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Post #1244804

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Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda
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Solo: A Star Wars Story — Official Review and Opinions Thread — SPOILERS
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1-Oct-2018, 4:33 AM

Finally saw Solo for the first time tonight, on blu ray.

Enjoyed it quite a lot! I thought that it was very clever how they resolved the “12 parsecs” conundrum from SW. Ehrenreich was fantastic as Han - very convincing. He even borrowed some of Harrison Ford’s gestures. Woody Harrelson was also excellent.

The only hole in the story, that I could see, is how quickly Qi’ra went from being a waif to being a crime syndicate princess/soldier. That didn’t make any sense.

I agree with the complaints about the lack of color. It’s one thing to give a movie gritty realism in dirty, industrial worlds. But they went overboard with that, pretty much sapping all the color and contrast out of it. I suspect it would look better just by increasing the contrast on the monitor, although these days that’s a bit of a pain to do after spending time calibrating it.

Turning the marauders into rebels was a bit cheesy, or maybe just lazy writing.