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Favorite recurring character? (Select 4)

  • Jack / AIDSMobdy

    Votes: 257 24.0%

  • Josh / the Wizard

    Votes: 77 7.2%

  • Colin (Canadian #1)

    Votes: 460 42.9%

  • Jim (Canadian #2)

    Votes: 230 21.4%

  • Tim

    Votes: 386 36.0%

  • Len Kabasinski

    Votes: 208 19.4%

  • Freddie Williams

    Votes: 274 25.5%

  • Patton Oswalt

    Votes: 27 2.5%

  • Macaulay Culkin

    Votes: 541 50.4%

  • Max Landis

    Votes: 64 6.0%
  • Total voters
    1,073
It's always fun to see PTards seethe over the Plinkett reviews and act like they're the sole reason why the prequel trilogy has a bad rep. They often come across as delusional, "No, the cinematography wasn't flat and lifeless! You just don't understand good film making!"
 
byuu said:
All RLM did was elevate the criticism of the prequels.
Before the Plinkett reviews people were mostly only picking on the obvious faults like the stupid kid and Jar Jar.

Their first Star Wars review came out a decade after the movie. People were singing George Lucas raped my childhood years before that.
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Honestly, I didn't see the Plinket Reviews until about 2011 or 2012, and I already hated the Prequels, so the idea that RLM caused the Prequel hate is just ridiculous.

They just rode the wave of it.
 
Travoltron said:
I just don't understand their mindset. I never did. I get that George Lucas had some good ideas and tried his best, but that's participation trophy thinking.

It's so weird how they think RLM brainwashed everyone. The prequels split the fandom in half in 1999 and RLM was just saying what 50% of the fans were thinking at the time.
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I think it's evenly split between people young enough to have seen those movies as little kids disliking their childhood being criticized, and the pipeline of ironic appreciation turning into actual appreciation as the Disney trilogy made the prequels look better by comparison. I've noticed a lot of the people who think Mike is solely responsible for prequel hate also tend to be upset that RLM in general didn't get MauLer-tier angry over the sequel trilogy.
 
FrickinFrackinFruckin said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZOAZlCvNC_0
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I laughed out loud a few times in this, good video. Josh was a mistake though, he's too autistic to let the riffing and gagging occur naturally and his trivia questions seemed designed as if they were actually meant to test people rather than be actually entertaining for a shitpost video.

The ending was pretty funny too, wonder how many people waited until the final seconds.
 
Brain Problems said:
I laughed out loud a few times in this, good video. Josh was a mistake though, he's too autistic to let the riffing and gagging occur naturally and his trivia questions seemed designed as if they were actually meant to test people rather than be actually entertaining for a shitpost video.

The ending was pretty funny too, wonder how many people waited until the final seconds.
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I have to agree that it wasn't nearly as funny even though the first game show relied on it turning out exactly as you would think happen. Since this episode was supposed to be Jay turning the tables, I wanted to see his weird movie autism come to play. It sort of happened, but Mike stood a fighting chance at answering questions when the joke was he was supposed to be utterly baffled.
 
Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
I have to agree that it wasn't nearly as funny even though the first game show relied on it turning out exactly as you would think happen. Since this episode was supposed to be Jay turning the tables, I wanted to see his weird movie autism come to play. It sort of happened, but Mike stood a fighting chance at answering questions when the joke was he was supposed to be utterly baffled.
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I think you get more out of it if you're a fan of Lynch.
 
JamesFargo said:
Remember how we all made fun of Anakin and Padme's relationship? How we unanimously agreed that it was unrealistic/toxic that anyone would fall in love with a psychopath who murders women and children? Well, now we live in a day and age where people are unironically shipping Kylo Ren with Rey, a relationship arguably even more unrealistic and toxic since Kylo is the sci-fi equivalent of a school shooter. Some women really like Beauty & the Beast-type stories.
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JamesFargo said:
Remember how we all made fun of Anakin and Padme's relationship? How we unanimously agreed that it was unrealistic/toxic that anyone would fall in love with a psychopath who murders women and children? Well, now we live in a day and age where people are unironically shipping Kylo Ren with Rey, a relationship arguably even more unrealistic and toxic since Kylo is the sci-fi equivalent of a school shooter. Some women really like Beauty & the Beast-type stories.
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The only defense I gave to Anakin and Padme's relationship is that at least it met a horrible end that brought down everyone involved in it. It was two people that didn't belong together having a relationship in secret and it blew up in their faces. Make bad choices, you have bad ends.

The ReyLo ship is literally for the warped type of people that thought the Boston Marathon bomber was hot.
 
If you like the prequels ironically: cool, I'm with you.

If you like the prequels genuinely, fine. There are plenty of seriously flawed movies I've enjoyed.

If you are going to get a lightsaber up your ass because people had the gall to to critique those movies, you need to get a life. I mean, part of the point of the Plinkett review is that he's putting on an exaggerated character. It allows him to express his negative 'opinions' in an exaggerated way for humor and catharsis.

It's the Archie Bunker, Eric Cartman conundrum.
 
RumblyTumbly said:
Honestly, I didn't see the Plinket Reviews until about 2011 or 2012, and I already hated the Prequels, so the idea that RLM caused the Prequel hate is just ridiculous.

They just rode the wave of it.
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Patton Oswalt's famous rant against George Lucas and the prequels happened in 2007, a full two years before the Plinkett Phantom menace review. The hate against the prequels had been very well established by the time RLM decided to codify it with a formal critique.
 
Feet Seeking Missile said:
I just finished rewatching my favorite TNG episodes. It feels good to victory lap those shows sometimes. DS9 is where it's at though
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DS9 had atmosphere in spades. The one thing it didn't have was Stewart, though. Not a lot of actors can match him punch-for-punch.

It was smart to cast another RSC guy (Jeremy Kemp) as his brother.

 
Seeing Stewart interviews in the past few years made me lose a lot of respect for him in that I think he'd rather be a dashing action hero than a respected and wise diplomat. It's very noticeable in the "First Contact" movie (the s4:e15 episode where Riker has to bone the alien rocks though), and the episode "Starship Mine". I think these are precursors to the Picard show where he's throwing punches and killing people without much thought.

Shatner did the action hero stuff better imo. He could still pull off sounding level headed after K.O.ing someone.

My TNG revisit the past few weeks helped a lot though. I'm becoming less of a DS9/TOS supremacist.
 
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