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Title: Mandalorian
Post by: Leshma on November 27, 2019, 06:36:25 am
reminds me of firefly

i liek it

Jon Favreau is good murican
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Golem on November 27, 2019, 03:47:49 pm
this is the way
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: njames89 on November 27, 2019, 05:02:22 pm
Thought about getting disney plus on free trial to watch. Might do it
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Nickleback on November 27, 2019, 07:59:56 pm
I admit it looks not bad,however,i have prejudice against against all Star wars movies after their last movie with dat grill and yellow stupid whirling robot.They kinda mainstream their movies now,thus,normies in,sheogorath out!I CAN'T FUCKING SHARE THE SAME TASTE WITH JAMES,THAT IS BIOLOGICALLY WRONG!Hypothetically,if i were a normie,i would probably watch star wars movie and talk about how awesome they are,that's why even though i kinda like em right now,i still shun away just cuz its damn mainstream,and i don't wanna share same ideas,notions and dreams with the useless masses.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Nickleback on November 27, 2019, 08:01:00 pm
and suggest you to do the same,especially u leshma .ss
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Drunken_sailor on November 27, 2019, 09:36:17 pm
http://watchserieshd.tv/series/the-mandalorian-season-1

Here you go, saved you the subscription fees, make sure to use a popup blocker.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: The_Bloody_Nine on November 27, 2019, 10:16:21 pm
Quote from: Drunken_sailor on November 27, 2019, 09:36:17 pm
http://watchserieshd.tv/series/the-mandalorian-season-1

Here you go, saved you the subscription fees, make sure to use a popup blocker.

I don't get how someone can watch something and especially sci-fi in this shit quality.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: [ptx] on November 28, 2019, 01:51:28 am
I mean, just torrent the thing if you're not going to pay for it. Pirated streams are unwatchable garbage...
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Asheram on November 28, 2019, 02:01:17 am
Project free tv is is pretty good quality.
https://projectfreetv.fun/series/the-mandalorian/
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Leshma on November 28, 2019, 05:11:21 am
Quote from: Drunken_sailor on November 27, 2019, 09:36:17 pm
http://watchserieshd.tv/series/the-mandalorian-season-1

Here you go, saved you the subscription fees, make sure to use a popup blocker.

if u are gonna be a pirate, rarbg is not dead but use vpn for your sake

or use burner mail on disney+ trial

this is Jon Favreau, the good jew. no forced feminism so far, no gay scenes, lead char is alpha male
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Drunken_sailor on November 28, 2019, 06:40:03 pm
Streaming isnt illegal to watch where as downloading is, and depending on your internet provider they will penalize you for downloading.  So shit quality in trade off for not getting sued is fine by me
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: njames89 on November 28, 2019, 07:19:01 pm
Yeah I just stream stuff for free generally but was gonna try disney plus for the free month.

I find most everything is in decent quality so long as it's been released a few weeks.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Nickleback on November 28, 2019, 09:55:42 pm
Quote from: Drunken_sailor on November 28, 2019, 06:40:03 pm
Streaming isnt illegal to watch where as downloading is, and depending on your internet provider they will penalize you for downloading.  So shit quality in trade off for not getting sued is fine by me

U were livin in englamd true?Only in uk ppl really care bout that shit
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Leshma on November 29, 2019, 01:31:53 am
Quote from: Drunken_sailor on November 28, 2019, 06:40:03 pm
Streaming isnt illegal to watch where as downloading is, and depending on your internet provider they will penalize you for downloading.  So shit quality in trade off for not getting sued is fine by me

Like with drugs, using is somewhat okay, but sharing is not. When it comes to torrent you have to share at least a little bit in order to download something. In reality, piracy is bad because it means someone rich is losing money because of it. The only reason why they don't sue and penalize everybody who does it is because that is not feasible atm. That's why they put the line at sharing. Even in Germany or UK where they send you letters telling you to pay fines, those companies have to take you to court first to make you pay. But they threaten people with letters to coerce them to pay before the court, works a bit like settlement. Or like Church does it for thousands of years.

Using a VPN means you are safe for all practical purposes because tracking people behind VPN while doable takes too much time and effort. Governments do it only in case of domestic terrorism or some heavy shit like that. Nobody will do NSA search on your ass because you downloaded Disney show.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Algarn on November 30, 2019, 03:10:41 pm
Meh, I'd have hoped for it to be a bit more violent and ruthless in terms of storyline (as in, showing the very worst of a post-empire era, full of chaos and warlords waging wars for power). Plus there are some weird things, like I mean the guy is a Mandalorian and gets rekt by 2 weird beasts, the baby survives two assassination attempts, and other unbelievable stuff. There was potential in the series, but I know after ep4 it's not going to go anywhere.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: [ptx] on November 30, 2019, 05:14:20 pm
Yeah, it's really been going downhill steadily since ep3.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Drunken_sailor on November 30, 2019, 05:40:30 pm
Felt like a filler episode, they were going for a seven samurai theme but boiled down to 40 mins so it sucked, i feel like this episode showed that they want to make this a 10+ season show
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Leshma on November 30, 2019, 06:01:36 pm
I saw Bryce directing and had my fears but she nailed it in that Black Mirror episode so I had hopes for ep4. But it stinks, full force feminism, bad dialogue, and story execution. AT-ST animation is the only good thing about this, obviously filler episode. Damn episode is like it belongs to Xena warrior princess or some similar show. That's where Gina Carano should be cast, not a Star Wars character.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Leshma on November 30, 2019, 06:06:11 pm
Quote from: Algarn on November 30, 2019, 03:10:41 pm
Meh, I'd have hoped for it to be a bit more violent and ruthless in terms of storyline (as in, showing the very worst of a post-empire era, full of chaos and warlords waging wars for power). Plus there are some weird things, like I mean the guy is a Mandalorian and gets rekt by 2 weird beasts, the baby survives two assassination attempts, and other unbelievable stuff. There was potential in the series, but I know after ep4 it's not going to go anywhere.

Baby is Yoda and will probably save the day in the last scene, fighting the entire army of stormtroopers and sith combined. Calling it.

That damn beast handed my ass to me in Kotor.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Xant on December 01, 2019, 09:03:49 am
Started out alright, now it's getting really bad and boring. Awful action scenes that make no sense with the usual Stormtrooper-tier accuracy, and really cliché, predictable, Disney-tier storylines, etc.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: [ptx] on December 01, 2019, 09:49:14 am
Well... it IS Disney...
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Golem on December 01, 2019, 12:32:47 pm
Damn it, I have to agree. Up to now it seemed promising. Sucks.
Title: Mandeloran effect
Post by: Gurgumul on December 01, 2019, 03:58:33 pm
i thought Nickleback's nickname was Nickelback
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: MBB_CAV on December 02, 2019, 09:54:01 am
Give it a try
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Xant on December 02, 2019, 06:54:40 pm
What will happen next, and every episode: Mandalorian with a heart of gold will struggle for a bit with his morality, but in the end do the right thing. Cute baby yoda will look at the Mandalorian cutely. Everyone will miss the Mandalorian from two feet. Mandalorian saves cute baby yoda once again, and they fly off to another identical episode.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: [ptx] on December 02, 2019, 07:02:49 pm
Don't forget the Mandalorian brooding at someone menacingly, then getting himself thrown around like a ragdoll by first random opponent.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Asheram on December 02, 2019, 08:23:57 pm
If only the Mandaloberyn had worn his helmet that he never removes in the presence of others when he fought the mountain he might have lived.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Leshma on December 03, 2019, 02:58:03 am
mountain stronk
mountain crush beskar
oberyn still dead

that was one of the stupidest moments ever shown on television
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Xant on December 03, 2019, 10:39:26 am
Quote from: [ptx] on December 02, 2019, 07:02:49 pm
Don't forget the Mandalorian brooding at someone menacingly, then getting himself thrown around like a ragdoll by first random opponent.
It's ok if the opponent is a strong and independent warrior woman.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Jona on December 03, 2019, 04:59:16 pm
Well at least the walker scene was kinda cool. The red "eyes" on the walker made it borderline cheesy though, not to mention that yet again we fail to see just how devastatingly strong of a weapon these walkers supposedly are. It was brought up how these things mowed down entire platoons of troops... maybe they did on planets with perfectly flat terrain, but as demonstrated both on endor and this new planet, they are clearly ill-equipped to deal with anything else. The empire clearly shoulda gone with the droid-era hover tanks.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Xant on December 03, 2019, 11:20:15 pm
The Walker scenes were fucking pants-on-fire retarded. Absolutely nothing cool about it at all. It made no sense whatsoever. Red eyes? Really? How subtle. And this mega-weapon of destruction managed to kill a grand total of 0 people, while firing at a bunch of people twenty meters from it, people who were hiding behind.... a couple of wooden sticks. Just awful.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Leshma on December 03, 2019, 11:51:56 pm
I agree with most of the things said above but have to say that the AT-ST scene to me was best in the entire Star Wars. Always felt how Star Wars is exceptionally bad at delivering galactic war portion of it. Almost skipped clone wars nonsense in episode 2, straight to jedi battle. Any scene involving mechanical things in Star Wars movies is usually terribad, with the sole exception of droid comedy from original movies. This was fun, in a retarded way but still fun.

Razor Crest looks like something straight out of Star Citizen, which is perfectly understandable considering former Star Citizen concept artist is now working for Lucas Films.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Drunken_sailor on December 07, 2019, 05:48:01 am
another dope episode, thought it was going to be a two parter at first
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Xant on December 07, 2019, 09:26:25 am
Another absolutely awful episode that, once again, does nothing to advance the plot in any way.

Imagine, if you will, being a wanna-be bountyhunter. You don't care about the money at the moment, you just want to become a Guild member.

What do you choose?

Option A) Deliver this handcuffed and captured target you originally wanted, to become a full member of the Guild.
Option B) Try to backstab a superarmored legendary Mandalorian, whose help you needed to capture the original target because you were scared, to become a full member of the Guild.

Hmm yes, let's choose option B, seems very smart and likely to work.

What a weak-ass villain and weak-ass story once again. And no plot whatsoever. Is the entire show just supposed to be about flying to different planets and then someone trying to capture the hehecutexdbabyyoda in ever dumber ways?

Shows like these don't even pretend to have intelligent characters that have an inner life, just caricatures that unthinkingly and nonsensically drive the plot forward to the inevitable ending, i.e., the Mandalorian saving baby yoda.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Leshma on December 08, 2019, 01:52:23 am
Don't be jelly of baby Yodah. I have spent three hours yesterday and today painting a miniature baby Yodah.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: [ptx] on December 20, 2019, 06:20:59 pm
Watching out of sheer inertia at this point. It is really, really difficult to sit through the assassin droid rebuilding scene.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Asheram on December 20, 2019, 07:21:05 pm
Someone make a yodeling baby yoda video meme.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Xant on December 24, 2019, 10:33:55 am
Quote from: [ptx] on December 20, 2019, 06:20:59 pm
Watching out of sheer inertia at this point.
Yep, same, sadly.

Though I almost decided to stop watching when that black guy told Mandalorian that the "plan was to kill you and take the child."

Yeah, no fucking shit. So obvious. And the Mandalorian still went. The show is just one cliche after the other. Nothing surprising ever happens. Every cliche is played to the hilt, they're never subverted (a show that subverts them really well, for comparison, is the Expanse). Really nothing makes sense and the action scenes are boring except for some rare exceptions like Mando vs Droids.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Vibe on December 24, 2019, 10:47:30 am
Thank fuck for The Expanse, so we at least have one somewhat decent sci-fi show.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Leshma on December 24, 2019, 04:04:06 pm
Still better Star Wars than new trilogy.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Ujio on December 25, 2019, 11:26:36 pm
Quote from: [ptx] on December 02, 2019, 07:02:49 pm
Don't forget the Mandalorian brooding at someone menacingly, then getting himself thrown around like a ragdoll by first random opponent.

Is that opponent a "strong", "independent", wahmen, by any chance?
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Asheram on December 25, 2019, 11:36:54 pm
Quote from: Ujio on December 25, 2019, 11:26:36 pm
Is that opponent a "strong", "independent", wahmen, by any chance?
Yes its that big stronk wahman who was kicking Colossus butt in Deadpool.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Ujio on December 25, 2019, 11:42:22 pm
Fucking knew it.

And I haven't even watched the series - Nor do I intend to.
All disney and hollywood are interested in, is shoving feminist and sjw propaganda into these films.

Star wars died with the feminist awakens.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Leshma on December 26, 2019, 01:45:54 am
Star Wars died when Ewoks showed on the big screen and was buried by The Phantom Menace. New movies are copulating with the corpse kind of thing.

Mandalorian is nothing special or original but for the gutter that Star Wars became over the years, it is breath of fresh air.

As I often say, if you want to know what is popular look at official merchandise pricing. Mando figure currently costs as much all the other Star Wars characters from the new trilogy. Rey, Finn, Poe, Kylo, Reia, Snoke etc. All sub 10 dollar on heavy discount cuz nobody wants those. Nobody really likes new Star Wars movies. On the other hand, Mando is 60-80 dollars, more expensive than classic Luke, Obi Wan, Darth Vader figures. Want to get my nephew one Mando but cannot justify paying that much on plastic toy. Baby Yoda merchandise is biggest fail of Disney ever. If they had any for this holiday season they would make billions of dollars just from baby Yoda. The single most popular thing to 3d print right now is baby Yoda, I printer and painted four different ones so far. Thinking to start selling them online. That Dinosaur looking mount they ride in the show has an awesome figure which was always on sale for the past ten years or so. Not this holiday season. Went straight to base price and then quadrupled in price over the night, and you can hardly get any. Mandalorian is crazy popular. Only non popular figure is of course, Cara Dunn, because people and kids dont like feminist crap.

You may say merchandise does not reflect anything but Star Wars generates most money through toys, they started action figures and movie merchandise collecting. When Lucas sold Star Wars he didn't sell future cinema ticket sales, he sold billions of dollars as profit from selling Star Wars toys.

Some smart dude on youtube made crappy video involving baby Yoda and baby Groot. Youtube videos made for children involving toys and action heroes have tens of millions of view, many are into half a billion range. But when you combine two cutest baby action heroes in one place, its like having a money printing machine. Bottom line is, no one gives a fuck about old farts. Which is why they put Ewoks in ep VI. Money is in toddlers mostly and partly teens (teens appreciate action heroes more than toddlers but parents spend a lot of money on 2-8 year olds). Disney hit the jackpot with baby Yoda and will milk it until it shrivels like old mans penis.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Xant on December 26, 2019, 06:20:35 am
I hope the woman stops appearing in every episode. She's such an awful character. Take away the "haha i'm so bad ass and brooding", and what do you have left? Absolutely fucking nothing. She's one of the flattest characters I've ever seen, so incredibly boring.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Asheram on December 26, 2019, 06:51:59 am
lol Well you know she is in the next episode as they are all stuck in that bar Gustavo Fring wants to turn into a Los Pollos Hermanos restaurant.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: [ptx] on December 26, 2019, 07:35:52 pm
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Ujio on December 27, 2019, 08:10:36 am
Quote from: Leshma on December 26, 2019, 01:45:54 am
Star Wars died when Ewoks showed on the big screen and was buried by The Phantom Menace. New movies are copulating with the corpse kind of thing.

The prequels are a masterpiece compared to the sequels.
I have a new found appreciation for them, ever since going to see the feminist awakens.

As far as I'm concerned, the Jedi Knight and Admiral Thrawn series, are episodes 7,
8, and 9.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Vibe on December 28, 2019, 01:35:58 am
Kyle Katarn story is the real SW sequels
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Leshma on December 30, 2019, 04:30:39 pm
Only The Dark Forces II with Jason Court, even tho incredibly cheesy it has some charm. In Jedi Outcast they turned Kyle Katarn into a my old friend. Looks like one of the village people. Jedi Outcast has great lightsaber mechanics and in general, is great fps but the story is incredibly dumb, the main villain is some silly lizard. Jedi Academy goes even further, adding Luke Skywalker to the story which does not make sense but whatever. That game has a female villain, slightly better than lizard dude. The problem with Jedi Academy is that the entire game feels and looks like it was made by fans of the series.

Anyway, finished Mandalorian. I had big expectations of ep8 and while it is not that bad dialogue in that episode really bothered me. The save the child let me die scene was some Pornhub level acting and directing. Also entire episode was incredibly predictable. Most of the episode feels like cutscenes for a video game with subpar storyline. Had higher expectations of Taika, this is honestly something anyone could muster. Mentioning more specifics will ruin the episode for those who didn't watch yet. But scenes in this episode are so run of the mill it kind of physically hurts. For example, I was not bothered by ep4 Seven Samurai wannabe plot but ep4 cliches got on my nerves all the time while watching.

As previously mentioned multiple times, it's all about baby Yoda who gets spotlight in episode 8 so we can observe how cute he truly is right before merchandise hits the shelves. The entire show feels like one of those promo videos playing on the loop in stores.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Leshma on December 30, 2019, 04:43:11 pm
Quote from: Xant on December 26, 2019, 06:20:35 am
I hope the woman stops appearing in every episode. She's such an awful character. Take away the "haha i'm so bad ass and brooding", and what do you have left? Absolutely fucking nothing. She's one of the flattest characters I've ever seen, so incredibly boring.

About her:
(click to show/hide)

The biggest fail of ep4 is when Mando takes off the helmet and the rest of the episode they are forced to use Oberyn instead of John Waynes grandson as Mando. He looks visibly shorter because he is. Pedro Pascal is a manlet same as me. He also got fat in the meantime.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Xant on January 01, 2020, 01:47:54 pm
They're the same height, despite what your strange preoccupation with height might lead you to believe.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Leshma on January 01, 2020, 11:26:04 pm
Despite all shortcomings, Mandalorian's only true failure is lack of material. It's not some high quality show but it doesn't matter, what it lacks in quality it should make up in quantity. Show is so laid back I can watch it every week for the entire year and not get bored. But they released only 8 episodes, bundle of stickss.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Asheram on January 05, 2020, 10:23:49 pm
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Xant on January 06, 2020, 10:58:13 am
Tl;dr the show is "all right" as casual fun, better than expected all in all.

Could've been friggin' amazing if it was M-rated and made by the guys who made the Expanse, though.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Leshma on January 07, 2020, 07:20:29 am
Disney and M rated :mrgreen:

Maybe if old Volt gets out of the grave and start making movies about Jews

Mandalorian made me replay Star Wars movies, something I never did before (once is usually enough). Decided on prequels in between V and VI as watching order. I started with New Hope although I should've started with Rogue One tbh but that would force me to watch Solo before EpIV which could stop me in the track at the very beginning. Anyways, New Hope is Bluray version but doesn't look too good, maybe there's newer remaster than this which seems to be 1997 remaster. Movie has nice pacing at the beginning, but damn, fighter battles at the end have not aged well at all. Honestly as casual and carefree Mandalorian is, its no worse than the best Star Wars movie. Entire New Hope plot is nonsensical as cliched Mandalorian episodes. It's funny how as a kid I never noticed how much trouble is Alec Guinness having trying to act during lightsaber scenes. He did alright but seems like he is asking himself wtf was he thinking when he took the role in this strange sci-fi movie. Also knowing how David Prowse looks like its so strange listening to him talking. Wasn't aware of that as a kid. Haven't seen this movie in over 25 years I believe and it did not age terribly but not great either. In a comparison I find Blade Runner to be brilliant movie even today, New Hope is kind of crap.

Worth noting is that Princess Leia is a strong independent woman type of char and this movie was released in 1977. When it comes to Star Wars SJW direction is nothing new.

Next to Empire Strikes Back. Remember it as a bit boring, all the scenes on Hoth. Well, see how it is now, some 25 years after. After that, it gets really tough because I truly despise everything about Phantom Menace and Ep2 is a painfully boring SW movie. It will be hard going through those, almost as hard as finishing this ordeal with Ep8 and Ep9.

Last year I went through the entire MCU catalog and there's at least 2 or 3 better Marvel movies than the best SW movie. Infinity War is much better than New Hope and so are Winter Soldier and Civil War.

Remembered another old movie, even older than A New Hope which aged like fine wine. The Great Escape, easily in top10 of all times even by modern standards.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Jona on January 07, 2020, 04:54:02 pm
When tf do you hear david prowse talk in star wars? You watching some bootleg version with his original voice dubbing darth vader or something?
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Leshma on January 07, 2020, 06:13:44 pm
I don't. But David Prowse is a white guy and Vader is voiced by a black actor. Did not bother me as a kid but now it does. Also theatrics in his voice, its just odd. Vader is a very strange character. Remember how cool it was when he force stranged that empire general but now, its just meh. As a kid I never appreciated Space Balls enough, it was funny to watch but did not really get it. Haven't seen Spaceballs in 25 years as well but damn as soon I saw helmet design in A New Hope I started grinning like the Cheshire Cat :lol:

Replayed Death Star battle once again and cant understand wtf are they doing. Basic premise is clear, they are trying to send a missile down narrow corridor to reach the reactor which will make entire Death Star explode due to chain reaction. But the way they are doing it, makes no sense. It surely was a huge thing to film it in 1977 but today it looks terrible. Choice of actors, the way they approach the target, the way empire fighters show up basically from nowhere. Explosion effects. It may be among the first space battles but it is also possibly the worst and competition are all other space movies and video games. This part of the movie must be entirely made from scratch using today technology and replacing those fighter pilots, especially Porkins the fat dude. Wtf is fat dude doing in rebel fighter? I did not find it funny because that scene is not meant to be comedy. Before that movie is 7/10 or 8/10 given historical significance of the movie but space battle scene is like 2/10. Pure garbage. Ending is like something from He Man movie.

Complaint about Mandalorian how it is not Star Wars cuz therez no jedi does not work for New Hope because there is like one Jedi battle and is not so great.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Beauchamp on January 10, 2020, 04:59:23 pm
alright...

how many outta 10?
should i watch it?

I'm not a big SW fan, but I know who was Luke's father.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Xant on January 10, 2020, 05:38:19 pm
That depends entirely on what kind of a relative scale you're using. 6.5/10 for me, with the average TV show being something like 2.5/10, and anything above 6 being watchable, and good TV shows I really like, such as the Expanse, being about 8/10.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: njames89 on January 10, 2020, 06:12:37 pm
I watched it. Gave it a 7/10. Enjoyed watching it though it did feel a bit corny at times. I enjoyed it more than the one star wars movie I did watch.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Xant on January 10, 2020, 07:30:38 pm
Way better than any of the SW movies, yes.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Leshma on January 11, 2020, 12:00:09 am
Empire Strike Back is actually very good, better than I remember. Was not boring at all and has no big flaws. Better than A New Hope. Aged well, despite old CGI. Worst part imho is assault on Hoth which is probably the reason Battlefront failed so hard because they based their success on Hoth assault mission.

The Phantom Menace is... just as bad I remember. First half of the movie is complete nonsense. How it is possible they recorded this and never checked how it looks before they sent it to cinemas, I really cannot understand. Jar Jar Binks is made annoying on purpose, it is glaringly obvious. By far the worst Star Wars movie ever which does not feel like Star Wars movie at all. Mandalorian is much, much, much better than The Phantom Menace.
Title: Re: Mandalorian
Post by: Leshma on January 14, 2020, 06:09:43 am
Six down, five to go. But I give up. Or at least take a short break.

Attack of the clones I remember as boring crap. Second viewing says it's not that bad. Better than The Phantom Menace, by a lot. Back then Jango pissed me off, now I kind of like him.

Revenge of the Sith I watched in the cinema, the only SW movie I paid a ticket for. When I came out I was blown away. Second viewing says it's not so good as I fondly remembered it. Still, shares the title of best pre-Disney SW movie with ESB. Empire Strikes back is better crafted but not as interesting. Revenge of the Sith is the definition of Star Wars and deconstruction of the entire series. Could be made much better, could be one of the best movies ever. But it isn't. I blamed Hayden for that. Not his fault at all. He did his job as asked. Nailed whiny teenager turning into an angry adolescent. Very good nuanced acting without overacting. His text fail him and not just him, whoever written dialogues is an incompetent idiot. Its really a shame, basic idea of the movie is epic. Action still looks good.

ROTJ... I wasn't in the mood for it tbh. Its shit, I don't remember it being this bad. The second worst out of six, not as bad as The Phantom Menace but not far off it. Dialogues are just as shit like in Attack of the Clones which tells us it was Lucas fault all along.

Overall, Star Wars is an interesting idea and mostly terrible execution of said idea. Also, Jedis are bundle of stickss. Sith are made into deranged hysterical idiots to make Shaolin monks with laser swords look better but its not helping. We like Mandalorian because it does not contain Jedi bundle of sticksry, at least for now. Yoda should end himself as punishment for his failure and Windu is nothing but a gangster Jedi. Can't believe I liked Yoda, he is a terrible character.