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 It was clear that The Mandalorian and Grogu was intended to be a fourth season of the series, made into a movie at the last minute. I personally would have preferred if more characters from the series appeared in the movie, but they were either killed in the last season, got fired, or died in real life. The opening scene with the walkers was fun, and the battle at the end was OK, but it was clearly intended as a TV series first, or maybe nobody prepared to make a spinoff movie. Because it was a blockbuster, I think the next one will be more like a movie.  Not much is revealed about the next Star Wars standalone movie, Star Wars: Starfighter, except the cast and that it takes place five years after Rise of the Skywalker. It has a good cast with Ryan Gosling and Amy Adams and directed by the one of the directors of Stranger Things, but whatever Disney's plans are, I accepted that chances are there will never be a Star Wars movie as good as the first three.  Star Wars was i...

 Sorry, I haven't blogged in a while, but I'm back to it.  I didn't play a lot of Mortal Kombat when I was a kid and when I did it was at friends' houses. Even so, I enjoyed the fight scenes in the 1995 movie, and it was the same in the last movie in 2021. When I saw bait for a sequel, I had a feeling it would be the same, and when I saw Karl Urban was going to play Johnny Cage, I got a little excited. It was not only because Karl was in my favorite movie, because in truth all actors in Lord of the Rings are, and another way to describe him is an underrated legend. Like with the other Mortal Kombat movies I've seen, the action scenes were fun, and Johnny's banter was fun. I liked the way they attempted to make us relate to Johnny by having him be an out of work action movie actor, feeling defeated, and see that he had a universe to protect.  In the Covert Militia Campaigns, Jack Stamper's only desire is to play hard rock music, while the Third World War inte...