Mandalorian

[Asheram]

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.

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[Ujio]

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.

[Vibe]

Kyle Katarn story is the real SW sequels

[Leshma]

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.

[Leshma]

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:

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In the scene at lava river when they could not push that boat, I totally expected to see her pushing it with her pinky finger after (hurt) Mandalorian and senile Apollo Creed could not do it together. Thankfully, they did not go with that.

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.

[Xant]

They're the same height, despite what your strange preoccupation with height might lead you to believe.

[Leshma]

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.

[Asheram]

[Xant]

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.

[Leshma]

Disney and M rated

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.

[Jona]

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?

[Leshma]

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

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.

[Beauchamp]

alright...

how many outta 10?
should i watch it?

I'm not a big SW fan, but I know who was Luke's father.

[Xant]

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.