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“Big pipe, huh?”
I won’t remember The Mandalorian and Grogu because of anything about the film itself, but more because it became a thing for me and my almost 7 year-old. We caught up on the series (or tried to) in anticipation and made an event out of reaching the movie; giddiness and merch in hand as we bought our snacks and sat down. The movie was enjoyable enough, an extended episode of the series at worse, a rollicking space…
Portions of this will undoubtedly play on a loop in Sam’s Clubs across the U.S. as folks walk in the door and are forced to contemplate if 85” is worth $600; exemplifying just how good (or oddly uncanny) motion smoothing looks when applied to the Australian wilderness. One star for Egerton, another for song selection.
When you compromise and you fail, it really hurts. It hurts even more than failing at what you love.
Jesus. Christ.
There will come a day when Tom Cruise not only doesn't make action blockbusters like this, but when he won't be able to and when that day comes we will miss it. Not necessarily just out of a sense of nostalgia, but because Cruise is the last of a dying breed; one of the only true movie stars left who, despite his image being tainted over the years, can demand the kind of budget and talent that it takes to…
