www.redlettermedia.com He's back! Scientist Man is hired to help save Star Wars™. He uses logic, economics, marketing and math in order to come up with an idea so radical that it just might save the soon-to-be bankrupt franchise.
Mike’s prediction of “exclusive Star Wars limited experiences” came true with the Galactic Starcruiser hotel. Only instead of $150 Disney is charging $5,000. Even RLM can still underestimate the greed of The Mouse
Mike is allergic to knowledge, and Scientist Man always tries to pump him full of antihistamines to steal his pens for the pocket pouch on the lab coat.
It makes sense why though, from Disney's perspective. They want to make as much as they do at theaters, but many homes are families so multiple people can watch it together for $30. They figure it will even out because single people who watch it will be paying more while families of 5 or 6 catch a break.
"Who loves Star Wars?" "We doooooo!" "Who's easily manipulted by a property they enjoyed as a child and willing to be used as a marketing tool like a bunch of fucking sheep!" "We aaaaaaaare!"
Jesus, rewatching this and realizing how much Mike has contributed to Disney’s poor choices. Perhaps People vs George Lucas should have a follow up: Fans vs Mike Stoklasa.
Not sure you're blaming the right person here. Have you heard of Kathleen Kennedy? All RLM and their fans have ever wanted are entertaining stories with good characters and good writing. If Disney had taken that desire to heart there wouldn't be a problem
Michael Mercy he means multiple popcorns for the ppl watching it with you. Like, I'll take a popcorn, and a soda - I'll take two large popcorns for the kids. You wouldn't say popcorn. It is not plural.
I hate how the Star Wars community is so damn divided right now. It shouldn't matter why Kennedy is destroying Star Wars, what's important is that she IS destroying Star Wars. Come on guys lets stop all this fighting and toxicity.
danimalcollective1: If a life threatening tumor is spotted, does it really matter how and why it got there in the first place? Perhaps... But before we yell back and forth about how it got there, we must agree that we should solely focus on removing that tumor right away. We'll leave the diagnostic investigators to determine the actual cause later, as long as Dr. Iger makes his incision, cuts around the dead waste material, and cleanly removes the insipid and malignant growth known as 'KK-RJ-GTFO.'
Its interesting - by putting the majority of SW future content on Disney + they are essentially doing what scientist man suggested. People will be playing around $150 to 250 a year eventually to see fan-geared content.
Yeah fuck Disney+ I cut cable years ago to avoid paying fucktons of money for my entertainment. So when Disney pulled out of Netflix and forced the cancellation of Netflix's Marvel content (while promising to launch their own with NO relation to the Netflix fare... effectively wasting my time), I refused to add yet another streaming service to my repertoire, as then I'd just be pushing cable prices again anyway.
Still waiting on physical releases (even tho it's not confirmed whether Disney will do this). I don't like relying on internet connections and other people's servers for content
Turn Rey into the villain. Drive Kilo insane and end the trilogy with her becoming Emperor and him fleeing into exile Yoda style. See you in ten to fifteen years for the next trilogy. Better luck next time.
Honestly, this is probably the best way the trilogy could end. It's even been decently set up that Rey and Kylo could completely switch sides. The only question is whether they'll have the balls to do it.
BossyMeatCreature Yup, it has been said that he will bring balance to the force. Remember that scene where he is humping a porg, that was part of his Jedi training
They might have if the hotter of the two Tico sisters had been the main character. Not that Kelly Marie Tran is bad looking but they gave her derpy hair and a mustard sack to wear the whole movie.
berserkerpride I think the opposite is true: Non-perverts would be more interested in conventionally attractive women (Paige Tico), whereas perverts are more likely to be into kinky sh** like women with bowl cuts in burlap sacks (Rose Tico). Maybe the problem is that "The Last Jedi" and "Solo" were targeting *exclusively* perverts?
"I'm afraid that's not an option." I blame KK for the whole mess. Lots of people involved with the productions could have done a better job, but she's about the only person who decided whether or not "good" was an option. Other people to blame would be Lucas for picking her, and Iger for failing to manage her. These are the 3 stooges behind star wars.
FOX can make a disaster-comedy about how Disney ruined the Star Wars franchise staring Melissa McCarthy as Kathleen Kennedy and Mark Hamill as Rian Johnson.
sad thing is that disney isnt going to take science man's advice to swindle the star wars fans, and instead will try to continue to swindle regular movie goers
Disney watches this, “So what you're saying is that we should continue to insult and belittle the hardcore fans and try to increase the pervert population."
I'm just waiting for Disney's equivalent to Microsoft's Don Mattrick , kinect, and windows 8 to ax the careers of everyone involved in their retarded shitshow. But we might never see the day.
This video is designed to give Disney an idea, and if they use that idea, Red Letter Media would have gained psychic control of Disney in the most ironic way.
Jack Robinson no, fuck people for being easily manipulated consumers. Unthinking drones for a corporate system seeking to exploit them as much as possible for their enjoyment of it. And then mindlessly agreeing to it. Look at each clip. It’s a clip of humans acting as herd animals. Every. Single. One.
Jack Robinson fuck them for being the exact neo lib/con (mostly lib) consumers. Functionally boomer material. Then THEN they jizz themselves over blunt forced “messages” (propaganda) about the evils of corporatism and capitalism! It’s a fucking abomination spawned from the works of Aldos Huxley and George Orwell.
Jack Robinson you ever see how these people live? The fat anime chicks and lost neck beards? In fucking hovels filled with their “enjoyment”. Bonus point for obviously suffering animals in their filth ridden holes in apartment complexes.
Semi-related: When Indiana Jones and Let's Forget There Even Was 4th Movie was in cinemas, there were three people in the room. And one of them was the guy working in the cinema
Kathleen Kennedy: "Aren't you a little fat to be a Boba Fett?" Scientist Man: "Huh? I'm Scientist Man, I'm here to rescue Star Wars. I got your Han Solo and I'm here with Mr Plinkett"
Well, they turned the Boba Fett Movie into "The Mandalorian" which is a fan exclusive for everyone that pays $70 for a year so I hope you got your paycheck from Kennedy.
You would have to have absolute zero self-worth and dignity if you even were to even entertain the thought of committing such an act. Shame on this person.
Shocking how they are essentially doing this now with the Starcrusier Hotel thing. "Pay us $1000 per person per night and you can experience a "special" star wars event! Only for fans! Luckily, everyone seems to have seen what was happening, and there was so much backlash they appear to have removed the overview video from YT.
What I don't understand is this "Star Wars Fatigue" thing. I mean, if fatigue didn't set in with The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars the Arcade Game, Star Wars Jedi Arena, Return of the Jedi, Star Wars Droids, Star Wars Attack on the Death Star, Super Star Wars, Star Wars Pinball, Super Empire Strikes Back, Rebel Assault, Star Wars Chess, Super Return of the Jedi, Rebel Assault 2, Shadows of the Empire, Yoda Stories, Monopoly Star Wars, Masters of Teras Kasi, X-Wing, Tie Fighter, Star Wars Rebellion, Droid Works, Gungan Frontier, The Phantom Menace, Episode 1 Pod Racer, Yoda's Challenge, Pit Droids, Jar Jar's Journey Adventure Book, Anakin's Speedway, Force Commander, Jedi Power Battles, Jabba's Game Galaxy, Star Wars Demolition, Obi-Wan's Adventures, Battle for Naboo, Star Fighter, Super Bombad Racer, Galactic Battlegrounds, Racer Revenge, Jedi Starfighter, Attack of the Clones, the Clone Wars, the New Droid Army, Bounty Hunter, Star Wars Galaxies, Knights of the Old Republic, Flight of the Falcon, Apprentice of the Force, Knights of the Old Republic 2, Republic Commando, Lego Star Wars, Revenge of the Sith, Ask Yoda, Puzzle Blaster, Battle Above Coruscant, Lightsaber Combat, Jedi Arena, Empire at War, Lethal Alliance, The Force Unleashed, Republic Heroes, the Force Unleashed 2, Falcon Gunner, The Old Republic, Star Wars Kinect, Angry Birds Star Wars, Rogue Squadron, Rogue Leader, Rebel Strike, Battlefront, Battlefront 2, Battlefront EA, Battlefront EA 2, Caravan of Courage, and The Ewok Adventure. Not to mention all the toys, books, comics, TV shows, them park rides, and shows. Then I really don't know what will.
Different media genres. Books, games, tv, online stuff. Also spread out over decades. Keep in mind that the other media doesn't get an obnoxious level of marketing like the movies do. When Force Awakens was coming out, the marketing and Star wars was everywhere to a point i have never seen. It was digusting. Now throw in a couple bad eggs in this train, and you still aggressively market them, and people get sick of this shit.
Yeah. The SW movies that are featured first in the cinemas are heavily advertised with all kinds of unnecessary crap surrounding it. It's like an entertainer constantly screaming: "Are your reaaaadyyyy? Are you excited yet? ARE YOU?" Meanwhile, all the other SW media that falls off the radar adds something to the lore and doesn't stink like some corporate invented thing ( I don't count the recent battlefront titles as such. It can rot in hell). Well, except the unnecessary SW merchandise like a Vader toaster, etc. I attribute the majority of the merch to the movies, tho.
Tbh, I'm glad that corporate heads are being intentionally malicious to the average consumerist whore. Hopefully, it will wake them from their slumber.
They're blaming the asshats who bully actors off of social media with "FAT ASIAN BITCH" comments because their children's movie didn't play out like it did in their fantasy.
@@HiDesert004 Not a Star Wars fan myself (I'm orange in that pie chart), but I would say their wealth is due to their jobs and experience far more than the few who were beneficiaries of a literal trust fund. Need to remember that tech jobs still mostly employ people based on skill and merit and not a social racial/gender quota.
And most fans seem to love it so far. Although I like the Disney Star Wars films, I hope the success of The Mandalorian can keep the fanbase from splitting apart even more.
It would be comparable if the cast was at the movie theatre with you. Who would pay even $100 to watch a /recording/ of a live show? It's not the same thing. I think he's onto something, and I think SW fans are dumb enough to fall for it, but I don't know what they would have to throw in the deal to make it sell. Maybe some decent, exclusive merch that is only available at that event.
He put out an album recently and its pretty good even by mainstream standards i'd say. The stuff he puts out under his 'straight' name Tyler Cassidy is also pretty soulful and enjoyable if you're into that genre of music
"Escape From Hood Mountain" really was good. I don't listen to a whole lot of him myself, although I still turn on "Fun Trip" sometimes, just for a good laugh/vibe. Two of my best friends are really big fans of Froggy Fresh, and they actually met him at one of shows once!
Adam Monroe - in fact all those comic book movies already have the solution: multiple timelines, multiple authors, multiple interpretations of source material. Accept conflicts and let fans sort it out. Like Logan is at odds with the X-Men timeline and yet it is the best movie in ages. Who cares. Grow up.
+rattrap's dank sewer, I dunno mr sewer, i think your reply is overrated af. anyway i'm going into my overrated kitchen. to get some chicken. It's overrated af. Saleh overrated it. af.
Great idea! It's practically foolproof - as long as nobody does anything completely stupid to alienate those die hard Star Wars fans like call them "manbabies" or "threatened by women," or systematically destroy everything that they once loved about Star Wars, it can't fail!
For just Disney+, it's $7 per month or $70 per year. For the Disney+, Hulu, and Espn combo package, its $13 per month. $13x12=156 They might have a yearly plan, but I couldn't find that on their site.
Lower the budget, you're wasting hundreds of millions in mediocre movies. Few decades ago these budgets would have been unheard of. Disney thinks business first and forgets that movie is an art form.
I mean The Force Awakens cost more to make than the entire original Star Wars trilogy. The Farce Awakens gross budget: $306 million. The entire combined original trilogy (accounting for inflation). Gross budget: $172 million. So TFA cost almost twice as much to make as the entire original trilogy.
Star Wars etc isn't bout makin gud movie...is about keeping whyte people quiet while we overun their demographic voting basOMG STAR WARS XXVI HAS JUST BEEN ANNOUCED AND SWARZENEGGER WATEVER MIGHT BE IN IT GET DOWN TO YOUR LOCAL RU-vidS AND LEAVE A KOMMENT YOU FUCKNAWESOME DUDES!!
It sounds like a funny joke, but this is exactly what they teach in business schools: Go after the highest paying customers and get the most money out of them. Of course if it's a GOOD business school they'll tell you that if you have a mass market product (like Star Wars) then doing this will only open up the door for someone to make a different blockbuster movie (with a lower budget) that scoops up the rest of the market you left behind, and they'll make more money than you because they operate at lower costs.
I don't know, dude. A LOT of the "die-hard" fans have stopped being "die-hard" fans after the tonal clusterfuck that was The Last Rian Johnson movie. It feels like a pretty damn high percentage as well. My entire family are die-hard Star Wars fans and every single one of us hated that movie. And we did not see Solo, nor do we plan on seeing Solo because of it. 12 extreme Star Wars fans completely turned off from their favorite franchise. I don't understand how they can't just make a good fucking Star Wars film. It can be that hard, can it?
Disney fucked royally with TLJ. It was Carrie Fisher last film and it had to be the one written and directed by a baby-faced cunt whose only experience in movie making is a film no one ever watched in theaters. They really did go to a place of no return with that shit, they should be fucking careful with their remaining properties, no way in hell anyone is watching Episode XVI. Right now Disney is making a lot of dumb decisions, buying rights to franchises they can't even use for billions of dollars. They are already spreading thin with the MCU and then they fired James Gunn over a fucking twitter post that some autistic brony from /pol/ dug out? Ridiculous. TLJ really shows that all it takes to sunk a franchise is just One Bad Movie.
Personally I'm a die-hard fan (400+ novels/comics/magazines/video games, and I keep them stored in chronological order) that stopped caring after TFA. I never even made it as far as TLJ. ...I did like Rogue One though.
It's because Hollywood is full of untalented, uncreative hacks. Star Wars isn't the only franchise to suffer this. Aliens, Predator, Terminator, Jurassic Park, Ghostbusters among many other big brand franchises have been creatively bankrupt for decades now. Cause no one has any idea what the fuck to do with them, so they hand it over to hacks like Rian Johnson, Shane Black and Paul Feig that just end up doing further damage to the brand.
@@gustavrider5561I don't think Starwars is done for. I just think the "sequel trilogy" is done for. Fire Kathleen Kennedy put a real fan in charge and make some movies that fans will like. Stop shitting on your primary money source to appeal to people who don't watch starwars.
5 years ago i probably would have laughed at the idea of not being a passionate Star Wars fan anymore. You can't really live on just the OT and maybe 6 good novels forever.
Scientist man is easily my favorite RLM sketch and I hate that there's so few of them. Half in the Bag is a close second but Scientist man really lays it all out and I love it. Well done, RLM team.
there's two types - those who hate structural changes to the story and characters and those who mindlessly accept anything with a star wars logo slapped on it
I, and several of my friends, who have consumed ridiculous amounts of Star Wars media since we could walk, skipped the movie. It seemed like an utterly pointless and forced addition to the Franchise
Star Wars is actually about a robotic half Darth Maul fighting another robotic half of Darth Maul, while helping Obi-Wan find spiritual peace on a desert planet.
The last shot, took from some convention I guess, is strangely very sad. Guy in front asks the audience "Who loves Star War?", and they answer "We do!". We do. Not "me" or "I do", but "we do". Mob mentallity at its finest. And don't forget to visit the gift shop on your way out.
It’s so funny going back to all their Star Wars prediction videos and hearing their theories. The best part, to me, is a trend in every comment section, where you see people guessing what’ll happen, then slowly the comments get more recent and everyone wishes that we got any of those ideas instead of what we actually got. Hell, even mike and Rich’s WORST predictions would’ve been better than what we got.
I want JJ Abrams' next episode to begin with Finn waking up from his coma revealing that the entire 2nd movie was just a horrible fever dream he was having.
Atlantis got really good by the end of the first season. David Hewlett is just great...he makes up for Torri Higginson's horrible, horrible presence. SGU--or, rather, Battlestargate--sucks. But, for sure, SG-1 was the best.
The lighting in this is so spot-on, it creates an aura of bitcrushed whitish gas around Scientist Man. I presume it's just him emanating scientistness.
The big issue I have with the new movies is that the characters and stories don’t feel fresh or interesting. Each movie either banks hard on nostalgia or tries too hard to be different that it forgets to tell a compelling story, develop the characters to grow or be memorable, or forgets to expand upon what it set up before. I cement most of these problems with Last Jedi, because seemingly half of everything J.J. Abrams built up previously didn’t seem to interest Rian Johnson enough to keep around, which is incredibly frustrating as a viewer/fan and flat-out lazy from a storytelling perspective. Rogue One might be the best-produced out of the bunch, but the dilemma it had is in having a story with new characters that, despite being well-written, I knew either were not going to survive the movie or fly off and never been seen or heard from again, so it was difficult for me personally to invest in the characters. Solo had some interesting characters and a decent story, but I seriously can’t remember any of the new characters’ names. It honestly feels to me (and I’m sure many of the fans) like these movies are less interested in expanding the universe in an interesting or compelling way and more interested in selling tickets and making as much money as possible. Say what you want about Lucas, but it took three years between each episode in the trilogies because he took enough time to write a script that tells a complete story with characters that build each time out. Disney really needs to start taking their time with these films and focus on the stories being better and the characters being memorable and relatable, or it will die sooner than anyone wants.
G Ren It was a story we’ve seen before with characters that weren’t as interesting, or at least could’ve been interesting if taken in a direction different than the one Johnson took it. And if you’re going to introduce a villain that reinstated the Empire despite everything the Rebellion did to stop it, after seeing the rise and fall of Palpatine, you need to provide some backstory to make the audience be invested.
I was hoping Scientist Man would recommend the Star Wars team not insult the audience on social media. That would be a good thing to stop doing. I don't know why they're enrolled at the Paul Feig school of fan interaction.
When you get so wrapped up in being on your high horse that your forget your franchise is mortal you need someone to blame when it tanks, because it's obviously not MY fault, I'm doing what's RIGHT so it must be those evil evil fans.
It’s classic abusive dominating behaviour. Belittle and shame someone , ruin their already fragile self esteem and they know they can never do any better 😂
How to Save Star Wars; Episode 9's super weapon on the edge of the event horizon sucking dark energy from a black hole and using this phantom energy to enhance and alter the force throughout the galaxy, when the heroes go to destroy this weapon they find out it is also sort of a time machine and when they destroy it , they destroy themselves and also Destroy episode 7,8 and 9 to where they never happened to begin with
After the weapon is destroyed in episode 9 Luke and (insert character here) have this Jedi vision of events of 7,8 and 9 and find a very confused younger unscarred Darth Snoke (who cant understand how his super secret Black hole super weapon just disappeared from existence) and KILL him .. Which leads the way for a 7,8,9 Trilogy overrwrite by people who actually care about Star Wars
Yes, but the 73% hardcore fans are currently participating in a galactic civil war on whether or not Star Wars is dead. The only way to save Star Wars is to build a time machine and I believe Scientist Man is the man to do this! Save us SCIENTIST MAN you're our only HOPE!
An illustration of the Galactic Fan Civil War: KK: Palpatine/Sidious RJ: Count Dooku JJ: General Grievous The Republic and the Separatist Alliance: Fans/Haters of the new regime (the alignment depends on where you stand on the divide, because we all see ourselves as the hero)
Disney is committing suicide with its war with the fans right now. They have their employees, and surrogate shill media going on the attack and it's hurting it beyond repair at this point. Whatever bridges were there that could have been used to connect Star Wars/Disney/Lucasfilm and the fans have been burnt. It's over.
1 Million subs! Well deserved! I was sub number 578 back when RLM was more intimate channel with its user base. I knew back then you guys would one day hit 1 million. Use The High Ground wisely.
