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Recognizing Patterns's avatar

So apart from the love for Jung I also adored the Super Bowl spot. The baby Grogurt movie is pretty much THE film you’re going to take your kids to. And I think Disney knows that. Plus I love the pulpy matinee feel of the poster.

If anyone expects them to save the galaxy should be shocked. But I wouldn’t mind a Luke cameo telling them to go recruit Rotta for his academy.

Jeff K's avatar

I really think you’re on to something there. This could be a film to try to hook the next generation. If you were 10 years old when The Force Awakens came out, you’re turning 21 this year. Time get a new group of loyal fans/consumers, and who better to do it than Grogu.

Paul Riddell's avatar

Okay, so people are upset that the new Superbowl trailer wasn’t a real trailer? Does nobody remember 30 years ago when everyone lost their damn minds over the “Independence Day” trailer, and that only involved blowing up the White House? (Personally, the Mando trailer was the Euclidean ideal of 60 years of Superbowl ads: it hit all of the right notes, it sold the movie without overselling it, and it was cheerily funny. Best of all, it got people talking without wondering “What the hell were they thinking?”, and that’s going to carry through until the movie’s debut.)

Jeff K's avatar

There were a bunch of articles on the various nerd news sites about Disney dropping the ball with it not being a trailer. I generally avoid reddit (although I browse /r/dallas for local news) but I’m 99% certain there people were bitching there as well. Unfortunately you never know if the people are sincere or just doing it for clicks.

Paul Riddell's avatar

Yeah, but those are the nerd sites. I’m constantly trying to get across to the “by fans for the fans” contingent, on just about any genre subject you could name, that the totality of diehard fans are a rounding error, especially with big-budget movies. (I still can’t get across to many of them that they’’re never going to see another “Firefly” movie, no matter what: sure, THEY went out to see the last one, but nobody else did, and that’s why it made back a quarter of its budget.) The real fun was listening to average folks, for whom Star Wars is just something on the back burner at best, surprised at the Mando trailer: they’re honestly curious and enthused about it, mostly because of a trailer that didn’t require obsessive levels of fandom to appreciate. If anything, I’ll argue that a “proper” trailer would have been a turnoff, because those same people would look at the details and go full Malcolm Tucker on the thought of seeing the movie. This trailer, my friend, THIS is The Way.