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Jordan Morris

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332 total appearances

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Pop Culture Happy Hour
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu and What’s Making Us Happy

Hi.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu and What’s Making Us Happy

Yeah.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu and What’s Making Us Happy

So I will say this is kind of the way, or at least it was kind of the way for me.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu and What’s Making Us Happy

I think this movie's biggest pro is also its biggest con in that it feels like a long episode of that TV show.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu and What’s Making Us Happy

The way I like that is that, you know, I think modern Star Wars movies have all felt very burdened.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu and What’s Making Us Happy

You know, it's like they can't just tell a fun space story.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu and What’s Making Us Happy

They have to...

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu and What’s Making Us Happy

introduce classic characters and sometimes kill them and set up theme park rides and video games and all that stuff can really subtract from fun like because you're setting up all this stuff or paying off stuff that happened in the 80s you're maybe not having as much fun as you can and i think this movie just kind of dispenses with that and has a lot of fun it's basically a

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu and What’s Making Us Happy

Seven or eight action scenes strung together with a little bit of dialogue and a little bit of story.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu and What’s Making Us Happy

And yeah, and there's part of me that's like, hey, cool, awesome.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu and What’s Making Us Happy

I don't have to have read a novel and ridden a Disneyland ride to understand this.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu and What’s Making Us Happy

I just kind of have to know who the Mandalorian is.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu and What’s Making Us Happy

But also there's a sense of like...

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu and What’s Making Us Happy

what are we doing here?

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu and What’s Making Us Happy

You know, why is this not just three episodes of a TV show?

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu and What’s Making Us Happy

I think all in all, I had a fun time in the theater and some of the cool stuff is really cool.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu and What’s Making Us Happy

The practical stuff really pops in this.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu and What’s Making Us Happy

But yeah, there's a little bit of a sense of it's kind of just empty calories.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu and What’s Making Us Happy

And I looked up the character that Dave Filoni plays does have a name.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu and What’s Making Us Happy

I forget exactly what it is, but it's something like Howdy Flyboy.