The Mandalorian and Grogu

we already knew the summer blockbuster, as it was, was practically dead this decade. sure, top gun maverick revived it a little bit with its box office money but not really with its quality.

we now face the last stage of the pandemic's ripple effect. as a film, oh then its still horrible. its screenplay is horrendous, throwing exposition at you while telling you whats going on and what the characters think which sucks because every performance dit NOT care. grogu is there for merchandise all tho he has the best bits considering we get like 15 min of no dialogue scenes and he's a puppet which is neat.

i could go more in depth but simply this is what we're going too, a glorified 2 hour tv episode that features martin scorsese for 2 scenes and just looks like shit. when are we getting good blockbusters again?

(watch my new 7 min short film, summer walk: https://boxd.it/ewenRP )

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If you hope this will be like the show, you will be pretty satisfied. The formula is the same: travel, go fetch mission, fight, repeat, with cute Grogu moments scattered throughout.

If you wish Star Wars would fully commit to what makes Andor great, you won't love this. You probably don't like the Mandalorian show anyway. Honestly, you're probably done with Star Wars, because that Ryan Gosling one coming out next year is him protecting a kid, which sounds kind of like the Mandalorian.

As for me, I'm a Star Wars casual. Mando & Grogu is a solid continuation of the show. The cute and funny parts land, and there is a lot of action. There are no stakes, but that is seemingly by design. Overall it's exactly what you think it's going to be.

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