Mr Webber
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by the reviews, the movie is not bad but also not great, maybe average.
But I will wait when its released on VHS
Pure OG. Respect.
by the reviews, the movie is not bad but also not great, maybe average.
But I will wait when its released on VHS
What I did say is that it plays like lazy fanfiction. It’s a string of story beats deserving of those people you’re describing who think they could do it better - the obvious stuff which you seem to think were inevitable. Any kid could have accurately guessed at the contents of this script without any hints. My 8yo may not be able to script that connective tissue between those beats, but that’s a super low bar, ain’t it?
Where you see plot “tentpoles” which have been inevitable since 1977, I see all the obvious traps which higher caliber creatives than my 8yo should have dodged. It’s amazing to me that they couldn’t come up with a new story, but would rather show us that everything we already know about the character - meeting Chewie, getting his blastet, completing the Kessel run, meeting Lando, winning the Falcon, even joining the empire if you’re up on the most famous bits of the EU - conveniently happened in the three days they’re putting on screen.
I can see telling an original story surrounding one of those events I guess, but it’d be better to let most of them be as throwaway references in OT dialogue. Like the Clone Wars, it’s never as interesting as it seems it may be before it’s spelled out. Why not tell a random adventure from his empire days? Show us a particularly difficult smuggling operation, an original thriller. Instead, they try to present us with too many wholly expected events at hyperspeed, and give all of them short shrift.
In connecting every bit we ever heard about the guy in the window of time they targeted, the character’s universe is shrunk beyond reason or interest. Even that “original” connective tissue found subtle ways to constantly wink at the audience.
It doesn’t seem to be long before ANH when this film ends. You guys are fine with Han & Chewie being such short friends when we first meet them? That their smuggling “career” is seemingly a job or two long?
Where did you pick up on that? I was assuming this was like ten years before ANH. I didn't see anything indicating it's that short a time period between the two.
I think it was the mention of going to Tatooine, which they didn't need to be honest.
I agree it was unnecessary, but I'm guessing this is just the beginning of a relationship with Jabba that goes sour. It's still like 7 years before ANH.
Solo starts 13 years before ANH (interestingly, the same time Krennic tracks Galen Erso to Lah'mu, i.e. the beginning of Rogue One), ends about 10 years before ANH, and the coda where he finds Lando and wins the Falcon is about 7 years before ANH.
Go see it, THAN complain and be snarky about it.
Really, it's a fun movie. Far better than TLJ IMHO.
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Um that topic ended like a week ago after the episode of RPF cribs.****ing hell, guys. It’s a MOVIE! Who cares who Lando screws!? It’s a moot point - as the galaxy is populated with beings, I’m assuming the inhabitants of such a place copulate from time-to-time. Whether they’re doing it with male/female/droid/alien/etc... good for them - but we don’t see it, so who cares!
Why is this even a concern?
Star Wars fans are, from what I have seen lately, becoming a group of petulant idiots.
N.
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Lame / Cringe-worthy:
--How he got the name Solo
--Speaking Chewie's language
--The Imperial March playing in the Empire recruitment ad
Agree. Overall, I liked it for what it was - an entertaining some action movie. It’s got some Star Wars elements, which I enjoyed. Definitely ranks above TLJ in my book...
Sean
The growling to Chewie was silly, but I can roll with, and apply the concept of "no harm, no foul" - no permanent damage.
I think we're taking Hans wookie growl a little too seriously.Ya wanna really cringe, Rob?? Imagine Harrison Ford speaking shyriiwook to Chewie--either as his cool, badass young self in the first couple films, or as the doddering old man in TFA. We would've thrown up in our popcorn.
I think it is permanent damage. Because it never happens again, and there were many times when it would have, if Han could indeed speak shyriiwook. Thank God this is the first time we've heard it. But to show it at all is inexcusable.
The Wook
So In all their time together you think han only learned to understand the language and not speak it?
I think we're taking Hans wookie growl a little too seriously.
Remind ourselves these films are for kids (not just high SWIQ adults). From a kids perspective it was halarious, even magical.
Young kids also loved Ewoks and Jar Jar.
No one loved Jar-Jar. Well, maybe George did.