Solo: A Star Wars Story
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- CALLES0
been putting on to fall asleep to. The woman and I both agree the best character/actor is chewbacca ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- cygnuszero50
Basically felt like there was no villain. That nest characters looked cool, but turned out to not actually be a villain, and the other boring looking dude with those laser daggers was barely in the movie.
- section_0141
This was good to do other things to while playing in the background.
- i_monk0
Caught it on Netflix last night. Middling, but better than Rogue One, Force Awakens, and whatever the last one was called.
- I thought Rogue One was the best Star Wars since Empire Strikes Back!zarkonite
- ^ agreed. Also watched Solo on Netfix last nite. Didn't mind it...just didn't feel necessary to learn how he got his gun, ship, BFF, Wookie, catch phrases, etcGM278
- Rogue One is hands down my favorite Star Wars film. Solo was Soslow HA!stoplying
- 1. Empire, 2. A New Hope, 3. Rogue One, Solo was decent but didn't come near those.fadein11
- cannonball19780
I liked it. But the Enfys Nest character felt a little forced.
- jmckinno1
I went to see SOLO last night in an empty theatre. When the film was over the cleaning guy just popped his head in and then walked out.
Overall it wasn't a Star Wars film, it was a good science fiction movie, but lacked any of the dialog, structure, mystery or storytelling a Star Wars movie usually plays around with. For Disney / LucasFilm to make a single stand alone film focusing on such a strong character in the SW universe could have been a slam dunk in opening up backstories to popular figures in the franchise. But they really blew it with this one.
Don Glover did a good Billy De Williams impersonation from time time, Emilia Clark was lovely, especially towards the apex of the film, Alden Ehrenreich was a good as a unplugged toaster. Woody Harrelson gave it a good shot as well.
If you haven't seen it, you should, so that you can see what a film that was predicted by an executive board looks like. But don't pay full price for a ticket, sneak into the theatre or watch a bootleg version.
I hope there are some lessons Disney has learned from this film.
- BTW, Ron Howard shouldn't have directed this film. It looked like a machine learning algorithm spit this shit out.jmckinno
- I concurfadein11
- Ron Howard couldn't direct his way out of a paper bag.hans_glib
- Should have been rob reiner lol_niko
- I would have watched a Rob Reiner version of SOLO.jmckinno
- “...I’ll have what the wookie is havin”prophetone
- Bring on the downvotes!jmckinno
- monospaced0
Got a ticket to see this tomorrow for the last IMAX showing at my theater. I’m the only person in the theater so far, and it looks like I’ll have it all to myself. Haha.
- Seeing it solo.monospaced
- Let out some obnoxiously loud chewbacca laughsprophetone
- Chinatown?chris_himself_2
- nah, midtownmonospaced
- fadein114
Kathleen Kennedy May Be Leaving Lucasfilm and Star Wars
https://movieweb.com/kathleen-ke…
Great news if true.
- The damage has already been done...the woman ruined Star Wars...but thank goodness nonethelessMondoMorphic
- If she's a feminist she definitely left her mark.docpoz
- one day hopefully a Hollywood shuck will realise many Star Wars nerds are now in their 40s+. Time to skip this kiddie shit and make films for that market.inteliboy
- I agree. Or make SW Rebels style films for kids and a branch of slightly grittier/darker films for the old nerds.fadein11
- The nasty woman ruined my stories about spaceships, laser swords, and walking carpets.face_melter
- lol facefadein11
- lollinteliboy
- docpoz0
yup. this was really cute.
I thought I was going to hate the actor but I was rooting for him to pull it off and I think he did well enough.you can hate me now. ha.
- prophetone0
I usually rate a movie by asking 'would I buy this on bluray?'... yep, it was good to great. Kessel run ftw.
- Bluejam2
An average SW film.
They nailed the 'look'.
The actors all did well.
The story was terrible. Too many duplicate scenes - two heists and two card table scenes, really? They should of just had loads of bounty hunters/smugglers all going for the Kessel Run in a 'Smokey and the Bandit' or 'Its a Mad Mad Mad World' kinda way - minus the comedy.They killed off two characters way too early.
That droid. As with Last Jedi, take your pop culture/social references and fuck off. We're in a galaxy, far, far away ...
- caterpus0
I felt that it was more satisfying than Last Jedi. Cheesy yet pleasing. Here are my takeaways-
Star Wars Mad Max
Kessel Run was sick
Dat ass on L3
Chewy is the most handsome wookiee.
I love how everything we knew about Han Solo happened in the matter of a couple days.
I loved it.
- thumb_screws1
I though it was good not great. Space heist movie. There were a couple of jarring bits but it overall i dug it.
I liked how it linked through to whats happened in clones wars.
It did kind a feel like a live action episode of rebels or clones wars.
- Al_dizzle0
Damn guys... it wasn't THAT bad.
- feel4
I like this review:
- pablo281
- <yup_niko
- George Lucas, you have to buy back the rights...you're our only hope!
lol_niko - Hahahahadopepope
- Lucas had his chance and shit the bed for 3 films straight. Fuck that.monospaced
- Yeah but Those 3 shitty films are going to look like masterpieces next to the drivel Disney’s pumping out_niko
- ^ Disney still has a long ways to fall for that to happen.ETM
- https://56packardman…imbecile
- I disagree niko, but to each their ownmonospaced
- I actually liked all the new ones haven't seen solo yet but can see how easily Disney can over-kill everything for profits._niko
- Revenge of the Sith does look like a decent SW film now next to recent efforts (aside from Rogue One of course).fadein11
- fadein110
Terrible.
- utopian-1
Regurgitated Hollywood Garbage...the dumb fat lazy American's will love this flick!
- What about the skinny Americans?M01XXX
- The dumb fat lazy Americans I've spoken to seem wildly apathetic about this piece of shit movie.MondoMorphic
- There's bigotry in your utopia?docpoz
- My healthy active American friends enjoyed it. Oh well.monospaced
- Eighty0
The best thing that Disney could do at this point is cut the run times back to a reasonable 90 minutes. This is a daft series of films about space aliens, not Das Boot ffs.