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The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026)

I didn't overly enjoy it. It had some good action, but to me it managed to feel both bloated and rushed at the same time. Too much was crammed in, especially in the final act.
 
I just got back...

Much can be debated about what is the difference between a movie and tv episodes. I yhink a big problem I had was this literally felt like 3 or 4 episodes strung together. A movie is usually edited very differently. Even in the era of streaming tv shows are edited still with the assumption that you could take breaks between episodes. That is the very definition of “episode”. This just dragged on and on. I think it would have benefited greatly if this was edited more with a movie style pace. Does not help that this is not new at all. We have spent a lot of time with these characters already. In terms of screen time more than any other Star Wars characters... in live action at least.
 
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I really liked the movie. The first half was my favorite part. It slowed down a bit too much in the second half but it was still good. Best star wars made? No. But it was very action oriented and I think the breakout character was Rotta the Hutt. All in all a fun time at the movies. Enjoy.

Then wouldn't they have talked and moved reeeeaaalllyyy sllooowwwwlllyyy, like the DMV sloth in Zootopia? If they can carry on a conversation at normal speed, if they can react to Kirk and the landing party in real time, then obviously their time sense is the same as everyone else's.

Well I meant in their minds. They might perceive time differently because of the virus they were exposed to that kept them as children for centuries. Basically they might not be aware consciously of how much time has passed. Basically the virus plus their brains haven't matured where they are as self aware as they will be when they bevone adults. Just a theory.
 
Saw it pointed out on Reddit, that the two Mando stunt performers, that were in the suit when Pedro wasn't, made it on the End Credits cast list for the Mando movie, listed right after Pedro, instead of just being on the stunt performers list

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Saw it pointed out on Reddit, that the two Mando stunt performers, that were in the suit when Pedro wasn't, made it on the End Credits cast list for the Mando movie, listed right after Pedro, instead of just being on the stunt performers list

As I recall, the main suit performers in the original films -- Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, David Prowse, Peter Mayhew -- got credited in the main cast list too. So there's no surprise that Wayne got billed that high, though Crowder getting billed so high too is more surprising. (After all, a suit performer and a stunt performer aren't necessarily the same thing.)
 
I looked it up in Wikipedia, and it doesn't look very appealing.
I haven't played any of the games, but I would highly recommend the Amazon Prime series, it's absolutely fantastic.
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It looks like we might be seeing the movie tomorrow, despite some of the reactions I've seen I'm still really looking forward to it.
 
Wait, so the Mandalorian movie originally announced wasn't this Mandalorian movie?

Ugh, why has every big scifi IP been so badly managed we can't trust them to actually do what they say they're going to do, much less what the fans even want?
 
Saw it pointed out on Reddit, that the two Mando stunt performers, that were in the suit when Pedro wasn't, made it on the End Credits cast list for the Mando movie, listed right after Pedro, instead of just being on the stunt performers list

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They were also listed in the opening credits. In fact, they first began getting actor's billing in the third season of The Mandalorian, probably as a reflection of the fact they were putting in more time on set than Pedro Pascal.
 
Wait, so the Mandalorian movie originally announced wasn't this Mandalorian movie?

Ugh, why has every big scifi IP been so badly managed we can't trust them to actually do what they say they're going to do, much less what the fans even want?

Huh? There's nothing unusual about that. Creativity is a process of trial and error, of testing out ideas until you find one that works. The first idea you have for a project isn't automatically the right one, because creativity is not remotely that simple. (Indeed, I recently got an anthology invitation where the editor explicitly told potential authors not to send our first ideas or even our second.)

It never makes sense to "trust" that a movie announced as being in development is guaranteed to come out in that form, because most film projects in development never get made, and if they do, they're often profoundly different from what was initially planned. This is the norm, not the exception. For instance, my Patreon review this coming week is about the movie Minority Report, which went through three different writer/director teams with at least four radically different scripts, and was briefly going to be a sequel to Paul Verhoeven's Total Recall.
 
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