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@starwars Who’s going to be the first dj to remix this? Our money is on @davidguetta

when the Shakari beat hits. Experience Ludwig Göransson's score in Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu only in theaters and IMAX and listen wherever you stream music. #TheMandalorianAndGrogu

everyone say thank you ludwig göransson

If we never got the Mando show first, everyone would be raving about Mandalorian and Grogu

@starkstar502 @DanielRPK Fair enough! I see that

@MovieMPod @DanielRPK I did not. Buzz is smart in the movie, he was just in Demo and Spanish mode. During the dump scene, he was able to deduce that they needed to grab something metal to avoid the shredder. In the Toy Story toons, he was able to make smart decisions. Toy Story 4 started it.

Here's a challenge: say something NEGATIVE about TOY STORY 3

@Mando3Updates We liked it!

🚨‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ has debuted with an impressive 87% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes🚨 #starwars #themandalorian #dindjarin #grogu #bobafett #fennec #bokatan #TheMandalorianandgrogu

doesn't have an arc, but Grogu does which is refreshing. Rotta was surprisingly interesting as was the Hutt culture. It's always fun to see Sigourney, even if it's only for 5 minutes. Overall, it ranks in the top of the 'Mando-verse', but in the bottom for the Star Wars universe

We liked Mandalorian and Grogu! It's far from perfect and maybe our expectations were lowered, but it's a fun one-off romp through some back corners of the galaxy...something fans have been asking for for years. It often feels like a TV special more than a movie & Mando (1 of 2)

@SmalllChap @sw_holocron That the movie could be good. Rather go in with low expectations and be pleasantly surprised

@MovieMPod @sw_holocron Hope of what?

Presales in North America for THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU stand at $25M, which is ahead of PROJECT HAIL MARY at the same point in time and in line with AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH. (Source: deadline.com/2026/05/box-of…)

@CinemaTweets1 Ugh so tempted to change our profile pic now

Stanley Kubrick Timeline Cleanse

Are you afraid?   #Lanterns premieres August 16 on @hbomax.

@MaceAhWindu The fact that it's still embargoed does not bode well. I have spoken.

When’s the review embargo up for Mando and Grogu?

@NandoM0u @DanielRPK Buzz gets noticeably dumber as the movies go on. Having said that, this is the best TS movie.

@MovieMPod @DanielRPK what?

@ATRightMovies There's only one right answer.

Which is the best classic trilogy?

@CinemaWireNews Rough, it deserves better

‘MORTAL KOMBAT II’ earned $13.4M on its second weekend at the domestic box office — dropping -65% from its debut. Total: $62M domestic $101M worldwide The film had a $80M budget.

@TSoS_ One of the best summations of Last Jedi that we've seen

I had to sit with it for a few hours to find a fitting conclusion: The Last Jedi is the rare type of movie I find both severely and deliberately misjudged and utterly overrated. On a world-building front, it is entirely un-salvageable, both because J.J. Abrams reset the entire galaxy in TFA (all Jedi dead, New Republic wiped out before we see it, Resistance is 12 guys with duct tape and a dream) and because Rian Johnson doesn't really care to broaden the scope; the conflict feels smaller and smaller as the movies go on. Ending TFA with the handing of the lightsaber to Luke was a brilliant cliffhanger for that movie in 2015, but it completely robbed TLJ of its opportunities. There was no way to set it one or several years after the end of TFA, because the movie had opened questions that needed immediate answers. Because of that, we get no time for the conflict to evolve. Johnson actually *tries* to tackle politics in this movie, but it's only for a few scenes and it ends up being the most surface level analysis possible. It is a film that feels incredibly smug and snarky, because it ridicules the villains in a way that feels like a direct mirror of 2015/16/17/18 Twitter where people believed that clowning on alt right and MAGA idiots would be enough to prevent fascists from taking over. It is politically inept both in the way it presents its characters and in the way its critique of the capitalist system plays out. To this day, people praise how great TLJ's political messages are and I cannot for the life of me understand why. The Poe Dameron - Holdo plot takes up a significant section of the movie and its biggest flaw is how boring it is. Thematically, Poe's journey doesn't work because the lesson he should learn is not supported by the movie itself (everyone else gets heroic moments that are celebrated, it's only wrong when he does it) and the compelling idea of Resistance infighting in a desperate life or death situation plays out by everyone being petty towards each other. When Holdo says that she "kinda likes" Poe after everything that happened between them, it undermines its message even further. Just compare all this to the incredible infighting between the different Rebels in Andor! Mythologically, I believe what it does with Luke Skywalker and the legendary image of him really works. Rey and Kylo Ren are great characters in this movie and their force-bond scenes form a beautiful mythological expansion of force lore. Everyone's performance in this film is great. The fights for Ben Solo's soul and Luke Skywalker's spirit at the heart of this film are fantastic. The big issue with this part of the story is Snoke being clad in so much mystery that you're never able to truly grasp how Ben Solo's fall to the dark side happened. Because of that, the magnitude of it is never properly conveyed; it is difficult to understand how their relationship deteriorated and how Luke ends up at a point where he - if only for a second - contemplates killing Leia & Han's son. Again, this issue largely pertains to the way The Force Awakens was constructed and how almost every key development of the last thirty years is put in the opening crawl or only talked about in passing. I believe TFA should have been focused entirely on Ben Solo's fall and the New Republic's failures as the new government, showing us how and why Kylo Ren and the First Order rose at the same time and making the story of this trilogy far more compelling. Still, you can't all blame it on J.J.; Rian Johnson definitely should have given Luke and Ben's story more room to breathe instead of spending 15 minutes on some Casino planet. It's a shame that after every incredible scene with Rey, Luke and Kylo, it cuts away to Finn and Rose's detour or the slow space chase with Holdo and Poe. Whenever Johnson writes the force-user characters, I am enthralled by it (also thanks to the incredible cinematography). Everything else I can gladly live without. 6.5/10

‘MORTAL KOMBAT ll’ debuts with $17M on its domestic opening day. The biggest opening of any ‘Mortal Kombat’ film ever.