Redlettermedia and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Review

[CelticPredator]

Can't post the link....cuz, well, it's highly inappropriate.

But check it out. As someone who didn't hate Crystal Skull, I found it very, very, very hard to disagree with him on ANYTHING he said.

As usual, his reviews are spot on. And hilarious. He brings up a ton of great points, and he also mentioned one thing that no one ever talks about...the knife scene. "Oh ****". It's hilarious.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

It's nowhere near as good as his Star Wars ones. This one plods along amd the humor is hit or miss.

The Phantom Menace is still his masterpiece.

 

[CelticPredator]

The Olsen Twins was the funniest thing about the whole review.

I agree The Phantom Menace was his funniest, but the Revenge of the Sith one was incredibly powerful. Towards the end IMO. That moved me. Angered me. Opened my eyes.

His Attack of the Clones review is spot on. "Worst thing ever made by a human". Agreed Mr. Plinkett. Agreed.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

revenge of the Sith hits higher highs. Especially the last parts. But his student film feature intercut with the main course abrupt the flow way too much. Phantom Mencae was consistently mesmerizing from start to finish.

 

[CelticPredator]

Agreed.

 

[TheVileOne]

I'd probably like those videos more if it didn't have all the stupid serial killer stalker tangents. I mean I get the jokes, it's just that they grind the humor of the videos to a halt.

 

[Thundercrack85]

I actually thought he was being too soft on the movie. Though I'm glad to see someone else has a lot of problems with this movie's plot. They never explain what the hell happened at Roswell, or how it relates to the movie's ending. And the ending doesn't even make sense.

 

[bullets]

Was it ever clarified how the alien lost it's skull? I enjoyed the film. The cgi creatures were a minor issue that I was able to overlook.

I love Plinkett's reviews. Whether I agree with him or not it they never fail to amuse me. Although I'd prefer he cut down on some of the skits.

 

[TheVileOne]

Yeah again the skits literally kill the humor and reviews for me. If he shortened them down they would be fine.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

Yeah again the skits literally kill the humor and reviews for me. If he shortened them down they would be fine.

This is why his Phantom Menace review is the best.

 

[Secret Fawful]

I hate this guy's sense of humor.

 

[CelticPredator]

The skits make it for me. Dark Humor is the absolute best.

I love the flesh eating cockroach bit. "FFFIFTY NINE MINUTESSS!"

Lmfao.

 

[Thundercrack85]

Was it ever clarified how the alien lost it's skull? I enjoyed the film. The cgi creatures were a minor issue that I was able to overlook.

I love Plinkett's reviews. Whether I agree with him or not it they never fail to amuse me. Although I'd prefer he cut down on some of the skits.

Didn't the conquistador take it? The one Indiana and Shia find mummified. Not sure how he did that... It's not even explained how the alien(s) function. Why the aliens in the temple fuse into one... or why they are even like that. They're not dead, just... sleeping? Waiting for the skull to be returned.

Whoever wrote this crap should have been fired.

The Roswell part bothered me the most. No closure on that at all.

 

[CelticPredator]

^ George Lucas. It all can be pointed at him. He has to get his way, or no movie.

I could not work with someone like that.

 

[Thundercrack85]

^ George Lucas. It all can be pointed at him. He has to get his way, or no movie.

I could not work with someone like that.

What's funny (or sad) is that Spielberg seemed to know that all these ideas were crap. Either he's a really good friend, or he's just stopped caring.

Well, I suppose Indiana and ancient aliens could work if done right, but they mixed way too many unrelated elements. Roswell, ancient aliens, the Cold War, the arms race, etc.

 

[CelticPredator]

He's a good friend it seems like.

It's very sad indeed.

 

[SuperSoldier985]

Awww, this movie is such an easy target..

The thing is, the movie is about 90% badass classic Indiana Jones. To me, the 10% of it that's not never really ruined the movie for me and I think the movie gets way too much crap for the crap and not enough praise for what it did right...I mean, a lot of the old Indy movies were the same way, but over time and given their age, we've grown to appreciate more for what it did with so little, and that's perfectly fine. I'm just willing to acknowledge the fact that what worked for a franchise like that 30 years ago, just doesn't always gel with the fans and specifically the audiences of today.

 

[Thundercrack85]

Awww, this movie is such an easy target..

The thing is, the movie is about 90% badass classic Indiana Jones. To me, the 10% of it that's not never really ruined the movie for me and I think the movie gets way too much crap for the crap and not enough praise for what it did right...I mean, a lot of the old Indy movies were the same way, but over time and given their age, we've grown to appreciate more for what it did with so little, and that's perfectly fine. I'm just willing to acknowledge the fact that what worked for a franchise like that 30 years ago, just doesn't always gel with the fans and specifically the audiences of today.

I would argue 10% of it was good. Granted, I don't consider Indiana Jones to be a masterpiece like some, but at least it made sense, and was entertaining. It's an easy target because it's a bad movie.

 

[dude stannis]

The Olsen Twins was the funniest thing about the whole review.

I intend on stealing that somehow.

 

[Brother Jack]

The Phantom Menace is still his masterpiece.

It has probably the best opening line of any review ever.

I enjoyed this one, and it pointed out some issues with the film that I hadn't considered, like the weirdness of Indy (a multi-cultural guy) would work for the U.S. during World War II and the fact that he never killed anybody. I did, however, disagree with his idea that you can't make Indy old because it undermines his role as an avatar for male wish fulfillment. Now he does fill that as a character, but I don't think that's all he is. He's not a superhero, he's a guy who regularly gets beat up and has to often rely on cheap means to win a fight. You could raise the stakes and further highlighting his limitations by aging him, but sadly they didn't take advantage of this in KOTCS.

 

[The Morningstar]

These guys are awesome. For all their ****ing around, they make valid points.

Indy 4 and the Star Wars prequels are in fact garbage.