#screw mr plinkett

[samasmith23]

My reaction to the Star Wars Prequel haters in a nutshell:

From Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore & Brian Bolland.

#star wars prequels #prequel haters are so annoying #screw red letter media #screw mr plinkett #batman #bruce wayne #the joker #batman the killing joke #alan moore #brian bolland #80s comics #dc comics

[gothicprep]

I’m so hate-obsessed with the youtube drama subreddit. it’s like the polar opposite of mensa, and you know what? it’s about time.

there was a thread posted on there about a youtuber who calls himself “the critical drinker”. i don’t think highly of the man’s content. i think he’s going for a “Mr Plinkett” character but can’t stick the landing if his life depended on it. I also think he leans way too into culture war horseshit, which I think is a losing dog wrt media criticism.

it is, objectively, a weird moment for hollywood rn. there are so many avenues you could follow with this. how about a deep dive on the weird relationship between the american film industry and the chinese box office? or a more nuanced look into how Disney’s stewardship over lucasfilm failed (useful tip: kathleen kennedy isn’t the only person who screwed the pooch on this one)? none of that? okay, fine, whatever.

instead, there was some unhinged commentary on there about how he’s pretending to drink Jack Daniels Tennessee sheep shit Whiskey in his pfp, and how it’s sweet as far as whiskey goes, and jd some sort of psyop for men who want to drink sweet things but think their masculinity is threatened if they ordered a cosmo and… Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?

“for a whiskey” is a pretty important qualifier if you’re discussing sweetness. four roses single barrel is a very sweet bourbon, but my mom still thinks it tastes like gasoline. this reads as “I’m not old enough to legally drink, and no one likes me enough to invite me to teen parties. I look at whiskey and bourbon forums all day and fantasize about tasting it for the first time.”

I don’t think I’ve ever regretted not screenshotting something this badly.

[traceamountsoftimetravel]

Indy 5 spoilers below

I loved it, but one of very few knocks against this movie comes inspired by Mr. Plinkett: Indiana Jones [still] needs to murder more people.

Like, he totally punches the shit out of some Nazis, but these are Nazis we're talking about here. I'm not asking for Inglourious Basterds-level bloodshed, but, just maybe, you know, the level of Karen Allen wasting a truckload of them with an aircraft's machine gun would be nice.

I mean, in all seriousness, it does perfectly encapsulate that uncomfortable footnote in history called Operation Paperclip, where you had Nazis that escaped retribution effectively sharing a workspace with Jews who survived Nazi wrath, in the name of sending men to the moon.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge was unexpectedly a favorite character. Not the favorite character, but it was genuinely entertaining how she could maintain the charade of fooling both the Nazis and Indy and company, as well as outgrowing her disillusionment of archaeology as nothing more than a for-profit endeavor and become close to the kind of person Indy becomes when presented with a rare find, "giddy as a schoolboy."

There is uncanny valley with regards to the opening act of de-aged Harrison Ford retrieving artifacts from the 1940's Nazis, but really it wears off rather quickly because of how enthralling the whole sequence becomes. And this may serve as a knock against the overall grain of the film, that this is a franchise born in the heyday of 1980's practical effects and heading off into a sunset made in a million dollar supercomputer, but the CG is...not bad, actually. It's Lucasfilm. Do you really think they were going to pull punches?

And Mads. God, this man was born to play villains, especially ones whose villainy contrasts with vulnerability once they've been had, but without ever eliciting our empathy. It's also kind of...sad? No. Tragic? Also no. Well, screw it, he's a darling of the internet and he has to also play such contemptible bastards. He is a Palpatine-level of evil with how much he enjoys playing the bad guy.

Last but not least, the ageless Harrison Ford. Yeah, he's probably actually held together with plates and screws like his iconic character, but it's his presence and persona that never disappoints. Even in his seventies, he's still respected well enough that you'd never doubt he could, in fact, fight everyone from replicants to a hulking pile of Third Reich muscle. He shines. I'm glad Indy got his happy ending.

#indiana jones and the dial of destiny

[fipindustries]

under the silver lake

mr plinkett voice: under the silver lake is the most dissapointing movie since inherent vice

i disliked it for basically the same reasons, a completly flat performance from a main character, a confusing mystery that you cant get in because the movie itself doesnt seem to be interested in, a nauseating display of the worst aspects of L.A. culture, god fucking dammit these movies make me hate L.A. and the people that live there and the artists that insist on making faux-intellectual statements about it.

about the “mystery”, as is typical on this kind of movies that like to pretend they are smarter than they actually are, there are lots of talk about secret codes, and puzzles, and intricate mindbending clues but in reality is all talk and we get at most two scenes that involve any actual codes and both way after an hour and a half into the movie, because we needed space for more scenes of vapid prentetious LA parties filled with their vapid pretentious youth. a good half of the mystery is solved by just happening to come across the people related to the mystery at random parties, by chance, no thought or logic behind it.

and all of this would be tolerable if any of the characters were relatable, or human, if they displayed any actual emotion or energy beyond dead stares and monotone deflated droning. the main character is the same cookie cutter “boring white guy with nothing going on on his life that has emotionless sex and is kind of a weird obsessed looser but was convinced that his life was meant to be something greater and feels really neurotic about his own inadequacies”. oh btw the main emotional thrust of this movie comes from his being obsessed with this girl he has the hots for and barely met once. and everyone else is just “pretty LA person with no personality”

and on top of it all it does that “the real meaning of it all was that there is no meaning!” that is just so... tired... and cliched... and boring.

this felt like every other postmodern mystery book written by some boring asshole fresh out of his major in english diploma.

the more i think about it the angrier i get, screw this movie. im sure is a lot deeper than im giving credit for, im sure it’s a lot smarter than that and that im being unfair. i heard this is one of those movies that are great to watch multiple times to keep discovering new meanings but the thing is i didnt even enjoy it on a surface level so why the hell would i bother picking it apart on a deeper level, i watched it once. there is nothing in this movie that makes me want to watch it ever again and i will consider that a failure of the movie. 5/10

[herotting-archive]

godhole replied to your post

THNK U THIS IS A GOOD POST

Thank you and you’re welcome dfsdf. I’m not sure where I heard this, it was either a s///u criticism video or Mr. Plinkett. But someone once said “if it’s not seen, it never happened”. Which I actually agree with?? While I don’t think EVERY LITTLE DETAIL needs to be seen in a story, ESPECIALLY if it’s trivial. But if it’s something important to the story, then it should be seen. This is one of my problems with the ending/epilogue and it’s proof that it was lazily written. Because we’re just TOLD things without seeing it happen. Like, we’re TOLD that we’re angry at Bill without seeing why. (They had no right to be any more angry with Bill than with each other). We’re TOLD that Jerry had a girl that liked him and that Bill screwed their chances, without seeing her ever throughout the entire comic. These two were important plot points and needed to be showed. What it does show is that it’s lazy writing that was just pulled from nowhere.

Like, the comic that featured Josh only. He mentioned that he still had to work up money in his share for the broken television set... Which it was broken because of the marathon. That’s CONTINUITY. The readers will remember that. But the boys gave no references to why they’re mad at Bill. Why? Because there was no reason for them to be.

#godhole #;; a bigger dork / ooc #// just a little add on #// i'll get to replies now

[weedle-testaburger]

Obnoxious is putting it lightly. They're a pain in the sphincter! Like I said most YT personalities who make those kind of videos are ego-driven maniacs who fancy themselves as the next Mr Plinkett, as I said those reviews make some good points (and they got me into film theory) but they also have a LOT of nitpicking. I also had a dream that I screwed up a speech at a theatre and ran away embarrassed, after that I got drunk and Raine Whispers of all people showed up to say it wasn't my fault.

Yeah, pretty much. They either want to be Mr Plinkett or hbomberguy, and someone needs to tell em they aren't either and never will be quite frankly. And ngl I'd love for Raine to show up in my dreams :p I had a weird dream the other day that I went to Berlin with my family, I've never been but ig I'd like to one day so I'm not gonna complain.