RedLetterMedia's Revenge of Nadine [TPM 108 pg Resp. [RotS Review+RotS Preview+ST'09 Reveiw+Next Review Teaser+2002 Interview+AotC OutTakes+Noooooo! Doc.+SW Examiner Rebuttal+AotC Review+TPM Review] — Page 24

Not that I'd be radically opposed to seeing Monkey Eye with Stoklasa' perfect McDiarmid impression or anything (although the "cleaner" voice there matches the "cleaner" face better than McDiarmid's "dirty" voice matches his decrepit appearence), but in the end, you'd still have a monkey-eyed Emperor that looks nothing than "the" Emperor, with only half of the illusion provided.

I dunno man... I've got nothing against this or anything, but this just accentuates the inherent pointlessness of all these "fan edits" - they can do only so much to the "problems" they're out to solve.

But I got the point :)

Adywan's version is the original lines but performed by McDiamid with a hologram based on his look from Jedi.

That's how it should be.

Which proves that fan edits can work and are not necessarily pointless.

Finally there is a special edition of the scene which ties in with the other episodes but has the original dialogue.

xhonzi said:

RLM used to offer DVD versions of his reviews on his site... or did I make that up?

I don't know about that but the first two SW reviews and his Star Trek reviews are available at fanedit.info (that's how I got them).  boon made them, but no word so far if he plans on doing a DVD of the ROTS review.

xhonzi said:

Has anyone found a version of the RotS review that I can download?

If you download the latest RealPlayer (free version), you'll get a nifty  'Download This Video' button that will appear automatically when you play a video in your browser.

It works great, and obviously you don't have to use the included media player.

I downloaded the ROTS review via this site, which worked great:

http://download.uzeik.net/eng.php

Tyrphanax said:

Did anyone else have a nerdrage moment when he said the 'Falcon wasn't in ROTS? Or was that just me? Or was this already discussed and I'm just tardy to the party?

When he said it wasn't, I believe I yelled at the computer monitor something to the effect of "YES IT WAS IDIOT!"

I sort of had, but in my case, it was more of the "alright, now he's gonna make a dismissive joke about that hardly visible easter egg in the corner of the screen, one Lucas himself declared as canon, and "really the actual Falcon that happened to be there at the same day"... wait, now it's coming... now.. the segment's not over yet, now he's gonna... come on.. OOHHHHHH" sort.

Then after a few seconds, I realized "he didn't even bother with that", and suddenly, it was awesome.

I mean, come on dude, R2 was floating around in space in Abram's Trek movie. Does that shit matter? The Falcon wasn't in the film, it's coolness wasn't ruined in any way that could've been possible. Just some tiny image floating around in the corner of the screen for a couple seconds...

It's like if Lucas' son had been dressed as Han Solo and put somewhere into the opera house for a few hardly visible seconds, it essentially wouldn't have mattered.

For what it's worth, they confirmed in their forums that they knew about the easter egg, but that wasn't what their point was about, and they didn't bother bringing that up ;)

twooffour said:

It's like if Lucas' son had been dressed as Han Solo and put somewhere into the opera house for a few hardly visible seconds, it essentially wouldn't have mattered.

He and his daughter were dressed as blue aliens outside the opera house and it was blatantly obvious.  Ugh.

TV's Frink said:

twooffour said:

It's like if Lucas' son had been dressed as Han Solo and put somewhere into the opera house for a few hardly visible seconds, it essentially wouldn't have mattered.

He and his daughter were dressed as blue aliens outside the opera house and it was blatantly obvious.  Ugh.

I know that, but I think the only time I actually noticed them was when I was watching the commentaries and they pointed out those cameos.

Kinda like the ETs in the senate, you notice them if you notice them (or get told about it), but there ARE no "ETs" in the senate. ;)

Honestly, the Peter Jackson cameos in LOTR were more obvious...

Ben Burtt and some other guy show up at the end of TPM, in that scene where Palpatine congratulates Padme... Anthony Daniels is in the Clones bar... that shit's funny :D

I noticed the ETs in the theater and hated it immediately.  And not only is Anthony Daniels in the Clones bar, but so is Jar Jar the dude who played Jar Jar.

Pisses me off.

TV's Frink said:

I noticed the ETs in the theater and hated it immediately.  And not only is Anthony Daniels in the Clones bar, but so is Jar Jar the dude who played Jar Jar.

Pisses me off.

With all the problems inherent to the PT, these cameos don't really bother me.

I must admit though, I'm a little worried about someone trying to connect Star Wars and Indiana Jones via the Crystal Skull aliens.

Which really should be Mr. Plinkett's next target, by the way.  The storyline to that movie was totally incoherent.

Tyrphanax said:

twooffour said:

Kinda like the ETs in the senate, you notice them if you notice them (or get told about it), but there ARE no "ETs" in the senate. ;)

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Grebleips

Oh, screw you, Lucas.  Those are ETs and you know it. 

What is with that guy?

EDIT: Just read the end of the article and now I get it.  Still...actually, Spielberg backwards is even dumber.  Screw you, Lucas.

Tyrphanax said:

twooffour said:

Kinda like the ETs in the senate, you notice them if you notice them (or get told about it), but there ARE no "ETs" in the senate. ;)

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Grebleips

Oh... my fucking God :D

Like, those random prop monsters from the Cantina all have their biographies and planet histories, too ;)

Does the EU also say how many tentacle dudes that one hooker chick in the Clones nightclub humped? Is that canon, too? LOL

This would be so incredibly stupid, if it weren't kinda tongue-in-cheek ;)

Tyrphanax said:

twooffour said:

Kinda like the ETs in the senate, you notice them if you notice them (or get told about it), but there ARE no "ETs" in the senate. ;)

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Grebleips

 Oh... my fucking God :D

Um, so each of those prop monsters from the Cantina has their backstory, right? Probably also a political chronology from their respective homeplanets, too...

What I'd really like to know now, does the EU also... expand upon how many weirdos with tentacles that one hooker chick from Clones humped? Like, is that canon? LOL

Honestly, this shit would be so incredibly, incomprehensible stupid, if it weren't kinda tongue-in-cheek ;)

evan1975 said:

TV's Frink said:

I noticed the ETs in the theater and hated it immediately.  And not only is Anthony Daniels in the Clones bar, but so is Jar Jar the dude who played Jar Jar.

Pisses me off.

With all the problems inherent to the PT, these cameos don't really bother me.

I must admit though, I'm a little worried about someone trying to connect Star Wars and Indiana Jones via the Crystal Skull aliens.

Which really should be Mr. Plinkett's next target, by the way.  The storyline to that movie was totally incoherent.

And after that, I demands he does the Matrix trilogy :D

I, like, already drool at the very prospect :DD

Because seriously... Confused Matthew's reviews, while fun, kinda do suck...

Fucking bug double posts...

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.

It's nice to see the different styles of reviewing people do of these movies on the internet. RedLetterMedia likes to goof around and be kind of silly and talk about the movie more than review it. Confused Matthew likes to review movies in a more formal manner, and Chefelf likes to review things from beginning to end and make jokes about each moment he didn't like.

I liked the comparison of Citizen Cane, I was thinking he was going to use the Godfather to compare how to do a convincing movie about a good man falling from grace compared to ROTS, but Citizen Cane is probably a better choice to do the comparison with.

twooffour said:

Because seriously... Confused Matthew's reviews, while fun, kinda do suck...

Interesting you mention that because I finally checked his site out yesterday after hearing so much about it.  I tried watching his 2001 video, but the first two parts I viewed was basically him just shouting "This is boring!" over and over and muted video footage.  I admit I didn't finish it, but from what I saw, he seemed unable to examine the movie in a historical context.