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Thanks. Ebert called me from the great beyond the other day. We're going to do a show.
It's hard to review a movie like this without spoilers, but just for you I'll give it a go.
Great action scenes, enough nods to the past movies without being over the top obvious. All of the vague stories Han tells in 4,5, and 6 are fleshed out. It is truly an origin story of Han Solo, from his time growing up, to meeting Chewie and Lando, to getting the Falcon. There was one gratuitous CGI scene that could easily have been left out.
All in all, great action film set in the Star Wars universe. I put it on par with Rogue One.
If there isn't a scene where Chewie literally pulls some guy's arm out of it's socket, the movie is a fail.
I saw it today...enjoyed it and thought it was much better than the Last Jedi. Hated pretty much every fucking trailer I saw. 15-20 minutes of visual and sonic overload.
Love Python. "The goats gone poo!"
is the dude believable as young han?
harrison ford owned that character, its gonna be weird seeing someone else's face, voice and mannerisms in that role
Great casting. It worked.
saw solo, liked it a lot
liked the story, liked how they cleared up the kessel run debate.
can't wait for solo 2. hopefully maul redeems himself
4 out of 5 stars. Not sure if the Mother of Dragons is a heroine or a villain.
First 20 minutes I was rolling my eyes.
Then the WW1 battle with lasers, at-st’s and tie fighters scene.
Thumbs up.
More Chewie dismemberments please.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/he...empire-1116927
Solo basically tanked. Some articles I've seen have it losing up to $250 million.
I see that they are trying to can Kennedy for ruining Star Wars, but they can't find anyone willing to take over, because she shat the bed so bad that there is nothing left to work with. Episode IX is left with the smoldering wreckage of the Star Wars universe. Luke was a pussy and died, Yoda turned into a book burner, Leia and Han are dead or CGI spacefaring creatures I guess. And they killed the chemistry between Rey and the Storm Trooper. Hey, at least they have that NHS/Class president asian girl - maybe the whole next movie can be about her - maybe she can wield several newly minted and creatively colored light sabers (how about a rainbow colored saber)! Fun! Meaningful!
Honestly, there is no character I care about or circumstance/conflict I am interested in seeing resolved in Episode IX. I suspect a lot of other people are thinking the same thing, maybe even JJ Abrams. Is there an extra Death Star hanging around somewhere that they can blow up?
yeah, the last jedi really fucked up the whole thing
jj set up some really great possible story lines that got everyone excited, and the new guy came in and shit all over everything, he basically wrapped every story up in a big lame ass ending
maybe episode 9 will start with episode 8 being just a bad dream?
solo, was a solid movie, but solo was an iconic character because of harrison ford, you take him out of the equation and you don't have solo imo. that combined with the odd release date (going up against avengers, coming so soon after the fuck up of episode 8), and you have a recipe for a flop
i do think solo will go on to be one of the better films in the series, but only f they are allowed to finish the arch
you guys have seen that because of the flop of solo, disney has canceled all plans for future star wars spin offs. even though rouge one and solo were both solid movies better then the shit that was episode 8
yup, everything cool that JJ set up in episode 7 was killed off or destroyed in episode 8
who is rey? whos her parents? that was the big question after episode 7. turns out shes no one with white trash parents
how awesome is luke after all these years? not very. he does nothing but whine and bitch, doesnt train rey at all, and doesn't show up for the last big fight, but still dies
who is snoke, and how awesome is he? doesn't matter, he dies right away in the lamest way possible
do finn and poe because jedi? no, because luke or rey is the last one. and poe is a terrible leader and finn just leaves his friends to die to go have some fun in space vegas for a weekend
is general hux the evil nazi that he seems to be? nope, he's just comic relief
how does leia die, seeings how shes dead in real life? she doesn't, but she floats now
do we learn all the mysteries of the jedi, and the tree of life? no, those things don't matter at all, burn those
so, yoda is still the greatest jedi of all? no, he's just a hypocrite who taught a bunch of people a bunch of shit that he doesn't believe in
seriously, the last jedi probably did more to destroy the series then the phantom menace did
The plot arc was set up for Rey to be a Skywalker. Continue with the relatable family drama. And then poof. Nada.
Finn has yet to develop one iota and has maybe regressed. Dumpy Asian girl: boring. No chemistry there either.
The resistance is fucking lame in comparison to the rebels of Rogue One.
The First Order sucks.
Why kill Scope without even developing him? Stupid.
Kasdan should be doing all the writing. For that matter, get half a dozen decent SW fans together and they could have come up with a better trilogy than the shit we are seeing.
Disney should be fired.
Red nailed why Solo lost money. Bad timing for release and bad taste I. Everyone’s mouth after episode 8. 8 is the 4th worst StarWars movie, and it barely beat out 2 for 3rd place. It’s a real piece of shit.
Solo is a damned good not great movie. The numbers I read say it was $250 to shoot and $150 in marketing. That’s a crazy amount of marketing dollars. It’s made $260 so far but that’s not nearly good enough for expectations. They need to put Rian who’s his face in a cell and remake 8.
Star Wars has been such a clusterfuck after the first 3. The stupidity is strong with all who have written, directed, and casted these movies. I'll agree on the exception of Rogue One, that was quality. But the others, I regret spending money on them. I'm fully expecting Episode 9 to be as dumb as when Capt Kirk had to go back in time to save the whales to save Earth in the Trek movies.
Was talking with a Star Wars nut last night. I think I convinced him that the problem was storytelling and characters (including poor acting). There were some interesting themes available, and some of it should have been salvageable, but the art is poor quality. For example, Emo Vader is interesting. He has one parent strong with the force and into politics, and another parent who is force-less, and is anti-government, anti-joiner by nature. If that conflict had played out better in Emo Vader over the course of episodes 7-9, it would have been very intriguing, but it required some decent exposition. All we get is a uniformly whining, tantrum throwing kid, not a kid who has to balance the disparate wishes of his parents to follow the path of one or the other. His story has no arc, his character has no journey and no destination.
Much of this results probably from what I call a 'serialization defect.' If you've watched any long-running show, that lasted longer than the original story, it's usually easy to detect when new, thin story lines are invented to draw the thing out. Too often these story lines are murky tangents which corrupt characters, rather than expanding them or challenging them in new ways. So instead of telling a cohesive story, and complete story that is the product of the creative mind of - usually - a single individual with a vision, the story becomes a slave to the necessity of having multiple episodes for commercial purposes, even if the ideas to sustain several episodes are not there.
The prequels would have written themselves if Lucas wasn't such a money grubbing shit bag.
EP 1, First half: Annikan origins, introduction to the force, small glimpse of things not being quite right. Second half, teen Annikan being shown as far stronger with the force than even anticipated. Warnings from Yoda. Scrap the force Jesus routine.
EP 2, Annikan having a secret life outside the Jedi. Not getting married and having terribly written love scenes. Action scenes of the clone wars and growing bond with Obi Wan. Emperor finds him and sees the darkness. Cultivates the darkness ultimately turning him in the final scene.
EP 3, Vader being a killing machine.
In EP 4 Obi Wan said "Vader hunted down and killed all the Jedi". He said nothing about "Clones had a secret code implanted that turns them on the Jedi". Lucas neutered Vader in EP1-3. And as Rand said, there is no main character that makes any sense or that you give 2 shits about.
did the prequels ever make anakin out to be the most powerful jedi ever? or even come close to being "the one"
he was pretty much always obi wans sidekick in the first 3, i never really got the feeling he was anything special, other then being told multiple times that he was
it was the clone wars cartoons that made him look like a complete badass
also, what just struck me. anakin wasn't allowed to be with portman because the jedi code says priests, i mean jedi, aren't allowed to do that because of the code. and now in the last jedi, the ultimate jedi syas that none of the jedi code is really worth a shit and doesnt matter. if yoda would have just said that about 60 years or so earlier, you never would have had darth vader, and millions and millions of people wouldn't have died
just more proof that maybe the jedi weren't the good guys after all
you would really hope that one of the planned spinoffs would have been about vader being a complete killing machine. hell that would make a great trilogy
what happened between episode 3 and roge one that made everyone so terrified of him? THAT, would be the ultimate star wars story. make it dark as shit too
Bring black Qui-Gon Jinn!
If you want to get nerded up good, go read the Darth Bane trilogy. It's everything Darth Vader could have been.
https://www.amazon.com/Darth-Bane-Le.../dp/B009MYAQQS
I've never read any Star Wars books, and stopped reading Trek books 30 years ago, but I do know tangentially that there are far better stories told in some of these books than have ever made the screen. A faithful retelling of the best of them on screen would be reasonably smart, which means Disney will never do it.
They said all spinoffs are on hold. Hadn't heard cancelled yet.
Thrawn is a great series. Really well done.
I came across this last year. For the fans and theose who like the score, this is worth your time:
https://youtu.be/CDSCdj7bUFs
Well I finally saw Solo. I know. The first Star Wars that came out during my lifetime that I didn't see in theaters. Actually first one that I didn't see at first possible showing in theaters now that I think about it.
Pretty good. I guess it makes sense now why they decided to throw water on Han + Leia for episodes 7 and 8. If they had remained happily ever after, it'd be tough for some to go back and be invested in watching a young Han chase skirt all over the galaxy. Loved how they did Lando. The end got tiresome with the double double double cross showdown but whatever. Star Wars is supposed to be fun.
If anyone from Disney reads this, my credentials as a fan are impeccable and I represent the largest demographic in the country--bring me on to consult on a Boba Fett stand alone film. I'm thinking it'll be R rated.
I think the Clone War cartoons are pretty cool. :-)
'Solo' kept my attention, but that's about it. I watched it several months ago now and can't remember even the basic plot, if there was one. Something was bugging me during the movie and it took some time to figure it out - and that was that the Solo character had this 'Jack Black' vibe going on. Thinner and less snarky to be sure, but still just as short, and had the same kind of mannerisms, albeit more muted. I don't think I'll be able to watch it again.
BTW, I guarantee you that our current SJW universe will ruin Boba Fett of the SW universe, if anyone is plucky enough to produce it.
She's gone! Erased from existence like Marty McFly's siblings! Replaced by a penile slug! (will anyone notice?) Astonishing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR-Bj9hDDwo