Spoilers The Mandalorian and Grogu

[Deset Gled]

The animation on the two big robots at the end made me think of stop-motion style. I'm not sure if they were actually practical or just imitating but they were great to look at.

That wasn't just stop-motion, that's the heir-to-the-crown-of-stop-motion Phil Tippett! AKA, the guy that brought you the original AT-ATs and co-invented the motion blur process that makes all of Star Wars stop motion look a generation more realistic than Harryhausen.

Mandalorian And Grogu will feature a fully stop-motion sequence made with Phil Tippett's help

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(Anyone else here watch Mad God? That was ... an experience.)

 

[plecostomus]

That wasn't just stop-motion, that the the heir-to-the-crown-of-stop-motion Phil Tippett! AKA, the guy that brought you the original AT-ATs and co-invented the motion blur process that that makes all of Star Wars stop motion look a generation more realistic than Harryhausen.

Mandalorian And Grogu will feature a fully stop-motion sequence made with Phil Tippett's help

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(Anyone else here watch Mad God? That was ... an experience.)

Perfection! My favorite part of the movie.

 

[Zardnaar]

The animation on the two big robots at the end made me think of stop-motion style. I'm not sure if they were actually practical or just imitating but they were great to look at.

Of course I wanted to see I Love Boosters and got outvoted so I can't forgive this movie for that, but those two robots and the dragon snake almost make up for it. I also had not considered how gross a slimy swamp tunnel full of intelligent slugs is before I saw this movie.

I thought they were old droids meant to invoke stop motion.

Hurts used a lot of mix and match older droids.

 

[GreyLord]

Of the Disney Era movies, I think I liked this one second best. Only one better was Rogue One.

Of course, the other Disney Star Wars Films are rather bad and dross, all of them worse than what Lucas did (which is somewhat remarkable...have you seen the Phantom Menace!) with his films.

I'm still not a Disney Star Wars fan, but this movie was at least passable. I didn't notice any obviously screwed up things (like the 2d space chase in The Last Jedi and Luke just dying...because...well...it never really explains why he just up and dies) so there's that. I like the call backs to Morricone...then maybe that's a Mandalorian thing (I'm not a Star wars Fan, thus I have not really watched a lot of The Mandalorian TV series).

I have never liked the Hutts as Characters, but they made that nephew quite likeable to my surprise. Probably the surprise character of the movie for me.

Dave Filoni also showed his face

Spoiler: Where he shows his face

I saw him in the bar or whatever it was when the Mandalorian first reports in to the Sigourney Weaver character, and he was also an X-wing pilot who had a line in the final attack scenes.

 

[pukunui]

Dave Filoni also showed his face

Spoiler: Where he shows his face

I saw him in the bar or whatever it was when the Mandalorian first reports in to the Sigourney Weaver character, and he was also an X-wing pilot who had a line in the final attack scenes.

Yeah, that’s his regular The Mandalorian cameo character, Trapper Wolf.

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Trapper_Wolf

 

[GreyLord]

I'm just hoping that Favreau and Filoni can change the direction Star Wars Disney has been focused on going.

I know I'm just not a Disney Star Wars fan these days. If they can change it and bring people like me to enjoy the Star Wars Franchise, that could be a good thing.

Media is reporting this movie has the lowest opening of any Star Wars Movie thus far. I hope it has legs and does better, or that their next movie does exceptionally well (Starfighter) to at least give them a chance to see if they can reinvigorate a dying franchise (okay, I see it as a dying franchise, but that's just an opinion, not trying to make people angry at me).

 

[dbm]

I went in with two factors in mind:

• Star Wars is actually intended for children, not 50-somethings
• This was originally intended to be a series but smushed into a film.

With those two qualifiers, personally, I enjoyed the film. I would have preferred it as a series but enjoyed it for what it was.

I loved that many (most? all?) of the critters in the arena fight were the physical versions of the creatures first seen on the holochess board.

When the long-necked creature picks up and throws the no-neck creature that is an exact recreation of the piece-taking animation.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

I loved that many (most? all?) of the critters in the arena fight were the physical versions of the creatures first seen on the holochess board.

When the long-necked creature picks up and throws the no-neck creature that is an exact recreation of the piece-taking animation.

Yeah, the Dejarik scene was pretty fun -- my favorite of the movie, actually. Partly because years ago I built my own Dejarik board with painted monsters and my own game rules. Now I guess I need to add Mandalorian and Rotta minis for that game mode.

The scene seems to use all eight classic monsters -- the Ghhhk, Grimtaash the Molator, the Houjix, the Kintan strider, the K'lor'slug, the Mantellian Savrip, the Monnok, and the Ng'ok -- though I've have to rewatch in detail to be sure.

 

[Stalker0]

Media is reporting this movie has the lowest opening of any Star Wars Movie thus far. I hope it has legs and does better, or that their next movie does exceptionally well (Starfighter) to at least give them a chance to see if they can reinvigorate a dying franchise (okay, I see it as a dying franchise, but that's just an opinion, not trying to make people angry at me).

This is true...from a certain point of view.

Ultimately in raw numbers yes it did weaker than Solo. But, in the post pandemic world where all movies have suffered (if you look at memorial day releases over the last several years Mando and Grogu have done quite well) its doing well. And most importantly....looking at its budget.

This is honestly how Disney should be doing these movies (Marvel pay attention). The recognition is, these are the billion dollar franchises they once were, and finally they are budgeting as that is the case. So in budget terms Mando is doing just fine, it had a weak friday but had a lot of surge the rest of the weekend, and completely on track to make solid money.

Solo on the other hand was budgetted and marketed in the billion dollar SW movie era, and was seen as a massive flop. Mando was set up on a more conservative platform, and is doing well.

 

[Maxperson]

I'm still not a Disney Star Wars fan, but this movie was at least passable. I didn't notice any obviously screwed up things (like the 2d space chase in The Last Jedi and Luke just dying...because...well...it never really explains why he just up and dies) so there's that. I like the call backs to Morricone...then maybe that's a Mandalorian thing (I'm not a Star wars Fan, thus I have not really watched a lot of The Mandalorian TV series).

They never explain it, but it's sort of implied that the stress of using the force to affect something on the other side of the galaxy was too much for his body to handle.

I have never liked the Hutts as Characters, but they made that nephew quite likeable to my surprise. Probably the surprise character of the movie for me.

I liked him, too. It took me a while to get past the hutts speaking fluent basic, though.