Did Han Shoot First?

Spock was my favorite Stars War character

Did you hear that Spock has an exercise video out?

Live Long and Perspire!

Star Wars' success is despite Lucas, not because of him. Without people around him to say "No. George, that's just plain stupid.", he's proven that he can't write, direct, or even maintain any logical cohesive storyline from film to film. It's those people that said "NO!" to Lucas, reigning him in, that are responsible for the timelessness of the Original Trilogy(well, the first two anyway).

A quirky but very thorough and dead-on-target critique of "The Phantom Menace", which points out all of George Lucas's failings when he's not constrained by a low budget or a studio holding the purse strings (part 1 of 7!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxKtZmQgxrI

I watched the entire review of this and I nearly pissed myself laughing. In fact he reviews all three of the prequel abortions.

I watched the entire review of this and I nearly pissed myself laughing. In fact he reviews all three of the prequel abortions.

I watched it all as well. The basement scene slayed me. I actually remember watching a review this guy did before. How can one forget that voice and characterization? I don't remember the movie, though.

I watched the entire review of this and I nearly pissed myself laughing. In fact he reviews all three of the prequel abortions.

I watched it all as well. The basement scene slayed me. I actually remember watching a review this guy did before. How can one forget that voice and characterization? I don't remember the movie, though.

In my minds eye it was Larry Flint narrating that.

I watched the entire review of this and I nearly pissed myself laughing. In fact he reviews all three of the prequel abortions.

I watched it all as well. The basement scene slayed me. I actually remember watching a review this guy did before. How can one forget that voice and characterization? I don't remember the movie, though.

In my minds eye it was Larry Flint narrating that.

I am trying to get through the review of the Revenge of the Sith but I was laughing so hard that my wife had to turn the computer off lest I wake the kids. I literally doubled over in tears.

http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star ... -the-sith/

Ichy is a genius for finding this guy.

Hard to tell from this angle.

Phil Hendrie used to have great fun with one of his "Guests" RC Collins. As with all of his guests, its actually Phil doing the voice. So he would have RC, a rambunctious teen (who only had one testicle due to cancer and often had "phantom nut syndrome" talk about how much he loved "Stars War" and he would make huge mistakes about character names, events, etc. The people that called were furious! They would argue with RC (actually Phil) and get into geek wars while RC would just keep baiting them, calling them "spooge monkeys" and other things.

Funny times.

I watched the entire review of this and I nearly pissed myself laughing. In fact he reviews all three of the prequel abortions.

I had seen these a while back. I even rewatched the Phantom Menace review again when Ichy posted the link here because I had enjoyed it so much the first time. All of the Red Letter Media reviews are FAR better than the actual prequels, and to boot, they're spot on critique about why they're so awful.

I watched the entire review of this and I nearly pissed myself laughing. In fact he reviews all three of the prequel abortions.

I had seen these a while back. I even rewatched the Phantom Menace review again when Ichy posted the link here because I had enjoyed it so much the first time. All of the Red Letter Media reviews are FAR better than the actual prequels, and to boot, they're spot on critique about why they're so awful.

The only good thing to come out of the prequels are these reviews.

Seriously, I have no desire to see any of the prequels again. The reviewer was spot on with several points...

- The characters were so one dimensional and said stupid things that made no sense. Who wrote the script for the original movies? It could not have been Lucas, unless he suffered severe brain damage between 1983 and 1999.

- The plot makes no sense at all.

- The CGI renders the whole think "fake". I felt like I was watching a cartoon. There was no tension or drama to any of the scenes.

Yes, it didn't help that Harrison was hung over as well.... LOL

It is one of the best scenes in the movie.

I though it was because was Harrison Ford was sick as a dog that day.

I enjoyed some of the bigger special effects shots in Star Wars, especially the ones with big "Star Cruisers" and lots of smaller ships on screen simultaneously, which were pretty impressive at the time.

Other than that I thought it was all shit, and still do. Acting ranging from merely bad to horrible, and plots and dialog of eyerolling inanity. Oh, and the air-headed, newagey "religion" in the film is dumber and more infantile than any developed by humans in real life, which is saying a lot.

I enjoyed some of the bigger special effects shots in Star Wars, especially the ones with big "Star Cruisers" and lots of smaller ships on screen simultaneously, which were pretty impressive at the time.

Other than that I thought it was all shit, and still do. Acting ranging from merely bad to horrible, and plots and dialog of eyerolling inanity. Oh, and the air-headed, newagey "religion" in the film is dumber and more infantile than any developed by humans in real life, which is saying a lot.

I find your lack of faith ... disturbing.

(GSlob, Darth Vader said that.)

Actually, I think it's one of the better aspects of the movie. Only the "Force" could make heroes of the ordinary people who objected to the Empire's control.

In order to establish it, a certain amount of "preaching" needed to be done; "it surrounds us", but I thought that was about as understated as it could have been to be credible at all. Without the farce of this voodoo, there would have been no story at all. As a plot element, it's pretty basic, but it is clear enough.

It could be worse. In "One Million B.C.", the plot was that the brothers didn't get along. So that was the excuse to show us someone's legs, and a bunch of fake dinosaurs.

I'm ashamed to say that as many times as I've seen and heard Kurosawa referenced, I've never seen any of his films. I'm going to have to rectify that.

Go get the Criterion Edition DVD of Seven Samurai. Watch it. Awesome film.

Then watch it again with the audio commentary by Michael Jeck, an American expert on Japanese film and culture. It's far and away the best audio commentary I've ever heard, and he does a fantastic job of illuminating subtleties in the film that might otherwise be lost on a Western audience, even including such small touches as describing the nuances of the Japanese "swear words" in the film. He also provides an enormous amount of background, context, and insight into such things as the careers of the actors in the film, how the dangerous stunts were filmed (NO STUNTMEN!), how Kurosawa managed to get the film funded despite great hardships, why the cinematography was groundbreaking, and much more.

BTW, Seven Samurai is about my most favorite film...I have the Criterion DVD and Blu-Ray..but...I haven't listened to the commentary...

I will rectify that soon. I am a HUGE Kurosawa fan. Genius, pure genius.

I'm ashamed to say that as many times as I've seen and heard Kurosawa referenced, I've never seen any of his films. I'm going to have to rectify that.

Go get the Criterion Edition DVD of Seven Samurai. Watch it. Awesome film.

Then watch it again with the audio commentary by Michael Jeck, an American expert on Japanese film and culture. It's far and away the best audio commentary I've ever heard, and he does a fantastic job of illuminating subtleties in the film that might otherwise be lost on a Western audience, even including such small touches as describing the nuances of the Japanese "swear words" in the film. He also provides an enormous amount of background, context, and insight into such things as the careers of the actors in the film, how the dangerous stunts were filmed (NO STUNTMEN!), how Kurosawa managed to get the film funded despite great hardships, why the cinematography was groundbreaking, and much more.

BTW, Seven Samurai is about my most favorite film...I have the Criterion DVD and Blu-Ray..but...I haven't listened to the commentary...

I will rectify that soon. I am a HUGE Kurosawa fan. Genius, pure genius.

Excellent commentary on there.