RedLetterMedia Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace Commentary - Mr Plinkett

[@waywardlaser]

Mr. Plinkett is the key to all this

[@MrJedabak]

If we can get him to work.

[@nagi159]

@@MrJedabak because he's a funnier character than we've ever had before

[@Kratescz]

Or Horace Hogan, if you wanna be Irish about it

[@TerrenceNowicki]

I KNOW WHAT THAT IS!

[@stellachimpson]

again its like poetry... you know, so they rhyme...

[@nohbuddy1]

My favorite bit in Phantom Menace is how Padme says her people are starving due to the blockade but WE NEVER SEE THE CITIZENS OF NABOO in the movie

[@DistractedGlobeGuy]

Do the math! There's just no way the Federation just killed _five billion_ of them! But then Palpatine made it illegal to question the official story and filled the banks and government with Naboo...

[@jayvee5686]

​@@DistractedGlobeGuyunderrated comment

[@GirianSeed573]

There's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it shot where you can see citizens running away from the droid army as it marches into Theed. It's so dense; every single frame...

[@DaveDexterMusic]

tbf it's not really about them

[@nohbuddy1]

@@DaveDexterMusic Oh yeah don't show what's supposed to he the reason for wanting to fight the blockade 🙄

[@biotrekker]

It's ridiculous that Watto would expend enormous amounts of energy hovering for no reason, when he could just stand there like everyone else (never mind the fact he could not possibly hover on his own w/those tiny wings).

[@MyEnemy]

The hologram of Sidious sitting at the table cracked me up.

[@LordTalax]

Sidious: I am already transmitting behind a table so I can sit in front of your table as well.

[@_ArsNova]

In all fairness Obi-Wan sat on that log as a force ghost in Return of the Jedi, lol.

[@nagger8216]

I like how Qui-Gon has to wear a different robe to hide his Jedi outfit in Tatooine even though it's the same one Obi-Wan wears in A New Hope, since apparently that isn't just a desert robe now

[@james-faulkner]

I hate the Jedi robe idea. That is demonstrative of how lazy Lucas became. The robe was worn to hide Obi-Wan's identity. If it is a uniform and you wear that all the time while you are in hiding, by definition you are not in hiding. I so loathe all the new television series and movies, I will not watch any of them and I own actual Desert Trooper armour - TK number withheld. P.S. Welcome to the webernets! I have been here since before Y2k, where have you been? :)

[@nagger8216]

@@james-faulkner I agree, the Jedi robe thing is a prime example of just how creatively bankrupt or lazy George became. I think Jedi shouldn't even be wearing the same outfits or have uniforms, they should all have their own looks and be unique. For some reason they do this with most of the female Jedi, but when it comes to the guys they all just wear the same brown desert robes for some reason. Like, remember Luke's outfit in Return of the Jedi? Why not more stuff like that? Also, where's the armor at? You're telling me these space knights just wear generic robes in the middle of a galactic scale world war? That's so fucking lame. I love the armor they wear in the Clone Wars, a mixture of Darth Vader's armor, Clone Trooper armor, and their robes and it looks dope as hell. It makes me wish they were using that in the movies instead. I also disagree about the shows, stuff like the Clone Wars and Andor blow most of the movies out of the water, especially the prequels.

[@james-faulkner]

@@nagger8216 I heard the Clone War cartoon are pretty damn good.

[@control_the_pet_population]

@@james-faulkner In defense of ol'George... I don't think the problem was necessarily laziness, I just don't think he had any ideas left. He never had any vast imaginative galaxies swirling in his head... he had a universal hero story, some gorgeous paintings from McQuarrie and not much else. He caught lightning in a bottle and he knew it... and to his credit, he immediately noped out to the executive producer / studio head role.

[@james-faulkner]

@@control_the_pet_population He caught "lighting in a bottle" more than once. He dated Linda Ronstadt!

[@jasonfischer8946]

I saw the notification and I literally made the Rich Evans face.

[@splabbity]

And when he's being cremated, he's Fry Gon.

[@blueshit199]

fry gone

[@sophiagerman1542]

It’s like poetry, it rhymes

[@zkme2734]

I love that these edits look so millenial and modern and something RLM would never do

[@DrunkenCoward1]

The funny thing is, if the early Plinkett reviews were made with the background of nowadays internet culture, it probably would look close to this kind of editing.

[@JSK1121]

It’s so dense…

[@whiteydiamond]

​@@DrunkenCoward1 lol nah

[@DrunkenCoward1]

@@whiteydiamond lol yah

[@whiteydiamond]

@@DrunkenCoward1 mmm no.

[@squiremuldoon5462]

“Our people are drying senator” “The death toll is catastrophic “ “I was not elected to watch my people suffer and die” “What if it is true and the people are dying “ People dying gets mentioned 4 times but never shown.

[@DistractedGlobeGuy]

Are you suggesting that Palpatine faked a genocide in order to seize control of a republican government and subvert it for his own ends? And that an entire race of people were complicit in this scheme?

[@yunehversomi1458]

There were more pressing and important scenes the audience needed to see. Like Jar Jar recoiling from animal farts or him getting zapped and losing feeling in his tongue. He’s the key to all of this you see.

[@squiremuldoon5462]

@@yunehversomi1458 because he’s a funnier character than we’ve ever had before.

[@DistractedGlobeGuy]

The droids were using those wooden doors, obviously.

[@Waterford1992]

Mr Plinkett is a funnier character than we have ever had before

[@MathMan271]

he can finally break character now that he's finished the DVD commentary

[@TheLegPumpkin]

I look forward to these as much as I do Best of the Worst episodes.

[@nagger8216]

I also love the editing, especially the cats lol Edit: 13:37 Holy shit that lip syncing is perfect

[@rickjohnson9558]

"WHOOPIE!!!!!"---Enough said.

[@MrTwon1610]

"What are midiclorians"

[@theelder4797]

​@@MrTwon1610"Well, Anakin, they're very tasty microorganisms in children's blood, Specifically ones from tatooine - this is the emperor's favorite food.

[@comixproviderftw_02]

The movie that started it all

[@fleximick]

Welcome back, Dad

[@tomcross3000]

Crazy to think that roger ebert became darth malek

[@2BachShakur]

Jake Lloyd was such a catastrophic miscalculation.

[@asahelnettleton9044]

Cuhrooskent?

[@crimsoncrusader518]

Remember when this was the big thing people were ranting about with Star Wars?

[@_SimpleJack_]

We need Scientist Man to fix Star Wars! That will please Mike no end

[@thibaud1832]

I love that all the CGI creatures now look terrible. When I saw it as a kid, I didn’t notice. But my brains did.

[@SkokingProductions]

Some how your brain returned

[@DistractedGlobeGuy]

It probably looked a little better when projected from a physical film print-the grain and the projector flicker would have lent a bit more of an "organic" quality to some of the sterile, dead digital effects.

[@qweqqweq2090]

I heard from a friend who went to the midnight showing, "there's this character, jar jar, he's amazing! you're going to love it!" ...I never looked at him the same way.

[@Chrispym15]

Come back to us RLM Highlights.... we miss you. we need you.

[@kuklama0706]

It's from 2012 and I only learn about this now by a pure chance???

[@TerranIV]

OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!

[@blueshit199]

it's immersion breaking to listen to mr Plinkett now knowing that this is how Mike sounds like by default

[@KingLich451]

hahahah

[@LordThree]

The pod racing was actually he best part of the entire prequels. It sucked but it was better than the rest of the crap in the prequel trilogy

[@SaltySparrow]

You gotta watch the whole thing for this

[@andylikesstuffchannel]

Hilarious and facts 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@bonjovi7399]

Rich Evans = Genius

[@whiteydiamond]

It's Mike.

[@MichaelJohnson-composer]

This movie was written by one guy with a yellow pad-and you can tell.

[@DistractedGlobeGuy]

A guy who doesn't know about anything except driving and the business side of film production.

[@thisinhumanplace2037]

Am I gonna watch this again on a different edit drunk at 2p on a saturday? Yes I am

[@M3plusYOU]

Based day drinker. Rich Evans for life

[@JamesBond-pu6qf]

I'd really like KZbin to just be reiterations of RLM reviews of star Wars

[@Tymbus]

I am pretty sure Aniken says that he built his pod racer, I gues I'll have to watch it again. Your commentaries should be on the DVDs

[@LordTalax]

who knew that slaves go so much free time? I thought they were busy slaving away

[@appropriate-channelname3049]

​@Admiral Talax yeah the whole slave plot point didn't really make sense. 1. we know that tattoine is bascially a lawless planet where there's no human rights. despite that watto has given his slaves better living conditions than most people on the planet. 2. Nobody ever goes back to buy anakins mothers freedom. I can understand the jedi can't but maybe padmae could have freed her for the great service her son did to save the naboo. 3. They didn't even need to be slaves for the plot to work. in episode 1 anakin and his mom could just work for watto. and after he leaves instead of being bought by family she would just move in with them.

[@DanceySteveYNWA]

'Aniken' 😂

[@jeffw8218]

Anakin building his own competitive pod racer is akin to a poor African kid building a NASCAR race car in his backyard in his spare time, and WINNING a Cup Series race.

[@RONALDDELPER]

Plinkett. I love you

[@kingsleycy3450]

If I were Nute Gunray and I heard my strongest warrior just got defeated by a no name Jedi trainee called Obi Wan, I would just give up the war

[@JoeChillton]

Happy 25th.

[@jtrain9926]

Something that always stood out to me in eps 1-3, it's suggested by Palpatine that he or his master created Anakin with sith technology, hence his mother saying he has no father. If they just teased her story as an escapee from Palpatine's experiments then a lot of the Anakin-Vader arc makes so much more sense.

[@jakejutras5420]

Not technology, they used the force. They impregnated her with space mumbo jumbo.

[@Neolazaro91]

Not technology, man. The implication was that Sidious' master used space magic to move his essence to Anakin's mother, impregnating her and producing a kid with crazy space magic potential. It's not about technology, space magic is the key in Star Wars.

[@DistractedGlobeGuy]

Isn't that exactly what Disney did with Daisy Ridley?

[@itsd0nk]

Why is the color and gamma all screwed up in the movie clips?

[@cleverlydevisedmyth]

now I can't stop thinking about young Ewan McGregor's "ventilation shaft" and his "outer rim" FYI= He pulls down his pants in the movie 'Velvet Goldmine" :) Check it out!

[@theelder4797]

Darth Jar Jar and and the ridiculous Sith Theory, episode 4.

[@whitejosh444]

Where do you get the full movie commentary?

[@milestrombley1466]

The force in his lightsaber is strong! 🤣

[@damianhaslett4516]

Am I missing something with the misspelling of "substantially" in the quote at the end?

[@SupremeGreatGrandmaster]

Mr. Plinkett is not good at spelling.

[@pravkdey]

I guess the blibli exterminating service didn't work out

[@Shorty_Lickens]

Its true. Ebert gave this four stars. Which means he was either stoned, or bought off. Or both.

[@trevorstevenson4038]

Hahaha man Mike is hilarious

[@simonpierrelauzon3845]

also Anakin's mom is a slave with some free time to make food for her kids and friends. She has her own house or lodging, space, hobbies, etc. Yup, realistic slave

[@_ArsNova]

They get better accommodations as slaves than a lot of blue-collar workers in big cities lol. Lucas is just so totally detached from reality it's actually funny.

[@anthonyditullio7715]

Hey I found something you haven't bitched about yet. At 15:22 in this video, the shape shifter is flying a Nabo fighter. Maybe THATS the key to the WHOLE PLOT!!!

[@SuperKamiGuru-i3c]

Maybe my memory is fucked up, but was it always this color saturated?

[@kuklama0706]

probably not

[@sidviscus]

i'm dying

[@Artcollecta]

10:35 I had the same dream 👀

[@Syndr1]

Aaaeeeeiiggghhh Richard simulated sound., I get it sorry.

[@pmtoner9852]

Great lip sync for palpatine

[@joshsawyerstreamvods]

hello an dwhaelcum

[@fabiobonetta5454]

Da Man

[@bentramer682]

I kinda wish they'd make a new statement about the prequels. Somehow the people who think this movie are somehow good keeps growing, there's just really nothing to say and these fans are either brainwashed by content or completely pulling at threads trying to make these films seem good.

[@DeepEye1994]

I hate dumb apologists too, but I can't help but be amused at how 1984 Thought Police-esque this sentiment sounds "People that don't hate the movie I despise must be brainwashed, I wish we could do something to... _correct_ them." LMFAO I dunno, people like and defend dumb movies since forever, I don't get why some feel like the Prequels are the exception of that and anyone who thinks otherwise must be delusional, especially in an age where we've been proven that even with George Lucas out of the picture SW can still be an utter incoherent nightmare. IMO, if you must care about what other fans think, then be more worried about people defending and demanding more modern Disney sludge because they're "true fans" and anyone who says otherwise gets dumped into the same box as those right wing channels so that all constructive criticism gets ignored and labeled as "toxic fandom". I hate that idiot (who was a grown ass man, not a young person) who said "Plotholes don't matter" to defend TLJ but whatever, let him be an unlikable idiot with an awful take nobody with half a brain should follow and just laugh at him and move on. Making him take that back won't change the fact TLJ still exists and still sucks and Disney keeps finding new ways of puppeteering SW's corpse in new twisted ways.

[@bentramer682]

​@@DeepEye1994yeah I agree with your statement a little bit more now. But I feel like some movies actually make people dumber it worries me we won't see the end of pandering lazy movies, and that's part of why I want people to see how dumb it is. Also the sequels are way more representative of modern movie problems, and while RLM has plenty of hilarious videos talking about them, but I miss the straight up breakdown of the terrible writing (and flubbed great opportunities) those movies had.

[@garrethboland]

@@DeepEye1994 The prequels are as close as objectively bad as art can get and all this guy expressed was wishing more fans knew this, but he's 1984 thought police while you're the one putting words in his mouth ? I'll LMFAO right back at you. And yea, Disney Star Wars is total trash beyond belief.

[@rabagoposada]

YOU ARE NOT MR PLINKET!

[@DanceySteveYNWA]

Mr Plinkett, "But that's a different guy!"

[@Draygo21]

Im almost certain Mike actually loves the prequels or at least loves watching them for the visuals, but every time he does his mind is overwhelmed by all the problems with the movies and the only way he knows how to shut his mind up is make videos on youtube that express his pain and the betrayal by george for sunday cartooning something that was really only loved for being real looking and feeling.

[@snippetandvideogames2350]

nah, he shook george can make this movie that good

[@thibaud1832]

13:47 He didn’t say that.

[@DistractedGlobeGuy]

_Chriiiis..._

[@cjgak8129]

Roger Ebert never existed in the time that required absolute devotion to cannon. I think the entire idea would be somewhat foreign to him if you were to bring it up during his heyday. Ebert was more focused on the quality of the film making, both from the perspectives of what the film was trying to achieve and the means by which they were trying to achieve it. Ebert based his review of a film on what the film maker intended and how the movie served that intention. In both of those respects, Episode 1 was an achievement. In the context of the overall cannon? Eh, not so much.

[@Gioylui]

Go watch it again

[@justpeter9551]

Clitorfish.

[@wifegrant]

I hate the movie poster for this movie

[@landofthesilverpath5823]

Dont hear it talked about a lot, but the costume and set design of this film is just terrible. It looks like a SciFi channel made-for-tv movie. There isn't really a unifying aesthetic. Its a mess. Especially Padme's/ her double's ridiculous outfits.

[@Zlarel]

This video reminded me Phantom Menace features a terrible Jewish caricature alien who owns slaves and can't be hypnotized cuz his race only thinks about money

[@BananaMana69]

How is that terrible? It's very accurate.

[@ValJedi]

This is the work of a TECHNICAL genius. Lucas may not be the great writer or a director masterfully controlling actors on the set. But! He made these movies and the entire modern day blockbuster concept happen! He pioneerd digital effects (which overflow media content these days), financed the creation of the first digital cinema camera (which today Sony tirned in on of the most succesful camera lineups), he pioneered digital editing and postproduction pipelines. The most quoted and laughed at line from the DVD ducumentary for the episode 1 is: "I might have gone too far in a few places." While in reality it should be the one from his earlier executive meeting: "The challenge is not to make this one work, but to create tools for it. Cuz if this one works, in a couple of years everyone will want the same in their movies." Thats the genius of George Lucas. And honestly as annoying the politics in this it does quite accurately reflect the rise of corrupted politicians to power, and the action part still is a lot of fun.

[@acksawblack]

Legitimately are you joking?

[@ValJedi]

@@acksawblack oh, yeah, sorry the guy's worth 4 billion $ by random luck.its Mr, Plinkett who cracked the deceit XDD

[@asahelnettleton9044]

​@@ValJedi He's worth billions from selling toys and then selling the IP. He's a talented businessman and a mediocre story teller. He only works well when collaborating with other creatives (original trilogy), not when he's the unquestioned king (prequels).

[@DanceySteveYNWA]

"DVD Dookumentary"

[@DistractedGlobeGuy]

​@@DanceySteveYNWA _"Lollipopshhhh..."_

[@gabrielhersey5546]

And yet the prequels are far superior written films than the Disney wars era trilogy

[@ElvenRaptor]

No, they're just terrible in different ways.

[@EvansdiAl]

nit-picking the documentary

[@ElvenRaptor]

No, fact-spitting: the documentary.

[@DistractedGlobeGuy]

Nitpicking little unimportant details like the story, the characters, basic motivations, and how the plot goes directly from point-A to point-C... You know, shit that doesn't matter!

[@EvansdiAl]

@@DistractedGlobeGuy ok bro

[@stirgy4312]

Why are you still talking about the same old shít with this movie? Didn't I hear these jokes once before?

[@thesentinel5523]

Laughable. I realized why you hated the prequels and episode 1 when it took you over a year to release your Plinkett review of the force awakens. You LOVED the force awakens. And it must have been hilariously embarrassing for you once the internet informed you that TFA was remake of A New Hope and you didn't realize it. That's why more than half of the TFA plinket review is you throwing George under the bus again. LOL But the thing is, that's what you always wanted episode 1 and the rest of the prequels to be. Simple remakes of the Original trilogy for simple minded idiots. EDIT: You also put out a video recommending that JJ Abrams specifically be the one to direct a Star Wars movie LMAO.

[@DanceySteveYNWA]

I like how you think you're talking to Mike, even though its not his channel.

[@reek4062]

prequel apologist triggered

[@thibaud1832]

"I have a question, Phoney"

[@BurnDoubt]

You dont even know me

[@Nemesis_T-Type]

Prequel apologist braindead comment

[@HolaMundoTheMisteriousAG]

Dont forget, people like this made the "George Lucas r4p3 my childhood" song, the "George Lucas vs People" hatedocumentary and ruin the lifes of Loyd, Hayden and Jar Jar actor. Oh yeah, and Lucas sell the franchise to Disney cause the haters

[@machineblue6212]

"George Lucas didn't ruin my childhood, fucking polio did!"

[@ElvenRaptor]

Okay, kid.

[@georgeo3738]

yes because anyone who criticizes these movies is automatically a part of the small crazy minority who decided to bully George lucas and child actors.

[@HolaMundoTheMisteriousAG]

So... Was this review considered funny?

[@Sbock86]

Movie is flawed. But not as bad as it gets bashed for.

[@Gioylui]

YOU RUINED STAR WARS , NIT GEORGE LUCAS.

[@Nemesis_T-Type]

I didn't know RLM directed the movies and then sold it to Disney

[@Gioylui]

@Nemesis_T-Type no I'm not talking to Rengener lmage magic, I'm talking to red letter media

[@DeepEye1994]

As much as I feel like RLM accidentally helped fuel the sentiment and environment that will lead into the Disney Era dystopia, I would blame the people in charge for not doing a good job than RLM themselves. It was still their choice and actions that ended up making the Sequels and so many Disney+ shows suck in their deeply flawed belief that they were "saving" the series. Like, it seems like everything people understood from the Plinkett reviews was "Ok, no talking scenes, more action, LOTS of fanservice about the OT movies, LOTS of practical effects and you'll love us, GOT IT!" Even Mike ended up joking "Yes, I did suggest getting JJ Abrams to _DIRECT_ a Star Wars film... but I never said they should get the writer of Batman v Superman involved!" in the Rise of Skywalker review. In a perfect timeline, the Sequel Trilogy should've been like a better version of the Prequels AKA showing new stuff but with stronger narratives and stronger main characters and dialogues, instead we got idiots overriding the happy ending of the OT, killing all the OT heroes and having the Emperor's niece steal their surname and walking off. I thought George Lucas was the big bad guy who ruined people's childhoods? Why do the "true fans" at the helm of the Sequel Trilogy we got seem to despise the OT so much?