Solo: A Star Wars Story
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- 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
- cannonball19780
I liked it. But the Enfys Nest character felt a little forced.
- 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
- section_0141
This was good to do other things to while playing in the background.
- 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.
- CALLES0
been putting on to fall asleep to. The woman and I both agree the best character/actor is chewbacca ¯\_(ツ)_/¯