Do you know why I enjoyed the Mandalorian and Grogu? Because I didn’t expect much from it, so I was able to sit back and enjoy it. I didn’t expect an Oscar winning blockbuster, and I certainly didn’t get one. It was a cute and fun little romp. And that was it.
Itʻs a movie that continued to build on Favreauʻs basic idea behind The Mandalorian: itʻs the story a little brother comes up with when his big brother has taken all the main Star Wars action figures to play with his friends and left the little brother with all of the random aliens Kenner stuck in a blister card (but somehow the kid has a Boba Fett and Yoda). It really feels like the way I played as a kid, where Iʻd supplement my Star Wars figures with GI Joe and make stuff up. This film sometimes looks like a kid grabbed some Warhammer miniatures and flew them around with die-cast Star Wars miniatures, etc. Itʻs awesome when viewed in that light and not from some self-serious mindset that treats Star Wars as akin to a religious text.
Aww, that’s kind of heartwarming in a way
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I guess making your own life miserable just wasn’t enough, huh? You had to try to spread it around.
How sad for you
The Mandalorian and Grogu is fine. Not great. Certainly didn’t feel like a blockbuster. But it is enjoyable. I’d compare it to a Muppets movie in scope and feel, but honestly Muppets movies incorporate some wicked humor that puts them a step above this. Still, I’m a Star Wars fan and I love getting more Star Wars stuff. Except Episode 9. That can fuck right off.
Moana, though? Moana was an incredible movie. Animation was the perfect medium. The songs and voice acting were great. How could “live action” improve on that?
Look at this:
Does anything look better or more interesting in any way in the live action version? There is literally no reason for this to exist. It looks worse in literally every way.
Everything looks absolutely washed out like a cheap Netflix series. I hate how movies look these days.
They should’ve saturated the fuck out of the film. It should be bright and colorful like they just invented color movies. That movie should look like someone recreated it out of skittles.
You could drop a still from The Dark Knight into that list and you wouldn’t be able to tell without squinting. Is that Hei-hei, or is it The Scarecrow?
Can’t wait for Disney to adapt Encanto and the only colors in the movie to be grey, beige and brown. If this is how they colored Moana, that takes place in a tropical island, Encanto has no hope.
The part that buys yachts and loads debt on to other parts of the company?
Even when Disney loses, they still win.
