The Plinkett screaming/shouting voice is but I feel the “calmer” one is an extreme exaggeration of his natural speaking voice.
He does it for comedic effect. While he does insert some good points, keep in mind he also exaggerates points to make a joke (e.a. showing the Papa John advertisement as being in movie’ and him crapping on Greeks & Geeks (he actually likes it.) This makes it a bit hard for some people not familiar with the movie or his character to see what is a joke and what is a sencere gripe.
First and foremost, this is made to entertain, while giving out some decent points.
Plinkett made a LOT of good points in his review.
But you know what? I still liked GB 2016! It’s its own thing.
To me, its humor is as funny as the 1984 version. While the original’s humor is great, I found a lot of funny things in this version.
Was that a Freaks & Geeks spinoff? 
It’s a Holliday special where they travel to the EU. You missed out on Zorba the Geek?
I got nothing against him doing the analysis or people disliking the movie but that was my point, it’s hard to argue the prequels are great movies but there’s elements I enjoy and appreciate, unfortunately anytime I’ve mentioned them I get the same response of “but RLM said…” or “You need to watch RLM”
It’s the fact a lot of people use his word as gospel that bugs me, like form your own argument don’t parrot someone elses, I don’t need to hear your sources as some form of validation. It’s one reason I’m loath to bring up reviews good or bad to back up an opinion.
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I’ve really been into cars the past couple of weeks (just watched American Graffiti); now I really want to check it out! I’ll also put 1941 in the wish list.
Yeah Richardless, I believe they started out as an SNL skit, although maybe it followed the movie. It’s in the Dan Aykroyd SNL highlight reel, and some of their other best ofs. I see all this stuff on home video, so pretty recently (within the last five years) was when I saw it. They were also on the Capitol Fourth special (and now I think I have ESP because I was literally whistling Glory Glory Hallelujah this morning, almost as if I knew I would mention the capitol fourth special :shock: ). I think they were on SNL regularly just like the Coneheads.
That sounds exhausting. (And personally, it sounds awful - the running time and his vocal delivery have turned me off of viewing the video completely)
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His real name is Mike Stoklassa. It’s suppose to sound awful. The joke is a serial killer that sounds like that is giving interesting and thought provoking analysis on film. I couldn’t get through his first Phantom Menace review for a loooong time. Finally I strapped myself in and laughed like an idiot.
And yes. Voice acting is quite exhausting.
They did indeed debut on SNL. Kind of. The wore bumble bee suits for the first appearance(at the insistence of Lorne Michaels) and played blues tunes. After that they did the movie and came back on SNL as Blues Brothers proper, sans Bumble Bee costume.
It won’t make a lot of sense unless you start with his prequel reviews, that’s where he really set up the character. It’s not for everyone of course.
100% this.
Speaking of SNL, I just got back from the dress rehearsal for tonight’s Weekend Update special. So if the show’s funny, you’re welcome! 
Holiday Special?
Expanded Universe?
Zorba the Hutt?
I’m so confused…
Dude…c’mon…the GBoot was 2hrs and 14 minutes long and filled with annoying characters.
You can do better than that.
Anyway, Red Letter Media is so much more than Plinkett now.
If you can’t laugh at the “Wheel of the Worst,” you have no soul.
Watching some of those “films”… those guys are really suffering for their art.
Still… I’d rather watch a Shoji Tabuchi tape from good ole Branson, MO than watch GBoot again.
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Do you live in NY? I don’t know why but for some reason I was under the impression you lived in the UK.
Oh yeah, I’ve seen that bumble bee sketch too. I didn’t realize that that was the first incarnation of the Blues Brothers, though. Richardless, you mentioned 1941; that was with Jim Belushi, right? Have you ever watched Red Heat with Jim and Arnold Schwarzenegger? It’s one of the few movies I’ve seen Jim in, and it’s rather funny.
That musta been cool! I’m looking forward to it. It’s just three specials, right? Once SNL resumes they’ll merge again is my understanding.
Oh yeah I saw red Heat but Jim Belushi is Johns older and less talented brother. Yep John is in 1941. So is a young John Candy. John Belushi died tragically in 1983 of a heroin/cocaine or “speedball” overdose. John got his major movie breakthrough in Animal House, a very famous movie that was written by Harold Ramis and produced by Ivan Reitman. John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd were best friends and Dan tried very hard, along with John’s wife, to keep him away from drugs since he had such a major problem. The thing is when you are famous and the life of the party, everyone wants to drink and do drugs with you. Everyone wanted a “I got high with John Belushi” story. It was hard for him to stay clean and Dan couldn’t be there 24/7. Dan still to this day partly blames himself for what happened to John even though everyone says Dan did all that he could do. Sad story. The role of Venkman was originally written with John Belushi in mind. They say that Slimer is based off John’s role in “Animal House”, a character called Bluto.
And the reboot offered more than a guy putting on a voice and splicing together clips to get a hook in. Generally I’m not all that interested in what reviewers/critics have to say either because I often find myself not agreeing with what they end up saying, or they come off as extremely pretentious (that isn’t the case with all of them, but more than a few). When I do pay attention to a review, I prefer it to be succinct and to the point, and I don’t believe you need to spend anywhere near an hour on any film to highlight it’s strengths and weaknesses… I’m not in school or university anymore, I don’t have to sit through a hour and a half lecture if there’s something more enjoyable I’d rather do with that time.
We got it, we got it a year ago.
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I agree, guys. It’s fine if you like the review, but don’t just use the thread to rehash your year old stance against the movie.
The tone was going quite well so far, featofstrength, no need for that.
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