Mr. Plinkett's Star Trek 2009 Review (part 1 of 2) 

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Gus Dario not as bad in 2020 but still bad

So not watching anything fro the last 15 years I haven't really missed anything, good to know :D

Well, I think the percentage of all movies has actually slightly decreased, it was just as noticeable then.

By current standards this seems like a masterpiece. What a difference 9 years makes. Even though, to me, it still looks like a movie that could have been made in 2020, for better or worse. It still looks great

If we get Spock working. Because he's a funnier character than we've ever had before.

kevl17 He's stylistically designed to be that way

Anthony Talamantes He's so dense, there's so much going on in every frame he's in...

***** Ooh, ooh, ooh, I got ma parachute pants on...

J'avo Whiffer he's the funniest Spock we've ever had.

@@kamikazemelon787 AND EPIC SPACE BATTLES, AND KATANAS WITH SEGMENTED FOLDING BLADES, AND SHOUTING (but seriously, I actually really enjoyed this movie, and I'd say that it's a highly above average popcorn movie).

Here from the future. That line aged like fine wine.

Lol there will never be a peaceful future.

@@NCC1371 of course there will-once the humans have finally wiped each-other out in a global thermonuclear holocaust, violence and hatred will be a distant memory. I'm giving it about ten years.

Distracted Globe Productions I don’t believe that will happen either.

Present Day * makes it a sequel to the Prime Uni*

Jim Back

Enterprise was a prequel. Discovery is the pre-prequel

I guess the rule doesn't apply to video games. There's a TON of beloved prequels (and not just beloved for the gameplay)

Nostalgia Critic is cringe a.f bruh

+Exmortis Lunarcop Cringe is an effective description for The Nostalgia Critic. I feel you on that.

+wetlazer I used to enjoy Nostalgia Critic, but definitely noticed his not-so-great understanding of movies (and film writing in general) when he wrote a review with the belief that Last Action Hero was a 100% serious action film.

+Amy Santiago He is a bit of a dullard, I'm sorry to say.

he a straight fuck nigga

Hanshotfirst6688 That's funny. I was just laughing at that part when I scrolled down.

+Hanshotfirst6688 Star Wars the s... the Star Wars lol!

Duncan Van Ooyen no see everyone was doing fine when they followed Plinkett’s advice and hired JJ. It was only when they derailed and hired his other son, Rian Johnson that everything got mucked up.

Mike is truly his own undoing

NOBODY could've possibly seen what was coming several years down the line.. That being said, even I moderately enjoyed the J.J. Abrams Star Trek "reboot" but it ran out of steam after that first movie.

Directing Star Wars; Yes. WRITING Star Wars; Nnnnooooooooooooooooooo!

Not true at all-it's gotten _much_ worse.

@@DistractedGlobeGuy You could argue that intensifying isn't really changing, but the end result is I wish it'd stayed the same so you know what? Yeah, you're right, I WISH I was right about it.

Original movies in terms of blockbusters, sure. But you guys act as though a million original smaller movies don’t come out every year, which they do. They vastly outnumber the blockbuster remakes

@@cheezyfilmsproductions1842 That's true, sadly I'm not interested enough in them. I do like arthouse and other smaller types of films sometimes but they have their own set of problems and honestly I'm just of the same mindset as people like RLM and others of their age group(despite being about 10 years younger) where I just miss the golden age of blockbusters from the late 70s to early 90s.

@@ElectricBarrier "arthouse and other smaller types of films" You do know that arthouse style is like, 1% of smaller indie films right? I'm with Cheezy here, there's a nearly infinite amount of original and great indie movie with unique premises, takes, and stories. The problem are that most people don't actually care about "original" films, they just care about big budget films from Hollywood. So all of the originality that exists doesn't get financially supported, so less originality is successful, and thus Hollywood follows suit. Every single person that complains about a lack of original movies should be putting their entertainment money into buying indie films from independent creators/small studios. if everyone actually did that, the Hollywood problem would ALSO solve itself. Even if Hollywood kept not being original, the indie creators would finally have enough money to increase their budgets and get even better.

Yeah it's great

That was my exact reaction when I heard Disney was making a Bambi 2.

And now in 2020 we have Star Trex: Picard: The Very Tired With Gritty Action

@@BTAL1ama I fail to see how star trek Picard was an action show. Its seemed more like a mystery and a character study than a shoot em up series

@@JK-gp2rh 4 mos later... Bang! ZOOM! Kapowie!!! STP is peanut gallery drivel for people who think they're more sophiscated than they really are. Just like STD.

@@badlaamaurukehu Star Trek: Picard is the most disappointing thing since myself

Now, STD's and retarded Picards and cheap dimwitted CalArts garbage.

One would think people don't want that kind of thing that makes you think... But I still remember how packed the theater was with Interestelar.

Erik Högman thanks, already figured it out. Guess they are just incapable of making Plinkett anymore.

Harry S. Plinkett Revenge! Revenge!

Erik Högman "I've been watching a plinkett video every night for 5 years." wat teh fuck

+Erik Högman No, it *is* a new review. That timeline never happened, remember?

+Kirill Nielson he is we need him to do more reviews! He can even beat polio with that :D

Episode VII review coming 2017!

+Alan Alvarado haha I wish.

Mike loved the movie though, he'll probably make a short video talking about how it works as a Star Wars movie. Or something like the star trek 09 review.

+John christopher That's my feelings as well it's not great it's not terrible but requels are for other franchises not Star Wars. Plinkett, the king of attacking plot points, is going to have a hard time defending it unless Mike is going to let Plinkett have a different opinion than him.

***** Shut up kid this is why no one cares what the lap dog thinks. Hypocrisy is destroying every iota of a film then calling anyone who defends if a stupid drooling fan boy. RLM started that and if you don't know where they did then you're already too young or too stupid to be spoken with.

Quite right. Parallels (one of the great TNG episodes, TRUE sci-fi) is about the intriguing idea of quantum parallel universes, NOT parallel timelines. Parallel universes means you may exist in an infinity of variations and that every action and decisions have consequences; one of Star Trek's great messages, highlighted by masterpiec episodes like City on The Edge of Forever. Parallel timelines would mean that there is no consequence to anything you do if you alter history; you just create a new history and yours continues happy and your new history continues happy so nothing matters, all is fine; something Star Trek NEVER agreed about; except in the universally declared shitty Endgame final episode of Voyager, (and ST 2009) every single time there was an alteration in time, they all (except senile old Spock) did everything to correct it, because a change in history effectively DESTROYED the timeline to replace it by a FALSE one. Nothing could be more irresponsible than that and thus, nothing could be less Star Trek than that. Inept Orci & Kurtzman (who also destroyed the Transformers franchise and the Spider-Man franchise) just confused the two to give Abrams what he wanted; a clean slate to do with Star Trek a demo reel to pitch for Star Wars... and in the process, destroy Star Trek as well; changing a mature, thought-provoking and entertaining sci fi show into a kiddie live action cartoon show set in space.

odojang

On the contrary; Star Trek has been most consistent on this fact; you do not alter the timeline without consequences; the main one being, you destroy what was in favor of what now is: the morality play this creates is the fascinating point explored with the story and Trek always took the stance that it was wrong to do so. Sci Fi then becomes what it is best known for; a reflection about us, reality and existence and how our own actions impact on it all; that we are responsible for or own decisions and must rise up to that responsibility. Only Janeway broke that rule among Trek captains; hence why Endgame is seen as the lazy bad plot contrivance to end the story that it was. Archer stopped the aliens from altering WWII; Kirk restored what McCoy had changed; Picard stopped the Borg from changing earth History; Sisko stopped Darvin from killing Kirk... even Janeway opposed the Krenim Empire from playing with the timeline before she decided the send everything to hell for the sake of making things better for her and her friends. Nu-Trek brushed it all away as something of no consequence to let Abrams do "his" Star Trek Wars with the cope out of "but I'm not changing anything, you can still have your real Trek and I will have my demo reel to pitch for Star Wars." The fact that he uses Spock, of all characters (the very one that convinced Kirk that Edith Keller HAD to die, return Captain Christopher to his life, let Gary Seven complete his mission etc), is all the more "un-trek" and proof that neither he nor Orci & Kurtzman understood anything at all.

, you should really check out the youtuber fanboyflicks, he does hilarious reviews of bad movies and he deserves more subs

I'm coming to this thread from the future but it seems that Mike -- I mean, Mr. Plinkett has a weirdly strong distaste for parallel universes, like they somehow invalidate the storytelling of Star Trek. I don't get it though. Parallels is one of my favorite TNG episodes, and it's not like the existence of other universes makes the one we're in less special.

yup

@The Strawberry Pimp Yis kiptin

i was thinking the same thing during that segment, its gotten so much worse considering all the live action remakes

Maybe the same way that they made a movie out of Legos?

William Bone I'm still not ruling out the possibility of "Snuggies: The Movie"

Gavin Macpherson-Smith Only other animated movies that have come out I've liked as of the last five years were the movies that beat Legos to the rewards,(Song of the Sea, Tale of Kaguya) alongside Kubo. Those three and the Lego movies are the holy quintet of the 2010's.

It's not only gold, it's also family friendly.

LoooooooL

You have no idea how accurate this was/is.

This should be screen-capped, printed, framed and placed in a "most eerily real future prediction comments" museum. Nostradamus couldn't have been more accurate.

Little did he know

AT-STs! AT-STs! AT-STs!

As for the second “reboot” go fuck yourself! Kahn... Ricardo Montalbán owned that part! No one can replicate that!

that would be amazing

Martha... I’m coming home

Did worf Still get all his recommendations and ideas shot down?

Haha the timeline where Riker is in command and they just become homeless and explode. It's particularly embarrassing because it happens infront of EVERY parallel Enterprise crew.

@@Moredakkamus *"NO! WE WON'T GO BACK!"*

He was subverting our expectations, even back then.

I always wondered why RLM keeps making these incredibly obvious lazy jokes, and now I know who they're for

@@spankminister actually, Plinkett's style is quirky and hilarious, it's not for everyone but it doesn't have to be

Says the guy with @@spankminister for a name.

@@spankminister Because slamming overly sensitive snowflakes never, ever, EVER gets old.

Except both the actor and character are Japanese. Lol.

Scottish Man Merica! Should have gone to their website. You could have watched it 2 years ago.

Jackmono1 Noooooo! Ive been wasting my life waiting!!!

She's probably never fired a fake rifle before in her whole career.

The idea of Dr Crusher firing any weapon other than a hand phaser just feels wrong

+Crowley9 Similar. Not identical. Parallels literally made it so that a potentially infinite number of every person to ever exist all exist simultaneously in alternate timelines. Every decision you have ever made was made differently by a different version of yourself in another timeline. That means that every mistake you've ever made has been avoided by one of your numerous copies. That means that there is a version of you with a perfect life, thus rendering your life completely devoid of any kind of meaning. It also means that free will cannot possibly exist, because literally everything that _can_ happen _does_ happen. All the terrible things that have happened to you in your life are simply the result of you being in a less than perfect version of the universe. Parallels was the single sloppiest, poorly-thought-out episode in all of TNG because it rendered absolutely everything that ever happened in the show, and ever would happen, completely pointless. All those tense moments when the crew was struggling for their lives, desperately trying to figure out the correct course of action to take, are rendered sterile and fruitless, because the crew succeeding has _nothing at all to do_ with how competent they are, but is simply due to the fact that they're in a universe where they succeed. We see that in one of the parallel universes, Picard was killed during the events of The Best of Both Worlds. We also see that there's another universe where the Borg have completely destroyed the Federation. So all those clever maneuvers and thoughtful storytelling and action-packed sequences are rendered totally pointless. In just one episode, TNG essentially retconned everything interesting or exciting in Star Trek out of existence. All so they could set up a romance between Worf and Troi. Screw you, Brannon Braga.

+fartmagizewarth Everything you described is exactly what's wrong with the episode, but I don't think you actually grasp why. First, it's not simply that there are an infinite number of parallel universes -- it's that there is a universe for literally every single contingency in the space-time continuum. In other words, for every choice you could make, there is a universe where you make a different choice. And for every choice someone ELSE could make, there is a universe where THEY make a different choice. And so on and so on. By the end of it, you end up with every conceivable eventuality all existing simultaneously. Like I said, it completely negates any possibility of free will. The actual possibility of "choice" disappears when all contingencies are simultaneously existent across the multiverse. As I said, it renders every tense moment in Star Trek completely hollow by telling us that if it doesn't work out in THIS universe, it does in some OTHER universe. So, essentially, what we're seeing is just one of the many, many realities. If you don't like it, please flip over to channel 53049, where they're airing a completely different universe. Maybe that story will be more to your liking. The thing about Mirror, Mirror was that it only suggested the existence of two universes -- the "original" universe, and the "mirror" universe. It was the duality that was important in that episode, and the duality that made that episode work. Parallels took that and tore it to shreds, saying, "No, there aren't two opposing universes, there are actually quadrillions of universes that are only different on a quantum level". Everything that the series ever accomplished before this was completely destroyed by that episode, and everything that happened afterwards was pointless. For all the bogus time travel and space-time manipulation, nothing even mattered. There would always be a universe where they DIDN'T destroy the galaxy, or they DID complete that crucial mission, or whatever. Every single possibility is realized in the Star Trek universe thanks to Parallels, so there's no reason to feel any kind of attachment to the events depicted in the show, because we, as viewers, know that they are just one of the vast possibilities. As I said, it ruined the show. Lazy writing was the death of Star Trek. That explains the movies, actually. But All Good Things is still the best episode of anything to ever be made. So whatever, ignore my blathering.

A man was walking along an endless beach throwing washed up clams back into the water. Another man approached him and said "Why even bother, there are so many that it will never make a difference". In response he threw the clam in his hand back into the water and replied "It made a difference to that one"

admittedly parallels does mess up the multiverse theory something awful. The general idea of multiverse theory is both infinite in width and depth. Ie there are an infinite number of both different and identical universes. Parallels describes a new universe at each decision made by a conscious being. In summation multiverse theory does not ruin anything... but parallels was shit.

I mean, even if there are millions of parallel universes, you're still only one in your universe. And that's the only universe you'll ever be.

I will not argue that!

Davis Centis You have a hot girl kissing you in the photo.

Yeah. I REALLY hated the reinterpretation of Spock's character, & there's just something about Chris Pine's ugly face that pisses me off.

1) Zoë Saldana refused to sign the contract unless her character had something to do. 2) They noticed a few scenes of Nichelle Nichols jokingly hitting on Nimoy, and figured that had to be an important characteristic, despite apparently not noticing the same thing being much more prominent with Nurse Chapel.

We find out now that the people who made this film knew nothing about Star Trek.Spock with a girlfriend is laughable.

@@djackson4657 Spock having a girlfriend isn't necessarily a problem; Vulcans practice long-term monogamy just like many primates: it's both practical and fulfilling for many. The problem (and insult) is in implying that (1) he would compromise his professional ethics for sex, and (2) that a bridge officer on the Federation flagship only got her coveted post because she sucks a mean dick.

Having a girlfriend when you are not interested in girls is a problem,

Oh...

Ryan Clark lol yeah "new"

Ben Dick I guess Space Cop took up most of the time that would've been used to write and cut a Plinkett review. Plus all the other shit they've been doing all along.

Craplatte "OOOVERDRIIIIVE!!!!!"

Wtf

It turned Uhura into a lovesick school girl, complaining all the time.