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L50LasPak said:
I think they're going to perform the ultimate insult of all. No dedicated Star Wars or Plinket review.

Just like, 10-20 minutes of discussion on Half in the Bag, then they'll move on. And that's it. Forever. No more Star Wars discussion.
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I'd rather have no Plinkett review than one with nothing to talk about just out of some weird obligation.
The TFA review with half of it devoted to ring theory was pointless.
 
garakfan69 said:
I'd rather have no Plinkett review than one with nothing to talk about just out of some weird obligation.
The TFA review with half of it devoted to ring theory was pointless.
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The TFA Plinkett review was the first time I felt like they really didn't want to do something, but did anyway because the expectations were there. I think they moved past Plinkett quite a while ago.
 
garakfan69 said:
I'd rather have no Plinkett review than one with nothing to talk about just out of some weird obligation.
The TFA review with half of it devoted to ring theory was pointless.
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I actually enjoyed them making fun of the stupid Ring Theory but maybe that should have just been its own video of Mike and Rich gabbing, kind of like the Discovery videos. Or the spectacular Darth Vader one.

No Plinkett video on the new SW movie would genuinely be funny though because not only has the forumla been copied by people to death, it'd be exactly what Disney doesn't want. Nothing to add to the controversry; especially from the guys who made complaining about Star Wars famous. They want the hardcore nerds to hate this movie to feed into their angle that nerds are always going to hate any new version of anything ever. Apathy is the best weapon here, and RLM are masters of talking about it, making fun of it, joking about it and using it.

They might just make a Plinkett video out of obligation though.
 
Mola Ram said:
The TFA Plinkett review was the first time I felt like they really didn't want to do something, but did anyway because the expectations were there. I think they moved past Plinkett quite a while ago.
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Yeah, a lot of people were still experiencing cognitive dissonance after TFA. They knew deep down the movie was bad, but they were so invested in the narrative that the prequels were irredeemable that they deluded themselves into believing that anything that avoided the mistakes of the prequels had to be good.

That cognitive dissonance led up to what we got in the Plinkett review: a man who wasn't ready to criticize TFA spending half of the review regurgitating old, tired complaints about the prequels. I'm sure a TFA Plinkett review made today would be a much different beast than the one we got in 2016.
 
Stab You in the Back said:
Yeah, a lot of people were still experiencing cognitive dissonance after TFA. They knew deep down the movie was bad, but they were so invested in the narrative that the prequels were irredeemable that they deluded themselves into believing that anything that avoided the mistakes of the prequels had to be good.

That cognitive dissonance led up to what we got in the Plinkett review: a man who wasn't ready to criticize TFA spending half of the review regurgitating old, tired complaints about the prequels. I'm sure a TFA Plinkett review made today would be a much different beast than the one we got in 2016.
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That and there's an interesting theory in the comments of the very same video (or there was, if they aren't deleted) that newer reviewers like MauLer (or however you capitalize his stupid name) kind of already ripped the movie to shreds so there wasn't actually that much to talk about.

Truth be told, Civvie 11 of all people summed it up best, in a game review no less:

Civvie 11 said:
I'm gonna tell ya a secret; I don't hate the The Last Jedi: because its this big important tentpole movie that doesn't understand how storytelling works. And that's gonna be funny forever.
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Yeah I know wrong movie, but they all blend together in my head.
 
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Stab You in the Back said:
Yeah, a lot of people were still experiencing cognitive dissonance after TFA. They knew deep down the movie was bad, but they were so invested in the narrative that the prequels were irredeemable that they deluded themselves into believing that anything that avoided the mistakes of the prequels had to be good.

That cognitive dissonance led up to what we got in the Plinkett review: a man who wasn't ready to criticize TFA spending half of the review regurgitating old, tired complaints about the prequels. I'm sure a TFA Plinkett review made today would be a much different beast than the one we got in 2016.
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Now see, I'm still on the bandwagon that TFA wasn't bad, and there's a decent comportment of fans and casuals that haven't decided to hate it for the sins of the sequel. Rey is too perfect, and it is a rehash, but the cast and the acting was good, it had good character arcs for Finn and Han, and, most importantly, the story was solid enough. I don't think it's a movie anyone has to feel stupid or embarrassed for liking. I'd guess that Mike is still in that mindset. If he was reviewing it again he would probably turn it into complaining about The Last Jedi for ruining all the setup from the first movie, and complaining about Disney's blinkered micromanaging preventing them from telling a cohesive trilogy.

I thought in the Plinkett review he did a good job of pointing out the flaws and the strengths of TFA. He didn't feel like he had to shit all over the movie, but instead gave us his honest opinion. I love RLM because they aren't afraid to tell us what they really think, even if it's fence sitting. They don't jump to hyperbole because it sells better. They even didn't completely hate on Solo as a movie and still had fun reveling that it flopped.

The weird Ring Theory tangent was out of place for a Plinkett review, but the rest of the review was pretty spot on.
 
L50LasPak said:
I actually enjoyed them making fun of the stupid Ring Theory but maybe that should have just been its own video of Mike and Rich gabbing, kind of like the Discovery videos. Or the spectacular Darth Vader one.

No Plinkett video on the new SW movie would genuinely be funny though because not only has the forumla been copied by people to death, it'd be exactly what Disney doesn't want. Nothing to add to the controversry; especially from the guys who made complaining about Star Wars famous. They want the hardcore nerds to hate this movie to feed into their angle that nerds are always going to hate any new version of anything ever. Apathy is the best weapon here, and RLM are masters of talking about it, making fun of it, joking about it and using it.

They might just make a Plinkett video out of obligation though.
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Nah, they should return to form and review SW: Plan 9 like they did Star Trek 09...

Stab You in the Back said:
That cognitive dissonance led up to what we got in the Plinkett review: a man who wasn't ready to criticize TFA spending half of the review regurgitating old, tired complaints about the prequels. I'm sure a TFA Plinkett review made today would be a much different beast than the one we got in 2016.
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Yeah, we already got it from hackfraud.

Actually that would be the only other thing that would be funnier. RLM just hosts the knock off review on their site. Sending the message, "this was so not worth the effort, we're sending in the B team."
 
L50LasPak said:
Maybe Star Wars always sucked?
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The thing about Star Wars dipping into so many different genres and levels of quality, there's always at least something people like about it.

For instance, I don't care at all about Star Wars, but the prequels are still hilarious to me.
 
_01 said:
The thing about Star Wars dipping into so many different genres and levels of quality, there's always at least something people like about it.

For instance, I don't care at all about Star Wars, but the prequels are still hilarious to me.
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Honestly the first time me and a buddy sat down to watch A Hew Hope after not seeing it since being little kids we just laughed at it the whole time even though my opinion of it has softened over the years.

Then again, we had rewatched multiple Star Trek movies, The Terminator, Robocop and Aliens first before that fateful night. Which I'm well aware all were allowed to happen because Star Wars made sci-fi a big, fat, big-tittied winner at the box office and studios were willing to fund them again, so the irony is not lost on me.
 
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They will release an Episode IX Plinkett video long after the controversy hhas ended. It will be so clever that you'll forget the other, more recent Plinkett reviews.
 
stuffandthings said:
Now see, I'm still on the bandwagon that TFA wasn't bad, and there's a decent comportment of fans and casuals that haven't decided to hate it for the sins of the sequel. Rey is too perfect, and it is a rehash, but the cast and the acting was good, it had good character arcs for Finn and Han, and, most importantly, the story was solid enough. I don't think it's a movie anyone has to feel stupid or embarrassed for liking. I'd guess that Mike is still in that mindset. If he was reviewing it again he would probably turn it into complaining about The Last Jedi for ruining all the setup from the first movie, and complaining about Disney's blinkered micromanaging preventing them from telling a cohesive trilogy.

I thought in the Plinkett review he did a good job of pointing out the flaws and the strengths of TFA. He didn't feel like he had to shit all over the movie, but instead gave us his honest opinion. I love RLM because they aren't afraid to tell us what they really think, even if it's fence sitting. They don't jump to hyperbole because it sells better. They even didn't completely hate on Solo as a movie and still had fun reveling that it flopped.

The weird Ring Theory tangent was out of place for a Plinkett review, but the rest of the review was pretty spot on.
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TFA wasn't bad, it just wasn't very good.
 
FernandoPooTragedy said:
So it's not just me then. I'd love to hear Mike just start out with, "You're going to hate me for this, but I loved it! Taylor Swift was amazing!"

You know he would.
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Mike: so today, we're going to be talking about that one movie.. you know, the one everyone has been waiting for.
Jay: you mean the one everyone wants us to review?
Mike: yes Jay, we're talking about CATS!
*cut to logo with music*
 
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