Not surprised, it was poorly marketed and requires you to watch three seasons worth of content to have context for.
It really should have just been season 4 of Mandolorian.
I will be seeing it because I have seen every Star Wars movie in theaters and I don’t want that streak to be broken.
I had no idea this was being made until just now
This happens when you burn out your fans with constant releases.
It wasn’t terrible. Not great, but not terrible. Worth watching if you’re streaming, but not theater worthy.
Thought it was some Disney plus nonsense.
Looks like Disney’s ability to keep milking their latest cute plush toy is coming to an end.
time to create another one. or get back to the old one. Young Yoda it is!
Maybe we can finally get a Jabba the Hut gay romance movie.
directed by Lee Kronin
Honestly a series following Yoda over his life showing the decline of the Jedi order would be pretty good. I’m actually kinda surprised that wasn’t a thing in the EU canon, though we did get a couple comics featuring young Yoda. Imagine how much worse of a blender Yoda in his prime would be, in EU canon he hefts a mini gun on his back and fucks up some droids and in one of the first clone wars (2008) episodes he literally blends a bunch of B1 droids in a tank.
Lucas was against exploring Yoda because that would diminish his mystique.
In a world way worse Yuuzhan Vong would’ve been Yoda species as the invading force from unknown regions of space.
I think the best way to deal with Yoda is to keep him as far as possible from current Star Wars soap opera framework and maintain his stories strictly in the realm of myths that might or might not be true so that every story is standalone and self-contained. something like Samurai Assassin series used to do for example
To be completely honest, I didn’t even hear about this movie at all until like 2 weeks ago and I just assumed they’d release it as a Disney+ exclusive or something. I even went to a movie theater like a month ago and I heard absolutely nothing about it. Anecdotally, this tells me their marketing team had no faith in their product, so why should anyone else?
Which is sad, because apparently they spent quite a bit on marketing. I think their problem is they’re trying to get other markets to watch like women, lgbqt, kids, ect. But in doing do they ailenated like 90% of their core customers, then they’re shocked about it.
And you’re right, the problem with this movie is it wasn’t really “bad” but it shouldn’t have been made a full blown theatre move. It should have been a Disney+ $20 rental or something then make a season 4 for normal steaming.
That opinion is completely insane.
Congrats on having an absolutely brain dead take
they’re trying to get other markets to watch like women, lgbqt, kids, ect. But in doing do they ailenated like 90% of their core customers
This is an incel take.
Yeah, the story of an attractive, emotionally sensitive guy raising a child alone in a harsh world is like marketing poison to women. /s
Star Wars was originally aimed at women because fatherhood was a central theme of the films. /s
Why would anyone make a movie to cater just to get the ~20% of the population that are white straight males? Movies are hard enough to make profitably. Why would you focus on such a miniscule market as straight white males?
I bet you cried when you learned that women have peach fuzz.
Or, you know, Just release it on Disney+, for Disney+ subscribers, who already pay for it by subscribing to Disney+, instead of being a cunting multi-billion dollar company thats trying to double dip on customers during a financial crisis, and expecting them to pay more, just to keep getting the shit they’ve been watching, because you decided for no good reason to switch platforms for no justifiable reason outside of corporate greed.
I fucking hate when they do this shit. Disney is also guilty of it with other properties, like Kingdom Hearts… Oh, want to know all the story? Go buy 10+ platforms and twice as many games to understand what the fucks going on…
But in doing do they ailenated like 90% of their core customers, then they’re shocked about it.
people that love darth vader didn’t want to see “baby yoda, the film”? I’m astonished.
I didn’t hear about it until I saw it on the drive in billboard.
That said, I’ve not finished season 2, but I loved season 1 enough to get the pinball game :)
I loved that pinball game enough to want to watch the show. Still haven’t, but I wanted to.
Yeah I’d only barely heard of it, and even then I thought it was just what they were naming the new season of the TV show. Marketing department fucked up.
Like the actual pinball machine?
Going to the movies, in THIS economy?
To watch a disney movie
We go once a year. We saw across the spiderverse in 2024, tron ares last year, will see the backrooms soon and the third spiderman next year. It’s not worth anymore. I had never seen an imax, so we saw tron in imax, was amazing. But not worth $80 for 2 adults and a child. And we brought our own snacks! I brought beef jerky, kiddo brought something, I don’t remember. Shared a drink.
Yeah. My son and I went to see Project Hail Mary in an IMAX theater. That was pretty awesome, and I think worth it. But honestly there just aren’t that many movies coming out these days that warrant making an occasion out of it. I’m more comfortable watching at home when it comes to streaming.
It’s ok once in awhile, but not regularly.
We saw across the spiderverse in 2024
Is that “To Be Continued” ever going to be resolved?
Supposed to be next year. I didn’t see that coming, didn’t realize it had been 90 minutes and was like wtf!
June 2027 supposedly. Beyond the spiderverse.
Limp and low effort. Actually kind of impressive to make a movie with so much going on be boring. The writing was like a rough draft with placeholder dialogue. Legendary actors giving wooden performances. Oof.
This is actually the only good star wars movie made by Disney that I’ve seen.
I only saw it bcz it was a friend’s birthday and they were going already.
I had super low expectations going in, and saw a terrible movie trailer. That actually made me think the movie was going to be really bad.
Nope, turns out the trailer was just bad.
Rogue One is in the Top 2 Star Wars movie.
Why would I pay good money when it’ll be available by August?
Dude I liked it I knew everyone’s gonna hate it. I knew from the start it wouldn’t be a filosofical thing… is Mando for fucks sake he runs trough the galaxy shooting shit and taking care of the kid we got that that’s it.
Is it perfect? nope is it bad? nope. But it is entertaining that’s all I asked from it, it’s my unpopular opinion but that were my expectations.Yeah, it did exactly what it said on the tin.
Not pretentious
It’s their own fault. They haven’t had a Christmas Special for ages.
Honestly, they should buy, and then run, the Rifftrax version of the Christmas Special. One of the funniest damn things I’ve ever seen. It deserves becoming a midnight special type of movie…
Get used to it. Disney is going to grind Star Wars into dust.
going to
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From what I understand, they truly do mean to make the lowest possible content money can buy, cram full of “fan recognizable moments” to make the most amount of money out of it as possible.
As in, that’s the goal, on purpose. Not as a “unintended side effect of us just being inept at making anything these days”. But just being VERY good at squeezing money from brands like Star Wars.
Just turning out slop. Easy. Comfy. Low content slop. And then sell stuffed Grogu’s. Andor was a fluke because the director was able to make something out of nothing. Without ever touching so much as “the force” or even a lightsaber!
We need more of that director.
Andor was a fluke because the director was able to make something out of nothing
I can’t be the only person who absolutely fucking hated Andor.
Hahaha, I can see it not being everyone’s cup o tea :-)
But my god did I like the writing and the levels upon levels of meaning crammed in there…
For some of us the ship has already sailed. Episode 8 fundamentally changed the way I think about Star Wars. Before that, I’d already come to the realization that, despite leaning SW in the Star Wars vs Star Trek rivalry, I actually liked ST better. But I still had a love for SW that meant I would be in the theatre to see whatever SW movie was there.
Ep 8 killed that. For the better IMO because it was a stupid obsession, even if it wasn’t as strong as it previously was.
I saw Ep 9 in the theatre, but it was more of a symbolic finishing what I started many years prior. My viewing was somehow full of contempt and there was much that fed it. I’ve watched a bit of the other stuff Disney has put out and it wasn’t bad like eps 8 and 9 were, but I just don’t care as much anymore.
Like I understand Andor was well done. I might get around to watching it eventually, but I’m in no rush.
Star Wars has gone from an automatic “yes!” to just another franchise, for me at least.
Andor is overrated, I tuned out during the Heist Arc. 2 or 3 episodes of nothing but Rebels whining that Andor’s not one of the cool kids, then when the Heist actually happens we spend the first 1/3 of the episode marching… Andor was trash, the fact that people actually like it is a mystery that will forever baffle me.
Casual fan, but star wars lost me at episode 2. The original trilogy are a big part of my childhood so I’d have seen the others but can’t sit through them. I genuinely like Mandy but lost interest after season 3 and I tried to watch the other shows but just… didn’t like them. I know some hardcore fans but even they lost it after the final couple of films
Episode 2 is the one where I had to tell myself that George Lucas just sucks at deep romance plots but that’s not why I was watching. Because yeah, those “romance” scenes were awkward af when they didn’t have action adding to the intensity. Plus Anakin was waving red flags right from Ep 2 and it took some suspension of disbelief to even accept them as a couple even before the dynamic caused by their age difference (and Anakin acting like a child because Padme treats him as a child) and somehow she ends up even more attracted to him?
But the overall plot was still coherent (though maybe I was more forgiving because I knew it had to check off certain boxes to fit and it did) and not just going for that reaction in a live audience sitcom when one of the main characters first enters the stage like Ep 7 (though it did have potential still IMO) or an “ok, I’ll make the next star wars movie, but I actually hate everything about star wars and want to show that through my Episode”, or “ah fuck, the last guy really made a mess out of this, can you fix it? Or just make something, anything to finish this trilogy and we’ll try to recover on other stories in the franchise”.
I like Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker, but they have no business co-existing in the same trilogy.
For the better IMO because it was a stupid obsession, even if it wasn’t as strong as it previously was.
- Jar Jar is the key to all this
George Lucas
Just turning out slop. Easy. Comfy. Low content slop.
But it’s not even AI generated? 🤔
Turns out the slop was corporate shit all along.
Slop doesn’t have to be AI generated.
See for reference: most mobile games.
