lukewarm reception to Solo. This movie left a bad taste in OG fan's mouths that only bleach can fix.
I wonder why they haven't remade that yet? We need Phantom Trilogy Spaceballs for a complete set. It's the next phase since hollywood is devoid of new ideas.
@@bonitabromeliads Yes, it's never too late. Happened to watch Spaceballs after posting that and whoa, never knew how much the NuStarwars really took from it. I mean, the parking scene is kind of over the top. So nobody, not one person in a "creative" think tank room said: "Hey, you guys know they did that exact same thing in spaceballs? Anyone remember that? It happened; just watch it for yourself, here, it's on TH-cam, just look" is virtually unbelievable but who knows. A NuStarwars spaceball Trilogy would be absolutely brilliant, especially right now with most of the spin offs flopping like pancakes at ihop or being scrapped altogether. There's so much material now to run with that I really wish they would. Probably be better than the original prequels. Just imagine Jar Jar as the Sith Lord, they'd have to put that in.
I asked Rian once for a Birthday Present and I gave him a list of awesome things... but all I got from him was Underwear and it wasnt even the right size. Expectations successfully subverted. (of course this never happened, but you get the idea)
When Rian Johnson’s hotel I was staying at caught fire, I rushed to the emergency fire exit door. But instead of seeing a fire exit, Rian in a chicken costume was behind the door and whacked me with a mallet. I got a mild concussion and failed to escape without getting horribly burned, but at least my expectations were definitely subverted.
When I asked Rian Johnson for a good movie he took a dump in my mouth. But then he gave me a mint condition directors cut of Doctor Strangelove signed by Stanley Kubrick so I don’t know what to think anymore.
The Other Point Of View that one was honestly worse. At least Finn and Rose were kind of friends, not two people trying to murder each other. It makes sense for Rose to feel some attraction toward Finn. It makes absolutely no sense for Kylo and Rey to like each other
I think what hurts most is there's no do overs. These films were the ONE chance Disney had to reunite the cast of the original films and add to their story in a meaningful way. The only opportunity to bring Leia, Luke, Han, Chewie, Lando and the droids together again, tell add to their legacy and pass the torch to a new generation. And they blew it. They totally, utterly blew it,
Indoctrination Theory They didn't just blow it, they crashed into a fucking iceberg and sank with all souls lost. So few people are hyped for the next one its sad. Ive already been through this with Halo, I didnt need it to happen to Star Wars.
The Reality Bin But what if Lando DOESN’T die? Seriously, Star Wars fans have no clue what they want despite claims to the contrary. They will also NEVER be happy with ANY Star Wars thing regardless of quality.
The most confusing part of the Casino Planet plot? After Rose frees the animals and causes all sorts of destruction and confusion allowing them the chance to escape.... she proclaims this is what it was all about. Then they abandon the enslaved children....
Yeah the whole Cantobite casino thing was overlong and pointless and because of its structure you couldn’t cut it out of the film. Its what makes this movie overly long. Its like this episode of the movie Rian Johnson wanted his PETA anti cruelty towards animals statement.
See, it was a clever ruse by Mr. Johnson : you would expect them to liberate the enslaved kids, so he subverted your expectations. You did it again Disney! Such brilliance
Add to that that She and Finn illegally parked, and were legally arrested for it( which, while harsh, seems too be the local law), then decide to commit further crimes by assaulting officers of the law, breaking out of jail, stealing private property( the animals) and destruction of private/ public property. Then THEY feel superior to everyone ( as they escape, leaving , possibly, enslaved children to clean up their mess).
@@21DaHoagie12 Not anymore. Anybody who continues watching Disney Star Wars is willfully ignorant of the fact they will always produce nothing above corporate garbage.
@@doomstadt2371 if you genuinely wanted to be surprised, watch Empire. After about 2 of the big “gotcha!” moments, none of them actually surprised me because I knew that Rian was just going to do the opposite of what made sense. You see, there’s a difference between surprising people and defying logic. When people expect one thing to happen, it’s usually because it’s the next logical step. A movie being predictable at the very start isn’t good, but if you can guess what the characters are about to do most of the time by the time you reach the end, that’s probably just because it makes sense for them to do that. Near the end of Empire, the moment Luke finds out about his friends being in danger, you instantly know that Luke is going to go after them and is not going to listen to Yoda’s advice because that’s the kind of person Luke is. Him leaving Yoda to go save his friends is exactly what Luke Skywalker at that point in the trilogy would do as established by previous scenes. It makes sense that he would do that, and thus him doing that isn’t the movie being predictable, it’s the audience being smart enough to understand what kind of person Luke is and being able to rationally predict his next course of action. Audiences aren’t stupid, and it isn’t a failure of a director if they get to a point where they can guess where the plot will go on decently short notice. Rian Johnson just does the opposite of what makes sense in terms of characters and in terms of logic. Holdo is blatantly a terrible leader who is trying to string along everyone with her based on blind faith in a plan she refuses to tell anyone. No good leader would ever conceal that much information from their subordinates in a time of crisis. Teaching people that they should just follow whatever the leaders say because they’re smarter than the people they command is an awful lesson. So the reveal that Holdo actually did have a plan the whole time isn’t a plot twist, it’s defying logic. Same goes for nearly every other major “subversion” in this stupid movie. They get predictable after two of them because you can just predict that whatever is going to happen is the opposite of what would logically happen.
Does anyone else feel that speech was really hypocritical and insincere? A speech on the evils of the "1%" in a Disney movie of all places does not feel like preaching, it feels like Rian was gloating.
Yeah, the rich people casino that clearly keeps slaves and poor folk to do their all their work are really going to be hurting now that you busted up their windows and tables. It's not like they are going to just force their workers to fix it all while they go party elsewhere.
+Ryan Oleynik That's exactly what i thought. "We really made a difference". No you fucking didn't. They're rich. They'll just buy anything they need to replace and just take it out on the poor workers. Hell, they could just hire some poachers to catch those creatures.
i had the runs during the Last Jedi. I missed the entire casino scene. I've never seen it fully except bits and pieces, nor do I intend to. I consider that taco or whatever I ate that day to have been part of the Force, guiding me to a place of safety
I had diarrhea during that scene too, but I still saw it because I didn't get up. I sat there and everyone else left. Some people commented that my hot puddle of effluence wasn't the worst part of the experience for them. I believe them.
@Just Saying to me battlestar galactica (the remake) is the show with the best combination of story and effects. Just imagine what awesome stuff could be made with current year effects and a proper script. All the wasted potential is making me very sad.
Because one only requires skill and the other requires skill + imagination. Disney, as a big corp, limits how much imagination is allowed to be used, so it's less likely the film will flop. They go by the lowest common denominator, because it's still better to have a shitty bland film than a shitty experimental film, as far as profits go.
These effects are just green screen and cgi, literally (and I mean literally in the literal sense lol) to a much greater degree than the Prequels ever had. I honestly just would like consistency lol. Not saying you weren't at all but where's all the hate for these effects nowdays? Do we now like these kind of effects? Idc either way, it does nothing for me but I'd like to know if people still have the same criticisms
@@dvader518 Because it had the Star Wars brand attached to it. The success of Episode IX will more accurately reflect what kind of mark TLJ left. Or alternatively, Solo's results painted a pretty grim picture.
I have an original idea. All of the Star Wars fans could collectively not watch Star Wars Episode 9. It would subvert Disney's expectations. That's how you know it is a good idea.
The *one awesome thing* in this movie is...Mark Hamill's acting. Despite absolutely *hating* the part he has to play, and despite it being 180° opposite the Luke Skywalker he used to play, he delivered. We might not like what he delivered, but he did it, and in perfection.
Reminds me of something Christopher Lee said: "Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them."
It's the hard-ass workers that make it the furthest, not the sheer talent. Mark Hamill is definetly one of those workers--just listen to his performance as the Joker in the Arkham games, which is second only to Heath Ledger's.
@@gaminglol1167 after he said how he disagreed about it I think it's called a possible breach of contract/ the NDA he definitely had to sign and they told him to tone it down
Rian is just a pawn in this. Disney made this film bizarre and awkward. They didn’t just say “Hey, let’s give the director of Looper five hundred million dollars to turn our biggest franchise into a snarky artistic statement.” The prequels were a HUGE financial success. They want to emulate aspects of the prequels, without pissing off too many fat 32 year olds. Kids don’t like The Hero’s Journey anymore. They like cynical ADD spectacles. They like big words that make them feel smart. They like creatures that remind them of Pokémon. Lucas was a god-damn prophet...
The fact that John Boyega is on record saying he hates what happened with Finn's character, that The Last Jedi is his least favorite movie in the new trilogy, and that he is glad he is not in them anymore is just icing on the cake.
About 75% of the movie is painful, if you think about how jarring and uneven the tone of the movie is, and how poorly the plot is structured. I can see a good concept of "Historically great Jedi becomes disillusioned and has to overcome his mistakes", combined with "stern chase movie where the Reb-sistance barely stays ahead of the First Order"... But it gets lost in "silly casino escapades", "Admiral Holdo My Beer, I can be a bigger hothead than Poe and cause more problems", and "Big Climactic Battle BECAUSE SYMBOLISM!".
Finn looked like he had no idea how to react after being kissed. “Why the hell are you kissing me now? Also, I am really not that into you”. Han and Leia always seemed like they had a thing for each other with their banter and the romance felt very natural when it happened.
@@gustavrider5561 i took a nap while watching rogue one, i just didn't care about the characters. and you could tell they were trying so hard to make you care
@@arthurballs9632 If you are entertained by unbelievable stupidity! BTW, if you closed yourself in a refrigerator at that time, you would not be able to open it from the inside, and would suffocate to death! They also were not made of lead, so he would die from radiation or cancer within a year!!
to be fair, Indiana Jones also jumped out of an airplane in an inflatable dingy, landed on the side of a snowy mountain and X-Gamed his way to safety... At some point you just have to accept goofy action in a goofy action movie. Part of the problem is that grown adults consider this shit as "serious" when it was originally produced decades ago when they were kids. That's not to excuse any warts in TLJ, which was plenty clunky in general... But goofy and never very well defined force powers leading to a goofy outcome shouldn't be surprising. Jedi can run real fast and jump real high right until the screenwriters figure it would be more dramatic if they couldn't. The whole house of cards collapses after a few seconds of critical thought. It can't be pinned on a given moment in a given film, it's death by 1,000 tiny cuts.
@Make You Seethe Well of course, they are both silly movies that aren't grounded in reality. I think we're on the same page, as that's the main point of my comment... A lot fans hold up Leia doing her goofball Peter Pan moves in space as being dumb or Indy hiding in the refrigerator as being dumb.... But those same people never seemed to have much of an issue with the Ewok hang glider or Indy using a rubber dingy as a parachute. My point was these things were always goofy... but it didn't seem to bother people 30 or 40 years ago... only now is all this shit dumb.
He just needed a good palate cleanser in order to finish the movie. Edit: Oops i guess we wrote that at the same time. Great minds think alike i guess.
We can all be thankful SW isn't like trek in that montage! We do not need that slow moving debate in star wars. But it'd be nice if the characters were intelligent and things at least made sense.
I've watched readings of My Little Pony fanfics better scripted than Last Jedi. And I feel like I'm insulting the MLP Fanfics by making that comparison. Last Jedi is the FFX of movies, because Final Fantasy X was a highly ambitious deconstruction that had its big story get lost behind flashy visuals and poor scripting.
Shenaldrac ... You have a good point that I'm insulting Final Fantasy X by comparing it to the Last Jedi in that manner. Well I did not like Final Fantasy X, and I could not connect with the characters at all, after all these years from playing it I can admit that I see why people love it so much. I apologize for insulting Final Fantasy X by that comparison. I will make it a point to make my comparison more nuanced from now on, pointing out that Final Fantasy X does have a coherent story that goes from beginning to end. Which just makes the Last Jedi that much more sad in the end. Also on a random Final Fantasy X related note: I figured out the big twist with the final summon the absolute first time that term was mentioned. That's a major reason why the game did not connect with me. But yeah, there is a significant difference in the need for nuance there.
21:07 Admiral Holdo: "You bet the survival of the resistance on bad odds and put us all at risk." That line didn't age well. We learn in the third movie, that holdo suicide maneuver was once in a million chance thing.
@@mfaure420 In Rise of Skywalker, someone suggests performing Holdo's suicide hyperspace ram maneuver again to save them, but it is quickly shot down as a one in a million chance of success. So Holdo berating Poe for taking bad odds to try and save everyone is hypocritical with that knowledge if her last ditch plan was also a shot in the dark.
@@vashoom Holdo was an insanely stupid character throughout TLJ, so being a hypocrite fits in with that. In regards to hyperspace ramming, there was nothing that any writer could have done to make that bullshit fit into Star Wars. Rian Johnson just randomly decided to do the hyperspace ram, with zero fucks given towards how much it would break everything else. I have no issues with hyperspace ramming being discarded with a single sentence "one in a million" , because there is nothing else that could be said about it.
Loved when they introduced the kamikaze light speed tactic, proving that every previous character in Star Wars was an idiot for not trying it sooner and throwing the entire universe into utter chaos by giving every person with even a garbage freighter virtually unlimited firepower. I clapped.
I don't remember him ever coming around to his interpretation of Luke, he said he was fine with the movie. His most recent comments are that he's still coping with his character's arc.
i loved the casino scene, it really made me rethink my values and I decided too stop sending my allowance money too the military industrial complex in my real life.
I am Lockheed Martin irl, I can confirm. I just never thought about it before because I was never exposed to any hamfisted political messaging made by other multibillion dollar corporations. There just isn't enough for us war profiteers to take notice, but I'm doing my part to change that by reporting 1/2 star ratings on rottentomatoes
I really appreciate how RLM gives their senior citizen friend a platform for his art projects. I know not many people watch them, but it's great Mr. Plinkett has an outlet.
@De Profundis Broooooooo... Asian is, like, a swear word. 😳 I was gaming and I said the "a-word" and my grandma, well, she just started beating the shit out of me with a broken-off chair leg. I was crying soo loudly, my neighbor came to check if I was okay and my grandma made me tell him that I feel. then I shit my pants. 🥺😭😭😭 So, like, don't say that word omg. 😬😏😵😳😔🤠🥺😲 EDIT: OMG SORRY. the word was ANUS, not ASIAN. My bad. 😳 Sorry, plz no bully, I'm special Ed. 👈😏👈 Cock and ball torture
The whole idea to make Ep7 a soft reboot really torpedoed the franchise in an insulting and hurtful way. By its very nature, a soft reboot undermines and partially retcons the plot and purpose of the original source material. It's fine to soft reboot something like Ghostbusters where the sequels were basically garbage. But it's not okay to soft reboot Star Wars! Like Plinkett say it's almost as though Rian Johnson was forced to do what he did or else just retread Empire! How bad would that have been? It's just sad how Disney not only made bad movies, but decided to throw Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, basically the entire point and impact of Episode 6, Yoda, and the prequels into a garbage can and shit on them. How long until they try to destroy all records and copies of the original 6 films?
With the benefit of hindsight and the contributions of other revisions of beloved current era mythos, this was part of an intentional and purposive destruction of culture to degrade and demoralise a public otherwise strengthened by culture of this kind.
No one ever imagined a film worse than the prequels could be made, but Rian Johnson somehow managed it. Aspects of the prequels are just as bad/inferior as TLJ, but George was at least always playing to the fanbase and throwing the audience a few bones. As stated in this review, lack of drama and tension completely kills the film. Even the prequels had some of that.
@@NexusVerbal At least the prequels were identifiable as actual Star Wars movies. Say what you want about the movies themselves but they had the inventiveness and warmth that Disney Star Wars lacks.
The First Order is what happens when you make a caricature of bad guys. You accent the stuff you don't like about them, at the same time making it utterly impossible to make them believable.
+Reckful-For awhile, I though it was Ree-an, not Ryan. . . I was even going to give him the benefit of the doubt and wondered if he was Irish. . .Nope. . .dude is a Maryland native. . .So, even that little "interesting" piece about him I originally thought was all wrong. . . Some fun little tidbits. . .He directed a few episodes of Breaking Bad. . .Plinkett's joke about him being a folk singer wasn't just some throwaway joke about how he looks like a pretensious hipster folk singer.. . .He is actually IS a folk singer. . .And a banjo player apparently. . .He is part of a duo with his brother Nathan called The Preserves. . . So. . .there is that. . .
Literally the first thing that I thought when I heard Plinkett say that. Which was followed by "I gotta take a leak." And then by "But what about the future of this franchise?! Is he the only living son of Harry S. Plinkett?!"
No no no... Rich Evans is Plinkett's bastard son while george lucas is his long lost brother. The Plinkett family tree in only now opening up. THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS (TRASH)!
With his termination of all the mysteries (Snoke's death, Rey's parents being no one important, etc), and his cheery tone at the end, it seems Johnson thought he was making the last episode in the trilogy, not the second.
One of the only positives I ever had for VIII was that it left off in such a strange position that I was really curious what the next movie would do. I truly didn't think they would actually ret con everything from this movie, I assumed they had a planned trilogy and that this was known by all involved from the start. Cause think of how little it costs to have a plan, you just needed everyone to talk at least once about what their stories would be. Its so cheap, and the benefits of it are so large that anyone would plan their billion dollar trilogy. The fact that they were like, lets just freeform Jazz a trilogy is admirable in one way, and foolish in all others.
And just like that YT's trending system has lost all credibility first that stupid buzzfeed video getting trending and not the Godzilla KOTM trailer? Yeah Rest in piss trending credibility.
bananian oooh somebody’s panties got in a twist. Rian johnson is a filmmaker, who was put in charge of the most beloved film franchise ever, with unlimited budget, and still coughed out a incoherent, frequently cringe-inducing pile of crap. Also, fuck yourself.
@@hatefulgaming1800 i looked it up and it sais 91% critics 45%audience. The audience score on rotten tomatoes is never reliable. Most accounts are just one time log ins tht were created specifically to downvote a movie. But what do i know? Im just a guy who thinks any person should just watch a movie and think for themselves. I watch these reviews anyway because they're funny and i just wanna see why they didnt like it. But are you really gonna let someone else determine how you feel about something before trying it? If some stranger on the internet told you never to try pizza because they didnt like it, would you do it simply because they told you or would you try it and see if they were right?
I honestly have no idea why Disney even game Ryan Johnson such a high role in making such a massive and important movie. Like, he’s not even that bad at making movies but I can’t possibly think of a worse person to write AND direct a Star Wars movie
Kathleen Kenedy is the answer, and the real question should be: why was K.K. put in charge of the star wars franchise without even having a fleshed out plan.
At the very least you'd think they'd choose someone with even a primary school level of understanding how space and/or gravity works. In a movie where half of it takes place in space.
@@noone3216 to be fair, you need only an elementary level knowledge on space to know that most shit in Star Wars makes no sense (like how ships being set on fire in space is completely impossible). That was never really the issue
The way she was written, it was very clear to me that Holdo was a bad guy that infiltrated the good guys for a big twist. I was super confused when she did the heroic sacrifice thing :D
Yeah, it was like... let's put the most suspicious and ineffective leader in charge of the fleet, and demote the best pilot (the guy who literally just destroyed Starkiller base) and keep him in the dark while we get picked off one ship at a time. But all the braindeads were cheering because "TOXIC MASCULINITY."
Ford "this doesn't feel right for the character Kershner." Kersh "Ok Ford what should we do?" -Highest rated SW movie ... Hamill " this is not right for the character Johnson" Johnson "shut up Mark" -worst SW movie
@@shahin738 We weren’t told anything about what was happening in the scene. A crew member came over and said “So basically, guys, you’ve all just escaped from something and you’re really relieved...” or words to that effect.
Nono! we cant have villain women characters! the only "evil" woman in the movie is hidden away in armor and helmet. and she never really does anything that evil.
The Last Jedi will be studied in film classes around the world as an example of terrible film-making. Disney/Lucasfilm will be studied in business classes around the world as an example of terrible business decisions. Episode 9 is going to fail miserably. Millions of people have been dreaming of a sequel trilogy since 1983 and Disney/Lucasfilm flushed it right down the toilet.
Michael P Statement: At this point I solved the sequel problem for myself and bought the original Trilogy about Thrawn from the 1990s. Read it and realized that I have sequels that way. I also don’t care what meatbags call canon.
Just seeing those made my body and soul hurt. People who act like this level of "comedy" was always in Star Wars films really need to watch those scenes.
As much as I want another Plinkett review for RoS, I only want Mike to do it if he thinks there is something meaningful to say. I totally understand his complete exhaustion with the buffoonery around these films and how no one seems to have the general IQ necessary to make a competent story. I didn't need Plinkett to suggest a boycott. TLJ was the last straw for me; I skipped episode 9. As much as it truly breaks my heart to say this, it might be time to pull the plug on Star Wars. If so, "The Last Plinkett Review" is a fitting title to mirror the ignoble collapse of this IP.
*Me:* Man I am so tired of people talking about the last Jedi. I never want to watch another review again. *RLM:* Here’s a Mr. Plinkett review of it *My lying ass:* Well ok.
Did you click on this because it was The Last Jedi, or did you click on it in spite of that because it was a Plinkett review? I wouldn't exactly call you a liar if it was the latter...
@@fusionfountain yeah I agree. Its nice that big studios are giving indie filmmakers the chance to realise their dreams, but at the same time it does seem somewhat irresponsible, given the budget and complexity of such a task.
That's not what the shills are saying! "I Was Wrong About Star Wars: The Last Jedi" (Sean O'Connell ) "Why the Hell Isn’t Anybody Talking About ‘The Last Jedi’ for Best Picture?" (Ehrlich) Ehrlich thinks people will come around...but I think they're retroactively dismissing Force Awakens.
@@gremlin66n I think he meant George Lucas was one of the people behind it, as many of his ideas were reimagined, brought to the right tone, or even tossed aside altogether by the rest of the creative team, whereas in the prequels you can see Lucas unbridled and it shows.
The Joker I literally see no difference in Plinkett’s “wit” in this video in comparison to the others. Mauler has a completely different humor and style too so comparing them is idiotic.
"The Last Jedi is the most embarrassing thing since my son... no, not THAT one, the OTHER one!" It's about family, and that's what makes it so powerful.
That OTHER series that's all about family .. has better writing and a more realistic and thoughtful plots.. Of course I'm talking about The Fast and The Furious.
Dear Mr. Plinkett, Please say that this is not the end of your Star Wars reviews. There’s one big one left and (speaking for everyone) we need it. The world needs it. Sincerely, Alan
I was so mad Rey didn't join Kylo, because that would've been an _actual_ interesting subversion, I turned to fanfiction to wash out the bitter taste this movie left in my mouth. And what do you know, there are some _fans_ that tell better Star Wars plots than the people Disney hire and give a giant budget to!
Quite honestly every plot my friends came up with when we went to eat after watching this were better than the film, and they all were just off the top of people's heads.
@@Arroweast What? Yes, you can? There isn't a rule stating in fiction that the hero can't turn evil. That's exactly what Anikin did in the prequels. He was once a hero then joined Sidious (a character even more evil than Kylo). Besides, Ben wasn't entirely gone yet. There's a chance that Rey could've helped Kylo go back to being Ben and change the 1st Order from the inside. That would've been interesting to watch unfold.
@@stivklif Why not ? They marry then they dominate the galaxy as an imperial family that have the monopoly on the force , the next movie would be about the rebels desperately trying to overthrow them without any force users or jedi masters .
totally, i had that exact same thought with that exact runtime, one of the problems of the movie is that is too long, an experienced director would have know where to edit the movie and to know where is dragging, the finn and rose subplot should have never left the cutting floor, awful in many ways, and the ships chase should have been cut to the minimum, really boring, just because they make a 2 hours and a half movie does not mean that is automatically gonna give that "epic" feeling
The add even more confusion about the script, Rian Johnson once stated that he had to write the script for The Last Jedi while The Force Awakens was being written and so he had no idea what was going on. But then JJ Abrams said Johnson had access to some early drafts, so he should have had an idea of what was going on. But then Kathleen Kennedy confirmed Johnson wrote his script while none of the new trilogy ideas and scripts were confirmed. But then Abrams said he wrote initial scripts for VIII and IX and Johnson chose not to use his scripts and write a new one. BUT THEN Johnson confirmed that and said he wanted to challenge all of Abrams ideas and dissect the characters and themes with his own script. B U T T H E N it was reported by Lucasfilms and others including Abrams that Johnson had to regularly get his script reviewed by the higher ups and get approval for it, during the writing of The Force Awakens. And so Abrams came out and said Johnson's script was so good, he wanted to direct it himself. I'm sure everyone is trying to make it seem like production was under control, but this seems like a case of "Too many cooks in a kitchen trying to make a 3 course meal, but nobody has even decided on what kind of restaurant this is going to be."
Yeah, sounds like studios being idiots, for sure. But the thing is if you find a great writer (they exist, even if Hollywood rarely uses them), you could write a great Star Wars script in a week. It's not a complicated franchise, you just need to make it fun, have likeable characters and a solid heroes journey, and have a few fun surprises.
That's probably the case. I like the film and I think it's a fucking mess. It's just enjoyable to me and I liked some of it's ideas. I think it had some of the best scenes in the franchise and some of the worst.
I still can't figure out how that works: "writing a script for a following episode, without having the previous in existance". What kind of writing is that... Also, your coment reminded me of Sparrow and Barbossa's discussion of who is the captain of the Black Pearl in At World's End.
@@Kesslerification Honestly, I think Kennedy's inner monolouge was running along the lines of, "If the tripe this SNAG is writing sells, I've done my job and so be it."
It's been two years and there's no Plinkett Review of The Rise of Skywalker. While it would have been fun, I think this is the biggest insult they could have delivered.
Right. Because, you know, that was necessary to the plot. Unfortunately when characters fail you equate it to a waste of time and can't think for yourself.
"Now it's worth it" She says after leaving behind a bunch of slave children who will probably get beaten half to death for letting the (expensive?) animals out of their boxes to escape.... Seems kinda messed up
SolarDragon007 Probably because the sad reality is that it’s easier and more satisfying for many to go that route instead of actually trying to help the enslaved, poor or middle-class.
Is'nt that a theme in star wars though, that noone cares about slaves? I remember Anakin asking Qui-gon Gin about freedom for himself and his mom and Qui-gon is like nope, I won't be doing anything like that. And even later, when they are working for royalty and probably has all the money a little slave boy can carry, neither of them go back to get Anakins mom. Too busy hitting the bars, drinking and snorting kyber crystal I guess....
I honestly get what the dude was trying to do. Introduce a dashing rogue that we all assume will be gruff but ultimately good, and just making him turn out bad? Great idea,...but he just didn't pull it off. Rey learning that she's not related to anyone important? I love it!....but he didn't pull it off. Luke withdrawing from the force after losing faith in himself and his abilities and inadvertently creating a galactic evil? Intriguing!..but again, he just didn't pull it off. It all honestly sounds great to me, it just didn't come out that way lol
RJ says, “The only thing i would really want is a good movie that delights me in ways i didnt expect.” Hey jackass, the problem is all the changes you made were distasteful and unbelievable. Its not the fact that you made changes, it’s the end result. Let me give u a food analogy that even Gordan Ramsey would agree with, becuz if you know anything about the upper echelons of cooking, it’s about making the dish better, not changing it for worse for the sake of it. Thats like if a chef wanted to make a delicious new dish at a beloved restaurant, so his bright idea is to take a favorite recipe and degrade it by changing what made it great in the first place and replacing it with the exact opposite, instead of trying to contribute to it which helps it reach another level (which is what all great chefs do, they ENHANCE IT by adding their own twist to a dish, they dont try to reinvent the fckin wheel becuz there’s a time and place for everything, genius!) Thats NOT what the owner asked for, the owner asked to make a known dish BETTER. He didnt ask to make a NEW dish with the same frckin name to try to fool customers. Why? Cuz thats not what the customers want, thats not why they keep coming back to this restaurant, so they can be tricked. They came to eat delicious food from a restaurant they know damm well, and whether its an old or new menu, it better be good for the same reason. So when it ends up tasting bad, he blames his favorite customers that it’s because it’s not what they’re used to and they dont have an open mind. THAT IS NOT THE CASE. In fact, a favorite customer, who is a big fan of the restaurant, is not only open to something new, they welcome it because they love the food there and would be excited to hear there’s a new, delicious dish, BUT TO A CERTAIN DEGEE- CHANGES THAT WOULD ENHANCE THE FLAVOR, MAKE IT EVEN BETTER. NOT THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF WHAT MAKES IT GOOD, NOT THE OTHER END OF THE FCKIN SPECTRUM. But then, when it tastes bad because it’s something that shouldnt even be sold in that restaurant, you blame the customer??? if you go to a delicious burger spot that wants to try something new, they should give you a new and different type of burger, not a shitty sushi roll. and? THE CUSTOMERS WOULD BLAME THE CHEF. THE OWNER WOULD BLAME THE CHEF. Yet the chef has the audacity to say the customers are a buncha “man-babies” ? What an idiot.
A B She's Vietnamese. But hey, it's not like East Asians are nationalistic af and utterly hate when other East Asian nationalities are used to cater to them in Hollywood movies, right? I mean, that would require some actual insight into their culture and history and not just blind Twitter virtue signalling.
I love how the code breaker walks around in a uniform in a highly organized military environment with a week-old stubble and no superior officer stops to chew his ass out.
In retrospect, watching the last Jedi is like being in a bar fight. At first you're not sure what's going on, maybe the guy is just joking, then shit gets real and you're in a fight but it's not that bad, you'll get out of it with a couple of bruises, you'll learn from it and grow, then out of nowhere you get stabbed, you don't realise at first, the fight ends, the other guy's run off with your money , the adrenaline wears off and you start to feel the pain and realise the horror of what's just happened.
Nailed it, I was loving the movie but as soon as it ended, something felt off and I couldn't place it, my girlfriend asked me what I thought of it and I said something like "it was good, but..." and then about 10 minutes later after I had sorta talked through I realized how horrible it was.
"The Last Plinkett Review"
No one's ever really gone.
Mwhahahaha..*cough*..ha..h..*cough* ha....
My hope is gone.
Lol at that :D
So we blow that one up?
Shutup, Meg
"Remember kids, In Hollywood it's not important if it's of high quality, only that it makes money" - Mark Hamill
@@LatajaceStadoKotow The film itself made a shitload of money, where they lost out is in merchandise. Toy sales are at an all time low for the series, as are most other licensed products.
The Prequels (and Return of the Jedi) played through it perfectly: Release the film in late spring for the summer blockbuster rush, then release the home video in early autumn so that kids and families get to watch it again (or several times) right before the late autumn holiday shopping rush really kicks in.This timeline worked PERFECTLY for moving merchandise- kids would demand certain action figures, lego vehicles, etc. of things that they had just seen over and over again in the movie, and it would give retailers a lot of time to move through Star Wars stock, whether toys, books, clothing, video games, whatever.
Disney chose a film release schedule that does NOT work for merchandising at all, despite merchandise being Star Wars' biggest money maker- instead of the summer blockbuster window, which they probably wanted to keep exclusively for Marvel, they decided to release their Star Wars films in early December, immediately AFTER the shopping rush had mostly finished. As a result, most retailers in the fall shopping season are left clueless as to what to market to people, or how, because the actual movie that their new stock of merchandise is based on hasn't even released yet. And that's not even going into Disney's insistence on one (or more) SW movies each and every calendar year, which is another awful concept altogether.
Star Wars merchandising was a methodically tuned, well-timed machine that worked over and over, generating hundreds of millions of revenue even in years with no new movie releases, and Disney went out of their way to break it down completely. I'd be shocked, but this IS the company that somehow managed to destroy the Muppets, so I can't say I'm too surprised.
LatajaceStadoKotow
I'm ignoring everything Shovelwars for the coming years, it's so bad it doesn't deserve the time of day.
All they had to do was put Star Wars branded flamethrowers on the shelves! The kids just _love_ those!
@@spookbuster4862 I think the damage this movie did was evident in the lukewarm reception to Solo. This movie left a bad taste in OG fan's mouths that only bleach can fix.
Their ship got a parking ticket. That literally happened in Spaceballs.
I wonder why they haven't remade that yet? We need Phantom Trilogy Spaceballs for a complete set. It's the next phase since hollywood is devoid of new ideas.
@@atomicviking2497, Remember the planetary shield in Rogue One? Spaceballs.
@@bonitabromeliads Yes, it's never too late.
Happened to watch Spaceballs after posting that and whoa, never knew how much the NuStarwars really took from it. I mean, the parking scene is kind of over the top.
So nobody, not one person in a "creative" think tank room said: "Hey, you guys know they did that exact same thing in spaceballs? Anyone remember that? It happened; just watch it for yourself, here, it's on TH-cam, just look" is virtually unbelievable but who knows.
A NuStarwars spaceball Trilogy would be absolutely brilliant, especially right now with most of the spin offs flopping like pancakes at ihop or being scrapped altogether. There's so much material now to run with that I really wish they would. Probably be better than the original prequels. Just imagine Jar Jar as the Sith Lord, they'd have to put that in.
no it didnt
Your name and Pfp are beyond cringe
4 years later & still no Plinkett The Rise Of Skywalker Review. A shame because I'd love to see Plinkett tear into that pos
@@Pocketrocket-pj1us I agree with you but they did give us a really good half in the bag episode .
Yeah, where’s the review.
There is the 70 minute review. Close enough.
Hopefully we get one!
I mean the title IS the last plinkett review.
When I asked him for some water, Rian Johnson gave me a glass of methanol. I may have gone blind but my expectations were certainly subverted.
I asked Rian once for a Birthday Present and I gave him a list of awesome things... but all I got from him was Underwear and it wasnt even the right size. Expectations successfully subverted.
(of course this never happened, but you get the idea)
Drink just a little real liquor (a wee bit o' ethanol) so you don't also die of methyl-alcohol poisoning.
When Rian Johnson’s hotel I was staying at caught fire, I rushed to the emergency fire exit door. But instead of seeing a fire exit, Rian in a chicken costume was behind the door and whacked me with a mallet. I got a mild concussion and failed to escape without getting horribly burned, but at least my expectations were definitely subverted.
When I asked Rian Johnson for a good movie he took a dump in my mouth. But then he gave me a mint condition directors cut of Doctor Strangelove signed by Stanley Kubrick so I don’t know what to think anymore.
Hopefully for your sake that was before the release of this movie
Mike showing restraint by waiting over 20 minutes to reference Star Trek.
Who?
Lol I love the guys but u gotta take what they say with a gtgrainain of salt considering yes they are huge trekkies 😂😂
Gotta respect Mike's Star Trek love, always there
Mr Plinket on STD would be awesome.
I APPLAUDED IT FOR BEING DIFFERENT
That kiss between Finn and Rose has to be the least romantic kiss I've ever seen in any movie
Yeah, for all the bad romance in the prequels, this kiss takes the fucking cake
The Other Point Of View // Yeah but at least they’re good-looking.
Probably wasn’t supposed to be. Finn looked uncomfortably surprised like the audience was.
Nameless Jedi then what the hell was the point of it
The Other Point Of View that one was honestly worse. At least Finn and Rose were kind of friends, not two people trying to murder each other. It makes sense for Rose to feel some attraction toward Finn. It makes absolutely no sense for Kylo and Rey to like each other
Please Mike, we are desperately waiting for your Plinkett’s Review of Rise of Skywalker video. Pleaseee man!
@E . A Plinkett is fed up with his dead wife and sons yet he still talks about them so i doubt it.
He suffered enough for our entertainment, man. Let him rest... Let him rest...
@@hannibalburgers477 The dementia will kick in and he's gonna forget he ever suffered anything
You must've turned the video off like two minutes before the end, didn't you?
The Rise of Plinkett will be the greatest movie review ever released.
Why is Rich Evans always a perfect stand-in for all of these fucking Star Wars directors. He didn't even need a costume this time
I'm confused. Rich Evans wasn't in this.
Though I did like the part where Rian Johnson subverted my expectations and spilled wine on the table.
You should see his impersonation of Kerschner; it's indistinguishable from his impersonation of Dan O'Bannon.
Because he's fat, short and diabetic, like 95% of all directors.
Because he has Rian's perfectly round potato head.
i was like half asleep when i first saw this and thought it was really rian johnson for a second
I think what hurts most is there's no do overs. These films were the ONE chance Disney had to reunite the cast of the original films and add to their story in a meaningful way. The only opportunity to bring Leia, Luke, Han, Chewie, Lando and the droids together again, tell add to their legacy and pass the torch to a new generation.
And they blew it. They totally, utterly blew it,
That's exactly how I feel. The new trilogy is the biggest wasted opportunity in the history of cinema.
Indoctrination Theory They didn't just blow it, they crashed into a fucking iceberg and sank with all souls lost. So few people are hyped for the next one its sad.
Ive already been through this with Halo, I didnt need it to happen to Star Wars.
Indoctrination Theory Completely and utterly false.
The droids appear way too much as cameos
The Reality Bin But what if Lando DOESN’T die?
Seriously, Star Wars fans have no clue what they want despite claims to the contrary. They will also NEVER be happy with ANY Star Wars thing regardless of quality.
The most confusing part of the Casino Planet plot? After Rose frees the animals and causes all sorts of destruction and confusion allowing them the chance to escape.... she proclaims this is what it was all about. Then they abandon the enslaved children....
It does reflects society now, where people usually cares more about animals in general than humans.
ironically being a good microcosm of how performative the whole scene was in the first place.
Yeah the whole Cantobite casino thing was overlong and pointless and because of its structure you couldn’t cut it out of the film. Its what makes this movie overly long. Its like this episode of the movie Rian Johnson wanted his PETA anti cruelty towards animals statement.
See, it was a clever ruse by Mr. Johnson : you would expect them to liberate the enslaved kids, so he subverted your expectations. You did it again Disney! Such brilliance
Add to that that She and Finn illegally parked, and were legally arrested for it( which, while harsh, seems too be the local law), then decide to commit further crimes by assaulting officers of the law, breaking out of jail, stealing private property( the animals) and destruction of private/ public property.
Then THEY feel superior to everyone ( as they escape, leaving , possibly, enslaved children to clean up their mess).
I want my expectations subverted when I buy a lottery ticket, not when I watch a Star Wars film.
That's sad, because all I want is a Star Wars movie that surprises me.
@@doomstadt2371 well congratulations, because they’re all surprisingly bad !
@@21DaHoagie12 Not anymore. Anybody who continues watching Disney Star Wars is willfully ignorant of the fact they will always produce nothing above corporate garbage.
😂
@@doomstadt2371 if you genuinely wanted to be surprised, watch Empire. After about 2 of the big “gotcha!” moments, none of them actually surprised me because I knew that Rian was just going to do the opposite of what made sense. You see, there’s a difference between surprising people and defying logic. When people expect one thing to happen, it’s usually because it’s the next logical step. A movie being predictable at the very start isn’t good, but if you can guess what the characters are about to do most of the time by the time you reach the end, that’s probably just because it makes sense for them to do that. Near the end of Empire, the moment Luke finds out about his friends being in danger, you instantly know that Luke is going to go after them and is not going to listen to Yoda’s advice because that’s the kind of person Luke is. Him leaving Yoda to go save his friends is exactly what Luke Skywalker at that point in the trilogy would do as established by previous scenes. It makes sense that he would do that, and thus him doing that isn’t the movie being predictable, it’s the audience being smart enough to understand what kind of person Luke is and being able to rationally predict his next course of action. Audiences aren’t stupid, and it isn’t a failure of a director if they get to a point where they can guess where the plot will go on decently short notice.
Rian Johnson just does the opposite of what makes sense in terms of characters and in terms of logic. Holdo is blatantly a terrible leader who is trying to string along everyone with her based on blind faith in a plan she refuses to tell anyone. No good leader would ever conceal that much information from their subordinates in a time of crisis. Teaching people that they should just follow whatever the leaders say because they’re smarter than the people they command is an awful lesson. So the reveal that Holdo actually did have a plan the whole time isn’t a plot twist, it’s defying logic. Same goes for nearly every other major “subversion” in this stupid movie. They get predictable after two of them because you can just predict that whatever is going to happen is the opposite of what would logically happen.
"Tear that place up. Make them hurt."
The richest people in the galaxy aren't going to care that a few tables were knocked over.
Does anyone else feel that speech was really hypocritical and insincere? A speech on the evils of the "1%" in a Disney movie of all places does not feel like preaching, it feels like Rian was gloating.
don’t you know that rich people are evil?
@@BelfryHex that's a lot of tearing to do. Could we speed up the process and burn it?
Yeah, the rich people casino that clearly keeps slaves and poor folk to do their all their work are really going to be hurting now that you busted up their windows and tables. It's not like they are going to just force their workers to fix it all while they go party elsewhere.
+Ryan Oleynik That's exactly what i thought. "We really made a difference". No you fucking didn't. They're rich. They'll just buy anything they need to replace and just take it out on the poor workers. Hell, they could just hire some poachers to catch those creatures.
Wow, 23 minutes in before Star Trek is brought up. Now that's willpower.
No, he was just subverting our expectations
So we blow that one up!?
then mentions it 20 times, i love this review
I've seen this raw strength only once before. It didn't scare me enough then. It does now
Let's all congratulate Mike Stoklasa for his amazing restraint.
i had the runs during the Last Jedi. I missed the entire casino scene. I've never seen it fully except bits and pieces, nor do I intend to. I consider that taco or whatever I ate that day to have been part of the Force, guiding me to a place of safety
I had diarrhea during that scene too, but I still saw it because I didn't get up. I sat there and everyone else left. Some people commented that my hot puddle of effluence wasn't the worst part of the experience for them. I believe them.
@@numinous2506 I read your comment in Plinkett's voice and it was perfection.
Same here lol. Glad I missed most of it
Blessed Be that Specific Taco!
All those special effects artists do their job well, why can't the directors and writers?
It almost seems if they are connected, the story and the special effects. If one gets better, the other gets worse.
@Just Saying to me battlestar galactica (the remake) is the show with the best combination of story and effects. Just imagine what awesome stuff could be made with current year effects and a proper script. All the wasted potential is making me very sad.
Because the special effects artists just followed the orders! (I have purple hair, btw.)
Because one only requires skill and the other requires skill + imagination. Disney, as a big corp, limits how much imagination is allowed to be used, so it's less likely the film will flop. They go by the lowest common denominator, because it's still better to have a shitty bland film than a shitty experimental film, as far as profits go.
These effects are just green screen and cgi, literally (and I mean literally in the literal sense lol) to a much greater degree than the Prequels ever had. I honestly just would like consistency lol. Not saying you weren't at all but where's all the hate for these effects nowdays? Do we now like these kind of effects? Idc either way, it does nothing for me but I'd like to know if people still have the same criticisms
1) Make a movie about failure.
2) Make the movie an actual failure.
3) Profit.
what about the ＴＨΣＭΣＳ
Cards Against Humanity reference right?
d b Except TLJ was clearly not a failure.
You put step 4 in at step 3. Step 3 should be: Step 3: ???
@@dvader518 Because it had the Star Wars brand attached to it. The success of Episode IX will more accurately reflect what kind of mark TLJ left.
Or alternatively, Solo's results painted a pretty grim picture.
I have an original idea. All of the Star Wars fans could collectively not watch Star Wars Episode 9. It would subvert Disney's expectations. That's how you know it is a good idea.
I don't care to watch it. Last Jedi isn't the worst movie of all time or the worst of 2017 (Mummy 2017). However, it was a disappointment.
I don't care to see Ep9.
I’m onboard baby!
Solo flopped, and continuing that trend Ep 9 will make a lot less than expected.
I didn't pay to see TLJ or Solo, so I'm totally on board.
The fact that Mark Hamill calls him “Brian” when talking about how he disagreed with his choices of Luke’s portrayal is *hilarious*
Does anyone know where all that cast/crew voicing their concerns interview footage is from?
@@rexcatastrophe [REDACTED] -Disney Corp. Legal Counsel
HOLY SHIT that is hilarious, I legit thought he was talking about a completely different person!
@@meh23p I legit thought his name was Brian for a while after that.
Calls him by his name 🤷♂️
The *one awesome thing* in this movie is...Mark Hamill's acting. Despite absolutely *hating* the part he has to play, and despite it being 180° opposite the Luke Skywalker he used to play, he delivered. We might not like what he delivered, but he did it, and in perfection.
Reminds me of something Christopher Lee said:
"Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them."
It's the hard-ass workers that make it the furthest, not the sheer talent.
Mark Hamill is definetly one of those workers--just listen to his performance as the Joker in the Arkham games, which is second only to Heath Ledger's.
@@nis5e Hamill > Ledger >Nicholson >>Romero >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Anybody else>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Leto.
He actually said he liked the movie and script
@@gaminglol1167 after he said how he disagreed about it I think it's called a possible breach of contract/ the NDA he definitely had to sign and they told him to tone it down
That kiss Rose plants on Finn is probably one of the single most uncomfortable cinematic moments I've ever witnessed.
Indoctrination Theory you should stay in more.
It was even creepier than Steve Kissing Sharon.
It was more cringeworthy than Luke kissing Leia (after finding out they're siblings)...how did they manage that one??
we didn't know that at the time.
If Finn crashed his ship into Rose's heroic sacrifice so he could make out with her without her consent, he'd be locked up
The issues with The Last Jedi began with 2 parents deciding to subvert everyone's expectations by naming their son Rian with an i.
Ruin
I feel like that’s a joke that Bill Hicks would actually make, good job friend.
Yeah, I hated that part.
Rian is just a pawn in this. Disney made this film bizarre and awkward. They didn’t just say “Hey, let’s give the director of Looper five hundred million dollars to turn our biggest franchise into a snarky artistic statement.” The prequels were a HUGE financial success. They want to emulate aspects of the prequels, without pissing off too many fat 32 year olds. Kids don’t like The Hero’s Journey anymore. They like cynical ADD spectacles. They like big words that make them feel smart. They like creatures that remind them of Pokémon. Lucas was a god-damn prophet...
Actually Mr. Hicks, they named him Brian.
But he was such a pretentious little shit he dropped the B.
"I guess the lesson was that in the rebellion, your job is not to rebel, but to blindly follow your leaders."
OOF
The fact that John Boyega is on record saying he hates what happened with Finn's character, that The Last Jedi is his least favorite movie in the new trilogy, and that he is glad he is not in them anymore is just icing on the cake.
Those deleted scenes are painful.
Almost as bad as the deleted scenes from Empire. To be fair.
@mickor it was like an episode of rebels another shit Disney star wars
About 75% of the movie is painful, if you think about how jarring and uneven the tone of the movie is, and how poorly the plot is structured.
I can see a good concept of "Historically great Jedi becomes disillusioned and has to overcome his mistakes", combined with "stern chase movie where the Reb-sistance barely stays ahead of the First Order"...
But it gets lost in "silly casino escapades", "Admiral Holdo My Beer, I can be a bigger hothead than Poe and cause more problems", and "Big Climactic Battle BECAUSE SYMBOLISM!".
I literally thought they were bloopers at first, but no!
Holy shit! Fanta. You didn't crack a beer before you commented.
The comparison between National Lampoon’s Vacation and The Last
Jedi is both unexpected and brilliant. That’s how you subvert expectations, people.
can Plinkett make the next star wars movie?
Finn looked like he had no idea how to react after being kissed. “Why the hell are you kissing me now? Also, I am really not that into you”. Han and Leia always seemed like they had a thing for each other with their banter and the romance felt very natural when it happened.
On top of that, some time has passed since the events of ANH, so they at least knew each other for a couple of years.
"You may not have noticed it...but your brain did." I love that line
So we blow that one up....
It so true. Sometimes I'll watch a movie and things just don't seem right. Later I'll realize what I saw made absolutely no sense.
Star Trek reference. Somewhere off-screen Jay is staring into a camera
the quantity of slide whistles in this was very reassuring
"The problem was that he failed spectacularly at every level." ~Mr. Plinkett
Yeah but he said that about Rogue One and Plinkett was just wildly wrong.
No, no no no no no no.....oh no no no no...ohhhhh no no no no. Ahhhh, you are so wrong.
I agree with Ion, Rogue One was a good entry.
@@gustavrider5561 i took a nap while watching rogue one, i just didn't care about the characters. and you could tell they were trying so hard to make you care
To Conor, Jesus man just how jaded are you?
Leia flying through space was the dumbest thing I saw in a movie since Indiana Jones survived a nuclear bomb in a refrigerator.
Exactly my thoughts... then, I watched Palpie's geometric Star Destroyer army and that fucking beacon, which relegated Space Leia to place two.
If the refrigerator wasn’t bouncing around and it was inside a cave .. I could at least accept that!
@@arthurballs9632 If you are entertained by unbelievable stupidity! BTW, if you closed yourself in a refrigerator at that time, you would not be able to open it from the inside, and would suffocate to death! They also were not made of lead, so he would die from radiation or cancer within a year!!
to be fair, Indiana Jones also jumped out of an airplane in an inflatable dingy, landed on the side of a snowy mountain and X-Gamed his way to safety... At some point you just have to accept goofy action in a goofy action movie.
Part of the problem is that grown adults consider this shit as "serious" when it was originally produced decades ago when they were kids. That's not to excuse any warts in TLJ, which was plenty clunky in general... But goofy and never very well defined force powers leading to a goofy outcome shouldn't be surprising. Jedi can run real fast and jump real high right until the screenwriters figure it would be more dramatic if they couldn't. The whole house of cards collapses after a few seconds of critical thought. It can't be pinned on a given moment in a given film, it's death by 1,000 tiny cuts.
@Make You Seethe Well of course, they are both silly movies that aren't grounded in reality. I think we're on the same page, as that's the main point of my comment...
A lot fans hold up Leia doing her goofball Peter Pan moves in space as being dumb or Indy hiding in the refrigerator as being dumb.... But those same people never seemed to have much of an issue with the Ewok hang glider or Indy using a rubber dingy as a parachute. My point was these things were always goofy... but it didn't seem to bother people 30 or 40 years ago... only now is all this shit dumb.
Hats off to Rich Evans, who has now portrayed two of the five directors of the main saga.
That Star Trek montage was totally just an excuse for Mike to rewatch a bunch of Star Trek.
Gotta watch a good franchise before touching SW
You've gotta have a palate cleanser when watching new SW or new ST, and old Trek holds up beautifully to this day.
He just needed a good palate cleanser in order to finish the movie.
Edit: Oops i guess we wrote that at the same time. Great minds think alike i guess.
GOD DAMN!
We can all be thankful SW isn't like trek in that montage! We do not need that slow moving debate in star wars. But it'd be nice if the characters were intelligent and things at least made sense.
The Rian Johnson being Plinketts son plot, is way more interesting and coherent than The Last Jedi.
Especially since Plinkett's penis was ripped off by a cat, 4 years before he was born.
There was a review were he came real hard on his TV. Wonder how that happened. It's intriguing...
@@Xarx3s this plot hole has completely blasted my immersion. I'm done with Plinkett Wars.
I've watched readings of My Little Pony fanfics better scripted than Last Jedi. And I feel like I'm insulting the MLP Fanfics by making that comparison.
Last Jedi is the FFX of movies, because Final Fantasy X was a highly ambitious deconstruction that had its big story get lost behind flashy visuals and poor scripting.
Shenaldrac ...
You have a good point that I'm insulting Final Fantasy X by comparing it to the Last Jedi in that manner.
Well I did not like Final Fantasy X, and I could not connect with the characters at all, after all these years from playing it I can admit that I see why people love it so much.
I apologize for insulting Final Fantasy X by that comparison.
I will make it a point to make my comparison more nuanced from now on, pointing out that Final Fantasy X does have a coherent story that goes from beginning to end.
Which just makes the Last Jedi that much more sad in the end.
Also on a random Final Fantasy X related note: I figured out the big twist with the final summon the absolute first time that term was mentioned. That's a major reason why the game did not connect with me.
But yeah, there is a significant difference in the need for nuance there.
21:07 Admiral Holdo: "You bet the survival of the resistance on bad odds and put us all at risk."
That line didn't age well.
We learn in the third movie, that holdo suicide maneuver was once in a million chance thing.
What?
@@mfaure420 In Rise of Skywalker, someone suggests performing Holdo's suicide hyperspace ram maneuver again to save them, but it is quickly shot down as a one in a million chance of success. So Holdo berating Poe for taking bad odds to try and save everyone is hypocritical with that knowledge if her last ditch plan was also a shot in the dark.
@@vashoom Holdo was an insanely stupid character throughout TLJ, so being a hypocrite fits in with that. In regards to hyperspace ramming, there was nothing that any writer could have done to make that bullshit fit into Star Wars. Rian Johnson just randomly decided to do the hyperspace ram, with zero fucks given towards how much it would break everything else. I have no issues with hyperspace ramming being discarded with a single sentence "one in a million" , because there is nothing else that could be said about it.
😂😂😂😂
and then it happens again in the background of the final battle.
Loved when they introduced the kamikaze light speed tactic, proving that every previous character in Star Wars was an idiot for not trying it sooner and throwing the entire universe into utter chaos by giving every person with even a garbage freighter virtually unlimited firepower. I clapped.
"I like those guys, but I fear them."
-Rian Johnson on RLM
Rian Johnson: i fear no man...but that thing(picture if Rich Evans) It scares me
And right he was to fear them cos they just blasted his ass.
Was that one of his 20 thousand tweets he deleted after James Gunn's disgusting attempts at humor were thrust into the spot light?
Wait, did he actually say that?
One shudders to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie behind that mask. What dreams of chronic and sustained cruelty?
I was more saddened by Mark Hamill's interviews than I was by Luke's death.
There's literally a moment during a panel in which he depressingly rubs his forehead while Ruin is babbling about subversion.
I love Mark Hamill. He says what he really thinks. That's pretty damn rare in Hollywood.
Dr Caramel link?
r9ksg chan Those were really hard to watch.
I don't remember him ever coming around to his interpretation of Luke, he said he was fine with the movie. His most recent comments are that he's still coping with his character's arc.
Driving fast to impress Christy Brinkley is never a mistake.
i loved the casino scene, it really made me rethink my values and I decided too stop sending my allowance money too the military industrial complex in my real life.
I am Lockheed Martin irl, I can confirm. I just never thought about it before because I was never exposed to any hamfisted political messaging made by other multibillion dollar corporations. There just isn't enough for us war profiteers to take notice, but I'm doing my part to change that by reporting 1/2 star ratings on rottentomatoes
We need more heroes like you
I can honestly say I haven't bought a single fighter jet since I watched Last Jedi.
So brave. This comment is so brave.
Isn't that just tax evasion
🎶 if he sounds like snake, it's a mistake 🎶
@@joesmith-fx7fw because the antifa fascists haven't arrived yet.
It's a missssssssstake
@@joesmith-fx7fw Thumbs down don't do anything, they don't affect the score and they don't show up
Important life lesson to never trust anyone who stutters. Their all snakes and liars.
LIQUID!!!
George Lucas: Wow the fans sure hate what I did with the prequels
Kathleen Kennedy: Hold my blue milk.
Tadicuslegion78 Correction: green milk
Tadicuslegion is referring to the blue milk in Episode IV.
Dan Hauer And he is referring to the green milk in Episode VIII.
Nah, prequels were waaaaaay worse!
You star wars fans are so pathetic
I really appreciate how RLM gives their senior citizen friend a platform for his art projects. I know not many people watch them, but it's great Mr. Plinkett has an outlet.
Three years later, and this review is STILL gold.
Rian subverted everybody's expectation by making a bad movie. Everybody had hoped it to be a good one.
oh I knew it would be bad. Or I expeced it to be bad.
Ep 7 was....at best average. Disney don't have any vision for SW.
I expected another death star.
Yup. The movie is objectively bad. There’s no getting around it.
@@tentringer4065 I expected 5
This movie is terrible, both objectively and subjectivity as well.
Funniest part is how Rich Evans needs a fake beard and wig to play George Lucas, but he needs absolutely nothing to play Rian Johnson.
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Ha Ha. That is pretty funny bra.
Yep, hilarious how different people look different?
@De Profundis Broooooooo... Asian is, like, a swear word. 😳 I was gaming and I said the "a-word" and my grandma, well, she just started beating the shit out of me with a broken-off chair leg. I was crying soo loudly, my neighbor came to check if I was okay and my grandma made me tell him that I feel. then I shit my pants. 🥺😭😭😭 So, like, don't say that word omg. 😬😏😵😳😔🤠🥺😲
EDIT: OMG SORRY. the word was ANUS, not ASIAN. My bad. 😳 Sorry, plz no bully, I'm special Ed. 👈😏👈
Cock and ball torture
Just a suit with no tie, the official uniform of Hollywood morons
@@IJustAteYourGrapesBro No, the joke that went way over your head was that Rich Evans looks like Rian Johnson.
The whole idea to make Ep7 a soft reboot really torpedoed the franchise in an insulting and hurtful way. By its very nature, a soft reboot undermines and partially retcons the plot and purpose of the original source material. It's fine to soft reboot something like Ghostbusters where the sequels were basically garbage. But it's not okay to soft reboot Star Wars! Like Plinkett say it's almost as though Rian Johnson was forced to do what he did or else just retread Empire! How bad would that have been? It's just sad how Disney not only made bad movies, but decided to throw Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, basically the entire point and impact of Episode 6, Yoda, and the prequels into a garbage can and shit on them. How long until they try to destroy all records and copies of the original 6 films?
Well said.
With the benefit of hindsight and the contributions of other revisions of beloved current era mythos, this was part of an intentional and purposive destruction of culture to degrade and demoralise a public otherwise strengthened by culture of this kind.
"The problem is that he failed spectacularly at it on every level."
George's revenge is now complete.
No one ever imagined a film worse than the prequels could be made, but Rian Johnson somehow managed it.
Aspects of the prequels are just as bad/inferior as TLJ, but George was at least always playing to the fanbase and throwing the audience a few bones.
As stated in this review, lack of drama and tension completely kills the film. Even the prequels had some of that.
All according to plan.
@@NexusVerbal At least the prequels were identifiable as actual Star Wars movies. Say what you want about the movies themselves but they had the inventiveness and warmth that Disney Star Wars lacks.
George Lucas all according to keikaku
El-ahrairah For now. With Solo flopping (actually losing money for the firdt time in franchise history), we'll see how things will go.
My takeaway from all this was that If Mr. Plinkett had let Rian Johnson keep working on his lawn, we all would have been spared from The Last Jedi.
Rose: There's only one business in the galaxy that can get you this rich...
Finn: Slav--war. War? War.
"Selling Yugioh cards online... Or war I guess?"
The First Order is what happens when you make a caricature of bad guys. You accent the stuff you don't like about them, at the same time making it utterly impossible to make them believable.
The Space Putins!
palpatine is literally the definition of your basic evil bad guy
@@Chris-ks4sw except he's competent in the original series, unlike the first order
@@ElykEcralc He is not competent. He makes a ton of stupid decisions even in the OT.
It’s Rian not Ryan? Even his name subverts my expectations.
+Reckful-For awhile, I though it was Ree-an, not Ryan. . . I was even going to give him the benefit of the doubt and wondered if he was Irish. . .Nope. . .dude is a Maryland native. . .So, even that little "interesting" piece about him I originally thought was all wrong. . .
Some fun little tidbits. . .He directed a few episodes of Breaking Bad. . .Plinkett's joke about him being a folk singer wasn't just some throwaway joke about how he looks like a pretensious hipster folk singer.. . .He is actually IS a folk singer. . .And a banjo player apparently. . .He is part of a duo with his brother Nathan called The Preserves. . . So. . .there is that. . .
Rian Johnson is Mr. Plinkett's son: This is canon now folks
Literally the first thing that I thought when I heard Plinkett say that.
Which was followed by "I gotta take a leak."
And then by "But what about the future of this franchise?! Is he the only living son of Harry S. Plinkett?!"
Rainn Wilson to replace Rian as director, one letter difference in first name and their last names end in son
No no no... Rich Evans is Plinkett's bastard son while george lucas is his long lost brother. The Plinkett family tree in only now opening up. THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS (TRASH)!
if Rian was Plinketts son he would have been killed with raid blue by now
With his termination of all the mysteries (Snoke's death, Rey's parents being no one important, etc), and his cheery tone at the end, it seems Johnson thought he was making the last episode in the trilogy, not the second.
One of the only positives I ever had for VIII was that it left off in such a strange position that I was really curious what the next movie would do. I truly didn't think they would actually ret con everything from this movie, I assumed they had a planned trilogy and that this was known by all involved from the start. Cause think of how little it costs to have a plan, you just needed everyone to talk at least once about what their stories would be. Its so cheap, and the benefits of it are so large that anyone would plan their billion dollar trilogy. The fact that they were like, lets just freeform Jazz a trilogy is admirable in one way, and foolish in all others.
It had the opposite effect for me: This movie convinced me that modern Star Wars is a farce, so I never saw the 9th movie.
Huh. I stopped after jar jar.
Mr plinkett 1 million views not trending, Star Wars resistance trailer 113k views trending, work that one out!
RLM usually trends though... I'm guessing a critical assessment of Star Wars is not allowed to trend. Fuck youtube and their spineless avarice.
Easy: Star Wars caters to dumb little kids now.
Thanks, now I saw that godawful video.
And just like that YT's trending system has lost all credibility first that stupid buzzfeed video getting trending and not the Godzilla KOTM trailer? Yeah Rest in piss trending credibility.
Money talks.
If Johnson really wanted to subvert expectations, he should've made a good movie
bananian Except the last Jedi wasn’t that good it has a 45% on rotten tomatoes.
bananian oooh somebody’s panties got in a twist. Rian johnson is a filmmaker, who was put in charge of the most beloved film franchise ever, with unlimited budget, and still coughed out a incoherent, frequently cringe-inducing pile of crap.
Also, fuck yourself.
@@hatefulgaming1800 i looked it up and it sais 91% critics 45%audience. The audience score on rotten tomatoes is never reliable. Most accounts are just one time log ins tht were created specifically to downvote a movie. But what do i know? Im just a guy who thinks any person should just watch a movie and think for themselves. I watch these reviews anyway because they're funny and i just wanna see why they didnt like it. But are you really gonna let someone else determine how you feel about something before trying it? If some stranger on the internet told you never to try pizza because they didnt like it, would you do it simply because they told you or would you try it and see if they were right?
So we should trust those critics who clearly weren't paid off by Disney? and where in my comment did I ever say you couldn't like the movie.
@@hatefulgaming1800 and how can you be sure they were paid off? Theres always movies where the audience and critics are split.
I honestly have no idea why Disney even game Ryan Johnson such a high role in making such a massive and important movie. Like, he’s not even that bad at making movies but I can’t possibly think of a worse person to write AND direct a Star Wars movie
Kathleen Kenedy is the answer, and the real question should be: why was K.K. put in charge of the star wars franchise without even having a fleshed out plan.
At the very least you'd think they'd choose someone with even a primary school level of understanding how space and/or gravity works. In a movie where half of it takes place in space.
@@noone3216 to be fair, you need only an elementary level knowledge on space to know that most shit in Star Wars makes no sense (like how ships being set on fire in space is completely impossible). That was never really the issue
The way she was written, it was very clear to me that Holdo was a bad guy that infiltrated the good guys for a big twist. I was super confused when she did the heroic sacrifice thing :D
That was the twist!!!11111
Yeah, it was like... let's put the most suspicious and ineffective leader in charge of the fleet, and demote the best pilot (the guy who literally just destroyed Starkiller base) and keep him in the dark while we get picked off one ship at a time. But all the braindeads were cheering because "TOXIC MASCULINITY."
Ford "this doesn't feel right for the character Kershner."
Kersh "Ok Ford what should we do?" -Highest rated SW movie
...
Hamill " this is not right for the character Johnson"
Johnson "shut up Mark" -worst SW movie
So Rian Johnson is Holdo
Honestly, this made the prequels seem quaint and charming.
Alex that is by far the best way I’ve heard of describing the prequels compared to the sequels.
@@dragonknightleader1 how?
John Smith I will take ANY one of the prequels over TLJ.
I've watched this review more times than The Last Jedi.
JJW001 i haven’t watched the movie once I watch this video routinely tho
I've watched the film once and now I've watched this review twice. Math checks out for me too.
i ve watched this film 0 times and this video like 3
So like, once?
NSA have you not seen a Plinkett review before? He actually pioneered these type of videos.
Hey guys. I’m the “Hey, hows the weather? You catch the game last week?” guy in the background. Like no joke that’s actually me. I LOVE your channel!!
How did the cast feel about the script? Did you feel the scene you played was appropriate for the moment?
@@shahin738 We weren’t told anything about what was happening in the scene. A crew member came over and said “So basically, guys, you’ve all just escaped from something and you’re really relieved...” or words to that effect.
@@jamesbailey1796 hollywood is a joke lmao im sorry you had to be associated with this mess
That's awesome my dude! :D
Do you like hot fudge sundaes?
Am I the only one who thought that Holdo was a really well written villain until it was revealed she wasn't a traitor or anything?
Nono! we cant have villain women characters!
the only "evil" woman in the movie is hidden away in armor and helmet.
and she never really does anything that evil.
When you're a bad writer, you can only hit on good characterization by accident. Whatever you _try_ to do you fail at.
"Boy do I love cotts!"
- Mr. Plinkett 2018
The Last Jedi will be studied in film classes around the world as an example of terrible film-making. Disney/Lucasfilm will be studied in business classes around the world as an example of terrible business decisions. Episode 9 is going to fail miserably. Millions of people have been dreaming of a sequel trilogy since 1983 and Disney/Lucasfilm flushed it right down the toilet.
disney alrredy got the money they spend back, yeah they are killing one of the bigger franchise in history, but hey, they didnt lost money
BlackCriticGuy
I’m taking a pass on episode 9...seriously what’s there to look forward to?
Sleeping is great
Michael P Statement: At this point I solved the sequel problem for myself and bought the original Trilogy about Thrawn from the 1990s. Read it and realized that I have sequels that way. I also don’t care what meatbags call canon.
So this is how Star Wars dies, with thunderous Plinkett.
QuantumElectricians lmao
You may boycott when ready
Kylo Ren Do you even know how to fucking type? LOOOL
LOL
Here's a little known fact: Rich Evans and Rian Johnson were separated at birth. One became an internet sensation, the other is Rian Johnson.
Been over two years since TRoS and no review... Guess this really was the Last Plinkett Review. :(
This is sadder than anything in the sequel trilogy.
He killed himself after watching the Rise Of Skywalker
Oh I’m afraid the boycott will be quite operational, when 9 arrives
How does this glorious comment have no replies yet?!
Ashton Christopher because he said it wrong. It should be “oh I’m afraid when 9 arrives, the boycott will be quite operational”
Holy shit this comment is underrated
lmao
Jay Sway Good luck with something that won’t work (or will work for completely unrelated reasons).
I had no idea the severity of the deleted scenes. Good fucking gravy
Just seeing those made my body and soul hurt. People who act like this level of "comedy" was always in Star Wars films really need to watch those scenes.
Rian Johnson would have made a great Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy film.
Rian Johnson might be able to make a good Seltzerberg/Movie Movie film though.
Oh fuck yeah.
Rian Johnson has the same sense of humor as an 8 y/o
Josh Ryan Johnson directed Ozymandias the most dramatic episode of Breaking Bad so show the man some respect.
It’s actually really sad how Mr. Plinkett and his homebody Mike both love Star Trek but never once talked about it together
As much as I want another Plinkett review for RoS, I only want Mike to do it if he thinks there is something meaningful to say.
I totally understand his complete exhaustion with the buffoonery around these films and how no one seems to have the general IQ necessary to make a competent story. I didn't need Plinkett to suggest a boycott. TLJ was the last straw for me; I skipped episode 9.
As much as it truly breaks my heart to say this, it might be time to pull the plug on Star Wars. If so, "The Last Plinkett Review" is a fitting title to mirror the ignoble collapse of this IP.
*Me:* Man I am so tired of people talking about the last Jedi. I never want to watch another review again.
*RLM:* Here’s a Mr. Plinkett review of it
*My lying ass:* Well ok.
me too
Did you click on this because it was The Last Jedi, or did you click on it in spite of that because it was a Plinkett review? I wouldn't exactly call you a liar if it was the latter...
Me also! I don't agree with the hate/criticism of TLJ and Rian Johnson, but I love Red Letter Media reviews
@@fusionfountain yeah I agree. Its nice that big studios are giving indie filmmakers the chance to realise their dreams, but at the same time it does seem somewhat irresponsible, given the budget and complexity of such a task.
Taika Waititi is an indie director and he did great with Thor Ragnarok. Rian Johnson unfortunately failed with The Last Jedi.
The more you think about this movie, the worse it gets
That's not what the shills are saying!
"I Was Wrong About Star Wars: The Last Jedi" (Sean O'Connell )
"Why the Hell Isn’t Anybody Talking About ‘The Last Jedi’ for Best Picture?" (Ehrlich)
Ehrlich thinks people will come around...but I think they're retroactively dismissing Force Awakens.
The more I think about this movie, the prequels don't look that bad, at least to me, they still feel more like Star Wars than this turkey of a movie.
There was plenty of good stuff in the prequels despite the flaws.
This really is true, I look back and I xan't believe I saw this in a theater
the more i think about this movie the more i think "hey.. maybe the phantom menace wasn't that bad"
It seems almost like George Lucas made something really cool in the 70s and 80s and that is where it should have ended. 🙄🤦♂️
@@ikoandreas5085 The Mandalorian was pretty great, I agree 😉
@@sorryifoldcomment8596 Can you clarify your meaning with that response?
Star Wars was declining before the original trilogy even ended. That's why we got teddy bears defeating the Empire.
@@gremlin66n I think he meant George Lucas was one of the people behind it, as many of his ideas were reimagined, brought to the right tone, or even tossed aside altogether by the rest of the creative team, whereas in the prequels you can see Lucas unbridled and it shows.
That's honestly how I view Star Wars.
Star Wars is 3 awesome films and nothing more to me.
4 years later and I STILL lmfao at the pointless insertion of the cat tearing his penis off during the moon landing 😂😂😂
"Then he gets beaten by an elderly hologram"
Priceless.
please for the love of god don't make a three week long response series to this
Hey MauLer how’s it going?
You're video was better, imao.
Nice to see you here Mauler
The Joker I literally see no difference in Plinkett’s “wit” in this video in comparison to the others. Mauler has a completely different humor and style too so comparing them is idiotic.
"The Last Jedi is the most embarrassing thing since my son... no, not THAT one, the OTHER one!"
It's about family, and that's what makes it so powerful.
That OTHER series that's all about family .. has better writing and a more realistic and thoughtful plots.. Of course I'm talking about The Fast and The Furious.
Dear Mr. Plinkett,
Please say that this is not the end of your Star Wars reviews. There’s one big one left and (speaking for everyone) we need it. The world needs it.
Sincerely,
Alan
I was so mad Rey didn't join Kylo, because that would've been an _actual_ interesting subversion, I turned to fanfiction to wash out the bitter taste this movie left in my mouth. And what do you know, there are some _fans_ that tell better Star Wars plots than the people Disney hire and give a giant budget to!
Quite honestly every plot my friends came up with when we went to eat after watching this were better than the film, and they all were just off the top of people's heads.
You can't have the hero join someone who is literally worse than Hitler.
@@Arroweast
What? Yes, you can? There isn't a rule stating in fiction that the hero can't turn evil. That's exactly what Anikin did in the prequels. He was once a hero then joined Sidious (a character even more evil than Kylo). Besides, Ben wasn't entirely gone yet. There's a chance that Rey could've helped Kylo go back to being Ben and change the 1st Order from the inside. That would've been interesting to watch unfold.
the last jedi should have ended with them getting married. If we're serious about subverting expectations
@@stivklif Why not ? They marry then they dominate the galaxy as an imperial family that have the monopoly on the force , the next movie would be about the rebels desperately trying to overthrow them without any force users or jedi masters .
The Last Jedi should have been 45 minutes shorter. The Last Plinkett should have been 45 minutes longer.
Hear, hear!
Haha
The last jedi should have been 2 hours and 30 minutes shorter
totally, i had that exact same thought with that exact runtime, one of the problems of the movie is that is too long, an experienced director would have know where to edit the movie and to know where is dragging, the finn and rose subplot should have never left the cutting floor, awful in many ways, and the ships chase should have been cut to the minimum, really boring, just because they make a 2 hours and a half movie does not mean that is automatically gonna give that "epic" feeling
*Going on forever? Son you may have single-handedly ended it!*
-Mr. Plinkett
That would be great. It's time for this whole thing to die. In fact it was about 20 years ago
It looks like Mr. Plinkett really did go feed the birds instead of watching Episode 9.
"Remember kids, if it sounds like a snake its a mistake!" Words to live by. 26:35
The add even more confusion about the script, Rian Johnson once stated that he had to write the script for The Last Jedi while The Force Awakens was being written and so he had no idea what was going on.
But then JJ Abrams said Johnson had access to some early drafts, so he should have had an idea of what was going on.
But then Kathleen Kennedy confirmed Johnson wrote his script while none of the new trilogy ideas and scripts were confirmed.
But then Abrams said he wrote initial scripts for VIII and IX and Johnson chose not to use his scripts and write a new one.
BUT THEN Johnson confirmed that and said he wanted to challenge all of Abrams ideas and dissect the characters and themes with his own script.
B U T T H E N it was reported by Lucasfilms and others including Abrams that Johnson had to regularly get his script reviewed by the higher ups and get approval for it, during the writing of The Force Awakens. And so Abrams came out and said Johnson's script was so good, he wanted to direct it himself.
I'm sure everyone is trying to make it seem like production was under control, but this seems like a case of "Too many cooks in a kitchen trying to make a 3 course meal, but nobody has even decided on what kind of restaurant this is going to be."
This news is good because it SUBVERTED MY EXPECTATIONS!
So in other words it was everybody's fault.
Yeah, sounds like studios being idiots, for sure. But the thing is if you find a great writer (they exist, even if Hollywood rarely uses them), you could write a great Star Wars script in a week. It's not a complicated franchise, you just need to make it fun, have likeable characters and a solid heroes journey, and have a few fun surprises.
That's probably the case. I like the film and I think it's a fucking mess. It's just enjoyable to me and I liked some of it's ideas. I think it had some of the best scenes in the franchise and some of the worst.
I still can't figure out how that works: "writing a script for a following episode, without having the previous in existance". What kind of writing is that...
Also, your coment reminded me of Sparrow and Barbossa's discussion of who is the captain of the Black Pearl in At World's End.
All those shots of Kathleen Kennedy looking unimpressed were delightful.
She looked suicidal, don't think she's actually been seen by anyone since the movie released....
Do you think that she knew her job was over at that point?
Remember, if you didn't like TLJ, you're an angry white male who can't stand strong female characters.
@@Kesslerification Honestly, I think Kennedy's inner monolouge was running along the lines of, "If the tripe this SNAG is writing sells, I've done my job and so be it."
@@joncurzon5938 Probably waiting out the hatemail and death threats.
Every year, Plinkett sounds less like Plinkett and more like a tipsy version of Mike
But I'm not complaining
Mike's Plinkett has pretty much always sounded like a tipsied version of Mike to me...
With every drink your journey towards the Plinkett side WILL BE COMPLETE
@@veteran0121 he used to have more of an east coast thing going on.
It's been two years and there's no Plinkett Review of The Rise of Skywalker. While it would have been fun, I think this is the biggest insult they could have delivered.
Rian Johnson talks about how the movie had too much stuff, but the casino planet stayed in. Wow.
Indeed, so many ways to write around that part of the plot
Right. Because, you know, that was necessary to the plot. Unfortunately when characters fail you equate it to a waste of time and can't think for yourself.
Well it was nessecary for the plot. The problem is how much of it he included
And that whole thing was completely pointless
@@kylecampbell565 was a save the animals side plot necessary where in they likely got a slave child punishment for something beyond his control?
"Now it's worth it" She says after leaving behind a bunch of slave children who will probably get beaten half to death for letting the (expensive?) animals out of their boxes to escape.... Seems kinda messed up
And said animals will more than likely just be recaptured making that whole scene pointless..
Yeah they stop at like 1km from the city... It amounts to bringing a little momentary chaos and get some children beaten bloody... Yeaaaaaah... -_-'
SolarDragon007 Probably because the sad reality is that it’s easier and more satisfying for many to go that route instead of actually trying to help the enslaved, poor or middle-class.
Is'nt that a theme in star wars though, that noone cares about slaves? I remember Anakin asking Qui-gon Gin about freedom for himself and his mom and Qui-gon is like nope, I won't be doing anything like that. And even later, when they are working for royalty and probably has all the money a little slave boy can carry, neither of them go back to get Anakins mom. Too busy hitting the bars, drinking and snorting kyber crystal I guess....
That character is a complete farce and nothing but annoying from beginning to end.
Still waiting for that episode 9 review. Please Mike, I don’t have much time left.
I honestly get what the dude was trying to do. Introduce a dashing rogue that we all assume will be gruff but ultimately good, and just making him turn out bad? Great idea,...but he just didn't pull it off. Rey learning that she's not related to anyone important? I love it!....but he didn't pull it off. Luke withdrawing from the force after losing faith in himself and his abilities and inadvertently creating a galactic evil? Intriguing!..but again, he just didn't pull it off. It all honestly sounds great to me, it just didn't come out that way lol
@BK Beatty ...you know, that's a good point.
Rian Johnson really likes subverting expectations.
People expected him to make a good movie.
RJ says, “The only thing i would really want is a good movie that delights me in ways i didnt expect.” Hey jackass, the problem is all the changes you made were distasteful and unbelievable. Its not the fact that you made changes, it’s the end result.
Let me give u a food analogy that even Gordan Ramsey would agree with, becuz if you know anything about the upper echelons of cooking, it’s about making the dish better, not changing it for worse for the sake of it.
Thats like if a chef wanted to make a delicious new dish at a beloved restaurant, so his bright idea is to take a favorite recipe and degrade it by changing what made it great in the first place and replacing it with the exact opposite, instead of trying to contribute to it which helps it reach another level (which is what all great chefs do, they ENHANCE IT by adding their own twist to a dish, they dont try to reinvent the fckin wheel becuz there’s a time and place for everything, genius!) Thats NOT what the owner asked for, the owner asked to make a known dish BETTER. He didnt ask to make a NEW dish with the same frckin name to try to fool customers. Why? Cuz thats not what the customers want, thats not why they keep coming back to this restaurant, so they can be tricked. They came to eat delicious food from a restaurant they know damm well, and whether its an old or new menu, it better be good for the same reason.
So when it ends up tasting bad, he blames his favorite customers that it’s because it’s not what they’re used to and they dont have an open mind. THAT IS NOT THE CASE. In fact, a favorite customer, who is a big fan of the restaurant, is not only open to something new, they welcome it because they love the food there and would be excited to hear there’s a new, delicious dish, BUT TO A CERTAIN DEGEE- CHANGES THAT WOULD ENHANCE THE FLAVOR, MAKE IT EVEN BETTER. NOT THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF WHAT MAKES IT GOOD, NOT THE OTHER END OF THE FCKIN SPECTRUM. But then, when it tastes bad because it’s something that shouldnt even be sold in that restaurant, you blame the customer???
if you go to a delicious burger spot that wants to try something new, they should give you a new and different type of burger, not a shitty sushi roll. and? THE CUSTOMERS WOULD BLAME THE CHEF. THE OWNER WOULD BLAME THE CHEF. Yet the chef has the audacity to say the customers are a buncha “man-babies” ? What an idiot.
The film opens on a "your mama" joke. And it's all downhill from there on.....
So true.
Is it messed up that I don't recall the fat Chinese woman being in this movie?
A B She's Vietnamese. But hey, it's not like East Asians are nationalistic af and utterly hate when other East Asian nationalities are used to cater to them in Hollywood movies, right? I mean, that would require some actual insight into their culture and history and not just blind Twitter virtue signalling.
I almost walked out when luke through the lightsaber over his shoulder.
No
I love how the code breaker walks around in a uniform in a highly organized military environment with a week-old stubble and no superior officer stops to chew his ass out.
Turns out that the New Order is like, super lax with the shaving profiles.
The instant the dreadnaught fired at the abandoned base instead of the rebel fleet, I knew this movie was gonna be a bomb.
"The Wine Tasting" is the absolute best way to describe TLJ in a visual/nonverbal manner. Pure genius.
Yet somehow, that short clip was more entertaining than TLJ itself. I hope Rich never changes.
"Haha, betcha weren't expecting that! I also bet you weren't expecting me to poop my pants while doing it, but I totally did! Ha, gotcha!"
It's like poetry, it rhymes.
fuck off, he didn't even taste the wine before he accepted it, where's the realism.
Clockwork could someone explain that part to me pls I didnt understand it
In retrospect, watching the last Jedi is like being in a bar fight. At first you're not sure what's going on, maybe the guy is just joking, then shit gets real and you're in a fight but it's not that bad, you'll get out of it with a couple of bruises, you'll learn from it and grow, then out of nowhere you get stabbed, you don't realise at first, the fight ends, the other guy's run off with your money , the adrenaline wears off and you start to feel the pain and realise the horror of what's just happened.
So realistic
Sean Knight
Damn that was brutal...did you help write Green Room? 😁
This was me. I loved the movie at first, and then I ended up hating it a month after watching after seriously thinking about the movie again.
Nailed it, I was loving the movie but as soon as it ended, something felt off and I couldn't place it, my girlfriend asked me what I thought of it and I said something like "it was good, but..." and then about 10 minutes later after I had sorta talked through I realized how horrible it was.
you forgot the part where you blacked out and got molested by a gang of clowns
Ryan tried spinning. That's a good trick
It's 2020, Picard isn't so smart anymore.