Any May the 4th update on Book 6?
May the fourth be with you as well! The Star Wars Day update I have is: I have getting destroyed by a project for work the last 3 weeks, but that project will finally be completed tomorrow. Then I am planning on streaming EVERY NIGHT until I release the film. Still aiming for releasing like the weekend before Mando movie release to give people time to watch. I probably have ~20-25 hours of work left on the film to at least get a solid v1 release out. I think I can do it in two weeks! 3+ hours streams every day and some work on my own. I am committing to having no life at all until I release this lol.
I’ve been experimenting replacing Disney’s “Star Wars heads” intro with just the classic “A long time ago”. But for Mandalorian, and for yor first movie covering season 1, I wanted a couple lines of prologue in the blue text, similar to what Solo did, just to set up the story of the greater series and add a little hype. Was fun to make:
Very cool! Love it!
Hey, literally just finished watching Book 1 and had to jump right on here to leave a review.
It’s been a few years since I last watched the original show. I remember all the broad strokes and things came back to me as I went along watching your edit. Despite previous knowledge, your edit honestly felt near enough seamless. The pacing was fantastic throughout. You managed to keep the story moving along very well without the presence of the episodic format of the original show creeping through. I loved the insertion of the Prison Break episode before Mando rescues Grogu from the Client. It felt like a final look back on Din’s old life, with implications of an even darker past, before he decides to reunite with Grogu to potentially begin anew. It was very fitting and actually felt quite instrumental in his decision to do so. It actually made me think that it should have been that way in the show. I was a bit taken aback at first with the removal of Din’s flashbacks as a foundling, yet when you married them with him coming across the empty cradle, your intention became clear. I loved the back and forth of the flashbacks with the Mandalorians coming to the rescue in the past and present and then it coming to a close with the direct comparison of both Din and Grogu being saved. It really brought everything together and gave a very effective emotional resolution and cemented the entire point of Book 1. The new lines spoken in the Mandalorian language were perfect and gave much more of a deeper vibe to their culture, as well as giving them more character and a feel of community among them. Transitions between scenes were pretty much perfect, I only noticed one or two due to the parts of the score overlapping a bit but overall it was really well done. On a side note, good job on removing Grogu from the Prison episode, you would have never known he was there.
I have one or two slight crticisms aside from the overlapping score in transtitions (which is always a difficult thing to handle). I thought the fade to white in the flashback portions werent really neccersary. I felt that just a hard cut might have made it feel cleaner. The scene of Kuiil fixing IG-11 felt slightly jarring but I get why it was placed there and I think it’s just because I knew it was from a later episode. The shot of Greef surviving with the Beskar felt a bit awkward sandwhiched between the two scenes of Mando on the Razorcrest, but I don’t really know where else you’d put it. Please note, these are extremely minor crisiticms and they did not impact my enjoyment in the slightest - that’s all I have haha.
Regardless, I enjoyed this a hell of a lot. Thanks for putting so much effort into this, you should be proud. Can’t wait to watch the next one, this is already proving to be my go to way to watch The Mandalorian now. Thanks again!
Thank you very much for sharing the review, that was a pleasure to read! Would love to hear any other feedback on the other films as well as you go through.