Mr. Plinkett's The Star Wars Awakens Review

[simbob4000]

Harry S. Plinkett takes a look back Star Wars The Force Awakens, the stupidity that is the Star Wars Ring Theory, and the idiocy that was the reevaluation of the prequels by some after The Force Awakens.

[Coin Biter]

Thanks for mentioning this - too much of my time has been spent occasionally checking the redlettermedia site for further Plinkett reviews Looking forward to listening to it.

[simbob4000]

Thanks for mentioning this - too much of my time has been spent occasionally checking the redlettermedia site for further Plinkett reviews Looking forward to listening to it.

Just know that it's less of a review of Star Wars The Force Awakens, and more of a look at Star Wars during and after the release of The Force Awakens. Not that there isn't a big long look at The Force Awakens, but it seems to be throwing people off that it isn't just a review of that movie.

[Pinsir]

There really isn't much to talk about for TFA so about 50% of this about contrarians (or millennials as he calls them) suddenly like the prequals and about 10% is about Star Trek.

[Doctor Know]

There really isn't much to talk about for TFA so about 50% of this about contrarians (or millennials as he calls them) suddenly like the prequals and about 10% is about Star Trek.

I know right? He spends the first 50 minutes ripping the cinematic universe industry and the Prequels again. Unlike his reviews on the Prequels, his complaints about the TFA are mostly nitpicks.

[Powertool]

I know right? He spends the first 50 minutes ripping the cinematic universe industry and the Prequels again. Unlike his reviews on the Prequels, his complaints about the TFA are mostly nitpicks.

I think it's a matter of consistency over gimmick. We the viewers are supposed to play the game and buy that the review is presented by a 110 (or 115?) year old senior citizen called Harry S. Plinkett who is the real guilty party in the sinking of the Titanic and routinely kidnaps and tortures sexual workers -- but we shouldn't forget that the voice we hear is actually from a Mr. Mike Stoklasa who DID appreciate the movie, as seen in the Half in the Bag series also presented by Redlettermedia. Offering diametrically opposed reviews just because a scathing one would be more in character for Stoklasa's fictional identity would be -- problematic.

[Standardon-Nameaux]

Offering diametrically opposed reviews just because a scathing one would be more in character for Stoklasa's fictional identity would be -- problematic.

The Nutrek review was released when... in 2011? Comments like "he can only do slatings" were justified before that, but they haven't been for 5 years.

Titanic's been out for quite a while now, too.

[Standardon-Nameaux]

and the idiocy that was the reevaluation of the prequels by some after The Force Awakens.

If you want to reassert your own viewpoint, you go for the strongest opposition not the weakest - so taking on those "clickbait articles" accomplished nothing much at all.



Same with the ring theory although, in retrospect, that segment seemed to also be there in order to relate to the soft reboot" point somehow, and that connection wasn't really made - the "Lucas just used cliffnotes / constructed the plot around those parallels" conclusion seems to exist entirely separately from the later "preqs were different movies - sure had some callbacks, but they were different" statement;
so the review's more disjointed than it could've been.

[The Nuke]

IT was fine. Not as rewatchable as the others. To long perhaps, and TFA is a good movie that wore it's flaws on it's sleeve anyway. He does make some interesting points though.