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Post #1162776

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Frank your Majesty
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The Last Jedi: Official Review and Opinions Thread ** SPOILERS **
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Date created
25-Jan-2018, 9:52 AM

ray_afraid said:

J0E said:

You can pick apart the OT Plinkett style if you wanted to.

People say this, but nobody does because nobody can.
We’re back to the ol’ “There all bad movies!” argument again. bluh.

Inconsistencies and plot holes are not what makes a movie bad. It’s not what makes the PT bad. But when you’re already bored by the characters and plot, then you’re more likely to notice these inconsistencies and less likely to accept an ad hoc explanation that would get rid of them.

Take for example TPM. Palpatine’s plan to become chancelor completely relies on the Trade Federation to fail at each order he gives them. Similarly, Luke’s plan to rescue Han from Jabba relies on Jabba not accepting Luke’s offer (or do you really think it would have been an option to leave the droids behind? With Luke’s lightsaber hidden in R2?). And R2 being assigned to work on the sail barge during the execution is also a big plot convenience. The difference is that ROTJ is overall good enough for me that I can overlook these things, while TPM is not.

If you wanted to, you could find things to nitpick in the rest of the OT, too. Cinemasins made an episode about ESB and while I think that Cinemasins is terrible and they don’t have the any clue about movies, they obviously found things to nitpick in ESB. And that’s what most of a Plinkett review is. Nitpicking. Done to entertain people who already think the movie is bad. You could do the same for the OT. The difference is that you won’t find as many people who are entertained by this.