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Mandalorian and Grogu first clip

Hard to support Pedro Pascal after he flirts and touches other men's wives and blames it on his 'crippling anxiety'.
He is deranged, he is probably gonna transform at some point the creepy fuck.

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Ah such a bummer, was looking forward to the return of Star Wars on the big screen. This franchise has lost all steam after the appalling third season and now this.
 
Feels like Disney knows this is going to flop and have cut back on advertising. The only marketing I see for this is the Burger King ads with some gross-looking blue "milkshake" that baby Yoda moves around with the force while grunting like an autistic child. It was probably too late to get out of that deal with BK.
 
Without expecting it to be the second coming, I was looking forward to seeing this anyway. But just don't even feel motivated to see it in the theater anymore. Will watch later at home I guess.
 
Good lord, this looks like shite. The Mandalorian just isn't that good. Sorry.

I love the show, but its gotten worse as its gone on. S1 > S2 >>> S3. The trailers haven't gotten me interested for the movie in the slightest, and now it seems the early reviews have confirmed what the meh trailers were foreshadowing.

I'll watch the film when it comes to streaming, but I'm not in any rush.
 
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Part of me wonders if it's actually good since critics don't like it. But sadly I just don't care enough to see in a theater. The damage has been done. Waiting for streaming
 
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How could they fuck this up? All we want is TAKEN with Mando and Grogu?!?!? Grogu is abducted in the first 5 minutes, Mando gives the EXACT SAME "I have a particular set of skills" speech, then there is 90 minutes of Mando savaging aliens left and right while Grogu uses his force powers to work free. They unite at the end to defeat the final boss.
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Why didn't we get that 😵
 
I love Ahsoka Tano but even I'm kind of burnt out on her
her character design just doesn't work for live action, same with Hera. Those poor ladies can barely act with those massive headpieces. IMHO those alien types are best reserved for animation, as are aliens that talk like normal people. NOTHING irks me more in modern star wars than a photorealistic alien, CG or costume, that has a fully normal human voice, usually with some ridiculous chipper accent or some such. If they are gonn aspeak, they need a distorted human voice, maybe not a stereotypic accent like the Syndicate and Wattoo, but something fitting the alien like Admiral Ackbar. Though I VASTLY prefer subtitles or a human translator/"let me repeat what you said" thing. The sole exception is Nick Nolte UBER gravelly voice on mando, its still just Nick, but it fits :P
 
her character design just doesn't work for live action, same with Hera. Those poor ladies can barely act with those massive headpieces. IMHO those alien types are best reserved for animation, as are aliens that talk like normal people. NOTHING irks me more in modern star wars than a photorealistic alien, CG or costume, that has a fully normal human voice, usually with some ridiculous chipper accent or some such. If they are gonn aspeak, they need a distorted human voice, maybe not a stereotypic accent like the Syndicate and Wattoo, but something fitting the alien like Admiral Ackbar. Though I VASTLY prefer subtitles or a human translator/"let me repeat what you said" thing. The sole exception is Nick Nolte UBER gravelly voice on mando, its still just Nick, but it fits :P

I find it funny how Disney did their damnest to unsexulize Twi'lek females. I really hated that. With Lucas all of the females in that race were super sexy with french accents. I agree this normal speech in this Disney Star Wars stuff took me a lot of time to get used to. I still prefer the Lucas dialogue though
 
Felt the like the movie was built for 6 episodes on Hulu, still good, ranking it high in recent Star Wars creations, and I don't know about you but Jacked Jaba The Hut kicks butt.
 
I find it funny how Disney did their damnest to unsexulize Twi'lek females. I really hated that. With Lucas all of the females in that race were super sexy with french accents. I agree this normal speech in this Disney Star Wars stuff took me a lot of time to get used to. I still prefer the Lucas dialogue though
Best part of that terrible Boba Fett show, and sooooo under utilized.

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Best part of that terrible Boba Fett show, and sooooo under utilized.

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That's another thing, yes they are attractive but I found that they kind of toned down the outfits. Before anyone says this is a show that is rated PG to PG13, even back than like 16 years ago, they wouldn't have toned the outfits down at all

The Clone Wars 3D show had a couple of episodes where a Clone Trooper gets stranded on this planet. He stays with this family and the dad is another Clone Trooper who deflected. He has a wife and child. His wife is a Twi'lek and man she was super sexy. She showed some cleavage and everything. Even had a French accent. I know it was I think The Bad Batch show where they went back to that planet and the family. The mom was still pretty but super censored.

That's one of the things I miss the most about Lucas Star Wars, he wasn't afraid of aiming stuff at The Male Gaze

I heard he even had a thing for Darth Talon, who is that EU Sexy Twi'lek Sith Lord from the Dark Horse Star Wars Series Legacy

It's just funny how certain groups tend to ignore straight males as a buying demographic nowadays
 
It is a movie of nonconsequence and I get why they made it so isolated. Anyone can watch it and it's approachable on it's own. Even though I enjoyed it, I'm still somewhat disappointed that it didn't really connect to the bigger unvirese lore wise. I'm a fan of the 2 main characters so that probably helps my enjoyment level. Rotta was handled much better than I expected and it worked.

The movie is fun, safe and unfortunately very forgetable. I can't help but think this should have come out 2-3 years ago.
 
Honestly much better than I expected. A fun little adventure, but just go in expecting it to be a more elaborate season of the Mandalorian as I feel it isn't really anything different than that.
 
A live action Cal Kestis movie would quadruple the box office of this
How could they fuck this up? All we want is TAKEN with Mando and Grogu?!?!? Grogu is abducted in the first 5 minutes, Mando gives the EXACT SAME "I have a particular set of skills" speech, then there is 90 minutes of Mando savaging aliens left and right while Grogu uses his force powers to work free. They unite at the end to defeat the final boss.
Two great ideas. I'll add another:

A Pod racing movie (just pod racing, no other shenanigans) in the vein of the recent Brad Pitt F1 movie, with a feelgood story about winning the big race and high speed cockpit views to really feel the speed.

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Just picture the above gif with high budget effects...

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It would be an absolute treat in IMAX.
 
I think the saying "it was good in imax" just says more how bad it is. Cause that's the takeaway?

Its like those "yea the game sucks ass, but the ray tracing looks nice" people
 
I think the saying "it was good in imax" just says more how bad it is. Cause that's the takeaway?

Its like those "yea the game sucks ass, but the ray tracing looks nice" people
Just like good graphics, Imax can make an average movie feel a bit better, but it can't make a bad movie feel good.

For example, Star Wars Episode 9 was a bafflingly bad movie, even in IMAX.
 
Two great ideas. I'll add another:

A Pod racing movie (just pod racing, no other shenanigans) in the vein of the recent Brad Pitt F1 movie, with a feelgood story about winning the big race and high speed cockpit views to really feel the speed.

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Just picture the above gif with high budget effects...

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It would be an absolute treat in IMAX.

A Star Wars movie just focusing on Podracing would be amazing

now this is podracing the phantom menace GIF by Star Wars
 
It is a movie of nonconsequence and I get why they made it so isolated. Anyone can watch it and it's approachable on it's own. Even though I enjoyed it, I'm still somewhat disappointed that it didn't really connect to the bigger unvirese lore wise. I'm a fan of the 2 main characters so that probably helps my enjoyment level. Rotta was handled much better than I expected and it worked.

The movie is fun, safe and unfortunately very forgetable. I can't help but think this should have come out 2-3 years ago.

Honestly much better than I expected. A fun little adventure, but just go in expecting it to be a more elaborate season of the Mandalorian as I feel it isn't really anything different than that.
Mindless fun popcorn movie. Nothing wrong with that, went in with no expections.
 
I had fun. It's not world changing, or even consequential, but it's a good Mandalorian adventure.

Great score by LG. Killer synth leads and remixed main theme.

I don't think Dave Filoni can carry Star Wars on his back. The writing was like a Saturday morning cartoon.
 
Just got certified A- cinema score and the highest audience score on RT of all the Disney Star Wars films so far. The movie is fun and Grogu is hilarious.
 
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I enjoyed it. It maybe helps that I went in not expecting too much. Mando beating the shit out of people and Grogu being cute might be a cheap formula but it's one that still works for me. A friend of mine was saying he thought it was a pity it didn't go more into the Mandalorian culture stuff that the show had been doing. But for me I liked the show most when it was a Western style self-contained adventure where the two show up somewhere, beat the bad guy and ride off into sunset. I felt like the show got too bogged down in lore as it went on.

Great score, the synths helped give it its own feel rather than just being the Star Wars house brand.

It does feel like a bunch of episodes stitched together. There was a point fairly early on where I was thinking that it feels like it was about to be done even though I knew that time wise there was still plenty to go. It felt this could have been the outline for season 4 of the show and so was structured like that. But that did also make it feel like the type of adventure serial that was such a big influence on Lucas. So in that way it kinda works.

Like with other Filoni stuff I felt like the way certain characters were presented would have made more sense to me if I'd seen Clone Wars/Rebels. There's a character who is quite present throughout the early part of the film that feels like I'm meant to have far more of an attachment to than I do. And another later on where I figured they had to be from one of those shows and that turned out to be the case. It makes it all very Glup Shitto. Also Filoni getting a cameo felt masturbatory. I get that there are people who love Clone Wars and Rebels but as someone who didn't watch either it feels weird to me how reverent the recent Star Wars stuff is to him. But obviously that's down to him being involved.

Casting Jeremy Allen White then distorting his performance beyond any recognition felt like an odd choice.
 
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