kingbob

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I don’t think there is anyway baseball was anything but a giant F—-

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I called them a D because they were still competitive in a lot of games, won multiple SEC series, but didn’t make a regional. An F is a completely uncompetitive team like the basketball team this year.

About damn time. Sanchez has been dealing with 20-30% youth unemployment for a decade while mass importing Muslim migrants. Yet, he consistently ranked as one of the most well-liked PM’s in Europe. It never made any sense to me.

Errybody in the club got cancer!

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care to explain why Favreau didn't even want to make this toy commercial?

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Disney makes dumb decisions with its IP’s? This is known. It seems clear to me that Disney was caught flat-footed without a plan following the crash and burn of the sequels. So, they decided to order the team behind Mando to take something they already were working on for the show and re-edit and add reshoots and a higher effects budget to upgrade it to a movie. I believe this is sorta the reverse problem that occurred with the Obi Wan show, where material originally meant for a movie was stretched into a season of tv with little budget or thought behind it.

All of those shenanigans behind the scenes may explain why the film was made and why it is paced the way it is, but that doesn’t have much bearing on why I go to a movie theater. I just happen to like The Mandalorian, enjoyed most of the Feloni verse shows (both animated and live action), and even though I was disappointed with Season 3 and the Book of Boba Fett, I was intrigued enough to give it a chance. I am glad I did, as I regretted not seeing Solo in theaters.

I go to the theater to be entertained. If I had fun, I got my money’s worth. If I didn’t enjoy it, I complain online. Is Mando & Grogu a great movie? No. Is it entertaining enough for me to enjoy seeing it on a Thursday night? Yeah. Is it flawed? Absolutely. Is it up to the standards I believe Star Wars should aspire to be? No.

However, it is, more or less, what I wanted it to be: a fun, one off adventure where the Mandalorian does bounty hunter stuff in the Star Wars galaxy. I didn’t want another Skywalker story. I didn’t want a dour depressing movie. I didn’t want a SJW feminist screed. I didn’t want a movie that sets up the sequel trilogy or unmakes it (at least not from this movie). I got a fun stand alone adventure that was worth my $10.

I think there’s room in the Star Wars IP for serious spy craft political thrillers like Andor, fun space westerns like Mando, and high fantasy morality plays like the original trilogy. Personally, I hope we next get a cool WW2 dogfighting movie next. I would love another serious prestige tv series in KOTOR. I want a heist movie with the cast from Solo. I want them to recast Luke, Leah, and Han (or at least use the same actor from Solo) to tell another high fantasy morality play following some of the expanded universe stuff. I want another season of Ahsoka and more Mando content. There’s room for all of these different things in Star Wars. It’s a big galaxy.

Bro, just watch the movie or don’t. You’ve made your point.

It was actually safer in Baghdad during the Surge than it was just living in Baton Rouge.

I give it a 7/10. It was enjoyable. The first half of the movie is better than the second half, the pacing is bad (especially in the second half, which is weird because the first half is awesome. First half felt better than Solo while the second half dragged bad until the last 15 minutes or so), and the movie really doesn’t trust its audience at all (it seems to go out of its way to explain stuff rather than just let forshadowing do its thing). It tells when it could just show. It also frequently puts cuteness in the foreground frequently enough that it feels like jingling keys in front of a baby. A lot of this extra cuteness and exposition felt added on in post, like the studio saw test screenings and said “brainrotted kids are too stupid to get that without help” or “add a cute thing here to get attention”. It’s the movie equivalent of yellow paint in a video game.

With that said, despite its flaws, it’s still entertaining. Great action set pieces, cool worlds that feel lived in, the plot is interesting enough, and It’s a self-contained adventure outside a few cameos by familiar Feloni verse characters. The first half is classic early season Mando. It’s like John Wick meets Thor: Ragnarok but less quippy. The second half felt more like an above average Star Wars Rebels arc. I had fun and felt like I got my money’s worth.

The first movie I remember seeing in theaters was Starship Troopers :lol:

“We’re not just sure, we’re HIV positive.”

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But to begin a protracted conflict, just because an ally was gonna do it anyway, with no clear goals set, was foolish.

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This. On the flip side, if Israel did start the conflict with us publicly stating we were not involved and didn’t approve (whether true or not), when Iran retaliated against our assets in the region, we could have used that provocation as justification to retaliate in turn. Instead of us being aggressors, we’re acting defensively against an aggressor who is lashing out at third parties. This would have likely resulted in the U.S. garnering significantly more international support and sympathy in taking action against Iran.

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so who are the other 12%

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Probably black, tbh.