Ghostbusters said:
I was a little disappointed with RedLetterMedia's coverage of ROTS. He did a good job but he generalized too many things that I was hoping he would elaborate on like he did in episodes II and I. I was dying waiting to see what he would say about Darth Vader saying Noooooooo!!!! But he just jumps right past it with no comment at all. Maybe he felt like there was enough comments on that already. I think he does speak to the audience that keeps up on the prequel hating discussion and tries to add things that he feels hasn't been discussed heavily yet.
I see what you mean - ultimately, I remember being somewhat disappointed at the end, too, but if I'm honest to myself, I was pretty much hoping for an epic 3 hour takedown that would cover EVERYTHING... not just the whole ROTS movie, or prequel plot... but EVERYTHING! :D
But yea, although there are, of course, exceptions everywhere, he does seem to follow the pattern of trying to focus on the less obvious things that aren't on the number 1 complaint list.
Like in I he almost completely left out complaints about Jar Jar's personality, and didn't mention how stupid the Neimoidians were, or anything about the annoying podrace commentator, Boss Nass, everything that basically ruined the movie's tone. Like "wait, hold on guys, it gets better!"
In the Clones review, he didn't particularly dwell on how we had no idea where the Separatists came from or who Sifo-Dyas was, or WTF Boba Fett (;) is doing all over the place, because those were were like the most obvious WTF moments of the film - so he just kinda glossed over those in a dickish manner, making derisive jokes about the plot, and left the details over to the ordinary mortal critics watching the review.
It's like he's not even giving those turds enough respect / recognition to bother with them.
Also love what he did with order whaaaaaaaat in the latest one... LOL! At first, I was kinda pissed he decided not to get into it and hoped he'd do it later... when the review was over, it suddenly hit me :D
Also didn't bother with the inane dialogue during the climactic duel - everyone's already done all the "Sith deals in absolutes"s and "you have done that yourself"s and "from my point of view, the Jedi are evil"s to death, so he's just kinda "eeeehh... they exchange some boring pointless dialog, then blah, then we come to the ending.. *yaaaawn*".
Fucking brilliant, nothing to add to that :D
As for the Noooooo!, they already did a "documentary" on "The United States of Noooooo!" a while ago, it's on their website - it included the team remembering how they burst into laughter during the first viewing, inane reenactments of the scene by themselves and random pedestrians, some ytmnd spoofs... kinda made sense they'd just tenderly played around all that in the actual review.
The Cinema Snob used that trick a couple of times (with Troll 2, and Satan's School for Girls) - omitted the infamous, cheesy scream shot, or any comments about it, only to put it at the very end as a surprise. It works :)
I myself am not sure what to think of it... I mean, the nooo-oooooo sounds so damn inane, it's like they were TRYING to play that cliché with as much silliness as possible. Even the German dub doesn't sound half as stupid.
In contrast to the previous two episodes, which just had trippy, childish "fun" stuff and some lame puns in them, EpIII often ventures into pure Ham and Cheese territory, in a strange mix between serious/epic and silly that I actually find very well done (if it's intentional - if not, still pretty entertaining).
General Grievance, creepy and menacing on one hand, and utterly hilarious on the other. The timing of his coughs is so dead-on in inducing the most inane and silly effect possible, it feels like it was put in there with surgical precision (although, so is Jar Jar's speech manner, if I think about it...).
The Emperor constantly juggles between creepy and menacing, deliciously eeeeevil and downright hilarious.
The creepy robots with the capes look like nightmare fuel at first, then quickly deconstruct themselves with silly slapstick.
Then, the wonderfully epic montage of Vader's reconstruction, making it look like at least the prequel seris is gonna be crowned by a moment of sheer awesomeness... and then... and then.... NOOO-OOOOOOOOO!!!!!
I dunno man... I sometimes think Lucas was intentionally razzing the audience with all that :)