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Wesley’s Pop Culture Club
Issue #6 -- PP Pro
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In the first of their shorter weekly issues, Jonah and Lucas discuss their thoughts on the new Star Wars action/adventure epic "The Mandalorian and Grogu"! Join us next week where we'll be talkin' TV! Thanks for listening!
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Hello, you out there. This is the Wesley's Pop Culture Club.
SPEAKER_00Woo!
SPEAKER_02Woo! And my name is Jonah.
SPEAKER_01And my name is Lucas. Hey, Lucas. Hey Jonah.
SPEAKER_02What's up, man?
SPEAKER_01Not much, man. Just chilling. Nice. Just presently talking into a microphone. Wow. Yep.
SPEAKER_02That's pretty cool.
SPEAKER_01What's up with you?
SPEAKER_02Uh I am doing pretty good. Just uh talking on a microphone too with my buddy here. Grovi? Yeah, well, him too. I have two friends here today. Oh. I have you and him. Uh-huh. Let's see how he's doing. I don't know if that's what I think. Is that that was happy or this is too much fun for uh he's going through a lot of feelings right now.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah. Well, so am I. So hey, we all are.
SPEAKER_02We all are.
SPEAKER_01We're complex machines.
SPEAKER_02We yes. Yeah, we are. Um yes, we are. So this is a if you've never listened before, this is a podcast, um, yet another podcast, you know, but it's a good one.
SPEAKER_01I thought for like the first few months we were the only ones doing this.
SPEAKER_02Really?
SPEAKER_01The only the only ones? Yep.
SPEAKER_02Well, I hate to break it to you. We are not.
SPEAKER_01Turns out not only are we not the only ones, there's also people doing like the exact same stuff that we're talking about, I think.
unknownOh my gosh.
SPEAKER_01Damn it. But not as well.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, but yeah. So we we discuss all things pop culture. Um we're talking about movies, TV, music, comic books, um, and other events that we like. And uh just some random talking.
SPEAKER_01We're gonna do some random talking.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, we're just gonna chat. Uh so this is issue six. Issue six. Issue six, baby. We are cranking these things right off the printing press. Didn't we just do five? I think that's didn't five just come out? I think it did. That was yesterday. Yesterday? Yeah. Wow.
SPEAKER_01Crazy.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, that was this is fast. We're not doing every day, though, right? No. Okay. I don't think we're gonna do every day yet. Not no, not yet. Okay, yet. But we might be getting there soon. We might be getting there. Watch out on what notification uh setting you have it on. Yeah, because it might get a little crazy. It might get. Yeah. It might get. It might get. It might get. So yeah, so we um he is I'm just gonna let him be. Okay, so we yeah, we are a pop culture club uh podcast. And so for this issue right here, we're gonna be talking about movies.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_02And one specific movie. The specific movie that we saw this past month or day, depending on how your frame of time works. Uh Lucas, what was the name of that movie that we that we saw?
SPEAKER_01This movie was called The Mandalorian and Grogu.
SPEAKER_02So awesome. Nice.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, or as it's been stylized Star Wars. The Mandalorian and Grogu. Because I forgot what universe it uh takes place in. Right. Yeah. Was it it was it Dune, right? Dune and no, Dune is uh in the Dune universe, I think. Okay. Yeah. I don't know about I mean I don't know.
SPEAKER_02Was this was this like a Wes Anderson movie? The Mandalorian? Yeah.
SPEAKER_01No. It was okay. Actually, this is directed by John Favreau to Swinger's fame. Bunch of beautiful babies. Place is dead, anyways. Uh yeah. Yeah, we're he's not gonna listen. He's not gonna listen. Um John Favreau also co-wrote this movie. He did, yes. He did with Dave Felloni and Noah Clure. Who's what's Noah's last name? Clore. Clore or Clure.
SPEAKER_02K-L-O-O-R. Okay, I haven't heard of him. Okay, so what what did you think about this? This movie overall, I thought was pretty good. Okay.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I thought it was pretty good. Yeah. Okay. Pretty fun. Yeah, pretty fun. Uh it was a good time. Um, we can get into more of the nitty-gritty like in a minute, but yeah, I went, I I know you you just said you thought the same, but what are your what are your overall takes on it here?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, overall I thought it was it was really fun. Like some really good fight sequences with Mando, with Mandalorian, um, especially like the opening scene. Um, but yeah, it was some good fighting, uh, really good, you know, duo of Mando and Grogu, just some good kind of father-son time. And um, but yeah, and then I kind of felt like it kind of lost a little steam about two-thirds of the way through. Um, but still a really fun romp.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Nice. Yeah, I agree. Um, yeah, this movie is uh not quite two hours and fifteen minutes. Um, just a little bit shy of it. Um and it didn't feel like excruciatingly long or anything. Um, I think it feels about the length that it is. Um I would I would agree with that sentiment. Also, um, if you don't already know, spoiler alert for all the stuff that we're gonna be talking about today. Um but I mean, you gotta figure. People know by now. Hopefully. Hopefully. Yeah. Maybe not. Maybe this is your first time listening. And if so, I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_02Like knowing about that, we are gonna say spoilers. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I hope so. I hope so. Probably is like kind of three people probably listening right now.
SPEAKER_01Right now? Yeah. Yeah, let's not think about it. I don't want to think about it too. Right now, I think it's just us. Is it just I think it's just us right now.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_01Well, we could do it for us.
SPEAKER_02Okay. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Cool. Yeah. Well, I'm gonna spoil some stuff. So just a heads up to you. Well, I've seen it, but Oh, okay. Yeah, that's that's fine. Yeah. Then it'll be alright, probably. Uh hopefully. Okay. Yeah. Um, spoiler, this movie stars Pedro Pascal. Nice. Sigourney Weaver. Ooh. Jeremy Allen White. Uh Jaw? Jaw! One of the shark from Jaw.
SPEAKER_02From 1975.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. You're right. He looks great. He looks great. Yeah. Um, among others. Um, so yeah, I think for me, um I'm gonna start with some positives here. Okay, yeah. And then I'll get into some some nitpicky things that I found to be objectionable.
SPEAKER_00So measured. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01My first positive, the main positive for me, the score. Oh, wow. The music in this movie is just crazy. And we've got Ludwig Gorensen to thank for that. Yeah. Who has just been popping off in recent years. We got we got Oppenheimer, we got Sinners. Uh he's won three Oscars, I believe, by this point. I can't remember what the other one is, but um, and he's going to be doing The Odyssey. A little movie called The Odyssey. Lil Diddy comes out in July.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_01Lil Diddy. Okay. He's gonna be doing a few little diddies for those for that movie.
SPEAKER_02Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna posit this to you.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_02Is he this generation's Hans Zimmer?
SPEAKER_01Now, this is an important question that you ask because it kind of seems like uh well, I think if I'm remembering correctly, Hans was busy with Dune, which is why Nolan got Ludwig for uh for Oppenheimer, maybe, and then now it seems like two piece in a pod, because he's coming back for the Odyssey.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01But maybe Hans was just busy doing Dune Part three or something.
SPEAKER_02Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_01I don't know. But you're you make a good point here because he's he has literally taken over for him in the sense of uh doing Christopher Nolan's movies. Because Hans did other Christopher Nolan ones, right? Yeah, okay, yeah. Like Dark Knight and Dark Knight, Inception, Interstellar, um maybe everything up to like Tennet from a certain point. I don't remember exactly when he started. Okay. But yeah. I love David Tennet. But um The Doctor? Yeah. Nice.
SPEAKER_02Anyways.
SPEAKER_01Anyways, um, so yeah, the score. A friend of mine went to see uh this movie like the night before me, sent me a text and was like, You're gonna love the score in this movie. It's easily the best part of the movie. So I was like pretty locked in on it from the get-go. I was like, I really gotta pay attention here. And uh I couldn't agree more. It was um I felt like it went from like the beginning, like triumphant fist pumping stuff to the stuff on um the I can't remember the name of the planet that Rod of the Hutt was hanging out on. Oh, I can't remember either. But um, there was just constantly like rave music, like I was throwing ass in the theater, just dancing, going nuts. Um to like to like You look good when you do it, too. Thanks. Yeah, I practice ten seconds a day. Nice if you throw assist 10 seconds a day in like I don't know, like three years, you'd be really good at it.
SPEAKER_02Totally, man. Yeah, yeah, that's a good regimen. I think we've discussed this before, actually. We have. Yeah, I remember this now.
SPEAKER_01Um then we go from throwing ass to sobbing. There's some very emotional music in like the latter half of this of this movie, particularly after um uh the Mandalorian gets gets bitten by that snake and is poisoned and separates himself from Grogu, thinks that he's gonna go off and die. Um that was some pretty emotional stuff, and then back at the end to triumphant fist pumping. So, yeah, the score, crazy. Really good stuff. Nice, a great time. Um then I think the movie overall is just fun. Like I think I think it's um I don't think the stakes are like particularly high, right? Necessarily, but um I think it's just a good like action adventure um movie. I also think this movie has peak Grogu like cuteness. Yes. I just think he is he's at his absolute most adorable in this movie. Yes. Um he's making all the noises, doing all the things, jumping around. Yep. He's doing that a lot. A lot of that. And I thought um the bits where like he was on his own after Mando gets like kidnapped. Um he's working with those little guys. Oh yeah. That was some of the like funniest, those were like some of the funniest bits, I thought. Um and then I also I want to give a shout out because he needs it. Uh, not a lot of people know this guy, but uh little actor by the name of Martin Scorsese appears in this movie. And I thought that he did a fantastic job uh providing some comic relief. Yes. Um, yeah, he's not a lot of people know about him. Uh I think he's up and coming, he's a pretty young guy. Yeah. Um, hasn't been in a lot of stuff, and um, I think he could really use the bump from this podcast. So I wanted to call some attention to him. Right. Marty, Marty Ice, we love you. Hopefully, he felt that this movie was enough cinema to to um to be part of it.
SPEAKER_02He might have just gotten bit by the bug. Maybe. So hopefully we see more. Maybe. Yeah. Um, yeah. He was I really might I saw it, I saw it with another buddy, and he was like, that's Martin Scorsese. Yeah. I like very funny.
SPEAKER_01I like that he's an alien on another world and he still has Martin Scorsese's eyebrows.
SPEAKER_02Okay, I didn't. Oh!
SPEAKER_01Grogu has fallen.
SPEAKER_02I didn't I didn't um like I didn't uh I'm uh what's the word? Consciously pick up on that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Because I think I was like, oh Martin Scorsese, like I first didn't realize it was him, and my friend told me, and then I was like, okay. And then I didn't like realize he had the big eyebrows because like that's Martin Scorsese.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. He's an alien dude. Um, yeah, what was this was the first I think of the movies that we've covered that we we were not together for. I know. We were what was your separated? What was your um theater going experience like?
SPEAKER_02Dude, it was it was really good. It was um it was pretty full. How how full was it for you guys?
SPEAKER_01Very full. I actually I went with three other people and we had to split up. We did two and two.
SPEAKER_02Yes, you were telling me this, yes.
SPEAKER_01You said you had to buy it like a week before the last yeah, I bought them a week before, and it was they were like the last four scenes. That's nuts to me. Yeah. People love the Mandalorian.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Um, yeah, no, it was I didn't, I was like thinking we should buy them ahead with my friend, and then um, but like we yeah, we just got there. It was like kind of weird because we got there and you could sit wherever you wanted. It wasn't yeah, it was like a j a GA event. Wow. General admission.
SPEAKER_01I was actually I was at a movie yesterday and I was thinking about how that used to be like the norm, like buying the tickets when you get there, and then you just sit wherever. And it gives me like anxiety now if I don't have the tickets like well before going in. I like to know where I'm gonna be, right? You know, I need the seats allotted for me and the crew. Sure. Cause what if one person gets left out, you know? Right. We can't have that. No, you cannot have it. You just can't have it. So I I don't understand how uh people used to live the way that they did. Life must have been horrible. Yeah. Before the advent online ticket purchases, yeah.
SPEAKER_02And the fees too. Well, you don't have to pay fees with premiums.
SPEAKER_01I don't have to pay the fees. Yeah. But what would the world be without them?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, they're they're kind of like comforting. You know you're getting them every time, so it's like, oh, okay. I like you. Yeah. You know. I miss them.
SPEAKER_01I miss them when I don't have to pay them. Right.
SPEAKER_02I don't know if I do, but um, it was cool. Yeah, it was uh it was pretty busy, and then yeah, it was it wasn't like a crazy huge theater, but um no, it was it was a great time, man.
SPEAKER_01Good. Yeah, I'm glad. Um okay, I'm gonna go over into my into my negatives now.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, into the objectionables.
SPEAKER_01And you you let me know what how you feel about these things. Okay. Um I will say one of the things that I felt a little bit let down by is that so in like the month prior to this movie coming out, I watched all of the Mandalorian show on Disney. Yeah, and I watched the Book of Boba Fett in between seasons two and three. Cause I guess that's where it goes. Nice. Wow, well placed. And uh there was no need for me to do that at all. Yeah, there to watch any of it. It wasn't really like um it felt like this didn't really have too much to do with the show. Um, I mean, like, Grogu is now Dinjaran's apprentice. That kind of happens in the season three finale, so but they catch you up on it like right away at the with the text at the beginning. Yeah, true. Um, and they kind of tell you like what they've been up to hunting down these imperial remnants working for the new republic. Um there was like one guy, that new republic pilot, I think, with the beard, um, who I recognized from being in the show. Oh, yeah. And they're gonna be talking about the older guy, yeah, and like nobody else. Sure. There was no like uh no Bo Katan. Um you know, yeah, I don't know. There were like they went to Navarro in this movie, which is like a location. There were little things I felt like, but um, it also kind of felt like at the end of season three they were sort of hinting at something happening with the mythosaur. Yeah. And um, I was you know, maybe this was naive of me, but I don't know. I just kind of expected it to tie in a little bit more. This was very much treated as like a standalone like um like my friend who told me that I would like to score also said that this is it almost treated the show as like a prequel and this is the main event kind of thing. Um Wow. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02I would I would disagree with that actually. You would disagree? Yeah. Okay. But just because I'm gonna sneak in because I I love the show, especially the first two seasons. Yeah. Um the first season for sure. Um I thought that it was the show was really well done and it was a lot of there's a lot of I mean it maybe it's because there's more time. Yeah. You're spending so much more time because there's so many more episodes. Yeah. Um, but I think that the movie was it was a very good like action adventure. Okay. But it's a good like perhaps a good like um like it's very like high concept or it's very simple. It's like you know you got these the two buddies, he's gonna face this bad guy, and really fun shit's gonna happen. Yeah in fighting. And um, and it's also like a good like gateway into the into that either the show or like even Star Wars if if somehow someone hasn't seen a Star Wars Yeah, a Star Wars.
SPEAKER_01Go see a Star War. But yeah, okay. I agree, I agree with that though. I do think um I do think the quality of the show is um really tight. Well, like I'll say the first two seasons I think are really, really good. Like some of the best Star Wars stuff. I think season three is still pretty good, um, but there is like a bit of a drop for me. And I think like I get I get what he's saying with that, but um I do feel like um yeah, I don't know. I think I was just kind of expecting it to have more to do with stuff that happened in the show rather than be so much its own thing. Which is also fine. Like if I think of it in the context of just being a standalone thing, then I kind of can put that away. Like I enjoy it more when I think about it like that. Um but yeah, it didn't didn't quite live up to the show, I feel. Um and then in addition to that, um I some of the CGI in this movie was not great, I think. I think one of the things that I love about the show and Grogu in general is the practical effect side of things. Like I think maybe it's just me, but for me, I think that I would so much rather look at like a hokey puppet that I know someone like made physically, yes, and it looks goofy, right? But it's there than something that has been digitally altered and doesn't look real at all.
SPEAKER_02Yes, that's a really cool point.
SPEAKER_01Like it's just I don't know, it's off-putting, and I thought like some of the stuff with the huts when they were like wrestling with each other at the end. I was like, okay, it just looked hilarious to me. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02I've been laughing a little bit.
SPEAKER_01Those guys are slugs.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it was like I dude, I would agree with that. I think that's a really cool point. I thought of the Muppets when you were saying that, and maybe that's why they're people like them a lot. Because they still look like that too.
SPEAKER_01Can you imagine CGI Muppets? No, Jimmy Hans would come back to life and kill everybody.
SPEAKER_02Oh if I move my shoulders, Grogu. I think I'm taking him off for now. Um but uh oh bye, Grogu. Bye.
SPEAKER_01Um wait, but Jim Hansen murder every every everyone involved with making them digital, and then maybe just whoever was around. Like the buildings. Yeah, yeah. Um so yeah, I mean, though those are my my big two. I just um and then um kind of like I was saying before, like nothing, nothing, the stakes aren't too high, nothing too crazy is going on here um in this movie. I thought the droid, like the villain droid was very cool looking. Like I was sick. Yeah, yeah. He was cool. I just feel like um this, like when it comes to I don't know, like stuff in the Star Wars universe. I think we've been kind of spoiled by like Rogue One and Andor and even like the Mandalorian the series, like some of the quality with those things is just so tight. And like really well made. Tight. Yeah. Um, but I feel like like the thing about like Rogue One and Andor, for instance, like they feel to me like they are stories that like need to be told. Like I feel like without like knowing them now, without them, the Star Wars universe would be like missing something. Wow.
SPEAKER_02But like I would agree with that. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01But like when you see, like when you see a new hope as a kid, you don't think about like the faction of rebels that had to get the Death Star plans and then get them to Leia on the ship, right? Like it's just that's just where the movie starts. Like she just has been given these things. But then like watching it unfold in Rogue One and then even Andor, how that leads up to that further, is like this is like we needed this, you know. I don't necessarily feel like we needed this movie.
SPEAKER_02Sure, sure.
SPEAKER_01But it was fun. Like, I don't, I'm not, I don't want to say like I didn't like it or anything. Like, I it was a good time. I just uh you know, you know me, I like when things impact the bigger picture. Sure, yeah, like continuity and stuff, yeah. Yeah, you're a big continuity guy. I am a big continuity guy, yeah. And that's something I gotta work on.
SPEAKER_02Sometimes I say, hey, big continuity Lucas, what's up, dude? BCL. Right, yeah, what's up, man? Conti. Conti, yeah.
SPEAKER_01I'm being Conti here. Um but yeah.
SPEAKER_02I know it sounds very close to another word, but anyways, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Anyways, um, yeah, those are my those are my thoughts. Okay. Um what do you got? What else what else we got?
SPEAKER_02Well I'm gonna what else we got, man. What else can I do I'm gonna I'm gonna like kinda like harness that and like ride that as well. Like just kind of put it in my like like this and just kind of harness it.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_02And start like running. Do you have a harness for Grogu? No, I don't. Yeah. No, no, I don't.
SPEAKER_01That's why he keeps falling.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01You need a baby bjorn for that guy.
SPEAKER_02Like the front? Is that what is that like the front one? Yeah. Um okay, so I yeah, like I I liked this. Um I mean a lot of stuff that you said, I yeah, I thought, okay, so I already kind of said my overall thoughts. Uh I thought I thought it was fun. I think it's a it's just like a fun like kids family movie too. I I didn't really look around. I think there were like a good amount of family like kids in the our audience. Yeah. Um and yeah, it's like again, it kind of feels like like a high concept, like, let's go have some fun here, but it's not gonna impact the the major storyline. Um so other things I liked, I also loved the score. The Mandalorian theme is so sick. Yeah. It's really, really good. I remember like watching the show, and I was like, I just think it's very original and just awesome. It was in the contention for my ringtone, actually. Wow. But it didn't win the spot.
SPEAKER_01What won out?
SPEAKER_02Daredevil.
SPEAKER_01Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, Daredevil is my oh it's over there, but yeah, it's my ringtone.
SPEAKER_01Nice.
SPEAKER_02But I usually have my phone on silent, so you never hear it. That's a me problem. Yeah. But we didn't get into that too much.
SPEAKER_01You put it on the ringer, then it's just go then it's it's like you're inviting it to just happen every two minutes, you know. Right. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02I'm getting calls every two to three minutes.
unknownI am.
SPEAKER_02What can I say? Yeah. You're a busy guy. I'm very, very busy. Um I liked what else? Okay, yeah. I thought the intro scene was sick where like his the fight scene's awesome, and you get like this really evil uh emperor guy, and he's like on a round table of other people, and then you know, he kills his own guy, and then he has to hunt him down. And I thought that that scene and some other scenes showed how relentless Mando is. I feel like Pedro Pascal. Um, I've seen him in a couple things. I'm not a pro or anything, but um at Pedro Pascal. But um You're not a pro PP? No, no, I don't think so. P pro P pro PP pro. PP pro. I am one of those, yes. But uh he's like, I feel like he's even he's like such a confident guy, like in everything in his life, I feel like. Uh, because I'd study him. And uh right. If I'm not pro. But um there was like some scenes where he's just like he's like walking through like the battle scene and just like fuck this guy, and just like fucking shooting this dude, punching this guy in the face, fucking, and he's like walking, and I'm like, this dude is so sick, and like the the shots just like it's just slowly zooming out, and he's like walking towards the camera. I feel like this movie kind of it kind of added to his like relentlessness as a bounty hunter, um, but also just like he's a guy you want to root for, like he's very likable because he's very like confident and fun. Well, not really fun, but like he's kind of badass. He's a laugh. He's a very he probably watches like Scrubs at night. Probably, right? He's the unwind. He seems like a Parks and Rec guy. Yeah, he's a big Andy fan. Yes. Andy Dwyer, is that his name?
SPEAKER_01He loves Chris Pratt and all that he stands for.
SPEAKER_02Yes. Um, but he has to have his helmet on when he watches, though. Right. Yeah. Um, so I wanted to comment on that. Um, okay. So like you said, I love the scene, and I was talking to my buddy too. He um we both liked the scene where Grogu is taking care of the Mandalorian after he's gotten bit by this snake. And there's a really like I feel like Grogu definitely does provide some comic relief too.
SPEAKER_01Yes.
SPEAKER_02And there's that scene where he's like made this little house for Mando. Yeah. And he's like force moving him. It's so great. He's like force moving him into this house, and it's so like tender and cute, and he's loving him. And then it's like the house isn't quite big enough to fit his whole body. His helmet just keeps hitting the wall. Yeah, it's dunk, dunk, dunk. It was awesome. And I I didn't like realize this, but my friend who I was with was like, he liked those scenes because uh there was no dialogue, because it was just Grogu.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02For like, you know, X amount of minutes. And that I think is what made that kind of funny because that was like a sound that had happened in a while. And like um, so I I like that whole sequence is cool because I'll I might be stealing this from somewhere, but like in the show, I feel like we don't really get a lot of individual Grogu time, right? If like any. Um, so we got a little bit there, and I could potentially see a spin-off like a Grogu show. Whoa. Grogu takes Manhattan. Oh, okay. I like it. It's that's a complete ripoff of the Muppets, but just do it.
SPEAKER_01You know, I think we we know by now Jim Henson is pretty temperamental. So maybe we should be careful about what we wish for. True, yeah. Whoa. Did you hear him? I heard him. Got um I think maybe they could do like a Grogu primal thing where there's like no vocals, like no um no uh words at all, and uh no dialogue, I should say. And uh he's just doing his thing out and about shenanigans.
SPEAKER_02Mercilessly killing like isn't that show really violent? Yeah, I guess they could change that.
SPEAKER_01I guess I mean just in the way of no talking. Yeah. Like just him making noises and stuff.
SPEAKER_02That would it would probably be good for like an episode, probably. You know, you don't think they could they could drag it out? They might be able to, yeah. They'd get some they could bring those other little guys with them. Yeah. And then they're sad. They talk a lot though. They do, yeah. They're like, I mean, what was the things they were saying? Hey, big guy. Like, whoa, told you we'd come back for you. Yeah. Um I like that. Um Yeah, I think, and then uh other things that maybe I didn't like as much was I think why I was trying to pinpoint why I thought it slowed down like two-thirds of the way. And I feel like it's because in the first half or two-thirds or four-fifths, I'm gonna throw a lot of fractions at you. Wow. Yeah, no, I'm gonna stick to two-thirds. Um, that they were like traveling to all these cool places. They were they traveled to like three or like three different planets or something like that. Um and it was very cool to see all these different sceneries and everything, which I want to take a quick pause here. Um, I wanted to talk with you about this. So after the big fight at the Blade Runner-esque type planet, um, where he has to break out um was it like Shikaria or something? I honestly can't even remember. Um, but he has to break out is it Rada? Rada. I just he has to break out Jeremy. Um Jaw. Jaw. And okay, so all those like um monsters come out, and dude, yo, they just get loose and they run, have have uh they wreck, they just wreck the city, they just have free range of the city, and Mando is like, I gotta go, dude. I'm out of here, and and they don't return. And I was like, all those people are just dying. Yeah, they got effed really bad by those animals and those bad guys, and I was like, ooh, man, but then I was like, you know what, he can't win it, win it all. He has to he's gotta focus on himself. True, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_01So you can only do so much, right? He was there for a specific person uh purpose, right?
SPEAKER_02For Jaw. Um so and then the latter third, I kind of felt like they kind of honed in and it was like they just they were going back to the the Huts planet. Um and yeah, so I thought I I mean like maybe I'm being too nitpicky, but um I feel like the Star Wars universe, like it'd be fun to just like maybe this is me in general, like just keep exploring because there's so much, there's like an unlimited amount of stuff because it's like a literal galaxy, so like um I don't know, just like going more places or yeah, but um yeah, that's interesting you say that.
SPEAKER_01I kind of felt like um there was so much so like I feel like the show kind of does this where like there's a lot of side questing happening. Um like he needs to get this imperial guy for the new republic. So in order to get information on this guy, he has to first rescue Rada for the twins, um, and then they will give him the information, and then all this stuff happens, and then he's like, Oh, I'm not I don't want to bring this guy back to the twins, they want to kill him. Right. Um when he got back to Navarro, and then that droid, like the twins droid, came after him.
SPEAKER_02Umbo is his name.
SPEAKER_01Embo? I looked it up, yeah. Nice, I like that. Um, it was like when he got back to Navarro, I was like, where is this movie going? Because like he he brought in, he figured out who the guy was, he brought him in, he saved Rada, and then he was like just chilling for a minute on Navarro, and I was like, Yes, where where are we going? And then like that guy showed up, Embo showed up, and I was like, Okay, okay, okay, I guess but it felt like I was kind of like there was like an interesting bit there right in the middle where I was like, This part of the plot is over. Right. Now we need to start a new one. Yes, and they it felt like um I don't know. That guy had a very uh good entrance though.
SPEAKER_02That was uh on like that night when he like broke in. Yeah, yeah, that was sweet. Very intimidating. Yeah. Um yeah, like is that where he's like on his house and then Amando like blows it up? And then yeah, that was that was pretty sick. Pretty wild. Dude, I um uh what else was I say? Yeah, I th I don't know, yeah. I think I I think that's kind of it. Like I also wanted to get a little see what everybody else is thinking. Um it has a 62% on rotten tomatoes from like the critic side.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_02Um an average rating of 5.9 out of 10. That's about a six. So yeah, I think Where would you where would you put it out of 10?
SPEAKER_01I gave it a seven. Seven? Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02How about you?
SPEAKER_01That's what I did too.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah, like I said, it's a good time. Um Grogu's exceptionally cute. The action sequences are pretty cool.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Nothing uh nothing like too serious to complain about here. Just my own nitpicking, you know.
SPEAKER_02I mean, I'm I'm glad that we got we got a Star Wars movie too this year. Yeah. So that's like another way I kind of look at it, I try to look at it. So um Grogu is probably like my favorite part of the movie. Yeah. Oh, there was one scene. I I feel like they did uh do some like I kind of said some funny things with him, but there was one where he like uh he's like hid I can't remember which one exactly, but there's one where he's like hiding behind um I think it's like when the when there's like the he finds that guy who's like a fisherman in the woods. Yeah. And he's like stealing his salmon or his fish. And then the Embo's dog and Embo come there, and he's like hiding behind something. And you just like see like his face in the frame, like up close, and then like the dog in the background. And like there's just like I feel like there's a couple scenes where he's doing that where he's like hiding and he's like and he's like scared, but it's like really funny. Like, I don't know why there's just something about him that's funny, I think because he's just always just trying to like eat stuff. Yeah, very hungry guy, he's very hungry, yeah. And even like there's that little like blue like mint candy that they eat.
SPEAKER_01Those little, yeah. Those little discs. Yeah, he loves those things. Yeah, he does. This guy's nuts. All right, man. Well, I think we are um running out of time for this one. Yeah so uh should we wrap it up? Yeah, let's let's send it. Let's send it to send it out. Let's send it out. It'll be on the press and then it'll be on the stands.
SPEAKER_02Nice, dude.
SPEAKER_01That's how it goes.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, we're gonna just print it out here.
unknownLook at it goes.
SPEAKER_02Send it to the stands and the people will follow. Yeah. You ever heard that before? Yeah, yeah. Yep.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I've got they say in Field of Dreams, right? Yeah, yeah, I think so.
SPEAKER_02Send it to the stands and people will follow. Right. Right, yeah. You gotta have stands somewhere. You have to. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Well, everybody, thank you for listening to issue number six of Wesley's Pop Culture Club. We'll be back next week again. Next week? Wow. Yeah, that's quick. We'll be back a week from today. We're gonna be talking TV and maybe we'll talk about some other movies that we've been watching.
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SPEAKER_01Squeeze those in.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Why not? Yeah, we can throw them in there.
SPEAKER_01All right.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, see if we got if we can do it. Yeah. Let's do it. All right, everybody.
SPEAKER_01Thanks for listening.
SPEAKER_02Thank you. Thank you very much. All right, bye.