His opinion that MCU isn’t cinema (an opinion shared by some of the greatest filmmakers out there) automatically makes him an idiot and invalidates any insights he’s had on Star Wars?
Nah, that’s not my main problem. Most of his points are nonsense. The MCU thing is just one of them.
His Prequels video is just, “Look at this visual storytelling and poetry, that automatically makes every point about the Prequels flaws null and void”. Yes, I’m aware that, “It’s a language” and that the parallels have meaning and all that. But the OT did the same thing without sacrificing plotting, character development, pacing, good dialogue, etc.
His “debunks” of Prequel criticism are just addressing nitpicks rather then actual story or character critiques. Instead of acting like you destroyed Chris Stuckmann because he said they have candlelight dinners in AOTC but there aren’t actually any candles (as if that was the point), how about address the actual problems with the romance plotline or Anakin’s character?
He defends Chewbacca being in ROTS by saying that it makes ANH better, as Obi-Wan approaches Chewie “on his first try” and that’s because he knew him because “He helped the Jedi 20 years ago”. First of all, Chewie met Yoda, not Obi-Wan. Second, Chewie is not the first pilot he approaches. It’s a normal guy who then refers him to Chewie. This and the dialogue indicates he had no idea who Chewie was. For all the talk he does of people “Not watching the movies”, it doesn’t seem like he rewatched ANH for his video.
His special edition defenses are bad too.
He states that Greedo shooting first was done because Greedo’s intentions to shoot Han weren’t clear visually, despite the fact that his blaster pointing at Han is clearly visible.
He says that both of Vader’s Big No’s aren’t any different from Luke’s Big No in TESB, without accounting for the performance or that it’s out-of-character for Vader, who’s supposed to be stoic. There being a Big No in every other movie doesn’t excuse giving Vader a cheesy stupid line that undercuts the scene. Would it be an excuse if they gave Han a cheesy Big No when the door to the shield generator closes?
Also he actually had the balls to say Jedi Rocks isn’t any more cheesy then Lapti Nek. pukes
“An opinion shared by some of the greatest filmmakers out there”, Argument from authority. I don’t care. You don’t get to just call something not what it is just because you don’t think it’s good example of it. Every movie is “a real movie” and “cinema”.