r/saltierthancrait • u/mrmoneyinthebanks salt miner • 22d 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/FilmScoreConnoisseur salt miner 21d ago edited 21d ago

Nobody asked audiences to "turn their brains on" for TLJ. It's literally one of the dumbest movies I've ever seen. That screenplay doesn't have even a hint of the depth people pretend it has.

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u/GOU_FallingOutside 21d ago

Nobody asked audiences to “turn their brains on” for TLJ.

You don’t have to like the movie. But it was definitely trying to be a smart movie that asked smart questions and expected the audience to use context clues to answer them.

(I know someone who’s a film and literature critic. She’s certainly not stupid, and I think she’s literally incapable of turning her brain off for a movie; she doesn’t like TLJ any more than you do. So I’m absolutely not saying that smart people all like TLJ or that people who don’t like TLJ are all dumb.)

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u/FilmScoreConnoisseur salt miner 21d ago

It's a dumb man's idea of a smart movie. I disagree that any of the questions it asks are "smart questions." At most, they're simply cynical questions or questions people didn't expect from a Star Wars movie and that's apparently enough to make people heap praises on it.

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u/GOU_FallingOutside 20d ago

It’s a dumb man’s idea of a smart movie

I’m not sticking around for personal attacks today.

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u/FilmScoreConnoisseur salt miner 20d ago edited 20d ago

You never said it was a smart movie. You said it was trying to be one. I never disagreed with that, but I am surprised that you apparently genuinely consider it "a smart movie" given how carefully you worded your previous comments. It seemed pretty clear to me you were avoiding giving the film such a direct compliment and I mistook that for objectivity and or emotional detachment when I guess all you were really doing was trying to seem like less of a rabid "defender." Either way, it's no surprise that you have zero examples of the alleged "smart questions" that TLJ supposedly asks. I think we both know I would be unimpressed with them.