miles better than the prequels and made Rouge One look like amateur hour
lol, this might be more revealing about you than you ever intended. And it seems it's rather you who is struggling to grasp "coherent arguments" as to why Solo "sucked" than people not delivering.
I give you few to remedy your persona incredulity a bit:
- murky cinematography
- Solo character arc of becoming the gracious Rebellion helper again (in conflict with future ANH arc)
- story consisting of rampant fan service galore, beginning with Solo name origins and origin story hardly anybody asked for
- lead performance not too credible as Han Solo a few years before ANH
- rushed pacing, not enough time to breath and develop friendships
- mediocre score
- Pando becoming robosexual, and the droid was über-annoying
- Lando being a metrosexual cape fetishist
- underdeveloped female lead (the potentially most interesting character) plus villain
- another ridiculous and anticlimactic mask reveal (all about Enfys Nest
- plot holes
I gave it 6.5/10, ok for me - 12 parsecs better than the rehashed saga sequels (if you round it down), but not good enough.
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PeppermintHippo (369)
7 years ago
Ahhh yes, the “I know you are but what am I” argument. Haven’t heard that since 3rd grade but thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Your complaints are actually the strengths of this movie:
- The Score is unique and original, unlike the tiresome copy and paste jobs from the other films
- The murky look is an artistic choice, not cameramen who don’t know what they’re doing
- The pacing was pitch perfect, A New Hope is an example of piss poor pacing, not Solo.
- the droid was easily the least annoying we’ve gotten so far, it’s not even close lol
- Lando is hardly in the movie so even if you didn’t like him it’s a minor gripe
- too much fan service? Now you’re whining like a social justice warrior on a college campus, tone it down please
Other than Empire this is the only other movie I would own because it’s actually decently made, largely thanks to Ron Howard. The other films are just laughably bad but sometimes entertaining.
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TristanReloaded (449)
7 years ago
Seems your 3rd grade times cannot be that long ago considering the quality of the arguments unleashed (;
- "The Score is unique and original, unlike the tiresome copy and paste jobs from the other films"
You should check the meaning of word "mediocre" and then ponder how senseless your response is. And "original"? This is pretty uninformed considering the many, many call-backs to old Williams themes used - like bar-for-bar bits from Empire's asteroid chase sequence, the misused Star Wars and the Rebels theme for Han and the Falcon, The Empire March and the ANH-Trooper fanfare etc. Rogue One's soundtracks had less of that.
- "The pacing was pitch perfect, A New Hope is an example of piss poor pacing, not Solo."
Ok I realize you are trolling, but whatever it's worth; ANH pacing is slow for today, BUT my criticism with Solo was that the pacing is rushed for the relationships to breath and develop (eg Han & Chewie were instant buddies) - too many plot points for one film - your defense was beside the point again.
- "The murky look is an artistic choice, not cameramen who don’t know what they’re doing"
sure pal, OR: if you do not want the audience to see the crap you shot, shoot it darkly so that nobody can see…
- the droid was easily the least annoying we’ve gotten so far, it’s not even close lol
Sure pal, and if they ever need a proto troll-droid you are the first they will call
- Lando is hardly in the movie so even if you didn’t like him it’s a minor gripe
Deflection and irrelevant. Yoda was hardly in Last Jedi and still they messed him up with his calling Luke "Skywalker" instead of Luke, him giggling, quipping and dancing and throwing lightning bolts. It takes the flap of a butterfly to start a storm…
- too much fan service? Now you’re whining like a social justice warrior on a college campus, tone it down please
lol, that was the laziest response, even for you..and where are your responses to my other criticism? I guess you agree with them. Fine. Case closed.
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PeppermintHippo (369)
7 years ago
If you think I’m gonna respond to all that jibber jabber you just wrote you’re sadly mistaken chief. Are you even a fan of these movies? Let’s start there.
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