DARKSIDE72
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Justifying even more just how bad Aidsden stinks....
Solo: A Star Wars Story
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Actually the Chris Pine/William Shatner Captain Kirk analogy works well and is what I'm personally hoping to walk away with once I see Solo. Kirk is my favorite Enterprise captain hands down and Kirk is Shatner, so when I heard Chris Pine was cast I was nervous but ended up LOVING the reboots of Star Trek. So I'm hoping Alden can do the same.
DARKSIDE72
Sr Member
Yea but Pine can act, AE can not.
Fingers crossed these are fun filled rides that make us forget about the real world.
That’s what I’m hoping for... if not a bottle of jack will fix that for me... has been the last 1.5 years..
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Still doesn't explain why they chose someone with little acting ability and zero charisma.
They had one job!
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I’m skeptical that this actually is the scene where Han wins the Falcon as it’s clearly early in the film and in the recent TV spot we know Han plays cards in a different outfit then that brown jacket. But certainly spoilers of the first card game scene.
https://io9.gizmodo.com/heres-what-happens-when-han-solo-plays-to-win-the-mille-1825509272
https://io9.gizmodo.com/heres-what-happens-when-han-solo-plays-to-win-the-mille-1825509272
And they were fired.
Did you see 'Hail, Caesar!"?
But the problem they created, AE was not.
I still don't buy that they messed up the movie...
This was a stupid panic move made because they went from Rogue One - which was Star Wars with no fun whatsoever, to a screening of this, which was probably more in line with GOTG V2 for humor, and they panicked.
They saw they made money on "miserable and no fun" and then watched "comedic and fun" and went "oh no! How do we make this more miserable?!!?"
It'll be like the reverse of David Ayer Suicide Squad... "Oh man look how miserable this is and how fun GOTG is! let's retool it!" and so you end up with a mess.
Start a vision and finish it. Stop second guessing. Don't follow the puck! Go where the puck is going to be...
DC follows the puck and look at that crap fest of movies.
Ok, but also know when to cut your losses. I'm not in "the biz" but I'm going to assume that a movie production isn't as predictable as the laws of physics.
Anyway, the hiring of L&M never made sense to me in the first place. Much like many people who don't see Alden as a good fit, I felt the same way about Lord & Miller.
That's where it gets ridiculous, cuz no one will ever know. Lord and Miller are more than competent directors and were working with a likely good script.
They're proven to know how to land a joke (Rian could use a lesson or two) but the jokey movie following the abysmal war movie screwed them.
I'm guessing this movie played like "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade". Meaning if you followed "Raiders" with "Crusade", they would tonally be in different worlds. WAY jokier in Crusade. Like if they released Raiders, then a month later they're watching dailies or a rough cut of Last Crusade, the notes back would be "Why is this a dumb joke comedy?!"
But I bet this would have been the most fun Star Wars flick. And I don't buy the "fart jokes" bit... I think that's a crusty 70 year old not getting it.
I'm currently working on a flick where 30 year old storyboarders are making the entire room laugh, and then the 50+ year old directors are cutting out the jokes cuz they don't "get why that's funny"...
And as a standalone flick, this could've been a funny, western, adventure flick.
The only thing we'll soon know is if the casting of AE was a disaster...and I don't know that it was... so far I'm not seeing anything I like, but I haven't seen much that looks awful either.
But maybe he can pull a River Phoenix....
:lol I think the intent was "dire situations with very limited humor".
TheMechanic
Sr Member
They didn't chose him, Spielberg forced Alden upon them. The same Spielberg that forced Shia LeQueef on the world.
I don't know of any evidence that they could handle a remotely serious movie. The fact that they can make ridiculous-but-good movies doesn't prove much about somebody's ability to do serious stuff. 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' is a good movie by that yardstick too.
I was not opposed to the idea of giving them a shot on 'Solo.' But Lucasfilm should have known all along that L & M might be in over their heads. Lucasfilm could have made L & M co-directors with someone else from the beginning. Let them do their goofy takes, but also have another director there for a few "straight" takes just to keep the bases covered. It would have saved many millions of dollars, months of delays, and bad press.
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Axlotl
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Really? 3 directors? Why not just hire ONE competent director?
mkstewartesq
Sr Member
Exact same thing could be said for the Russo Brothers, and that worked out pretty darn well for Disney.
Before Disney gave them their break, their experience was almost exclusively TV comedy shows (though, admittedly, some great ones – like Arrested Development and Community - but still mixed in with a lot of forgettable sitcoms and comedy specials). Oh, yeah-and “You, Me and Dupree” with Owen Wilson.
Yet they gave us the two best Captain America films and now what appears to be both a blockbuster and a critical success in Avengers: Infinity War.
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firesprite
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I saw it. It was a terrible, terrible movie. NO ONE in that movie was very good, but this kid was straight-up amateur hour. I was shocked when they announced he would be Han Solo.
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