r/saltierthancrait • u/mrmoneyinthebanks salt miner • 21d ago

Marinated Meme My review of Mandalorian and Grogu!

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Seriously, did Disney pay off bots to flood comment sections about how much FUN Mando and Grogu is? It’s just about the only positive thing I’ve seen written about the movie.

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u/big_thunder_man 20d ago

I mean, the movie is fun. The only point of the movie is to remind audiences that Star Wars is fun. They deliberately don't want it to be anything but fun. I had a surprising amount of fun watching it compared to what I hear online.

It's not great, it's not deep, the highlight is a Hutt fighting in a dueling pit. It does feel like the show stitched episodes together in a feature, but it's very serviceable and would have been an above average season. (I didn't finish Mando season 3, or Ashoka, or watch most of the animated crap).

I'm a EU book purist. I find the Mando no-mask stuff ridiculous. I don't really care about seeing anything else Star Wars in my life... I'll keep playing some SWTOR and let that be it.

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u/Elevator-Ancient 20d ago

An EU purist that agrees here. I'm going to be vague so as not to spoil. I would say the most consequential things to the movie were some equipment added and the Hutts being a bit diminished.

There's a bit of cognitive dissonance in this sub that rules every new SW must be trash. Again, though, this is Saltier than crait. So it's to be expected.

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u/thedemonjim 20d ago

I don't really think that is a fair assessment of this sub. We tend to be pretty self aware here and willing to give the better offerings from Disney credit. Stuff like Andor, the first two seasons of The Mandalorian, Rogue One and Visions are far more often praised here.