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.
I think that some fandoms get far too carried away with their expectations for something— setting them so high that it can never ever deliver, and they ruin it for themselves.
Edit: and as another commentor demonstrates further down, some people will even go so far as to try to ruin it for others
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.
Agreed I didn’t rush out to see it in theaters but have heard it described as just a longer episode of the show. I enjoyed the show but would expect a bit more out of this movie than ‘just more of the same’ but oh well. Gonna stream it eventually.
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.
I haven’t seen it yet, but this is my expectation too. Just a fun movie that has characters I like. Nothing earth shattering.
I think that some fandoms get far too carried away with their expectations for something— setting them so high that it can never ever deliver, and they ruin it for themselves.
Edit: and as another commentor demonstrates further down, some people will even go so far as to try to ruin it for others
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
Agreed I didn’t rush out to see it in theaters but have heard it described as just a longer episode of the show. I enjoyed the show but would expect a bit more out of this movie than ‘just more of the same’ but oh well. Gonna stream it eventually.
Yeah, I just downloaded it. Since I had nothing invested in it, I certainly didn’t feel like I lost anything.
But, like I said, I actually enjoyed it.
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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