Thoughts on Mandalorian and Grogu

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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

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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

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Holy shite that is terrible. Let's make movies for people with ADD

Someone said it felt like an extended episode but instead of moving the plot it was a filler episode. . Other than the ship and the Hutt he was in the same spot before and after the movie. Grogu too.

It was good but there was no world building or real stakes. Even when the bounty hunter showed up you knew what was going to happen.

Just got back from watching

It was fun. But absolutely zero plot development to the overall storyline with Mando / Ahsoka / Thrawn, etc

I felt like I watched the first 3 episodes of Mandalorian Season 4 in a theatre

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I went with 3 people to a matinee yesterday in the large format screen of my local Regal. We were the only 3 people in there the day the movie came out.

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I went in prime time imax on opening night and it was maybe 1/4 to 1/3 full. I've been to original horror movies with bigger openings

Saw it again 3 more times today. So glad to see a movie where I dont have to watch some weirdo give their personal dissertation on what happened in the movie on youtube. The bots are slacking and losing on this one.

It was a solid, fun movie. That's about all I can say

Saw it in XD 3D, and thought it was the worst Star Wars “movie” by far. My son thought it was fantastic, but too long. If you bring a third grader with you, the $20 price of admission may be well spent.

My biggest complaint was the terrible physics and character movement. If it wasn’t made by Disney, people would reasonably question whether it was an AI generated movie.

On the positive side, I thought they nailed the voice actors (minus Pedro pascal), and the cyberpunk music score.