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The Phantom Menace Review (2009)
Immature and Amateurish
What we have here is an amateurish, purile, biased, incompetent, bordering on parody with a bad voice-over and interspersed with horrid "sketches" video posing as an in-depth analysis of an actual professional film by a bunch of wannabe filmmakers who could never write, direct or act in anything remotely praiseworthy.
The video is full of lies, be it clips taken out of context and edited to suit the narrative, interviews with their best friends acting as "random fans" to support the false narrative, and genuine ineptitude to properly analyse films that are beyond their artistic means. The critiques are pure drivel from a bunch of cinematically illiterate YouTuber reviewers, and NOT real film critics.
The coward "acting" in the role of "Mr. Plinkett" is also a Star Trek fanboy and not a Star Wars fan, so keep that in mind. And the whole premise of these Prequel-bashing videos are totally invalidated by watching the behind-the-scenes featurettes, not to mention the blatant praise given to the cashgrab, artistically bankrupt, retro reboots that makes up the Sequel Trilogy that "Mr. Plinkett" loves.
Jeremy Jahns (2009)
Poser
Another cinematically illiterate YouTuber who is wannabe film critic.
When watching his videos it is apparent that he isn't a real critic, and at best, possibly a paid shill for certain studios (or he is hoping that his pandering will get him a paycheck?). This is evident by the high praises given to bad big-budget blockbusters and blatant bashing of other superior films.
He is a pretentious Millennial trying to be cool by bringing up the same "popular" views as other YouTube wannabe critics; pandering to the same fan base by regurgitating the biased, amateurish and erroneous talking points in his so-called film reviews, all in the pursuit of gaining the same batch of subscribers and likes.
Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017)
Subverting expectations
Rian Johnson loves to subvert viewers expectations.
Viewers expected a great, original, fun space opera that would be on par with, and faithful to the original 6 films.
The naïve expected answers to the mystery boxes laid out in the 2015 letdown/lacklustre/cashgrab/retro The Force Awakens, telling all that once we received the answers to the mystery boxes, that we would realise the "greatness" of TFA.
Everyone expected to see Luke Skywalker show us again why he was The New Hope.
Knowledgeable fans expected Canto Bight to be relevant to the plot.
More thought and effort to the story, overarching storyline and canon was expected.
Well congrats, all expectations were subverted! And Rian Johnson's promised trilogy never materialized as a result.
Chris Stuckmann Movie Reviews (2011)
Cinematically illiterate
C. S. is just another YouTuber, among a quagmire of other "influencer" posers, claiming to be a film critic. He will both criticise and praise the same things, totally oblivious that he is critiquing the same points. He is incapable of making convincing, elaborate, and original arguments; he is clueless to homages and the art itself.
Not only is he a pretend film critic, he's a wannabe scriptwriter and director, too, who is frustrated as to why he is unable to create the next Star Wars.
He claims that he is a Star Wars fan, but resents Lucas's successes due to his own limitations. Watch his biased reviews and you will realise that he has nothing to offer other than repeating the same biased and false talking points of other YouTuber influencers in order to gain the same subscribers and likes within that certain bubble of geek fandom.
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)
Retro (but not in the "cool" sense)
Retro: imitative and derivative.
Star Wars A New Hope was a film imitative (and very knowledgeable) of the cinematic history, and to a lesser extent, literary history that came before it, creating a fresh new film that influenced generations and spawned countless of inferior imitators.
Star Wars The Force Awakens is derivative of Star Wars A New Hope. Period.
Lens flares and mystery boxes pale in comparison to the framing, story perspective, and the many other techniques that only a director well versed in cinematic history and paying homage to the greats can pull off. Abrams is not such a director. Cheap gimmicktry isn't a substitute, and he's a two-trick pony. However, Abrams plays ball and is a studio lackey, therefore, he keeps getting gigs that are beyond his wheelhouse and we get mediocre blockbusters as a result.
Notes from Melanie (2019)
Proof he's a talentless hack.
This is proof that most film "critics" are failed filmmakers or clueless wannabes.
Stuckman (and his YouTube ilk) is the epitome of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
This guy criticises films by regurgitating RLM's biased and uninformed criticisms, and other "popular" yet flawed or flatout wrong criticisms by other wannabes, without any true knowledge of film history, techniques, homages, etc. He has proven in his reviews his lack of understanding the basics of filmmaking, and yet he has delusions of grandeur that he is a film expert. The scary part is that his YouTube subscribers probably think that he has a clue.