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Solo: A Star Wars Story |OT| Ron Shot Last [SPOILERS]
- Thread starter MMarston
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I honestly thought Howard did a good job. I went in with no expectations and actually had a good time. Decent performances all round, especially Glover who stole every scene he was in, great action and the right amount of humor. Would've liked to have seen what an extra 6 months production could've done for the film, though.
You guys are out of your minds. This movie looked like grey ass
Saw this last night and was genuine surprised by how not-horrible it was. The lead was outstanding!
The Darth Maul moment was so...pointless? I was like, "uh, okay, cool I guess."
My biggest complaint is the first part of the movie, about until they meet Chewie, is REALLY bad. But then it got good.
Theater was empty though. This movie would have been great to launch Disney's streaming service. I would watch a sequel.
The Darth Maul moment was so...pointless? I was like, "uh, okay, cool I guess."
My biggest complaint is the first part of the movie, about until they meet Chewie, is REALLY bad. But then it got good.
Theater was empty though. This movie would have been great to launch Disney's streaming service. I would watch a sequel.
Liked it. A lot. Wasn't great though. Felt was a touch on the nose with the Han stuff (look, I got a blaster for the first time, now for a close up of it over the fire - fuck that, change you blasters as often as I change my phone).
No Empire. No Force. No Jedi (apart from that bit which threw me). Yeah, that's Star Wars movie that's not just a bunch of Star Wars references. Was just a lot of Han references.
Han was much better than I thought he would be.
Much more Chewie that would of expected. Was good with how that worked out.
Less Lando and Pheobe that I expected, would of liked more. Worked though.
Flew by. Great pacing. Looked great. Less jerking off over the Falcon than TFA which surprised me.
A welcome addition to the family.
No Empire. No Force. No Jedi (apart from that bit which threw me). Yeah, that's Star Wars movie that's not just a bunch of Star Wars references. Was just a lot of Han references.
Han was much better than I thought he would be.
Much more Chewie that would of expected. Was good with how that worked out.
Less Lando and Pheobe that I expected, would of liked more. Worked though.
Flew by. Great pacing. Looked great. Less jerking off over the Falcon than TFA which surprised me.
A welcome addition to the family.
Well it's better than Rogue One, whilst also being exactly what everybody expected. It went absolutely everywhere you expected it to go.
It also undermined Han's arc in A New Hope. It should have been a harder 'the bitch/bastard is dead' ending ala Casino Royale that actually sold Solo as somebody only interested in looking out for himself and Chewy. Instead he's still a good guy who wants to help people like the resistance, but just isn't ready to hook up with them just yet.
This film should have ended with Han thinking of trusting/helping others as nothing but trouble.
Limp is the best way I'd describe the film. It wasnt bad, so much as just completely unsurprising, which I find boring. Alden also started turning into a young Nicholson at the end.
It also undermined Han's arc in A New Hope. It should have been a harder 'the bitch/bastard is dead' ending ala Casino Royale that actually sold Solo as somebody only interested in looking out for himself and Chewy. Instead he's still a good guy who wants to help people like the resistance, but just isn't ready to hook up with them just yet.
This film should have ended with Han thinking of trusting/helping others as nothing but trouble.
Limp is the best way I'd describe the film. It wasnt bad, so much as just completely unsurprising, which I find boring. Alden also started turning into a young Nicholson at the end.
I think everyone complaining about him not becoming jaded enough by the end of the film is.... odd. They establish that he's a guy always trying to be the the hero whilst totally denying it. Ok. No problem. So he clearly becomes jaded somewhere. This film was not that place. That's all. He still has 10 years before ANH. And it's not like the end of the movie didn't set him up for serious pain (despite the smile... which wasn't because he was a jolly guy, but because he just won Lando's god damn ship..... and beat lando at his own con). Becker straight up told him he would have killed him had he not shot first (some find it hammy. Others like myself grew up with Han shooting first so you can bite me. I loved it) and Han poured his heart out to Qi'ra who then took that information and fled town with it (he knew she was the only one on the ship and knew her boss was dead.)
I really think the cynicism rooted in the ending is a lot thicker and more widespread than people are giving it credit for. 10 years is forever. I think of say 24-34 for me personally...and I had serious world view shifts occur there not to mention personal choices made (some good. Many not)
I really think the cynicism rooted in the ending is a lot thicker and more widespread than people are giving it credit for. 10 years is forever. I think of say 24-34 for me personally...and I had serious world view shifts occur there not to mention personal choices made (some good. Many not)
Yeah I told a group of my friends "when you get to the end and you're like "wtf????" just remember that there's two whole series as canon beyond just the movies"
And especially everyone in here wanting Maul that breaks canon because it's TV episodes that barely anyone has seen. Two things.
1 That's not how canon works.
2 fuck you :p
I just never bought this kid as Han. Also, was it me or did this movie have a silly amount of scenes of actors yelling their lines?
Star Wars to there's gotta be rebels.
Augh.
Did they follow Rogue One's formula
K2 SO droid and death. Sorry it's been done and K2's death was better.
Nostalgia pull that blaster.
Like Vader reveal from Rogue One something audience will go Oooooh. Throw Darth Maul.
I think I'm done watching Star Wars in theaters .
It's by the numbers.
They did mention Tera Kasi though
Augh.
Did they follow Rogue One's formula
K2 SO droid and death. Sorry it's been done and K2's death was better.
Nostalgia pull that blaster.
Like Vader reveal from Rogue One something audience will go Oooooh. Throw Darth Maul.
I think I'm done watching Star Wars in theaters .
It's by the numbers.
They did mention Tera Kasi though
Really intrigued to see the O.W. box office figures on Sunday. Thursday openings were pretty rough apparently.
The gear shifts between acts grind mighty loud, and the film never settles on a tone, though it's pretty pasty and bland at everything it tries. It's at least as much a Ron Howard film as a Star Wars picture, which I mean as no compliment at all. Generally adorable cast as you'd expect from Disney at this point (except for Emilia Clarke, who is dreadful, pls stop casting her in things), great creature designs, way the hell too much pandering to every little goddamn fan service thing possible. Yes, pls, continue to fill-in all the blanks on things that were better left to my imagination. Bradford Young and Pietro Scalia turn in career-worst work. Like, my goodness is the editing and lighting from this movie fuckin' shambles.
Perfectly harmless, for soulless corporate sludge produced to fill-in the annual gap of required franchise filmmaking, though not remotely as lighthearted and fun as it thinks. And at no point do I believe Alden's Han will ever become the Han we know.
Perfectly harmless, for soulless corporate sludge produced to fill-in the annual gap of required franchise filmmaking, though not remotely as lighthearted and fun as it thinks. And at no point do I believe Alden's Han will ever become the Han we know.
Bradford Young's cinematography for this film was breathtaking. Best cinematography of any Star Wars film to date.
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Hahahahahahahahahah. You shillness never ceises to amaze me.
Its incredible how two people can look at the same thing and see two totally different things. You honestly believe, Hand to God, that this ugly, blurry, underlit, color graded to an inch of its life to suck the life out of the world...was the BEST lookin' Star Wars movie to date? Over Empire??? Over TFA and TLJ???
Wow.
He quoted me and I was talking about Solo. TFA and TLJ are masterworks in cinematography compared to this thing. I can't improve on what Viewtiful JC just said so I'll just ask you to reread his post.
Also, is this the first of the ST SW movies to be shot digitally? Because it shows. The image had no depth to it. Flat, dull and gray. It was like watching an LCD from 2010 with awful black levels and no local dimming.
The interior scenes on Kessel were too dark. I can't recall any other times I felt it was under-lit.
Bradford Young was involved with Solo, not TLJ. Please get basic facts straight, it'll make you look less stupid in the future.
Lots of rage toward Star Wars over the last 19 years. Hard to keep all of it straight. :D
He asked about sequel trilogy movies.
Although this isn't part of the sequel trilogy.
It was Witwer. I don't think Lucasfilm wants Serafinowicz after his TPM comments.
It's an opinion. No need to call people stupid for having different opinions on cinematography. And not like I am alone here. I have seen a lot call Youngs cinematography the best of the 4 films so far.
BTW TLJ is still a gorgeous movie, I just think Solo's cinematography is better.
I wouldn't say it's quite as great as Steve Yedlin's work on TLJ or Dan Mindel's on TFA, but yeah, Young did a pretty great job for Solo. I'd love to see him shoot another Star Wars film at some point in the future.
That being said, John Powell crushed it with the soundtrack for Solo. Hands down the best score for any of the Disney-era SW films so far. His Marauders theme was especially great imo.
Yeah one throw away line vs a guy who has done a dozen plus episodes. They made the right call. Now Park on the other hand.. HE IS SINGLEHANDILY the reason that Maul got anywhere near Fett levels of popularity in the first place. So good on them for putting him under the makeup again even though they could have done those 10 seconds 100% in CGI.
In the Disney era Lucasfilm always tries to bring back the film actors even in animation. They brought back Hamill, Billy Dee, Frank Oz, Ian McDiarmid, James Earl Jones, Felicity Jones, Daisy Ridley, etc. Tom Kane did Yoda in TCW, but they replaced him with Frank Oz in Rebels. If they wanted to use Serafinowicz they probably could've.
Maul being in this is actually very significant because for the first time on screen we're getting a direct reference to the approved extended cannon of the Clone Wars/Rebels, which could signal all sorts of potential for later films, spinoffs, etc.
And I loved the film overall. Totally and entirely blew past my expectations and at an early juncture into the film, Alden became the character of Han to me entirely, which is ridiculously high praise.
I have no idea how a SW fan couldn't grin ear-to-ear through this film but then again I had several 'fans' tell me TLJ is worse than AoTC so I'm done debating the matter or the franchise as a whole with such people.
As far as I'm concerned, Kennedy and Lucasfilm are 4 for 4 and I can't wait to see what the next spinoff ends up being.
P.S.
The film was fucking gorgeous.
And I loved the film overall. Totally and entirely blew past my expectations and at an early juncture into the film, Alden became the character of Han to me entirely, which is ridiculously high praise.
I have no idea how a SW fan couldn't grin ear-to-ear through this film but then again I had several 'fans' tell me TLJ is worse than AoTC so I'm done debating the matter or the franchise as a whole with such people.
As far as I'm concerned, Kennedy and Lucasfilm are 4 for 4 and I can't wait to see what the next spinoff ends up being.
P.S.
The film was fucking gorgeous.
I thought Emilia Clark's acting was actually pretty decent. She's so pretty with that short hair from the beginning!
I loved her reveal.
I actually really liked the character overall.
I wound up enjoying it. Nothing amazing. But, it was more than entertaining enough.
My theater was probably only half full, which was fucking nuts for a Star Wars opening night. It was the 10PM showing, and not the first 7PM ones, though. Surely those sold out. Still, curious to see how it does.
My theater was probably only half full, which was fucking nuts for a Star Wars opening night. It was the 10PM showing, and not the first 7PM ones, though. Surely those sold out. Still, curious to see how it does.
Yeah I watched almost all of Rebels when the episodes aired (less so TCW).. and didn't see that coming. Like most others here I am glad they legitimized the TV shows into canon. People writing it off as fan service drivel don't seem to understand that the cartoons have been the place for some of the best Star Wars stories ever. Maul was more than just fan service. Especially using Sam Witwer. It was a declaration that the cartoons most definitely do have a place in the saga.
What I don't get is this film without question legitmized the tv media as equal to the films with bringing Maul back and having him back in the context of how he came back in TCW....yet people want them to contradict Rebels to have him fight Kenobi.
I mean, WHAT.
I mean, WHAT.
Saw Gerrera in Rogue One was the first really. Admittedly Maul's inclusion is more significant as he was a movie character that returned in the animated shows and has then been reintroduced to the movies.
Those people don't give a shit about the cartoons (or mostly about anything that's not 1-6)
