Half in the Bag the Last Last Jedi Review

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Published Aug 29, 2018   Updated May 21, 2021, vii:twoscore am CDT

More than nine months after its theatrical release, RedLetterMedia's review of Star Wars: The Concluding Jedi is hither, and information technology'due south just as over the top and tone-deafened every bit you'd await.

RedLetterMedia commencement gained notoriety nearly a decade ago for a 70-infinitesimal review (split up over seven videos) of The Phantom Menace , and at the time information technology received high praise. The reviews are done by a character called Mr. Plinkett, a self-enlightened film critic who's been "psychotic" in the past, and even if they arrived long subsequently a film'southward theatrical and home release, they're however highly anticipated past their fans.

Mr. Plinkett'due south Last Jedi review clocks in at just over 58 minutes, nearly an hour shorter than his review of The Force Awakens , which is one of the few things information technology has going for it. And early on, Mr. Plinkett acknowledges that some of his criticisms of The Last Jedi have already been covered advertising nauseam by countless other YouTube videos. He makes a couple of interesting connections to Star Trek: The Next Generation and National Lampoon's Vacation , but a lot of what he says is exactly the kind of thing we've heard before—complaints about logic in a space opera where the Force exists at all. Information technology non only takes character arcs and plot points to chore but also director/screenwriter Rian Johnson for how he "inverted expectations."

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Watching his review is unlikely to change anyone's mind , although that's unremarkably not the aim of a piece of criticism. Those who hated the movie will feel justified by the criticism while those who loved it will get exasperated by the review's cherry-picking of certain arguments.

RedLetterMedia released Mr. Plinkett's review several months afterward The Last Jedi was released theatrically, digitally, and even on Netflix. The delay in its release doesn't necessarily injure RedLetterMedia, especially since it relies on the kind of footage and textile not available until motion picture'due south home release; the video has more than 627,000 views as of press time and has reached the front page of Reddit .

But it also arrives close to a year into the backfire and soapbox against a moving-picture show that didn't give some viewers the story they envisioned or confirm their theories , and many of the attacks have been ugly and personal. They've retaliated against Johnson , directed racist and sexist comments toward Kelly Marie Tran for months until she deleted all of her Instagram posts , and they used Mark Hamill'due south initial misgivings about the film to justify their hatred of it. The months-long backlash has even gotten comparisons to Gamergate over how a small but song subsection of viewers accept weaponized their complaints of a picture to attack the people who worked on information technology (or are associated with Lucasfilm ) and those who enjoyed it under the guise of criticizing it.

The kind of meta-commentary that RedLetterMedia reviews once offered no longer works as well as it hopes because some viewers, whether because they're unfamiliar with the Mr. Plinkett graphic symbol or they concord with his points, will accept him at his give-and-take, starting the backlash cycle all over again.

The review saves much of its ire toward the characters and their actions—largely attributing that to Johnson'southward screenplay and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy—but it's not a far bound for some of The Final Jedi 's most vocal dissenters to take complaints about Rose Tico, Finn, Poe Dameron, and Amilyn Holdo that Mr. Plinkett resurfaces and direct that toward Johnson and actors similar Tran and Laura Dern. Again. And at this indicate, RedLetterMedia's Last Jedi review is nearly white racket, albeit 1 that adds to the flames of the larger problem without engaging its ain part in keeping the fire burning.

H/T Reddit

*Beginning Published: Aug 29, 2018, 12:14 pm CDT

Michelle Jaworski

Michelle Jaworski is a staff author and Boob tube/film critic at the Daily Dot. She covers entertainment, geek culture, and pop culture and has covered everything from the Sundance Picture show Festival, NYFF, and Tribeca to New York Comic Con and Con of Thrones. She is based in Brooklyn.

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