Mandalorian and Grogu

gmisk

First trailer

https://twitter.com/FilmUpdates/status/1970111210461999363?t=Nam39T1-XHNNBr-0460TSQ&s=19

Brief_Lives

This is generating lots of positive feedback online.

I'm looking forward to it, big time.

Title is a bit silly, but from the tv series and the animated star wars stuff, I trust Favreau and Filoni.

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123841267#Comment_123841267

Ye they could have come up with a better name for it. I might just stream this if Disney does not return Jimmy Kimmel.

Fu-ck Dusney.

TheIrishGrover

I enjoyed Season 1 (But not to the degree of others). But it got more and more silly as the seasons went on. There were interesting ideas but all the cameos being shoe-horned in and general flaws in logic/writing got me more and more frustrated. The Mandalorians NEVER removing their helmets, even within their own people, and repeated use of "This is the way" grew tiresome. "How do you eat?" "We each get our food, walk into the desert and eat alone". Honestly. The general tone involving Grogu threw me off. Every use seemed to be almost designed to sell figures: "Now with leaping action" "Eating action figure". This general tone hit a nadir in Boba Fett series and with Jack Black turning up.

The initially impressive cinematography and use of that soundstage began to become more obvious as time went on. What initially seemed to be a broad desert landscape became more and more obvious that is was two or three people sitting within 3 or 4 meters of eachother. This was one of the reasons that Andor (Especially Season 1) was such a success. (As well as spectacular writing and acting). Real world locations. Cinematic scope. Characters actually interacting with environments as opposed to: Mando in his ship. Mando in a HUGE cave but suspiciously huddled at a fire on a small ledge. Mando walking 5 feet into the distance before cutting away. Mando in a room. Mando underground. All static camera shots.

I'll definitely be skipping this in the cinema. I have not watched the trailer but I assume it's Mando in his ship. Mando walking a few steps. Mando standing still and talking to someone. And "This is the way" at least once. So, basically, 3 or 4 episodes stuck together. Maybe I'm wrong.

NIMAN

Nail on the head.

A great idea for a show, which started OK but went downhill fast.

A great opportunity wasted.

johnny_ultimate

Mandalorian went off a cliff fast. Seasons 2 and 3 got worse and worse over time, quadrupling down on dull lore and connecting up a bunch of animated shows / ‘extended universe’ gubbins. Season one worked as an ‘adventure of the week’ serial - just Mando and Grogu being off on adventures with a light overarching plot that came together at the end. But the show got completely wrapped up in Mandalorian lore and ‘dark sabers’ and such nonsense. It was tedious.

The trailer looks more in line with the lighthearted ‘adventure of the week’ side of things at least, but there’s not much to go on and certainly not much to suggest it demands a big screen outing.

Regardless of the end product, we’ll always have Andor.

TheIrishGrover

OK. I watched the trailer and there are at least some sorta-outside shots but again, so much underground/dark/tunnels/whatever. The falling AT-AT looked cool but just… y'know…. pretty good CGI.

Where is the equivalent of Luke looking wistfully into the sunsets (Suns-set?)? Where is the terrifying sight of an AT-AT foot stomping through a beach while dozens of people run away? Where is the blood-curdling ROAR of a TIE fighter screaming down a lush valley as people nearby cower and cover their ears at the noise? Where is the freaking rain???!!!

I get it. It's not supposed to be The Gritty Star Wars. But where is the flair?

I see nothing here that would indicate that this was shot outside of that (literal and figurative) box and including all the limitations that go with it.

Penn

I hope we get to see a story about The Mandalorian, rather than just seeing extended or animated universe stuff happen around The Mandalorian while he's there and helps a bit.

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123843009#Comment_123843009

"so much underground/dark/tunnels/whatever"

This is the way 🤣

Osmosis Jones

Biggest problem for me is that this does not look like a movie, Star Wars movies (for all their faults) are gorgeous, this looks the same as the TV show.

speedboatchase

The Mandalorian was always overrated. I remember the hype and after a few mins of the first ep was like, "oh OK, this is like a modern version of Hercules/Xena Warrior Princess'. People were talking about it like it was the new Succession.

It's one of many examples that show Disney's creative bankruptcy. You have a guy who looks like Boba Fett but isn't (and the real one somehow survived the Sarlaac Pit) alongside a tiny Yoda/Gizmo from Gremlins character going on weekly adventures with OT callbacks when necessary. The idea that there's a character in this movie who's Jabba's muscular son (same same but different) is so stupid. There should be more than 15 characters in the Star Wars universe and it's OK to try something a little new.

Anyway, this is somehow the least lazy of Disney's cinematic releases of 2026 (Frozen 3, Toy Story 5, Avengers with RDJ as a bad guy this time), so I'll give them that.

TheIrishGrover

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123843203#Comment_123843203

God knows I hate "Mrs Brown's Boys" and I only saw a few mins of the movie thankfully. But in the tiny bit I did see, there was a bit that was actually quite "clever" (Careful use of quotes there): The scene started with Mrs. Brown walking across the room and talking to the camera. So far, so TV show. She then opens the curtains and lo-and-behold, it is not a cardboard photo behind but what looks like actual outside and she goes "Hah, see? Look, it's a movie! We actually have an outside" or something.

(And I can't believe I'm dragging this thread further than Book of Boba Fett by bringing in Mrs. Brown)

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123843309#Comment_123843309

Rotta the Hutt who is surprise surprise a Clone Wars call back.

It's Filoni's one move. He absolutely ruined the second and third seasons with cartoon show cameos. Season 3 should have just been called Bo Katan.

TheIrishGrover

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123843802#Comment_123843802

Posted by others before but…..

Brief_Lives

The mandalorian tv show got their sh!t together once it brought in Ashoka and the animated Star Wars Rebels stuff… Really stepped up a notch.

With the backlash after the recent movies (and the book of bobba fett disaster) I am secretly confident with this.l

And when this scene happened, I knew someone in the back ground decided enough tiptoeing around the fact that force exhibition nails it…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqcNx2B9HVw

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123844006#Comment_123844006

Reminds me of this

Ridley

If this isn't a garbled jumble of back references I'll be pleasantly surprised.

Relikk

As expected, it looks shite. It'll have the honour of being the first (of many, no doubt) Star Wars movie I'll never see in the cinema, or even at all.

TheIrishGrover

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123853673#Comment_123853673

I was actually regretting not seeing that Solo film in the cinema. For no other reason than to say I saw all Star Wars movies in the cinema. From the originals, prequels, sequels to the Ewok movies (released in cinema here in 80s). But, as we know, more and more slop will be coming out so now I'm "Meh".

I'll skip and wait for it to hit streaming around November next year