Solo: A Star Wars Story (Post-release)

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


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Interesting cut scene with Solo as TIE pilot:

https://ew.com/movies/2018/09/12/solo-deleted-scene-han-trial-crashing-tie-fighter/

I both like and dislike this scene
+ Fills in some gaps/missing time
+ I like seeing Imperial beuacrassy
- TIE Fighter pilot without full helmet is just all wrong. Yes, I understand they wanted to show the actors face but this could have been somuch better artistically done such as Tony Stark inside the Iron Man suit.
- Interior TIE Fighter cockpit looks like an operating room
- Hans cocky humor waaaay overdone here



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Also, stock footage of a TIE pilot inside the cockpit already exists. Matching the set, lighting and viewing angle would have been an excellent OT tie-in ;)

I can see why this was left on the cutting room floor. I'm assuming it was filmed by the original directors who were fired and not Ron Howard.

This would also lend credibility to rumors the original directors were doing too much comedy with Han and how an acting coach was brought in.

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Everything matching the OT still is odd to me. Timeline-wise, you would expect a PT/OT hybrid. Only thing that approaches that is the Lando'd Falcon.
 
I saw this a few hours ago. It was ok. Maybe it's just me, but I want to believe it means something about the movie (or any other movie I feel this way about; too many these days) if I can't be bothered to remember the characters names. I only remember Han, Chewbacca, Lando, Becket, and of course, the main reason I'll watch TPM. (man am I excited for what's next! Sorry, but I always liked him lol) About an hour and 10 minutes in, I start to find some enjoyment in the movie. Lando was great. So was Chewbacca. I can't help but think that Han was too positive - err - happy. The actor did the best it could. It has the same dead eyes that Harrison Ford has, and, to me, that sold it as a young Han.

Now. Some criticism with spoilers.
I'm a recovering conservative who supports the cause of social justice advocates - and all that jazz. I can't help but think that, despite supporting it, it's being improperly executed in recent movies. I wasn't a fan of how it was done in TLJ with the casino scene, and I'm not a fan of how it was done in Solo. Improper execution leads to bad representation of messages and ideas (and even people) - and the result is counter productive. People get turned off and then develop disdain for said ideas and the people who are advocates of them. Since its beginning, media has shaped how the world sees others - different people - and the result has proven to be negative. It may be done with good intentions, but the screenwriters really need to know what the hell they're attempting to portray. It's laughable sometimes and makes me believe they're just intentionally taking the p͏i͏ss at the people who hold those ideas. Maybe that's actually what's happening, eh?

I was not expecting the droid rebellion because it came out of nowhere. Unexpected. It was odd. Kind of funny, but still odd. I'm left wondering if Disney will continue to incorporate its attempt at a little social commentary. I've yet to be impressed by any of their attempts in non animated movies. I'm not going to lie, it'd be nice if it was done right, but I really have no hope.
 
I saw this a few hours ago. It was ok. Maybe it's just me, but I want to believe it means something about the movie (or any other movie I feel this way about; too many these days) if I can't be bothered to remember the characters names. I only remember Han, Chewbacca, Lando, Becket, and of course, the main reason I'll watch TPM. (man am I excited for what's next! Sorry, but I always liked him lol) About an hour and 10 minutes in, I start to find some enjoyment in the movie. Lando was great. So was Chewbacca. I can't help but think that Han was too positive - err - happy. The actor did the best it could. It has the same dead eyes that Harrison Ford has, and, to me, that sold it as a young Han.

Now. Some criticism with spoilers.
I'm a recovering conservative who supports the cause of social justice advocates - and all that jazz. I can't help but think that, despite supporting it, it's being improperly executed in recent movies. I wasn't a fan of how it was done in TLJ with the casino scene, and I'm not a fan of how it was done in Solo. Improper execution leads to bad representation of messages and ideas (and even people) - and the result is counter productive. People get turned off and then develop disdain for said ideas and the people who are advocates of them. Since its beginning, media has shaped how the world sees others - different people - and the result has proven to be negative. It may be done with good intentions, but the screenwriters really need to know what the hell they're attempting to portray. It's laughable sometimes and makes me believe they're just intentionally taking the p͏i͏ss at the people who hold those ideas. Maybe that's actually what's happening, eh?

I was not expecting the droid rebellion because it came out of nowhere. Unexpected. It was odd. Kind of funny, but still odd. I'm left wondering if Disney will continue to incorporate its attempt at a little social commentary. I've yet to be impressed by any of their attempts in non animated movies. I'm not going to lie, it'd be nice if it was done right, but I really have no hope.
Personally I enjoyed the Droid rebellion/Droid rights thing as a satire.

Your not wrong interpreting it your own way.

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Personally I enjoyed the Droid rebellion/Droid rights thing as a satire.

Your not wrong interpreting it your own way.
Yeah, I know it was satire. It was kind of funny, but...dumb. I'm left wondering why it was the idea the screenwriter settled on. A droid who wants droid rights and expresses its concern about them in quite a fourth wall breaking way. Really. That's what's needed in the Star Wars universe, eh? lol. Satire or not, it didn't do much for Solo, nor did it do anything for TLJ. It seems like wasted time.
 
Yeah, I know it was satire. It was kind of funny, but...dumb. I'm left wondering why it was the idea the screenwriter settled on. A droid who wants droid rights and expresses its concern about them in quite a fourth wall breaking way. Really. That's what's needed in the Star Wars universe, eh? lol. Satire or not, it didn't do much for Solo, nor did it do anything for TLJ. It seems like wasted time.
I REALLY disliked (even hated) the TLJ Casino sequence.

I think I can better tolerate a little foolishness in the Anthology movies. To me they are like the Marvel Star Wars comics I read as a kid. Light-hearted and fun, a little silly and goofy but allowing us to expand between the Trilogy movies.

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It looks like he's not in a standard TIE fighter, but one of the new ones introduced for the movie. It's one of the ones that kinda sorta looks like a TIE bomber, but the other pod is much smaller. I think I read they were called TIE transports, or shuttles, which would incline me to believe that combat isn't their primary role. That may account for the much larger cockpit interior.

In any case, no TIE fighters, aside from Vader Advance X1 and the Defenders developed by Thrawn had shields or ejection capability. Hence the reason TIE pilots had the nick name "coffin jockey."

And ejecting with an open faced helmet, that doesn't sound very pleasant.
 
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I REALLY disliked (even hated) the TLJ Casino sequence.

I think I can better tolerate a little foolishness in the Anthology movies. To me they are like the Marvel Star Wars comics I read as a kid. Light-hearted and fun, a little silly and goofy but allowing us to expand between the Trilogy movies.
Solo definitely felt like a Marvel movie - not one of the really good ones though.


I forgot to mention this on my last post. Another thing I didn't like about it is the pacing right after the GoT girl gets captured. Apparently a lot of time passed since then but I swear that I thought it was all happening within the same week of her capture and Han escaping. I tried my best to give it my complete attention, but I had to have missed something.

Anyway, it wasn't a bad movie. It was a bit fun.
 
As I've said before, the droid-rights thing goes all the way back to the '80s EU. It's not a new thing. It's part of who Elthree is as a character. It's one of the things about her Lando grudgingly puts up with... And it ended up being very helpful to Our Heroes being able to complete their objective on Kessel and escape, so it was actually germane to the plot. Could they have come up with some other way to get the coaxium and offworld again? Sure. Same as they could have done other things with any plot point going back to the original film.

As for the cut scene... I love it. I've maintained for ages that anyone with a Stormtrooper faceplate is a Stormtrooper. That, like the Marines whose role they occupy, they have their own pilots and armored-vehicle drivers. I already loved Solo (and Rogue One and, to a degree, Rebels) for expanding the armor representation of non-Stormtrooper infantry-derived aethetic. The Imperial Starfleet infantry having, essentially, the breastplates and helmets Veers had in ESB, for instance. And, prior to the Prequels screwing everything up, I always figured the veteran Rebel pilots were former Republic pilots in leftover Republic flight gear, and that the Starfleet pilots probably had something reminiscent.

Prior to this I liked Baron Fel's flight gear (interior art, not inaccurate cover art) as indicative, with the exception of the Stormtrooper flight helmet he requisitioned for his unit as a morale booster. And figured an actual Starfleet flight helmet looked something like the prototype Rebel flight helmets in black -- smoke visors and breath masks. So this is perfect and I want one. I like how the breath mask looks like it's derived from the Death Trooper faceplate (or, considering the timeline, vice versa...?).

[ETA: I've since had it pointed out it's actually the Patrol Trooper lower faceplate, which I'd missed, as I haven't looked that closely at those guys. From very preliminary photoscaling, might be the rest of that helmet, too, as the base, with extensive modifications.]

I've also treated deleted scenes and lines as tacitly canon, except where they contradict the final cut. And this fits the character and the story well.
 
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I thought this was the clip being discussed!


Some are going to HATE this... me? I don't mind it. I like fun in my Star Wars.

And I'm in the camp that sorta liked the movie... not great, not bad...

but I did think during it "My dad would LOVE this..."

He's a Western Movies and Woody Harrelson guy... so it's def something I'll get him to watch.
 
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I finally caught this on Apple TV last night...

I was not impressed. It simply looks like they were “checking the boxes” in the story. Pretty bland stuff.
 
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Yeah. I was hoping they had cleaned it up for home release.... Oh well. Probably my biggest complaint about the movie in the theater was how murky it was.
I've been seeing the advertisements on TV. Geez, seems like you can barely see the picture. Is the movie really this dark blue and cloudy looking?

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Yeah. I was hoping they had cleaned it up for home release.... Oh well. Probably my biggest complaint about the movie in the theater was how murky it was.

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Agreed... I have no idea why everything is so dark.

In Rogue one it bothered me because everything was "back-lit"... everyone was covered in shadows in every scene with a bright light source to the side or behind...

This just went "forget light sources!"
 
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