too short where is part 4?

@Adrelinen

3 жыл бұрын

That's just because you got kicked 4 minutes in

@borednow5877

3 жыл бұрын

Nah, he just needed more rhino milk

@Speed_hunter

3 жыл бұрын

You’re too short Jay

@amanibob1416

3 жыл бұрын

Waaaay too short... Step up yer game "Longmanbad".

@DunkeyIsBlack

3 жыл бұрын

shut up

Beating a dead horse has never been so entertaining before.

@janbosch5951

3 жыл бұрын

In the words of a wise man: "Sometimes the horse needs to be nuked from orbit" - Weekend Warrior

@boarlegion5077

3 жыл бұрын

Disney and KK are still in charge of Star Wars.That horse ain't dead yet!

@FunZies.

3 жыл бұрын

@@janbosch5951 "It's the only way to be sure."

@viscountrainbows6452

3 жыл бұрын

throwaway line: *exists* MauLer: I'm bouta objectively assess this man's whole career

@Muck006

3 жыл бұрын

Its justified because there are still some people who pretend these 3+ horses arent dead and are in fact totally fine and dandy.

“If you’re a famous smuggler, you’re not doing it right.” That was one hell of a dagger

@Adealerofblackberry

2 күн бұрын

damn no comments? tragic fr.

In Legends Han was a hero, good husband, and a good father. These sequels were so disrespectful.

@DarthImagnus0790

6 ай бұрын

Yes! And he had to deal with the loss of two sons, and sure it broke him, but not to this kinda level of pathetic. Kylo Ren is discount Darth Caedus

@DarthImagnus0790

6 ай бұрын

Sorry man your comment hit hard. Hard truth, but damn are you spot on

@davey_boy94

4 ай бұрын

Stabbed and tossed down an endless chasm...a death usually reserved for villainous characters. Disney's way of bitch-slapping him out of existence.

@DarthImagnus0790

4 ай бұрын

@@davey_boy94 plus the way they treated his Indiana Jones character in the most recent movie. I dont understand who this kinda of stuff is supposed to be catered to. Clearly not true fans

@davey_boy94

4 ай бұрын

@@DarthImagnus0790 It's Disney's way of saying, "Out with the old, in with the new." The characters we once loved are either killed off unceremoniously or reduced to shadows of their former selves. And it'll keep happening as long as the cash flow keeps up.

Me: TFA Part 3 is so late TFA Part 3: A space wizard for children is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.

@zzickos

3 жыл бұрын

This made me laugh more than it should have.

@austinwoods466

3 жыл бұрын

Leben Heisst Leben. MauLer is MauLer.

@TheSlammurai

3 жыл бұрын

This post contains a suspicious amount of good rat with women. FOR NO REASON.

@amanibob1416

3 жыл бұрын

I'm enticed to give you a like... *For no reason!*

@jakesnow5728

3 жыл бұрын

The Star Wars sequel trilogy really are amazing films. You can learn all that there is to know about their dogshit bastard contrivances in a month, and yet after a hundred years you can still find more.

US: "Why is Han poorly handled?" MauLer: "A good question... for another four hour video."

@jakesnow5728

3 жыл бұрын

With part 2 to follow.

@bellarkcox1243

3 жыл бұрын

I didn't even look at the time until this comment. Four hours? Guess I'm not sleeping tonight.

@Kevin-wx7wu

3 жыл бұрын

At least he answers the damn question :P

@skrv8588

3 жыл бұрын

And this is why the longman is bad, too short.

@JohnnyZenith

3 жыл бұрын

The whole story was awful and the characters don't work. I wanted to see Jacen, Jaina, and Anakin Solo (or name him Ben) and have the Skywalker saga become the Solo saga. Oh and no Daisy Ridley, she just doesn't work. I'd have cast Lilly Collins.

This is not a roast, this is a slow cook barbecue. Love it.

I love the "not a scratch" scene in eoisode 6. I didnt catch it as a kid, but his words imply he's only worried about his belived spaceship being damaged, but his expressions and his little salute at the end make it clear that hes concerned about lando. Hes basically saying "dont you dare die on me". And you can see how lando understanda that and with his "good luck" line he implies "dont you worry about me, just make sure you get back home safe too" Great writing, great acting. So many things said both in text and subtext.

Me: It's my day off but I don't know what to do for the next 4 hours MauLer: "Hello there"

@Newby1

3 жыл бұрын

"... ladies and gentlemen."

@archstanton9073

3 жыл бұрын

I've been out of work since April and I need stuff to watch for the next 4 hours.

@solarsailer4166

3 жыл бұрын

Loooooooongman Good! This is perfect. I've got a long boring shift at work tonight and this is just what I needed. Totally worth the wait,!

@whaguitars8783

3 жыл бұрын

Yup I am downloading it now and could watch it this evening. And it's not even my Brithday!! Now if Redlettermedia would finish the Plinkett ROSW review i'd be set!!

@Guzzist11

3 жыл бұрын

4h? Shit, i not only forgot what happened in Part 1 and 2 ... i also forgot about that garbage movie because i saw it last time in "preparation" for Part 1 and 2 ... so i have to wath that Dumpsterfire of a movie again AND Part 1 and 2 ... Hello Weekend!

>says it'll be released in August >released in July "A surprised to be sure, but a welcomed one." -Senator Bilbeev Palpaggins.

@TheSlammurai

3 жыл бұрын

Creamy Bilbo himself

@pXnTilde

3 жыл бұрын

I don't even remember the others anymore. Intentionally manipulating us to watch the old videos again confirmed

@mariusvanc

3 жыл бұрын

>says it'll be released in August (2019) >released in July (2020)

@WillofDD

3 жыл бұрын

@@mariusvanc tbf I only remember them saying August of this year from this year's EFAPs

@mariokarter13

3 жыл бұрын

Remember when MauLer said the script for the entire series was finished before he even dropped the first video? MauLer doesn't.

MauLer’s ‘tangent’ on Rey’s character and character construction in general, showed me again, how well spoken MauLer is and how well thought out his positions are. Writing articulate scripts this long are one thing, but writing them with provable positions, intelligent conclusions, and relevant sources is a whole other thing. I don’t know if MauLer has any professional or university education, but it doesn’t matter. He clearly loves the craft, understands it, and studies it; all to a far greater extent then many others and even ‘professional’ critics. I love when I find someone skilled in a creative art or ‘non-creative’ skill that (presumably), the person doesn’t have big time professional education on. They have passion, discipline and a will to learn. Excellent job MauLer. This series is genuinely incredible.

@catsquidcatoverlord9842

10 ай бұрын

Could not have said it better myself.

@matthewmosier8439

7 ай бұрын

He's one of the best at this kind of thing. I know I've found something important when I hear a guy being critical of a film who can seamlessly change tone and start complimenting some part of the movie for some redeemable quality right in the middle of tearing it apart. That displays integrity and simple logic. It also adds weight to everything else he says by proving that he can be trusted to be honest, even when it requires him to spend time researching evidence "against" the main hypothesis that he has been formulating in the rest of his discussion.

@irishbob26

5 ай бұрын

Well said

@chazzitz-wh4ly

4 ай бұрын

He really makes you realize Rey is a plot device, not a character.

Something I think could have made a big difference in the "bypassing the compressor" scene, would be if Han was yelling instructions about how to fix the ship while avoiding enemy fighters, they don't jump straight to hyper speed in this version. No one knows the ship better than Han. So he yells out something, and is impressed when Rey understands what he needs under pressure. This facilitates the job offer bit, a little better, I think, and it doesn't require undercutting Han, while still allowing Rey to be very impressive. I mean how many people can fix their own car, much less a spaceship, flying in combat conditions.

@awandererfromys1680

Жыл бұрын

It's explained in the movie that the compressor is part of a few modifications Unkar made to the Millennium Falcon that Rey knew about, possibly helped with, but Han obviously did not. HAN: "Hey! Some moof-milker put a compressor on the ignition line!" REY: "Unkar Plutt did. I thought it was a mistake too, puts too much stress on the hyperdrive." REY: "Unkar Plutt installed a fuel pump too -- if we don't prime that we're not going anywhere." HAN: "I hate that guy." Then a moment later she removes the compressor.

@Darkgolem127

Жыл бұрын

Lol funny conservative joke. Rey has experience of taking apart ships. She'd figure out stuff by scavenging

@AVerySexuallyDeviantOrange

Жыл бұрын

You could even add in something simple like her cutting him off if she absolutely MUST be better than everyone. He starts yelling out his orders, something like “patch the fuel lines to the hyperdrive, do that then-“ and she shouts back “Yeah, yeah, bypass the compressor, I’m doing that!” Funny AND realistic

@goosegas2087

Жыл бұрын

@@Darkgolem127 Bruh, at least come up with an argument.

@Darkgolem127

Жыл бұрын

@@goosegas2087 bruh that was a pretty valid argument pointing out that Rey has experience scavenging so that’s a possible reason she knows how to fix ships. I mean the movie leaves context for the audience and didn’t just say she’s good at stuff it actually explains it by simply looking at the context. Show and don’t tell basically.

Jar Jar Abrams technique: Take something that exists, misunderstand it completely, play off emotions over substance, lay a minefield's worth of mystery boxes, have an answer for none of them, profit despite incompetence, leave town before anyone discovers you're a fraud.

@JohnnyZenith

3 жыл бұрын

You've got it.

@DonVigaDeFierro

3 жыл бұрын

He's like the monorail man from the Simpsons.

@arnvonsalzburg5033

3 жыл бұрын

@@DonVigaDeFierro Well, sir, there's nothing on earth like a genuine, bona fide electrified, six-car monorail. What'd I say?

@viscountrainbows6452

3 жыл бұрын

He is intellectual cancer incarnate. And I mean it: he h been party to the Passive Progressive, Leftist Regressive, bad story writing, emphasis on skin and junk rather than *character,* etc. etc. He has been behind the slow rot and death of not one, but TWO franchises with Star in the name... and too much radiation from stars gives you cancer. My brain hurts!,

@yodaman4674

3 жыл бұрын

Except he didn’t leave town before being discovered he’s a fraud thanks to TROS.

Commoner: "MauLer, stop, it's already dead!" Toxic Brood: "DEW IT"

@Emperor_Toxatine

3 жыл бұрын

I approve of this message

@jakesnow5728

3 жыл бұрын

He does like beating a dead shit horse.

@DarkCrusader27

3 жыл бұрын

@@jakesnow5728 this horse is a zombie horse.

@joandreintong1928

3 жыл бұрын

@@jakesnow5728 To be fair, the dead horse keeps making funny fart noises.

@jakesnow5728

3 жыл бұрын

@@joandreintong1928 And that's enough reason to beat anything.

You can't just start a mutiny with a handful of people, you need a strong majority of the crew behind you, if not the entire crew, else you end up with loyalists defending their captain from mutineers. So the fact that Poe was able to successfully mutiny and take command without any sort of fire fight, shows right there that nobody but the people around Holdo (like, more than likely literally the people standing around her when Poe relieves her of command) believed in her having a plan at all.

@ryanrehfuss

6 ай бұрын

Crimson Tide with Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman comes to mind as an example of a far more well-written command dispute/mutiny. Its treatment of the realities of command and plain old human behavior are well done, and come from very believable characters and circumstances. A good example of how much better Holdo's subplot could have been.

Still one of the best things MauLer has ever done is the in-depth look at throwaway lines. Poignant, informative, and funny

This pleases me greatly.

@SpireOfFire

3 жыл бұрын

I agree, good drinker sir

@bugthesda3480

3 жыл бұрын

It will be fine

@ikoandreas5085

3 жыл бұрын

Go away now

@jakefrost7404

3 жыл бұрын

Collab with Brie Larson, when? ;)

@darkone666

3 жыл бұрын

Brie Larson wants your location.

"Rey is what the audience wants to be." Me and the boys just wanting to be Clone Troopers: It's time for you to leave, sir.

@michaelmccarty1327

3 жыл бұрын

Clone troopers? It's team Dark Trooper all the way!

@barbarabaker1457

3 жыл бұрын

OG Leia for me. I would have loved to see what she was capable of in a new trilogy, pity, messily ripped off New Hope and Spaceballs, never saw the third movie. Hollywood really needs fresh blood. I'm reminded of The Majestic, too many years of the script guys from that movie.

@cattrucker8257

3 жыл бұрын

Watch those wrist rockets! Real talk, though. For all my respect for Luke, he is not who I wanna be in the story, and Rey is just a very bad and bland R63 of Luke done wrong.

@banishedbr

3 жыл бұрын

the real question is, WHY RUIN JOHNSON didin't BOICOT Rey but the resto of the saga ?!

@daghostds

3 жыл бұрын

I want to be an imperial pilot, for the stability it bring to the galaxy.

Oh my gosh, I had never seen that cut part when Carrie says “I know my son’s gone”. It actually brought tears to my eyes! Why oh why would they choose the version we got in the movie over this?! Yet another absolutely baffling decision

@RossTheNinja

Жыл бұрын

The editors saved episode 4 and destroyed the new trilogy

@nigeltheoutlaw

Жыл бұрын

Frankly, at this point, there's probably been enough discarded footage that they could totally rework TFA and begin redoing the trilogy into something that isn't total garbage. Not that the Mouse would ever admit that it's worthless propaganda was anything other than superlative and beloved by every person on Earth, but just the amount of stuff I've seen tossed out from review videos leads me to believe this could totally get a redo a la the Snyder Cut and maybe not be totally awful.

@alexfriedman918

Жыл бұрын

I don’t think the asshole wanted us to take any of the OT characters seriously, or even truly get to mourn them, because they were just something to be used, defamed, and discarded out of spite - that scene with Leia and Luke, or the scene of Luke mourning Han, would have gone against that, allowing us to connect with those characters again on a profound emotional level, so the testicle-headed narcissistic shit-for-brains cut them out…

Funny how Mauler used "Fly" from Breaking Bad as an example of a bottle episode, as it was actually directed by our old friend Rian Johnson.

@mateuszmarciniak2828

Жыл бұрын

Did he write it though?

We continue where we left off? WHERE WE LEFT OFF? Jesus Christ i forgot everything...does it mean i have to start with Part 1 again? WHAT KIND OF DIABOLIC PLAN TO GET VIEWS IS THIS???

@xempire103

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@Guzzist11

3 жыл бұрын

@managarm1349 indeed he does...and because i saw that dumpsterfire of a movie TFA is last time in preparation for Part 1 i´m afraid i have to start with this crappy movie again...jeeez, i need a drink...

@Comradcommodore

3 жыл бұрын

Bruh I watched part 1 and 2 the last two days again just to make sure 😂😂

@invisiblehand13

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. Watch parts 1 and 2 again. And the RoS rage. I've seen the entire TLJ series at least 10 times. I wish that one had 6 parts like this one.

@TheSlammurai

3 жыл бұрын

@managarm1349 Longame bad

Mauler: For 1,000s of Year i lay dormant, who has disturbed my- J.J: Hey best buddy. Mauler: Oh it's you idiot

@XraynPR

3 жыл бұрын

"Do you really believe your own hype?" Mauler: "I AM the hype!"

@Jay_Baumans_Stuntdouble

3 жыл бұрын

Never have I come across a more perfect comment.

@rushiketkar3735

3 жыл бұрын

Mauler: DO YOU AFRAID J.J.: Kinda Mauler:BAZINGAAATTACKUH

@ethanbruley8858

3 жыл бұрын

is this a dba reference

@blueguygaming1330

3 жыл бұрын

Damn I miss DBZA

JJ Abams is a master at completely misunderstanding the IP and the characters he's working with, normalizing everything into flashy, normie blockbuster. Squishing what made it unique and amplifying its boring trope. The perfect man for Hollywood, dare I say!

@chazzitz-wh4ly

4 ай бұрын

Mystery boxes and flashing lights.

@ThatBillmanGuy

23 сағат бұрын

And basing an entire character' developments off a quick Wikipedia search or what he misremembered from assumptions. "Kirk is a loose Canon rule breaker who bangs aliens, right? That's all he'll be, then."

In Episode IV, the imperial commander wasn't denying that the Jedi existed, he was doubting their true power, because the clones and the Empire destroyed them and almost everyone on that religion. It's not that he was thinking the Jedi and the Force existed or were real... He was implying that their power is not so great if the Empire brought them to their knees

@occam7382

6 ай бұрын

And then Vader proceeded to choke him out in front of everyone to prove just how wrong he was.

Rag'sssssss prediction - August 2020 Mauler's video - July 2020 Long Man 1, Doggo 0

@aeneas237

3 жыл бұрын

I’m guessing the Doggo will refute that

@OutsideTheTargetDemographic

3 жыл бұрын

I guess that makes two things Rag's was wrong about: TFA3 and ATLA.

@OutsideTheTargetDemographic

3 жыл бұрын

@Frieza1500 Oh man wouldn't that be great! 😃

@ValD98

3 жыл бұрын

@@OutsideTheTargetDemographic And anime. And politics. And his taste in holidays.

@Guzzist11

3 жыл бұрын

He 100% just posted it to proof him wrong.

I am highly confident that EVERY time J.J. Abrams says, “we had a whole backstory for...”, he is 100% lying.

@PaceBreaker

3 жыл бұрын

I get that vibe with everyone during the interview clips. I figured there was some embellishment during interview for films but it was very apparent here that the actors had to really reach to make things sound convincing.

@vit968

3 жыл бұрын

*Sometimes I wonder if he actually believes that. I just don't understand what goes on in his head.*

@samuellund1377

3 жыл бұрын

I'm beginning to think J J Abrams might not even be his real name.

@n3onkn1ght

3 жыл бұрын

@@PaceBreaker The vibe I get is that everybody is on the verge of a nervous breakdown trying to make good on a $4 billion investment. As soon as people on social media complained there weren't enough women in the table read, they hurriedly stuffed Captain Phasma into some reshoots on Starkiller Base and Disney PR forced Christie to waffle about what a confident and powerful woman her one-scene, masked cameo was. That's how desperate they were to make everybody like this movie. The greasy fingerprints of studio interference are smeared all over this film, pushing all involved to both maximize nostalgia and be as forward-thinking as possible so it doesn't bomb and make the shareholders shit themselves. Though Abrams deserves some blame, he already proved he can do serialized storytelling 20 years ago, on Alias. And then Disney, the parent company of ABC, started to give him "notes", telling him to do away with the unique structure of the first season and slashing the episode count of the final season whilst telling him he couldn't mention the *main*mytharc* because it would be too confusing for new viewers. In the FINAL SEASON. There's a definite bitterness to the way Abrams describes how "we" cut the story of Luke's hand making its way across the galaxy. I'm willing to bet money that was a "note" from the studio.

@Kikeg86

3 жыл бұрын

he uses the word ''backstory'' as an euphemism for hardcore anal. now you can see him talk and make sense of it. you are welcome

I 100% expected Anakin's Force ghost to show up and be the turning point for Ben Solo. From the first trailer of TFA, I thought, "Where's Anakin's ghost? I bet he's gonna show up to intercede with Kylo and make him rethink his whole life," but no. When viewing TROS in theaters when Han says, "Hey kid," I thought that was it. I thought Kylo was going to turn around to see glowing Hayden Christensen. Instead we got a hallucination of Han. How foolish of me to think they might have a shred of narrative sense. Also, I loved TFA when I first saw it, and defended it from critics all the way up until TLJ came out, and I haven't watched it since as it was retroactively ruined. Watching these videos is making me realize how many times I thought, "Well that was dumb," to myself while watching the movie, but I kept going with it because I wanted so badly for it to be good. What a shame. So much wasted potential. I'm really enjoying this series by the way. I'm addicted to sequel critiques at this point and your step by step analysis has been excellent so far!

@occam7382

6 ай бұрын

Which is even more embarassing when you realize that the scene with Kylo and Han's ghost is probably the best part of that movie, hell, the whole trilogy.

@ryanrehfuss

6 ай бұрын

The idea of Christensen's Anakin intervening as a force ghost is deeply satisfying for me. It would be wonderful to see Hayden framed in OT Anakin's redemption, basking in some of the glory.

@advancedstupidity5459

6 ай бұрын

@@ryanrehfuss Disney truly doesn't understand Star Wars and the message of the story the original 6 films tell. They completely forgot that Vader was redeemed in the end. Now in the Ahsoka show the took an entire episode to have her interact with Hayden's Anakin and they never even MENTION his redemption. It's all about how he became evil. Like, yeah, it's cool to see that stuff, but when you ignore the most powerful message of Star Wars because you think people just want to see big bad Vader you've completely lost everything Star Wars was meant to be in the first place.

@JasonX909

27 күн бұрын

I said the same thing on another reply. Bringing Anakin back to talk to Kylo in Ep7, while keeping him well-written, would finish Hayden's redemption arc and add to Vader's. But nah, kill the past, right? Also Ren should've betrayed Luke, not the other way around. I mean he slaughtered every Jedi at the temple but spared him nonetheless, even after Luke didn't show him the same courtesy. But that's probably preaching to the choir here lol.

This is an urgent PSA. Eight minutes of the critique have been removed. Evidence is present in the Wayback Machine, where the original comes out to a runtime of 3:52:44. The most egregious example is present at 2:42:00, where his speech on JJ's 'Science experiment' comments have been removed in their entirety. The best few minutes of this video have been erased, and that is a crime against art. Edit: WE'RE BACK BABY!!! LET'S F***ING GO :D

@balthier1706

6 ай бұрын

Oh thank fuck i thought I was going crazy!! Why was it erased?

@hugomungus7306

5 ай бұрын

@@balthier1706 conspiracy theory part of my brain says youtube is splicing bits of it out, maybe for 'content breaches' or somebody asking to have them removed in order to destroy it for future viewings. I really have no idea, and it drives me nuts.

4 hours for only part 3? Long man delivers!

@JamesiaInc

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe you should take a crack at these sort of things, Sargon.

@no_names-

3 жыл бұрын

@@JamesiaInc kinda has.

@horseradishpower9947

3 жыл бұрын

@Diabetic_T-Rex Is this a joke I have not understood? He is from Swindon.

@wiladin

3 жыл бұрын

@@horseradishpower9947 because of the 3 legged flag they have, it came up in efap and broke maulers funny fuse, and thus became memes

@davidmeloche3563

3 жыл бұрын

If you say this like the Sean Connery impression from SNL Jeopardy, it works perfectly.

I’m hoping that this trilogy will be officially non-canon.

@JohnnyZenith

3 жыл бұрын

What trilogy?

@sneezebiscuits7239

3 жыл бұрын

Don't remember no trilogy no nuthin', no sir

@grizzlymelon8376

3 жыл бұрын

Don't we all?

@morkusmorkus6040

3 жыл бұрын

I'd much prefer for this trilogy to be unofficially canon.

@KingOfAllDragoons

3 жыл бұрын

It’s doesn’t really matter , The damage is done

Something some people don't seem to get is that in many modern militaries you train basic combat skills no matter who you are or what you're going to do. The phrase "every Marine a rifleman" exists for a reason.

@BiggieTrismegistus

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, that's why I don't understand the people who say "Finn deserted because he was a janitor thrown into combat". Being a janitor is _part_ of his duties not the whole of them. Stormtroopers aren't perpetually in combat and their ships need maintenance and repair. It only makes sense that everyone of them would have another duty to do during the down time.

I love when Mauler asks people why they have no problems with certain choices in the movies and they absolutely cannot explain why they have no issue with what happens.

@MistaHoward

2 ай бұрын

It's because the marketing for these films convinced a lot of people that anyone who disliked them did so because of political agendas. They used the EA defence to great effect for all three of these films.

Whenever I hear the term “Mary Sue,” I can’t help but hear E;R’s “Maray SuuUUuuUUUuuuUUUUUUEE!” in my head, so I almost thought I was having an auditory hallucination at 1:09:54

@bipstymcbipste5641

3 жыл бұрын

It's just beautiful tbh

@viscountrainbows6452

3 жыл бұрын

The word that fits here is "iconic".

@sparkypack

3 жыл бұрын

haha.. same xD. E;R hit the nail on its head there.

@ordeporama

3 жыл бұрын

dude same ! absolute

@looinrims

3 жыл бұрын

Princess Rainbovvs X Musashi this isn’t halo, you silly sausage, this is Star Wars!

"your nothing, you have no place in this story. you come from nothing." "your palpatines daughter, you're a palpatine." "Im rey, rey skywalker." lmao

@insulttothehumanrace3807

3 жыл бұрын

"You come from nothing; you are nothing." *"I NEVER LIED TO YOU"*

@Loldino897

3 жыл бұрын

what I told you was true, from a certain point of view.

@chriswilson3126

3 жыл бұрын

@@insulttothehumanrace3807 "they sold you for drinking money"

@TyrDrum

3 жыл бұрын

"Oh, so we're using made up names? I'm Spiderman."

@autismisuncontrollable4925

3 жыл бұрын

Does it hurt?

2:12:18 Love this part. Totally agree about Cosmonaut being a hypocrite after watching too many of his videos that are not Star Wars related.

@orlandofurioso7329

Жыл бұрын

Especially on tasm 1 when he talked about the revenge part, Peter Parker has to mature from something

The "I will finish what you started" line would have been good setup for Ben being a double agent. It would also explain his "pull to the light" and that he uses the helmet as a conduit to commune with Anakin's spirit. If they absolutely had to have Luke in exile the only way it could really make sense in my mind would be to have him forced into exile after it was revealed that Darth Vader was his father, or have him in "exile" as a means of faking his death and maintaining Ben's cover as a double agent.

@JasonX909

28 күн бұрын

This is similar to what I was thinking: Have Anakin show up repeatedly as a force ghost to Ren because he sees the light in him (like Luke did for Anakin) and he doesn't want him to follow his path. That way we could finish Hayden Christenson's redemption arc, as well as add to Vader's. Then, in Episode VIII, the reveal could be that REN betrayed LUKE with his knights of Ren but couldn't bring himself to kill his uncle, but slaughtered the other Jedi nonetheless. Thus, he forces Luke to retreat into hiding to try to covertly rebuild the Jedi without alerting the Empire (cough) First Order. And seeing how everything in these movies seems to take place in a couple of weeks, it'd make sense that Luke hadn't made any progress yet when Rey finds him. He could be nervous about training her because he (like us) can't seem to get an accurate read on her motivations but will of course want to teach her how to control her power before she does anything dangerous (like accidentally blowing up a ship with a series favorite on it). I should probably stop before I rewrite both of these movies lol.

*sees MauLer’s newest video* *slams laptop closed* WHAT’D YOU BRING ME

@Some_Idiot_Online

3 жыл бұрын

*opens laptop again*

@amanibob1416

3 жыл бұрын

Quick, play Batwamen's theme! *I'mma wamaaaaaannnn...*

@VerilyViscous

3 жыл бұрын

@@amanibob1416 Dun dun dun dun dundundundundun

@kylefrank638

3 жыл бұрын

@@VerilyViscous Bwa bwa bwaaa, bwa bwa bWAAA, bwa bwa BWAAAAA-BWAAAAAAAAAA

@GarionDAdkins

3 жыл бұрын

I love his fandom more than anyone else I watch on KZread.

"If you're a famous smuggler, you're not doing it right." Sold

@C1umsyJester

2 жыл бұрын

Such a fantastic line, used so perfectly in this critique

@jamescogswell9297

2 жыл бұрын

@@C1umsyJester llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

@samgilley3160

2 жыл бұрын

Davos Chadsworth

@BRAVENEWORDERFILMS

2 жыл бұрын

5

@JayV949

2 жыл бұрын

@@C1umsyJester

We’re at the point now where our children will be able to watch parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 of Mauler’s Force Awakens critique in a day! Amazing times!

"If you're a famous smuggler, you're not doin' it ryte." He's definitely not wrong.

When I hear soldiers have been "trained from birth", I expect total badasses like Halo's Spartans or Clan Warrior Caste members from BattleTech. Not cannon fodder.

@EatWave

3 жыл бұрын

They were all trained wrong as a joke.

@MrSircharles05

3 жыл бұрын

@@EatWave If you got an ass, I'll kick it!

@joshuakim5240

3 жыл бұрын

Disney Star Wars is quite literally THE only group of writers who somehow botched the concept of "soldiers trained from birth", by not making said soldiers badasses in any way (hell, even the prequels did it right with clone troopers). You'd expect birth-trained soldiers to be some hardcore omega badasses like Warhammer Astartes marines, Halo Spartans and Elites, Lord of the Rings Uruk-Hai orcs, Gears of War COG soldiers, or 300 ancient Greek Spartans, not a bunch of useless clumsy cannon fodder. Usually, antagonist super soldiers have an introduction where said super soldier(s) absolutely destroy the protagonists (remember Ugluk in LOTR and how he beat the shit out of the fellowship?), then later when the characters grow stronger as fighters and people, can they fight these monsters. It makes the antagonists threatening while displaying character growth; it's an extremely simple, extremely old, extremely effective storytelling tool that's still to this way a treat to see...yet millionaire salary writers apparently aren't aware of this.

@aurex8937

3 жыл бұрын

They should have been Smoke Jaguar with elemental suits.

@davfree9732

3 жыл бұрын

JJ: Well I did say they were trained at birth, but by birth I meant... Rebirth... as Stormtroopers, and they were trained to obey their commanding officers and when we see them fighting Phasma's not there to order them as a force multiplier... Fan's who've twigged JJ is a salesmen: Uh huh... But shouldn't they still be good at their job because they... 'TRAINED?!?' JJ: Well as we see training isn't the focus as much as it's who you are... Fan's: ... ARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!

*The Star Wars Original Trilogy:* When you have a vision, but barely the resources and leeway to bring it to life. *The Star Wars Prequel Trilogy:* When you have a vision, but too much leeway and resources to do what you want. *The Sequel Star Wars Trilogy:* When you have no vision, no plan, but unlimited resources, and decide to play mad libs with it.

@dumbledalfthewizard9486

3 жыл бұрын

Gooood comment

@the__void__spaghetti__girl

3 жыл бұрын

perfection

@jackgrimshaw5030

3 жыл бұрын

Also applicable: The Original Trilogy: When talented artists can collaborate The Prequel Trilogy: When talented artists cannot collaborate The Sequel Trilogy: ....don't know

@Farwander007

3 жыл бұрын

Perfect assessment.

@jcasella78

3 жыл бұрын

@@jackgrimshaw5030 Sequel: When (mostly) untalented artists collaborate

So addicted to the OCD vibe in these videos.

2:42:41 Mauler's rant right here, about modern screen writing and the slow decay of Hollywood blockbusters, was something that used to give me life. As a writer myself, I would regularly listen to this on repeat if I got stuck with a script or felt unworthy to keep going with a problem within the story. Please for Don's sake tell me someone has a copy of it somewhere, or can provide a link to a clip. I know he must have taken it down due to copyright from the Westworld soundtrack that he used but there must be a copy of it somewhere. I need it!

@ghoulsome9483

7 ай бұрын

he mentioned in a comment he will try to post it on the second channel, probably will take a while

@jmvt3

6 ай бұрын

Same

When Maz Kanata said that she was busy with "union disputes" in The Last Jedi, I honestly didn't know if she was fighting for or against the unions. *That's* how little character development she has.

@notacompleteidiot...1285

3 жыл бұрын

For all we know she was in the bathroom, trying to shit. Taco Bell will do that to you. 🤷‍♂️

@EinYakAmNil

3 жыл бұрын

@@notacompleteidiot...1285 A union dispute with her digestive system then?

@KobyBrennero

3 жыл бұрын

Maz's Third Cantina will last for a thousand years.

@TheSlammurai

3 жыл бұрын

But she's a strong character! A female even!

@papershadow

3 жыл бұрын

I couldn't even tell if the joke was being legitimate (since the Cantina was destroyed and thus several people there would be out of work) or an obvious euphemism for criminal dealings (since it was violent and she had obvious unlawful connections based on dealing with Han).

Finally getting TFA Part 3 after almost 2 years *This is where the fun begins*

@archstanton9073

3 жыл бұрын

Has it really been that long, man?

@Sprucepenny

3 жыл бұрын

It's *arrived* !!!!!!

@CalebHimself

3 жыл бұрын

I was still in high school when TFA Part 2 came out and now I'm in college. Crazy to think about.

@StevenMatthewsTFI

3 жыл бұрын

@@CalebHimself Greatest comment ever. It's only 2 years, but it's a lifetime during that specific period of life. OK, maybe not the greatest comment, but I sure had a laugh.

@Megatron_95

3 жыл бұрын

I've been looking forward to this

2:24:30 It's a helluva contrast when you look at Wato's relationship w/ Anakin. You can see small bits of Wato & HIS selfishness in Anakin as an adult. Or his way of viewing sentients as obstacles. Even, I think, the way Anakin views Tatooine has it's roots as Wato's property.

After the second trilogy did anyone expect this to go well? I did, until I walked out of the theater after TFA and asked myself "was that good?" and realized I shouldn't be asking myself this... Thanks mauler, we all needed this.

Honestly, finn going through training only to be assigned janitorial duties is - from military experience - the most realistic thing in the entire sequel trilogy.

@tinkertrainbreach

3 жыл бұрын

Not very realistic when said space janitor starts to wipe the floor with assault squad members of First Order.

@youtubecensors5419

3 жыл бұрын

The famed Austrian botanist himself!

@Ramsey276one

3 жыл бұрын

Ouch Not that it helps

@zarlei6048

3 жыл бұрын

Morty Diamond I was part of an AT fire squad and took part of missions, mopped the floors as well. Everyone does everything in the infantry. If your gunner gets shot you aren’t going to cancel the battle because you don’t have training to use the gun.

@tinkertrainbreach

3 жыл бұрын

@@zarlei6048 Combat off duties is one thing, but writer explicitly point out (by said character) that his specialty is sanitation. What leads me to closest thing on Earth - "UNIT FIELD SANITATION TEAM DUTIES. Role in military: is to aid the unit commander inprotecting the health of the command. This is accomplished by advising and assisting the commander in themany duties essential to reducing DNBI. By providing instruction and supervision, and assisting, inspecting, and reporting, the FST ensures that appropriate field sanitation facilities are established and maintained; thateffective sanitary and control measures are applied; and that effective PMM are practiced." And I don't see special training, diversion or recon, any sort of assault role in military ranks. What makes think, that director or writer made stupid joke in sake of doing it without reason for cheap laughts from degenerates who will find it funny. Disney - we avoid logic, reason or good writing like a plague for almost 20 years.

It's fine, I didn't want to do ANYTHING this weekend anyway.

@urbanberndtsson

3 жыл бұрын

EFAP Snacks when?

@wadenbeisser2491

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Mr Pizza :D

@Chordus_Gaius

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@zzickos

3 жыл бұрын

Implying watching this couple of times + part 1 and 2 again

@siddharthakvr5154

3 жыл бұрын

Well hello there cynic

I know i'm years late, but i love how you and Drinker highlight the fact that there was a solid base for a good trilogy with compelling characters. It's such a shame

@occam7382

Күн бұрын

And whatever solid base there was wasn't even original to J.J. and Rian. They just stole what George had already come up with.

I find it kind of weird how out of all the decades Han and Chewy spent together, Han never once tried to shoot Chewy’s bow caster until the Force Awakens. I get that it’s Chewy’s weapon but they didn’t at least get curious and try to trade at some point? They are buddies and they trust each other so I don’t see why not

@jez76

9 ай бұрын

He didn’t even have to try it himself… He’s actually surprised of the effect of the gun, it’s like he hasn’t even seen Chewy use it. It’s such nonsense. Senile?

@abominablesnowman3494

2 ай бұрын

Don't worry. This movie isn't star wars. It means nothing

"Admiral Holdo and General Hux are not Homer Simpson." I'm glad I needed MauLer to tell me that.

@TheNthMouse

3 жыл бұрын

Some people unironically do.

@aitchisondaniel

3 жыл бұрын

JJ and Ruin did try to conflate them...

@banishedbr

3 жыл бұрын

@@aitchisondaniel TRY ? nah they did it

@TheSaiyanPrincess89

3 жыл бұрын

@@aitchisondaniel Do you mean Rian, as in Rian Johnson?

@traviskats0022

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheSaiyanPrincess89 no he meant Ruin, as in Ruin Johnson, as in he ruined star wars

"The Force Awakens is not a science lesson." This is really such a sad justification to hear said out loud.

@JohnnyZenith

3 жыл бұрын

Incredibly lazy. There are reasons people can suspend disbelief, and have that broken. It may not always be obvious but it's there. The Death Star needing to clear the planet in ANH is in reality silly but we accept it because it doesn't violate anything fundamental and it creates suspense.

@Edax_Royeaux

3 жыл бұрын

He might as well have admitted "The Force Awakens is not a writing lesson."

@Kuolonen

3 жыл бұрын

Good example of anti-intellectualism too.

@yellowtunes2756

3 жыл бұрын

Does it mean that star wars sucks in general? With sound in space, with jets flying in space like they would do in atmosphere, with explosions in space, with always missing stormtroopers, light sabres that stop each other for some reason etc. There's a lot of fundamental logical and physical mistakes in all SW movies. In one of the ep of critic of last jedy Mauler said that lack of fuel doesn't matter, cos it's space and rebels would just continue moving with same speed. Yes, but enemies would gain a speed, rebels would have frozen to death or died because of lack of oxygen, because no system in real life can work without a fuel. Mauler isn't a scientist, same as most of his or movie's audience, people don't care about stuff like this while watching movies. Mauler didn't even think about it, tho he rewrote his script multiple times. So if mistakes do not bother you while you watching film - they don't matter in general Of course i would love movies to be correct, but if movie managed to fool me without me noticing - I don't care. Like honestly, who gives a shit how long Denethor in lotr run while he was on fire, it was a cool shot and despite me watching it countless of times - i still don't care about it. Tho i was thinking about hyper drive ram at last jedy and about this retardation, possible black holes, biggest explosions in history etc. Some movies just failing in fooling you. That's why not a lot of people care about Denethor running like 600 meters while he was on fire, but why a lot of people care about that light speed ram

@choueriito2548

3 жыл бұрын

@@yellowtunes2756 MauLer went on to explain why, unlike the scientific errors in the original 6, those in TFA actively damage the script. On its own, a scientific error in Star Wars is nothing new, but the execution and context of it is something else entirely.

You could fix so many contrivances by having Han and Chewie appear in the Falcon to rescue BB8, have Finn defect as in TFA, and they scavenge parts with the help of a local who jerry-rigs a key component of the Falcon with local scrap parts. Then Rey is swept along into the main plot, instead of somehow being the main character and having other characters coincidentally show up.

3:15:30 'no one is ever really gone" this is impactful. That's Luke, speaking about Vader.. knowing that even Vader could be redeemed.

@swagromancer

Жыл бұрын

If only he had remembered that before furiously attacking a defenseless sleeping child because of a dream he had...

I love how the Last Jedi is so bad, its flaws that never made it into its own Critique are now seeping into this one!

@whaguitars8783

3 жыл бұрын

Ugh I HATED that film. I promise it will not age well....

@jackgrimshaw5030

3 жыл бұрын

@@nathanharris6450 "You don't something you something hate, you something something you love."

@ElectromagNick

3 жыл бұрын

It makes an excellent point of contrast and comparison as both films fail horribly, about half the same reasons and half wholely distinct.

@aitchisondaniel

3 жыл бұрын

Thee are too many for just the 4.5 hours...

@spooplegeist5260

3 жыл бұрын

I did briefly forget that this was supposed to be about TFA when he was digging into Rian Johnson again.

Unironically being more excited for this video than TRoS... wow what has the world come to.

@GracodanaAlpha

3 жыл бұрын

That's where we're at folks

@notnoahmusic283

3 жыл бұрын

Yup. Living in a world where I'm excited to hate the things I love.

@darko-man8549

3 жыл бұрын

so true plus, this is actually worth the money i give in ad revenue

@Palpameme66

3 жыл бұрын

Literally 😂

@reinforcedpenisstem

3 жыл бұрын

It's not the world, it's your preference to hear negative criticism over positive criticism.

2:49:58 is one of the best and most well put points I’ve ever heard for the defense of rational and objective thought in writing. MauLer, you are brilliant. Thank you.

When I heard the planet was called "Ahch-Too" I had my biggest facepalm in recent memory, so loud that the whole theatre heard it. Ahch-Too?!? really ? As in Act Two ? Are you really that creatively bankrupt ?

@occam7382

Күн бұрын

It would've been nice if they used one of the planet names George had come up with but never used. It still would've been ripping off his work, but it would've been slightly less un-creative.

Part 3 *of 6* I fear I shan't live long enough to see the end of this saga...

@thinkingdevil

3 жыл бұрын

Well, at least MauLer as the creator of this saga is young enough to live long enough to actually finish it and give his current and future audience a completed saga. That is more than can be said about a certain famous fantasy author who is over 70, doesn't look particularly healthy and hasn't delivered the sixth installment of his (supposedly) seven-book series in 10 effing years.

@mallyxtheunyielding7212

3 жыл бұрын

@@thinkingdevil George is working on it! Just be patient...and ignore the fact that he's infamous for never finishing anything

@stephenramos2824

3 жыл бұрын

Heard his going to sell the rights to the last 3 parts to disney

@scottski02

3 жыл бұрын

@@stephenramos2824 "I'm Rey." "Rey Who?" *Sees a Long, Welsh Force ghost in the distance.* "Rey Longman"

@seanshin1615

3 жыл бұрын

@@thinkingdevil What's up with those fantasy writers that never finish their work? I know GRRM is the infamous example, but another big one is Patrick Rothfuss, the author of Kingkiller Chronicle, who hasn't released the finale to a series for nearly ten years after the previous book was released. What's worse is that he has made it known that he already had a working rough draft by the time he published the first book in the series, The Name of the Wind, because he wrote the rough draft of the entire series before starting to publish books.

I feel like Disney wrote this movie as if it was supposed to be a theme park ride. See your favorite character Han Solo, and get behind the wheel of the Millennium Falcon! etc. It plays out more like a theme park ride nostalgia trip than an actual story.

@beardedbjorn5520

3 жыл бұрын

I like this comparison.

@rexremedy1733

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. This is true.

@skepticalbadger

3 жыл бұрын

God you're right. Like T2:3D Battle Across Time. Fun ride, total bollocks derivative fanservice plot that undermines the prior movies if you take it as canon.

@alexandresobreiramartins9461

3 жыл бұрын

Makes sense.

@Edax_Royeaux

3 жыл бұрын

TFA was such a bizarre movie for me. Having seen A New Hope so many times over the years, The Force Awakens was such an empty experience for me. I all times I no idea what I was suppose to be feeling because it was a total rip off of a movie I already knew by heart. I left the theater feeling drained when it was over. If they wanted a theme park ride, they should have called Star Tours: The Force Awakens, expectation would have matched what they were trying to do then. If your going to make a Star Wars movie, it better be a Star Wars movie and not Turkish Star Wars.

03:13:40 - how could a "Director" not keep this scene? WHY? 03:15:25 - what an amazing version Fisher delivers there 🥹

3:26:30 I remember when I saw that in the cinema, I thought to myself, that could be Finn's brother. Introducing a character, that could tell us a lot about Finn, and would show up again to face Finn, after Finn thought he was dead right there. Would have made a great conflict in himself, and could tell us a lot about the troopers in the first order if they further developed it. But we never saw TR8R again...

Disney and the Cast: “Maz and Phasma are such... deep and complex characters who really have a impact on the story and who were sure fans will come to love after seeing them in action” *finally sees the characters in actions* Disney shills: “I love them! Such depth!” Everyone else: “they.... they didn’t do anything... Phasma literally didn’t do anything and Maz is a orange downgraded copy of Yoda.”

@LordEvrey

3 жыл бұрын

Phasma disabled an entire planet's shield. A planet full of troopers and allegedly high security measures. That's something, right?

@jwjakloaaj7942

3 жыл бұрын

@@LordEvrey Did it accomplish anything though?

@jakesnow5728

3 жыл бұрын

Me cat just left a deeper and more complex entity in its litter box.

@erikson318

3 жыл бұрын

@@jwjakloaaj7942 yeah destruction of starkiller base and her death oh wait

@strategicperson95

3 жыл бұрын

Only to learn in TLJ that her armor is blaster proof. So why did she cooperate with them if she is immune to blasters?

I'm starting to realize just how many Star Wars interviews in where the actors involved are brutally honest about the reality Disney's Star Wars & then awkwardly laugh through it.

@jpeterson9087

3 жыл бұрын

Khalil Hines tryttt

@jpeterson9087

3 жыл бұрын

Khalil Hines then

@stargate525

3 жыл бұрын

The number of times the old guard desperately try to stay politic by playing old and senile is telling.

@awereal

3 жыл бұрын

I wonder at those clips, particularly the fans. Why do they laugh when Harrison Ford says he's not looking forward to watching Solo? Or all of those times Mark Hamill lays it out? How is any of that funny? What weird ass people those fans are.

@SagaciousNihilist

2 жыл бұрын

Kathleen Kennedy has the loudest and most incriminating fake laughs of all during the press conferences when Hamill and others give it away that they screwed things up. Hinting that she knows the movies are shit and destroy the franchise.

It makes sense that J. J. Abrams likes Han as a "scavenger" because J. J. Abrams scavenges key points from perfectly good franchises and resells them in a jumbled mess

One thing that genuinely upset me about the Sequel Trilogy is that in The Force Awakens, there's sort of this element where the destruction of the Hosnian System (probably misspelled) was sorta treated like a moment in a Dark Fantasy where the villains overthrow a single good Kingdom, and now they make efforts to start conquering all the others; the first major victory of many. Then, TLJ (and bolstered by TROS) said that The Galactic Republic was now a thing of the past because of this... Like, I just assumed that this was a massive blow against the good guys, NOT like an ultra-precise shot to the heart!

@TheTriforceDragon

11 ай бұрын

I think you could do have done some interesting stuff with that. Like, make the First Order believe that the destruction of the Hosnian system was an ultra-precise shot to the heart and gloat about it as they prepare to destroy the Resistance at the start of TLJ, but have the resistance saved by a hastily gathered Republic fleet. Spend a bit more time showing the Republic divided and squabling in the TFA before hand and you could even play it up as the First Order's actions backfiring, as their brutal attack reminded the Republic of the Empire days and galvanized the remaining squabling factions into a laser focused force intent on preventing a return of the Empire. Maybe this hastily cobbled together Republic fleet then gets in trouble because it overextends in an attempt to wipe out the First Order, pushing too far without having a proper organizational supply structure to fall back on, a structure that was damaged by the Hosnian system's destruction, emphasizing that the attack was still devastating even if not a death blow.

*“Why bother putting a Janitor in combat”* Hey man, don’t give the Government ideas.

@ineednochannelyoutube5384

3 жыл бұрын

There are no janitors in a military. Yiu gotta keep your grunts occupied with swabbing toilets, otherwise they might grow bored, and thats dangerous.

@UngiftedWatcher

3 жыл бұрын

What's funny is I'm a janitor on the civilian side and am in the military. That part hurt lmao.

@cmreel

3 жыл бұрын

Why not give citizenship to millions of illegals so we can send them to war against china.

@HunterStiles651

3 жыл бұрын

@@cmreel Skeletor: WAT?

@omarjones1460

3 жыл бұрын

To be fair In real life every Marine and Soldier is a janitor. We didn't have people cleaning up for us when I was in.

1:42 Davos: _"If you're a famous smuggler, then you're not doing it right."_

@cocharles563

3 жыл бұрын

I always thought of solo as the bandit from Smokey and the Bandit. Coded the n that makes chewy the run-away Bride

@Dragonage2ftw

3 жыл бұрын

And?

@anagramconfirmed1717

3 жыл бұрын

Dragonage2ftw aNd&🥴

@BasicShapes

3 жыл бұрын

@@Dragonage2ftw I think the point of posting it was to bring awareness of how awesome that line is in conjunction with this video /shrug

@SkyNinja759

3 жыл бұрын

@@cocharles563 I think Chewy would be Snowman. He's just in the background driving the big rig. In my analogy Luke would be the Coors (precious cargo), I guess.

I am very interested in learning how you analyze media like this. I love how you're able to state objective facts about what is happening in the story, while asking and answering questions that follow logically from those facts. I also like how you are able to do extensive research in order to back up your arguments, as well as how seamlessly you're able to state all this alongside your opinions.

MauLer, I've watched your breakdowns over and over and I cannot thank you enough for the level of detail and focus you have added to my own writing. When "The Circle" is published I intend to send you a copy, as without ever meeting me, you have made it so much better than it was. Thank you. -Chris Rivan

I'm just utterly baffled by the sheer lack of world building and universe. It's like a teenager wrote it. "Who cares about politics or factions or things, those are boring, let's just have our characters shoot the bad guys and blow stuff up" The fact they reduced the New Galactic Republic into ash with a single shot is just mind numbing to me. I can't get past that. I simply can't rectify that with what I know about Star Wars. It won't fit. It's not a nitpick, it's a blindingly glaring issue. It was legitimately frustrating to not know the state of the galaxy and to never be given answers. Seriously, who controls a planet like Tatooine now? Who controls Coruscant and governs the galaxy? What became of a planet like Naboo, or Endor? There's no answers that could be given or inferred from the movies now. In the prequels, the Republic was subverted from within, after facing and defeating a corporate backed seperatist movement (whose goals were to create a plutocracy and break from the republic and its bureaucratic red tape and regulations), and it stands to reason every world the Republic controlled, which was nearly all of them, now found itself under the thumb of the Empire. That tyranny leads an organized force of rebels to form from various star systems under the banner of the Rebel Alliance. At the end of the OT, the Empire was dethroned and destroyed, leaving the implication that the Rebel Alliance would form a provisional government and restore their own republic in the Empire's place. In the new trilogy there's this idea that that never took place, or at least not effectively, and the New Republic gets destroyed by the First Order which then gets destroyed by the Resistance, which just exists for some reason, and now the galaxy has no government? You'd think the Resistance would form a provisional government, but they obviously failed before. So what now?

@Webshooters1

3 жыл бұрын

And that's one of the building blocks by which this whole trilogy sinks: NO WORLD BUILDING. Nothing is explained why things are the way they are, they just simply are. EVERYTHING showing that progression happens in books, comics, and guide books/visual dictionaries. I'm not saying I want a paragraph-long of exposition but a few small thowaway lines of dialogue would help tremendously with getting people invested because as it stands we have no way to anchor ourselves in this struggle because we have no clue what the hell is happening or HAS happened in the 30 years prior. TFA really went out to replicate the original Star Wars down to the lack of lore that existed then but the thing with the original Star Wars and why it worked there but not here is the fact of it's simplistic premise. There is an empire, our heroes are fighting against oppression and are trying to deliver plans to allow a chance for victory against overwhelming odds. Classic underdog story. HERE though? There's been 40 years of lore and continuity built up and that HAS to be addressed because where we last chronologically saw our heroes they were victorious and were going on to reestablish the Republic and the Jedi so what happened? I know WHY they did it because "PREQUELS BAD" but the fact of the matter is, if we the audience have no frame of reference then there's nothing for us to get invested in. It's just stuff happening.

@insulttothehumanrace3807

3 жыл бұрын

No major government ever controlled Tatooine. It's always been an outlier planet, which is why crime lords like Jabba and lesser criminal scum could set up shop there. "The Republic doesn't exist out here; we must survive on our own." . ... A nitpick that still supports your point, since there's nothing even that small to establish scope and stakes in the sequels.

@HandofOmega

3 жыл бұрын

The OT ended with at least the implication that the Republic would be restored and Yoda explicitly told Luke to remake the Jedi. The ST has no such ideas, at all. Maybe Rey will restart the Jedi...again...but maybe not. We don't know what she's thinking. And unlike having political characters like Leia and Mon Motha around, the PT doesn't having anyone that seems like they'd be good at running a govt...Perhaps the galaxy will decide that "big govt" simply doesn't work, and it will balkanize? That would finally be something different, and maybe a justification for doing all this in the first place. Not that we're likely to see any of it anytime soon...

@Flight_of_Icarus

3 жыл бұрын

@@Webshooters1 Honestly, yeah there probably is the backstory filled in by a bunch of third party writers, that's always happened with Star Wars. Still, at least the Prequel Trilogy and the Clone Wars give enough for one to be interested in investigating more. The main complaint people even had with the prequels is that pretty much all of the effort went into the world building and the characters suffered horribly because of it. The issue is with the acting and writing of the main plot itself, not with the world, for the most part (there were complaints about details here and there, midichlorians and lightsabers blocking force lightning come to mind, as well as clone trooper logistics, but the world itself made some amount of sense) In the Sequels there's just nothing. It went back to being focused on the characters but the characters suck and are just absolutely confusing, self contradictory messes. The world just isn't realistically functioning according to logic on its own accord. The entire faction that the heroes work for has no logical reason to exist. The third party writers basically have to come up with everything from scratch, and bend the reality of the universe itself to try and attempt to explain the essential plot of the story. The prequels tried to do their own thing and mostly failed at it, but the sequels are just a shameless rip on the original trilogy and it makes no sense. I am terrified if they pull this same amount of nonsense about the Old Republic era and call it canon. That would just be awful.

@Webshooters1

3 жыл бұрын

@@Flight_of_Icarus Well, we can agree to disagree about the prequels. I think they're good movies for the most part. The plot works but I guess to some the execution of it was lacking apart from Revenge Of The Sith. But yeah, the prequels did alot of world and lore building that at least got us interested in exploring this pre-Empire era and the Jedi at the peak of their power. In the Disney Trilogy there's just nothing and the laws of the universe appear to change with each movie and that's not even getting into Kylo Ren's motivations and how it's as Mauler put it: "The equivalent of tangled up Christmas tree light drenched in yogurt and acid." It's just a fact everyone in those movies were done dirty. Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Issac, etc. They're just given NOTHING to work with but Finn I feel got the rawest deal of all. In the EU they tackled the idea of a defecting Stormtrooper and it has good story potential like Finn could be hesitant to shoot them because they're brainwashed preferring to help break their programming as he did and rescue as many as possible. Just an idea. Much like Rian in TLJ, the writers wanted to have Rebels Vs Empire again but the groundwork didn't allow for it since that's not where we left our heroes at the end of ROTJ so they decided to sacrifice the rich story potential of even just using the skeletal framework of the EU in favor of something that's not new and we've seen before and was done better in the OT. If what Doomcock says is true then the Old Republic will be safe for now. Their so-called "High Republic" series is already DOA and I think Disney's money people are starting to take note of just how thoroughly KK has shat the bed and turning a literal license to print money into a black hole where money goes in and never comes out.

This little maneuver is gonna cost us 3 hours, 52 minutes, and 44 seconds -Bilbess Bungelton

Yeah, they really gloss over it, but even if the Starkiller base was able to shoot through hyperspace, making a weapon out of a planet like that is such a monumental task, its stupefying to do. It's way beyond the scope of building the Death Star, it's humongous amount of work.

1:45 _”If you’re a famous smuggler, you’re not doing it right.”_ 🤣 😂 🤣

1:54 Swap their reactions and it makes more sense. Rey: You're Han Solo! Finn: The smuggler? The terrorist? (because he's been first order his whole life) Rey: The rebellion general! The war hero! (because she only knows the rebels through stories)

@KageMinowara

2 жыл бұрын

You're right. That would have worked a lot better. Why is it that everyone else seems to be better at writing new Star Wars movies than the people who wrote the new Star Wars movies?

@HalfTangible

2 жыл бұрын

@@KageMinowara Two big reasons. 1) It's easier to polish something rough into something decent than to create something good from scratch. 2) The new writers didn't give a fuck.

@bliczb8772

2 жыл бұрын

As much as I prefer it, the problem with that line is that if Finn called Han a smuggler and a terrorist, he'd immediatelly give himself out to both Ray and Han. By that point, Ray believes Finn is from the Resistance, and if he'd say something as blatantly ridiculous as calling Han a terrorist, it'd lit a big red light that something's not right. I mean, why would you call a war hero of your faction a terrorist?

@HalfTangible

2 жыл бұрын

@@bliczb8772 ...That's a fair point. Though moments like that are what an editor is for.

@looinrims

2 жыл бұрын

That would require JJ to watch Star Wars and use his brain

Rey: You’re Han Solo! Han: Part time.

@Therationalnationalist

3 жыл бұрын

zizoumonk10 underrated comment

@user-xx6vy9ri8p

3 жыл бұрын

Fin, soldier of the First Order, which is basically new Empire, talks about Han Solo, who destroyed the Empire, as about hero of the war?! And Rey, who looks to Han as to icon, corrects him "no, he is smuggler"?! Chewbacca: I don't know wtf is going on...

@zizoumonk10

3 жыл бұрын

Thomas Adamson it works on so many levels

2:08:19 It's such a shame they didn't go with Boyega's more serious concept of Finn. I like his chemistry with Po (however brief), but it would be cool if at least *one* of our new characters had a different personality type.

50:50 People who know movies didn’t *wonder* if Holdo is evil, the “traitor” music stings and First Order themes play when she is on screen and talking make it pretty obvious she was…then they switched it. I think they either just purposefully misled with the music or they left the sound for those scenes after a rewrite to make her not a traitor.

@occam7382

23 сағат бұрын

Oh, my sweet summer child... Rian doesn't do rewrites. He's too lazy for that.

@nvfury13

22 сағат бұрын

@@occam7382 I didn’t suspect it was him, but one of the several others that were brought in to turn his work into something resembling a movie.

Rag should've consulted the spiders before giving his "august 2020" deadline, for it was objectively wrong. IGN 10/10 didn't get bored

@MF-nu3pe

3 жыл бұрын

I know, I wasn't expecting this.

@zarlei6048

3 жыл бұрын

I’ve already watched it three times.

@choasnight93

3 жыл бұрын

@@zarlei6048 were you bored though?

@jadonsmith3224

3 жыл бұрын

Consulting the spiders lmao

@Stoneador

3 жыл бұрын

Rag is objectively the worst EFAP. In my opinion.

"The horny elderly orange Hobbit" Mauler, why must you say such things while i'm drinking!

@TheSlammurai

3 жыл бұрын

At least she's not a gay Hobbit. For no reason.

@Luuuna

3 жыл бұрын

fOr NoAu RaIsEn!

@sparkypack

3 жыл бұрын

I didn't even know that she sniffed on Chewie's fur. D:

@Vladislav888

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheSlammurai Did you just assumed its gender?

@michaelmccarty1327

3 жыл бұрын

From my point of view it is you who should not be drinking while he says such things!

Imagine if Finn were the force-sensitive, former storm trooper, hero? What a FANTASTIC story! I'm ok with Rey and Poe being heroes; as the original Star Wars had more than 4 heroes.

J. J. Abrams and his cohorts at Bad Robot have devalued every franchise they've touched. Abrams has the opposite of the Midas Touch. He has the Fecal Touch.

"Does it hurt?" "I will finish what you started" *flushes toilet*

@Bilbosilius_Zwackelbaggins

3 жыл бұрын

Wait. Don't flush it yet

@amanibob1416

3 жыл бұрын

"We need the turd for the dyad!" Bilbo Schmellinn

@MajorReynolds92

3 жыл бұрын

nooooooo, it went to the poop dimension

@illyria7756

3 жыл бұрын

@@amanibob1416 call amber, we need more turds.

"and Rey opens her mouth far wider than usual" Ok, E;R.

This is really late but I'm genuinely glad you called out Cosmonaut Variety. I used to be a big fan but he really is so inconsistent with his reviews it's insane

Once again a brilliant video. All up to date now what a truly massive effort these have been for you to make. Great points and making me understand why ive not gone back to this trilogy at all

Rey is super powerful, Finn is really clumsy, Han is inconsistent, Maz is confusing, Poe is alive, Kylo kidnaps Rey, and Luke is missing... FOR NOUGH REASON!!!!

@JohnnyZenith

3 жыл бұрын

Rey is flat. Poorly casted and written.

@Nickle_King

3 жыл бұрын

God, I got flashbacks to that damn video. That was agony.

@HandofOmega

3 жыл бұрын

"And I've got blue hair!"

@DisplayThisOkay

3 жыл бұрын

@Winston Smith Nough!

@Nickle_King

3 жыл бұрын

@Lol Umadbro The "Lord of the Ring s is bad" video. The commentary is great! The video being analysed is the worst kind of ignorant trash. It's where "For No Reason!" is coming from.

Remembering Han Solo as the smuggler, it's just so absurd and shits on the OT so hard. Imagine it in other contexts! "Frodo Baggins! The hero from the War of the Ring?" "Huh, no, the heir to the Baggins estate."

@Schwazoom

3 жыл бұрын

@Foster Deming You make a good point. That's incredible. I try to think of the most ridiculous example I can, and I fail. It is literally worse than my example because more oblivious hobbits might still know him as the guy who inherited the Baggins estate, since it's a sizeable one

@critterray6742

3 жыл бұрын

So JJ and Rian are Sackville-Bagginses?

@Schwazoom

3 жыл бұрын

@@critterray6742 I wouldn't put the Sackville-Bagginses down like that...

@FatPankakes101

3 жыл бұрын

“Aragorn! The king of Gondor?” “Uh, no, the ranger from the north.”

@ian-op5fv

3 жыл бұрын

Frodo baggins? The former 2nd best potato farmer in the shire? What an honor!

I've been sat at a computer watching this deep-dive series for hours and hours at the behest of a friend, and I hadn't been enjoying it overly much. There were some decent enough insights in parts 2 and 3 to make up for the drawn-out lecture in part 1 (i.e., part 1), but it still wasn't much fun. 2:11:06 of this part changed everything....everything. This was just golden.

@daswasich1147

7 ай бұрын

Absolute mad respect for trusting your Friend enough to make it this far in in the first place ❤

The amount of work you put into this is staggering. Thank you!

Mauler's Han Solo impression sounds like he's drunk and half asleep, meaning that he basically nailed Harrison Ford's effort in TFA.

@blizzardregulus

3 жыл бұрын

Dude couldn't even bother to shave in Rise of Skywalker. Fucking legend.

I watched the force awakens twice. I watched the last Jedi once. I’ve never seen whatever the last one is called. Know what I’ve watched more than twice? This series.

@Goodheartless

3 жыл бұрын

On my second watch through rn. Really hoping for part 4 sooner or later.

@alexjaybrady

3 жыл бұрын

facts

@RossTheNinja

3 жыл бұрын

Those are rookie numbers

@mathurinkerbouchard8931

3 жыл бұрын

You watched the farce awakens twice? Oh man, you are brave with an iron constitution!

@hugomungus7306

2 жыл бұрын

Going on a marathon of all his star wars content. For the third time :D It has given me a new avenue for entertainment out of a puppeted corpse. Every piece of this triolgy is a masterstroke in failure and criminally wasted potential.

just rewatched this (fo the 4th time...) in excitement for the fresh part4

Let's be honest, Harrison Ford only came back because his character would finally die.

I love how even a critique of the Force Awakens turns into a demolishing of the Last Jedi. That movie fucked up so much of the trilogy's writing.

@an8strengthkobold360

3 жыл бұрын

It adds helpful content.

@mrboost4186

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, just looking at the length of the video you know that it won't be able to fill the time without going off-topic or repeating its points over and over again.

@shazaminshahrani2918

3 жыл бұрын

Because TFA is the original sin and TLJ just adding fuel to the fire. TLJ is not great but when TFA was received well, well, sheeps.

@gmonkman

3 жыл бұрын

@@mrboost4186 providing multiple examples and pulling at threads is not repitition or going off topic. Although I look forward to your critique of this critique.

@mrboost4186

3 жыл бұрын

@@gmonkman This is supposedly a critique of The Force Awakens yet he is criticizing The Last Jedi for substantial amounts of this video. Talking about a different film is as off-topic as you can get. This whole video is a drawn-out waffle designed to preach to the converted.

Rey can't walk through town without someone trying to rob her. The town is full of thieves and criminals. Yet the Millenium Falcon has been parked there for 20 years unlocked, door open, tank full of gas, and they keys in the ignotion. Nobody stole it. The second it left the planets atmosphere Han picked it up with his tracker, so we know it hasn't been flying for decades or his tracker would have picked it up earlier. All Rey had to do was get in and take off, so we know it was ready to go. Yet nobody stole it. A city full of thieves, a dealer buying scavenged parts, so there had to be multiple people who scavenged parts from ships way out in the desert to sell to him for a few dollars so they could buy food, drink, drugs, or whatever, yet their is a fully functional ship ready to go parked there 20 years and nobody took it. If the part dealer owned it, this would explain it not being stripped and sitting on concrete blocks, but it seems like the parts dealer would have either used it or sold it after 20 years. Also if someone else wanted to steal it, there isn't much the parts dealer could do. He didn't stop Rey when she stole it. Any one of these beggers or thieves could have taken it, flew to another planet, sold it, and retired or at least been drunk or high for a couple years.

@BrettonFerguson

3 жыл бұрын

They should have had Han say "I installed a tracking program (Like find your phone app) in the Falcon's computer decades ago. As soon as you took off in the Millenium Falcon, it sent a signal to my tracker." Not that he was scanning for it. Was he scanning the entire galaxy? Or did he just happen to be in the same system where the Falcon was when it took off.

@garethbattersby

3 жыл бұрын

@@BrettonFerguson they should have just had her trying to steal the falcon that was still owned by Han. He could have been there buying parts and sees the first order running around looking for someone (we know its Finn and Rey) Han and Chewie however think they're there for them. So back to Rey being on the falcon, we could have them running for the ship that's destroyed, she then jumps into the falcon and they rush to the cockpit only to see Han and Chewie already going through lift off procedures. They give a oh shit, back up get off moment, only to rush to the exit to find it shutting. They now have to stowaway under the floor. Meanwhile Han and Chewie see first order troops rushing towards the falcons and still believing they're the target blast off under a barrage of fire. In the air we get the two tie fighters give chase, they're relaying info about the falcon while giving chase. We now get the chase that Finn and Rey did but with Han and Chewie. This would be our reintroduction of the classic characters doing what they do best. They escape of course and discover Finn and Rey under the floor and boom we're back on track without the bloody nonsense we had to endure.

@vit968

3 жыл бұрын

*JJ Abrams doesn't fucking think about the implications.*

@HeilRay

3 жыл бұрын

Thats actually a great freaking point.

@eyezj7412

3 жыл бұрын

@@garethbattersby 👏🏾👏🏾

How ironic, since this was made we see Sabine as force sensitive 😂😂😂 @2:14:50. Thanks Disney

Omg the clip at 3:13:42 Jesus I was driving while listening to this video and this moment gave me chills without even seeing it. just knowing it was of Luke mourning Han combined with the incredible score sent chills through my body The fact that this was cut is criminal