Solo: A Star Wars Story — Official Review and Opinions Thread — SPOILERS — Page 7

Haarspalter said:
Rogue One does not work on its own. It’s a cinematographic parasite that adheres between Episode III & IV. SOLO on the other hand works on its own. A person who never saw a single STAR WARS movie could watch SOLO without any previous knowledge.

This is very true. R1 is a fake stand-alone, while, this time Solo really is a stand-alone (one shot or trilogy ?).

You nevertheless get plenty of references that serve no purpose and complete scenes recycled from Ep 4-5 and even 7… with a “teenage point of view” which is kinda super lame (the kissing scene aboard the falcon is very embarrassing).

Haarspalter said:
The death of every crew member was touching in it’s own way - especially Rios and L3’s death were heart breaking.

I didn’t find that touching. I was even glad that SJW L3 got killed… (and her death scene is ridiculous… it’s just a droid, just retrieve the memory card and put that elsewhere… AND NOT AS THE FALCON AI IF POSSIBLE GUYS !!! Stop ruining the OT, just make movies slightly related but stop making retcon that just don’t work and are lame).

The Brownies from Willow are hilarious. jar jar wishes he had the comedic timing of a Brownie.

K2 and L3 are welcome additions to Star Wars.

SilverWook said:
So! You were the one who laughed when Artoo got fried! 😛

Nah, I like R2 😕 (and I don’t like L3… not because it’s a she, because she’s lame…).

Solo is good but I’ll eat my shoes before saying it’s a technically better made film than Rogue One.

That’s not what he said 😉

(and I agree that R1 - that I don’t like - is visually gorgeous, while I find Solo very ugly)

MalàStrana said:

Haarspalter said:
The death of every crew member was touching in it’s own way - especially Rios and L3’s death were heart breaking.

I didn’t find that touching. I was even glad that SJW L3 got killed… (and her death scene is ridiculous… it’s just a droid, just retrieve the memory card and put that elsewhere… AND NOT AS THE FALCON AI IF POSSIBLE GUYS !!! Stop ruining the OT, just make movies slightly related but stop making retcon that just don’t work and are lame).

It’s more like the other way around, things that were said or that happen in the Original Trilogy was because of the events that happen in Solo. If Solo had come out first in 1976, then we got A New Hope in 1977, people would still be complaining. The Millennium Falcon has engine issues because of what they did in Solo during the Kessel Run. Is that fan service, yes, does it really matter, no. There’s way too many people complaining about this film, it’s a frickin movie, they’re not writing about something that actually happened. I loved the movie, even with all the references and fan service stuff, it made sense, it was funny, it had drama, danger and it told a story. Everyone is just nitpicking. I want a sequel, but I’ll never get one because of the people who gripe and complain about dumb stuff. I love what Ron Howard did, but he’ll probably never come back now. This could have been way worse than what we got, thank God Kathleen Kennedy stepped in. Remember, it’s just a damn movie.

There’s way too many people complaining about this film

I mean I also thought the movie was really good, but you’re literally on a Star Wars forum dude

Yeah I know, just upset that not everyone likes this film, or some people won’t even give it a chance because of all scores in RT or just all the stories on the media, saying it’s crashing and burning at the box office. Go see it for yourself, don’t listen to anyone. I know everyone has their own opinion, but don’t take their opinion as your own, you might like it.

CarboniteSolo said:

Go see it for yourself, don’t listen to anyone. I know everyone has their own opinion, but don’t take their opinion as your own, you might like it.

Completely agree. I’m glad I ended up seeing the film.
It’s not perfect, but I had a damn great time.

This movie was fantastic and I’m going to do my best to ignore some of the posts in here because if I thought like some of these posts think I’d live in a much less fun and much more dull world.

8/10 for now, hard to fully rate the day after with just one viewing. The stakes are also very low so it’s hard to rate in context of every other SW film, which all have much higher stakes.

The only thing I’d change is Maul, which is extraordinarily stupid. There are tons of people who only watch the movies, so I’m sure they’re either thinking “who the hell is that?” or “why is the dead sith from TPM not dead?” And I haven’t seen any CW episodes past the first season, so although I know he’s not dead, it’s just from a few comments here and I have no idea how he survived…nor do I care. It’s dumb.

Luckily it seems it would be super easy to cut him out of the film. You can keep the dialogue and the initial shot of him, just cut out the close up where he reveals himself. So she’s just working for someone mysterious, and not the bad guy from TPM that is dead in my canon.

Of course that’s not going to work if they make the sequel I want, dammit.

One other thing, my wife pointed out that they should have let Woody live, show him going to Tatooine, and start a Cantina. And I love this idea. In ANH Han throws him some credits and apologizes for the mess. 😃

And one other other thing, Kathleen is one of the best things to ever happen to Star Wars.

TV’s Frink said:

This movie was fantastic and I’m going to do my best to ignore some of the posts in here because if I thought like some of these posts think I’d live in a much less fun and much more dull world.

8/10 for now, hard to fully rate the day after with just one viewing. The stakes are also very low so it’s hard to rate in context of every other SW film, which all have much higher stakes.

The only thing I’d change is Maul, which is extraordinarily stupid. There are tons of people who only watch the movies, so I’m sure they’re either thinking “who the hell is that?” or “why is the dead sith from TPM not dead?” And I haven’t seen any CW episodes past the first season, so although I know he’s not dead, it’s just from a few comments here and I have no idea how he survived…nor do I care. It’s dumb.

Luckily it seems it would be super easy to cut him out of the film. You can keep the dialogue and the initial shot of him, just cut out the close up where he reveals himself. So she’s just working for someone mysterious, and not the bad guy from TPM that is dead in my canon.

Of course that’s not going to work if they make the sequel I want, dammit.

One other thing, my wife pointed out that they should have let Woody live, show him going to Tatooine, and start a Cantina. And I love this idea. In ANH Han throws him some credits and apologizes for the mess. 😃

Oh wow I completely agree! -

And one other other thing, Kathleen is one of the best things to ever happen to Star Wars.

Oh wait :’)

Glad you liked the film though, I thought it was a blast from start to finish. A couple of niggles but I honestly didn’t expect to have that much fun.

The Cantina idea would have been fun and fit with his character too, haha.

Yeah they really ought to have done a lot more with Val. Kind of a waste of a Thandie Newton performance. It’s going to be cool to have Enfys in the mix moving forward, though.

fridged

What?

Oh, okay.

Don’t get why them being women is relevant at all though.

To that point, they also killed off Woody.