The full movie? No. The famous handshake? Yup.
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Gotcha.
Now that we’ve spent a page and a half talking about Predator, back to The Mandalorian. New episode Friday!
I really like how they're doing a weekly release. If it had all dropped yesterday, I would be avoiding this thread, because I didn't have the time to watch 8 episodes yesterday.
It's the first episode. You want to make a good impression. What I find more annoying these days is when people put the "hater" label on those who go against the group narrative.
My thoughts are my own and I still feel like when I was watching that episode, I felt a little lost. I said I'm going to give it a few episodes to get that "hook", but for this hyped up series for this entire year, I did expect a lot more. As for the length of the episode, I remember when first episodes were 2 hours long. This episode was only 40 minutes. Again, for as much as this show was hyped, is it wrong to think the episode should have at least been an hour?
I guess one thing they should have done was identify the various planets this guy visited, or gave me an introductionary text to set up the series. What I got was an episode that felt like a middle of the season type show instead of the very first episode of an anticipated series. Give me an introduction and I probably would have liked it better.
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Same probably here. But I might have held off on Grad school work and watched at least half while the wife and baby were away.
You’re certainly entitled to your opinion. I think we need to wait to see what’s next. I imagine that the reason that it was only 40 minutes was because there was a natural breaking point and only so much story to be told prior to that point.
If I didn't feel lost I probably could answer that question.
Seriously though it was the first 10-15 minutes. Like what planet were they on, where were we in relation to the overall Star Wars universe, the scene with the blue alien guy and I guess the Mandalorian's first mission. It really wasn't until we met the droid where things started coming together but that was the very end I feel like they had wasted the first half of the first episode.
There’s a part of me that still wishes Lynch would have directed ROTJ. Sigh.
That's more on an EU thing. As far as canon is concerned, the xenophobic attitude is mostly just the military, and even then it's more of a cultural undertone than official policy (just like most actual militaries.) I mean think about it: the Empire is basically the Republic under new management, which means most of it's citizens (yes, even in the core worlds) are going to be non-humans. And to support that idea we've seen non-human Imperials on Rebels and in BF2.
It kind of is and it kind of knows that, but in the best way possible. It's also kind of awesome.
I can't believe I live in a world where a bunch of pop sci-fi fans think that Predator sucks and don't know who Apollo Creed is.
I want my momma.
I want my momma.
I have actually seen Predator, which is a great movie. It's a big dumb macho man action movie, but it's knows that's what is ism and wholeheartedly embraces it. But I had forgotten that Carl Weathers was in it, and that his character's name was Dillon.
I don't really see where we needed details, all we really needed to know we could get through what was onscreen. That was just kind of the cold open of a James Bond movie, where he was finishing up one mission, before going on the new mission that will be the focus of the movie, or series in this case.If I didn't feel lost I probably could answer that question.
Seriously though it was the first 10-15 minutes. Like what planet were they on, where were we in relation to the overall Star Wars universe, the scene with the blue alien guy and I guess the Mandalorian's first mission. It really wasn't until we met the droid where things started coming together but that was the very end I feel like they had wasted the first half of the first episode.
There are days I can't believe we live in a world where we're having a literal renaissance with new Star Wars, Star Trek, many other established franchises and several excellent new ideas out there and people still complain that none of it is good enough. But I try to not think too much about that.
I agree with your point in general. However...
Just took a quick glance at the ratings on imdb and rottentomatoes (for whatever those are worth) and it looks like people pretty much loved the first episode.
I loved it and can’t wait to see more. I always dreamed of a day we’d get a live-action Star Wars show.
Not everything is for everyone.
It was partially making a joke Partially making a point that fandom is never happy. Whaddayagonnado?
No, but Rocky is an Oscar winning, paradigm shifting classic. The characters are legendary. And as for Predator, this is is sci-fi board, and it was a quintessential contribution to the genre in the 80s.
The reaction of many here surprises me too, unless you happen to be under the age of 30.
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