Well, it's being ripped to shreds in places you have a proclivity to engage with. The general consensus seems much more moderate and that it's a fun film, like I said 7/10 with top critics. Beware observational bias on social media.
Solo: A Star Wars Story
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Well, it's being ripped to shreds in places you have a proclivity to engage with. The general consensus seems much more moderate and that it's a fun film, like I said 7/10 with top critics. Beware observational bias on social media.
MooCriket
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Jeremy Jahns did not care for this film.
Jeremy said by comparison, Lando was good because the performances were so underwhelming he stood out.
Han was passable, he forgot Woody Harrelson was in the film. Paul Bettany shows up like twice, on a different planet.
There is no villain. The action was sporadic and random and the dramatic scenes were cut short. The entire film was a slog due to pacing issues.
This is coming from a guy who wears his star wars bedsheets from when he was a kid like a cape.
Jeremy said by comparison, Lando was good because the performances were so underwhelming he stood out.
Han was passable, he forgot Woody Harrelson was in the film. Paul Bettany shows up like twice, on a different planet.
There is no villain. The action was sporadic and random and the dramatic scenes were cut short. The entire film was a slog due to pacing issues.
This is coming from a guy who wears his star wars bedsheets from when he was a kid like a cape.
I don't know who that is so I can't opine. I can say I'm a 50 year old man with Star Wars toys all around my house but not sure that makes me an expert.
Wow. I followed the TLJ thread here pretty closely, and talked to scores of fans in the real world about the film, and I never once heard a fan bash Disney over Luke being 40 years older than he was in the OT.
MooCriket
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Fair enough Bryancd. I just hope Star Wars does not become the DCEU for Disney. I know I bitch a lot about Star Wars, but it comes from a deep love that began when I first started my Star Wars journey at age 4. I just don't want to settle for "meh" or safe, cookie cutter films. Maybe I just can't accept that NU-SW may just not be for me, or my age group anymore.
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Im not directly responding to you here, Wook, but this brings something front of mind. I loved TLJ, BUT, it was work. It was a chore. It was challenging to accept no doubt. I look at Solo as an amuse bouche, an opportunity to leave the heavy Saga films and even R1, and just have some fun in the SW universe.
Well, at the end of the day, as in over the next 20+ years, Star Wars will be more like the MCU. For some of us older fans it will be hard. For the younger fans it will be just like Marvel, they will love some, hate some, but ty will grow up with it for generations. It will just be different from our experience. My son is 5 and he doesn't like the OT or PT but will watch the new films and cartoons. We need to pass this legacy on. It's not about us anymore, it's about them.
CT1138
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Not in those exact words, but the criticism has certainly been made thoroughly that it sucks they made Luke an old man who doesn't get into the action anymore.
Mr Webber
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Are these the same top critics who praised the dumpster fire that was TLJ?. I`d take observations on social media over self serving shill critics who are only interested in catering to their own career paths seven days a week.
Fly4v
Sr Member
Whoa there, Let's not give them a goal to shoot for.
Disney is really going to have to turn up the crap-tastic meter to turn Stars Wars into the mess that currently represents DC movies.
Fly4v
Sr Member
To be honest, I consider the views of RPFer's more compelling than critics.
I kind of like how Birdman talked about how critics never risk or produce anything only judge those that perform i.e. doing what the critic can't.
I just wish I had stayed out of the spoiler reviews.
But his lack of action in the film had nothing to do with his age.
CT1138
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That's what I said.
Again, the RPF is a tiny and VERY selective group not really adaqiete for any meaningful market research. But I understand your point.
I agree, Fly. But mostly because I can take an RPFer's SWIQ into account when reading his review.
MooCriket
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Pictures from the premiere:
https://imgur.com/a/eg0v9vq
https://imgur.com/a/eg0v9vq
Now that Cannes has come and gone, are there any (credible) plot synopses out there? I'm not buying that one that came out after the L.A. premiere, which put
in the film. God, I HOPE that one's bogus.
Any links would be appreciated, for a full spoiler story synopsis.
Thanks,
The Wook
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Any links would be appreciated, for a full spoiler story synopsis.
Thanks,
The Wook
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