Datclosure Day

It's Spielberg, so it has to be great, right? ... Right? 

Margaret gets activated at exactly the same time as Daniel makes a run with evidence, so it's on for the two of them to a) keep away from the bad guys, and b) get the information released. Fortunately, they are up against the most incompetent bad guys ever seen for a long time, and people who are willing to do whatever you say as soon as you say their name. Yay, super easy, barely an inconvenience!

So this is Spielberg so it looks great. Lovely shots, well composed, great use of camera and light. But, as you might be able to tell, I was less enthralled with the story. No so much plot holes (although I gather there are many) so much as these are the biggest idiots ever to be bad guys. Not that the good guys are much better. Everyone gets by on such incredible luck. With the luckiest of all being the aliens, they've been working on this for around 80 years, and they roll the dice on just two people surviving long enough to eventually deliver their purpose. (Were they aiming for those two people all this time? Is that why there was only ever alien incidents in the US, nowhere else in the world?)

Emily Blunt and Josh O'Connor were definitely onscreen, but I wasn't buying what they were selling acting wise. Colin Firth is the best runner up, but even he gives up towards the end.

There is a much better script for this story, hopefully we might see it come day. 

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Gando and Morgu

In the exhibition there was a contest, say how many Mando and Grogu minifigs there were (and where they were) and enter the contest. I hope there were zero, as that was how many I saw. Anyway, the movie! 

Mando is doing jobs for the New Empire and ends up saving the life of a Hutt while hunting down a bounty. However, the Hutt's uncles aren't best pleased and hunt him down.

I'm not going in big on the plot, because it really is just an excuse for a number of set pieces, even more so than the tv series was. We get a lot of action sequences features Pedro Pascal...'s voice, and his body and stunt double, and lots of puppet works. And the theme of the movie is...

Here's the really annoying thing. There could have been a theme, whereby Mando learns that Grogu is capable of taking care of himself when needed to, but... it isn't! At most we get one line that is more about their father/son relationship than about Grogu being a self-capable being. The movie is too much into Pew-Pew and Merchandise Opportunity (which, admittedly, is standard Star Wars fare) to actually be about anything. 

Although, from looking through IMDB trivia, this movie is really about referencing as many SW products as possible.

It Is The Way. 

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LEGO Star Wars

The latest Takina exhibition is Star Wars... LEGO Star Wars! Lots of intricate builds. And I took a lot of photos! I also helped with the Mystery Mosaic... but I didn't make any LEGO ships or droids or anything. You want to do that? You go then! Anyway... photos! (I don't have Photobucket any more so spam them all here.)

 

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