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Message: [QUOTE="tzznandrew, post: 1969848, member: 168"] Mr. Plinkett has had some good points throughout, but he's jumped the shark in my opinion. His shtick, it seems, is to hate whatever isn't the original [I]Star Wars[/I]. I mean, one of his complaints in this movie is that the movie can't stand on it's own; sure, of course it really can't explain everything and relies on the audience's context. Can you imagine if in every single movie the character's had to re-establish what the Force was? Don't [I]Empire Strikes Back[/I] and [I]Return of the Jedi[/I] only [I]really[/I] work if you have some idea who those characters were from the previous movies ([I]Return of the Jedi[/I] in particular). Otherwise, to follow his criticism, it's like asking "I don't understand the motivations behind this woman who dresses like a bounty hunter and unfreezes Han Solo. Unless I've seen the other movies, this is just contextless emotion that hasn't been earned!" Now, if Plinkett wants to argue that there is something unreasonable about the franchise expecting the fans see the other movies, that's fine. But it seemed pretty clear that [I]A New Hope[/I] was expected for this movie. His half-hearted complaints about an "unsatisfying ending" are undermined the minute anyone realizes that the move [I]presupposes[/I]--like a prerequisite to a class--that the audience has seen [I]A New Hope[/I]. The audience literally can get by without any of the others in [I]Rogue One[/I], but his complaint is hollow. Further, his unlikeable characters thing is wrong on two fronts. One, I thought some of the characters were likable, and putting a laugh track over a scene doesn't change that. Second, even if I didn't like it, isn't part of the movie's point that [SPOILER]big successes come from the sacrifices of many unnamed people? What Luke and Leia and Han do--in their various arrays of virtuousness--can only be [I]actually[/I] accomplished by the more sordid men and women who sacrifice themselves with no greater reward than a success they cannot see?[/SPOILER] He seems to willfully miss these points to once again complain about how much better the originals were. And, interestingly enough, he talked in this clip about how he [I]almost[/I] liked [I]TFA[/I], yet (perhaps I'm mistaken) but his review of that film gave me no inclination he enjoyed any of it at the time. [/QUOTE]

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