SOLO!I liked it. Quite a bit. Though it wasn't perfect. And being the only other "side" story, I feel the need to compare it to Rogue One, and it doesn't live up to that. But it was still thoroughly enjoyable.
There were a lot of laughs, and not stupid laughs like in TLJ. They felt appropriate and keeping within the tone. Obviously, it looked phenomenal as well. The story was great. And the acting was spot on. Which is to say it was great, even though the new guy clearly is not Harrison Ford. Glover's Lando was perfect, maybe even
too perfect if that makes any sense. Because you get to a certain point where it becomes the drawing equivalent of
"tracing", and it kinda felt like that. On the flipside you have captain newpants
(I don't know his name) as Han, and the character is recognizable while still making it his own. I'm ok with that, because copying and failing would be far worse than what he managed to do.
What I loved:-Chewy. Everything he does.
-Woody. I actually get pretty annoyed when I see established A-list celebs infiltrating long standing franchises (looking at you Benicio) but I didn't mind it here. He seemed to fit in.
-The Falcon.
Seeing it pristine was great, all the action and damage it took was fun too.-Lando. Sure I said "tracing". But that doesn't mean I didn't like it. He was funny,
and I'll get into droid thing later down...-Han. I just... liked him. He wasn't perfect, and I have some complaints, but I was still pretty happy with him in the end. He pulled off the cocky
"I know what I'm doing even through I'm clearly making this up as I go along" thing that defines him pretty well.
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Han shot first. **** you special edition.What I didn't love:-
Han's GF randomly turning up in the floating gangster bar/base. Seriously? If this were earth, you lost your GF in some 3rd world country, then 3 years later run into her by chance in say a gangsters bar in the States/Europe, THAT would be enough of a coincidence for me to be like "pfff yeah right". But we're talking the span of an entire FRIGGIN GALAXY here. So give me a break.-
The Kessel Run. It was neat, but it didn't feel like a legend unfolding before me, which is really what it's become at this point. Nor did they explain the whole parsecs thing. Watch Cinemassecre's review where they explain it compared to Cannonball run. It makes the most sense of any theory I've ever heard.-
Han leaves his GF behind... again. No. ****. Way. It's been his driving goal for the entire movie. So at the end when they're both free and clear, and she say's "don't worry, right behind you", there is no way that he would be ok with leaving her behind again. Sorry, that's poor writing. Find a way to split them up if it serves the story, but make it believable.-
The reveal of the Rival Smugglers. This isn't about women or whatever, but she was what? 12 years old?-Han was too heroic. He's supposed to be surprisingly and begrudgingly heroic. He was full of himself for sure, but not all that selfish. And you'd expect him (at this young age) to be especially selfish.
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Space fuel. Watch Cinemasins TLJ video. He points out that the concept of "fuel" in the Star Wars universe (movies anyways) was never mentioned before, and all of a sudden here (and with TLJ) it is now a MAJOR plot point. So like.... why..?Complaints from others, that I didn't care about:-
Lando's droid love, and the droid revolution. I thought it was funny, and remember that WE'RE living in 2018, not them. People in the far out space future probably sex it up wit all sorts of things. No one seemed to care when Kirk did it. And the uppity droid, I just figure that in a galaxy of 26 trillion droids, chances are you'd find one like that.No opinion on.. yet:-
Darth Maul. Part of me never wants to see anything 1-3 ever again. And another part of me was like "neat". At the moment, there's too little to go on to get mad or happy about it. But it does put something major in motion that needs to be resolved with another film. So does that mean... Solo 2?
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With tons of slowmo low angle pans of slashing and force moves!!
