This is all my fault, I'm sorry. I made a pact with the devil that in return for the quiet miracle of Twin Peaks: The Return being a work of astonishing brilliance every single other IP had to fail miserably for the next five years. I think the Prince of Darkness did go a bit overboard with Skywalker, admittedly.
Tell me about it. It's really aggravating doing a job where the better at it you are, the less it looks like you've done anything. Your pay raises end up being perpetually disappointing.
(15:58) The though of a scene between R2D2 telling C3PO about who he is and what he's been through at the end of the film got me, that was a fun idea! I am just getting in to Star Wars after seeing the Mandalorian and looking into the first movies and the prequels. Thanks.
@@Corn_Pone_Flicks Thanks for your reply. Yeah I decided to skip those. Focus on the stuff Lucas wrote (or gave directions). Think you did a great job with these videos, and hope things are moving forward with your own work.
Another great work, sir. I also very much appreciated the stock footage of old biddies clapping, and the Turing analogy, and the 'Oh the humanity!' bit, and and and. And here's to more Benoit mysteries and to making poor Bond-ridden Daniel Craig feel like becoming an actor was a good idea.
I thought she was going to be related to Kylo because there’s a scene in the first film when she’s left on jaku and it seems like the falcon was left there intentionally …
Well, technically it has been...I had to repost it after the original post got muted due to some music I'd used, so several thousand views aren't being counted here. But this channel never gets any traffic, anyway. RUclips's algorithm doesn't like what I do, but screw 'em...I'm not changing my approach for them or anyone.
As we currently struggle ourselves with repeated "RUclips has blocked your video" notifications, resulting in minor edits and tedious reuploads (then additional block notifications), I rewatched this and for some reason the only thing that strikes me as potentially different from the original TRoS video was the seemingly more copious usage of Ray Liotta in Revolver footage. Perhaps Revolver and Southland Tales are fair game, as the powers that be dare not admit to the RUclips bots that "yes, those are OURS!"
Such timing, I just the other day rewatched Jenny Nicholson's video on Rise of Skywalker. She also tore it three new assholes. I don't think I can bear to rewatch the movie itself though. It was bad enough the first time.
Star Wars is the perfect example of what happens when: A man with a vision in cooperation with extremely talented people makes a movie: *OG Trilogy* A man with a vision but no restrictions makes a movie: *Prequel Trilogy* A soulless corporate machine makes a movie: *Sequel Trilogy*
Waaaaaayyyy ahead of you on the ad-blocker thing, so, no worries there (although I'd probably endure some ads, in order to watch your stuff :) ) Just curious--what 'minor changes' did you need to make, for this new version? Keep up(loading) the good work!
I used a couple clips of a Dio song in reference to the Robot D-O. For some reason the second appearance of the song got flagged, but not the first, which is where the joke really was, anyway, so I just took out the second one. I also fixed some of the chroma keying on my hair in the bit where I'm dressed as Han.
I thought they explained the trench run in the original star wars by saying that the anti aircraft fire would be less than if they were flying over the surface. Or that they would have a harder time targeting them in there. Also, the Tasker Maneuver had me LOLing.
Yeah, it's from the Dambusters, a WWII flick, so the tactic is common: You fly low to avoid the AA guns. Also: An Imperial officer makes that exact point, that the Death Star was constructed to fight capital ships and did not anticipate an assault from a small wing of fighters, so the Rebels had the advantage and there were logical reasons for it.
Why would Kylo or any characters in the movie believe any word that Palpatine said? You would think by now he stopped listening to old deforms dark overlords.
You can tell this movie is a AU cause the Second Death Star is obliterated considering the emperor throne room was in a small tower and considering size of the second Death Star it wouldn’t have survived.
You didn't touch some points, which i assume could be considered beating a dead horse: 1 - the "they fly now" line, ignoring stormtroopers with jetpacks is nothing new. 2 - quicksand that does nothing beyond leading them to a cave that has exactly what they wanted 3 - chewie being kidnapped, Rey destroying a spaceship, just to the next scene it be revealed that chewie is alive (who was in that spaceship? Who knows...)
I felt a million other people had harped on the "They fly now" line, and I had little to add beyond sticking in the Rocky theme. But I totally did talk about the fakeout Chewie death, comparing it to Marion's death in Raiders and contrasting why one worked and why one didn't.
@@Corn_Pone_Flicks the part about Chewie was indeed in the video. I just feel like there is the fact that Rey doesn't care as much about a random spaceship she just exploded, because Chewie is alive and all is well.
The "they fly now" was one of the first clips they released as teasers and i renember clearly i bursted my ass laughting.. not that i cared anything about.. for me it was all pointless since i saw ep 8.. so its like seeing a charriot of manure in flames rolling downhill ...
Matt, it's been too long, we need you back for more genre critiques! Do a Matrix Resurrections! (By which I mean a critique on it, don't come back just because WB were going to remake your earlier videos if you didn't).
I haven't even seen Matrix Resurrection...I'd be more likely to do one on why I never thought the first Matrix was really any good. But I"m very tied up trying to get my film finished, despite the best efforts of my computer to stop me. I've got a million ideas for videos to do once that's finished, but it has to take priority.
@@Corn_Pone_Flicks Well maybe it’s for the best in that case! Best of luck with completing work on your film, you’ll have to let us know where we can see it.
I doubt it...after covering the whole franchise in a single video, it would seem weird to do another one on what we know is the middle film of a trilogy.
Have you ever considered making a video on the original Blade Runner? or perhaps the unofficial prequel total recall/ blade runner blend 1-season Canadian-made 1999 tv show Total Recall 2070? i'm obsessed
I've never even heard of that show before. As for Blade Runner, it feels really, really well covered at this point, and I don't know what I could say about it that would be new.
@@Corn_Pone_Flicks then again...you always have something new to say or contribute in any other franchise analysis discussion. I'd still love to see you tackle the original Blade Runner, or perhaps it's 1997 computer game which was way ahead of it's time.
Even though this movie was awful I have to say C-3PO was great in it. Just makes me wish the old characters were better utilized. Well... I just wish the whole Star Wars I.P. was better utilized. Well... Maybe it'd better if this trilogy was just swept under a rug somewhere and never acknowledged again.
I feel like that kind of already happened. Last week I saw someone react to Revenge of the Sith, having watched the films in release order, and lament that there was no more to see. Lots of people popped up in the comments to suggest The Clone Wars and The Mandalorian, but nobody even mentioned episodes 7-9. It really felt like there was a silent consensus that those films aren't really part of the saga and didn't happen.
I reject the opinion that RoS is the best in the new trilogy. The Last Jedi is the best of them. Yes I said it. It's so cringey, so un-Star-Wars-y, so lazily written, so Disney-fied in its humour and yet out of the three it's the better film. Rian Johnson clearly had a daring vision and went with it, unlike Abrams who just remade cookie-cutter 2010s blockbuster imo. Plus Luke's scene with Yoda in Episode 8 is brilliant
I hope you see this. I don’t know of any other way to reach out to you. I’m a young man age 17. I understand that what I know now will be turned on it’s head in 2 years. However I really want to create art during my lifetime. I have no one in my life who has ever done anything like that. I feel like I need an artist mentor. Where did you go to find your “mentor”
I never actually had one. I saw a TV special on the making of The Empire Strikes Back when I was 11 and realized I could learn to do that stuff, or at least some of it, so I got a camera and started doing stop-motion with my action figures. The best thing you can do is make stuff you like and never stop. You learn by doing.
Plenty of great films have used the mystery box approach...The Maltese Falcon comes instantly to mind, or, to make it even more literal, Mulholland Drive. I think way too often people make judgments based on whatever a person has done most recently. Lindelof took a lot of crap for LOST, including by people who were determined to believe that the ending confirmed that the whole story had taken place in limbo, when the actual finale took great and repetitive pains to point out that this was not the case. People like him now because of his more recent work; on the flip side, for years Joss Whedon could do no wrong, and then post-Justice League, they act like he's the most untalented director/writer ever and heap praise on Zack Snyder, who got shit on for years. If the internet had been in existence at the time of Alien 3, David Fincher's career would've been stillborn, and many of my favorite films would never have existed. Fandom has a mob mentality I really don't care for.
It’s shocking how insightful and cerebral you can be when dealing with Lynch material, but then, when it comes to actual films by imbeciles for imbeciles, you are ok with it. This is especially disturbing when it comes to things that actually fall within Lynch’s wheelhouse, like mystery. How can anyone watch a film like Mulholland Drive and love it then go on to Knives Out and think “yeah, this is good”!? I could spend hours writing how you are demonstrably wrong saying that Knives Out or Glass Onion are anything short of complete trash. I thought Brick was interesting and Looper was ok, but the Last Jedi, Knives Out and Glass Onion are “playing in feces” levels of moronic.
It's amusing to me how you think someone's taste in movies can be "disturbing" simply because it doesn't comport with your own. By all means, spend hours writing about how I'm "demonstrably wrong" about liking this or that, but don't delude yourself into thinking that anyone would read it. I literally don't care.
I actually loved The Last Jedi, except for the casino subplot. The Rise of Skywalker hit me as if it was just the quickest way to complete the trilogy. I found Rian’s plot much more interesting.
The main problem with The Last Jedi was that, like with The Force Awakens, it was practically beat-for-beat the same as Empire, but less compelling. Luke had to learn things and suffered a lot, where Rey taught herself and wins every fight, which isn't how life works.
@@Corn_Pone_Flicks I fully agree. The Mary Sue argument has a lot of merit, and in my eyes it was a not thought out way of creating a strong female protagonist. Imagine what could have been achieved with a well planned trilogy, instead of the one they made. It was clear Johnson didn’t like where Abrams was going, but Johnson got the job anyway. It backfired, and then they re-hire Abrams to correct the plot of a whole movie, while telling a compelling story in his own movie - which also was going to be the finale. Ouf..
I think Rian was on to something, because love it or hate it, at least some people love Last Jedi. It's just he had to rip down the previous movie to get there, and backtrack around the end. What would had been great, is if he just directed the entire trilogy!
I would say that as a solo movie, it is definitely enjoyable. Being the middle part of a trilogy, it should have been used to set stakes and develop the characters for their return in the last movie.
@@Rihcterwilker That was a big problem. For a middle chapter, it didn't feel like it tried at all to make the audience chomping at the bit to see how it wrapped up. When Empire ended, we had three agonizing years to wonder what would become of Han and see what came of Vader's revelation.
The Arnold Schwarzenegger of Editing Returns!
I love the time and Craft you put into these
Great Work!
that would imply he just destroys everything and cuts would be everywhere
This is all my fault, I'm sorry. I made a pact with the devil that in return for the quiet miracle of Twin Peaks: The Return being a work of astonishing brilliance every single other IP had to fail miserably for the next five years. I think the Prince of Darkness did go a bit overboard with Skywalker, admittedly.
"Art is a crapshoot" is strangely comforting.
editing is an unsung skill and you're a jedi master of un-renown
Tell me about it. It's really aggravating doing a job where the better at it you are, the less it looks like you've done anything. Your pay raises end up being perpetually disappointing.
(15:58) The though of a scene between R2D2 telling C3PO about who he is and what he's been through at the end of the film got me, that was a fun idea! I am just getting in to Star Wars after seeing the Mandalorian and looking into the first movies and the prequels. Thanks.
I'd honestly just skip the sequel films. They add nothing, and take a good bit away, not to mention that they're clearly not what Lucas intended.
@@Corn_Pone_Flicks Thanks for your reply. Yeah I decided to skip those. Focus on the stuff Lucas wrote (or gave directions). Think you did a great job with these videos, and hope things are moving forward with your own work.
Love the Nomeansno in the intro!
Oh! And later on too :)
Another great work, sir. I also very much appreciated the stock footage of old biddies clapping, and the Turing analogy, and the 'Oh the humanity!' bit, and and and. And here's to more Benoit mysteries and to making poor Bond-ridden Daniel Craig feel like becoming an actor was a good idea.
I know there's supposed to be at least two more films with him in the works, for which I'm quite excited.
I thought she was going to be related to Kylo because there’s a scene in the first film when she’s left on jaku and it seems like the falcon was left there intentionally …
Amazing video! Bravo! The best review I've watched in a while
All well and good, but this video has one critical flaw: How has it not been seen by more people????? It's amazing!
Well, technically it has been...I had to repost it after the original post got muted due to some music I'd used, so several thousand views aren't being counted here. But this channel never gets any traffic, anyway. RUclips's algorithm doesn't like what I do, but screw 'em...I'm not changing my approach for them or anyone.
The better or best ending would have been....
Nosey Old Lady: "Rey Who?"
Rey: "Rey Palpatine."
- Rey Smirks
As we currently struggle ourselves with repeated "RUclips has blocked your video" notifications, resulting in minor edits and tedious reuploads (then additional block notifications), I rewatched this and for some reason the only thing that strikes me as potentially different from the original TRoS video was the seemingly more copious usage of Ray Liotta in Revolver footage. Perhaps Revolver and Southland Tales are fair game, as the powers that be dare not admit to the RUclips bots that "yes, those are OURS!"
The Revolver footage was always there. I actually really like that film, though it's definitely not to everyone's taste.
Such timing, I just the other day rewatched Jenny Nicholson's video on Rise of Skywalker. She also tore it three new assholes. I don't think I can bear to rewatch the movie itself though. It was bad enough the first time.
But at the end of the day, she's still a Brand-addicted Porg enthusiast.
@@bar-1studios That is probably true aswell.
Star Wars is the perfect example of what happens when:
A man with a vision in cooperation with extremely talented people makes a movie:
*OG Trilogy*
A man with a vision but no restrictions makes a movie: *Prequel Trilogy*
A soulless corporate machine makes a movie: *Sequel Trilogy*
Let's Rock
Star Wars fans would be so lucky if Nicholas Meyers would write and make a movie for your franchise.
Yeah, just yeah.
And as usual, your vids are awesome, and some of the best.
9:30 "Then your name is Rey Solo."
A truly lovely end to _your_ trilogy.
At the very least, Meyer was professional and did the due diligence on Directing a known IP, Johnson seemed not to be.
Waaaaaayyyy ahead of you on the ad-blocker thing, so, no worries there (although I'd probably endure some ads, in order to watch your stuff :) ) Just curious--what 'minor changes' did you need to make, for this new version? Keep up(loading) the good work!
I used a couple clips of a Dio song in reference to the Robot D-O. For some reason the second appearance of the song got flagged, but not the first, which is where the joke really was, anyway, so I just took out the second one. I also fixed some of the chroma keying on my hair in the bit where I'm dressed as Han.
I thought they explained the trench run in the original star wars by saying that the anti aircraft fire would be less than if they were flying over the surface. Or that they would have a harder time targeting them in there. Also, the Tasker Maneuver had me LOLing.
Yeah, it's from the Dambusters, a WWII flick, so the tactic is common: You fly low to avoid the AA guns. Also: An Imperial officer makes that exact point, that the Death Star was constructed to fight capital ships and did not anticipate an assault from a small wing of fighters, so the Rebels had the advantage and there were logical reasons for it.
Great video again! Love it!
Why would Kylo or any characters in the movie believe any word that Palpatine said? You would think by now he stopped listening to old deforms dark overlords.
You can tell this movie is a AU cause the Second Death Star is obliterated considering the emperor throne room was in a small tower and considering size of the second Death Star it wouldn’t have survived.
The only definition I know for "AU" is the periodic table signifier for gold, so I don't know what you're trying to say.
@@Corn_Pone_Flicks I meant Another Universe.
You didn't touch some points, which i assume could be considered beating a dead horse:
1 - the "they fly now" line, ignoring stormtroopers with jetpacks is nothing new.
2 - quicksand that does nothing beyond leading them to a cave that has exactly what they wanted
3 - chewie being kidnapped, Rey destroying a spaceship, just to the next scene it be revealed that chewie is alive (who was in that spaceship? Who knows...)
I felt a million other people had harped on the "They fly now" line, and I had little to add beyond sticking in the Rocky theme. But I totally did talk about the fakeout Chewie death, comparing it to Marion's death in Raiders and contrasting why one worked and why one didn't.
@@Corn_Pone_Flicks the part about Chewie was indeed in the video. I just feel like there is the fact that Rey doesn't care as much about a random spaceship she just exploded, because Chewie is alive and all is well.
I figure the other ship was just filled with Imperials, and thus wasn't really something to cry over in and of itself.
The "they fly now" was one of the first clips they released as teasers and i renember clearly i bursted my ass laughting..
not that i cared anything about.. for me it was all pointless since i saw ep 8.. so its like seeing a charriot of manure in flames rolling downhill ...
Where's the source that JJ was "forced" to stick the jet pack troopers/joke in the film. I would love to read that interview!!!
Heck, I don't remember...I made this years ago, when the film was new (this is a repost after that one got taken down).
Your stuff is great.
Matt, it's been too long, we need you back for more genre critiques! Do a Matrix Resurrections! (By which I mean a critique on it, don't come back just because WB were going to remake your earlier videos if you didn't).
I haven't even seen Matrix Resurrection...I'd be more likely to do one on why I never thought the first Matrix was really any good. But I"m very tied up trying to get my film finished, despite the best efforts of my computer to stop me. I've got a million ideas for videos to do once that's finished, but it has to take priority.
@@Corn_Pone_Flicks Well maybe it’s for the best in that case! Best of luck with completing work on your film, you’ll have to let us know where we can see it.
Any chance we gonna get a vidja on the new Halloween flick?
I doubt it...after covering the whole franchise in a single video, it would seem weird to do another one on what we know is the middle film of a trilogy.
@@Corn_Pone_Flicks fair enough thanks for the reply have a Happy Halloween!
Have you ever considered making a video on the original Blade Runner? or perhaps the unofficial prequel total recall/ blade runner blend 1-season Canadian-made 1999 tv show Total Recall 2070? i'm obsessed
I've never even heard of that show before. As for Blade Runner, it feels really, really well covered at this point, and I don't know what I could say about it that would be new.
@@Corn_Pone_Flicks i understand. thank you. i must have been high.
@@Corn_Pone_Flicks then again...you always have something new to say or contribute in any other franchise analysis discussion. I'd still love to see you tackle the original Blade Runner, or perhaps it's 1997 computer game which was way ahead of it's time.
9.5 parsecs or fifty shades of Rey would have been so much better movies than what we actually got ;(
Someone actually made a Fifty Shades parody a while back.
I will save this for friday, I love watching your stuff on friday ✌️
no one cares. keep a diary
Even though this movie was awful I have to say C-3PO was great in it. Just makes me wish the old characters were better utilized.
Well... I just wish the whole Star Wars I.P. was better utilized.
Well... Maybe it'd better if this trilogy was just swept under a rug somewhere and never acknowledged again.
I feel like that kind of already happened. Last week I saw someone react to Revenge of the Sith, having watched the films in release order, and lament that there was no more to see. Lots of people popped up in the comments to suggest The Clone Wars and The Mandalorian, but nobody even mentioned episodes 7-9. It really felt like there was a silent consensus that those films aren't really part of the saga and didn't happen.
Why is he saying ‘Hon’ Solo instead of Han?
Because the sequel trilogy deserves it.
I reject the opinion that RoS is the best in the new trilogy. The Last Jedi is the best of them. Yes I said it. It's so cringey, so un-Star-Wars-y, so lazily written, so Disney-fied in its humour and yet out of the three it's the better film. Rian Johnson clearly had a daring vision and went with it, unlike Abrams who just remade cookie-cutter 2010s blockbuster imo. Plus Luke's scene with Yoda in Episode 8 is brilliant
Rian's vision was copying the same structure as Empire with the AT-AT battle moved to the end, and the finale of Jedi stuck in the middle.
I hope you see this. I don’t know of any other way to reach out to you.
I’m a young man age 17. I understand that what I know now will be turned on it’s head in 2 years.
However I really want to create art during my lifetime. I have no one in my life who has ever done anything like that. I feel like I need an artist mentor. Where did you go to find your “mentor”
I never actually had one. I saw a TV special on the making of The Empire Strikes Back when I was 11 and realized I could learn to do that stuff, or at least some of it, so I got a camera and started doing stop-motion with my action figures. The best thing you can do is make stuff you like and never stop. You learn by doing.
@@Corn_Pone_Flicks trial and error. You have to start somewhere.
Hollywood pick the wrong wunderkind. Daniel Lindelof has all the magic of the mystery box.
The core problem, from the outset, *was* "the mystery box".
Lindelof, Abrams, Kurtzman and Orci are all hacks if you ask me.
Plenty of great films have used the mystery box approach...The Maltese Falcon comes instantly to mind, or, to make it even more literal, Mulholland Drive. I think way too often people make judgments based on whatever a person has done most recently. Lindelof took a lot of crap for LOST, including by people who were determined to believe that the ending confirmed that the whole story had taken place in limbo, when the actual finale took great and repetitive pains to point out that this was not the case. People like him now because of his more recent work; on the flip side, for years Joss Whedon could do no wrong, and then post-Justice League, they act like he's the most untalented director/writer ever and heap praise on Zack Snyder, who got shit on for years. If the internet had been in existence at the time of Alien 3, David Fincher's career would've been stillborn, and many of my favorite films would never have existed. Fandom has a mob mentality I really don't care for.
It’s shocking how insightful and cerebral you can be when dealing with Lynch material, but then, when it comes to actual films by imbeciles for imbeciles, you are ok with it.
This is especially disturbing when it comes to things that actually fall within Lynch’s wheelhouse, like mystery. How can anyone watch a film like Mulholland Drive and love it then go on to Knives Out and think “yeah, this is good”!? I could spend hours writing how you are demonstrably wrong saying that Knives Out or Glass Onion are anything short of complete trash. I thought Brick was interesting and Looper was ok, but the Last Jedi, Knives Out and Glass Onion are “playing in feces” levels of moronic.
It's amusing to me how you think someone's taste in movies can be "disturbing" simply because it doesn't comport with your own. By all means, spend hours writing about how I'm "demonstrably wrong" about liking this or that, but don't delude yourself into thinking that anyone would read it. I literally don't care.
Sorry but Southland tales is a beautiful mess not a crap movie
What are you sorry for? It's not like that assertion actually changed my mind about it.
@@Corn_Pone_Flicks For just stating it without actually explaining my reasoning
@@CloseUpLover Yes, that.
Last
No one gives a shit. Grow up, this isn't funny it's just pathetic.
At least it's not as gay as "first!"
And comments supposedly help creators by feeding the algo, so there's that.
I thought it was kinda funny
I actually loved The Last Jedi, except for the casino subplot. The Rise of Skywalker hit me as if it was just the quickest way to complete the trilogy. I found Rian’s plot much more interesting.
The main problem with The Last Jedi was that, like with The Force Awakens, it was practically beat-for-beat the same as Empire, but less compelling. Luke had to learn things and suffered a lot, where Rey taught herself and wins every fight, which isn't how life works.
@@Corn_Pone_Flicks I fully agree. The Mary Sue argument has a lot of merit, and in my eyes it was a not thought out way of creating a strong female protagonist.
Imagine what could have been achieved with a well planned trilogy, instead of the one they made.
It was clear Johnson didn’t like where Abrams was going, but Johnson got the job anyway. It backfired, and then they re-hire Abrams to correct the plot of a whole movie, while telling a compelling story in his own movie - which also was going to be the finale. Ouf..
I think Rian was on to something, because love it or hate it, at least some people love Last Jedi. It's just he had to rip down the previous movie to get there, and backtrack around the end. What would had been great, is if he just directed the entire trilogy!
I would say that as a solo movie, it is definitely enjoyable. Being the middle part of a trilogy, it should have been used to set stakes and develop the characters for their return in the last movie.
@@Rihcterwilker That was a big problem. For a middle chapter, it didn't feel like it tried at all to make the audience chomping at the bit to see how it wrapped up. When Empire ended, we had three agonizing years to wonder what would become of Han and see what came of Vader's revelation.
I love this presenter haha