re: New Trailer The Mandalorian and Grogu

Does anyone still give a shite about these two to go to the movie theater and watch?

I want to but there seems to be nothing note worthy about it. It just looks like another pointless season of the show of them wondering around.

I mean is there not a big bad in this? Thrawn going to show up? What the hell is the synopsis?

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AI Overview
For The Mandalorian & Grogu (2026), the primary villain is rumored to be Embo, the fan-favorite Kyuzo bounty hunter from The Clone Wars, who is expected to be voiced by Dave Filoni. The film, set to be released in May 2026, also heavily features the Hutt clan, with plot rumors indicating a mission to protect Rotta the Hutt.
Key Details on the Villain/Antagonists:

Embo: A skilled, silent, samurai-inspired bounty hunter.
The Hutts: The trailer suggests the Hutts are involved in forcing Din Djarin and Grogu into a dangerous situation, with threats aimed at Grogu.
Context: The plot is rumored to revolve around a rescue mission for Rotta the Hutt, potentially against Embo.

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That is not big screen movie worth lol

This is a few years too late and looks pretty bad. Like a child’s movie

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I doubt we get that after this bombs. This is screaming "bust" to me.

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Given the reported budget I doubt it bombs

Looks like a fun couple of hours. Some of y'all REALLY need to get the sticks out of your asses.

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Need more dark SW content ala Andor

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Andor was great, but Star Wars needs to be swashbuckling fun at times. There's room for both.

I'm cautiously hopeful. If this goes back to the original tone of the series- a cool bounty hunter in the Star Wars universe, not attached to the big political scene, it could be a hit.

I don't even mind him helping the Republic, I just want him freelancing on the borders of it, not an active agent. There's just so much that could be told in that area.

Movie theaters really need a win. I hope this is good enough to turn out audiences.

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Looks like a fun couple of hours. Some of y'all REALLY need to get the sticks out of your asses.

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Disney could release a Empire Strikes Back level movie and the group think on this board would still hate it

There’s directional truth to the assertion. It’s probably overstated in magnitude, but I suspect y’all recognize that the pushback itself has been an over correction here.

Don’t get me wrong, Disney has made a lot of shite and deserves their crow for doing it… but also, because they have made so much shite, the culture here is to assume that everything new they put out will be shite. And if something isn’t shite, it’s going to be very difficult for this board to set aside their priors and give it its full due.

If Disney were to deliver a truly A-tier, top notch, best in class type of film, at least a sizable subset of this board would settle on the “it was pretty good… certainly better than I expected… but still overrated… not up to the standard of the old classics” type of narrative. That would be to subconsciously justify the initial skepticism/doubt that would have unequivocally flowed freely prior to its release.




And for the record, that’s not necessarily meant to be a critique of this board, because that’s not just a movie talk problem… that’s a modernity problem. Something comparable seems to happen across basically every strata of social media discourse. People set their expectations prior to the delivery of a new thing… then after the thing comes out, people work backwards to craft a narrative to justify the quality of that thing being as close as possible to their preheld narrative.

We’re all guilty of it.