Rogue One and Solo showed new narrative possibilities in SW. You got a real war movie and a heist flick. I was legit waiting for the SW rom-com and horror entries.
While Billy Dee is still alive, I think they really need to do a Lando movie. Like, have him sitting around the card table with the ladies telling tales, and Donald Glover can act them out AND THEY DON'T NECESSARILY MATCH!
Would that I could help you make this a reality. It’s really a hilarious idea and an excellent vehicle to tell great stories, standalone and arcing, set in the world.
i learned the other day that baldwin was *insisting* that billy dee play malcolm x in the movie he was writing (which, eventually, was the basis for spike lee’s movie) & i had to stop & imagine the timeline where BDW is best known for playing malcolm instead of lando (or maybe BOTH)
I like the movie! but I still think it's basically an entire movie based on the elevator pitch: what if we made a movie that would shut the internet geeks the fuck up about the kessel run thing
“Han Solo, a smuggler who lives on the margins, makes up some bullshit story to snow job two hicks from the sticks who clearly shouldn’t know better.” Is a perfectly reasonable explanation and indeed is kind of played that way in the moment because Obi Wan gives a vague you’re bs-ing me look.
I think the entire Kessel run stuff is summed up by Obi Wan's reaction to it in the original Star Wars. He shoots Han a looks that says, "What a bunch of BS."
I think most of the hate for Solo would have been eliminated if the movie was just about a random smuggler in the Star Wars universe rather than a Han Solo origin story. They being said, I overall enjoyed the movie and think it was more a victim of poor marketing than anything else.
It was a victim of the absolutely insane hate campaign against The Last Jedi. There are normal people that hated TLJ (I loved it), but the absolute worst human garbage decided to make it into a culture war just like they did Ghostbusters 2016.
I also liked TLJ (although I admit it was flawed). I think Solo’s release mere weeks after Infinity War, and relative lack of advertising, didn’t do it any favors. It felt like Disney had given up on it. Glad I ignored the narrative and saw it in theaters, though.
Yeah, I saw it with my dad, who isn’t normally a big Star Wars fan. It was a few years after we lost my uncle though (who was a huge Star Wars fan) and I could see the positive connection it had with my dad as a result. Really great theater experience.
See, this is what I'm saying: including the Kessel Run in the movie wasn't about the "parsec" bit. It was about showing why the Kessel Run was so important Solo mentioned it. Not to mix scifi, but it's like how the Abrams Star Trek showed Kirk's Kobayashi Maru. It's part of the coming-of-age.
Lucas was explaining it as "it's the distance that matters" literally right after the first Star Wars came out. I mean, he obviously screwed up, but this wasn't some thing they just came up with for the Solo movie. You show a movie about Solo's past, you're obviously going to include it.
Oh sure, I'm just saying since it was obvious what Solo MEANT in the context of the film, we could have just rolled with it and said "Parsecs are a measurement of time in the Star Wars universe."
The maddening thing is that there was a really fun movie *in between* all the completely stupid "let's explain each & every thing we heard Han Solo say or saw him do in Star Wars" moments. I think you could snip a total of <10 minutes out of it and have it be an A- movie, but those groaner minutes..
They really needed someone to walk through the heist part of the movie, write an actual heist movie for it except with star wars characters, and have that all make heist movie sense.
The train heist scene made me realize how much of a miss rogue one was that should’ve just been where eagles dare in Star Wars aesthetic. One story, good characters, no bullshit
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There's a really good Lando comic where he steals a ship and almost gets away with it.
But they needed to add to his story rather than turn throw-away lines into major scenes.
I especially hated the clumsy attempts to answer trivia questions no one cared about, like "Why is Han Solo's last name Solo?"
spoilers, I guess...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpmjseSy4HU
Phoebe Waller-Bridges as a class conscious droid was brilliant.
The whole "ha ha unit of distance" thing never made sense to me, it's a two second thought process to explain it away.
We accepted SPACE MAGIC!! without question just because he called it THE FORCE.
Especially the ending which just random disaster