Incredible 70min review of Phantom Menace

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

can someone link to the other video reviews he's done? i don't see them anywhere on that page

Flash86

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

can someone link to the other video reviews he's done? i don't see them anywhere on that page

http://www.youtube.com/user/RedLetterMedia

youcancallmeal

Very good, would definitely watched more reviews of his. I particularly liked the scene when he showed the reaction to the first screening of the Phantom Menace

Valmont

I don't remember any of the old star wars films and I actually liked all three of the new prequels. They weren't the greatest films I've seen but I was entertained.

EDIT: I was eleven when I first saw the Phantom menace so maybe I wouldn't like it if I watched it now.

Roar

The part where he tries to explain qui gons bet with watto is one of the funniest things I've ever seen

Roar

ive just watched his star trek reviews, they're genius too

http://www.youtube.com/user/RedLetterMedia

aidan_walsh

Nicely bridges the two as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ir28fwPlYY

tman

Just watched the first part... Pretty amusing

His voice kind of grates though... Sounds like he's either just had a stroke, or is doing his best rain man impression

uncleoswald

tman wrote: »

Just watched the first part... Pretty amusing

His voice kind of grates though... Sounds like he's either just had a stroke, or is doing his best rain man impression

I'm pretty sure he is doing Buffalo Bill from The Silence of the Lambs, hence the very dark humour. In some of the Star Trek reviews another voice is used so it could be his real one. For Star Trek nerds everywhere these are recommended, never really cared for the TNG movies but he really hits home just how sh*t they are. Loved the bit about Picard only having to press two buttons on the comm to get to the lyrics of Gilbert & Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore.

On some threads around these parts such nitpicking of sci-fi films would be dismissed as anal retentiveness but he uses the minute details to paint an overall picture of the laziness and incompetence of the filmmakers.

Simian!

uncleoswald wrote: »

Loved the bit about Picard only having to press two buttons on the comm to get to the lyrics of Gilbert & Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore.

The Star Trek Insurrection review is the nest one, some of the stuff he points out is really clever and he makes an absolute mockery of some of the storylines.

http://www.youtube.com/user/RedLetterMedia#p/u/2/qlV3bsafkq0

"A 300-year old woman wants to access Picard's manual steering column". Genius.

Roar

oh hell f**king yes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkxQ6HYDwIA

awesomeness

Richard Noggin

Why talk for 70 minutes when one word would suffice with that film ?

opinion guy

You know what he lost me at "my son hung himself in the bathroom at a gas station" about 10 seconds in

i don't need to waste my time listening to this bad taste offensive ****e

robby^5

opinion guy wrote: »

You know what he lost me at "my son hung himself in the bathroom at a gas station" about 10 seconds in

i don't need to waste my time listening to this bad taste offensive ****e

Wow you're easily offended, you're better off for not having watching the rest you wouldn't like it!

The women locked in the basement was great! The camera sort of just panning across her ignoring her in the background

I love the whole persona he's been developing since the Star Trek reviews where he'd let slip

about killing his wife and there'd be an intentionally bad edit, which he does a lot to great effect

It's nice to have a little comedy behind him tearing these films to shreds.

JohnK

I've watched the whole thing and its a great review . I'm in shock though from that clip of Lucas from probably the 70s where he talks about how special effects are a tool and needs a proper story behind them. What happened to him since then?

fluke

JohnK wrote: »

I've watched the whole thing and its a great review . I'm in shock though from that clip of Lucas from probably the 70s where he talks about how special effects are a tool and needs a proper story behind them. What happened to him since then?:(

He became a tool.

Roar

the attack of the clones review is going to be released saturday at 8pm central time.. it was posted yesterday so not sure if it's an april fools day joke or not.. looking forward to it though

keefg

Galvasean wrote: »

I'm sure it is a great critique, but in the time it takes to watch the review you could have watched the film. Bit pointless IMO.

I'd rather watch this review than endure the agony of EP1 again.

The guy narrating it is hysterical :pac:

homerun_homer

keefg wrote: »

I'd rather watch this review than endure the agony of EP1 again.

The guy narrating it is hysterical :pac:

That's it, if I ever feel like watching the trilogy I would watch this review instead of Phantom Menace and then continue on. But this has also ruined my apologist attitude to Eps 2 & 3. My nephews always have the films on when I visit and I keep seeing the same scenes and I just cringe. I tried to jusitfy in my head Hayden Christensen's acting but it really is diabolical.

Luckily my nephews lost my copy of Phantom Menace.:D

Roar

Clones review is here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfBhi6qqFLA

gonna watch this tonight when I get in from work!

tommyboy2222

Hilarious and spot on !

Magic Eight Ball

JohnK wrote: »

where he talks about how special effects are a tool and needs a proper story behind them. What happened to him since then?

fcussen

I'm a bit disappointed with the new review. It's not as funny and there's way more focus on geeky nitpicking rather than showing how they got the fundamentals wrong. Also, it doesn't need to be as long as it is. It gets really good in the last 15 minutes or so though.

DazMarz

Great fun... Should be stickied!!!!!:D

The monotone is brilliant.

I think he should

leave out the stuff with people in his cellar and killing Koreans

but other than that, it's spot on!!!

Drumpot

Watched the whole review yesterday , I loved it, even my wife thought it was funny (and shes not a big fan of star wars) . .

I thought TPM was spot on and fantastically comical. . Watched AOTC which wasnt as funny but it had its moments . . Take it as it is and I cant see too many people complaining . .

Roar

really enjoyed that, some great LOL moments along with some head nodding "that's completely right" moments... must watch again..

jaykhunter

I enjoyed the AOTC review but not as much as Ep I review.

He spent far too much time nit-picking the plot; he could've spent 2 minutes in a montage, saying how

the plot serves the plot and how unlikely the course of events would go, and another 2 minute montage of how wooden the interactions between Anakin and Padme, and Obi-Wan don't really add up.

No need for about 40 minutes on it!

I do agree that the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy should've started at the Episode II point, and sure just slap in some Ep I flashback scenes (to when he was found, leaving his mother). Then Ep II could've been the Clone Wars, and Episode III being the well-paced heel turn. Oh well!

That said there were some really good points, like

Yoda's speech vs Lightsaber actions, but sure i loved seeing Yoda in Ep2. I do hate the unnatural sterile 'sheen' of completely CG's backgrounds, it does detract from the look and reality.

All in all I still really enjoy Ep II (and I love Episode III) and after watching this I still do. Bit too much

original material (hooker in the basement stuff)

for my liking.

mewso

Very good. Almost as good as the previous review. I'm pretty much with him on everything. I thought all 3 movies were shiny turds. I hated cgi Yoda and seeing him fight was probably cool in everyones imagination but I think hes spot on with the reality of seeing it in the movie. I particularly like his point about the young trainees using the visors and lightsabers.

The common wisdom seems to be that each movie got successively better when in reality imo they were all as bad as each other. The only downside to these reviews is that any guilty pleasure I had watching any of them is pretty much gone now.

me-skywalker

The stuff about the blockade is genius!!!

Qui Gon Booze hahahaha

Sad Professor

Watched the AOTC review first and half way through the TPM one now. Great stuff.

JohnK wrote: »

I'm in shock though from that clip of Lucas from probably the 70s where he talks about how special effects are a tool and needs a proper story behind them. What happened to him since then?

Nothing. He said the exact same thing while making the prequels. Unlike Spielberg, Lucas is pretty much the same guy he was in the 70s. He was always a crap director who was more interested in special effects.

The first Star Wars was an accident. Lucas was forced to do multiple drafts and then his friends (Huyck and Katz) did a significant uncredited dialogue revision. The original cut was still a disaster but his wife Marcia (an excellent editor) did a lot to rescue the film in post-production. Empire's brilliance is mostly a result of Lucas's collaboration with Kasdan and Kershner, both of whom thought they were making a completely different movie.