Honestly, while Revenge of the Sith is a slightly better made movie than Clones, you're really not missing anything by not seeing it.
Phantom Menace had its obvious and glaring flaws, but none of it was as bad as suffering through the Anakin/Amidala "romance". And that's the part of the movie that made the *most* narrative sense, which is saying a lot.
*cries self to sleep* ;)
Re: the YouTube guy, I do have to confess that I quite like him, yeah. I do understand your criticism of him, and can see your point there because the only defense I have is that I find the character completely ironic and not in any way serious, which I know is...a very fine line. Where do you say, "I'm doing this ironically," and where do you say, "No you're just saying you're doing it ironically."
I think one thing that helps is that he does Star Trek reviews too, in fact he did them first, and I watched them in the order that he did them, so like, I experienced him building up his weird repertoire of jokes and the character much more slowly and I know the story both of where the Plinkett character comes from and also why he gets used in the reviews.
Basically the guy runs an amateur movie production company and Plinkett is a character from one of the b-movie type cinematic shorts they did. Or something. I think it was a creature film like...Critters or something. IDK. Anyway, the review guy originally did his first review - of Star Trek: Generations - straight, in his own voice. And it didn't work, it was hard to get past the fact it sounded like some dude nitpicking. So he did it "in character" and it suddenly began to work.
Now, that's not a defense of the character he chose to use. And my acceptance of that, mostly is, I think, that it sends up the reviewer at the same time as making his points. The argument that would always be leveled at any kind of nitpick review, or frankly, any kind of even non-nitpicky scifantasy review, is that it's just some twisted fanboy in his mom's basement and that's the only reason he cares; this way, the reviews kind of sidestep that criticism by going further, by being aware of that, and by using it. By making fun of themselves at the same time.
I think I would be far more intolerant of the womanhating if I felt it was shared by the reviews, but honestly, from what I've seen the reviews use Plinkett's racism, sexism and other isms to highlight racism, sexism, etc., in the movies being reviewed. And I find a kind of enjoyable, surreal irony to the fact that it's this guy pointing out George Lucas's issues with women and that Anakin is a psycho stalker.
So...yeah, I get why it would be something that turned you off of the whole thing, and I don't really have a strong defense other than I, personally, don't feel it's an excuse for the guy playing the character to have a laugh about killing women, but rather an extreme sendup of creeps. But...humour is very subjective?
As to the reviews themselves, I have, now, seen the Ep II review and probably wouldn't recommend it to you because the same things that bothered you before will bother you this time (although I will say that the hooker you see in his basement in Ep I returns frequently in Ep II and ends up by tricking Plinkett and escaping; lord only knows how that will conclude in Ep III; tangent: I was kind of disappointed based on the end of Ep I and the Ep II review trailer that he wasn't doing this one from prison).
Also it's not as good a review. It's funny and makes great points but it's not as much of an entertaining destruction of the narrative and film-editing choices as the first one mainly because, I think, Ep II is...not a movie so you really can't pick apart that stuff because it doesn't exist.
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Honestly, while Revenge of the Sith is a slightly better made movie than Clones, you're really not missing anything by not seeing it.
Phantom Menace had its obvious and glaring flaws, but none of it was as bad as suffering through the Anakin/Amidala "romance". And that's the part of the movie that made the *most* narrative sense, which is saying a lot.
*cries self to sleep* ;)
Re: the YouTube guy, I do have to confess that I quite like him, yeah. I do understand your criticism of him, and can see your point there because the only defense I have is that I find the character completely ironic and not in any way serious, which I know is...a very fine line. Where do you say, "I'm doing this ironically," and where do you say, "No you're just saying you're doing it ironically."
I think one thing that helps is that he does Star Trek reviews too, in fact he did them first, and I watched them in the order that he did them, so like, I experienced him building up his weird repertoire of jokes and the character much more slowly and I know the story both of where the Plinkett character comes from and also why he gets used in the reviews.
Basically the guy runs an amateur movie production company and Plinkett is a character from one of the b-movie type cinematic shorts they did. Or something. I think it was a creature film like...Critters or something. IDK. Anyway, the review guy originally did his first review - of Star Trek: Generations - straight, in his own voice. And it didn't work, it was hard to get past the fact it sounded like some dude nitpicking. So he did it "in character" and it suddenly began to work.
Now, that's not a defense of the character he chose to use. And my acceptance of that, mostly is, I think, that it sends up the reviewer at the same time as making his points. The argument that would always be leveled at any kind of nitpick review, or frankly, any kind of even non-nitpicky scifantasy review, is that it's just some twisted fanboy in his mom's basement and that's the only reason he cares; this way, the reviews kind of sidestep that criticism by going further, by being aware of that, and by using it. By making fun of themselves at the same time.
I think I would be far more intolerant of the womanhating if I felt it was shared by the reviews, but honestly, from what I've seen the reviews use Plinkett's racism, sexism and other isms to highlight racism, sexism, etc., in the movies being reviewed. And I find a kind of enjoyable, surreal irony to the fact that it's this guy pointing out George Lucas's issues with women and that Anakin is a psycho stalker.
So...yeah, I get why it would be something that turned you off of the whole thing, and I don't really have a strong defense other than I, personally, don't feel it's an excuse for the guy playing the character to have a laugh about killing women, but rather an extreme sendup of creeps. But...humour is very subjective?
As to the reviews themselves, I have, now, seen the Ep II review and probably wouldn't recommend it to you because the same things that bothered you before will bother you this time (although I will say that the hooker you see in his basement in Ep I returns frequently in Ep II and ends up by tricking Plinkett and escaping; lord only knows how that will conclude in Ep III; tangent: I was kind of disappointed based on the end of Ep I and the Ep II review trailer that he wasn't doing this one from prison).
Also it's not as good a review. It's funny and makes great points but it's not as much of an entertaining destruction of the narrative and film-editing choices as the first one mainly because, I think, Ep II is...not a movie so you really can't pick apart that stuff because it doesn't exist.
So yeah, I'd probably skip it.