Solo: A Star Wars Story (Post-release)

What did you think of Solo: A Star Wars Story?

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astroboy said:
Although I do agree that these need to be pg. Absolutely.

But t I loved that scene.

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I would have found the scene charming/cute in another movie...tonally it wasn't Star Wars though. I'm sitting in my living room next to a Re-Animator poster, a movie where a severed head attempts to perform oral sex on a bound woman, and an I Spit On Your Grave poster, a movie which is 45 minutes of gang rape followed by 45 minutes of graphic murder, so please don't think me a prude. I LOVE Her, a movie about a dude who loves his computer OS, and I have a copy of Brokeback Mountain on my bookshelf. I own and love Nekromantic, a film about necrophilia, and I sympathize with the characters' desires. I'm a fairly modern, open-minded guy (though I consider myself rather conservative). My point is, my concerns are not coming from a total square...

But none of that belongs in Star Wars. That's just not what SW is about. It's fairly sexless, the violence is sanitized, and the whole family can enjoy it without having to explain that some people are sexually attracted to machines. Save that for another franchise.
 
cayman shen said:
Watching with my kids, where Q'ira and fembot are having a Sex in the City gab session about how Lando and the appliance can screw made me want to blow my head off. THAT crap needs to go away. Deadpool can do that, it's modern and raunchy and irreverent. Star Wars is innocent and wide eyed and child-like. They need to start making these movies PG again, and they need to make them an escape from the real world and its issues, rather than tainted by it.
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I didn't interpet thst scene as sexual at all. They were talking in context of a relationship for sure and I found it quite humerus.

I guess we interpret things thorugh a lense of...how we want to...

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Inquisitor Peregrinus said:
We remember Julius as "the first Roman Emperor"
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Who's "we"? Speak for yourself. Only someone ignorant of history would think that.

Egon Spengler said:
It failed. It didn't fail because of Star Wars fatigue nonsense, it failed because people are sick of the lack of quality in the recent films. I hope it goes to DVD/Blu Ray soon and I hope that they learn that just because you slap Star Wars on something, doesn't guarantee it'll be good. You have to work to make it good. I'm no fan of the prequels, they are pretty lousy, but Lucas was a great idea guy. They should have kept him involved in the stories and we would have gotten something better. The problem with Lucas is, specificaly with the prequels, is he was surrounded by people that didn't want to say no to him. The original trilogy didn't go that way. Kathleen Kennedy needs to go.
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High SWIQ post, Egon.

Toadmeister said:
I didn't interpret that scene as sexual at all. They were talking in context of a relationship for sure and I found it quite humerus.
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cayman shen said:
Watching with my kids, where Q'ira and fembot are having a Sex in the City gab session about how Lando and the appliance can screw made me want to blow my head off.
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Well all she said is they were "compatible", to which Q'ira said "how would that even work?"
If you're a kid that goes over your head.
It's not completely different than in ESB where Leia tells Han "...being held by you isn't quite enough to get me excited" to which Han of course replied "Sorry sweetheart. I haven't got time for anything else."
 
No it's not the same. Kids understand men and women kissing. They don't understand men and robots getting frisky.

Edit: I liked TLJ a lot, and I liked Solo a lot. Lucasfilm hasn't lost me yet like it's lost some fans. But I'm definitely feeling like they need to back off some decisions in the future to avoid losing "moderates " like me. The whole movie-going world isn't a Frisco bondage dungeon, and acting like it is ain't selling tickets.
 
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Correction: it was clearly IMPLIED.

Let me ask you...if in the special editions Lucas had added Princess Leia making a joke about her vibrator how would you feel? Now, I don't have an issue with vibrators. Masturbation and sexuality are a part of life. But honestly, if Princess Leia made a joke about her vibrator how would you feel? You would feel like it didn't fit in the Star Wars right? Because there's a time and place. What if Uncle Owen had caught Luke masturbating to Rodian pornography? Or if Han had joked about liking it when Chewie put a finger in his butt?
 
Haven't seen it yet but ROTJ had some pretty obvious sexual innuendo with Jabba and Leia. Even at 11 years old I understood it (and was pretty grossed out!). ROTJ isn't the best example of great SW, but innuendo did exist in the OT.
 
Bigdaddy said:
Haven't seen it yet but ROTJ had some pretty obvious sexual innuendo with Jabba and Leia. Even at 11 years old I understood it (and was pretty grossed out!). ROTJ isn't the best example of great SW, but innuendo did exist in the OT.
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So did political allegory. People didn't notice it as a kid so now it's suddenly being "shoved down their throat."
 
Bigdaddy said:
Haven't seen it yet but ROTJ had some pretty obvious sexual innuendo with Jabba and Leia. Even at 11 years old I understood it (and was pretty grossed out!). ROTJ isn't the best example of great SW, but innuendo did exist in the OT.
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Fair point, but Jabba was the bad guy and it was portrayed as negative, as sex slavery, not heroic Lando's sex-positive agenda of droid lovin'.

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SethS said:
So did political allegory. People didn't notice it as a kid so now it's suddenly being "shoved down their throat."
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It was handled QUITE a bit more subtly in the OT. It's no secret Lucas is a lefty, but nobody cared. There's a reason.

Also, and I know I'm walking a political line here, but in the OT era the left was the "anti-Empire" wheras today, many see the left as the epitome of monolithic control, of fascism. So Lucas' formulations may not work in an era where the right is the pro-freedom counterculture.
 
Some people are trying soooo hard to hate on this film, it is obvious that they are reaching quite a bit to do so. If these issues are all that makes the film "unacceptable", I guess it isn't so bad after all ...
 
cayman shen said:
It was handled QUITE a bit more subtly in the OT. It's no secret Lucas is a lefty, but nobody cared. There's a reason.

Also, and I know I'm walking a political line here, but in the OT era the left was the "anti-Empire" wheras today, many see the left as the epitome of monolithic control, of fascism. So Lucas' formulations may not work in an era where the right is the pro-freedom counterculture.
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Oh, I don't disagree with that-- but I also don't think what is happening now is as overt as people claim it is. But you're right, we shouldn't go there. :)
 
Sourdoh said:
Some people are trying soooo hard to hate on this film, it is obvious that they are reaching quite a bit to do so. If these issues are all that makes the film "unacceptable", I guess it isn't so bad after all ...
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I dunno if that was aimed at me, but I DID like the movie. Saw it twice this weekend. Bought the art book. I've generally loved Disney SW. No movie is perfect. Except Seven Samurai.
 
cayman shen said:
Watching with my kids, where Q'ira and fembot are having a Sex in the City gab session about how Lando and the appliance can screw made me want to blow my head off. THAT crap needs to go away. Deadpool can do that, it's modern and raunchy and irreverent. Star Wars is innocent and wide eyed and child-like. They need to start making these movies PG again, and they need to make them an escape from the real world and its issues, rather than tainted by it.
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Saw it yesterday and man. That part made me cringe too, especially when lando asked her if she wanted anything and she said "equal rights"? Talk about your eye rolls. The movie wasnt that bad, but it wasnt very good either. Pretty predictable, Woody Harrelson was pretty meh, the chick dying to blow up the bridge was pretty dumb, Han and chewie meeting should have been closer to the original way they met, had a little more dialogue between the two instead of chewie just following han cause whatever...Qi'ra turned bad WAY to quick, and darth maul was lame. I dunno, just was very lackluster, it was better than R1 in my opinion but thats not saying much.

Also, it was SUPER dark, I could barely make things out, it really frustrated me.

Also the after finding out that Christian Bale was up for the Beckett role and Woody got instead infuriates me to no end. The casting director had his head up his ass.
 
Snikt said:
it was better than R1 in my opinion .
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I'm surprised to hear that. Given the two I felt Rogue One had much more of the feel of a Star Wars space adventure; it somewhat renewed my interest in Star Wars.
Solo felt just "off" the entire time; it seemed like the movie was searching for a reason to exist. Plus the characters never clicked, not to mention the eye rolling dialog with PC-Robot.
 
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