STAR WARS EPISODE 7: THE SPOILERS AWAKEN

[SKO]

The first half, where he fires back at Prequel Apologists, is great.

Yes, but why is that in a 1:45:00 long TFA review?

And, it wasn't very funny. The RLM stuff is usually very amusing. This was very meh.

Right, I think he wanted to film "Plinkett Responds to the Prequel Apologists", and instead did "The Force Awakens Review" even though he liked the movie because people expected him to make one, which is ironic, given how he rants against the evils of franchising.

[Tony]

The first half, where he fires back at Prequel Apologists, is great.

Cool... I could watch prequel bashing all day.

After that, though, saying "did we really need all of this diversity, kids never cared before about this shit, only adults care about diversity in characters" is patent bullshit and a really white guy way of thinking about things.

Crap... maybe I'll skip this then.

[Bort]

The first half, where he fires back at Prequel Apologists, is great.

Cool... I could watch prequel bashing all day.

After that, though, saying "did we really need all of this diversity, kids never cared before about this shit, only adults care about diversity in characters" is patent bullshit and a really white guy way of thinking about things.

Crap... maybe I'll skip this then.

Honestly, I think Plinkett has overstayed his welcome, or maybe I've outgrown him.

[Chuck to Chuck]

The first half, where he fires back at Prequel Apologists, is great.

Cool... I could watch prequel bashing all day.

After that, though, saying "did we really need all of this diversity, kids never cared before about this shit, only adults care about diversity in characters" is patent bullshit and a really white guy way of thinking about things.

Crap... maybe I'll skip this then.

Honestly, I think Plinkett has overstayed his welcome, or maybe I've outgrown him.

Half in the Bag is quite good. This just wasn't up to snuff.

[SKO]

The first half, where he fires back at Prequel Apologists, is great.

Cool... I could watch prequel bashing all day.

After that, though, saying "did we really need all of this diversity, kids never cared before about this shit, only adults care about diversity in characters" is patent bullshit and a really white guy way of thinking about things.

Crap... maybe I'll skip this then.

Honestly, I think Plinkett has overstayed his welcome, or maybe I've outgrown him.

Half in the Bag is quite good. This just wasn't up to snuff.

Agreed. The Half in the Bag Review of TFA when they were all just giving an honest opinion of the movie was far better than this really kinda forced production

[SKO]

Yeah this still looks really fucking cool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC9abcLLQpI

[SKO]

Captain Phasma: "I hope you don't think you're going to get away with this." -- while she's turning off the shield and raising their win expectancy about 1000% almost killed the movie for me. That's one guileless supervillain. She must have been blowing Hux or plowing his ass with a giant robo penis and filming it to stay employed if that's the way she performs her job. What a waste of Gwen Christie's ability to be bad as fuck. She slew The Hound (greatly diminished in strength due to infected wounds, natch) and this is all she could muster up when three dipshits with blasters invade her giant starkilling weapons reactor?

Hey so two years later they addressed this apparently by having a book about Phasma where she's raised on a hellish warrior planet and is really only concerned with her own survival and while she plays the part of devoted First Order person well she is in no way willing to die for it if she can avoid it. In the book she literally hunts down and kills the one First Order officer who could have verified that she was the one to lower the shield.

Not that anyone still cared at this point but Disney apparently did agree with Peck that this needed to be addressed somehow.

[CBStew]

I realize now that cinematic "Star Wars"  is the new literature. It is analyzed and parsed the way that academics study Shakespeare.

[SKO]

I realize now that cinematic "Star Wars"  is the new literature. It is analyzed and parsed the way that academics study Shakespeare.

Because Shakespeare's stuff is also a bunch of action and humor aimed at general audiences that has only become some kind of signifier of culture or some great literary accomplishment with the passage of time? Shakespeare wasn't trying to write masterpieces, he wrote a bunch of dick jokes to fill a theater.

[Canadouche]

I realize now that cinematic "Star Wars"  is the new literature. It is analyzed and parsed the way that academics study Shakespeare.

I'll just leave this here.

[CBStew]

I realize now that cinematic "Star Wars"  is the new literature. It is analyzed and parsed the way that academics study Shakespeare.

I'll just leave this here.

I resteth my case.