Had a good time. Music was the highlight for sure. Some awesome effects ; those big bots in the hutt palace looked very Phil Tippett but I guess it wasn’t him. The segment of grogu by himself in the woods was a highlight; was nice to get a break from non stop creature battles. story? Just nothing there. Reminded me of the Mario galaxy movie in that regard. Don’t see myself coming back to it for that reason. Oh well.
Can’t imagine hating this more than TROS. I’ll probably see this Sunday. I had bought tickets to see TROS twice opening night, 7pm and 1am or some such. I’ll never forget sitting in my car after the second viewing and it really sinking it how much I hated it.
TROS was devastating because it ruined an awesome story set up; this has nothing to ruin to begin with so it just couldn’t let me down like that
The silver lining in TROS being so awful is that it taught me to never have expectations for Star Wars so even if this movie totally sucks there’s no way I’ll be as let down
I don’t even know if this movie actively sucks, it’s just a whole lot of nothing. If it was released straight to Disney+ I think it would have landed better. There’s just nothing about it that feels like it needed to be a theatrical release.
This was an entertaining watch, and looked pretty good for the most part. The dejarik set being a real life battle royale was a fun nod, the anzellans are great as always. I just am not really sure what the point of this was. It's weird that it didn't tie into the show really at all. Nothing to do with Mandalore or the Mythosaur, nothing to do with him learning who he is, Bo Katan and the other mandalorian factions not even mentioned. And I'm still not really sure what the point of Grogu is other than being the cute and comedic sidekick that occasionally uses the force to get Mando out of a bind. I didn't have high expectations on this, and the action scenes were fun and the sets and new planets were cool, but ultimately it's a movie that just exists.
I say this without knowing exactly how the Flash Gordon films really were beyond surface-level understanding, but I feel like a film like this is the studio's attempt to do something like that: literally just an adventure with no deeper meaning beyond being a night at the movies. Like, the font for the title of the film has really invoked that in my mind.
It was kind of refreshing in that regard in being very low stakes and not feeling like we were being pushed a sequel or anything. Just a straight up mission with fallout and then a resolution, done.
The imperial commander in the cold open has to be one of the worst actors I’ve ever witnessed on the big screen. Sigourney is also coming across pretty wooden these days :(
This was just a fun adventure movie, and that is fine for it to exist. I just find it a weird choice to do so with characters that have 3 seasons worth of Tv building them up to culminate in this storyline. And yes, Sigourney felt kind of wasted in this
can absolutely see Disney execs going to filoni / favreu and being like “hey the first few episodes you’re working on for next season… just mash’em together and put it in theaters”
100% what happened they announced like 6 other films in development a few years ago and none of them have come close to fruition (maybe the gosling one but idk exactly when that started) just needed to check a box in their corporate demographic strategy bullshit
like i hate to be all cynical anticapitalist about this (not really) but you're kidding yourself if you think otherwise
Btw, every time I see “this story was small and didn’t do literally anything with the lore” as a critique, I become more interested in seeing it, lol. I still think all the footage I’ve seen from it seems bland. But what I’ve heard about the creature stuff being good, and the back end having baby Yoda (who I traditionally don’t care about) take the solo lead for a bit… maybe it is worth a trip at some point, idk.
Saw this last night. It’s not bad or good. It just exists. I thought there would at least be some revelations or something new to the table about Mando/grogu, but nope. Feels like 3 episodes that would be sandwiched in the middle of a season.