Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

re: your spoilers

Just saw it. Not terrible, I didn't hate it like I did the Last Jedi but is just missing anything special about it. It's very forgettable and there's not much in it I would want to rewatch.

chaos said:

re: your spoilers

Spoiler

Maul appears in Rebels, which takes place during the break between 3 and 4. He didn't die in 1, apparently, got some prosthetics.

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Further addendum to the spoiler

Zweischneid said:

Yeah, because it somehow became a craze among Breitbart retards and rednecks to hate on that movie. Doesn't mean shit.

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I'm pretty liberal and that movie was shit. Had nothing to do with the hate it got from other sources, I've just seen the plot for the movie Speed before, and it's woefully shit set in a Star Wars movie. Not to mention all the other plot holes, flying Leia, and emo Luke that made no sense.

and now I'm imagining Dennis Hopper in silver stormtrooper armor plus Keanu Reeves / Sandra Bullock crashing a ship into the laser brick while sliding out the back with a changing sand color trail. GDI Merr.

Ukerric said:

Saw it yesterday. It's an evening showing, first day... the theater was barely half full (friend and I were slightly agog at that).

Non-spoilery review: it's meh. Well below Rogue One. Solo himself is ok, I think, but the rest is not that good. P3 notably is fairly stupid in "her" comic relief, compared to the absolutely insane funny of the Rogue One droid. Most of the various reversals are fairly obvious, and the "surprises" are all telegraphed. Qi'ra is just enough believable, but not much.

4/10 (because it's Star Wars), not going to even bother rewatching even a director cut.

Spoiler: If you don't care for a few minor details

I now laugh at the pan-sexual comments, since it's basically based on the fact that Lando loved only his mother and his droid, and flirts with about everyone. The old-couple bickering was a bit fun, as was the face of Daener... Qi'ra when doing the girl-girl talk.

The founding of the Rebellion is totally, abysmally stupid. Unbelievable and forced to the Nth degree.

WTF about Darth Maul. We're smack dab between EP3 and EP4, so why is Maul around? He's been killed - and replaced by Palpatine - since EP1?

And, of course, Han shot first at the end.

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The movie is good/very good/excellent

It had imperfections that say Rogue One didn't; but it also had fun in new ways and tried things that unlike Jedi, worked.

There were some dialogue kinks, especially in the beginning that should have been cut all together - but pretty much everything else was good

Millenium Falcon redesign was stupid - not spoiler because in commericial - it served no purpose other than to sell toys - this could have been redeemed with a better metamorphisis, but whatever falls within forgivable region.

SJW fears weren't really there - female droid was fine and fit the universe and was interesting to me

Prequel reference was good, if not heavy handed
Clone Wars/Rebels reference was easter egg and fine.

Again, with writing, Woody had some of my biggest annoyances. multiple times he used earth words that would have been better served with made up space jargon
I liked the wookies, did them justice after prequels

I liked Han - like once or twice he went screamy instead of cool; but he was good and I'd watch more with him. I appreciated all the returning character mannerisms

Really enjoyed it. Probably more so than any Star Wars film that I can remember seeing in a theater. Weakest parts involved Harrelson. I'd totally watch more films with Crimson Dawn, New Han, or Lando.

Anyone else reminded of

Childish nailed the Billy D voice.

Was a good movie, not great.

+1 for the prequel nod

Box Office: 'Solo: A Star Wars Story' Struggling to Hit $110M in U.S., Crashes Overseas

Disney and Lucasfilms' Solo: A Star Wars Story is struggling in its debut at the Memorial Day box office, where it could come in well behind expectations with $105 million-$110 million for the four-day holiday weekend unless traffic picks up in earnest on Saturday. The projected three-day weekend tally is $80 million-$90 million.

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Just got back, a very average film 5/10. I sorta expected a massive trainwreck after all the behind the scenes stuff that went down, so I guess it wasn't as bad as I thought it might be, but it wasn't a very good or interesting movie. Han Solo has never been a favorite character of mine so I don't really care about his origin story and the movie didn't change anything about that. I don't honestly feel like I learned anything new about the character or the universe really.

The only two characters who had good chemistry together were Han and Lando, by themselves they were meh and every other actor in the movie was very meh so literally only 3 minutes of decent character scenes and only 1 imo great action scene near the end of the movie involving the Kessel Run. After an hour I'm already starting to forget pretty much everything about the movie. Khaleesi was not great, she wasn't terrible but a million different actresses I think would have been better and she and Solo were cringe bad on screen together.

The only good character in the movie was Chewbacca. Zero reason to really see this in theaters unless you LOVE TLJ, in that case you may like this movie I guess? I honestly think The Last Jedi may be a better movie than this simply because it had good action scenes and characters that changed whereas here it just very soul less, underwhelming and no vision whatesoever. I guess its sorta interesting they try to show different aspects of the Star Wars universe but I thought the Rogue One "Jedi temple" planet was a more interesting place than the 3 planets they sorta show in this movie but not really to any depth.

Regarding the ending sting kinda thing

Not sure what people expect. The problem I see is that for most people, 4 5 and 6 is what made Star Wars great but that was decades ago. Then we got fished with 1 2 and 3 and while they got a bit better as they went, the only thing that made them great was the atmosphere of Star Wars and the sounds bringing back nostalgia. Then we got hit with a modern 4 in 7 but SJW'd but we had the sights and sounds and it was ok. Rogue One actually had something to do with 4 and it was ok enough but then we had 8 which I hadn't seen but even the most liberal SJW neck beards I know are critics of it and now only 5 months later we are rolled out with pansexual backstories. Disney has officially Pirates of the Caribbean Star Wars. For me it even dulls the originals. Saturation is high and the stories are not unique or well written enough to be special. Just one giant pew pew womb womb heavy breathing space shitfest.

Whew.

Rogue One was the story of how they got the Death Star plans, which was interesting and a prime example of important events and battles that we would want to see in the universe. Solo and Kenobi movies on the other hand, who cares? Unless they're doing a major smuggler/bounty hunter event that Han happened to be a part of I could give jack shit about his origin story and forced retcons/integrations. Boba Fett might be an exception to that since we only got a piece of his way-backstory in the prequels and 90% of that movie SHOULD be new material (but let's be honest, with these dumbfucks at the helm we'll be lucky to hit 40%).

Media companies at least know to give people what they want yet studio execs seem to be literal retards thinking they will make bank off catering to the dumbest cross section of... I don't even know at this point?

Black_Death said:

Really enjoyed it. Probably more so than any Star Wars film that I can remember seeing in a theater. Weakest parts involved Harrelson. I'd totally watch more films with Crimson Dawn, New Han, or Lando.

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