Mr. Plinkett's Star Trek: Insurrection Review - HD Remaster
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- Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
02:03 - 1. Nothing Makes Sense About the Plot... Again.
05:07 - 2. Plot Convenience = Movie Suck
06:30 - 3. Picard's Double Standard
09:56 - 4. Eureka! I Don't Get it!?
13:08 - 4. Holo-Ship or Holo-Plot
15:12 - 5. More Convenience Then a 24-Hour Walgreens
16:47 - 6. Baku Birth Control PULL OUT! PULL OUT!
19:48 - 7. Strange Bedfellows
21:31 - 8. Things Continue to Keep Not Making Sense
25:22 - 9. Symphony of Stupid
34:17 - The End
Sources:
Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Star Trek III - The Search For Spock (1984)
Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country (1991) Directors Cut
Star Trek VII - Generations (1994)
Star Trek VIII - First Contact (1996)
Star Trek IX - Insurrection (1998)
Star Trek X - Nemesis (2002)
Star Trek: Insurrection Special Edition DVD Features:
Title 23 - Behind The Scenes
Teaser Trailer (HD from CZcams)
Star Trek (1966-1969):
S1E18 - Arena
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994):
S1E12 - The Big Goodbye
S2E02 - Where Silence Has Lease
S3E02 - The Ensigns of Command
S3E04 - Who Watches The Watchers
S3E19 - Captain's Holiday
S3E26-S4E01 - The Best of Both Worlds
S4E20 - Q-Pid
S5E25 - The Inner Light
S7E15 - Lower Decks
S7E16 - Thine Own Self
S7E20 - Journey's End
Original audio track from Mr. Plinkett's review is used unmodified.
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The browns and beige really do pop in this HD remaster.
Hell yeah they do
Don't forget the mother of pearl!
And the dark browns and light browns.
I still don't know why this and others reviews Are not in cinema?!!!.....when i firts watch this ( obout milion years a go) i laugh every time so hard and fel out of my chear.......
Admiral Bicheyev Is the most distgusting persong in universe!!!
This isn't Mike Stoklasa's true vision. His true vision was for these to be 144p so that Picard's head is an entire pixel.
Nah. This is his _original_ vision. He just didn't have the technology to do it back in 2006.
Now if we could just add a few more PNG rocks next to the cloaked holodeck-ship...
@Anonymous 2000 and we cant undo that. but we can eh.. diminish the effects of it
@@DistractedGlobeGuy z
@@DistractedGlobeGuy This is from `06?! ..jeez.
@@DrSchredder the audio is. These TNG movie reviews were originally put up in seven-minute segments back in '06 and '07, just before the _Phantom Menace_ review.
Remember when Rick Berman was the worst thing to happen to Star Trek? Can we go back to that?
HE, truly is the Best of the Worst (tm)
Back at a time when Terminator 3 and the Star Wars prequels were the worst of those franchises. We didn’t realise how lucky we were.
@@spenser9908 Now T3 is passable and the Prequels were great foundational content that was recycled into excellent fan lore.
What is it with Ricks??
My friend... choose to live.
"TV show Picard (We'll call him Larry)..." always makes me laugh. It's perfect.
Star Trek : His Erection. 😆 🤣
The movie makes sense when you realize "Jean-Larry" was simply trying to get some shore leave action. LOL
So do we call CBS All Access Picard "Jake"?
After 3 years of waiting, I’m starting to think the offer of free pizza rolls was a scam.
Clearly your postman is a pizza roll stealing fatty.
you didn't get your rolls?!
I got mine.
These men are pawns
The budget for Insurrection was almost twice that of First Contact but it looks twice as cheap. Who pocketed most of the money?
who indeed
It was bigger but not "nearly twice" as big
Stewart and Berman-Braga?
I read somewhere that they built the entire set for the village but that it was destroyed by weather so they ended up having to reuse Voyager sets.
No idea what happened with the costumes though . . .
Re-shoots drove up the budget.
I love how they edited Data dropping the anvil on the guys foot.
And shooting a guy at the "kill" setting.
Having not watched TNG yet when I first saw the review I was very mystified by why Data would do these things. Then I find out Mike was just making up lies
@@davistoaMe too, when I got to those episodes I was like: "Plinkett lied to me!"
I love that some random waitress serving Jay became the infamous Bambi.
Oh my god... that's Jay. I never noticed as I was always too focused looking at Bambi. Just figured it was a random picture Mike took off google image search
@@davistoa I immediately knew it was Jay because of his hair lol
"Does anyone even think about the details of a movie before they make it?" Hey, here in 2021, and I'm happy to report that this new generation of writers are nailing it completely. Star Wars, Star Trek, Terminator, Predator, Aliens, all your favorites are in good hands.
Thank goodness... We wouldn't want them to, you know, 𝙩𝙤𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙨𝙪𝙘𝙠 or anything.
😂
.....
😭😭😭
How do I know that the je is a good is a good idea for the who is je sais que tu as raison je te fais confiance et te remercie
27:11 "One person aboard. It's the android." I love how spontaneously respectful they are about Data's person-hood. I mean, yes. His friends consider him a person and he's officially classified as a person by Starfleet, and I suppose the majority of the audience agrees. But you would think that the antagonists of the story, that have every reason to hate Data, would be more inclined to speak of him as an "it," kinda like they did earlier, with the "Next time, leave your android at home." That line really should've been more like: "No people aboard. Just the android."
That's something an editor would have caught.
Even members of the Federation surveillance team at the beginning called him "the android"
Can’t wait for the HD upscale of the Cop Dog review
Not an upscale. Cop Dog is only available digitally in HD so I can’t get a copy to edit from.
@@CopterBlue Screen capture software???
Note: I have no idea if this would work, it's just my initial thought lol
@big boss bob ross I was actually able to get a 720p copy saved from a service that is streaming it free right now. I am working on getting a higher bit-rate 1080p version. Screen capture would work but I don't like the transcoding involved which loses quality and possible dropped frames. I would like to work from the highest quality source available.
@@CopterBlue yes... for *Cop Dog.*
*ONLY THE BEST*
@@CopterBlue i was going to suggest torrents but then i realized no one in the entire universe is seeding “Cop Dog”
3:56 i fucking lost it at this reversed shot making it look like Data dropped the anvil in the blacksmith guy 😂
The only thing this is missing, is Greedo saying "Maclunlky".
"So Chef Boyardee realizes he's been duped by Picard."
"And a budget smaller then an episode of Alf"
Always gets me.
How I would have done this story was have the Ba'ku be the real villains, while the Son'a are the good guys. There would be a moment that Picard realizes that he's been defending the wrong side and decides to turn against the Ba'ku in order to help the Son'a. In the end, it turns out that there is no right side, as both races just want whats best for their people and Picard has both races sign a peace treaty between the Federation, Ba'ku, and Son'a so that each group gets equal amounts of the metaphasic radiation.
Too similar to _The Undiscovered Country._ That movie may have been just as good as _Wrath of Khan_ (and even been made by the same people), but it didn't sell as much merchandise, so they'll never do that again. Only big dumb action movies from now on, until CBS eventually lose their claim to the copyrights on the franchise.
@@DistractedGlobeGuy Better to have a good derivate plot than a bad original one.
@@Hoganply yep, but good doesn't sell tie-in products.
One thing that I never understood was the status of the Baku and their planet.
It is said to be the Federation's planet and not theirs. HOW?
1 Even if they came from another planet, if they are the first ones to settle there, how did it become the Federation's planet if it isn't the Baku's? Is there some exception in the prime directive? Could you then say that the Romulans don't own Romulus, a former uninhabited planet found first by Vulcans, that it could be added to the Federation if the Romulans don't have enough forces??
2 The Baku settled on the planet in Federation space, the Federation let them and only later discovered the anti-aging thing. If that is the case, piss off.
BUT this doesn't work because the woman says it has been 300 years SINCE she has SEEN a bald man, that means they have been living there for far longer than the Federation existed. So again, how can anyone claim it is the Federation's planet?
And yes them not using technology has NOTHING to do with them living on a youth-giving planet. They could do that anywhere and not once are they asked how they can live with that, how they deny 800 billion people medical treatment that could save lives in cases that would not work if they just were put on the planet.
Last, I thought the big dilemma, so to speak, was with the longevity of the device. I thought the new medical device from the rings would make the planet uninhabitable, but again save a lot of lives and regrow stuff, etc that would take a long time on the planet, BUT THEN IT IS GONE. It would be harvested, like a dried up lake which means that no-one, not even the Baku would live a longer life anymore.
But if it was implied that the rings would be turned into some form of powerplant that could save people faster even after decades in the future, just the same AND give youth rays, including to the Baku, then that would render that point moot, EVEN for the use in the FEDERATION. The only concern should be for the animal and plant life on the planet.
But his all hinges on the Baku being on the planet before the Federation. You can still can them selfish assholes, though.
Oh my. You’re doing incredible work.
Truly God’s work.
YES!!! Thanks for the re-mastered versions of these priceless reviews. It's nice to watch RLM destroy these films in hi-def. :-D
man, plinkett really has it out for marina sirtis... you'd think she turned him down at a balckjack table or something
She bit his nose off
How awesome would it have been if Wesley guest starred in DS9 as a Maquis lieutenant
I always hated these type of primitive culture type episode's and I cant believe out of all the different episode themes space anomalies, xeno races, time travel, ect they chose to make one of these into a movie
*it was cheaper*
It's really just the same old "noble savage" trope yet again. And they reused the awful beige color schemes that were in the TV versions too.
It’s a great excuse to film in California to cut down on cost and appease the main cast actors who might not have wanted to travel too far/travel somewhere too far away from creature comforts.
@@ThreadBomb Honestly, it's not even "noble savage", it's more this weird pastoral colonial-era fantasy.
Actually, speaking of, I don't think there are any nonwhite Ba'ku. It's not just that there's not any named Ba'ku who aren't white, I can't see any even in crowd shots. Which is weird, because whenever we see Starfleet, even in this movie, it's pretty racially diverse with all manner of ethnicities among the human characters. It really makes you wonder just what other values the Ba'ku hold.
@@misterbadguy7325 The Ba'ku aren't human. There is no reason to assume they come in the same varieties as humans.
“NOTHING. MAKES. SENSE. Like my life.”
5:07 Another weird thing about that rockface, you're telling me nobody ever wandered up there? You would've thought some kids would've been exploring and walked through the hologram, or somebody gathering resources would've tried looking up there.
I liked the Super Cut of Data being a Murder-Bot.
i like this review because when it starts Plinkett's just kind of lukewarm about it, but by the end he's calling it a symphony of stupid
Picard: where’s ruafo?
Riker: ...
Picard: where’s ruafo?
😂
My favourite part lmao
Where’s Raffi?
Chosen one!!!!!
23:10 minor point: inertial dampers are almost always functioning in trek scenarios, they just suffer to some degree from damage and power loss. If the dampers were fully offline, people would break every bone in all of their bodies all over the ship. it's a plot device, but it's a consistent one.
The original Star Trek would have dismissed the Baku as misguided and harmful. They clearly aren’t accomplishing much; living so long is causing them to put things off rather than learn. Kirk would have encouraged them to embrace technology and space travel as a good thing, and to quit being so paranoid and antisocial.
9:57... “His-Erection”... HaHaHa. Best line ever, Red Letter Media 😄(just fell in y’all laps).
It's insane how much work you put into these, thank you for making the potato quality originals more watchable. You're one cool dude 🖖
His Erection. I laughed harder at that than I should have.
Ending of this video is a masterpiece
Heh .. Rick Berman looking pretty good right about now eh!
"SHUT UP, I'M TALKING!!"
I think the dock is supposed to be a floating pontoon. But it makes no sense that the angle of the walkway doesn’t thang as the water drops
10:13 that masking is great!
It just occurred to me you put in some elbow grease to make these, great work! Abd thanks for your efforts.
Compared to the current state of Star Trek, the TNG movies are looking like masterpieces.
okay lets not go crazy here, the TNG movies are just *that* bad
@@whatr0 I'd say they're largely not good Star Trek, but they're good movies on their own. Much like the Kelvin movies, they're not Stat Trek but they're largely competently made cinema.
Kudos to the brave soul who did a bang up job with the CZcams captions.
Hollywood should really just hire Stoklasa to write Star Trek for them. He's so much better at it than they are
"The JC Penny fashion look," hell yeah... EARTH TONES, muh-fukahhhhs....
Yaaassssss!! Dude, I appreciate your work so much!
I hope the algorithm shines on you today
09:50 Starring Patrick Stewart as "Captain Prickhard"
The TNG movies, for their faults, are a welcome revisit after experiencing the intellectual vomit that is Star Trek Discovery. And the genetic space action flicks that are the JJ Abrams movies (though Beyond was actually decent).
Man, everyone says beyond is the best JJ Trek and I fucking hate it. To me it just seemed like "bad guy wants revenge against Federation for no real reason" plot. I actually liked Into Darkness which everyone seems to hate. I found that film to have made Khan into the super genius genetically modified villain that he always should have been.
Beyond loses the suspension of disbelief about 5 minutes in, making any value of the remainder of the film largely irrelevant.
it's funny how Plinkett didn't even think about how them not aging means the cycles of an egg being inseminated and growing wouldn't happen
No, remember that the kid was just 12, and he wouldn’t be immortal until he grew up? But aside from that, even a 300 year old woman with MILFy qualities will still have an empty egg basket. Ain’t math a bitch?
i especially really like how Levar Burton got to have no more visor because of Visibility Onscreen.
even though his visor was absolutely his most famous, borderline _only_ defining characteristic to anyone not a fan of the show. wheee
Frankly, he looks better with it on too
I just noticed the key in the puzzle! The piece that makes this movie's stupidity all fit together!
Riker shaves his beard in this movie.
Yo, this is fantastic. Did you hand-edit all this together and re-use the audio track?
Yes. It takes alot of time.
@@CopterBlue Wow, that's dedication.
What other kind of editing is there?
@@CopterBlue I'm sorry, but writing "alot" is unacceptable. 😠 Please edit your comment forthwith.
@@Reggie1408 Perhaps he could have edited it with his feet? I think hand-editing looks better though.
I came back to these after Picard S3. I really hope we get a Plinkett review where he’s a happy old codger and decides to turn himself in for all his awful crimes because PS3 was such a good send off for TNG he feels he can die in peace now.
I haven’t seen any of the Picard series, but is it possible to only watch season 3 WITHOUT seeing the earlier crap?
17:26 "Now, I examined this film with a team of perverts..."
...fucking Plinkett, my sides hurt so much.
You are doing god's work sir
Bradley Thornton Do you even believe in god you heathen?
Landon Schertz Only my lord and savior Blue Copter
The calibrate button plays "H.M.S. Pinafore". The first button press was unrelated.
Pizza Rolls saved the day again.
The Son'a Collector did look like the Vorlon Ship that carried Ambassador Kosh around.
Also, in that episode with "Mister Radioactive", how is it this alien humanoid species can read... You know... ENGLISH TEXT?!?!?
I would have to check to be sure, but I recall that Data reads the word, the guy just repeats it since he doesn't know what it means.
I wonder if his grandkids got to meet Mickey yet......
Admiral Old Man's monologue gets me every time
@13:59 WTF, I never noticed this!!!!! I work here, in Australia, why is my home town and Hospital referenced here??
Thanks so much for re-mastering these reviews, man. Not sure why RLM themselves never got around to it..
They're waiting for computer generated imagery to catch up with their vision.
Some of these are closely approaching 20 years old, they probably don't care
Unlike Plinkett's wife, some docks can float in a lake.
Holy shit, this looks *gorgeous*. Thank you!!!
According to Wikipedia this actually the most expensive Next Gen movie. Work that out if you will. F. Murray Abraham must've been hella expensive. The problem with this movie is that I have zero sympathy for the supposed innocent victims. I can barely ever remember which is which. They both sound like they could be bad or good. So the Ba'ku landed there by pure accident and decided that they'd stay. They could've spent their significantly longer lifespans trying to figure out a way to capture what makes the planets fountain of youth work for others and potentially help untold hundreds of millions of people in the process. Instead they stay and keep it all to themselves. Frankly I see no problem with transporting them off world if it'll help others as well as the So'na who probably wouldn't be so crazed if they'd have just been allowed to soak up some of that life giving goodness. I mean, what exactly are the Ba'ku doing that's worth a few hundred of them occupying an entire planet? This really feels like a classic "needs of the many outweighing the needs of the few". The inconvenience done to a few hundred Ba'ku is insignificant to the many billions or trillions of humans and other races across the galaxy. The fact the Ba'ku can't get behind that makes them selfish and quite evil. "Well we could figure out how to save so many people I can't even wrap my head around a number so high. On the other hand, who will water my plants when I'm gone? This seems like an easy choice. The plants are far more important". It's not like their lives will be crazy short. After living on the planet for awhile I'm sure they'll have enough goodness stored to push beyond what most people get. And since this is the future and there's all manner of life extending science. Who knows, maybe the guy who was trying to make the cellular entertainment and regeneration chamber just needed some of the special particle radiation from the planet to finally perfect his machine. Even still, look at someone like Leonard "Bones" McCoy. The guy was only retiring at the ripe old age of 137 years old. He must've still had a fair bit of life in him. The Ba'ku's time on the planet could've extended that another hundred years even after they left. I realize I keep repeating myself but they seriously bug me and it ruins any chance the movie had.
The original Star Trek would have dismissed the Baku as misguided and harmful. They clearly aren’t accomplishing much; living so long is causing them to put things off rather than learn. Kirk would have encouraged them to embrace technology and space travel as a good thing, and to quit being so paranoid and antisocial.
Picard was really into relics 😋
Why does Mike's Picard impersonation sound like Sulu? Lol
He does the same exaggerated tonal contours that Takei uses in real life.
@@DistractedGlobeGuy OOOOOHHHHHH MYYYYYYYYY
I mean there both camp gay. Picard is just theater camp.
I tried fixing the blue screen effect myself, the control panels didnt look good but I managed to pull it off pretty well.
Thanks for your quality work.
GJ!
All of a sudden...I want some pizza rolls. Can't imagine why
10:19 Is that Jay?
The best part of this movie was Donna Murphy.
I would love to know if people like Rick Berman and Michael Piller have seen these reviews. I would love to see the expressions on their faces watching them. "Does anyone even think about the details of a movie before they make it?!" LOL!
Michael Piller, the Insurrection writer, died in 2005. He wrote a book "Fade In: The Making of Star Trek Insurrection", a PDF of which can be found on the net, in which he describes in great detail from appointment to critical response.
Remaster Star Wars Episode 3. I know its technically already in 1080p, but after watching it again i noticed that the star wars clips are noticably of lower resolution to your previous remasters.
I just watched another video review of this movie by another CZcamsr, and I had to come back here to make sure he didn't eat my pizza rolls.
Some of the Holoship scenes were not on my dvd?
3:59 and 4:13 Holy Crap! It's the guy at the donut shop in Wayne's World that got laid off. He's gonna file a complaint with the union.
Well the world’s a twisted place
What an amazing job, thank you it looks great.
Welcome back!
I use Plinkett's dulcet tones to sleep and this getting claimed and blocked messed with my nights.
10:20 @blue copter Where did you find the HD version of this photo?
tineye.com found a high resolution version.
c4.staticflickr.com/4/3112/2775674829_5e3be3eb4b_b.jpg
19:33 does anyone know the title of the song being used here?
Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
It is actually listed below the video because the copyright owner claimed it.
My god, look at all those crisp beiges and neutrals.
Lmao the way the anvil clip is cut so it looks like he drops it on him
Thank you good sir, youre doing Jupiters work... Or Venus's, or Athena's...
Weird how that one Ba'ku man in the green top looks so much like a skinnier Kirk.
Not the same without "I Squeeze Gatz"
Luckily for me I have an mp3 always standing by.
You mean that song Mr Plinkett's reviews always ends with? The song that even *this* review has in its ending? You mean *that* song?
If you only had bothered to actually watch until the end, you could've caught it. But good thing you got it on stand-by ...I mean "standing by", then.
@@LateralTwitlerLT Musta been a glitch cause it stopped and went right to the suggestion page without touching anything.
@@dragonskunkstudio7582 shid happnes
I think Squeeze gats first appeared for the prequels.
This is incredible. Truly doing god's work.
13:33 shouldn’t the admiral have said:
“The life as you know it is over. Resistance is futile.”
Nemesis was worse than Insurrection.
It's a much shorter list of what movies Nemesis is NOT worse than.
@@darkpatches Correct!
Nemesis is underrated.
Generations is the worst TNG film
It’s hard to determine which film is worse because they’re both bad for different reasons. Nemesis at least feels like an actual movie with it’s production value, but it has a terrible script. Insurrection feels like it’s made for television with how cheap and low stakes it is.
1:00 This isn't from Babylon 5... at least not the original series.
So much for a statement -- should it be from B5, please let me know what episode; thanks!
Everytime I see the Admiral, I can't help but wonder if this isn't one of the early versions of the Matrix. He looks so much like the Architect.
Actually, that actor was in the matrix reloaded and revolutions - he plays the leader of the humans in zion, the guy who hates sleeping.
Fun fact, he’s also in Licence to Kill and also dies by getting his face stretched.
That kind of dock floats. It still doesn't make complete sense but that almost explains it.
17 year old me when i seen this in a theater. I thought it was a decent episode but a poor movie.
Star Trek and weed is the greatest combo any one ever introduce me to
18:53 I feel like that’s a picture of the back of mike’s head. Anyone know the story?
I read it was Jay.
Whats the outro song
The first 40 seconds sums up what I think about this film. It's the closest to Star Trek out of all the TNG films, and it felt like a good two-parter. As a film, First Contact is the best. Star Trek works best as an episodic TV show.
mintydog06 Yeah, exactly. Insurrection feels like the hypothetical S9->S10 two-parter (the e1 cliffhanger is when they find the holoship!) that we might have got if Paramount had decided to send a Law and Order-style long-running TNG over to anchor UPN instead of Voyager, and I honestly mean that as a compliment. Substitute the TOS crew for Cochrane and the 23rd century for the 21st and First Contact is what Generations should have been.
Best Mr.Plinket review ever XD
Great stuff! Keep at it!
My calculation came to a population of 3,745,917
Plinkett is a hack fraud
I invite traditional Star Trek fans to enjoy a completely free novel, just Google Star Trek Lost Destiny. I was annoyed by Worf's bazooka. Really, that's the best we can do for a weapon?
I really don’t like those comfortable cardigan looking uniforms. It accentuates the ageing of the crew.