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Thoughts on Mandalorian and Grogu
Posted on 5/23/26 at 12:47 am
Posted on 5/23/26 at 12:47 am
I got to say, I think I thoroughly enjoyed it for what it is…. An overly cutsey adventure story.
Now, this movie does have problems. It has some of the strangest choices I’ve ever seen in a movie. But from a visual and production standpoint…. I loved the art design of the movie. That’s really what kept me involved.
I will say, I feel like AI wrote this script though. The amount of repeated mind I’m in repetition is truly insane, especially in the first half of the movie. You’ll hear the same bit of information 3 fricking times. Come on. Some really bad dialogue. And the script repeats itself. How many times in a fricking movie do we need another Grogu is eating things joke.
The story definitely isn’t something to write home about and pacing is very weird
The action works if you approach this like a John Wick movie which I did. There’s still eye rolling stuff. But I honestly thought a lot of the action was extremely pleasing to watch. Also there’s way way way way more stabbing in this movie than I thought.
And back to the special effects… minus the hutts, I think there is some really cool stuff in here. That’s shot of the bounty hunter in the rain when the light turns on from above. That’s so well designed. This is the closest movie I’ve gotten in a longtime that comes with my personal obsession is shooting scenes to feel like an art. There’s several of those moments.
Also… did we get stop motion? There’s one scene that very very much felt like stop motion at the end and I thought that would be so cool if it was
Now, this movie does have problems. It has some of the strangest choices I’ve ever seen in a movie. But from a visual and production standpoint…. I loved the art design of the movie. That’s really what kept me involved.
I will say, I feel like AI wrote this script though. The amount of repeated mind I’m in repetition is truly insane, especially in the first half of the movie. You’ll hear the same bit of information 3 fricking times. Come on. Some really bad dialogue. And the script repeats itself. How many times in a fricking movie do we need another Grogu is eating things joke.
The story definitely isn’t something to write home about and pacing is very weird
The action works if you approach this like a John Wick movie which I did. There’s still eye rolling stuff. But I honestly thought a lot of the action was extremely pleasing to watch. Also there’s way way way way more stabbing in this movie than I thought.
And back to the special effects… minus the hutts, I think there is some really cool stuff in here. That’s shot of the bounty hunter in the rain when the light turns on from above. That’s so well designed. This is the closest movie I’ve gotten in a longtime that comes with my personal obsession is shooting scenes to feel like an art. There’s several of those moments.
Also… did we get stop motion? There’s one scene that very very much felt like stop motion at the end and I thought that would be so cool if it was
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Posted on 5/23/26 at 12:59 am to athenslife101
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The amount of repeated mind I’m in repetition is truly insane, especially in the first half of the movie. You’ll hear the same bit of information 3 fricking times
Heard an interview with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon recently where they were saying that streaming executives demand this shite. All their data shows that people play on their phones while they watch movies so the movie constantly has to be repeating things in case someone missed something.
This post was edited on 5/23/26 at 1:01 am
Posted on 5/23/26 at 1:08 am to StansberryRules
I’ve heard that and that’s all I could think about at times. Like Zeb is fully just repeating information we’ve already been told for most of his time in the movie. Like “hey, don’t forget that thing we said 45 seconds ago screen time.”
It’s really bad and seems like even if it was intentional as we suspect really badly pulled off.
It’s really bad and seems like even if it was intentional as we suspect really badly pulled off.
Posted on 5/23/26 at 7:11 am to athenslife101
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Also… did we get stop motion? There’s one scene that very very much felt like stop motion at the end and I thought that would be so cool if it was
I noticed it in that scene, too. And I thought… holy shite. It’s stop motion… old school!
Even if it wasn’t old school and just an homage to it… it was so cool to see an appreciation for real movie magic.
Posted on 5/23/26 at 7:24 am to athenslife101
Is it worthy of a Star Wars cinematic release?
Critics are panning it as little more than D+ show put on the big screen, which has no redeeming qualities or significance in the greater Star Wars saga.
Posted on 5/23/26 at 8:43 am to SouthEasternKaiju
I saw it in IMAX and I enjoyed seeing it in IMAX.
If you’re expecting a lot in the story or character area, then absolutely not. That’s as derivative as you can get. It does feel extremely episodic though this is probably more violent than I’d think
It depends on what you want to get out of it. I saw a lot of fun ideas on display from a production design standpoint and that overcame a lot of the areas where the movie was lacking.
I loved seeing battle hardened droids. I loved seeing hutts in their natural state (although hutts are the one area I think definitively don’t look good, also isn’t their planet supposed to be an overpolluted shithole?), I liked for the first time in a long time feeling like the world feels lived in. When I think of the original Star Wars trilogy, I think of thousands of extras carrying boxes around lol. I liked the puppetry and weird aliens in the background. I loved the bird bar
I also liked they leaned into the sillyness.
I don’t know. This is an odd movie. It’s 100% strangely lacking in a lot of areas but I kept on being fascinated with it and for some reason I enjoyed it.
I will also say, two things I also find interesting. 1. I usually have some triggers of things I hate seeing in movies and this movie did them, it temporarily disarmed them somehow. Maybe because I kept thinking it’s a cartoon. 2. I consider the last Jedi to be the worse movie of all time and the rise of skywalker to be right up there. So seeing a Star Wars adventure movie set after the return of the Jedi and actually try to do its own thing also was something I liked
If you’re expecting a lot in the story or character area, then absolutely not. That’s as derivative as you can get. It does feel extremely episodic though this is probably more violent than I’d think
It depends on what you want to get out of it. I saw a lot of fun ideas on display from a production design standpoint and that overcame a lot of the areas where the movie was lacking.
I loved seeing battle hardened droids. I loved seeing hutts in their natural state (although hutts are the one area I think definitively don’t look good, also isn’t their planet supposed to be an overpolluted shithole?), I liked for the first time in a long time feeling like the world feels lived in. When I think of the original Star Wars trilogy, I think of thousands of extras carrying boxes around lol. I liked the puppetry and weird aliens in the background. I loved the bird bar
I also liked they leaned into the sillyness.
I don’t know. This is an odd movie. It’s 100% strangely lacking in a lot of areas but I kept on being fascinated with it and for some reason I enjoyed it.
I will also say, two things I also find interesting. 1. I usually have some triggers of things I hate seeing in movies and this movie did them, it temporarily disarmed them somehow. Maybe because I kept thinking it’s a cartoon. 2. I consider the last Jedi to be the worse movie of all time and the rise of skywalker to be right up there. So seeing a Star Wars adventure movie set after the return of the Jedi and actually try to do its own thing also was something I liked
This post was edited on 5/23/26 at 11:08 am
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